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An Attractive Church.

The attractive church is that which in her worship, her preaching, her work and the lives of her people exalts tho cross Then the clements of Christi s power become the elements of her pow er.-Rey. B. Ezra Stiles Ely, Jr., Pres byterian, Rockford
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Have You
 Never Received
AMERICAN-E N-EXCELSIOR LAUNDR'
10 2G-d-6n.

FRANKLIN AND IsT Proprletors. I16.2Is ". Barra ue
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Joy and Development.
Discoveries Of Science.

All the discoveries of modern science are making it easier to believe in spirit ual realities. Science rightly under stood, is the handmaid of religion. - Rev. Dr. Robert s. MaoArthur, Baptist, New York.
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J. A. COLES,
 MAIN STREET.
DIR. A. w. TROUPE PINE BLUFF, ARK.

Office hours-2 to p. m.
 Office with AndersoH-Meye Drug Co., Telephone No. 64. Residence. No. 9l7 West Fifth avenue.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-08
OUR LUMBER INDUSTRY.
Every MiEI Crowded and the Yards
 Kept Hustling To Fill Orders.

Kept 1ustling To Fill Orders.
 To fill orders from abroad and keep pace with the local demand keeps every mill within ten miles of Mena running to it's full capacity and gives lots of work to loggers and teams get ting logs'to the mills, asiwell as hauling the product to be loaded upon trains and to those desiring to build.
 At the Pryor mill they are getting out car load a day for shipment and keep three teams busy delivering to local customers Among the Kansas City orders now being sawed and load ed on the cars is one for 900 pieces 2x IA, 24 feet long and 300 pieces 2xi6, 24 feet long. The fact that such orders can be readily filled Ly our mills shows the kind of timber that grows here. FFusllly;r FFuslll;r lso, 900 feet of logs are on the logways and cars ready to be sawed. Arrangements have been com pleted for an extension of the switch track at this mill around to the rear so that all dressed lumber can be loaded direct from the planer into the cars for shipment.
 At the Morrison X Breen mills, the planers have been making music at night as well as by day for several weeks and so great has been the de- mand for lumber that the proprietors have ordered another planer so as to be enabled to fill all orders on as short notice as possible When the new machinery is in place this mill expects to be able to turn out five carloads a day.
 The Green & Lewis mills after being idle for awhile for repairs, are start ing up again with plenty of orders for lumber and logs to saw it from, with prospect of good run for the win ter
 The Mena Flaming Mill Co is rush ing business, shipping a car load day to parties in Kansas, besides filling many local orders. The new lath machine recently put Tn is at work turning out lath and hereafter it will not be necessary to send to other places for the lath used here. The shingle mill is being kept busy and it's sharp, quick zip" can be heard as it cuts out thousands of shingles for home comsum mption.
 These mills furnish work for many men and help make times lively iu Mena.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-08
The Old Canoe.

Where the rocks are gray and the shore is
 steep, And the waters below look dark and deep, Where the rugged pine. in its lonely pride. Leans gloomily over the murky tide; Where the reeds and the rushes are long and
 lank. And the weeds grow thick on the winding
 bank,
 Where the shadow is heavy the whole day
 through, There lies at is moorng the old canoe. The useless paddles are idly dropped. Like the sea birds wings that the storm has
 Topped,
 And crossed on the railing, one OCT one. Like the folded hands when the work is done. While busily back and forth between. The spider stretches his silvery screen And the solemn owl with the dull "too
 whoo,' Settles down on the edge of the old canoe. The stem halfsunk in the siimy wave, Rots slowly away in it's living grave,
 And the green moss creap o'er its dull decay. Hiding its i.euldering dust away
 Like the hand that plants o'er the tomba
 flower, Or the ivy that mantles the falling tower, While many blossom of loveliest hue. Springs up OCT the stern of the old canoe. The currentless waters are dead and still But the twilight wind plays with the boat at will, And lazily in and out again It floats the length of the rusty chain; Like the weary march of the hand of time. That meet and part at the noon tide chime And the 5shore is kissed at each turning anew.
 By the dripping bow of the old canoe. Oh many time with careless hand. have pushed it away from the pebbly strand, And padded it down where the stream runs quick,
 Where the whirs are wide and the eddies are thick.
 And looked below in the broken tide,
 To see that faces and boats were two That were mirrored back from the old canoe But now, as lean o'er the crumhling side, And look below in the sluggish tide, The face that I see there is graver grown. And the laugh that hear is a sober tone.
 The hands that lent to the light skin wings, Have grown familiar with sterner things: But love to think of the hours that sped, As I rocked where the whirls their white spray
 she'd
 Ere the blossom waved or the green grass
 grew, Der the monldering stern of the old canoe
The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-08
Another Church in Mena.

