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Newport daily independent., 1904-12-05
TOYS, TOYS.

Iron toyss wooden toys, tin toys, rubbe+ toys, big toys, little toys, and t.ll kinds of toys at l. D. Price's toy bazar. 89btf
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SUPREME COURT
 GRANTS MANDAMUS
Requiring Circuit Judge Fulker. son to Issue Order for SeiZ-
 ure of Liquors in the N First Ward.

uIc Ol LlQuO , III CiiO N First Ward.
 The supreme court of Arkan- sas on Saturday in an opinion , written by Justice Battle, grant ed the mandamus order petitioned for by R. T. Simmons against <. Circuit Judge F. D. Fulkerson for an order of seizure of liquors alleged to have been unlawfully kept for sale in the First ward of this city by J. E. Doherty & Company. Since the filing of this mandamus the saloon of Henry Bordwell has also been moved into the disputed territory and the order of the higher court will likewise apply to his stock.
 Circuit Judge Fulkerson had been appealed to for such an or der of seizure shortly after the removal of license granted by the county judge, Dr. J. M. Jones, to J. E. Doherty & Com pany and Henry Bordwell, but refused. An appeal through this mandamus proceeding was taken to the supreme court by R. T. Simmons and that body now holds that the circuit judge has no dis erection as to the making of the order of seizure and to show cause why the alleged contra band goods be not destroyed.
 The parties against whom these orders must now be issued by the circuit judge are to have their day in court before any order for the destruction of the seized liquors may be made.
 Justices Wood and Riddick dissented from thesopinion of the court. s. D. Campbell repre- sented the plaintiff and o. w. Scarborough the defendant.
 MALLORY WINS SUIT.
 In the case of the state vs. w. B. Mallory of Memphis the court in an opinion given by Associate Justice E. A. McCulloch, de- clared unconstitutional in part the fourth section of the act of 1903 for the protection of fish and game. The part of the law which is affected by the decision is as follows:
 Section 4. It shall be unlaw- full for any person who is a non- resident of the state of Arkansas to shoot, hunt, fish or trap at any season of the year.
 It is held that the section is unconstitutional as applied. to nonresident land owners hunt ing or fishing on their own prem ises. REVERSE LANGFORD JUDGMENT.
 The court has reversed the de- cision of Special Chancellor Can trell in the suit brought by the citizens of Searcy against W. A. Langford of Pine Bluff, in which Judgment was rendered against Mir. Langford for $17, 7,500 and the property of the Speers-Lang- ford Military institute placed in the hands of five trustees for the city of Searcy. MT. Langford, by this decision of the court, wins the suit.
Newport daily independent., 1904-12-05

The babies still hold the pub lies attention as they race on- ward for the goal of being known as the sweetest and prettiest among many fair and good ones under two, aside from the pleas ure that is to be the winners in wearing a locket so muchly sought.
 Edwin Johnson now has lead of 300 votes, but in totals that range around the 1, ,00O mark, this slight difference is by no means discouraging to his rivals, who propose to keep in sight all through the running and make their best time on the home stretch, that each day brings closer home.
 Ernest Theodore Phillips, James Edward Wilmans and Miss Dorothy Stephens all polled heavy votes Monday, but it so happens that their relative posi- tions are unchanged.
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agricultural products the value of the output of the mines of the south and we have an output of production valued at $3, 800, 000,- 900 this year as against $1, 1OO,- 900, GOO in 1880. In 20 years the south has increased 60 per cent in population, and the output in products has been trebled in val ue.
 The south has $2OO, ,000, GOO invested in cotton mills, where in 1890 the cotton mills were valued at S20, 100000.
 The value of lumber products has increased from $39, ,00O, ,000 in 1890 to $2O0, OOO,OO0 and it's railroads from 10000 miles to nearly 65, ,000.
 The facts are but indications of the general trend of material advancement throughout the south, but interesting as they are, they do not by any means tell the whole story. They are simply indications of the future. All that has been accomplished has been against the overwhelm- ing odds of poverty, of misrepre- sentation, disorganized labor, lack of capital and lack of skill which the south had to face twenty-five years.. ago, when it really began its material up- building after the reconstruction days.
 Great as have been the achieve ments of the last twenty-five years, wonderful as is the story of development and growth, the next ten years will show far greater aggregate development than the past twenty-five.
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UPWARD AND ONWARD
 THE BABIES GO.
Edwin Johnson Increases His Lead to Nearly 300 Votes
 Others Continue to Climb.

