THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
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NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
|For Representative.
JOHN H. KEEI.
County Judge.
E. L. BOYCE.
CircuitlC'lerk,
J. D. NEAL.
County Clerk,
GEO. A. LOCKARI).
Sheriff,
H. S. SIMMONS,
Treasurer.
DR. F. G. SMITH.
Assessor.
R. L. CONDITT
Surveyor.
W. A. BOWMAN.
Coroner.
F. J. HARRISON.
Constable— Union Township,
W. H. CAROUTHERS.
Justice’of the Pt.aco,
GUY SMITH.
FOREST DILLARD.
MOTHER DESERTED
HER INFANT BABE.
Pine Bluff Sensation, But There
Is No Clue to the Inhu
man Parent.
Pine Bluff, May 12. —The dead
body of an unknown baby was
found on the river bank, just be
low the boat landing this morn
ing by Mary Minor, a negress
who lives near by. The baby was
wrapped in a cloth with some
bricks, and it was evident that
some person had carried it there
with the intention of casting it
into, the river, but was suddenly
frightened away by passers-by.
When she made the discovery
she called to a white man, who
notified the police. Chief Cul
pepper and Coroner McGaughey
viewed the body of the infant
and decided that it was a white
child about three or four days
old. The police have no clue to
the identity of the person who
left the body on the bank.
SHOT SISTER’S LOVER.
Lonoke, May 12.—Buck Hol
land shot Will Townsend in the
back Tuesday night with a load
of buckshot on the Wright farm
five miles southwest of Lonoke.
Townsend had been paving at
tention to Holland’s sister and
had been repeatedly warned by
Holland to keep away from his
house. Holland surrendered to
the authorities and was admitted
to bail. Townsend was not se
riously hurt. Both are negroes
and live on the same farm.
LETTER TO PHILLIPS & FER
GUSON, NEWPORT, ARK.
Dear Sirs: Your business is,
when a house burns down, to
give the owner some money to
build a new one. It is a good
business. Queer that the world j
got on so long without it.
We paint the one that burnt
dowm and the new one too. What
is better, we paint the houses
that don’t burn down.
You insure the houses that
burn; we insure the houses that
don’t. You have the ashes and j
smoke; all the houses are ours.
We paint lead-and-zinc; Devoe. |
We sell the paint to painters; we
don’t paint.
Lead-and-oil is the old fashion
paint. Devoe is zinc ground in ,
with lead and linseed oil; the j
best paint in the world, and the
cheapest, because it takes fewer
gallons than mixed paints and it
wears twice as long as lead-and
oil. Nobody wants poor paint:
there’s lots of it, though, in the
world.
A. M. Griffin, Plainfield, N. J.,
writes:
“Mr. Aaron Higgins, of Plain-'
field, always used 15 gallons of!
mixed paint for his house. Last j
spring he bought 15 gallons of
Devoe and had four gallons left. ’’
i Yours truly,
F. W. Devoe & Co.,
a New York affd Chicago.
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ADVICE TO THE SHIFTLESS
Hard Sense, If Persisted In, Will Over
come Hard Luck—Don’t Tell
Your Troubles.
A very keen politician going
abroad for an extended tour ad
vertised for a man to relieve him
of the smaller worries of travel
ing, says the London Post. He re
duced the applicants to one, and
was about to complete the nego
tiations when the fortunate per
son began to tell him of his ca
reer, his ambitions, opportunities
and misfortunes—agenuinehard
luck story. The politician listened
for awhile,and then suddenly in
terposed: “I find that I do not
want you,” and when pressed for
his reason, added: “I never hire
bad-luck people, especially the
kind who talk about it.”
There seems to be an injustice
in this, and there doubtless is.
At the same time this politician
was a judge of men, or he would
not have been a successful politi
cian. Most persons who have
achieved success are obliged to lis
ten to bad-luck stories, despite
their efforts to avoid them. The
main reason the modern merchant
or manager protects himself with
a guard of doorkeepers and ante
rooms is to escape callers who
want to take up liis time by nar
ratives of their misfortunes.
Every large center of popula
tion has its army of bad-luck suf
ferers, and among them are men
of education, men who are almost,
but not quite, strong enough to
reach success. Their point of
view is out of compass, their bear
ings are wrong; their attitude is
that some one who has succeeded
must make amends for their own
shortcomings. These unfortun
ates are probably the most hope
less persons in the world—hope
less not so much in their own
ideas as in the possibilities of
their reformation. When a man
places his own inadequacy on ill
luck he is not worth anything to
anybody—not even to himself.
Luck is the tide, nothing more.
The strong man rows with it if it
makes toward his port. He rows
against it if it flows the other
way. Fair or foul, flood or ebb, he
rows. And the world has very lit
tle time to waste on the man who
complains that the tide did not
turn at every bend to suit his
course.
NO TIPS FOR HIS WAITERS.
New York Restaurant Man Makes a
Discovery—Then Came a Change
in His System.
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“My waiters get very few tips,”
said a downtown restaurant man,
“and I don’t have to print notices
to my customers that they are not
expected to tip the waiter. It is
really very simple and within the
power of a restaurant manager to
stop the custom if he wants to do
so,” says the New York Times.
“You see, when a customer tips
a waiter regularly he expects to
get extra service or to have his
check scaled down, and the res
taurant is beaten by the game. In
other words, the tipping of wait
ers took money out of my pocket.
“I said nothing, but kept my
eyes open for a few days, and I
saw that it was in handing the
check to the customer that the
waiters got their tips. When
they were doubtful of a man they
actually made him ask for his
check. That observation made it
simple.
“Without a word about tips 1
made a rule that when a cus
tomer was served the waiter
should immediately lay down by
his plate the check for the amount
ordered and change it subsequent
ly if he ordered more. That left
no opportunity for the waiter to
dumbly suggest that his hand was
open, and it made it easy for the
customer to get away without giv
ing a coin to the man who had
served him.
“In a week tipping had practic
ally ceased in my restaurant and
the checks began to increase to
the right size. All paid for what
they got and others increased
their orders as soon as they were
relieved of paying tribute to the
waiter. It worked admirably and
helpgd my business. Restaurant
men are foolish not to stop thoj
tipping imposition. They can dc
it if they want to.”
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Average Man.
The average man either boasts
about his good health or howls
about his aches and pains.
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Time Tells
The Story.
There is a big difference be
tween the cost of making a first
class sewing machine, embodying
the best materials and workman
ship, and one which is made in the
cheapest manner. The buyer of
the cheap machine soon pays the
difference of price in the constant
cost for repairs, to say nothing of
its annoying inefficiency.
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Old Machines taken in exchange
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Oils, Needles, Attachments and
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FRANK W. LYNN. M’g'r.
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FOR SALE.
Residence corner Sixth and
Hazel streets. Eight rooms, re
ception hall electric lighted,
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Inquire of
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ROAD NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will
ipplv to the County Court, at the July term.
L904, thereof, for an order establishing a new road
n Glass township, to run as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the quarter section line running
?ast and west through section 33. town
ship 14 N„ range 1 west, where said quarter sec
tion line crosses Village creek, running thence
.vest on said quarter section line through sec
tions 33 tindj 32 to the southwest corner of the
S'W 1-4 of section 32, said township and range,
thence north on ecstion lines 1 mile, to the north
vest corner of the SW 1-4 of section 29, there in
tersecting the public road.
This April the 24th. 1904.
F. M. PARSONS.
W. H. CRANE.
and others.
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