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THE BANK OF NEWPORT
Solicits the acccounts of depositors who desire
the accommodations of a first-class, well
equipped and reliable banking house.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
Geo. W. Decker, President. R. M. Johnson, Cashier.
A. D. Bailey, Vice Pres’t. T. D. Kinman, Ass't Cashier.
Thos. J. Graham. Ed. P. Shoffner. J. T. Henderson.
Jos. M. Stayton. Dr. J. M. Jones. T. S. Stephens.
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CHRISTMAS EXCURSIONS
Cheap Trips for’Holiday Travelers to the
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North, East and
SOUTHEAST.
Rates Cut in Two
DECEMBER 20TH, 21ST, 22D AND 26TH.
I . Full details from your nearest Rock
1 Island agent.
I GEO. H. LEE, JAS. HARRIS,
I Gen. Pass. Agt. Dist. Pass. Agt.
I LITTLE JROGK, ARK. j
' YOUR DRUGGIST
1ILL PROTECT YOU.
We know that many people hesitate to
spend their money for medicines adver
tised in their local papers, because they
are not positive whether they get some
thing good or something worthless.
Many people hesitate to try new medi
cines, and they are right in so doing.
Every man and woman should be careful
what they use in the wTay of medicine. Fof
these reasons we make arrangements with
your druggist to protect you on every
bottle of Paracamph. We know from act
ual experience and from the unquestion
abl testimony of thousands of America’s
best people that Paracamph will do exact*
ly what we claim for it, so when we tell
you that Paracamph is a quick relief and
cures'Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sore Feet,
Piles, Skin Diseases, Catarrh, Sore Throat
Sore Lungs, Croup and all forms of swell,
ings and Inflammations, we know that it
will do exactly what we claim. If it fails in
any case when used as directed, your drug,
gist the man you know and the man you
have confidence in will refund your money.
So why experiment with the various rem
edies on the market, when you buy Para,
camph on a guarantee like this? We believ*
that you are honest and believe that yoil
will treat us right. We know if you do that
you will be pleased with Paracamph. H
you are suffering from any of the abov4
aliments, get a bottle of Paracamph today
Sold only in 25 cent 50 cent and |i.oo
bottles, all good druggists, or sent direct
Upon receipt of price. The Paracampb
Company, Louisville. Ky., U. S. A.
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J. M. Robinson,
M. D., Oph. D.
Eye, Ear, Nose,
Throat and Longs.
NEWPORT, ARK.
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EYE, EAR, NOSE
AND THROAT. .
OFFICE-8 and 9
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Wishon Building
NEWPORT, ARK. I
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Jack Herron
For Granitoid and Stone Walks,
Curbing, all kinds of Brick Work.
Don’t fail to get my figures
before contracting.
My Work Talks For Itself
Parties wanting crushed Lime
Stone Walks apply to .me.
TRY THE
Weems Laundry.
When you want good
work. They make a
specialty of Dyeing and
Cleaning Clothes. Let
them show you how well
they can please you.
Leave orders with
T. P. Umsted & Co.
Local Agents.
Jack Jones
The Crack Barber, keeps
a neat and busy little
shop. Upper end of Front
street. Expert tonsorial
ists. Easy shaves and
the best haircuts. Our
work pleases.
“Come on, ye stubby beards.”
ERNEST THEODORE
OFFERS CONGRATULATIONS
Newport, Ark.,Dec.26, ’04.
To the Independent:
Please accept my thanks for
the pretty ring you so kindly
sent me. I think it was so very
nice of you to remember all the
babies in the contest, even if we
couldn’t all be winners. 1 ran
my best, but, you see, I’m so fat
I fell behind and couldn’t help
myself. My congratulations to
the successful candidates and
best wishes for a happy new
year to the Independent.
Yours truly,
Ernest Theodore Phillips.
Read the Daily and Weekly
Independent.
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i OLD FUNERAL IN A TENT.
Big Canvas Put to Many Strange Uses
—Serves as Church to
Mourners.
