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, 1898-05-28

Throughout England the Queens birthday
was observed i'll an exceptionally quiet and uu.
official manner; but in The United States II
was observed with unusual warmth.
In the Senate the Chaplain fervently pray
ed for the maintenance Of her soyereiguiv
and the knitting together Of the hear is of the
two peoples, 50 as to promote the worlds
civilization.
Mr.. Whitelow Reid, the Special Ambassa-
dor from the Uutel States to the Queens
Jubilee, at a banquet at the British Schools
and Universities Club, declared that Mr.
CIlamberlaiu's idea was nothing new, but
merely a normal development in general
lines Of what is best, and which tie men
Of both Countries hive long prnctised III
specific insta ices. apl quoted rs expressive
Of both the English and American sentiment
Lord Tenny8ou's poem 30 our great kins.
men Of the Vest
A despatch from Tam 81 reports that
during a banquet given b. the army officers,
a congratulatory telegram was sent to The
Queen and a reply receive t.. A salute Was
fred with the approval of Secretary Day.
In NV York Music Halls English flags
were shewn and chcered, but the flags Of
Germany were rec lived with dead silence.
Frances were rec lived with both cheers and
misses.
London news says that such demonstru.
TONS should be reciprocated on the fourth
Of July.
A Berlin despatch to the STANDARD" re.
ports that Slatin Push. will be the Governor
Of tile Soudan with an official residence at
Khartoum.
1t is officially announced at Washington
that there has been 40 battle in the Wind
ward Passage, aud it is believed that Admiral
Coryera is now blockaded at Santiago 10
Cuba, and that his escape is impossible.
London, May 25th.-Sugar in stock on Tho
2lst instant was $1,000 tous. Lust year
81, 900 toms.
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awaiting results from Admiral Cevera before
issuing orders to the second squadron.
Washington news states that eX- President
Harrison will be retained by the Govern
ment of Venezuela as Counsel before the
Court of Arbitration on the British Guiana
boundary question, togetherwithIM r. Tracy,
Secretary to the navy. and the Secretary to
the U. 5. and Venezuela Commission, Mr..
Mallat Provost.
A Berlin despatch says that The German
Foreign Office is advised that France Is III.
dignaut vt the Unite states for cutting ca
bles, and is considering whether the action
is not contrary to international laws, and
intends to ask the Powers to protest.
Advicos from Santiago state that five
American WW.hips We're siGnalIed cruising
before that port on Monday, aud yesterday
three were still cruising in the neighbour
hood.
1t is announced that the Spanialds in the
Argentina rave forwarded to Spain one mill
lion pesotaa to purchase vessels and munitions
of war.
y Washington telegram reports that Con-
gress and the Senate yesterday discussed
War resources.
1t is reported that the American cruiser
"Charleston" Ell route to the Philippines has
been Obliged to call at San Francisco OH nc.
count Oh al HCClutHl u llcI mhCuluoTy.
Other news reports that the Americans
are trying to cut tire Batabano Cionfuegos
cable, also those at Santiago de Cubo; it is also
stated THAT tho United States Government
purposes replacing Admiral Sampson.
London. May 259h.-Iho race for the
Derby Stakes run at EPSON to-day re>ulted
as follows Mr.. Laruach's Jeddah, LIST;
Duke Of Westminster's Bait, 2nd; II. r. II.
the Prince Of Wales Dunlop, 3rd.
New York. May 2Gth-London news nm.
uouncos that the Archbishop Of Canterbury
will be one Of Mr.. Gladotone's pail bearers
instead Of Loud >pencer and tile Duke Of
Norfolk wide Yesterdays b!Iletin).
in the House Of Commons Mr.C Chamberlain,
in answer to a question 10y General Laurie,
NJ. p. for Pembroke, stated that until the
Washington ncgoti ,tions were completed he
could not IN Ike IL statement about assisting
the West India colonies, BUT that any Gov
eminent proposals would not materially affect
the crop preparations in July.
The Irish L0clI Government Bill passed
the Committee stage.
