IJast Added to Oar Stock, enables as to
famish Without the Delays of an Ex
press Order,
Folders for Party Invitations,
Wedding Invitations and doable
envelopes to match,
Embossed Dance Programs,
Program Pencils, Cards and Tas
sels,
Ladies' Visiting Cards.
Oar prices are reasonable and we
would be pleased to quote them on any
prospective order.
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Flat papers for Letter and Note Heads.
Well Finished XXX Rag Envelopes and
Statements, Bill Heads, Round and
With yew
f., i'j f •
Type Faces
And First Class Workmen, we gaaran
| tee oar work to be neat and modern.
Best of all, it'pleases the customer.
NEWPORT INDEPENDENT
r. F."Drummond Bdg. Newport,
on Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
Read the Daily Independent
FORTUNE IN PORPOISES.
Many of the White Cetacean* Fre
r quent the Gnlf of St. Lawrence,
and Are Valuable.
r American tourists crossing the St.
Lawrence from the mouth of the Sague
nay can almost always enjoy thej sight of
h number of porpoises disporting them
selves upon the water in the neighbor
hood of Tadoussac, says the New York
Sun. The great white cetaceans appear
like shapeless masses of blubber as their
arched backs show from time to time
above the surface. They are doubtless
attracted to the mouth of the Saguenay
by the large number of salmon which en
ter the river throughout the season.
A large industry is expected soon to
spring up in various parts of the Gulf of
St. Lawrence in connection with the
hunting of porpoises. It has already
been attempted upon a small scale, but
the difficulty of capturing any great
number of the animals has stood in the
way of success. Now the difficulty has
been overcome through the observations
and experiments of Campbell McNab, a
j Canadian hunter, who has spent many
years in the study of these animals.
The adult porpoise, of the St. Lawrence
and the North Atlantic ocean is from
12 to 18 feet in length. It somewhat re
sembles a dolphin in shape, with large
dorsal fin and a mouth armed with many
strong and sharp teeth. Bach porpoise
is bCievd to eat from one to three bar
rels of fish a day. so that it is difficult
to estimate the frightful ravages which
they make among the salmon, the her
ring and the cod. They are largely gre
garious, though they often hunt their
prey in couples. Mr. McNab has often
peered over the edge of an overhanging
rock to watch them catch salmon at the
mouth of a stream and sometimes along
distance up a river, where, they follow
their prey, t ney cnase a saimon into a
shallow and then two approach it from
either side. The salmon appears un
able to move, as if paralyzed with fear.
If he attempts to rush from one of his
pursuers he falls into the open mouth of
the other.
The porpoise is equally expert in fish
ing for the slippery eel. Mr. McNab
opened one of these animals the other
| day and found more than 40 eels in its
stomach. To prevent their wriggling,
and to aid digestion, the porpoise cracks
the skull of the eel between its teeth be
fore swallowing it.
Like the eel, the porpoise can live, a
long time out of the water. In fact, it is
virtually amphibious. Some time ago
Mr. McNab shot a number of the ani
mals which had been hauled ashore and
bound together by their tails. After
skinning another lot at some distance
and taking out the blubber, he turned a
few days later to the lot which had been
last shot. Unknown to him one had not
been killed outright. As he passed iil
front of it it growled at him “like a dog.”
he says, and opened its jaws to snap him.
The porpoises are captured by being
Imprisoned at low tide on the shoals,
over which they have journeyed when
the tide was high, in pursuit of their
prey. Hitherto the difficulty has been to
find any barrier strong enough to retain
such enormously strong, heavy beasts,
and so many of them together as are
sometimes enclosed. Mr. McNab has
made the interesting discovery that the
enormous nets through which they often
broke are not necessary to hold back
the brutes. They are unable to stand the
slightest vibration in the water, and so
all thai/the hunter now finds necessary is
to fasten a long thin pole like a fishing
rod to a stake in the mouth of the
stream, the bay or the estuary within
which it is desired to retain the por
poises. They remain to be stranded and
killed upon the shallows rather than ven
ture past the vibrating rod.
j 'i’his sensitiveness is believed to have
Its seat in the ear of the animal, which
hfts so small an opening that it might
almost .have been made with a pin. jfor
years McNab has held firmly to this
theory, only to be laughed at for his
pains, He has now proved it beyond
peradventufe, and has reaped the fruit
of his persistence, At one tide the other
day he secured 69 of the animals on the
| shoals of the Portneuf river a few milefi
below Tadoussac, and next year wrlll
pursue operations there upon a larger
scale. He has secured a nine year lease
of the shoal from the government and
has apparently a fortune within easy
reach. The skin and oil from a single
porpoise are worth from $30 to $50.
The utmost caution has to be taken
not to drive the animals away from their
haunts. If any of the blood or refuse of
their dead is permitted to reach the wa
ter, Mr. McNab declares, they will de
sert the place entirely. This is the ex
planation he gives of the present absence
of porpoises from the River Ouelle and
other places on the banks of the St. Law
rence, where a few years ago many of
them were annually killed. The por
poise, he says, is one of the most intell£
font animals created.
r , tJnprotectert Port.
The reputation of a house often de
pends upon the manner of packing as
muth as on the merchandise itself.
Goods for Manila should be packed with
special care. The port is unprotected
and the sea is often very rough, mak
ing unloading at such times impossible.
Transfer Is made by natives in small
boats from a point two miles distant.
These boats are tossed about by the
■lightest agitation of the water.
Jfo Seed for Worry.
Mrs. Homer—John, if Mrs. Neighbors
gets a new sealskin sack this winter I
must have one also.
Homer—Well, don’t worry about it,
dear. Neighbors and I formed a protec
tivve union to-day, and neither of you
is to have one.—Chicago Daily News.
T'oreif^uera in Japan.
A foreigner cannot own land in Japan,
although a number of foreigners may
organize themselves into a company, to
be known and registered as a "judicial
person,” and this company has all the
property rights of a native citizen.
MEW UMG RECORDS \
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Talking' Machines and sup
lies of all kinds.
Memphis To
One way, $6.50. I Corsicana, Waco, Ft. Worth, Dallas,
Round trip, $10.00. I Gainesville, Greenville, Commerce, Sher
1 P ’ | 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.
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March 1st and 15. I „ , ~
| Amanlla, Houston, Galveston, Cor
| pus Christi, San Antonio, Kerrville,
I Brownwood, Brady, San Angelo, Rock
I port, and all intermediates, $8.00 one way,
| $13.00 Round 'trip.
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Write
J. N. CORNATZAR,
General Agent,
MEMPHIS, TENN,
GEO. H, LEE,
General Passenger, Agent,
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
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