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INDEPENDENT
ff H. VAN DYKE
i jsher and Editor
: Front St, * NEWPORT, ARK.
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If Judge Hays would kindly
drop out of the primary fight
and allow ex-congressman Brun
didge to receive the nomination
he undoubtedly will, the whole
state would forever remember
with gratitude a patriot who was
willing to dispense with all the
trouble, expense and necessary
evils of an extra election. Of
course it’s half-way kind of the
Camden gentleman to divide the
$1500 expense of a primary with
the Searcy statesman, but why
not save to each of them this
$750 and the state far more.
We have been endeavoring to
create a “get together" spirit
among the people, but we meet
too much of the spirit manifest
ed by the Kansas legislator who
introduced a bill in the legisla
ture that whenever “two trains
running in opposite directions
approached a crossing that they
should both stop when within
200 yards of each other, and
neither should start until the
other had passed the crossing.”
This spirit wre find among our
people; each one refuses to
move until th$ other has moved.
—Bigelow Citizens Press.
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Map'y of the merchants are
complaining of the ordinance of
city, restraining them from
burning refuse in the alleys and
one close call from a serious fire
has already been reported as
the result of the ordinance,
which encourages the accumula
tion of waste paper and compels
the burning of same in narrow
back yards, where the danger of
fire becomes too great to be al
lowed. Why don’t the council
put the penalty on the man. who
does not burn refuse cleanly, in
stead of prohibiting the burning
of refuse paper in the alleys.
Along with all good reforms, it
seems there must be an attend
ant restriction of some rights,
that work a hardship and bring
the whole movement into disre
pute.
In the older states, where road
improvement is now the rule,
and not the exception, you will
find that permanent roadways
gave lands a value that no other
improvements were ever able to
bring. They did not merely pay
for themselves, but added big
increases to the value of every
acre of land near which they
were constructed. If you are
skeptical as to the truthfulness
of this statement, write some
acquaintance in the older states
who lives along such a roadway
and you will not only find this
declaration verified, but be gen
uinely surprised by the increas
ed land values credited to good
roads.
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Burying the Hatchet.
Bryan and Clark have patched
up their difficulties. They met
at a banquet, shook hands and
then issued “statements.” Bry
an said that he hadn’t intended
to do Clark any harm, that Clark
was an all-round good fellow, a
bank-up good democrat, and al
together of the salt of the earth.
Clark said that, as Bryan had
disclaimed malicious intent
when he threw the gaff into him
he would forgive him for the
pain he had inflicted and would
consider Mr. Bryan’s opposition
at Baltimore as of a Pickwickian
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nature intended merely as a bit
of pleasantry. Then each buried
his hatchet, marking well the
place where he had laid it away.
—Fort Smith Times
Franchises Are to Be Limited
Special to Independent.
Little Rock. April 25.—The
Arkansas Tax Commission is
preparing a blank to be sent out
to the public utility corpora
tions, upon which to enter their
assessable property, which will
give the corporation heads a
thrill the moment they lay
hands upon it.
The last legislature made
*iome changes in the laws gov
erning the payment of taxes by
the corporations, especially
those of public utilities. The
new law require- the companies
to file everything of value, or
which has an earningpower, and
tangible and intangible asset
are included. The corporation
must pay upon its franchise
granted to operate in a city, as
that is an earning power, and
the value of it is needed to reach
the total value of the concern,
and the state tax will be collect
ed upon the full amount.
At the end of the blank will
be a line to be filled by a notary
public, showing the corporation
head is expected to hand the list
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UitL tv vv l LII cl awui 11 do
to the truth of the value given.
Sayers Case To Jury.
Mammoth Spring. April 24.—
Attorney C. E. Elmore made the
closing speech at Salem tonight
in the hearing of Howard Sayres
charged with killing Charlie
Moore near here about a year
ago. The case went to the jury
tonight. A verdict is not ex
pected before tomorrow after
noon.
Lifus Davis, who is serving a
term of years in the penitentiary
for the part he took in the am
| bushing and killing of Moore.
! testified being brought here
! from Little Rock.
Sayres is accused of having
waylaid and killed Moore when
Moore drove across a creek near
Mammoth Spring. Davis was
; convicted on a charge of being
an accessory to the crime.
i Notice of Sale of Real Estate
Under Execution
Notice is hereby given that I.
J. F. McCuistion. as Sheriff of
Jackson County. State of Arkan
| sas. will on the 17th day of May,
i 1913. at the East fronttentrance
i to the Court House in the City
of Newport, said county and
state, between the hours pre
scribed by law. sell at public auc
tion to the highest bidder, on a
EASY AND SAFE TO USE
INEXPENSIVE.
