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The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06

Habitual constipation is the door
through which many of the serious
ills of the body are admitted. The
occasional use of Prickly Ash Bitters
will remove and cure this distressing
condition.
Jackson Drug & Furniture Co.,
special agents.
w. c. Vandiver special agent.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06

tax for him, and if they talk con-
viencingly and attractively and hon
estly, they are sure to win. Such
advertising. followed consistently,
pays big dividend.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06

Sometimes man does not adver-
tise his business because he's the on
ly one handling his line. He forgets
that there's hardly any salable arti-
Gle but what will be used more if it
kept before The people in an attrac-
tive manner.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06

The United States Supreme court
has approved the Bank Guaranty
Law of Nebraska. There's just no
use in talking, the time is coming
that when man works and saves his
money for use when the rainy day
come and puts it in bank for safe
keeping he will be protected against
1oae
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06
Notice to Debtors.

Debtors to Thos. Hams. druggist OF
Egger, estate, will please settle their
accounts and save cost Of collection.
All bills are long overdue, and il is
expected that all debtors are ready to
settle. Thos. Suits. merchant OF
Egger, will receive amounts due the
estate and give receipt for same.
Father Gallagher.
l4-2t Administrator.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06

The Star goes into almost 5000
homes. It is fair to estimate that it
10 read By at least twice that number
Of persons. II a merchant could
talk face to face with THAI many
people each week. he'd feel sure Of
sellinG lots of his goods. That il lin
posse. but be can make his ads
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06

A good band like schools, churches,
q pretty park, clean streets, green
lawns. substantial business houses
and tasty homes, is valuable asset
to any city. And. like all the rest,
it can't be had without an effort-by
some one. It's best to divide the
load
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06

Have you noticed that invariably
it is the man who has seen much OF
the world who is most enthusiastic
over the advantages Of Mena and
Polk county.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06

There is grave suspicion that ii
any of those Mexican insurrectos
depend to much on the peace talk OF
the Diaz government. they will think
Of April when they wake up on
the other side of the river.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06

Lest we forget-the man who finds
good things in his surroundings, and
points them out to others, is a bene-
factor--a credit to his tribe.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06

Count Zeppelin Of Germany is try
ing out another new airship, and like
the rest, it is successful. From
past experiences. it is time to expect
4 breeze and wreck.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06
Soeialistic View Of whiskey.

Socialists would treat the traffic
jsiss as they would treat any other
problem. They would socialize it.
That Is. the government would make
pure liquors. would issue no license
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06

o. grief! More evidence of Lori
mer's guilt is coming out, and the
whitewash is getting so thin that
there's no hope Of hiding the shady
work Of the first investigation COM
y,,tftao
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06

That plan for a system of state
roads looks good. 1t should be de-
veloped. But it will be a long time
before the branch from Little Rock
to Mena is built and it never will be
unless Mena helps. Why not get at
our part now. and begin to enjoy its
hanafsfa7
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06

Again and yet again--if you can't
stand up for your home city and
county, please sit dswn--and do it
now.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06

q 3 proKressive newspaper lurnIsIIIHF
10 It's readers a daily service coverlne
anal happenings. as well as those itenls
az socaf news that go to make nome
81 Jer Invaluable TO citizens OF any com
mssnitv II YOU want the news In your
hnrsa ZACH week day, subscribe for The
Evening star. BY carrier or mail. soe
ser month.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14
TRY FERRO-CEMENT ROADS
Experiments With This Substance In
France Have Been Highly
Successful.

"Ferro-cement" roads are being ex.
perimented with in France. The SUBJ
stance is made of cement mixed with
straw. To make a slab or block of
ferro-cement, a mass of iron-straw is
placed in the mold, and there is poured
over it cement sufficiently fluid to
penetrate into all the interstices Of the
iron and completely cover it. When
the whole has set, the core of iron
thus intimately incorporated gives to
the block great resistance to break
age and to traction, at the same time
furnishing elasticity to compression
which enables it to stand superficial
shocks. A brick of ferro-cement l 3-5
inches thick has supported during
crushing tests, a pressure Of about 65
tons to the square inch. In breaksge
tests, the resistance was quadruple
that of ordinary cement. Resistance
to wear was no less remarkable.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14
ELECTRIC MULES FOR PANAMA
Railroad to Be Built Along Panama
for Drawing Ships From Ocean
to Ocean.

