THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY*11. VANDYKE,
Publishert'nnd Editor.
NEWPORT. - - ARKANSAS.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTYJICKET.
For Representative.
JOHN H. KEEL,
County Judge,
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.ICONDITT.
Surveyor,
W. A. BOWMAN.
Coroner. _
mriF. J.JHARRISON.
Constable—Union Township. 1
W.’H.lCAROUTHERS. I fT*r
Justice of the Peace,I
GUY SMITHS
FOREST DILLARD.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
We are auth iriz'djto ’’announce the Icandiducy
of H. M. Woodard of Elgin for Justice! of the
Peace’of Bird township.
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PAN-AMERICAN
SHOWS IN TOWN.
Long Line of Snow-White Horses
Pleasing Feature of Street
Parade.
The Pan-American Shows are
camped upon the old grounds in
Chastain’s addition, a fair crowd
having entered the tents to wit
ness the afternoon performance,
in progress as we go to press.
The circus train arrived Wed
nesday night over the Iron Moun
tain, and a city of canvass mark
ed the exhibition grounds early
in the morning.
' The parade at eleven o’cclock
Was witnessed by fairly large
crowds upon the streets, consid
ering the early season and the
fact that none of the cotton crop
has yet been marketed. A dis
tinguishing feature of the street
pageant was the sleek look of the
sixty well shaped and beautiful
white horses and the cleanly look
of the wagons and equipages
which took part in the parade.
The performance given by this
show is said to be a most credit
able one by circus talent in every
line of acrobatic, aerial and
equestrian performing.
The doors of the big tent will
be open at 7 o’clock and the per
formance begins at 8 o’clock for
the evening exhibition.
HE GETS' A MONEY ORDER.
With the Money He Doeent What te
■pend When Out with
the Boy*.
"One Of the queerest things 1
* #rer heard of/’ said a young man,
who sometimes keeps late hours,
relates the Providence Journal,
"Is the action of a friend of mine,
who has a knack of saving, despite
the fact that sometimes when he
meets a friend he oelebrates toe
much. He always, after he has
had a few drinks and realizes that
he will take more before the end
of the evening, takes an account oj
stock, as you may say. He finds
a corner somewhere and there
figures up the amount of easb on
hand. Then be starts for the post
office.
"When he gets there be bays a
money order, payable to himself,
for an amount equal to the great
es part of the sum he has on hand
This done, he mails the order tc
himself, and then, certain of sav
log that much of his money, al
least, through the evening, hi
starts out to resume the joyous oo
cnpation of enjoying himself. Ii
is a great scheme, and one I nevei
beard of anyone else using. I
works very well, indeed, with him
I have seen men give a part o
their money to a bartender to taki
care of for them, but this schemi
of buying a money order for your
self beats that. And you can ge
a money order at the Providene
post office any hour of the night
saw.”
la Church.
Dolly—How much Impressed Eth<
seemedthe services.
Polly—Ye*, she did fcs* solemn; bi
m&ybe she was only mad at her drew
waiter.—Puck
! 4* . >» » 1 yJ
GOVERNMENT BaES.
■f!7 Inaeeta Brlonglog to the Agri
cultural Deportment Swarm
to Market.
Doubtless the only members of the
government’s gignatlc force of 'em
ployes who goto work before nine o clock
s. m. and continue toiling until sun
down are the Italian bees kept by the de
partment of agriculture. TheEe, the
smallest of our domestic animals, are
kept by the department for experimental
purposes and for stocking Its various
substations, says the Washington Post
Borne time ago these government bees
discovered that Center maket was a
far better pasture than the flower beds
and vegetable gardens of the depart
ment, and there they resort every day,
to no small discomfort and annoyance of
commission dealers, hucksters, gard
ners and restaurant proprietors, whose
stock In trade the Industrious little in
sects prey upon.
In some cities the rats and mice are
troublesome, and In others crickets,
grain Insects, and various other bugs
prey upon the perishables, but Center
market Is the only market In the United
States where the most serious pest is the
Insects which belong to the government.
They eat holes In the peaches, poach on
the grapes, gather honey from cante
loupes, and are the first to find the soft
spots in pineapples and bananas. Wbat
Is more, there are about Center market
a number of open-air eating booths, tc
which the bees resort In large numbers
to collect honey from various sweet
dishes, particularly apricot, apple*,
peach, prune and huckleberry pie. The
funny part of it all Is that the commis
sion dealers, fruit handlers and res
taur&nt keepers are airaia 10 ouer
opposition to their Intrusion for fear
the plucky little Insects will resent It.
Hardly a week passes that some on*
does not get stung by the government
bees, who object to rough handling and
treatment. With the juice and wax
which they collect from apples, melons
peaches, oranges, pineapples, grapes,
bananas and plea In the market, they
lay up their store of winter honey. The
only time the restaurant keepers are
able to even up with these little pests is
When they have a batch of hot pies or
bread pudding on hand. They It hap*
pens accaslonally that some over-hasty
government bee gets his feet scorched.
