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The Mena star., 1899-02-01

according to the number of fishes he
 caught; Q fruit vender for the amount
 of fruit sold. Carriages were taxed
 according to the number of wheels, consequently the average conveyance only had two wheels, and would have
 had less were it possible.
 "The cruelty of the Spanish bafies description. Were a merchant to be- come too influential, his property was confiscated by the crown, were a na- tive possessed of good looking wife or daughter she was taken from him
 by force; did man own desirable
 piece of land, it was seized pro bono
 publico. The main prison is located
 just at the waters edge, below the level of the tide When the tide was out the prisoners would be hurried into the dungeon to await the coming in of the tide which would eradicrte the crimes we'll as the prisoner, and thus kill two birds with one tide. It was very tidy arrangement The government lacked money to pay for the building of the great suspension bridge over the Pasig river, sc when the contractor had finished the work the government settled his bill and hash at the same time by hanging him for using nails a trifie short This was very effective way of settling debts and was very popular.
 "Everything in Manila smacks of fuedalism. The Spanish discouraged progress and opposed education. the great enemy of tyranny. The Ameri- cans found old men in prison, whose very names had been forgotten and many against whom no charges were recorded. The defenses of the city are Imaginable in these days of modern warfare. The city is surrounded by massive wallTsixty feet thick at the base, and on the wall horses and cattle graze in undisturbed tranquility. The walls are defended by ancient cannon whose muzzleS are checked with rust of ages and disuse. Everything savers of decay, symbolical of the condition of the nation whose perverseness rendered such things possible. The city abounds in magnificent statues and fountains The drives were at one time all that one could desire, but even these have suffered from neglect and joln mutely in the general decay that is every where apparent. Huge and magnifi- cent cathdrals abound every where, the building of which cost the poor natives ess ttlh.e the sweat asssd sa.sss bleed Of as quarters for the Spanish soldiery."
The Mena star., 1899-02-01
Danger in Calcium Carbide.

Superintendent Murry of the Bureau of Combustibles has made regulations governing the transportation, storage and sale of calcium carbide, which the firemen declare to be a source of dan ger in burning building, because when water reaches it acetylene gas is given off A number of stores keep it for use in bicycle lamps. Hereafter
 in transit or on storage, it must be in- closed in dramatically sealed iron re- ceptacles marked Dangerous if not kept dry" No package may contain more than 100 pounds. It must be stored in isolated buildings that are freproof and waterproof. No artif- cial light or heat will be permitted in the building where it is stored. Not more than twenty pounds, in bulk or in cartridges. may be kept in any store or factory, and this must be in a fire proof safe or vault above the street grade and it must be kept six inches above the floor. The manufacture. transportation, storage, sale or use of liquified aeetylene is absolutely pro- hiblted in the city.-New York Sun.
The Mena star., 1899-02-01
POULTRY NOTES.


 From the Western Fruit Grower.
 The most direct cause of disease IS filth.
 Too much salt will often cause loss of feathers.
 The first symptoms of roup are the same as common colds.
 Poultry usually sells better ifsent to market nicely dressed.
 If a hen lays one egg week she will pay for her feed.
 Burnt corn is better than wood char coal to feed poultry.
 Scatter the grain so that the fowls cannot eat too fast.
 Clover contains more of the necessa- ry elements of egg production than grain.
 In majority of cases as the weather gets colder it will be necessary to in- crease the rations
 Five toes on each foot is considered an excellent indication of quality in a dressed chicken.
 It is much easier to dress and pin feather a white chicken for market than black plumaged one.
 Ground bone or bone meal is one of the best ways of supplying lime to the hens.
 If the hens are allowed to lay soft shelled eggs they soon contract the habit of eating them and this makes them worthless
 Have the nests so that hen can walk in on them and not so deep that the hen will be obliged to jump down upon them.
 Pullets lay smaller eggs than old hens but the larger number make up the weight and so long as eggs are sold by the dozen the bullets are ahead.
 Geese may be fattened very cheaply and rapidly if given all the boiled and mashed turnlps with corn meal and milk, mixing all well together.
 The food for young cickens should never be sloppy, hence when meal is soaked in milk it should be squeezed sufficiently dry to be crumbly.
 While very fat hen will nearly al- ways be selected in market quickly, such a one is not always the best. as lean meat is the most desirable
 It is not a good plan to feed pepper to poultry too often. Warm food tends tO nave the Sdtuc SLluluidUinE SiIGCI without preserving the impressive qualities of that condiment
The Mena star., 1899-02-01
BACK TO HERDS ENGINE.
Engineer Of I've Thousand Years Ago Invented the Turbfne
 Motor Now Popular.