The Christian denomination organ izcd few months ago, has selected a lot at the corner of Campbell and Port Arthur streets and are preparing to build. Men are at work clearing the lot and brick and sand are being hauicd with which to construct the foundation It is understood that the work will be pushed as rapidly as possible to have the building ready for use at an early day.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-08
AN IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE.
Half Block West of De Queen Street.

Our city contains many busy, hus- ting merchants who are building up enterprises which keep pace with the wonderful growth of our city, and one which should not be overlooked is the harness establishment of l.. w. Wech His sales room is well filled with all kinds of harness, saddles and every thing contained in first class estab- lishment The work room in the rear of the building is occupied by Gene Dickens. F. Syp and F. Wells, all three expert harness makers who are kept busy manufacturing harness. saddles and doing repair work.
 Mir. Welch also has boot and shoe department and without doubt has the best assorted lot of foot wear in town. It will be time well spent to visit his store.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-08
The "T.Go U-0o' Club.

The young men of Mena have held several meetings within the last few days organizing club. securing club rooms and appointing committees to purchase club room furniture They expect in short time that the ''I-Go UGo" club will be the leading function in Mena society and that their club rooms will rival any in the state, wherein the members can spend their evenings pleasantly. The off cers are k. r. Barton president; Frank Roach, vice president; Jack Terry, sec retary and treasurer.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-08
Our Town Assessment All Right,

The city attorney was notified last Saturday by County Clerk Davis that the town tax assessment had been put upon the tax book and was all o. K.
 This action was taken as a result of an opinion handed down by a couple of eminent .jurists of Little Rock.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-08

B. A. Duncan, from near Board Camp, paid the Star pleasant call last week He has lived in this county over thirty years and for a period of about four years when a boy, rode a mail route" from Dallas to Arkadel phia, taking four days to make the trip, and the other two days of the week riding to Mt. Ida and back with the mail.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-08


 r. A. Pickard, mayor of Eureka Springs, accompanied py his wife, ar rived Monday to visit their daughter, Mrs. w. R. Blocksom, and new grand daughter that arrived Sunday.
 Prosperity comes quickest to the man whose liver is in good condition. DeWitt's Little Early Risers are ia nous little pills for constipatiou bill iousness, indigestion and all stomach and liver troubles. Pipkin S Hanes
 Miss Allie Hughes, Norfolk, Va, :, was fIightfully burned on the face and neck. Pain was instantly relieved by DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve, which healed the injury without leaving a scar It is the famous pile remedy. Pipkin & Hanes.
 A colored woman known as Irony Lomaclx dropped dead at her home at the corner of Jansen avenue and Hermann street Tuesday night. Heart failure was the cause of her death. The remains were shipped to Texar- kama for burial by her relatives.
 Any member of the Polk County Horticultural Society wishing copy of the last report of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, can have the same by calling at this office. They have been sent for free distribution by the secretary, Mir. L. A. Goodman.
 Mrs Mary Bird, Harrisburg, Pa. says: "Mv child IS worth millions to me; yet I would have lost her by croup had not invested twenty five cents in bottle of One Minute Cough Cure " 1t cures coughs, colds and all throat and lung troubles PiplSin & Hanes
 It is easy to catch cold and just as easy to get rid of it if you commence early to use One Minute Cough Cure. It cures coughs, colds, bronchitis, pneumonia and all throat and lung troubles. It is pleasant to take, safe to use and sure, to cure. Pipkin X Hanes.
 John Paul, an engineer on the Pitts burg & Gulf. purchased a lot of Mir. G. " fuitz last week fronting on St John street, and contracted with MT. Pultz for the erection of nice house cn it. Mr. Paul owns several other properties in Mena but he is erecting this house for his own use. He set men at work Monday sinking we'll
 Chris tmas, the sweetest season oi the year, is close at hand and there is nothing that tends to make it all il should be as to give some to- ken of love to those who are dear tc us. Ii you are puzzled to know what to give, go to the Star Pharmacy. A present can be found there for every one from baby to grandma at rsrson' able prices.
 B. A. Duncan, from near Board Camp, paid the Star a pleasant call last week. He has lived in this county
The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-08
TOWN TOPlCES
 PARTLY TREATED.


