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The oasis., 1896-06-20
DISEASES OF THE SKIN.

Tie intense itching and smarting incl dent to eczema, letter, salt-rheum, and other diseases ofthe skin is instantly allayed by applying Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment. Many very bad casos have been permanently cured by 1t. It is equally efficient for itching piles and favorite rem edy for sore nipples; ohRpled hands, chil- plains, frost bites, and chronic sore eyes. For sale by druggists at 9 cents per box.
 Try Dr. Cady's Condition Powders, they are just what horse needs when in bad condi- ton. Tonic, blood purifier and vermifuge.
 For Sale by Chen0weth < Mix.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1896-02-09

He obtenido los mejores resultados en-
mi clinica civil con eI cupleo de Ia En1ul-
sion de Scott en- los tuberculosis. escrofulo-
SOS, y todas las enfermedades que deja2
tras de 81 cmpobreciTniento de las fuerzas.
DE-, MUS1z FERREIRA, Mococa, Sac Paulo, Brasil.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1896-02-09

"tIe enylcado desde hace muchos amos
tan,o en- italia, como en- Bolivia. la Emul.
sion de Scott" de aceitc &c higado de baca-
lao hipoIosftos, = sic1npre he obtenido
excelentes resuItados."
Dr.. TostHAsG, Ia Paz, Bolivia,
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1896-02-09

Por el proceso especial de emul-
sionar que emplean los Senores Scott
y BOVINE, Sc eEir11ina p0r complete del
aceite de I1igado de bacalao su detes~
table sabor" y 0IOr convirtiendose en-
una sustancia sernejante en- aparien~
cia a la Iecte, de gusto agradable y
faciI de digerit" y de asimiIar.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1896-02-09

"Receto frecuenternente la Emulsion de
Scott para los depauperados por miseria hsio-
l6gica, para los ninos raquiticos para la insu-
fciencia nutritiva que sie1npre predomina en- Ia
tuberculosis" DR.. SUE1RAs, Habana, Cuba.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1896-02-09

os de modo que enlacen con los correspon
Bayam0n, 4 de Mario de 1896.
Rga 1Ga 61a va1GaS5,
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1896-02-09

"Empleo la Emulsion de Scott en- los
nii1os dGbiles y escrofulosos. y he adquirdo el
convencnnento de que dicho -preparado, al l.
misr1o tempo que rosee las propedades del aceit
higado de bacalao, rnejor asimilado de gt1sto
agradabIe." DR.. PIRovANo, Buenos Aires r
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1896-02-09

Empeo con exito Ia Emulsion de Scott I
en- Ia escr6lula. ei raquitismo. las enferme- /
dades de los 0rganos respratorios todas las (
afecci6nes que dejan tras de 81 una gran de-
bdad constitutional" Dr.. CAsrRILLo Va
lencia. Venezuela.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
ACTORS SOCIAL POSITION.
Moliere Was Considered an Outcast--Re-
 fused Spiritual Consolation.


 fused Spiritual Consolation.
 The time wasin France when the actor had no social position and certainly no spiritual one. Special dispensation was necessary when the Catholic church allowed mass to be said for the repose of an actors soul. Prof. War ren, describing the Moliere period, writes:
 "The social position of an actor in Moliere's time was low one. Not from any prejudice against the stage, evidently, since the dramatists like Corneille and Scarron were on the same footing at the Hotel de Rambouillet and ether salons of Paris as poets and es- sayists and were elected 10 the French seem as though the composition of plays was the shortest road to distinc- tion in the Paris of Moliere, as it is to- day.
 But with tine actors it was another question. Their wandering, unset tied modes of life had evidently told against them. They were not admit led Jo society whether tnelr conduct was good or bad. They were not even considered in the light of literary per sons. Moliere met his friends, Boileau, La Fontaine. Furetiere at public cafes. As a writer of comedy he was either not taken seriously or had incurred too much hostility on the part of influential sets, the clergy through 'Tartuffe, the salons through Les Femmes Savantes.' As an actor he was considered an out cast with his class, and when on his deathbed he asked for spiritual con solation his appeal fell on deaf ears un- til it was too late. So-that it was with the greatest difficulty that his widow procured a bit of consecrated ground in which to lay the remains of the un- shrived comedian. n."-Chautauquan
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
 Primitive Methods.

