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No. 4. 10:40 .a m.
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No. 20. 12:08 p. rr
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No. 17. 5:36 a. m.
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BATESVILLE BRANCH.
Passenger Leaves. 7:05 a. m
Mixed ,f . 11:45 a.m.
Ij PassengerjArrives. 7:40 p. m.
[ i Mixed “ . 10:15 a. m.
I ROCK ISLAND SYSTEM.
I Passenger Arrives. 1:40 p. m
| Passenger Departs. 3:15 p. m.
■k Ldcal Freight Departs. 6:30 a. m.
HI On Tuesday, Thursday an.l Saturday
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■DRAYMEN
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I^UJiat want the best grease on the
ISRarkot and that recognize a good
§|§f ing when shown its merits, we
Jlllf commend our Golden and Cas
Oil brands of Axle Grease.
HR is put up in 1 pound tin boxes
k| 3 pound tin buckets. For
Py j® by all up-to-date merchants.
Wim for it and take no substitute.
guaranteed to have no equal
aj^Br quality on the market.
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IK ONE-WAY RATES.
| Every day from September
■ 5th to October 15th, 1904, inclu
sive, the Union Pacific will sell
bne-way tickets from Missouri
River Terminals (Council Bluffs
to Kansas City, inclusive) as
follows:
$20.00 to Ogden and Salt Lake
City.
$20.00 to Helena and Butte,
Montana.
$22.50 to Spokane and Wen
atchee, Washington.
$22.50 to Huntington and
Nampa, Idaho.
$25.00 to Portland, Tacoma and
Seattle.
v $25.00 to Vancouver and Vic
toria.
$25.00 to Ashland and Astoria,
Oregon, via Portland.
$25.00 to San Francisco, Los
Angeles and San Diego.
Correspondingly low rates to
many other California, Oregon,
Washington, Montana, Utah, and
Idaho points.
Through Tourist cars run every
day on Union Pacific between
Missouri River and Pacific Coast:
double berth $5.75. For full in
formation call on or address,
J. H. Lothrop,
903 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.
18tilOct. 10.
PORTLANDJAND
NORTHWEST.
Without change via Union Pa
cific. This route gives you 200
miles along the matchless Colum
bia River, a great part of the
distance the trains running so
close to the river that one can
look from the car window almost
directly into the water. Two
through trains daily with accom
modations for all classes of pas
sengers. This will be the popu
lar route to the Lewis and Clark
Exposition 1905. Inquire of
J. H. Lothrop, G. A.,
903 Olive Street,
St. Louis, Mo.
THROUGH TOURIST CAR SER
j VICE TO CALIFONIA.
Commencing Saturday Septem
ber 17th, the Iron Mountain
Route will inaugurate through
car service to Los Angeles, Cali
fornia. This is the “True South
ern Route" via Texarkana and
El Paso. Special low rate colo
nists’ tickets to California points
will be on sale September 15th to
October 15th, via Iron Mountain
Route. For tickets and reserva
tion apply to local agent
H. C. Townsend,
G. P. & T. A.
TO THE FAIR.
Tickets on sale to St. Louis
daily via the Iron Mountain route.
$9.55 for the round trip; return
limit fifteen days from date of
sale. T. H. Reamey, Agt.
MONEY IN MAINE SKUNKS
They Are Worth ate Hock M All tht
Deer Killed in That State
la a Season,
It will no doubt surprise many peo*
pie who learn that the despised skunk
is worth twice as much to Maine as is
the much-admired honey bee, but such
is the fact; and, counting things at
their actual worth, the skunk is worth
about as much as all the deer killed in
Maine in a season, says the Philadel
phia Record. The skunk is valuable
both for his fur and for the oil that Is
In him, and both the oil and the fur
are in ever-increasing demand.
Fashions in furs regulates the price
jf skunk skins. Four years ago ths
coat of a dark skunk was worth $2.5C
to three dollars, and the demand ex
ceeded the supply. Since then the
muskrat has come into favor, and the
price of skunk skins has fallen to about
two dollars for the best. When, how
ever, there are a dozen fat skunks tt
had on every acre of meadow land,
when a hardwood club is the only
weapon needed for killing them, and
when every fat skunk contains at
least a quart of oil, worth five dollars
a gallon at wholesale, there is mone^*
in the business.
Most of the skunk pelts are shipped
to a Philadelphia firm, where they are
made up into furs for export tc
France and Germany, in whcih coun
tries they pass as monkey skins. It it
estimated that Maine’s revenue from
skunks amounts to 9150,000 or 9175,000
annually, which is double the sum de
rived from all the honey bees in ths
state, and certainly more than all ths
8,000 deer shot are worth to the men
who kill them. From 100,000 to 150,
900 skunks are killed in Maine every
fall.
