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The bee., 1906-10-04
The Risk of Travel.

Statistics covering the mortal
ity among passengers and en-
ployes on American railroads in
1906 are again eloquent in their
argument for more and better
safeguards in the equipment and
operation of trains. In t h e
twelve months ending June 30,
1905, an average of twenty six
persons were killed and 23S in
jured every day. In the entire
period covered by the Interstate
Commerce Commissions report,
9,703 persons were slam and &c.
OOS others were more or less
seriously hurt. One passenger
out of every 1875, 1856 carried
met death and one In every TO-
$50 was injured.
All together, the casualties on
American railroads for year
exceeded by nearly 10000 those
on both the Japanese and Rus
sian sides during the siege of
Port Arthur, and were almost
equal to one-fourth the number
of japanese and Russian troops
killed and injured during the
war.
Thirty work cars left Howell =,
Ind, Monday night for the
scenes of the tidal wave that
created such sad havoc on the
Gulf Coast several days ago. The
cars were made up in two trains
The bee., 1906-10-04
LOCOMOTIVE BLASTS
Pennsylvania Appropriates
sls2, ,OOO 900 for new Work.

Pennsylvania Approprlates
sls2, ,000 900 for new Work.
On the Pennsylvania Railroad
alone, and excluding its princi-
pal lines east and west of Pitts
burg, the sum of S192, 200, 900
has been provided for improve,
ments and extensions during the
last six years. Some idea of the
vast figures with which the COM
pany has come to deal-figures
which makes one think of the
budget of an empire-may be
gathered from the fact that in
1898 the gross income of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
was $71, 200, 900; the net income
was $1,000, 900; the dividend
paid was per cent and the sur
plus, after paying dividends, was
$4,OOO,OOO.
In 1905 the gross income was
$146, 900, 900; the net income was
$50, 100000; the dividend on the
largely increased capital stock
was 6 per cent and the surplus,
after paying the. dividend was
$11, 100000.
In the six years from 1898 to
1898, inclusive, the yearly divi-
dend was 5 per cent, and the
average surplus, after paving the
dividend, was $3,700,0O0 per
annum. In the six years from
1900 to 1905, inclusive, the year
ly dividend was 6 per cent and
the average surplus, after pay
ing the dividend, was $11, ,400,-
900 per annum.
The bee., 1906-10-04
Wonan's Trials.

The bitter trail In woman's life is b
be childless. Who can tell how hard the
struggle may have been ere she learnt to
resign herself to her lonely lot? The alb
sence of this link to bind marital life
together, the absence of this one pledge
TO mutual affection is common disap-
pointment. Many unfortunate couples
become estranged thereby. Even IL they
do not drift apart, one may read the whole
extent OF their disappointment in the eyes
of such childless couple when they rest
on the children OF others. To them the
largest family does not seem too numerous.
In many cases OF barrenneSS or child
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restoring health and fruitfulness to many
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obstruction to the bearing of children has
been found to be of surgical character,
but easily removable by painless operative
treatment at the Invalids' Hotel and Sur
gical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y, over which
DIR. Pierce OF the vFavorite Prescription
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In all the various weaknesses. displace-
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best and safest laxative for women.
The bee., 1906-10-04
A TRIPLE CURE BY
CUTICURA REMEDIES

"About ten years ago my scalp be-
came badly affected with sore and
itching humors, crusts, etc, and extend
ing down behind the ears. My hair
came out in places also. / was greatly
troubled; understood it was eczema.
Tried various remedies, so called, with
out effect. Saw your Cuticura adver-
tisement, and got them at once. APP
piled them as to directions, etc, and
after two weeks, | think, of use, was
clear as a whistle.
60 have to state also that late last
fall, October and November, 1904, 1
was suddenly afflicted with bad erilp-
ton, painful and itching pustules over
the lower part of the body. suffered
dreadfully. In two months, under the
skilful treatment of my doctor, con-
joined with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment, found myself cured.
Six years ago my son was laid up
with severe cold, hard cough, and
finally painful eruption all over the
body. procured thesCuticura Remedies
as soon as possible, and after his faith
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as far as | know.
81 have always been pleased to COM
mend the Cuticura Remedies, and testify
as to their efficacy. / am a veteran of
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Christian Co., ILL.,, Aug. 81, 1906"
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az Mailed Free, How 20 Cure Eczema and y An
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The bee., 1906-10-04

