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Newport weekly independent., 1901-12-20

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 If you are in quandary as to what to buy for Christmas, go to Dutton's store. You will find what you want. Mrs. c. L. Fox came up Saturday night from Bradford and spent Sum- day with her sister, Mrs. Maud Bayles.
 Fine china, cut glass, terra cotta ware, leather goods, the best perfumes and lots of other suitable Christmas presents at Dutton's. 206
 Skating is reported to be good upon the lower part of the lake and if the blizzard promised materializes, White river may freeze over.
 The lowest temperature reached Monday night or Tuesday morning by the government thermometer was nine degrees above zero.
 Among the arrivals at the Planters Monday were: G. A. Merrick, Geo. J. Wagner, Chas. H. Cobb, Little Rock; J. B. Collett, Poplar Bluff. If you intend visiting the old folks at home, wherever that may be, get rates via the Iron Mountain Route. Good service and good connections.
 The river Tuesday morning stood at Al feet on the register, slight fall from Mondays guage, due to the freeze. When the weather moderates another rise is sure to ensue. Mrs. Ed George, of Poplar Bluff, spent two days in Newport with her husband, conductor on the Icon Mountain, subpoenaed by the defense to testify in the case against the rail- road.
 Rev. M. M. Smith, presiding elder of this district, who occupied the Methodist pulpit both morning and evening Sunday, returned home to Searcy Monday noon. While here he was the guest of Rev. J. w. Smith and family.
 Fred Coffman has accepted the position of night watchman and en- tered upon the discharge of his duties Saturday night, having returned that day fromNewport, where he had been to place his children in the hands of Dr. and Mrs. J. w. Coffman to raise. Black Rock Blade.
 w. A. Oldfield, of Batesville, and Miss Beulah Casey, of Mountain Home, who has been termed the "Jennie Lind of Northern Arkansas" and "the sweet singer of the Ozarks" by some of her newspaper admirers, returned to Batesville Saturday morning after hearing Nordica in Little Rock.
 coffee pot from a peddler. In the evening she showed it to her hus band, hardware dealer, who told her he kept the same thing in his store for half the price she paid. "Well, said she, 'why don't you ad- vertise? Nobody ever knows what you have for sale.-Fame. The Guard says that more cotton has been handled by Batesville mer- chants so far this week than any other week of the present season. The price on an average has been l SOmowhara near seven and a half cents. The advance of from $500 to $500 on the bale makes wonderful difference even in the local cotton markets.
 Mir. o. B. Grigsby died at his home near Grigsby's Ferry on the morning of December 10th from heart trouble. He was one of the oldest settlers ot Independence county, emigrating here from Lowden county, Tennessee, in the early forties. Since that time ke has seen and been connected with
 \ny interesting incidents which are
 "a part of the history of the
 Batesville Guard.
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Newport weekly independent., 1901-12-20

DAI of our soc and 75c Neck Ties, now sold at 25c at Chas. Meyers Great Bargain Store. btf Get your Christmas stationery and perfumes of Sells, the druggist. His line is strictly up-to- date. 206 A rare chance to buy fine clothing at prices less than ever sold before, at Chas. Meyers Great Bargain Store. Newt O'Neal expects to leave to- night for Texarkana, where he is thinking of locating and going into business.
 You ought to see that American Wonder Lemon Tree in the pretty show window at R. D. Wilmans' New Grocery Store. t6 Harry Ponder passed through here Tuesday morning on his way to Little Rock, where he will attend meeting of the Democratic state committee. Dutton's store gives holiday shop per hundred suggestions of hand some and useful Christmas presents. Look at his offerings before they are all sold. dtf The Argus says that Brinkley has 16 regular passenger trains every day of the week, something not town in Arkansas outside of Little Rock, can boast of.
 B. Collett, passenger conductor on the Iron Mountain, arrived on No. 3 Monday to examine the train men on the standard rules, which go into eff feet on the 29th instant.
 The new streeu cars have been re- ceived by the Hoxie- Walnut Ridge ''Transit Company" but as they can only be hitched to at one end, round house will have to be put in at each end.
 The government thermometer early Sunday morning reached the lowest register of the winter thus far, when it recorded three degrees above zero. Monday morning was not so cold with indications for another snow. The thermometer stood at degrees above zero.
 Prosecuting Attorney Simpson has had things coming his way for several courts past, but he made a rattling of dry bones down in Mississippi county at the last court. He sent ten to the pen and one to the gallows; but then, that was in Mississippi county.-Jones- boro Enterprise.
 Rev. E. A. Tabor returned yester- day from Washington, D. o., where he attended the National Anti Saloon \ League convention as the Arkansas \ representative. He was elected su- Aerintendent of the work in the pthern states, with headquarters at e Rock.-Little Rock Gazette.
 Beane was in Newport Mon-
 reporter for the INDE-
 e stated that stock com
 en formed for the pur-
 Eing stone at Russell.
 contract with the
 furnish to cars
 for culvert and
 Eecured
Newport weekly independent., 1901-12-20

