Just Added to Our Stock, enables us to
furnish Without the Delays of an Ex
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 andj we
would be pleased to quote them on*any
prospective order.
I 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.
and
of
Statements, Bill Heads, Round and j
Square Cornered Cards, etc.
N ith \New
Type Faces
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| And First Class Workmen, we guaran
tee our work to be neat and modern.
Best of all, it'pleases the customer.
MVPORT INDEPENDENT*
R. F. Drimond Bdg. Newport,
on Upper ont Street. Arkansas.
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SAVAGES IN HOTELS.
PUiat of a Hoat Who Sees How His
Patrons Disregard Decency
and Destroy Property.
In all the big hotels of New York there
are rooms that the guests never Bee or
hear of. Some of them are in the base
ment and some are on the roof, accord
ing to the convenience of the manage
ment. They belong to the carpenters,
engineers, electricians and other work
men who are kept busy every day ^11
the year round, says the Times. In
every hotel of pretensions a large force
is required to mend furniture, do odds
and ends of painting, put on door locks,
repair broken water pipes, and do any
number of other things that are indis
pensable if the house is to appear in
good order all the time.
"It is my experience," says the man
ager of a hotel in Broadway, "that men
and women who will put up with no
end of inconvenience and disorder at
home or in a cheap boarding house kick
mightily if they do not find everything
spick and span at a hotel. A man who
w^U sit night after night in a frayed
chair in his parlor at Four Corners will
make an awful fuss if he finds a neglect
ed piece of furniture in a hotel parlor
or bedroom. A women who has to light
the parlor stove every day when she is
at home and spend half her time In keep
ing the house warm, will say she is cold
even if the steam is on at full pressure
in lmr ro^-m at a hotel, and she will
keep a man busy two or threefhours a
day running around to see if there is
not something the matter with the
pipes.
"It seems to be a weakness with some
folks to “take it out’ of the furniture in
hotels in order to get their money’s
worth. A man who will not dare to
throw a burnt match on the carpet in
his own house, and who would as soon
think of flying as of lying on the bed
with his boots on, will do these things
and worse in a hotel bedroom. It takes
two or three hours to put the room in
order after he has gone. Often we have
to send at least one piece of furniture to
the repair shop. If one of the small
furniture dealers scattered around the
city could get as much furniture to
mend as Is sent to hdtel repair shops
every day he would begin to talk about
prosperity.
“Perhaps I am putting It strongly, but
in all seriousness, carelessness and will
ful neglect of guests in great hotels—
men and women from whom such a
thing would not be'expected—puts us
to great expense. Would a man spit to
bacco on a carpet or burn curtains and
bed covers with cigarettes if they were
his own property? These things are
done every day in a hotel. Some men
will not scratch a match anywhere else
if they can scratch it on the wall pa
per.
“Again, a lot of room we should like
for other purposes is occupied with un
claimed trunks and other baggage be
longing to persons who have forgotten
to pay their hotel bills. Most hotels
keep rooms especially for this, and they
have anywhere from 100 to 150 trunks
on hand all the time. They are obliged
by law to hold them three months be
fore sending them to the auction room.
Many proprietors keep theta a year."
PICTURES FROM LIFE.
Writers of tke Preiest Par Deal More
with Pact and Less with
Faaer.
The Dumber or capable enters who
are tailing the various truths of life
in the form of fiction is much greater
than contemporary pessimists realize,
states the Detroit Free Press. There is,
Indeed, no corner of human experience
which cannot produce Its able, enter
taining representative. Let us take
some traditional forms of the novel—
the sea story, sap. Capt Marryat was
Indeed a master, and yet W. Clarke Rus
sell and Conrad and Jacobs! In the
work of all of these men one has to ac
knowledge that romantic fidelity to the
facts rather than the fancies of the sea
which I have spoken of as the note of
the modern romantic realism. In the
case of Conrad we have also a writer of
the first literary Importance—a novelist
of action and serious vivid detail, who
does not scorn to write good English,
but who more than that, Pole as he Is—
and there is an additional marvel—
writes English of a quality so English
that incredible as It may sound, his
words are no less exciting than his ad
ventures. It may almost be said that the >
fact of his being a "foreigner" using our !
English tongue has possessed him with !
a. regard for classical English which
fostered In him the Journalistic Impres
sion of such a vociferous English writer
as, say, Mr. Kipling—Mr. Kipling, who Is
patriotic in everything but bis language.
Bnrirlar Bees.
To the person who knows nothing
about bees they represent the supreme
type of industry. But even the bee com
munities are disturbed by those of their
own kind who break through and steal.
Robber bees are always a source of
anxiety to beekeepers, and at this time
of the year the marauders seem partio
ularly active. Having gathered no
honey, or at any rate an insufficient sup
ply for themselves, they will descend
upon a hive, kill its industrious occu
pants and carry off the golden treasure
in an astonishingly short space of time.
We know of a recent instance in which
the attack was developed and the home
bees killed in a couple of hours. Some
times hive will attack neighboring hive.
In such cases the old straw “skip” was
better than the modern arrangement,
for a knife thrust through the top would
break the comb and set the honey free,
at which the thieves would instantly
return to seal up their own store. It is
not primarily in their Industry that bees
are human.—London Chronicle.
So Chance,
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Choctaw. Oklahoma & Gulf
'Railroad.
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Memphis To
One way, $6.50. I Corsicana, Waco, Ft. Worth, Dallas,
Round trip, $10.00. I Gainesville, Greenville, Commerce, Sher
| 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
I Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas.
Tickets on sale I q.
March 1st and 15. I „ _ , ^ ^
| Amarilla, Houston, Galveston, Cor
I pus Christi, San Antonio, Kerrville,
I Brownwood, Brady, San Angelo, Rock
I port, and all intermediates, $8.00 one way,
I $13.00 Round trip.
4-Trains Daily-West-4 Trains Daily
N. CORNATZAR,
General Agent,
MEMPHIS, TENN
GEO. H. LEE,
General Passenger, Agent,
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
KEYSTONE OF
Kimball Piano
STRUCTURE.
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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 reaJhed the goal,
Kimball is Prom inent.
One of the most perfect masical scales is displayed in the zultivated human voice. An
inperfect scale piano is like a person who cannot sing cobrectly—it’s worse because all do not
jlaim to sing. It costs money 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 Jhe
recognized artistic pianos of the world, yet because of the advantages of the largest output
from any factory, we are able to sell the Kimball at a very moderate price, quality considered.
The Kimball tystem and easy payment plan brings it within reach of all.
Call or write for Catalogues, prices and terms.
ESTABLISHED J853.
Hollenberg Music Co.,
Factorv 317 Main Street, Little Rock.
Warerooms 243 Wabash Avenue, Chicago.
JOB PRINTING S3SSS' I