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The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10

By vote of 153 to 5S the house has defeated the bill that discontinued the distribution of seed to the farmers of the country. Members of Congress have been ridiculed for resorting to this method to keep in touch with the people, but the people have been benefited from the practice and there would be strong protest if 1t were discontinued. Arkansas Democrat.
 We have seen 1t stated that the cost of this free distribution of seeds was about S4, 900, 900 year, and we fail to see wherein that much benefit is derived, and yet this is big country-a ten bill lion dollar country when it comes to expenditures.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10
GOOD ROADS CONVENTION

The program has not yet been completed for the state good roads convention which is to be held in this city in June. The committee of arrangements is making elaborate plans for the entertainment of the delegates iu a manner calculated to spread the good roads leaven more rapidly. Not only will the delegates be shown the amount and character of the macadamized roads that can be built in short while at small expease, and how those roads are built, but they vii. carry away with them souvenirs showing number of scenes along these roads. The sessions of the
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10
MOB RULE AT GUADALouPE
Authorities of French West Indian Tow, unable to Control the Rioters
 Warships to Scene.

Washington. May S.-Guadaloupe. French West Indiesis, under mob rule according to dispatch received at the state department Monday from c Jarvis Bowens, the American consul at that point His dispatch says the moh IS In control and the authorities are unable to restrain it. Election from oies are the cause of the disturbance For several weeks there has been riot. lng which is supposed to have coma te head Sunday which was election lay While there are few Americans It the place, large quantities of Amer ican goods are stored there.
 William H. H. Southe rland inc senior officer in command of the fleet It san Domingo, has been ordered to send warship immediately to Guada. loupe to protect American interests The following vessels are ayailahla TOT service; Yankee. Dubuque. Padu- gan, Scorpion and Nashville.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10

surely be made manifest to Hem drix college in a deal consumated iu the manner this was whereby said college is to receive a valu- able property in Mena for which it never gave one dollar and to which it clearly has no right, a deal which is today repudiated by all the strong, true men interested in Hendrix college or the M. E. church, South, represented by that college. is much more dam- aging to that institution than it could possibly be to Mena.
 The wrong done Mena as the matter stands today is ! mere trifle in the results accruing com pared to the wrong done Hexdrix college as au educational institu- tion to say nothing of the dis grace that would attach to the church should the transaction be permitted to stand.
 It seems now, however, that the matter is open for adjustment by those who are directly inter ested and responsible and it is a question whether any satisfactory adjustment can be made which does not anuul the lease held by Prof. Wootton and restore the properties to their original status of ownership and control.
 No one desires to injure or de- tract from the usefulness of Prof Wootton's commercial school and it is quite true, as Mir. Anderson suggests, that he twill make the school go on the hill," but any arrangement to that end must be made after a full and free discus sion and fair understanding 5y and between parties interested and in a manuer that shall not vitiate or anuul the spirit or terms of the original deed and
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10
HE IS SORRY.

Mir. A. D. Garden informed the Star on last Saturday that he had received a letter recently from President Anderson of Hendrix college containing some directions about the care, as agent, of the Commercial hotel property in this city, which concluded as follows:
 "I am sorry there is trouble over the matter there. I think it can all be adjusted. We had no idea of wronging in any sense the people of Mena aud will not. 1 am thoroughly convinced that Prof. Woottou will make the school go on the hill"
 This is the first expression re- ccived in Mena, as far as we can learn, from Mir. Anderson since the transfer of the Mena Hendrix academy to Prof. Wootton and we are pleased to get it and give it to our readers for all it is worth as it shows conciliatory spirit leading to the belief that the mat ter can be amicably adjusted.
 We are particularly pleased to have Mir. Anderson say that be had no idea of wronging the peo- pie of Mena ''and will not" and will merely say that had he on his visit here to examine the prop critics and make the deal as con sumated, conferred with the local board, the members of which have labored earnestly at all times for the interest of the academy on the hill, he would have shown conclu- sively that he intended no wrong and would not have been subJec- ted to censure in that direction.
 It IS not, however, alone the wrong intended or done the people of Mena that should most concern Mir. Anderson, as the wrong done, the results of which would
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10
JOHN PAUL JONES' CHURCH

