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The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30
The Artesian Well.

Mir. Crossman. informs us that the drill is now down about 13a feet and in hard blue rock, the same found in the queries near this place, but is un able to name it. The drill struck this rock at B feet from the surface and for 100 feet there has not been any change. He reports finding an abund- ance of water. every crevice in the rock being full. The drill went down 12 feet Monday,
The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30
Office Moved.

The office of the Townslte Company was moved yesterday from the old log cabin in Jansen park to the Mena hotel and Messrs Craig and Landes are putting on city airs in their new quar- ters. The log cabin will be occupied by parties who will look after and protect the property until tue city takes possession and assumes the re- sponsibility of protecting the park and park property.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30

Messrs. Irwin X Wilson, the genial and energetic proprietors of the Mena dairy have purchased forty acre tract of land one mile west of town and are preparing to move their dairy to that place.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30

We generally like to do business with men who own their property and arc here to stay. F. F. smith, of the Mena Jewelry Store has purchased the lotand and building next to the drug store, corner De Queen street and Jansen avenue. and has come to stay. He is prepared to do first class repair work on watches, clocks and jewelry, and has as nice q line of new goods as you will find in soma of the larger cities
The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30

The Townsite Company is doing a good job grading Port Arthur street having full force of hands and teams at work. Honert avenue from Jans- sen park east should Le graded next.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30
A Good MIX Cow Wanted.

Anyone having such for sale please call at once at Green, Lewis tG Co.'s store, Mena, Arkansas.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30

For drugs and goods usually kept a tirst-class pharmacy, go to the Star Pharmacy on De Queen street. You will find the best of goods and be treated nicely there.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30
Ties Wanted at Once.

On and after this date we will buy and pay cash for ties delivered at Mcna.
 RAGsDALE sS PfckINs.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30

Blank and time books, and all kinds of writing material Ut Ryde X Asdells also Chancellor cigars.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30

If your timepieces need repairing lake them to II. syar. the jeweler on Mena street, in ]. C. North grocery store He gives you written guar antee with each job
The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30

35 cents will buy you pair of over alls at the Leader
The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30

Ryde X Asdell's, next to Port Arthur House, is the place to get your Books. Stationary, Periodicals and Isne Ci- oars
The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30

The place to get pure drugs, patent medicines and all articles usually sold by druggists is at the Star Pharmacy, corner of De Queen street and Jansen avenue.
 For first-class printing of all kinds come to the STAR office
The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30

For Bargains call on the Leader.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30

cents will buy you slate at the Leader
The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30

overalls as low as s5c at the Leader.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-30

Jeans pants at the Leader as low IS 53 cents
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-20
Filed Her Milky White Teeth.

Busuk's long black hair had to he
done up in a marvellous chignon on the
top of her head. First her maids washed
it beautifully clean with the juice of
the lime and the lather of the soap nut.
Then it was combcd and brushed until
every hair glistened like ebony. Next it
was twisted up and stuck full of the
quaint golden and tortoise shell bod
kins, with here and there spray of
jasmine and chumpaka
Busuk's milky white teeth had to be
filed off more than fourth. She put
her head down on the lap of the woman
and closed her eyes tight to keep back
the hot tears that would fall, but after
the pain was over and her teeth were
blackened she looked in the mirror at
her swollen gums and thought that she
could chew the betel nut from the box
her mother had given her.
The palms of her hands and the nails
of her fingers and toes were painted red
with henna and the lids of her eyes
touched up with antimony. When all
was finished, they led her out into the
great room, which was decorated with
mats of colored palm, masses of sweet
smelling flowers and maidenhair fern.
There they placed her in the chair Of
state to receive her relatives and friends.
--Rounseville Wildman in Overland.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-20
When Sovereigns Meet.

