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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

weeks. Mr.. and Mrs. Blair Johnson OF
Baltimore. Md, spent few days in War
renton this week. Mr.. and Mrs. Mason
Strother have moved into their new home
and are now WarrentonianS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
CLARENDON, VA.

Miss Sinclair Phelps enter tanned Sat
urday night at the residence of her
father Mr.. James Phelps, in Claren-
don. Mrs. Doggett of Pittsburg. Pa
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs J. W.
Phelps of Clarendon this week Miss
Elizabeth Davis Of Newark, N j., is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Duke Torrey-
son at their home near Highland Park
A Baracca Club has been organized in
Clarendon with the following officers
Mr.. John Ashby. president; Marvin
Dodd. vice president: Delbert Bolen, sec
rotary. and Carey Turner. treasurer.
Mr.. and Mrs II. w. Rector of Washing
ton, u. c., were the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. r. III. Sampsell on Chestnut street,
Clarendon. this week. Mr.. and Mrs. l..
Kelley had their guest this week
Miss Flossie Cornick of Norfolk. Va.
st hear a good deal of talk about the
price of peace"
"Well?'
What is it?''
"Just now it's a spring hat"-Louisville
Courter.Jourual
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
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The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-14
NAUGHTY DANES ABE UPSET
Acrobstlc Stunts in English Bathrooms Have Led Recently to
 Disaster.

Quite unpleasant contretemps can occur in London ballroom, says the Gentlewoman, as witness the adyen- lures of two ladies one evening not long ago The codllon was being danced and in one figure the object was td jump through 2 paper hoop.
 This well-known lady succeeded in doing, only to come violently into collision with another who was pre- pared to precipitate herself through from the other side At least one black eye and, other disagreeabe rs- suits have followed this inopportune meeting between two fair but over nasty leaders of fashion
 Apparently the ballroom is beeom- ing seeond only to the athletic field. It was during the season just closed that no less a. parsonage than Mrs. George Keppel, favorite with King Edward, came to grief in dancing the cotillon.
 One of the figures demanded that the lady jump the rope, and in essay ing this return to her somewhat dis tant girlhood Mrs. Keppel had what was described as "a nasty fall, which laid her up for some time. H
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-14
MR. PIcKWlCNS NOTED INN
Leather Bottle Much the Same as When oiekens Lived
 There.

The Leather Bottle Inn of Pickwiek fame Is still standing in the quaint old village of Gotham Dickens spent sey. eral days and nights there before and after the writing of "Pickwick." and his visitors at Gads Hill were gener- ally taken for walk through the woods to be shown the picturesque m.
 Today it is a shrine for Dickens pill srims, according to the Queen, who visit it in increasing numbers and leave their names in the well-worn bulky visitors books. Still the house remains village inn of an older time with low ceilings, oak panels, small windows and heavy furniture,
 It is very much as it was when the immortal Boz spent his time there creating the scene which is at least as we'll known as any other in the story of Mir PiclSwicR's feasts and fan eies; but the Dickens room. the bar parlor and in fact the whole house is overaowing with prints and pictures and sketches of the famous novelist and the creations of his fertile mind.
 It was in the churchyard across the road from the Leather Bottle-as it was then known, though now more often called the Pickwick lnu-that MT Pickwick reasoned long and earn estly with the Respondent Tupman. who had fortified himself at the cath CT Bottle for a premature dcparture from an unresponsiye world
 The one street of the picturesque village of Cobham forms an avenue of neat cottages. with nm atmosphere of contented old age characteristic of the county so famously described by Dickens as unapproachable for ifs 4ap- ples, cherries, hops and women' t Is in one of the lovelicst parts Of Kent about three miles from Rochester.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-14
TAKING A MEAN ADVANTAGE
Negro Pugilist's Amusing Reason for Refusing to Continue Fistic
 Combat.

