NEW STATE CAPITOL
NEARING COMPLETION
STEEL FOR THE DOME IS IN PLACE, AND COPPER, GLASS AND
ORNAMENTAL PLATE WORK WILL SOON BE FINISHED
INTERIOR WORK BEING RAPIDLY PUSHED.
TO BE READY FOR INAUGURAL CEREMONIES IN JANUARY
j ue ui uie oiauf guvci inneiit
of any commonwealth demands the
attention and interest of every law
abiding citizen of that state, and there
is no construction work being done in
this State at. this time which com
mands the attention of as many people
as that being done in the western part
of Little Rock, the capital city of Ar
kansas. On this ■hill, located on a
spot easily accessible, the building is ;
now beginning to show up for what it
is worth. Passengers on the Rock Is
land main line trains, and iron Mcun
tain main line trains can see a great
change in the northern end of the
structure within a very short time.
Passengers on the Highland Park and
Pulaski Heights car lines can also
note these and other changes which |
have been made in the past thirty ;
days. But it Is on the interior of the |
building that the greatest work has j
been and is being done. Many expert i
decorators are now employed on the |
inside work and the place is beginning |
to assume the appearance it will pre
set' to the State officials when fully
completed.
Jr Approaching the building from the
Confederate monument, the main en
trance is noted as being well under
way. Tlie rough stune pillars against
which will be placed the long marble
steps of the grand approach, the whole
north front is seen to be completed.
The stone men were at that time set
ting the giant columns in the colon
nade to the north of the main en
trance. and today they stand complete
The stone work is complete from the
main entrance, around the
north half of the front of
the building, across the north 1
end and back to the north colonnade i
on the rear of the building. The balus
xade, which has been placed only
within the past few days, adds ma
terially to the appearance of the build
ing, and is such an improvement from
a distance that the new building has
had an ever increasing number of vis
itors for some days past. The gable
at the north end lias been completed
some months, hut until a very short
time ago the stene for the more artis
tic and decorative finishings had not
arrived.
The gables for the entire building,
■with but one exception, have been set.
The gable over the main entrance has
not been completed and will not be
for some little time. However, on the
west end and all intermediate gables,
• are in place.
The Interior.
Entering the building at what will
later be the principal doorway, and
turning to the right the main entrance
vestibule is found. The ornamental
plastering In this long, well-lighted,
high ceiled room, has been placed in
position, and to be appreciated must be
seen. Of massive design, it harmon
izes with the height of the ceiling,
and the great length of the room. To
the west of this room is that which
will be occupied by the Arkansas Cap
ttol Commission. The ornamental
plaster has been set in this room also,
Quality That Brings Success.
It is not ease but effort—not facul- j
ty, hut difficulty, that makes mm. .
There is, perhaps, no station in life in j
which difficulties have not to be en
countered and overcome before any
decided measure of success can be i
achieved.—S. Smiles.
Strange Grave Decoration.
XTnique among cemeteries is that of
L’Oucdel-Kebir, Algiers, in ma: y of
the graves of which are dozens of
medicine bottles. The natives of the ;
territory bury with the deceased the
bottles which held the medicines used ;
in the last illness.
And He Was Pardoned.
Guest (who hae; *>pilled some sauce
on bis fair neighbor a,t table)—If I
had spoiled your gown, madam, it i
would have been most unfortunate, but
as it is only your arm, it doesn't
matter. Marble, you Know, retains no
spots.”—Figaro.
A Solemn Truth.
The average man can, and easily
does, buy less with a five dollar bill
than the average woman secures with
a dollar and ninety-eight cents, and,
unlike a woman, the man can rarely
explain where that bill has gone.—
Providence Tribune.
Some Excuse for Them.
“Some men can’t take a joke,” said
Uncle Eben; “an’ considerin’ de num
ber of bad jokes dal’s alius goin’
aroun’, I dunno as I kin blame any
body foh bein’ mo’ or less shy.’’
