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Beautiful scenery—cool river breezes,
scores of interesting stopping points;
including the $28,0G0,000 Keokuk
dam,—largest in the world. Music,
danet^?. Bamea on ^ec^, an. iaunt®
athore?%i’ery mile and minute ot
your trip is filled with pleasures and
scenes new to you.
The Upper Mississippi steamers are
large, fast and safe, with comfort
able, electric lighted.ventilated state
rooms, and meals that you will enjoy.
Get up a party
from your town and plan a- vacation
trip from 2 to 10 days on one of these
floating hotels. The Missouri Pacific
Iron Mountain offers the best service
to St. Louis where direct connections
are made with the Upper Mississippi
River Steamers. Get illustrated
vacation folder from your local rail,
road agent or write for one to
J. G. Hollenbeck, Gen’l Pass. Agt.
St. Louis, Mo.
G. P. COFFIN, Agent.
Newport, Ark.
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ALICE CHANG CHRISTENS SH1F
| Cfa n sse Girl Who Always Wear* »
Native Costume and Makes
Fine Fudge.
MUs Alice Chang :he second daugh
fp" if the minister of China, and i
ne Chang, and a quaint little Orien
ta. lady of Washington's diplomatic
! fie. was the center of attraction th«
j -i r day on the occasion of the
| ct.: .stalling of the Chinese cruiser
: F hung, at Philadelphia. The Pei
| h' eg is the first Chinese warship of
; American construe on. and little Miss
j Chang proudly stood sponsor for it.
The minister and Mae. Chang so |
! cotnpanied their daughter to Philadei
phia for the ceremony, also taking
their eider daughter, Miss Idly Chang |
and their son and his wife, the seere ;
tary of the legation and Mine. Henry
Chang
Miss Chang, whose Chinese name is
Tuyi Chang, is a diminutive IPfie
woman of sltfeeti summers, aud lias
acquired a number of Occidental man j
nerlsms during her sojourn in this
country.
Miss Alice and her older sister are
favorites with the voting official set. j
The feminine members of the various i
1 legations and “ml) ;sies rareiy enter- ;
tain without Miss Mice as either a
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Miss Alics Chang.
guest or an assistant hostess On ail
occasions Miss Alice wears her native
garb.
To many of her American friends
she has confided that she feels freer
in them than she would in the clothes
the young maidens of this country
wear. At nearly all of the young
people's gatherings which Miss Alice
attends she is elected the fudge mak
er, as she has the reputation of ex
celling in this art.
NO MAN-FLY ON MONUMENT
firsat Commotion at Capital on Re
port That Now Yorksr Was
Scaling Shaft.
Rumors that a Nsw York "human
fly," who has bean scaling office build
ings in that city, was climbing the
sldo of tho SSS-foot Washington monu
ment, gave this city no end of excite
ment tho other day.
Someone discovered a black spot on
tho sldo at the shaft, about 1M feet
from tho top, and than the report
started.
Hundreds rushed toward tho monu
ment grounds, a half mile from the
center of the oity. Along Pennsyl
vania avonuo crowds oolloctod at ov
ary comer and windows and door
ways rapidly filled with people.
Newspaper photographers. who
wore early on the scene, and other
investigators brought back word that
the supposed figure was only a spot
left by last night’s heavy rain; but up
to an early hour gazers on Pennsyl
vania avenue still instated they could
see the figure move.
The war department, which con
trols the monument, was besieged
with talenhone calls.
Nearly three hour* after the first
explanation a telephone message from
the capitol said that congressmen
were watching the spot through opera
glasses, and were convinced It occa
sionally moved a little.
Has Me Jurisdiction.
One of Representative Kahn's Cali
fornia constituents wrote to him not
long ago Inclosing blue prints of a de
vice he had thought up for “scrutinis
ing heavenly bodies,” as he put It
He wished to have an appropriates
of a million dollars or so from con
gress to perfect his device, so that the
humblest cttlsen could know Just
what Is going on in Mars and various
r-elestial points.
Kahn didn’t like to offend the man
with n flat refusal of congress to ap
propriate this money, end he put It to
him like this:
“We have gone over the situation
cnrefully, and the best lawyers among
us are of the opinion that we can do
nothing for the reason that congress
has no Jurisdiction over heavenly
bodies.”
