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PREPARE FOR THE HOT WAVE.1
The hot sun is doubly dangerous
if there is a mass of undigested food
ih the—stomach. Foley—Cathartic
Tablets give prompt and sure relief.
They act gently but do their work
thoroughly. They cleanse the bowels,
sweeten the stomach and benefit
the livei*. For indigestion, bilious
ness, bad breath, bloating, gas.—
Walker’s Pharmacy.
Cut out coupon and mail
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Hot Springs : : Arkansas j
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TUCKERMAN DEPARTMENT
Supt. J. G. Albright of the local
schools went over to Batesville the
latter part of last week to spend a
few days with his parents who reside
at that place.
Mrs. Belle Grant of Newport came
up several days ago to attend the re
vival services which are in progress
at the Methodist church and also vis
ted among her many Tuckerman
friends.
G. E. Land of Denmark, nominee
or county superintendent, was here
donday looking after private busi
less matters. He contemplates mak
ing Tuckerman his home as soon as
he can secure a residence to live in.
Mrs. E. C. Ferguson and three
children who reside in South Dakota,
arrived here last week for a visit
among Tuckerman relatives. Mrs.
Ferguson is a sister of Hubert Hall
and Mrs. C. K. Coe.
Little Misses Katherine and Irene
Helms of Newport, daughters of
Pleasant Helms, came up last week
for an extended visit among relatives
in this community.
I. N. Greenhaw arrived home one
day last week from Heber Springs,
where he had been sojourning dur
ing the previous week or so for the
benefit of his health.
Wm. Henson of Monette was here
Monday enroute to Battle Axe, where
he is visiting relatives this week.
Jake Hout, whose home is at
Egypt, Craighead county, was here
Monday visiting his parents and
transacting business.
C. A. Hall and family of Winthrop,
Arkansas, arrived here several days
ago to visit relatives. Mr. Hall is a
brother of Hubert Hall and Mrs. C.
K. Coe.
H. S. Grant of Jacksonpoit was
here one day last week looking after
matters of a business nature and
swapping yarns with friends.
The weather during the past week
has been extremely dry and hot. No
rain has fallen in this section for
several weeks. The mercury has
hovered about and above the century
mark nearly every day during the
past fortnight. Hot winds have pre
vailed to some extent. All kinds of
vegetation have suffered greatly.
Late corn which was very promising
ten days ago has almost burnt up.
Cotton, which is a hot weather plant,
has suffered very severely. Ten days
ago that plant promised a yield of a
bale per acre where the stand was
good and it had been well cultivated.
The extreme dry and hot weather has
cut that promise half. Gardens are
entirely burnt up and the recent
planting which followed the last rain
is a complete failure. The continued
dry weather has hurried the hay har- j
vest which is very light but of unus
ually good quality. At this time the
weather man has promised no let up
-of the heat wave.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug., 13.—The official
badge of mourning, worn for a rela
tive lost in the military or naval ser
.A ' has made its appearance in Lit
v!ce, able, oo.... . .
tie Rock. It conaE.ts'kr'H D?Se‘W»tw»*>,
around the left arm, with a gr
star for each one lost. This has the
official sanction of the war depart
ment.
In asking the people to Invest in
War Savings and Thrift Stamps, the
government is not asking them to
o’ -a paying basis.
“Dash, determination and taring—
also efficiency”—That’s what our
hoys at the front are doing Keep ’em
go’ng! War Savings is a message to
the kaiser that will “get over.”
Hot Springs, ArfL
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The Wonder Spot of America.
FOR MALARIA, CHILLS, FEVER,
RHEUMATISM AND OTHER CHRONIC DISORDERS.
Owned and Controlled by U. S. Government.
High up in the Healthful Ozark Mountains.
Delightful Balmy Days. Cool, Sleepy Nights.
T3 A T\TT TAA The latest analysis by the U. S. Govern
lvrii/1 U1V1 ment of these wonderful Hot Springs
Waters were found to be highly Radio-active.
TOURIST RATES—Low tourist round trip rates now in
effect on all railroads, from all points in America. Insist
on this rate.
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Business Hen’s League, If ot Springs, ArH:
Please send me immediately with
out cost, illustrated- booklet of Hot
Springs.
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THEN IT CAME HOME TO HER
Moment When Henrietta Realized That
There Were Dishonest People
in the World.
—
Henrietta Weird looked at the
change the conductor had just given
her—a quarter and live nickels.
"Goodness,” she thought excitedly,
“he’s given me a nickel over! 1’in
riding for nothing!”