 As a mechanician, Archimedes pro duced the correct theory of the lever, and invented no less than 40 interesting devices, including the endless screw, the pump, the organ and the burning glass;" with which latter novel weapon he is said to have set fire to the ships of an enemy's fleet from a considerable distance.
 As engineer, Archimedes was looked upon as hardly less than a magician. He produced catapults which threw enormous stones and heavy bikes, at long range, into the ranks of the en- emy or into his ships, and great der ricks were built by him with which to life the attacking craft out of the water or to upset 1t, destroying all on board.
 His proposed use of the lever meant the production of then inconceivable inventions in machinery and engineer ing construction, and his own estimate of it's importance was expressed by the familiar quotations: "Give me whereon to stand, and I will life the earth"
 Archimedes was the first, and per hans the most inventive and greatest. of early engineers. His lever still moves the earth, and his spirit is in- herited by generations of men who have made modern civilization possi- ble.
 Here was the most famous successor of Archimedes. His "Pneumatica" was xI I,io after the death of Euclid and of Archi- modes, and very likely includes inven- tions of the latter and of Ctesibus.
 In this little volume, however, are contained descriptions of the gesms of the fire engine" or steam engine, of the steam turbine. of the water tube steam boiler. of numerous steam and air fountains, and of many other euro ous and, undoubtedly to the ancients, mysterious contrivances, not emitting the magician's marvellous bottle, the source of many wonders. He antici- pates or supplies the germ of num- bers of modern engineering apparatus and mechanisms.
 Hero was the great mechanical engi- uccI anu SCicnlAiC dutuOA VI HE tlAACs Perhaps the most remarkable event in the history of the mechanic arts and of engineering Is the revival of the steam turbine Tn our own time as the rival of the modern steam engine, which, with its complication of parts, its extraordi- nary perfection of structure and work 1u znshhiip, and it's summary Of the in ventions of the great engineers and mechanics of century and more, has been considered to be the crowning eff fort of modern inventive and construc- tive genius.
 Two thousand years after Hero, the world now takes up his steam engine, and its modern reinventors and inn provers promise that. with this instru- ment of the old Greek times, they will revolutionize steam engine construc- tion.-Cassier's Magazine.
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CONTEST NOTICE.
Department of the Interior. United States Land Office.
 Ga.,.Z1., A rlv

Onlted states Land Office.
 Camden. Ark, Jan 16, 1899 A sufficient contest affidavit having been filed in this office by Walter l.. Farmer, contestant, against Homestead Entry No 20222 made Nov. 10, 1897, for w2 nw4 ne4 nw4 and nw4 ne4 section F. township6, s, range 82 W, by Jefferson B. Douglas, contested in which It IS alleged that the said Jefferson B. Douglas has never resided upon said homestead since making said entry, that he has not cultivated or improved said tract as required by law. Said parties are hereby notified to ap- pear, respond and offer evidence touching said allegation at 10 o'clock a m. on Feb. 27 l5sa, before K. H. Poe, N. P, at his office in Grannis, Polk county, Ark, and that final hearing will be held at 10 o'clock a. m. on Mar s, isee. before the Register and Receiver at the United States Land Office in Camden, Ark The said contestant having. in proper affi- oavit. hled Jan. l6. 1890, set forth facts which snow that after due diligence personal service of this notice can not be made, it is hereby or dered and directed that such notice be given by due and proper publication.
 J. B. FHIErHEIN, Register ftu K. A. ScHIcKER. Receiver.
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S. A. Fackler, editor of the Micano- py (Fla.) Hustler, with bis wife and children, suffered terribly from la grippe. One Minute Cough Cure was the only remedy that helped them. It acted quickly. Thousands of others use this remedy as specific for la grippe and its exhaustlng after effects Hanes & Egolf.
The Mena star., 1899-02-01
Apple and Peach Trees for Sale.

l have at my place in Halls addition lot of apple and peach trees ready to be transplanted and will take orders for spring delivery of any nursery stock. All stock warranted true to name. J. l.. HoRNER,
 At Agent Huntington Nurseries
The Mena star., 1899-02-01

La grippe is again epidemic. Every precaution should be taken to avoid It. Its specific cure is One Minute Cough Cure. A. J. Shepherd, publisher Agri- cultural Journal and Advertiser, Elden, Mo-, says: No one will be disappont- ed in using One Minute Cough Cure for la grippe. Pleasant to take; quick to act. Hanes & Egolf.
The Mena star., 1899-02-01
A Watch For a Cow.