\ recent visitor to Washington was asked the other day what had surprised her most in tine wonders Of the cap- ital. Do you know" she replied, that Of all the beautiful sights and in- structive pleasures have enjoyed here nothing has impressed me so much as the way books are procured up at the the congressional library. An applicant for literature came to the library the other day when 1 was up there, and, in this age of electricity and light for all, what did the librarian do but take a smoky, dejected-looking little coal oil lamp, such as are seen Tn the most di- lapidated roadside cabins, light it, and disappear into a thicket of precious volumes, peering hither and thither by the light of this solitary flame. It is wonder to me that there is any li- brary at all, or even half-dozen vol unes to transport to the beautiful new building waiting for them across the way."-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
Eann IN THE ARCTIC.
Birds Have No Dimcuity in Finding sus~
 tenance Amid Perpetual Snow.


 tenance Amid Perpetual Snow.
 The numbers of birds that go to the ,rctic regions to breed is vast beyond conception" They go not by thou- sands but by millions to rear thelr young on the tundra. The cause which attracts them is because nowhere III the world does nature provide at the same time and in the same place such iav- ish prodigality of food" That the bar ren swamp of the tundra should yiein a food supply so great as to tempt Dlrds to make Journeys of thousands of miles to rear their young in land of plenty only to be found beyond the arctic CIT cle. seems incredible. The vegetation consists of cranberry, cloudberry ana crowberry bushes. Forced by the per petual sunshine of the arctic summer. these bear enormous crops of fruit But the crop is not ripe until the middle and end of the arctic summer, and if the fruit-eating bird had to wait until 1t was ripe they would starve, for they ar rive on the very day of the melting of the snow. But each year the snow de- scends on this immense crop of ripe fruit before the birds have time to gather it. It is then preserved be- heath the snow perfectly fresh and pure. and the melting of the snow dis closes the bushes with the unconsumed last years crop hanging on them, or lying, ready to be eaten, on the ground. The frozen meal stretches across the breadth of Asia. It never decays and is accessible the moment the snow mets. Ages have taught the birds that they have only to fly to the arctic circle to find such store of crystal lized foods" as will last them till the bushes are once more forced into bear ing by the perpetual sunlight. The same heat which frees the fruit brings into being the most prolific insect life IL the world; the mosquito swarms on the tundra. No European can live there without veil after the snow melts; the gun barrels are black with them and the cloud often obscures the sight. Thus the insect-eating birds have only to open their mouths to fill them with mosquitoes, and the pres ence of swarms of tender warblers, of cliff chaffs. pipis and wagtails in this arctic region is accounted for.-N. r | Evangelist.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
Nineteen Years.

MT. H. c. Russell, scientific man of New South Wales, announces as a result of a prolonged examination of history from the earliest times that seasons of drought recur with unfailing regular ity at intervals of 10 years. Of POS droughts recorded since the year 900, all but Is conform to his theory, which is that there are every 19 years one long period of three years during which the rainfall is somewhat deficient. and a shorter period between each of the long periods when the deficiency is excess sive. He even finds a confirmation of the Bible chronology in the fact that the dates of the Egyptian drought in Joseph's time, the drought during King David's reign, that foretold by Elijah. and that predicted by Elisha. all fall into the 19-year period d.-Youth's Com. panion.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
DAYS WERE ONCE SHORT.
only Three Hours in Length In the Early
 Stages of the World.


 When the earth was young, says Dr. Ball. the eminent British astronomer it turned on it's axis so rapidly that it made one complete revolution once in every three hours! The earth was liquid then, says the St Louis Republic. and it spun around at that fearful speed probably for thousands of years. The sun caused ever-increasing tides on the surface of the great liquid planet, and at last it burst in two. But the break was not in the middle of what had been the great, swift-revolving globe of liquid matter. It was to one side, and the effect was to throw the smaller fragment ont into space. That fragment kept on turning, and was soon fashioned into a globe. We see it to-day and know it as the moon. The larger piece also kept turning on its axis, and in the course of ages became the spheri- cal, habitable earth. The smaller frag- ment of the great original globe, being held in place by the attraction of the larger, has been going around the earth ever since, but has been gradually in- creasing the distance between itself and it's primary. Some astronomers believe that eventually the moon will get so far away that it cannot be seen by the inhabitants of our planet.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

