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The Mena weekly star., 1897-04-21
April la opened High,st Low,st Closing
Kansas City Grain.

KANSAS CITY. Apr.. 10 Receipts of whea. here to-day, 23 cars geag ago. 22 ears
 Sales by salaple ca track: Hard No ?. S2e asked; Eo.3 noIaina5.y i4 a5Sc cal. mixed Soci No {. cor 33s. cars 7l1ac: reiestsd. 1 ear 63e; nc arats, nominals a0155, Spring, Nc 2 car Chirago wlleat. a8iz lbs s3lka: NO g. nominalig s'Gs0e; reiect q nominally 65a90s. Soft No ? sl.09 asked; No. 3, cars poor 9oc; Nc noininolly soM85c; rejected no1ninally 651 roe
 Receipts of corn here to-day, Ie3 cars. d year 6 O. a5 cars
 sales bY sawrle or tgacE: No. Yaixsl. ; cars Aisac cars 2its ?, etes &1c, . ca- yetsoM g2e. .>o ,. casS 2ii4e. CUTS 2le. cars special billng 23se: N. i. 2c.ra eos9c ! ear as.. i chr l9sae; 20 ae..da ears l9 se. eaa4 iss White, No ? CUTS .l3s. cars as5Ss: No. B eaTs Pc, No. {. cars alc
 Receipts of o2ss here to-day 2 cars: a voa- aro. 23 c@gs-
 Saie~ by sample on track. No mixed. noplt- nallN lsc; No. ,. noIainally lie; No 4 nofainaiiv i5a Ao whit cars old pc, So. 8. 1 car s}A.e 4ear oa atiac ear t9a, | car l8s. Nc 1. l eas ise.
 I'm aas luqrye s cas- r Ti-dags recaint7 Wers Il cass llais a2 its eaae Qcoasioas ar t'A 'sas. cLl.st " ,l, NS l. S8.597a ji; 2 fg F .l tsI No . 4G 5S faIol No. 3 iH'7faf ca5.s gel.ril. gsaf4 T-p}; >3 ]. sj09 s6.5); No :. s5.9J s353. No x gL 5ees t...ssa
The Mena weekly star., 1897-04-21
.sallaas r.lx rrnllnne

I-ASsAs cIrY. Aa la utter -creazaerr. faatf sep ator. [, .t.sts. l5Ic: dairv Tan ' lic' T. ioc sor IaelSed sc. pacl,iag s'" j. 9.sc: c7Nnt's sai. neatly packed and sweet 'scs ehsict i9., fa3S K unwrapp. d stock lss
 F t- ristl9 fr"~h iss n-r .io, Fo9 ''v r' 5.- g3rpllers. I4 10 } Il,s. x2 5a ft4~' ? 's.'@ lar ,e sprincS .e: 'erSeys. heas a'' os 'ppherS st yvun gvhb,ors Sc: ducks ee .'rrS ''' prseons. fc per doz Ar Ch9ina cflne StooS sells from 4sta, eaT hu afer't'r 70 40e per hu. cooking st g,
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 l s.a9ss.: per i0i sbg af' .s T,euip i5s Der br rst A pr Jn Let ucc 90c5f8t 0o g'r ~. stilt n 9u~ 70 p.g ,lo1 5uilch..s asN r A -5. per p3iDrl.
 ,'asees- VI aol per a& in # small way: fitliis -tinsa e... per ht n 'saii way sweet ls' fip s.s Ia faEs.' l-it -l; for culls i,, a "as a"ees pvisooa for seed s5Cl3so | u
The Mena weekly star., 1897-04-21
St. Louis Lf-. .,eock.

ST. LOUIS April 19.-Cattle-R Receipts, s0o0 market barely steady mo Texans being received: fancy export steers Sh25 fair to choice native shipping steers s4a56 500; steers under | 000 pounds, S3.5QGll2a; stoekers and feeders. s200l 4.50; cows and mixed, Sl5o1 5. .09; Texas and In- dian steers, s@501542o; cows and heifers. S2.00l 3.75
 Hogs Receipts 6 coo; market 5c lower: light S3.s50405; mixed s3799405 heavy sS65a4I5
 Sheep-Receipts 400; market 10c lower within the range; native muttons, s3.59G475; lambs S4G01ao0 Texas sheep. Ss.0o1453: spring lambs g5e0080a
The Mena weekly star., 1897-04-21
MARKET REPoRTS
I,ansaa Citv I.ire stocIr.