Stimulating Effect of Advertising^
And one of the most wonderful
things about advertising Is the stimu
lating effect it has on the advertiser,
whether it be store factory or city.
Haven't you noticed that the merchant
who advertises in strong and effective
fashion is the one whose goc Is are
well displayed in spotless store,
whose business m lods ardff sound,
whose merchandis* neasures up to
th* highest stand rd’—Herbert •
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WORLD’S DEBT TO THE AGES
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Modern P-og’-ess. Thoroughly An»
lyzed Not So Much of an Im
provement on the Past.
Not by a grea’ deal ar” all the old- i
fashioned things admirable, but by no
means are they all inferior and out of
date because ’hey are old-fashioned
The best of ’hem we may strain all
our modern resources to equal, and 1
not do It. The best products of old
fashioned training and education are
still models for contemporary semi
naries As far hack as we can reach
Into the history of mankind we find
great people, easily the equals, and
often the superiors, ot our very best In
mental and moral qualities Our good
luck Is not that we are superior to
them in our human material, but that
we have at. our service an immensely
greater accumulation of knowledge,
mostly a )ut material things Thanks
to that, we understand the laws of
nature much, better than our fathers
did, and that has helped us to make
wonderful machines, and put them to
doing, after their fashion what, used
to be done by fingers, brains, and
brawn But spiritually we got our
highest inspirit:.)’! two thousand years
ago and have been trying over slin'*)
to reach up to it: and mentally, though
we use better tools, we are no better,
aurely, than Pythagoras or Aristotle
or the author of the Book of Job and
hundred? of thinkers who must have
long preceded any of them.—E- £1
Martin. In Harper's Magazine.
SALLY’S LOSS, LONDON’S GAIN
How Maid Servant Lost Husband and
Wealth and City Became Pos
sessed of Pins Hospital.
That bequests to Individuals and to
public benevolences are frequently tbe
result of a mere whim or of caprice,
has no better Illustration, perhaps,
than the ease of Thomas Oar. who
built and endowed the great Guy's
hospital of London, at a coot of £ 2S8r
292 nearly two hundred years «g»
Guy had a maid servant of strictly
frugal habits, who made his wishes
her careful study He resolved to
make her his wife The necessary
preparations were made tor the wed
ding; and among others many littls
repairp were ordered by Mr. Guy In
and about his house. Tbe latter In
cluded the laying of a new pavement
opposite the street door. It so hap
pened that Sally, the bride-elect, ob
served a piece of pavement beyond
her master's house that required
mending, and of her own accord she
gave orders to the workmen to do this.
This was done In the absence of Mr.
Guy. who on seeing more work done
than he had ordsnfl was informed
that the additional work had been
done by the mistress's orders. There
upon Guy told Sally she had forgotten
her position, and added: “If you take
upon yourself to order matters con
trary to my instructions before we are
married, what will you not do after*
I renounce my matrimonial intentions
to’/ard you." So Sally lost a rich and
grouchy husband and I-on don gained I
noble Institution tor her poor.
Woman's Story.
A lady wrote to 26 frtoada and told
thorn she was giving a “white ele
phant" party, and that each guest was
to como and bring the abeotateet moat
useless thltag she possessed. And the
whole 16 women turned up with their
husbands!
Another lady was giving what la
sailed a book tea—each gnsot to wear,
pinned on her dress, something to rep
resent the name of some book. The
name of each book had been guesaad,
with one exception.
The lady who still pnssled everyons
wore a photograph of her husband «
her bodice. No one could guess the
name of the book she Intended the
picture to represent, and after they
had all given It up” she told them—
"Life's Handicap."
Grotesque Names for Children.
Certain philanthropic Londoners
have proposed a Guild of Godparents
to save Innocent children from the
burden of grotesque names. Hundreds
of examples of this poor form of pa
rental wit occur in the birth registers
for the past few years. Noah’s Ark
Smith. Sardine Box. Jolly Death.
Judas Iscariot Brown, One-Too-Many
Johnson, Not-Wanted Smith, Bovrtl
Simpson. Merry Christmas Figgett,
Odious Heaton and Anno Domini
Davis are the names of children prob
ably living who will have to bear them
through life.
Portuguese Jury Drew Lets.
A new method of administering Jus
tice wan applied recently at Villa
Franca de Xlra In Portugal.