Edwin Johnson l252 Ernest Theodore Phillips, 967 Jas. Edward Wilmans, ,... S63 Dorothy Stephens s 836 Charles Jones Brandenburg 592I Wm. Wallace Dutton; 5O9 Jeannette Henry y.. 451 Thelma Smart. 50
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-10

ness and the rind OF artificial material
ism and then emancipated and be-
come her true self. AS we see her
throughout the major portion of the
book, Lady Viola Holme is a magnifi-l
cent animal, such woman as
DE Maupassant would picture. She
holds the fealty of her British hus-
band and commands the alteration of
other men by physical attraction
alone. She knows her power, she
glories in it, she recognizes no other
hold of woman over man save that of
the flesh. Then all is changed. Swift
misfortune robs her Of her beauty,
leaves her nothing but a grotesque
mask of ugliness, from which men
flee. All but one; he, cynic and rep
rebate, scoffer at all ideals, comes to
her in her wretchedness, seeking from
her grace to live a clean life in the
love of her true self, the woman Of
native purity.
Though Hichens attempts to mark
out strongly the point of cleavage be-
tween Lady Holme the worldling, the
frankly animal, and Lady Holme re-
generate, so deeply lined is the char
acter of the woman who rules by the
flesh that when we think or perceive
in her the inner purity and worth OF
character 1t is hard to be quite con-
vinced of its genuineness. After her
beauty has been turned into shocking
caricature and it becomes evident to
her that her power to inspire love
through sensuous appeal is gone. the
inner self which Hichens would have
us consider resident in his heroine
comes to the fore rather tardily. In
deed, convinced that the world has
nothing left for her. robbed of beauty.
Lady Holme is on the point of self
destruction, when the errant sot and
libertine, Rupert Carey, comes to her
to plead that she may lead him out of
the pit by her love. Rupert Carey Is
quicker to see the simmer of white
wings In the heroine than the reader.
OF the score OF other characters.
finely drawn and all seeming true to
life, Lord Holme, the arrant hedonist,
and Robin Pierce the idealist, are es-
pectally convincing. Were one to de-
eide upon Hichens' chief merit as q
novelist 1t would be this very power
Of producing a perfect character por-
trait.
(Frederick A. Stokes Company. New
York; price 81 BOZ
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Nye's. frothy in It's essence, catching
the laugh by ludicrous exaggeration
and unexpected turning Of phrases.
Barring persistent failures at punning
they are very bad indeed, those puns
Mr.. Lent's humor is infectious, de-
lightfully so.
With the regulation "old school, the
authors experiences with the medicos
commenced. He took everything
which had ever killed or cured a hu-
man being or been avoided by a dog"
and at the end of two years he began
to make side excursions into the realms
Of the occult along the borderland Of
medicine. Electric and medicinal
baths offer Lent the opportunity for
pproarious fun-poking; the "liver cure"
eauses him to mourn the loss of 'the
rotunda and dome effects" that once
orhamented his bodily architectural
scheme; mineral springs force him to
Nhe conclusion that when you find the
queer thing in nature, build fence
around it and set up sanitarium for
rheumatics. There will be millions in
it,"
Osteopathy. the penetrative unguent
cure, the orthopedic treatment, cata-
phoresis, static electricity-all of these
dire-sounding preventives are each the
subject of Lent's witty appreciation.
An extended criticism of homeopathy
and a decidedly clever satire upon
Christian Science offer the best read
ing in this emphatically readable book.
((Brooklyn Eagle Press; Brooklyn.)
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progress Of the colony is closely fol-
lowed, its historical finger-posts re-
viewed and the conditions set forth
that by this time brought the colony
into a stable position.
The story of the company discloses
the causes of the conflict between the
corporation and the crown, and while
recounting the overthrow of the former
carries along the tale of the actual de-
velopment and material gains made in
the colony. The political factors lead
ing to the end of the company's term
had deep significance for the colonists;
these the author traces, as well as the
more immediate causes of the termina-
tion of the company's rule, in perspic-
uous and an informing style.
After following the fortunes Of the
Carolinas the reader is led to the con-
sideration of the share in the COLOMBIA
ton OF the North accomplished by
France. If the results of that work
are not seen to general extent in the
institutions that prevail. the actual
contribution of France to the COLOMBIA
tion, or at least the development, Of
North America is very considerable.
Mr. Hamilton's story of the founding of
Louisiana, the establishing OF French
government there, the extension of
French influence from the mouth OF
the St. Lawrence, along the shores of
the Great Lakes, through the Illinois
country and down to the waters of the
Gulf of Mexico, is a tale of magnificent
enterprise and daring, almost match
less in interest and romance. Few men,
either from requirements or predilec-
tion, could so ably tell that story as
the author of the volume we are con-
sldering. Beginning with a brief but
clear sketch of the conditions in France
that led TO the colonizing policy Of that
nation and sufficiently gIancing at the
settling Of Canada and the policy it
necessitated, the author follows in the
steps of Marquette and Joliet, De
Tonty and La Sale. Iberville and
Bienville, and the agents of Laws
great Mississippi enterprise. Then
the story Of Louisiana under royal
governors is given. The telling of all
this vast enterprise Of the French dis
closes a wealth of thrilling adventure
and fascinating experience, and opens
up to the reader a fund of unusual
information not often available and
much authoritative history hitherto un-
published.
The authors further consideration of
the opening of the Illinois and Ohio
River countries, the change Of owner
ship of the Floridas and Louisiana, the
settlements Of the Germans and the
Scotch Irish, gives clearly and sue
cinctly the facts of history. clothed
with all the romance that comes of the
clash of the pioneer traders, the in
trigues and counter intrigues of the
opposing nationalities in their rela-
tions with the Indians and the early
struggle Of the settlers.
George Barrie & Sons, Philadel-
phia; illustrated; price Sc per volume.)
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II U0rnl Tribute
to Kings Memory