KANSAS CITY, April 19-Cattle- Receiptt since Saturday, 4,658; calves, F; shipped Satur- day, 534 cutie; no calves The market was zsow and generally foe lowcN 1hc following are Representative sales
The Mena weekly star., 1897-04-21
Chioaro Live sfoc,

CHICAGO, April Io-Cattle-Re Receipts 1eOo): market weak, averaging i0c lower; beeves. g8 7s @5.s5; cows and heifers, s2.009435; Texas steers, s3S98440; stoclzers and feeders, S. 400 440
 Hogs-Receipts. 27000; market active and strong; light, s3.9S0420 mixed s40oa4. 20; heavy, & 7074 20; rough. S3 70qg3s5
 Sheep Receipts, 25, 900; market generally 10 to l5c lower; native sheep, s300049O: western. SS.20GD5. .25; lambs, e3 75Cl5s0
 Chicago Grain and Produce.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-04-21

Sheep - Receipts since Saturday. 16. 600; shipped Saturday none. The market was slow and 10 to 15clower. The following are repre-. sentative sales:
 91 Col lbs. ss S490 II ,O44 Ar. m.. ;. s9 s4S5 1,O27 cl. Col S8 4l5 3i cl stk. l. 60 3.10
 Horses Receipts since Saturday at both markets, 251; shipped Saturday, 143 Receipts were light and there was not much of market for any grade of horses. Few buyers were al the barn and there was little interest taken in trading The following is the range of prices on to-day's market:
 Chunks. $40 002600 Southern. .......................... 1500030.00 Drafts ........... ...................... 50O)055Od Drivers. s......................... 45.00070W
The Mena weekly star., 1897-04-21

Only once in lifetime is there town located that has s utary country fifty miles in every direconals diV point on the great North and South railroad the KANSAS % PITTSBIJRG & GUILE building due south from Kan ~, fo Port Arthur on the Gulf of Mexico This time MENA new town in Western Arkansas.
 This new railroad opens up the best agricultural lands n w n Missouri and fruit and health belt of Southwest Nscn Western Arkansas
 TCG- AT F'-IssE- FI1=s3--E=l AE-A-R-
The Mena weekly star., 1897-04-21

Hogs-Receipts since Saturday, $500; shipped Saturday, none. The market was active and eh to Sc higher. The following are represent
The Press., 1897-02-25
Poisoned by a Snake In Alcohol.

A surprising experiment. demonstrat- ing the lasting qualities of snake poison was recently made by Professor Maison- neuve, which showed that dead snake is almost as dangerous as a live one. The professor took an unusually large specimen of the common viper of south ern France, which for more than 90 years had been exhibited in the zoolog- ical museum at fingers, France, pre- served in alcohol. The first experiment. with one of the poisonous fangs of this snake seemed to show that the 20 years contact with the alcohol had robbed the poison of it's virulence, for a sparrow wounded with one of it's teeth did not develop any symptoms of being poisoned. The cause of the nonaction of the poison at first was speedily found, however, in the thickening of the poison at the en- trance of the canal into the tooth, which prevented the poison from flowing. When Professor Maisonneuve extracted some of the poisonous substance with 8 fine needle and injected minimal DOT tion of it into the sparrow, the latter showed all the symptoms of poisoning inside of half an hour, which gradually increased until it died in convulsions in 215 hours after the injection of the poi son. As it was heretofore believed that snake poison loses it's dangerous and virulent qualities with the death of the reptile, great care i'll handling dead snakes will be matter of common sense VornoaufiCp
The Press., 1897-02-25
English Government Waste Paper.

Periodically precise statements of what is in stock are drawn up and sent to all known dealers in waste paper, and those of them who wish to buy any of the lots offered to them return the lists with the highest bids they are pre- pared to make, and the highest bidder becomes the purchaser and carries it of. The annual sales bring in some- thing over G10, 900 year, which, &C., cording to arrangements prevailing up till 1841, would all have gone as per quisites" into official pockets. These were the good old times before the civ il service ''went to the dogs" It was found in very many cases that the off, cial who pocketed the proceeds of waste paper had the original ordering of the goods.
 The more he ordered the greater would be the waste and the better for his pocket, and of course there was a dreadful howl when, ill 1841, MT. Mo Culloch proposed reform. The reform was indeed carried-on paper. But that, too, for long time, proved to be little better than waste paper. The officials naturally entertained the strongest ob- jection to relinquishing their custom ary perquisites and held on to them un- til few of them were prosecuted for theft, or, to adopt the more polite phraseology of treasury minute, for "the systematic misappropriation of public property" and then for the first time Mr. McCulloch's reform became a real one, and ever since all waste has been properly collected and systematic- ally dealt with Journal
The Press., 1897-02-25
where the NIistletoe Grows.