The demand for oil is steadily in
creasing, and the price has advanced
50 cents to one dollar a gallon within a
year. The natives prize the oil for itx
virtues as a cure for rheumatism and
■tiff Joints, and large quantities of it
are bought by country traders and sent
to druggists out of the state.
It is estimated that the annual pro
duction of skunk oil in Maine exceedi
25,000 gallons, and the quantity is in
creased by adulteration with the fatty
ollr obtained from hens and wood
chucks, a teception which has proved
most profitable to the skunk magnates
MAKING OF OXYGEN.
latereatlnar Proceaa Known to Bui
Few Professional Men and No
Ordinary Mortala.
The manufacture of oxygen—or more
properly its separation from the atmos
phere we breathe—is an intensely in
teresting process known to but few
professional men and scarcely known
at all by the ordinary mortal, says a
scientific paper. A plant for the manu
facture of oxygen to be used in charg
ing its distilled water was put in opera
tion recently at an ice plant m Los An
geles, Cal.
Oxygenated water is now being pre
scribed by physicians in certain dis
eases, and hence a cheap and simple
method of separating the oxygen in the
atmosphere becomes a matter of im
portance. The process employed oy the
Los Angeles company is based on the
principle that a certain chemical com
pound—manganate of soda—readily
parts with the oxygen it contains when
subjected to the action of s Jet of
•team. A blast of air on the residuum
reforms it into manganate oi soda, tills
chemical possessing the peculiar prop
erty of absorbing oxygen from th* at
mosphere, parting with it when ex
posed to steam and being reformed
again upon exposure to the air. The
process may be continued indefinitely,
when the ingredients are placed in th«
retort and proper connections for ail
and steam made. No more chemicals
are required. It may be likened to dip
ping a sponge in water, squeezing it
dry, and then repeating the operation
Indefinitely.
Oxygen made by this process, It la
claimed, contains no gas other than oxy
gen and no elements of any descrip
tion other than slight traces of atmos
pheric nltrogen|. Hence it requires no
washing to free it from chlorine nor
any purification whatever. The product
Is oxygen—and nothing else. Th#
oxygen, direct from the retorts, Is
stored in gasometers, and then forced
tnto distilled water by means of a
Twltchell carbonating machine, which
pumps the water and oxygen at the
| game time, thoroughly agitating both
before bottling. The bottling is done
under a pressure of 60 pounds.
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New Calculation.
Prof. See has watched the duration of
the blue sky after dark, and found It to
continue for about an hour and 15 min
utes, and from this he shows that our
atmosphere extends to a height of fully
130 miles. Astronomers have usually
found the height of the atmosphere by
computing the height of the meteors, but
none have made the height of the atmos
phere over 100 miles. The study of the
blue color of the sky thus proves also
j that our atmosphere extends consider
; ably higher than scientists have hereto
! fore supposed. On our dark days the
blue color of the sky Is shut out by
; clouds, and combinations of colors due
te reflecting clouds and countless
' myriads of particles In the ethereal re
• glons high above the earth give the
bright light which Is so mu ih relished
In dally life._
New York City.
New York city now contains more
Irish than Dublin; more Italians tnan
Florence; more Poles than Warsaw;
more Jews than Jerusalem.
Aa Improvement.
▲ new typewriting machine returns
the carriage automatically when the
end of a line Is reached, so that the op
■Net is not compelled to sauna
“NATURE NEVER GIVES UP/
▲ Phrase That la Pull of Meaning for
the Sick in Either Body
or Mind.
A phrase from a recent magazine
article is so suggestive and so full
of encouragement that it seems
worthwhile to make it the text for
one of our small sermons, says
Woman’s Home Companion. The
phrase is: “Nature never gives
up.” You may with profit say this
over carefully and thoughtfully
and let its full meaning come to
you: “Nature never gives up.”
Nature is on the side of health,
and sanity, and consequent happi
ness. Hard as your case may be,
the great Mother is fighting the
battle with you. Has disease got
into your bones ? Nature has fiaar
shaled her forces to combat it,
and with marvelous strategy has
set engines to work which are en
deavoring to circumvent the en
emy. Nature is working in con
junction with the physician and
yourself. That is a thought
which ought to cheer you. You
have been imprudent, possibly—
have done and left undone. You
have taken such ill-care of your
God-given body that your friends
have set you down as hopeless or
worse. You have told yourself
that there is no hope for you. Na
ture has not given you up. She
wants you to live and work and be
healthy and happy and in the
event of your neglect of yOurself,
■Vin {a of ill fl rrli fi tl Cf f AP Trtll flllP
has no moral idea in doing this.