Good Dresser.
The big snow shoe rabbit or north
ern hare is something of a dresser. It
wears a white coat in winter and a
gray one in summer, the better to con
ceal itself from its enemies )*/ look
ing as the ground looks in the two
seasons.
The Little Candle.
T!ie candle stiil holds its own, not
withstanding petroleum, gas and elec
tricity. The production of candles in
the United States during the fiscal
year of 1906 amounted to $3,SS9,302.
ana is in mere ueucaie oesign, in nar
inony with the smaller proportions of
the place.
Supreme Court Room.
A large number of artists are em
ployed on the ceiling of the Supreme
Court room, which occupies the first
floor, in the western wing of the new
building. Scaffolding now obscures
much of the beauty of the place, but
even in its present unfinished state it
can be easily seen that this room will
be one of the most imposing in the
building. The ceiling is cut into seg
ments, panels, the contractors desig
nate it, and each panel is most beauti
fully decorated. The Supreme Court
room is partitioned off from the south
ern corridor, and this aids in arriving
at a more intelligent idea of what the
interior will be like.
The House.
But in the northern end, where will
be located the house of representa
tives, is noted the greatest activity.
The steel for the immense dome above
the house is now in place, and the men
are preparing to set the glass and
copper, which will form the covering.
The gallery, or balcony, is also be
ginning to take form, the angle steel
which is to form the foundation for
the floor is already in piace. A large
force of men are working every hour
of the day to complete this wing of the
building before the coming of bad
weather.
The plastering of the building, from
top to bottom, has been done. That is,
the first coat has been put on, and
this hides the stern concrete compos
ing the massive walls. The decorative
plastering for the side walls has not
been started as yet, but will be begun
as soon as the men are ready to take
up that part of the work.
The basement floors have been com
pleted, and are composed of the same
construction as those tested recently,
in the presence of the Capitol Commis
sion. The concrete is strengthened by
the expanded metal, which forms a
part of the floors on all levels. On the
first floor, the workmen are setting the
partition which is to divide the govern
nor’s reception room from the eastern
corridor. The governor’s reception
room occupies the extereme northern
end of the building, opposite that of
the Supreme Court in the southern
end.
The Supreme Court library occupies
the southwest corner of the building,
and the ceiling is now being placed'in
position.
To those who have not seen the
building for some time, a trip through
it now would well repay the effort. To
watch the men swing the mighty stee!
girders which are going to make up
the bone of this mighty structure, to
see them set the ends of these masBive
beams in the great hulks of walls and
pillars of the future government house
of this State, is well worth the small
difficulty the effort will make, and
then, one and all may see for them
selves what manner of structure the
money derived from their taxes is go
ing into.
Dead Anyway.
This was the way a native physician
in India filled out a death certificate:
“I am of a mind that he died .or lost
his life) for want of foodings or on ac
count of starvation. Maybe also for
other things for comfortables, and
most probably he died by drowning.”
Aiming High.
Aim at perfection in everything,
though in most things it is unattain
able; however, they who aim at it, and
persevere will come much nearer to
it than those whose laziness and de
spondency make them give it up as
unattainable.—Chesterfield.
School for Nursemaids.
It is proposed to open in London a
school for nursemaids, where girls
over 10 years of age may be given les
sons in the management of infants,
preparing of children,’s food, plain sew
ing, laundry work, and taught the kin
dergarten system of education.
Emotion and the Breath.
People breathe less when they are
concentrating their minds on study or
work, and also when under the influ
ence of depressing emotion. On the
other hand, they breathe more when
exhilerated by pleasure and amuse
ment.
An Odd Lawsuit.
Attributing his failure at the last
French election to the freuqent break
downs of his motor car, a candidate
has brought an action, against a motor
manufacturer and claims $2,000 dam
ages.
More Beer Drinkers.
Beer drinking in the United States
is on the increase. The total consump
tion in the past year amounted to
54,651,636 barrels, or 31 gallons for
each inhabitant. In the previous year
49,459,539 barrels were consumed.
