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NOTICE.

I will pay $1O for information lead ing to recovery of following stock: One blue Broncho pony three years old, branded Bar Five on left shoul- der and V on left hip, with bell on, with rope collar.
 One light red mare mule two years old, branded w on left shoulder.
 R. l.. Wallender, Route No. 1, Box 34, Weldon, Ark.
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FOR MIDDLE-AGED MEN AND
 WOMEN.

The kidneys work day and night to filter and cast out from the blood stream impurities that cause aches and pains when permitted to remain. It is only natural these important or gans should slow up and require aid in middle age. Foley Kidney Pills help overworked, tired and diseased kidneys and bladder Walkers Phar- macy.
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SOLDIERS COUGH CURED.

Private Harold Hamel, 66th Regi- ment, Ft. Adams, R. l., writes: T was troubled with bad cough for three months. tried Foley's Honey and Tar and felt greatly relieved. I recommend Foley's Honey and Tar and will keep it on hand" Gives re- lief from hay fever, asthma and bron- chial coughs.-W Walkers Pharmacy.
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FROM A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

w. H. Hill, J. F., Detroit, Texas, writes: q used Foley Kidney Pills and say unhesitatingly that of all l have used they are the best, and have done the work where the rest failed" Backache, rheumatic pains, sore muscles, stiff joints and too ire quent bladder action are symptoms of kidney trouble.-W Walkers Pharmacy.
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Subscribe for the Independent.

Did you read that America is the deciding factor? Coming from Lord Miner this statement is momntuous and America is not coming in-she has come in-America is in.
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War Savings Stamps help provide that Force. force to the utmost. force without stint or limit, the right eous and triumphsnt force which shall make right the law of the world" which President Wilson says must be used against our enemies.
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SPRAYED OR STOLEN.

One bay mare, years old, no marks, also one mare mule, 6 years old, branded 2 II on shoulder, white nose. Will offer S10 reward for re- turn. Notify J. w. Anthony, Au- vergne, R. No. 1, Box 35. 15w2t.
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ASSESSORS NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, as Assessor of Jack son County, will meet the people of the different Townships at the places and times below given for the purpose Hof assessing all the Personal Property and per capita or Poll Tax for the year, 1918:
 Union Township, Court House, Monday, July q to 26.
 You are required, by law, to meet me at your voting precinct and at- tend to your assessing in person, CT at the Township in which your prop erty is located, otherwise, you will be placed on the delinquent list, for failing to assess. Eight Mile, Arkansas, April 12th 1918.
 D. '. NANCE, 4wtf Assessor, Jackson County.
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WARNING ORDER.

In the Chancery Court of Jackson County, Ark.
 Ernest Adams, Plaintiff,
 vs. No. 3324. Kinnie Adams, Defendant.
 The Defendant, Kinnie Adams, is warned to appear in this court within thirty days and answer the complaint of the Plaintiff, Ernest Adams. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this 18th day of July, 1918. (SeaD R. w. BANDY, Clerk. c. A. Hillhouse is appointed attorney for Resident Defendant
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NOTICE.

To the Citizens of Newport and Un-
 ion Township:
 will be at the court house Mon day, July 22nd to 26th to assess your
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Protect your soldiers with your savings.
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NOTICE OF CONFIRMATION

In the Jackson Chancery Court. c. w. Rice, Petitioners.
 vs No. 321S. EA SEA-; SWA SEA-; and SEA
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 Notice is hereby given that c. w.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-10

her own boy had gone to the front she
had had none to do.
Then Kate prescribed some sort of
electrical treatment. for her patient
that had to be administered every
morning in her office before breakfast,
and she also assured him that the good
effects of the treatment would be off
set if he went out afterward without
eating. Having breakfast with Doc
tor Kate and her mother therefore be-
came part of the treatment.
And Paul recovered rapidly. He re-
gained. the lost pounds, and presently
his case was spoken of as a feather
in the cap of Doctor Kate Pratt. Cos
sip had it that he was in an actual
decline when she took him in hand.
No one knew just what the treatment
had been, but it had required many,
many visits, and the fee that was
handed over to the Red Cross as a
result was enough to buy all the yarn
that Marden women could knit up in
a year.
And the funny thing was that when
Paul sued for Doctor Hates heart
and hand and gained them both Mar
den women folk were a little peeved,
even to Paul's own mother and sister.
Its always that way with eligible
men," was the comment. "The girls
in the home town can pet them and
pamper them for years, but the first
nice girl from out of town is the one
they marry"
For Marden failed to see how pitt
fully susceptible Paul Dedham had be-
come as result of the neglect he had
suffered.
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JULIA WARD HoWE's SALON
AS Hostess 1t Was Said of Her With
Truth That She Delighted in
Contrasts.