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PURIFIES.
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credit of three months, the pur
chaser to give note with approv
ed security for the payment of
the purchase price, ah the right,
title and interest of-VV. L. Er
win in and to the following reai
estate in said County and State:
Lot No. Two (2) of the South
west Quarter of Section Nine
teen (19). Township Twelve (12)
North, Range Two (2) West,
Jackson County, Arkansas.
Said sale to be made and had
under the following execution
against the said W. L. Erwin, is
sued on the 16th day of April.
1913. from the Circuit Court of
Jackson County, Arkansas, on
the following judgment render
ed on the 10th day of March.
1913, before J. R. Loftin, Sr., a
Justice of the Peace within and
for said County and State,
against said W. L. Erwin and in
favor of the First National Bank
of Newport, Arkansas, for the
following amount, to-wit :|155.
43 with 10 per cent interest
from that date and costs.
J. F- McCuistion,
Sheriff as Aforesaid.
This April 25, 1913. 22dlw3
l .Arousing Sons of Veterans.
! Special to Independent.
Little Rock. April 25.—Com
’ mander W. N. Brandon of the
irans-.>nssissippi department,
and H. S. Spivey, commander of
the Arkansas Division, Sons of
Confederate Veterans, with
members of their staff- will dur
ing the next few weeks, visit
cities of the state to revive in
terest in the work of this organi
: zation, and secure a large repre
sentation from Arkansas for the
| Chattanooga reunion. When
i the reunion was held in Arkan
j sas there were 33 camps in the
I state, and last year there were
; only 17 live camps, with a prob
1 able less number this year- The
; officials desire to have more., in
stead of less camps this year,
and for that reason the state
! trips are being planned.
TO NEED A DOCTOR
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rents cf Vie Somewhat
r- ' .*.;c Family a* Catalogued
by the Mothe«\
T .. Zee,” said the mother of 4
i -mi of nine to the young doctor
-ho had ridden 16 mile* into the
•. > -Is in cfce dead of night, “we
i— i somewhat afflicted family, an’
is come doctorin' don't seem to is
—■ fo-h I thought Fd send for you
see if you could straighten us out.
'■v.ey here, she’s got something
mug with her bronical tubes so she
or’t brea'he like she should. I been
- r in* a rug spread with goose
• -a sprinkled with red pepper
*n r-t e'ard on her front chlst, but
seems to add tn her ag*ay Jake
- i g-.t a mis’ry all up an’ down his
P’nn’. bcce, an’ I been usin’ ker-sene
-•'h -sternal an’ internal; hut it ala"!
■ -e him n<_ good. Lizzie Belle, she**
, 6 .cut ready to give up with plum
an’ her sister N'ancy has been
• •» !*’• Tzszc. for a week. I think that
its skiatlc roomatia that ails Nancy,
:ut she’s afraid it's the new disease
> 'hey calls appendeshetus Tbe old
man has been turribie siimsy for some
lays, an’ Rube, our oldest bey, la «L
broke out with a raah that shows his
oloed ain’t ail right. He had a Par
tible spell las’ night, an’ I thought
ne was in for e^olery Infantum. He's
had it off an’ on ever since he vu II
reers old. 1 reckoned he’d outgrow*
it, but It grabs him as hard now that
he’s 24 ag it did when he was young
er. Wlsht, Doc. that you’d Just turn
yourself loose an’ see If you kis sort
i •’ straighten os on.’’•—Judge.
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ALL WASTE NERVOUS ENERGY
Everywhere People Squander Their
Force Needleeely Instead el Cere
ftilly Husbanding It.
People should be is careful of
•errons energy as of their money,
■ays an English writer. Yet we *S
waste It. At the telephone people talk
twice as loudly and energetically as I*
necessary. That 1* to say, they we
ap twice as much nerve energy w
Ihey need. Three-fourths of thoee
who have to catch trains every morn
ing spend as much nervous force In
one day as should last a week.
Then, in the streets, watch how peo
pie Jostle and push, and what a lot
of nerve-force they spend at danger
oue crossings. Why not walk slowly
» heu there is obstruction, and wait for
the quiet moment which always
comes, a; the crossing? Everywhere
People hurry without need, getting in
to a state cf nervous tension when
leaving theaters, boarding omnibuses
going to lunch, and especially when
leaving for a holiday.
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(M GLORIOUS POMP OF WAR
Might and Terror Seemingly Incaf*
nate With the Winged Hus
sars of Poland.
Silk and satin, fur and velvet had
given away to shimmering metal, to
plumed helmet and the pelt of bear
and wolf; Instead of the warm glow
of precious stones, flashed the cold
glint of naked steel. In place of caf
tan. cloak and loose trousers, one saw
breast-plate, loin guard and pelisse.
