THE INDEPENDENT
FERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS
DEMOCRATIC.COUNTY TICKET
|For Representative.
[JOHN H. KEEL.
County Judge,
E. L. BOYCE.
CircuitJClerk.
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.IHARRISON.
Constable—Union Township. I I
W. H.JCAROUTHERS.
Justicelof the Peace,
GUY SMITH.
FORESTiDILLARD.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
We are authorized to announce Ithe candidacy
of H. M. Woodard Jof Elginl for Justice of the
Peace of.Bird township. ■
COLORED INSTITUTE.
(Contributed.)
&The colored teachers met Wed;
nesday, with Prof. E. J. Wheeler
acting chairman. The following
officers were elected:
Mrs. Mary Davis, secretary:
Miss Fanny Robinson, critic;
John H. Wright, reporter.
The following subjects were
discussed:
“Some Matters in the Primary
Language,” Mrs. J. D. Davis;
“The Fundamental Rules in
Arithmetic,” Mr. Wyatt; Lan
guage—Picture Stories and Re
production,” Miss F. Robinson,
Miss Love, Prof. McKinney and
Prof. J. D. Neal; “Arithmetic
—Factors and Multiples,” John
H. Wright; “The Essentials of
Loud Reading,” E. J. Wheeler.
Enrollment fair.
SECOND DAY’S PROCEEDINGS.
The following subjects were
discussed:
“How to Study Literature,”
John H. Wright, Prof. Ed Craig
en, Prof. McKinney, Prof. Wy
att, Mr. H. Taylor, Mr.W. Dean,
Prof. Gladney and Prof. E. J.
Wheeler; “Longitudeand Time,”
Miss Dellar Thomas, Prof. T. J.
Clingman, and others; “Our
State Course of Study,” Prof. E.
J. Wheeler, Prof. J. E. McKin
ney; “How to Assign a Lesson, ”
Prof. Gladney, Mr. Chatman,
Mr. Taylor; “Contraction of
Complex Sentences and Expan
sion Phrases,” Mrs. J. D. Davis
and institute.
Address—“Education,” Prof.
Edward Craigen.
Rev. R. R. Block, pastor of St.
Paul A. M. E. church, paid us a
visit, and in an address, well sus
tained his reputation as an ora
tor.
Prof. Edgar Craigen made one
✓of the addresses of his life. He
made us feel that we ;were con
temporaries of Demosthenes, So
crates and Cicero.
Prof. Craigen is a modern
teacher. He is no doubt teaching
his last school. The teachers of
Jackson county will ever remem
ber Prof. Craigen as a beacon
Jight. We wish him much suc
cess in the new field of his
choice.
We are glad to have our friends
with us.
What Tj |M**et(lng- Means.
In setting and distributing type a
compositor’s hand travels on an aver
age 11 miles a day. Leaving Sundays
and holidays out of account, this
means about 3,000 miles a year. More
than half the deaths among compos
itors are due to lung diseases. In the
course of his lifetime an average man
gets through about 2,500 miles of
reading matter.
Paper from Hye Straw.
Experts who have examined rye
straw are of the opinion that a vert
high grade of paper, not only adapted
to newspapers, but suitable for books
as well, :an be made from that mate
rial, of which Louisiana produces
thousands of tons that are now got
rid of as a waste product.
Ho Chiat*.e In Potter's Field.
Among ‘he thousands of bodies
Juried in the potter's field of New
York there is uot one ot a Chinaman.
DANGER IN SLEEPING CARS.
R«rtha Rror«d ai Filthy and ni«fa«»
Ladan by American Health
Aaaoelatioa.
The filthy and disease-laden sleep
ing car has been duly scored by the
American Health association. At the
meeting In Washington, says the Star,
the subject was ~ery thoroughly dis
cussed from a sanitary standpoint.
Although the facts regarding the culp
able uncleanliness of berths are ad
mitted by the public, their rehearsal
from time to time helps to emphasize
the necessity for reform.
The railroad companies are always
ready with excuses against bettering
conditions Their business Is to
avoid trouble and save expense. The
casual traveler may growl as much as
he chooses, but is oftener contented
to submit to an Infliction rather than
suffer the humiliation of a fruitless
appeal to authority.
No one needs be told that the ordi
nary heavy curtained and Ul-ventllated
night car Is a veritable propagator of
infectious diseases. What better could
be expected when the nightly used
blankets, as claimed by one speaker,
are cleansed but once In six months?
