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Just Added to Oar Stock, enables as to
famish Without the Delays of an Ex
press Order,
I 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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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.
Well Finished XXX Rag Envelopes and
cheaper grades. A complete line of
Statements, Bill Heads, Round and \
Square Cornered Cards, etc.
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With New
Type Faces
And First Class Workmen, we guaran
tee our 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
AN ODD OLD CHARACTER.
IKate, the Bumboat Woman, Who Has
Haunted Washington’s Navy
yard for Forty Years.
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I Kate, the bumboat woman, is
the title applied to an odd erea
ture who ha8 been haunting the
Washington navy yard for the
past 40 years, says the Washing
ton Post. Her name is Kate
Royal, and as far back and further
than the oldest man connected
with the yard can remember, Kate
has been making her daily trips
with her basket of candy, fruit
and notions to sell to the sailors
who visit Washington on Un,cle
Sam’s boats. Kate has a speaking
acquaintance with all the great j
men of the army and navy. She |
has letters and presents from
most of them, including Amirals :
Dewey, Sampson and Schley.
Kate made her first visit to the j
yard during the civil war. She
was a young woman in those days,
and her bright Irish ways made
her a great favorite. In later
years, when age began to creep
nnrm Vi£»>* chn honrfin fa fAr»tn on
| opinion that she was an active I
and indispensable part of the j
; na vy. She considered herself an j
enlisted person and became as de j
voted to the cause as the most j
loyal man. It is just 40years since
Kate began to consider herself a j
sailor.
She has had ten red enlistment j
stripes, representing four years
j each, placed upon a field of blue
cloth, and this she wore to cele
brate the anniversary.
. Kate is a picturesque charac
ter. ITer form is bowed beneath
the weight of 70 years, and her
face is seamed with the marks of
time. Only her eyes still retain j
the brilliancy of youth, and they
sparkle with the same. Irish hu
mor and good nature that
gleamed from them 40 years ago.
Kate has no regular hours of
business. She is on hand with the
rising sun, and the late hours of
the evening find her still on duty.
She gathers her little stock of
trade around her under the fore
castle of one of the United States
boats lying up at the yard, and
with the sailor boys lying around
her on the floor she will tell them
tales of her youth or crone Irish
melodies for them until the signal
for lights out is passed around,
and the sailors seek their swing
ing hammocks, and Kate shoul
ders her basket of goods and wan
ders home.
HERO AND THE TOOTHACHE
Remarks Thereon by a Disillusioned
Girl—He Had Faced Death
at Santiago.
“I used to be given to hero
worship,” said the girl with
the Russian sable muff to
her companion of the long, dark
eyelashes, according to the New j
York Sun. “But, dear, we change,
do we not? Do you recall how I
spent the last of my pin money to
attend a reception that the club
arranged for a certain hero?
“Well, the week before last I
was coming up from Palm Beach.
On the train was a hero who f id
withstood a dozen hostile fires at
Santiago. He had a toothache, a
simple little toothache, and he bel
lowed like a calf. I thought of the
five teeth that I had pulled out in
one afternoon without gas and
asked myself if the man was real
ly brave. I decided that a hero
must have a toothache such as
the ordinary mortal never
dreamed of.
“One of the train hands who
sympathized with the hero said:
‘The nest thing for a toothache is
whisky. If I had one I’d fill up’—
and he did. I mean my hero, that
was, did. Don’t talk to mein fu- j
ture of hero worship. Facing!
death may be one thing, but I’d
rather face death than be afraid
of a toothache. Have a bon bon ?”
"Radium Sirup.”
A practical joke, now common I
among Parisians, is to go into a !
drug store and ask for three cents’
worth of radium. At first the
chemists took it good-naturedly,;
but latterly it has become quite a
nuisance. One chemist in the j
Rue de Rivoli has just hit upon a j
way of getting even with the |
would-be jokers. He has made a
concoction which he calls “radium
si. up,” and when the practical
joker arrives gravely7 hands out a
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Now is the time to make Yoor Home Merry, and you can
do so if you will boy
ANTOINE BOHLINGER.
A. BOHLINGER &
BANKERS AND BR
Cotton, Stocks, Bonds, Grain,
Handled on Commission.
Private Wires direct to New York, Chicago,
St. Louis, and New Orleans.
Write for daily Market Letter. .■ j|
JOB PRINTIN
PRINTING offiices in Jackson county
Printing and let us quote « r»»*Wc
— KEYSTONE OF iH
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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 musical scales is displayed in the zultivated human voice. An
inperfect scale piano is like a person who cannot sing correctly—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 ?he
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 Bystem and easy payment plan brings it within reach of all.
Call or write for Catalogues, prices and terms.
ESTABLISHED *853.
Hollenberg1 Music Co.,
Factory 317 Main Street, Little Rock.
Warerooms 243 Wabash Avenue, Chicago.
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conditional. )
Prof. G. Bixler,
97 Ogden Ave.,
Chicago, 111. I
Read the Daily and Weekly
Independent
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