THE BANK OF NEWPORT
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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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I CHRISTMAS EXCURSIONSI
Cheap Trips for Holiday Travelers to the , 1
1 North, East and / |
SOUTHEAST. |
Rates Cut in Two j
I DECEMBER];20TH, 21ST, 22D AND 26TH. I
i^ni> i Full details from your nearest Rock R
Island agent. I;
I 'GEO. H. LEE, JAS. HARRIS, 1
A_| Gen. Pass. Agt. Dist. Pass. Agt. is
» W « LITTLE, ROCK, ARK. |
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 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. ”
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.
J.M. Robinson,
M. D., Oph. D.
Eye, Ear, Nose,
Throat and Langs.
NEWPORT, ARK.
DR. IRA H. ERWIN
EYE, EAR, NOSE
AND THROAT. .
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OFFICE-8 and 9
Wishon Building
NEWPORT, ARK.
H
HE DID NOT EXPECT
Such a Pleasant Surprise
Mr. A. S. Eaton of Hillsboro, O.,
says: “I have used Paracamph for
Rheumatism in the joints of my hands
with good results—getting more relief
than from any other remedy. My
case is of many years standing and I
was not expecting a cure from one
bottle but it has done more for me
than anything I have over used.”
Paracamph is a combination of cam
phor and cooling, soothing, healing
oils. When applied, it opens the pores,
removes the congestion and draws out
all soreness, fever and inflammation.
Try it for Neuralgia, Rheumatic
Swellings, Sore Feet, Colds in the
Head, Catarrh, Sore Throat or Chest.
If it fails to give satisfaction your
money -will be refunded. Paracamph
is clean, safe and sure. Every bottle
gauranteed. Trial size 25c.; family
sizes 50c and $1.00. If you have never
tried Paracamph we will send you a trial
size free. Write to-day. The Paracamph
Co., Louisville, Ky.
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.
A good way to kill a holiday is
to thoroughly enjoy it, such as
would be your pleasure at Mil
lion’s Bowling Alley. 04dtf
SPECIAL RATES
Account of Christmas and New
Year’s holidays via the Iron
Mountain route. Dates of sale
Dec. 24, 25 and 31, and Jan 1.
TicketsLvill be sold to all points
on the Iron Mountain and will be
good for return up to and in
cluding January 4. Rate will be
one fare plus 50 cents, one fare
and one-third to apply where
latter basis makes less, adding
sufficient to make rate end in 0
or 5. Minimum selling rate of
50 cents will be observed,
btd Thos. H. Reamey, Agt.
Wanted — Hickory logs and
poles delivered f. o. b. tracks
Choctaw Railway. Write for
prices and particulars.
James Colbert & Co.,
92btf Tupelo, Ark.
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hydrographic records.
Practical Benefit Derived from Them
Illustrated in Geological
Survey Work.
The parable of the sower is appli
cable to all educational work. Much
of the mission of the great departments
maintained by the government, espe
: dally the scientific bureaus Is educa
tional in its nature. The government
is in the position of a progressive and
ambitious instructor in a modern col
lege, who, surrounded by every labora
tory and library facility, spends part
of his time in making original mvesti
| gations and part in communicating to
bis pupils the results of his studies.
The seed'he sows falls on all kinds of
i soil, but, however poor the ground, it
; is sure to bring forth fruit in some
measure, if there is life In the kernels
that he sows. There is great varia
tion in the returns from the different
kinds of educational work prosecuted j
by the government. The ultimate
value of much of it can be determined
only after the lapse of many years,
but some of it seems to bear fruit a
hundred fold from the very start. An
instance of this is seen in the results
that have followed the hydrographic
work of the United States geological
survey in many quarters. The cases
In which it has been of benefit to the
one state of Colorado, for example, are
numerous and interesting.
None of the irrigation work contem
plated by the government would,
ordinarily, be possible without long
delay, were it not for the hydrographic
j data accumulated by the survey dur
ing many years of observation and
measurement. In addition to that,
i the work of private individuals is con
I etantly facilitated by the same records.
| No large engineering enterprises are
j now undertaken without reference to
J the survey’s records concerning the
supply of water available at the
chosen site. TheeSouth Platte Land
and Reservoir company, which has
under way canals and reservoirs that
probably aggregate $500,000 in value,
has established stations at Orchard
and Kersey, Col., because of the
superior hydrographic- advantages of
fered by these localities. The choice |
of those points is directly traceable to
the data compiled by the survey.
Equally important is the fact that
projects that would have resulted dis
astrously have in numerous cases been
abandoned after a study of survey
records that throw light on the prob
able outcome. Data concerning the
flow of water on the Arkansas and
South Platte rivers prevented the ex
penditure of great sums of money on
the state canal in the first instance,
and upon the Pawnee pass reservoir
project in the second.
Survey data seem to lse in great
demand as unimpeachable testimony
in the legal controversies that have
arisen in this state in regard to irriga- j
tion matters. A most notable instance
is the case of the Colorado & South
ern railroad vs. the Denver Union
Water company, in which the sum of
$100,000 was involved.
Data obtained by the survey in re
gard to the amount of water power
available at certain pttices have influ
enced the plans of the Glenwood
Springs Light and Power company,
the New Century Light and Power
company, and also proposed power
companies on Clear and St. Vrain’s
creeks. None of these projects has
yet been carried to a conclusion, but
some of them will undoubtedly be
eventually constructed.
