Quality Tellsl
400,000 KIMBALL Pianos and Organs have
think what it means—400,000 people have
bought KIMBALL’S because they
best to buy. This number includes tens
Colleges, Schools and Musicians, and
Greatest MUSICAL ARTISTS the
It's the Best to
Established 1853.
Hot ten berg Music Co.
\
Factory Wareroonts:
317 Main St., Little Rook.
_ _
MARK. HANNA’S C RTSHIP
How, When a Young Grocer, He
Wooed and Won the Daughter
of Daniel Rhodes.
Nearly 33 year3 ago Mark Hanna
was ju3t starting on his business ca
reer a3 a grocer in Cleveland. He
was poor, plodding, and to the casual
observer a very every-day sort of young
man, says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Daniel Rhodes was one of the rich
owners of the state. He had one
, the very idol of hl3
lovely girl the
d wreathed all
es of his fu
g was to be
hodes, her
idolator at
the doting
a rich, influen
marriage and a
career for Gussie,
Vhen, as usual, the unexpected hap
pened. Gussie Rhodes met and loved
the obscure, poor young man, Mark
Hanna. Mr. Rhodes was astounded
when the daring young grocer called
upon him and asked for the hand of his
daughter. He refused absolutely to
grant the young suitor even time
enough to beg Ha said "no’* curtlv
ASPARAGUS HAS A LINEAGE
—
1 Romans Held Vegetable in High Es
teem Many Tears Before
Christ.
Of all food plants there is none which
has been so long known or been pos
sessed of so distinguished a lineage as
the asparagus, its records reach bach
almost to the beginning of authentic his
tory, and it is mentioned by the comic
poot Cratinus, who died about 436 B C.
The Romans held the vegetable in high
esteem. The elder Cato wrote a work
which is still extant, “De re Rustics,” I
and It treats at length of the virtues and j
proper cultivation of asparagus. Pliny, j
in his natural history, written about
60 A. D., has much to say about it. He
feelingly observes: “Of all the products
of your garden your chief care should be
asparagus,'* and he devotes several
chapters to Its many good qualities and
the best methods of raising it. He as
serts that the soil about Ravenna was sq
favorable to its production that three
heads grown In that district had been
known to weigh a Roman pound. This
pound seems to have been about equal
to 11 ounces' in our day, so it would ap
nirAnilv hovn Inlron fnnp fho atallrfl
‘ ’ -- ' --- ■■■
“Jones Pays th
\JUE ALSO PAY RAILROAD
“ ^ ROGK if you buy $50.00
store is twice the size of any o
store in LITTLE ROGK, and o
FURNITURE, C
DRAPERIES, CROCK
and KITCHEN U
offers you the advantage of a big a
from. ... We are price
setters.Write us.
JONES
House Furnishing
Company
609-611-613-615
MAIN STREET
LITTLE ROGK , „
« If
Every
Heart~Ache
Every pain in the breast, dif
ficult breathing, palpitation,
fluttering or dizzy spell means
that your heart is straining it
self in its effort to keep in
motion. This is dangerous.
Some sudden strain from over
exertion or excitement will
completely exhaust the nerves,
or rupture the walls or arteries
of the heart, and it will stop.
Relieve this terrible strain at
once with Dr. Miles’ Heart
Cure. It invigorates and
. strengthens the heart nerves
and muscles, stimulates the
heart action, and relieves the
pain and misery.
Take no chances; make your
heart strong and vigorous with
Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure.
"I suffered terribly with heart dis
ease. I have been treated by
different physicians for my trouble
without results. I went to a physi
cian in Memphis, who claimed that
I had dropsy of the heart. He put
the X-ray on me. and in connection
with his medicine he came near "mak
ing a finish of me. Some time before
this a Mr. Young, of St. Louis, was
in our town. He saw my condition,
and recommended Dr. Miles’ Heart |
Cure to me. I gave it little attention i
until my return from Memphis, when |
I concluded to try it. and am pleased i
to say three bottles cured me.
einnr rra cnnnnrcu1
Caruthersville. Mo.
Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure is sold by
your druggist, who will guarantee that
the first Dottle will benefit. If it fails
he will refund your money.