And she quickly closed her hand
over the change, and then she remem
bered that the conductor had rung up
her fare and that probably the nickel
would have to come out of Ills own
pocket.
“Oh, dear!” she thought remorse
fully. “Perhaps the poor man lias a
large family and perhaps a nickel a
day is all he can afford to feed them
with. I suppose I really ought to re
turn it to him. But no, he has a bad
face—I shouldn’t be surprised If he
beats bis wife every day, and it would
serve him right to suffer for his own
carelessness! Still, of course, I
wouldn’t like to feel that I am depriv
ing bis baby of its daily bucket of
milk—no, I'll keep it—a man in his
position has no moral right to have a
large family. Goodness, what if he
should suddenly lind out he gave me
too much and demand it back again?
I think I’ll get right out—I’m only ten
blocks from home, anyway.”
And at the next stop she hurriedly
left the car, still clutching the quarter
and live nickels in her hand.
“I’d better look again—perhaps
there are only four nickels after all,”
she thought. And she opened her
mum aim muaeu. .mj, mere were live,
but, as she looked, the quarter slipped
through her fingers and fell on the
pavement—with a hollow, leaden
sound.
“Oh!” she gritted thrpugli her teeth.
“The dishonesty of this world 1”
ZIRCONIUM IN THE ARTS
Rare Metal Has Properties That Make
It of the Highest Value
Commercially.
The layman would hardly know that
baddeleyite and jaeupirangite are dif
ferent names of the same thing—in
fact he would probably not recognize
either of these impressive words and
would find their pronv.ndiation difficult,
but they are the correct mineral names
for the ore of zirconium, which is
found in Brazil and is said to occur
there in enormous quantities.
The mineral zircon, a silicate of zir
conium, is probably most familiar as
a gem stone, and when so used is
known as hyacinth, jacinth, jargon, or
Matara diamond.
Zirconium minerals are used chiefly as
refractory material, which melts only
at an extremely high temperature and
is very resistant to the action of fluxes
and slags. Zirconium fire brick prom
ises to be extensively used. The fused
oxide of zirconium expands so little on
being heated that crucibles, muffles,
combustion tubes, and similar articles
made of it are not broken by sudden
changes of temperature.
Several alloys of zirconium have un
usual properties. A zirconium steel is
said to be particularly suited for mak
ing armor plates, armor-piercing pro
jectiles, and bullet-proof metal; a new
patented alloy of zirconium with nick
el, called cooperite, is extremely hard
and is particularly well adapted for
making cutting tools.
Tying the Nuptial Knot.
In some parts of the world the nup
tial knot is literally as well as figura
tively tied. This is in India, at the
marriage of a Brahmin. No sooner
U - V -p-'ther ki,-words as plain as I
nas the i(t"* *■ w>-• 1
can be, given the bride away than the
bridegroom places the “tali,” or insig
nia of marriage, consisting of a piece
of ribbon with a gold bead suspended
upon it, around her neck and ties the
knot. Befor> the knot is tied the
bride’s father may refuse consent un
less better terms are- offered, but im
mediately the knot is tied the mar
riage is indissoluble, for the Bralirnins
do not recognize divorce. The Tar
sees bind the hands of the bridegroom
with a sevenfold cord, seven being a
sacred number. The ancient Cartha
srinians tied the thumbs of the betroth
ed with leather lace. With the Lat
ins, on the contrary, part of the cere
mony was for the bridegroom to loosen
(solvere) the bride’s girdle (nodus her
culeus), not to tie it.
A Serviceable Piano.
A prominent musician tells some,
funny yarns.
One relates to his experience in find- j
leg suitable instruments when on a
tour.
On one occasion at a small place
where he was due to appear he in
quired where he could hire a piano,
and found that the only one available
was an ancient looking instrument in
a small shop.
He asked if he could borrow it for
his performance.
“You could not play on It, least
ways, not as it is,” replied the own
er, “for it’s full of books. Jim,” he
bawled, “where’s the inside of this ■
piano?” ,
And Jim’s voice from upstairs, •re
plied: “Ain’t It out in the garden?”
Could Make His Own Way.
“Your hard-luck story is one of the I
most affecting I have ever heard.” j
“Thanks, boss. Then you’ll give me ,
a small donation?”
“No.”
“But you Just said—”
“Exactly. A man with your imag
ination and gift of narration ought to
make a great deal of money as u pro
moter. There is no earthly excuse.”
