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THE BANK OF NEWPORT
Solicits the acccounts of depositors who desire
the accommodations of a first—lass, well
equipped and reliable banking housed
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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CHRISTMAS EXCURSIONS
Cheap Trips for^Holiday Travelers to the
North, East and
SOUTHEAST.
Rates Cut in Two
IDECEMBERI20TH, 21ST, 22D AND 26TH.
Full details from your nearest Rock
Island agent.
GEO. H. LEE, JAS. HARRIS,
Gen. Pass. Agt. Dist. Pass. Agt.
_ UTTLLiROGK, 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 Longs.
NEWPORT, ARK.
DR. IRA H. ERWIN
\EYE, EAR, NOSE
AND THROAT..
OFFICE-8 and 9
Wishon Building
NEWPORT, ARK.
OLD ARMY SURGEON
Of the War of 1861-5
Speaks to His Comrades and
Friends.
W. F. Green, 75 Arcade, Nashville,
j T#nn., says: “I find Paracamph to be
all you claim for it and worthy of
much commendation. It is a most ex
cellent combination. I used it espec
ially for piles with excellent results.
£ recommend Paracamph to my friends
and will continue to do so when oc
casion permits.”
Paracamph is a combination of Cam
phor and cooling, soothing oils. It is a
safe, clean household remedy which
you need every day in the year. Will
absolutely prevent blood poisoning
from any wound if used promptly. Re
lieves instantly and cures Burns, Cuts,
Sprains, Sore Muscles, Bruises, Old
Sores, Rheumatic Swellings and Pains
of all kinds. All druggists guarantee
it. 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.
Wanted — Hickory logs and
poles delivered f. o. b. tracks
Choctaw Railway. Write for
prices and particulars.
James Colbert & Co.,
92btf Tupelo, Ark.
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.
Tickets 'will 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.
BERRIES FOR MARKET.
It Pan to Ralae Thom, Provided the
Crop la Diapoaed Of la the Rlskl
W»T aad Place.
Having been asked, by a fanner sub
scriber, if it will pay to grow berries
for market, in reply I will say "yes”—
if the business is managed right, and
the crop disposed of in the right way
and place. A good many of our
towns are not properly supplied with
berries; what they get. if any, are
second class—the overflow or refuse
from the cities, where the market is
often glutted. The commission men
send circulars out before the berries
are ripe, giving prices of berries shipped
from the south, inducing many home
growers to ship. By the time their ber
ries get ripe the demand is supplied,
prices drop, and the berries being a per
ishable product, have to be sold for
what they will bring.
My advice is to grow berries for local
market towns that are not well supplied.
Such places can be found in the west;
land can be bought for less than half
that close to large cities, pickers are
cheap, and, as a rule, more reliable.
Berries that get too ripe on account of
rain, and which will, not do to ship, can
be sold In the home market; all the
rough handling of the railroad men,
shipping expenses, commissions, etc.,
are saved, also crates and boxes. Then
when consumers get fresh, wholesome,
home grown berries, they often get twice
as many, and the growers in the local
market often can regulate the price.
It is a mistake to plant too large an
acreage. We have to pay two cents a
quart for pickers; one cent for straw
berries and blackberries and one and
one-half to two cents for raspberries.
The pickers can make good wages. I
have had boys and girls under 16 years
old make a dollar a day. I, 18 years
ago, sold as high as |40 worth of straw
berries in a day. I remember selling
five dollars worth of raspberries from
one picking off one row the length of ten
acres. Blackberries, 12 or more years
ago, were not profitable, as so many
gTew wild; but of late years, growing
blackberries has become more profitable
. -Jacob Faith, in Midland Farmer,
PROTECTION FOR PLANTS.
A Simple System Which WTTT Pay (or
Itself In the Conrie of a
Single Week,
Market gardeners, and even the mak
er of a kitchen garden, feel the need of
some wholesale means of protecting
newly set plants from the drying effects
of sun or air. ▲ cloudy day is usually
taken for transplanting, but the sun
may come out with scorching heat at
any moment, and much harm be done to
unshaded plants. Make a reel, aa shown
in the accompanying illustration, and a
lot of wire supports, using No. 12 wire.
