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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.
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} 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.
I CHRISTMAS EXCURSIONS
Cheap Trips for'Holiday Travelers to the
North, East and |
SOUTHEAST. 6
Rates Cut in Two I
DECEMBER 20TH, 21ST, 22D AND 26TH.
Full details from your nearest Rock
Island agent.
GEO. H. LEE, JAS. HARRIS,
Gen. Pass. Agt. Dist. Pass. Agt.
LITTLE ROOK, ARK.
r'Vjn high power a smokeless
m FOR BIG GAME W
jlviraJ; with “Special SmokelessSteel” ‘NafHnb
’K barrel Fas a higher velocity and ■|yr
v lar&er diameter than the..30 .$mXi
5fr:‘:'W* r* calibre; makes a big hole and -WU
MIS’ ft goes deep; uses a straight taper iA
|j % £ shell not liable to stick or break •& ® •
^ Vj O ‘Oj ^he chamber; can^e used j ^
^j|MARL,N FIREARMS CO. |jfe
LIVERYMEN
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 andv Cas
tor Oil brands of Axle Grease.
T 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.
jAl is guaranteed to have no equal
for quality on the market.
WATERS=PIERCE
OIL COMPANY.
M. Robinson,
M. D., Oph. D.
• , Nose,
Throat and Longs.
, ARK.
A H. ERWIN
EAR, NOSE
THROAT..
and 9
Wishon Building
, ARK.
Wakeful?
Sleeplessness Is a
Sign of Nerve Trou
ble and Should
Be Looked To.
There are three different manifesta
tions of sleeplessness.
First, hardly to sleep a wink all night,
second, to lie awake a long time before
falling asleep; third, to fall asleep soon,
waking up after several hours and then
find it hard to sleep again.
They mean that somewhere in the
nerve fibres, somewhere in the brain
ceils, somewhere in the blood vessels
that carry blood to the brain, something
is radically wrong, and must be righted,
or the end may be worse than death.
To right it, take Dr. Miles' Nervine.
Some other symptoms of nerve trou
I tie are; Dizziness, Headache, Back
ache, Worry, Fretfuinaps. irritability.
Melancholy. Lack of Ambition.
They indicate diseases which mny lead
to Epilepsy, Fits. St. Vitus' Dance,
Nervous Prostration, Paralysis, Insanity.
Nothing will give such quick and last
ing relief as Dr. Mile3’ Nervine.
“My husband had been sick for weeks,
could not sit up to have ids bed made.
With all-thc medical help we could get
lie continued to grow worse. He could
neither sleep or eat. Our baby girl was
sent away, and all callers barred, be
cause he could not stand a bit of talk
ing. I read of a case of nervous pros
tration cured by L'r. Miles’ Restorative
Nervine. We began giving it to him,
and in a few days ho was able to tie
dressed. From that time he steadily
improved. Nervine saved his life.”—
MRS. A. G. HA5KIN, Freevllle, N. Y.
Tf'DTP'u* Write to us for Free Trial
X XxJ-ii-i Package of Dr. Miles’ Anti
Fain Pills, the New Scientific Remedy
for Pain. Also Symptom Blank. Our
Specialist will diagnose your case, tell
you wiiat is wrong, and how to right it,
i>ee. DR. M1LES MEDICAL CO.,
i a l a JKATORlhiS. ELKHART, TND.
CHAS. R. HITE
Farm, City and Timber
’.Lands Bought and Sold.
Farm Insurance
Notary Public.
Will Pay Your Taxes.
Call or write, No. 107 Hazel
street, Newport, Ark.
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
T>arties wanting crushed Lime
Stone Walks apply to me.
■NOTICE TO
I FOREIGN SUBSCRIBERS.
After December 1, 1904. the
Independent will be sent outside
of Jackson county only on sub
scriptions paid in advance, and
will bejstopped upon the expira
tion of the time for which they
are paid.
Subscribers will be notified two
weeks prior to the .expiration of
tneir subscription, and prompl
renewals will cause no skips in
receiving the paper.
Our outside mailing list has
reached those proportions which
make this step necessary to pro
tect ourselves, and we feel that
the change will not be objection
able, but rather”in accordance
with the wishes of our outside
readers, .
The Independent has'only one
ubscription 'price, $1.00 .a year
for the Weekly, and 40 cents per
month for the Daily, but the
postal charge for papers to out
side addresses, warrants us in
requiring these subscriptions to
be paid in advance.
This does not apply to any
postoffice in Jackson county, or
such towns as Bradford, Alicia,
Minturn, Newark, in closely con
tiguous territory.
