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The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02
Scuthcrn Inventors.

The following patents were is- sued this week to Arkansas in- ventcrs, reported by D.. Swift & Co.,, patent lawyers, Washington, D. C.: J. H. Hile, Belton, tele- graph and telephone pole; ]. J. Parsons, Mount Ida, wrench. Copies of the above patents will be sent upon receipt of ten cents; by D. Swift & Co.,, Washington. D. c.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

The gentle sultan of Tangier merely has the right leg of rebellious subjects cut off and the wound treated by dipping into boiling pitch. That word sultan certainly does seem to take to itself an overdose of oJ,,,.x,
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

Unity of purpose is no more nec- essary to success in a family or in a business establishment than in a city. With all Mena behind project to secure new railroad, there's no chance for a failure---because if no big corporation chooses to build it. Mena can do it herself.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

A new railroad for Mena would return it's promoters the money they put in within a very few years. And every farmer who buys or sells would be benefited.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

An American girl, who married an Italian count, comes back home with tiny monkey in a gold cage for a pet, and the big papers print pie lures of both. American girls who marry foreign no-counts generally need some consolation.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

Bryan says he's tired of talking ' But anyway, talking has been both silver and gold to him. Probably no man has ever done more of it nor received more for it.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

Charles Liefer. the Little Rock seed man, says Arkansas will have an average crop this year and will get more than average prices. And the average man who last year went ts other states wishes he was back.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

Polk county people marveled greatly at the hot winds that visited them during two days recently. Perhaps they were a blessing in dis guise. as they are the boil weevil's greatest enemy---except those who grow no cotton.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

An uncle of Colonel Duncan B. Cooper has come to his rescue by dying and leaving him a snug legacy. The lawyers will probably find use for it before he is cleared of the Carmack murder.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02
THE MrNA nyENrNG STAIR

fs a progressive newspaper furnishing to its readers a daily service covering erai happenings. as we'll as those items of local news that go Co make home paper Invaluable to citizens of any com munity If you want the news in your home each week day. subscribe for The Evening Star. By carrier or mall, 40c
 CT month.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

President Taft is out strong for postals savings banks, but that won't make much difference if he follows the course he pursued while Aldrich and Cannon were NOT revising the tariff downward.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

The new tariff law started cut Gs the Payne Iaw--but IS a mighty sight Letter known as the Aldrich bill Bet Payne feels good over it, too.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

Talk never built railroad it can only get enough people to THINK ING ALIKE and then WORKING TOGETHER. Then results are sure fn fnllnw
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

The President is said to have taken to boxing. It will take lot more than that to make the average man think he is trying to carry ou. the Roosevelt policies.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

It is not just few business men who will be hurt if Mena does not get another railroad. It is every home owner, every farmer. every laboring man in Polk county. It will hurt YOU.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

Governor Johnson of Minnensota is being operated upon the fourth time for appendicitis. Perhaps he is being trimmed up for another race for the Democratic nomination for povernor
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

The Kansas City Journal assumes to believe that the country wants a rest on the tariff question. If the country consists of the big East ern corporations and trusts, the Journal is right.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

If Mena starts in to build rail- road east, there's several big slate companies with property on the line that will be sure to help. They would be helping themselves by helping Mena help herself.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

All this talk about Mena getting another railroad is useless twaddls- : that is. if we make it so by mel ely thinking and talking about it.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

Many town has been built by a single line of railroad, but a perma- nently prosperous city, was never maintained by one line.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02
to follow

The worst is yet to come. AL drich, having revised the tariff, is getting ready to take up the refer nation of the monetary system of the country.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

Little Rock, Pine Bluff and even Waldron are figuring on new rail roads. And if Mena is not sde's asleep.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-09-02

over and give that fellow a good cussing for me. I'm a little afraid to do it myself. ''
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
AIRSHIPS IN A
Theory That They Would Be Used AS
Means of Attack.

