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CHILL and FEVER
CURE
_
(This Picture oa Every Bottle)
•Cures Chills, Pavers, Malaria, Bilious*
ness. Take it as a General Tonic and at all
times in plaoe of Quinine. Breaks up Cougfhs,
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SEVEN
| WONDERS !
of the American Continent;
Yellowstone National Park;
Great Shoshone Falls; The
ColumbiaRi ver; Mount Hood;
The Big Trees of California;
The Yosemite; Lucin “Cut
k Off, ’ ’ across Great Salt Lake
^ can all be seen on a trip
■ over the
■ Union Pacific
and connections
1 TO THE
j
Lewis and Clark
Exposition
PORTLAND, OREGON,
June I to October 15, 1905.
Inquire of
J. H. Lothrop, G. A.,
903 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. I
j J
i
[Newport Laundry.
SAM LEE, Prop.
i All kinds laundry work done
neatly and promptly.
Also clothing cleaned and
dyed. Prompt service and rea
sonable prices.
Laundry in L. B. Harris’ old
stand, near Chastain’s grocery.
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The Great East and West Line
/Icross the Entire States ot
Texas and Louisiana j
fO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
fS (Meals a la Carte.) A
rates. New book 1
b
G. P. A., B
Texas, j1
*tfDER EXPLOSION
BURNS SMALL BOYS.
Would, April 26.-While
here, two little boys,
a'\Ieriwether and Ellis Seitz,
|''er'badly burned about the
j *ace ead and arms by a prema
i ur® plosion of powder. Their
e^"e, .lrs» front hair and consid
frab. Rin vvere burned off, and
it will severa] dayg before the
°yf 1 look like themselves
again.
VETERARY surgeon
CIING TO NEWPORT.
| Er- H’ins veterinary sur
■ geon and wju be jn ]sjew_
port the 8bd 4tb 0£ eacb mon^b
at Robms0 stables. I success
fully treat (Jiseases 0f horses,
mules and ttle. j cure and
prevent the;geaseg hlaek-leg,
authrax, P.eye and Texas
fevei. Spec, attention given
dental surger References fur_
mshed on app\tion> 05btf
SAW mii|"or sale.
Saw mill ani®p acres o£
oak for sale chei partv de
sires to look afteilherbusjness
Apply at this off, Thig min
is a bargain and <* ^ gecured
for $450.
SNAILS OVERRHi^ CITT
lahabiUnta of ladlaaji __
’»• urfta>
lao lUghl Hoot a KU1
tb* Pcata wltby
A plague of anaila, or
dieted people call the
Jeffersonville. IndM in
natancea are cited whe;
been compelled to no
appearance was after 1
ruary, 1884, but they b
*o bad as at present,
not exactly like a snail,
them in some respects,
shells snd are night raid
New York World.
At no place in the city
flood water failed to reach
the slugs been seen, but i:
fmthinna.h1» minrtera fltR_
numerous, rn size they ra: „
one to six inches in length, bei
a quarter to an inch in diamet
not until ten o'clock at night
snails come out of thefr hldin„
under houses, and slug hunting
have become fashionable.
Armed with a lamp and a cup of salt,
the people hunt for the pest, and when
■ slug is found its days are numbered,
for the smallest particle of salt means
death. The more salt the quicker the
work.
They leave behind a slimy track, that
furnishes a clew to their movements.
Tn some places fine carpets have been
ruined, the slimy tail eating like acid.
One of the most peculiar character
istics of the slugs is their ability to get
their large bodies through a small
space. They flatten out almost as thin
•» a knife blade, allowing them to crawl
through a good sized door crack.
Mads Soup of Oongreasana’Q Banal
Representative Mahon, of Pennsyl*
vanla, la laughing over a letter Just ra.
eelved from a nioe old lady residing la
his congressional district He sent a
package of beans secured from hla
Quota at the agricultural department to
this lady, thinking she would like to
plant them in her garden.
In replying, the lady addressed the
Pennsylvanian, whose name was writ
ten indistinctly on the frank, as ‘“Mr.
m ou c»an almost tell Iron
'hat country a man comes by the
eight of his shoes,” said J. W.
vry, of Chicago, who represents
•hoe company, to a Milwaukee
Stinel reporter. “You might
0‘believe it,” he continued, “but
^thicker the soles of his shoes
theirger the city from which he
In New York it is almost
* fa and the soles of the shoes
then are exceedingly heavy.
