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the accommodations of a first-class, well
equipped and reliable banking house.
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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 I
Cheap Trips for^Holiday Travelers to the ®
North, East and
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DECEMBER. 20TH, 2tST, 22D AND 26TH.
I Full details from your nearest Rock H
I LITTLE AROGK, ARK. & 8
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.
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J.M. Robinson,
M. D., Oph. D.
Eye, Ear, Nose,
Throat and Langs.
NEWPORT, ARK.
DR. IRA H. ERWIN
EYE, EAR, NOSE
AND THROAT..
OFFICE—8 and 9
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HE DID NOT EXPECT
Such a Pleasant Surprise
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Mr. A. S. Eaton of Hillsboro, O.,
says: “I have used Paracamph for
Rheumatism in the joints of my hands
with good results—getting more relief
than from any other remedy. My
case is of many years standing and I
was not expecting a cure from one
bottle but it has done more for me
term anything I have ever used.”
Paracamph is a combination of cam
].,..;r and cooling, soothing, lioalii.
i •: When applied, it opens the pores,
removes the congestion and draws on?
all soreness, fever and inflammation.
Try it for •Neuralgia, Rheumatic
dwellings, Sore Feet, Colds in the
Head, Catarrh, Sere Threat or On -t.
If it fails to give satisfaction your
money will lie r funded. Paracamph
is clean, safe and sure. Every bottle
gauranteed. Trial size 25c.; family
sizcs 'fiOc 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.
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.
TicketsHwill 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.
Wanted — Hickory logs and
poles delivered f. o. b. tracks
Choctaw Railway. Write for
prices and particulars.
James Colbert & Co.,
FRIGHT RESTORES SPEECH
Flames in Room of Dumb and, Par
alyzed Man So Scare Him
That He Begins to Talk.
Thomas Herring, a dumb and par
alyzed old man living with his son-in
law, E. Moss, in London, was so over
come with fright when a fire broke out
in his bedroom recently that he sud
denly began to speak.
Herring, who is 71 years old, was a
robust man, and up to a short time ago
was enjoying good health, even work
ing at a small blacksmith’s forge. One
day he suffered a stroke of paralysis,
which also left him speechless.
The other evening two men rushed
In shouting that one of the upper
rooms was on fire. Running up stairs
to the chamber of his father-in-law
Moss sawf that the window curtains
were ablaze and the woodwork was
alight. The wind had blown open the
window and this had knocked over a
laihp, causing the fire
The paralyzed man lay on the bed
helpless, unable to stir hand or foot
or raise a cry of alarm. The agonized
look on his face showed, however, that
he realized the terrible nature of his
position. The flames were smothered
before they had made much progress,
and the patient escaped unhurt.
Shortly after the family were sur
prised to hear the voice of the par
alyzed father. He was able to speak
distinctly a few words and his speech
was coherent. The next days his-pow
ers of speech were still further restored
and he regained the complete use of his
voice and was able easily to converse
with the family.
The restoration of the lost faculty
was evidently the outcome of the shock
which his system experienced on the
outbreak of the fire.
Although the paralysis of the limbs
remains, Mr. Herring’s health has im
proved so much that he has been re
moved from the house to a hospital,
where it is the opinion that he may
live a long time.
EXTOLS MARTIAL SPIRIT.
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Gen. Sickles Declares War Was Or
dained by God and We Will
Always Have It.
The cornerstone of a monumej. +. to
be erected in Salem Fields cemtk ry,
Cypress Hills, L. I., in honor of Jews
who lost their lives in defense of the
union was laid recently. Nathan Straus,
chairman of the auxiliary committee of
the Hebrew Union Veteran association,
presided. In the course of his remarks
Mr. Straus referred to “A time when
war will be reckoned a survival of bar
barism.” This brought a protest from
Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, retired,
who lost a leg at Gettysburg.
“Although we are assembled in a
cemetery,” said Gen. Sickles, “this is
not a funeral occasion. No death is
more glorious than death for one’s
country. I know many think that wars
are dreadful, but we have had our
wars since the world began, and we
shall always have wars. In the provi
dence of God war was ordained, and
the human race will always fight for
what it loves. This nation was found
ed through war. Would George III.
have agreed to arbitration to let us
found an independent government? No.
We have liberty because our fathers
i - i seven years for independence,
we will always have to fight to
m.eutain our freedom.
“I hope the time will never come
when we shall cease to be a maitial
people, or be unwilling to take up aims
in defense of our country. In the day
v.e are unwilling to ficht for our lib
erties we shall surely lose the respect
of the world.”
HORSE FALLS IN CISTERN.
Then Battles with a Water Moccasin
for Life—Rescued by
Firemen.
A horse belonging to William Scales,
of Kansas City, Kan., fell in an unused
cistern the other day. T he animal was
almost submerged, nothing but his head
and neck remaining above the water
When the hose company from fire head
quarters arrived a large water moccasin
about five feet long had wrapped itself
about the horse’s neck and had bitten
the animal several time».
The snake was an ugly looking reptile
and for a few moments the firemen hesi
tated about going down in the well. Vol
unteers were called for. and some of the
men. more venturesome than the rest,
climbed down on a ladder and with a
large stick killed the snake. The horse
was then lifted from the cistern and a
veterinary surgeon applied antidotes
for the snake’s bite. Although the horse
suffered considerably from the com
bined effects of the fall and the snake
bites, it will recover.
Unearths Petrified Dinosaur.
W. H. Utterbeck, representing the
Carnegie museum at Pittsburg, Pa., has
in his possession portions of a petrified
dinosaur, called the triceratops, which
were exhumed on Hell creek, In Dawson
county, Montana. The load weighed
2,500 pounds. The remaining portions
will weigh about the same, and it will
take until fall to excavate them.
