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^^Bte.ATIC COUNTY-TICKET.
i'JBfd " 1 t<‘t i resen t alive,
pi ■frftgjgEP^r^*r°HN H. KEE1,
• ^'PNlTjfff^fnam .County Judge.
S .' E. L. BOYCE.
.1- !>■ NEAL.
jfi^ljj^^^^B County Clerk.
GEO. A. LOCKARD.
" s- SIMMONS.
lllIltlllF DR- E. G. SMITH.
Assessor.
R. L. CONDITT.
U W. A. BOWMAN.
- |F. J.IHARRISON.
BBB,\ "Constable—Unlon Townshl;
||||||||m IW.’II.ICAROUTHERS.
T (Justice of the Peace.’
liSlM^ :OUY SMITHS
WggO FOREST DILLARD.
WM' ANNOUNCEMENTS.
g^B We are authorized to announce the’candidacy
of H. M. Woodard of Elgin for Justice of tlie
^B Peace of Bird township.
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If THE COOKE SISTERS.
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In speaking of the exquisite
and altogether inimitable bare
back riding of the Cooke sisters,
Anna and Edna, there is no lan
guage too strong to proclaim
their merits, nor is it claiming
too much to aver that they are,
beyond all question, the most
daring, the most accomplished,
and in every wav the most finish
e4 equestriennes the world has
ever produced. Their riding is a
revelation and a poem. Beauti
ful and as graceful as a fawn,
Anna and Edna accomplish on
their flying coursers numberless
feats none else ever dared at
tempt, and backward and for
ward somersaults are to them the
merest bagatelle. There are
many equestriennes in the pro
fession, but there is none that
can compare with Anna and Ed
na Cooke, who are with the Pan
American Show which will ex
hibit at Newport, Thursday,
Sept. 1.
COTTON COMPANY SUED.
Pine Bluff, Aug. 29.—Suit was
filed in the circuit court this
morning by Edward N. Williams
against tfre Delta Cotton Com
pany, a company doing business
*v in this and St. Francis counties.
The plaintiff asks for judgment
in the sum of $2,455, alleged to
be due him for the feeding of
and caring for stock of the de
fendant company, and for the
storage and care of implements.
White & Altheimer are attorneys;
for the plaintiff.
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DON’T SNUB THE SPAGHETTI i
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Tht One tV»r t« Create Con«t*rB»,
tlon In n New York Italian
Restaurant.
When A customer enters an Italian
restaurant in New York, he is supposed
to have bestowed himself upon that
particular establishment for the pur
pose of procuring spaghetti, says the
Sun. The experienced patron yields to
the requirements of the restaurant and
enjoys the spaghetti when he gets It,
though there Is no positive assurance
In an Italian restaurant at what point
the spaghetti will appear any more than
| there is when the cheese or salad will be
I served. It is no unusual thing in an Ital
& lan restaurant for a dinner to be begun
m Vrith salad, and cheese, grated and served
^ tn a saucer, Is generally brought in with
the soup instead of at the end of the re
past
The unsophisticated patron of an Ital
ian restaurant In New York, high or low.
expensive or cheap, celebrated or new.
can In one way only cause surprise, bor
dering on bewilderment to the conduc
tors, employes and patrons of the es
tablishment alike, and that Is by declar- 1
trig with firmness at the proper mo
ment:
“I don’t care for spaghetti. Take It
away.”
Such a declaration, seldom made and
never repeated In the same restaurant,1
has the same effect on the business done
in It that the explosion of a boiler has
on a locomotive. It brings everything
to a full stop. It ends abruptly the pop
ularity of the patron there. He pays his
acore and departs, but not until he hu
dons so is serenity restored.
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A Hound** I-on* Trip.
A hound was bought In Missouri
and shipped in a closed express car
to a ranch in Kansas. In a day or
two it was missing. Investigation
proved that It had gone back to its
Missouri home, over a distance of 600
miles, on a road entirely unknown to
1
!
FEAR OF GERMAN INVASION
Not Warranted by Numbir of Kaiser’*
Subjects at Present Residing in
South America.
German migralion to South
America, and especially to some
of the southern atates of Brazil,
is periodically a cause of com
ment and concern to some who
think they see therein a sinister
scheme of imperial conquest.
For two or three strong reasons,
says the New York Tribune, such
fears seem to us to be not w’ell
founded. One such reason is
that the number of Germans in
Brazil is not, after all, ominous
ly large. The total population of
Brazil, according to the census
of 1890, was 14,333,915. No later
census returns are available, but
careful estimates now place the
total at more than 17,000,000, of
which number less than 3,000,000
are Indians and negroes, leaving
certainly more than 14,000,000
whites. Of these, in 1901, only
2,700,000 were immigrants, and
of the latter number only 300,000
were Germans.
The latest and highest esti
mate of the number of Germans
in Brazil is only 450,000, or a lit
tle over three per cent, of the
whole. Really, we cannot regard
that as a dangerous percentage.