The first shipment of steel has been
made from New York for building a
unique electric railway along the Pan
anna canal for drawing great ships
from ocean to ocean. The enormous
volume of shipping across the isthmus
will be drawn on the ancient towpath
system, so that it will be unnecessary
for steamers to proceed under their
own steam. In place Of the mules, on
this curious towpath, powerful electric
locomotives will draw the largest
ships smoothly and swiftly across the
continent A steamer of, say 10000
tons, which the canal will readily
accommodate, is obviously a very
heavy burden, and the electric loco
motives will be geared to the tracks
by a middle rail in the form of
rack. The canal commission has adj
vertised for 100000 pounds of steel
ties, slots and covers and 100000
pounds of steel channels. This rack
railway will be built by the commits
sion, and will be in working order in
less than two years, in time for the
opening of the canal.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14
GOOD ROADS IN NORTHWEST
Washington State Alive to the I'm.
portance of Having Service
able Highways.

The northwest Is alive to the value
Of good roads. In a recent issue of
the Seattle (Wash.) Intelligencer the
statement is made that before the
summer is over Seattle and Tacoma
will be connected by a first-class ma
cadamized highway. In King county,
of which Seattle is the seat, there
will be 100000 available, including
state aid, for road improvement this
year. Much of this will be spent on
a trunk line destined to connect Seat
tie and Everett. From Everett to
Tacoma an improved road is mat
ter of the near future. This road
work is part of a general plan to build
a trunk line from the northern to the
southern boundary of Washington.
which in turn will become part of
highway from the Great Lakes to the
ocean, through the northern tier Of
state, and this will connect with an.
other trunk line from British Columbia
down the coast to Mexico-a dream
OF that wide-awake country that is
certain to be realized in the next few
years. :a---.-.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

than it does over good ones; how with
good roads the farmer can market his
produce at any time he desires to do
SO and take advantage of market con
ditions and get the most for what he
has to sell.
Bad roads are serious handicap
to social conditions, and sometimes for
weeks at a time jewellers in the farm
home are marooned by stretches OF
impossible roads. They cannot get
out to see anybody and nobody can
get to see them The town that Is
five miles away might as we'll be twice
that We know that man is a sociable
thing-it is part of his nature-he can
only grow and develop by meeting his
fellow men-touching elbows-and by
social and business intercourse.
We know that bad roads have been
responsible in a very large degree for
driving the young people from the
farms to the cities. The census for
the last thirty years has shown an
ever increasing drift Of the best brains
and blood of the farm to the city. This
Is true notwithstanding that there is
no better business in the world than
farming, if it is done along up-to-date,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

we'll as muscle. In such a school the
boy and girl would be able to get a
high school education and live at home
upon the farm. - 81; ..srs-.. ,-~--
The school would be the social as
we'll as the educational center of the
township-the rallying point where the
citizens could go and hold meetings;
it would develop the social life, would
be strong and helpful, and the young
people would find in the central school
and the associations that go with it,
and the school spirit that would be
developed, a satisfying condition that
would make life upon the farm at
tractive instead Of otherwise.
Another handicap to progress and a
menace to our whole country, that is
very larely traceable to bad roads,
is the fact that so many thousands of
farms are passing from the hands of
owner into the hands of tenants. The
weaving of the children from farm
carries the patents away when ad-
vancing years makes it necessary for
them to lay the burdens down. We
are building up peasantry (it sounds
hard to call it thaD which promises
trouble in the future and raises the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

times, and said that I ought to have an
operation. / would not listen to that,
and when a friend of my husband told
him about Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and what it had done
for his wife, 1 was willing to take it.
Now / look the picture of health and
feel like it, too. can do my own house
work, hoe my garden, and milk cow.
/ can entertain company and enjoy
them. / can visit when 1 choose, and
walk as far as any ordinary woman,
any day in the month. / wish I could
talk toevery sufferingwomana ndgirl."
Mrs. DEMA BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
The most successful remedy in this
country for the cure of all forms of
female complaints is Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
1t is more widely and successfully
used than any other remedy. 1t has
cured thousands of women who have
been troubled with displacements, in
flammation, liberation, fibroid tumors,
Irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
that bearing down feeling, indigestion,
and nervous prostration, after all other
means had failed. Why don't you tryit?
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

up an education unuer town conuItlons
they are getting the town microbe
along with the education. They form
friendships and become part of the So
cial life of the school; they are not
willing TO go back upon the farm with
it's dreariness and isolation No one
ought to blame them for this, in fact
they are to be commended in many
instances. The country lass and youth
must have the social life that natures
demand. This sociological fact must
be reckoned with.
The National Educational commits
sion, made up of eminent educators.
tions, has been studying this subject
for a long time, and 1t says that the
solution is only to be found in the
consolidated township school, where
instead of eight or ten isolated school
houses, placed at intervals at the cross
roads throughout the township-bleak,
dreary and uninviting-there should
be one central graded school at the
most convenient central point, and pro-
visions made to take the children to
and from the school. Good roads are
necessary If this is to be done. The
school ought to have at least five acres
Of ground to serve as miniature ex,
pertinent station for the study of agri-
culture, the cultivation Of which will
increase interest in agriculture and
show that farming requires brains az
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14
SiIverEyed Beefsteak.