JOHN PAUL JONES SHONS'
 The Cosmopolitan Magazine for May concludes "Story or Paul Jones" and shortly before his death he is reported to have said:
 My church, observes Admiral Paul Jones ''my church has been the ocean, my preacher the north star. my choir the winds singing iu the ships rigging
 And your faith
 "You may find it." he returns lin Pope's Universal Prayer: 1" Teach me to feel another's woe,
 To hide the faults see;
 That mercy 1 to others show,
 Such mercy show to me.
 "Tbere r' he concludes, "l call that stauza complete boxing of religious compass z
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10
WARNING FORiNvEsTIdATIoN

It was wholly unnecessary for Mir. Rogers and MT. Archbold to inform the public that Standard Oil welcomed the investigation of its methods by agents of the government. That was made as plain as the nose on a mans face when Rockefeller and the whole Standard Oil bunch made them- selves busy for days and weeks lodging the process servers, aud when those who got caught re- fused to answer Attorney Gen. eral Hadley lon advice of coun- sell"
 We all know, of course, that it was investigation" that H. Clay Pierce was seeking and yearning for when he penned himself up for days in a bathroom in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York.
 Everybody knows without any illumination from Rogers or Arch bold how keen the Standard is to bask ia the "full, bright sunlight of publicity" and how pure and spotless the Rockefeller monopoly is.-Kansas City Star.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10

The rapidity with which "full and complete" histories of the San Francisco earthquake, fully illustrated and published in book form, are being put upon the market rather indicates that the
 authors and publishers must have had private tip from the weath- CT bureau at Washington, or possibly the Rev. Irl Hicks, that it was going to occur, thereby enabling them to get some of their material ready before the disaster occurred. This is surely rapidly moving age in the publication of histories at least.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10

Henry H. Rogers of the Stand ard Oil Company, 1t IS stated, upon hearing Commissioners Gar
 fields report charging that the Standard Oil had unlawfully se- cured x75O, 1000 a year by means of secret railway rebates, replied that this was not even petit larceny and I am ashamed of my innocense. So accustomed has the Standard Oil officials become to stealing by the hundred mil lion annually, that a paltry S75O, 900 is too small an item to charge them with and they pro- ceed to laugh the matter away. However President Roosevelt al pears to be after them with his "big stick" and there is likely to be fun ahead.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10

The first lesson that the young gir has of womanhood is usually painful one. She learns to know what head ache means. and 5ackache, and some times is sadly borne down by this new experience of life.
 All the pain and misery which young girls commonly experience at such 8 time may, in almost every instance, be entirely prevented or cured by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It establishes regularity. It tones up the general health, and cures headache, backache, nervousness, chorea, or St. vitus's dance, and other consequences of womaniy weakness or disease.
 MOTHER OF THE FAMILY,
 The anxious mother of the family oftentimes carries the whole burden of responsibility so far as the home med ication of common ailments of the girls or boys are concerned. The cost of the doctors visits are very often much too great At such times the mother is invited to write to Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., for medical advice, which is given free. Correspondence is held sacredly confidential.
 IT STANDS ALONE.
 cFavorite Prescription is the only medicine for women the makers of which are not afraid to print just what it is made of on every bottle wrapper. It is the only medicine fer women every ingredient of which has the unan- imous endorsement of all the lead ing medical writers of this country, recommending it for the cure of the very same diseases for which this Pre- scriptionn is advised.
 A MOTHERS LOVE.
 A mothers love is 90 divine that the toughest man cannot help but appre- ciate it as the crown of womanhood. However, motherhood is often looked forward to with feelings of great dread by most women. At such times woman is nervous, dyspeptic, irritable, and she is in need of uterine tonic and nervine, strength builder to fit her for the ordeal. No matter how healthy or strong woman may be she cannot but be benefited by taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription to prepare for the event. It makes childbirth easy and often almost painless.
 DR. PIERCE's FAvoRTTE PRESCRIPTION is powerful, invigorating tonic. It imparts strength to the whole system and to the womb and it's appendages in particular. For overworked uworn- out" crun-down," ;" debilitated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, rshop girls,' housekeepers, nursing mothers and feeble women generally, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the greatest earthly boon, being un- equaled as an appertizing cordial and restorative tonic.
 STRENGTHENING NERvINE.
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 A SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE.
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The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10
nlIIlng frosrlninMa.

