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The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-10-30

ing hearing, and the Squire held
that Brother Harvie did not have
any business in coming to the re-
vival and kicking up a row after
he had been kicked out Of the
Sunday school, and it was shown
that in the excitement one poor
penitent who was at the altar was
forgotten, and that the penitent
may never have another chance
of reaching the promised shore,
just because of the rumpus.
Brother Harvie proved that he
was a leader; that he was singer
that he had been elected superin-
tendent time and again; that he
discovered once when some one
brought a Bible in the church i'm
which the word "on" had been
changed to "in;" that he was an
honest man and was believed to
be Christian. but he did not
prove that he had not caused some
sort of a disturbance, and so was
fined $40, which he paid.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-10-30
IT'S A MISTAKE
Made By Many Newport Resi-
dents.

Many people in a misguided ef-
fort to get rid of kidney backache,
rely on plasters, liniments and
other makeshifts. The right treat
ment is kidney treatment and a
remarkably recommended kidney
medicine is Doan's Kidney Pills.
Newport is no excetion.
The proof is at your very door.
The following is an experience
typical of the work of Doan's Kid
ney Pills in Newport.
Mrs. C. G. Smelser, Mountain
View ST., Newport, Tenn, says: |
suffered for three years from a
dull, weary ache through my
back and kidneys and although |
managed TO do my work, there
were times when | was in abso-
lutte misery. | read about Doan's
Kidney Pills and deciding to try
them | got a box from the MINIS
Drug Co. They helped me at
once and | continued until the
trouble was relieved. told of
my experience in a public testi-
monial, and at this time it gives
me pleasure to confirm that state
ment. Doan's Kidney Pills are
without doubt the best remedy to
be had for kidney trouble"
For sale by all dealers. Price
so cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other. adv.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-10-30
BOYS CORN CLUB
WILL MEET FRIDAY

AT the educational rally on Fri
day of this week, steps will be
taken to reorganize the county
boys corn club; as we'll as the
school boys corn club. will take
this method of calling all the boys
who have belonged to the corn
club and those who wish to Join
it meet with us. The school boys
corn club and the county corn
club may be organized into one
club. Come out boys and lets put
things on foot and put Cooke
County on Tennessee's agricul-,
tural map.-O. L. McMAHAN.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-10-30

Attend our
Closiing-out Sale
Beginning tomorrow
Every price reduced
See big circulars
M. A. Roadman

not feel like preaching where there
was so much contention.
Brother Harvie contended that
his action was nothing unusual for
him and he argued at length on
his Bible arguments and wanted
to read to the squire the section
of the testimony under discussion,
and not being able to read he
stated it, Just the same.
He caused Rev. Waymyer to re-
mark that the trouble with the
brother was not too much sancti-
fication, but too much crankifica-
ton.
AT any rate, it was an interest
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-10-30

Ralph Somberly at Panama"
by Francis Raleigh is a thrilling
story in the seventeenth century
of an English lad, who is only
fifteen years of age, and is caught
poaching in the deer park of
Lord Broadbank. On account of
the lads age he escapes the stocks
but instead is sent with crew for
Jamaica on the Grafton.
Ralph has numerous and
strange experiences from the time
he leaves his home: first the ship
is wrecked and he and companion
were picked up by pirates after
floating for several hours on a
chicken coup. Once away from
Grafton he was free to take what
ever course he chose, so having a
rowing disposition to begin with
he did not tarry long with the
pirates but he and his companion
wandered off with a tribe Of In
dams to Panama.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-10-30
The Golden Road"
By l.. M. Montgomery

Miss Montgomery proves again
that she is entitled to a place of
honor in American literature as
she has in Anne of Green
Gables" Anne of Avonlea," THE
StorysGirl," etc.
The plot of the Golden Road
is woven around the children of a
small Canadian village. 1t gives
a striking picture of the close
friendship that grows between a
happy, fun loving group, also the
love and pity for those whose
parents are dead, or away from
them. Then when some of the
children are taken away for a
better educationl advantage, the
little hearts are most broken for
they realize that they will never
all be together again.
The adventurings Of the King
children, as chronicled in a daily
newspaper, which is aided and
abetted by the heather, Peter, and
the fascinating Sara Stanley,
Weaver of Dream Stories" with
its headline features of the long
expected romance which enters
into the life of their Aunt Olivia,
the return of Prodigal, which
strangely enough causes tempo
rary anguish instead of JOY to one
childish heart, and what happens
to the Awkard Man, will give de-
light.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-10-30
Orders Of Publication
TO ISAAC M ROLLINS