Thev*e almost as heavy in Chica
P°- in there wear shoes to pro
tect tlr feet. They have not
time eiagh, it seems, to bother
with nbers. So they make one
pair of ioes do the work for all
l kinds ofveather. Here in Mil
waukee £d in other cities of this i
sire, I no»e, the men wear light1
shoes am. rubbers. I suppose
I they have me enough to wear the
overshoes. Up in the country 1
find that innany places leather
boots are nc worn at all for sev
eral of the \inter months. They
wear heavy s»cks and then pul:
rubber overshies over these.” ,
German “Sindav School*." 1 i
ONLY A RIVER WHITEFISK
\ Story of Man Who Knew Fish Wh«
He Saw Them, Also a Bail
road “Ad.”
" ' "
William C. Harris, angling ec
itor of Outing, and rightly calle
the Izaak Walton of America, is
man who can come pretty near t
telling exactly what fish you wil
find in Blank brook, in Blan!
township of Blank county, Idahc
Texas or Rhode Island. New fist
es and new facts about them, h
loves as a miser loves gold, onl;
he does not hoard them, but gatt
! ers them to give out again.
One day Harris chanced to be ii
8t. Paul. He was talking wit!
General Passenger Agent Charle;
Fee, who said Harris should go t<
Montana to catch grayling in i
stream at that time much adver
tised.
Harris said there were no gray
Hng in the stream. The railroad
man laughed at him as a Nev
i Yorker who pretended to knou
more about a certain Montant
river than a man who had fished it
The dispute waxed warm. Har
ris was due in New York on a
certain day, and by taking the first
train west he could have six houri
on the stream and still keep his en
gagement. In 36 hours he was od
the stream with a local represen
tatlve of the railroad. He waded
In, made one cast, and was fast to
a silvery thing that tore about
mightily like that of a grayling.
It came to the net, and the local
representative of the railroad
fairly shouted:
“There, there; ft's a grayling!"
“Pack this carefully in moss,"
said Harris. “Send it to your gen
eral passenger agent." Then he
yralked to the telegraph office and
re'\ that official:
. b
n sending one of your gray
s an infernal old river
took the train for New
t his engagement.
ND HIS SHOES.
ticker the Soles He Wears the
* Larger the City from Which
Ho Hails.
M&CKin. bnesatd: Thos6 wer6 splen*
did beans you sent me. I eooked them
for dinner and they made the finest
soup I ever tasted. Thank you ever sc
much **■—Washington Post
Consoling.
George—-Ethel, dear. I’m going tola
terview your father to-night
Ethel—All right, George. And If any.
thing happens I’ll come to the hospital
twice a day until you are able to be out
sgaia.—Chicago Daily Neva,
The Magnetic North.
The belief lu the constancy of the
uagnetlc compass to the north pole hu
lot the least foundation In fact. At ev*
nry different place on the globe It points
n a different direction, and only one or
wo of them are due north. In London
or Instance, It points to a place aboet
7 degrees west of north. Seventy-a»«
■ears ago It was still further away, b*.
ng then 24*4 degrees, or a quarter of
he way around to the west. In the year
580 it pointed 11 degrees east. Then It
iegan to move north till 1659, when tf
olnted due north. But It remained
hus only for a moment, passing around
d Its greatest deflection In 160 years.
Lgain it turned Jn 1820, and Is still mov
ie nearer the north. It will not reach
bat point for nearly a century and a
alf, and so It will « on backward and
uward forever —IL T. Hesaig.
J h- -
A liulDMa Maxim.
Manufacturer—You ought, to be able
a sell some of those goods to Eilma.
It’d never know the difference.
Salesman—I thought r<| go and see
Im to-morrow.
"Go at once. Never put off till to
morrow whom you can Ao to-day."—
hiladelphla Ledger.
In England ihe term “Sunday
school” has a definite meaning
and is exclusively used to denote
a place of religious teaching. In
Germany, however, the race fo»
commercial supremacy has led ts
the establishment of Sunday
schools at which mechanics are
given practical instruction ia
their trades. There is, for exam
pie, a school for masons, at which
the students, many of them me
chanies who work during the
week, spend several hours on Sun
day morning in learning the high
er branches of their craft. Sim
ilarly there are Sunday schools for
tailors, ironmongers, bookbind
ers, and followers of other trades
-even barbers and blacksmiths.
Gold in New South Wales.
Preliminary returns issued by
the department of mines, New
South Wales, show a big increase
in the gold production of that
state for 1903, as compared with
the output for lli)2. The yield for
1903 is valued at £1.080,029,which
represents an in -ease of £395,0 59
ove* the total of e previous year,
Tk® A jtaat. i
Ihe adjutant, marabout, ^|s
a l-all bird of In( about six fe&
high. The wings panded meftA
Jre about 15 fee tj tQ ^ V
It readily swall*'
vhol*
| mvtvoui v vt ouvvtoo nao ouilc
crowned his efforts and what he
thinks of that portion of qountry
! in which he is located,
i Letters should not be less than
' 300 nor more than 1,500 words in
| length, and will be used for the
! purpose of advertising the South
i west. Letters are desired not
| only from farmers and farmers’
! wives, but also from merchants,
! school teachers, clergymen; from
| everyone who has a story to tell
! and who knows how to tell it.