She just does it. Perhaps you de
serve to be given up. Many of us
do, it sometimes seems. But Na
ture is blind to that. Of course,
she is not all-powerful. She can
be overcome. She fails often.
But you will do well to remember
that in every case while there is
a spark of life left, she is trying.
Let that thought brace you. Buck
up, and give Nature some help.
I should like to think that we
could carry the analogy into the
moral world as well. Do you not
believe that there are forces as j
yet unvalued which are fighting
the fight for good in the souls of
men? Bad a man or woman may
be—there is exterior pressure to
make him or her better. There is
law; there is education; there are
all the societies and institutions
whose object is to help the down
fallen and the unfortunate. But
•re there not other forces, too?
Does not the great Mother of
Souls fight continually for the
spiritual health and sanity of all
people? The thought is comfort
ing, stimulating, encouraging. It
Is the business of every individual
to add all his personal strength
to all encounters with evil, physic
al or spiritual. He can do so more
heartily and with better faith for
success if he remembers that “na
ture never gives up.”
INTERESTING CHILDREN.
Youngsters of Oriental Ministers st
Washington Never Heard of Christ
mas Before Coming Here.
There are in the foreign colony
In Washington quite a number of j
children who never heard of
Christmas until they came to the
land of the free, says the Wash
ington Times. Among them are
tht two sons and the daughter of
the Chinese minister, the young
sters of the Korean legation, and
Osman Sureya and AliHaidas,the
black-eyed little sons of Chekih |
Bey, the Turkish minister. Wheu I
Wu Ting-Fang was Chinese minis !
ter he adopted *he American [
Christmas to the extent that his
young son was allowed to go to
the white house each Christmas
morning with a bouquet almost as
large as himself designed as »
token for the first lady of the I
land. In the Chinese colony are
several children who have been
enjoying an American Christmas
for some years pat t. These for
tunate youngsters are the chi!
dren of Yung Kwai, the secretary
interpreter, whose wife is a New
England woman.
Magnificent Distances.
The diocese of Kit, watiu, in lku
pert’s kand, is one of magnificeni
distances. Bishop Lofthouse once
walked 200 miles to fetch a doctor
for his wife. Many of the Indians
walk 25 miles to church, and the
bishop has baptized scores of ba
bies which had been carried 150
miles on their mothers’ backs
over hard-frozen snojy. At nighi
the family sleep, wrapped in the
deer skins, on branches laid upos
the snow.
COLONY OF SEA SQUIRTS.
Ourloua Form of Life with Which
Bathers and Small Boys Have
Much Amusement.
Moat of the tanka in the aquari
um have now been relined with
rock work, says the New York Sun.
Anadvantageof rockwork for this
purpose is that it affords places of
lodgment for various forms of
marine life, both vegetable and
animal, which may be introduced
into the tank either by accident or
by design, to make a further addi
tion to the tank’s attractiveness.
Already in some of the tanks
here these lesser forms, either
planted or of accidental growth,
are beginning to appear; a notable
example of the last-named kind
being found in the salmon rock
fish tanks, in which there may now
be seen, attached to the rocky lin
ing of the tank, a great colony,
some thousands in number, of
the familiar ascidian commonly
known as the sea squirt.
Everybody that has been much
about the water knows the sea
squirt, a leathery creature some
what resembling a rubber water
bottle in shape, with two siphon
tubes like stubby little slightly
curved bottle necks projecting
from its top. The sea squirt takes
its nourishment as the clam does.
It absorbs minute forms of ani
mal life of various sorts, along
with quantities of water, through
one of its siphon tubes, and alter
extracting the nutriment it expels
the water through the other.
The sea squirt clings to the
rocks along shore, and to sea
grass, and it is found in many wa
ters. It may be of a dingy white
or gray in color, like those now at
the aquarium, though some sea
squirts are of a dark rich brown,
and there are others of a brilliant
red. The largest of those here are
about an inch and a half in length.
Sea squirts attain a length of two
or three inches or more.
Bathers who know about them
pick sea squirts from the rocks and
play tricks with them by collaps
ing them and so spurting the wa
ter on fellow bathers. Boys liv
ing by the water as in fishing
towns, carry sea squirts to school
with them, in their pockets, and
there squeeze the water out of
them. To collapse one in that man
ner means the end of the sea
squirt.
A sea squirt left out of water by
the receding tide might lie col
lapsed and flat, but it would be
more likely to have taken in wa
ter enough to carry it until the
tide covered it again, and it would
be most likely to be found, be
tween tides, in places where it
would get more or less moisture.
