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THE INDEPENDENT
r BRCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher .imi Editor.
NEWPORT* - - ARKANSAS.
A BtC TkEE’S LfFE STORV.
Wonderful Becuporatlvo Power of a
California Forest Giant—Record
In Its Bings.
A letter by William Russel
Dudley to Senator O. H. Platt, ac
cording to the Detroit Free
Press, says:
A remarkable recuperative
power following an injury was
found after examination of the
Sequoias of the Converse basin.
Vhe effects of certain tremendous
forest fires occurring centuries
•go are registered in the trunks
Af these trees and the record
tompletely concealed by subse
quent healthy growth. Among
* number of similar cases the
■lost instructive record of these
ancient forest fires was observed
hr a tree of moderate size—about
Ifi feet in diameter—5 feet from
the ground. It was 270 feet in
height and 2,171 years old.
This tree when felled had an
•bormous surface burn on one
eide 30 feet in height and occu
18 feet of the circumfer
ence of the tree; this was found
to have ben due to a fire occurring
IIA A. D. 1797. The tree when
sot, in 1900, had already occupied
Itself for 103 years in its efforts
to repair this injury, its method
being the ingrowing of the new
tissue from each margin of the
great black wound. When the
tree was cut the records of three
'*ber fires were revealed. The his
tory of the tree was as follows:
271 B. C. it began its existence.
The first j«ar of the Christian
•ra it was about four feet in di
ameter above the base.
254 A. P., at 516 years of age,
occurred a burning on the trunk
three feet wide. One hnndred
and five years were occupied in
•avering this wound with new
tissue. For 1,196 years no fur
tlier injuries were registered.
1441 A. t)., at 1,712 years of
*gey the tree was burned a see
ofad tia.e in two long grooves one
•nd two feet wide, respectively.
Each had its own system of re
pur.
One hundred and tilirty-nijie
years of growth followed, includ
ing the time occupied by covering
the wounds.
1580 A. D., at 1,851 years ot
•ge, occurred another fire, caus
ing a burn on the trunk two feet
wide, which took 56 years to cov
er with new tissue.
Two hundred and seventeen
years of growth followed this
burn.
1797 A. D., when the tree was
2,068 years old, a tremendous
Bre attacked it, burning the great
•car 18 feet wide.
One hundred and three years,
between 1797 and 1900, had en
•Med the tree to reduce the ex
peeed area of the burn to abort
M foot la width.
MAKING PORT ON ONE LEO. I
Th« Dlmililril Strainer DnlgnrU Pr« ,
etedtng Slowly Under a
Siiiule Propeller.
London. April 20.—The disables
Hamburg-American line steamer Bui
garia, from New \ ork, April 6, lo
Hamburg, which was reported hav-it* |
lost her starboard propeller and fr*j
tured the shaft on April 12 at sea
passed Prawle point, in the English
channel, slowly proceeding under her
port propeller to her destination.
Palma for President.
Washington,April 20.—The adminis
tration is informed, through official
channels, that a strong movement it
setting tn among Cubans to inaks ^
Tomas Estrada Palma the first presi- :
dent of the Cuban republic. The sujt
gestion is eminently satisfactory t*
enrsminent
F* igalait It
"•lr, I don’t think I Quite catch the
drift of your remarks,” said the haughty
maid who seemed to have suddenly de
veloped a case of refrigerator heart
"Well, I seem to catch your drift all
right all right" rejoined the young man
who had been trying to frame up a pro
poeal. "It Bee ms to be something oh the
order ot a snowdrift”—Chicago Daily
New*.
WORLD’S FAIR VISITORS.
Rooms may be secured with
Mrs. R. P. Hitchcock, 612 Wal
on avenue, St. Louis. One half
Mock to restaurant on Delmar
boulevard. Ten minutes ride to
fair. -
IDEAL IN HOTTSEKEEr* i< »•
■ •■7 of (h* 014 C'Mtonn mod Com*
dltlona Are raialnc Entire
ly Away.
A generation ago to be an Ideal house
keeper was the chief ambition of almost
•very woman. No girl desired a fairer
fate than to be placed at the head of a
household with a good and loving hus
band to supply all her wants and make
her the mistress and the queen of hla
heart and his home. In most cases, say*
the Peoria Herald Transcript, the girl
who started housekeeping had more or
less experience In th e art under the tuition
of her mother. She loved to decorate and
beautify the house which was to be her
home during the reat of her earthly pil
grimage. She loved to create delicacies
for her husband and her children, and,
disguise it as we may, much of the af
fection she received was dne entirely to
her skill as a homemaker. When her
children grew up around ney this kind
and sympathetic mother and the pantry
were the chief attractions in their world.
