THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE.
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, * - ARKANSAS
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Don’t forget tonight’s meeting.
Get’your shoulder to the wheel.
r / With the interest taken in the
recent election by both sides,
turned into the one channel of
civic pride, we could accomplish
big results.
Sewerage and paved street ?
/ are Newport’s most pressing
L/ needs. The new council might
* popularize itself with the people
oar these issues.
/ The nearest opportunity New
port has to demonstrate public
spirit is in a proper handling of
the Travelers Association meet
ing. Manifest your interest and
encourage by your presence this
work by attendance upon the
ji preparatory meetings.
Joe Folk is sweeping the bood
lers and their side partners, the
machine politicians, off the po
litical rhap in Missouri. There
fpusands of good Arkan
ho feel a deep interest in
cess of the incorruptible
McCulloch has won the
associate justiceship by a narr.ow
margin. He has 227 votes in the
convention and Moose 215. It was
a case of two worthy men, and
the electors seem to have had a
hard time settling their prefer
ence.
The Governor issued three more
pardons Thursday, which makes
Eighteen in the past two weeks.
Amen, “Jeffie,” the people have
approved of your liberality and
commended your big heart, so
give us another batch, and let
jiq sun go down upon a day in
Which thou hast not shown thy
sympathies with these unfortu
r' nate violators of the law.
This Judge Adams, who brought
upon himself much condemnation
for his stand in the granting of
an injunction against labor or
ganizations from interference
with property rights, has again
shown his firmness in the rebuke
administered Senator Ralph Bur
ton, when fixing his fine at $2,
500 and sentencing him to six
months imprisonment. This ju
rist did not mince words. He
approved in no mild language the
verdict of the jury.
DIVORCE LAWS ABROAD.
lm irr •nee the Innocent Forty May Re
cover All the Presents He or
She Has Given.
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“There are many curious and inter
esting facts regarding the marriagt
• «^ ^4loviro fnrolern nAuntrlAQ m
said R. J. Brown, who, reports the In
dianapolis News, recently returned
from a trip abroad, where he made a
Study of the question.
“Breaches of promise are averted In
Hungary by an express declaration of
the civil marriage act (1895) that the
relations created by a betrothal do not
give the right to command the con
clusion of a marriage, Lut if either
party withdraws from an engagement
without just reasons ho or she is
bound to grant compensation to the
extent of the outlay incurred. Divorce
In the English sense does not exist,
but the courts can decree the personal
' separation ot a married couple witb
^ out dissolving the bonds of matrimony.
"A curious law prevailing in France
provides that, before being married,
children of a family, although over
age, shall seek in respectful and formal
terms the advice of their father and
mother. It makes no difference, how
ever, whether the consent of parents is
gtven. for the couple can be married a
mouth after under any circumstances.
This is also the case in the Nether
lands.
“A divorce further entitles the in
nocent party to recover all the pres
ents be or shA may have made.
“Accorerng to the constitution of the
Netherlands, the civil marriage must
always precede the religious ceremony.
The latter, indeed. Is left entirely to
the conscience of the parties concerned.
There is also a law providing that t o
man or woman under «0 can marry
without the consent of parents. 11 the
consent be refused the coupie have to
appea- before a judge, who advises
i them as he thinks best.
FORTUNE IN PORPOISES.
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tlmny of the White Cetacean* Fit
ttueot the Gulf of St. Lawrence,
and Are Valuable.
American tourists crossing the St
Lawrence from the mouth of the Sague
nay can almost always enjoy theisight of
a number of porpoises disporting them
! selves upon the water in the neighbor
i hood of Tadoussac, says the New York
! Burn The great white cetaceans appear
| like shapeless masses of blubber as their
arched backs show from time to time
! above the surface. They are doubtless
I attracted to the mouth of the Saguenay
! by the large number of salmon wrhich en
j ter the river throughout the season.
A large industry is expected soon to
j spring up in various parts of the Gulf of
j St. Lawrence in connection with the
i hunting of porpoises. It has already
j been attempted upon a small scale, but
; the difficulty of capturing any great
i number of the animals has stood in the
way of success. Now the difficulty has
been overcome through the observations
and experiments of Campbell McNab, a
Canadian hunter, who has spent many
years in the study of these animals.