And, pray, what power exists to call
officials to account? What Is the real
guarantee for the sleeper that he is
absolutely safe from the germs left
for him from the previous customer?
The only remedy rests in the ordinary
honesty of the common carrier.
One of the railroad experts rather
plausibly claimed that It was not fair
to require railroads to spend large
sums of money for sanitary purposes
until they knew where they stood. As
If, in truth, there were any doubts con
cerning the efficacy of absolute cleanli
ness, perfect ventilation and thorough
disinfection—all easy enough of ap
plication when there is a will for the
way.
CAUSE OF BAD SPELLING.
—
: Repetition the Only Secret of Leers*
•*»» to Spell for Persona with
Ayornpe Memories.
Probably It Is a mistake to say that
any person with an average memory
cannot learn to spell. As there Is a
lack of analogy In the spelling ef
words, learning to spell Is chiefly a
matter of memory. Repetition Is the
only secret about It, says the PhiladeJ
phla Record. There are some aids, but
It is the words to which there is no
guide which are the common source
of trouble. Persons who do not spell
well have simply neglected the study
of orthography and are not entitled to
sympathy. Operators of typewriting
machines who have considered them
selves the victims of a defective or
thographical memory have often be
lome good spellers through practice.
In a vast proportion of cases bad
ipelllng may be traced to wrong pro
nunciation, which is even mor# fre
quent than is wrong spelling. Prob
ably the modern methods of instruction
have something to do with the number
of bad spellers among fairly educated
people. The old spelling-bee system
! Insured repetition. In recent years the
; writing of the spelling lesson has In
| many schools taken the place of the
i oral system. The men and women whc
! had gone through the district school of
j half a century or more ago were al
most invariably good spellers. If, as
; the Evanston councilmen maintain,
I spelling be a gift, it Is apparent that
It Is not bestowed on man as liberally
as formerly.
GUN-MAKING IN CHINA.
■▼•ry form of Monition of War, frow
Rifles to Heavy Artillery,
Made by Natives.
A correspondent of the Lahore Civil
and Military Gazette visited one of the
Chinese arsenals and thus put down his
impressions: "Finally we were taken,
among other places, to the great Chi
nese arsenal some way beyond treaty
limits, where every form of munition of
war, from rifles to 45-ton guns, was be
ing made. We wandered through a
n/iMorn oca nf f n ntnrf privort n or a nroc
of ground, and were shown the whole
process of manufacture. And there
were powder factories and other insti
tutions not far away which we had no
time to visit. That was, perhaps, the
most significant experience of all. You
may have seen gun factories before, but
have you seen a place turning out
great guns by the dozen, and machine
guns by the hundred, perfect in design
and construction, run, from coolie to
head mandarin, entirely by Chinese, and
with only a couple of Englishmen en
gaged solely in consultative supervision?
Have you seen a roomful of Chinese
draughtsmen and designers in pigtails
and blue gowns solemnly, stolidly and
assiduously getting out the drawings for
a new gun? It is a sight that furnishes
food for thought. And as you leave
you ask yourself the question: 'If these
men can make guns, why may they not
work them some day!’ ’’
Carload Savage Caatoni.
Maj. Poweli-Cotton, who recently ex
plored a part of central Africa never be
foie visited by white men, writes
“Among the Kimager the women go j
completely naked, but the men are
clothed. I secured some photographs i
of a tribesman and his two wives hoe
ing the family plot. One of these shows j
a curious fashion of skin decoration in
vogue among the womenfolk. It is a
raised pattern wrought on the body
when they are young. Small Incisions,
geometrically arranged, are made In the
skin and into these ashes are inserted.
The wounds heal in permanent raised
lumps.”
We Take Mora Than Half.
The United States uses more than
five-eighths of the diamond output of
the world. In two years the total ad
vance on small stones has been 20 per
—at., apd ea large stones 25 per cent
TAX THE "DRUMMER" PAYS
A Considerable Item in Commercial
Traveler’s Expense Account in
Host European Countries.
Three or four drummers, says
j Comfort, had engaged in a warm
discussion over the bane of the
drummer’s existence on the road,
the “drummer’s tax”—not so bad
as it used to be, however, when
small towns all over the country
levied tribute on every traveling
man who visited them.
“By Jove,” said a man from a
New York silk firm, “you ought
to try it over on the other side.
What they do here isn’t to be
spoken of in comparison. Here
it is merely a small local matter.