Birdie vs. k0''i"S No. l47s.
Isaac M. Rollins .
In the Chancery Colrt at Newport,
Tenn.
In this cause, it appearing from the
bill which is sworn to, that Isaac M.
Rollins, the defendant, is a non-resi-
dent of the State, and that complain
ant seeks the attachment of mis- prop
erty to satisfy her demand for alimony,
and an attachment having been issued
and levied on his property. il is ordered
that publication be made for four con-
secutiue weeks in THE NEWPORT
PLAIN TALK, requiring the said de-
PENDANT to appear before said Chancerv
Court on the fourth Monday in Febru-
airy next, and make his defense TO said
bill filed against him in this cause.
otherwise said bill Will be taken for
confessed, and the case proceeded with
ex parte.
This Oct. oath, 1913.
A. A. GATES,
Clerk and Master.
III. N. Cate, Sol'r for CompI't. oc29 At
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-10-30
REVIVAL MEETING
SUDDENLY STOPPED
A Sanctifed Supporter Skaters
Nerves of Preacher and
Pays a Fine.

The Bat Harbor settlement has
for some time been a scene of
strife between the Sanctified and
and the regular UNCONVENTIONAL
churches, and the breach culmi-
mated in the arrest of Will Harvie,
a we'll known merchant of that
section and a strong believer in
the Sanctified faith, on the charge
of disturbing public worship.
Harvie contended before the
Squire that he had created no dis
turbancee.
AT any rate the revival meeting
in progress there was broken up,
and Rev. Jonas Waymyer stated
that he had been run out Of the
church by Harvie at last Sundays
meeting.
The office of Squire Kyker on
Monday presented an unusual
scene, and Brother this and that
argued the question from every
angle, and there were many.
1t developed that Brother Har-
vie had for some time been super
intendent of the Bat Harbor Sun
day school, and that sometime ago
he desired to let Rev. Smith, the
sanctified preacher, preach from
that church. The unsanctified
objected, and Brother Harvie lost
his job as superintendent. And
then Rev. Sparks, of Newport,
came to that church to hold a
revival. He asked Rev. Waymyer
to assist, and the meeting was
well on its way, despite the con-
tention among the people, and at
the Sunday service Brother Har-
vie asked permission to say some
thing, and he started out by ques-
tioning whether Rev. Waymyer
had been preaching the truth. He
and Rev. Waymyer had had an
argument in reference to divine
healing, and Brother Harvie was
told not to bring up a personal
matter, and then the meeting was
adjourned, and Brother Harvey
(they all seemed to be brothers up
there) went to the altar quickly
and wanted to prove his conten-
ton with the Bible. Rev. Way
myer did not want any of his
proof and tried to get away. He
was followed by Brother Harvie,
who cried: you can make any
sinner run with the Bible" The
nerves of Rev. Waymyer were
shattered and he felt not equal to
the holding of the service on that
night, and Rev. Mr.. Sparks did
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-10-30

that a novel which have written
with all the resources of my brain
and all the forces Of my soul
should now be denied an audience
which | specially desire to reach
the large and sincere audience
that depend for their literature on
the great Free Libraries of your
country. | belonged to that audi
ence myself in England in my
youth and early manhood, and
hence it would be a lasting grief
to me to feel that in the judge
ment of even a few librarians
had written a book which was not
fit for such readers as | was forty
years ago.
In the great world of books
the Free Libraries occupy the
place of custodians of the public
conscience. When they come ac-
cross a book of doubtful character
it is right and proper that they
should examine into it and find
whether it is fit for public circula-
ton, but in order to see how diff
ficult and dangerous the task of
the librarians as censors of morals
is they have only to reflect on the
vast number of books which were
excluded by their predecessors
and are now lent without restric-
ton by the libraries every day. |
mention in that connection a few
books that are now considered to
be among the noblest in all litera-
ture such as Adam Bede", Jane
Eyre, Anna Karenina", "Resur-
rection" Tess, Jude, and
others that have all been subject
ed to the librarians ban.
"The truth is that morality is
developing and that not the pro-
cess or time, merely, or the
triumph of literary art by the
broadening sense of moral re-
sponsibility is operating to reverse
the verdicts which were pro-
nounced against some Of the
books of the past. Hence, | say
that in the exercise of the censor
ship the librarians are running the
risk of grievous error and of en-
peding the progress of the public
morality which it is their duty to
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-10-30

