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The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10
Farm Sold Twice in Short Time.

The Choate farm, better known as the Hartman place, located six miles west of Mena on the Rocky road, has been twice sold within the last few months. W. A. Spencer, who came here. early in the fall from Texas, bought the place from MT Choate, and he had just fairly got located on the same when w. A. Mize, also a Texan, came along and took up the place at a price fixed by Mir. Spencer, tho Mr. Spencer was mot particularly anxious to sell. The last sale was made thru the Payne X Sunderman agency. Mir. Mize and family had lived in Mena for a short time, having been located on North Eleventh street.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10

night from pneumonia, and was buried Thursday afternoon. Tho family has our deepest sympathy in this. their time of trouble.
 Miss Olive Sunderland of Vermil- lion, Kas. Is visiting here with her aunt and uncle, and is going home with R. D. Sunderland and family. to spend some time in Washington.
 R. D. Sunderland and family of Cioldendale, Wash. with his aunt. Miss K. w. Green, of Munsey, Pa, are visiting with his brother and sis ter, J. A. Sunderland and Mrs. J. A. Cunningham.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10

Des Arc, where he went to spend Christmas with his grandparents. We are all glad to see him back in school once more.
 Professor Harris says that there shall be no complaint of cold rooms at Acorn this winter. All fires are going at a. m. these cold morn ings.
 Hardie Jones has sold out to a MT. Wilson, formerly from LOnoke county. Mir. Jones will probably remove to Mena. Acorn commun- ity will sustain a loss in Mr. Jones removal which will be hard to fill. Norbert Bluitt wrote Professor Harris a card from Kansas City. as- surfing him that the former was still working with his arithmetic. If he keeps on this way he is sure of getting an education.
 School Kid
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10
FACTS FROM FREEnOM.

Nola' Cummings made business trin. to Mcna Tuesday.
 Mansell Jones and Mart Leming were in Mena on business Monday.
 Harry I. Davis. who has been em- pioyed at Texarkana. is home for a visit with his family.
 Ella Jane. little daughter of MT. and Mrs. John Lively. has been quite sick.
 Mrs J. II Maddox. Mrs. ]. M. Day and Mrs. c. r. Chamblin spent last Tuesday with friends in Potter.
 MT. and Mrs. Chas. Cummings of Muse, Ok came Mandavs of last week for brief visit with -pelafiyes here. They were arcornbafiieff home on "Wednesday by Luther
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10
DALLAS DOINCS.

Mrs. W. S. Sommerville of Route Three. was visitor in the Valley Friday.
 Mir. Patterson of Howard county. has moved to the old Carder house, now owned hy NJ. A. Stratton.
 The owners of the Beaston place are building a fine new house there. It was badly needed and makes the place look much better.
 Mrs. w. A. Baker and little daugh- ter. Ruth. of Mena, spent the week. end with Mrs. Eugene Sommerville and Mrs. s. A. Nichols. M
 Mr. Matthews. who has just moved into Mrs. D. H Hopkins house at the foot of the hill. is said to be very sick with pneumonia.
 John. Ogden of Rocky has ahoul finished moving to, the Mnxen place Mrs. Ogden is still in Texarkana' talk ing care of a sick daughter.
 II. q. Milham died "Wednesday
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10
Russell Burtch Writes Homefolks.

Mir. and Mrs. l.. E. Burtch re- ceiyed letter Monday from their son Russell, who is stationed with the National Army at Camp Doni- phan, Ok. He writes that orders have been issued for a transfer of the troops to some point in Virginia, and that the start is to be made on January i2. He is one of 9 men that have been chosen to accompany the stock train on the trip, and he thinks that they will go on the Rock Island by way of Howe, and if this be true the members of the family plan to meet him at Howe. He adds that the plan is to travel 36 hours, land then make layover of 24 hours, and he is hoping that one of the lay overs will be at Howe.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10
EGGER ECHOES.

Bessie philpot made business trip to Mena Monday.
 Robert Thornton. who has been visiting in Texas for the last few months, returned home Saturday. Mrs. Mary Gee of Castle, Ok, who has been visiting relatives here, re- turned home Wednesday.
 James Vanhorn and Wilburn Phil pot went to Mena Monday to buy cotton.
 ]. W. philpot, Frank Egger, Will jam Barton, Marion Martin and Mark Lofts. all of this vicinity are sick with measles.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry Diekerson and MT: and Mrs. Darrel Lee spent Sat urday night with Mir. and Mrs. Frank Chambers of Sprinedale.
 Jaunifa
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10
Hotel Chanaes Hands.

