The Mena star., 1898-12-07

A1uOoSAAcNto DA v RAOFOhAAS St~''s And no supplies keep up the flow
 Of dimes receding rapidly.
 The prospect darkensl On ye brave.
 Who would our very bacon save; Wave patrons, all your pretexts waive,
 And pay the printer cheerfully.
 Randolph Herald.
 The medicine fakir thrived in Jones' boro last week. He took out money with him for which he left no equiva- lent. There is only one way to rid the community of these medicine men and that is to tax them out of existence. = Mognolia Journal.
 The State Horticultural Society at Fort Smith elected the following off cers at it's meeting last week: Hon. Frank Hill president; A. W. Poole of Franklin county, first vice president; Henry Strother of Sebastian county, second vice president; Prof J. T. Stin- son of Washington county, secretary; s. A. Williams of Fort Smith, treas urer. Fort Smith Elevator.
 
 Arkansas can not afford to give its sons and daughters both a common facilities for providing means to give them a common school education is the remedy now. The state does not owe one town, county or one district any more than it does another, and it is not right to discriminate. This is one defect in our present school sys- tenn. - -Horatio Appeal.
 When U. S. Marshal Stahl shall have proven himself innocent of defrauding the government, he would do we'll to explain why he exchanged so many reckless promises for inducements, and why he converted his office into collecting agency, and took a lot of fellows from Benton county to fill | places at Fort Smith against whom he held mortgages. These are very point ed questions from a political stand point.-Green Forest Tribune.
 Men with modern ideas and methods | are the ones that build up town and draw trade to it. Take hustlers and | advinsers out of any town and it | wouldn't be twelve months scarcely, | 4 lo ,-ho and owls If you have been draw back to your town in past years, try and get out of the old rut during the year '99. You will surely make money and will be worth something to the town and community that supports you. .-Jcnesboro Sun.
 The negro is all right. God knows what we white people in the south would do without him. It is very we'll | to talk of his being an unmitigated | thus have to do the work the darkey now does, and their ladies have to bring weekly music from the nickel plated ribs of the washboard, and stand perspiring over the sizzling frying pan and the red hot oven, perhaps they will change their mind on the nuisance question. .-Texarkana Courier.
 Preparations for the Western Teach ers' Association, which will meet in Fort Smith December 27, have been inaugurated by meeting of the teach CTS of the Fort Smith schools held last week. It is the intention to make it the best meeting in the history of the association. The lady teachers of Fort Smith contemplate giving the visitors reception in the high school building at the close of the session and expect | to have very elegant affair.-Alma Herald.
 Galloway Female College is burned to the ground. It caught at 4:30 Sun- day morning and the fire ragged until one great heap of smouldering ashes marked where once stood the leading female institution in the state Loss S45,000, insurance 32,00O Identical cause of fire unknown. Of over 200 students and teachers in the college not one was injured in any way. Southern Methodism looses valuable |