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Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
DESTROYER HARD TO BEAT
Fierce Wasp of the Sea Is Slim Built, Loose, Timber and De-
 structive.

The destroyer people have great faith in the durability of their little ships. They are slim built and not much thicker in the plates than seven pages of the Sunday paper, but maybe that is their safety. There is no get ting a fair wallop at them. They eyade the issue. One man compared them to a hot-water bottle. Try to swat loaded hot-water bottle. What happens? When you poke it in one place doesn't it come bulging out in another to make up for it? Sure it does, writes James F. Connolly in Col Hers.
 How do you account for the de- stroyer which had her stern cut off so that the men in the after compartment leaned out and chinned themselves up to the deck from the inside? And how do you account for the way they come bouncing along at better than twenty knots in gale of wind and rough sea and nothing happening to them ! Get shook up-yes, but they come home, don't they? They sure do. May be it's the way they're thrown to- gether-loose and Timber.
 Whatever it is, they are dashing in and out of here on their job of convoy ing merchant ships and hunting U- boats. They expect to get their bumps, and they do; but so long as they get an even break they are not kicking The charthouse gang on the 343 say they are satisfied that they got an even break. (The 343 was cut in halves by torpedo and made port.) They are sticking new stern on the 343. When they get it we'll glued on she is going out again.
 Maybe the same U-boat-you can't always tell, some people have luck maybe that same U-boat will come drifting her way again. And if they see her frst-oh, boy!
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
WOMEN DRIVE MOTOR TRUCKS
Not So Dressy as Some Jobs, but It's HeaIthfuI, According to One
 of Them.

To release skilled mechanics for other work and thus give some help in the war, there are seven girls at one motor factory whose daily tasks con sist in driving newly finished cars from the factory to the shipping dock.
 And the girls won't trade jobs now for any of the purely feminine pur- suits, says the Washington Times They get greasy and dirty-they have had to throw away chamois and pow der puffs because they are futile-but still they like the job and they all say they would not trade it for a place al the kitchen sink or on the firing end of a sewing machine.
 s'It's a much better job than being department-store detective" Mrs. Lotta Dupuis, who formerly tripped shoplifters and sneak thieves in a downtown store, says. "Of course it isn't so dressy, but it's healthier and I like it better. Also can make more money for the. support of my three kiddies."
 Mrs. Wanda Lude1nan backs up Mrs. Dupuis. She formerly was a govern ment operative in rounding up viola tors of the Harrison narcotic law.
 "I took the job because I wanted to help the government, and every wom- an who does one mans work releases man for the firing line," said Mrs. Ludeman.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
STOCK NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that, as marshal of the city of Newport, I have taken up the following livestock, tC-wit:
 One sandy colored, with black spots, barrow hog, crop off right, half-over slope in lett, weight about 150 pounds.
 The owner of said stock is hereby notified to come forward and prove ownership to the undersigned, and that in default thereof I will on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2s, 1918 offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, in front of he city hall in the city of Newport, Arkansas, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m and 8 o'clock in the af- ternoon of said date.
 G. c. MARTIN, 97d10. City Marshal.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
Checks Little Used in France.

Checks are not much used and are seldom accepted in France. There is but little attempt to identify the payer of a check and anyone who either makes out or accepts an order to pay does so at his peril. The public tax collector will have none of them, and the taxpayer has to stand in line with his bank bills in the back yard or in the garret of the precepteur, or else he must go to jail for nonpayment. He cannot send check. There is no clear ing house in Paris. Banks settle their accounts with one another by sending uniformed messengers, who carry cash through the streets and who stand in line before the cashiers windows waiting to get their exact change John N. Anderson in Century Maga- glue.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
HoW's THIS!

We offer One Hundred Dollars Ro- ward for any case of Catarrh th1t cannot be cured by Halls Catafrh Medicine. # s
 Halls Catarrh Medicine has ben taken by catarrh sufferers for UT! past thirty-five years, and has bS- come known as the most reliable rep1- edy for catarrh. Halls Catarrh Medz icine acts through the Blood on tho Mucous surfaces, expelling the Poi- son from the Blood annd healing the diseasased portions.
 After you have taken Halls Ca tarrh Medicine for short time you will see great improvement in your reneral health. Start taking Halls Catarrh Medicine at once annd get id of catarrh. Send for testimonials free.
 F. I. CHENEY & CO. Toledo, Ohio.
 Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
NOT WISE TO GO HUNGRY
Writer Criticixcs the "No- Breskfasr Fad Which Still Retains a Hold
 on Some People.

