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in all popular tints and'colors. They are die
stamped “Newport, Arkansas,” but sell at regu
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new and very popular.
We would be pleased to show you this line, be
| fore the neatest tints and designs are exhausted.
We carry a Full Line of
Wedding and Party Invitations,
Program Cards and Foiders,
Ladies’and Gents’ Visiting Cards,
With New
Type Faces
OUR WORK SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
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have made a reputation by their neat and
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NEWPORT INDEPENDENT
F. Drummond Bdg. Newport,
Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
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THE COUNTRY PHYSICIAN.
Has to Cover an Immense Territory,
and That When the Hoads
Are Worst.
“Of all the inen I meet on my
rounds of the state there is none
for whom I have as great respect
as I have for the country doctor,’'
said the Southdown drummer
the other day, according to the
Chicago Inter Ocean. “The city
physician is often a pretty hard
working man if he has much of a
practice, but he knows few of the
trials that the country doctor
faces the year round. The coun
try doctor is the modern mar
tyr, and take it all through he is
i the best read and most aggres
sive citizen of his community.
“The country phsician who is
well established usually has a
practice that covers a territory
of at least a hundred square
I miles. There is hardly a week in
the year that he does not have
patients at the extreme opposite
boundary lines of his territory.
I know one old doctor down the
state who drives an average dis
tance of 20 miles a day every day
in the year. Of course there are
days when he does not drive five
miles a day, but there are other
times when he drives 30 or 40
j miles a day.
“The worst side of country
practice, these doctors say, is
that the greater part of the sick
ness comes during the worst kind
of weather. When the roads are
good and the weather is fine peo
ple are not so apt to be sick, but
when winter comes on and the
roads are rough or muddy the
countrv doctor is the man who
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nas to De out ana going.
“The mud roads of Illinois
have snipped ten years off the
j lives of the majority of the doc
tors. One physician told me he
was the first man of his family
name to become gray, and he laid
the blame to exposure.
“The country doctor is not
merely a physician. He is a sort
of family counselor, nurse, spirit
ual and legal adviser. I heard of
a physician down in the southern
part of the state who conducted
a sort of vest-pocket bank and
loaned money and discounted
notes for nearly every farmer
within the range of his practice.
“Yes, sir, I alwrays take off my
hat to the country doctor wher
ever I meet him.”
THE CAUSE OF LEPROSY.
I Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson, of Eng
land, Says It Ib the Eating of
Decomposing Fish.
The conclusion of Dr. Jonathan
j Hutchinson, of England, after a
i study of leprosy as it appears in
i various parts of me world, is that
i the disease is caused wholly by
eating decomposing or imperfect
ly cured fish. The London Times
is inclined to accept Dr. Hutchin
son’s idea. It is held that in all
countries and in all ages leprosy
has been and is still due to the
consumption of “high” fish. The
preference for fish in a tainted
| condition is an “acquired taste”
1 and it is claimed that it prevails
among a sufficient number of peo
j pie to account for the dreadful dis
ease wherever it exists. Leprosy
was nearly general in England
and on the continent in the six
teenth century, and it is claimed
still prevails in many fishing sta
tions, especialy in Norway, Ice
: land and Tracadie. It is repre
sented that at these places there
is still a preference for fish in a
tainted condition. It is noted,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer,
that in regions where leprosy was
formerly common, it has disap
peared with the advancement of
agriculture and the discarding of
fish for food. In India vegetari
ans are free from it, but the fish
eaters are much troubled. Dr.
Hansen, of Bergen, discovered
that persons having leprosy carry
in their tissue a bacillus resem
bling that of tuberculosis, and the
disease is thought to be a mod
ification of tuberculosis, caused
by a specific virus developed in de
caying fish. The scientists, espe
cially those whose direction is in
the medical line, are always mak
ing it harder to get along in the
world; but it is probably better to
give heed to their theories, even if
there may be nothing in them, for
it may happen that a little care in
the selection of the dried fish we
eat may add a few7 years to life;
and it is the general agreement
That life is none too long at best.
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