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-•THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
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Keep At It.
One step won’t take you very
far;
You’ve got to keep on walking. (
One wrord won’t tell folks who
you are
You’ve got to keep on talking, j
,ajne inch won’t make you very j
/+ju+ tall;
You’ve got to keep on growing, j
One little ad. won’t do it all,
You’ve got to keep them going
—The Novelty News. ^
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The contribution of Mr. W- D.
McLain on drainage first as a
necessity in the building of roads
was timely and valuable in its j
suggestions. Paper roads al
ways precede the real ones and
while talk doesn’t build them, it
will go a long ways toward inter
Aof mrv on/4 o vam o i n or fVlP TIPHTllp
in their construction. The Inde
pendent invites, yea solicts the
co-operation, and help of good
roads enth)/ asts In a campaign
for bett#? roads.
le Rock has a screening or
ce, One that compels gro
j£ry stores, meat markets, lunch
wagons and restaurants to have
all fruits, vegetables, cheese,
chili, meats, breads etc. protect
ed by gAdss, wood or wire
^^acr^rtC This is done for the j
protection of public health and a j
merchant by screening his store
doors and windows conforms'
with the ordinance. This is Lit
tle Rock taking all these pre-!
cautions but they are just as J
necessary in Newport. These1
improvements are not expensive
and the Civic Improvement'
League working with the Board
of Health will probably ask the
council or merchants direct to
conform to these regulations,
that certainly lessen the chances
of transmitting diseases, partic
ularly typhoid fever. It is one
way and a very practical one of
eliminating the pesky little fly.
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Texas is a democratic state,
* yet Texas does not want beef on
the free list. Louisiana is a
democratic state, but Louisiana
T looks with hostile eyes upon the
n movement looking to free sugar.
^!Both these states, however, look
with much favor upon the pro
position to place steel rails, har
vesting machinery and clothing
upon the free list. The local as-1
pect of the thing is all-impor
tant.—Pine Bluff Commercial.
The late Senator J. K. Jones
once said that he never fully
realized the extent to which the
average man is permeated with
selfishness until he was put in
charge of working the Wilson
i bill through' the senate. Every
I body was willing that the tax
I should be taken off of the other
■ fellow’s goods but wanted no
P meddling with his own privil- ]
BN *eges. We don’t think this spirit j
■|p. I. Hubert jjj
LUMBER YARD |!|
End Front Street jjj
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is so rife now as at that time, but
there is a smart sprinkling of it
vet—Fort Smith Times.
Is the council waiting for sug
gestions upon how to spend that
$10,000 nest egg, now watched
as closely as an old hen does her
little ones? If so, we have one to
offer for a portion of the said j
sum at least. Front street from i
Beech to Main was paved by the
property owners along that
street. Most of our other paved
streets were largely or partly !
paid for by the city. Front j
street is our leading business j
street in which we are all inter- j
ested more than any other street j
in the city. Why should not the :
city clean that street down to !
the hard rock, secure one of!
these heavy steam rollers with
long spikes and tear up this ma
cadam. so as to allow a surfac
ing of small stone that would
practically give us a new maca
dam street? Perhaps better
still, this work might be let to a
contractor and completed under j
the director of an engineer. |
None will deny that Front street j
needs this improvement and the {
work is more entitled to the
city’s support than any other un
less it be the grading of all the
city’s streets and the creation of
proper side ditches for surface
sewerage, whicb too should be
under the direction of a compe
tent engineer that the levels
may be correct and permanently
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esiauusiieu. xne pcupic ul new
port have only commendation
for the council in their economi
cal administration and in main
taining the city upon a cash ba
sis, we are all agreed. But the
time has come for some kind of
improvement work with the sur
plus that the city now enjoys
over a safe balance to insure the
continuance of a cash basis.
The good roads question is
older than the Caesars and some
of the Arkansas roads look older
still.—Jonesboro Tribune. But
they are not as good as the roads
built in Caesar’s day. The peo
ple of Caesar’s day were good
roads’ cranks, and they made
highways that are yet in exist
ence.—Ft. Smith Times-Record.