Seather ceases to be worthy considera- tion the human mind naturally gravi- tates into the channel marked out by fast speeding of railroad trains, and rival claims are made concerning great swiftness; and this road is sworn by Hnd that one is condemned. It is an in- teresting study, this one of railroad speeds--the more interesting when you can mediate upon it in the security of the reading-room, without the neces- sity of being fired about in q fast-trayel- ing day coach like a kernel of corn on a hot griddle.
 A few days ago an announcement was made of an especially fast run by a train on a Chicago line, the figures be- ing 1929 miles ill 176 minutes. The ..record" was claimed for this perform ance. But, though the time is such that the forefathers of the republic looking ahead would have thought that Beelzebub must be q contributor to such speed, still it is not the record" That is held by Q train which carried Jay Gould along the Northwestern railroad some five years ago. In April, 1891, the
 
 the rails of the road mentioned at q rate of in one instance 76h miles m hour. The distance from Chalamas, Ia., to Chicago. I64 miles, was made in ITO minutes, and one particular stretch of s.1 miles, from LaFox, H., to Geneva, was made in four minutes, which gives the figuring of 76H miles before al luded to. The new claimant for fast time honors will have to make another try before it can haul down the flag up- reared by the Northwestern's Jay Gould train.
 Whenever the subject of railroad speed is up for consideration fund of speed stories offers. There is tale which relates to Jim Lyle, of one of the St. Louis roads, which occurs to mind at this moment. Perhaps it may not be entirely new to the reader, for it has been told about the Vandalia round .house in East St. Louis for great many years, and may possibly have travelled beyond the confines of that edifice. It relates to Jimmie Lyle, who, being .4set up" from a switch engine in the Conlogue wards, was sent out on tho road hauling freight from Terre Haute to Venice. and then going back for more One day, according to this tradition Lyle was on the way from East St. Louis to Efiingham with a light engine, not even the customary caboose being ; part of his complement. Just after leaving the outer yard at Venice switcf thunderstorm rose. The lights flashed in blue and white from the heavens tc rearward. but as they were running ou of the storm Lyle did not apprehenC evil. But suddenly a fearful clap O thunder sounding almost inside th'
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

way, but neither engineer nor fireman cared for the horrible swaying so long as blue death was still astern. Porter replenished the roaring fire and Jimmie pulled hard to make fraction of an inch more opening room for steam to get into the cylinders. and away and away they went. He looked back again, and to his dismay the blue and white ball of fire was drawing nearer.
 He thought upon the disruption that would occur when the lightning should overtake the fleeing locomotive, and wondered if they would find enough of himself to make a decent funeral and to collect his life insurance upon. Once more he looked and the horrible ball was nearer, nearer. Then a desperate thought came to him.
 He knew that ahead the switch of the accommodation track of the Collinsville station lay, and therein was his hope. He could not expect to outrun stroke of lightning, but he might yet escape. He climbed back over the coal to the rear of the tender, where the extra links and pins and drawbars and rail- climbers intended for use in case of ac- cident were deposited. Carefully but hurriedly selecting his material, be waited for the flash forward which would tell him that the Collinsville yard was at hand. Suddenly there it came. the sight of the switch stand around the curve. With nicety born of an inti- mate knowledge of the road and the roadbed. he hurled the drawbar back over the end of the tank. It struck
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
WHAT 4 BILLION MEANS.
1t Would Take Nearly Ten Thousand
 Years to Count It.


 The following remarkable calculation on the length of time which it would take a person to count 1. 100000, 900 re- gently appeared in an issue of an Eng fish periodicals: What is n billion! The reply is very simple. In Englanda a billion is million times a million. (l,Oo0, DOG, ,o00,0oo). This is quickly written and quicker still pro- nounced. But no man is able to count it. You will count 160 or ITO minute But let us suppose thS you go up as high as 200 minute. hour after hour. At that rate you would count 12.o00 an hour; 2Ss,00o day, or 1o5,- 120,000 in a year. Let us suppose now that Adam, at the beginning of his ex- istence, had begun to count, and had con. tinued to do so and was counting still. Had such a thing been possible, he would not yet have finished the task of counting billion! To count q bil- lion would require a person to count goo a minute for period of o,512 years, 542 days, hours and 20 minutes, proyid- ing he should count continuously. But suppose we allow the counter 12 hours daily for rest, eating and sleeping. Then he would need 1S,025 years, 310 days, 10 hours and 45 minutes in which to com plete the task.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
It Won't Do Any More.