Make the reel roller and the wire sup
ports about a foot wide.
Now buy a lot of cheap cotton cloth
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a yard wide, and ae long as the rows of
plant# over which it is to be used. The
cloth can be divided Into three stripe,
each strip being tacked at one end to a
reel, and at the other end to a 15-inch
rod of wood. (Stick the sides of the reel
Into the earth at one end erf the row with
wire supports at Intervals along the row,
and pull the cloth along over the plants,
fastening the end at the las& wire sup
port, as shown In the cut. Occasionally
slip a wire support down over the cloth
to keep the latter from blowing off the
wire supports below it. Wind up the
cloth on the reel when the plants no
longer need cover. — Orange Judd
Farmer.
Tie Right Way of Pruning.
Set a green hand to pruning trees,
where limbs of any size are to b« re
moved, and the chances are ten tf- one
that he will commence on the «5>per
side of the limb and saw it off, sawing
through until, by Its own weight, it falls,
tearing down the bark and wood, inflict
ing an ugly wound which it may require
years to heal, and which, if not carefully
protected from the weather, will cause
such decay as to destroy the tree. To
prevent injury to the tree, saw one
fourth or one-third through on the under
side, and then saw on the upper side, or,
with very large limbs, to have them sup
ported by a crotched pole, held by an as
sistant below.—N. T. Tribune-Farmer.
Startiaf iMly VtgatabUa.
Select a warm, sunny place, dig a
trench four feet deep, fill with horse ma
nure well packed down and made moist,
put on six Inches fine soil, cover with
sash and let stand a few daya Thea
plant sweet potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes
and eelsry. If the bed is big enough, cut
choice Irish potatoes to one eye, fill
small pasteboard boxes with soil and
plant one In each. When soil is warm
enough they can easily be transplanted.
Cover the bed with heavy straw matting
and boards in cold storms. The back
part of the bed should be raised so the
saeh slopes to the south to catch the rays
of the sun and carry off rain.—M. Peet,
in Farm and Home.
The milker should wash his hands
thoroughly with soap and water Just
before milking. Under no conditions
should the hands be wet during the
milking S
HYDROGRAPHIC RECORDS.
Practical Benefit Derived from Them
Illustrated in Geological
Survey Work.
The parable of the sower la appli
cable to all educational work. Much
of the mission of the great departments
maintained by the government, espe
cially 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 investi- ,
gations and part in communicating to
his pupils the results of his studios
The seed he sows falls on all kinds of
soil, but, however poor the ground, it
is sure to bring forth fruit in some
measure, if there is life ln the kernels
that he sows. There is great varia
tion Ln the returns from the different
kinds of educational work prosecuted
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. Aa
instance of this Is seen ln the results,
that have followed the hydrographic
work of the United States geological
survey in many quarters. The cases
to 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
i data accumulated by the survey dur
| ing many years of observation and
measurement. In addition to that,
the work of private individuals is con
stantly facilitated by the same records.
No large engineering enterprises are
now undertaken without reference to
the survey’s records concerning the
supply of water available at the
chosen site. The South Platte Land
and Reservoir company, which haa
under way cabals and reservoirs that
probably aggregate $500,000 in valu?;
has established stations at Orchard
and Kersey, Col., because of the
superior hydrographic advantages ot
tered by theee localities. The choice
of those points is directiy traceable to
the date complied by the survey.
Equally important is the fact that
projects that would have resulted dis
astrously have in nurnerous cases been
abandoned after a Study of survey
records that throw light on the prob
able outcome. Data concerning the
flow of prater on the Arkansas and
South Platte rivertf prevented the ex
penditure of great sums of money on
the state canal in the first instance,
and upon t' e Pawnee pass reservoir
project in the second.
Survey data seem to be in great
demand as unimpeachable testimony
in the legal controversies that have
arisen in this state in regard to irriga
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 pThces 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 Ulear ana St. v rain s
creeks. None of these projects has
yet been carried to a conclusion, but
■ome of them will undoubtedly be
•ventually constructed.
Colorado cities seeking a suitable
water supply have frequently con
sulted 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
seport 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
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 meet 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 saddle, 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, as 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 has been
so 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 pulla it
along
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