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- THE INDEPENDENT PERCY H. VAN DYKE Publisher and Editor Front St„ NEWPORT, ARK. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Daily—Singto copy, 6 cents; per week 10 cents; per month, 40 cents; Cr year, $4.60 in advance, by carrier city, by mail in country. Weekly—$i.00 per year, payable In advance. „ VT . Entered at the postofUce, Newport, Arkansas, as second-class mail mat tor. mm-! A Million for a Domestic. The Chicago Croesus who an nounced that he would give $1, 000,000 to the model domestic j who should remain in his serv ice until her ministrations should | be no longer required, has solv-1 ed the long vexatius servant girl problem. He is said to be receiving enor mous quantities of letters offer ing faithful and continuous ser-1 vice, and this goes to show that domestics can be secured by one' having the genius and the mon ey. All that the servant girls have needed is proper encouragement . and a showing of appreciation.; The family that expects a serv-j ant girl to keep the home life healthy and happy, while effac ing herself, and all for a paltry $3 or «$4 a week, is expecting too ! much. The Chicago Croesus has set j a new pace. He gets offers by the ton, and is afforded an al most infinite field for selection. Men have milions to spend in yachting, automobiling, horse racing, philanthropizing and end less other fads. Why should they not spend a million once in a while servant-girlizing? A really good, staying domes tic counts more for a family’s real happiness than all the yachts and automobiles combin ed. Then what is there erratic in offering $1,000,000 for a do mestic who will serve satisfac torily and stay as long as want ed? Nothing. It is a most sen sible offer. The promise of a million throws a glamor over an existence that heretofore has been deemed ab solutely barren of romance as well as profit. If this Croesus* example is not permitted to perish but is fol lowed by others and made the rale, the troublesome servant girl problem will pass away as *one of the curiosities of his tory.—Memphis News Scimitar. The Main Aim Is To Get Rich. With how many people does the business of life mean literally the getting of money? We all have dreams of philan thropy, perhaps, and would give something to humanity, as well as take from it. But with how many of us does the idea of giv ing come first, and that of get ting take second place? Money-making is the first great pursuit—in this country at j least. And the fact is showing | -itself up even in the colleges. Unprejudiced observers will view the increase in the enroll ment in the scientific depart ments of universities as evi dence of the growth of utilitari an views of education. The spirit of commercialism has struck deep into the thought of the time. Young men are seek ing education that will help them in the race to get rich. Maybe the old-fashioned idea of education, that it simply made cultured gentlemen with the habit of thinking things that could not be applied in ac tual life, was all wrong, and in the future the office of the uni versity will Jbe to make engin eers of various sorts, doctors without Latin, lawyers with out logic or history, ministers without literature and architects ! without the art spirit. The young man of today is dazzled by the enormous for tunes and the boundless oppor »-• TT'Cy: ; * i 7*- ' ’’ ■': • V* *f *' n V tunities for wealth that lie all around him. He is impatient to get rich and forgets that riches are not an end of existence, but only a means. He forgets that he may culti vate within his mind and heart better riches than lie in all the outside world. Perhaps the majority of fa thers and nearly all the sons who take counsel about the mat ter at all do not regard anything as education which does not de finitely and directly prepare the boy for what is loosely called the “business of life.” Yet this “business of life” in cludes little that makes living sweet. Were there nothing in this existence but the “business of life”hell would be filled with suicides in a day. Is the aim and end of twenti eth century education then to become again the same as that of primitive man, the sole en lightenment of whose darkened intellect was in the direction of obtaining subsistence?— Mem phis News-Scimitar. Paul Revere’s Ride. Paul Revere’s name is immor- ^ tal. Ever since that far-away i April midnight when he rode ! from Boston to Lexington and Concord, warning the patriots along the way of the near ap proach of the British, his fame has been securely enshrined in the hearts of all Americans. Historians have honored them selves in honoring him. Poets have found inspiration in prais ing him. He is an idol of child hood, an example in the prime of manhood and a solacing mem ory of old age. How few characters loom up like great peaks above the moun tain ranges of times! And Paul Revere was one of these. He was one of the prec ious few great enough to grasp 1 an opportunity to do an incalcu-! lable good to mankind. But while we give deserved glory to Paul Revere let us no longer forget that there was another hei’o in that wild mid night ride. There was the horse. “Any other horse might have! done as