Mir and Mrs. Jesse PhiIpot, on Monday morning took charge Of the Dickson hotel, having purchased the interest of Mir. and Mrs. Chas. H. Higgins in tine same. Mir. and Mrs. Higgins and sons started out Mon day afternoon on 7an overland trip in their automobile, to Joplin. near where they are going to live on a farm. They went by way Of Hot Springs.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10
GRANNIs GRAINs.

Miss Nirvie Burk is suffering with an attack of measles.
 Mr. and Mrs Plank of Michigan have returned Co their winter home near Ozark.
 \ nlee time was had at Ozark on Saturday night when Q Die supper was served. the nroceeds e0ing to- ward the purchase 0f more phono- graph records for the school.
 The Grannis Fruit and Melon As- sOciaiien mot at the office of Mex.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10
school of Instruction for Red Cross.

Mrs. W. J. Lauek, appointed as Branch Secretary at the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Local Red Cross Chapter held on Monday, announces that the first school of instruction will be held in the headquarters in Mena on Thurs day, January IT. Each branch will be entitled to at least three repre- sentatives, and they in turn will be expected when they return home to instruct the members of the branch in the work of sewing and knitting. The members of the Mena Chapter plan to furnish entertainment for the visiting representatives
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10

25,0OO to 30,0OO Americans in the Canadian forces and half as many more scattered thru other British
 Tn many instances the desires for contingents.
 transfer are due to the higher pay of the American forces.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10

Cummings, who expects to farm with his brother, Charles, the com- ing season.
 Mir. and Mrs. William Patton moved last week to their new home near Freedom Hall and Mir. Curt wright and family moved to the place vacated by Mir. Patton.
 Primrose
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10
Saw Good Cotton Land in Texas.

J. T. Winton, in from Potter Satur- day, reports that he and his brother Nj D. Winton, recently returned from visit of ten days with rela- lives in Oklahoma and Texas. MT. Winton stated that he saw some me land in the Sulphur valley of Texas and while they are doing better III eotton growing than the Polk coun- ty farmers, he adds that he saw no where better corn than was raiseu this year out in his neighborh0oo.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10

For Sale-6 thorobred Poland China
 male pigs, six weeks old; also , Duroc shoats, 3 months old. See Foru Yonnce, Oaklawn Farm. Mena, h' z Adv. & 3t z s2t
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10
Valley Farm For saIe.

i3ia, miles from railroad at Page, Ok; good improvements, consisting of two dwellings. barn; large part fenced and in cultivation. Price Ss,500, on-ffth cash or good trade, balance in 1, ?, 3. and i years, at 10 per cent. See this farm.
 Also have other smaller and cheaper farms. Can give possession at once.
 L. 0. Day, Blackfork, Ark. Adv. 305 St 5i 4t
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10

Lost Between here and Ink, on the
 old Mena-Egger road, black scarf about 2 yards long. Liberal reward fgfr Seturn tp&. ]. Wood store .--Adv. 5 3t Pit
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10

For Sale or Trade Buick Light Sis'
 1917 auto; also Ford touring car' 1916 model. Sec j. w. Bonihei' Cove. Ark.-Adv. i 2L
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10

When 1t cones to appreciating your busi- ness and giving you square deal, we claim to be ten steps in advance of the whole field. We are preparing to handle your FEED and FLOUR business. Have purchased car of GOOD LUCK Flour and Feed Stuffs; will be in the house within few days.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
What Think Ye of CHRISTI"

THE QUEST OF THE FACE Bv st.nh.n
Graham Illustrated. 1amo. DID, 297. The Las.. Mac
milan Company. " ~ ~
1t is a thoughtful and thought-pro-
voking book which Mr. Graham has
here written on the worldwide and age
long search of man for God. We know
how artists for many centuries have
striven to portray the face of the
Christ, and we have interesting legands
OF the origin Of the first such efforts.
Each has done his work according to
his own conception, putting, we may
say, something Of himself into the pict-
ure. Yet all have, by some compulsion
which we shall not assume here to
explain, appropriated more or less to
one single type or model.
SO, in their quest Of the Face, and Of
something more than the Face, all men
have their individual conceptions Of
God, and yet all have certain concep-
tions of Him in common. Admirably.
with ingenuity, with profound rever-
ence. and with rare spiritual insight,
Mr.: Graham discusses these things and
makes the reader the richer and tho
clearer-visioned for the discussion.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Near the Battlefront

