*
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I ixle grease
P'fPn»*Wa pwd
JS** * «eht8. we
milder, and Cas
Axle Grease,
f boxes
r /W,Wd«? buckets. For
J// up-tofd&t^ merchants.
^ ji ^jid no -^ubkiLitute.
' vuarante/d to have no equal
i the market.
'aters-pierce
d COMPANY.
There is
More
50 T 40 /
•e>i>d| niade on busines by tele
Fri)^ than from any other
re. What are you doing to
j^ase your sales by tele
._ ? Fourteen thousand sub
5ers added to our . system
during 1905, besides thousands
of miles of toll circuits. Hustle
for your share.
The SouthwestemTelegtaph
, and Telephone Co,
The Short Line to
OREGON
and
! WASHINGTON
Every day. Feb. 15 to
Ayril 7, 1906. Colon- !
ist rates to aL points
m tnese states, from ■
St. Louis $30
Through Sleeping and Din
ing Car service.
QUICKEST TIME
Inquire of
J. H. LOTHROP
General Agent.
su-st LouisM"
Jack Jones
The Crack Barber, keep.
a neat and busy little
shop. Upper end of Fron t
street. Expert tonsorial
ists. Easy shaves and
the best haircuts. Our
work pleases.
“Come on, ye stubby beards.'
J Earn More +
4> DoiGft onvy the bigh stilariei ones ♦
A o’lf ‘ v.irso in actual b:i**iumH« it;.I *»*•• >r.u> ♦
4. fitt-jv* r4% mum bi£ !U<>n‘»y y«>;»rselr‘ Or * v * ■ <•
* *
THROUGH DAIIY PULLMAN TOURIST
SLEEPING CARS, ST. LOUIS- LOS
ANGELES.
The Union Pacific has placed
in service a through Sleeping
Gar between above points, via
the Wabash, Union Pacific, Ore
gon Short Line and the San
P -dro Los Angeles and Salt Lake
Railroads. Cars to leave St.
Louis every day and run through
without change.
Stopover is made at Salt Lake
City, thus affording passengers
a whole day’s sight seeing.in the
Mormon City.
f This line is equipped with 16
section, wide, vestibuied Pull
man Tourist Sleeping Cars, of
the latest pattern and first class
jr. every respect.
* Connections car. be made en
route with Puliir.ar. Tourist
Sleeping Cars in same train fo»
Inquire of L- E. iownsley,
A. 903 Olive St.. St. Louis,
Warning Order.
J >1 o! M « <• :. 1-er.
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MAD CAT BIT CHILDREnT
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'Bit Boy On Ear Which Began Swelling
at Once —Mad Stones Adhere
j When Applied.
Two children of Mr. and Mrs.
Luirs VVehunt of Magazine were:
j bitten by a mad cat a few days
I ago and were taken to Belleville
' for treatment. One of the cbil
1 dren, a .'daughter, was wounded
{ only slightly In one foot, but her
brother did not fare 30 luckily,
{The enraged cat jumped on him
and bit one-of his ears severely.
On his arrival at Bellville his in
j jured ear was dark and stiff and
! causing intense .pain., A physi
cian immediately' applied! mad
stones to the affected parts, the
{stones adhering at once: The
{children have beet: under the
j doctor's care and are thought to
j be doing, well. They left ves
| terday for Magazine, but the
{small boy was still wearing a
I large stone on his ear.
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Brkx Depot fw Detail's Bluff. |
DeVail's Bluff, April 14.-Thel
Rock Island is laying the founda
tion for a new brick depot at
jthis place, which Will cost, when
1 completed, about $5,000. The
depot is badly needed in this
place, as the town has grown
1 rapidly. and the road being ex
pended to Des Arc and Searcy 1
!causes increased traffic for this;
I place.
BATTERED BUT CHEERFUL
i A Little Ptflfit it • Mew T«r* !
U*ttiit*I 5l«kf« the Doc
tor* J.autfh.
-.
Mirth and misery commingle oddly i
i »t times to lighten the burden <>t
' wretchedness and woe which is 'he do*.
! o.-' the unfortunates who are inmates of
j the city's great hospitals. A score of
j wan-faced sufferers were distributed
! among the uoat white cote of a medical
| ward in Bellevue one day when a new
! patient was brought in. He was s
I diminutive colored man, short, squat,
thick-set, black as ebony, with h-avy
; protruding lips and a bullet-shaped
head sparsely sprinkled with kinky
I irrav 1 lack hair. He s iid he was George
' Sm1 tli, I'D years old, and was born in
• "Lord-m county, Virginy, sab.” A!!
