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THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
SPRING COMING
SOON HE SAYS.
Interview With Mr. Groundhog
by Reporter Who Didn’t Care
for An Out Door Trail.
“If Candlemas Day be bright and fair,
Half of the winter’s come;
If Candlemas Day be wet and foul,
The half of the winter’s gone at Yule.”
The blizzards of the past
month and the promise of the
present, have made the people of
our Sunny Southland (accent on
the South and Sunny in italics)
very studious observers of all
weather traditions, hoping to
find assurances of relief from the
serverities of the elements.
Thursday was Groundhog day
and Nature tricked him. The
weather man foretold a day
most cold, but fair, hoping to
keep Brer Hog within his dingy,
yet warm and comfortable hole,
and not allow him to go forth
and take fright when Old Sol
should transfer the outlines of
his unshapely form upon the
earth. But Mr. Hog is an old
timer, with a reputation to sus
tain and a duty to mankind to
fulfill upon this day, when the
whole world pays its respects.
Hog like, he is vain too, and in
all these centuries has never
once dreamed that the horrible
shape which sometimes dogs his
steps is one after his own im
age.
So doubtless with a sense of
his responsibility, a veritable At
las with the world upon his shoul
ders, he ventured forth with
bristles erect and many a con
scious grunt of satisfaction and
pride upon' the day set apart
from earliest tradition for him,
the great seer, Mr. Groundhog.
What a martyr he must have
been, for seeing no shadow upon
Thursday, February 2, he con
tinued his roaming and must now
be snow bound. At least, his
retreat is cut off, the entrance to
his home hidden, foraging is
made as hard by a covering of
snow as it would be had some
conquering army laid desolate
the land. If it were not too much
and too just a reflection upon our
climate, some of our yellow jour
nals would start a subscription
for a relief expedition and go
after Mr. Groundhog just like
they did Mr. Pearry and other
arctic explorers.
For poor old Brer Groundhog
is just as deserving as any of
these North-pole chasers. His
trips are in pursuance of scien
tific knowledge and discovery
and he doesn’t have half the in
ducements to remain in his little
dug-out home that these human
explorers do with family, friends
and luxury, who practice asceti
cism before a god of science in
the land of the midnight sun.
The forecast of Mr. Ground
hog tries one’s faith these days.
To say that winter’s half over
on a morn like this, when we’re
writing a wind-jammer and
space-filler like this to keep from
bracing the weather outside and
ploughing through snow, that’s
worse than any field of stumps
REMARKABLE CURE OF
RHEUMATISM.
Mr. Michael Doran, employed by tbe
American Bridge Co., Youngstown, O.,
writes: ‘‘I want to say for tbe benefit
of my fellowmen that I have been suf
fering for a long time with acute
Rheumatism in my knees. I had tried
every kind of remedy, including an
expensive course of electrical treat
ment, but all of no avail. One day at
the suggestion of my druggist I took
a bottle of Paracamph to try. The
effect of its use was magical. I got
relief at once, and after using three
or four bottles I believe I am perma
nently cured. It is certainly a won
derful remedy, and upon my advice
a number of friends have tried Fara
camph, and the verdict is unanimous
that it will do all that is claimed for
it” Don't suffer from Rheumatism,
Lumbago, Sore and Stiff Joints. Use
rarncamph. It has cured others and
will cure you. Your druggist will sell
it to you on a guarantee of satisfaction
or money refunded. No cure, no pay.
Get a bottle to-day. Trial size 25c;
family sizes 60c and $1.00. If you have
never tried Paracamph we will send you
a trial size free. Write to-day. 0 Tho
Paracamph Co., Louisville, Ky.
the farmer’s plough-share ever
tackled. But there are many
whom Mr. Hicks has never per
suaded, who view government re
p arts and signal station forecasts
as the rankest frauds, who pin
their faith to the groundhog the
ory and swear that it ever comes
true.
So let the wish for an early
Spring father a confidence along
that line. 1 We have had our
quota of winter, and snows
thrown in to make good measure.
Perhaps the coal pile is hidden
and then frozen to make matters
worse, perhaps the water pipes
have “busted” and added to the
hardships of the blizzard, but
! wear a smile, for Mr. Groundhog,
i who has learned a little vernacu
I lar, says “Winter is to be ‘put to
: the bad’ and Spring will soon
| ‘make good’ my prophecy.”