A few years ago someone started a boom for the breakfastless day as con ducive to longevity. I know persons who have clung stubbornly to this ab- surdity, Meredith Nicholson writes in the Yale Review. The despicable habit contributes to domestic unsociability and is, I am convinced by my own ex- periments, detrimental to health. The chief business of the world is trans acted in the morning hours, and am reluctant to believe that it is most successfully done on empty stomachs. Fasting as a spiritual discipline is, of course, quite another thing, but fast ing by tired business man under med ical compulsion can hardly be lifted to the plane of things spiritual. To delete breakfast from the days pro gram is sheer cOwardice, cor fession of invalidism which is well calculated to reduce the powers of resistance. The man who begins the day with prescription that sets him apart from his neighbors may ven- ture into the open jauntily, persuad- ing himself that his abstinence proves his superior qualities but in his heart. to say nothing of his stomach, he knows that he has been guilty of q sneaking evasion. If he were nor mai, healthy being he would not be skulking out of the house breakfast less. Early rising, prompt response to the breakfast bell, joyous break ing of the nights fast, is a rite not to be despised in civilized homes.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
WASP MUST HAVE REASONED
Case on Record Where Insect Used Stone as Hammer to Pound Dirt
 More Firmly.

So far as known, only one small in- among the millions of creatures belong ing to a lower order than man, has ever employed the aid of tool f, ac- complish desired result. The mother wasp of this family digs a tunnel in the ground, deposits her egg in it and provides caterpillar stung to death or to condition of paralysis for her baby to feed on when matched. The grub subsists upon the caterpillar un- til it passes through the pupa stage into the perfect winged insect. Then it digs it's way out of the tunnel and begins its life above ground as a wasp.
 But after the mother wasp has made its tunnel, and deposited the egg, it finishes it's task by ramming down pei lets of earth, little stones, etc, into the mouth of the tunnel. This is the race habit of these wasps. It is recorded on undoubted authority that one in yentive mother, when the mouth of the tunnel was covered to level with the rest of the ground about it, brought a quantity of fine grains of dirt to the spot, and picking up small peb- ble in her mandibles, used it as ham mer in pounding them down with rapid strokes, thus making the spot as firm and as hard as. the surrounding sur face. Then she departed, brought more dirt, picked up the pebble again and used it as a hammer, as before.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
LAsty Old Age.

Wat time of life can be compared to the time of Ipsty old age? Does white hair betokeq falling powers2 Nay, no more than the snow that crowns the giant old pine betokens any weakness or decay of the tree. The head and the hairs of our coming Redeemer shall be white like wool, as white as snow.'' Herein is the mystery of the strength of old age.
 As is a lusty tree, so is llsty old man. He knoweth the secrets of heaven and earth, and he beareth fruit to the last. He dieth not easily, but like great oak, whose roots go deep into the earth; he Is laid low only by mighty cataclysm of nature
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
Aristotle's Prescription.

A balsam for every i'll, an ease for every ache, Is translated by Steele from the "Secretum Secretorum," SUD- posed to have been written by the philosopher Aristotle for his pupil. Alexander the Great. The concoction consists of juices of various fruits boiled down and seasoned with musk. ambergris and al0es, various highly expensive oils salted literally with powdered pearls, rubies. sapphires, amethysts, emeralds, gold, etc., all be- ing guarded by appropriate magical precautions.
 Alexander, however, died at an early age from excessive imbibing, not of the delectable mixtures prescribed by his mentor, but of the juice of the grape.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
D4nnw4

When you yawn good deal in the day time, feel dull, achy and want to stretch frequently it is an unmistak- able symptom of malaria, and unless you do something at once you are booked for a spell of chills. Heroine is chill medicine that will prevent or cure the disease. It drives out the impurities on which the malarial germ thrives, strengthens the liver and cleanses the bowels. Price COG. Sold by w. E. Bevens.
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Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
PREPARE FOR THE HOT WAVE.