A prisoner was charged with coun
terfeiting. and as the Jury were even
ly divided and could not agree they
determined to draw lots. Two pieces
of paper were procured, one was In
scribed “guilty" and the other “Inno
cent.” They were then folded up,
shuffled, and one wus then chosen bf
a Juryman.
It happened to be the one Inscribed
•'guilty," whereupon the prisoner was
sentenced to the maximum penalty.
Legal Point of View.
,-First, Lawyer—I was looking ovei
m'y'b6y’& geometry lesson last night
I was" quite Interested, In that propo
sition. .that, tb'e three angles of a tri
angle are equal' to two right angles.
Second Lawyer—That iBn’t very
complicated
First Lawyer—No, but I was trying
to think what a man could do it h*
kad the other side of the cast
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Smith-LaForge, Tuckerman, Arkansas, Special Agent.
Indian Becomes Actor.
Big Wop, a full blooded Osage
Indian, who is a graduate of
Carlysle, decided alter all his
schooling that sitting in an office
waiting for some tribesman to
get into trouble, that he might
plead his case, was too slow a
life for a fast Indian to lead, so
he looked to other quarters for
a livelihood. After trying sever
al things, he decided that the
theatre was his calling, and he
has proven to have a remarkable
talent in his chosen line. He
portrays the part of Big Chief in
“A Texhs Ranger” that plays
here in a big tent Friday, May
30.
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blue. Large 2 oz. package 5
cents.
A Nervous Woman Find*
Relief After Many Year*
Women who suffer from extreme
nervousness, often endure much
suffering before fin ling iny relief.
Mrs. Daniel Kintner, of Defiance,
O., had such an experience, regard
ing which she says:
"1 had stomach
trouble »h»n I was
eighteen years old
that broke down
my health, and for
year* t suffered
with nervousness,
headache. Indiges
tion and nervous
spasms. Th«i
spasms got so bad
I would have them
three or four times
a week. After try
ing nearly every
remedy recom
mended. I began
taking Dr. Miles*
Nervine, and I must say it helped ms
wonderfully. I have had no severe nerv
ousness for several years ’*
MRS. DAN KINTNER.
1002 Pleasant St., DetUnce, O.
Many remedies are recommended
for diseases of the nervous system
that fail to produce results becauss
they do not reach the scat of the
trouble. Dr. Miles’ Nervine has
proven its value in such cases so
many times that it ii unnecessary
to make claims for it. You can |
prove its merits for yourself by
getting a bottle of your druggist;
who will return the price if you
rfes-eive no benefit. .
MILES MEDICAL CO.. Elkhart i *
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LODGE DIRECTORY.
Uo>al Arcanum.
Newport Council , No. 322,
Royal Arcanum meets 1st and
3rd Friday nights in each month
in the Opera House building..
Visiting brethren always wel
come.
S. M. Beattie, Regent,
W. C. Wishon, Sec. >
Woodmen of the World.
I Pecan Camp, No. 3, meets 1st
; and 3rd Thursday nights of each
month in Masonic Hall. Visit
I ing brothers welcome.
R. T. Simmons, C. C.
P. S. White, Clerk. j
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Modern Woodmen. ,
Newport Camp, No. 13,674,
M. W. A., meets Second Friday
night of each montu in Opera
House. Visiting brethren !uvtt
ed. „i - "
R. T. Simmons, Cc
Jackson Lodge, No. 191 F. <&
A. M.
Meets Second and Fourth
Tuesday nights of each month in
the Opera House Building, Se
cond and Hazel Streets.
Visiting Brothers always wel
nr\m a
Geo. M. Sink, W. M.
v S. M. Beattie, Sec. ,
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The I. 0. O. F.
The I. 0. 0. P. meets every
Monday night in Masonic Hall
corner Hazel and Second streets.
Visiting brothers always wel
come. !:"
Grover C. Gates, N. G. ,,
J. F. Parish, Secretary, .i«:
lit
Tribe ef Bea Hot. ' ■
The Tribe of Ben Htjr meen
in the Board Building evu/ty
Tuesday night at 8 o’clock by , fee
der of the chief.
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“If It Wasn’t For Motherfa
Love.” *
“Good-bye My Home, Sweet
Home.”
“She Sleeps Neath the Old
Ohio River.
BARKER’S.