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AUGUST IS IS GOING TO BE JHE BIG DAY THIS YEAR
BE SURE TO ATTEND THE RACES. ONE DAY ONLY
If Elected to the Leg
islature l shall favor
Free schools and high schools, and not extrava
gant appropriations for the University of Arkansas.
I shall favor abolishing about 240 offices, called
commissions that draws a salary of an average of
$2600.00 each, besides four times that number of
clerks and stenographers.
I shall favor a referendum clause in every road
law.
I shall afvor economical appropriations.
I shall favor keeping our automobile tax at home.
You need an honest and capable man in the
Legislature. If you believe that I am capable to de
fend your rights on the floor of the Legislature,
vote for me.
J. J. MATHENY
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE
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Vote Your
Choice
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Trade With
Jeffery Bros.
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“PIANO” MAKES QUEER MUSIC
Probably Paderewski Would Shudder
at Sight of This Native Afri
can Instrument.
Africans are a music-loving people,
though in a native African village
there is not much to he had that will
produce sounds of a harmonious na
ture. There the musical instruments
are of the crudest kind. Even if Hie
African musician has the real musical
gift, with his very best effort it can
not be displayed creditably on the
crude instruments at hand.
The African “piano,” ungainly look
ing as it is, shows a good bit of in
genuity both In its construction and its
manipulation, so that the sounds blend
In some sort of musical strains. There
are usually 18 to 20 “keys" in thp
makeup of an African piano. Each is
of polished wood 3 to 4 inches wide
and 14 to 15 inches in length. Under
each'key is a gourd attached by mentis
of a resinous guui, or an application
of cement very durable when it hard
ens. A half circular strip of flexible
wood holds all in place. The gourds
are of different sizes. Two sticks like
drum sticks, are used bv the player,
one in ench hand ; and the playing is
done by pminding with the sticks upon
the keys, each of which, when struck,
gives out a different sound.
In some of the villages of Africa
where missionaries dwell, the "piano"
drum, for that is what it really is
serves as the church “bell," to sum
mon the people to the services. If
manipulated by the native evangelist,
which is often the case, the call to
prayer and praise rings out with nil
the lusty musical (?) sounds his vig
orous pounding can bring from If.
WORTHY OF GREAT FIGHTER
Memorial to Oliver Hazard Perry at
Put-in-Bay Really Beautiful
Work of Art.
The memorial monument in honor of
Oliver Hazard Perry at Put-in-Ray, O
commemorating his victory over the
British in the battle of Lake Erie, Sop
fomber 10, 1813, Is noted for its beauty
and simplicity. The cost was
it Is built of granite, concrete, marble
and Stella bronze. The magnificent
Oreeiun-Doric column rises to a heigh
The Perry Memorial.
of .'550 feet from the bnse. The diame
tor is 45 feet, and the neck 35 feet ami
gallery 45 feet square. The octopod
Is 18 feet In diameter and 23 feet high
and contains a frosted glass dome, il
luminated by electricity. It was ofl
Put-in-Bay that Perry, in command of
an American squadron, captured t lie*
British fleet and sent to his superior
officer, General Harrison, his famous
dispatch: “We have met the enemy
and they are ours.”
Change Shape of Cattle’s Horns.
An English Inventor undertakes to
change the shape of the horns of cattle
by banging weights on them while they
are growing. The weights are pear
shaped, with a tapered hole length
wise to fit the horn, and are held in
place by setscrews. The queer df>
vices are illustrated in Popular Me
ehnnics Magazine.
Coal in the Philippines.
A vein of coal has been discovered
in the Philippines which is said to be
up to the quality of the Chinese fuel
The amount has not been ascertained,
but it is certain that it will answer
the demands of the islands for many
years.
Cause Enough.
Caller (whispering)—What makes
your husband look so pale and nerv
ous?
.Mrs. Dibbs—Just before you came
we drew lots to see who’d fire the
cook, and I won.—Buffalo Express.
The Druggist Complains.
“That new clerk of mine has two di
plomas In elm-gistry.”
“Well?"
"And yet he can’t seem to mix a
glass of soda water properly."—Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
Land-Traveling Fish.
Traveling by night, the liassar, a
sort of fish, will go several days over
land from a diminished pond to an
other, or from river to river.
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GEORGE W. WYATT
TAX
To the Democratic Voters of Independence
County:
I am a candidate for Tax Collector of Indepen
dence County. In making this, my last appeal
to you for your consideration, I wish to call
your attention to the fact that S have been
your Tax Assessor for the last four years, and
as such S have become thoroughly familiar with
the numbers and descriptions of ail the lands
throughout the county, which I feel like only
the better qualifies me for this important and
responsible position. Without this information
a person, to say the least will be greatly han
dicapped. I have hut one promise to make,
and that is I will make you a fair and faithful
official. I will greatly appreciate your support
and influence.
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Yours to serve.
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. 0. LINDSEY
For County and
Probate Judge
I am a candidate for County and Probate Judge at the coming
primary. I do not ciaim as a reason why I should be elected for this
office that I have beeen arrested and convicted of violating a cotton
weighing ordinance in the city cl Batesville.
Neither have I circulated any unsigned circulars in violation of
the “Corrupt Practice Act" which would disqualify me for the office
and subject me to a fine or imprisonment in the penitentiary, see Sec
tion 3151 Kirby’s and Castle’s Digest.
This office, my friends calls for a clear headed, conservative, sane
business man- The affairs of the county are like that ot a business'
corporation and it will require close a ;d patient attention with good
sound business judgment to bring our county out of debt and keep
our script at par and build up the roads and bridges of the county.
You would not think of selecting a man to manage your own business
because he had been arrested and convicted or acquitted of some of
fense which has no relation to the business you want attended to.
This is no time for wild exaggerations or impractical methods. The
best guaranty that 1 can give you of the service I w ill render you in
this office is my record in tl\e offices that I have held in this county.
So far as I know no one has made any criticism of my record there.
I can promise you the same faithful and efficient attention to the
duties of the office of County and Probate Judge.
S. D. (DECK) LINDSEY
Candidate For County Judge