When I think of it believe that I
had salon once upon time l did
not call it so, nor even think of it as
such; vet within it were gathered
people who represented many and va
rioHs aspects of life. They were gem
uine people, not lay figures distin-
guished by names and clothes. The
earnest humanitarian interests of my
husband brought to our home a num-
Der of persons interested in reform,
education and progress. 1t was my
part to mix in with this graver ele-
ment as much of social grace and
geniality as I was able to gather
about me. l was never afraid to bring
together persons who rarely met else
where than at my house, confronting
Theodore Parker with some arch
priest of the old orthodoxy, or Will
liam Lloyd Garrison with decade,
perhaps, Of Beacon street DANES. A
friend said, on one of these occasions:
sour hostess delights in contrasts" I
confess that / did; but I think that
my greatest pleasure was in the les
sons of human compatibility which 1
learned in this wise. I started, indeed,
with the conviction that thought and
character are the foremost values In
society and was not afraid or asham-
ed to offer these TO my guests, with or
without the stamp of fashion and po-
sition.-Julia Ward Howe.
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THEIR TRIBUTE TO FIGHTER
Spontaneous Expressions of Admlra-
tIon From coIonials at Sight Of
Gallant American Destroyer.

The next sunrise found us anchored
at the entrance to an English harbOr.
Ahead and astern, as far as the eye
could reach, stretched a line of ships
waiting to carry food into England.
That is how England is being starved
by Germany And that is how the
British and American navies are do
ing their work.
After several deeply loaded ships
had shot In past us we got our pilot
and Joined the procession. Bound out
In the opposite direction a powerful
destroyer of the latest type swept up
three black plumes trailing from her
tunnels and great white bone in her
teeth. She was the very spirit of dash
and daring, with a tinge of swank.
81 say, that's tophole," Look at
that" Absolutely It," Ripping" was
chorused in the English of the isles
A big South African nudged me.
''Yank, look at that flag"
1t was the Stars and Stripes.
More than all the speeches l had
heard on the significance of this war
to the Anglo-SaXons meant the quick
glimpse of that fine ship under that
flag outward bound to defend the
shores Of England.
Come on, Springboks, q good one
for the Yanks," yelled the big colonial
and the men who had licked the Ger
mans In East Africa and who were
going to lick them In France roared
the Zulu war cry>-Gregory Mason in
Outlook
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CUSTOM OF COLONIAL DAYS
Beating the Bounds" Was Enjoyed
=. the Boys More In America
Than in England.

l believe that, In earliest colonial
days, boys also took part in a joyful
outing, a public custom known as
perambulating or beating the bounds,
writes Alice Morse Earle, in her
"Child Life in Colonial Days." The
memory of boundaries and division
lines, of commons, public highways,
ETC., was kept fresh in the minds of
the inhabitants by an old-time Aryan
custom,-the walking around them
once a year, noting lines of boundary
and impressing these on the notice
and memory Of young people. To
induce English boys to accompany
these perambulations 1t was custom
airy to distribute some little gratuity !;
this was usually a willow wand, tied
at the end with a bunch of points,
which were bits Of string about eight
inches long, consisting of strands Of
cotton or wooden yarn, braided or
twisted together, ended by a tag of
a bit of metal or wood. These points
were used to tie the hose to the knees
of the breeches; the waistband of the
breeches TO the jacket, etc. Long after
points were abandoned as a portion of
dress, the wands, with their little
knot of points, were given. Pepys
wrote, in 1861, that he heard that, at
certain boundaries, the boys were
smartly whipped to impress the
bounds upon their memories.
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ALL HAVE DREADED GHOSTS
Spirits Play Most important Part in
the Lives Of Primitive Peoples
Of the World.

