THE INDEPENDENT
I ERCY H. VANDYKE.
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.!
For Representative,
JOHN H. KF.EI.
County Juiltfe,
E. L. BOYCE.
Circuit Clerk,
J. D. NEAL.
County Clerk,
GEO. A. LOCKARD.
Sheriff,
H. S. SIMMONS.
Treasurer.
DR. F. G. SMITH.
Assessor,
R. L. CONDITT.
Surveyor,
W. A. BOWMAN.
Coroner,
F. J. HARRISON.
Constable—Union Township.
W. H. CAROUTHERS.
Justice of the Peace,
GUY SMITH.
FOREST DILLARD,
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
We are autt*>riz9d to announce the candidacy
of H. M. Woo lard of Eltfin for Justice of the
Peace of Bird to.vnship.
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TICKET-OF-LEAVE MEN.
■a-CoavIeta In England Who Can Af«
ford to Rldo In Carriages to Re
port Their Whereabouts.
A Stratford (England) magistrate
saya he knows ticket-of-leave men who
drive up to tha police station in car- 1
riages to report themselves, leaving the
offices with smiling faces. The police,
who should know, say they would like ^
to see them.
“Most of these ex-convicts reporting
their whereabouts to us come to the
station wearing odd boots,” said a city
police officer. “They scarcely have the
money to pay for a drink, much less
a cab, while a carriage Is out of the
question.”
While such cases may be uncommon,
however, the fact remains that there are
men who, leaving a penal establish
ment, return to enjoy ill-gotten wealth
and to partake of the pleasures of idle
ness, says the London Mail. Three
years ago a business man who had suf
fered imprisonment for serious charges
of fraud drove up to a police station
to report himself, leaving in a smart
brougham outside his two well
dressed daughters, and wearing the tall
hat and frock coat of respectability. He
asked for the superintendent in the
airiest of manners, saying he had to see
him on "a matter of private business/'
Only the severe and gruff manager of
the station sergeant, who recognized
him, brought him to realize his position.
The man whom the Stratford magis
trate sent to jail for his failure to re
port himself evgry month said that he
had been turned away from his work
and lodgings on two occasions when it
was discovered that he had to call at
the police station periodically. He
could scarcely have known that with
the home secretary's permission ex
convicts are allowed to report them
selves by letter.
AN ODD CASE.
—
This Man Learned to Spell Three
Time* and Can't Spell Novr
—Ills Curious Story.
“Think of a man learning how to spell1
three times and then not being able to
6pell correctly,” said an observant man
who takes an interest in subjects of this
•sort, according to the New Orleans
Tlmes-Democrat, “and you will have my
case summed up exactly. I am not what
you would call a bad speller by any
manner of means. Put I stumble now
and than, and stumble badly. Why Is
It? It is the simplest thing in the world.
I grew up in the country, attended a
country school, and my first spelling
was under the rules of the oil-time
•school teacher. I learned how to spell
on my feet. It is a curious fact that for
a long time I could not spell the simplest
words unless I stood up. Standing I
could spell anything, and, in fact, was
always the winner in the spelling bee.
No one could 'turn me down,’ as we
used to say In the country. Well, after
this I learned how to spell with my pen
cil. All my spelling talent went Into the
pencil. My tongue forgot the art, and
whether standing or sitting. I could not
spell a word unless It belonged to the
6impler kind without using my pencil.
Now I began to use the typewriter, and
consequently I had to learn how to spell
again. Ask me how to spell a word now
and I will have to go to the typewriter
unless the word Is a very simple one.
My tongue won’t spell it and my pen
cil will refuse to write It. So I have
learned to spell three times, and as 1
laid before I am not a good speller yet"
Vf Altlmt It.
•Sir, I don’t think I quite catch tfe*
drift ot your remarks," said the haughty
maid who seemed to have suddenly de
veloped a case of refrigerator heart.
“Well, I seem to catch your drift all
right all right" rejoined the young man
who had been trying to frame up a prw
posal. "It seems to be something on the
order of a snowdrift”—Chicago DaUy
News.
The Pekin Palace Fire.
Pekin, April 21.—The loss by the de
destruction of the winter palace, bj
fire, in which Gen. Schwartzkolf los
his life, is estimated at 1,000,000 taels
Count von Waldersee lost everything
Including his papers and clothing.