If one should be left exposed for a
longer time than usual on some
bare rock, as it might be by an un
usually low tide, it would be
burned and shriveled and de
stroyed by the sun’s hot rays.
They were probably introduced
Into this tank with shrimp put
into it as food for the rockfish.
Natural Soap.
German papers report that
steps are being taken in Algeria to
manufacture natural soap on a
lage scale from a tree known as
“Sapindus utilis.” This plant,
which has long been known in
Japan, China and India, bears a
fruit of about the size of a horse
chestnut, smooth and round. The
color varies from a yellowish
green to brown. The inner part
is of a dark color and has an oily
kernel. The tree bears fruit in
its sixth year and yields from 55
to 220 pounds of fruit, which can
easily be harvested in the fall. By
using water of alcohol the sepona
ceous ingredient of the fruit is ex
tracted. The cost of production is
said to be small and the soap, on
account of possessing no alkaline
qualities, is superior to the ordi
nary soap of commerce.
Pigeons as Smugglers.
A curious utilization of carrier
pigeons was recently attempted in
Belgium. This was making them
carry contraband goods into
France. For a short time 24 pi
geons were let off regularly from
the Belgian dovecot, each bur
dened with a smi,ll coil of tobacco.
They arrived at their French dos
tination rather exhausted, and
doubtless glad to be relieved of
their load. In one case, however,
a pigeon, in making the flight,
proved unequal to the effort, fell
into the Seine and was picked up.
The system was thus found sut
tud suppressed.
WHY YOU SHOULD TAKE
WINECARDUI
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powerful tonic that is unrivaled in its success in
the treatment of the diseases peculiar to women.
Over 1,500,000 suffering women have been
cured of troubles that ordinarily are thought to
require the expensive treatment of specialists,
simply by taking this great woman’s tonic.
Wine of Cardui recommends itself to modest
women of moderate means, because it can be
taken in the privacy of the home without sub
mitting to a humiliating local examination and
, subsequent dangerous treatment.
It is not costly and every sufferer can afford it.
If you are a victim of female weakness in any form
Wine of Cardui is the medicine that you should take and
you cannot afford to lose any time in starting the treat
ment. Your trouble is ever growing worse—never better.
Wine of Cardui never fails to benefit even chronic
troubles of the most serious nature, and in nine out of
ten cases it brings an absolute cure. 1,500,000 cured
women endorse Wine of Cardui.
You should take Wine of Cardui. Ask your druggist for it today.
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ENTERTAINMENT COURSE
PROMISES TREATS.
The Gause Chapter U. D. C.,
has been successful in bringing
to Newport a course of high class
attractions, the first number of
which will be the Royal Hun
garian Court Orchestra, whose
repertoire consists of compo
sitions of such masters as Ross
ini, Wagner, Abt, and others no
less renowned.
That the people of our commu
nity have presented to them the
opportunity of hearing such mu
sic, much credit is due the work
of the local chapter and their in
terest in introducing such talent
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COACH EXCURSIONS TO ST.
LOUIS, MO., VIA THE IRON
MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
Coach Excursion tickets will be
cn sale daily, except, on. Friday
and Saturday—September 14th to
September 30th inclusive. Rnte
$5.(>0 round trip; childen under
12 and over 5 years of age $4.00,
return limit on these tickets
seven davs from date of sale.
Thos. H. Reamey, Agent.
Evy muoi^-iuvcio, diiuuiu
prove not only a financial suc
cess to the chapter, but a benefit
to the patrons as well.
The Hungarian Orchestra will
be heard at the Newport opera
house October 27th, and will, no
doubt, be greeted with a crowded
house.
The noted ac or, Mr. Frederick
Warde, will also appear later,
delivering one of his well known
lectures.
WORLD’S FAIR RATES.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
St. Louis, April 30th to Decem
ber 1, 1904. Rate for ten day
excursion ticket will be one fare
and one-fifth for the round trip.
Tickets on sale daily April 27th
to November 30, 1904. Rate for
sixty day excursion ticket one
fare and one-third for the round
trip. Tickets on sale April 25th
to Nov. 20th. Rate for season
EXCURSION TICKETS eighty
per cent, of double the standard
one way fare for the round trip.
Tickets on sale daily April 15th
to Nov. 15th, Final return limit
Dec 15, 1904.
Thos. H. Reamey. Agt.
PRIZES EVERY WEEK.
For the best scores made at
Million’s bowling alley during
each week, the following prizes
are awarded every Saturday
night: $5.00 ticket in ten pin a;
$2.50 ticket in “five back;” $2.50
ticket in cocked hat. 41dtf