THE INDEPENDENT I
ERCY M. VANDYKE,
k ■uhlisher and Editor.
NEWPORT. - - ARKANSAS.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
, For Representative,
JOHN H. KEEL.
County Judgre.
E. L. BOYCE.
CircuitJCIerk.
J. D. NEAL.
County Clerk,
GEO. A. LOCKARD.
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 Peace,
GUY SMITH.
FORESTiDILLARD.
TRAGEDIES IN THE ALPS.
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'he Victim* Are Mostly Venturesome
Persona Who Go Too Far
] Without Gulden.
®The time has long since passed when
s successive climbing seasons were
’tinguished by new first ascents of in
^ "^st and importance. From that lim
I point of view the sport lost most of
excitement at the end of the great
spaigns against the Aiguilles of the
it Blanc group; and now, when the
/ news of yet another first ascent does
' h us, only those whose knowledge
! lplne topography is minute have
, / heard the name of the conquered
* j lit. Nowadays, in fact, states the
/. >n Field, the principal features
!>lf distingush the climbing seasop
from'another are the quality of the
weather and the number »nd nature of
the accidents.
Whether the season now closing, If not
closed, will, like the seasons of 1901 and
1900, establish a new record in the mat
ter of accidents is a question that can
not be confidently answered until the
various Alpine clubs publish the statis
tics which they so carefully compile;
but, as far as the weather is concerned,
no climber, in whatever center he may
have climbed, is likely to wish to reserve
his Judgment Those must have very
long memories Indeed, who do not pro
nounce the summer the worst that they
have ever known. Execrable weather in
E?. June was followed by execrable weath
XN er in July. Just at the end of July things
• X began to look a little more promising.
/ A first ascent was then made of the
/ last remaining virgin summit in the
/ Lauterbrunnen valley; the club huts
wci C a s UYCiuunucu an iuc wuftMuiuv
hotel, and some remarkable traverses,
including one of the Weisshorn, were
tv accomplished. But the clouds reformed,
1 and those who lingered, hoping for a
) fine August, were disappointed. A fort
./ night’s fine weather In three months was
one climber’s estimate of the season
which ha had endured from beginning
to end; and it might be difficult to And
anyone who could boast that his ex
perience had been more fortunate. The
climbing season, from that point of view,
was like the London season or the sea
son at any of the watering places.
Concerning the accidents of the season
It Is, as has been said, a little difficult to
generalize until the actual figures are
presented; but one generalization is pos
sible. The accidents to serious moun
taineers, engaged upon Berious expedi
tions, were relatively few, while the ac
cidents which, being the direct result of
Ignorance or carelessness, ought really
to be called by some other name, were
comparatively numerous.
The worst of all the real climbing ac
cidents of the season did not happen in
the Alps, but on Scawfell Pinnacle. In
part, this distribution of the casual ities
la, no doubt, to be attributed to the
weather. There were fewer accidents
than usual belonging to the former class,
simply because there was less climbing.
In part, however, it may be taken to
represent ‘endency that is likely to be
RADJUM EMANATIONS.
kslnttit Think* (he Wonderful 9nb»
stance Can Bo Vaod (o Cnro
Pulmonary Tuberouloala.
Frederick Soddy, who was Prof. Ruth*
•rford, assistant at McGill university,
la Montreal, has suggested another use
for radium. He argues that as it has
boon found to cure consumption of the
Sirin (lupus). It should also cure con
sumption of the lungs, if its rays can be
brought to bear directly on the diseased
lung tissue, without any intervening
substances, such as the chest wall. At
first sight, says the Scientific American,
this seems rather a difficult thing to do,
as It is, of course, out of the question to
place any solid mass of radium within
the lungs themselves. But recent stud
ies have shown that radium in a solution
gives off a gas and that this gas is itself
radio-active. So all that Is necessary to
subject the internal lung tissue to the
direct action of radium rays is to breath*
a mixture of air and the radium gas. By
this means Mr. Soddy believes a new and
valuable remedy for consumption will be
available to the pathologist. The rays
from radium have already proved use
ful in the treatment of several forms o(
skin disease, and It has been suggested
that the Insertion of minute particles
of radium In the interior of a cancer Is
worth trying. It should be remembered
however, that even If radium proves val
uable In the treatment of pulmonary tu
berculosis, Its cost Is so high—several
hundred dollars a grain—that It coult
sot come Into general use under present
•SBdlUOBO.
•(nature never gives UP.”
A Phrase That Is Full of Meaning for
\ the Sick in Either Body
| or Mind.
/ A phrase from a recent magazine
article is so suggestive and so full
of encouragement that it seems
worthwhile to make it the text for
one of our small sermons, says
Woman’s Home Companion. The
phrase is: “Nature never gives
up.” You may with profit say this
over carefully and thoughtfully
and let its full meaning come to
you: “Nature never gives up.”
Nature is on the side of health,
and sanity, and consequent happi
ness. Hard as your case may be,
the great Mother is fighting the
battle with you. Has disease got
into your bones? Nature has mar
shaled her forces to combat it,
and with marvelous strategy has
set engines to work which are en
deavoring to circumvent the en
emy. Nature is working in con
junction with the physician and
yourself. That is a thought
which ought to cheer you. You
have been imprudent, possibly—
have done and left undone. You
have taken such ill-care of your
God-given body that your friends
have set you down as hopeless or
worse. You have told yourself
that there is no hope for you. Na
ture has not given you up. She
wants you to live and work and be
healthy and happy and in the
event of your neglect of yourself,
she is still fighting for you. She
has no moral idea in doing this.
She just does it. Perhaps you de
serve to be given up. Many of us
do, it sometimes seems. But Na
ture is blind to that. Of course,
she is not all-powerful. She can
be overcome. She fails often.