THE BIG "TREES.
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A Wondrous and Awe-Inspiring
Product of Nature, Found
Only in California.
i California’s attraction are
i mostly of its own kind, peculiar
! to its kind and of nonets 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 rNer 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
J. H. Lothrop. G. A.,
903 Olive st.,
St. Louis, Mo.
HOLIDAY EXCURSION RATES
To the north via the Iron Moun
| tain Route. Rate one first-class
i standard fare plus $2 for the
round trip. Dates of sale Dec.
21, 22 and 26, with final return
limit of 30 days from da1 of
i sale. Territory to which tic kets
j will be sold is to points in
| Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota,
i South Dakota and Wisconsin,
! western portion of Illinois, west
| era portion of Colorado and the
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UUI U1C1 li pvx UVU VX iuiuovuxi,
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, Ml
btd Agent.
ISAW MILL FOR SALE.
Saw mill and 1,000 acres of
oak for sale cheap. Party de
sires to look after other business.
Apply at this office. This
is a bargain and can be secured
for $450.
Trustee’s Sale.
Notice is hereby given that I, the undersigned
Trustee, will, on
TUESDAY, JANUARY MTU, 1905,
At 10 o’clock a. m., at the east Third street door
of the Court House, in the city of Newport,
Arkansas, offer for sale at public auction, to the
highest bidder for cash, the following lands in
Jackson County, Arkansas, to-wlt:—
The northeast quarter of Section Ten (10),
Township Fourteen (14) North, Range Two (2)
West of 5th p. m.
This sale will be made by virtue of authority
given me in a certain deed of trust executed by
W. I. Rains, dated March 31st, 1903, and of rec
ord in Mortgage Record “36,” at page 271, of the
records of Jackson county, Arkansas, which was
given to secure certain indebtedness therein
mentioned. GUSTAVE JONES, Trustee.
Given this December 15th, 1904,
ASPARAGUS HAS A LINEAGE
Romans Held Vegetable in High Es
teem Many Years Eefore
Christ.
Of all food plants there is none w hich
has been so long known or been pos
sessed of so distinguished a lineage as
the asparagus. Its records reach back
almost to the beginning of authentic his
tory, and it is mentioned by the comic
poet Cratinus, who died about 425 B. C.
The Romans held the vegetable in high
esteem. The elder Cato wrote a work
which is still extant, “De re Rustica,”
and it treats at length of the virtues and
proper cultivation of asparagus. Pliny,
in his natural history, written about
60 A. D., has much to say about it. Ho
feelingly observes: “Of all the products
.of your garden your chief care should be
asparagus,” and he devotes several
chapters to its many good qualities and
the best methods of raising it. He as
serts that the soil about Ravenna was so
favorable to its production that three
heads grown in that district had been
known to weigh a Roman pound. This
pound seems to have been about equal
to 11 ounces in our day. so it would ap
parently have taken four of the stalks
to have reached a pound of our weight.
The asparagus being essentially a
southern plant, it is possible that the
stock growing in Italy was of a more
vigorous grow th than that of our north
ern clime. It is found all around the
shores of the Mediterranean and
branches off into four or live distinct
species besides the one ordinarily used
for edible purposes.
WON BY ORDINARY TALK.
Lack of Arm Gestures and Conversa
tional Tone Wins Heart of
Doubtful Maiden.
Congressman William H. Jackson, of
Maryland, was engrossed in discussing
I with a number of colleagues the deca
dence of oratory, says the New York Her
ald. “Sane people are not emotional,”
declared the congressman, “and the con
versational delivery of speech carries
I au UHCUlfjCUl
j audience as decs the effort of a declaim
er who indulges in brilliant periods with
an arm-swinging acompaniment.”
“You are right,” said a listener, “and
your statement reminds me of a young
lady who had two suitors. Both men
had about the same advantages and
prospects, but gossip declared that1 the
i girl would decide in favor of the man
who was a lawyer, for he knew better
i how to present and win his case. Gos
sips erred; the lawyer was rejected.
Later it was learned from a friend in
whom the betrothed had confided her
reason for her choice.
“ ‘Harry is convincing, but John is
just as convincing and does not have to
move his arms every time he wants to
say something.’ ”
BIG BEE RANCH IN ’FRISCO
Public School Principal of Coast City
Harvests a Third of a Ton
of Honey a Season.