THROWS POLLEN OVER BEES
Nature’s Use of the Mountain Laurel
Is One of Her Many Remark
able Devices.
Flop! anti away go the little sta
mens of the mountain laurel and throw
pollen over the bee which alights upon
them. The naturalist sees here one
of the most remarkable devices in all
nature for compelling an insect to car
ry pollen. The lover of nature sees
in the mountain laurel one of the most
beautiful of the common woodland
flowers, says Edward Bigelow in
“Boys’ Life.’’
The corolla is saucer-shaped, with
ten little pits near the edge, and light
ly caught in each of these little pits
is the anther at the end of the elastic
filament. This natural thing seems to
grow in an unnatural manner, but do
you know of any other plant that ac
tually grows in distorted or strained
position, or puts its own self in an un
comfortable and strained position
from which it is glad to be released
when the first insect comes along and
sets it loose?
The whole mechanism is like a hair
trigger. It is so carefully adjusted
that even a slight jar will sometimes
set it loose. Shaking an entire bush
releases great numbers of these fila
ments, and flop, flop, flop they leap out
of the pits and the anthers throw their
pollen everywhere. The bee which
visits the mountain laurel must feel
thnt tiie times nre nrnsnerous. since lie
is showered with golden pollen which
he carries to the next flower to fer
tilize the seeds.
LANGAUGE ASCRIBED TO FISH
Men of the Sea Have Their Own Idea
Of Articulation Peculiar to
Their Catch.
There is a belief among fishermen
that a herring, when caught, articu
lates a sound similar to the word
“cheese.” This sound is caused by
an escape of air from the air bladder,
or a movement of the gills. Fisher
men, indeed, frequently state that the
herrings “sneeze,” just as Aristotle
once said that gurnards “grunt.”
The gurnard was known to the
Greeks as “lyros” and “coccyx,” ap
parently from the noise it was said to
make.
Many fish have various forms of
utterance attributed to them. On the
Norfolk Broads, one often hears it
said that an old jack pike has bark
ed like a dog, and the same is said
of the conger eel.
Red-finned herrings, called “loaders”
or “kings and queens,” are sometimes
caught; they are regarded as an omen
of a successful fishing. One of them is
then taken out of the nets very care
fully, prevented from touching any
thing made of wood, and passed rouvl j
the scudding poles as many times as'
the fishermen desire to get lasts of
herrings at the new haul.
How the Dutch Lost New York.
The first step toward making New
York an English colony was taken 250 j
years ago, when Charles II granted to j
his brother, the duke of York, a large j
territory in America, to be called, in
honor of the proprietor, New York, i
This included the Dutch settlement of
New Amsterdam and the “colonie” of
New Netherlnnd, with Col. Richard
Nicolls in command, to be deputy gov
ernor.
The Dutch settlers decided that it
was useless to argue the case with the
English invaders, “who were six times
their number,” and in the autumn of
1GG4 Fort Amsterdam and Fort Orange
were surrendered. The name of New
Amsterdam was changed to New 2o‘rk
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and that of rort orange to Albany.
Governor Stuyvesant swore allegiance
to Charles II, but soon returned to
Holland. New Amsterdam, founded
over throe centuries ago, hod at the
time of the English conquest a popu
lation of 1,500. while the total popula
tion of the province was about 10,000.
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WUOI. VUV I*'WH V* ■
When the weather bureau reports
that au inch of rain has fallen, It
moans tlyit the amount of water that
descended from the sky in that par
ticular shower would have covered the
Surrounding territory to a depth of one
inch if none of it had run off or soaked
into the ground.
It means that on one acre of ground
enough water to fill more than 600
barrels of 45 gallons each has fallen.
That quantity of water weighs more
than 110 tons. If the rainstorm cov
ered 1.000 acres, which would be a
very small shower indeed, 114,000 tons
of water would fall from the clouds.
Rainstorms frequently cover whole
states and often two or three or five
inches of water fall in one storm. A
single widespread and heavy storm
might result in 100,000,000,000 tons of
water.
Our Own “Tropics.”
Only at one place in the United
States is there real tropical vegeta
tion, says Popular Science Monthly.
Florida and California have what is
called “sub-tropical” vegetation. In
the midst of a desert in the extreme
southern part of California is a true
oasis. The oasis, Palm Springs, lies
250 feet below the sea level. So hot
is it there that there is a riot of vege
tation all the year round. Enormous j
iig trees and mammoth grapefruit and
oranges are always to be had. The ,
lemoi hat grow there weigh two and |
a half pounds apiece. The responsi
bility for all this may be laid to a beau
tiful little stream which is fed by the
Colorado rb-er and which flows
through oasis only to disappear
into the s juud at its end.