Ghosts are extremely ancient. The
people Of old who dwelt in caves were
well acquainted with them.
In the lives Of primitive peoples of
today very important part is played
by ghosts. Their world Is thickly
populated with them. When a man
sleeps his phantasm, which cannot
sleep, goes a-traveling.
With this phantasm he is quite IA
miliar, because it visibly attends him
In the daytime. 1t is his shadow Saw
ages are usually more or less afraid
of shadows.
To the savage, not only animate but
even inanimate things have their
ghosts. Concealed within every object
Is mystery-a noumenon lurking be-
hind the phenomenon, as q psycholo-
gist would express the idea. In any
rock there is fire hidden. One has
only to strike it with another piece of
rock and sparks fly.
Among the most appalling spooks
that haunt the 1roquois Is a carnivor-
Gus ghost that feeds on men. Echo,
in their belief, is phantom that re-
peats their words mockingly among
the hills. Particularly malevolent are
certain huge heads, without bodies,
that go flying about.
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NAVY BEST PLACE FOR HIM
Reason Why That Department Of the
Service Would Be Most Appropri-
ate for the Town Drunk.

The town was not exceptional. It
had weekly newspaper which had an
editor who ran it seemingly on natural
gas, and 1t had town teller Of fish
stories, and 1t had a town pump. But
this town wouldn't be complete with
somewhere in America, of course had
him. The drunkard, as Is Usually the
case, was the subject for much earn
est conversation among the children,
and home-loving elders would hold
him up as a horrible example to their
worldly ignorant heirs. This drunk
ard was not unusual, either. He had
his sprees, and his alternating moods
when he would "hit the sawdust rail. !"
The war came on, and 1t shared with
the drunkard as a topic of equal Inn
portance for the town. Many of the
boys enlisted. Some of them went
into the infantry; others into other
branches of the service,
One evening the bankers little son
came In earlier than usual from his
Inevitable baseball game,
"The old DRINKS enlisted" he an
nounced hreathlessly to the family,
who always did manage to get start
ed eating before the young son did.
"Whatf demanded his father. Il
saw him drunk this morning"
Eyes, I know" replied the son.
Everybody saw him drunk. But Tom
Mcdonald, the big kid that goes to
high school, and is a sophomore, an
umpires our games, an thinks he
knows everything about everybody,
well, he said he did. 'Ole DRINKS
gone again. l said. Yep answered
Tom. 4 heard he'd Joined the tanks
Now, what do you think of that?"
He'd better join the navy" NUT
tered the banker, as he slowly but
tered his war-bread.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-10
INNER MAN WELL FORTIFIED
American Soldier, Ordered to the
Front, at Least Did Not Set Out
on Mission Hungry.

An American doughboy enteredt a
restaurant in the Rue Richelieu and
after carefully studying the menu, or
1ered dejeuner.
The waitress brought him bacon and
eggs, cheese and pint of beer. When
ne had finished eating, he paid his bill
and called the waitress.
Now / want some lunch"
This time she brought him plate Of
roast beef. vegetables and chicken,
which he washed down with half a
1ozen cups of tea; then he paid his
bill and called the wondering waitress
back again.
"Now, my dear, want dinner"
He ate some beef, vegetables, ap-
pies and drank a bottle of wine.
At l 80, after having taken all three
meals at once, the soldier left the res
taurant, and little while later set
out on a missioa to the fronts Stars
and Stripes.
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Where Americans Lead.