I wish to trade a good gold filled watch and chain, either lady's or gents. for COW. Will pay difference if it IS good COW. Address
 HARRY c. WYNN. BOX SS7. Mena, Ark.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-10-06
TIL STORY Of THE ANFR|(A'S CUP,

That number can be crowded in
and still leave space for another con-
test. More than that will fill the cup.
OF all the challengers the most per-
sistent have been James Ashbury and
Lord Dunraven. Sir Thomas Upton
hes been quoted as yowing his inten-
ton to win this cup II he spends his
entire fortune In the attempt. Each
year the endeayor becomes more
costly.
Mr.. Ashbury determined to have n
try for the cup in 1868, when his vessel.
the Cambria. beat the Sappho around
the Isle of Wight. but he did not get
the match arranged until two years la
ter. IL cost him $4,000 to build the
Cambria. and OF the fourteen American
yachts which raced her the Magic won.
She stood her owners S35, 900. Twenty
thousand spectators witnessed the first
OF these races, and lots OF money was
lost on the Cambria, which had been
loudly heralded. Other races were run
at Newport, and it was sufficiently
demonstrated that the English boat
was outclassed. Nothing daunted the
Englishmen made an expedition the
next year in quest OF the cup with the
Livonia. He spent 100000 on her.
Franklin Osgood put s35. 900 in the Co.
lumbia, which was selected to meet
the challenger, and she won two races.
On the third she lost her flying jib-stay
and finally her steering gear broke.
compelling the crew to take in her
main sail. Even with this rig the Ii
vonia beat her only by fifteen minutes
and ten seconds. The Sappho, built at
a cost Of $780, 0 70 then took the Column
bias place and proceeded to clinch our
hold on the cup. Mr.. Ashbury wanted
to take 1t willy nilly, however, and
claimed the trophy on the following
basis: The second race because the
Columbia went on wrong side OF the
stake boat; the third race when Ii
vonia beat Columbia. and the sixth
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FORMAL WfICOME TO DEWEY.
The Great city brilliantly Decked In lila
Honor.

NEW YORK. Sept. 29.-New York
vas dccked brilliantly in honor OF the
gallant sailor who Is waiting at her
gate. Had an ocean OF color swept
through the city. its ebblng tide could
not have stained the streets mor
brilliantly. Hundreds Of miles OF red,
white and blue bunting covered the
noble facades of Broadway and Fifth
avenue, and a million flags fiutter over
the town. Not even the churches
have escaped the universal decora-
lions. The doors and gothic windows
OF old Trinity on Lower Broadway
are gracefully draped with the ma
tional colors. and In Ancient Trinity
graveyard the tomb of that gallant
sailor, who, dying, issued the COM
mand, Don't give up the ship" lies
shrouded I'm the silken folds Of the
flag for which he died.
A million visitors are here to par
ticipate In the glorious celebration.
Every road In pouring In a steady
stream until the streets are crowded
morning and night. the surface and
elevated cars are filled to overlooking.
and the hotel corridors are jammed
with visitors.
The gaily %apparelled soldiers OF
many states, who are to take part In
the land parade on Saturday, began
trooping in today, and there was no
hour when uniformed men were not
moving in some quarter OF the city to
the sound OF fife and drums and horns.
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II Is Worth About SIS Is Old Silver, But Millions Have Been
Spent TO Win II.

The America cup" or to speak more
accurately, the Hundred Guinea Cup"
is at Tiffany's, in New York. Millions
of dollars have been spent during the
autumn In the contest for it's possess
cion, and this fact furnishes a strange
anomaly, for the cup Is not intrinsic
ally valuable. II 1t could tell It's own
story, 1t would have something like
the following to say:
when Sir Thomas Upton, the tea
man. tried to win me away from the
United States. it will be the tenth
time an effort of that kind has been
made In forty-eight years. 1t seems
that I am as desirable to sportsmen as
the golden fleece was to the Argonauts,
Eleven times two nations have been
wildly excited over these contests,
which have cost enough to build a de.
cent navy for each one of them.
And what Is 1t all about. | am only
a little old misshapen silver mug, OF
no particular design, and so out of date
and commonplace that a frst-class
'jcweler in these days would be asham.
ed to confess me as has workmanship.
The bottom is out of me, my carving
its inferior, and IL melted down I would
be worth Just SIS. A junk dealer
would think hard before Offering that.
What In the world am | that you
should make so much fuss over me?
Really, I feel quite bored over all this
attention, for. in confidence, I am OF
no value at all. and my career has
been quiet. / was made by r. G. F..
Gerard, on Panton street, London, on
a hurry order when the yacht Ameri-
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CONQUfR.NG BEAR IS DEAD.
GrIxsicd Sioux brave steps From Motor