The London cop calls his half-pen-
ny herring his silved-eyed beefsteak,
and there are hundreds cooking every
minute In London town where one Is
eaten here Any time of the year q
big part of this city would profit by
eating fish for a spell instead Of beef.
With no open air exercise beef is a
heap harder than fish for the body to
get rid of, because there is a good deal
more water In fish than In beef or
pork. Fish are fat or lean. Eel, sal
mon, herring are more than five per
cent. grease. Halibut and mackerel
are two to five per cent fat; cod.
whiting. paddock, even less than two
per eent-New York Press
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

progressive lines. 1t renders surer
and larger return than anything else
in the worlds work, yet the fact re-
mains that the boy is not satisfied
with farm life. With good roads, so
he could get out whenever he desired
TO with his best buggy and girl, or
nerbaps an automobile, country life
would take on an entirely different
aspect.
The handicap of the bad road Is GER
tainly a heavy one and is farreacnins'
Education has suffered greatly by rea-
son of IL. The country schools are
I,ttla II any. better than they were
fortv wears ago. 1t is an open question
mbetbsr they are as good The wages
80 the teachers aA small. The
number of pupils is very limited
sometimes three or four-often not
oxer a dozen or fifteen. There Is NO
school spirit; there is no anything
M, dreariness and drudgery with little
nrorress toward education. When the
how and girl get old enough TO reahAs
.n;. condition and the parents see IT.
.h.r. Is nothing to do but send Johnny
~ Lizzie to the nearby town or city,
where the schools are better ano
rec there is an opportunity getting
an. rudiments of an education. ana
rhile Johnny and Lizzie are pickinS
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

question whether we are not establish
ing here in the central west the con-
ditions that have been the curse of
Ireland for three hundred years. The
result OF this condition is that the soil
is losing its fertility; the farm is be-
coming foul; noxious weeds are grow
ing; the landlord sQueezes the tenant
for all the rent that is in sight and
the tenant takes it out of the farm; he
cannot afford for the short lease of
one or two years to buy fertilizers;
he must simply rob the soil for all
he can get and turn it over to his sue
cessor in worse condition than he
found it, He cannot go into stock
farming on short land tenures, so he
must be what is known as a grain
farmer, and this takes the life out of
the soil The greatest economic men
ace of the world today, bar nothing,
is the depletion Of soil fertility, and
this will go on as tenantry increases.
Thus we see a few of the very many
drawbacks that are directly and in
directly due to bad roads, and we may
add to the list, as stated by the de-
partment OF agriculture, that the cost
of moving farm products to the market
and getting supplies back to the farm
over bad highways causes an extra
expense of al least $3.50 per person
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

per year over and above what ie
would cost to perform the same service
over roads that are uniformly good
One of the great world questions is
that of good roads, and the sooner the
people wake up to the fact the faster
and surer will our progress be toward
higher and better things.
There is a widespread clamor for a
parcel post and strong influences are
at work to get the federal government
committed to it. The indications are
that it will be tried out on a moderate
scale. Whether the parcel post will
prove a blessing or otherwise is an
open question, and one we will not at
this time discuss. We may say, how
ever, that any attempt at the parcel
post that contemplates extending the
service to the rural mail routes will
prove a disappointment. The condi-
tons of the public roads are such that
for weeks at time it would be physi-
cally impossible to make delivery. The
carriers are taxed now to the limit.
If he starts out with fifty pounds over
bad roads it is a heavier burden than
five times the weight over good road
Given the parcel post in full swing
and without doubt the weight the car
rier must handle will be many times
what it is now. Any one familiar with
conditions will say that without good
permanent highways the delivery Of
packages over rural routes will be a
physical impossibility The first thing
to strive for is good roads; let the
parcel post come later
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14
To Make Fruit Jar Rubbers Last.

To have fruit jar rubbers last, keep
them well covered in a jar full Of
-four until used, and as soon as re-
moved from empty jars. One can
then afford a good quality of rubbers,
as kept thus they will safely last sew
eral seasons. When there is doubt OF
old rubbers, they may often be made
to exc out one more season by using
two of the rubbers to each jar and
screwing down tight. Always stand
newly filled jars upside down until
cool, to test the tops and ruhhers. -
Designer
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14
BAD ROADS BURDEN
INWARD MARCH OF PROGRESS is
RETARDED BY MISERABLE
HIGHWAYS.
BIG HANDICAP TO PEOPLE
Costs Much More to Haul Produce
Over Bad Roads Than II Does Over
Good Roads-Effect of Good Roads
on Social Life.
BY HOWARD n. GROSS.

When one makes study Of this
great subject and sees in how many
ways the march of progress is re-
tarded by miserable highways the
country over, and realizes what a
burden this handicap places upon the
people, it is surprising that the whole
population does not rise as one man
and demand that the highway condi-
tons shall be improved to the standard
required for the twentieth century.
Road advocates have shown for
years and years how much more 1t
costs to haul produce over bad roads
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14
Exactly.