The office boy sighed.
 Il like winter" he said; q like it first rate for some things, but it's mighty shy in some other ways"
 No ball games, suppose" suggest ed the cashier
 "Oh, don't care so much about that. /" returned the office boy. There's fun enough for me with skates an sled. hitchin' on behind an all that, but Tn the mornin'-"
 Find it hard to get up?"
 No; It amt that so much; but when I'm late every mornin' can't tell the boss was bridged without gettin' the steely eye, an it keeps me humpin' to flnd reasons for not bein' here on time. ."--Chicago Post.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
Wanted Only the Price.

Why don't you get job of work r asked the purse-proud plutocrat. "I don, t care to contribute to such a great, husky, healthy fellow as you are. Now. II you were paralyzed, for instance-'
 Me friend, interrupted Dismal Daw- son, If you want to help paralyzed man there ain't willin'er soul on earth than me to git that way."-Indianap- oils Journal.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

ground between the rails and jumped and dumped along the gravely way. Then at last it came to the switch, and proyidentially it caught in the rail ends so that it formed a direct connection with the sidetrack. A moment later and Jimmie, around the curve to east ward, heard the sound of a fearful ex- plosion behind him, and he knew 1t was all over. He stopped the engine, but not until she had rushed past Confi- dence and to Formosa, and then, back ing up to Colinsville, found that sta ton in vast uproar, caused by the fact that the lightning, having run in upon one of the rails, had struck car of giant blasting powder intended for the coal mines. The drawbar had found proper lodgment and had performed well it's duty Of sidetracking blue death. As l said, they still talk of Jimmie Llye's race with lightning down on the west division.
 Speed was once demonstrated on a western road in n fashion to curl the hair hair of at least one old Mormon bishop. The churchman considered it phenom- epon, and got off the train as quickly as he could. He had bullwhacked across the plains in the early Nauyoo days. aas, strange to say, had never ridden on railroad train until the time when he entered upon this trip from Green River to San Francisco. The speed was there fore revelation to him. He had never before seen anything so swift, and he | T 4 -t,. .Ia-I Ix.. .f.<,. h | ing Ogden he asked the conductor for | the time of day and was told that it was | 7:35. He impressed this time very forci- | bly on his mind.
 Now, for wonder, the western con- | nection at Ogden was quickly made,
 and after the lapse of but few minutes | the San Francisco-bound travellers were on their way Californiaward. Ogden l had been left behind but few miles and
 the train was whooping along at be- l hind-time rate of speed, when the old bishop, frightened and trembling, dared l to ask the conductor what was the time
 of day.
 If you have travelled westward you know that at Ogden the time changes
 aud San Francisco time, one hour ear
 Her, is adopted. The conductor had San
 Francisco time, and he said: ! "lt is [: l0--ten minutes after seven" The old bishop, previously haunted
 by dread of impending destruction be- cause of the horrible rate of speed at
 which he was being whiried through space, rose with wild cry and made for l the door.
 "Lcmme off!" he cried. Tt was 35
 minutes after seven an hour ago, an we're goin' so fast we are goin' faster 1 than time can count itself. Lemme oni"
 1 Had they really been going as fast as | the old man had believed he would sure- | ly have been beaten to bits as he jumped 1 from the train. As it was, he was only
 rolled something like half mile and was carried back to Ogden on hand car.-Chicago Record
 
 -Incitatus was the horse of Emperor Caligula and was made priest and com sul. 1t had an ivory manager and drank wine out of golden pail.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

sab. he looked back, and to his horror saw a white and blue spot on the right rail. flashing and flaming in it's progress toward the locomotive.
 He understood at once. A thunder bolt had colIided with the rail and was headed toward his machine and within n few moments would strike 1t, with the result that there would be no more en- zine No. 167 and no more engineer and fireman. There was only one way to evade the horrible disaster. He pulled the throttle stick out, and, with bound like an antelope suddenly startled, the old 167 leaped forward and down the shining parallel of rails toward Collins vile, nine miles away. After mo- ment Jimmie turned and looked back ward. The streak of lightning, still burning m unhealthy blue and white. was after them and seemed to be deter mined upon acquiring them before they reached the station. But he noted that while the engine and the lightning were both employing every energy the latter was not gaining. He breathed a sigh of relief and directed the fireman, Roy Porter. to keep his back humped in the process Of pouring in coal.
 Forward they plunged and the old engine rolled and rocked in seaslcky
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
A Confusion of Titles.