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CITY OF QUEER CONTRASTS
Nome, Desolate in Winter, Is Fever
ishly Lively During the Short
Months of Summer.
Ships approaching the coast of Alas
ka watch eagerly for the first glimpse
of a break in the low horizon line, and
as the faint silhouette of a city is
caught by the spy glass word goes
round that Nome is in sight. The
square outlines grow steadily plainer
and broader. Unmindful of the heavy
waves that crash so dangerously near
its doors the city is reaching out to
the very water’s edge to greet the in
coming ship. A bobbing launch comes
out to meet the ship and bring in the
passengers to the shore.
The gold seekers built Nome in the
rush of 1808, and the gold seekers still
add their quota to its population. They
have made it a city of contrasts—of
ostentatious wealth and hopeless de
sires. Where they camped on the
beach and built wooden huts and sa
loons the city has grown up. When
more space was needed, it spread its
houses along the beach in long un
even rows.
From November to June it is frozen
into a dull apathy from which it
rouse3 to attend theaters, dances, and
other social frivolities which make
the winter tolerable. Ice bound and
dark the winter may he, with only
three or four hours of pale sunlight a
day, but the popular idea of the wilds
of Nome is an interesting myth. Elec
tric lights, telephones, department
stores, barks, hotels—Nome has all of
tion.
When the sun begins to shine stead
ily and the fresh surf pounds on tlie
beach, Nome awakes and (he summer
residents who have gone “outside” re
turn. The population Is practically
doubled. Nome spends its summer
months in wildly rushing about to
make up for the enforced dullness of
the frozen winter.
MUSICIANS HAVE LONG LIFE
Reasons Why Those Who Furnish Us
With Sweet Sounds Are Not Cut
Off in Youth.
Investigations made recently by a
well-known doctor lead him to con
clude that musicians who play wind
Instruments are exceptionally long
lived.
Cornet players are credited by him
with an average life of G9.1 years.
Clqrinet players are next with 04.4,
while the average oboe and bassoon
player lives to he about sixty-three
years old. The lowest duration of life
by these players of wind instruments
is in men who handle the flute. Be
cause of the formation of their instru
ments, they do not have opportunity
for full exercise of their lungs.. There
fore the flute player, according to this
authority, reaches an average age of
61.2 years.
It is interesting to observe the num
ber id seemingly aged men who are
members of orchestras. The theater
orchestra that does not number one or
two men who have left their hair far
behind with the years, or are so gray
that they appear well upon tlio cen
tury mark, is an exception. The truth
Is that a steady and moderate daily
use of the lungs, which is called for
by the performance of professional
duty, Is responsible for this remark
ably high average of existence.
Why Iron Chimney Stacks Corrode.
The cause of corrosion of galvanized
iron extensions to chimneys is laid
generally to .CORfbrtViflt'QP which forms
ijki'de the stuck, and which in con
iunction with the carbon which has
seen deposited in use, creates a gal
vanic action which soon destroys the
sine coating and finally eats through
ihe iron or steel base. To prevent
the condensation an air space around
the stack is recommended. The stack
is made double from the base to a
point c'ose to the top, with small iron
braces "Irertveen the inner mid outer
casings. These may be riveted close
to the ends of the sheets in course of
construction. The air space may be
r-n cr two inches, according to size of
smokestack, and local conditions.
Scientific American.
Man in the Making.
TYe are all sculptors of life. From
the anthropoid ape stage clear up
through the ages, in the slow process
of evolution, man has been at work
chiseling himself. Always on tnewnoie
bettering himself a little, eliminating
the animal, the brute qualities more
and more, in spite of setbacks, he has
persistently struggled toward the real
ization of his ideals—the higher man,
the ideal man.
Our sculpturing is mental; our
thought is the chisel that traces the
ideal in life’s marble. Angel and de
mon, beauty and ugliness, success and
failure lie side by side in the mar
ble of life.—Dr. Orison Swet Marden,
In New Success.
"Nuts" of Prlsrend.
Prlsrend makes remarkably modest
demands on orthography for a Balkan
town, being spelled in only six differ
ent ways.
It has no need for a water board,
because the river Biritza, called the
Maritza by casual geographers, cuts
the town in two, while In almost all
the streets there are brooks that be
come torrents after heavy rains.