Discussing the airship in time of war,
Colonel U. j. Lewis, a retired army Of
ficer, of Chicago, said to a Washington
Post reporter nat in the next CONT
mental war it is inconceivable that the
effectiveness of the mode of attack by
means OF the flying machine will not
be utilized.
Any n can realize the immense
service a practical war airship of suf-
ficient size can have. Instead of bring
ing up heavy siege guns in case of
attack it would be much more eco
nomical to drop explosive shells upon
the enemy and vessels decks from
above.
1t VIII perhaps be urged that the
gas bag Of a large airship would offer
a comparatively target" continued the
military man, but at a sufficient eleva-
ton 1 think this is by no means the
case. During the siege of Ladysmith,
in South Africa, l saw myself the cap
tive balloon of the British forces
brought slowly TO the ground by Boer
rifle fire alone. But then 1t must be
borne in mind that the balloon was
stationary and at a low elevation, very
little higher than the hill from which
the firing came. A moving airship at
q considerable elevation would form
a difficult target, and IL only Slight
damage were inflicted, there would al
ways be the chance of its being able
to get outside the enemies lines be-
fore having to come to earth.
"Shrapnel fire will probably be found
the most effective against such vessels,
but there must always be the difficulty
of getting the proper elevation for the
guns. and they could not be fired verti-
cally without the chance of the projec-
tiles on their return doing more harm
to the sid that fired than to the enemy.
"A curious connection arises between
submarines and airships, because the
latter probably will be used as a
means of attacking the former. At
present submarines are quite invisible
from the ships they attack, u from
the elevation of a balloon or airship
their movements under water could be
observed with the utmost distinctness.
"Airships will therefore probably be
used - ~reconnOitre the movements Of
submarines on behalf of the ships the
latter are about to attack, and may,
Furthermore, be used to drop projectiles
upon them. If one fleet employs air
ships to watch submarines so will it's
enemy, ard then III time must come
when the new craft will attack each
other, and the first air fight will take
place"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
MARX TWAIN YEARS AGO.
Being Some Commentary on the Noted
Mans laziness,

From the New York Times.
w. Landsittel is the griZzled foreman OF
the Lyons Republican, which is the re-
publican organ of Wayne county. N. Y,
Nv been I'm this business for 80 years
now he said to a Times reporter last
week as he stroked his gray mustache,
''and l have seen some lazy people In my
time. Yes. sir, while the newspaper BUSH
ness is exacting and telling on the nerves.
1t does harbor some really lazy folks from
time to time"
Whom do you consider the champion
lazy man of the newspaper gamer he was
asked.
That is SO easy to answer was his
reply, with a wan smile, "Almost any OF
the real old-timers in this business would
give you his name right off the bat. Why,
Mark Twain holds the belt"
The Republicans foreman reflected.
~ was a printers levi on the Buffalo
Express 40 years ago. he said, "and one
of my duties was to sweep the room where
reporters and editors worked. Every day
during the time that Mark was a partner
in the publication OF the Express / was
bribed by him in the cause OF rest and
ease. / would sweep every corner of that
room, and when | came to Marks desk,
on which hts feet reposed, he would look
me over and ask me TO go away. Il don't
want my part of the office cleaned up he
would say. Please don't make me move,
I'm so comfortable hen he would give
me a nickel to get away from him and
leave him in his own corner without any
of the debris of the business cleared away.
He would rather die there in the dust and
truck than uncross his legs or tilt his chair
back SO that / could sweep up"
Brother Landsittel stopped the press
long enough to find out what was chip
ping the corners OF his pages as they were
swept downward from the big rollers.
Yes, sir" he ruminaIed, "he was GER
tainly lazy. One day he gave me a nickel
to dot an T. in his copy for him. He did
certainly enjoy life, that man did"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
What Is M oney?
From the Confidential Banker.