D1REcToRs-A D. Bailey, ": Cook, C. ". Decker, John Thos J. Graham J. w. Grubbs, R. M. Johnson, A. !
 Shofner, J. M. Stayton. thank patrons for the enabled to stockholders their add to surplus fund and profit s74199
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Deep Sea Specimens.


Even in the tropics. the temperature
of the water at the bottom of the ocean
is only about 40 degrees Fahrenheit,
and it does not vary at all from sum-
mer to winter, says Pearson's Maya
zine. 1t follows, then, that the abys-
sal fishes, though residing in the neigh
borhood of the equator, are accustom-
ed to an Arctic climate, and, being sud-
denly exposed to a warm atmosphere,
they quickly decompose. Thus it is
very difficult to preserve them, and, in
order to accomplish this, the tanks of
spirits into which they are put are
surrounded with ice, while the more
delicate invertebrate specimens are
placed in a cold room while absorbing
the alcohol. The fishes are injected
with alcohol by means of a hypodermic
syringe, and SO likewise are large
shrimps and crabs. Deep-sea star
fishes, sea urchins, and small corals are
first soaked in alcohol and then dried;
large corals are sprayed with alcohol
and packed in salt; ~jellyfshes are
hardened in a solution of picric acid,
wrapped in cheesecloth and kept in
strong alcohol.
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4 GALVESTON HERO REWARDED

into the woods to study the spruce
growth, He travels alone and seeks
out the places where storms have in
jured the trees, for the wounded
branches are the ones that furnish
the largest supply of gum. He can go
up a giant spruce tree like a cat and
gather all the gum there almost be-
fore you know 1t. He is an expert
workman. A professional gum hunter
can make from So to IS a day when
he strikes a really good gum country.
He works all winter and in the spring
he leaves his lonely haunts in the
woods, and with his bags and bags
of spruce gum hastens to the nearest
city to sell his harvest.-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
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the rank Of lieutenant, but was soon
transferred to the firing line and for
two years saw much hard fighting I'M
der General Gomez, participating in
many flibustering expeditions. He
was twice captured by the Spaniards,
nee being confined until he was physi-
cally Frustrated. III health compelled
him to resign and he left the Cuban
army with the rank of captain and a
brevet major. When the war with
Spain broke out Major Fayling raised
the first company from Ohio at his own
expense and offered it to the govern
ment. He was elected captain of his
company, but saw no fighting.
At the time of the food Major Fay
ling had been the southern agent of a
New York corporation with h~eadquar-
tiers in Galveston. When Galveston
vas placed under martial law he be-
came its sole governor for the time
being.
OF the forty-three persons whom Ma
5or Fayling personally rescued. all
were saved by hard swimming or wad-
ing cut into the water. When the storm
broke Major Fayling had gone down
TO the beach to get a view of the sea.
AS the hurricane increased in fury he
started to return to his Office. He found
that he had to swim and wade in an
average of five feet of water, and was
kept busy lodging live wires. 1t was
almost impossible to stand against the
wind. Reaching his Office he threw of
his clothing, and putting on a bathing
suit was ready for work.
An exciting episode of hat night was
when fifteen tramps and negroes stray
ed into a building in which the major
had placed some women and children
whom he had rescued. The gang
planned to steal the boat in which Ma.
jor Fayling purposed to convey the
refugees to a place of safety. Major
Fayling had a six-shooter and a Win
chester at hand and placed the gang
under arrest, %stationing his servant
over them as a guard. He later die
good work in hunting out the ghouls
who were mutilating human bodies tt
obtain jewelry and ~valuables, and il
was at his orders that many of these
were executed under martial law.
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posed to know the city thoroughly, to
be an authority on the theaters and to
be able to direct men who want to
gamble to places where they can inc
square games" One hotel detective
who was discharged not long ago was
said to have made nearly $4,000 a.
year in tips from guests and commits
sions from gambling houses. He was
able to do the latter many a good
turn, and they showed their apprec1a-
ton for his work by paying him lib
orally. Nominally he was engaged by
the proprietor of the hotel to preserve
order. but in reality he was expected
to make himself generally useful to
visitors. He must know where to pilot
parties on Summing expeditions, and
the more weird tales he can tell them
about the places to which he takes
them the larger will be his tips. A de-
tective employed by one Broadway
hotel for many years became quite as
well known as the hotel itself. He was
an authority on boxing, and the last
word about any big contest was not
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To show its appreciation of his he
roic rescue of forty-three persons dur
ing the Galveston floods, the people OF
Texas have given a gold medal to Ma
Jor Lloyd r. D. Fayling of Kalamazoo.
The decoration which cost 0
$500, is of Is carat gold, solid, hand
somely designed and studded with
gems. The diverse side bears the coat
0f-arms Of Texas, supported on a Doric
Maltese cross, with the inscription,
tFor Bravery. Galveston, September,
$780, encircling the state emblem. On
the reverse side is inscribed, Present
ed by Citizens of Texas to Major L. r.
ID. Fayling, who rescued forty-three
persons at the peril of his own life.
Placed in command under martial law,
his ability, courage and energy restor-
ed and maintained law and order. His
work was the saving of the CITY,"
Major Fayling served as Deputy
United States marshal in Chicago dur
ang the strike in 1894, rendering effec-
tive service. In 1895 he entered the
secret service of the Cuban Junta with
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Man Who Gather. spruce Gum.