negro waiter in Paducah hotel had an idea he was a prizefighter, be. ing stirred to deeds within the squared circle by hearing of the prov ess of Peter Jackson and John John son. They matched him with a Swede from Chicago. and the fight came off in a barn. Early in the first round the Swede landed hard one on the negros nose, flattening that organ about six degrees more than nature did. The crack bothered the negro, and the Swede was quick to take mo- tice of it. The Swede kept pounding at the negro's nose. pounding 1t stead fly After he had the negro's nose spread away around by his ears, in the third round, the negro rushed to his corner and began tearing madly at the gloves.
 "Herel" shouted his second, "ain't you going to fight no more?"
 No, sah,' replied the negro, with great dignity, T ain't goin to fight no more wiv' no gentleman what don't scatter his blows. ."-Saturday Even. ing Post
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-14
Cures Blood. Skin Diseases, Eczema
 Greatest Blood Purifier Free.

If your blood IS impure. thin, diseased, hot or full of humors, if you have blood poison, cancer, eating sores, scrofula, eczema. itching, risings and pumps, swell- ings or superating sores, scabby pimplyskin, ulcers, bone pains, catarrh, rheumatism, or an Y blood or skln disease, take Bot anic Blood Balm (B.B.B.) Soon all sores heal, aches and pains stop and the blood is made pure and rich. Druggists or by express S1 per large bottle. Sample free by writing Blood Balm Go !, Atlanta, Ga. B. B. E. Is es. pecially advised for chronic, dgep seated cases of blood or skin diseases, as it cures after all els fails. Sold in Mena, Ark, by w. c. Vandiyer.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-14
LAfHkM KtTRIEVES HIS
 PREVIOUS MISF0RTUNES
French Aviator Demonstrates the Fine Qualities of His Monoplsne
 at Rheims.

Betheny Aviation Field, Rhelms, Aug. 2S.-Hubert Latham, the French aviator, took glorious revenge for the hard luck which he experienced in his recent attempts to cross the English camel, and his indifatigable but hitherto unsuccessful efforts to accom- plish some notable achievement during the present meeting, by establishing a new worlds record for distance, 154 kilometers, $50 meters, or 95.SS miles. Latham covered b laps, or 150 kilo- meters in two hours 13 minutes g seconds, and full distance in two hours Is minutes 3-5 seconds, which also are worlds records, the flight being at the rate of about 6S1a kilometers an hour. as compared with 53la made by Wright at Le Mans and fraction under 50 made by Paulhan.
 Except for the one lap speed records made by Bleriot and Curtiss. this week, and Paulhan's time record in the air, Latham now holds every record for distance and speed. Like Paulhan, he descended only when the gasoline tank was empty
 Nothing could have exceeded the beauty and impressiveness of the pro. Ionged flight In grace of lines nc other aeroplane here compar with Latham's monoplane. The sightly tilted planes from tho long ahiH.like body give it a resemblance, when close. to a winged canoe, while aiiing high up in the air i, looks from the distance like mammon.h drls1n fly For an hour with fiugterl g wings, like living thing. it fought Is way against the storm of rain and wind at an average height of l5O feet mounting higher as the wind rose, until during
 he worst of the storm it was up fully goo feet The contention of the ad socates of the bi-plane that the mono plane would be unable to live in a strong breeze has been amply refuted
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-14
USE OF GLASS BRICKS
Will Admit Light to the Dark Hall. ways and to Dark
 Placements.