Noting that another piece of valu-
able china had been broken, Senator
Allen asked his housekeeper how the
breakage occurred, and she hastily re-
Piled:
1T fell down and just broke itself"
Merely an automatic brake" quiet
w commented the senator.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

SASKATOON offers prosperity to far
ners in every branch. Get farm in
Saskatoon district, and your own and
amily's future need worry no more. You
we're not intended to live and die striving
merely to make ends meet. Half the work
lere would swiftly fatten your bank &C
.ount. Be fair to yourself; Don't waste
more time. Write Commissioner, Board OF
Trade, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Western
NopoJo
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14
Sensitive.

You don't like educated Indians'
"Oh, yes, like them we'll enough, but
/ always feel a sense of shame when
| meet one. He knows that my an
cestors cheated his ancestors out OF
their land, and he knows that | know
he knows it."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14
Stop the Pain.

The hurt of a burn or cut stops when
Coles Carboisalve is applied. 1t heals
quickly and prevents scars. 25c and SOC by
druggists. For free sample write to
J. w. Cole & Co.. Black River Falls, Wis.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

know a woman who says she mar
ried just for fun. And yet some peo-
pie claim a woman has no sense of
humori
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14
Feminine Reasoning,

Stella-Her gown is just like yours.
Bella don't care if hers is dupli-
cate of mine, but | don't want mine a
duplicate of hers.-Puck.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

IOr TOUR OF 0V6 Gays
at a time every
month, and so weak
/ could hardly walk.
l cramped and had
backache and head
ache, and as so
nervous and weak
that I dreaded to
see anyone or have
anyone move in the
room. The doctors
gave me medicine to
ease ma AT those
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

Mrs. Wins1ow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces infamma-
ton, allays pain. cures wind collie, 25c bottle.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14
aSu EoR aTTE<,s FOOT-EASE

the Antseptic powder to shake into your hoes. Re-
lieves Corns Bunions, Ingrowing Nails Swollen and
Sweating feet, Blisters and Callous spots. Sold
everywhere, 25c. Don accept any substitute Sam
pie FREE. Address Allen s. Olmsted, lie Roy, NY
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

The silk stocking girl is very much
In evidence.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

To remove nicotine from the teeth and
purify the breath after smoking
To eradicate perspiration and body
odors by sponge bathing.
The best antiseptic wash known.
Relieves and strengthens tired, weak,
infiamedeyes. Heals sorethroat, wounds
and cuts 25 and so cts. box, druggists
or by mail postpaid. Sample Free.
THE PAXTON TOILET CO.. BOSTON. MAss.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14
Instead of Liquid
Antiseptics @PeroxldC
100000 people last year used :,
Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic

The new toilet germicide powder to be
dissolved in water as needed.
For all toilet and hygienic uses it is
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

Watch the hobble girl trying to
skip over the cobbles.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

placed anywhere, az.
tracts and kills all
flies. Neat, clean.
ornamental, convcn-
lent, Lasts all
season. Can'tspill OF
tip over, will not soil
or iniure anything.
Guaranteed eject
i've. OfalI dealers 90
sent prepaid for zoe.
HAROLD SOMERS
$50 DE Enlb Ave.
Brooklyn, N. \.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

All Relieved by Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound.

Sikest0n, Mo. -"For seven years ]
suffered everything. I was in bed
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14

To save and beautify the
teeth, remove tartar and
prevent decay.
To disinfect the mouth, de-
stroy disease germs, and
purify the breath.
To keep artificial teeth and
The Washington times., 1911-01-04
JOE CANNON HEIR
TO VAST FORTUNE
Some One Picks Speaker for
Old Spanish Bunco
Game.

Some one Is trying TO work the old
Spanish bunco game, in a revised form
on Speaker Cannon, and the Speaker
being extraordinarily wise. does not
propose to be victim.
In a letter received at the Capitol
yesterday, King, King & Co.. bankers
OF Bombay. India. announced that an
unnamed client had deposited with them
her will, in which Speaker Cannon Is
made sole heir to $4,000
II never had friend worth $500, ,000, ''
said the Speaker, land IL I had he
wouldn't have left it to me. 1 don't
know of a friend or foe in Bombay, or
in its suburbs"
The letter from India explained that
when Mr.. Cannon was just a plain, or
dinary, every day member OF the House
of Representatives he was kind to a
man who later made a great fortune.
This man, upon his death, left his
wealth to the woman in India who now
proposes to make Uncle Joe" her heir.
Recently, according to the letter, the
woman's physicians told her that she
could not live longer than six months,
and she Immediately made her will in
accordance with the stipulation of the
document which made her rich, making
Speaker Cannon her sole heir.