During the evening Sir Charles Dixie and
MIL abouchere wanted to debate on the qncs
ton Of an Anglo Saxon Alliance, and Sir
Michael Hicks-Bnach and Mr.. Chamberlain
agreed, but required ii resolution represent
inc a large section Of the House.
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expense of his countrymens intelli- gence.
 There can be no question as to the fate of that latter card at the present time.
 We are not entirely without unions in Southern Europe, however, and have work at Naples and Rome. In Rome I was struck with the significance Of a Wesleyan church in the very shadow of the Vatican, and learned during my travels that the Methodists have done more to establish their work on the continent than any other Protestant de- nomination.
 Tn Paris temperance unions have also been esta blished.
 Tn Norway, Sweden and Denmark our work has become very strong, as the people are willing to act on prin- ciple.
 Tn Germany our work is most diff cult, as women there have little stand ing. Should one of our sex attend ! political speech she is ordered out by the police, and they are never allowed to gather in a body for the discussion of politics;
 met with more or less success. Our ob ject was not we'll understood upon the Isle of Man, where met Hall Caine, a just the person you would expect to write the books which he gives to the public.
 Our unions as well as those of the Good Templars are well established in Jersey, where the home of Langtry was shown me, and her father. looking very poor and humble, was pointed out on the street
 'I spent four months in Iceland, and no country which I visited impressed me more favorably. I rode a distance of 800 miles in 91 days. crossing in that time two mountain ran ppS and 16 rivers making the journey upon a shaggy Ice land pony, a little. strong creature just a hand higher than Shetland.
 '.I found that the Icelanders have had a legislature for 1000 years, are thor oughly educated and perfectly con tented. I saw there the ideal home life. in which husbands and wives have no interests apart from each other.
 They have no great ambition to be- come rich. Though they lack in what
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found it advisable to call a national convention, at which the National Union of Australia was organized
 AS the work established in the pro- needed fostering I was requested to re- main year and give the newly organ ized unions my personal superintend- ance, an offer which I accepted.
 Tt was on the pearling grounds off the west coast of Australia, between that country and Java, that l had the novel experience of going down to the bottom of the sea in a diving suit, the first woman, I was assured by the cap tain of the pearling fleet, who had ever done so. The captain was my faithful champion in the adventure, which my friends did their best to discourage.
 "One of the most necessary precau- tions to be observed by divers is that all vital organs are thoroughly pro- tected against sudden .---lls, and for this purpose I donned two suits of heavy hand-knit underwear.
 "A great lead shield was placed upon my back and another over my chest. to which the front signal line was at tached: these shields weighed twenty pounds apiece. With a great effort I was got into the heavy rubber suit, which covered me from neck to feet, upon which were drawn shoes weighing thirty-two pounds.
 My head was protected by an iron helmet with glass globes, through which I could peer. and this was fas- tened about my neck with an iron band or hoop. Then they tied heavy rope around my waist. pumped air into the suit and I was ready to explore that part of old ocean which lay below the ship.
 AS the diving suit which encased me weighed 1S0 pounds I was utterly un- l-J shoulders and feet by four men, who literally threw me overheard.
 T found myself lying helpless upon the water after my fall of perhaps four feet, but soon began slowly to sink, to my surprise and consternation, how ever backward and head foremost; the air having been pumped in such a way as to make me top-heavy.
 "As I wanted to see just where was going, and the sensation of having ones
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the time were more than ordinarily in fested with bandits and we narrowly escaped an attack.
 T was taken back to fort and passed the night in safety. surrounded by the British guard and 1000 Sepoys
 '"The dread jungle fever was another Indian experience, which has left It's mark" she said. touching the prema- turely gray hair that not unbecomingly framed her face.
 'I also followed Mrs. Leavitt's lead to Burmah and Siam with fair results I did not stop in Korea, however, as the resident missionaries sent word that a terrible scourge of smallpox was rag ing. advising me not to leave the ship.
 "In Cairo and Alexander, Egypt, the work had already been established and upon the day of Miss Willard's death In Syria and Armenia our work was strong and we had organizations in Constantinople.
 Tn China the work was difficult. but unions were possible wherever mission aries were stationed, but in Japan l found much sympathy with the prin- ciple I wished to propagate.