Germany uses glass bricks for build. Ing purposes with measureable sue. cess. In Berlin is constructed small villa, the walls of which are built of glass bricks of several shades of dark green and blue. The glass bricks are especially adapted to construction where light, cleanliness and neatness are particularly in demand. In Ham. burg they are utilized in place of windows. They admit light in walls which police regulations require to be fireproof and windowless.
 In addition to admitting light to dark railways, rooms etc, they are said to possess the same strength as ordinary clay bricks. They are also utilized in walls in yards and parti. tions in the interior of houses, sales. rooms, offices, workshops, etc, as we'll as for the construction of verandas. hothouses, kiosks bathrooms, hospl. tals, ice factories, butcher shops, rail- road stations, breweries, stables and in other places where cleanliness, light and uniform temperatures are especially desired
 The bricks are also made with a wire coating for fireproof walls. In some of the recently erected buildings in Milan, Italy. bricks made of glass have been adopted for ground and up. per floors on account of the light ob- tained. They are also coming into use for partition work in some of the hos pitals on account of the hygienic prin. ciples.
 In one of the leading banking insti- iutions of the city C. Turin the lobby office floor, which is about 36x5S feet, is entirely paved with glass bricks laid in iron frames for the purpose of admitting light into the basement, where are located numerous private boxes or vaults. In the Netherlands hollow green transparent glass bricks are used principally for light-giving purposes in machine shops and con. servatories.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-14
BANK WILL RESUME.
THE OKLAHOMA STATE BANKING BOARD ACCEPTS THE SEE.
 cURlTlEs OFFERED.
FEDERAL SUITS ARE WITHDRAWN
The Institution Win Have a Capita Stock and Surplus of s6oO, 900 Whef It Is Reore Deposits Withdrawn.

Oklahoma City, Ok, Oct 7.-Upor 14e accel ince of securities offered the state banking board by w. L. Nor. ton and some associates, it is said on authority that the Columbia Bank & Trust company's bank will be turn. ed back into the hands of US owners Inc transfer probably will be made to-day. The securities offered are said to have been brought from the easi to supplement other paper offered by l. N. Putnam, of Oklahoma City. who is prominent figure in the reorgani zation of the institution, al., who vii become one of its directors. Accord ing to Putnam the company will have a capital stock and surplus of $6OO,00C when the transfer is formally exc cuted.
 United States Judge Cotteral al Lawton will take action on the motion of c. w. Smith, filed in Guthrie, asking the dismissal of his suit as an inter vener to restrain the state bank com missioner from paying out funds of the Columbia bank.
 C. B. Ames, acting for the Natona Insurance company, gave notice that he would ask the dismissal of the suit of that company A certlned check for $25000 the amount of the com pany's deposit was paid to Ames only few depositors applied for theil money.
 In statement warmly commenting the bank guaranty law for it's bench cient operation in the case of the Columbia Bank & Trust company Gov Haskell comments the attitude of the state banker and excoriates the enemies of the guaranty law whom he charges with consistently circulat ing among state banks advice that they should not pay their assessments CHILD SPOKE WITH AUTHORITY.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-14
MADE IT PERFECTLY PLAIN
Lawyer Abundantly Satisfied with Ex- planation Made by volubie
 Witness.

The lawyer eyed the woman in the witnessbox in patient despair. Then, on the authority of writer in the Detroit News, he rallied visihly.
 "yeu say. madam" he began, that ede defendant is a sort of relation of yours. Will you please explain what you mean by that-just how you are related to the defedant?"
 Well, it's like this. replied the witness, beaming upon the court. His first wife's cousin and my second cousins first wife's aunt married brothers named Jones, and they were cousins to my mothers aunt. Then again, his grandfather on his mothers side and my grandfather on my mothers side were second cousins, and his stepmother married my bus bands stepfather after his father and my mother died, and his brother Joe and my husbands brother Harry mar ried twin sisters. I ain't ever fingered out just how close related we are, but I've always looked on him as sort of cousin"
 Quite right" assented the lawyer, feebly.-Youth's Companion.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-14
4 Fearless Woman.

Sollman, the dreaded Turkish sul- tan, in 1521 was going to besiege Bel grade. the capital of Servia. his most hostile neighbor. While slowly pro- ceeding with his military train on the dusty highroad woman stopped his unapproachable majesty. Bitterly she complained about the soldiers, who during her sleep, had carried of her cattle, the sole fortune she had You must have fallen into most profound sleep not to have heard the thieves at their work" said the sultan laugh ingly. "Yes, slept well. I slept in confidence that your majesty is watch ing over the safety of your people" :" replied the woman.
 This answer. which might have cost the woman's head. pleased the sultan because of the fearless way it was said. He restored all the cattle stolen by the soldiers.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-14
Had Biblical Proof of the Existence of
 Cannibal Cows.

