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BATESVILLE BRANCH.
fn*>T" Leaves. 7:05 a. n.
ml. 11:45 a. m.
FaseenteriArrives. 7:40 p.m.
Mixed '* ..10:16 a.m.
ROCK ISLAND SYSTEM.
Faaaanger Arrives. 1:40 p. m.
Paaaenser Departs. 8:15 p> m>
Local Freight Departs. 6:3° *•
On Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday
THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
DIAZ PARAGRAPHS.
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J. T. Craft ofjCMt. Olive was;
in the city Sunday. #9 '191I
“Bob Clark was reported quite!
sick the past week.
George Hackney spent Christ
mas with^relativesjat Batesville.
Pi,Thurman West and sister, Miss j
Fannie, left Monday for Arka-;
delphia.
Tom Craft left Monday for a
visit to relatives at Deniville and
Cushman.
Mrs. J. R. Stanley left Sunday!
for a few days’ visit to relatives
in Batesville.
Miss Belle' Phillips’[returned;
Sunday from a visit to relatives
at Barren Fork.
Thurman West came up from
Arkadelphia Thursday to spend
the holidays with his parents.
Cromwell West, Oscar Roberts
and Charles Leland left Saturday
for a week’s visit to Hot Springs.
Mrs. Grooms of Deniville was
in the city Saturday on her way
to Walnut Ridge for a visit to
her son.
The infant child of Robert
Holden died Sunday and was!
buried Monday at Walnut Grove :
cemetery.
Oscar Roberts, Chas. Leland
and Cromwell West returned
Monday from a week’s stay in;
Hot Springs. Rube.
BATESVILLE MAN
SUFFERS BAD FALL, j
Rush Steele of Batesville while
^walking in front of the Bank of
Newport Wednesday night about
12 o’clock slipped and fell upon
the granitoid pavement, receiv-,
ing a bad gash just over one eye
and breaking the left leg near
the hip.
He was taken home on a cot to
Batesville Thursday afternoon on
the local.
f PEATH THAT IS PAINLESS.
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V Tramp* Who Take Their Last
Sleep on lturniiiK Culm UiinUl
la Penavylvaniu.
Death comes In many forms in the
anthracite mines of Pennsylvania, but
©nly one form is painless and pleasant,
and to only one the victims go uncon
sciously. It is the death of the burning
culm bank, says the New York Sun. j
Many times during the year is such
8. death recorded when one of these
great culm I*nks is burning. The fire
Is not seen in the daytime, and at night
it shines only with a faint glow
through the layers of ashes which sep
arate the live coals fram the outer air.
To these burning tJnks tramps and
•ther unfortunates, forced to spend «
Bight in the open air, go when the night*
grow chilly. The warm breath of the
eulm lures them on with a promise of *
warm bed for the night, and they lie
down to sleep In the comfortable atmos
phere of the bank and never open their
eyes again.
The noxious gases emanating from the
bank waft over them ?o softly that they
are soon asleep, and in many cases they
ce'tr awaken, being suffocated during
vfc night.
Paper from Rye Straw.
Expert* who have examined rye
straw are of the opinion that a very
high grade of paper, not only adapted
to newspapers, but suitable for books
a* weli, lan be made from that mate
rial, of which Louisiana produces
thousand* of tons that are now got
rid of as a waste product.
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I STARTLING PROJECT.
ENGLISHMAN WOULD DIG HOLE
TWELVE MILES DEEP.
Would Solve Many Questions Un
known to the Scientific World—
Estimated Cost $25,000,000
and to Take 85 Years.
Experimc-nts to be tried in the Wash
ington monument by officers of the geo
logical survey to try to determine the
compressiveness of the earth’s mass,
has awakened widespread interest in
scientific circles. Coming as it does on
the heels of a project broached by
Charles Algernon Parsons, of England,
to bore a hole 12 miles into the earth,
the scientific world has much food for
speculation.