Colorado cities seeking a suitable
water supply have frequently con
! suited data obtained by the survey. *
In the case of Durango, in southwest
ern Colorado, the discharge of Florida
river was especially studied in order
to ascertain whether a gravity water
system would be feasible at that point.
The location of various manufactur
ing industries has been determined by
report from survey engineers on the
available water supply.
AN OXEN CAVALRY CORPS.
Natives Queerly Mounted for Police
Duty on the Island of
Madagascar.
The oddest cavalry in the world is
i maintained on the west coast of Mad
agascar by Governor General J. G. Gal
lieni. While the French troops in that
country are ample to m^et the occa
sional revolutionists, the governor gen
eral makes use of native talent for po
' lice work in out-of-the-way localities,
says the New York Herald.
On the west coast of Africa Is a
tribe of natives, possibly radically
connected with the Hovas, who are
known as the Sakalova, the most war
like tribe of the country. The natives,
in imitation of French troopers, or
ganized an oxen cavalry, corps, under
command of a French officer. They
are armed with modern long-handled
lances, or spears, and side arms.
Their uniform is khaki, with skull
caps. They ride barefooted, without
stirrups, sitting on their equipment,
cinched like a saddie, with cords made
of the native fiber plant, and a sort
of bridle of the cord, passing through
the nose of the beast.
The oxen are neither slow or scared,
and it is assumed would create havoc
with their horns among horse cavalry.
Servian Army’s Big Drum.
A curious feature connected with the
Servian army is the manner in which
most of the regiments carry the big
drum. It is not. ae in most countries,
slung in front of the man who plays it,
but is placed upon a two-wheeled cart
drawn by a single dog, which Lac been
30 trained that it keeps its place even
through the longest and most tedious of
marches. The drummer takes up a po
sition behind the car and performs on
the instrument as the animal #ulls it
along
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ONLY A RIVER WHITEFISH.
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Story of Man Who Knew Fish When
He Saw Them, Also a Bail
road “Ad.”
William C. Harris, angling ed
itor of Outing, and rightly called
the Izaak Walton of America, is a
cuan who can come pretty near to
telling exactly what fish you will
Bnd in Blank brook, in Blank
township of Blank county, Idaho,
rexas or Rhode Island. New fish
ss and new facts about them, he
loves as a miser loves gold, only
lie does not hoard them, but gath
ers them to give out again.
One day Harris chanced to be in
6t. Paul. He was--talking with
G-eneral Passenger Agent Charley
Fee, who said Harris should go to
Montana to catch grayling in a
stream at that time much adver*
tised.
Harris said there were no gray
ling in the stream. The railroad
man laughed at him as a New
Yorker who pretended to know
more about a certain Montana
river than a man who had fished it.
The dispute waxed wTarm. Har
ris was due in New York on a
certain day, and byjakingthe first
train west he could have six hours
on the stream and still keep his en
gagement. In 3G hours he wras on
the stream with a local represen
tative of the railroad. He waded
In, made one cast, and was fast to
a silvery thing that tore about
miglitny line mat out grayimg.
It came to the net, and the local
representative of the railroad
fairlv shouted:
“There, there; it’s a grayling!”
“Pack this carefully in moss,”
said Harris. “Send it to your gen
eral passenger agent.” Then he
walked to the telegraph office and
wired that official:
“Am sending one of your gray
ling. It’s an infernal old river
whiteflsh.”
Then he took the train for New
York and kept his engagement.
A MAN AND HIS SHOES.
The Thicker the Soles He Wears the
Larger the City from Which
He Hails.
“You can almost tell from
what country a man comes by the
weight of his shoes,” said J. MA
Davy, of Chicago, who represent*
a shoe company, to a Milwaukee
Sentinel reporter. “You might
not believe it,” he continued, “but
the thicker the soles of his shoes
the larger the city from whieb he
comes. In New York it is almost
a fad, and the soles of the shoe*
there are exceedingly heavy.
They are almost as heavy in Chica
go. Men there wear shoes to pro
tect their feet. They have not
time enough, it seems, to bothe»
with rubbers. So they make on*
pair of shoes do the work for all
kinds of weather. Here in Mil
waukee and in other cities of thi*
size. I notice, the men wear light
shoes and rubbers. 1 suppose
they have time enough to wear the
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find that in many places leather
boots are not worn at all for sot*
eral of the winter months. They
wear heavy socks and then put
rubber overshoes over these.”
German “Sunday Schools.”
In England the term “Sunday
■chool” has a definite meaning,
and is exclusively used to dehote
a place of religious teaching. In
Germany, however, the race for
commercial supremacy has led t*
the establishment of Sundaj
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
chanics 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 fo*
tailors, ironmongers, bookbind
ers, and followers of other trade*
—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 1902. The yield for
1903 is valued at £1,080,029, which
represents an increase of £395,059
ove* the total of the previous yea r.
The Adjutant.
The adjutant, or marabout, ts
a tall bird of India, about Bix feet
high. The wings expanded meas
ure abent 15 feet from tip to tip.
It readily swallows a cat or a haf*
whola.
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