The innumerable banquets which are
offered to the royal persons on every &C.
casion are exact emblems of the many
valuable and pleasant days which are,
at their instigation and by their COM
mand, wasted in senseless formula.
Once, when costume was beautiful, pag-
eantry was SO also. and ceremonial
was so also; but now both are unsightly
and grotesque. Two bearded men in
helmets, or caps, kiss each other on a
railway footboard. Old ladies in water
proof cloaks toddle through two lines of
policemen. A fat gentleman, in round
hat, with cigar i'll his mouth, walks
over piece of red carpet, nodding to Il
bending human hedge Of supple spines.
Faces beam namely throngs outside the
station doors cheer, they know not why.
Troops are massed in readiness, for no.
where are these personages safe from
attempts upon their lives. The whole
thing is unlovely, absurd, anomalous, Il
caricature of what was once both intel
ligible and respectable, but i'll which
there is no longer either prestige or
symbolism. Without dignity in its OBJ
ject loyalty is mere boneless bundle
of wornout robes and dignity perishes
at the scream of the railway whistle. -.
Ouida in Forum.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-20

There are some people to whom the
difficulties presented by photography APP
pear absolutely unconquerable beyond
certain point. Whatever other facul-
ties they may possess, they were not
born to spell.
81 know people have all kinds of
methods for learning to spell according
as they should" said Captain Saunders
to a summer resident Of Saltville who
had been assisting him in the compost
ton of business letter. 1--WE heard
'em tell Of the rules and regulations
times enough, but they don't help me a
mite. There's only just one rule I've
got to go by. )"
"What is that, Captain Saunders?"
asked his visitor.
"Words of one syllable 1 go by the
sound, said Captain Saunders, cheer
fully setting forth his system words
Of two syllables 1 go by guesswork,
when l can't get hold of a dictionary,
syllables and over 1 put my trust in
Providencer'
"And how does your rule work?"
asked his friend, after joining the cap
tain in hearty laugh.
well, ma am," Captain Saunders
responded, instantly growing sober
again, words of one syllable reckon
get right about half the time; words
of two syllables, say about third,
maybe. And as for three syllables and
over, without the dictionary, why, l
amt distrusting Providence, you under
stand, ma'am, but from what gather
I've about come to the conclusion that
the Lord calculates to have some poor
spelling done and is willing Jabez
Saunders should take his turn at it. -
Youths Companion.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-20
4 MILLION GOLD DOLLARS

Would not bring happiness to the
person suffering with dyspepsia, but
Hoods Sarsaparilla has cured many
thousands of cases of this disease. 1t
tones the stomach, regulates the bow
els and puts all the machinery of the
system in good working order. 1t Gre
ates a good appetite and gives health
strength and happiness.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-20
YEE ON co.
Aswan Building.
WATCHMAKERS AND MANUFACTURING
JEWELERS. AND SILYERSMITHS.

Importers of Watches and Clocks,
Fine Line of Ladies Muslin Underware,
Shirt Waists, Etc.
3I7 NUUANU ST. P.o. Box lA3.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-20
Superior Beer.

The Seattle b. wing and Mailing
Co. offer to the public a superior art
icle of lager beer, combining the most
palatable qualities of a refreshing
dring will. the invigorating and
wholesome properties of the best malt
extracts, thus presenting a desirable
beverage alike to invalids and healthy
persons. On draught at the Criterion
saloon.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-20

lean airs and national anthems were
played. The audience, leaving the
building, barred their heads while
"Star Spangled Banner" and "Marseil-
les were being rendered.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-20

There was man in our town, who
thought his wondrous wise.
He swore by all the tabled gods he'd
never advertise.
His goods were advertised one day,
and thereby hangs tale
The ad. was set in nonpareil and head
ed "Sheriff's Sale"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-20

HOODS PILLS act tremendously
with Hoods Sarsaparilla. Cure all
liver ills. 25 cents. Hebron Drug Co.
wholesale agents.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04
GOOD ADVICE.

