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without Authority.

Mr.. S. H. Thomas. attorney for the Dis
trict, has decided that the District Com
miSsiO1ers have no authority to grant the
application of the Potomac Electric Power
Company for a permit to string two addi-
tional wires on the Aqueduct bridge for
lighting purposes. As the wires are under
ground the extension proposed does not
~Jme within the law authorizing the Com
missiOners TO grant permits for the extern
sion of overhead wires outside the fire linn
its and west OF Rock creek.
Evening star., 1898-08-26

Guilty" pleaded an old colored man
named James Rollins, when called before
Judge Taylor today on a charge of va
grancy.
II have known the old man for some
time,'' Policeman Davis answered
What have you seen him do?"
He spends most of his time running a
beer can for disreputable women
We'll, Uncle Jim, what have you to say
for yourselfc'
Nothing this morning, was his response
Sixty days in default OF security" the
court told him.
The old man could not furnish the secur-
~.
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Judge Mills today sent Joseph Gallagher
to jail for thirty days for fighting with F..
H. Moore Of No. y2s K street northwest.
He demanded cigarette from Mr.. Moore
and when the latter refused undertook to
whip him- Gallagher was badly used up
in the encounter. Later Gallagher was con-
ylcted before Judge Taylor of breaking the
front window of Edmonston's uueensware
establishment and fined $50, with the alter
native Of six months in the work house
The last offense referred to was the finale
OF the fight with Mr. Moore
Evening star., 1898-08-26
EXCURSIONS TOMORROW.

Steamer Samuel ]. Pentz for River view
at 10 am, 215 and 6:f5 pm
Steamer Charles Manchester for Marshall
Hall and Mount Vernon at 10 am, 2:5u
and $50 pm.
Steamer Estelle Randall for Glymont ana
intermediate points at $50 am.
Steamer Wakefield for Colonial Beach
and river landings at Z am.
Steamer Jane Moseley for Colonial Beach
at $50 pm.
Steamer Newport News for Norfolk and
Fortress Monroe al ESQ pm.
Steamer Washington for Norfolk and Old
Point Comfort at pm
Steamer Charles Manchester for Indian
Head at $50 pm.
Trains leave B. & o. depot for Bay Ridge
at $50 am. and 4:30 pm.
Trains leave 1872 street and Pennsylvania
avenue for Arlington hourly from m. to
S pm.
Trains leave 131z street and Pennsylvania
avenue for Mount Vernon hourly from IL
am. to 3 pm.
Trains leave Aqueduct bridge for Airing
ton and Fort Myer and Falls Church every
half hour from g I'm. to II pm.
Trains leave 32d and NJ streets and 32d
and 2 streets every ten minutes for West
Chevy Chase and Glen Echo.
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SOLDIER PASSES AWAY.
Lieut.. Lamb of 22d Kansas Regiment
succumbs TO Fever.

Lieutenant Henry Allen Lamb. quarter
master of the 22d Kansas Regiment died
at Providence Hospital. yesterday of
typhoid fever. The remains were taken for
interment lass evening to Parsons. Kansas.
accompanied by F. F. Lamb. a brother OF
the deceased. Lieutenant Lambs home
was at Parsors, where he was one OF the
editors and proprietor of the Daily Eclipse
he was commissioned first lieutenant and
quartermaster of his regiment and came
with the command to Camp Alger, where
he was stricken with the disease mentioned,s
Evening star., 1898-08-26
Reward for Missing Rox

Inspector Mattingly, chief of the detective
bureau, has received descriptive circular
from the chief of the Massachusetts dis
trict police Offering reward of S25 for in
formation concerning the whereabouts of
Edward II. Bennett, who has been missing
ioF about three weeks He is described as
Incorporating, intelligent boy, sixteen
years Ola his hair is black and he has
ctlfk eyes and dark complexion He was
- accompanied by boy named Arthur o.
cummings, seventeen years old, who has
blue ey es, light hair and light complexion
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Matter of Disinfection.