 ss88@9r@@@@@@~@~~@~@~@@@ oven has hats, too.
 Tine pipes at Jaclson's.
 Cotton checks 311c at Gallaghers.
 Where are you going2 to Gallagher's. Minnesota potatoes at Prescott < Cost 14-tf 20 yards standard prints at Owens forsl.
 Owen can give you bargains in clothing.
 Standard prints, a5 yards for sI, at Gallagher's. If The largest, most complete stock, at Gallagher's. If Northern grown potatoes at Pres cott & Co.'s 4-tf Flows fine candles at Jackson's "up- tordate" drug store.
 If you want pleasant smoke, buy Jackson's Patriot 17-tf The Patriot is new niclxle cigar at Jackson's drug store 17-tf If you are in need of shoes see Owen for price, quality and style.
 Mena is enjoying beautiful weather Dur climate is hard to excell
 Hundreds of bales of cotton are marked each month in Mena. "a Attorney J. c. Byers returned Mon- day from trip to Port Arthur # Fine cigars and tobaccos a speciality at The Up-To- Date" Drug Store.
 Miss Edith Sawdon returned Satur- day from visit to Eureka Springs. San Pedro is the name of new cigar at Jackson's drug store. 17-tf 10000 pennies wanted in exchange for candy at the Arkans;.w Store 17-2 When you want anything in line of toilet articles, call on Pipkin t& Hanes. Try one at Jackson's up-to-date drug store. 17-tf ". c. King. son of Mrs. Ramey, ar rived Thursday to make his home in Mena.
 Have you been in the Star Pharmacy to see the great big stock of holi6 ay goods. l6-4t One Minute Cough Cure cures quick ly. That's what you want Piplxin X Hanes,
 Call at the Arkansaw Store for your fancy candies. Cream and chocolate a speciality
 Piplxin & Hanes are the drug people of Mena. Why? Because they are That's why. l7.3t The only complete line of Christina. goods in the town. Where? At the Star Pharmacy.
 Pipkin lS Hanes are now headquar. ters for pain ts, oils paint brushes etc Mena Ark i7-3t Jackson Drug Co.'s up to-date' drug store will be headquarters for fine candies, Xmas.
 500 lbs candy just received at the Arkansaw Store Come quick for jaw breakers and red hots. 17-2t Remember "rhe Up -To-Date" Drug Store will be the place to get fine Christmas goods.
 The first brick sidewalk lad in town is now completed in front of the Car der-Hudglns brick block.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-08