well, perhaps. So might' so might any other man have done as well, perhaps. Si might we flippantly disparage any he ro. But the fact remains that it was Paul Revere and Paul Re vere’s horse that did it. And the harder work fell onthe horse that did it. But for the true horse’s faithfulness Paul Re vere wouia nave oeen a iaiiure. i See what the poet says: “A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet. That was all: and yet, through tile gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night: And the spark struck out by that steed in his flight Kindled the land into flame with its heat.” We need tear no garlands from the head of Paul Revere to put a wreath on the neck of his horse. There ought to be en ough flowers of gratitude in the American hearts for both. Volumes might be made up of the horse’s part in the heroism of history. But man ungenerous ly takes all the glory to himself. One of Aesop’s most pointed fables is of the king of beasts that saw a statue representing a man conquering a lion, and re marked that it would have been a different statue if a lion had made it. It would be interesting to have a history from the horse view point of the great tourneys and battles and rides of the world’s heroes.—Memphis News-Scimi tar. WORLD’S DEBT TO THE AGES Modern Progress, Thoroughly An» lyzed, Not 80 Much of an Im provement on the Past. Not by a great deal are all the old fashioned things admirable, but by no means are they all inferior and out of date because they are old-fashioned. The best of them we may strain all our modern resources to equal, and not do It. The best products of old fashioned training and education are ■till models for contemporary semi naries. As far back as we can reach Into the history of mankind we find great people, easily the equals, and often the superiors, oi our very best In mental and moral qualities. Onr good luck Is not that we are superior to them in our human material, but that we have at onr service an Immensely greater accumulation of knowledge, mostly about material things. Thanks to that, we understand the laws of nature much better than our fathers did, and that has helped us to make wonderful machines, and put them to doing, after their fashion, what used to be done by fingers, brains, and brawn. But spiritually we got our highest inspiration two thousand years ago, and have been trying ever since to reach up to It; and mentally, though we use better tools, we are no better, surely, than Pythagoras or Aristotle or the author of the Book of Job and hundreds of thinkers who must have long preceded any of them.—E. S Martin, in Harper’s Magazine. SALLY’S LOSS, LONDON’S GAIN How Maid Servant Lost Husband and Wealth and City Became Pos sessed of Fine Hospital. That bequests to Individuals end to public benevolences are frequently the result of a mere whim or of caprice, has no better Illustration, perhaps, than the case of Thornes Guy, who built and endowed the great Guy’a hospital of London, at a cost of £238r MS nearly two hundred yean ago Gay had a maid servant of strictly frugal habita, who made hia wishes her careful study. He resolved to make her his wife. The aeeeeeary preparations were made tor the wed* ding; and among othon many little repairs were ordered by Mr. Gay la aod about his heuae. The latter In cluded the laying of a new pavement opposite the street door. It so hap pened that Sally, the bride-elect, ob served a piece of pavement beyond her master's house that required mending, and of her own aooord she gave orders to the workmen to do this. This was done In the absence of Mr. Gny, who on seeing more work done than he had ordered was Informed that the additional work had been done by the mistress’s orders. There upon Guy told Sally she had forgotten her position, and added: “If you take upon yourself to order matters con trary to my Instructions before we are married, what will you not do after? I renounce my matrimonial intentions toward you." So Sally lost’ a rich and grouchy husband and London gained i noble institution for her poor. Woman’s Story. ▲ lady wrote to 25 friends sad toM them she was giving a "white ele phant" party, and that aaeh guest was to come and bring the abeolnteet moat aaeless tbfhg she psmasssd had the whole 25 woama tamed ap with their hasbaads! Another lady was gMag whet to caned a book tea -CMfcpmlhjiir. asms ot each book had been gamesd. with one exoeptlon. The lady who still pussled everyone wore a photograph of bar husband dk. her bodice. No one could gases the aame of the book she Intended the picture to represent, and after they had all given It up" she told them— "Life’s Handicap.” Grotesque Names for Children. Certain philanthropic Londoners have proposed a Guild of Godparents to save innocent children fssom the burden of grotesque names. Hundreds of examples of this poor form of pa rental wit occur in the birth registers for the past few years. Noah's Ark Smith. Sardine Box, Jolly Death, Judas Iscariot Brown, One-Too-Many Johnson, Not-Wanted Smith, BottII Simpson Merry Christmas Flggett, Odious Heaton and Anno Domini Davis are the names of children prob ably living who will have to bear them through life. Portuguese Jury Drew Lots. A new method of