NEW men live such lives of sunni
~ ness and comradeship as to COM
Il mand to their memory a memo
rial such as has been offered the late
Clarence King by the memorial COM
mittee OF the Century Association.
Fewer still are there men In whose
honor are contributed tender recollec-
tions and heartfelt appreciation by such
men Of note as John Hay, James D.
Hague, William D. Howells, Edmund
Clarence Stedman. Henry Adams and
John La Farge. To those who never
heard OF Clarence King, physicist, geol-
ogist, author and man of affairs, this
testimonial, THE Clarence King Me-
moirs," must reveal a personality rich
in individuality and those subtle quail
ties that make for q wholesome spirit
OF comradery for every one with whom
it comes in contact. Those who knew
King, even though not SO thoroughly
will find their remembranoes made
warmer by IT'S reading.
The volume opens with a reprint Of
the little idyll Of Spain, THE Helmet
of Mambrino," that King contributed to
the Century Magazine back In 1886. a
rarely fascinating bit Of writing. Fol-
low thirteen chapters Of biography,
"reminiscences and appreciation by near
friends OF the scientist and teacher.
William Dean Howells tells OF Meet
ings With King; Edmund Clarence
Stedman writes Of King-"The Frolic
and the Gentle; Edward Cary de-
-&-<a.-
author Of Mountaineering in the Sier-
ras"; Secretary Of State John Hay
shows the man and the scientist. Such
wit and a merrymaker was the SUBJ
ject Of his sketch that Hay declares
that his reputation as great physic-
list suffered somewhat from the daz-
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II Purpose Story
on CiDiL JerOice

