THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For County Judge.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of W. D. Mc
Lain for the office of county and pro
bate judge of Jackson County, subject
to the action of the Democratic pri
mary.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of James H.
Johnston for the office of county and
probate judge of Jackson County, sub
ject to the action of the Democratic
primary.
For Treasurer.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of John II.
Camp for the office of Treasurer of
Jackson County, subject to the action
•f the Democratic primary.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of Jesse W.
Shuford for the office of Treasurer of
Jackson County, subject to the action
of the Democratic primary.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of J. M. Ivy
for re-election to the office of .Treas
urer of Jackson County, subject to
the action of the Democratic primary.
Child Cruelty.
Little Joe Krauer, in a New
York school, appears only to
have died of heart failure— a
“broken heart,” as the old
saying is—as the result of grief
and shame at the taunts of his
schoolmates because he failed to
pass an examination.
A word of bitter scorn was
hurled at him, which cut him to
* the soul. He blanched, fainted
and revived and went bravely
on; the taunts were renewed and
he fell dead.
Maybe this boy was unduly sen.
sitive- But this would be no rea
son to other boys to spare him,
but added reason to taunt him.
Boys are the most heartless of
barbarians.
The more sensitive and poetic
a child is the more capacity he
has for suffering, and the more
cruel and constant therefore will
be the ridicule heaped upon him.
There is no tyranny in the
world so heart-wreckingand des
potic as that of the bigger boy.
It is not often that the strong
heart of youth actually fails un
der it or the buoyancy spirit
breaks, but the other things that
are killed in the boy—who can
measure them?
Unless he is of the finest tex
ture, and has the bravest soul,
the child is apt to be molded into
i the worst ways by cruelty. To
escape it he will himself assume
| an air of roughness and do the
i things which the mob admires
Child cruelty makes thousands
of young offenders and starts
them on the road to criminality.
What has broken the heart of
little Joe Krauer has broken the j
finer things in the spirit of mil
lions of boys the world over. —
Memphis News-Scimitar.
Finds Girl and Marries Her.
Memphis, Oct. 21.—B. J. Mon
roe of Davenport, Iowa, who not
ified the police here to be on the
lookout for Miss Laura D. Bres
ler, his fiancee, did not wait for
the police to find her- He arriv
ed in Memphis Monday after
noon, found the young woman,
procured a license and married
Her. It is stated that Mrs. Mon
roe’s father lives in Arkansas.
According to a communication
received by the police, Mrs. Mon
roe disappeared from her home
in Moline, 111., and was next
heard of in this city. ;
Monroe said that she was suf
fering from a nervous break
down and that she disappeared
just before their wedding day.
He feared she had suffered a
lapse of memory.
Making Good Roads By Convict
Labor.
In our issue next week we will
give our readers the benefit of
a special illustrated article on
the above subject, which was
written by Donald F. Biggs, of
the editorial staff of the West
ern Newspaper Union.
This interesting feature is
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WHERE IS THAT RECEIPT
You believe you have paid the bill but you have mislaid
j the receipt,—how many times it happens just that way.
Paying bills by CHECK gives an absolute receipt, all
uniform in -b e, most easily handled, and you always
know where to Imd them. We want your checking ac- i
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The Farmers Bank j
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1 very timely in this state where
convict labor has been the sub
ject of so much discussion pro
and con, and Mr. Biggs has ably
prepared a brief history of the
use of convict labor on the pub
lic highways in various states.
It is well worth reading and we
hope you will watch for it in a
near issue for in each one we
have sorrre new special fea
ture, any one of which is well
worth the price of a year’s sub
scription, and it will cost us con
siderable money to do so. If
you are missing any of them you
are missing a treat.
This feature, “Making Good
Roads by Convict Labor”, will
appear exclusively in this paper.
• ■
Make Directors’ Duties Onerous.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Oct. 22.—Do di
rectors direct? That is the
question which J. J. Beavers, the
Blue Sky deputy in the office of
the State Bank Commissioner,
has set out to answer. He is
mailing a form letter to each of
the hundred or more corpora
tions, foreign and domestic that
come under his jurisdiction, di
recting them to file with the de
partment a certified copy of the
proceedings of each regular and
special meeting of the board of
directors.
Those who do not do so, or fall
short of their requirements, may
have their permits revoked. Af
ter the company has sold all its
contracts, bonds, or stock, and
has passed from the jurisdiction
of the Blue Sky Department,
this requirement can no longer
be exacted of them.
It is probable that the same
regulation will be adopted by the
State Bank Commissioner for
the banking institutions coming
under his jurisdiction.
Hope Loses Militia Company.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Oct. 22—Hope
has been added to the list of
companies that are to be muster
ed out of the Arkansas National
Guard because they have failed
to come up to the requirements
of the War Department. The
other companies are Piggott,
Heber Springs, Black Rock and
Eureka Springs. Several com
panies are seeking admission to
fill the vacancies, those most ad
vanced being Fort Smith and
Little Rock.
Weather Works Further Injury.
Following the frost of Mon
day night, the rainy weather of
Wednesday is anything but en
couraging for prospects or op
portunity to gather the cotton
of this section, already damaged
by rotten bolls as the result of a
very wet fall. The next picking
may now become as bad as the
first, say many farmers and cot
ton men. (
Luncheon For Friends.
