Newport daily independent., 1914-01-02

Mrs. Bud Stanley returned Sunday
TO Cotter after spending the holidays
with relatives here.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest Anderson VISIT
ed relatives at Tuckerman the past
week. c.
Mrs. Dora Albright returned Sun
dav from Conway where she spent
the holidays with homefolks.
Cromwell West is our accommodate
ing mail carrier on Route No. TINS
week, relieving his brother, who is
sick.
j. S. Wimans of Pennsylvania, La
was a business visitor to our city oaI-
urday. -,
j. Il. Craft spent Thursday with
| his parents at Cushman.
Tommie Monroe Bennett visited
/ relatives at Alicia last week.
Miss Ella Coca, assistant teacher
in the school here, spent Christmas
week with her parents at Faber.
j. H. Orr spent Thursday with his
family at Judsonia.
Wilmans Bros. received a car OF
fine young mules from their planta-
ton near Pennsylvania, La, Satur-
day.
Mrs. Fannie Roberts is on the sick
list this week.
Charlie Ford and Arthur Crews left
Monday for visit to relatives al
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
H. M. Anderson, agent at this place,
will be transferred in the near future
to Argenta. Mr.. Anderson has
made us a very accommodating agent
and it is with regret that we see him
go. We are unable to state at pres
ent just who his successor will be.
James Pearce, who lives one mile
east of here, died Sunday at New
port, after a weeks illness of pneu-
monia. The remains will be taken tc
Sulphur Rock for burial.
The following recently appeared ir
country weekly:
eve are not pessimistic, and are
right we'll pleased, thank you, with
America, and it's institutions, as g
whole. But we cannot but help tc
recognize the aptness of some things
said in an address made to the FLIP.
mos in response to toast made sew
eral years ago. You Filipinos don't
know what you're missing by not
wanting to become citizens of this
grand country of ours. There isn't
anything like it under the sun-the
land of the free, land of hundreds and
hundreds of fine churches, and thous-
ands of licensed saloons, Bibles, forts
and guns, millionaires and paupers
theologians and thieves, liars, polite
ians, poverty, Christians and chain
gangs, schools and scalawags; trusts
and tramps, money, misery, homes AND
hunger, virtue and vice; land where
you can get a good Bible for Is cents
and a drink Of whiskey for the same
price; where we have a man in con-
gress with three wives and lot in
the penitentiary for having two wives
where some men make sausage out OF
their wives and some who want to
eat them raw; where we make bolog-
ma out of dogs, canned beef out OF
horses and sick cows and corpse out
of people who eat them; where we Ii
cense the bawdy houses and impose
fines on men for preaching Christ or
the street corners; where we have a
congress of four hundred men who
make laws and supreme court OF
nine men who set them aside; where
newspapers are paid for suppressing
the truth and made rich by teaching
lie; where professors draw their con.
victions from the same place they
draw their salaries; where girl. who
| goes wrong is made an outcast and
her male partner flourishes as a gen.
tleman; where women wear false hair
and men dock their horses tails;
where men vote for one thing one
day and cuss it 1854 days; where we
have prayer on the floor of our ma
tional capitol and whiskey in the Gel
lar; where we spend seven hundred
dollars to bury a statesman who is
rich and ten dollars to put away a
working man who is poor; where it is
to be virtuous is to be lonesome, and
to be honest is to be a crank, and
where we pay $4,000 for dog and
fifteen cents per dozen for making
shirts; where we put man in Jail
for stealing a loaf of bread and in
congress for stealing a railroad;
where the check book talks, sin walks
in daylight, justice is asleep, crime
runs amuck and the Devil laughs from
every street corner. Come to US, Fill
lies. We've got the greatest aggrAga-
ton of good things and bad things,
hot things and cold things, all sizes,
varieties and colors ever exhibited I'M
| der one tent.
l.. E. Plant.