In an opinion to the District Commission
ers Mr.. s. T. Thomas has decided that
while, under the act of Congress approved
December 20, 1890, owners of premises can
not be compelled to fumigate them where
there has been case of diphtheria, vet
the health officer may enter the premises
and disinfect them If he deems it necessary
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$40 To Niagara Falls and Return $40
win PennsxIYania RaiIroad

| will leave Washington 1855 am. Sept =, Is
and 30 Tickets, limited to ten days, allow
stopover at Buffalo, Rochester and Wat
kins returning. Annual exposition at
Toronto August 80 to Sept. 10.-Advt
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One Fare to Cincinnati and Return
vim Pennsx fvania Railroad.

For the National Encampment, G. A. R.,
excursion tickets to Cincinnati and return
will be sold Sept. 3, 4 and o, at rate of
S14.00, good to return Sept. @ to 13. Exten-
sion can be secured to Oct. 2. For further
information, apply to ticket agents.-Advt
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baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

The famous battlefield line to Cincinnati
S1i round-trip. Tickets on sale September
3, and 5, good to return until September
Is, with privilege of extension until Octo-
Der ., by depositing ticket with joint agent
at Cincinnati between September and 8
and payment of 25 cents additional.-Advt
Evening star., 1898-08-26

The commission of John B. Peyton, as an
additional private for duty in enforcing the
game laws, has been extended by the Dis
trict Commissioners to remain in effect un-
til August 81.
Lloyd Cross was today fined $40 by Judge
Mills for striking George Sullivan in the
head with a bottle. The wound was severe
but Sullivan did not want to prosecute his
assailant, which caused the court to let
him off easily.
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ONE HUGE CHECK.
Big Business Transaction Between
Local Mercantile Firms.

Local MercantfIe Firms.
The purchase by Saks & Co. of Emmons
s. Smiths stock and fixtures, and the ieas-
ing by them of Mr.. Smiths building adjoin-
ing their own, is declared to be the most
extensive transaction that has ever taken
placs in mercantile Washington, and the
check passed in payment is probably the
largest ever passed between local mer-
chants. This deal was brought about by
Mr.. Samuel Bieber, acting for Mr.. Smith.
Mr.. Smith expresses himself as still an
enthusiastic Washingtonian, and 1t Is un-
derstood will hereafter devote himself TO
real estate transactions, which will be ad-
ditional proof of his confidence in this city s
future.
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Spend Sunday in baltimore

Only $1-25 round trip,via Pennsylvania r r.
Saturdays and Sundays during August
and September good to return following
Monday. All trains except the Congression-
al Limitcd.-Advt.
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speeds Parting Guest.

A colored boy named Joseph Tinder was
arrested in Twining City yesterday on q
charge of vagraney.
"I was my way from Cincinnati to
Baltimore" t,tN prisoner told Judge Tay-
lor this morning.
IF you are going out of town." the judge
said. Il am not going TO detain you"
He was released on his personal bonds.
Evening star., 1898-08-26
WORK OF HUMANITY.
secretary of War Gives Sanction and
Material Assistance.

Acting Secretary Meiklejohn of the war
Department is fully impressed with the
sn]endid work of humanity being performed
nv the ladies who have undertaken to light
on the burdens and alleviate the sufferlngs
of the sick and wounded soldiers now pass
irg through this city in such large num-
bers.
AS stated in yesterdays Star, these ladies
have inaugurated a systematic service OF
caring for the soldiers they arrive here
suffering from the lack of the comforts and
in many instances even the necessities Of
life. To aid in the movement Acting Sec
retary Meiklejohn has directed that hos
pital tent, with beds, etc, for fifteen per-
sons be erected at a convenient place on
the reservation near the corner of Mary
land avenue and 9th street southwest, for
the benefit Of the sick soldiers in transit,
who may be in immediate need of rest and
medical treatment. The Secretary has also
given instructions that one of the ambu-
lances at the Washington barracks be plac-
ed at the disposal of the ladies for use in
the transportation of soldiers seriously Ill
to the hospital at the Washington barracks
or to Providence Hospital or other city in
stitutions, may be deemed advisabls.
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Lease of Market Space Prone

A paper was placed on record yesterday
for the lsase of the property on Market
space owned by Emmons S. Smith to Saks
d Co. for term of ten years for $4,000
per annum
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Bay Ridge and Return via ID. and o..
Cents.