 Tn Italy and Greece as we'll as other southern wine growing countries, I found little encouragement to establish temperance unions.
 of course Spain was included with these, country where passed con- siderable time and where, in order to become familiar with the customs of that as well as other lands, I attended a bull fight.
 The Spanish women I can say with out prejudice are the most beautiful in the world. Perfect physical creations from the age of Is to %, but when old they are the most hideouS.
 "At that time there was no cause for enmity between that country and our own, and I found the people most courteous. It was in Seville that a Spanish gentleman, who had travelled, pointed out to me a shop and told me this story:
 "A great card bearing the inscription, English spoke here was at one time kept in the window. But the Spanish nature took offense at England, and another card with American spoken here, was substituted. The narrator hugely enjoyed the joke, though at the
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the kind ever held in that country. And good work was established. It was there I met Andrew Murry, saintly character, the author Of that book upon the higher Christian life. visited Olive Schreiner, then a bride or 1eW months, and found her to be woman of wonderful personality, but through severe mental strain she has become what we would term little bundle of nerves, tapping a foot and hand con- stantly while cOnversing.
 She showed me the tiny house on the great karoo, where her Story Of an Afrl- can Farm, was written. assuring me that the vast expanse of the dreary karoo and the incessant signing and sobbing of the wind about the little house, from whose windows she could see tigers creeping upon the far away hills, was the inspiration which created the work.
 Her husband. a most fascinating man, put an end to a brilliant political career by yielding to her wishes in as- suming her name, for he brought upon himself the contempt of every thinking man and woman.
 He expressed great sympathy with our cause He also inspired me with the greatest respect for his wonderful in telligence and broad views.
 He is indeed a monarch of men who could sit back in far away Africa and alone, by force of will. compel England to keep her hands off, and in saying this Miss Alderman looked the ad- miration she felt.
 T spent considerable time in India studying the religions of the country in order to answer the people from their own point of view. In most cases they were not difficult to convince and I found them most courteous. When making my investigations of the opium traffic, the elephant and body guard of certain rajah was placed at my disposal.
 My researches in this direction re- suited in the knowledge that enough opium, bearing the English stamp, is exported each year to kill every inhab itant of the globe.
 'T attended the decennfal Missionary Conference held in Bombay, at which 750 missionary workers were present. And one of my thrilling adventures was going through the Khyber pass with an escort of British troops. The hills at
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blood rush to their head Is far from pleasant, I pulled the signal line and was drawn on board, when the suit was properly inflated and l was this time lowered feet downward, in which man ner I gradually descended to the hard, sandy ocean bottom sixty feet below. The pressure of the water was so great that I experienced no difficulty when walking about in my heavy suit upon what appeared like a firm, newly washed beach with here and there a tiny marine animal or shell.
 Twice I walked the length of the ship, but seeing nothing of great inter est and having accomplished my pur- pose Of going down, l again pulled the signal rope and was drawn on board, after being under water eight minutes. The sensations of that submarine trip were in no way unpleasant, and 1 expe rienced no fear, only slight nervous ness because of the unprotected condi- tion of my hands, which l fancied might be seized by some wandering creature of the deep.
 An experience almost as interesting as this was going to the masthead of steamer.
 we were off the coast of Africa, and I was told that one of the company's ships would pass at 10 that evening, so l asked permission to go up with the captain and salute her; a feat which I knew was not impossible for me, as I have a steady head and the suit which I wear when travelling does not impede my movements.
 "Oh, no, I don't wear bloomers. Just divided skirts so full as to pass for an ordinary plain skirt, yet which gives me perfect freedom of motion.
 "Of course the other passengers, the women especially, were mortified and declared that I would fall and be killed; but I enjoyed the climb just the same, nd-Y7 a rad captain up on the yard between sky and ocean for over an hour.
 That woman can't perform the same feats of daring as man is only tradi- tion. When not hampered by the dress we ordinarily wear a woman can go any place where a man may venture," Miss Alderman said with decision.