The adult porpoise, of the St. Lawrence
and the North Atlantic ocean is from
12 to 18 feet in length. It somewhat re
sembles a dolphin in shape, with large
dorsal fin and a mouth armed with many
strong and sharp teeth. Each porpoise
is believed to eat from one. to three bar
rels of fish a day, so that it is difficult
to estimate the frightful ravages which
they make among the salmon, the her
ring and the cod. They are largely gre
garious, though they often hunt their
prey in couples. Mr. McNab has often
peered over the edge of an overhanging
rock to watch them catch salmon at the
mouth of a stream and sometimes a long
distance up a river, where, they follow
their prey. They chase a salmon into a
shallow and then twTo approach it from
either side. The salmon appears un
able to move, as if paralyzed with fear.
If he attempts to rush from one of his
pursuers he falls into the open mouth of
the other.
The porpoise Is equally expert in fish
ing for the slippery eel. Mr. McNab
opened one of these animals the other
day and found more than 40 eels in Its
stomach. To prevent their wriggling,
and to aid digestion, the porpoise cracks
the skull of the eel between its teeth be
fnrA Kwallnwintr It..
Like the eel, the porpoise can live, a
long time out of the water. In fact, it is
virtually amphibious. Some time ago
Mr. McNab shot a number of the ani
mals which had been hauled ashore aud
bound together by their tails. After
skinning another lot at some distance
and taking out the blubber, he turned a
few days later to the lot which had been
last shot. Unknown to him one had not
been killed outright. As he passed in
front of it It growled at him “like a dog.”
he says, and opened its jaws to snap him.
The porpoises are captured by being
Imprisoned at low tide on the shoals,
over which they have journeyed when
the tide was high, in pursuit of their
prey. Hitherto the difficulty has been to
find any barrier strong enough to retain
such enormously strong, heavy beasts,
and so many of them together as are
sometimes enclosed. Mr. McNab has
made the interesting discovery that the
enormous nets through which they often
broke are not necessary to hold back
the brutes. They are unable to stand the
slightest vibration in the water, and so
all that the hunter now finds necessary is
to fasten a long thin pole like a fishing
rod to a stake in the mouth of the
Stream, the bay or the estuary within
which it is desired to retain the por
poises. They remain to be stranded and
killed upon the shallows rather than ven
ture past the vibrating rod.
This sensitiveness is believed to have
Its seat in the ear of the animal, which
has so small an opening that it might
almost have been made with a pin. For
! years McNab has held firmly to this
! theory, only to be laughed at for his
pains. He has now proved it beyond
: peradventure, and has reaped the fruit
j of his persistence. At one tide the other
I day he secured G9 of the animals on the*
Rhoals of the Portneuf river a few miles
! below Tadoussac, and next year will
i pursue operations there upon a larger
1 scale. He has secured a nine year lease
j of the shoal from the government and
has apparently a fortune within easy
reach. The skin and oil from a single,
porpoise are worth from $30 to $50.
The utmost caution has to be taken
not to drive the animals away from their
haunts. If any of the blood or refuse o.
their dead is permitted to reach the wa
ter, Mr. McNab declares, they will de
sert the place entirely. Tills is the ex
planation he gives of the present absence
| of porpoises from the River Ouelle and
! other places on the banks of the St. Law
: rence, where a few years ago many of
j them were annually killed. The por
! poise, he says, is one of the most intelll
| lent animals created.
rnproteefed fort.
The reputation of a house often de
pends upon the manner of packing as
much as on the merchandise itself.
Goods for Manila should be packed wi» h
! special care. The port is unprotected
1 and the sea Is often very rough, mak
! ing unloading at such times impossible,
j Transfer is made by natives in small
. boats from a point two miles distant.
! These boats are tossed about by the
slightest agitation of the water.
So »f«I lor Worry.
Mrs. Homer—John, if Mrs. Neighbors
gets a new sealskin sack this winter i
• must have one also,
j Homer—Well, don't worry about It,
■ dear. Neighbors and I formed a protec
tivve union to-day. and neither of you
. is to have one.—Chicago Daily ews.
A foreigner
although rct'i'
y. iu
"judicial
WORLD’S FAIR RATES.
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
| St, Louis, April 30th to Decem
ber 1, 1904. Rate lor ten dayj
| 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
sixtw day excursion ticket, one
fare'-andt one-third forrthe round
; trip. Tickets on sale April 25th
to Nov. 20th. Rate for season
| EXCURSION TICKETS eighty |
pei- cent, of double the standard j
j one way fare for the round trip, j
1 Tickets on sale daily April 15th
i to Nov. 15th, Final return limit j
! Dec 15, 1904.
Thos. H. Reamey, Agt.