of fifteen cars each. The trains
went over the l.. & N. tracks to
Milan, Tenn. Arriving at Milan,
they were sent to Mobile, Ala,
over the Illinois Central. There
were twelve car loads of bridge
timber loaded at the Henderso
freight depot that was sent out
from there, together with six
teen men that were kept busy
loading them all day.
Two collisions occurred on the
Louisville division of the Illi-
nois Central Railroad during the
latter part of last week, one be.
ing at McHenry, where No. Isl,
fast manifest freight en- route to
New Orleans, collided with a
pile driver. No. 1O1, fast mail,
was delayed five hours by this
accident. No. 1872, east bound
freight EN- route to Louisville,
ran into yard engine at Gravel
Switch and delayed traffic on the
division several hours. Fortu-
nately no one was injured in
these wrecks.
Fourteen bridge carpenters and
railroad men under Foreman j.
I. Miller left Henderson Thurs
day night on the l.. & N. train
No. 93 for New Orleans and
Mobile, Ala, to assist in the
work of reconstructing the tracks
and bridges that were damaged
by the tidal wave of last Thurs
day.
David Barnett has accepted a
position with the transportation
department and is on the inter
urban train while Thos. Cansler
is resting.
Engineer Hugh Mulvaney, who
has been visiting home folks in
West Virginia, is expected to
return in few days.
Brakeman and Mrs. WaIling
have returned from a several
weeks to relatives in Tennessee.
Leo Herb has accepted en-
ployment with the transporta-
tion department of the l.. d NJ
Fireman Vaught, of the En-
pire Hill engine, succeeds David
Craig on the interurban train.
Fireman David Craig, of the
interurban service, has been as
signed to braking.
Flagman Thos Oansler. Of the
interurban train, is off duty
this week.
billiard Summers is working
on the south local.
The bee., 1906-10-04
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 4, 1906.
ANNOUNCED FOR CONGRESS.
To the Republican Voters of
Hopksns County:

To the Republican Voters o
Hopksns County:
| am an announced candidate
foT the Republican nomination
for Congress in the Second dis
trlct. The county convention
will be held at Madisonville OF
Saturday, October 6, and the dis
trict convention will be held al
Dawson Springs on the follow
ing Tuesday, October 8, under
the call for convention embod-
led in the following resolution,
which was passed at the meet.
ing of the district committee
held at Dawson Springs, We'd
nesday, September 5, 1906, to-
wit:
Resolution.
nResolved, by the Republican
Congressional Committee for the
Second district of Kentucky,
ID "That the chairman of the
several Republican County Commit
tees of the several counties COM
posing the Second Congressional
district of Kentucky are hereby re-
quested to call a mass convention in
their respective counties to convene
at the county seats at | 80 o'clock
D. M, on Saturday, the 9Th day of
October, 1905, for the purpose Of
electing delegates to the District
Convention which shall convene at
Dawson Springs. KY, at 2 o'clock
p. M, on Tuesday, Oct. 9Th, 1906, for
the purpose of nominating a candi-
date for Congress in the Second
Congressional district of Kentucky.
(2) "That all persons desiring to
become candidates for said position
before said District convention shall
notify the Chairman of SAID Re-
publican Congressional Commit
tee In writing on or before Thurs
day, the Goth day of September,
1906. And, if upon said day there
shall be but one announced candi-
date for said position. it shall be the
duty of the said Congressional Com
mittee to declare such person to be
the nominee of the Republican
party for Congress in the Second
district of Kentucky, which COM
mittee shall meet on the 18th day of
September, 1906, to nominate said
candidate
Although | have always done
what | could, as a party worker,
for the success of the Republican
party and its principles, | have
never sought political prefer
ment. | decided to become a
candidate only after urgent So
licitation of friends in Hopkins
and various other parts Of the
district and upon strongest as
surances that the honor could be
given a Hopkins county man
this year and that my chances of
winning the nomination were of
the best. | earnestly solicit the
personal support Of every Re.
publican in Hopkins county and
ask that all unite to make the
county convention a representa-
tive and enthusiastic gathering,
and so that a proper interest can
be developed, that we may 60 to
Dawson Springs and take part in
the district convention with a
lively and manifest spirit of
county pride and hospitality
toward this important gathering
from the eight counties of the
Second district.
In the event of my success IN
this contest for the nomination
for Congress, | am sincere in
saving that | shall be as proud
that the honor should come to
Hopkins county as that it should
come to me.
Task your support.
Sincerely,
PAUL M. MOORE.
The bee., 1906-10-04