Mistletoe for centuries has teen one of the most important factors ill Yule- tide decorations, it's use dating back as far as the days of the Druids The hang ing of the mistletoe on Christmas eve, between Il and 12 o'clock, ill many homes is the beginning of the season s merrymaking. The boUgh is hung in place where there will be no obstacle to passing under it, and the penalty for being caught beneath it's branches all know.
 The mistletoe of the Druids is Viscum album. It is true parasite, existing on the sap of other trees and never at any time is it in contact with the soil. It grows freely on apple, pear and plum trees, on poplars. thorns, naples and basswood, and rarely on the oak. It is said that the only sacred mistletoe of the Druids was that found upon the oak. The propagation is ny the seeds. These are covered with translucent, gummy substance. They are placed in position by birds, which in trying to rid their beaks of the sticky seeds rub them on the bark The seeds which are deposit- ed on the east or north side of the tree grow more rapidly than those to the south or west.
 Some idea of the quantity of mistle- toe that is used annually in London may be had when it is known that from the two counties of Worcester and Hereford alone more than 100 tons are shipped each season. Much also finds it's way from Normandy and from France to the London market. Large quantities are imported yearly to New York, Boston and Philadelphia, and much reaches Chicago.
 The mistletoe generally seen in the market here is cousin to the European species and is known as Phoradendron flavesoens It is smaller, both in berries and leaf. It is found in great quantities in New Jersey and southward through the Carolinas, New Mexico and Indian Territory. y.-Chicago Record.
The Press., 1897-02-25
An Arctic chrlst,nas.

The crew of an arctic explorer had great pleasure, one Christmas amid the ice and snow, in coaching the little Els kimo children how to observe an Amer ican Christmas. The queer little tots had never heard of Christmas tree, and Santa Claus was an unknown per sonage. The sailors were desperately homesick, until one of them, with little onea. of his own, happened to think of a Christmas tree for the little, chubby Es- kimos, with their round heads and soft, dark eyes.
 A real, live, green tree was, of course, out of the question in that icy region, SO the men gathered up the bones of slaughtered walruses, bears, whales and other creatures and tied them together so that they branched out in every direc- tion.
 When it came to candy, they could not get that, either; but instead they made balls of whale blubber, or fat, of which the little fur wrapped Eskimo is extremely fond, and these queer substi- tutes for caramels were tied on the 'tree" with colored cord. Bright beads, shining buttons, some brass headed tacks and a few other such remarkable "presents" were also tied on, and then bits of lighted candles were stuck all about, giving quite a festive air to the queerest Christmas tree that was prob ably ever seen. But the Eskimo children enjoyed it to wonderful degree, and the homesick sailors grew bright and cheerful in giving them such 8 novel pleasure. New York Tribune.
The Press., 1897-02-25
Auxury or HsankrupCcy.

"Why don't you go into bankruptcyP" asked Judge Emden of the Lambeth county court, when MT. Casswell, 6 sausage manufacturer of Camberwell, candidly admitted that he could not pay his debts except by small installments.
 "I am poor man and can't afford it, 1" replied the latter, who seemed to regard his honor's question as tantamount to asking man with only twopence in his pocket why he did not treat himself to turtle soup and milk punch. Such lux uries as bankruptcy are not meant for the poor, and he sighed as he added,
 "You can't becon @ bankrupt unless you have money" " "Ah, yes,'' replied his honor, ''quite truel A man in your po-
 sition cannot indulge in the luxury of bankruptcy. So the unfortunate saul sage maker was ordered to pay up at the rate of 10 shillings per month or go to jail for 14 days. London Telegraph.
The Press., 1897-02-25
The Ring Mountains of the Moon.


 The moon is really and truly a great planet of mountains, it's whole visible surface being dotted with elevations of curious shapes and of extraordinary height. We say it's whole visible sur face" and hasten to explain that we make this statement simply because the eye of man has never seen but one side of the surface of the moon. What we see convinces us that the little planet is extremely mountainous, for on the lend" exposed to our view there are no less than 30, 900 peaks, varying in height from 2,0OO feet to 4 miles When we consider the fact that this lu- marian world is only one thirty second part as large as the earth we can. easily see why it deserves the title of the planet of great mountains There is a peculiar thing about these O,O0O moon peaks. Each and every one of them has ringlike form, the open end of the conical point being of greater or lesser diameter, according 10 the height of the mountain In a low grade tele- scope these peaks resemble true volca- noes, but when viewed through a high grade glass it is seen that the depres- sion in the center of the queer "ring mountain is often so great as to be be- low the general level of the surrounding country. The depth of these Impressions is calculated in curious manner-by figuring on the relative shadows they cast when the sun is shining full upon them. The diameter of these "ring mountains'' varies greatly, some of the larger ones being 50, 100 or even 1bn miles, while the smaller look like post holes when viewed through good tele- scope.-St. Louis Republic
The Press., 1897-02-25
St. Nicholas Dav I'm Holland.