administering Jus tice was applied recently at Villa Franca de Xira in Portugal. A prisoner waa charged with oou terfelting, and as the Jury were eren ly divided and could not agree they determined to draw lota. Two pieces of paper were procured, one was In scribed “guilty" and the other “inno cent." They were tbsa folded up. shuffled, and one was then choeen hy a Juryman. It happened to be the one Inscribed "guilty,” whereupon the prisoner was sentenced to the maximum penalty. Legal Point of View. First Lawyer—I was loajriag ova* my boy's geometry lesson test night I was quite interested in that propo iltion, that the three angles of a tri angle are equal to two right angles. Second Lawyer—That isn’t ver) complicated. First Lawyer—No, but I was trying to think what a man oould da If hi ; bed the other aide of the case I BE NEIGHBORLY Tell your friends about Ross’ “Dead Quick’’ spray. Tell them that it kills bedbugs, ants, fleas, roaches, mites, lice and their eggs; that it kills and keeps away mosquitoes—that it is nice i and clean for household use. Tell them it is sold in Newport i by your druggists. (Adv.) • Was Postmaster 27 \ears. Special to Independent. Jacksonport, Ark., June 22. On account of Mr. Anderson be ing sick so much and not being able to attend to business since his paralytic stroke last Novem ber, he was forced to give up the j postoffice so Mr. Bohler, the in 1 spector located at Newport, was notified and the change was made last Friday, moving it to Burkett and Jamison’s store. Mr. Anderson has had the postoffice twenty-seven years and we regret to see this change | as we could not have had a more ' capable, efficient man for the place, always on duty bright and early. PILES CURED AT HOME BY NEW ABSORPTION METHOD It you suffer from bleeding, itching, blind or protruding Piles, send me your address, aud I will tell you how to cure yourself at home by the new absorption treatment; and will also send some of this home treatment free for trial, with references from your own locality if requested. Immediate relief and permanent cure assured. Send no money, but tell others of this offer. Write today to Mrs. M. Summers, Bo* P, South Bend, Ind. rHINK TOO MUCH OF M0NF1 Many Parson* Loss Chance at Happy Marriage by Exaggerating the Value of Wealth. Scores of people lose their chances of being happily married through mik. log an unnecessary obstacle of mot* ay. The importance of it is often ex aggerated. Many a man hesitates to /ropoee to a girl because of his small Income. Very often much misery, ml a aaderstandlng, and tangled lives result from the silence More unfortunate (ove affairs are the result of what has not been salt* than of spoken words. When a man has a small, sure in come, and a prospect of Increase, there Is no legitimate reason for hie not speaking of his lore: no reason for that matter, to present marriage. People are so desperately afraid though, of beginning married Ilte In & small way. They fear the sacrifice! <rhlch they will be called upon to make —of tha criticism to which they will be subjected. Many years of happl aasa ara lost lu this way. It la such a mistake for young people to want to start marriage In the state that thair par eats are ending It. 7o delay marriage until a “oomfoc table’* Income la available la te prove something lacking in the love.—An Stove Wood Any Size Good Mill Wooc Close Prices on Carloads. $1.00 and $2.00 Loads Phone 58 West’s Livery Stable Lighten the Housework A plain iron sink returns very little for the effort spent upon it. A few minutes spent in cleaning a Standard"' white enameled sink and you have a veritable beauty spot of radiance. Our catalogue of sinks is very interesting with its wall hanging, corner and recess patterns. It is free to all interested in good plumbing and good fixtures. IV. R. Whitten McLain Bldg. 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SUMMERS, BoxM ■ ■ South Bend ■ IDEAL LAUNDRY i C. fl. WALTON Proprietor. . ! Washing called for and delivered to all parts of the city. Phone 150. Agents Wanted In Every Town. Dr. Ray A. OSTEOPATH OFFI I ^^^BV Just A Living or Something Mol The world owes us all a living and something qB The “something More’’ is represented by what w»fii aside in the bank. It means we will have somethioBf show for our years of work. A bank account wouldBa that leak, save dollars that constantly slip away. YoBfl losing money by putting off starting one, The soonerfil begin, the greater will beyour accumulations. StartV with | The Farmers Banl| of NEWPORT, ARKANSAS J ooooooooooooooooooooooooa 10.1. Hubert j NEW LUMBER YARD j Lower End Front Street SASH, LUMBER, SHINGLES, DOORS, BRICK. ESTIMATES FURNISHED j Telephone 278. j q—O—OOOOOOOQOOtlOCOOOOl 11 Prescription No. 666 it prepared J i for MALARIA or CHILLSll | Five or aix doaea will break tayq | if taken then aa a tonic the Fa j return. It acta on the liverI I Gelomel and doea not (ripewa 1— ll islheB best (marl b make in lifel The dollar mark is the only mark that is recognized in® lands. Money rules the world. You can ^e one I rulers if you cpen a bank account. Only the habit of® ing secures this dollar ma rk—the mark of the *® most successful men. 1 ARKANSAS BANK & TRUST J I