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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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Cheap Trips forjjHoliday Travelers to the
North, East and
SOUTHEAST.
Rates Cut in Two ,
DECEMBER 20TH, 21ST, 22D AND 26TH.
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LITTLE ROOK, ARK.
r barrel Fas a higher velocity and
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' FARMERS
DRAYMEN
And all users of axle grease
that want the best grease on the
market and that recognize a good
thing when shown its merits, we
recommend our Golden and Cas
tor Oil brands of Axle Grease.
It is put up in 1 pound tin boxes
and 3 pound tin buckets. For
sale by all up-to-date merchants.
Ask for it and take no substitute.
It is guaranteed to have no equal
for quality on the market.
WATERS=PIERCE
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We Risk It
Druggists Who Sell
Dr. Miles’ Nervine
Agree, If It Fails,
To Refund Cost.
Of course we reimburse the druggist.
You know him, and trust him.
Dr. Miles' Nervine is medicine for your
nerves.
It cures diseases of the internal or
gans, by giving tone to the nerves which
make these organs work.
It is a novel theory—not of anatomy,
but of treatment; first discovered by
Dr. Miles, and , since marie use of by
many wide-awake physicians, who ap
preciate its value in treating the sick.
If you are sick, we offer you a way to
be made well—Dr. Miles' Nervine.
This medicine is a scientific cure for
nerve disorders, such as Neuralgia,
Headache, Doss of Memory, Sleepless
ness, Spasms, Backache, St. Vitus'
Dance. Epilepsy or Fits. Nervous Pros
tration. etc.
By toning up the nerves. Dr. Miles'
Restorative Nervine will also cure those
diseases of the Internal organs due to
a disordered nervous system.
Some of these are; Indigestion, Bil
ious Headache, Kidney Trouble, Chronic
Constipation, Dropsy, Catarrh, Rheuma
tism, etc.
“My brother had nervous prostration,
and was not expected to live. I pre
vailed upon him to try Dr. Miles'
• Restorative Nervine, and now he has
fully recovered. You remember I wrote
you how it saved my life a few years
ago, wh>'n I had nervous trouble. I
preach its merits to everyone."—REV.
M. 1> MYERS. Correctionville, Iowa.
tiriFp Write us and we will mail
JJ y.-u Free Trial Package of
Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills, the New,
Scientific Remedy f >r Pain. Also Symp
tom Blank for our Specialist to diagnose
your case and tell you what isf wrong
and how to right it. Absolutely Free.
Address; DR. MILES MEDICAL CO.,
D-iiLOi'-VTuRlES, ELKHART, INJD.
^CHILL and FEVER
CURE
(This Picture on Every Bottle)
Cures Chills, Fjvers, Malaria, Bilious
p.ee>a. Take it as a General Tonio and at all
times in place of Quinine. Breaks up Coughs, j
Colds and LaGrippo. WO CORE, NO PAY
J. C. MENDENHALL,
Sole O- ruer E-vj.csVille. Indians
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THE BIcfTREES.
A Wondrous and Awe-Inspiring
Product of Nature, Found
Only in California.
California’s attraction are
mostly of its own kind, peculiar
to its kind and of nonefis this so
emphatically true as that unique
product, the big trees. The age
of these colossi is from 1,500 to
2,000 years.
The Mariposa grove, which
can be visited while en route
to the Yosemite, contains some
of the largest. In the Calaveras
grove are from ninety to one
hundred of huge size. Near
Santa Cruz is a beautiful grove
of redwood big trees, which will
well employ a day’s pleasant visit.
These can be best reached by the
Union Pacific, whose fast trains
from Missouri river reach Cali
fornia 16 hours ahead of all com
petitors.
Pamphlets and maps describ
ing the wonders of California,
and full information about the
most comfortable and direct
route to the Pacific Coast, can be
obtained of
i. H. Lothrop. G. A^,
903 Olive st.,
St. Louis, Mo.
A COMEPLETE TRIUMPH.