If we could only address Romans
as our countrymen, perhaps ap
peals for roads might not seem
in vain. With our better civili
zation and intelligent citizenship
we need them not for marching
armies to the outposts but as ar
teries of our commercial life, to
make farm life and conditions
better, to permit transportation
the year round, to give increased
employment to our people
through industries that will be
kept humming the year round,
to raise valuations of our lands
and build our towns and cities.
The benefits of goo.! i\ .ids are
innumerable.
A Business Woman’s View.
Holland’s Magazine, published
at Dallas, Texas, prints in its
March number the anti-suffrage
essay which won the prize in a
competition which it instituted
last October for the best presen
tation of the reasons why wo
men do or do not want to vote.
The writer is a Texas woman.
Bert Rowe, and she presents the
business woman’s view. Here is
an extract:
“Not long since, a friend of
my girlhood, who had spent the
years s' her marriage in ho
tels and select boarding houses,
began a discussion of the suf-}
frage question.
“What” she exclaimed in sur
prise, ‘do you mean to say that a |
woman of your broad experience j
and worldly knowledge is not a
suffragette?’
“I replied emphatically that I
was not.
“ ‘Then never let one know it’
she said, “for all the intelligent
women I have met,—all the
thinking women are suffra
erettes.’
“ ‘You mean these women you ,
4T*-W
have met in the hotels and j
boarding houses ?’ I asked.
“ ‘Yes.’
“ ‘Had they any homes?’ I
pursued.
“ ‘Why, of course not, or they
wouldn’t have been boarding.’
“ ‘Had they any children?’
“ ‘Well,’ she hesitated’ ‘very
few had. You see, not many j
places take children, these days.’ j
“ ‘And these are the intelli-1
gent women, the thinking wo
men, of the country, are they ?’ I ^
exclaimed. Women who shirk J
the care of a home,—who shirk j
from the responsibility of moth- j
erhood, who take up politics as a I
fad or as an outlet for their ner
vous energy. Then God protect
the ignorant ones of the land,
and keep them as they are.”
Tupelo.
Well, as it is so cold and clou
dy and the fire feels so good I
will try and write some news.
Mrs. R. M. Marlar left Thurs
day for Monroe, Ark. to spend a
week or 10 days visiting her
aunt, Mrs. W. J. Morris.
Several of the young folks of
Tupelo attended the old maid’s
society at Weldon Thursday
night and report a nice time.
Miss Velma Patrick and Irene
Marlar spent Sunday evening
with Miss Agnes Marlar.
Mr. and Mrs. F- M. Thornton
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
W. A. Brazeale at Simmons’
Switch.
Mrs. Lula Simmons and little
daughter, Stella, and Miss Snow
spent the day Sunday with Mrs.
Simmons’ father and mother,
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Taylor.
Professor Morris, Miss Irene
Marlar, hid Taylor, miss uermce
Taylor, Miss Tennie Gardner and
Paul Gardner will attend Sunday
school association at Batesville
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day as delegates.
W. L. Taylor happened to a
bad accident one day last week,
being kicked on top of the head
by a young horse- A gash was
left on his head about 3 inches
long.
F. M. Thornton had business
in Newport Friday.
T. E. Thornton was a visitor
on Cache river Saturday.
R. M. Marlar and T. E. Thorn
ton planted part of their corn
last Tuesday and they are un
easy about it, fearing they will (
have to plant over.
Farming is later in this neigh-1
borhood than ever before. Very J
little is planted and very little.
plowing done on account of the
wet weather.
Brother Sawyers of Brinkley
filled his appointment at the
Baptist church Saturday night
Sunday and Sunday night with
good attendance.
J. F. Gardner is having repair
work done on some of his yard
fences in Tupelo.
R M. Marlar and T. E. Thorn
ton sowed two acres of Red Top
and clover Monday.
Miss Louise Taylor arrived
home from Swifton Saturday,
where she closed a very success
ful term of school. We are glad
to know that Miss Taylor gave
perfect satisfaltion and has the
school for this summer.
Miss Jennie Taylor, who is
teaching a nine months’ school
at Grays, came homie Saturday
to visit homefolks.
Well, I will close for this time
as news is scarce. Good wishes
to the dear old Independent and
all the correspondents.
Mutt.