sMake the best of one another
Here again we may, if we choose, make
the worst of one another. Everyone
has his weak point; everyone has his
faults; we may make the worst OF these;
we NAV fix our attention constantly
upon these. 1t is very easy task; and
by so doing we shall make the burden
of lite uncomfortable, and turn friends
into enemies, and provoke strife, ha-
tired, heartburnings wherever we go,
and cut off from ourselves one of the
chief sources of happiness and good
ness and usefulness.
But we may also make the best of
one another. We may forgive, even
as we hope to be forgiven. We may
put ourselves in the place of others,
and ask whit we should wish to be
done to us, nd thought of us, v ere we
in their p ace.
BY fixing our attention on their good
qualities, we shall rise to their level as
surely as by fixing our attention on
their bad qualities, we shall sink below
their level. By loving whatever is low
able in those around us, love will flow
back from them to us, and life will be-
come a pleasure instead O. pain, and
earth will become like heaven; and =,
if God SO please, shall bet ne not t.
worthy followers of him whose name
is Love.-Dean Stanley.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04

rather than an advantage, to the
young. There must at least be fair
division. There should not only be
one manual training school to several
hundred of the other sort, but schools
for educating the people in all the
varied branches of industry, so that
when boy reaches the age at which
he can make his own living, he will be
independent of arbitrary rules, and
dependent solely on his industry, skill
and intelligence. The old idea that
there can be humiliation in honest
work of any sort is rapidly disappear
ing, and the disappearance is one OF
the most hopeful and encouraging
signs of the times; but it has lasted
longer in America than in most Euro
pean countries 1t should be wiped
out altogether, and in its place should
be substituted the growing and truth
full impression that he only ought to be
ashamed who is a drOne in the hive
unwilling to contribute anything tc
his own or others pport.-Minne
apolis Times.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04

ucatiOn cannot confer it. 1t is the
slow, sure work of time; the fruit of
experience. Nothing is of value to us,
unless we learn from it. We are back
ward in learning, even from our expe-
riences; and sometimes the same les
son has to be taught us time after time.
The formation of our character de-
pends largely on the use we make of
our experience. Circumstances, events,
are the material out of which we build
our lives; we may trough hew'' them
sadly. 1t may not be strange that we
fail to learn from the experience of
others; it is certainly strange that we
should ever fail to learn from our own.
What will teach us, if this cannot
Rightly, we should be learning to- the
end of our lives-learning from joys
and sorrows, little troubles and great
and we know what we gather from this
varied teaching cannot be lost. That
is why the old age of well-spent life
is so rich and peaceful season. 1t is
stored with garnered wealth. The
young act, the old reflect. Reflection
is the fruit of action. By our own ex
perience we are strengthened to helI
others-not to teach them as life alone
can teach them, but to encourage, con
sole, sympathize. None are so trul!
sympathetic as those who have them
selves suffered. We have to learn ou
, lessons singly, but there need be NJ
loneliness, no isolation. We are alway
speaking wisely when we say expert
ence must teach us.-Home Queen.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04
rrome.( $1.OO per year. in advance
Six Months so cents.

is no need here to strive after literary
effect.
In writing letters with view to
their ultimate publicatiOn-as many
of our authors do-one must perforce
give that due expression which is need
ed when one is writing to unknown
readers. 1t has often been urged that
authors do not write as they talk, and
that their conversation is more simple
than their written words. But it must
be borne in mind what an important
part facial expression and intonation
play in a conversation. These are al
together wanting in cold print words,
and their place must be taken by some
little Juggling with words which shall
produce somewhat similar effect.
If a man spoke as he wrote, he would
appear stilted. If he wrote as he spoke,
he would sacrifice the charm of style
to ugly colloquialisms. But in writing
to an intimate friend there is no need
for artistic effect-indeed it is unwel-
come and out of place. For the words
themselves carry with them the ex-
preston and mode of delivery OF
familiar acquaintance, and as we read
we seem to hear the words as they
would be spoken by the writer. So we
can run OH chattering on paper and
never fail to give the force of spoken
words. And how one can write! Ii
the mechanical part could be dispensed
with. it would be hard to say how
many sheets one would fill when in a
gossipy mood.
One writes from heart to heart;
and, though one may express ones self
in what would be cryptogram to the
rest of the world, the receiver has key
which makes everything Ineligible.
A letter can never be at its best when
: it is intended for the world, as public
, Grafton can never have the depth and
, full meaning of tete-a-tete converse
tion.
In the most favorable circumstances
| letter cannot rank with quiet talk;
. but the exigencies of our career often
, separate us far from those in whom we
} are most deeply interested, and the
: sending and receiving of letters is the
$ best available link between divided
friends with undivided lives.-Phila-
t delphia (Pa.) Saturday Eve. Post.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION

