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The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-30
AN ALCOHOL SCHOOL.
To Teach Farmers How to Make the
 Denatured Article.

Denatured Article.
 The Government has now opened its alcohol school in the city of Washington for the instruction of the people of the United States in proper methods of making and using the denatured product.
 For this purpose a model still has been erected close by the Department of Agriculture which Is big enough to work up twenty-five bushels of corn a day, converting that quantity Of grain into seventy-five gallons of 95 per cent alcohol--that is to say, 95 per cent. pure. The plant repre- sents the smallest outfit that can be conducted profitably on a commercial scale
 The farmers cannot very well see 1t for themselves. so arrangements have been made by which they may learn about 1t. Agricultural experts from the experiment stations in every one of the States are to go to Wash ington. says Suburban Life, examine the alcohol making outfit, see how it works and listen to a course of lee. lures explaining it's management. II will be their business when they gc home to teach the farmers how to put up and how to operate plants ol this character.
 Inasmuch as such plant could no. be erected for less than $2,500 1t is obvious that the ordinary farmer would not be able to afford to con s.ruct one Of the kind. But--and here is the point--a group of farm CTS. representing small neighbor hood might easily do so. Then they would bring their cor~
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-30

Tn Colorado added a deIav.4o fred J. Boulton, discussing fbe e' ..a AL ject, the women defeated tho 'ao- lltical machines and elected po' ful friend of the people to tb bench" 'Ae
 BOSTON GIRL CHARMS pApro
 Of all the Americans who
 seeking fame through art in pa1, a,e the one who has achieved tho oraa. .' est success this season is l,,t's Boston girl, Aline van Barent7an eleven years old, whose piano citals have been reported brieav ,g cable despatches to The New yo-, World.
 In spite of the fact that sbo .. received praise from royalty and oth CT distinguished men and womoa she is still an unaffected simnlo n. tie American girl
 She takes as much pleasuro |. playing difficult works of Liszt poa thoven, Chopin and the other mas ters as other girls take in their aoIIs
 Aline has taken two medals at inc famous Conservatoire here. and ,s now trying for the Grand Prize sba was younger than any other pupil ev. CT admitted to the Conservatoire ana is younger by two years than anv other person ever permitted to trv for the Grand Prize. Those who have heard Josef Hoffman and TO. member when he was youthful prodigy in knickerbockers say that little Aline has future assured even more brilliant.
 She has given two concerts in Paris, both attended by persons well known in the American and English colonies and in the social life of the capital. Infanta Eulalia has been as. siduous in her attentions to tho American prodigy. and since this mark of royal favor it has become "the thing" to have Aline at after noon receptions.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-30
SECRETARIES TO THE BRAIN.
Centres Which, Once Taught, Attend
 Always to Same Details.

l Centres Which, once Iau9nt, Htteho
 Always to Same Details.
 Habit is the requirement of ma i chine-liAe or automatic power of per ! forming certain duties, Actions which we have at first to exercise our in 1 tellectual centres to be able to per ! form are ultimately discharged with out any reference to our mind or sciousness.
 Indeed when the intellect comes to interfere with the automatic per fcrmance of such acts, says the Lon don Illustrated News, they are apt to be less perfectly executed than when the machinelike activity of brain is permitted to nave its sway Take the case of reading. writing and spell ing: at first we have to acquire these gifts through the exercise of close intellectual attention; later on they are automatically performed.
 We do not after the childish stage of education require to bethink our selves over the shape of letters, the sound of syllables or the formation of words by act of the pen. Clearly what was at first an intellectual act has become purely mechanical.
 Also in exercising the other R and in doing a sum we arrive at a correct solution without having to think out the rationale of the opera tion as we did when taught arith- metic at school The saving to the. intellectual centres which deal with questions and affairs of every moment must be enormous in consequence of this division of labor. The centres in question are left free to exercise judg- ment and to engage in the highest of our conscious life.
 In the brain structure we actually find centres which discharge these automatic duties and play the part of private secretaries to the head of the mental firm Even when we come to higher brain operations a like principle prevails.
 Centres are set apart for govern ing muscles. others receive messages from organs of sense. and others again, sitting in the judgment seat report upon information received.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-30
PARIS MYTHS EXPLODED.
An American Elhowed Into Gutter B>
 "Politest People on Earth"

