THE INDEPENDENT
I ERCY H. VANDYKE,
1 ublisher anti Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS, i
MOW A TREE IS MURDERED.
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'ga Iiitanre Which Illniitrafe* th
Difficult/ of
One.
A gentleman of means living In a subt
■rban town tells how his mother onct
undertook to murder a cherry tree, say*
th% Chicago Chronicle. “I was a boy
' aft the time,” he said. "The tree stood
' as our laws; It had been planted by my
-gather, and he loved It with a parental
affection; but it was an eyesori to my
mother, for she thought It spoiled th*
looks of the garden.
"She decided to murder It secretly
because she knew that my father would
never concent to Its removal. For *
long time the pondered, asking herseJJ
bow she might kill the tree without be.
ing detected, and finally she decided
that she would ijse for her weapon boll
tng water. Accordingly whenever my
father was away she would get a kettl*
aad. tiptoeing out to the tree with a
guilty look, she would pour bollini
water upon Its roots.
"At first the tree showed no shange
inder this treatment. After a time,
though, a change began to manifest
ltaelf. My father noticed it
«‘By Jove,’ he said, ‘my cherry tree
seems unusually fine and hearty.’
“And this was a fact. The more boll
lag water my mother poured on ths
roots the more the tree thrived and
flourished. Finally, in despair, she gavi
•p trying to commit her vegetable mur
iar.
"A florist, to whom she narrated this
■Uange story one day, .laughed when hs
hbard it. He said it was no wonder the
tree had gotten along so well. He do'
dared that boiling water was often
used on trees, as it killed off the worms
aad bugs molesting them.”
The Mnanetlc Nortli.
The belief in the constancy of the
magnetic compass to the north pole has
not the least foundation in fact. At ev
ery different place on the globe it points
in a different direction, and only one or
two of them are due north. In Ixjndon,
for instance, it points to a place about
17 degrees west of north. Seventy-*..*
years ago it was still further away, be
ing then 24^4 degrees, or a quarter ol
the way around to the west. In the year
1180 It pointed 11 degrees east. Then it
Itegan to move north till 1659, when It
jointed due north. But it remained
thus only for a moment, passing around
>.• Its greatest deflection in 160 years.
Igaln It turned in 1820, and Is still mov
ing nearer the north. It will not reach
-»*r bat point for nearly a century and a
xalf. and so It will go on backward and
iMward forever.—N. T. Herat*.
WHEN TOGO WAS YOUNG.
ciXnlupie or me iiupnurae .tvuiiiii tn a
Alertness of Mind Given in
Boyhood Days.
A retired English naval officer, who
when a lad, was on board the training
ship Worcester, at the same time as the
future Japanese Admiral Togo, accord
• ing to the Rochester Herald, tells the
following reminiscences:
“Togo was constantly the victim of all
manner of chaff from the young British
ers on board, who called him ‘One-go
two-go-three-go.’ Disliked at first,
perhaps because he was unlike his
mates, he grew in popularity on account
i f his remarkably alert mind and agile
1 ody, until at length he became a gen
eral favorite with officers and boys.
“He stood all chaff with a certain
amount of bravado, unless it touched
i i his resemblance to the Chinese. To
i le fellow sailor who dubbed him a
Ciinaman, he said, with emphasis:
When I am “the” admiral, 1 hang you
to the yardarm.’
“One day Togo had his leave stopped
fcr some small offense. ‘Liberty boys
to go ashore.’ was piped, and the boys
went up to him and said: ‘Are you to go?’
•Xo,’ he replied. Immediately the young
s . ers got around him and pinched him,
ter telling lies, shouting at the same
ti ne: ‘You are Togo.'
“His praenomen being rather difficult
• to pronounce, Togo was told by one of
t! a boys to shoot his godfather and god
n other on his return home. ’We do not
shoot gods in Japan,’ was his reply.”
IAKING POUT ON ONE LEG.
I Disabled Steaiu*r BilgiirU Pra
eeedliiit Slowly Under a
Single Propeller.
TjOndon, April 20.—The disabled
R mburg-American line steamer Bui
gi. ria, from New \ork, April «, to
H tnburg, which was reported bavin
In t her starboard propeller and Irw
to ad the shaft on April 12 at sea
p> sed Prawle point, in the English
ch nnel, elowly proceeding under her
pc t propeller to her destination.
Paine for Preatdent.
Washington,April 20.—The admlnta
tr. tlon is informed, through official
eh 'anels, that a strong movement i«
sc fing in among Cubans to make
T aas Estrada Palma the first presi
t of the Cuban republic. The sug
r tion is eminently satisfactorv ti
S(uA»o irov^rnment.
tl. ■ Rio (Trande Western railroad. Tht
a" I property is included in the sale
to the Denver <$■ Rio Gmude and
i rge Gould Interests.
In Church.
Dolly—How much Impressed Ethet
PV«d by tbs services.
anayha'-j-Yss, she did look solemn; but
only mad at her dreaa
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WINTER IN COLORADO, j
Your own physician will tell
you that the dry mountain air of 1
Colorado as an elixir of life;
stands pre-eminent. Always |
rig< rous and stimulating, the !
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modate winter tourists to the!
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put in effect from Chicago a
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from St. Louis a round trip rate
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June 1st, 1905. Be sure your
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S. Louis, Mo.
INDEPENDENT'S
BABY CONTEST.
Here is the proposition and the
rules governing the contest:
There is a handsome $25.00
solid gold locket with diamond
setting and solid gold chain, on
display at the Palace Jewelry
store, to be given away Decem
ber 24th, 1904, to the baby boy
or girl under two years of age,
who wins the highest number of
votes as the prettiest and svveet
i est baby. Now the baby that is
1 not pretty is surely sweet, and
if the wee tot be a little cross at
I times, beauty must offset this
badness. Fond parents at least
are expected to think their ba
i bies are both sweet and beauti
, ful, and so they do. But to set
i tie once for all the claims of the
under two, and put at rest this
rivalry of mothers and fathers,
the Independent has inaugurated
a contest that is to be determined
by that cherished right, popular
ballot,, and in accordance with
the following rules:
BABY PRIZE CONTEST RULES.
First—No baby that has reach
ed the age of two years Nov. 1,
11904, is eligible to this contest,
| nor shall any employe or party
' connected with this paper be eli
gible to vote.
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1 from November 1 to December
24, will contain a ballot entitling
the holder to one vote in this
contest. For every dollar’s worth
of job, work, advertising and
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these dates a coupon good for ten
votes will be issued, but no cou
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: sold, and will only be issued for
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each containing one ballot, will
be sold at this office.
Third—All votes must be sent
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posited in a lock box, to be opened
at 8 o’clock each publication day
and counted. The daily issue of
j that afternoon will contain the
total of the several candidates
! and the public will thus be kept
informed of the voting each day.
1 Fourth—A committee of three
good business men will be select
ed to canvass the ballots the
I morning of Dec. 24 and announce
; the winner. All ballots must be
deposited at this office by 11 a.
m., Dec. 24, 1904.
Read the rules carefully.
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