; was quiet in the war I save r.r. 'o—nsv.n
i grout; from some weary sufferer,
I when the doi.-to’-s, four-of thorn, grave*
i f-v *,! and digriUed, came to examine
I the : e-.v arrival.
•AVeli. George, how do you feel?"
B-ki.il til,' house physieian, bending
over, t lie c it.
The lit.t’.e darky look in! a; the doctors
aslcmice *' )" u mom'til. roll ' ! his big
eves aroun 1. and said mournfully:
"i’se hungry."
‘ Ifave v any pain ."' asked tit* doc
tor.
-No, sab, 'cepr'n' I’ae hungry."
Tl: >n ‘.he d >■'' '"s proceeded to male 1
tii.. emu. cxa.:n:aatio:i. in -.he mid He
of his bae'-c ‘hey f. u:td a criss-cross
cicatrix.
, q;q vim: get th;s?” t-he doctor
ft s k»'. I.
'ow-liunklc," replied the patient,
terse! y.
-What’s bis?" continued th ' inqui.v
sion in the ?aif of th • patient's leg.
“Dorg chawed it,” said ^niith, apa
thetically
! A smile flitted across 'he faces of 'he
doctors and a patient in the nex' cot
forgot to moan. Next the physician
found a mass of irregular soars, which
looked as if an eight-inch shell had
; exploded and left, its marks upon the
I patient’s face and neck.
“Explosion?" queried the doctor,
pointing to the spot.
“Mewl kicked me," m' Smith with
• you-mnke-me»tired air,
Eyen the grave equanimity of the
men of medicine-was disturbed, and pa
tients in adjacent cots laughed out
right. Further examination showed a
network of scars on his face and neck
resembling 'he tracks in the New York
I Central freight yards.
“Razer fl'e,” was Smith’s expltuta
: tion.
“And where did you get 'hese ?” said
j the doctor, with an amused smile, lay
j (ng his fingers on three big welts on 'he
j negro’s scalp.
“Cakewalk. Kin T hev n chaw uv rer
baker?” he went on, and the ward was
In «Tt outburst of laughter.—V. Y. Sun.
His Mistake.
“I am free to admit that I made a mls
i take when I removed that man's appen
dix."
"Didn’t have appendicitis, eh*"
"0. he had appendicitis, ah i bm
he didn't have any money "—Houston
• Post.
Noise Enough.
"Why do you say tbar your husband
is such a loud dresser? He dresses
quietly, it se»ms to me."
• You wouldn't say so if you heard him
aome time Tying to put on a collar
Tacoma Ledgar.
i ._
Racom-mendatioa
Prospective Guest—Do you a*t a sood
j table here?
Hotel Clark—Well, rather Why,
folks coma hers perfsetty haaithy .m|
go away w<tb ths ami <HM|s(Si
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NAVIGATION
ISTHMIAN
Soma Interesting Part
Construction .and
Length of Ttme It
Will Take.
To make i: possible to pass a «h p
from ocean to ocean. «reu by a high
I lowei design. with rva«Jif- ' tom sis
eight . save, and by >u» » s»>i low*
lea years, t hough' poaaihly* i- Whe-t
6f the two' types, all tilings consolers*
is the better Ip s qt;*»ai i'*«» requiring
grdat though i for Him • pepper answer,
writes 'wriiarii. iSa-fi-'raj I'arsons In
t'entory,’ 'On :he one ha mi. theta »r*
T“i<iulr«tJ..a greatly $n-'.-r£ai»eit tavast
! eat of capital and some delay in tim*
j although. Hie !atter- In the1 life if au»h
•u en erprise w probably of smalt
[•mount. The <ie- i ling finvnr wilt
probably be the {.-rd.-i-Va; ■usefutu we
of the type when eonipb’Kci No ion
ter what »tir design the ramvi o*ftno*.
lit navigated tig- on; ire length by large
i**»in«ri with ih»- freedom 'bn
they pass up aud down a broad
r<v«*r. If. i« contemplated ‘hat
(lie width of 'ho canal a‘ the
bottom shall he about ISO foot,
giving a width on rho surface hi* frbca
209 to ->50 feet, according to-the tla*
:»•**»» of the side slopes, dependent. or.