 'In Africa l was so fortunate as to strike a popular vein, and was assured that our meetings were the largest of
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\ 7 ES," said Miss Jessie Alderman V T have been twice around the
 world in the interest of the W.
 c. T. U.. and in both cases have
 accomplished that feat account ed a triumph for men to perform, paid my own way while journeying by giv- ing lectures and contributing articles to papers and syndicates."
 It was out of compliment to Miss Alderman that the Missionary Con- gress was held in this city yesterday.
 T shall perhaps make a third trip next year." she continued, but for the present l must rest. I am sun scorched, wind beaten and earth worn, for during a period of ten years past my residence in one place will not average month, and l have been a guest in twenty three hundred homes.
 T began the experiment of travelling without expense to the union in 1888, when I went to Alaska. There I organ ized several local unions and also won the distinction of being the only dele gate ever sent from that countrR to a national convention.
 The plan I followed in Alaska proved equally successful in Honolulu, where strong, for I found that a large percentage of the people were in sympathy with the work.
 "I found very little difficulty in or ganizing local unions in New Zealand. In Samoa my success was attended with another pleasure, that of being guest in the home of Robert Louis Stevenson, one of the many celebrities with whom my travels brought me in pleasant association.
 "In Australia I was more than satis- fled with the result of my labor, in which 1 was in time aided by many jealous co-workers. In that country held mission for the promotion of Gospel temperance work. also got out my own literature, needed for and adapted to the occasion.
 "The movement was so widespread that colonial unions, corresponding to our State unions, were formed and I
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we demand as luxuries and much we term comforts, there is no real pow erty among them.
 Their literature, of which I made a study, suggests strain of melancholy ln their natures, but l was also con- scious of an appreciative humor
 A very pleasing gentleman I met while there once said to me: What do you consider the three chief character istics of your countrymen" Instead of giving my views I questioned his own, and he gravely replied:
 " Their characteristics are nervous prostration, dyspepsia and corns'-three affiictions which to Icelanders are un- known.
 Our ". c. T. U. would find ready in- terest and support among these women who have more civil rights than we.
 They have woman political society of 1000 members, a paper edited by women and a monthly magazine, and one 1ceiandic woman has the distinction of having written three novels which are translated into different Continen- tai languages.
 A bright young woman, with the prefix of Miss JohannsdOtter, repre- sented her national union at a Canadian convention, and also lectured later in the United States.
 Returning to our first subject, Miss Alderman said: 'I have been the means of organizing 800 unions. and have gathered 10000 pledges. In nearly every country visited I have establish ed work, and as a rule have been treat ed with the greatest kindness
 Our work in Scotland, Wales and England, in which latter kingdom was before going to Iceland, for some time the guest of Lady Henry Somerset, is so well established that it hardly needs mention. Tn Ireland we have also established many local unions."
 As rose to take my leave, I re- marked. You have, of course, had many escapes from storms at sea, from bandits. from poisonous snakes and in-A sects. from the scourges of disease; in what instance did you feel the most devoutly thankful for escape 9"
 That have escaped the snares of all mankind and am still free. a bachelor maid. as the nineteenth century terms us," she said. laughing, as she cordially pressed my hand.
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TES," said Miss Jessie Alderman, V T have been twice around the world in the interest Of the W. c. T. U.. and in both cases have
The Mena weekly star., 1898-02-23

want to Set the tree, which should be two inches deeper than it stood in the nursery. Fill in a mound of soft loam soil in the bottom of the hole, set your tree on this mound drawing all the roots straight down separately from the tree, fill in with this soil and be sure that each root is covered sepa- rately. After the roots are well cov- cred, tramp firmly, leaning the tree we'll to the southwest so the tree will better protect itself while young from the blistering sun. Cultivate in corn potatoes, beans or vines, but never grain of any kind, and when the trees come into bearing, seed to clover.
 Most important cut up and burn all dead and dying trees and brush of all kinds. They harbor rabbits, mlce. borers aud other insects that prey on and kill the trees.
 JAMES ROBINSON,
 Mena, Ark
The Mena weekly star., 1898-02-23
A cOMMENDABLE MOVE.

The Commercial League of Ft Smith has started movement that we be- lieve should be pushed to successful issue. It is simply to secure an amendment to the state constitution exempting for term of ten years, ali taxation upon property used in the manufacture of merchantable com modities.