In Kendall county, 111., there is a big
! canvas tent that has been made to serve
for an odd mixture of purposes. For
many years it covered a regulation saw
dust ring in which there were all kinds
of performances by man and beast. On
other occasions it was made use of for
; revivals, and has been hauled around
the country from place to place for
many purposes. This year Aurora
bloomed out as a Chautauqua town, and
the tent sheltered big audiences intent
on hearing lectures, recitations, and
speeches from well-known talkers.
Music of all kinds has at odd times filled
the big inclosure. However, the oddest
purpose to which it was ever put came
when Nels O. Cassem, a well-known
Kendall county man, fell from his
Wagon as he was driving along the pub
lic highway and broke his neck. Cas
' sem was a well-known character, a
farmer who in all of that section was
known as the “king of the Norwegians."
He was known to be worth several hun
dred thousand dollars in valuable lands,
and the funeral promised to be larger
than any church in Yorkville or Aurora
would hold. One of the sons resorted to
a unique expedient. He hired the big
tent and stretched it out on one of the
beautiful meadows over which his fa
ther had roamed for so many years, and
the funeral sermon was thus preached
under canvas.
PAPER TRADE IN TURKEY.
In 1903 $400,000 Worth of the Ar
ticle for Making Cigarettes
Was Imported.
1 In the year 1903 Turkey in Europe
imported paper and cardboard to the
value of about $500,000 and cigarette pa
per to the value of $400,000. Austria and
Italy were the chief sources of supply,
i The German consul at Saloniki says
i large quantities of all sorts of paper,
including wall paper, enter that port for
distribution throughout Turkey. This
paper trade is in Austrian hands. Dif
ferent manufacturers in Austria com
bine in sending out commercial travel
ers to Turkey, one traveler showing the
products of several Austrian paper
mills. The German consul general at
Constantinople, in a report to his gov
ernment, says that Turkey is one of
England’s best markets for cotton yarns
and cotton piece goods, taking in 1903
nearly $2,500,000 worth of cotton yarns
and $15,700,000 worth of cotton piece
goods. Within the last few years Italy
has greatly increased her exports of cot
ton textiles to Turkey and is becoming
a strong competitor of England in that
market. If American manufacturers of
cotton goods were to give energetic and
intelligent attention to the Turkish mar
ket, they would probably find it a good
one.
TORTOISE FIGHT IS FUNNY
Battle Between Shell-Covered An
imals May Continue a Long Time
Without Injury to Either.
“Listen,” said the farmer, leaning on
his hoe. From the next field came a
■^ound of rapping, a sound as of sharp
• nocks on a door. “What is that?” said
| ihe city man. “A tortoise fight,” the
j farmer answered. “We’ll go and see it."
i They made their way toward the rap
ping sound, relates the Baltimore Her
l aid, and in a little while they came upon
two box tortoises that were fighting
hard. The creatures fought in a strange
way. They made at one another with
their heads protruded, but, at the mo
ment of collision, "each tried to use his
front flap for a shield, and the result of
this prudence was that not the heads but
only the shells of the tortoises hurtled
together. There was a bang. Then the
fighters backed off and prepared for an
other round. The two men watched
them till the spectacle became weari
some. Then they returned to the pota
| to patch.
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BLIND GIRLS GOOD WIVES.
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Official of Chicago Association De
clares Sightless Maids Are
Ideal Helpmeets.
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Mrs. Lena Osborn, chairman of the
lady board of managers of the Social and
Mutual Advancement Association of the
Blind in Chicago, a free organization, is
a blind woman herself. She says that
the life of a blind person is not the
great misery that it is generally
thought by seeing people, and it is the
purpose of the organization to show that
even blind people may have a happy
time of it. Mrs. Osborn says:
“If men knew what ideal wives blind
girls make the blind girls would soon
be all taken. I can cook, sew, darn, and
do almost anything except to venture
far from the house. I can write the or
dinary handwriting from the memory
of the letters I was taught 40 years ago
in the public schools. We become so
sharp in our observation that we can
almost describe the appearance of the
person we address."
Bad Effects of “Rushing.”