A complete triumph in the art
of play-building can be clearly
illustrated by seeing “The Mid
night Express,” soon to appear
here. The four acts of gorgeous
stage settings are marv'elously
beautiful, producing an enchant
ing effect. A train of cars three
hundred feet long, a light house, a
storm at sea, are among the
scenic splendors of “The Mid
night Express,” which is said to
be the purest and most intense
of melo-dramas of this genera
tion. A company of sixteen
cleverly interpret the interesting
plot. There are also six special
ty artists and two talented chil
dren performers in “The Mid
night Express” which comes to
Newport theatre for one night,
Dec. 13.
HOLIDAY EXCURSION RATES
To the north via the Iron Moun
tain Route. Rate one first-class
standard fare plus $2 for the
round trip. Dates of sale Dec.
21, 22 and 26, with final return
limit of 30 days from date of
sale. Territory to which tickets
will be sold is to points in Iowa,
Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota,
South Dakota and Wisconsin,
westerp portion of Illinois, west
ern portion of Colorado and the
northern portion of Missouri.
Parties desiring to take advan
tage of the above rates will
please notify me about three days
before they intend starting, so I
can arrange to have tickets on
hand. Thos. H. Reamey,
RkcARDlNG MEN AND WOMEN
According to a Woman Writer Men
Are Loyal and "Easy to Get
Aioug With.”
Various apt, incisive comments made
by Gail Hamilton almost half a century
ago on "Men and Women" are in most
respects equally full" of force to-day,
with all the vaunted progress woman
has made, says the New York Tribune.
“Men are strong; they do things, and j
don’t mind it,” admits this vigorous
woman writer. "They can open doors j
in the dampest weather. They can un
strap trunks without breaking a blood
vessel, turn keys in a moment which
women have iosi their tempers and I
lamed their fingers over for hrfl an j
hour; look down precipices and not be j
dizzy. . . . You may strike them
with all your might on the chest, and H
doesn’t hurt them in the least tl mean
id you are a w oman.) They never grow
nervous and cry. They go upstair*
three at a time. They p«t one hand
on a four-rail fence and leap It without
touching. In short, they do everything
easily which women try to do and can
not.
“Moreover,” continues this commen
tator, “men are so ‘easy to get along
with.’ They are conveniently blind and
benevolent. Women criticise you, not
uajiist%, perhaps, but relentlessly. 1
They judge you in detail, men only 1%
the whole. If your dress is neat, well
fitting and well toned, men will not no
tice It, except a few man-milliners and
a few others who ought to be. If yon
will only sit still, hold up your head
and speak w hen you are spoken to, yon
can be very comfortable. I do not mean
that men cannot and do not appreciate
female brilliancy, but if your are a good
listener and in the right receptive mood
you can spend an hour very pleasantly
without it.
“But & woman finds out in the first
three minutes that the fringe on your j
dress is not a match. In four she has
discovered that the silk of your sleeves
is frayed at the edge. In five that the
binding of the heel of your boot is
worn out By the sixth she has satis
#«**»+/>*•!1 v aoinn/l ruhat at>o cmnnDPi’O.i
the first moment she ‘set eyes on you,'
that you trimmed your bonnet your
self. The seventh assures her that your
collar is only ‘Imitation;’ and when you
part, at the end of ten minutes, she has
calculated with tolerable accuracy the
cost of your dress, has leveled her men
tal glasses at all your innocent little
subterfuges and knows to a dead cer
tainty your past history, present cir
cumstances and future prospects. Well,
what harm if she does? None in par
ticular. It is only being stretched on
the rack a little while. You have no rear
son to be ashamed. Your boots ore only
beginning to be shabby, and we all know
the transitory nature of galloon. Your
fringe is too dark, but you ransacked
the city and did your beat, ‘angels could
do no more.’ You trimmed your bonnet
yourself and saved two dollars, which
was just what you intended to do. Your
lace is not reai, according to the oant oi
the shopkeepers, but it is real—real
cotton, real linen, real silk, or what
ever the material may be, and yon
never pretended it was Honiton or
point. . . .