Salt water bathing, fishing, grabbing and
boating Trains leave $50 am. and 43O
pm week days. 9:35 am, 1:3O and 315
pm. Sundays.-Advt.
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Samuel Smith. coIored. was TODAY held nv
Judge Mills in $500 bail for the action of
the grand jury for breaking into the house
OF Valentine Link, No. I22 Maryland ave-
valued at 40. "a 'e"eiS
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LOCAL MENTION.
AMUsEMENTs TONIGHT.

fijOu Theater-Vaudeville.
Glen EchO-Jaxon Opera Company In
bohemian Girl
Kernan's Lyceum Theater-John L. Sulli-
Fan and company
Ohio avenue and 18th street-Battle OF
Gettysburg
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Thirty Days for 81.

For the larceny of 81 from Jacob Linsley,
Osborne Dorsey, colored, was today sent to
Jail for thirty days by Judge Mills
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CITY AND DISTRICT.


John ]. O'Shea, an honorab!y discharged
soldier. who had been private in Company
A 4th L. S. V, Gmmunes) was found sick
on the road north of lexington last night
by Policeman Martin. He was suffering
from the effects of heat and the officer had
him taken to Garfield Hospital for treat
ment Under the care of physicians the
patient soon improved.
O'Shea had lived at Hyattsville before he
enlisted in the army. Shortly before his
regiment moved south from Fredericksburg
he was discharged for disability. He then
returned to this city and ii is thought was
on his way to HyattsvilIe last night when
he was taken sick.
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The orthography Herring, Not Behring

To the Editor-of The Evening Star:
The following letter of J. E. Hilgard, at
one time superintendent United States
coast and geodetic survey, published in
Monteiths new physical geography, edi-
tion of 1885. page 137. is of present inter-
est:
ITO the author OF Monteth's Biographies:
1.-THE photography Bering is used In the
coast survey and other government publi-
cations. Commander Ivan Ivanovich Ber-
ing uniformly spelled his name Bering as
do his descendants now living in Dem
mark. The erroneous form Behring was
first introduced in the second decade of
the present century. Special students of
Alaska steadily adhere to the correct form,
Bering, and l take occasion to congratu-
late you on the attempt.to spread the cor
rect form before large and Increasing au-
dience. ]. E. HILGARD
washington, January 26 1885,
The coast survey published in 1891, "Ap-
pendix No. 10, Report for 1890" a mono
graph of great interest, entitled Early
expedition to the region of Bering sea and
strait; from the reports and journals of
Vitus Ivanovich Bering; translated by VIII
liam Healey DALI" There exists such a
diversity in the spelling of geographical
names that the adoption of some arbitrary
rule would be of great advantage
August 25, 1858. p. LEE PHILLIPS
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$3.50 Special, Grand Excursion S3.5O
TO Fort Monroe. NorfoIi> 4 Na Beach

via Norfolk and Washington steamer New
port News. Saturday. $50 pm. Tickees,
500. good to return Sunday night, giving
an opportunity TO view the huge fleet of
war vessels off "Old Point Steamer
Washington will run special Saturday for
A. Y. Il. leaving at Z p.m.-AdYt
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Thirty Day. for Assault.