The hot sun is doubly dangerous if there is a mass of undigested food in the stomach. Foley Cathartic Tablets give prompt and sure relief. They act gently but do their work thoroughly. They cleanse the bowels, sweeten the stomach and benefit the liver. For indigestion, bilious ness, bad breath, bloating, gas:-
 Walkers Pharmacy.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
PARKER CONVINCED
 BY HIS EXPERIENCE
"I Can Recommend TanIac Iii thu Highest Terms" Says We'll Known Alabama Dentist
 Declares He Is We'll Man,

q am firmly convinced from u3Y own experience with Tanlac, that IF will do all people claim for it, as 1 am well man now, after sufferinc for twelve years until took TIT. lsc," is the frank statement of DIX. s. J. Parker, well known denti1t of Roanoke, Alabama.
 "I had bad form of stomach txo1 ble, which distressed me continuel
 or all these years, he continued. Terrible headaches would como 0 me frequently as result Of 2 nausS ated and upset stomach and woulf last for hours. These attacks Woulc come as often as two and three tira2 a week. I lost weight rapidly azl although I tried several of tho n1o approved remedies for thia troUbA it resisted treatment and I continual to go down hill.
 "I read about what Tan1ac was dx ing everywhere, and though yI W94 skeptical about proprietary n1sdis cines, I gave it a trial. I hadn't fi ished the first bottle until l saw k1x orable results, and I have contjnn0 to improve unt.' my stomach l| completely set in order and the otll3 CT conditions arising from it haxe been entirely relieved. l am ! WeIl man now, and I can recommend Tal1-
 lac in the highest terms"
 Tanlac is sold by all druggista iz1 Jackson county.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
HUSBAND AND WIFE.

Mrs. Frank P. Wood, Box IS, R. F. D. 2, Morrill,, Me, writes: Foley Kidney Pills help me so much. My husband also has received much ben- eft from them. He was so lame he could not stoop over and now he feels no pain" Lame back, sore muscles, stiff joints, rheumatic aches and pains quickly conquered by Foley Kidney Pills Walkers Pharmacy.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
CAUGHT COLD AT PALM BEACH.

Southern climate is no protection against summer colds. Helen R. Sanders, 626 End Av., w. Palm Beach, Fla, writes: "My severe cold on the chest was relieved by Fo- ley's Honey and Compound" This fine old family remedy can be de- pended upon to relieve summer colds, hay fever, asthma and croup.-Walk- CTS Pharmacy.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
IT'S IN THE AIR.

Windblown pollen, carrying tlS germs that cause hay fever IF abroad in the land One remedy ie known to give relief and comfort from choking, gasping astma and tormentting hay fever. Fo1eys Honey and Tar spreads healinG coating on inflamed membranea stops coughs and colds. Walker8 Pharmacy.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
COMMITTEE ISSUES
 FAIR PRICE LIST.

At recent meeting of the "Fair Price Committed, appointed by the County Food Administrator, the fol- lowing were agreed upon as being fair prices:
 DIS Meat, per pound Hams, per pound -------------38c Breakfast Bacon, per pound 60c Smoked Bacon Bellies, per pound -38c Pure Lard (bulk), per pound d-----35c 5-lb. Buckets Pure Lard,
 per bucket --------------$1.50 10-lb. Buckets Pure Lard,
 per bucket -------------------$3.O0 Compound Lard (bulk), per pound ------~---------- 30c 5-lb. Buckets Compound Lard, 10-lb. Buckets Compound Lard, per bucket 2-lb. Std. Corn, per can----------20c 2-lb Std. Tomatoes, per can----..-15c Bib Std. Tomatoes, per can------25c Rice, per pound -------------15c Std, Meal, 25-lb. sacks, per sack $1.50 Cream Meal 25-lb sack, per sack $1.60 Cream Meal, 10-lb. sacks, per sk. roc Navy Beans, per pound -20c Lima Beans, per pound ----------20c a Pinto Beans, per pound d-------15c Wheat Flour, 24-lb. sacks-----$1.75 Corn Flour, per pound -----10c 12 ounce loaf of Bread 10c PA ounce loaf of bread 20c
 These prices will be changed from time to time as condition warrant.
 FAIR PRICE COMMITTEE
 for Jackson County.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19

Apply cotton cloth wet with Bal lard's Snow Liniment to all wounds, cuts, burns, sores or blisters, and note it's wonderful healing power. It is prompt and very effective. Price 25c, soc and s1.O0 per bottle Sold by w. E. Bevens.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
NOT TO BE IGNORED.

The kidneys are as important to good health as the heart, lungs, stomach or any organ in the body. Lame back, swollen joints, sore mus cles, rheumatic aches and pains, are most often signals of kidney trouble. Foley Kidney Pills give relief to kidney trouble sufferers. They ban ish bladder irregularities. Walkers Pharmacy.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-19
D4nw4

Rollen Bend pasture, rates $1.50 per head per month. will not be responsible for stock. For informa- tion apply to H. G. Mantooth. 54wtf
Oxford eagle., 1918-03-21
LENROOT HAS SMALL LEAD
ACCORDING TO RETURNS.
Counties 10 Hear From-So-
cialists Poll over $4,000
Votes.