Snakes In Plaster.
In a email part of a Sooth Caroltni
rwamp represented on the second
floor of the American Museum of Nat
ural History la Included a snake i
group among the logs, vines and was j
ter hyacinths. The group shows side j
by side poisonous snakes, the water j
moccasin, and the non-polsonous, the '
brown water snake
An example of the dead? f moccasin
rater snake of the south is made
from a wax cast by James C. Bell,
(cith color work by Frederick H. StoU.
It is extremely lifelike and realistic,
lulte enough to give the visitor ai;
kcquaintauoe with (the species.
HIS FIRST SIGHT OF BANDS
Crowd Proved to Be Very Human
When Cripple Long Blind Was
Wheeled Up.
Ail his life he had been lame; near
ly all his life he had been blind. But
always he could hear, and the thing
he liked best to hear was martial
music by the band. He heard it sel
dom. The Home for Incurables was
on a side street, out of the way of
bands. The operation that restored
his sight was followed shortly by a
big parade.
“At last,” said he, “I shall see the
fellows that play the band.”
The line of march was twenty
blocks away, but to a strong-armed
orderly who was used^o wheeling a
reclining chair twenty blocks was
nothing. The policeman on the edge
of the crow was far more formidable.
•Ton can’t take that boy in there,”
he said. “They’d crush the life out
oat of him. We can’t do anything
with a crowd like this on parade days.
They’re a mob.”
"But they’re very human,” said the
orderly. Then he told the story of
the newly opened eyes.
“Oh, well,” said the policeman.
He stepped back. Others also step
ped back, policemen and members of
tbs “mob.” Right up the curb they
went, the boy and the orderly. A few
who had held their places since sun
up grumbled a little, but the eager
look of the boy who had never seen a
uniform conquered and they made
way. Then the bands came, dozens
of them, and every bandsman seemed
to play his best for the boy in the
chair. It was splendid; so splendid
that the boy and the orderly and the
mob laughed and cried together.
Truly, the mob was very human.
JUST ESCAPED WORSE FATE
Fine of Man Who Attempted Suicide
Would Have Been Larger Had
Ua
One evening, several years ago, In a
gold mining camp In the Transvaal, a
man, partially Intoxicated and sup
posed to be actuated by Jealousy, at
tempted suicide. He first took mor
phis, but this not proving strong
enough he tried to hang himself, but
was prevented, and-handed over to the
sheriff to be kept In safe custody for
the night, and to be tried before the
acting gold commissioner, a shrewd
and solemn Scot, the next morning.
There being no law to prevent him
from committing suicide If he thought
fit, but it being considered desirable to
punish him in some Vgy, It was decid
ed to bring a charge ft drunkenness
and disorderly co ndagf against him.
To this the prison** pleaded guilty,
whereupon the acting gold COOUnls
sloner, without the gKoflt of a smile,
delivered the following extraordinary
Judgment: ■■■*#’&
“I shall fine ye tw* ptmds lof your
drunkenness; but IH |08t gle ye to un
derstand that I ken vera wed Vital ye
attempted to dae, and had y» goeceed
ed in your attempt, your poonUtment
would have bin vera much more se
vere than It is!” ... ^
Speed of Animals,
According to naturalists, no animal
Is known to have exceeded the speed
attained by the famous race-horse
Sysonby. Instantaneous photographs
show the full length of one complete
stride as about twenty-six feet In the
stride of the fastest racers the hind
quarters and limbs are raised consid
erably higher than the shoulders, and
from this relatively great height
brought downward and forward, wide
ly separated from each other, as a
sportsman says, "to avoid striking the
fore legs." Ths hare which Is hunted
with fast hounds has not In reality
the speed of the dog. The dog, on
tpe other hand, does not attain the
speed of the horse. The giraffe Is said
to run at the rate of fifteen meters
(yards) per second under the most
favorable conditions. The elephant,
going at the rate of two yards a sec
ond, carries a weight approximating
that carried bv six horses.—Hamer'S
Weekly.
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To Catch Foxes.
