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THE INDEPENDENT
ERCY h. VANDYKE,
k ’ublisher and Editor.
NEWPORT. - - ARKANSAS.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
[For Representative,
JOHN H. KEEL.
County Judge.
E. L. BOYCE.
CircuitlClerk,
J. D. NEAL.
County Clerk.
GEO. A. LOCKARD.
Sheriff.
H. S. SIMMONS.
Tr 'a-surer.
DR. F. G. SMITH.
AHseRsor,
R. I„ CONDITT.
Surveyor.
W. A. BOWMAN.
Coroner,
F. J. HARRISON.
Constable—Union Township.
W. H. CAROUTHERS.
Justice'of the Peace.
GUY SMITH.
FOREST DILLARD.
A BIG TUBE’S LIFE STORY.
Wonderful Recuperative Power of a
California Forest Giant—Record
in Its Rings.
A letter by William Russe!
Dudley to Senator O. II. Platt, ac
cording to the Detroit Free
Press, says:
A remarkable recuperative
power following an injury wan
found after examination of the
Sequoias of the Converse basin.
The effects of certain tremendous
forest fires occurring centuries
■go are registered in the trunks
Of these trees and the record
*ompletely concealed by subse
quent healthy growth. Among
• number of similar cases the
■tost instructive record of these
■orient forest fires was observed
If a tree of moderate size—about
15 feet in diameter—5 feet from
the ground. It was 270 feet in
keight and 2,171 years old.
This tree when felled had an
•worinous surface burn on one
•ide 30 feet in height and occu
pying 18 feet of the circumfer
ence of the tree; this was found
to have ben due to a fire occurring
itt A. D. 1797. The tree when
Wt, in 1900, had already occupied
-^-Itself for 103 years in its efforts
tt> repair this injury, its method
■rvxu|i| » »*v v/ v* V4 vuv ax' »*
tissue from each margin of the
great black wound. When the
tree was cut the records of three
-♦her fires wei’e revealed. The his
tory of the tree was as follows:
271 B. C. it began its existence.
The first year of the Christian
era it was about four feet in di
ameter above the base.
254 A. D., at 516 years of age,
occurred a burning on the trunk
three feet wide. Oue hundred
•nd five years were occupied in
oovering this wound with new
tissue. For 1,196 years no fur
ther injuries were registered.
1441 A. 1)., at 1,712 years of
ftfe, the tree was burned a sec
ond time in two long grooves one
and two feet wide, respectively.
Each had its own system of re
pair.
One hundred and thirty-nipe
years of growth followed, includ
ing the time occupied by covering
the wounds.
1580 A. I)., at 1,851 years of
age, occurred another fire, caus
ing a burn on the trunk two feet
wide, which took 56 years to cov
v or with new tissue.
Two hundred and seventeen
years of growth followed this
burn.
1797 A. D., when the tree was
2,068 years old, a tremendous
fire attacked it, burning the great
scar 18 feet wide.
One hundred and three years,
between 1797 and 1900, had en
abled the tree to reduce the ex
pM*d area of the burn to ab«rt
H tot in width.
V’ntque Cosmetic.
The cashew nut serves a unique pur
pose as a cosmetic in the West Indies,
where women, desiring to remove the
•xcessive tan, anoint the skin with an
oil from the outer surface of the raw
nut. For two weeks the patient must
retire from society, for the face and
k&nds so treated turn black. At the end
oS a fortnight’s seclusion, however, the
woman who has undergone the cashew
treatment emerges, observers state,
“with skin and complexion as fair as a
babe’s."__
A Boalntu Maxim.
Manufacturer—You ought to be able
to sell some of those goods to Ezima.
He’d never know the difference.
Salesman—I thought I’d go and see
b<m to-morrow.
“Go at once. Never put off till to
morrow whom you can do to-day."—
Philadelphia Ledger.
AN ODD OLD CHARACTER.