Grixslcd Sioux brave steps From Motes
Car to Happy Hunting Grounds.
OMAHA, Sept. 29.-Conquering Bear,
the grizzled warrior OF tho Ogallala
Sioux, 10 dead. The old brave fell a
victim to the onward march of civilixa-
ton and lest his life because he was
~unaccustomed to the ways Of the city.
He was riding down town from the
Exposition grouds in company with
another member Of his tribe about 3
o'clock. At Nineteenth and Cunning
street the other indian alighted from
the car without letting the old man
know 1t. AS soon as ~Conquering Bear
saw that his companion had left the
car he stepped off and as the car was
at full speed he was hurled In a heap
ON the stone pavement and
made q motion of life afterward.
The ambulance was called from the
exposition and the body removed. A
physician did all In his power to re-
vive the Indian, but his efforts were In
vim. There were no bad wounds on
his person and no indication that his
skull had been fractured. The doctor
gave 1t as his opinion that he came
TO his death from a shock to his brain.
His heart action was good, but no
seemed unable to breathe. Fifteen
minutes after he was brought to the
hospital he was pronounced dead.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-10-06
"EflC3Mf n)ilf" IN FIRE.
Fireworks aud iuminatlons In Nov

.Fi!oworks aud Iiuminations In Nov
York Iiarbor n Great Feature.
NEW YORK, Sept. 29.-The ap-
pearnnco of New York harbor last
night could be compared to a circle
of Intense light with the war ships
OFT Tompkinsville as the hub from
which the brillinncy radiated. The
bay has never before had as brilliant
or picturesque n display Of continu-
Gus illumination as that seer last
night. q has the interest manifested
by the shore dwellers been more
manifest.
Beginning at the Brooklyn bridge,
with It's string OF white electric lights
punctuated at intervals with red and
g"recn-colored arc signal lamps, the
immensely brilliant motto, Welcome
Dewey was suspended as II were in
ridair. Looking from the bridge
toward the Jersey coast similar signs
cold DO distinctly read on tho gate
way of the railroads that are bringing
thosands To swell the paen OF well
come to tho returning Ns.rrior.
Further down the bay on the Brook
lyn' side was tho same fiery "WA-
come and also on Staten island. At
the portal to tho city shono out in
letters OF the brightest light the same
hearty greeting, welcome Home"
fanlod by immense illuminated
American flags that could be seen for
miles.
The residents ut Quarantine gave
for the benefit OF the sailors on tn .
ships a display Of fireworks, whirh
was followed by other patriotic resi-
dents along the Brooklyn and New
Jersey coastg. After these displays Of
fireworks tho Olympia and New York
gave an exhibition with their search
lights. lighting up passing craft and
picking out In brilliant relief many
OF the pretty wooded spots on the
Staten island hills.
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ROYALTY TRAVELS INcoGNiTo
Some Of the Aliases bv which People
OF Rank Are Known.

1t has become the habit of people Of
distinctisa in Europe To travel under
assumed names in order that they may
avoid conspicuorSness. which at times
becomes annoying. Their custom IL 10
adopt for the time being such a title
as they may select, CT a lower rank
than hat which by birth they have the
right to hold. Queen Victoria takes
her %incognito title from her favorito
residence. As countess of Balmoral
she now visits the sunny shores OF
France eacl year. Doubtless the many
happy recolloctions connected with her
Scottish homo Influenced her decision
in tao matter, for ever silie 1874 she
has assumed the style OF the chatelaine
of Balmoral when abroad; before that
date she travelled as the countess II
Kent. which title the duchess OF Edin-
burgh since 1874 has occasionally u.s.
sumed when in England. The prince
OF Wales hss several i%ncognito titles.
the earl OF Chester being perhaps the
one he uses most frequently. He has
sometimes travelled as duke OF Corn
wall. Earl Carrick and Baron Renfrsw.
Princess Beatrice takes the title OF
Lady Carlsbrooke since her appoint
ment as governor OF the Isle OF Wight
on the death OF her husband. There Is
infinite pathos In the sight OF a re-
fin%ed-looking, sad-faced m who
owe quietly about Paris during her
frequent visits, clad In the black, trail
ing robes which show that she Is a
widow and bereaved mother. This Is
the Countess de Plerrefonds, who as
sumes the title as her %incognlto, but
whom the world knows best as Eu-
genie. ex-empress of the French. Queen
Natalie of Servia Is never so well
pleased as when she throws off her
royal titles for q while and assumes
enc of the many appellations OF lower
rank to which she il entitled. The
king Of tho Belgians travels as Count
Itivenstein, Invariably putting up at
his hotel in Paris with far less hustle
than that which the arrival of an or
binary foreign count would entail. The
king of Sweden travels as Count de
Hava. 1t was under this title that he
stayed at Cannes last spring. The pres
ent ear and czarina have never yet
travelled incognito.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-10-06