at loombs & Fawcett Realty Cos addition go los) in
north Madsonvlle at an extraordinary low price See
what easy terms. Every that home can buy
one at this price and S120O gets lot and there
house oftthese lots worth $1,000 S2 in
gold on each lot on Oak street. $40 in gold each on 10
other lots, IS in gold on each 90 other lots
Is this not nice gift Any lot we have is worth more
money than the price ask for it, and in u or IS
months when the M. II. & E Railroad will have been
completed and the first passenger train north
Madsonvle and the conductor sings '.al out for
Madsonvie just then these lots are worth three times the
price selling them now
The bee., 1906-10-04

A farm journal says cuca mbers
have been cultivated 5000 years.
That explains many aohes.
The bee., 1906-10-04
TERRIBLE ITCHING
SCALP HUMOR

Badly Affected With Sores and
Crusts = Extended Down Behind
the Ears = Some Years Later
Painful and Itching Pustules
Broke Out on Lower Part Of
Body = Son Also Affected.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-09-06
ei AM GOING TO INSIST"

While at Jersey City, New Jersey, w. J. Bryan was reported to have made the following declaration in favor of party purity:
 ''I am going to insist" he said, that no man connected with any favor-seeking organization shall be permitted to become member of the Democratic organization to the end that he may betray it. When a man accepts position in any great corporation he should be made to know that he will not be permitted to serve in any capacity with the Democratic organization. or as a Democratic candidate for any public office. l shall insist also that my party shall not accept one dollar from any corporation or any indi- vidual who expects to get back in favors from the government"
 Republican papers will propably call this political dictation, but it is the kind of "dictation" that the people like.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-09-06
Political Lines Being
 Sharply Drawn

great speech the of his home coming reception having widely different effects his multi tude of hearers and readers
 Republicans think that the advocacy state operation of the railroads huge pebble united before of the Commoner individual desire that he be named their standard bearer in 1908.
 Already hear of dnn flashing the shores of Democratic the declaring that they follow MT Bryan government ownership platform.
 again Nfr. Bryan firm his convictions and reply questions and criticism Whatever shall do must have the prova prefer have the honor having the all the people of the United States
 T believe that private monopoly is indefensbe thing Republican platform that denounces the principle monopoly The line is be drawn. We going find who of and the line to be drawn that principle The who favor of regulating might just well take off his mask and declare himself regulate private monopoly It regulates
 again right and being right his declarations fall with cheering thrilling hopeful influence the minds of shall their rolling the great of thought there vii breaking Republican well Democratic and all great gain of Democracy.
 This question which there cannot
 The only solution of the railway and all questions ownership and operation and this will become the weeks roll gaining strength the agitation until will sweep the country in l908
The Mena weekly star., 1906-09-06
@ @ R@ THE -. 9o Ss STANDARD TONIC

The Ingredients Of which S S method bnng and preparing them that they gently pleasantly build and strengthen the condition of the Every of The system get of fc the depressed refreshing has nervous feeling When the depleted down condition must De aided by tonic and recognized where as the standard Being made entirely lks selected for their gentle action well their ingoatng effect the system will not dsagaby affect of the socad other harmful derange gestlon unavorby s tones the stomach digestion improves appetite produces eeng sleep rids the body of that pne and ygo to the entire system It Hreesabses the healthy circulation
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The Mena weekly star., 1906-09-06
The Roaa to Ruin.

