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Friday is special clean-up day,
but you are not enjoined from
taking up the work now. In
many alleys and upon many
lawns and backyards, .VOU may
notle the gwml work now in pro
gress. To1 make Newport clean'
sk> and to hav? this commendable
wofk a cotfijjjpFt e • .success, let
each citizen feel the call to ser
vice. ■i; -,,r :
President Taft tiding the last
congress vetoed the $11,000,000
appropriation bill, which carried
$12,500 for the <i?p|d i mint ion of
a government building at New
port, but the same measure is
noW before the present congress
and is expected to receive its
sanfction as well as that of Pres
ident Wilson. Securing and
constructing government build
ings takes years pf waiting, but
once your tebiilfessnian gets a
city in line for such an improve
w'mif f 143 of 1 43 0 43 F 1 l)4i UU1*
tainty of its ultimate construc
ident „, .Wilson. Securing and
vigil&htly watched every oppor
tunity tp advance this buffi
his ^Newport constituency.
In view of the fact that some
of the scenes in “The Clans
man,” which is to^fnow here to
night, provqkt^tiad feelings on
the.parij'/of the colored race,
iNT^Mayor Hamby issued an order
I! today directing the city marshal
£ to close down the show if ne
c groes are permitted to attend it.
The management of the show
ir announced that they would not
permit negroes to come inside
the tent during the perform
ance.—Prescott News.
Our friend, Billy Oldfield is
•the most magnanimous adver
sary, that we ever adversed. He
defeated us for Congress in 1910
so easily, that it makes a new
wrinkle above our pensive brow
every time we think of it- All
through the campaign we ripped
and whooped and snorted
around, among the men, while
Billy canvassed along the same
lines among the ladies. But Bill
jp a game old rooster. Knowing
that we will soon be amputated
from the federal pay roll, he has
kindly sent us a package of on
ion seeds. Next summer when a
delinquent subscriber attempts
to palm off green onions on us.
we’ll look as scornful ns a beau
tiful princess, and tell him what
a strong pull we’ve got from
Washington.—Salem Sun.
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The Speech of Monkeys.
Prof. R. L. Garner claims to
L have mastered the seven words
ll-V,hP monkey language which
I La'an “food.” “drink,” “love,”
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f * That all animals have means
of direct and clear communica
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tion with one another of the
same species has been universal
ly believed tu all ages. The ear
liest literature related as much i
to speech between animals as do
that betwee|i man. No one fa
miliar with horses or clogs can
doubt for a moment that they
communicate at least primary
i emotions quite as freely as we
do. No one who has heard the
bob white’s whistle answered by
his mute can doubt that both
understand.
| Why, tluen, should anyone be
disposed to-doubt that the chat
ter of monkeys is understood,
' and that man, too. may under
stand? rf the horse, the dog,
the cow and even the pinheaded
pig can learn parts of our speech,
land.the .parrot can not only
learn its meaning, hut repeat it,
1 what ".is there so very absurd in
j the'idea thj^nan may learn and
repeat the^imple speech of
monkeys ?
It is easy to imagine the age
in which man himself found ex
pressions for only the seven
emotions that the monkeys ex
press.
Millions of human beings, ev
en today, seldom express much
more than is embraced in these
seven ideas.
Millions of us seldom experi
ence emotions beyond these sev
en clearly enough to find words
to express them.
Indeed the wisest among us,
in all our most learned talk, say
precious little, if anything, that
does not begipamd end in one or
another of these fundamental
emotions.
In spite of the primitiveness
of the monkey’s speech, it ex
presses forces that, according to
Darwin, have enabled the mon
key to make a man of himself,
i Human speech, unfortunately,
; often discloses qualities by
I which the man makes a monkey
i of himself.—News-Scimitar.
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ABUNDANT FLUFFY HAIR IS
i IMPOSSIBLE IF YOU
HAVE DANDRUFF
How often we hear a beautiful
j womjan referred to as having a
regal head!
Denude that head of its hair
I and instead of a queenly, royal
' bearing we have a frieght. The
! hair makes all the difference.
1 To have that glorious abundance
I n i • i i • i*i i _
ui lauiam iiciii wiuui
crowns “a regal head,” one
should use Newbro’s Herpicide
Herpicide represents the last
word in scientific hair culture:
It destroys the dandruff checks
falling hair and corrects gener
ally, diseases of the hair and
scalp.
The positive results and its
delicate but refreshing odor re
to ladies of refinement every
where.
Newbro’s Herpicide in 50c and
$1.00 sizes is sold and guaran
teed to do all that is claimed. If
you are not satisfied your money
will be refunded,
f Applications made by the best
I barbers and hair dressers.
W. E. BEVENS,
Special Agent.
—
Musgrave Sued by Girl for
$50,000.
Jonesboro, April 14.—Miss
Suella Roth, aged 18, of St.