There are many strange occupations
by which persons gain a living, and
n of these is that of gathering chew
ing gum. There are a few men in
Maine who follow this vocation and
make a good livelihood out Of it. OF
course, what they gather is spruce
gum, and they pass the greater part
of their time in the lonely woods. 1t
is not necessary to say that their lives
are most monotonous. The gum pick
er, as he is called, carries with him
an outfit of several poles and knives,
a pair or two of snowshoes, a small
dog, a couple of blankets and a pair
of climbers like those used by tele-
graph linemen. In October he goes
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FISH THAT CLIMB STAIRS.
In Travelling to summer TIaunts They
Display A~crobatic Ability.

In Travelling to Summer EIaunts They
Display A~crobatic Ability.
1t is not an thing to see
on pleasant days, when the fish are
running at East Taunton, hundreds of
men, women and children clustered
around the fishway watching the fish
struggling up against the strong cur
rent and trying to get into the smooth
er waters above the dam, where they
may shoot off at leisure to the spawn
ing place in the Nemasket, says the
Boston Herald. The ishway is so con-
structed that 1t is impossible for the
fish to make a clear swim from top to
bottom or vice versa. They must work
up the river In the eddies, for the tide
Is also very strong there near the dam
and until they reach the lower part of
the ishway. Thence they struggle and
wriggle into the lower entrance Of
the ishway, thus making sure of at
least a chance to rub up against the
boards and rest before they begin their
wearisome fight for the top and smooth
water. 1t is in the fishway that the
llklCl OSt ol tAC dfOIdEG SQGGIdIOT IL
conferred. since here the fish can be
seen plainly in punches almost thick
enough for one to walk across on their
backs, and where one may easily reach
down and pull them out of the water.
They are generally packed in SO thick
that they cannot escape the quick
moving hand of man or boy. From
right to left and from left to right,
steadily, slowly, they keep on In the
effort to get out of the ishway, and 1t
is one of the prettiest sights imagin-
able to watch the little fellows, plucky
and game TO the last, as they almost
imperceptibly work out of one passage
way into another and crowd each other
against the corner. No matter how
many people are close to them, SO close
that they could be touched with the
hand or cane, they appear to pay no
attention to their interested audience,
but keep right on about their business.
A Waterman is on duty at the fishway
all of the time to see that no one dis
turbs them, but when his attention is
taken up by questions that are asked
frequently, those who like the fish
right out Of the water smuggle them
out and are away before they have
been apprehended. 1t is understood
that there are thousands of these her.
rings stolen in this way and other
ways before they get to the clear water
but there doesn't seem to be any help
for it.
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Old Commercial Houses Adhere to Primi-
tive Method of Lighting.