In some houses the little children who go to bed early put out their shoes and stockings and find them crammed with presents in the morning. Others have to play game of hide and seek for their presents, which the father and mother have hidden in the most myste- rious manner and in out of the way places. In a great many families, how ever, Dec. 5 is celebrated by sending and receiving parcels in the evening of that day. Parcels must be taken here in very broad sense. The servant who has to answer the bell is obliged to bring ill whatever is put into her hands or before her and consequently is often heard to giggle behind the door of the room in which the whole family is as- sembled. Then in walks-nay, is put most extraordinary looking gentleman or an old lady or a queer animal, con. sisting chiefly of wood or of linen filled with sawdust, in which the present, sometimes one of very small dimen- sions, lies concealed. Funny little rhymes often accompany the parcels, and generally much good natured teas ing is contained in the poetical lines. The patience of some people is often sorely tried by a parcel consisting of 8 big ball of very fine cotton, which has to be unwound to get at the present. = Annie c. Kuiper in St. Nicholas.
The Press., 1897-02-25
Emerson's Wit and Rumor.


 There never could be born 8 man es- sentially great who did not like to laugh or to make at least others smile. Even Schopenhauer and Nietzche could crack their grim jokes. There is nothing in compatible in that drollery which Elm erson at times indulged in. In The Fo- rum MT. Henry D. Lloyd thus descants on Emerson:
 A pleasantly recorded of him is a story he told of friend who carried a horsechestnut to protect him from rheu- matism. ''He has never had it since he began to carry it. and indeed it ap- pears to have had retrospective opera tion, for he never had it before" '" An English friend tells me that while with Mr. Emerson in his garden discussing some problem of life Mrs. Emerson call ed to him for some wood. Emerson went to the wood pile. When he came back, he said, with his wonderful smile, 'Now, we will return to the real things" "
 When Oliver Wendell Holmes asked him if he had any manual dexterity, he illustrated his want of it by replying that he could split shingle four ways with one nail, which, says Dr. Holmes, "as the intention is not to split it at all in fastening it to the roof, took to be confession of inaptitude for mechanical work '' In later years he lost his memory of the names of things. Once he wanted his umbrella, but could not recall the word. But he got around the difficulty. II can't tell its name, but I can tell it's history. Strangers take it away" His daughter ran in one day to ask who should be in- vited to join their berry picking party. "All the children, '' he said, "from 6 years to 6O.''
The Press., 1897-02-25
Hls Mother Would Do.

The Duke of Sutherland presented a park to one of the pottery towns. The opening was big event, and the Prince of Wales was asked to perform the cere- mony. A deputation waited on the prince accordingly, wealthy and worthy magistrate being spokesman.
 Honest old John was noted less for courtlike demeanor than for being large hearted, rough and ready and real Staff fordshire Unfortunately his royal high ness was unable to comply.
 s'I should have been most happy, '" said he, ''had known sooner.
 "Canna tha spare half day just to show thy faoe?'' sait the worthy fellow. "We shall look fules when we get back. ' But the prince was inexorable
 Much disconnected, the deputation seemed at loss how to proceed. Sud- denly an idea struck their resourceful leader, and, turning to the heir appar- ent, he said:
 'Well, if tha Ganna come, send thy mother. '-Strand Magazine.
The Press., 1897-02-25
The We'll Dressed Man,

There is certain professor in cer- tain university of the United States who once, at the beginning of one of his leo- lures on fine arts, got on the subject of the kind of pins worn in the neckties of young college men. He was a good leo- turer and was always interesting, but this lecture was the most interesting of his course to the 300 boys who heard him, and the whole hour was spent on neckGie pins, their use and misuse and what they suggested. The gist of what he said was that there was no more reason why 8 boy should wear horse shoe with whip across it all in gold than that houses should have sieves for roofs, and that as it was extremely foolish to put big sieve on your house for roof so it was quite as foolish to wear horseshoes on your neckties. The principle of this is that you should have a reason in what you wear az well as in other things and that senseless decora- tions, like horseshoes on neckties or neckties OH horseshoes, are silly and un- becoming to self respecting person. This particular example was only one to illustrate principle, which is that nothing unusual, queer, out of the or dinary, is in itself good thing-that, i'll fact, most things that are queer and out of the ordinary are likely, in the question of dress, to be in bad taste. A mans dress ought to be quiet, but it must be clean and well taken care of in every instance. The best dressed man is the man who, in whatever company he finds himself, is inconspicuous; who, you realize in an indefinite way, is we'll appointed, though you cannot well tell why.-Harper' Round Table.
The Press., 1897-02-25
The Largest British Painting.