It you are particularly anxious to do !
a little surreptitious fox catching try i
the following. It Is the sage of Lup
ton who speakB, In his "Thousand
Notable Things:” “Anoint the soles
of your shoes with a piece of fat
swine’s flesh aB broad as your band,
newly toasted or a little broiled at
the fire, when you go out of the wood
homeward. And In every of your
steps cast a piece of the liver of a
swine roasted and dipped hi honey,
ami draw after your back the dead
carcass of a cat" Tour fox cannot
resist all this, but "be sure to have
a man nigh thee with bow and shafts
to shoot at him, or by some other
means to hit him." Good fun this for
a country house party at loose ends.
Queensland's Rifle Fish.
There is said to exist In the waters
of Northern Queensland a fish mea
suring about ten Inches In length and
averaging a pound and half in weight,
which possesses the remarkable pow
er of shooting Its prey.
The “rifle flsh," as It Is called, is
alleged to swim leisurely about the
stream a few Inches below the sur
face, on the lookout for flies and
other insects that settle on the float
ing leaves and twigs or on the surface
of the water plants.
When the “rifle flsh” gets close
enough for the purpose, it discharges
it its victim a tiny jet or ball of wa
ter, which, if shot straight, knock the
prey into the stream, where it is In
itautly gathered in by the shooter.
LOOK HERE FOR IT.
Many a Newport Reader Will Be
Interested.
When people read about the
cures made by a medicine en
dorsed from far away* is it sur
prising that they wonder if the
statements are true? But when
they read of cases right here at
home, positive proof is within
their reach, for close investiga
tion is an easy matter. Read
Newport endorsement of Doan’s
Kidney rills.
J. H. Willis, farmer, R. F. D.
No. 2, Newport, Ark., says: “I
was suffering intensely from kid
ney complaint at the time I pro
cured Doan’s Kidney Pills at
Dutton’s Drug Store. I had
what I thought to be inflamma
tion of the bladder, at any rate
the symptoms pointed to this
trouble. The secretions from
my kidneys passed too frequent
ly, particularly during the night
and my rest was thus broken. I
Attributed my trouble to the poor
drinking water in this locality.
Thinking that Doan’s Kidney
Pills would help me, I got a sup
ply and they permanently rid me
of the trouble-”
For sale by all dealers. Price
50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States.
Remember the name—Doan’s
—and take no other. (Adv.)
LODGE DIRectqJ g*
Royal Areanutu^B 1
Newport Council , v® 1
Royal Arcanum nyJsB ^
3rd Friday nights h. 4tS |
in the Opera House 1
Visiting brathrei. al\J® 1
, come. "'1 I
S. M. Beattie, pl(® I
W. C. Wishon, Se® 1
Woodmen of the wj 1
Pecan Camp, No. 3, m® 1
and 3rd Thursday nights® 1
month in Masonic Hall. 1 I
ing brothers welcome. I 1
R. T. Simmons, (® 1
P. S. White, Clerk® I
Modern Woodmen.! I
Newport Camp, No.® I
M. W. A., meets Second® 1
night of each rnontr. in® §
House. Visiting brethren! |
R. T. Simmons, 1 I
Jackson Lodge. No. 19I 1
Meets Second and ® 1
Tuesday nights of each mo! 1
the Opera House Buiidin! 1
cond and Hazel Streets. || |
Visiting Brothers alway® I
come. I a
Geo. M. Sink, W. 1 *
b. M. Beattie, Sec,®
The I. 0. 0. F. I
The I. 0. O. F. meets! ,
Monday night in Masonic!
comer Hazel and Second s!
Visiting brothers always!
come. ■
Grover C. Gates, N.! 0
J. F. Parish. Secretai!
Tribe of Ben Hur. I -
The Tribe of Ben Hur!
in the Board Building ! *i
Tuesday night at 8 o’clock ! 1
der of the chief. li
Treatment of Wet Shoes,®
If you .jet caught tc the rain®
a good pair of shoes on, remove®
as soon as you enter the house®
If you do not possess a pair of®
stuff them tight and hard with®
paper, squeezing It well Into ifl
Wipe off all the mud with a-soft®
Place the sheet In a draught®
upward, and let them dry slowly®
ho account put them to dry b;l
Are. I j
Never forget to place your sho®
trees or to stuff them with ®
they ere not ha wear.I -
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