The Prlsrendlan “nuts” are the most
gaudily dressed people in the Balkans,
and the local bazaars blaze with gar
ish garments, beside which the rain
bow-hued neckties Inflicted on inno
cent Englishmen at Christmas would
look drab.—London Chronicle.
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j COMMITTEE ISSUES
FAIR PRICE LIST.
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At a recent meeting of the “Fair
Price Committee’, appointed by the
| County Food Administrator, the fol
I lowing were agreed upon as being
fair prices:
D-S Meat, per pound_32c
Hams, per pound_38c
Breakfast Bacon, per pound_60c
Smoked Bacon Bellies, per pound_38c
Pure Lard (bulk), per pound_35c
5-lb. Buckets Pure Lard,
per bucket--$1.50 ,
10-lb. Buckets Pure Lard,
per bucket •_$3.00
Compound Lard (bulk), per
pound - 30c
5-lb. Buckets Compound Lard,
per bucket _- - - $ L35-^^
10-lb. Buckets Compound Lard," Vi
per bucket _• s
2-lb. Std. Corn, per can-,
2- lb Std. Tomatoes, per can.
3- lb Std. Tomatoes, per can
Rice, per pound_
Std. Meal, 25-lb. sacks, per sack $1.$<F !
Cream Meal 25-lb sack, per sack $1.60'%
Cream Meal, 10-lb. sacks, per sk. 70c ^
Navy Beans, per pound_20c
Lima Beans, per pound_20c
Pinto Beans, per pound_15c
Wheat Flour, 24-lb. sacks_$1.75
Corn Flour, per pound_I0C
12 ounce loaf of Bread--__10c
24 ounce loaf of bread_20c
These prices will be changed from
time to time as condition warrant. K
FAIR PRICE COMMITTEE
for Jackson Counuty.
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
Mrs. Frank P. Wood, Box 18, R. F.
D. 2, Morrill, Me., writes: “Foley
Kidney Pills help me so much. My
husband also has received much ben
efit from them. He was so lame h<
could not stoop over and no^he feel
no pain.” Lame back, sore muscles',
stiff joints, rheumatic aches and. \
pains quickly conquered by Foloy
Kidney Pills.—Walker's Pharmacy.
CAUGHT COLD AT PALM BEACH. !
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Southern climate is no protection
against summer colds. Helen R.
Sanders, 626 2nd Av., W. Palm
Beach, Fla., writes: “My severe '
cold on the chest was relieved by Fo- 5
ley’s Honey and Compound.” This
fine old family remedy can be de
pended upon to relieve summer colds,
hay fever, asthma and croup.—Walk
er’s Pharmacy.
PARKER CONVINCED •!
BY HIS EXPERIENCE
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“I Can Recommend Tanlac In the
Highest Terms,” Says Well*
Known Alabama Dentist— V■
Declares He Is Well Man.
“I am firmly convinced from my
own experience with Tanlac, that it gj
will do all people claim for it, as I—
am a well man now, after suffering
for twelve years until I took TaC?
lac,” is the frank statement of Dr*
S. J. Parker, a well known dentist
of Roanoke, Alabama.
“I had a bad form of stomach trouf
Jile, which distressed me continually.^
>r ail' these years, ” lie continued.
‘Terrible headaches would come dap'
me frequently as a result of a nause
ated and upset stomach and would, ij
last for hours. These attacks would :
come as often as two and three timdpb||||
i week. I lost weight rapidly and,
ilt ho ugh I tried several of the most
it resisted treatment and I continued f
•o go down hill.
“I read about what Tanlac was do
ing everywhere, and though I was
, skeptical about proprietary me3i- <
cines, I gave it a trial. I hadn’t fin- j
ished the first bottle until I saw fay
orable results, and I have continued i
to improve unt" my stomach is* f|
completely set in order and the oth
er conditions arising from it have
been entirely relieved. I am a well ___
man now, and I can recommend Tan
lac in the highest terms.”
Tanlac is sold by all druggists in
Jackson county.
HOW’S THIS? |
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh
cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh
Medicine.
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine has been
taken by catarrh sufferers for the
past thirty-five years, and has be
come known as the most reliable rem-■—
edy for catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Med
icine ' acts through the Blood on the m
Mucous surfaces, expelling the Poi
son from the Blood annd healing the
diseasased portions.
After you have taken Hall’s Ca
tarrh Medicine for a short time you
will see a great improvement in your
creneral heaitn. Start taking Hall’s
Catarrh Medicine at once annd get
rid of catarrh. Send for testimonials
F.6J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
| Sold by all Druggists, 75c.