TIE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
front St., NEWPORT, ARK.
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Considered Just A Citizen.
The Missouri Conference of the
M. E. Church, South, now in ses
sion at St. Charles, might well
stop to remember, in this day
of civic movements, that En
gland never had a better citizen
than John Wesley.
When the mission of that re
markable man took shape, En
gland had just discovered two
things, the factory system of la
bor and the drink called gin. Wo
men labored all day in the facto
ries, leaving babies stupified
with paregoric locked in their
wretched homes. Signs were
plentiful in London “Drunk for
a penny; dead for a two pence 1
The churches generally were
manned by preachers who set
forth, in faultless phrase, the
comforting doctrine that this
was much the kind of world it
was meant to be, and things in
general were settled forever.
John Wesley burst like burn
ing fire upon this wholly com
fortable order of things. He
gathered together the outcast
and the degraded, and told them
that poverty and misery did not
take from any man the responsi
bility for his own actions; that
they must repent, live cleanly,
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Hogs Live On Mussels.
Cotter, Sept. 6.—Hundreds of
head of hogs above this place on
the White river, are now fatten
ing on dead mussels, which they
are rooting out of the gravel
bars, where the descending wa
ter of the river has left them to
die. The mussels are buried
[ from a few inches to a foot deep
i in the gravel, and gradually die
! as the water goes down and the
i sun comes beating down on their
bed. The hogs, learning the sit
uation, came out of the woods
where forage was scarce and
started in on the dead shell fish,
j A. T. Goodman, a pearl fisher,
who is operating a few miles
| above here, said that as many as
100 hogs have been seen on one
gravel bar. In some instances
shell gathers are following the
rooting swine and picking up the
the shells after the hogs get the
meat from them.
Few pearls have been found in
j these dead mussels, as after
a few days the stench becomes
so great that a human cannot
stand it, and many fine jewels
j are supposed to have been lost,
! because as soon as the fish dies
its shells becomes open and a
pearl, if there, soon slips out and
is lost in the gravel,
j This season has seen a great
er depletion of the mussel beds
of the upper White river than
any year in the past. The river
has kept falling until it is little
larger than a good-sized creek,
many places being so shallow
that one can cross it dry shod by
using convenient stepping
stones. At the present time
there are numerous high piles of
empty mussel shells at every
station along the road, awaiting
transportation to the button
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WU1 IV IlUIlCOtl,y rtiiu tttivv up
lected duties to family and state
He made good citizens out of the
refuse and offal of his time. He
did not stop there. He had i
message also for the rich anc
great. He asked them whai
their culture and ease countec
for, if their brothers festerec
meanwhile in vice and wasted ii
misery.
We all know that John Weslej
waked the Established Churcl
to new conquests and created <
new fellowship. But let us no!
forget the effect of his wort
in causing the hungry to be fed
not by a barren charity, but b>
their natural supporters; his
mighty help in the quickening ol
English trade through his incul
cation of habits of society anc
industry among the working
classes; and his practical recog
nition of the great fact which i:
behind all social effort today; the
inexorable brotherhood of tin
human race.—St. Louis Repub
lie.
iactwiico. a iiv- — -
| mussel beds this year will work
| a hardship on the pearl fishing
I industry in the future, for these
j shell fish have to propagate the
[same as anything else, and the
fewer left to furnish spawn.
; means that fewer will be hatch
' i ed next year
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J Iron Mountain Gives Reduced
Rates.
Account Twenty-third Annual
I Session, of the National Baptist
Convention, (colored), Nashville,
Tenn., September 17-23, 1913,
we will operate special train of
coaches, chair cars, and Tourist
Sleeper, to accommodate the Ar
kansas delegation.
This train is scheduled to
leave Little Rock 3:00 p. m.
Tuesday, September 16, 1913,
and will be operated via Mem
phis and the N. C- & St. L. Ry.,
arriving Nashville, Tenn-, 7:00
- o’clock, morning of September
17th, 1913-(Adv.)
Iff’
ywr^rvest money
is m this bank
Look at these two men. They have been to market their
cotton. One put his money in the bank and the other did
not. They were held up on their way home. The silly fel
low who wanted to take his money home had to "deliver”
to the robbers. The other was able to give them the laugh
—his money was in the bank.
ARKANSAS BANK & TRUST CO.
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FOR STATE FNR
COMPLETION OF PREMIUM LIST
DISCLOSES A LARGE NUMBER
OF SPECIAL PRIZES.
National Breeders' Association and
Others Add Largely to Interest
in Competition.