Prof. Parsons estimates that to sink
a shaft 12 miles deep would cost $25,000,
000, and that it would require 85 year*
to accomplish it. This shaft, cut down
into the earth, would represent the
equivalent of a hole one foot deep in a
mass 666 feet thick. It would solve
many questions that the scientific knowl
edge of the world has left unanswered,
yet It would investigate only the crust
and leave thousands of miles of the in
terior mass still untouched.
The amount of compression at the
globe’s center should, to some extent at
least, define the character of the mass
of which it is formed. It is argued that
the gTeat mass of the interior of the earth
is solid. Against the contention that
the planet, under a crust 25 miles thick,
is a mass of fiery liquid is arrayed the
fact of the known density of the globe.
That density in the earth’s entirety is
about 5.5 times the density of the water
that covers three-quarters of the sur
face.
The assumption of a comparatively
thin crust requires, according to Sir
William Thompson, that this crust
should have a rigidity possessed by no
known substance. The sun exerts such a
strain upon the substance of the earth
that the planet could not maintain its
shape as it does, he maintains, unless the
supposed crust were at least 2,000 or
2,500 miles in thickness.
There, is a gradual increase in the tem
perature while penetrating the surface
of the crust. This increase in some lo
calities is as rapid as one degree for each
56 feet of descent; in others one degree
for 75 to 85 feet.
In the Comstock silver mines of Ne
vada. at a depth of 3.065 feet, water has
a temperature of 170 degrees, Fahren
heit. The deepest excavations in the
earth are at the Calumet and Hecla cop
per mines in Michigan, where thelongest
perpendicular shaft goes down 4,900
feet, while one of the standing shaft!
Is more than 8,000 feet in length.
There are in these mines 250 miles of
lateral galleries. Colossal engines are
required to ventilate the immense sub
terranean city and to keep the tempera
ture endurable in the lower levels. All
deep mine borings prove how stupend
ously difficult would be the task of de
scending below the mile level.
At the lowest rate of increase in the
temperature in penetratingtheearth,the
heat at the depth suggested by Mr. Par
sons. 12 miles down, would be 800 de
grees Fahrenheit. This heat, though far
from the fusing point of wrought iron,
(3,280 degrees), would render the use
of tools, even if the lower borings of the
shaft were constructed as they are in oil
wells, a difficult process. It would defy
the most colossal scheme of artificial re
frigeration to render such depths avail
able for entrance by human beings.
No considerations of commercial ben
efit enter into the plans of Mr. Parsons
in suggesting the 12-mile boring into the
crust of the earth. It is a scheme purely
in the Interest of scientific knowledge.
ODD WILL OF RICH MAN.
Nephew Will Inherit Fortune from
Uncle After Serving Three
Years as a Soldier.
“That he shall serve at least one full
term of not less than three years in
the ranks of the United States army,
at the expiration of which, if his dis
charge shall read: ‘Service honest aim
faithful, character excellent,’ and shall
have reached the grade of a noncommis
sioned officer and bring to the executors
I herewith appoint a letter of com
mendation from the officer under whom
he served, I bequeath to the said George
O. Travis the sum of $1.30,000, knowing
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lllcit, aiLCi OUV.ll SCI UV.V, 11V. Will UUI V.
had enough experience of the world and
disciplinary training to insure the
proper disposal of what has taken me a
lifetime to accumulate.”
Such are the terms of the will of the
late S. Houston, a wealthy man of Chi
cago, made to his nephew, George O
Travis, a telegraph operator of Okla
homa. The other day the young man
became of age and appeared at the Unit
ed States army recruiting office and en
listed for the purpose of carrying out
the dying request of his uncle.
Mr. Houston was an old soldier, hav
ing served in the civil war in the Fourth
United States artillery. Unable to con
tinue an army career, Houston, having
no sons of his own, was determined that
his next of kin, his nephew, should be
come a soldier.
Young Travis said it was not neces
sary for his uncle to make that clause
in his will which makes service in the
United States army compulsory for him,
as he had always intended to enter the
army as soon as he was 21.
A Hole with a Future.