"Politest People on Earth"
 Tradition declares the French to be the most polite people in the world. They're not, writes Samuel Hopkins Adams in Golfers Individually the Frenchman may be courteous. Collec- lively he lacks the essential element of courtesy, regard for the feelings of others.
 Charming in private, in public he is an individualist to the verge of savagery. In the theatre he Is a nuisance, on the street he is a boer. travelling he is--there is no other word adequate to the occasion-a hog You discover this on the occa. sion of your first promenade in Paris.
 My first day on the boulevards of Paris was spent mainly in the gut. ter, my second in apologizing to peo- pie who were urging me thither. My third devoted to doing some but. ting myself. My fourth. fifth and sixth l nursed lame shoulders.
 Now I have a hardened spot in my soul and two more on the front of my coliarbone. and can looa, straight into the eyes of an elderly French lady with long gray whiskers and convince her that she doesn't want more than two-thirds of tba sidewalk. and if she does want it she doesn't get 1t. This sounds ungentle. manly, but it's necessary. For if vol, let yourself get shunted into the street often enough it's only oues. ton of time when watchfm taxI auto will get you.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-30

With seeming tirelessness. the am
 mai mcunted long hill, and tho
 lights of a village steamed far ahead
 A sleigh could be seen against ths
 whiteness of field at the foot oi
 the slope.
 "That's Bolton." said Mir. Miner
 "and I think there's our man.
 Down the hill and. across the fiat they shot like an arrow rapidly ap- preaching the sleigh When within
 hailing distance. Mir. Miner shouted; Wait 8 minute, Lem!"
 The man addressed dropped the lines. sprang out and ran through an orchard at one side of the read His pursuer made no attempt to follow him. but instead called scothingly to the team. till the horses recognized his voice and slowed to a walk. when he hurried to their heads and stop ped them
 They were within a half-mile of Bolton. and over thirty miles from Lucy's home. They slowly went on 10 tho village the girl well pleased at driving such spirited. although gentle horse; Miner was in charge of tfie team ahead
 At Bolton they stopped long enough 10 call up Mr. Rogers at the Corners. Lucy learned that her mother had been there, but had gone home, leav- Ing a neishbor's son to wait for news, should anything be heard before the store was closed The girl explained that she would go back to Mir Min ers house, and would return home, after dis9osing of the pork, on the following day.
 It was past midnight when she 1 reached a warm bed feeling so cold | and exhausted that it seemed to her l she would never be comfortable again But by morning she had al most forgotten her fatigue.
 Old Side was also refreshed, and she so humored his pace that he reached Mir Walden's blacksmith shop at the Corners in fair condition, liter leaving the pork at MT. Blake 'lee's.
 Once shod, he went blithely home ward. pausing only to "sidestep' at he two intervening hills. Lucy found Ter father much better his worry lad apparently conquered the quinsy, 'y causing him to forget it. Of course he daughter came in for warm raise, although she was gently chid- d for her reclxlessness in setting if alone to hunt down thief.
 As fer Decker, he had fled from hat section of the country. and was ever heard from again.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-30
TO COMBAT INJUSTICE.

An academic association for wom- an suffrage has been founded at lu' rich, Switzerland It aims to com bat injustice toward equal laws and equal pay as well as equal suffrage for both sexes. It is intended to ap- peal in the first instance to men and women of university education as be- ing best able to understand the needs and help the movement. In America there has been similar in' stitution for several years, the Col- lege Equal Suffrage League, wnlch the advocates of the movement TOT equal suffrage say has accomplisnea great deal of good.-New lork Sun.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-30
rrIficish

se asr the doors and close the shut
 zers to, kmk think that We are s2se from
 prying eyes; TArn through a crack we peep to erfticise Mn5 gre dlspleased by what our neighbors do; xzuf so. men smile and whisper as kley pass, Ts fkink we do not know our house 1s glass; -EHesrn Talbot Porter in Lippincotts.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-30

