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The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
What Is Now Impossiblei

A child of ten has spanned the period of the automobile from when it was curious foreign plaything, which men stopped to gaze upon, to the year when there is one for every eight hundred persons in this coun- try, and the industry in America is valued at seventy million dollars. Youths still in college were born be- fore the marveling Chinaman spoke his classic wonder at the first trolley car. Less than thirty-fve, are men who talk with each other from Chicago to New York, butw born before the first telephone. Who will affirm that anything is impos- sible? T calculate" says Edison, that we know one seven-billionth of one per cent about anything. Who that shares his awe of the possible will declare that Bell, who made the telephone, exaggerates when he says the day is sure to come when man can pick up a church and fly away with it? Golfers.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
Repeal the Bad Laws and Be Careful
 With the New Ones.

What the city council ought to do is to pass such Sunday laws as are reasonable and right and then en- force those laws all the time. In fact all the laws, city or state, ought to be enforced. Law enforcement is what the country needs. It will repeal bad laws and make us more careful about new ones. Let the law state explicitly what shall be kept on Sunday and then enforce it. If the law now means that every thing without exception is to be closed Sunday, let the law be en- forced if the people want it that way, and if they do not want it that way, they will modify it to suit con ditions. Prescott News.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
- A nIOn IDEAL.

The Weekly Sentinel, published at Waldron has a new editor in the person of H. N. Smith. In his an- nouncement he says, among other things:
 It will be my pleasure to support and advocate the Jeffersonian princi- ples of Democracy. 1 will not be bound by what others may say these principles teach, but claim for my self the right to declare what they teach. To obtain my support a man must do more than label himself a democrat. He must stand for the square deal" He must or- pose trusts and monopolies and grating and boodling and the evils which naturally follow them. I shall endorse everything good, whether that good is done by Demo- crats, Republicans, Populists or Socialists.
 Editor Smith says many more good things and says them pointedly, and if he follows out the general course outlined, the Sentinel will be a mighty good thing for it's commu- nifty and should have liberal pat ronage.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
TO LIVE LONG.

Eat plenty of good, wholesome food, sleep the sleep of innocence that is eight hours of peaceful, restful sleep in every twenty-four hours. Take plenty of exercise. Do not make it too violent. Don't be afraid to fight. Fight with all your energy when fight ing, but the moment the fight is over forget it. The man who carries envy and hatred to his bed is bound to die young"
 ''I will make no suggestions on diet. l am too wise to say what to eat. My directions for the man who wants to live 100 years is to eat plenty of good, wholesome food"
 It is true that we are all living longer. The average of mankind is five years greater now than it was several years ago.
 There is much meat" to be found in the above quotations from a talk by Dr., Wiley, food expert of the Department of Agriculture of the United States. Dr. Wiley has made a study for many years of food and health and this fact gives his ideas an unusual value.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
What Arkansas Escaped.

A dispatch from El Paso says the agent of the New York Life Insur- ance Company has been instructed to close his office there and notify his policyholders in Texas that his company will withdraw from the state on July 1 on account of laws enacted by the state legislature, which included requirement that the life insurance companies should invest in Texas securities 75 per cent of the reserve on Texas policies. The policyholders are to be asked to make their remittances hereafter to the St. Louis and other offices out side of Texas. Fortunately Arkan- sas escaped what Texas will now suffer. Gazette.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
THE ROAR OF A RICH MAN.
Postmaster of Marked Tree Objects
 Streicusly to Salary Cut.