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. Uer name is Kate
Royal, and as far back and further
than the oldest man connected
with the yard can remember, Kate
ha$ been making her daily trips
with her basket of candy, fruit,
and notions to sell to the sailor*
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 letter* and presents from
most of them, including Amirals
Dewey, 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 sines
Kate began to consider herself *
sailor.
She has had ten red enlistment
stripes, representing four years,
each, placed upon a field of blue j
cloth, and this she wore to cele
brate the anniversary.
Kate is a 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 fiom 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
ing hammocks, and Kate shoul
ders her basket of goods and wan
ders home.
HERO AND THE TOOTHACHE
Kemarks Thereon by a Disillusioned
Girl—He Had Faced Death
at Santiago.
“I used to be given to hei o
worship,” said the girl with
the Russian sable muff to
her compauion 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 of the
five teeth that I had pulled out in
one afternoon without gas and
asked myself if the man was real-1
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,
but latterly It has become quite a
nuisance. One chemist in the
Rue de Rivoli has just hit upon a
I way of getting even with the
would-be jokers. He has made a
concoction which he calls “radium
tirup,” and when the practical
joker arrives gravely hands out a
small quantity, charging aa extra
two cents for the bottle.
SLUE
le By
ALL
WISE
GROCERS
DIRECTIONS FOR USE:
Wiggle-Stick around in the water.
HOW A TREE IS MURDERED.
An Instance Which Illnatraiea tb 1
Difficulty of Deatroyisc
One.
A gentleman of means living In asubt
urban town tells how his mother ones
undertook to murder a cherry tree, says
the Chicago Chronicle. “I was a boy
at the time,” he said. "The tree stood
on our lawn; it had been planted by my j
father, and he loved it with a parentai
affection; but it was an eyesore to my
mother, for she thought it spoiled tha
looks of the garden.
“She decided to murder it secretly,
because she knew that my father would
never conaent to its removal. For •
long time she pondered, asking herself
how she might kill the tree without be*
Jng detected, and finally she decided
that she would use for her weapon boil
ing water. Accordingly whenever my
father was away she tfrould get a kettle
and, tiptoeing out to the tree with a
guilty look, she would pour boiling
water upon Its roots.
“At first the tree showed no^change
under this treatment. After a time,
though, a change began to manifest
itself. My father noticed it.
“ ‘By jove,’ he said, ‘my cherry tree
seems unusually fine and hearty.’
“And this was a fact. The more boil
ing water my mother poured on the
roots the more the tree thrived and
flourished. Finally, in despair, she gavf
up trying to commit her vegetable mur
<4a*
“A florist, to whom she narrated this
strange story one day, laughed when he
heard it. He said it was no wonder the
tree had gotten along so well. He de
clared that boiling water was often
used on trees, as It killed off the worms
and bugs molesting them.”
The Magnetic North.
The belief in the constancy' of the
magnetic compass to the north pole has
not the least foundation in fact. At ev
ery different place on the globe it points
In a different direction, and only one or
two of them are due north. In London,
for Instance, it points to a place about
17 degrees west of north. Seventy-suc
years ago it was still further away, be
ing then 24^4 degrees, or a quarter of
the way around to the west. In the year
15S0 it pointed 11 degrees east. Then It
began to move north till 1659, when It
pointed due north. But it remained
thus only for a moment, passing around
to its greatest deflection in 160 year*.
Igain it turned in 1820, and is still mov
ing nearer the north. It will not reach
that point for nearly a century and a
]\alf, and so it will go on backward and
toward forever.—N. T. Herald.
Ages of President*.
Washington was 67 when he
died; John Adams 90, Jefferson
83, Madison 85, Monroe 73, John
Quincy Adams 80, Jackson 78,
Van Buren 79, William Henry
Harrison 68, Tyler 72, Polk 53,
Taylor 65, Fillmore 74, Pierce 64,
Buchanan 77, Lincoln 56, Johnson,
66, Grant 63, Hayes 70, Garfield
49, Arthur 56, Benjamin Harrison
67 and McKinley 53.
An Accretion.
"Well, sir," said the slangy man, "he
made me look like 30 cents.”
"Yon ought not to complain about tbal*
for it is an improvement.”
“What do you mean?"
“Ordinarily you look like a nickel."—
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