Women are barred from the Island Of Ferdinand de Norouha, belonging to Brazil. It Is reserved for oonvicts.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-30

on nastnre lands in Alaska grpas erows six feet high.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-30

The French Korgo has a pisson rcstai service.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-30
LABOR To AIp sI1rrRAnn

LABOR TO AID sTrFTRACr
 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. presi. dent of the Interurban Woman suf. frage Council of New York, appeal. ed to the delegates of the Central reiterated Union to assist the conn. ell in the collection of one million signatures to a woman suffrage neti. ton to Congress A committee from the council was empowered to ask all affiliated unions to have their members sign the petition. The q. F. U. delegates were instructed to aid the work. Mrs. Catt, in a speech to the delegates, said.
 President Gompers ana vice pras, dent Mitchell of the American Fed eration of Labor are on our advisory board Tor the petition. We will have them go before Congress and speal, in our behalf.
 President-elect Taft says be ha- ieves in woman suffrage. but that ne does not believe the people are ready for it. Many members of Con. eress say the same thing. We vii | get signatures from all parts of inc country for our petition. which wa nope Will be the largest ever pre-. sented to Congress.
 In the legislatures of Eurona woman suffrage is one of the great questions of the day. The movement 10 extend the suffrage engages inc attention of the entire European non. uiation. Women in the great Eu. ropean cities have special privileges Tn England. Scotland and Ireland women vote on all questions excent Tor members of Parliament Tn Norway women having small proper. " rights have the right to vote for members of Parliament and are also 1 permitted to sit in Parliament T., Finland women have universal su,. rage In Australia and New Zealand .ney aiso have the suffrage. Only in America are they dIsfranchisedv =
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-13
LOWERING MAKES
SERIOUS CHARGE

book, and it turns out that many of
them are ex-convicts, and they stand
good chance of returning to the
penitentiary."
The speaker was pressed by
Shackleford of Missouri for informa-
tion as to who the convicts were, but
Lowering would go no further than
state that before long they would be
produced in court. Their names, he
said, had been brought before the
grand jury at Washington and New
York, and at the proper time would
become known to the general public.
Further referring to Rainey, Low
ering said: This gentleman has been
made victim or he is too willing to
asperse such fair names as Charles
Taft. Douglas Robinson. William
Nelson Cromwell. Roger Farnham
and several others" 1T was" he
said. "a shameless prostitution of the
privilege OF free speech which the
members enjoyed on the floor of the
house"
For this Ntterance Lowering was
called to order by Lawrence OF
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-13
HARD RAIN STORY
SWEEPS THE COAST

Wave Motor company disappeared in
the waves today during the storm,
causing damage according to the
company of 100000.
The storm of the last two days in
Sacramento broke at noon today and
the total precipitation amounted to
3.64 inches. Some of the streets in
the residence district are flooded due
to the new sewer system not being
connected with the trunk lines, but
no damage is done. The American
river is a foot below the high water
mark reached last month.
STOCKTON, Feb. 12.-All streams
are over running their banks as the
result of the heavy rainfall in the
mountains and the reports from the
foothills are that the freshets are
nearly as high as they were three
weeks ago. Indications are that the
water will overflow the lower sec
tions Of the city. Reports from the
Calaveras river east OF here state
that the water is dangerous high
covering the farming lands In all di.
rections
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-13

PAYS TRIBUTE
TO LINCOLN
DEATH RESULTS
FROM CLOUDBURST
in CALIFORNIA
(By Associated Press.)