Take your furs, beeswax and coun- try meal to the Arkansaw Store and exchange it for cash or cheap, fresh groceries. 2t
 Piplin & Hanes' line of cigars are too we'll known to need advertising No tricks. no schemes, nothing but straight goods l7-3t
 The best breakfast food" known is the Ralston. For sale at Lttlejohn & Co.'S Try it and you will ever after want to buy it.
 Prickly Ash Bitters cures diseases of the kidneys, cleanses and strengthens the liver, stomach and bowels. For sale by F. C. Savage and Jackson Drug Co. 2t
 Born to Mr. and Mrs w. R. Block som. on Sunday, nice little girl of regulation weight Father and moth CT doing well and Grandpa Pickard reported convalescent
 Christmas is coming and the most beautiful line of Christmas goods ever displayed in Polk county has just ar rived at the Star Pharmacy.
 We have over 500 samples to select from and will guarantee you perfect it in tailor made suit of clothes
 GREEN X LEWIS.
 J. c. Mckee, of Rogers, Ark, arrived Sunday for visit with his brother, Art, of the Star force. Since his ar rival he has secured a place with the Mena Lumber Co. and IS at work there now
 For all choice meats in their season, well as small game and all domestic fowls and meats, call on Delker & Strauss at the De Queen Street Meat Market
 Gayle Green, son of the Mena mer- chant, passed through town Wednes- day in the company of Mir. and Mrs. J. F. Mcdonald, on their way to Hot Springs. Gayle is jolly good boy Mt Ida Herald.
 H. A. Perrin died Sunday morning at Hotel Brunswick, of consumption. The remains were inferred in the White Oak cemetery Monday after noon. Mr. Perrin had many friends in Mena to regret his death
 The Mena Jewelry Store is the only store in Polk county which carries a complete line of watches jewelry, sill verware etc, and don't forget that it ] is tbe place where they do watch and 1 jew elry repairing as it should be done. l l.. E Ancell, of Marshall, Mo-, ar rived last week bringing fine lot of stock, and will make his home on the Ancell place at Heath. His wife and children arrived about two weeks ago accompanied by his father. ". H. AncelL
 J. A. Perkins, of Antiquity, O., was for thirty years needlessly tortured by physicians for the cure of eczema He was quickly cured by, using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve the famous healing salve for piles and skin diseases. Pip kin & Hanes.
 We run an up-to-date meat market, keeping the best and choicest meats of all kinds on hand to supply our pa irons and all you have to do to be convinced is to call and try us. Del ker tS Strauss, of the De Queen street Meat Market.
 w. J. Goodman, from near Camden, purchased through the J II. Hamilton agency, the Casey place at Grand Sum- init last Monday with view to make it his home. He started for home Monday night to bring his family to hls pew purchase.
 Mrs. Stark, Pleasant Ridge, O., says: "A fter two doctors gave up my boy to die, I saved him from croup by using One Minute Cough Cure" It is the quickest and most certain remedy for
The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-08
To Cure A Cold in One Dav

Take Laxative Promo Quinine Tab let's. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 25c. June 8
The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-08

Wall paper at Jackson's.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-08

J. w. McCravey is building neat three room cottage near the corner of Hermann and Honert streets, for q home. He came here from Chicasha, l. T.. with MT N. NJ. Lemon, three weeks ago, each bringing his family These gentlemen are mechanics and come here not so much because there is plenty of work as 10 find a healthy town to live m
The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-08

Mrs. M B. Ford, Rudell's, Ill, sui fered for eight years from dyspepsia and chronic constipation and was tin- ally cured by using DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the famous little pills for all stomach and liver troubles.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-13
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The fox hunters of this section of the
State are looking forward to season
of fine sport.
The Lynchburg fair committee has
decided that there shall be no gambling
on the fair grounds.
A. W. Kelley, seventy years old,
committed suicide in Richmond last
night by taking morphine.
DR.. William II. Harbaugh, leading
veterinary surgeon of Virginia, died in
Richmond last night after many
months illness of tuberculosis. he
was forty.one years old and native OF
Cumberland, Md.
After November LIST, 1897, the man.
ual of arms now in use by the Virginia
volunteers will be changed and con-
formed to the manual published by
order of the War Department, Circular
No. 16, A. G. O., July 2Sth, adapting
the Manual for the service Magazine
Rifle, Cal. 80, to the Springfield Rifle,
Cal. As"
MIR. John IT. L. Jones and Miss Sue
Nelll6 DOWudu were uaiil GU .no
Presbyterian Church, in BerryVille,
yesterday. DR.. Daniel Turner, of
Front Royal, and Mr.. James W. Foley
were ushers, and Mr.. Frank Huyett, of
Charlottesville, presided at the organ.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Charles R. Streibling, of Falling
Springs, formerly pastor of the Presby-
terian Church at Berryville.
John Jackson, colored, aged about
twenty years. was arrested yesterday at
the Virginia Hotel. in Staunton, where
he has been en- ployed about a fortnight,
on the charge of burning Mr.. Charles
D. Crawford's barn about three weeks
ago. This barn was perhaps the finest
in Augusta county, and the loss, in
Guiding the contents, was $4,000, with
about half that amount of insurance.
The arrest was made through the work
of Norfolk detective agency.
There is movement on foot in Richmond
to erect memorial in honor Of Maj. Ginter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-13

BURNED Up CARDS AND CHECKERS.
"A dispatch from Milledgeville. Ga,
says a ten days. revival eliminated
Sunday night in front of the residence
of Capt. Joseph Caraker when 500 cit
izens made a bonfire of articles used in
games and home amusement. This
feature of the revival was started by
Mrs. Laura Rodgers of a Sunday school
class composed of young men and
women.
First one and then another offered to
burn cards, dice, checker boards, and
other articles. When Capt. Kidd, of
the firm of Culver & Kidd, offered to
open his store and take therefrom 500
packs of cards and add them to the fire
it was decided to make a combination
affair of it. The scene was fixed 10
front of Capt. Caraker's house, and the
various converts threw into the blaze
the "objects of SIM" while the onlook.
ers sang Praise God, from Whom all
blessings fow."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-13
OFFICIAL.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.