The largest picture ever painted by a British artist is said to be Sir James Thornhill's work on the ceiling of the great hall at Greenwich hospital, rep resenting the founders, William III and Queen Mary, surrounded by the attri- butes of national prosperity, which meas ured 112 feet by 56 feet.
 The largest picture ever painted and exhibited as such by British artist is one by John Martin, the subject being " Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still. ; It was hung on the walls of the academy in 1816.
 Another large portrait group picture, painted by Phillips, containing over 500 portraits, measured 96 feet by 17 feet.- Strand Magazine.
The Press., 1897-02-25
Emerson's "American scholar"

Emerson has left behind him nothing stronger than this address, "The Amer ican Scholar ; It was the first applica- tion of his views to the events of his day, written and delivered in the heat of early manhood while his extraordi- nary powers were at their height. It moves with logical progression, of which he soon lost the habit The sub ject of it-the scholars relation to the world-was the passion of his life. The body of his belief is to be found in this address, and in any adequate account of him the whole address ought to be given.
 Dr. Holmes called this speech of Elm erson's our Intellectual Declaration of Independence, ; and indeed it was s'The Phi Beta Kappa speech,' says MT. Lowell, twas an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, 8 scene always to be treasured in the memory for it's picturesqueness and it's inspiration. What crowded and breath less aisles, what windows clustering with eager heads, what enthusiasm of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent l''-John Jay Chapman in At 1antic.
The Press., 1897-02-25
The Story of
 Pur1tana.

Prof. Dixi Crosby, M. D., IL. D., who for thirty-two years was at the head of Dartmouth Medical College, belonged to the famous Crosby family of physicians, which for several gener- ations has furnished more distin- guished medical men than any other family in America. His father was Dr. Asa Crosby, of Dartmouth, who procured the charter of the State medical society, of which he was for thirty years conspicuous member; one brother, Dr. Josiah Crosby, in- vented the invalid bed and the method of making extensions of fractured limbs by adhesive strips: another brother, Dr. Thos. R. Crosby, was chief surgeon in Columbian College Hospital during the war, and later professor of animal and vegetable physiology at Dartmouth College; while Dr. Dixi Crosby himself was the inventor and discoverer of various important improvements in medicine and surgery. including 8 new and unique mode of reducing metacarpo- phalangeal dislocation, opening of ab- scess at hip-joint, etc., etc.
 At the early age of twenty-four his extraordinary skill and success in over coming disease had already attracted the attention of medical men through out the world, and won for him the highest honors. His greatest achieve ment was the discovery of an original method for perfecting and compound ing in permanent form what has be. come known as his prize formula g and which, under the name of Puri- tana, is legally protected.
 The foundation of this remarkable medical discovery consists of simple New England roots and herbs, and the original family recipe for it has de- scended to the long line of Crosby physicians from their Puritan ances- tors. Its peculiar vegetable compost ton rendered it necessary to brew it whenever needed in the early days of fits history, and after the scattering of the Puritan families to remote locali- ties, where the necessary Ingredients were not to be found, many attempts were made to put it up in permanent form, all of which failed until Dr. Dixi Crosby discovered means and methods the result of which is: Natures Cure compounded in the laboratory oi Common Sense.
The Press., 1897-02-25
ScowlinR.

Don't scowl; it spells faces. Before you know it, says writer in The Stand ard, your forehead will resemble a small railroad map. There is a grand trunk line from your cowlick to the bridge of your nose, intersected by par allel lines running east and west, with curves arching your eyebrows, and, oh. how much older you look for it Scowl- ing is 8 habit that steals upon us una wares. We frown when the light is too strong and when it is too weak. We tie our brows into knot whsn we are thinking and knit them even more tight ly when we cannot think There is no denying there are plenty of things to scowl about.
The Press., 1897-02-25
Motor omnibuses for the streets of Paris will be built to accommodate 20 persons.

GLAD TID1NGs.--The specific for Dys- pepsia, Liver Complaint, Rheumatism, ( Cos tiveness, General Debility, etc, is Bacon's Celery King for the Nerves. This gI eat herbal tonic stimulates the digestive or gans, regulates the Liver and restores the system to vigorous health and energies. Sample free. Large packages soc and 25c. Sold only by E. K. Taft, Stafford Springs, w. P. Fuller, Somers, Odell X Jones, Staffordyille.