Prof. Thomas Oliver, addressing the
industrial hygiene section of the sani
tary congress in Glasgow, said the sys
tem of “rushing” work introduced into
Britain from America not only caused
unwholesome fatigue and many acci
dents, but “predisposed the individual
to ill health and created a taste for stim
ulants, unhealthful recreation and love
of excitement such as was offered by
theaters and music halls.”
Church as Whisky Storehouse.
Thorverton church, Devon. England,
was recently used as a storehouse foi
whisky which had been taken from the
village inn during a fire.
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SHE WAS ALL PREPARED.
So That When Hobson Sneezed Hi*
Good Wife Was Bight There
with the Bemedy.
Mr. Hobson sneezed and Mrs. Hobson
remarked that he must have caught
cold. Mr. Hobson Is one of those men
who hate to have a fuss made over them.
He has been trying to impress that fact
on his wife's mind for 20 years, relates
the Chicago Daily News.
“What makes you think I’ve taken
cold ?” he demanded, irritably.
“You sneezed,” replied Mrs. Hob
son.
“That doesn’t signify—” He paused.
“But it does ‘signify.’ It is one of the
first signs of a cold. You went out with
the ashes this morning without a thing)
round your neck."
j ,“I always da”
“And now you've caught cold."
Mr. Hobson returned to the reading of
his newspaper without replying. In a
few moments Mrs. Hobson said:
“Henry."
“Well?"
“You’ve got to do something for thai
cold."
“Can’t I sneeze without being accused
of a cold? Is there any law against
sneezing, or do I have to get a permit
from the health department?”
“I don’t see anything foolish in taking
a cold in time,” Mrs. Hobson said, calm
ly. “If you would let me put your feet
in hot water and mustard, and get you to
bed—”’
Mr. Hobson resumed his paper, and as
he did so he felt an annoying tickling in
his nose. He struggled heroically for
nearly half a minute. Then he sneezed
again.
“There-” said Mrs. Hobson, in melan
choly triumph. “You’vesneezed again!"
“I’ve sneezed twice, and I’m not
ashadied of it,” Hobson replied, coldly.
“If I feel like it, I’m going to sneeze
again. I’m—”
Three successive and violent sternu
tations interrupted him.
“Now will you let me heat that water,
Henry?”
“No, thank you.”
“Will you take some quinine, then?”
"No.”
Mrs. Hobson sighed.
“Sneezes,” Mr. Hobson explained,
are convulsions caused by an irritation
of a sensitive membrane. The irritation
may be caused by the introduction of any
small particle of foreign matter, such as
a grain of dust. Snuff has been known
to produce a sneeze; so has pepper. You
can get up a fairly good imitation by
tickling the nostrils with a straff. It ia
not, as you imagine, an infallible indi
cation of a cold.”
“I suppose,” said Mrs. Hobson, reflect
ively, “that you would object to an onion
poultice, too?”
Hobson rose from his chair and started
for the door. With his hand on the
knob he paused to say, with dignity:
“I’m going up to my room now. I’ve got
some work to do, so I guess I had better
be alone for the rest of the evening."
Hobson sneezed twice on the way up
stairs; Then the door of his den closed
explosively. Fifteen minutes later the
door opened and Hobson’s voice called
down the stairs: “Maria!”
“What is it. dear?”
“Say, if you think I really ought to
take a hot foot bath I suppose it won’t
do any particular harm, whether I’va
got a cold or not. Would it be troubling
you too much to heat the water?”
Mrs. Hobson’s voice replied cheer
fully:
“It’s all ready now, dear. I’ve heated
it and got some blankets nice and hot.
When you’re ready I’ll bring them up.”
A WORD WITH THE GIRLS.
Learn to Do the Little Things That
Give Enjoyment to Yourself
and Others.
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It is the girl who does things in this
world who is attractive, both to men
and to her own sex, which last count*
a little, too, in the long run. You may
not be able to do great things, to paint
great pictures or to sing in grand
opera, but you can learn to make
bright little things for yourself and
your friends and perhaps the light
“catchy” airs of the day so that youi
friends will enjoy them, and if you
can’t do anything else cultivate the
art of talking brightly and of being
sympathetic, says Good Housekeep
ing.