Wily Ruse of Lion.
When hyenas plague lions by steal
ing pieces of the prey, the lion will
throw chunks of meat toward them
at shorter and shorter distances, until
they get within reach of its paws and
are finished by a blow.
TRYING EXPERIENCE.
Spent Over $100 in a Vain Search for
Health.
Miss Frances Gardner, of 3G9 Jack
son boulevard, Chicago, 111., writes:
"Gentlemen: I
heartily indorse
Doan’s Kidney
Pills, as I have
found by personal
experience that
they are an ideal
kidney remedy. I
suffered with com
plications of kid
ney complaint for
nearly five years,
spent over $100 on
useless remedies, while five boxes of
Doan’s Kidney Pills cured me in a few
short weeks. I am now enjoying the
best of health, have a fine appetite,
the best of digestion, and restful
sleep, all due to your splendid pills.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
THE MAN WITH THE SHOVEL.
There Are Millions of Him Delving
for Earth’s Wealth.
"We sold in 1905,” says a Boston
manufacturer. “350,000 dozen shovels
and delivered them to railroads, min
ing companies and other large users.
One might think so many shovels
would be enough for a time, but this
year our sales will amount to 400,
000 dozen, or a little less than 5,000,
000 shovels.”
Every phase of activity entering
into the prosperity of the country has
been commented upon until it would
seem that there is no feature entirely
new, yet the production of shovels,
certainly a fine index, has not been
much thought about. Five million
shovels must mean great labor in im
provement and preparation for new
wealth taken out of the earth. Mone
tary records, new showings in im
ports and exports, manufacturing to
tals not before reached, and new high
bank clearings have all been consid
ered as representative of the pros:
perity now enjoyed, yet nothing could ;
be so truly significant as the. illustra
tion here afforded. This is the year of
the man with the shovel. Nothing
more basic could be found, and an apt
and expressive name for the period
would be the year of the 5,000,000
shovels.—Minneapolis Journal.
The Evils of Constipation.
are many; in fact almost every se
rious illness has its origin in consti
pation, and some medicines, instead of
preventing constipation, add to it.
This is true of most cathartics, which,
when first used, have a beneficial ef
fect, but the dose has to be contin
ually increased, and before long the
remedy ceases to have the slightest
effect. There is one preparation, how
ever, that can be relied upon to pro
duce the same results with the same
dose, even after fifty years’ daily
use, and this is Brandreth’s Pills, |
which has a record of over 100 years
as the standard remedy for constipa
tion and all troubles arising from an
impure state of the blood.
Brandreth’s Pills are the same fine
laxative tonic pill your grandparents
used, and are for sale everywhere,
either plain or sugar-coated.
One Peril of Ballooning.
One of the strange experiences of
a balloonist is that of falling into “a
hole in the air," which Mr. Rolker re
ports as follows: "So you continue
sailing, enjoying the present with
little thought of the startling sur
prises that may be before you. Ahead
of you, unseen, may be what the bal
loonist calls a hole in the air,’ re
sembling the vortex of a maelstrom,
and down this you may literally fall
at a rate which is terrifying until, by
sacrificing two or three bagfuls of
sand at once, your pilot checks your
downward flight. But these 'holes"
are scarce, and, as a rule, the atmos
phere is of uniform carrying power."
—American Magazine.
Instantaneous Action.
”1 was almost distracted by a ter
rible itching which defied all treat
ment until I obtained a box of Hunt’s
Cure. The first application afforded
instant and absolute relief. The one
box effected a complete cure.
"It is simply wonderful in its in
stantaneous action.”
Geo. Gilliland,
Manitou, O. T.
Where Lawyers Are Unpopular.
A lawyer made his appearance at
Colobar, West Africa, the other day
and a Gold Coast newspaper, noting
the fact, said: "It is very unsafe for
the people for lawyers to practice at
this place. Their appearance in this
river wdll soon inveigle everyone who
is not careful into litigation, and they
will feed on their folly, thereby ruin
ing them.”
