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RlBCA LL THE
ABOUT
FRIEND IN NEED.
viends of a well known Little
k man, who for obvious reasons
hall be nameless, are telling the
Uowing story illustrating his
ess tjf hsart and his willingness
a fviend in need.
Iordifcg to the story, this man
||ui®ing from St. Louis and on
H^^ie espied an old friend.
HHj^kneared somewhat tier
•'-^kntly he disclosed the
he said. “I really
^PHnftat to (‘° about this. I
■ quarts of whiskey in
just got to thinking
H hal at Hoxie might
gj and if he should
2d and disgraced foi
■■ ild not worry about
. Blank, soothingly
mppose we just ex
until we get to- Lit
ut yours under my
Hj an take mine. I’m
rrested.
is most effusive
rrived in Little
sfully run the
s exemplified by
grips the wor
lds gratitude,
ciate what yoi
;aid. “Maybe it
to allow you tc
irst time in my
■ the law and 1
don’t mention
ink in his best
tad eight quarts
ncous combustion
British scientists
n or earthenware
evted-to, afford
as the coal is piled.
ALLEGED DESERTER ARRESTED
Marshal DeCamp and Constable
W. R. Pasley arrested A. L. Sharp of
: Sidney, Sharp county, in this city :
yesterday on the charge of deserting
from the army.
I Sharp was drafted and went with
a contingent, leaving Sharp county
some time during the past summer,
and it is reported that he was only in
camp a few days before he deserted j
and has been in hiding here since.
! When the White River passenger
arrived in Batesville Thursday even-^
ing, Sharp stepped off the train, anil
the officers, being on the lookout,
immediately placed him under arr.st.
He was lodged in jail to await infor
mation from headquarters at Camp
Pike, as to what disposition is to be
mad: of him.—Batesville Guard.
RURAL CARRIER EXAMINATION.
j The Unit'd States Civil Service
Commission has announced an exam
ination for the County of Jackson,
Ark., to be held at Newport on Janu
; ary 11, 1919, to fill the position of ru
ral carrier at Newport, Weldon gnd
Tuckerman and vacancies that may
later occur on rural routes from oth
er po3toffices in the above-mentioned
county. The examination will be
j open only to male citizens who are
actuary domiciled in the territory of
a postoffice in the county and who
meet the .other requirements set forth
in Form 1977. This form and
application blanks may be obtained
from the offices mentioned above or
from the United States Civil Service
Commission at Washington, D. C.
Applications should be forwarded to
the Commission at Washington at
the earliest practicable date.
j ROYS LEFT IN FRANCE
WILL ENJOY A REAL
ENGLISH CHRISTMAS.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Nov. 18.—If your son is in
France or England at Christmas time
j you needn’t necessarily feel that he is
losing all the joy of life. Perhaps he
| is going to have the opportunity to
enjoy a real English Christmas.
Invitations have been issued to as
! many American soldiers -and sailors
: as possible in France, through the
Y. M. C. A. secretaries there, and
those in camps and on battleships in
England were not forgotten. More
than two thousand of them will be
entertained for the holidays in Lon
don homes alone. And on Christmas
day 1,500 more will watch the brandy
burning on top of the pudding and
eye the roasted pig in families who
are to do everything possible to make
this holiday one that the American
guest will always remember.
Invitations poured in to the Inter
natonal Y. M. C. A. Hosptalty
League from many farms outside of
London, too— from Devonshire,
where riding and shooting were of- (
fered from Scotland and from Ire-1
I
land.
“I want two boys for the whole of
their leave,” one Irish woman writes.
“I am going to give them the kind of
Christmas my boys would have liked
if they had not been killed in France.”
MARINES ARE FIGHTERS.
Washington, Dec. 15.— The spirit
of “First to Fight, and Last to Give
Up,” was so strongly, inculcated in j
the United States marines sent to the j
battle front that in the period from i
April 1 to September 1, their casual-1
ties were 23 per cent, almost a fourth
of their entire strength, and only 25
men were taken prisoner, according
to the annual report of Major General
Barnett, commandant of the Marine
Corps.
