THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For County Judge.
The Independent is authorized tc
announce the candidacy of W. D. Mc
Lain for the office of county and pro
bate judge of Jackson County, subject
to the action of the Democratic pri
mary.
For Treasurer.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of John H.
Camp for the office of Treasurer of
Jackson County, subject to the action
of the Democratic primary.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of Jesse W.
Rhuford for the office of Treasurer of
Jackson County, subject to the action
of the Democratic primary.
Taxes Largely For Local Needs.
In bringing up valuations to
provide needed revenue for
county and state, it was natural,
logical and right that the larg
est city in the county and county
seat should lead the way in high
er valuations, brought about
partially by previous boards of
equalization and assessors, but
largely due to a willingness upon
the part of the tax payers of this
city to stand a heavier per cent
of the burden than the remain
der of the county. With the
state facing a deficit, the county
and city both on a scrip basis at
that time and our school district
running practically one year be
hind in its revenue, the tax-pay
ers of this city were willing and
did meet the issue of higher as
assessments which it was under
stood were to be gradually in
creased to a 50 per cent basis on
all classes of property in every
county of the state. As the ne
cessity for this i-evenue contin
ues urgent, why should the
Board of Equalization interfere
with assessments here, when the
property owners have fixed and
placed these valuations?
When our city and district
needs are greater, why shouldn’t
our valuations be higher ? Our
taxes are largely local and the
part which goes to the state is
small. Our five mill corporation
tax, seven mill school tax, three
mill state school fund tax, which
in the end is sent back to us
through apportionment, and
!y three mill road tax, making a
total of 18 mills or three-fourths
% of our tax rate, all provide reve
ifiCIHMIll Ill.
nue for home expenses, im
provements and government.
Added to this, you have a five
mill county general tax,the large
part of which through the up
keep of the courts and jail and
the salaries of county officials is
spent in Newport. Thus you see
that 23 mills out of a total of
26 7-8 mills are used and spent
at home. This further justifies
the practice of previous boards
and ought to be a sufficient ap
peal to the present to let New
port assessments stand and not
retard the progress of our
1 schools and city.
Secertary of State Earle W.
Hodges, who has discharged the
duties of this office so creditably
for a part of two terms, will be
a candidate for re-election in the
next primary. Hodges is an af
fable young man, an efficient ac
countant, and when matters of
j importance have come before
i him he has rightly sought the
advice of the attorney general
and acted thereon regardless of
consequences, mandamuses or
j injunctions. He has strong
friends and well wishers wher
ever he is known, and he is
widely known throughout the
state. He will be a hard man to
defeat in the next primary. —
Russellville Courier-Democrat.
Woman’s Dress.
Collier’s Weekly editorially
has the following interesting
comment on woman’s dress:
“Never within our living
memory has woman’s dress been
more attractive than it is today
The soft lines, the tunic-like gar
ments, loose and open at the
throat, surely make for a com
fort to which woman is too often
a stranger. Barring certain
small exaggerations, it is all
fairly simple, too, and vastly
more becoming than most of the
fashions of yesteryear. Our
masculine perception may be
much beclouded, but should not
these three points—comfort, at
tractiveness, simplicity—be the
cardinal ones in dress? Until
the age of paper clothes, fore
told by Bellamy, arrives, the
present fashion seems a very
passable interregnum. We only
wish that woman, so active and
alert in her more than dawning
independence, were firm and in
dependent enough to hold to a
fashion that is good until she is
certain of a better—and not fool
ishly, sheepishly, yield to a
worse.”
For Rent.
First ciass storage room at
i Bowen’s Cash Store. 39dlm
Look at these two men. They have been to market their E
cotton. One put his money in the bank and the other did i
not. They were held up on their way home. The silly fel- i
low who wanted to take his money home had to “deliver” 1
to the robbers. The other was able to give them the laugh I
—his money was in the bank. I
ARKANSAS BANK & TRUST CO. |
The Principle of Tipping.
