NOT TO BE IGNORED.
The kidneys are as important to
good health as the heart, lungs,
stomach or any organ in the body.
Lame back, swollen joints, sore mus
cles, rheumatic aches and pains, are
most often signals of kidney trouble.
Foley Kidney Pills give relief to
kidney trouble sufferers. They ban
™ ish bladder irregularities.—Walker’s
Pharmacy.
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lard’s Snow Liniment to all wounds,1
cuts, burns, sores or blisters, and
note its wonderful healing power. It
is prompt and very effective. Price
25c, 50c arid $1.00 per bottle. Sold by
W. E. Bevens.
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J day time, feel dull, achy and want to
j stretch frequently it is an unmistak
iable symptom of malaria, and unless
' you do something at once you are
' booked for a spell of chills. Herbine
is a chill medicine that will prevent
or cure the disease. It drives out the
impurities on which the malarial
germ thrives, strengthens the liver
and cleanses the bowels. Price 60c.
Sold by W. E. Bevens.
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Rollen Bend pasture, rates $1.50
per head per month. I will not be
responsible for stock. For informa
tion apply to H. G. Mantooth. 54wtf
STOCK NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that, as
marshal of the city of Newport, I
have taken up the following livestock,
to-wit:
One sandy colored, with black
spots, barrow hog, crop off right,
half-over slope in lei*t, weight about
150 pounds.
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notified to come forward and prove
ownership to the undersigned, and
that in default thereof , I will on
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2?, 1918
offer for sale at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash, in front of
he city hall in the city of Newport,
Arkansas, between the hours of 10
o’clock a, m. and 3 o’clock in the af
ternoon of said date.
G. C. MARTIN,
97dl0. City Marshal.
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
Mrs. Frank P. Wood, Box 18, R. F.
D. 2, Morrill, Me., writes: “Foley
Kidney Pills help me so much. My
husband also has received much ben
efit from them. He was so lame he
could not stoop over and now he feels
no pain.” Lame back, sore muscles,
stiff joints, rheumatic aches and
pains quickly conquered by Foley
Kidney Pills.—Walker’s Pharmacy.
STOCK NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that, as
marshal of the city of Newport, I
have taken up the following live
stock, to-wit:
One black horse mule, no shoes,
roached mane, weight about 850
pounds, 8 years old.
One black horse mule, no shoes,
roached mane, weight about 1,000
pounds, 8 years old.
The owner of said stock is hereby
notified to come forward and prove
ownership to the undersigned, and in
default thereof I will on
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1918.)
offer for sale at public auction t<>
the highest bidder for cash, in front
of the city hall in the city of New-!
port, Akransas, between the hours of
10 o’clock a. m. and 3 o’clock in the
afternoon of said date.
G. C. MARTIN,
94dl0 City Marshal.
CAUGHT COLD AT PALM BEACH.
Southern climate is no protection
against summer colds. Helen R.
Sanders, 626 2nd Av., W. Palm
Beach, Fla.,_writes: “My severe
cold on the chest was relieved by Fo
ley’s Honey and Compound.” This
fine old family remedy can be de
pended upon to relieve summer colds,
: hay fever, asthma and croup.—Walk
er’s Pharmacy.
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High up in the Healthful Ozark Mountains.
Delightful Balmy Days. Cool, Sleepy Nights.
A T\TT TM The latest analysis by the U. S.‘ Govern
tJ IV1 ment of these wonderful Hot Springs
Waters were found to be highly Radio-active.
TOURIST RATES—Low tourist round trip rates now in
effect on all railroads, from all points in America. Insist
on this rate.
Business Hen’s League, Hat Springs, ArK:
Please send me immediately with
out cost, illustrated booklet of Hot
Springs.
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DESTROYER HARD TO BEAT
Fierce Wasp of the Sea Is Slim Built,
Loose, Limber and De
structive.
The destroyer people have great
faith in the durability of their little
ships. They are slim built and not
much thicker in the plates than seven
pages of the Sunday paper, but maybe
that is their safety. There is no get
ting a fair wallop at them. They
evade the issue. One man compared
them to a hot-water bottle. Try to
swat a loaded hot-water bottle. What
happens? When you poke it in one
place doesn’t it come bulging out in
another to make up for it? Sure it
does, writes James P. Conholly in Col
lier’s.