Hindoos’ Day of Prayer.
In order best k4 influence the Brit
ish government a meeting of Hindoos
opposed to the partition of Bengal
decided the other day to observe the
anniversary of "Partition Day" by
"fasting, praying and bathing in the
Ganges.”
Muggins—"I hear you are having
your daughter’s voice cultivated.”
Huggins—“Yes, I'm afraid it can't be
cured, so 1 am doing the next best
thing.”
When money talks few of ub ar*
hard of hearing.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
With LOCAI. APPLICATIONS, an thty cannot reach
the «eat of the disease. Catarrh la a blood or conit!
tutlonal disease, and In order to cure It you must take
Internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken In
ternally, and acta directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces. Hall'a Catarrh Cure Is not a quack medi
cine. It was prescribed by one of the hast physicians
In this country for years and Is n regular prescription.
It Is composed of the best tonics known, combined
with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on tho
! mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of tho
j two Ingredients Is what produces such wonderful re
i suits In curing catarrh. Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, price ?f>c.
Tako Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Fine Silver Service for Cruiser.
One thousand five hundred ounces
of metal will be used in the silver ser
vice to be presented to the new ar
mored cruiser Washington by the
people of the state after which the
ship is named. The service is com
posed of 53 pieces, and will cost ?5,
000. The chief piece is the punch
bowl, in the shape of a gallot, orna
mented with a figure representing
Triton, the trumpeter of Neptune.
Saved Him.
‘‘It didn't kill me, but I think it
would if it had not been for Hunt's
Cure. 1 was tired, miserable and weii
nigh used up when I commenced
using it for an old and severe case of
Eczema. One application relieved
and one box cured me.
“I believe Hunt's Cure will cure any
form of itching known to mankind.”
Clifton Lawrence,
Helena, O. T.
Squirrels as Waiters.
It 'has taken Fisk Goodyear of
Burchtown, Pa., two years to train
his pet squirrels, but his efforts are
now repaid, and on Thanksgiving he
treated his friends to a surprise.
Gathering half a hundred or more
gray squirrels, Mr. Goodyear taught
them to go into the woods and pick
up nuts, carrying them to his home.
On Thanksgiving night at a dinner
his guests noticed a small board run
ning from a window to * nut bowl.
The host gave one knock on the table
with his knife. A squirrel hopped
down the plank and dropped a chest
nut into the bowl. Two raps brought
a squirrel with a walnut, three knocks
a shellbark.
Finally, a grave ohl squirrel took
his place and cracked the nuts, wind
ing up . the performance by brushing
off the crumbs with his thick bushy
tail.
FACE ALL BROKEN OUT.
Troubled Almost a Year—Complexion
Now Perfect and Skin Soft,
White and Velvety.
“I had been troubled with a break
ing out on my face and arms for al
most a year and had the services of
several physicians, but they didn’t
seem to do any good. Some time ago
one of my friends recommended Cuti
cura to me. I secured some, and after
using it several months I was com
pletely cured. I can highly recom
mend Cuticura Soap as being the very
best complexion Soap made. It cre
ates a perfect complexion, leaving the
skin soft, white and velvety. I now
use Cuticura Soap all the time and
recommend its use to my friends.”
Maud Loggins, R. F. D. No. 1, Sylvia,
Tenn., Aug. 1, 1905.
The Highest Bridge.
Work is now in progress on a sus
pension bridge over the famous "Roy- '
al gorge” of the Arkansas river, in
Colorado, at a point where the chan- j
nel is only 50 feet wide at the bottom
and 230 feet wide at the top. This
bridge will span the river 207 feet. |
above the surface of the water, and
will be, therefore, by far the highest
bridge in the world. The material
will be of flat steel and steel cables,
the curved girders finding secure at
tachment in the solid sides of the can
yon. The floor of the bridge will be 1
of plate glass one and one-half inches
thick, to afford visitors the pleasure
of looking down the chasm. On each j
side will be strong, high steel rail- .
ings. The bridge is part of an elec- j
trie railway scheme
Mr*. Window'* Soothing Symp.
for children refilling-, softens the fums, reduces In.
flemraslion ailejs pnin. cures wind colic. 25c a bottle.