An.1 here were faces curiously still
under the curved ear-pieces, and here
were bodies sheared tn plumage and
the skins of wild beasts.
Yet this was not enough. For to
the roll of kettle-drums, the swirl of
flfes behind cjuartian. dragoon and
reiter came the hussar, mounted and
pennoned lance at reel. These men
■at their heavy horses, their lances -
made a forest, and from their shoul
ders rose the famous “wings." Su3
ciently splendid in themselves, they
had added this last touch of splendor.
From their shoulders, as in the re
liefs of ancient Egypt, rose great
wings—the rustling of them filled the
theater. Might and terror were in
carnate in these warriors. What foe
could stand before the awful sibilance
of their onrush, this apparition of
something inconceivably monstrous,
yet Inconceivably superb?
War had flred this people to new
improvisations that ended in a gran
deur reaching to the epic, the sub
lime. The other nations had but
dreamed of war gods buoyed on the
spread of carved and painted wings:
the Pole dared to attempt them In his
line of battle, to embody them, to be
them.
Over this army floated Poland eagle,
i white upon its blood-red ground. A
bishop raised the sacred relics and the
cross and gave his blessing. Plainly,
without music, the front ranks kneel
ing. the mounted men behind, rose a
/•hunt of TOlC€0. It WES
the hymn made for SoWwH'i legions
when they marched out to Vienna—
Albert Klnroee. in Scribner’s Magar
PAID TRIBUTE TO LAUGHTER
Man of Intellect and Renown Join In
Testimony to the Value of
Jollity la Ufa.
The value of a good-natured laugh
may be raced low by some people;
but many writers have attested Its
worth iu no measured terms.
It Is not surprising that Charles
Lamb should have said. “A laugh lr
worth a hundred groans in any mar
ket;" but from the lips of the somber
Carlyle one is scarcely prepared to
hear, “No man who has once heartily
and wholly laughed can be altogether
or irreclaimably bad.”
It was Douglas Jerrold who boldly
stated that. “What was talked of as
the golden chain of Jove was nothing
, more than a succession of laughs, a ;
chromatic scale of merriment reach
ing from earth to Olympus.”
“I am persuaded,” wrote Laurence
Sterne, “that every time a man smiles
I but much more so when he laughs—it
i adds something to his fragment of
i life.”
! Last of all may be cited the verdict
t of Oliver Wendell Holmes, given with
!' his own inimitable humor. “The rlo*»
out tumult of a laugh. I taka it, is the
mob law of the features, and Pro
priety the magistrate who reads the
riot act.”—The Sunday Magazine.
Henry Vll.’s Chapel.
The Moat Honorable Order of the
Bath has ceased to be the Cinderella
iwnng the orders of knighthood. With
the restoration of high ceremonial in j
Henry VTI.’s chapel the ignominy ofI
; the past ends. Although no longer
I the "wonder of the world" that Le
land saw (for so-called architects of j
i the last century restored it out of aH j
■ FaMimlrtnni rVifi mnf still remains a
1 thing of beauty. It has been suggest
ed that the chapel stands on the site
of a garden owned by Chancer. Hen
ry. who built It, lavished money upon
j It—his successors evidently thought
too ranch, for they utterly neglected
It. When George L reorganised the
order by Introducing fresh blood,
more honorable canopies were need
ed: they weiy provided by dishonor
ably slicing the old ones Into two.— ;
London Chronicle.
Literal Truth.
▲ London story m**"*"■*—« the e*
i rear of Horace Hamfat, an actor.
Rich today, he eras poor aad a failure
up to the age of forty. Hie life, up to |
that age, passed In the proviaeea on
two or three quid a week. One Sat
urday in Manchester Horace Hamfat's
■how went up, the manager fled, aad
Horace Bor three days tired ou bread
aad dripping. Then a letter came to
him from a London admirer,
ten pounds. The admirer forwarded
also an Item from a rhea till el page
i that Horace Hamfat >»<"»—■» bad writ-‘
tan—"Horace Hamfat la starring in
Manchester." But the tjtiasaltai had f
made this Item read, truly enough: '
"Horace Hamfat la starving In Man.
Chester !*
I interpolated.
▲ New York manager was making
his first Shakespearean production.
The play being rehearsed was "Mac
beth.” Everything went smoothly un
til an actor came to the line: "Ten
thousand dollars to the general use.”
Instantly the manager was on his
feet. ‘‘Cut that line out!” he shouted.
"This Is an English play and a classic.
I won't have any modern American
speeches written into tt.”—Boston
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