Milwaukee, March 20.-Returns from
scattered precincts up to noon, with
Ia counties still missing, narraw-
ed Lenroot's for the Republican nomi-
nation for United States senator, &C
cording TO figures by the Milwaukee
Journal II showed:
Lenroot, 60,643.
Thompson, 60,109.
Berger, the Socialist candidate has
polled 33,799, according to late re-
turns.
The outstanding features of Tues
days primary were five-fold incre-
ase in the Socialist vote, the over
whelming victory of Joseph Z. Davies
for the Democratic senatorial nomi-
nation and the close race between
Lenroot, the loyalist candidate and
James Thompson, who carried the
banner of the LaFollette Republi-
cans.
Oxford eagle., 1918-03-21
ENGINEER IS NOW ON
lob ALL OF THE Time
Feels Better Since Taking Tanlae
Than He Has in rs Years, and Has
Gained 40 Pounds in Weight.

"It's been twenty-five years since
1 felt rs well and strong as 1 do now
after taking thus Tsnlac," said o. II.
Mahaffey, chief engineer Of the Life
and Casualty building in Nashville,
Tenn, in an interesting interview
short time ago.
After had suffered for two whole
years with serious stomach trouble
and was told that only an operation
would relieve me-" he continued, Il
grew SO Respondent over my hopeless
suffering that l WAS just about to
give up my job. had gotten to the
place where | could't eat thing but
oat meat and sweet milk and even
then the pains in my stomach and
through the small of my back kept
me in misery nearly all the time. l
couldn't sleep at night and grew weak
er and weaker until / didn't think I'D
ever get any better.
Its no wonder that / praise Tan
lac now and am telling all my friends
about it. After taking it a day or
two found that could eat most any
thing l ever could and from that time
on l have improved Those pains in
my back and stomach left me shortly
and / begun to pick up. have actual
ly gained forty pounds in weight
since / started taking Tanlac and l
feel better than have in twenty-five
years. / can sleep all night like =
healthy child and get up in the morn
ing full Of life and energy. am
right on the job all the time and will
be glad to tell anybody who wants
to know just what Tanlac did for me-"
Tanlac is sold in Oxford by the
Rowland Drug Company. adv
Oxford eagle., 1918-03-21
Tells of How Europe
Is Wrecked by War

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. March 49,
How Europe has been wrecked by war
was told here today by Miss May
Boyle O'Reilly in an address before the
Midday Luncheon Club. She gave a
graphich description Of the battle
SCARED fronts, having spent three
years in the war zones as q CORES
pondent and Red Cross nurse.
Miss O'Reilly is the daughter of
John Boyle o'Reilly, the Irish poet
and patriot
In the evening she will speak at a
mass meeting in the high school audi
torium, held under the auspices of the
Knights Of Columbus. Her subject
will be Zone Thousand Days Back of
the Front"
Oxford eagle., 1918-03-21
BALL CLUBS TO CUT
NUMBER Of PLAYERS
Few Players VIII Be Taken On Trips
During 1918 Season.
BY JACK VElOCK,

NEW YORK, March l9.-Railroad
restrictions under Government man.
agement are going to put the old HI
bosh on travel de luxe for major
league ball clubs this year.
Many of the luxuries of travel for
merly enjoyed by the big league stars
viii be noticeable for their absence,
and expenses are to be trimmed by
the club owners in other ways.
For one thing, major league clubs.
o: At least a big majority Of them,
will carry few players than hereto
fore. Fifteen or sixteen men will be
the average limit, with the manager.
the club secretaries and the scnbes-
Players who have lolled In lower
berths IN other years will have to
Chamber into uppers this Summer, and
some of the left-handed winters are
wondering how it viii feel TO sleep on
the roof Of q Pullman.
Two cAtchers, four or i've pitchers.
four inhelders, three outhelders and
q utility player viii be the personnel
of the average club on the road II
one of the regulars is injured the
manager will get along as best he
can until he can wire back home for
another man
Instead Of carrying well-hlled
steamer trunks the players will have
to be content with q freproof suit
case. Several firms are manufactur-
ing uniform cases of light steel.
Street cars, instead of taxicabs, will
be the rule, and owing 10 the activi-
ties of Herbert Hoover the champion
grub destroyers in the big league will
find themselves facing Wartime
menus
While a majority of the club own
ers expect little or no trouble in max
ing road trips, travel will undoubted.
ly be slower. After a season Of it
IL the managers find that they can gel
along with fewer men-look out fo'
a general reduction in player limits
Oxford eagle., 1918-03-21
TROOPS WITHDRAWN
FROM OIL FIELDS