Tor $4,000. Tho New Workers spent a
like amount on the Atlantic, and tho
Priscilla and Puritan cost $4,000 each
as trial horses.
Yacht racing by this time Is hecom.
Ing more expensive. aud w ind
Msssrs. Clark and Bell spending $50
600 In 1887 to win back this old pleco
OF silyerware. hut the Thistle Us beat
en- by the Volunteer. which cost her
owners S55. 600. and the Britons were
10 much discouraged that they let six
years clapse before having another try
for the cup. In 1893 came Lord Dun
ravens challenger. aud four boats
were built on this side to guard the
mug. Boston furnished the jubilee
and Pilgrim. costing respectively $780,
600 and $4,000. while G. Oliver lseliu
and other New Workers invested SIPS.
OeO In the Nigllant and $4,000 on the
COlonla. The Vlgilant's extra expense
was due greatly to her bronze bottom.
The Nalkyrie stood Dunrayen $4,000.
The trophy is kept In a large vau't
s'hi III duU year OUT, ana Only ltIuON-
ed on great occasions to the club
house, where II Is taken with solemn
pomp. II Is regarded as SO immense.
~ precious by the members that 70
speak OF II as IN "old mug" they q n
slider rank desecration. No more will
they allow II to be handled, and SO Il
was only by chance a few years ago
that the cup was discovered to he bot
tomless. The commodore, as a mighty
honor to a British guest, ordered the
steward to I'll 1t with wine, to drink Ia
the foreigners health. The steward
cracked the bottle. but 10 and behold
the wine gushed out the other end,
much to everyone's amazement, and
overflowed many an evening dress. Nc
one had dared before to turn the bot
tom up or they would have seen that
tho base. which unscrews, has n hol,
three inches in diameter. Either Tho
English silversmiths intended It thi'
way or did not have time to put In
bottom.
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cost so much money that ii gives your
ordinary American a thrill to think OF
II. Such enormous sums have certainly
never been spent before on a like OBJ
ject.
A member OF the New York Yacht
club in looking over the inscriptions
on the cup the other day to refresh
his "reminiscences OF the bygone con-
tests, figured roughly that the English
men had spent in the neighborhood OF
100000 0 In behalf OF this trophy. and
the Americans probably n little more.
owing TO the expenses incident to the
trial races. This, of course, includes
only the money spent in striving for
and defending the cup. When you ng.
ure on the expense of the public in wit.
Messing and betting on the races. an
approximate estimate is impossible.
The challengers find a heavy expense
In rigging their vessel for sea travel.
This Is essential owing to the condi.
tons laid down by George l.. Schuyler,
who re-deeded the cup to the n, Y. Y.
c.. in 1882.
Owing to the present and increas-
ing size OF ocean steamers said Mr..
Schuyler, ut would be quite feasible
for an American, English or French
club to transport on their decks yachts
Of large tonnage. This might be avail.
ed of in such a way that the match
would not be q test Of sea-going quail
tiles, as we'll as speed. which would
essentially detract from the interest
Of a national competition.
Mr.. Schuyler therefore inserted this
clause in the deed.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-10-06
Training Dogs to Assist Relief Partie.

Training Dogs to Assist Relief Parties.
For the last five years a society
founded under the auspices OF Herr
Bungartz, the animal painter, has been
training Scotch shepherd dogs to assist
the relief parties In discovering the
whereabouts of wounded in battle, and
a few days ago the general In command
Of the ambulance maneuvers In con-
nection with the Eighth German Army
Corps, near Coblentz. allowed four OF
these sa~gacious creatures to take part
In the exercises. Their value was
abundantly proved, for they tracked
down In a few minutes a score of men
so concealed that the bearers could
never have discovered them in day
light, much less at night. Herr Bun
gartz gave a lecture at the close OF the
proceedings on the breeding and edu-
cation of these dogs OF war, and sew
eral regiments are keeping small packs
on their own account.