Louis, filed suit here this morn
ing for $50,000 damages, $25,- j
000 actual, and $25,000 puna- j
tive, against Thos. H. Musgrave, i
a millionaire planter of Missis-,
sippi county. The suit was filed j
in the United States district'
court by Attorney Davis and
Costen of Blytheville, and E. E.
Sedberry of this city for the
plaintiff. The girl answered an
ad in a paper and alleges that
Musgrave forcibly detained her
for immoral purposes.
Prosecuting Attorney Resigns.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock. April 15.—T. Ha
vis Nixon, prosecuting attorney
constipation"
Its Cause and How to Cure it,
Eat too much.
Stomach feel| bloated,
All out of sorts,
Don’t feel like work to-day. Guess
I’ve another case of biliousness.
“Take anything?”
“Yes; some pills, but no results; sup
pose I’m getting ironclad. Sometimes I
double the dose, thenTTfey physic me so
hard I’m too weak to work. Think I 11
have to try something new.”
“Ever try Prickly Ash Bitters?”
“No- I've heard a good cleal abcmt it,
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but never tried it.”
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suits.” ■_ - ’> -i
The purgative action of Prickly Ash
Bitters not only removes hard impad
l tions, gas and impurities, but it strength
ens the muscular action of-: the bowels
which causes them to move regularly.
Prickly Ash Bitters is a bowel tonic
and regulator in the truest sense. It
promotes daily evacuations,'establishes
healthy' movements and’ is the - best
known remedy for disordered digestion,
flatulence and a constipated habit.
I), M. Blackwelder, of Litchfield, 111.,'says
the Litchfield Xevj.i: “lam perfectly willing, in
| fact glad to testify to the value of Prickly Ash
i Bitters as a medicine for the kidneys, stomach
I and bowels. I have used it whenever I needed
anything of the kind for the last fifteen years
and it has always given satisfaction. ”
Get the genuine with the figure
“3” in red on front label.
Sold by druggists. Price $1.00.
Smith-LaForge, Tuckerman, Ar
kansas, Special Agent.
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Dr. Miles’
Anti-Pain Pills
will help you, as they
haye helped pthers.
Good for all kinds of pais.
Used to relieve Neuralgia, Head
ache, Nervousness, Rheumatteoh
Sciatica, Kidney Pains, Lumbago^
Locomotor \taxia, Backache,
Stomachache, Carsickness, Im
tability and tor pain in any part
of the body
*1 have always bean subject te
neuralgia and have Buffered (Mg
It tor rears. While visiting
end Buffering (Mm one ef
attacks, ha brought me a _
Dr. Milas' Anti-Pain Pills, t
them as directed and after
them K was the first time In
Am neuralgia oeaaed from the i
medicine.-- MBS. B C. BOW
tM Oresna It, Dcwaglas.
| At all drugglste, ts dome Ah I
•ill UAftlftAI ftft Alllh esd Ud I
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of the Eleventh judicial circuit
for the past three years, came
to Little Rock Monday night and
tendered his resignation to Act
ing Governor Futrell. It was
accepted and T- G. Parham, of
Pine Bluff, his deputy, was ap
pointed to fill the unexpired
term. Nixon stated his resigna
tion was due to his continued ill
health and to the fact that ,a
number of criminals prosecuted
by him had been pardoned or
sentences of death hfid been
commuted to life imprisonment.
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WORLD’S DEBT TO THEMES
Modern Progress, Thoroughly Ana
lyzed, Not So Much of an Im
provement on the Fast.
Not by a great deal are all the old
fashioned things admiral?.e, but by no
means are they all inferior and out of ;
date because they are old-fashioned.
The best of them we may strain all
our modern resources to equal, and
not do it. The best products of old
fashioned training an(f education are
still n dels for contemporary semi
naries. As far back as we can beach
Into the history of mankind we find
great people, easily the equals, and
often the superiors, 01 our very best in
mental and moral qualities. Our good
luck is not that we are superior to
them In our human material, but that
we have at our service an immensely
greater accumulation of knowledge,
mostly about material things. Thanks
to that, we understand the laws of
nature much better than our fathers
did, and that has helped us to make
wonderful machines, and put them to
doing, after their fashion, what used
to be done by fingers, brains, and
brawn. But spiritually we got our
highest inspiration two thousand years
ago, and have been trying ever since
to reach up to it; and mentally, though
we use better tools, we are no better,
| eurely, than Pythagoras or Aristotle
or the author of the Book of Job and
hundreds of thinkers who must have
long preceded any of them.—E. S.
Martin, in Harper’s Magazine.
SALLY’S LOSS, LONDON’S GAIN
How Maid Servant Lost Husband and
Wealth and City Became Pos
sessed of Fine Hospital
That bequests to individuals and to
public benevolences are frequently the
result of a mere whim or of caprice,
has no better illustration, perhaps,
than the case of Thomas Guy, who
built and endowed the great Guy's
hospital of London, at a cost oi sioo,
292 nearly two hundred years ago.