An English engineer proposes to find
! out what is in the interior of the earth
He will do this by digging a hole 12 mile*
i deep,‘provided with air locks and cooi
! ing apparatus. The work will require
85 years and cost $5,000,000. What pa
tience and effort those foreigners do ex
hibit, remarks the Chicago Record-Her
ald, in getting at the bottom of things.
HELP WANTED.
No Energy. No Will Power. No
j Ambition. Losing Confidence in
Self and the Confidence of
Friends or Employers.
A State of Health That Needs Prompt
Treatment to Ward Off
Serious Disease.
Do you notice a large reduction in
your vital energy? Are you losing hold
on your place in the social world? Is
your strength gone, constitution weak,
appetite poor, digestion deranged, bow
els costive, with uneasiness and symp
toms of derangement in the region of
the kidneys? Such a condition is the
preliminary to Bright’s Disease or some
other serious kidney trouble. If this
describes the state of your body, we urge
upon you prompt action before your
health is entirely beyond recovery.
Prickly Ash Bitters is the remedy you
need; it has a four-fold restorative effect.
It stimulates the torpid liver, restores
health in the stomach, strengthens and
cures the kidneys, and through its
peculiar yet agreeable laxative char
acter it clinches the good work by thor
oughly cleansing the bowels. It is a
certain remedy for kidney and liver
diseases.
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Accept no substitute. Insist on having j
the genuine Prickly Ash Hitters with the j
large figure 3 in red on the front label.
Sold by Druggists, Price $1.00 per bottla.
Anvone sending a pketch and description may
quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an
invention is probably patentable. Communica
tions strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents
sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents.
Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive
tpecial notice, without charge, in the
Scientific Jfmericati. j
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culation of any scientific Journal. Terms, $3 a
year: four months, (L Sold by all newsdealers.
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Inquire of
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903 Olive st., St. Louis, Mo.
fSE CHRISTMAS SE
| Is almost here, and the Holiday shopper -
I . can hardly afford to miss seeing oor large
and handsome line of
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FINE
CHAIRS,
Parlor, Library, Bed and
Room Furniture.
Every article well made, artistically designed, attractively priced
A NICE CARVING SET
Makes a handsome and acceptable Christmas present. Oar
ware Department has a variety sare to please yoo.
Newport Builders’ Supnp]y Hardware
Li I. ■ ■ —
100,000 DOLLARS
OF NEW BUSINESS IN TEN DAYS IN NEWPORT.
THIS IS THE RECORD OF
S. M. POWELL,
STATE MANAGER FORlTHE
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
The Policies are plain and guarantees absolute.
LIVERYMEN
FARMERS
DRAYMEN
And all users of axle grease
that want the best grease on the
market and that recognize a good
thing when shown its merits, we
recommend our Golden and Cas
tor Oil brands of Axle Grease.
It is put up in 1 pound tin boxes
and 3 pound tin buckets. For
sale by all up-to-date merchants.
Ask for it and take no substitute.
It is guaranteed to have no equal
for quality on the market.
WATERS-PIERCE
OIL COMPANY.
WINCHESTER
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in the field or a good score at the trap. I
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spread of shot and good penetration, their I
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1 ANNOUNCEMENT. g;
Jh Owing to the decline in cotton our sales have been very light daring the month of De- SC
IN cember, consequently we are overstocked in all departments. , We have, therefore, concluded to Sg
« reduce our stock dating the month of January, and in order to do thfe we willI makegnat redoc- gf
9 tions, as shown on banners in our store. We will make this a STRICTLY CASH SALE, and jV
I POSITIVELY NO GOODS WILL BE CHARGED |
Xj In any department. This sale will commence JANUARY 2D, and will excel any we have erer Jft
had in regard to prices. , , . , . fill
«} Thanking all our friends and customers for past favors, and assuring them that in the CO
future we will do as well, if not better, and wishing everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy {?}
9 New Year, we remain, Your friends, jFj'J
ft WOLFF-GOLDMAN MERCANTILE CO. |
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