Now, children" said the pretty teacher. q want you all to write a composition on the cow You know what a COW is. You know that COW gives us all the milk we drink. Now. write me something original about the COW as you know her; nothing com monplace." 1t would take several pages to print the results, but there is room for at least one composition by a girl of seven:
 "A COW is quadruped, having foui legs and four feet. She gives milk, and sometimes has horns, but not al. ways The cows baby is called a cali and sometimes bossy. When a COW talks she lows COW with horns can hook, but COW without horns is helpless. A COW is carnivorous animal when she has a chance, but she ordinarily eats grass. if there is any. A COW is a cannibal if you let her alone, for she will eat her own kind.7
 The mortified teacher exclaimed: "Sallie May, where on earth did you get the idea, the ridiculous idea, that COW is carnivorous and a canniba'! You meant to say that a COW is herbi vorous or graminivorous." No, teach CT, 1 read it in the Holy Bible. Don't you remember there were seven fine fat cows feeding near brook. ahd seven lean and hungry coVs came and ate them up? See Genesis 41:4.' Teacher reserved decision.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-14
BENNETT CUP ID MIX
THE AMERICAN AERoNAuT WON THE INTERNATIONAL BAL.
 LOON RAGE THIS YEAR,
CAME DOWN IN RUSSIAN POLAND
A oisoatch From Mix Says He Is in the Hands of Russian Police-Win- per Travelled 683.1 Miles From Starting Point.

Enrich. Oct. 7.-The international balloon race for the Gordon Bennett Cum has been won by Edgar w. Mix, inc American aeronaut of Columbus, ohio.
 Mix landed north of Warsaw in Rus sian Poland, at three o'clock Tuesday morning. He has won with plenty of lime to spare from Alfred Leblanc, tbe French pilot, his companion in the st Louis race of 1907, who came down at Rubin, Hungary, Monday afternoon. The first news of Mixs landing was contained in a personal dispatch to the Associated Press dated Ostrolonka. The aeronaut said:
 CT landed in the midst of large nine tree in the forest of Gutova, west of Ostrolonka and north of Warsaw at three o'clock Tuesday morning. encountered heavy rain. My ballast was exhausted when I came down. Al present am in the hands of the DO lice. but all is going well
 q had bad weather Sunday night It was cloudy and rain fell, and used half my ballast before morning. Tine weather was so thick that 1t was i'm posslble to locate my position, except for one hour south of Prague, and a star observation I tcok at latitude 5l451 and longitude 10.0.3S."
 Mix made his journey through fog and blinding rainstorms, which com. peled all the other pilots to descend After crossing the Swiss and Austrian Alps, Captain Messner, one of the Swiss pilots, reported that his clothes were covered with ice to a thickness of half an inch. Messner reached al altitude of 1S,0OO feet
 Of the division of balloons which were carried more to the southward Leblanc reached the farthermost p1mt. He descended in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, being forced to abandon his balloon, owing to an accident upon landing.
 Leblanc covered 1915 kilometers (GS0.31 miles). Messner's distance was about the same as Le Blanc's ana Col. Schaeck. a Swiss entrant cos cred 795 kilometers (493.G9 mlles) inc others covered lesser distances.
 Erbslohs record of ,403 kilometers (S7i.26 miles), made from St. Louis in 1907. Is the longest flight made in all international race, although behind Count De La Vaulx's record trip ta Southern Russia.
 It is impossible to explain why Mia should have been molested by the Rus sian police, as in anticipation of a landing in Russia each of the pilots was provided at Zurich with special Russian passport guaranteed by the Russian minister to Switzerland to pro tect them against annoyance.
 The American embassy at St Pet ersburg has been advised of Mix: predicament and asked to take the matter up at once with the Russian authorities.
 The distance from Zurich .o the point where Mix landed has beer given as HOO kilometers, or 6S3.l miles.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-14
1he Missouri Law Nakers.