The American is fascinated by novel
problems, by ungauged and ungauge-
able difficulties. He glories in build
ing a Panama canal after Europes
most famous engineer had failed. Be-
cause Europe had never ventured to
build skyscrapers that is no reason
why a Woolworth should not rear a
structure more than so stories in the
air. For centuries man had dreamed
of flying, but without success; yet
two obscure American lads, nothing
daunted, experimental until they con-
quered the air. The original McCor-
mick was a farmer, not mechanic,
but that did not deter him from maxi
ing up his mind to produce machine
which would cut grain, and he did not
give up until he had made both a
reaper and fortune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-10
AFRICAN DEMAND FOR LACES
Trade Of That Section Sure to Be Well
Worth Cultlvatlng, According to
Consular Report,

No laces. embroideries or dress trim
mings of any kind are produced in
West Africa. OF machine-made goods,
principally cotton, large quantities are
imported, being supplied chiefly by
England, France and Switzerland. The
native women use them in embroidered
under and top skirts, chemises, chemi-
settles and kimonOs,
This is true as regards the native
women in all West Africa, even in the
far interior. They fancy the top chemi-
settle, or short chemise, worn as XII
mono. For the most part the goods
are embroidered, but many have begun
to wear garments with Insertions and
laces. Light figured and lowered
voiles and dimities are well liked in
Senegal.
Many Of the women are seen wear
ing some of the best qualities OF these
goods, especially the voiles, though, of
course, the cheaper grades of the dimi-
ties find a larger sale While no sta
tistics of importers are available, the
trade undoubtedly is of sufficient i'm.
portance to cultivate. All the large inl,
porters are more or less interested in
these articles, as In cotton goods gen
orally, and would appreciate samples
with price lists.-Consular Report.
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Were one to analyze the careers Of
200 or 300 of our leading men of
finance and industry it would probably
develop that not half of them contin-
ued in the line of business In which
they started, but struck boldly out in
the direction where they saw the big
gest opportunities and where their
inclination lay.
One of the earliest and most notable
instances of this was Commodore VAN
derbilt, who was so old before he
turned to railroading that his family
and his advisers importuned him to
let well enough alone and not to en-
ter an entirely new field at his time
of life
This readiness of brainy giants to
take up new things and TO throw their
whole selves into them is really one
of the principal reasons why the
United States has led the world in so
many lines of endeavor Wealthy
Europeans. as rule, avoid the new.
avoid untried paths; they are inclined
to worship precedent.
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of the shack.
Soon there was a knock at the door,
and it was thrown open to admit
Ralph Williamson, radiant with smiles.
The two young men clasped hands
warmly and Williamson was offered
the four-legged stool as a special
honor.
Cant STOP" he demonstrated. Il
just came out to see if you had enough
of hermiting."
Obtaining no answer, he went on:
1--WE a pleasant surprise for you.
Janet Ellison is out there in my car,
and she wants you to be her special
guest at a house party starting to-
morrow. She got back just this week,
and Immediately inquired about you.
Come on and get ready"
James held ,up the coffee pot.
''Have a drink" he invited, and re-
ceiving shake of the head from his
visitor, he poured another cupful for
himself. Dropping in a lump of sugar
he stirred it and said:
'Tve zhad enough of hermiting, all
right, Ralph; but I can't go with you.
You see, Pm getting married to-mor-
rOw-to a young lady who tonight will
finish her course of training in that
hospital across the lake."
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Interested In Firearms.

When brother returned from Sunday
school, mamma explained to him that
he soon would be old enough to sing
In the vested choir and probably would
be accepted as a member, If he was q
good boy. She emphasized the matter
Of department and said some who.
were good and faithful in attendance
got to carry the cross in the process.
sional, others to carry flowers.
do any Of them carry revolvers2'
little brother inquired.
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senses.
Come back, Horace !" she cried. "Oh,
Horace, don't die. There is so much
want to ask forgiveness for. l was
just beginning to know you and like
you, HOrace-like you so much, Hor-
ace. Please open your eyes. I have
been such a wretch to tease you. Oh,
dearest Horace, open your eyes r'
And Horace did. He could not sham
any longer after being called dearest
Horace
Cynthia's hysteria vanished when
she discovered he was alive. She was
very angry at first when he confessed
he had not been hurt at all and was
conscious all the time, but her sense
of humor came to the rescue and she
Joined in his laugh.
please call me dearest Horace
again. he said as he reached out for
her hand. But Cynthia would not UNI
til he had told her how much he loved
her and how miserable he would be
without her.
Dear old pest" he said just before
the kiss that scaled their engagement.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-10
Nitrogen From Atmosphere.