Marked Tree. June 9.-Because his salary as postmaster was re- duced from $l, 200 per annum to SLIGO for the same time, Post master E. Ritter, the only multi millionaire in this part of the state, has registered loud and lusty kicks, which may reach the ears of the department at Wash ington. The stamp sales fell oil here during the first three months in the year, which is thought to have cut the salary of the rich man. The sales prior to that were usually large, and MT. Ritter ac- counts for the falling off by the flooded condition of this country then.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13

fact that had already become appar- ent to those who had devoted the most time and effort to get the en- terprise under way.
 The committees that have had the work in hand have tried hard to find way to overcome the difficulties in the way, and few weeks ago were sanguine of success that the plans were such that the whole city would unite in giving them hearty support.
 But one obstacle after another was developed, the greatest of which was the seeming indifference of many, or lack of appreciation of the good the fairs have done and would con tinue to do for Mena and Polk coun- ty.
 The thing that makes it doubly disappointing is the fact that at no time in Mena's history has there been so many things favoring a suc- cessful fair in the way of products. From natural development, year by year the exhibits have been better, and this year, when fruit has been almost total loss in nearly every state in the Union save Arkansas, was of all times the time and oppor- tunity to come before the country with a fine fair and get full advan- tage of the favors that nature has granted us.
 Perhaps, even yet, it may be possible to have an exhibit of some sort. Let us not sleep while oppor- tunity knocks at our doors. Let us see if some good plan cannot yet be evolved and carried out, and keep up the good work that has done so much to advertise Mena and Polk county and make them what they are today.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
inconsistency Somewhere.

The people of Arkansas are always ready to raise bonus to induce a railroad to build a new line, for a manufacturing concern to build a mill, or for any industry furnishing employment to our citizens and a utilization of raw material to locate in the state, but legislative enact ments are set up like a spiked wall along the border to keep them out.
 Already the inequality of assess ment and taxation have done more to repel capital than anything else, and now comes along laws that vir- tually mean double taxation, really having the effect of holding the bludgeon of confiscation and exile over the heads of those already doing business here under the sanc- ton of the law.
 Railroad companies, telegraph companies, cotton oil companies and others, which have been worth un- told millions to the state, are to be mulcted or forced from the state.
 There are no charges of trust violation, of corrupt practices or of statutory transgression, other than a protest against being held up for what is already their rights, but the state says, We need the money, and you have more than any one else, therefore, pay up or get out.
 Shall capital, without which any state would be in a sad plight, be thus continually harassed and held up by the state, while the people are straining every point to bring more capital into Arkansas to develop it's resources?
 It has already gone too far, and there ought to be some means of calling a halt.--Arkansas Democrat.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
How to Dodge Publicity.

Five great railroads have been in deep tribulation. They own ter minal station in Chicago and propose to rebuild it. Lawyers discovered in the title a little flaw, purely technical. To cure the little flaw, a little bill was introduced into the legislature.
 The bill seems to have been an en- tirely worthy one. But the great railroads wished to keep their pre- dicament secret. They put gum shoes on the bill, laid their fingers on their lips and held their breath. Of course, the newspapers presently dis covered the mysterious, shrinking little stranger, and bounced upon it with a yell that echoed far up the shores of Lake Michigan and way down in Mississippi. Then the rail- roads spent a busy week eagerly and copiously explaining all about the little bill in columns of type.
 If, before introducing the bill, the railroads had sent to the newspapers a neatly typewriter statement of its purpose, about a hundred words long, probably most of the papers would have thrown the statement into the waste-basket and the bill would have gone through with a couple of lines of perfunctory notice.
 Occasionally some misguided citi- zen takes great pains to keep his marriage or divorce out of print, usually has the felicity to see him. self exploited on the front page a little later as the chief sensation of the day.
 If you wish to escape publicity, don't try to dodge the editor. Write hum letter telling all about it and he will ignore you. Saturday Even ing Post.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
As Bad as the Worst.

The records, which are stubborn obstacles to surmount, show the weather has been as bad as the worst alleged in the indictment. May was the coldest month known here in twenty-eight years, and there were but two wetter Mays. The govern ment cotton report shows that the crop was 5 per cent below the lowest previous May conditions. Arkansas Democrat.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
QUESTIONS BY THE KID.