rIOill the SOIlINutllldl bdiheT.
The government is now engaged in a
desperate effort to solve the question,
What is whisky?' The greatest of all
questions of this sort is the old one,
What is money!" Here are a few Of
the popular
Money is the electric sign of success.
1t is the gasoline motor of all evil.
1t is the thing that makes big men small
and make small men big.
1t is a very popular substitute for love.
1t is found in a miser's heart, on a
woman back and on a spendthrift's fin
ger tips.
1t is the favorite argument of the CAPT
talist.
1t is a chemical that changes a states
man into a politician.
1t was the first ~aeroplane. 1t few 5000
years ago.
1t is a legal tende in almost every
country but Already.
1t is something that unfortunate people
nave to use in place of happiness. refine
ment and contentment.
1t is a small portable section Of hades.
1t is the key to everything but heaven.
1t is something that makes the mare
go. but that never started a busted auto
mobile.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
Duel With a Tiaer.

From the Singapore Free Press.
Three Jakuns (aborigines) and a Ma
lay CHANGED to be together in the jun
gle in lahore when they came across a
tiger. They were armed only with
parands, and the Malay, wisely decid-
ing in favor of discretion, took to his
heels. Not so the Jakuns, however. for
they at one determined to give battle,
not utilizing their numerical superior
ity, but in the most sportsmanlike man
ner arranging for the combat in a Sc
ries of duels, if necessary.
AS might have been expected, the Sc
ries vas necessary, and the end was
not long in coming. The first man who
entered the fray missed his blow and
was at once struck down, and the same
fate befell his two comrades, all three
icing killed.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
The Gods Ovsrruied.
From the Washington Star.

Apropos of examinations and their
terrors, A. e. Palmer. secretary Of the
department of education Of New York,
told at a recent dinner an odd story Of
a young African prince.
This prince" said Mr.. Palmer, ''en-
tered Yale or Harvard forget which
and amused himself with motor cars
and bulldogs till examination time
drew near.
Examination time frightened the
young prince horribly. He began to
study, and he cabled home to the king,
his father:
Examinations next week. Most diff
fcult. Implore aid OF gods in my be-
half
"A few days later this reply came
back from the barbarous west-coast
monarch:
Rites performed. Fourteen picked
youths, all sons of mobiles, have been
sacrificed. Omens propitious.'
Yet would you believe it," MI. Pal
mer concluded: The young prince
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
500 Reward, 500.

xhe readers of this paper will be pleased
90 learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure In
alI it's stages. and that is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Cata-rh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
Upon the blood and mucous surfsces OK the
system. thereby destroying the foundation
OF the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature In doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith In its cura-
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that II fails to cure.
Send for list OF testimonials.
Address r. ]. CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists. T5c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
CHILD ATE CUTICURA.

Spread Whole Box of Ii on Crackers
Not the Least Injury Resulted
Thus Proven Pure and Sweet.
Il New FORK friend OF Cuticura
writes:
My three year old son and heir.
after being put 10 ped On u trip across
the Atlantic, Investigated the stateroom
and located a box Of graham crackers
and a box Of Cuticura Ointment. When
q search was made for the box, it.was
found empty and the kid admitted
that he had eaten the contents OF the
entire box spread on the crackers. 1t
cured him Of a bad cold and l don't
know what else"
No more conclusive evidence could
be offered that every ingredient OF
Cuticura Ointment is absolutely pure,
sweet and harmless. II 1t may be
safely eaten by q young child, none but
the most beneficial results can be ex-
pected to attend Its application to even
the tenderest skin or youngest infant.
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole
Props. OF Cuticura Remedies. Boston.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
Miss Jswett's Letter TO Whittier.
From the Boston TRANSCRIPT.

Here Is an interesting passage from
a letter written by Sarah Orne Jewett
to Whittier in 1886 in reference TO a
poem just then published:
How can 1 thank you enough for
your beautiful poem, The Homestead?'
l do not know when anything has
touched me so nearly and dearly. No
body has mourned more than l over the
forsaken farmhouses which i see every
where as / drive about the country out
of which l grew and where every bush
and tree feel like my cousins! l hope
this will make people stop n think,
n i know it will bring tears to many
eyes. That line about the
squirrel in the forsaken house nobody
else would have thought of but you.
Well, / send you all the thanks one let
ter can carry"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
An Hour With Thee.