For assaulting his wife, Elizabeth Cava-
naugh. Richard Cavanaugh was today sent
to jail for thirty days by Judge Mills.
Evening star., 1898-08-26

EXPERIENCED MEAT BUYERS
pronounce the Home Dressed Beef and
Lamb we're now retailing as the hnest
they've tasted for years back. l. l.
KEANE, 35-51 Center market.
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WASHINGTON DRESSED BEEF.
Spring Lamb, New York Roast Beef, Del
monico Steak, go TO John r. Kelly, 9th st
wing, Center mkt. Corned Beef a speciality
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Hundreds of big bargains waiting for you
in Hoeke's clearing sale.-Advt.
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Held for the Grand Jury.

Clearing sale prices on Furniture and
Carpets at-Hoeke' 's.-Adyt
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A Profusion of Aster,

yeTtissment.- A--f L
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$1.25 To baltimore and Return ST..

VIA pennsylvania Railroad.
Every Saturday and Sunday during Au-
gust and September; good to return until
the following Monday. All trains except the
Congressional Limited.-Advt.
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Baltimore and Return via b. and o.,
$1.25.
Tickets good going on all trains Saturday
and Sunday, August 9th and 2Sth valid to
return until following Monday.-Advt
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Baltimore Only SLOW Pennsylvania R. R.
Saturdays and Sundays during August
and September. Return following Monday.
All trains except Congressional Limited
Advertisement.
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Nothing to Say.

A. o. H. Norfolk excursion, Saturday; see
adv, page II.
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A o. II. Norfolk excursion. Saturday; see
adv, page T.
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EOp yOI7R ICED TEA

FOR YOUR ICED TEA
Use ''Kenny's Cheon," the best 5Oc- tea in
America. Pure American-refined Sugars
sold at cost.
C. D. KENNY, city stores.
Evening star., 1898-08-26

The Berkefeld Water Filter is germ-proof;
only 81. S. S. Shedd & Bro, 49, 9th ST.
Try Reisinger's Ice Cream, 235 G st. NV.
Evening star., 1898-08-26

ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANs,
DISTRICT BOARD.
FIRST SPECIAL EXCURSION TO
Norfolk, Va, and Old Point Comfort
On the Palace Steamer WASHINGTON Of the
Norfolk Line,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 81 1898.
Steamer leaves its wharf, foot Of 9Th street, at
pm. sharp Saturday, returning al Monday.
Round trip, 50. Meals, 30 cents. State at
regular prices au24 ST. Ia
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SHRINERS'

SHRlNERS'
MIDSUMMER FROLIC AT
MARSHALL HALL,
MONDAY, AUGUST %
TWO BOATS. No crowding. Room for all.
Two performances; Military Dances Plantation
and Negro Melodies, Buck and Wing Dances, Rag
Time Songs, Genuine Negro Cake Walk.
TICKETS. .-.......... SOC.
To be procured OF Mobiles Of Almas Temple and at
the boat. First boat, Steamer Manchester, leaves
Gas, second boat, Belle Haven, 7:2O. au25-3t
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LECTURES.

tra1cd lectu-e by Mr.. Edwin Priest Washington
High School. at the KELLER MEMORIAL
CHURCH. Md. ave. and 9Th st. ne, MONDAY
August %, at pm Admission, 25c. Over $50
magnificent views of Spain, Canary Islands, Gu
ba. Porto Rico and the Philippines. au26-3t
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-09
SERVANTS IN SANTIAGO.
,s.r,v Negresses who Provide for
Their Families Ont of Their
EmpIOyers' store.