Pa, tell me why the water works And where are pencils lead, And tell me where the onion sets And what "Said Pasha" said? And when, by mean dog catchers caught What do the doggies pound? And is there gold in Portland, Ore. And how does Puget sound? And is it, pa, the old sea dogs That cause the ocean barks7 And is it the high flyers, pa, That have the most sky larks7 And tell me what the poppy seed, And what does alley way?
 (Interim of twenty minutes.1 Gee whizi wonder what on earth Pa licked me fer today.
 Lee Shippey.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
sOnE EVERY DAY PnILosoPn,
,Atchison Globe

When the joke js Ion" you it is never very funny.
 You never say a man won't listen to reason if he agrees with you.
 As soon as mans relatives begin sending him money he becomes worthless.
 The man who is scared into being good is the one most likely to boast of his exceeding virtue.
 Most girls believe that if dueling were still popular, they would be the cause of considerable bloodshed.
 What has become of the old-fash- toned man who always had a hole in the seat of his pantaloons?
 The crazy man in the asylum is holding about the only easy job that no one will try to take away from him.
 A good man to shun is one who takes pleasure in the claim that he has the worst time of any one in the world.
 A woman feels that she hasn't omitted much in the way of oppro- brium when she calls another "coarse."
 There is surprising number of girls who are not heiresses, but you can't blame the girls; they can't all live in novels.
 People are suspicious of the man who accompanies every statement with the remark that he can prove 1t or will bet on it.
 A woman believes she has done reasonably we'll if she tells secret without divulging the name of the party who told her.
 As the prize winner in the biggest baby contest, the man who doesn't get sick very often is strong com petitor when he does.
 A man may be deficient in that respect himself, but he is convinced a woman's religion is all right if it lasts through house cleaning.
 No girl should ever look pityingly at married man. A great deal of is done by making married men believe they are martyrs.
 You can never do anything so we'll that the 'knocker" doesn't stand ready to tell you of a man in New York who can do it better.
 If there is nothing else to discuss, farmers can always start an argu- ment about whether corn planted late or early makes the best corn.
 Do you appreciate your friends as much as you should? People who are kind to you are scarce enough; do you properly appreciate those who are good to you?
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
SCHOOL TEACHERS IN MENA.
Ten Days Session of Polk County h.
 stitute Began Today.

The Polk County Teachers In- stitute commenced at the public school building Monday. A large number of teachers from over the county and a few from adjacent counties are in attendance and more are expected.
 Prof. Florence, principal of the Conway public schools was sent by Supe rintendeut of Instruction, J. J. DoJ Jne. in place of Mir. Mill Ter, the Peabody instructor, who was unable to come.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
RAD CASE OF pToMAlNE POISONING
Robert (jsrdon and Family Violently iI'
 After Drinking ButtermiIk.


 Robert Gordon, night yard- master here, with his wife and two children, were taken violently i'll Saturday evening, and Or. F. A. Lee was hastily summoned about s o'clock and worked with them until nearly midnight be- fore they were out of danger.
 Dr. Lee pronounced the case one of ptomaine poisoning caused by drinking buttefmilk that had in some way come in contact with impurities.
 Mr. Gordon, who drank more freely of the buttermilk than the others, was near death, and the youngest child, who drank but a small quantity, was least effected. All are about today except MT. Gordon.
 Dr. Lee says that the butter milk had stood for about eight hours in a tin vessel. He thinks that it is not advisable to put the acid milk 1u tin, and especially calls attention to the urgent ne- cessity of using great care in the handling of milk during the hot weather that it may have no chance 10 come in contact with any impurities.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
OUR GREAT ASSET.