Many of the bank failures and other crooked business complica- tions of the last two years have been marked by suicide among the persons implicated. Others are fugltives, with probability that they will eventually be caught and punished. Some have quickly sickened and died from the nervous strain connected with exposure. Suicides of this nature have been striking feature of recent months. The loss of character hits those who stray from the path of honesty h srder that they expected, and they sink under the burden of shame. Not often has the law of retribution worked so surely and promptly as in the betrayal of financial obligations of the present year.
 From tue wreck of the Phila- ielphia Real Estate Trust compa- ny much will be saved, but it's president appears to have died by
  his own hand before the public learned that he had been guilty of making double reports and was involved i'll speculative promoters inflated schemes. In some cases depositors recover all their money, but the men who de part from the straight line gc down with brand upon them, and frequently end the lives that have lost the vital essential of good name. The lesson ought tC ink deep into the minds even oi those who fancy they will be ar exception in tampering with the laws of honesty. Current history has shown no such exceptions. Globe Democrat.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-09-06

garden, and more especially for your invincible stand in favor of, not the regulation, but the destruc- ton of the criminal trusts and for the government ownership of rail- roads.
 We hold that the experience of all civilized nations has firmly been established principle that the main- tenance of highways is one of the chief functions of government, or of the few great attributes of sovereign ity, of which no state can divest itself without endangering the very existence of the government and utterly destroying the great princi- pie of equality of rights which is the very cornerstone of the American republic. We rejoice in your cour- age and are proud of the ability with which you are teaching the doctrines of Jeffersonian Democracy and the principles of the American Anti Trust League. We recognize your leadership in America for the com ing battle for the achievement of the last and the greatest of the rights of man, namely, the economic liberty of all men and women."
The Mena weekly star., 1906-09-06
FAlTnfUL IN SHALL THINGS

A few months ago Mr. A. P. Hope of Karnack. Tex, complained that the Evening Star mailed to him did not arrive regularly and on June II we addressed a letter to the superir- tendent of the railway mail service at Fort Worth, Tex, asking an in- vestigation as to the cause of this irregularity.
 We recently received a report, with all papers attached, showing that on June 13 the chief clerk at Little Rock was asked to investigate.
 On June l5 the postmaster at Mena was asked to report, and made same on the 18th. On same day the transfer clerk at Sloan Springs was asked for report which he made on June 27, and on June 28 the chief clerk at Houston, Tex, was asked to continue the investigation.
 On June 30 he referred the matter
The Mena weekly star., 1906-09-06

to John F. Jordan, railway postal clerk, who reported on July 4. On July 5 the postmaster at Shreveport was asked about the paper and re piled on July 6. On July 2 the chief clerk of railway mail service at Denison, Tex, was asked to continue investigation, and on July 9 referred the matter to the railway postal clerk, 1. P. Elder, with orders to give papers to Clerk Anderson, also to Clerk Price, who were ordered to make similar reports and return papers, etc.
 These reports showed great irregu- larities in the receipt of the Star one coming from Texas and Port Arthur, one from Shreveport and one from the Waskom, Tex, pouch all three of different dates on the same day.
 On July 23 the matter was re- ferred to w. I. Vanden Bosch. rail way postal clerk, and on August 1 to John Fenderburk, transfer clerk at Shreveport, who replied August ?, and on August 3 Chief Clerk G. T. Lake made his final report to the superintendent at Fort Worth, who. on August 6 dispatched all papers to this office with the following final report:
 Fort Worth, Tex, Aug. 9. MT. A. w. St. John,
 Publisher Star,
 "Mena, Ark.
 Inviting attention to result of investigation. It appears that the Star is now reaching Karnack regu- larly. l regret that the delays can not be satisfactorily accounted for.
 IS. M. Gaines, superintendent.
 Our object in publishing the above to show our readers how thor oughly Uncle Sam has his postal sys- tenn organized and what great pains he takes to secure the prompt and safe delivery of even a little paper like the Evening Star.
 There is perhaps another lesson to be learned from this, and that is if you would have such public utilities properly conducted they should be done by the people through their government and not by private cor porations, which, when package or message goes wrong do not deign to give respectful attention or any thought to the complaint, as most anyone suffering in that way can testify.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-09-06
Arkansas Schools.