One of the cardinal advantages
claimed for republican government is
the elevation of the masses, which is
popularly supposed to be retarded in
any kind of monarchy, and yet it is
humiliating fact that the United States
is far behind European countries in
the industrial training of the people.
Norway, and France (which has so re-
Gently adopted republicanism) lead in
popular education, while Belgium and
Germany, the latter of which is practi-
cally ruled by the power of one man,
follow next, and America is at the tail
of the procession. Not that many of
the states of the Union have not excel
lent public school systems, but that the
objects of those systems are not yet in
accord with the progress of the age; or,
to put it more clearly, practical devel-
opment is sacrificed to sentiment. The
old idea of culture yet prevails to the
disparagement of training that is of
vastly more use in the struggle of life,
and there is possibility that in future
the estimation in which employments
are held will be reversed, trades taking
precedence of the learned professions,
the doors of which are being thrown
wide open to the general public, while
the entrance to the former is being
more vigorously narrowed every year
Socially, of course, there can be no OBJ
lection to such change, but economic
ally it must work serious hardshipS
if it does not weaken confidence in re-
publican government. This is alto
gether wrong, and calls for vigorous
action on the part of all earnest educa
tors of the people. Education has
become so intertwined with good gov
, ernment that the two are about syn
) onymous.
Given proper system of public edu
cation, and nothing can long preven
3 the people from choosing the govern
3 ment most suitable to their wants AM
3 aspirations Obviously, that educa
r tion which enables one most success
Q fully to compete with his fellows an
e push his way in the world must be tn
S best. If all were educated to use thei
heads exclusively, the learned profes
f sions would soon be gorged-as indee
q they are now pretty well-and othe
O industrial pursuits deserted, especial
y where those engaged in trades are alb
S to control entrance to them, and linn
E. the number of apprentices. The e.
n elusive education of the mental facu
l. ties must, therefore, become a cruelt
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04
ABOUT LETTERS.

Few people, we imagine, fail to ex-
perience pleasure in receiving letters.
Only those perhaps who live solitary
life, practically exiled from earliest and
therefore best friends, and must needs
carry on their most earnest conversa-
tions through the post, can realize this
pleasure at its highest; but it is known
to all in greater or less degree. There
is so much hidden possibility in a let
ter, part of the charm of which lies in
that great truth discovered by Handy
Andy, that the cream of the CORE
spondence is inside.
Even business letters have certain
fascination so long as they remain
sealed book, hiding one knows not
what store of goodness or i'll. But at
ones home, where business cares only
occasionally intrude themselves, and
where, as in bachelor quarters, domestic
joys are utter strangers. the postmen's
burdens are even more welcome than
that early morning sun which seems
to give one so encouraging a start for
the day.
There are those indeed who cannot
wait till they reach their breakfast
table, but must have their letters thrust
beneath the bedroom door or laid upon
their pillow, that in their earliest wax
ing moments they may be welcomed, as
it were, by the "Good morning of alb
sent friends. And how carefully and
Systematically the letters, if there be
more than one, are selected for reading
The superscriptions are for the most
part as familiar as the voices of those
they represent, and audience may there
fore be given according to ones in
clination. Some will greedily seize the
envelope that contains the m ost wei
come communication, and forget the
others in the eagerness of absorbing it
Others, with the child's wisdom, will
keep the best till last, scamperine
through the minor ones with min(
. half inattentive because it is still
tickled with the pleas'le of anticipa
tion. That last one IS to be reat
5 deliberately, and all subeidiary matter
. must be got out of the way so tha
: there may be nothing e. to enchai1
the attention. 1t is, n over, com
munication to be dwelt upon; and tn
+ mere trivialties of the mornings pos
: are irksome to attend to while one
4 drawing the whole CT the picture sue
!. gested by those closely written but sti
). too few sentences.
d Sentiment, of course, claims the frs
q place in the attractiveness of letter
r For those who liv away from hom
s. there is a neyer-falling source OF IL
d terest in the weekly letter that col
,r tains so many. charmilgly tritling d
y tails of persons and places associate
lie with ones earliest recollections. n
it one possessed of honest, healthy feelir
K ever quite ceases to be homesick in
L. greater or less degree
y, 1t is very fine thing, no doubt,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04
THE VALUE OF EXPERIENC CE.