This is the time of year when the people of the lowlands of the South turn yearning eyes about in search for relief from the mosquitoes and the malaria-laden atmosphere of those sections.
 Some of them have heard of Mena, and letters are coming to the city inquiring as to accommodations, etc. One was handed to The Star, dated June 4, from Louisiana, which, among other things says;
 Please inform us what attractions your place offers summer boarders. My wife and myself want to come for a few weeks to a town where there is plenty of pure water and mountain air and good fishing.
 How easy to reply that we have unlimited quantities of pure, soft water, invigorating mountain air, and good fishing in our beautiful streams nears hand; that we have no malaria, no mosquitoes. pleasant days, cool nights and beautiful scenery all about everything that nature can furnish to make stay among us joyous recreation.
 But when we have to reply to questions about entertainments of our guests we are not able to re- spond so cheerfully. We hesitate and wonder what we can offer. We have no first-class summer hotel, and we have few good roads over which visitors can drive and seek the pretty spots with which nature has libersIlIy provided us.
 Again and again have the officials of the Kansas City Southern railway assured us that if we would prepare to entertain and care for people of this class, "they would fill Mena BOTH SUMMER AND WINTER" That the natural advantages are all here, and all that was needed was that the people make preparations such as other places are making and have made.
 It is not necessary to go outside of our own state to find examples of this sort of enterprise, and the time will come when we will wonder that we have so long failed to grasp the opportunities that kind nature has placed within reach.
 We may excuse ourselves with the plea that the city is young; that we have accomplished much in the few years of it's existence, and it is all true. But we have not as yet begun to take advantage of our greatest natural asset climate-in the way of preparing to entertain the thousands who would flock here in search of health and comfort were we prepared to receive them and then let them know of it.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
4 Hot One.

A lot of Republican papers are pointing to Schmilz of San Fran cisco as proof that union labor men should not be elected to of- flee. But what does the election fo men like Penuypacker and va rious mayors of Philadelphia prove against the Republican party.-Commoner.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
WILL ALL HEAR OF ARKAN-

Arkansas is going to get a mighty fine lot of advertising this year. She will be known in the markets more than ever before, and all be- cause the state occupies the enviable position of having practically the only peach crop of the country. And it has already marketed the finest lot of strawberries grown in any section, and at prices that made the growers happy. too.
 These and other things mean much for the state. They will not only cause the people of the country to look toward the state of Arkansas to supply them with the best of fruits but will cause many to come here and assist in developing this indus try for which the state is particular ly adapted.
 In this the mountain country sur rounding Mena is particularly for tunate. in that the high lands are especially adapted as to soil and gen. eral climate to the growth of the best of all kinds of fruits, which are also least likely to be damaged by the frosts that so often destroy the crops in the lower attitudes.
 There is talk among the members of the Polk County Horticultural Society about holding an exposition of fruits and farm products in Mena this summer Such a movement would do much to give this locality large share of the benefits of the splendid advertising Arksnsas is sure to have this year.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13

If Harry Orchard tells the truth regarding the connection of the highest officers of the Federation of Miners with the diabolical murders he has committed, he is bringing before the world the blackest page in the history of organized labor that the world has ever seen, and the severest punishment under the law is not too great to mete out to these men. But if this miserable self-confessed murderer is lying ard the accused are innocent and that would certainly be the least of two evils man would be powerless to devise a proper punishment for the wrecthed outcast.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13

until some of it's fruits are crushed.
 Conscience never makes towards if us until we turn our backs on 1t.
 In the temple of great and good life almost all the bricks are small.
 It is better to have to regret many a loss than to earn the profit of re- morse.
 The greatest sin is not Tn the mak- inp of a mistake, but the being satisfied with it.
 True religion deals with men as in the sight of God and with God as Tn the sight of men. Chicago Tribune.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
COMPLETE RECOVERY EXPECTED. Dr.. Pittman Says the Remarkable Rally
 of Gov. Little Is Permanent.

Fort Smith, June 9.-"Therc is apparently no change in Cover. uor Little's condition" said Dr. Putnam last night. ''He rested comfortably throughout the day, although the heat has distressed him somewhat. The remarkable rally since the governor returned from Texas is permanent. He has gained in weight and has de- veloped strength to resist recu:- rent attacks of heart failure. There is every reason to hope for complete recovery"
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
lchlcaso News.)