promote. l only ask that in judg-
ing a book let the basis of con-
sideration be the aim Of the
author. | claim that any book
calculated to havea pure influence
with a we'll considered motive for
good is suitable for general circu-
lation and / ask that the aim of
my book and notparticular scenes
despite their moral force) be the
basis for judgement"
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-10-30

No. 9632 REPORT CONDITION O
TleF[RST NATIONAL BANK
AT NEWPORT
the State Tennessee business October
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $1O2 1872 AZ
Overdrafts secured and unsecured SO
U. s. Bonds to circulation 80 600
Other bonds to Postal Savings
Premiums on U. 5. Bonds
Bonds Securities, 1922 70
Banking house, Furniture and Fixtures 270 3D.
Due from National Banks, (not agents. 10
Due from approved Reserve Agents 205 Al
Checks and other Cash Items 81 %
Notes of other National Banks ---------
Fractional Paper Currency, Nickels Cents 165 70
Lawful Money Reserve in Bank viz
Specie ---------- Z 100 80
Redemption Treasurer (5 circulation 500 90
Due from U. s. Treasurer ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 600
Total - $2O1 O15 %
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in $ so 600 90
Surplus fund 500
Undivided profits, less expenses paid
National bank notes. outstanding 80 900 90
Dividends unpaid --- - -------- 90
Individual deposits subject to check 43 go
Time certificates of deposit " 81 674
Cashiers checks outstanding
Postal savings deposits 544 76
Total ------ s2o1 o15 %
State of Tennessee, County of Cooke,
Murray Stokely, Cashier the above named bank, dc
sOemn that the statement is the best
knowledge and belief. MURRAY STOKELY Cashier.
Corect-Attest orel Susong IL Burnett Directors
Subscribed before this oath day of Oc 913
H. S. MANTOOTH, Notary Public
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-10-30
Editorial Comment
Wilson's Weak Apology.
(Kansas City JournalD


Regardless of, the earnest protests
Of number of the most able and far
seeing Democratic leaders. President
Wilson has signed the urgent deficien-
ey bill carrying as a rider exemption
ef deputy United States marshals and
deputy collectors of internal revenue
from civil service rules AS confess
eu apology for this shameful act the
president gave out what he calls a
memorandum" in which he says: Il
am convinced, after a careful exam
ination. that the offices of deputy col
lectcrs and deputy marshals were new
CT intended to be included under the
ordinary provisions of the civil service
law The control of the whole method
and spirit of the administration of the
proviso of this bill, which concerns
the appointment of these officers. is
no less entirely in my hands now than
it was before the bill became law
My warm advocacy and support of the
principle and of the bona fide practise
Of civil service reform Is known to the
whole country. and there is no danger
that the spoils principle will creep in
with my approval or connivance."
This is an amazing attempt to de-
tend an indefensible piece of fragrant
partisanship In the first place Presi-
dent Wilson modestly assumes that
as THE appointment of these officers
is no less in my hands now than it
was before" the country will be sat
sfied with the iniquitous procedure
which he approves Even if the AM
erican people felt unanimously that
President Wilson could be fully trust
ed to appoint men of the highest char
aeter and qualifications to these offices,
it would not Justify him repudiating
the civil service law. In truth. if the
president is so earnestly devoted. to
securing the best men for these places
he should welcome the civil service
regulations as a process of preliminary
wedding out of incompetent applicants
so as to make his appointments easier
and more certain of their high purpose.
Suppose Mr.. Wilson should die? He,
cannot guarantee the course his sue
cessor would pursue.
The president also takes consider
able satisfaction in the confidence of
the country that being so devoted to,
the civil service principle, there is mol
danger that the spoils system will
creep in with my approval or conni-
vance" And the ink was scarcely dry
upon his official approval of that sys-
tenn, President Wilson, like former
President Roosevelt, is so conscious of
his own integrity and so self-centered
as to be unable to look beyond the
time when there shall be someone else
occupying the White House. Thel
spoils system possibly might not Creep
in to any great extent during the pres
snt administration. but Mr.. Wilson
approval of the bill abrogating the CIV
il service law will be precedent for
future presidents If they choose to be-
arbitrary in their appointments. Inl
fact. the whole defense of his act in
signing the urgent deficiency bill isl
weak and palpably an effort to square
his conscience with wrong doing. The
signing of this measure will rank as
one of the most partisan and insin
eere acts of the Wilson administration
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-10-30
PERFEcTING THE LOCOMOTIVE.
Credit for Task is Due to American
Skill and Energy.

