The Mena star., 1898-08-17
STATE EXCHANGES.

tension of American power. The bal. ance of the people believe in proprass and insist upon keeping everything wa have won during the war.-I,ittla Rock Gazette.
 He IS selfish man who does not plant trees because he is growing old The best inheritance a man can leavo his children is thrifty orchards. If is one way of laying up money for them and it is very safe one. -Walnpt Ridge Telephone.
 The trust continues to put up tba price of paper and publishers are find. ing the publication of a daily an ex. pensive affair. The average editor has been writing against trusts and monopolies all his life, little dreamino that he would some day find himself in the grip of a combine. But such is fate Fort Smith News. Record.
 Editor Quinn, of the Greenwood Democrat. has been indicted for crimi. nal libel The crime consists in ac. cusing Prosecuting Attorney Jo John- son of being in collnsion with the blind tiger element. Joe must be getting mighty particular about his reputation. We'll bet penny Quinn does not suffer Morillton Democrat
 
 Why does the navy at Santiago get a hundred thousand dollars or more for smashing Cervera's fleet, whiie Shaft er's army, which captured 25,ooO pris oners and a whole province, including the city of Santiago, gets nothing but glory and yellow feverq That this is so is true, but what good reason is there that this should be so?-Fayetteville Seminal
 Garland county has begun to ship wheat, the first car having left this city yesterday, This is the beginning of new era for our farmers. Their ex. perience in wheat growing the past two years has demonstrated that this is fine wheat country. and the crop is as sure as any other, and will beat cotton as cash producer Hot Springs News.
 Northeastern Arkansas has the best crops it has had for many years. full crop of corn is assured if not an other drop of rain should fall. There has been too much rain for cotton It is growing too rank, and If the fall should not be favorable there is dan ger of it's not opening. If, however, the fall and the first part of the win ter should be dry and warm it may yet make good yield. .-Jonesboro Times.
 The splendid wheat crop of thls year with the good price it is hoped it will bring, will encourage the farmers to continue to raise that crop of prime necessity. One of the advantages in raising wheat that should not be over looked in summing up the profits and final results is the fact that it is ben eft instead of detriment to the land Now that number of first class mills have been put up in the country which will convert the grain into flour better than that imported from other states, there is no reason why this part of Arkansas should not become a good wheat country. -Batesville Bee
 One of the foulest blots ever put upon the fair name of Arkansas was placed there last Tuesday night by the mob of inhuman brutes a Clarendon, when they unlawfully hanged the four negroes implicated in the assassi- nation of J. T. Orr. Not satisfied with the life and blood of the assassin, they must also glut their appetite for mur- der by taking the lives of one negro woman and two negro men who haa been arrested as accessories aud wlt nesses They were so enraged over the committal of one murder that they could only cool their rage by commiT ing four other murders. If the ne gro was guilty of murder in the lowest type of crlme, then the mob lS four degrees more guilty than ne because where he committed one mur' der and they committed four. we f.t As-w- n