There is a bee ranch with more than
1,000,000 bees in the heart of one of the
densest residence districts of San Fran
cisco. It is owned by Philip Prior, prin
cipal of a public school, and is in the
little back yard of his home. For ten
years he has kept his bees there, has
harvested about a third of a ton of
honey each season and has been at no
expense for food for his interesting and
Industrious pets. Although it is a dis
tance of two and one-half miles from
the Prior bee ranch to Golden Gate park,
the bees make the trip there, collect
loads of honey and get back to the hive
in two minutes, making a bullet-like
flight at the surprising rate of 150 miles
an hour. Mr. Prior has demonstrated
this by having an observer watch cer
tain bee-favored places in the park and
exactly timing the arrival there of bees
he purposely sprinkled with flour as
they issued from a hive. He has also
kept time on the absence of the whitened
bees.
BIG PROFIT IN BATHHOUSE
Average New York Seashore Resort
Receives Nearly $2,000 a Day
for Rooms Alone.
If you doubt that the nickel and quar
ter business doesn’t pay, consider the
money-making propensities of the aver
age seashore bathhouse around New
York, and make over your opinion. A
representative bathing pavilion has
1,500 bath compartments. It costs 20
cents to rent one. On a medium hot
summer’s day some $800 are derived
from renting these rooms, for the com
partments are used in the course of the
day by about 4,000 persons. Bathing
suits rent for 25 cents each. There
would be 8,000 of them for such a pavil
ion, which means $1,000 a day if half of
them are rented once; and it is fair to
assume that three-fourths of the 4,000
bathers pay five cents for the use of a
comb and brush—$150. ▲ total of near
ly $2,000, to say nothing or the proceeds
from restaurant, bar, barber shop and
Indoor baths.
Italy’s Emigrants.
In the past 30 years Italy has sent
more than 2,000,000 persons to the
United States, says the World’s Work.
A number of these have returned in the
course of time, taking with them care
fully hoarded savings. A very large
majority have remained in the United
States.
Japs Drink Much Water.
A gallon of water a day is drunk by
every Japanese w'ho practices, as nearly
all do, the gymnastics known as jiujitsu.
Cuba’s Population.
The population of Cuba is now over
1,685,000, which is an increase of more
lhan ten per cent, since IStOO.
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KEYSTONE OF
Kimball Piano
STRUCTURE.
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The sale of the Kimball Piano is the keystone of its unsurpassable quality, the founda"
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 alon^r this line (many making no pre
tense), but out of the few who have nearly reached the goal,
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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 pf the advantages of the largest output
fnoin any factory, we are able to sell the Kimball at • eery moderate price, quality coaudtred
The Kimball System and easy payment plan brings it within reach of all.
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Call or write for Catalogues, prices and terms.
ESTABLISHED *853.
Hollenberg Music Co.,
Factory 317 Main Street, Little Rock
Warerooms 243 Wabash Avenue, Chicago.
By Paracamph.
Mr E. L. Hawkins, 123 West 27th
St., New York City, Says:
“I have used Paracamph in a severe case
r.f Rheumatism, and will say that I got
immediate, relief. I have tried almost
•very preparation that is now before the
public, and find that Paracamph is with
out question the best remedy for Rheu
matism. I wish you success and heartily
recommed Paracamph ”
Sir Hawkins is only one out of many
thousands that have hen cured by the
wonderful penetrating remedy Paracamph
This new remedy is a scientific prepara
tion which when applied, opens the pores,
of the skin, allowing the soothing, cool
ing oils to penetrate to seat of the ailment,
removing the soreness and congestion,
drawing out the fever and inflammation
by inducing sweating. It sweats out the
jiain and aches, and this is Nature’s plan.
Don’t ruin your stomach with strong
internal medicines for Rheumatism, Neu
ralgia, Sore Joints, etc. We guarantee
Paracamph to relieve and cure you if used
as directed. If it fails your druggist will
refund your money. If your druggist don’t
Handle Paracamph ask him to get for you.
If he won’t do this send direct to us.
But don ’ t take any substitute because there
is nothing just as good. Paracamph is sold
only in 25 cent, 50 cent, and $1.00bottles.
The 50 cent size contains three times as
much as the 25 cent size; the $ 1.00 bottles
eight times as much as the 25 cent size.
The Paracamph Company Louisville.
K.V., V. 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.
Direct connection to and from
Newport.
W. R. Thompson, Agent.
A. Mortensen has moved his
cleaning and pressing shop to the
newly remodeled building oppo
site city jail. 86dtf
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.
WASH BLUE
Costs io cents and equals 20 cents
worth of any other kind of bluing,^
Won’t Spill or Break
Canrt Spot Clothes^
DIRECTIONS FOR USE:
WJjfle^tlels
around in the Water•
all wise Grocers.
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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.”