SHREVEPORT, La, March le.-
The oil fields have been evacuated by
the soldiers of Uncle Sam, after an
occupation of several months.
The Second battalion Of the Forty
Third infantry, United States army,
about six hundred officers and men,
who have been doing guard and police
duty in North Louisiana oil fields
since early In January have been NOV
ed TO Camp Nichols, &s New Orleans.
Oxford eagle., 1918-03-21
New Liquid Fire of
Great Killing Power

DENVER, Col, March ia liquid
FIRE of more killing powe- than any
thing ever introduced in the world
war by Germany is reported to have
been invented by DIR. William K c.
Berlin, of this city. The discovery has
been offered to the Government for
use in Europe. The invention is the
result of experiments that have con-
tinued since the beginning Of the Eu-
ropean conflict in 1914.
Oxford eagle., 1918-03-21

Mrs. N Kirby and nephew, Kirby,
returned to their home after an ex-
tended visit in Oklahoma and Missouri
TO friends and relatives.
Miss Emily Hedleston. of Memphis,
spent the past week at home.
Oxford eagle., 1918-03-21
"Dasheen" LLatest in
War Flour Discoveries

CHICAGO, March I9.-The latest
"dasheen," or war flour" is the in
vention of Fred Miller, q steward of
the Blackstone Hotel. The formula
as given by Miller follows:
Mix potatoes and artichokes half
and half. Grind the mixture well
and you have a tasteless but very po-
tent flour. Mix this half and half
with wheat flour and you have dash
cen flour. It makes fine bread and
pastries"
Oxford eagle., 1918-03-21
PRESIDENT WILSON TAKES
DUTCH SHIPPING |N,U..S.

WASHINGTON, March 2O-President Wilson to-
night issued proclamation directing the Secretary of
the Navy Daniels to take all Dutch shipping in
American ports. The shipping viii be manned and op
Grated by the Navy and United States Shipping Board
The Dutch owners will be fully compensated.
Under the proclamation, which issued at seven
o'clock tonight 100000 tons Of Dutch shipping within
the of the United States will be taken At
the time similarly action win be taken by the Allied
Governments 100000 tons Of Dutch shipping In their
respective ports. The ships taken by America will
be Immediately put into service by carrying men to
France and food to the Allies. Formal possessions of
the Dutch shipping will be taken at nine O'Clock Thurs
day morning For several weeks the ships and have
been under armed guards.
Tonight action entered the grip of Germany some
of the finest ship tonnage In the world They held
idle because Germanys coesve against Holland
President Wilson issued q statement reviewing
gotati0ns carried with Holland for the ships, and
pointing that Holland not permitted by Germany
to her freen will and that drastic
by the United States were thus made necessary.
1t is asserted that Holland win make formal protest
against the action of the United States but il not cons
cred that this protest will be anything than mere
formality.
Oxford eagle., 1918-03-21
Laymen of Methodist
Church Meeting

MEMPHIS. Tenn, March ia
committee of one hundred laymen of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
South, met here today for the purpose
Of determining the missionary budg-
ct of the church for the next five
years
Josephus Daniels, Secretary Of the
Nav, is member Of the COMMITTEES.
At the meeting today a survey of the
mission fields of the church as sub
mitted.
The amount the church shall under.
Oxford eagle., 1918-03-21

INDIANOPOLIS March 2O-The Indiana Poster Advertis-
ing Association today record in favor of clean
advertising renewed its pledge of loyalty and
port to the Government
banquet being held tonight Poster advertisnf
Canada had hand arranging for the
meeting and here today to attend the sessions W. O.
Harrington Kokomo president and S. Huord of Frank
fort, is secretary of the State organization
Oxford eagle., 1918-03-21

take to raise per annum for the next
five years will be determined before
the meeting is brought to q close.
Tomorrow n joint committee of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
will open a series Of conferences.
Oxford eagle., 1918-03-21

FRANKFORT Ky, March 20-There will be no prize fight
ing in Kentucky for the House today killed b to iegaize
prize fighting There only three votes received In favor OF
the BILL while 40 against it.
Oxford eagle., 1918-03-21

MEMPHIS Tenn, March 20.-The eleventh annual
the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association opened this
morning the Chsca Hotel Prominent sufragsts from Knox
ve Chattanooga other cities of the State attendance
campaign will be mapped out looking obtaining favorable
scon by the next State Legislature ratification of the Federal
constitutional amendment which gives the ballot to