A N attempt to expose some OF the
~ wrongs of the Washington Gov
4 - eminent service is made in a
novel called 1.-The Other Side of
the Story" by Leslie Derville.
The name is suggested by the current
opinion that position in the civil SER
vice of Uncle Sam is a soft snap, and
this book purports to show the other
and the seamy side of the supposed
semi-sinecure.
The story tells mainly of the trials
of girls who go into the Government
service at the capital, and incidentally
of the misfortunes of some and the
meannesses of other of the men who
work with or over the women of the
force. Where these are petty. though
provoking, a story may best serve to
assail them. but II some of the graver
charges are well founded the proofs
should be obtained ana the wrong ex-
posed more boldly, definitely and with
accepted responsibility by the maker
OF the serious charges. If these accu-
sations are not well founded the book
is a sort of literary fraud. seeking to
excite sympathy for rnose who are
either not so badly hurt as the tale
proclaims. or else not heroic enough to
strike the first blow for their own
grievances redress.
The graver charge is something more
than an intimation that chief clerks
and heads Of departments show favor
itism to women employees Of the Gov
ernment more because they are i'm
properly complaisant than because
Ia c. xl..k,
are 'laboring for their pread side by
side and closely associated with the
mistresses of certain statesmen and
other officials OF the Government,
''winking their modest eyes" at this
state Of affairs. Letters from home to
the struggling girls, implying poverty
Of dear ones, show how they stick to
their slavery and stifie down their In
dignation because Circumstances Is
master with a lash. Nor Is this en-
forced affiliation all they are said to
endure, for some Of the girls, it is al
legged, are tempted themselves and
made to understand that promotion
and big salaries follow as rewards OF
something less admirable than strict
virtue combined with selected capac-
ity.
II this be true and the author of the
book sincere, surely there should be
proof showable and appeal possible to
high executive power. If that availed
not because Of politics and pull, then
the purifying effect Of authentic pub
licity should be tried. Such is SEEM
ingly the right remedy If the condi-
ton novelized were real: the attempt
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Eling attractiveness or his personality.
1t was hard to remember that this pol
ished trifler, this exquisite wit, who diff
fused over every conversation in which
he was engaged an iridescent mist or
epigram and persiflage, was one of the
greatest savants of his time. 1t was
hard to take seriously a man who was
so deliciously agreeable. Yet his work
on Systematic Geology is master
piece of practical and ordered learning,
and his treatise on The Age of the
Earth has been accepted as the pro-
foundest and most authoritative utter
ance on the subject yet made"
&c. P. Putnam's Sons, New York;
illustrated; price So 50.)
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country is going to materiahsn ana
degradation. There even are people VINO
prove this awful condition by lsoidteo
examples of Individual degeneracy- BUT
at last we have the final Woro on lne
other side. The Worlds Work deVotes
itself. in July to showing the inner sac
Of American life. and to proving Oy
most interesting articles and interest
ing pictures, that the cOndluonS aIo
becoming better every day; tnat our
schools are better; that we buy mora
pictures and books than any other peO-
pie in the world; that our charities are
conducted with more skill and 1uog-
ment than they ever were before; tnae
there Is less dishonesty, and that ths
cultivation Of the arts and OF the high
er life is making rapid strides-keepins
pace, IN fact, with the great Increase
in the material advance Of the peo-
pie. This helpful review has been
worked out with success. and the pic
lures add very greatly to the interest
OF the number.
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Nothing Remains
If Beauty G,
DOBERT HICHENS,

DOBERT HICHENS, 4
IL novelist who ma -Ine
Il - known through n Car
nation" and added %4-1 to that
recognition by the infinitely better
story, Felix" has now brought forth
another book, 1.-The Woman With the
Fan" which certainly will not detract
from his reputation as a good story
teller, even if it adds little. For "The
Woman With the Fan" is, in the main.
a strong novel; its grasp on life rings
true and it leaves the stamp Of plausi-
bility throughout. Were it not that
Mr.. Hichens has yielded only too read
fly to the popular impulse to be
smart" his latest novel could be un-
reservedly praised. But this desire to
put into the mouths of characters cpl
grams wholly incompatible with their
several degrees of intellect and to light
en- the dull places in the plot by scin-
tillating aphorisms, banded back and
forth with utterly impossible swiftness,
takes away from the convincing power
of the writer's story. The depth and
seriousness in the plot loses by this
froth Of cleverness.
The general atmosphere Of Hich-
ems book Is one distinctly of the de-
cadent in modern society. In drawing
his characters wholly from the world
tired, open-eyed circle Of the ultra
fashionable of London Hichens has
thrown his story into a plane of life
that is to most OF us unpleasant In its
ugliness-unpleasant but interesting.
The people who see all, know all. whose
stated tastes strike inward to blunt the
soul and wither all delicacy Of senti-
ment and beauty OF ideal-these are
the people whose every breath exhales
a deadening materialism. The air they
breathe is heavy with super1ciality,
thinly cloaking the bald animalism Of
their hearts. It is into this Dead Sea
barren that Hichens conducts his
readers. revealing to them with ear
nestness and seriousness Of purpose
all the rank growth encumbering the
abnormal social fabric that rears it
self here.
About one woman Of this unhealthy
social world the author draws all his
plot lines. LAdy Viola Hoime. a
peerless beauty and acknowledged
leader OF the very smart London set.
is the typical woman of the world
Of the social world, to be kind to her
that moves through Hichens' book as
the personification of all that Is life
among the decadent elite. Following
a unique symbolical idea, whence
comes the title OF the book. Hichens
seeks to show us this woman. first as
she lives under the shell OF worldn-
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Being Done Good"
By EdU0rd Lent