Jefferson City, Mo. Apr. S0.--Be cause of committee meeting the measure submitting to the electors Of he state constitutional amendment providing for statewide prohibition was not reported to the senate yes erday as was expected The sen ete amended the house banking bill by ldding a guaranty feature practically inc same as the Oklahoma law. It IS loubtful if the house will pass the ill. The home rule bill was amended b take the removal power from the governor of the police commissioners and excise commissioner in St. Louis md Kansas City The bill was passed. The antl.cigarette bill is not likely to pass for the senate refused to sus oend the rules and take 1t up out ol -eeular order.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-14
TESTING STRENGTH OF BRAIN
Simple Means by Which One May De. termine on Which Side of
 Boundary He Is.

If the theory of a New York mae. lstrate is correct it is easy to ascer. tain ones state of mind without hiring an expensive alienist and submittina ones self to an embarrassing yollev of questions Any one who has a turk. ing suspicion that perhaps the strain Of life is too great and who wants to know the truth without evasion OF polite subterfuge, has but to close the eyes and try to put the tip of the in dex finger of the right hand on the end of the nose. According to the metropolitan judge this is an unfailing test of sanity. Whoever is able to do this at the first trial is presumably sane. If the finger and the nose do not touch there is screw loose some where
 It would perhaps be we'll for every one who has conscientious regard for the welfare of others and who wants to maintain an even mental bal. ance to apply this test every day, say, the first thing in the morning on aris. ing If the finger and the nose come into conjunction promptly all is we'll If there is failure to occult it is time to take advice So simple a test can be conducted secretly. It is Unneces sary to ask "Is my nose on straight?" No mirrors are required No one need be called in to help Just touch the nose with the eyes shut and the day begins sanely That will be a great comfort to many man who now rises without perfect assurance that he is on the right side of the faint line fhaf marks thn hnnndarv
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-14
ot Two Evils, the Lesser.

There are other destructive forces In nature. and even earthquakes have rivals This happened at the time os the trembler at Charleston South Carolina. several years ago A resident of the shaken city. while he felt that his duties required him to remain there to do what he might for the suf- ferers, sent his six-year-old son out of the danger and confusion to the youngsters grandfather in New York. Three days after the boys arrival the Charleston man received this telegram from his father '.Send us your earth quake and take back your boy.'
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-14
LEGAL NOTICES.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CON
 FlRMATION OF TAX TITLE

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CON-
 FlRMATION OF TAX TITLE To all whom 1t may soneern:
 Notice is hereby given that by virtue Of authority in him vested by law, ata sale be- gun and publicly held on the second Monday in June, lg02, the Collector of the Revenue of Polk County. Arkans did expose to public saic at the court house in said county, for the pay ment of the taxes, penalty and costs then due and remaining unpaid thereon, the fol- lowing described lot or parcel Of land, situate in the county and state aforesaid. to-wit: Lot z, Block B. of the city Of Mena; that at said sale c. l.. Wellner became the purchaser of said lot and received from said Collector hls certificate of said purchase. that on tho 9th day Of prll, i906 said lands not having been redeemed as provided by law, and upon the production to him fthe certificate of pur- ase aforesaid by said purchaser. and by virtue of authority in him vested by law, w. N Martin. as County Clerk of Polk County, by his deed duly executed, acknowledged and delivered conveyed said lands to the said C. F. Meliner.
 Ait persons who can set up any right totbe land SO purchased in consequence Of any in- formailty iliegality orirregularlty connected with such sale are hereby warned and called upon tu do SO before the Chancery Court of Folk County, Arkansas, at its october term, Ig0a, at which time the undersigned will pre- sent a petition to said Court for the confirm ation Of his title to said land,
 This 10th day of August, 1908
 C. r. Weliner.