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart. Ind
. ..- I ■■■" —W ' ' ■ ' ■' < ,
GET THE BEST |
25,000 New Words
New Gazetteer of the World
with more than 25,000 titles, based on the
latest census returns.
New Biographical Dictionary
containing the names of over 10,000 noted
persons, date of birth, death, etc.
Edited by 5V. T. HARRIS, Ph.D., LL.D.,
United States Commissioner of Education,
2380 Quarto Pages
New Plate*. 5000 Illustrations. Rich Binding.
Needed InEveryHome
Also Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary with
1116Pages. 1400Illustrations. Size: 7x10x2% in.
A Special Thin Paper Edition De Luxe
Is printed from the same plates as regular edition It
has limp covers and round corners. Siee:54{x8%xl% in.
FREE, ” A Test in Pronunciation," instruc
tive and entertaining.
Also illustrated pamphlets.
G. 6 C. MLRRIAM CO.,
Publishers, Springfield, Mass.
| HAUL nmnns
Designs
r""F""" ' Copyrights Ac.
> Anyone sending a sketch and description may
autckly ascertain our opinion free whether an
invention is probably patentable. Communica.
ttons strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents
sent free. Oldest agoncy forsecurmgpa
Patents taken through Munn <fc Co. receive
tpecial notice, without charge, in the
Scientific American.
A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest cir
MUNN & Co New York
ffBranch Office. 325 F 8t.. Washimrton, D. C.
SEVEN
WONDERS
of the American Continent;
Yellowstone National Park;
Great Shoshone Falls; The
ColumbiaRiver;Mount Hood;
The Big Trees of California;
The Yosemite; Lucin “Cut
Off,” across Great Salt Lake
can all be seen on a trip
over the
Union Pacific
AND CONNECTIONS
TO THE
j
Lewis and Clark
Exposition
PORTLAND, OREGON,
June I to October 15, 1905.
Inquire of
J. H. Lothrop, G. A.,
903 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.
• -
I _ * ' • _j_
The Great East and West Line
Across the Entire States oi
Texas and Louisiana
NO TROUBLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
New Dining Cars (Meals a la Carte.)
Write for low rates. New book
on Texas, FREE.
E. P. Turner, G. P. A.,
Dallas, Texas.
Dr. Mendenhall’s
CHILL and FEVER
CURE
#
(This Picture ou Every Bottle)
Cures Chills. Fevers, Malaria, Bilious
ness. Take it as a General Tonio and at all
'imes in place or Quin:ne. Breaks up Coughs,
"V/ds and LaGrippo NO CURB. NO PAY
J. C. MBNDBNHAIX.
•eie C -n *•.- Evsnsville, Indiana
SAW MILL FOR SALE.
—
Saw mill and 1,000 acres of
:>ak for sale cheap. Party de
sires to look after other business.
Apply at this office. This mill
is a bargain and can, be secured
for $450.
Do your clothes look yellow? If
so, use Red Cross Ball Blue. It
will make them white as snow.
2 oz. package 5 cents.
and sharply, and when he saw his
daughter he tried to scold her, but la*
stead ha took her In his honest arms
and begged her not to think of ’'this
unknown man, Hanna.” He said ha
never, never could consent to snch a
choice for his child.
Gussla Rhodes told her father, with
many a reassuring embrace, that she
would never marry without his con
sent, and she added: “But, papa dear,
I shall never marry any man but Mark
Hanna.”
Then she promised her father not to
see her lover or write to him for a
year at least. She kepf'her promise,
and In the course of a few weeks, al
though she never audibly murmured,
and was sweetly gentle and loving to
all about her, she grew pale and wan.
She neither ate no slept. The old fa
ther was at hi3 wit’s end. Some one
proposed a foreign lour for that change
of scene which is supposed to work
wonders In heart affections, and,
presto at a few hours’ notice, father,
mother and daughter were on board
an Atlantic liner.
For nearly a year the “change of
scene” prescription was faithfully pur
sued and the patient, always cheerfully
submissive, gentle and charming, ob
viously grew frailer day by day. Al
most in despair the old man brought
his child home again and one morn*
tng he gathered the courage to ask
her If she till cared for Mark Hanna.
