Just Added to Our Stock, enables us to
furnish Without the Delays of an Ex
j press Order,
Folders for Party Invitations,
Wedding Invitations and double
envelopes to match,
Embossed Dance Programs,
Program Pencils, Cards and Tas
sels,
Ladies’ Visiting Cards.
Our prices are reasonable and we
would be pleased to quote them on any
prospective order.
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Commercial
Printing
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Four different grades of Fine Linen and
Bond Papers for Letter and Note Heads,
ruled and unruled, all excellent type
writer papers. Also Good Grades of
Flat papers for Letter and Note Heads.
Well Finished XXX Rag Envelopes and
cheaper grades. A complete line of
Statements, Bill Heads, Routed and
Square Cornered Cards, etc.
With He w
Typ Faces
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And First Class Workmen, we guaran
tee our work to be neat and modem.
Best of all, it^pleases the customer.
NEWPORT INDEPENDENTS
R F. Drummond Bdg. Newport, '
on Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
Read the Daily Independent
GOVERNMENT BEES.
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Baijr Inaecta Belonging to the Agri
cultural Department Strum 1
to Market.
Doubtless the only members of the
government’s glgnatic force of em
ployes whogoto workbefore nine o’clock
a. m. and continue tolling until sun
down are the Italian bees kept by the de
partment of agriculture. These, the
smallest of our domestic animals, are
kept by the department for experimental
purposes and for stocking its various
substations, says the Washington Post.
Some time ago these government bees
discovered that Center maket was a
far better pasture than the flower beds
and vegetable gardens of the depart
ment, and there they resort every day,
to no small discomfort and annoyance of
commission dealers, hucksters, gard
ners and restaurant proprietors, whose
stock in trade the industrious little in
sects prey upon.
In some cities the rats and mice are
- troublesome, and in others crickets,
grain insects, and various other bugs
prey upon the perishables, but Center i
market is the only market in the United
States where the most serious pest is the j
insects which belong to the government.
They eat holes In the peaches, poach on
the grapes, gather honey from cante
loupes, and are the first to find the soft
spots in pineapples and bananas. What
is irorp, in^rp ar° ponui vjeuuu uitunn
A number of open-air eating booths, to
whLh the bees retort in large numbers
to erllrct hor.ev from various sweet
dishes, particularly 'apricot, apple#,
peach, prune and huckleberry pie. The
funny part of it all is that the commis
sion dealers, fruit handlers and res
taurant keepers are afraid to offer any
opposition to their intrusion for fear
the plucky little insects will resent it.
Hardly a week passes that some one
does not get stung by the government
bees, who object to rough handling and
treatment. With the juice and wax
which they collect from apples, melons,
peaches, oranges, pineapples, grapes,
bananas and pies in the market, they
lay up their store of winter honey. The
only time the restaurant keepers are
able to even up with these little pests is
when they have a batch of hot pies or
bread pudding on hand. They it hap
pens accasionally that some over-hasty
government bee gets his feet scorched.
In such cases they hover about the pies
until they have cooled off, now and then
alighting on the crust to test the tem
perature of the tempting bait.
NEGROES SANG AT WORK.
And Entertained French Opera Sing
ers in the Streets ot New
Orleans.
The French opera singers were specta
tors of a picturesque street scene a night
or two ago in the vicinity of the old ;
French opera house, says the New Or- 1
leans Times-Demoorat. Bourbon street j
was being paved with asphalt, and the
work was being hastened so as to have
that portion of the street near the opera
house accessible for carriages by the
time of the opening of the French op^
era season.
On this account an unusually large
force of workmen were engaged, and in
order to push the work to an early com
pletion the men worked at night, huge
torches being used. In one block, be
tween St. Louis and Toulouse streets.
#iore than 100 men were working.