Old Commercial Houses Adhere to PrimI-
tive Method of Lighting.
Electric lights are coming into more
gtNeral use all the time in the City of
MEXICO as the various companies add
to thu capacities of their plants. Three
companies are now furnishing electric
light and power. An American conn
pany is preparing to erect a modern
gas plant. Several gasoline lamp COM
panies are operating in the republic
through local agents. Candles, how
ever, remain in very general use among
all classes. Petroleum costs from go to
20 cents a gallon, while tallow candles
Of local manufacture can be purchased
as low as n cent each, this price nat
urally for a small taper. Mexican
workmen can get along with less light,
apparently, than any other class. In
some of the old fashioned Offices of inn
portant commercial houses no other
light than tallow dips is ever known.
A bookkeeper may be seen making his
entries in a great ledger with the light
of a single candle, and the wealthy
proprietor may be found bending over
his big mahogany desk flanked by two
tall and stately candelabra. A Mexi-
al printer can work with a candle
stuck carelessly into n of his boxes,
and two tailors in the small shops can
be seer sharing the rays Of a single
dip. The opportunities for the sale OF
better lighting apparatus in Mexico
will be great when it a be provided
cheaply and of simple construction.
The great difficulty experienced with
most of the gasoline lights that are
on the market here is that they require
careful attention, and in the hands Of
ignorant Mexican servants they soon
get out of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Grit.
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new UMBRELLA PLATE

The advantage of having an UNI
brella marked with ones own name
and address will be conceded by any
one, but there are few persons who are
systematic enough to go to the trouble
of having this done. A scheme has
just been devised by a resident of this
city by which any person who can
handle a pen is qualified to mark his
own umbrella, says the Philadelphia
Record. 1t consists of a double ring of
metal, one placed inside the other and
designed to be fitted around the han
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said until he chose to express his opin-
ion. He was also the stakeholder in
many big bets.-New York Sun.
"cantilatlon"-A Musical Novelty.

~ NAuoACAA NOVSlGys
The extreme badness of the words
usually selected by musicians to write
tunes around has often been a matter
for sarcastic comment. The musicians
have defended themselves by saying
that the words are of the very small
est Importance, because in nine cases
out of ten no one hears them. Sing
ers, SO long as they bring out their
notes clearly, have the smallest regard
for the unfortunate writer of the
poem. But this sort of feud between
verse writer's and musicians, is about
to be done away with, SO it is pro-
claimed by the minor poets of young
Ireland" who promise a consequent
boom in Irish verse. The theory is
that Irish poetry, minor or major, re-
quires musical accompaniment to give
it it's full flavor, but when the music
rises to the dignity of a tune the poet
ry becomes too subordinate. Hence a
new species of music has been specially
invented to accompany Irish verse, and
a Conversations has been held at which
some of the new music has been per-
formed. 1t is called cantilating, and
consists of a long-drawn moaning,
which is something between a chant
and a monotone, and the melancholy
of the music is said to be beyond any
thing eve heard before. Though it
comes forward as a new mode, can't
lating is in reality as old as the Greeks,
with the difference that while Greek
music went by certain fixed rules, can
tilating is left to the sweet will of the
musicians.-London Globe.
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BLUEBEARD IN PETrICoATs.
French Woman's Eight Husba nds
Have Strangely Disappeared -
Where Have They Gone?