“Why, father," she replied, “I. shall
'lway3 love Mark; I told you that,
you know, a year ago.”
Poor old “Uncle Dan” Rhodes! That
was a bitter day for him, but he;was
equal to the occasion. Sending for the
obscure young man, he 3atd to him:
“Mrv Hanna, Gussie loves you, that Is
my only reason for accepting you as
her future husband. You are poor. I’ll
fix it so Gussie can live as she has
been accustomed to and I suppose I
must see you marry her."
Now the coming young man cast ever
■o slight a shadow of his future great
ness on the opportunity of the-present.
“Mr. Rhodes ’’ said he, “I most grate
fully accept the gift of your daughter’s
love. To marry her is for this world to
become a paradise for me, but I cannot
make her my wife unless she will be
content to live as my means will enable
u5. I can neither accept aid nor per
mit my wife to accept It from any
one.”
So Mark Hanna and Gussie Rhodes
were married, ana the bride went from
her father’s big house to live in a tiny
little cottage, where with one maid of
all work, she wa3 as happy a3 a queen
for some years.
LINE OF CASTE IN ENGLAND
The American in That Country Soon
Becomes Conscious of Its
Restrictions.
_ % v
What is it, at bottom, that makes
the English atmosphere so difficult
for an American to breathe in freely?
t a i ~ r l—1: au^a i. . u: —\ c
* WOUV I O, IU.14TC. UU LVOikl Uliugvil
in a country where the dignity of life
is lower than in his own; a country
where a man born in ordinary cir
cumstances expects, and is expected, to
die in ordinary circumstances; where
the scope of his efforts is traced be
forehand by the accident of position;
where he is handicapped in a"
and crushed in most by the
cumbent weight of caste, convention,
“good form” and the deadening artifi
cialities of an old society, comments a
writer in the North American Review.
That unconquerable buoyancy which
infects the American air like a sting
and challenge, and braces every Ameri
can with the inspiration that he has a
chance in life; that there are open op
portunities, unreser ved possibilities,
no battering at locked doors, no floun
dering in blank alleys; that here, xn
short, it is the man himself who
makes hi3 career—i3 sometning which
the English have so utterly io3t a3 ta
be incapable of realizing it.
For Purifying Air.
Pure breathing air can now be main
tained in a small closed space by the
use of machinery. The device consists
of a distributor, which, by the action of
clockwork, drops sodium peroxide into
water at regular intervals, a cubical
■teel box and a ventilating fan. The
■odium peroxide i3 decomposed by the
water with liberation of oxygen, ab
sorption of carbon dioxide and destruc
tion of the other toxic products of res
piration. A refrigerator is also sup
plied to counteract the heating effetta
of the chemical reactions. The com
plete apparatus weighs about 26
pound*.—Detroit Newa-Tribua*
to have reached a pound of our weight.
The asparagus being essentially a
southern plant, It is possible that the
stock growing in Italy was of a mors
vigorous growth than that of our north
ern clime. It is found all around ths
shores of the Mediterranean and
branches off into four or five distinct
species besides the one ordinarily used
for edible purposes.
WON BY ORDINARY TALK.
Lack of Arm Gestures and Conversa
tional Tone Wins Heart of
Doubtful Maiden.
Congressman William H. Jackson, of
Maryland, was engrossed in discussing
with a number of colleagues the deca
dence of oratory, says the New York Hep
lid. '‘Sane people are not emotional,”
declared the congressman, “And the con
versational delivery of speech carries
as much weight with an intelligent
audience as does the effort of a declaim
er who indulges In brilliant periods with
an arm-swinging acorn paniment"
“You are right," said a listener, “and
your statement reminds me of a young
lady who had two suitors Both men
had about ths same advantages and
prospects, but gossip declared that ths
girl would dscide In favor of the awn
who was a lawyer, for he knew bettor
how to present and win his case. Gos
sips erred; the lawyer wan rajeetsd.
Later It was learned from a friend to
whom the betrothed had confided her
reason for her choice.
“‘Harry la convincing, but John la
Just as convincing and does not have to
move his arms every time ho wants to
say something.’ ”
BIG BEE RANCH IN ’FRISCO
Public School Principal of Coast City
Harvests a Third of a Ton
of Honey n Season.