Arkansas has ESQ., +72 school children, au increase of 5000 over one year ago. Or the 75 counties 40 show an increase, B decrease. Pulaski county shows the largest increase, 1.700' Benton and Hampstead, both large counties, show decreases, Benton 200, Hampstead 400. Garland county shows a increase of almost 1000, and Sebastian and Jefferson 200. The figures, as compiled from the reports of the county examiners, will be used by the state board of apportionment in making the ap- portionment of the school fund to the various counties. This board met today and certified out the amounts to he returned to the several counties hy the state treasurer on account of the school fund. Beuton's school population IS ll,654; Washing ton, lS.650 = Sloan Springs Republican.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-09-06
A STRONG ENDORSEMENT.

At a time when several Demo- cratic leaders, like the millionaire Nose Wetmore of St. Louis, are threatening to desert MT. Bryan on account of his advocacy of govern mental ownership of the railroads. it is encouraging to read the en- dorsement of the American Anti Trust League as follows:
 "On behalf of the Antitrust League and expressing as we firmly believe, the sentiments of the great majority of good citizens who are opposed alike to the evils of monopo- lies and the dangers of Socialism. we welcome you home and express to you our qualification and apprecia- ton for all of your great speech Thursday night at Madison Square
The Mena weekly star., 1906-09-06
FRENCH MARRIAGE swlNDLE.
A Woman and Bogus Heiress Succeed in FleecinE Many Wealthy
 Parisians.

Paris, Sept. IA woman of 40 and a pretty blonde of IS have been work ing fortune hunters in Paris with 2 matrimonial swindle. The girl posed as an heiress to $2.500,000 while the older woman acted as agent, extract ing fees for introduction. The would be suitor was introduced to the ''heiress, sometimes between the acts in box and sometimes at her home.
 The women played their cards so well that the fair "heiress' was con stantly receiving substantial gifts, while the older woman was extract ing considerable sums from those having money and getting rid of the poorer ones.
 The trouble came when, owing to a mistake, three or four young suitors met on the woman's doorstep Both women are now in St Lazare prison. The Investigating magistrate already has discovered 45 victims of the women.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-09-06
KANSAS IS GROWING.
PopuIatfop of the state Hns Ia- creased 06,40: in Last Year-wy
 nndotte County Gained Most.

Topeka, Kan, Sept. 1.-Kansas has gained G6,492 in population in the last year, according to the report issued Thursday by F. D. Coburn, secretary of the board of agriculture. The in crease is given at 4.3 per cent over the preceding year. The population of the state is i.5f4,96 The report is based on the returns of the asses. sor. who gathered the statistics March 1, 1906. The report in part says;
 This is the largest population ever reported in the history of the state, and the gain is seemingly well dis tributed. although the western coun. ties show greater percentages of in- crease than do those further east.
 The g counties lying west of the 99th meridian show an aggregate gain of 22,377, or 14.7 per cent
 The largest individual increase Is in Wyandotte county, which has gained 13.lsS, followed by Montgom- cry. Sedgwick, Labette and Shawnee in the order named.
 Wyandotte, Shawnee, Montgomery, Sedgwick and Crawford are the five leading counties in 1906.