Experience may be slow teacher,
but it is the best. Its lessons are not
forgotten, as other lessons are. We are
all of us unwilling, perhaps unable, to
learn from the result of other peoples
lives. We may listen to what they say
patiently enOugh-it may seem very
good, very true, as applied to them;
but we fail to apply it to ourselves.
It is so difficult to put ourselves in the
place of others. Because they failed
to do certain thing because they
were disappointed in certain aims and
endeavors-why should we? This is
one thing in which the world remains
young Every man and woman begins
:afresh, and goes over the same old
paths. If we really started where our
parents left off, it might be better for
sus in some ways and worse in others.
We might become very cautious, very
prudent, very full of worldly wisdom,
but we should certainly be very dull,
very unenterprising, very uninterest-
ing. Perhaps it is best that each
should fight the same hard battle of
experience.
AS we grow older we sometimes feel
quite vexed with young people for re-
fusing to profit by our experience. The
lesson seems to us clear-it seemed
such willful blindness not to see. We
forget that those very lessons were only
taught us by long schooling, and that
there is no royal road. The same har'
vest of strength and wisdom must be
reaped by all, and in the same manner
A younger person may be in the very
same position that we ourselves once
occupied, and it appears to us that oul
experience might be so valuable to save
from troubles and dangers. We car
point out just where the perils lie, like
a pilot near difficult coast. 1t is vain
the younger friend listens to us, per
haps attentively, perhaps incredulously
and then falls where we had fallen
learns where we had learned. Expert
.ence teaches; not words from the lip
of another. Every young heart goe
forth to meet a golden land, land o
milk and honey; and is sure to be dis
illusioned, sobered, taught. Yet tn
experience of the past seems to leav
no precedents, no deposit, no aggregat
of wise caution. Some are still eve
learning, and still needless of the fat
of others. Life repeats itself. Th
variations are infinite, the keynote
the same.
We learn something, everyday
our lives, which serves to illustrate tt
truth of what others have told us. n
amount of wise counseling, no STUD
of the worlds best books can teach I
as few weeks of hard experienc
knowledge may be gathered fro
others, but not wisdom. The best e
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04
SYMPATHY.


My Lady sat in her theater-box;
Her tears fell down like rain;
For had not the tinsel hero bold.
For patry purse of sordid gold,
With dastardly thrust of dagger cold,
By the villain been foully slain:
.('Twas all a sham. of course; but that
Never entered My Lady's brain)
So she wept chow tender she must have beenO
For the hero slain with the dagger of tin.
MY Lady came out from the theater door,
And cOldly fell the rain
And pitiful hand, all hungerbold
Begged for a pitiful bit of gold
The night so dark, the wind so cOld!-
But she passed with proud disdain
{'Twas terribly real, of course; but that
Never entered My Lady's brain.)
Yet she wept chow tender she must have been!)
For the hero slain with the dagger of tin!
&C. F. Lester in Godey's Magazine.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04

Among the specimens 1rom the coal
mines in museum you will find slabs
upon which the tiniest fronds of ferns,
that grew nobody knows how many mil
lenniums since, are preserved forever.
Our lives, when the blow of the last
hammer lays them open, will, in like
manner, bear the impress OF the mlnut-
est filament of every deed thaS we have
ever dOne,-Maclaren