—
i There is a bee ranch with more thus
1,000,000 bees in the heart of one of ths
densest residence districts of San Fran
cisco. It is owned by Philip Prior, prin
cipal of a public school, and Is in the
little back yard of his home. For ten
; years he has kept hia bees there, has
j harvested about a third of a ton of
honey each season and has been at no
expense for food for his interesting and
industrious pets. Although it Is a dis
tance of two and one-half miles from
the Prior bee ranch to Golden Gate park,
the bees make the trip there, collect
loads of honey and get back to the hive
in two minutes, making a bullet-ilka
flight at the surprising rate of 150 miles
an hour. Mr. Prior has demonstrated
thia by having an observer watch cer
tain bee-favored places in the park and
exactly timing the arrival there of bees
he purposely sprinkled with flour as
tney issued irom a mve. tie naa aiso
kept time on the absence of the whitened
bee3.
BIG PROFIT IN BATHHOUSE
Average New York Seashore Resort
Receives Nearly $2,000 a Day
for Rooms Alone.
If you doubt that the nickel and quar
ter business doesn't pay, consider the
money-making propensities of the aver
| age seashore bathhouse around New
York, and make over your opinion. A
representative bathing pavilion has
1,500 bath compartments, [t costs 20
oe»ts to rent one. On a medium hot
summer’s day some $800 are derived
from renting these rooms, for the com
partments are used in the course of the
day by about 4,000 persons. Bathing
piits rent for 25 cents each. There
would be 8,000 of them for such a pavll
ton. which means $1,000 a day if half ol
them are rented once; and it is fair to
assume that three-fourths of the 4.000
bathers pay five cents for the use of a
comb and brush—$150. A total of near
ly $2,000, to. say nothing or the proceeds
from restaurant, bar, barber shop and
Indoor baths.
■
Italy’s Emigrants.
In the past 30 years Italy ha3 sent
more than 2,000,000 persons to the
United States, says the World’s Work.
A number of these have returned in the
course of time, taking with them care- i
fully hoarded savings. A very large
majority have remained in the United
States
Jap3 Drink Much Water.
A gallon of water a day is drunk by
every Japanese who practices, as nearly
all do, the gymnastics known as jiujitsu.
--
Cuba’s Population.
The .population of Cuba i3 now over
1,685,000, which is an increase of man
than ten per cent since 1900.
I" .— : _
$30.00 ONLY $30.00
St. Louis to
California
and the Northwest, via
Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Route
Through Pullman Sleeping Cars Daily.
Through Tourist Sleeping Cars daily via Missouri Pacific
Railway. Tuesdays and Saturdays via Iron Mountain Route.
For full information address
J. H. GINET, Jr., Traveling Passenger Agent,
,St. Louis, Mo.
WHO GOES THERE?
U. C. V. REUNION
Louisville, Kentucky.
June 14-16
Very Low Round Trip Rates.
See that your ticket reads via Rock Island.
Full information on request. |
GEO. H. LEE, JAS. HARRIS,
Gen. Pass. Agt. Dist. Pass. Agt. i
UTTLEIROGK, ARK.
J. W. Lindley, Pres. L. T. Slayden, V-Pres. E. V. Holt, Cashier
BANK OF TUCKERMAN
CAPITAL STOCK $20,000.00.
>
We are open to the public for all business
which constitutes safe & reliable banking
DIRECTORS:
J. W. LINDLEY, L. T. SLAYDEN, D. C. J
R. D. DUNCAN, L. D. SMITH.
COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY.
%
Your Patronage is Solicited.
Tuckerman, - -
The Food That Does Good
The Cod Liver Oil Emulsion “Par Excellence" for
Coughs. Colds, Influenza, Bronchitis, La Grip,
Sore Throat and Lungs, Catarrh, Pneumonia,
Consumption and all Pulmonary Diseases. All
Druggists, two sizes, 50c. and $1.
TRIAL BOTTLE FREE BY MAIL
to all sending name and address to
OZOMULSION CO.. 95 Pine Street. New York.
V
JAMES L. J
Solicits you:
NOTARIAL B
And prom:
Prompt and Care
To Your Bi
Read the D;
Independent5