THE WHITE FLAME OF FRANCE BY Mauos
Rsdfnd Warren rllustrateds limo. pp. 35s
small. MAYNARD 4 Co.
BEYOND THE MARINE By Hsnrie,t. cuvru-
Maso. Translated by Katharine Babbitt lSno.
rp Ill Small. Maynard s go.
While we have so mahy accounts of
battles by men who took part in them,
f,t is we'll to have also tie observations
and impressions of women who were
near enough to the battles to see part
|of them and to hear the sound Of the
guns. That is what we have in these
two excellent volumes. Mrs. Warren
went from England to Paris and thence
ito Nancy, Verdun, Rheims, and other
places along the front. and she gives
many fine descriptions and narratives
illustrative of. the White Flame of
France, which is the indestructible
and unconquerable spirit of the French
people. Miss Cuvru-Magot was the
"little friend" mentioned by Miss Mil
dred Aldrich in her books about the
Marne battle, and in this little volume
she gives a most interesting account
Of that memorable strife as she knew
1t from just outside the actual zone
|of fire.. Both these books are heartily
Ito be commended to all who wish
as all should -do--to understand the
spirit Of France and what the war
means to those who dwell within or
rear its zone of death.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22

son. and in Adele Saumarez, is wholly
admirable. and the incident Of George
Pickering's illness and death is man
aged in most masterful fashion. Nor
is the narrative in the early and, indeed,
the major portion of the book subject
to criticism. 1t is logical, natural and
intensely ;nteresting-barring a too
frequent tendency to indulge in the
melodramatic "little did he dream what
would be the future result of his act"
But it must be confessed that as
the tale draws toward it's close the
wires which move the puppets become
too obvious and the construction of
the plot becomes too artificial. We
shall not say that The book is thus
spoiled, but it is marred The trans
formation of what began as a folk
tale of rural England into war story,
or the giving of folk-tale a war
climax, is quite permissible, but it is
not deftly done. The marks of the
Joining together are too conspicuous.
Nevertheless, it is with ali it's faults
g capital story, worthy of commenda-
ton to seekers after clean, straight
forward, thoroughly entertaining fic-
ton, of which in these days we have
no supcrf1uity.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
For Summer Reading
All Sorts and Conditions of
Works Of Fiction

Another "Scarlet Pimpernel" story is
presented by Baroness Orczy in "Lord
Tony's Wife" (12mo, PIP. 1882; George
II. Doran Company. With prologue
at Nantes in 1888, it leads us to Bath
in 1893, and back to Nantes at the
close Of the same year; romance
of the Terror and the strenuous ad-
ventures Of that time.
A Yale graduate suddenly pitchforked
into the management Of big business,
with enemies working against him, and
with a rival striving to supplant him
both in love and in business, forms
the theme of Making Good With
Margaret" by E. Ward Strayer ill
Illustrated, 12mo. PIP. 266; George Sully
& Coz.
The Western frontier, with fighting,
adventure, love making and all the ele-
mental passions, fills with thrills the
Coolidge (l2mo, PIP. Ss1; 1. +. Dut-
ton & Coz. It is lively and interest
ing book.
A fascinating tale Of dual person
ality, with jealousy between the two
parts OF the same mans life, is "The
Man Who Survived" by Camille Mario,
translated by Frank Hunter Potter
illustrated, 12mo, PIP. 191; Harper
and Bros.)
A comedy Of growth is the pub
fishers description Of Clemence Danes
First the Blade" (12mo, PIP. SIT; The
Macmillan Company. 1t is story of
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Socialism and Sanity
AMgn1cAN1sM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY F

AMER1CANIsM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY. BY
'ohh spars" limo. pp S28. Harper e. Bros.
Intentionally or not, there is signif-
cance In the employment Of the phrase
ooc'a! Democracy in place of mere So
cialism. 1t is indicative of the unmis-
taxable drift Of the more intelligent
and thoughtful Socialists toward the
democracy which the extremists scorn.
When we find a man like Mr.. Spargo
rejecting as impracticable and prepos-
ferrous the scheme of a plebiscite on
the declaration of war, we have meas
ure of that drift. When we read in
his book passages like this
The Socialist party of America and
the pitiful remnant of the Socialist
Labor party are equally un-American
IN the sense that their meth DDS are
not IN accord with American ends.
American conditions and American
poi1lcat psychology. It stands to rea-
son that if there is ever to be sue
cessful Socialist political party It
cannot afford to ignore the political
customs, traditions and psychology of
the nation. 1t is automatic that any
attempt to build up successful DO
htlcal party while ignoring these
must fail
we realize that the writer ia first of all
an American, and only after that So
cc1alist; and that, moreover, he is aim
ing and striving for the attainment of
social reforms and not merely at the
success of new political party. Writ
ten IN such o spirit. his book is at once
scathing. indictment of the Socialist
propagandists, from whose fellowship
he has separated himself, and a strong
plea for the making Of those social re.
torms which Socialists, Democrats and
Republicans are alike agreed should be
made
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22