In large measure the report deals
with the administrative functions of
the corps, much of the official data
of the battle record of the organiza
tion having been printed in the navy
report.
The report shows that before the
signing of the armistice, 530 officers
and 21,327 men were sent to France.
The list of casualties shows that 44
officers and 1,116 enlisted men died in
action and that 76 officers and 2,832
men were wounded.
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RULER OF PORTUGAL IS SHOT.
London, Deh. 15.—Dr. Sidonio Paes,
President of Portugal, was shot and
killed by an assassin shortly before
midnight Saturday while he was in a
railway station at Lisbon w-aiting for
a train to Oporto. Advices from Lis
bon reportng the assassinaton say
that he was struck by three bullets.
President Paes died within a few
minutes after he w-as shot.
The president’s assailant, named
Jeetne, was killed by the crowd.
Tamagnini Barbosa, the minister
of the interior, has assumed the pres
idency.
LIVES LIKE A RECLUSE.
Omrongen, Holland, Dec. 15—The
former German emperor continues to
lead the life of a near recluse. He is
virtually cut off from communication
with the outside world. Reports that
he was in constant communication
with his former advisers are not true.
There is no truth in the rumors
that the former empress is seriously
ill. She has been troubled for years
with an affection of the heart and af
ter her arrival here desired to have
her former physician in attendance.
^———I—
He arrived yesterday and said that I
her condition showed no
Whenever there
incessant
land,
wife
with
times
motor car
The correspondent
rumor that the former emperor in
tended to move his quarters and
learned that Herr Hohenzollern is not
intrested in other houses in Holland
and is not likely to move anywhere
until he knows more regarding his
future. *
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HIS INTELLECTUAL MQUAL
The n; rdymt was busy, and was j
having a troublesome time at the
telephone.
Central, who tried to get the num
ber for him, appeared to be inexperi
enced or asleep. Ordinarily the most
patient of men, he finally lost his
patience.
“Look here,” he shouted, “either
get me 1234 or give me some place
where I may at least talk to my in
tellectual equal.”
Silence for a moment, and then over
the wire came a loud “Hello!” in a
man’s voice.
Mr. Brownlow was much relieved.
“What place is that?” he asked.
“The hospital for the insane,”
came the answer.—Liverpool Mer
cury.
WHAT THE WAR COST ITALY.
(By The Associated Press.)
Rome, Dec. 16.—The minister said
the war cost Italy fifty-four billion
lire. The public debt in October was
sixty-four billion lire.
I
- I
(By The Associated Press.)
Rome, Saturday—During the war j
the Italian army lost 15,600 officers j
killed, the minister of war announced, j
and more than 30,000 officers were j
wounded severely.
OUTBREAKS ARE SERIOUS.
(By The Associated Press.)
Madrid, Dec. 16.—Premier Roman
ones, after a cabinet meeting had
been called to consider serious oitt
braks in Catalonia, issued a note de
claring the king had been asked to
sign a decree suspending parliament.
Madrid, Dec. 16.—One was killed
and six injured in a collision Sunday
at Barna between the police and a
crowd after a ' socialist republican
meeting in favor of autonomy Cata
lonia as a democratic republic.
OltMER ARTILLERY
CHIEF TO VILLA HAS
CROSSED THE BORDER.
(By The Associated Press.)
El Paso, Dec. 16—General Felipe
Angeles, fomfyjei.
Francisco ViT e(j
recently for t0„„ .. . . .
- .. .. i°se of jomm
Villa in the fi4stern Chih
hua. It is bel lgeIes jg q
mission from at Afexica
iticants whose jg
movement agaWexic
ernment on Ja
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The Women of Newport
will do much of their Christmas Shopping at.
tnis store as usual. Our stocks are replete
with gifts of the kind which, with their
Christmas message, take with them the
deeper lasting thought of careful choosing
and real worth, conveying more than just
the ordinary Christmas Gift by reason of
their dependability and goodness.
Mrs. H. Clay Sanders
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