Answering a question asked by a Pitts
burg engineer relative to the compara-
tive achievements of American and
English inventors in locomotive design
ing it must be admitted that George
Stephenson, an Englishman, built the
first locomotive. but the high-pressure,
essential to rapid steam making, and
efficient. is the invention of Oliver Evans,
an American; the multitubuiar boiler.
so essential to rapid steammaking. and
without which no train could be kept
running at a rate of more than 10 miles
an hour, was invented by Nathan Read,
an American. it. in turn, is carried in
compact form by four-coupled driving
wheels and four-wheel truck, combina-
tion invented by John B. Jervis. an
American, while the driving wheels
themselves. of cast iron, made hollow,
are the invention of Thomas Rogers. a
Jerseyman. who, also, was among the
first to use weights secured in the
wheels to counterbalanee the reciprocal
ing parts.
Allen paper wheels-a thoroughly Yam
kee notion the invention of Richard AL
len, an Ameriean-carry the engine
truck. The tender is sustained by cast
iron wheels with chilled tread. invented
by Ross Winans. of Baltimore, and the
sngle-bar frame holding cylinders placed
horizontally and bolted together in the
center is another combination designed
in part by Winans and perfected by Will
liam Mason, of Taunton, Mass. More
over, all the pipes and joint connections
are secured against leakage by the
ground joint, invented by NJ. w. Bald
win. of Philadelphia. while expansion
braces, designed by Thomas Rogers. al
ready referred to, give the firebox a Sc
cure hold on the frame. yet permit the
boiler to lengthen or shorten. as change
of temperature requires
Continuing the list. the weight of the
engine is distributed evenly to the axle
boxes by means of equalizng levers. i'll
vented by William James. of New York.
give movement to an Allen size-yalve,
balanced by a device invented by George
Richardson, an American. who also de-
vised the pop safety calve, the most
perfect device known for relieving boiler
pressure. The slide-valves are operated
by Baker-Pilliod motion, an American in
vention by +. NJ. Reed, once general
manager of the New Haven system, and
combustion is promoted and smoke
making prevented by specially devised
firebox constructed of mild steel made in
Pittsburg by the Baldwin Locomotive
Works of Philadelphia, the enginemen all
the while sitting comfortably in con-
venient cab, first designed by David
Matthews, an American, but since i'm
proved by many builders.
At last, while the locomotive thunders
along the steel highway at high speed
over chasms spanned by traceries of
steel and down steep mountain grades.
the engineer sits calm and steadfast, Sc
cure in the knowledge that locomotive
and train are entirely in hand, since a
turn Of a lever will cause every wheel to
be gripped by viselike brake shoes ap.
J piled by the greatest life-saver of mod
ern times. the Westinghouse automatic
Misunderstanding Post.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-10-30