In such cases they hover about the pies
until they have cooled off, now and then
alighting on the crust to test the tom
perature of the tempting bait.
NEGROES SANG AT WORK.
tal Entertained French Opera Sins
•rs In the Streets of New
Orleans.
The French opera singers were spect*
tors of a picturesque street scene a night
or two ago in the vicinity of the old
French opera house, says the New Or
leans Times-Democrat. Bourbon street
was being paved with asphalt, and the
work was being hastened so as to have
that portion of the street near the opera
house accessible for carriages by th<
time of the opening of the French op
era season.
On this account an unusually large
force of workmen were engaged, and in
order to push the work to an early com
pletion the men worked at night, huge
torches being used. In one block, be
tween St. Louis and Toulouse streets,
giore than 100 men were working.
Every one familiar with the negro
knows that, in so far as he is able, he
sets his work to music. It is a fact often
marveled at that the negro, when he ia
singing or chanting in a sort of rhythmic
mood, works with more ardor than under
different conditions. And if an extra de
mand is made on the negro workman he
| lings or chants the louder.
The members of the French opera, or
at least many of them, heard for the first
time the real melody of the negro voice
that night It was that swiahful, poetic
thing caricatured in the ragtime of the
stage, a certain subtle, indefinable some
thing which no composer has ever been
able to fit to the well-measured octaves
of musical arrangements. It was the
tuneful, heaving call of the levee, the
mellow sunset cry of the cotton fields.
The flaring torch, the bustling hitherand
thither, the heavy fall of the implements
of toil—all those things gave exquisite
♦.one to the setting.
Paraguay Tea.
There comes from Paraguay to the
Journal of Tropical Medicine news of
in apparently harmless beverage which
is the sole stay and stimulant of the
working classes in Paraguay and ths
Argentine Republic. It is often known
as Paraguay tea or mate, and an at
tempt made to introduce It Into this
country some years ago failed because
—as we may guess—there were more
potent competitors in the field. It ii
usually drunk as a hot infusion, through
« metal tube, but may be taken like tea,
with milk and sugar. Workmen take it
with them wherever they go and sip 11
1 occasionally. Wood cutters will work
; on It for five or six hours before break
i fast, and the writer declares that, takes
at night, it makes nursing, study or what
| doctors call "night work” real pleasure
■ Analysis does not explain these results
! and lifelong and persistent use appears
| to have no evil consequences. This
would be a good substitute for the num
| berless patent medicines which sspplj
' alcohol to women, or even, in at'leas'
* one familiar case, cocaine.—Londoi
! Chronicle.
New Variety of Pheaaant.
t The European pheasant is beini
! crossed with the Asiatic variety. Thi
■ result is a larger bird, much quicker am
stronger on the wing, and more prettll]
marked.
Schools Open at Night.
* Twenty schoolhouses In New Yoi
have been opened this fall as recreatio
1 centers for the neighborhoods in whto
r, tW are situated.
BLUE
le By
ALL
WISE
GROCERS
DIRECTIONS FOR USE:
Wiggle-Stick around in the water.
The Klondike Clean-tp.
Seattle, Wash., April 21.—James H.
Ardorn, of one of the mining com
panies of Dawson, has arrived here
on his way to England. He says that
the clean-up this year in the Dawson
camp will, from a conservative esti
mate, amount to $30,000,000, making
it the biggest output in the history of
the Klondike.
, Nancy Hank* Lincoln Monnment.
Richmond, lnd., April 21.—In the
construction of the base of the mon
ument to Nancy Hanks Lincoln, at
her grave in Spencer county, a part
of the vault in which the remains ol
Abraham Lincoln rested in the old
monument, at Springfield, 111., will b*
used.
Catbirds Defeat Blacksaake.
A writer In the Scientific America*
•ays: "I witnessed a pair of catbirds
making a hold defense against a black
make bent on devouring the contents
of their nest At first the snake was In
clined to disregard the distressed birds
as they fought to drive it away, but th«
blows of their wings and bills became so
annoying that the thief bad to seek
mfuge in flight On reaching the roots
of a tree from which the river had
washed the dirt the snake started to
climb, only to be driven beneath them
and then out to an old stump, under
which the baffled and beaten rep tils
look refuge."
It Is to be noted that in each of
the three older burns there was
a thin cavity occupied by the
charcoal of the burned surface,
but the wounds were finally fu?ly
covered and the new tissue above
was full, even, continuous, and
* u of distortion or of
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Tickets on sale daily April 27th
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EXCURSION TICKETS eighty
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one way fare for the round trip.
Tickets on sale daily April 15th
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Dec 15, 1904. .
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