There has been erected at the Unit
ed States department of agriculture's
experiment farm at Arlington, Va, the
largest experimental plant in the Unit
ed States for the production of nitro
gen from air. The nitrogen so pro-
luced is combined with hydrogen to
form ammonia, which can be used in
the manufacture of explosives and fer
tilizers Experiments with the view
Of increasing the efficiency of the proc
ess are now being conducted by the
bureau of soils. The Haber process Of
manufacturing nitrogen is being en-
ployed. This process involves the pro-
duction of ammonia from hydrogen
and nitrogen. The two gases are mix
ed in the proper proportion, put under
high pressure and subjected to intense
heat. They are then passed over a
spongy iron, whereupon a portion Of
the mixture combines to form am
monia.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-10
Fjsh-skIn Shoes.

At the recent exposition of the
chemical industries at New York there
was an interesting exhibit of leather
made from the skin of fishes, shark,
porpoise and tuna fish, which showed
1t to be as full of good qualities as
leather made from the skins of ami
mails.
Scientists of the Pratt institute and
the United States bureau of fisheries
have been experimenting with fish skin
as a substitute for leather, and the
raw hide of sharks and porpoises al
ready Is in commercial use. Porpoise
skin razor strops have been used for
years, and other kinds of fish leather
would have been on the market long
ago, the scientists say, had it not been
that there was an abundance of real
leather
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After the War is Won.

"Mr. Smith, this is Mr.. Blanken-
camp"
"Glad to know you"
"Glad to know v Say; your name
is awfully familiar Didn't you serve
with the marines over at"
"Why, yes!"
"And didn't you once lend me light
when 1 was all out of briquet juice
and happened to be going by your
diggings with an unlit pipe In my
facef"
"Seems to me do remember a mutt
with a phiz like yours, straying up in
our neck of the woods one morning
looking like lost soul; yes, I remem-
bel swapping addresses with him after
lighting his stove for him. So you're
it, are your"
81 am that-shake! ~
"Shake r-Stars and Stripes.
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Rather EastIdious.

"Copperhead" Lehew, our erstwhile
orderly with the dilapidated shirt OBJ
jects strenuously to escorting negro
women around camp. He claims that
If he had good shirt it would not be
so bad to walk with the women, but
even in his old shirt he has been very
faithful and courteous to the negro
folks. We agree with you, Lehew,
that 1t is tough to walk around camp
with the women wearing a ripped
,shirt-Camp Lee Bayonet.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-10
Use Wireless Lamp.

A wireless signal lamp has been de-
vised for various kinds Of war work
which enables the users to keep up
standardization under conditions where
II would be difficult or impossible TO
stretch telephone or telegraph wires
A barrage fire, for example, would be
no hindrance to signaling by this new
apparatus. It can be used between
q ground station at the battle front and
an airplane a considerable distance
away. flying over enemy territory.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-10
New Burlap Substitute,

Manufacturers engaged on govern
ment contracts are being offered sub
stitute for burlap by a large Massa-
chusetts mill which has discovered a
material that can successfully be used
for baling. Instead of 100 per cent
jute, the substitute is made of one
strand of Swedish pulp paper and two
strands of jute 1t Is made nine and
u ounces in weight and SO, 40, and As
inches deep. A government test of the
nine-ounce product shows a tensile
strength Of 119 pounds. as against 80
pounds for regular eight-ounce burlap.
New Bedford Standard.
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War COINAGE in germany. :

Due to metal shortage Germany has
Instituted iron coinage The fraction
al mark coins are no longer of copper
and nickel, but are forgings of Sic
mens-Martin steel. The coinage OF
copper was discontinued in 1917. Alu-
minum had been coined to a small ex-
tent before the war; the smallest
coins, one and two pfennig pieces, are
now made Of aluminium, which is more
attacked by ordinary water, soda,
salts, etc, than by distilled water.
Zinc coins have recently been intro
duced. Zinc coins had been used In
French Indo-China; they are again
more apt to corrode, especially when
impure with lead, cadmium and iron,
in distilled water than in ordinary wa
ter; they turn yellow-brown, but as
sumo pleasant gray tint in soda and
salt. On the whole, the cheapest iron
coins have answered best.-Engineer-
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