Des Moines, Ia., May S.--Iowa was visited by killing frost Sunday night and early Monday Fort Dodge reports n wholesale killing of garden truck plants and small fruit. The frost was heaviest in that section. Des Moines and vicinity escaped with a light coy ering. Little damage was done here
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10
Girlhood, Womanhood, Motherhood.

scientific medicine, carefully devised by an experienced and skillful phy- sician, and adapted to woman's deli cate organism. It is purely vegetable in it's composition and perfectly harm Iess in it's effects tn dny condition Of the svstem. For morning sickness or nausea, weak stomach, indigestion, dyspepsia and kindred symptoms, it's use will prove very beneficial.
 CURES OBSTINATE CASES.
 vFavorite Prescription is a positive cure for the most complicated and obstinate cases of leucorrhea, exces- sive flowing, painful menstruation, un- natural suppressions and irregularities, prolapsus or falling of the womb, weak back, cfemale weakness anteversion, retroversion, bearing-down sensations, chronic congestion, inflammation and alteration of the womb, inflammation, pain and tenderness of the ovaries, accompanied with rinternal heat"
 HOW TO LOOK BEAUTIFUL.
 Young women or matrons should not allow themselves to look sallow and wrinkled because of those pains and weaknesses which become chronic and are the result of colds, tight lacing, and the imprudent care of the womanly sys- tenn. Many woman would look beau- tiful, have healthy color and bright eyes if it were not for those drains on her strength and those weaknesses which come all too frequently and make her life miserable. There is a ready-to-use Prescription, used great many years by Dr. K. V. Pierce in his large practice as a Specialist in women's diseases, which is not like the many upatent medicines" on the market, as it contains neither alcohol nor any narcotic, or other harm full drug. It is purely vegetable. It is known as Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre- scription and is sold by druggists.
 DR. PIERcE's PLEASANT PELLETS cure biliousness, sick and bilious head ache, dizziness, costiveness, or con- stipation of the bowels, loss of appe- tite, coated tongue, sour stomach, windy belchings, heartburn" pain and distress after eating, and kindred Arrangements of the liver, stomach and bowels.
 Persons subjected to any of these troubles should never be without vial Of the "Plea9ant Pellets" at nond. In proof of their superior excellence it can truthfully be said that they are always adopted as household remedy after the first trial.
 One little rPelletn is a laxative, two are cathartic. They regulate, invigor- ate and cleanse the liver, stomach and bowels. As rdinner pill," to promote digestion, take one each day. To re- lieve the distress arising from over- eating, nothing equals one of these little vPellets." They're tiny, sugar coated, anti-bilious granules, scarcely larger than mustard seeds.
 HEALTH AND HAPPINESS.
 How to live in health and happiness, is the general theme of Dr. Piercs's Common Sense Medical Adviser. This great work on medicine and hygiene, containing over 1000 pages and more than 700 illustrations, is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 3l one-cent stamps for the cloth-bound volume, or only n tam ne for the h0ok in par,oy covern
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10
HELP WAh1pl
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 Serious Disease

Do you notice a larvs your vital energya Are so. on your place in the soci,, your strength gone, cousti,,,' appetite poor, digestion ds els costive, with uneas;r... toms of derangement in .. the kidneysl Such a cona;.. preliminary to Bright's Dj,s,.' other serious kidney troubl. describes the state of yourbos,| upon you prompt action N health is entirely beyond Prickly Ash Bitters is the :. need; it has a four-fold resto,,, It stimulates the torpid live, nealtn III the stomach, strenr, cures the kidneys, and X, peculiar yet agreeable lar,,I acter it clinches the good wors oughly cleansing the bowel, certain remedy for kidnev !, diseases.
 