Charley Gates got his name
in all the newspapers by giving
a waiter a S900 tip. John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., got fully as
much publicity by giving a wait
er a 10 cent tip.—Hot Springs
Sentinel-Record.
That shows in two instances
'the effect of heredity. Charley
i is the sort of a spender and John,
Jr., of an accumulator. How
ever, it is certain no waiter ever
earned a S900 tip or a ten cent
tip. When a man buys a meal
' he buys the service necessary to
that meal. It is an imposition
I that he must pay the wages of
the water in tips to save the pro
urietor the necessity of paying
him, to say nothing of the de
gradation of the waiter due to
living on gratuities instead of on
honest wages received for hon
est service.—Fort Smith Times
Record.
Energy and Mr. Edison.
The expectations of Mr- Edi
son, respecting the storage bat
tery, are such as to provoke a
degree of wonder. Yet it is cer
tainly too early to characterize
them as extravagant.
The fact is the race of men is
still a group of children in its
relation to the problem of ener
gy. For centuries, for millen
niums, probably, we depended
on the wind and the mountain
stream. It was only yesterday
that we thought out the steam
engine. That is a crude ma
chine—even in its elaborate and
perfected form, a mere pioneer
makeshift. Consider the latest
turbine steamer on the path
from continent to continent. It
may seem wonderful to the un
imaginative mind that the great
ship is able to shuttle the sea at
such speed, or at all.
Yet how primitive is the me
thod by which power is secured
to move her. Her dynamos are
in truth in the stirred-up energy
of the sun, but this is released
awkwardly, painfully, blunder
ingly, by the sweating labor of
miners, railroad brakemen, coal
heavers and stokers, and in so
crass a form that the huge bulk
is big enough only to hold ener
gy sufficient for a week’s travel,
the niachinery of that energy it
self constitutes half the burden.
Meanwhile, the very sea and
air through which the ship trav
els, not alone in their restless
ness, but in their chemical and
! electrical constitution, are palpi
tant with power anxious to do
| with infinite ease more than is
I now achieved through grueling
labor.
i The dynamo is a step beyond
I the steam mill, as the latter is a
! step beyond the windmill, the
water wheel and the sail—
though it is not through pure
mechanism that energy will be
most economically appropriated.
The storage battery is a con
serving engine of much promise,
although, as at present known,
it has accomplished little.
The whole world is a-throb;
energy, power, eager to be
something, is chained and cham
bered on every hand. The
mighty processes of nature are
at play—they rpfust be taught to
work. It is time assuredly for
i some wise man to devise means
to persuade the unemployed
giants into our service, to induce
them to do for us at our will far
more than Mr. Edison expects of
his storage battery.—Memphis
News-Scimitar.
Clyde Clarke and little daugh
ter, Grace, and brother, Tom
Clarke, arrived Tuesday morn
ing from St. Louis, where they
have been for several weeks._
Jonesboro Tribune.
Sam Moore of Batesville was
here yesterday en route to Up
per Alton, 111. to enter the West
ern Military College.
Dale Herndon of Judsonia is
spending the week with friends
at Tuckerman, says the Advance.
Jack Petty of Bizbee, Arizona,
who is back on a visit to his pa
rents at Searcy, came up on 24
this morning and spent the day
with Newport friends
Iron Mountain Road Master
Cherry of Little Rock has moved
his family to this city and they
are occupying the cottage on
Main street, formerly occupied
by E. S. McDonald and family.
Clear, white clothes are a sign
that the house keeper uses Red
Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz.
package 5 cents.
I l adies. We Would Be Please!
I To Have You Call and See our New Fall GooJ
I Or At Least The Part Which HavJ
gs Arrived. I
I/YfimmM Brocaded Paon Velvet for trimmings. 1
The new Mandaline light weight. I
l Diagonal Serges, 52 inches, all colors. I
)j We cau Show You All The New Silks I
^ ‘ in Corticelli and Pine Tree Mills. I
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