How do you account for the de
stroyer which had her stern cut off so
that the men in the after compartment
leaned out and chinned themselves up
to the deck from the inside? And how
do you account for the way they come
bouncing along at better than twenty
knots in a gale of wind and a rough
sea and nothing happening to them?
Get shook up—yes, but they come
home, don’t they? They sure do. May
be It’s the way they’re thrown to
gether—loose and limber.
Whatever it is, they are dashing Id
and out of here on their job of convoy
ing merchant ships and hunting U
boats. They expect to get their bumps,
and they do; but so long as they get
an even break they are not kicking.
The charthouse gang on the 343 say
they are satisfied that they got an
even bregk. (The 343 was cut in
halves by a torpedo and made port.)
They are sticking a new stern on the
343. When they get it well glued on
she is going out again.
Maybe the same U-boat—you can’t
always tell, some people have luck—
maybe that same U-boat will come
drifting her way again. And if they
see her first—oh, boy!
BEST LOVED ENGLISH POET
Thomas Hood Made His Reputation as
Humorist—Wrote Clever
Verse.
Thomas Hood was probably one of
the best loved of the English poets and
humorists, though often classed among
the “minor English poets.” But every
one knows his “Song of the Shirt,”
which brought out forcibly, though
poetically, the wasted life and early
death of the overworked women, the
unfortunates of the poorer classes. Hi?
“Bridge of Sighs” is equally effective,
These are named as his best works,
yet his reputation was made as a hu
morist. He was the son of a book
seller, born in London. His father died
when he was young and his mother
moved to Islington, where Thomas
studied under a delightful old vicar.
He tried to become a clerk, but such
work disagreed with him—so much so,
indeed, that he had to go to the coun
try to recuperate. While away he be
gan contributing light humorous
sketches to magazines and papers, and
after his return to his beloved London
he was made subeditor of the London
Magazine.
This position brought him in contact
with all the brilliant men of his time
DeQuincy, Charles Lamb and others.
Later he started the Comic Annual, in
which he caricatured the people and
events of the day—satire done so deli
cately and cleverly that the events he
made fun of will live solely because he
made them of importance.
The last of his life was spent on a
sick bed, and it was during this period
that he wrote his two famous serious
poems above mentioned.
Garden Memories.
i Our present joy in growing things
grows deeper, as color and fragrances
of our actual garden blend with colors
and fragrances from iong ago. Wood
bindover the rafters takes on the
semblance of la petite ebambre verte
in Normandy where we lunched one
September noon nmuy~years gone by.
. . . In April the clear crimson of
our tulips brings back those plucked
wild on hills near Florence in long
vanished spring, sunshine; and the lit
tle pink-tipped daisies that border the
hed mnKe tine see a gam mos<e in Al
pine grass, high on the' great slopes
above Lousanne, with the glory of the
lake, and Savoy and Mont'. Blanc
spread out before; those in English
meadows in sweet, chilly early sttyu
mer. What associations come on tlH
breath of lilacs, or lilies-of-the-valley,
or a few sprigs of blossoming helio
trope, recalling an almost tropical riot
of color in a great bed of heliotrope on
the shore of Lake Como, with every
soft shade of lavender, deepening to
richest purple and a cloud of many
tinted purple butterflies hovering
above.—Margaret Sherwood.
Respect for Speed.
Human respect for speed depends
chiefly upon the method of locomotion
that Is employed. Human legs are one
thing, a bicycle Is another, an automo
bile is another, and a railroad train Is
another, while an airplane is “still
something else again.” All these have
their measures of supremacy as estab
lished by the records, but in speaking
of speed in an abstract sense “a mile |
a minute” will probably never lose its
rhetorical force. That rate is abom as
fast as any rational human being
wants to move when he is on the level
of mundane things. For him it repre
sents the acme of speed and always
will. Flying, of course, is another mat
ter. That gives a man a sense of re
moteness which makes the speed seem
less terrific.
DOCTOR FITTED FOR LEADER
Much in Knowledge of Medicine to
Equip Man for High Pub
lic Service.