 Accept no substitute. Insis {.
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The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10
A Child Killed bv a p,av

Muskoeee, l. T., May S.--Lola BIay- ock' the year old daughter of Mr ma Mrs. J. G. Playlock, was shot and kliied by Thomas Taylor, 8 years old
 sunday The children for some time aad been playing with a shotgun that was never loaded" The other day Mr. Taylor loaded the gun to kin n '0s ana forgot to take the ioads ou4.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10
Court of Honor Meeting.

Detroit. May 8.-The triennial meet ing of the Supreme Court of Honor. an Insurance fraternity, opened Mon- day in the Hotel Cadillac with sey- eral scores of delegates present from different parts of the country. Social features occupied Monday, the busi- ness sessions opening Tuesday.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10

contract made to and with Hen drix college.
 In this way MT. Anderson, as president of the institution, can make good his statement as given to Mir. Garden, that i've had no idea of wronging in any sense the people of Mcna aud will not. "
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10
NOT ..FREE" SILVER.

Four freight cars full of silver bullion, consigned to London, pass ed through Kansas City yesterday. Three armed guards were on each car to remind the public that silver is not yet "free. - Kansas City Star.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10

The Star is authorized to announce that J. w. Klemm will be . candidate for the office of Representative, subject to the will of the Republican County Convention.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10

convention will be held in the High school auditorium, and Judge I. H. Rogers will deliver the address of welcome. Fort Smith News Record.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10
LENDING TO SAN FRANCISCO


 Ex-Mayor Phelan's proposal that the national government should be indorser of San Fran cisco rebuilding bonds 10 the amount of $20O, GOO, 900 is not likely, when considered with care, to impress either Congress or the people favorably. It would make precedent by which every city or village that meets with calam- ity would apply for similar back ing, and a new branch of debt making finance would be created in Washington which would uuquestionably prove burdensome and de trimental to the people as a whole.-St. Louis Globe Demo- crat.
 Possibly so, in which case we would suggest that instead of the government becoming an 'en- dorser" for the bonds that it treat the San Francisco sufferers as royalty and generously as it has certain National banks for To these many years and loan the mouey to the city direct.
 We would not expect the gov ernment to be quite as generous and loan those people that money without interest, as 1t has been doing to the bankers, for they would willingly pay reasonable rate, which the bankers have not been willing to do.
 No one will for one momen' question the fact that certain National banks, some of them of the Standard Oil Company's sys- tenn, have had the free use of hundreds of millions of the peo- ple's money and now have it, but when San Francisco needs aid it is merely suggested that the government ''endorse" the bonds which would probably be bought, many of them at least with this money the bankers receive from the government free of interest.
 Of course it seems incredible hat such a financial condition should exist in this country, but unfortunately it does and it takes some such proposition as that quoted above to call attention to the fact and by contrast show the iniquity. rank favorit:sm and in- justice of the policy.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
For Representative.

The Star is authorized to announce that R. Osborn will he an Independent candidate for the office of Representative. subject to the will of the voters at the general election.
The Mena weekly star., 1906-05-10
AGGREGATION OF REGISTERS

The people of Arkansas do not want the last legislature recalled under any circumstances. The fear of Republican success sinks into insignificance when com pared to the apprehension that would be felt among honest peo- pie if that aggregation of tricks ters were recalled. Arkansas Democrat.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-17