 Space will not permit us to enlarge upon this subject this week but we will say that this is very opportune time to adopt such change as numer- ous manufacturers in the North are booking to the South for locations especially in the cotton industry-and Arkansas should hold out every in- ducement possible that can be consist ently offered.
The Mena weekly star., 1898-02-23
Iowa Visitors.
JAMES ROBINSON,
 Mena, Ark.

Among the visitors to our city this week are H s. Fairall, of Iowa City, Iowa, who was here twice last month and who IS greatly pleased with Mena. He has written several letters for his Iowa newspaper on his southern trip and in a short time will give sketch of this city Mir. Fairall is becoming interested in the subject of the immi- grafton from the North to the South and thinks Mena splendid point to live and work from. He expects to come down about the middle of March with number of Iowa excursloDlsts, who viii stop day in our city.
 Another Iowa man, who is pleased with our city is Col. Wm. A. Morrison. ex-mayor of Iowa City, and one of the leading citizens The Colonel has been in poor health for some time but out bracing mountain breezes are giving him renewed strength. On his return to Iowa he will be warm en- dorser of our city and the Pitts burg & Gulf route.
 MT. J. W. Schulze also accompanied Mr. Fairall and is assisting him in his newspaper and immigration work He has for some years been cashier of the U. S. Express company at Iowa City and is fine type of the young men who are to help build up this south land of wonderful possibilities.
The Mena weekly star., 1898-02-23
A False Policy.

Many persons postpone taxi mt D
 icine until sickness actually strikes them down. Thousands have sacri- feed themselves to this foolish idea and many thousands more have spent months on the sick bed who could have been spared much suffering had they taken a few timely doses of Prickly Ash Bitters. Biliousness, liver disorders, constipation, stomach trou- bles are only forerunners of more seri- ous diseases and should have immedi- ate attention. Prickley Ash Bitters is kidney tonic and liver regulator. Cleanses the bowels of coustipated conditions, tones up and strengthens the stomach and digestion and purifies the blood A short treatment with this remedy regulates the entire sys- tenn, restores and maintains health. Sold by F c. Savage and Jackson Drug Co. 2t
The Mena weekly star., 1898-02-23
At the Omaha Exposition.

R. H. James returned Sunday from Omaha, Neb., where he has been look ing after the interest of Arkansas at the Trans Mississippi and Internation- al exposition. He reports good prog ress and states that during the visit made by the commissioners they sue ceeded in having the quarters for the Arkansas exhibit changed and very much improved. The state now has quarters along side of Missouri and if the proper interest is shown and assistance given our state can be well represented.
The Mena weekly star., 1898-02-23
Directions for Planting Fruit Trees

After receiving your bill of fruit see that the roots are we'll covered and kept moist When you get home dig a sloping hole deep enough at one end to cover the roots well. Open and sep arate the bundles so that all the roots may come in contact with the soil that covers them. Cover roots and tops well, and be sure and put them in some place where stock cannot run over them. This manner of keeling in is for all kinds of trees vines and berries.
 In preparing ground manure well and blow deep in the fail, then draw straight lines one way by throwing deep furrow each way from the line. thirty feet apart for apple trees, twen- ty feet apart for cherries. peaches. pears and plums, ten feet apart and eight feet in row for grapes six feet apart, four feet in row for black Der. ries, raspberries of all kind. gooseber- ries, entrants and strawberries If you have prepared the ground properly it is laid off one way with furrows Now stake across the other way the proper distance, where the lines intersect dig large holes some deeper than you
The Mena weekly star., 1898-02-23

There is plenty of time yet this spring to set out straw berry plants and have them grow so as to produce a good crop next season. Plants set out as late as April l, and properly cared for, will make a good growth and throw out runners forming new plants for future crops. Plants can be procured very cheaply this season and no more encouraging time can can be found for starting a bed either for home consumption or for shipping. Next Monday afternoon. when the horticultural society meets at the mayors office, any one wishing plants can have an opportunity to order them at an expense not exceeding Sl a thousand. Now is the time to order, and this spring the time to plant