Every girl can do one thing well il
she will only take the trouble to find
out what that thing is. The difficulty
is that she often looks in the opposite
direction; she wants to do something
great and showy or nothing at all. Bui
there are other talents within reach il
she will only look, and these talents
may be such a comfort to her in her
dark hours that they will make life
better and happier both for herself and
those about her.
How the world likes a cheerful
plucky girl who makes a brave fight
and hides her skeleton in a closet in
stead of folding her hands and whin
ing because things don’t come her way
—the girl who puts her own griefs
as much as possible aside and whc
takes a wholesome interest in life—ii
the one who wins out every time.
Fatties a la Mazann.
Give six turns to half a pound of puff
paste, roll out to the thickness of a
penny-piece; stamp out two dozen tops
with a plain circular cutter, about one
inch and a half in diameter; gather up
the trimmings, knead together, roll out
and stamp two dozen more; place on a
baking-sheet, about an inch and a half
apart, and wet them with a soft brush;
garnish the center of each with a little
force meat of any kind, place the tops on
them and use the upper part of a smaller
cutter to press them down, so as to
fasten the two parts together; they must
then be egged over and baked in a rather
brisk oven; when done, dish up ne a
napkin and serve, —Boston Budget.
WHY YOU SHOULD TAKE
WINE^CARDUI
Wine of Cardui is a mild medicine, but a
powerful tonic that is unrivaled in its success in
the treatment of the diseases peculiar to women.
Over 1,500,000 suffering women have been
cured of troubles that ordinarily are thought to
require the expensive treatment of specialists,
simply by taking this great woman's tonic.
Wine of Cardui recommends itself to modest
women of moderate means, because it can be
taken in the privacy of the home without sub
mitting to a humiliating local examination and
subsequent dangerous treatment.
It is not costly and every sufferer can afford it.
If you are a victim of female weakness in any form
Wine of Cardui is the medicine that you should take and
you cannot afford to lose any time in starting the treat
ment. Your trouble is ever growing worse—never better,
j Wine of Cardui never fails to benefit even chronic
troubles of the most serious nature, and in nine out of
ten cases it brings an absolute cure. 1,500,000 cured
women endorse Wine of Cardui.
You should take Wine of Cardui. Ask your druggist for it today.
KEYSTONE OF
Kimball Piano
STRUCTURE.
The sale of the Kimball Piano is the keystone of its unsurpassable quality, the founds"
tion of its great musical worth, the cause of its popularity with artists and musicians. Perfect
piano scale-making is a mathematical problem figured out by sound waves to the merest fraction
of a second. Not all piano makers strive for perfection along this line (many making no pre
tense), but out of the few who have nearly reached the goal,
Kimball is Prominent.
One of the most perfect musical scales is displayed in the cultivated human voice. An
imperfect scale piano is like a person who cannot sing correctly—it’s worse because all do not
claim to sing. It costs money to cultivate the voice, it costs more money to perfect a piano
scale. The cost to produce a perfect Kimball scale has been no less than that of °ther of the
recognized artistic pianos of the world, yet because of the advantages of the largest output
from any factory. v« are able to sell the Kimball at a very moderate price, quality considered
The Kimball 8ystem and easy payment plan brings it within reach of all.
Call or write for Catalogues, prices and terms.
ESTABLISHED *853.
Hollenberg Music^Co.,
Factory 317 Main Street, Little Rock
Warerooms 243 Wabash Avenue, Chicago.
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Through Service to the
EAST and SOUTHEAST
The “SOUTHEASTERN LIMITED,” leaving Memphis
daily at 8:15 a. m., carries through drawing room sleeper
to Jacksonville, Fla., via Birmingham and Atlanta.
Dining Car Service
THE NEW YORK LIMITED, leaving Memphis daily
at 9:10 p. m., carries through Buffet Drawing Room sleeper
to New York, via Birmingham, Atlanta, Washington and
Philadelphia. Through coach to Atlanta.
For information and reservations write or wire
J. N. CORNATZAR,
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General Agent, Memphis, Tenn.
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