ALWAYS the basis or water in the
stock Will no longer exist The city.
which controls the frar h;~e right.
cannot be held 10 pa for tn fran
ehise which il Ia given and which
ha expired. IN 90 change - hands
Of such interests th,r. i bound I" b.
some embarrassment 70 some parties
What the cit- needs le soTsaIt hcr j.
tha it owes the water company Moth
ing save the simple justice 10 pa, II
for what it takes. Il mas already
given that company twenty gears OPP
Grafton i'm uhich to max. profits. It
i not bound 10 Us, lis plant. IS tho
water company is not. N tine absence
Of al arbitration. bound Io sell. i l.
Il busiucss proposition which tn" city
should treat as such. Haelalll u
cxtrava@1ntly. II the water
refuses IL SELL. the city
can refuse it q renewal OF its fran
,hise except t. operate untii il cau
its own plant. Its oun plant
he better an6. as the city grows.
it viii become necessary ANYHOW. But
Whatave" is dons, the Ieoplc want the
principle Of pubic ownership 81 muni-
necessities put III operation in
Raleigh. And, ~ most important, a
yell as nearest at haal. tno. want to
take charge Of that commodity which
every mans comfort. health
md protection for his property. These
.hinGs are 50 bound UP with the pro
and happiness OF the city, that
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-17
\ MODEL NOMIN MING SPEECH.

There is need Of more men III pub
lie life like Robert y. Page and Archf-
editor. they occupy useful and respon-
sibIe positions in the public Eye. The
general public regards the work of
a congressman as the highest. but
many are coming to see that the edi-
tor of q widely circulated newspaper
that stands for the right holds a posi-
ton no less useful or honorable than
the office of Governor or Senator.
such an editor Is Mr.. Archibald
Johnson. He has not taken much
public part in politics. Too many
men IF his typ take . pack seat and
let ofhce-seekers occupy the front
seats. just as too many business mon
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-17

ff there are any insurance Ompan
collecting premiums from North car
DINA who are not willing to invest the
copIe i'm North Carolina. then the
state will lose nothing by their de-
Tarturc. There are plenty Of good
companies that Will stay and keep
North Carolina money here. In an
n]ouncinG his candidacy for the Legis-
Iaturc in Durham. Mr.. J. S. Manning
says he faVors requiring the invest
premiums received from policy holders
i'm this Safe MI. Justice, Of Gull
ford, took the same position. Mr..
Manning adds hat he favors other
"such changes in our Insurance laws
as VIII more carefully protect and
safeguard the funds OF life insurance
companies for the benefit Of the policy
holders"
The Ieaven is working. North Car
Gina ought to be tho pioneer for in
s"ianc legislation that will look: J..
To giving insurance at lower rates; ,.
keeping most of the money paid for
Premiums in North Carolina; 3. build
iHg up strong home insurance COM
renics; a. preventing any trust or
agreement among companies to fix the
Price. These are -four important
things. and there will be other meas
urcg brought forward that will require
the consideration of legislators, and
it il therefore important to have I'M
biased legislators who will legislate
IN Die intereSt of The whole poOnIe.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-17

be held at Charlotte July 10 to %,
under the auspices of the International
Sunday School Association is the
fourth iutcrdenominational convention
Of a society whose work m o
negroes has been carried forward
with both zeal and intelligence. The
ends of the association are both edu-
C|atiOnal and religious. The field
superintendent for the negroes is DIR.
James +. shepherd, of Durham. Col.
7. Ii. Young will preside over the
Charlotte meeting. which will be held
il the Seventh Street Presbyterian
Church..
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-17
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c%pect even when / get lH
10 feel that way as long .
Electric BitteTs." says 49,
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nothing else keeps the ".#
and makes the weak as sft.I.
grand tonic rncdicine-
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chronic constipation ar hH...
Ter taking Electric Biftef5
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-17

Il one of DrcWry's hired men asks
sct to vote for Drcwry for the Sem
ate, ask him how he is paddy the
day or by the nunlber of votes h gets
DO YOU wish somebody to be paid
for telling you to vote for the candi-
date the railroad lawyers and lobbyists
are working for?