THE cheerful and unselfish optim-
ism that will move a man, pain
fully. almost helplessly crippled
with disease, to write humorous
ly concerning his fight against Ill
health is in itself compelling Of appre-
citation even were his book not In the
least mirth-provoking But when .
racy humor and rolliclxing fun lights
up every page of these Job-like lamen-
tations one cannot stint his praise for
grit and genius alike. To Edward B.
Lent, a New York newspaper man
whose record Of four years suffering
from the attacks of chronic rheuma-
tism is Incorporated in Being Done
Good" this praise must go. He has
wrought admirably.
Mr.. Lent, who confesses that. Ike
Stevenson, he had to write propped up
In bed and using his old reporters pad
and pencil. Eravely tells bis readers
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Books Receiced

LOVE AMONG THE RUINS-WGrs
wick Deeping; The Macmillan Com
pany. New York; illustrated; pr1ca.
81 so.
RICHARD GRESHAM-Robert IA.
Lovett; The Macmillan Company; New
York; price. 81 so.
THE MOTHER OF PAULINE-k
Parry Truscott: d. Appleton 4 Co.
New York; price. 81 so.
AS A CHINAMAN SAW US-Anony-
nous; d. Appleton & Co, New York;
price, 81 25.
A STORY OF THE RED CROSS
Clara Barton; d. Appleton & Co., New
York; price, 81
HOLDING THE ROPES-Bene NJ.
Brain: Funk & Wagnalls Company,
New York; price, 81.
POEMS-Walter Malone; Paul q
Douglass Company. Memphis. Tenn.
UNCLE BOB AND AUNT BECKY
Herschel Williams: Laird & Lee, Chi
cago; illustrated; price. IS cents
THE LEGEND OF PARSIFAL-
Mary Hanford Ford: H. NJ. Caldwell
Company. New York.
STRENUOUS EPIGRAMS OF THE
ODORE ROOSEVELT; collected and
published by H. NJ. Caldwell Company,
New York
INVESTMENT DIRECTORY OF
INSURANCE COMPANIES: compiled
by S. H. Wolfe: The Insurance Press.
New York.
RAND-McNALLY ECONOMIZER:
compiled by w. s. Wrenn; The Rand
McNally Company. Chicago; illus
trated.
THE MORE EXCELLENT Way
NJ. L. BlaneY: published privately ~
author, Oakland; price 81.
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Magazine Notes
July M0nthHeS

TTT HAT the publishers claim to be
wv the most sensational feature
any American magazine has
captured in years Is Thomas w. Law
sons "Frenzied Finance, the Story Of
Amalgamated Copper" which begins IN
the July issue Of Everybody's Magazine.
Mr.. Lawson was one Of the organizers
Of that gigantic corporation. and he
knows exactly what happened to the
millions that were lost through its
manipulation His first article Is an
announcement Of distinctly dramatic
interest and promises revelations OF
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II; arr Tor civn service sake Is uncon-
vincing.
&C. w. Dillingham; Company, New
York; price 81 50)
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W.
Rifchie

that the cause Tor MS magnum opus Is,
briefly, that while men write books on
big game, the north pole and flying
machines, the great field Of endeavor
In chronic rheumatism has been left
untouched for these $500 years. He,
constitutes himself second
Stanley to give to the book-world the
first authentic report Of being done
good" IN this grim region Of mustard
plasters and bake ovens. For the telling
he brings to his task a humor reminis-
cent Of Bill Nye in his palmiest days.
It is the typical newspaper fun. a. was
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-17
CHEAP FAhMs IN oLD ENGLAND.

CHEAP FARMS IN 0LD ENGLAND.
 While even 'the abandoned farms" of New England are growing more valua- ble and are more in demand, the farms of old England are steadily and rapidly declining in value. The decline is trou- bling many. In some instances per sons who a few years ago invested their all in land, and also mortgaged it to raise money to complete the pay ments, find now on attempting to sell that they cannot get even the amount advanced on the mortgages. In one case where farm of S15 acres. which cost s74,O0O, was offered at auction, the highest bid was s2O,OoO The owner of an estate, the price of which was near ly SsOOOO0, is now vainly trying to sell | it for just one-half that price. An es- tate of 628 acres, which sold in 1901 for s11O,OOO, was in May of this year valued ,, for probate at only S4s,oOO. .-r
 The excessive importation of food products from foreign countries is charged with direct responsibility for these great declines in farm values. The depression has caused farmers to Hook about for other sources of reve- nues than those which are so disas- trously affected by foreign imports
 Fields hitherto. covered with small
 grain crops are this year devoted to
 strawberries. while other tracts of land
 are used to produce flowers, celery and carrots. Perhaps the English farmers will, like the German farmers. soon Iwant some protection