Guy had a maid servant of strictly
frugal habits, who made his wishes
her careful study. He resolved to
make her his wife. The necessary
preparations were made for the wed
ding; and among others many little
repairs were ordered by Mr. Guy In
and about his house. The latter In
cluded the laying of a new pavement
opposite the street door. It so hap
! pened that Sally, the bride-elect, ob
j served a piece of pavement beyond
| her master’s house that required
| mending, and of her own accord she
gave orders to the workmen to do this.
This was done In tha absence of Mr.
Guy, who on seeing Store work done
than he had ordoMd was Informed
that the additional work had been
done by the mistress’s orders. There
| upon Guy told Sally Bhe had forgotten
; her position, and added: "If you take
j upon yourself to order matters con
J trary to my instructions before we are
married, what will you not do after 1
I renounce my matrimonial intentions
toward you.” So Sally lost a rich and
grouchy husband and London gained <
noble institution for her poor.
Woman’s 8tory.
A lady wrote to 25 friends and told
: them she was giving a “white ele
phant” party, and that each guest was
! to come and bring the absolutest most
useless thing she possessed. And the
whole 25 women turned up with their
husbands!
Another lady was giving what la
called a book tea—each guest to wear,
pinned on her dress, something to rep
resent the name of some book. The
name of each book had been guessed,
with one exception.
The lady who still puzzled everyone
wore a photograph of her husband cl
her bodice. No one could guess the
name of the book she Intended the
picture to represent, and after they
had all given it up’’ she told them—
“Life’s Handicap."
Grotesque Names for Children.
Certain philanthropic Londoners
have proposed a Guild of Godparents
to save innocent children from the
burden of grotesque names. Hundreds
of examples of this poor form of pa
rental wit occur In the birth registers
for the past few years. Noah'B Ark
Smith, Sardine Box, Jolly Death,
JudaB Iscariot Brown, One-Too-Many
Johnson, Not-Wanted Smith, Bovrll
Simpson. Merry Christmas Figgett,
Odious Heaton and Anno Domini
Davis are the names of children prob
ably living who will have to bear them
through life.
Portuguese Jury Drew Lots.
A new method of administering Jus
tice was applied recently at Villa
Franca de Xlra In Portugal.
A prisoner was charged with coun
terfeiting, and ss the Jury were even
ly divided and could not agree they
determined to draw lots. Two pieces
of paper were procured, one was In
scribed “guilty" and the other “inno
cent.” They were then folded up,
shuffled, and one was then chosen by
a Juryman.
It happened to be the one Inscribed
"guilty.” whereupon the prisoner was
sentenced to the maximum penalty.
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Legal Point of View.
First Lawyer—I was looking over
my boy’s geometry lesson last night.
I was quite Interested In that propo
sition. that the three angles of a tri
angle are equal to two right angles.
, Second Lawyer—That isn’t very
complicated.
First Lawyer—No, but I was trying
to think what a man could do if he
had the other side of the cash
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The “Sentence Cep.”
A iman, limp piece of black clot
It, according to ancient custom put on
the top of the Judge’s wig In England
1 before he passes sentence of death,
and Is properly called the sente^
i cap” or “black cap.” Covering the
head was a sign of mourning among
the Israelites, Greeks, Romans and
Anglo-Saxons, and Is referred to lc
Samuel 11, 16-30. Putting on the black
:ap Is not a grim sign of revenge ol
the law, but Is rather a token of sor
row, expressing the regret-the Judge
feels at having to condemn the prls
oner to death.
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Arkansas’ Action (w^E
Special to Indus'-- ' ^■V
.Little Rock, April f;K^B
resolution acinp;
legislature rut: ti> j^B
ment to" the1 con 'nkg/^^B
United Status k • ,-^Bl
rect elections -A ‘'wtw'.^B
Senators by thu peop]e’'B|
Monday afternom ; urwarJ^B
Secretary of Stw Wiijj^'jM
nings Bryan by A ingGovS
Futrell. Arkansas will - /^B
majority of the •• '■:> iu s^B-1
of the constitutional am'^B
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Many a Newport Reader Wi|B|
Interested. B
When people read about H
cures made by a wiicineB
dorsed from far away. U
prising that they voider if^B
statements are true': ButisB
they read of cases right hereB
home, positive proof is witB
their reach, for close investiB
tion is an easy matter. fBi
Newport endorsement of DotB'
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J. H. Willis, farmer, R. f.H.
No. 2, Newport, Ark., says:®
was suffering intensely from®
ney complaint at the time I®
cured Doan’s Kidney Pills®
Dutton’s Drug Store. I ®
what I thought to be inflam®
tion of the bladder, at any ®
the symptoms pointed to fl
trouble. The secretions f®
my kidneys passed too frequ®
ly, particularly during the nil
and m,y rest was thus broken!
ittributed my trouble to thep!
drinking water in this local!.
Thinking that Doan’s Kid®
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ply and they permanently rid I
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