the varying local character >f -he rock
or earth through which the canal will
b® dug. A* large modern s tea in era
have a beam of TS feel, if U obvious
that two such vessels cannot- pass-each
other in the regular channel
On arrlviag at either terminus th-*
ship will report to the harbor master
for a permit to pass, and, if she he a
.sailing vessel, for a. tug to take her
through. After an inspection the cak
ing oa of coa1, supplies and a pilot, and
being measured for and paying H>1!
charges, the vessel wil! then receive an
order entitling her to proceed. This
order will he U'ite a train order on a
single-track railway, giving authority
fo go to a certain point, and there
either to meet and pa38 a ship coming
from the other end or to draw to one
side and permit th-* other ship to pass,
or to get other orders to proceed fur
ther. The passing of ships wil! he ar
ranged by constructing "sidings; ' that
is, widenings of ‘he channel into
which a v,»rrp1 can draw and moor to
clusters of piles. When the passing is
made the vessel ih^n advances o the
next siding where a vessel is expected,
nil of which will he con rolled by tele
graphic orders from a centra! dis
patcher’s office, where there wil! be a
chart showing the exam position of
any ship at any time, corrected in
stantly by ad vi es received from ttie
local stations. Along the banks there
wil! be semaphore signals by day and
lights by night, indicating the positior
of obstructions or vessels ahead, so as
to prevent collisions.
On arriving at a lock the steamer
will find a structure similar in princi
ple to the small canal locks with
which the reader is familiar, but vast/
ly larger. These locks wilt have a
length of about 1.00b fee and a wid’h
i:i the clear of 100 feet, in order to ac
commodate not only the steamers 8'h:
feet long now building, hut to allow
for such increase in size as may he
realized. The gates closing the locks
a! liie iown-stream end wi'l have »
height equal to rhe depth of the cana:
he height to lift, and, say, ten feel oi
surplus, or a total of 75 to perhaps T,
feet, according to conditions—dimen
sions far in excess of those of any
her lock gates in tile world. As soon
' t th*1 lock is entered and ;hc ship
made fast so that It cannot he moved
about Uy the in or monishing water
and yet. may rise or fall with the
change of level, ‘he great gates behind
it OI< VI r til Kn Al- nd A *• n .. ... I „ - . t I . t
iu'o the lock from the higher level o{
drawn off into the lower as the vessel
is ascending or descending. When
the new level is reached the other
gates are opened, and once more ill
vessel continues her journey between
banks crowded to the water's edge with
the wild tangle of a tropical jungle or
the long-leafed banana trees set, out in
regular re vs in plantations. On arriv
ing at the far terminus the pilot is
dropped and the vessel disappears «t
sea.
American Bank in Japan.
An American bank in Japan, as *
profitable enterprise and a great aid tc
the American manufacturer, is a stig
gesiitm from C. A. Francis of the
Higher Technical school of Tokio, who
also advises his fellow-Yankees to
study Japanese manufacturing condi
tions and needs. One Tokio shop °m
ploying from 15 t.o 20 workmen maker
> by hand a sewing machine which 1
claimed to be better than a famour
American product of which it Is a
copy. It is sold lor niue yen. while i
poor quality of the American iua< hint
costs from to to 50 yen. How shal
Uncle Ham's agents demonstrate that
their companies make certain machine
tools which do this work cheaper that
they are now doing it and that tic
more capita! will be nepded in the in
stalling. pf the plant?
Army Xitcher.3,
Traveling hens, which h*T«
king been in use in the Russian arm;
and whi'ii did much to increase th*
comfort of the soldiers during the ions
battles of the :ecent war are now be
ing tried in the French maneuvers
with a view, to- their introduction intc
.he Front a army.
Canadian Horses in China.
It is found ' :uv horses from Caa
ada become , av .-lima> s i in China mor*
readjly than-those which are import
ed from. Australia. a.nd they seem tc
^take more nat'traliy to the pov$l jui
pf bran, barley ini rice straw.
t
, I railroad time, ca
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Dr. Mcturr>
Beg's to announce that he w .'nr*-j
pared to successfully treat
All Chronic 0,seas.es ,
By a safe, sure and co igrenia
method.
Success an Absolute Certainty
As my success partly depends
j on diagnosis I will not send med
i icines without a. personal exami
nation.
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Grubbs, Ark.
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