“But if men, in their strength and
courage and independence, areenviable*
men in their gentleness are irresistible,’
concluded the writer. “You expect gen
tleness in women. It is their attribute
and characteristic. You do not admire
its presence so much as you deplore or
condemn its absence. But manly
derness has a peculiar charm . . .
and you meet It everywhere—la the
house and by the wayside la
city and country, under broad
cloth and homespun. Too may
travel from one end of the country to
the other, and meet not only civility,
but the most cordial and considerate
kindness. You may be as ugly aa It la
possible for virtue to be, and tired and
travel-stained and stupid, and your
neighbor of a day will show you all the
little attentions you could claim from a
iatner or Dromer or nusoana. . . .
Women —ould better improve the
rights they have before going mad after
others they know not of. If men will be
bo good as to do the law making, and
stock jobbing, and bribing, and quarrel
ing and stump speaking, I shall be great
ly obliged to them. . . . Am I en
thusiastic over this involuntary out
gushing of the stream of kindness which
flows so continually from men to us
ward? I have a right to be. A nation
of men loyal, not to grace, beauty, mag
nificence, but to womanhood, to the
highest impulses of human nature, to the
love element of the universe, is a thing
to be enthusiastic about.”
The Picture Hat.
“I witnessed an amusing incident at
one of the local theaters the other
evening,” remarked the theater-goer
“A woman, wearing a large picture
hat, was seated directly in front of an
elder’y man, who was straining hl«
neck in an endeavor to see what was
happening on the stage, and, of course,
it was only possible for him to see but
one-third of the performance.
"The second act had begun, and 1
could plainly see that his anger was
Increasing. At last, when he could
stand It no longer, he lightly tapped
the woman on the shoulder, and, in aa
gentle tone as he possibly could mus
ter, said:
" ‘Madam, pardon me, but I paid two
dollars for this seat, and your hat—'
“ ‘My hat cost |25, sir-r-r!* came tbs
haughty reply.
"The conversation was at an and.*
—Philadelphia Press.
A Busy Family.
"Whar’s Bill?”
"Huntin’ rabbits.”
I "An’ Dick?”
"Haulin’ firewood to cook ’em."
‘‘An’ the old man?”
‘‘Tradin’ a bale o’ cotton ter a be*
| s’ matches!’’—Atlanta Constitutior.
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Kimball Piano
STRUCTURE.
The sale of the Kimball Piano is the keystone of its unsurpassable quality, the founds* r
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. Hie 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 faesnr. we are able to sell the Kimball at a vary uwoeraia price, quality eeeiidwed
The Kimball system and easy payment plan brings it within reach of ail.
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Mrs. A. T. Meal, of Maryville, BCo.
Says:
"A postal card is to small to begin my
praise of your wonderful preparation, Par
acamph. My first experience with Para
camph was about one year ago; my little
girl was very badly burned with hot grease
One of my kind neighbors recommended
Paracamph and gave me what she had on
hand, as we live in the country’ and could
not immediately gat it from town. The first
application gave relief. We used about
three bottles and the bums were healed up
nicely, although they were very bad bums.
My little girl was playing and fell knock
ing the grease in her lap; she was burned
on both legs from the knees almost to her
hips, and in removing her clothing a great
deal of the skin came off, leaving her legs
perfectly raw. I have used Paracamph for
a great many things since then, and never
like to be without it in my house. I have
quite a family and find it a great task to
write, but I hope my letter will reach you
in time, as I am a great friend of Para
camph. I could tell yon more of its good
works but guess this will be enough for
this time. I am always willing to sound
the praise of a valuable remedy.”
This letter should convince all mothers
of the necessity for keeping in their homes
a bottle of Paracamph. This wonderful
remedy is needed almost every day in the
year. It not only relieves pain quickly
but it heals all manner of wounds without
leaving ugly scars. Get a bottle of Para
camph today, and if it fails to do what we
claim for it and if you don't find it is the
most useful remedy you have ever had in
your home, we will refund your money.
All good druggist sell it in 25 cent, 50
cent, and $1.00 bottles. The Paracamph
Company, Louisville, Ky., U. S. A.
HOLIDAY RATES.
The Rock Island System will
sell .round trip tickets to all
points in the southeast at one
fare plus $2.00. Dates of sale,
Dec. 20, 21, 22 and 26; return
limit 30 days from date of sale,
j Direct connection to and from
Newport.
W. R. Thompson, Agent.
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Weems Laundry. 1
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.
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