A bank roll may be a roll of honor—
and then again it may not.
Anyone can dye with PUTNAM FADE
LESS DYES; no experience required;
success guaranteed.
Somehow a man is unable to get
the idea into his head that a girl with
a dimple can be in the intellectual
class.
Three Principal German Cities’.
The three largest German cities
are Berlin, with a population of over
2,040,000; Hamburg, with 803,000. and
Munich, with about 540,000.
National Pure Food and Drugs Act.
Serial No. 384. assigned by the Govern
ment. and Guaranty that the preparations
comply in every respect with the require
ments of the Pure Food and Drills Act,
appear on every package of the Garfield
Tea Company’s preparations.
Gas Engines on Canal Boats.
Canal boats propelled by gas en
gines supplied from plants on the
boats which make the gas from coal,
are used in Germany. For slow boats
of moderate capacity the system
seems efficient and economical.
No Others.
It is in a class to itself. It has no
rivals, it cures where others merely
relieve. For aches, pains, stiff joints,
cuts, burns, bites, etc., it is the quick
est and surest remedy ever devised.
We mean Hunt’s Lightning Oil.
To See Husband’s Statue Unveiled.
Mrs. Ellen M. McClellan, widow of
Gen. George B. McClellan and mother
of the mayor of New York, has ar
rived in New York. She has been re
siding abroad, but will remain in this
country to be present at the unveiling
in Washington next April of the me
morial statue of Gen. McClellan.
Rest and Sleep.
Few escape those miseries of win
ter—a bad cold, a distressing cough.
Many remedies are recommended, but
the one quickest and best of all is
Simmon's Cough Syrup. Soothing and
healing to the lungs and bronchial
passages, it stops the cough at once
and gives you welcome rest and
peaceful sleep.
BROKE THE WILDCAT’S BACK.
Philadelphia Man Victorious in Hand
to-Hand Combat.
Unarmed and alone, Thomas Dyke
was attacked by a wildcat on Locust
mountain, south of Mount Carmel, Pa.
He had been in Ashland and started
to drive home. His horse stepped on
a nail and he put the animal in a sta
ble.
Then he started to walk home and
was on the mountain when the cries
of a wildcat alarmed him. A few
minutes later he saw the beast ten
feet in front of him. The animal
finally sprang. He jumped aside and
as the body of the cat struck the road
he leaped upon it. For several min
utes the fight between the wild ani
mal and the man went on. At length
by a quick swing he broke the ani
mal's back.
A physician dressed the several
deep scratches on his face and tiands,
but otherwise he was uninjured.
in the soil puts corn on the
stalk and money in the bank
The natural process of plant growth
is simply one of chemical conversion.
Potash, the raw material, is cheap; but when
converted by nature into corn, it is
valuable. The use of Potash is not
an expense, but an investment.
Write to-day for our free booklet “Plant Food."
GERMAN KAL! WORKS
New York—93 Nassau Street, or
Atlanta, 08.-1224 Candler Buildlnl
potash!
Ascunt—“You’re a literary man, you
say. ’ Woodby—"Oh, yes, I do consid
erable writing for the papers.” As
cum—“I never noticed your name—”
Woodby—"Oh, no, I have several pen
names that I use; usually ‘Constant
Header’ or Pro Bono Publico’ or ‘Old
Subscriber.’ "
If yon had a medicine that wr-itld strengthen tl
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soon be well; Thai s the L.*.-V-FUS way. <Ve ,
druggist to sell you the sect nd. Take no subsi
See that I)r. Winstead’s picture appears on the b
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It cleanses, soothes,
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