over a brown moire with watered silk
effect. 1t ranges in size from two
inches to monsters of three and four
and lives exclusively in babbIing
brooks not less than one inch deep
1t is iished for with artificial flies and
caught with worms.
Bullheads are more easily caught
than trout. This gives them much
finer fiaror The bullhead can be
Identified by gripping him firmly. If
, 1t is bullhead the fisher will find the
fish nicely nailed to his hand by hand
some spines.
The bullhead has the openest smile
of any game fish except the sperm
whale. The sperm whale. however, Is
not true game fish. He is an inde-
pendent oil refiner who was pushed
into the sea when John ID. Rockfel-
Ter was evolved.
One sperm whale is considered a fair
catch for one days fishing.
Fishers who would rather fish for
numbers than quality usually devote
themselves to the eel The eel is ex-
eeedingly easy to catch, but not so
easy to uncatch. A ten-inch eel swal-
lows the hook and So feet of line in
the moment of impact. The fisher
must jerk violently as soon as an eel
bites. He will then discover the eel
looped handsomely around his neck
and tied with a sailors half-hitch.
A somewhat more aristocratic sport
is salmon fishing.
The salmon is caught with pole
that has been sawed into three or
more pieces and put together again
at an expense of not less than $780,
The salmon fisher begins at dawn to
cast into the salmon pool with his
pierced pole and continues casting till
sunset. A guide then wades into the
pool and gets the salmon with a gaff-
hook.
There is also salt water fishing.
Salt water fishing is not fishing for
salt mackerel, as many unscientific
thinkers believe. Salt water fishers
catch bluefsh, blackfsh. whitefish,
jewish, pollocks and other nationali-
ties.
The equipment for salt water fish
er is a strong pole, one mile of twine,
a meat hook and side-wheel steam
er. The steamer is to get seasick on.
The very best way to fish is by troll
ling. 1t is the favorite method OF fat
men who fish for exercise. Trolling Is
done by sitting in an easy chair in
boat and being rowed around by a
friend. The troller holds a pole and
line. At the end of this line is a piece
of machinery ,that revolves swiftly If
the rover is kept up to his work py
iudicious remarks from the troller.
The machine has bouquet OF col
ored feathers attached to 1t, togetner
with as many hooks as possible. very
often a rover will have rowed barely
so miles before fish is hooked. Ell
thusiastic trollers keep a supply ol
fresh friends on hand during the tfoh-
tno season.-New York Telegraph.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-10-30

snake. Then there is the word Joss"
a Chinese god, which comes to us
from the other side of the globe.
whittier it was taken by the Portu-
guese in the word 'deos." There too
is the ''barracoon," Spanish and Por-
tuguese, the slave pen we used to read
of in which negroes were kept until
the slavers could take them off.
The word gorilla is perhaps African.
In the fifth or sixth century, before
Christ. Hanna, a Carthaginian, sailed
along the west coast of Africa. Among
the wonders he encountered and which
he wrote about were some hairy saw
ages called "gorillas.' His work was
translated and came into several Eu-
ropean languages. In 1s47 the name
was applied to the giant ape first
made familiar by the American ex-
plorer Paul du Chaillu.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-10-30
origin of Words.

Nearly all the nations of the earth
nave contributed to the word-wealth
OF the English language. OF the ma
tions of western Europe, the chief
sources of supply of our modern
speech, the contributions may natur-
ally be supposed to be at least from
the Portuguese. An English author
ity. however, Professor Ernest Week
ley, in his Romance of Words"
shows that we have many Portuguese
words which have an uncanny way
of pretending to be African or East
Indian. Some readers. he says. will
be surprised to learn that ''assegai."
the Zulu weapon that killed the un-
fortunate Prince Napoleon, son of Ma
poleon III and Eugene, occurs in
Chaucer somewhat disguised as
''lancegaye." ''Assegai" is a Berber
word. of North Africa, which passed
through Spanish and Portuguese into
French and English. The French
word 'archegaie" in the fourteenth
century was used by Rabelais as
'azagaie." 1t was described as IA
fashion of slender. long and long
headed pike used by the Moorish
horsemen.' The use of this weapon
was prohibited in England by statute
in 1406, hence the early disappearance
of the word.
Another so-called Zulu word. which
has in recent years travelled round the
world, is kraal. This is contracted
Dutch form from Portuguese .'currai.'
a sheepfold, and of Spanish corral, a
pen or inclosure. Both assegai and
kraal were taken to Southeast Africa
| by the Portuguese and there adopted
| by the Beers and 'Kaffirs. Fetish.
|. an Africa idol. Is the Portuguese felt
ico." artificial. applied by the Portu-
/! guese explorers to the craven images
l Of the heather.
! Palaver, a word brought back from
the West African coast, is from the
Portuguese "palavra," and is related
to our word parley, which is represent
ed in the French word "parler," to
speak. Cobra" is the Portuguese for
snake. We use it as an abbreviation
| for the cobra de capello, the hooded