Our servants match the kitchen to
r They are elderly negresses, with
families of their own. and. like mother
birds. they nightly convey to the home
oest every morsel of food not carefully
licked up in the wardrobe, writes
correspondent of the ST. Louis Globe
I,amocrat. Their everyday costume
e distinctive, if not appropriate. 1t
consists of a single voluminous white
-. very short in front and trail
IN, far behind, with low-necked
ice aud short, pulled sleeves, leav-
4, The skinny arms bare to the shout
Asr The front of the coarsage is
.aorately embroidered and secured
Nv string at the top, tied so loosely,
IL tied at all, that strip Of bare bronze
back stands confessed to the waist
line. The woolly heads, gray with the
weight of years, are topped with gaudy
turbans; the bare feet are thrust into
al;ppers of white canvas, and when my
iady walks abroad she covers her
gaping back with a bedraggled white
silk shawl. Both women consider
themselves monuments OF VlrtuOuS IN
dustry in consenting to lend help
ing hand to las Americans, for could
they not, like all their neighbors, be
we'll fed without work so long as Gu
ban relief supplies hold out? But they
are not injuring their constitutions by
hard labor. When not sitting in the
front windows smoking cigarettes and
gossiping with friends outside, their
aimless slipshod feet go slapping
about the marble floors, like the stars,
"unhasting yet unresting." The slow,
monotonous slap, slap, slap of those
heelless slippers so wears upon the
nerves that one INDUCES in strange
lights of fancy as to what might ac-
celerate their movements. Should
the seven angels of the Apocalypse,
carrying the seven golden walls filled
with wrath, heralded by trumpet notes
and wrapped about with awful glory
come knocking some fine day at our
front door, slap, slap, would go those
same slow feet to admit them.
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-09

One thousand soldiers of the Colo
RADIO regiment now at Manila tele.
graphed request to Gov. Adams to be
mustered out. They allege that IS pei
cent. of the regiment are SICK and RIA.
lions are insu Efficient
There is more catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together. and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable.
For & eat many years doctors pro-
nounced it local disease and pre-
scribed local remedies, and by constant
ly failing TO cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science has
proven catarrh to be a constitutional
disease, and therefore requires consti-
tutional treatment Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufacted by +. j. Cheney K
Co., Toledo, Ohio. is the only constitsi
tional cure on the market. 1t is taken
internally in doses from ten drops to a
teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the sys-
TEN. They offer one hundred dollars
for ahy case it fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address +. J. Cheney, Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c Nov. l I'm
Halls Family pills are the best
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-09
A SWEEPING wAsHoUT.
How an Entire Railroad Disappeared
In n single Night
in Kansas.

"Of the washouts that occurred in
my ten years OF railroad building in
the west the most complete and sweep
ing was that OF the Mcpherson g.
Lyons railroad in Kansas in $780," said
q civil engineer recently 1T was
while we were building THE 25-mile
branch of the Atchison that / was di-
vision engineer in charge of the west
ern end. We had begun work in March
at the MCPHERSON end, and it was
necessary that the road should be com
pleted, with the trains running into
Lyons, by the LIST of June or $4,000
in bonds would be forfeited. For two
months the weather was perfect for
TIE purpose, and the contractors did
not lose day, so that the work was
fairly spun. Although the grading was
very heavy, with deep cuts and long,
high fills, the Goth of May saw the
road-bed finished from one end to the
other and the track carried nearly to
Lyons.
up to that time during all the con-
struction not drop of rain had fallen.
but on the night of the Goth thun-
derstorm came. 1t was not long one;
it began at midnight and was over be-
fore daybreak, but while it lasted it
was as if the bottom Of the sky had
fallen out and let the water drop all
at once. But l had no idea of how
much water really had fallen until OH
going out of doors in the morning l
saw that what had been dry creek
bed ever since my coming to Lyons
was river, full from bank to bank,
and running like a millrace. That
sent me off in hurry to look at the
track-but there was no trace to be
found. There were rails and ties where
the track had been, but the roadbed
that had been underneath was gone.
The prairie, after the long drought,
had become as hard as pavement,
so that it took up none of the rain
that had fallen, and the rush of water
from a great watershed covering town
ships had come against the roadbed.
The openings at pile bridges, 100 feet
long. intended as waterways, had been
as nothing to carry the water off, and
the roadbed had gone-simply melted
away. 1t was queer sight, the pile
bridges standing forlorn and lonely,
looking twice as high as before, and
seeming to wonder what had become
of the roadbed that had connection
with them. Wooden culverts were
carried off entirely in the food. Some
of them we found off OH the prairie,
and some were never got.
"Well, all this was a heartrending
sight to engineers who, the day be-
fore. had looked on their work on this
road as finished. But the trains had
to be running into Lyons in ten days or
| the $50, 900 in bonds ould be sacrificed
| and we set to work TO repair the dam
/ ages. The Atchison road was behind
the enterprise, so that we had the
sinews of war; the bridges were stand
ing, the cuts in the roadbed made, and
the contractors gangs still at hand
l would say that it was a very finely
constructed road at that stage, but
rode out of Lyons on June / on the
first train, for we had got there after
all."-N. Y. Sun.
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-09
Trouble with Arkansas Moon sinners.