An hour with Theei when earliest day
Dapples with gold the eastern gray,
O what can frame my mind to bear
The toll and turmoil, cark and care,
New griefs, which coming hours unfold,
And sad remembrance Of the old?
One hour with Thee
An hour with Thee! when burning June
Waves his red flag at pitch of noon;
What shall repay the faithful swain
His labor on the sultry plain;
And more than care or sheltering bough
Cool feverish blood, n ~throbbipg brow
One hour with Thee
One hour with Thee! when III is set,
@ what can teach me to forget
The thankless labors of the day.
The hopes, the wishes flung away;
increasing wants and lessening gains
The masters pride who scorns my praise
One hour with Thee
Sir Walter Scott.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
From EYerybodY,s.

FROM EVerybodys
A chocolate darby and his "yaller''
girl were walking along together.
Use skeered mos TO def. Rastus."
What am yo' skeered oh, woman p
Use skeered yo'se gwine TO kiss me-
How kin / kiss yo' when Use got a
bucket on ma haid, a wash pot in one
han an a turkey gobbler in de udder?'
"Oh, well. yo' fool l wuz thinkin'
yo' could set de bucket of watah on
lie grUun', put de turkey down an turn
de wash pot ovah him, den set me on
de wash pot, frow yo' arms around me
an des hep Yo' SET"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
NatnrA

AS a fond mother, when the day is Ger,
Leads by the hand her little child TO bed,
Half willing, half reluctant to be led,
And leave his broken playthings on the
floor,
Still gazing at them through the open
door
Nor wholly treasured and comforted
BY promises of others In their stead,
Which though more splendid may not
please him more;
So Nature deals with us, and takes away
Our playthings, one by one, and by the
hand
Leads us to rest so gently. that we GO
Scarce knowing If we wish to go or stay.
Being too full Of sleep to understand
How far the transcends the
what we know.
$1,000 Henry WaIswortiI IongreiIow.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
Neal Dow in War Times.
From the Rochester Herald.

From the Rochester Herald.
Federal and confederate forces were
preparing for a battle. The federal
commander and his staff, seated upon
their horses, were consulting near the
right of the line, drawn up in the edge
Of the woods. General Neal Dow was
standing in front of his command, a very
small one, with a tremendous big hat
on his head and an enormous big sword
dangling or the ground at his side, a
picture such as one seldom sees out
side the comic papers. An aid told
General o (~perhapS he was only
Colonel Dow them that the commander
wished TO see him. General Dow strobe
down the line, the soldiers laughing
at the sight.
General Dow" said the commander.
you will march out to that opening
yonder, taking a position on that knoll,
and hold it till further orders-' or
something to that effect.
In sight of the entire right wing of
the army General Dow went marching
into the opening, his long, heavy sword
clanking on the ground behind him, his
big hat making him look like a grass
hopper under a toadstool. The COM
mander heard the army laughing and
looked for the cause.
who is that walking across the
opening2" he asked.
THAT is General Dow" said every
body.
An aid was sent to bring him back.
General Dow" said the commander.
'.wEy did you 20 out there alone? why
did you not take your command with
you?"
Dear me, general" said Dow, IT beg
q thousand paTdons. / didn't know you
meant to take anybody with me. You
didn't say so, you know"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08

my friends what it has done for me-"
Mrs. Z. HANSON, S04 East Long ST.,
Columbus, Ohio.
Another Woman Helped.
Graniteville, Vt.-"I was passing
throughthe Changeof Life and suffered
from nervousness and other annoying
symptoms. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound restored myhealthand
strength, and proved worth mountains
of gold to me. For the sake of other
suffering women L am willing you
should publish my letter. Mrs.
CHARLES BARCLAY, RED, Granite
vile, VT.
Women who are passing through this
critical period or who are suffering
from any of those distressing ills Pc
culiar to their sex should not lose sight
of the fact that for thirty years Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
which is made from roots and herbs,
has been the standard remedy for
female ills. In almost every commu-
nifty you will find women who have
been restored to health by Lydia e
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
An ~lrreparable Loss.
rom the Cleveland Plain Dealer,