! Poetical contributions are not
i wanted.
All cannot win prizes, but by
their contributions they can as
sist the Western Trail in its ef
forts to colonize and upbuild the
Southwest.
Contest closes June 30, 1905.
Prizes will be awarded as soon
thereafter as results can be de
termined. Address the Western
Trail, 736-744 Van Buren street,
Chicago, 111.
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Every day from March 1 to
May 15 the Union Paci,fic will
sell one way colonist tickets at
the following rates fron^ Mis
souri river terminals, Council
to Kansas City inc
$30.00 ONLY ~ $30.00
St. Louis to
California
and the Northwest, via
Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Route
Through Pullman Sleeping Cars Daily.
Through Tourist Sleeping Cars daily via Missouri Pacific
Railway. Tuesdays and Saturdays via Iron Mountain Route.
For full information address
J. H. QINET, Jr., Traveling Passenger Agent,
_ St. Louis, Mo.
$20 to Ogden and Salt Lake
City.
$20 to butte, Anaconda and j
Helena.
$22.50 to Spoka|ne and Wenat-!
chee, Wash. .
$25 to Everett, Fairhaven,
Whatcom, Vancouver and Vic
toria, via Huntirlgton and Spo
kane.
$25 to' Portlan and Astoria,
or to Tacoma Seattle via
Huntington
Huntington and Spokane.
$25 to Ashland, Roseburg, Eu
gene, Albany and Salem via
Portland.
$25 to San Francisco, Los An
geles, San Diego and many other
1.
1 Rheumatism
Like Neuralgia, is now known
to be a nervous disease. The
kidneys become weak through
1 lack of nerve energy, and fail
l to filter the uric acid from the
:> blood; this acid attacks and
1 burns the nerves and muscles,
j and consumes the- oil in the
, joints, producing inflammation,
’ | fever, swelling—pain.
f To cure Rheumatism, then,
P you must restore the kidney
nerves and muscles, and neu
* j tralize the effect of the acid
upon the joints and tissues
* I with Dr. Miles’ Restorative
* Nervine, a nerve medicine,
r which has made many cures of
l! this painful disease. Nervine
i strengthens the kidney nerves
■ and increases the circulation,
and relief is assured.
“Before I took Dr. Miles’ Nervine,
’ | I had been looking for a cure for
| ; Rheumatism for 25 years. The last
1 time 1 was laid up for several months,
i | could not get out of bed or set foot
on the floor. I tried remedies to rub
■ j in, to drink, doctors' prescriptions,
etc., but none of them had any effect.
1 One day I read about Dr. Miles’
Nervine and got a bottle. After the
first dose I had a good night’s rest,
and after taking half a bottle the
pains disappeared, and I went out and
walked all around the town. In a week
I went to work, and was perfectly
cured, but continued to take the
medicine for a time, to make sure the
pains would not come back.”
THOS. I.ONO.
313 N. Chatham St., Racine, Wis.
Dr. Miles’ Nervine Is sold by your
druggist, who will guarantee that the
first bottle will benefit. If It fails, ha
will refund your money.
Mihs Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind
I ““
$300 FOR LETTERS
ABOUT THE SOUTHWEST.
The Western Trail magazine
offers six prizes aggregating in
value $300 in railroad transporta
tion for letters from residents of
Arkansas, East Colorado, Mis
souri, Kansas, Indian Territory,
Oklahoma, Texas and New Mex
ico.
It wants letters that will in
duce energetic and ambitious
men and women to settle in the
great and growing Southwest
and there engage in farming,
cattle raising, dairying, fruit
growing and similar pursuits.
To accomplish the purpose
which it has in view, the West
ern Trail offers the following
prizes in railroad transportation
for the six letters which, in the
opinion of a competent judge,
shall be deemed best suited to
its requirements:
First prize, $100 in railroad
transportation.
Second prize, $75 in railroad
transportation.
Third prize, $50 in railroad
transportation.
Fourth prize, $25 in railroad
transportation.
Fifth prize, $25 in railroad
transportation. j
Sixth prize, $25 in railroad
transportation.
THE CONDITIONS ARE EASY.
Letters should deal with th
writer’s experiences since he set
;led in the Southwest. They
should tell how much money he
lad when he rrived, what he
lid when he first came, what
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. AND THE ■ I
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