As they grew older the ties only grew the
stronger. When they acquired families
of their own ths old homootoad, with
Its abundance of good thing*, still bad
attractions fw them. The kind old
mother was still their best friend. She
knew all the difficulties they had to en
counter in starting homes of their own,
and her advice and sympathy were
worth more to them than gold. Ths
grandchildren came to venerate her as a
sort of venerable goddess, and when
she finally went away from the home
circle she left a vacancy which could
never be filled.
But we are assured with every* symp
tom of rejoicing that these conditions
are passing; that women have been
emancipated; that In the future they are
to be the rival, Instead of the helpmate,
of man, and that they must combine to
enforce their Just demands against ths
hostility of the male sex. This Is non
sense pure and simple. It may be true
that there are more mannish women in
this generation than there were in the
last. It Is unfortunately true that a
larger proportion of the female popula
tion has been forced to be self-support
ing, but It Is not true that women enjoy
ths so-called “liberty” which goes with
tolling for a living.
The home Instinct Is too deeply
planted In the heart of women to be re*
moved by the effects of a generation of
elub work. It will never be removed. A
few women may go after strange gods,
but the natural, wholesome girl will still
find her highest ideal of happiness ia
a good husband and a cozy horns. Ths
clubs may succeed In making such home*
impossible to a few men and women by
making ths young women feel that they
have a more Important work in ths
world than the prosaic duty of home
making, but among the masses of ths
American people the mother will con
tinue to be the bond which unites ths
unities of that, holy Institution the fam
ily, and she will continue in this exalted
rote until the end of all things.
WHAT DROVE HIM TO DRINK,
She Was Happy and Yet There Wat
an Airfnl Possibility Op
press In* Her.
“Darling,” he said, as he placed hll
arm around her waist and drew her ten
derly to his breast, relates the New York
Times, “why those pearly tears? Is the
home that I have brought you to lest
magnificent than you expected?”
“Oh, n-no,” she sobbed. “Itlsg-grand*
er than 1 dared to h-hope.”
“Have you found since our marriage
that I am less exalted than you had sup
posed me to be?”
“Oh, F-Fred, you are a th-thousand
times more exalt-t-ted than I thougltt
you to b-be.”
Stooping down he kissed away two
large tears that were trembling upon her
long, graceful lashes, and asked:
“Has It grieved you to be taken from
your parents and the scenes of your
childhood, little one."
“No, no, dear-dearest,” she replied.
“I would g-gladly go anywhere w-wlth
you.”
“Great heavens!” he cried, in wild
alarm. “Perhaps you are ill. Tell me,
is it bo, sweetheart?”
"No,” she said, through a fresh burst
of tears, ' It is not that."
A look of deep perplexity overspread
his handsome visage, and, pushing her
back so that he could look down into
her big, beautiful, tear-dimmed eyes, he
asked:
“Then, what in the dickens is the
trouble?”
“I was j-Just think-thinking,” she re- j
turned, “how miserable I should be If ;
you were to die and I w-were to marry
e-some one who wouldn’t appreciate all
this magnificence.”
Mock Terrapia la Chain* Dish.
Take the dark meat of a chicken
cooked the day previous and half a
pound of calf’s liver; put together la
the chafing-dish, add two cloves of
garlic, one small onion allced, two
stalks of celery; cover with boiling
water and cook 20 minutes. Take
out and cut Into dice. Cleanse the
chafing-dish and put In a quarter of a
pound of butter; while the butter Is
melting, take the yolks of two hard-,
boiled eggs, mash to a smooth paste,
adding gradually a cup of cream. Add
a tablespoon of flour to the butter, mix
and add the cream and eggs, stir con
stantly until It reaches the boiling
point, then add meat, a teaspoon of
■alt; a dash of cayenne and just a sus
picion of mace. Serve hot on rounds
of buttered toast.—Ladles’ Home Jour*
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la Cookla* Apple*.
When only russet apples are to be
had. a favorite way we cook them
is to pare, quarter and bake them In
the bean pot all day. Add a little su
gar and plenty of water. When cold
It looks and tastes like cider aipU
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HOW A TREE IS MURDERED.
km Instance Which Illnatrates th
DIJHcaltjr of Dcitrcylic
Ob*.