Every one familiar with the negro
knows that, in so far as he is able, he
sets his work to music. It is a fact often
marveled at that the negro, when he i#
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mood, works with more ardor than under
different conditions. And if an extra de
mand is made on,the negro workman he
Bings or chants the louder.
The members of the French opera, of
at least many of them, heard for the first
time the real melody of the negro voice
that night It was that swithful, poetic
thing caricatured in the ragtime of the
stage, a certain subtle, indefinable some
thing which no composer has ever been
able to fit to the well-measured octaves '
of musical arrangements. It was the
tuneful, heaving call of the levee, the '
mellow sunset cry of the cotton fields. |
The flaring torch, the bustling hither and
! thither, the heavy fall of the implements
! of toil—all those things gave exquisite j
| tone to the setting. ' f ?»
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Paraguay Tea. -s
There comes from Paraguay to the
Journal of Tropical Medicine news of
tn apparently harmless beverage which
is the sole stay and stimulant of the
i working classes in Paraguay and the
Argentine Republic. It is often known
as Paraguay tea or mate, and an at
i tempt made to introduce it Into this
country some years ago failed because
—as we may guess—there were more
potent competitors in the field. It is
! usually drunk as a hot Infusion, through
a metal tube, but may be taken like tea,
with milk and sugar. Workmen take it
| with them wherever they go and sip it
occasionally. Wood cutters will work
J on it for five or six hours before break
fast, and the writer declares that, taken
at night, it makes nursing, study or what
doctors call "night work” real pleasure.
Analysis does not explain these results,
and lifelong and persistent use appears
! to have no evil consequences. This
I would be a good substitute for the num
j berless patent medicines which supply
alcohol to women, or even, In at least
one familiar case, cocaine.—London
! Chronicle.
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New Variety of Pheasant.
The European pheasant Is being
crossed with the Asiatic variety. The
result Is a larger bird, much quicker and
11 stronger on the wing, and more prettily
marked.
School* Open at Nl*ht.
Twenty schoolhouses In New York
have been opened this fall as recreation
centers for the neighborhoods In which
they are situated.
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Agent Victor,
NEWPORT’S LEADING JEWELER,.
Choctaw. Oklahoma & Gulf
Railroad.
1
Memphis To
One way, $6.50. I Corsicana, Waco, Ft. Worth, Dallas,
Round trip, $10.00. I Gainesville, Greenville, Commerce, Sher
I man, Paris and all intermediate points.
Memphis To
One way $6.50. I All points in Indian and Oklahoma
Round trip, $10.00. I Territories, and all points intermediate, in
| Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas.
Tickets on sale I TT
March Dpt and 15. I ^
| Amanlla, Houston, Galveston, Cor
| pus Christi, San Antonio, Kerrville,
j Brownwood, Brady, San Angelo, Rock
I port, and all intermediates, $8.00 one way,
j $13.00 Round trip.
4-Trains Daily-West-4 Trains Daily
Write
J. N. CORNATZAR,
General Agent,
MEMPHIS, TENN.
GEO. H. LEE,
General Passenger, Agent,
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
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KEYSTONE OF
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STRUCTURE.
The szale of the Kimball Piano is the keystone of its unsurpassazle 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 sezond. Not all piano makers strive for perfection along this line (many making no pre
tense), but out of the few who have nearly reached, the goal,
Kimball is Prominent.
One of the most perfect musical scales is displayed in the zultivated human voice. An
inperfect scale piano is like a person who cannot sing correctly—it’s worse because all do not
jlaim to sing. It costs moniey 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 olher of Ihe
recognized artistic pianos of the world, yet because of the advantages of the lajgest output
from any factory, we are able to sell the Kimball at a very moderate price, qualify considered.
The Kimball System and easy payment plan brings it within reach of all.
Call or write for Catalogues, prices and terms.
ESTABLISHED *853.
Hollenberg Music Co.,
Factory 317 Main Street, Little Rock.
Warerooms 243 Wabash Avenue, Chicago.
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