PASADENA, Feb. 12.-As the re-
suit of cloudburst in Rubio canyon
above Pasadena this afternoon,
terrific flood TO water rushed down
the narrow canyon and carried away
the foundations of the Rubio canyon
pavilion located at the foot of Mount
Lowe, ON an incline built over the
canyon at this point, precipating the
building into the ravine and burying
six persons in the ruins. Fred T.
Drew, the agent of the Pacific Elec-
trio railroad, with his wife and four
children, lived in small house built
as part of the pavilion, and all
were carried down with the struc-
ture
Mrs. Drew is in the hospital and
tonight her life is despaired of. One
child is dead, being buried under
tons of earth and rock.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-13
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-That
Representative Rainy of Illinois had
received from the New York World
regarding the Panama
canal affairs, which formed the sub
ject of his recent speech, that ex-
convicts had investigated the stories
OF fraud and corruption pertaining to
the requirement of the title by the
United States of the property, was
the charge made in the house by
Lowering of Massachusetts,. Lover
ing declared that the perpetrators
of these false statements had known
the story and their doings reveal a
chapter in the history of blackmail-
ing that is rare in the annals of
crime"
Buleson of Texas wanted to know
the names of the gentlemen Lowering
was referring to, but the speaker pro-
tested he was laboring under great
difficulties because of the absence OF
Rainey from the chamber. 81 want
to say" he said. that these men
ave been run down and brought to
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-13

Massachusetts, his colleague, who
was in the chair. Lowering protest.
ed that he had mentioned no names
except that of Rainey and those
which were spoken of in the house
and in the public press.
Upon the suggestion of Gaines OF
Tennessee that Rainey, who was
scheduled to make the Lincoln speech
at Baltimore had been sent for and
that the speech should proceed no
further until he arrived, Lowering
yielded the floor temporarily. Rainey
upon his arrival at the house stated
the Baltimore engagement prevented
his remaining throughout Lovering's
remarks. but that he would answer
later should he find 1t necessary.
Last fall Lowering said the stories
were offered to the Democratic cam
paign committee. but were not used
because they could not be substanti-
ated. Continuing Lowering stated
that after blackmailers had failed 10
ex:ost money. they In desperation.
caused the reports to be published In
the New York World.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-13
(By Associated Press. }

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. l2.-Ac-
cording to Alexander McAdie, the To-
cal weather forcaster, this city has
had thirty-six rainy days out of forty
three since the first of January. He
stated the storm of yesterday and to-
day which covered the entire state,
had been the heaviest in the Sacra-
mento valley during the present sea-
son, and up to this evening 2O.29
inches of rain had fallen, of which
16 inches fell since the first of the
year. Although showers are predict
ed for tomorrow the sky is clear and
the rain has ceased.
At Los Angeles the rainfall OF the
present storm reached 1853 inches,
making a total fan OF 1858 inches
for the season. A high wind prevails
and a gail is blowing OF the Califor-
MIA coast. The rainfall is general In
southern California. and some dam
age Is reported In the country dis
tricts.
The steel pier at Redondo and 10o
feet OF the approach OF the Starr
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-13
(By Associated Press.)

HODGENVILLE (Ky.), Feb. 12-
The centenary of Abraham Lin
coins birth was observed here today
in manner befitting the respect of
the great emancipator. Nearly 1000
people were present, and when Presi-
dent Roosevelt and party arrived
they were greeted with a great ova-
tion. The reception committees con-
Quoted the chief executive to the
rostrum under canvas covering
amid deafening cheers. The presi-
dent was the pricnipal speaker of
the day, and spoke as follows:
We have met here to celebrate
the hundredth anniversary of the
birth or one of the two greatest
Americans; of one of the two or
three greatest men of the nine
teenth century; of one of the greatest
men in the worlds history. This
rail splitter, this boy who passed his
ungainly youth in the dire poverty
of the poorest of the frontier folk,
whose rise was by weary and pain
full labor, lived to lead his people
through the flames of a burning
struggle from which the nation
emerged, purified as by fire, born
anew to loftier life. After long
years OF iron effort, and of failure
that came more often than victory,
he at last rose to the leadership of
the Republic at the moment when
that leadership had become the stu
pendous world-task of the time
He grew to know greatness but never
ease. Success came to him, but
never happiness, save that which
springs from doing we'll painfu1
and vital task. Power was his, but
not pleasure. The burrows deepen
ed on his brow, but his eyes were
undimmed by either hate or fear
His gaunt shouldrs were bowed, bu
his steel thews never faltered as hi
bore for a burden the destinies of hi
people. His great and tender hear
shrank from giving pain; and thu
task allotted to him was to pour ou
like water the life-blood of thu
young men, and to feel in his ever.
fiber the sorrow of the women. Dis
aster saddened but never dismayet
him. AS the red years of war wen
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Says that RhyOIite Has Not kept
Its Word and that Bill is for
the Purpose of Selling
Real Estate.