Nor does it represent the largest
foreign element, by any means.
Portuguese immigrants into Bra
zil are twice as numerous, and
Italians three times as numer
ous, as the Germans. Nor yet
are these Germans so massed in
certain states as to form a ma
jority of their population, as
some have imagined. Germans
are most numerous in Rio
Grande do Sul, where there are
200,000 of them, but the whole
population of the state is 900,000,
so that the Germans are less
than one-fourth. In Santa Catha
rina the Germans are 100,000 in a
total of 300,000, or one-third,
the largest proportion in any
state. In Parana they are 47,000
in 280,000, and in Sao Paulo 30,
000 in 1,430,000.
It is pointed out as ominous
that these Germans continue to
use their own language, to pub
lish newspapers in German and
to demand the official use of that
language in courts and schools.
Well, the same may be said of
Germans in New \'ork, and in
Milwaukee, and in many other
parts of the United States.
The conquest which Germany
hopes for in Brazil is not polit
ical, but commercial. The profit
she looks for in this migration of
her subjects is to be found in in
creased commerce. In that Ger
many reckons shrewdly. Every
shipload of Germans landed in
Brazil creates a demand for
many shiploads of German man
ufactured goods. Every so-called
German colony in Brazil means
a market for German trade.
Upon this feature of the case too
much stress cannot easily be laid.
Provisions from Trees.
There is a tree which grows in
Sumatra, Algeria and China which
is known as the vegetable tallow
tree. From its fruit large quanti
ties of oil and tallow are extract
ed, and the fruit is gathered in
November or December, when all
the leaves have fallen. Excellent
candles are made from the berries
of a tree which grows in some
parts of South Africa and the
Azores. At Sierra Leone is found
the cream fruit tree, the fruit of
which is very agreeable in taste.
In Ceylon there is the breadfruit
tree, from which a food is made in
the same way that we make bread.
It is said to be equally good and nu
tritious. In South America we!
find the milk tree.—Philadelphia j
Ledger.
Curious Incident.
A man on Twenty-third street
furnished much amusement to a
number ot people on a recent
windy afternoon by a predicament
he fell into, or rather that fell
onto him. A large gunny sack
dropped from the roof of one of
the buildings, and, as it descend
ed, tilled with air, coming down
with mouth wide open, like a bal-,
loon. It struck the unfortunate
man squarely over the head, cov
ering him completely down be
low the shoulders, and pinioning
his arms so that he had difficulty
in extricating himself. He strug
gled as if he thought he was being
kidnaped until he managed to get
the sack off his bead.—N. Y. Po§t.
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DIRECTIONS FOR USE:
Wiggle-Stick around in the water.
HEART DISEASE AND WORRY.
i Overexertion, Either Physical *1
Mental, Endangers Life in Casa
ot Cardiac Tronbla.
The influence of mental emotion of j
tha heartbeat needs no special proof ;
; in our everyday experiences. When j
the organ is healthy the palpitation Is j
the ordinary response to an extri j
stimulus and is necessarily transient;
in duration. In confirmed cardiac dls- !
ease in which the valves are damaged
or the heart walls dilated and weak*
ened, there is often great danger to
life by overexertion, either physical
or mental. It is the degree and con
tinuousness of excitement which thus
work so disastrously.
The young school-teacher of Green- j
point who fell dead at the end of his;
first day’s duty is a case in point, saysj
the New York Herald. He was evi
dently overwrought with anxiety, and 1
I LI. Lnn nrn a linohla trt hpflf I
the constant strain. Unlike mere
muscular exertion, the mental excit
ability was beyond control, especially
when the new environment was the
persistent disturbing element This
happens sometimes in the pulpit, on
the lecture platform, and even before
the footlights. Numerous examples
have been noted from time to time.
The preventives are in the line of
avoiding all overexcitement and of
heeding all ominous warnings. This is
most difficult obviously with mental
emotions, as they are not always un
der the control of the will. The man
with a weak heart who is running for
a train is compelled to stop in time for
want of breath and thus remove ths
exciting cause of his palpitation, but
continual and profound mental per
turbation is, alas, too often beyond bis
ken. Alas! there was no one near
the poor teacher to teU bln'
WORLD’S FAIR RATES.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
St. Louis, April 30th to Decem
ber 1, 1904. Rate for ten day
excursion ticket will be one fare
and one-fifth for the round trip.
Tickets on sale daily April 27th
to November 30, 1904. Rate for
sixty day excursion ticket one
fare and one-third for the round
trip. Tickets on sale April 25th
to Nov. 20th. Rate for season
EXCURSION TICKETS eighty
per cent, of double the standard
one way fare for the round trip.
Tickets' on sale daily April 15th
to Nov. 15th, Final return limit
Dec 15, 1904.
Thos. H. Reamey, Agt.
Read the Independent.