The completion of the 13K5 state
fair premium list discloses some in
teresting facts in the way of enlarged
premiums by the State Fair associa
tion and special premiums offered by
rational breeders’ associations and
others, which makes the catalogue
one of keen interest to prospective ex
hibitors and insures them a larger
and better range of prizes and tro
phies to compete for than ever before.
Never in the hist#ry of the State
Fair has the big breeders' associations
rf ihe country come to the aid of the
State Fair in such a generous and lib
eral manner, many of them offering
rheir full lis' of premiums for the first
time in Arkansas, while the number
of extra prizes being offered by other
organizations and individuals is more
libera] than ever.
Among the splendid list of special
premiums ottered art? the following:
The Percheon Society of America
offers a special list of 12 premiums
for the best in Percheon horses.
Ten dollar, first; five dollar, sec
and^ and reserve ribbon for third
prizes are offered in I lie following
classes:
Best stallion 3 years old or over,
best stallion under 3 years; champion
stallion; mare 3 years and over, mare
under 3 years; champion mare, get
of stallion (four colts): product of
mare (two colts).
For champion stud (stallion and
tour mares), $100 cup; silver medal
and reserve ribbon.
For best five stallions, $100 cup;
silver medal, and reserve ribbon.
Champion stallion, open class, gold
medal, silver medal.
Champion mare, open class, gold
medal, silver medal.
The American Hereford Breeders’
association offers the following:
Seven dollar, first: five dollar, sec
ond; three dollar, third, and two dol
lar, fourth prizes for the classes.
Bull 3 years old; hull 2 years old:
senior yearling bull: junior yearling
j bull; senior bull calf; junior bull
t calf; cow 3 years old; cow or heifer
j 2 years old; senior yearling lieifer;
junior yearling heifer; senior heifer
calf; junior heifer calf.
The American Berkshire assccla
J tion names the following grand prizes
j and trophies:
Silver trophy for the best young
; herd, one boar and three sows.
The National Dnroc Jersey Record
association names the following;
Silver trophy for the best young
herd one boar and three sows.
Barrow, under 1 year, $8, $4, $2.
Pen of three barrows, under one
year, $12, $8, $4.
The Angora Goat Breeders' associa
tion offers a silver trophy for the best
breeders’ flock.
In the poultry department are a
large number of attractive premiums:
The State Fair Association offers
$50 cash for the best display of 25
birds of any cne breed or variety.
The flarland County Poultry Asso
ciation offers;
Ten dollar silver cup for best pen
Ul ci. ' . »* uur uiniiui no.
Ten dollar silver cup for the best
pen of Buff Orpingtons.
Ten dollar silver cup for the best
pen of Rhode Island Reds.
Ten dollar silver cup for best pen
ef White Plymouth Rocks.
Two dollars and fifty cents in gold
for the best pen of Brown Leghorns.
This association also offers a spe
cial list of useful prizes to winners in
tiie various classes.
The Rhode Island White Club of
America offers five ribbons for the
best cock, hen, cockerel, pullet aud
pen.
The Arkansas State Fair Associa
tion, tire Arkansas Bankers’ Associa
tion. and a large number of firms and
individuals offer the usual big line of
premiums in the cotton and corn
growing contest and in the girls’ can
ning club contest.
The A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio,
offers a special line of premiums in
bee cutlure.
Ford’s Business College, Little Rock,
offers a full scholarship as a premium
in the educational department.
There are many other lesser premi
ums. all of which arre offered at the
1913 fair (October 27 to November 1)
in addition to the usual big «nd attrac
tive list of prizes and premiums of
fered by the Arkansas State Fair, and
tiie new catalogue shows a greater and
grander offering of Inducements to
exhibitors than the management of the
j fair has ever been able to announce
before.
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There is one feature of Oaklawn
park upon which the State Fair prides
1 itself—that is the ample stable and
pen room and the absolute sanitary
condition of all housings for live stock.
The pens and stables are thoroughly
i cleansed and deodorized each day,
and visitors and exhibitors will find
the greatest degree of sanitation and
comfort, both in exhibiting and view
ing the stock.
Brocaded Velvet,
Brocaded Paon Velvet for trimmings
The new Mandaline light weight.
Duryea stripes.
Diagonal Serges, 52 inches, all colors.
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in Corticelli and Pine Tree Mills.
Heinemann’s Dry Goods Store
Don’t Wait==Don’t Waste
Every one who waits is a waster, of both time and money.
A bank account will stop that little leak and putting o
, opening that bank account is costing you possible savings
every day. You will be surprised how easy it is to save
after you once get started. One dollar starts you here.
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