two young people who are very much
in love with each other and who have
most interesting development Of ro-
mantle passion.
Not the present war, but the Civil
War Of 1861 1-'65, forms the setting for
"a Naval Engagement" by Elbridge
Gerry Roberts (12mo, PIP. 143; pub
llshed by the author). It is a COM
pact, spirited tale, instinct with hero
ism and romance.
Just regular love story, full Of
tenderness and devotion, is 1.-THE Lit
tie Red House in the Hollow" by
Amanda B. Hall illustrated, limo,
PIP. 295; George w. Jacobs g. Co...
The characters are principally Irish
of the most lovable kind, and the mar
rative is clean, wholesome and anter-
tanning.
Archie P. McKishnie, in "willow the
Wisp" with colored frontispiece,
limo, PIP. 3o7; Houghton Mifflin Com
pany). has written a tale of the great
forests of Northern Canada, filled
with adventure and romance, man
illness and true womanhood.
Two more volumes of Constance
Gacnett's excellent translations of
Anton Chekhov's works have just ap-
peared 12mo, the Macmillan Com
pany), entitled "The Wife and Other
Stories" and "The Witch and Other
Stories"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
History and Diplomacy
)uvenilia and MISCELLANY

relation relation with Finland. In the most
n.eetene .e. issue Of Putnam's admirable
osory Of the Nations" series this his
20 spfy .1a.ae, rs sold, with authority, and with
down 40 to the time Immediately preceding
vi o9e N, war, thus including the separation
ot ot pporway norway and Sweden and the attempt
~ ~ tt,usslhcatlon Of Finland. The story
OF three important nations for about
eleyen hundred years is, of course, not
TO be told with the amplitude of a Glib
90 bon o' or Maacanlay within the compass
OF one small volume. Yet tho author
has contrived to tell uA here nracticalIv
every essential fact of that long record,
ana TO 90 so in way that is not dry
ana dlctionary-like, but eminently read
able, vivacious, and as entertaining as
1t is instructive. 1t Is q work worthy
OF supreme commendation to all who
would be we'll informed concerning
those Northern nations to which the
world owes far greater debt than it
commonly recognizes.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
The Souls Of Men and Women
New Fiction, Good and Bad
By Willis Fletcher Johnson

the other. In an important sense, in
deed, she is the chronicler of her own
heroism. Seldom in history has any
woman performed more perilous, more
caring, more noble exploits, than she !;
or related them more modestly We
are made to feel on every page that
we are partners with her in service
to a people whose martyrdom is so
unparalleled and whose spirit is so
sublime that the utmost effort Of
human endeavor is scarcely adequate
as tribute thereto. But indeed it ia
a magnificent exhibition of American
womanhood which the author so mod
estly makes of herself; of which we
must all be proud, even as Franco is
Of o, Jeanneton Dare and England of
Florence Nightingale; however tho
magnitude of their achievements may
differ. their spirit being the same.
1t is to her subject rather than to
her own personality, however, that we
should turn; in doing which we NAV
unhe.sitatingly record that no book
which has been written surpasses this,
and indeed few approximate it. in
vivid, veracious and of course svm-
pathetic portrayal Of the unspeakable
woes Of Serbia and of the amazing
heroism of that nation. Keen. pcne,
tratlng and accurate is her reading of
Balkan and indeed of all European his
tory, as exemplifed in her reminder
OF the too often overlooked fact that
k1ng Alexander was slain because he
had sold himself as a tool Of Austria
tor the betrayal of Serbia. Terse and
tense is her chronicling of the in
tamies Of "kultur," as when she sums
the story up in saying that "what Ger
many has done On the West to Bel
glum-the infamy of her invasion. the
stealing OF maidenhood forshameful
purposes of alien maternity, the loot
ing, burning and enslaving part
ners have done in little Serbia on the
East" In witness whereof:
He was obviously soldier. He
had been captured by the Bulgarians
during a fight on the Eastern front
and afterward had been liberated
and sent back to his regiment with
hands bound. His ears, nose, Inns
and .eyelids had been cut off. He
had been scalped in such a manner
that only a strip of hair, running
from the middle of his head to the
nape: of his neck, in parody of a
parting, remained. Bulgaria
was certainly a fitting ally for the
Hun.
;, The author was made a sergeant in
the 1st Cavalry Regiment Of the ROYAL
Serbian army on the famous battlefield
OF Brod in October, 1916. She has done
a marvellous, almost superhuman.
work on the battlefelds and in the
hospitals of Serbia. But not the least
OF her services to that hero and mar
tyr nation and to the whole humane
world has been the writing Of this i'm
perishable book.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Moonshine and Romance