There is much in the knowledge of
medicine to fit a man for the high call
ing of lawgiver and leader of the
people, says Dr. Frederick Peterson, in
the Century. He continues:
“To reach the goal of national
health, the physician's accumulated
knowledge and experience must be
brought to bear upon the laws which j
relate to fit marriages, to housing and
the food supply, to education, occupa
tions, recreations, hygiene and sanita
tion, to contagious diseases, alcohol
ism, poverty and crime; in short, upon
every law which relates directly or in
directly to the health and well-being
of the people. His interest reaches
into the depths of sociology, biology
and philosophy, to the relations be
tween persons and groups, between na
tions and races. The Interests of medi
cine are fixed only by the boundaries
of life itself. When the great state,
with its great free municipalities is at
length established, when war and pov
erty and disease and unemployment,
as we know them, have been banished
to the vast rubbish heap of man’s out
grown ignorance and folly, it may be
that the Dhvsieians of that nobler time
will be expected to frame wise laws
not only to insure individual health
but to prevent the disease to wrhich
the organism of the state, the body
politic, has in all earlier social stages
been subject.”
WOMEN DRIVE MOTOR TRUCKS
Not So Dressy as Some Jobs, but It’s
Healthful, According to One
of Them.
To release skilled mechanics for
other work and thus give some help in
the war, there are seven girls at one
motor factory whose daily tasks con
sist in driving newly finished cars from
the factory to the shipping dock.
And the girls won't trade jobs now
for any of the purely feminine pur
suits, says the Washington Times.
They get greasy and dirty—they have
had to throw away chamois and pow
der puffs because they are futile—but
still they like the job and they all say
they would not trade it for a place at
the kitchen sink or on the firing end
of a sewing machine.
“It’s a much better job than being
a department-store detective,” Mrs.
Lotta ;Dupuis, who formerly tripped
shoplifters and sneak thieves in a
downtown store, says. “Of course il
isn’t so dressy, but it’s healthier and
I like it better. Also I can make more
money for the. support of my three
kiddies.”
Mrs. Wanda Ludoraan backs up Mrs.
Dupuis. She formerly was a govern
ment operative in rounding up viola
tors of the Harrison narcotic law.
“I took the job because I wanted to
help the government, and every wom
an who does one man’s work releases
a man for the firing line,” said Mrs.
Ludeman.
The Modern Way.
The conversation in the lobby of a
Washington hotel turned to the sub
ject of modern methods when a little
story along that line was contributed
by Congressman Claude Kltchin of
North Carolina.
Some time ago a young man became
enamored of a beautiful girl, and
after a courtship of some months he
mustered sufficient courage to tell het
of his great love.
“Tonight,” said he as they sat one
evening in the alluring gloom of the
veranda, “I ain going to your father
and ask for your hand in marriage.”
“That is very fine, Harry,” the pret
ty one replied, “bat don’t be so old
fashioned.”
“Old fashioned,” returned the lover,
thoughtfully. “I don’t quite under
stand.”
“Don’t ask him,” was the prompt
explanation of the girl. “Tell him.”—
Philadelphia Telegraph._
Welsh Intermarrying.
A remarkable instance of Welsh
{titniMtioi'firirur it* in O
quaint chronicle of local events kept |
by one Peter Roberts, notary public,
of St. Asaph, who died in 164G. He
wrote: “Upon Saturday evening, the
xxviith day of Novr., 1G24, Thomas
Mostyn, Ksq., and Gwen Parrie, wid
ow, the late wife of uie late revd. father
in God, Richard t'arrie, late Lord
Bishop of St. Asaph, deceased, were
married; and alto William Mostyn,
gent, s|pn and luir apparent of the
said Thomas Mostyn, and one Anne
Parrie, one of the younger daughters
of the said late Lord Bishop, were
likewise married the day and year
aforesaid; and Richard Parrie, son
and heir of the said late Lord Bishop,
and Marl? Mostyn, third daughter of
the said 'Thomas Mostyn, were then
married.” 1
Li^sty Old Age.
What time if life can be compared
to the time of Iqsty old age? Does {
white hair betoken failing powers?
Nay, no more thah the snow that
crowns the giant old' pine betokens
any weakness or decay of the tree.
The head and the hairs of pur coming
Redeemer shall be “white like wool,
as white as snow.” Herein is the
mystery of the strength of old age.
As is a lusty tree, so is a lusty old
man. He knoweth the secrets ol
heaven and earth, and he beareth
fruit to the last. He dieth nofcv easily,
but like a great oak, whose ropts go
deep into the earth; he is laid low
only by a mighty cataclysm of nature
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WASP MUST HAVE REASONED
Case on Record Where Insect Used
Stone as Hammer to Pound Dirt
More Firmly.