! CHEAP RATE
TO CALIFORNIA, j
':■
Via the Iron Mountain route, |
one way colonist tickets, on sale j
March 1st to April 30th, only j
$30. For further information
call at Iron Mountain ticket office.
Thos'. H. Reamey, Agt.
Found — Brass fixtures for
boiler and engine on road be
tween Newport and Diaz. Owner
may have same upon proper
identification. d6t
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i eczema, old sores, painful swellings, kernels and enlarged glands, catarrh,
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Price 25 cents per package or five packages for $1.00. Ask for FREE Sample.
T or sale at Dutton's Drug Store.
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RADIUM EMANATIONS.
•dentist Think.* the Wonderfol Snb*
stance Can He Used to Cure
Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Frederick Soddy, who was Prof. Ruth*
erford, assistant at McGill university,
in Montreal, has suggested another use
for radium. He argues that as It has
been found to cure consumption of the
skin (lupus), it should also cure con
sumption of the lungs, if its rays can be
brought to bear directly on the diseased
lung tissue, without any intervening
substances, such as the chest wall. At
first sight, says the Scientific American,
this seems rather a difficult thing to do,
as it is, of course, out of the question to
place any solid mass of radium within
the lungs themselves. But recent stud
ies have shown that radium in a solution
gives off a gas and that this gas is itself
radio-active. So all that is necessary to
subject the Internal lung tissue to the
direct action of radium rays is to breathe
a mixture of air and the radium gas. By
this means Mr. Soddy believes a new and
valuable remedy for consumption will be
available to the pathologist. The rays
from radium have already proved use
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skin disease, and it has been suggested
that the insertion of minute particles
of radium in the interior of a cancer is
worth trying. It should be remembered,
however, that even if radium proves val
uable in the treatment of pulmonary tu
berculosis, its cost is so high—several
hundred dollars a grain—that it could
not come into general use under present
conditions.
Birds That Blush.
An observer finds that some
birds blush. He writes: “We have a
very fine specimen of the blue and yel
l low macaw which displays this trait—
not often, for he is remarkably good
tempered—and the 'blush' is an invari
able sign of anger; so much so, that we
warn all friends that while his cheeks
remain white all attacks are feigned
and in play and can be disregarded,
yet if the 'danger signal’—red-shows,
to look out and keep out of reach."
The owner of a blue and orange macaw
says tbit its white, parchment-like
face becomes bright pink, especially
shove the peak, whenever it is angry
or cxcl.td.
A Good Sal*.
“Jones has sold all of his mamv
scripts and decided to stop writing."
"I should think selling them all would
be an Incentive to him to writ© more."
“But he sold them to the Junkman.**
—Brooklyn Life.
To Keep Lemona,
Lemons will keep for a long time l!
placed on a shelf in a cool, dry place and
covered with glass tumblers.
Bakins Powder Biscuit.
To be Just perfect, baking powder
biscuit should begin to rise the min
ute the pan Is in the oven.
To Improve Flavor of Dock.
The flavor of a duck Is much Im
proved by roasting with an orange
and an onion In the body. An excel
lent accompaniment for duck Is a
brown sauce, with half a Jar of orange
i marmalade added.—Good Housekeep
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•me strraaoni Kfloeaflrre.
The women of Kansas have won
their campaign for reform in the
schools, the principal feature of which
was that courtship may be carried on
In school hours. The classes In higher
(•rliirarlon in that state hereafter, savn
the Philadelphia Inquirer, will be un
der the direction of ProL Cupid.
Potato Waffles.
Mix well together two heaping tea
! jpoonfuls of mashed sweet potatoes,
i one of melted butter, one of sugar, a
! pint of sweet milk, a half-pint of
flotir, a toaspoonful of halting powder,
a half ealtspoonful of salt and the
whites of two eggs, beaten stiff. Oil
the waffle Iron well and bake to a del*
! tcate brown. Do not fill the Iron too
full. Serve with maple syrup or honey
cream, which is made by beating one
! cupful of comb honey cut Into small
| bits Into a pint of whipped cream.—
Boston Budget
Fanner** Fruit Cake.
i One-half pound fat pork chopped
fine; one pint boiling water poured
over It When cool, add one-half cup
ful molasses, one and one-half cupfuls
sugar, brown or granulated, one scant
teaspoonful soda, one cupful chopped
hickory nut meats, one cupful raisins,
one teaspoonful each of cloves, all
cinnamon, and four or four
cupfuls flour. Make the
thicker than for cake
—Ohio Farmer.
J. W. Lindley, Pres. L. T. Slayden, V-Pres. E. V. Holt, Cashier.
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