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REFUSED LICENSE
FOR TUPELO.
The petition for license from
the Tupelo three-mile district
came up for hearing Thursday
afternoon before Judge Boyce.
Judge Stuckey represented the
petitioners, of whom there were
317.
The court granted the order
! sought, annulling the decree of
1899 against license in that dis
trict, but refused the application
for license made by one party.
Judge Boyce is a conscientious
official and doubtless felt that
the police regulations thrown
about saloons in small towns
were not sufficient.
MILK NOTICE.
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Having leased the Remmel
farm and barn, we will start a
first class dairy as soon as pos
| sible. Our motto will be pure
milk or none. Will be prepared
to start wagon to deliver milk in
a few days. Can furnish a few
customers now at my residence
on Elm street. Phone 146.
The Pure Milk Dairy Co.,
383t W. M. Harris, Mgr.
RAISING SEEDLESS FRUITS.
Soma Success Achieved with Apples,
pi nma and Cherries in the
Last Few Years.
A veteran nurseryman of Colorado
heralds the fact that after years of pa
tient experiment in grafting and budding
he has secured a seedless apple. Modest
ly the creator has withheld information
of his success until he has secured 40
trees of his new variety, says a local in
formant. Expert pomologists have ex
amined the new apple, and declare it to
be very handsome in appearance. De
tails of the methods by which this
achievement was attained have not been
divulged, but when it is remembered
that the million-box crop of navel
oranges came from a single shipment of
six slips the start that has already been
attained with 40 productive trees
presages an early appearance of the
seedles apple in commerce.
The department of agriculture, as well
dc manv crrnno crrmvprfl hfl.VP WOrli
Ing for years on the problem of a seed
less grape, and, while rumors of success
have appeared from time to time during
the past decade, the Sultana and Thomp
son seedless varieties have during the
past year established their reputation
among the viticulturists. The Japanese
■ plum, without a stone, is also reported a
j reality, although the seeds have not
| been obviated. Cherries without stones
are promised in the immediate future.
Seedless tomatoes are alleged to have
been perfected by an Indiana woman, be
ing grown from the stock of the tomato,
which is replanted when it is at its full
height. Watermelons of the same freak
nature are also rumored from Georgia,
but not much credence i9 placed in this
report, though if tomatoesahave been
perfected there is no essential reason
why similar success should not be at*
tained with the watermelon
SNAILS OVERRUN A CITY.
inhabitant* of Indian* Town Organ
ize ftlglit Hunts and K.111
the Peats with Salt.
A plague of snails, or slugs, as the af
flicted people call them, lately struck
Jeffersonville, Ind., in full force, and
' Instances are cited where persons have
been compelled to move. Their first
appearance was after the flood of Feb
ruary, 1884. but they have never been
' so bad as at present. The pests are
not exactly like a snail, bwt resemble
them in some respects. They have no
shells and are night raidera, says th«
New York World.
At no place in the city where the
flood water failed to reach has one of
the slugs been seen, but in the most
fashionable quarters the pests are
numerous, in size tnev range irom
one to six inches in length, being from
a quarter to an inch in diameter. It is
not until ten o'clock at night that the
snails come out of their hiding places,
under houses, and slug hunting parties
have become fashionable.
Armed with a lamp and a cup of salt,
the pen; le hunt for the pest, and when
a slug is found its days are numbered.
; for the smallest particle of salt means
death. The more salt the quicker the
work.
They leave behind a slimy track, that
1 furnishes a clew to their movements.
In some places fine carpets have been
ruined, the slimy tail eating like acid.
One of the most peculiar eharaeter
: istics of the sings is their ability to get
their large bodies through a small
space. They flatten out almost as thin
as a knife blade, allowing them to crawl
through a good sized door crack.
MAKING PORT ON ONE LEG.
Tke Di*ultl*-tl Steamer Bulgaria Pro
ceeding Slowly Under a
Single Propeller.
London, April 20.—The disabled
Hnmburg-Ameriean line steamer Bul
garia, from New \ ork, April 6, fa
Hamburg, which was reported haviiy
lost her starboard propeller and frac
tured the shaft on April 12 at sea
passed Prawle point, in the Engllab
channel, slowly proceeding under her
port propeller to her destination.
Palms for President.
Washington,April 20.—The adminia
tration is informed, through official
channels, that a strong movement ii
•etting ;n among Cubans to mak*
Tomas Estrada Palma the first presi
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