The following Beatty Bullfrog Miner published
Beatty division is viewed by
those lots in Rhyolte, and who
aspants county Office That the affair is g
certain and the Miner asks the legislature
Here is the view as practically expressed not
Beatty but other towns in the south with the exception
of Rhyote
Nye county introduced the
semby by Mr. Kane of
opposion is so strong that
assemblyman Rho the only supporters of
bill in the Nye delegation
Bufrog is o. proposed county.
Rhyolte get the county
Pioneer and Spring
make Rhyolite county seat Immediately
Section of names Town OF Rhyote as county seat
provides taken within sixty days
fourth the petition The town getting the highest vote
permanent county seat
Under the bill Sam Lindsay
appoint the other two Then
appoint the county oers Thus Rhy
the advantage.
appease of Nye county the Rhyote bunch
agrees division at the first standard parallel
small county and big sal
higher to
Nye county county
y newly of Clarke The
taxpayer the fiddler the bill
introduced please call at the Beatty Miner office
county full of Nye county debts
shall quarrel $40 day decide whether
county shall anything of Nye county
The bill leaves Rhyote free to rent buy
for saddle the cost the
people
The division should be on the base line twenty-five
Bulfrog would be the tr
angular mother Nye 1t anything to give Rhyo
a lot of fat Offices
a copy the records, and
tunties for graft numerous.
High will the investment of
capital.
the house in of county
of the Rhyolte buildings for sale?
about the of county division
bill promises
passed Beatty Therefore call
the legislature to kill the bill
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-13
President DweIIS on Happiness of
American People as Result
of the Work of Great
Emancipation.

by they found him ever doing his
duty in the present, ever facing the
future with fearless front, high in
heart, and dauntless of soul. I'm
broken by hatred, unshaken by
scorn, he worked and suffered for
the people. Triumph was his at last;
and barely had he tasted it before
murder found him, and the kindly,
patient fearless eyes were closed
forever.
AS a people we are indeed be-
yond measure fortunate in the char
acters of the two greatest of our
public men, Washington and Lin
coin. Widely though they differed in
externals, the Virginia landed gentle
man and the Kentucky backwoods-
man, they were alike in essentials,
they were alike in the great quail
ties which render each able to
render service to his nation and to
all mankind such as no other man
of his generation sould or did rem
der. Each had lofty ideals, but each
in striving to attain the lofty ideals
was guided by the soundest common
sense. Each possessed infiexible
courage in adversely and soul
wholly unspoiled by prosperity
Each possessed all the gentler vir.
tues commonly exhibited by good
men who lack rugged strength OF
character Each possessed also al
the strong qualities commonly ex
hibited by those towering masters Of
mankind who have too often showr
themselves devoid of so much as the
understanding of the words by which
we signify the qualities of duty, O.
mercy, of devotion to the right, o.
/ lofty disinterestedness in battling
for the good of others. There have
| been other men as great and othel
men as good; but in all the histor!
of mankind there are no other twt
! great men as good as these, no othe
two good men as great. Widel.
though the problems of today diffe
from the problems set for solution
to Washington when he founded thi
nation, to Lincoln when he saved
and freed the slave, yet the quail
tiles they showed in meeting thes
problems are exactly the same a
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JAPAN EN1ERTAINS
KINDLY FEELINGS
TOWARD AMERICA

PEORIA (Ills), Feb. 12.-De-
claring that his country entertained
the most friendly and greatful senti-
ments towards the United States, and
that war between this country and
Japan was an impossibility, Baron
Takahira, the Japanese ambassador
to the United States, delivered the
principal address tonight at the
Creve Couer clubs banquet in honor
of the centennial anniversary of the
birth of Lincoln Takahira was en-
Enthusiastically received. In his ad-
dress he gave brilliant eulogy to
the life of Lincoln from a foreign
point of view, and concluding paid a
tribute to the golden rule diplomacy
as exemplified by Lincoln and Hay.