A gentleman of means living in asuW
urban town tells how his mother onc«
undertook to murder a cherry tree, says
the Chicago Chronicle. “I was a boy
at the time,” he said. "The tree stood
on our lawn; it had bean planted by uiy
father, and he loved it with a parental
affection; but It was an eyesore to my
mother, for she thought it spoiled the
looks of the garden.
"She decided to murder it secretly,
because she knew that my father would
never consent to its removal. For •
long time she pondered, asking herself
how she might kill the tree without be
ing detected, and finally she decided
that she would use for her weapon boil
ing water. Accordingly whenever my
father was away she would get a kettle
and, tiptoeing out to the tree with a
guilty look, she would pour boiling
water upon its roots.
"At first the tree showed no change
inder this treatment. After a time,
though, a change began to manifest
itself. My father noticed it.
" ‘By Jove,’ he said, ‘my cherry tree
seems unusually fine and hearty.’
"And this was a fact. The more boil
ing water my mother poured on the
roots the more the tree thrived and
flourished. Finally, in despair, she gavf
up trying to commit her vegetable mur
der.
"A florist, to whom she narrated this
strange story one day, laughed when he
heard it. ,He said It was no wonder the
tree had gotten along so well. He de
clared that boiling water was often
used on trees, as It killed off the worms
end bugs molesting them.”
The Magnetic North.
The belief in the constancy of the
magnetic compass to the north pole haa
not the least foundation in fact. At ev
ery different place on the globe it point#
in a different direction, and only one or
two of them are due north. In London,
for instance, points to a place abo«tt
17 degrees west of north. Seventy-#**
years ago it was still further away, be
ing then 24*4, degrees, or a quarter of
the way around to the west. In the year
1580 It pointed 11 degrees east. Then it
began to move north till 1659, when it
pointed due north. But it remained
thus only for a moment, passing around
to its greatest deflection in 160 year#.
Again it turned in 1820, and is still mov
ing nearer the north. It will not reach
that point for nearly a century and a
Half, and so it will go on backward and
toward forever.—N. T. Herald.
The Klondike Cleaa-tp.
Seattle, Wash., April 21.—James R
Ardorn, of one of the mining com
panies of Dhwson, 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 ol
the Klondike.
Nancy liank» Lincoln Monument.
Richmond, Ind., April 21.—111 th*
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 refnains ol
Abraham Lincoln rested in the old
monuueut, at Springfield, 111., will bt
used.
Road Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
will apply to the County Court of Jackson county,
at the October term thereof, 1904, for an order to
establish a new road in Bird Township, to run as
follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the southeast corner of Section 17,
Township 13, north, Range 1 west, running thence
west on the section lines between Sections 17 and
20,18 and 19, of Township 13 north, Range 1 west,
to the southwest corner of Section 18, thence
south on the township line one-half mile to the
southeast corner of the northeast half of Section
24, Township 13 north, Range 2 west, thence west
on the half section lines through Sec
tions 24, 23, and 22 to the west side
of the right of way of the St. Louis, Iron Mount
ain & Southern Railway, there intersecting the
Tuckerman and Swifton road.
J. E. Johnson,
Bud Graham,
William Watson.
ThiaSiith of August, 1304,
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OPENING
OF A NEW AND THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED LINE BETWEEN
ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO.
SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1904.
Thoroughly equipped trains leave St. Louis and Chicago nightly
(after the arrival of incoming trains), arriving either city the
following morning. , • u
Evuipment entirely new’; lavish in design, elaborate in furnish
ings. Ask vour ticket agent or address
PASSENGER TRAFFIC DEPT., ST. LOUIS, MO.
Appropriately furnished prove a con
tinual source of pleasure. If your
breakfast is served among cheerful, har
monious surroundings it gives you a
good start for the day.
DINING ROOM SUITES.
We have a nice line of Dining Chairs,
Sideboards, China Closets,
Tables—in fact, anything in the
ture line. Come and see us. We
are ready to show you what we
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At Bargain Prices.
We Suit Payments
to Your Income
You may test our machines
before purchase and they will
be delivered to your home.
Guaranteed to be a simpler,
stronger and more durable
machine than any other.
The Singer Manufacturing Co.
FRANK W. LYNN, Mgr.
M. A. UMSTED, Ass’t. Mgr.
121 Hazel Street, Newport Ark
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OUT IN CALIFORNIA
The Triennial Conclave of Knights Templar will be
held in the early fall. Thousands are going. It’s a
good time. There is no doubt but that all good Amer
icans desire to /see the Golden State some time. Here's jj
an opportunity. Is there anything to prevent your f
taking advaqpage of the exceptionally low ra*es an- ?
I nounced for fhis occasion.