Little Rock, Ark, Oct. Si.-A war
has broken out in Cleburne county,
this state. The opposing armies are
composed of some 100 illicit distillers
of a product known as mountain
dew" on one side, while the opposing
force is composed of that element of
the population of the country which is
opposed to the violation of the reve-
nue. laws. In short, the war is between
the moonshiners and the informers.
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-09
Tee Not in Favor with Democrats.

Washington, Nov. 1.-The friends
of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, who have been
urging his candidacy for the United
States senate, have become convinced
that he cannot succeed. The demo-
cratic leaders of Virginia are almost
to man opposed to Gen. Lee on the
Ground that he is opposed to free coin
ace and. therefore. not in touch with
his party.
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-09
A New s,onrrerational Creed.

Chicago, Oct So.-A new creed,
broader and more liberal than the
former one, was adopted at Plymouth
Congregational church. This accepts
the Apostles creed. the Nicene creed
and the burial declaration and the
creed prepared by the commission of
1883, but asks much simpler avowai
from persons desiring to become MEM
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-09
nae Best Remedy For Flux.

Mr.. John Matthias, well known
stock dealer of Pulaski, Ky, says:
After suffering for over week with
flux, and my physician having failed
to relieve me. ] was advised to try
Chamberlain s Collie. Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy, and have the pleasure
of stating that the half of one bottle
cured me !" For sale by f. c. Savage.
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-09
Stoves and Ranges.

A carload of the celebrated Bridge q
Beach cook stoves and ranges just re-
ceived at the Lloyd hardware store on
De Queen street. Please call ana ex-
anime the neatest and best stove ever
offered for sale in Polk county. It'll
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-09
racer TO Hold once.

Manzanillo, Nov. 1.-The visit OF
Gen. Leonard Wood. governor of the
military department of Santiago, has
been instrumental in bringing all the
elements among the Cubans to the
front. No fewer than 1000 insurgents,
of whom 500 are officers. want office
and their clamor amounts almost to a
Ia,,auI
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-09

Rome, Oct. 3l-An interesting an.
nouncement in connection with papal
finance has been made by well-in-
formed newspaper of Rome, wn-ch
says the vatican authorities have de-
c:ded to invest the Peters pence funo
In a large sugar mannfactory.
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-09

The sooner a cough or cold is cured
without harm to the sufferer the bet
ter, Lingering colds are dangerous.
Hacking cough is distressing One
Minute Cough Cure quickly cures it.
Why suffer when such cough cure is
within reach? 1t is pleasant to the
taste. Pipkin & Hanes.
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-09

A so. cent Iron Tonic. Pure, soluble
Iron concentrated and pure anonymous
quinine is contained in Cheatham'
Tasteless Chill Tonic, making it the
most desirable Iron Tonic on the mar
lSet 1t is a true tonic strengthened,
appetizer. toner up of the system and
blood purifier Only so cents. JACK
son Drug Co. NOV III
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-09

Continued success can come alone
from merit. DIR. Sawyer's Wild Cherry
and Tar is steadily increasing in sales
because it is the best cough remedy on
the market jackson Drug Co. Nov.