French woman's Eight husband
Have Strangely Disappeared -
Where Have They Gone!
A female Bluebeard has just eluded
the French police, taking away all the
records of her numerous marriages and
her clever suppression of her husbands
Dissatisfied with her maiden name of
Jeanne Volante, she has borne success
lively the names of eight men whom
she welded.
Recently the mysterious disappear
ance of the husband Of the jolly, bux-
ON hostess of the small inn at Cllchy
caused the people of that place to Won
der, especially when, three months lat
err, she married a lad of eighteen years,
who had been a boarder, without get
ting a divorce. The authorities. when
notified of the case, went to arrest
them, but the couple got word CT 1t and
escaped.
Certain papers found bowed that
the little woman had been married
eight times in eight different towns,
but had never been divorced.
The disappearance of her husbands
had never been explained, but suspicion
had never been aroused before. Now,
if the police succeed in discovering the
woman innkeeper, it Is thought that an
astounding series of crimes will be un-
folded.-Paris Gable to New York Sun
A BIacksmitB's ;ttrnngc Experience.
Goodland, Kan, June 3.-N. q. AL
bertson, our leading blacksmith, has
been a great sufferer from rheumatism.
He was so bad that he could not sleep
for the great pain in his arms and
shoulders. He had been afflicted for
years, but lately he was so much
worse that he thought he would have to
give up his shop altogether.
Then a strange thing happened. A
friend of his recommended a new medi-
cine called Dodd's Kidney Pills. said to
be a cure for rheumatism. He COM
menced to use them, and at once be-
gan to recover. His pain has left him,
and he is a well man to-day, and en-
tirely free form any symptom of
rheumatism.
To say that he is thankful, Is putting
it very mildly. He is delighted.
Dodd's Kidney Pills deserve credit for
having cured this very severe and al
most hopeless case.
From recent reports, there does not
seem to be anything they will not cure,
as very bad cases of Bright's Disease,
Diabetes, Dropsy, rheumatism, and
Heart trouble, LAY been cured by
Dodd's Kidney Pills, even after having
been given up by our best doctors.
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Lady Leader Of Cherokees..

Mrs. Susan Sanders of the Cherokee
nation. a Cherokee by blood, is a
leader of her people. She lately made
two trips to Washington to get a bill
passed by congress ito prevent in
truders, citizens by marriage and re-
SENATORS form sharing in the lands
and annunities of the Cherokee ma
ton" She drew up the bill and the
letter to the committee ON Indian at
fairs accompanying 1t. Mrs. Sanders
is familiar with all the laws and
treaties governing the Cherokees.
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SAC Wna WiIIinr.

'And do you really and truly love
me?" asked Miss Frocks.
IT love you madly!" replied Clarence
T. cambridge. 'I1l die for you'll"
eff I only could believe that?"-
unused the maiden. "And If I could
induce you to insure YOU life in my
favor first"
But she hesitated to mention the
matter to him, and he went away de-
jected.-Harper's Bazaar.
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al can't understand all this p~reatra~
mary talk about that duel these
Frenchmen are going 10 fight" said the
eminent pugilist.
His encourage begsed him to ampltty
his views,
"Well, Is I understand 1t, the event
isn't to be pulled off unde the auspices
of an athletic club, and there is to be
no gate money to divide."-PittsBurg
Chronicle-Telegraph,
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Three Presidents, widows.

Three presidents widows are living.
Mrs. Grant makes her home in Wash
ington; Mrs. Harrison lives in Indian
apolis, and Mrs. Garfield at Mentor,
O. Buchanan's niece and Arthur's sis
ter, both prominent in Washington
during the administration of those
presidents, still survive.
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millions for Baseball.

"A million of dollars are spent every year
upon the game of baseball, but large as
this sum is, it cannot begin to equal the
amount spent by people in search OF
health. There is a sure method of obtain
ing strength, and it is not a costly one.
We urge those who nave spent much and
lost hope to try Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers. It strengthens the stomach, makes
digestion easy and natural, and cures
dyspepsia, constipation, biliousness and
weak kidneys.
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Ladies Cam Wear shoes

One size smaller after using Aliens
Foot-Ease, a powder. It makes tight or
new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot,
sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails,
corns and bunions. All druggists and
shoe stores, Csc. Trial package FREE
by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted. lie
Roy, N. Y.
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A pInx Y1Don Words.

isn't 1T kind IF brother Harry"
said Mrs. De Style, "he has promised to
buy me one OF those fashionable poo
dies for a pet"
Madame" replied Mr.. De Style, who
despised these poodles, II give you fair
warning. If your brother leaves a pet
in this house I shall leave this house in
a pet.'-Phf1adeTphfa Press.