Kate, the Bumboat Woman, Who Haa
Haunted Washington’s Navy'
yard for Forty Years.
Kate, the bumboat woman, is
the title applied to an odd crea
ture who has been haunting the
Washington navy yard for the
past 40 years, says the Washing
ton Post. Her name is Kate
Royal, and as far back and further
l than the oldest man connected
with the yard can remember, Kate
has been making her daily trips
i with her basket of candy, fruit
i and notions to sell to the sailors
i who visit Washington on Uncle
Sam’s boats. Kate has a speaking
acquaintance with all the great
men of the army and navy. She
has letters and presents from
most of them, including Amirals
Dewqy, Sampson and Schley.
Kate made her first visit to the
yard during the civil war. She
was a young woman In those days,
and her bright Irish ways made
her a great favorite. In later
years, when age began to creep
upon her, she began to form an
opinion that she was an active
and indispensable part of the
navy. She considered herself an
enlisted person and became as de
voted to the cause as the most
loyal man. It is just 40 years sinc«
Kate began to consider herself a
sailor.
She has had ten red enlistment
stripes, representing four years
each, placed upon a field of blue
cloth, and this she w’ore to cele
brate the anniversary.
Kate is si picturesque charac
ter. Her form is bowed beneath
the weight of 70 years, and her
face is seamed with the marks of
time. Only her eyes still retain
the brilliancy of youth, and they
sparkle with the same Irish hu
mor and good nature that
gleamed from them 40 years ago.
Kate has no regular hours of
business. She is on hand with the
rising sun, and the late hours of
the evening find her still on duty.
She gathers her little stock of
trade around her under the fore
castle of one of the United States
boats lying up at the yard, and
with the sailor boys lying around
her on the floor she will tell them
tales of her youth or crone Irish
melodies for them until the signal
for lights out is passed around,
and the sailors seek their swing
im/v ~ „ ,1 TT_1
******emu ivaic duuui'
ders her basket of goods and wan
ders home.
HERO AND THE TOOTHACHE
Remarks Thereon by a Disillusioned
Girl—He Had Faced Death
at Santiago.
“I used to be given to hero
worship,” said the girl with
the Russian sable muff to
her companion of the long, dark
eyelashes, according to the New
York Sun. “But, dear, we change,
do we not? Do you recall how I
spent the last of my pin money to
attend a reception that the club
arranged for a certain hero?
“Well, the week before last I
was coming up from Palm Beach.
On the train was a hero who had
withstood a dozen hostile fires at
Santiago. He had a toothache, a
simple little toothache, and he bel
lowed like a calf. I thought ofthe
five teeth that I had pulled out in
one afternoon without gas and
asked myself if the man was real
ly brave. I decided that a hero
must have a toothache such as
the ordinary mortal never
dreamed of.
“One of the train hands who
sympathized with the hero said:
‘The best thing for a toothache is
whisky. If I had one I’d fill up’—
and he did. I mean my hero, that
was, did. Don’t talk to me in fu
ture of hero worship. Facing
death may be one thing, but I’d
rather face death than be afraid
of a toothache. Have a bon bon ?”
“Radium Sirup."
A practical joke, now common
among Parisians, is to go into a
drug store and ask for three cents’
worth of radium. At first the
chemists took it good-naturedly,1
but latterly it has become quite a
nuisance. One chemist in the
Rue de Rivoli has Just hit upon a
way of getting even with the
would-be jokers. He has made a
concoction which he calls “radium
sirup,” and when the practical
joker arrives gravely hands oat a
small quantity, charging an extra
two cents for the bottle*
GREAT INVENTOR AT HOME.
A Visit to Thomas A. Edison—Houss
and Surrounding-s Not a Bit
Like the Man.
To one who knows anything at
all of Edison, the first glimpse of
his house and its surroundings
! comes with a shock of surprise,
says Woman’s Home Companion.