So far ns known, only one small In
sect—a wasp of the sphex fnmily—
among the millions of creatures belong
ing to n lower order than man, has
ever employed the aid of a tool ti ac
complish a desired result. The mother
wasp of this family digs a tunnel in
the ground, deposits her egg in it and
provides a caterpillar stung to death
or to a condition of paralysis for her
baby to feed on when hatched. The
grub subsists upon the caterpillar un
til it passes through the pupa stage
into the perfect winged insect. Then
it digs its way out of the tunnel and
begins its life above ground as a
wasp.
But after the mother wasp has made
its tunnel, and deposited the egg, 1(
finishes its task by ramming down pel
lets of earth, little stones, etc., into the
month of the tunnel. Tills is the race
habit of these wasps. It is recorded
on undoubted authority that one In
ventlve mother, when the mouth of the
tunnel was covered to n level with the
rest of the ground about it, broughl
a quantity of fine grains of dirt tc
the spot, and picking up a small peb
ble in her mandibles, used it. as a ham
mn** in r\r*iirw1lnrr thorn rlnWTl with rjllllf
strokes, thus making the spot as flra
and as hard ns Ihe surrounding sur
fnce. Then she departed, brought more
dirt, picked up the pebble again anc
used it as a hammer, as before.
NOT WISE TO GO HUNGRY
Writer Criticizes the “No-Breakfast'
Fad Which Still Retains a Hold
on Some People.
A few years ago someone started c
boom for the breakfastless day as con
ducive to longevity. I know persons
who have clung stubbornly to this ab
surdity, Meredith Nicholson writes ir
the Yale Review. The despicable liabii
contributes to domestic unsodabllit.j
and Is, I am convinced by my own ex
periments, detrimental to health. Th<
chief business of the world is trans
acted in the morning hours, and I an
reluctant to believe that it Is mos'
successfully done on empty stomachs
Fasting as a spiritual discipline is, o:
course, quite another thing, but fast
ing by a tired business man under med
ical compulsion can hurdly be lifter
to the piano of things spiritual. T<
delete breakfast from the day’s pro
gram is a sheer cowardice, a coo
fesslon of Invalidism which is wel
calculated to reduce the powers o
resistance. The man who begins th<
day with a prescription that sets hln
apart from his neighbors may ven
ture into the open jauntily, persuad
ing himself that his abstinence prove:
his superior qualities; but in his heart
to say nothing of his stomach, hi
knows that he has been guilty of i
sneaking evasion. If he were a nor
mal, healthy being he would not b<
skulking out of the house breakfast
less. Early rising, a prompt responsi
to the breakfast bell, a joyous break
ing of the night’s fast, is a rite not t<
be despised In civilized homes.
Football in China.
The Chinese, first as they were ii
many things, were first in the fleli
with that winter pastime we regan
as peculiarly our own—football. The;
played football from very early times
at first with a ball stuffed with hail
but from the fifth century with an in
flated bladder covered with leather.
Even In the earliest days the gam
had its own literature, giving the tect
nical names and positions of the plaj
ers and enumerating at least sevent
different varieties of kicks; but pel
haps the most striking matter so rt
corded was that concerning the rt
ward of the players: “The winner
were rewarded with flowers, fruit an
wine; and even with silver bowls an
brocades; while the captain of the los
ing team was flogged and suffere
other indignities.'
Checks Little Used in France.
Checks are not much used and are
seldom accepted in France. There is
but little attempt to identify the payer
of a check and anyone who either
makes out or accepts an order to pay
does so at his peril. The public tax
collector will have none of them, and
the taxpayer has to stand in line with
his bank bills in the back yard or in the
garret of the precepteur, or else he
must go to Jail for nonpayment. He
cannot send a check. There is no clear
ing house in Paris. Banks settle their
accounts with one another by sending
uniformed messengers, who carry cash
through the streets and who stand in
line before the cashiers’ windows
waiting to get their exact change.—
John N. Anderson in Century Maga
zine.
Aristotle's Prescription.
A balsam for every ill, an ease for
every ache, is translated by Steele
from the “Secretum Seeretorum,” sup
posed to have been written by the
philosopher Aristotle for his pupil,
Alexander the Great. The concoction
consists of Juices of various fruits
boiled down and seasoned with musk,
ambergris and aloes, various highly
expensive oils salted liberally with
powdered pearls, rubies, sapphires,
amethysts, emeralds, gold, etc., all be
ing guarded by appropriate magical
precautions.