Chicago News.)
 Happiness is often nothing more than conceit.
 And it is better to be has-been than a never-was.
 It takes mighty good Christian to pray for the ice man.
 Admiration is woman's first love and devotion her last.
 When man starts to blow in hls money his friends like to get wind of it.
 The more good qualities a man possesses the less he has to say about them.
 A woman's idea of economy is to have her husband waste S3 worth of time putting up a 10-cent kitchen shelf.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
When Peggy Stoops to Tie Her Laces

When Peggy stoops to tie her laces, I feel as oft Eve felt before That every day to former graces Old Time is adding one grace more. Oh, lightly, Peggy, pray pull lightly! For every little jerk and start, I VOW, dear, only draws more tightly The leading strings around my heart
 Fillmore.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
THOSE PROVOKING CORPOR.
 ATiONS.

If the Waters-Pierce 0ii Company would kindly pay that $l,623. 300 antitrust judgment instead of pur- suing the annoying course of appeal ing to the Federal Supreme court, the Texas treasury would not need to borrow half a million in Arkansas or anywhere else. Gazette,
 Also if the Western Union and other corporations did not insist on the annoying course of taking their fight on the Wingo law to the Feder- al courts, Arkansas would come nearer to having that half a million to lend.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
How Does Polk County Tell.

Washington county has $35. 900 which has been put in a Fayetteville bank under the depository law and will draw interest. How selfish of Washington county not to allo W some favored bank to loan out the county funds and put the interest in it's own coffers. as so many other counties do.-Gazrtte.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13

France talks about acting as me diator between Japan and the United States. Wonder if it had anything to do with the cessation of hostilities between Jeff Davis and Prosecutor Rhoton?
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
W. (. T. U. COLUMN
Mrs. Myrtle Moore, Press Sum, "Elevatiug' the Liquor Trad.

There is a scriptural storu demning the man who tries to VI into the fold in any other way eyoss ss' through the door. We think sssp' 's'l out any great effort, this mioh. .''l' :, applied to great many so-callaa formers who are trying to find so.' way to reform the drink t.ss ss without killing it. ''iE
 There seems to be an epiden;. such efforts lust now. With to reforming themselves. an oras.' " zation composed of Chicago saloss ,' keepers held banquet in the r .;.' immediately after the passage If " " Illinois local option law. inv;ss " several representative citizens Come ane tell us how to be oooa !"
 The following comment on a. unusual social function by Rev. I D Cranfill of Dallas, Tex, voices ,l convictions of every reformer vss % has studied the saloon problem ;n ss it's phases:
 The evident intent of the disen. sion at the banquet named. and :, much of the agitation that has hon inaugurated by the brewers .sl saloon-keepers for the "eleyation Z, the trade' is to weed out the "lowa dives, and leave in active businos. the gilded, decorated. brilliant dsrs of death that by some are called :. spectable. This theory of the els. vation of the liquor trade is fatal, delusive. However strangely i,. congruous it may seem, it is never theless a fact that the better a a loon is, the worse it is, and ths worse a saloon is. the better 1t k The elevation" of the saloon k magnificent for the liquor seller but it is death to the liquor drinke The liquor business is essentiaN and inherently criminal. To veneer or galvanize the deadly business is to make 1t so attractive that the guileless-youth, as well as the older men and women, foregather at these brilliant haunts of vice and quickly meet their doom. The How" saloon is the natural saloon. It has reached its level of debauchery and crime, Ind it is so repulsive that many q bright young man who has been lured into the gilded dens of vice would have been saved if there had been none but these low" dives.
 The liquor seller has no concern for the public veal. If he had, he would not be in the liquor bushes Any man, the success of whose bus- ness depends upon ruined lives and blighted homes, has no genuine con cern for the good of his fellows, or the glory of his God. He is only concerned that his devilish bushes mas be protected from destruction, and the sporadic instances of righte- ousness amont the plyers of 'the trade" are the results, not of the awakened conscience of the saloon keepers, but of the awakened con sciousness that a cyclone is breeding over our land that threatens soon to sweep his nefarious traffic into the realms of oblivion from which there will be no resurrection, neither angel or spirit.