Road Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
will apply to the County Court of Jackson county,
at the October term thereof, 1904, for an order to
establish a new road in Bird Township, to run as
follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the southeast corner of Section 17,
Township 13, north. Range 1 west, running thence
west on the section lines between Sections 17 and
20, 18 and 19, of Township 13 north, Range 1 west,
and Sections 13 and 24, 14 and 23, and 15 and 22,
Township 13 north, Range 2 west, to the west side
of the right of way of the St. Louis, Iron Mount- |
ain & Southern Railway, there intersecting the
Tuckerman and Swifton road.
J. E. Johnson,
Bud Graham,
William Watson.
This 20th of August, 1604.
NEW YORK
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IN THE WORLD.
$4.00 Per Year. Single Copy, 10 Cts.
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Sample Copy Free.
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AT RFRT T RORIF PUBLISHERS)
ALBMaIausB ’ 47 w. 28TU St., Kkw Yob*.
SINGER
SEWING MACHINES
At Bargain Prices.
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We Suit Payments
to Your Income
You may test our machines
| before purchase and they will
I be delivered to your home.
Guaranteed to be a simpler,
stronger and more durable
machine than any othe r.
The Singer Manufacturing Co.
FRANK W. LYNN, Mgr.
M. A. UMSTED, Ass’t. Mgr.
121 Hazel Street, Newport Ark
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LONG
DISTANCE
jSSS&TELEPHONE
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places you in direct and
instant communica
tion with all important
towns in Texas and
Arkansas and many
other states. Its use
will often save you a
fatiguing Journey.
TRY ROUND TRIP TALK.
The South westemTelegraph
and Telephone Co.
LIVERYMEN
FARMERS
DRAYMEN
And all users of axle grease
that want the best grease on the
market and that recognize a good
thing when shown its merits, we
recommend our Golden and Cas
tor Oil brands of Axle Grease.
It is put up in 1 pound tin boxes
and 3 pound tin buckets. For
sale by all up-to-date merchants.
Ask for it and take no substitute.
It is guaranteed to have no equal
for quality on the market.
WATERS-PIERCE
OIL COMPANY.
OPENING
OF A NEW AND THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED LINE BETWEEN
ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO.
SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1904.
Thoroughly equipped trains leave St. Louis and Chicago nightly
(after the arrival of incoming trains), arriving either city the
following morning. ...... . , . . - . ,
Evuipment entirely new; lavish in design, elaborate in furnish
ings. Ask vour ticket agent or address
PASSENGER TRAFFIC DEPT., ST. LOUIS, MO.
| BREAKFAST ROOMS. I
Appropriately furnished prove a con
tinual source of pleasure. If your
breakfast is served among cheerful, har- j
monious surroundings it gives you a 1
good s'art for the day. j
DINING ROOM SUITES. ,
We have a nice line of Dining Chairs,
Sideboards, China Closets, Dining ‘
Tables—in fact, anything in the Furni
ture line. Come and see us. We are
are ready to show you what we have.
Newport Builders' S“5' Hardware Co.
J. W. Lindley, Pres. L. T. Slayden, V-Pres. E. V. Holt, Cashier
BANK OF TUCKERMAN
CAPITAL STOCK $20,000.00.
We are open to the public for all business
which constitutes safe & reliable banking
DIRECTORS:
J. W. LINDLEY, 'L. T. SLAYDEN, D. C. DOWELL,
GEO. L. SMITH, W. E. TALLEY,
J. A. GREENHAW, L. D. SMITH.
COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY.
Your Patronage is Solicited. r *
Tucker man, - - Arkansas
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Low Rates from Memphis.
ROUND TRIP, $15.00.
To Amarillo, Quanah, Vernon, Fort Worth, Dallas,
San Angelo, San Antonio, Colorado, Galveston,
Houston and other Texas points. Also to all
points in Oklahoma and Indian Territory, except
where one fare plus $2.00 makes less.
• Tickets on sale Aug. 23d, Sept. 13th and 27th.
ROUND TRIP, ONE FARE PLUS $2.00.
To all points in Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory. Tickets on sale First and Third Tuesday of
each month.
$3Noeooto C A L I F O R N I A
Other Pacific Coast points in proportion.
Tickets on sale at Memphis Sept. 15th to Oct. 15th, inclusive.
For full information write
J. N. CORNATZAR,
General Agent, Memphis, Tenn.*
OUT IN CALIFORNIA >
The Triennial Conclave of Knights Templar will be
held in the early fall. Thousands are going. It’s a
good time. There is no doubt but that all good Amer
icans desire to see the Golden State some time. Here’s
an opportunity. Is there anything to prevent your
taking advantage of the exceptionally" low rates an
nounced for this occasion.
□TICKETS ON SALE AUG. 15 TO SEPT.
Rates from your home town on request.
GEO. H. LEE, JAS. HARRIS,
Gen. Pass. Agt. Dist. Pass. I
LITTLE ROOK, ARK.
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