Alexander, however, died at an early
age from excessive imbibing, not of
the delectable mixtures prescribed by
his mentor, but of the juice of the
grape. \
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COMMITTEE ISSUES
FAIR PRICE LIST.
— Mmm
At a recent meeting of the "Fair
Price Committee’, appointed by the
County Food Administrator, the fol
lowing were agreed upon as being
fair prices:
D-S Meat, per pound_32c
Hams, per pound_38c
Breakfast Bacon, per pound_60c
Smoked Bacon Bellies, per pound_38c
Pure Lard (bulk), per pound_35c
5- lb. Buckets Pure Lard, >
per bucket _$1.50
10-lb. Buckets Pure Lard,
per bucket _$3.00
Compound Lard (bulk), per
pound _30c
6- lb. Buckets Compound Lard,
per bucket _$1.35
10-lb. Buckets Compound Lard,
per bucket _$2.75
2-lb. Std. Corn, per can_20c
2- lb Std. Tomatoes, per can_15c .
3- lb Std. Tomatoes, per can___25c
Rice, per pound_ ._15c
Std. Meal, 25-lb. sackB, per sack $1.50
Cream Meal 25-lb sack, per sack $1.60
Cream Meal, 10-lb. sacks, per sk. 70c
Navy Beans, per pound_20c
Lima Beans, per pound_-r_20c
Pinto Beans, per pound_16c
! Wheat Flour, 24-lb. sacks_$1.75
t;orn * lour, per pouna_rue
12 ounce loaf of Bread_10c
24 ounce loaf of bread___._20c
These prices will be changed from
time to time as condition warrant.
FAIR PRICE COMMITTEE
for Jackson Counuty. f,:. '-4
PREPARE FOR THE HOT WAVE.
The hot sun is doubly dangerous *,
if there is a mass of undigested food
in the stomach. Foley Cathartic
Tablets give prompt and sure relief. J
They act gently but do their work ■
thoroughly. They cleanse the bowels,
sweeten the stomach and benefit „;
the liver. For indigestion, bilioUB
ness, bad breath, bloating, gas.—
Walker's Pharmacy.
PARKER CONVINCED
BY HIS EXPERIENCE -f
“I Can Recommend Tanlac In tha
| Highest Terms,” Says Well
Known Alabama Dentist—
Declares He Is Well Man.
“I am firmly convinced from my
own experience with Tanlac, that it
1 will do all people claim for it, as I
am a well man now, after suffering
. for twelve years until I took Tan- :/
, lac,” is the frank statement of Dr. |
■ S. J. Parker, a well known dentist |
1 of Roanoke, Alabama. ImJksI
“I had a bad form of stomach troO
ble, which distressed me continual^
all these years,” he continued.
. “Terrible headaches would come t;
> me frequently as a result of a nause
ated and upset stomach and
last for hours. These attacks wotl$(£r S
come as often as two and three tilpiM||i
1 a week. I lost weight rapidly
1 although I tried several of the'mdft "
1 approved remedies for this troubl*, Vg
’ it resisted treatment and I continued,*
’ to go down hill.
’ “I read about what Tanlac was do
ing everywhere, and though * I Wgifj?
. skeptical about proprietary medi-.
- cines, I gave it a trial. I hadn't fi»»
- ished the first bottle until I saw
f orable results, and I have contftMMt$|j
to imnrove unt" mv stomach JitJllS
completely set in order and the
er conditions arising from it h*fN>7\
been entirely irelieved. I am a well "?<|
man now, and I can recommend Twv* Y'i
lac in the highest terms.”
Tanlac is sold by all druggists
Jackson county.
IT’S IN THE AIR.
Windblown pollen, carrying
germs that cause hay fever, CPBwH
abroad in the land. One remedy ji|f|
known to give relief and comfort'
from choking, gasping astma aM
tormentting hay fever. Foley’s
Honey and Tar spreads a healing'
coating on inflamed membranes*
stops coughs and colds.—Walker’*
Pharmacy.
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We offer One Hundred Dollars lU-bl
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh
Medicine.
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine ha# beg* 7
taken by catarrh sufferers for the
past thirty-five years, and has b4* -
come known as the most reliable rem
edy for catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Med
icine acts through the Blood on tits k
Mucous surfaces, expelling the Pot-'
son from the Blood annd healing the
diseasased portions.
After you have taken Hall’s Ca
tarrh Medicine x’or a short time you
vill see a great improvement in you*
reneral heaun. Start taking Hall’s
Catarrh Medicine at once annd get
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