But you will do well to remember
that in every case while there is
a spark of life left, she is trying.
Let that thought brace you. Buck
up, and give Nature some help.
I should like to think that we
could carry the analogy into the
moral world as well. Do you not
believe that there are forces as
yet unvalued which are fighting
the fight for good in the souls of
men? Bad a man or woman may
be—there is exterior pressure to
make him or her better. There is
law; there is education; there are
all the societies and institutions
whose object is to help the down
fallen and the unfortunate. But
are there not other forces, too?
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Souls fight continually for the
spiritual health and sanity of all
people? The thought is comfort
ing, stimulating, encouraging. It
is the business of every individual
to add all his personal strength
to all encounters with evil, physic
al or spiritual. He can do so more
heartily and with better faith for
success if he remembers that “na
ture never gives up.”
| INTERESTING CHILDREN.
Youngsters of Oriental Ministers at
Washington Never Heard of Christ
mas Before Coming Here.
There are in the foreign colony
in Washington quite a number of
children wrho never heard of
Christmas until they came to the
laud of the free, says the Wash
ington Times. Among them are
the two sons and the daughter of
the Chinese minister, the young
sters of the Korean legation, and
Osman Sureya and Ali Haidas,the
black-eyed little sons of Chekib
Bey, the Turkish minister. When
Wu Ting-Fang was Chinese minis
ter he adopted the American
! Christmas to the extent that his
young son was allowed to go to
the white house each Christmas
morning with a bouquet almost as
large as himself designed as a
token for the first lady of the
land. In the Chinese colony are
several children who have been
enjoying an American Christmas
for some years past. These for
tunate youngsters are the chil
dren of Yung Kwai, the secretary
interpreter, whose wife is a New
England woman.
Magnificent Distances.
The diocese of Kiawatin, in Ru
pert’s Land, is one of magnificent
distances. Bishop Loftliouse once
walked 200 miles to fetch a doctor
for his wife. Many of the Indians
walk 25 miles to church, and the
bishop has baptized scores of ba
bies which had been carried 150
miles on their mothers’ backs
over hard-frozen snow. At night
the family sleep, wrapped in the
deer skins, on branches laid upon
the snow.
THE CATCHING OF CRABS.
Some Facts About the Chesapeake
Soft-Shell and His Captors—
A Summer Industry.
The Chesapeake soft-shell crab
is a delicacy and a luxury in every
market between the Atlantic and
Denver; and he grows more and
more popular as season follows
season.
The season of the soft-shell crab
is from the early days of May to
the late days of September, and
its chief or best cultivated and
most patronized habitat is the
shallow and warm nooks, sounds
and inlets of Chesapeake bay.
Here it swarms like ants in a hill,
like bees in a posy garden, like
prairie dogs in a rodent town.
Jersey waters produce some crabs;
but the Chesapeake crabbers
supply the market; and they make
money by doing it.
The crabbing fleet numbers per
haps 1,500 boats — little crafts
they are, usually with a tiny cabin;
manned by two or more men. Not
less than 500 of these boats sail
from the little village of Crisfield,
Md., alone.
The crabs a re caught by trailing
along the bottom of the shallow
waters, through the sea grass and
sea weed, a light cage of iron, a
sort of skeleton and coop, called
by the crabbers a drag. It is
drawn up frequently; empty but
seldom. The take is from 200
crabs a day at the opening of the
season to 1,000 crabs a day in mid
season, to each boat worked by
two men.
The crabs are graded by size,
crated and shipped to market.
Hard-shell crabs are taken to
the “crab yard,” where they are
detained imprisoned in frames,
and examined daily to see if they
have shed their hard shells. Such
as have are taken out and packed
for transportation to market.
The captive may shed his shell in
a day or two or he may wear it
for a month.
NEW USE OF PHONOGRAPH.
British Cabinet Minister Dictates to
the Machine and the “Records”
Are Sent to His Clerks.
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Since his accession to cab
inet rank Mr. Graham Murray has
made a still greater use of the
phonograph for the conduct of his
correspondence as secretary of
state for Scotland tnan ne aiu
during the period when he acted
as lord advocate in the same de
partment, says the London
Graphic. Some five or six dozen
“records” are now constantly in
use, and to these the minister dic
tates the replies to his numerous
letters, together with a mass of
other detail work connected with
the office over which he presides.
These are then forwarded to Lon
don, if he happens to be in Scot
land, and the contents are taken
down by his secretaries in White
hall. This done, the “records” are
scraped off and the cylinders are
once more ready for use. By keep
ing a phonograph both in London
and Scotland the secretary of
state, alone among his colleagues
in Mr. Balfour’s reconstructed
cabinet, is able to give viva-voce
instructions to his department at
a distance of some hundreds of
miles.
Queer Speculation.
The sermon of a British vicar
charging great immorality in the
pottery towns in Staffordshire has
caused discussion of life in the
potteries. A curious feature is
speculation on the lives of others.
The business of the insurance com
panies there is largely directed to
persuading people to insure the
lives of others as a speculation.
Wives are urged to insure their
husbands, and sons and daughters
to take out a policy on their
parents’ lives. For a penny a
week a girl insures her father for
£5. No medical examination is re
quired, and it is simply a gamble
on death. This was amusingly
shown by a recent case. A doctor
in one of the pottery towns was
reported to be dying of cancer,
The rumor was false, and the doc
tor, completely recovered of his
illness, was surprised to learc
J that his charwomac had staked
twopence a week on his death.
Before Nkt After.
During courtaMp a girl thinks
marriage is a haven of rest it
which she wU* free from all
worry and ear»* \fter marriage
■he has another think coming.—
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