WHEN BEARCAT WENT DRY. By rh.r,..
Neville Buck; Illustrated. l2mo, pp. s1i. W
Another unusual story of the Ken
lucky Cumberlands, written in the first
person and rich in descriptions of that
rugged and beautiful country and of
the uncouth, primitive people of the
mountains, including the moonshiners.
Lone Stacy, type Of the mountain
me, men of all irascible temper, has a son,
Turner, generally known as "Bea1pat,ss
Stacy, because Of his fighting proclfVIs
ties and fondness for white ickerv
which his father distills, though he
has little sympathy with the moonshin-
ing business. Born of line of stoics,i
brought up to stihe all emotion. Turner
is nevertheless somewhat of dreamer
and full of aspirations not usually at
tributed to the mountain men of that
region.
Mr.. Buck has written about primi-
tive people, primitive in their mode Of
living and in their habits and pas
sions, and throughout the entire book
he has woven most delightful love
story, beautiful in its tenderness
and strength of faith. 1t is a strong
piece Of fiction, with plenty of dramat-
ic action, and though he does not de-
liberately point out a moral on pro-
hibition. there is plenty of food for
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
The Faith of France
Restored and Unified by the
Stress Of War
r.r1r OF FRANCE. BY Manrfes Barres.
IL .,st.d nv Elisabeth MarouYs with an In :
Ise+3on BY Henry van Dyke. l2rnc. pp. xii.
~ Tnnrhton Nlflin Company.

rEr ETr.a.i.'.s .sssss . o. n.sss N.'sa siss N +
Ioc''1 ~ HoosS,on Mlrlin Company.
w. should have known better than
g.. rn;siudge France as we did, only a
,;t+ie while ago. We thought that she
~ forsaken and forgotten Faith. and
NOD crown epicurean. skeptical. infdel.
rSst Of the land Of cathedrals, the
ismd Of Crusaders. the land in which
nrnh.hly more have fought and died
sar FAITHS sake than in any other in
~ wor]di To-day we know better.
Tbe stress Of war has swept aside the
s,nerficialties which concealed the real
so,,j of France, and she stands re-
yealed az the most spiritual of all the
nations that are battling for the Faith
against the Beast.
This We had realized before this IL
Eliminating volume came to hand. Yet
we are none the less grateful TO Mr..
Rsrres than we should have been if he
haa ejven US the first revelation of
the truth For he has here amplified
what ,te already knew, and has put it
into literary form of grace and
beauty that is worthy of the inspiring
,home. He tells US of the different
creeds of France, Catholic and Prot
estant, Jew and Gentle, Deist and Ag
nostic, and who not else, and shows
us that while they widely vary in
their beliefs and in their points of
view. they have all in this war been
brought TO substantial unity in an ex-
station of spiritual faith that is su-
pernal and supreme. And this he does
largely through citations from the let
ters and talk of great number of
the adherents of these various creeds,
uttcrances wrung from their souls in
accents of absolute truth by the cruel
stress of faithless and pagan war.
It Is an eloquent revelation Of the
very soul of France. a book which
greatly enriches the mind and soul of
even the casual reader. and a book
which is already confirmed in place as
orc of the classics of the great War
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Mr.. Wilson FOREIGN Pol;cv

PRESIDENT WILSON'S FOREIGN POLICY: MES
SAGES. ADDRESSES. PAPERS. Edited with
Introduction and notes by James Brown Scott
Royal svo. pp xiv. 4a4. The Oxford University
Press
A few months ago we had the pleas
ure Of reviewing in these columns the
superb "Survey of international Rela-
tions Between the United States and
Germany" Now comes companion
volume, from the same authoritative
editor and from the same admirable
press. 1t is chiefly q compilation of the
authentic texts Of the Presidents mes
sages, addresses and papers, on foreign
affairs and on constitutional principles,
from August, 1918, down to April.
1918; dealing with the Mexican en-
broilment and with our relations to the
great war, both as a neutral and as a
bellgerent, together with various other
matters. The introduction and notes
are neither intrusive nor ELUSIVE, but
are finely explanatory, and a few rele-
want documents are included in an ap-
pendix. In both editing and printing it
may we'll serve as the defnitive and
unsurpassable presentation Of these in
valuable historical documents.