Over there it is national. At least
it is for any of us who come from
foreign countries. In Denmark,
for Instance, there is an annual
tax of $42.88 if a man represents
one house and half that for each
other house represented. In Nor
way you have to have a trade pass
good for 30 days, costing $26.80.
France is easier and you don’t
have anything hut a business
passport, which costs no more
than you want to pay. In Hol
land you have to have an indus
trial tax receipt, which costs six
dollars. In Sweden4 the price is
the same as in Norway, $26.80,
and if you try to get out of it you
will catch a fine of from the price
of the trade pass up to $184, and
they are strict about it, too.
“In Austria you have only to
show a proper trade license and
in Switzerland a business pass
port. They don’t cost any more
than you want to give up to the
chaps who let you have them. In
liussia tne price is $25.7d as trade
tax and $5.15 extra as a communal
tax. And if you are a Jew you
don’t want to go to Russia to sell
goods. You may be all right, but
Russia doesn’t like that kind and
shows it by pushing the ‘drummer
tax’ on Jews up to $275.50, be
sides the communal tax of $5.15.
England’s the place, though,
where you want to go. That’s the
great free trade land and you can
go anywhere and everywhere and
sell to anybody and everybody and
never pay a penny. They are so
free over there that, by Jove, you
almost feel like asking the coun
try to pay you a few hundred a
year just because you are there.”
FAVORABLE FOR OYSTERS.
English Royal Commission Reports
That Danger of Typhoid Infec
tion Has Been Exaggerated.
The English £oyal commission
on sewage disposal has issued a
report that should tend to allay
the frequent “oyster scares”
caused by tbe assertion that shell
fish are polluted and made unfit
to eat by typhoid germs. They are
of the opinion that thereto not at
present exact knowledge warrant
ing such sweeping measures as
the compulsory purification of
sewage before discharge, for there
is nothing, they state, in the ap
pearance of shellfish to distin
guish those which have been ex
posed to sewage contamination
from those which have not been so
exposed.
The denial of the validity of
bacteriological examination as a
test is very important, for this
test has rested on the assumption
that the bacillus coll communis, or
other allied organism, does not
normally occur In the oyster. Over
1,000 oysters taken from the pur
est waters and from beds obviously
liable to pollution were examined
and the bacillus coli was found in
nearly all of them, from whatevei
laying they were taken, though as
a rule a very much smaller num
ber of bacilli was found in those
from pure than in those from
polluted waters. The commis
sioners sayt
“If it should be seriously con
tended that the mere presence of
bacillus colt, or coillike microbes,
in an oyster should condemn it,
few oysters would probably es
cape condemnation."
Concerning the possibilities of
the communication of disease by
shellfish, they state that there Is a
priinn facia probability that at
times living typhoid bacilli might
be conveyed by shellfish to the con
sumer and produce enteric fever,
experience confirms their views
that the extent to which the ill
ness is actually conveyed cannot
|pe determined, the present state
at Knowledge on the sutyect not
making it possible to make an ac
curate numerical statement.
I" BREAKFAST ROOMS. I
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, Dining
Tables—in fact, anything in the Furni
ture line. Come and see us. We are
are ready to show you what we have.
I Newport Builders’ S“apnp]y Hardware Co. |
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Time Tells
The Story.
<v
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. .
Singer Sewing Machines do
good work during a lifetime.
Sold on Installments.
Old Machines taken in exchange
Liberal Discount for Cash.
Oils, Needles, Attachments and
Repairs for all makes of machines.
The Singer Manufacturing Co.
“TheSewing Machine Makers of the World.”
FRANK W. LYNN. M’g'r.
121 Hazel St., Newport, Ark.
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towns in Texas and
Arkansas and many
other states. Its use
will often save you a
fatiguing journey.
TRY ROUND TRIP TALK.
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LIVERYMEN
FARMERS
DRAYMEN
And all users of axle grease
that want the best grease on the
I market and that recognize a good
j 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.
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Jack Herron
For Granitoid and Stone Walks,
Curbing, all kinds of Brick Work.
Don’t fail to get my figures
before contracting.
My Work Talks For Itself
Parties wanting crushed Lime
Stone Walks apply to me.
Henry Owen,
Physician, Surgeon
and Oculist.
Office - - Sells’ Drug Store.
J. W. Lindley, Pres. L. T. Slayden, V-Pres. E. V. Holt, Cashier
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