As a special compliment to
Mrs. W. T. Parish and her guest,
Miss Lucile Taylor of Memphis,
Miss Mabel Stayton entertained
at a delightful little luncheon to
day that was charmingly arrang
ed in a yellow and white color
motiff. Those present were Mrs.
Parish, Misses Lucile Taylor, Ri
na Price, Bessie Watson and
Mrs. Tom Hutson.
Clear, white clothes are a sign
that the house keeper uses Red
Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz.
package 5 cents.
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NEWPORT. ARKANSAS
LEFT YOUNG MOTHER GASP'NG
Mrs O'Leary's Well-Meant Word* of
Mrs. 0 Lea y Meaning
Compassion Conxameu
That Shocked.
There are still two opinions con
cerning red hair. She was a very
proud young mother. All be old was
ters had never painted such a bam (
bino. had never imagined such a cher
,,h as hers. Quite simply she be
lieved it. And the baby's hair was red.
It did not occur to her that re
was anything but completely and whol
Ty admirable The little shining: «£
per colored head seemed to her the
sum of all that was radiant and love
l7<Tve come for the baby's wash,
m I? was Mrs. O'Leary, the washer
woman,-a rawboned, dejected souh
who spoke. Evidently there was for
her no inexpressible glory shining
amid the blue and white draperies of
a bassinet. How hard the world was
on some women'. So thought the
young mother and proudly drew back
the cover from the baby s nest.
“Come and look at my little daugh
ter," she said. "See, she has red
hair."
A flash of some strong feeling—
could it be compassion?—illumined .
the dejected features of Mrs. O'Leary.
The proud young mother felt her ;
hand gripped in a grasp of iron, and |
a 'warm Irish voice sounded in her j
ears. . . !
“There, there," it said soothingly, j
“Don't vou fret. Don't you fret. You j
I can’t never tell what they look like ,
when they're small. Some of em
grows up into real good lookin’ girls.
They do that:’’
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LEAVE OUT THE SUPERFLUOUS
Some Truth in Assertion That Pres
ent Generation Considers Too
Many "Wants” as "Needs."
A woman who has been observing
people and things has come to the
conclusion that the expense of living
today is largely due to individual in
dulgence. People want so much
more than they formerly did, or at
any rate, if they wanted it before,
they often did without it, for expe
diency's sake; but now, she says, to
want and to have go hand in hand
without regard for expediency. This
woman says; “My idea of the wide
spread complaint of the high cost oi
living is that people are not temper
ate in supplying their three principal
wants, namely; food, clothing and
shelter. Some people cut down on
food and shelter and spend an over
abundance on clothing. Others in
dulge themselves in rich foods that
are absolutely unnecessary. Still
others like to live in fashionable
quarters and neglect their food and
shelter. A person to be happy must
preserve a balance in all things. One
must be temperate with regard tci
food, clothing and shelter. Live in a
respectable but not ultra-fashionable ‘
neighborhood; wear standard clothes i
not the latest Paris fashions; eat j
good, substantial food, not rich, tasty j
delicacies that cater only to the pal
ate, is my parting advice.”
Yes, She Probably Would.
"Does anybody ever kick you In
1 the nose?” said the ass.
“Aye, does there,” said the spider;!
“you and your like that are always
walking on me, or lying down on me,
or running over me.”
*’> ell, why don’t you stay on the
wall?” said the ass.
“Sure, my wife is there,” replied the
spider.
“What’s the harm in that?” said
the ass.
“She'd eat me,” said the spider.
“Have you got a wife yourself now?”
“I have not,” said the ass. “I wish I
had.”
“That’s a bachelor’s talk,” said the
spider; “all the same, we can't keep
away from them.”
“If your wife was an ass she
wouldn’t eat you,” said the ass.
“She’d be doing something else,
then," replied the spider.—From
James Stephens “The Crock of Gold."
That Vacant Chair.
Perhaps it is more sad when a chair
Ifl vacant in life than in death. Men
make a feast. Many who might belong
at the table are not there. Death has
not claimed them. What the world
votes to be failures has kept them
away. In the race as it is run they are
the laggards. Perhaps, In our reckon
ing they will never win. Had you
noticed how in the next generation
their children almost always arrive?
The poor man's son the rich man
of tomorrow and the children of “fail
ures” are the country’8 future success
es. There is ca etb and flow of for
tune which must 'urely reconcile us
all to the rhythm of being. Who dares
estimate life by a single generation?
—Los Angeles Times.
Story of Hohenzollern Ghost.
It was a Prussian royal wedding of
four centuries ago that gave to the
tradition of the “white lady,” the fa-!
mous Hohenzollern ghost. The Bur
grave Albert loved a young widow of
.ho house of Orlamunde, but once
thoughtlessly remarked that tneir wed
ding would be impossible until four
eyes are out of the way.” He allured
to his uncle and brother, but she
thought he meant her two little chil
dren, whom she accordingly murdered
with a knitting needle The horrified
Albert forsook her and married So
phia of Henneberg. whereupon the err
ing widow went mad, died and ever I
Bince has haunted the royal palaces !
in mourning garb with a white veiL '
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Arkansas
STATE FAIR
—AT—
Hot Springs
OCT. 27—NOV.l, 1913
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