Chickens Find Lost Diamond.
A diamond ring valued at $150, which
was lost by Miss Rebecca Rennough at
the home of "Wright Griffen, in Great
Barrington, “Mass. 14 years ago, was
: unearthed by cutekens vigorously
scratching in the soil the other day. The
jewel was found by Frederick Burg
hardt. who has notified Miss RennOtigh
The ring is in perfect condition.
Not Very Popular.
The Chicago Tribune iemarks that
the Brooklyn man who lived on grass
for six months seems to have succeeded
in red ucing a meat diet to its first irinci
FIRST OF NAVAL BATTLES.
It Was Fought in Maryland Waters
in the Early Colonial
Days.
April 23 of this year was the two
hundred and sixty-ninth anniversary
of the first naval battle fought in
American waters. On that date two
armed forces met at the mouth of the
Pocomoke river, within the boundaries
of the province of Maryland, and set
tled, at least temporarily, the authority
of Lord Baltimore. The settlement at
St. Mary’s had been made but 13
months when this test of arms oc
curred, says the Chicago Chronicle.
About three years before the land
ing of the Maryland pilgrims under
Gov. Leonard Calvert, by virtue of the
grant of the territory from Charles I.,
a trading post had been established by
William Claibourne, of Virginia, on
Kent island. It was not a settlement
intended for permanent homes and the
tilling of the soil, but merely a place
fixed upon by Claibourne for conven
ience of trade with the Indians. Kent
Island was clearly within the jurisdic
tion of Lord Baltimore, but Claibourne
very foolishly resisted his authority
and refused to take out a trader’s li
cense from the proprietary’s govern
ment at St. Mary’s. This stubborn
stand of Claibourne resulted in the
capture early in the year by Capt.
Thomas Cornwaleys, one of the Mary
land commissioners, of a vessel be
longing to Claibourne for trading in
the waters of the Chesapeake without
a Maryland license.
Claibourne realized now that he
would either have to break down Lord
Baltimore’s authority by force of arms
or be compelled to submit to that au
thority. He chose to fight and, accord
ingly, he fitted out am armed boat, the
Cockatrice, which was manned by 30
men and placed under the command of
Lieut. Radcliffe Warren, who was com
missioned by Claibourne “to seize and
capture any pinnacles or other vessels
belonging to the government of St,
Mary’s.”
This was a dcplnratinn nf ttnr anrl
when the news of the rebellion reached
Gov. Calvert he at once determined to
put it down, as becomes a governor
whose rights are denied and whose au
thority is defied. Knowing the strength
of the insurgents, he wisely fitteS out a
superior force, with the full determina
tion to crush the spirit that was giv
ing him no little trouble. So he
manned and commissioned two vessels
—the St. Margaret and the St. Helena
—placed them in command of the gal
lant Capt. Cornwaleys, with orders to
search out and destroy the enemy and
reduce Kent island to submission.
The little squadron sailed out from
St. Mary’s with the Maryland colors
flying from the flagship and animated
by the same courageous spirit that two
and a half centuries later inspired an
other Maryland naval commandeer in
his gloriously successful search for the
Spanish fleet in the waters of the West
Indies. Their course took them across
the bay and soon they were rewarded
by sighting the sails of the insurgent
shi~ -rf the mouth of the Pocomoke.
Curr.waie'ys skillfully maneuvered his
little fleet so as to prevent the escape
of the enemy and both sides cleared
for action. The insurgents delivered
the first fire, and so true was the aim
that William Ashmore, of the Mary
landers, fell to the deck, the first
American sailor whose life was sacri
ficed while in action upon the altar of
duty. The Sight of their dead comrade
Aspired the Maryland men to greater
determination, and made more deadly
their aim and threefold mor<js terrible
tueir revenge. Their first fire killed
the enemy’s commanding officer—
Lieut. Warren—and two of his crew.
The insurgents having lost their leader
and two of their comrades and seeing
certain destruction staring them in the
face, were brought to realize that dis
cretion was the better part of valor and
therefore they wisely struck their col
ors and surrendered themselves and
their vessel to the victorious aMry
landers.
Kent island was afterwards subdued
and Claibourne stripped of his posses
sion. But he did not cease to be a
source of great trouble to the settlers
of St. Mary’s and more than once suc
ceeding in destroying, for a time, the
government of Lord Baltimore, But
that belongs to another story.
Thefts from Hotels.
A certain hotelkeeper in Washington
says that the people have no idea of the
small depredations that are committed
by guests, most of who are people of
money enough of their own to refrain.
He declares that not long ago he bought
700 yards of toweling for his rooms, and
before he had time to learn whether or
not the rooms had been supplied, the
whole outfit was gone, says the Washing
ton Post. “They are drummers, and
women and all kinds of people who took
them," said he, “and probably they did
not think it was stealing to take things
away from the hotel. As to downright
theft from rooms, or bilking in the mat
ter of meals, there is much less of it in
hotels than you would suppose; but
Lord! how they will crib the soap and
linen and spoons!”
Far from Home.
Relative—I notice that you have at Iasi
got acquainted with your next-dooi
neighbor, who has lived alongside of yoc
for the past ten years.
Mrs. D’Avnoo—Yes, we were intro
duced to each other at the pyramids o!
Egypt, and I found her a delightful com
panion. We became very intimate.—
London Tit-Bits.
His Limited Circle.
Solon was inventing his motto.
"What do you think of ‘Know thy
self?’" be asked.
“Fine,” they answered, “but can’t voi
get acquainted iuTJiy better circles?”
Sadly he began to .search gfor a nev
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