Who would have suspected
that this most democratic of men
would have chosen for himself en
vironments so essentially aristo
cratic? He lives in the heart of
a splendid park, patterned after
the English idea of vigorous ex
clusiveness, its gates jealously
guarded by a lodgekeeper.
The interior of the house is in
keeping with the atmosphere of
the park without, quite unlike
Edison. The reception-room was
utterly different from wh it I ex
pected. The admirably draped
curtains, the tables and chairs ar
ranged wih an eye to artistic ef
fect, were not of Edison’s choos
ing. He cares too little for the
luxuries of life. This was his
wife’s work; it was all so wom
anly.
I heard quick footsteps behind
me, and Edison appeared, greet
ing me cordially and unaffectedly,
lie was dressed in the queerest
of costumes—a long blouse that
reached to his heels, evidently of
his own pattern, serviceable and
work-worn.
“Come along into the labora
tory,” he said.
So I followed him through the
dining-room and the “den” into
the laboratory that he has fitted
up for himself in his home.
There I found his little boy, his
shirt-sleeves rolled up, his face
and hands smeared like his
father’s. They had been making
various compounds of which lamp
black was the chief constituent.
“So you work on Sunday, too?”
Edison winked confidentially.
“You see, Mrs. Edison is away. I
can do as I like.”
That brought back to me a story
that I had once heard from a friend
of his—a story of how he works
night after night in his labora
tory, utterly absorbed in his ex
periments. Midnight comes and
goes, the gray dawn creeps in, and
still finds him bending over his
test-tubes and retorts, until at
last Mrs. Edison appears and
fondly leads him away to sleep.
I looked around the laboratory.
This at least was his room. There
were Bunsen burners, mortars
and Destles. srlass rods, watch
crystals, bottles of chemicals
scattered about in bewildering
profusion. I watched him and his
boy while they worked, the boy
listening with rapt attention to
the teachings of his father.
A FORTUNE IN A POTATO.
Tuber Raised by Scotchman and Sold
at High Price—Well-Named
the “Eldorado.”
Ns potato ever gained so much
notoriety as Eldorado, raised by
the famous Scottish raiser Mr. A.
Findlay, of Markinch. The very
name of the variety, says the Gar
dener’s Magazine, was a stroke of
genius, for it is hardly possible
that the raiser, or those who had
the good fortune to secure some
of the first tubers distributed,
could have imagined that in so
short a time it would change
hands at such enormously high
prices.
Mr. George Massey, of Spalding,
was one of the very first to obtain
the stock, and from him Mr. Zach
ariah Gray, a well-known grower
at Everton, Sandy, purchased u
stone weight for £20. This set the
ball rolling, and as Mr. Findlay
resolved not to further distribute
Eldorado until the autumn of
1904, the demand for the small
stock available was doubled and
trebled, and so the prices rose.
Messrs. Dennis, the Covent Gar
den salesmen, and Messrs. I. Poad
& Sons, of York, possessed sup-!
plies, and the latter firm found a
purchaser of four pounds at £150
per pound. This determined them
to obtain further stock, and so at
the Smithfield club show a mem
ber of his firm found that Mr. Mas
sey had a limited stock for dispos
al and made him an offer of £1,000
for a stone. Mr. Massey refused,
as he wanted £1,500, but eventu
ally the bargain was struck at
£1,400, to the satisfaction of both
parties. Subsequently Mr. Mas
sey sold a relatively small quan
tity for £2,000, so that his original
transaction brought him a very
handsome return.
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Time Tells
The Story.
There is a big difference be
tween the cost of making a first
class sewing machine, embodying
the best materials and workman
ship, and one which is made in the
cheapest manner. The buyer of
the cheap machine soon pays the
difference of price in the constant
cost for repairs, to say nothing of
its annoying inefficiency.
Singer Sewing Machines do
good work during a lifetime.
Sold on Installments.
Old Machines taken in exchange
Liberal Discount for Cash.
Oils, Needles, Attachments and
Repairs for all makes of machines.
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"TheSewinsr Machine Makers of the World.”
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