At regular meeting OF the Board OF Al
dermen of Alexandra, Va, held October
18th, 1897, there were present:
Vim. b. Marbury, esq, President, and
Messrs. Havener, Dobie, Ballenger, Rinken,
Curtin and Smoot.
A resolution directing the Auditor to issue
his warrant in the sum of $314.5O in favor
OF WIN. q. Smith, City Sergeant, to pay the
judgments and costs in the case Of James +.
Hammersey VS. the City Council Of AleIan-
dIia, was received from the Common Council
and passed by the following vote:
Ayes, Messrs Havener Dobie, Ballenger
Hinker, Curtin, Smoot and Mr.. President
:. Noes, none.
An act to provide for the additional sppro-
priations for the improvements OF certain
streets for which insufficient appropriations
were made in the general appropriation bill
approved May 81, 1897, was received from
the Common Council, read three times and
pa ,sed by the following vote:
Ayes, Messrs. Havener, Dobe, Ballenger,
Hinken, Curtin, SInoot and Mr.. President
7. Noes, none.
An ordinance to prevent interference with
funerals was received from the Common
Council, read second aud third times and
passed by the following vote:
ayes, OleSsrS. haNeutly OODie D6lleuEel,
Hinken, Curtin. Smoot and Mr.. President
I. Noes, one.
The following were received from the Com
mon Council aud their sction concurred in:
The report of the Joint Committees on FL
nance and Light, together with the reports OF
the gas experts; also communication from
the Hydraulion Steam Fire Engine Company
thanking Council for their handsome new
engine house also communication from the
Potomac Electric Power Company offering 10
light the city by electricity also resolution
empowering Street Committee TO lay cobble
stone pavement instead of gravel on Royal
street, between Duke and Wolfe streets, pro-
vided property owners abutting on said street
contribute the amount necessary over and
above the amount heretofore appropriated for
graveliug the said square, and petition from
the Southern Railway Company asking per.
mission to lay standard gauge railroad
track on The east side of Lee street from the
north side of Oronoco street to the north aide
of Thompson's alley for the convenience Of
merchants.
The board then adjourned.
VIM II. MARBURY, President.
Teste: 2. E. KNIGHT. Clerk.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-13

MAcoN's CARNTvAL.-In the trades parade
in Macon. Ga, yesterday, 100 floats were in
line, headed by tho governor, mayor and
council and the United States Marine Band.
The Southern Railway was represented by a
locomotive, nearly full size, constructed espee.
tally for the occasion. The Georgia Southern
had q log cabin, typical home of the ante.
bellum negro, and with it were tropical pro-
ducts of Florida to represent the Suwanee
river route. Other displays were well suited
TO represent the various industries of Macon
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon abont 5000
people assembled at Central City Park to wit.
ness the collision of two locomotives, which
ended tho days display. A straight track, a
mile in length, ran though the race track en-
closure, A locomotive at either end, steamed
to the utmost limit, Was held in readiness by
an engineer who swaited the signal to start.
At the drop Of nag the throttles were open
ed, the engineers lesped to the ground, and
the massive machines collided The wreck
was complete.
Last night the Marine Band of so pieces
gave an open-air concert in the presence of
5000 people.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-13

TEE REPORTED resignation Of Asso-
ciate Justice Field Of the q. 8. Supreme
Court is not at all new to his friends
and acquaintance, as all of them know
he would have resigned during the last
administration if any body else had
been President except MIR. Cleveland,
to whom be was not willing to entrust
the appointment of his successor. At
torney General McKenna will be his
successor and it is understood that
Judge Day, of Ohio, now Assistant Sec
rotary of State, will be appointed At
torney General, but will continue to
have supervision of the State Depart
ment, as he now has, and 30 to avoid
the necessity of deposing Secretary
Sherman, who is too infrm 10 have en-
tire charge of that department.