Wat did Mistah Hollerin' sing at de concert last night?'
 lie sing dat good old song wat dey calls, Locked in de Stable Wifi de Sheen ia T, am shoiy powerful fine cong, tool Washington Times.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
Encouraging.

Softly-By love, old fellow, when a mans in love he begins to think that his eyes are open for the first time.
 Sympathizing Friend-Yes, and when it's all over he sometimes has the same scrsation.-N I. Truth.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

GENTLE treatment. St. Jacobs Oil soothes Neuralgia and cures it. It fades away.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

Coop times. Happy state St. Jacobs Ol cures pain right up to date.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

DcS'r ge with the crowd simply because 1t is q crowd.-Ram's Horn.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

OUR lives are tue open volume tic world reads.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

-Incitatus was the horse of Emperor Caligula and was made priest and con- sul. 1t had an ivory manager and drank wine out of golden pail.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
RAILWAY SPEED.

I IS a matter which rccurs at almost stated intervals,
 this question of railroad S pc e d !. When the election is over and the talk f c o P s languishes and the
The morning times., 1896-04-05

had the breast and feet. William was
satisfied that Joseph got so little. Humberto
got the wishbone. Johnnie Crapaud got the
Sphinx and the Pyramids. rs there wasn't
any turkey left. Leopold got some turkey
down in central Africa and Christian and
| got paid off in war iudemnities. Greece
being the oldest country got the part OF
Armenia comprising Mount Ararat aud
the remains of the ark.
Briannia-ln the carving, it appears that
Columbia didn't even get feather.
Columba--it was none OF my business.
The Monroe doc,rlne applies only 10 this
81 ~ oI IIe Atlantic.
OmneS-WhaGs that?
The morning times., 1896-04-05
AN EASTER OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES AND NATIONAL

an envoy from the republic OF Cuba.
Under his arm a covered silver platter. In
his left hand silver cornet.)
Colum bia Speak, sir.
Envoy Madame, your Excellency, your
majesties and others, If there are others:
His Excellency President Gomez, H lndfui or
the feast OF nations now in progress in the
United states, has ordered o1J or the State
Department funds for the preparation OF
pie as contribution 10 the fesGIv ties. The
republic OF Cuba recognizes the fact that
IL is a solitaire among nations, and Presi-
dent Gomez has been u owed TO offer the
heart OF Cuba Libre TO the only nation on
earth that has any claim TO it.
The morning times., 1896-04-05

when there is no proyender In sight not
monopolized by the divine right and appe-
ute of kings.
AleXander to the words of wis
dom. Right royalty did you play your part
at that diet of the nations, most courtly
brother OF the West. And right wisely has
the fair Gem of the OceanSaid that it was
none OF your business. 1t was our meat,
our affair. There is nothing SO well up-
derstood on our side Of the water as that
America has no right to anything thereex-
cept the lease at will OF residence TO her
consuls and ambassadors.
Britannia SO.
onumpa-EXactiy thus. "a flourish OF
The morning times., 1896-04-05
Easter Is a Renaissance, and These
Characters Evidently
Realize It.

trumpets Is heard Enter body servant
of Cousin JoDathan.)
britannia SIrrah, what noise is that with
out?
Servant-'Tain't no noise; it's music.
A strange gentleman with brass horn
and silver dish wants TO see de boss.
Cousin JOnathau-ShOw him in. tEnter
The morning times., 1896-04-05
Some Amusing Comments on This
Day, When Sober Things
Are FOreSW0rn.

John Bull-What's that?
Cousin Jonathan-Pray. resume your
seats, ladies and gentlemen. You will all
admit that when the turkey was being
passed around on the European plan, l
didn't open my mouth. 1t Is not the Ameri
can fashion to exercise the maXiIlaries