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
What has happened TO me?' asked
the patient when he had recovered from
the effects of the ether.
You were In a trolley car accident
said the nurse, land it has been found
necessary to amputate your right
hand"
lie sank back on the pillows snbbiag
aloud.
Cheer up said the nurse. pattirg
HIN on the head, you'll soon leacn to
get along all right with your lett
hand"
oh, it wasn't the loss of the hanl
itself thai i was thinking Off, sighed
the victim. But on the forefinger was
a string that my wife tied around IL TO
remind me to get something for her
this morning, and now I'll newer be
able TO remember what II was"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
Y
Eminent Doctors at
Your Service Free
Not a Penny to Pay for the Fullest
Medical Examination.

If you are in doubt as to the cause
of your disease, mail us a postal re-
questing a medical examination blank.
Our doctors will carefully diagnose
your case, and If you can be cured
you will be told so; If you annot be
cured you will be told so. You are
not obligated to us in any way, for
this advice is absolutely free. You are
at liberty to take our advice or not,
as you see fit.
Munyon's, SD and Jefferson streets,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08

dull, tired feelings,
will find hope in the
advice Of Mrs. NJ.
Working, 315 Fulton
Ave, Rochester, Ind.
who said: II suffered
everything with pain
in the back, too fire.
quent passages of the
kidnav secrAtinns
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
CarI's Aspirations.

From the September Delineator.
Little Carl, 6 ears old, had been
teased a great deal by his uncle about
the vocation he would choos when he
became a a One day he overheard
his mother and a caller talking about
a certain gentleman being a bachelor.
When the caller left. his mother no
ticed hat he was unusually quiet and
seemed to be in a deep study. Finally
he said to her, Mamma, is a bachelor
a good trader"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
Keeping Up His Reputation.

From the Delineator for September.
A friend, who lived in another city, had
repeatedly promised our children one Of
his fine dogs. which, as he never lost an
opportunity to remark, had an unusually
long pedigree.
One day, as | was returning home, the
children ran TO meet me and one of them
cried, 'Oh, sister, Mr.. R has sent the
dog. DO come back to the stable to see
1t. 1t has the longest pedigree and It just
ways Il too cute"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
A Wao's Answer.
From the london Daily \

From the London Daily News.
A sentry, while on duty, was bitten
by a valuable retriever, and drove his
bayonet into the dog. It's owner sued
him in the county court for its value,
and the evidence showed that the SOL
der had not been bitten after all.
''Why did you not knock the dog with
the butt end of your rifie?" asked the
judge. The court rocked with laughter
when the sentry replied why didn't
he bite me with his tail z"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
Drew the Line.

From the Chicago Trlbune.
Baron Munchausen had just told one
Of his stories, and somebody In the
crowd had questioned the truth of 1t.
That's all right" said the baron. Il
know I'm q liar. But 1 lie merely for
fun. I don't like TO lie either for spite
or for profit. I'm not a member of any
Ananias club"
Thus, while contributing to the in
cunabula of unveracity, he escaped the
imputation conveyed by the short and
ugly word.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-10-08
Why Patrick Henry Said IL.

From the ArgOnaut.
A clergyman, who was not averse to
an occasional glass, hired an lrishman
to clean out his cellar. The Irishman
began his work.. He brought forth a
lot of whisky bottles, and as he lifted
each one looked through il at the sun,
The preacher, who was walking on the
lawn, saw him. and said: They are
all dead ones, Pat" They are!" said
Pat. We'll, there is one good thing
about it. they all had the minister
with them when they were dying"