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The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT
 ARE PASSING.

The Star has repeatedly called at tention to the demand for accommo- dations from those who desire to come to Mena solely to secure the benefit of the climate with which it is favored.
 That Mena is allowing one of its strongest points of advantage to remain unused is demonstrated every day. For lack of accommodations at Mena hundreds of people pass through here every week who would much prefer to remain in this city if they could find any reasonable accommodations.
 The auditors of the Kansas City Southern trains say that from ten to twenty-five people go north on every train to points where na- ture has done infinitely less to make desirable summer resorts, but where man has done more. Men of wealth bring their families to our over-crowded commercial hotels, remain a day or so. and then giving up finding suitable places in which they can remain for the summer months, leave for other places.
 The following letter is but one of many received here:
 Lake Charles, La, July 15, 07 Mir. D. Sallee,
 Mena, Ark.
 Dear Sir:
 There are some parties here figuring on going to Bogg Springs, or some other resort in that vicinity, where they can be out in the mountains and yet get good accommodations.
 If you can give me some information regarding these places and other points around Mena, l will greatly appreciate it, and if you are not in position to furnish the information, kindly give me the name of party or parties who can advise me fully. Yours very truly,
 J. l.. Boyd,
 General Agent Kansas City Southern.
 Large cities are supported almost  exclusively from the source which Mena is almost wholly ignoring, and few indeed are there that are so advantageously located in regard to nearness to a large population that finds it necessary to seek relief from unfavorable health conditions every summer. Not to speak of dozens of other cities of the South, Texar- kama and Fort Smith alone would send hundreds of people here in a week if they could be cared for in a comfortable manner.
 1t is true that we cannot lose our cool breezes, and our vitalizing at- mosphere by sitting idly by" but we are losing an opportunity to promote the growth and prosperity of Mena.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
Our Flag in the Pacific.

Sir" said the modest lady to Dr. Johnson, you have put improper words in your dictionary" Mad am," the great man replied, "you have been looking for them" The projected dispatch of our battleships to the Pacific is one of those things whose character depends altogether on what one is looking for. To people who are looking for impro- prieties it is grossly improper and dangerous. To those who are think ing no evil it is perfectly natural and innocent. It is most unfortun- ate that the vicious sensationalism of newspapers like the New York Herald should have invested pure ly domestic and in itself unexcep- tionable movement with the appear ance of menace to Japan. But the New York Herald is not the government of the United States. The government remembers what many people forgot that the United States is not an Atlantic power with possessions in the Pacific, but an Atlantic and Pacific power, as much at home in one ocean as in the other. If there is any difference it is in favor of the Pacific, which has American territory on three sides and in the middle, with longer ex- tent of American coast line than the Atlantic's. Our flag is going to be familiar sight there in the future, and the world may as well get used to 1t at one time as at another.--- Golfers.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
As TO .DEAD. LETTER. LAWS

Under the heading Respect for Law" the Fort Smith Times com plains that the law is being brought into disrepute by over-zealous prose- cution for violation of laws that public sentiment considers back numbers and dead-letters. Just so long as laws are allowed to become dead-letters by the failure of officers to do their sworn duty, just so long will the laws of the land be in dis repute. Public sentiment is SUD- posed to be behind all laws when they are enacted, and the Times would do much better to create pub lie sentiment in favor of repeating obsolete laws than to encourage officers to violate their oaths of office by allowing them to become dead letters.
 There is a city law printed on this page of The Star that has long been dead-letter in Mena, but that is no proof that public sentiment is against it's enforcement, and there is reason to expect that it will be very much enlivened during the next few months.
 At least it should be.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
HARD ON dUN-TOTERS.

The delegates to The Hague are spending days over plans for the promotion of peace and especially the disarmament of the nations of the world.
 While this is going on Governor Pindall of Arkansas is doing his ut most to promote peace by removing the cause of many crimes by making the path of the pistol-toter a hard one. Revel ing the course of cer- tain former governors of the state, he refuses to pardon men convicted of the violation of laws against car rying concealed weapons. He com mented on the applications as fol- lows:
 ''I am dead against pardons for the crime of pistol-toting.
 ''The pistol-toter has but poor show before me for pardon.
 ''The laws against pistol-toting must be strictly enforced"
 ''I do not grant pardons from con victions for pistol-toting."
 And this strong move for the dis armament of the individual is not confined alone to Arkansas. In Kan sas City for some months a police court fine of $500 has been regularly assessed upon the offenders. And now Judge Wallace of the criminal court is applying a yet more radical cure. He says:
 '1 am not going to fine anyone for this offense. l shall send everyone tc jail Any man who carries gun in a civilized community is a dangerous citizen.
 With the elimination of the ever handy gun" and its co-worker ir crime, whisky, there will be much less use for criminal courts and jails,
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
TnE GOOD AND BAD SUFFER
 ALIKE.

The news reports of two days this week again illustrate that assassins who seek shining marks for their victims utterly fail to distinguish between the heads of republican nations and the most tyrannical tools of the most despotic governments.
 Last Sunday an attempt was made to murder M. Fallieres, president of France, who personally and officially is much beloved and respected, and who was placed in power by the vote of the people of his country. Only bad aim on the part of the would-be assassin saved his life.
 Tuesday General Aliknohanoff, with two companions, was blown to pieces by bomb. He was said to be a brutal tyrant and was called the wild beast" :"
 And our own country, where the heads e the government can be changed every four years by the will of the people. has furnished more martyrs to the assassin's bull let than any other nation during little more than half a century, and in each instance the individual murdered was not only good and noble man. but was of a character that would be least likely to attract the bitter enmity of right-thinking men.
 It is a sad commentary on human character that lt should be almost as nscesFAYg 70 carefully guard Fhs
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
The Happy Medium.

There are people who make good appearance on the outside, but are wrong on the inside; others are very scrnpulous about their inner life, but very reckless in external ap- pearances. The ideal person, how ever, endeavors to be right and good in the within, and tries to make the best possible appearance in the without. The whole man should be clean, wholesome, refined and ful.-Eternal Progress.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

a good many people; don't invest It all with one person.
 The man who says he lives close :a, to nature" is not the one you VIII find doing the heavy work on tne farm. ,,
 Every man would be pretty well satisfied if he were as important as a book agent tries to make nm De- lieve.
 While men make sport of the sac rifces of women to vanity, they continue to wear coats during not weather. :,
 When a woman is pretty well satisfied with physician, she won, ders why other doctors are tolerated in the community.
 The reward for good behavior may sometimes be slow in coming, put vou never hear of good behavior petting a man into trouble.
 There isn't much to swearing; even the man who swear oil IS more likely to begin again than the man who merely quits.
 Men are not so given to havlng their pictures taken as are the wom- en. but the supply of mems pictures always seem equal to the demand.
 An Atchison bride-el IS tired to death of the regulation wedding music and will introduce something new at her marriage. As she enters the church choir will sing T Got Mine" and as she and her husband leave the church choir will burst forth with We Walked Right m and Turned Around and Walked Right Out Again"
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
Keep lJp the Lick.

Governor Pindall is consistent in at least one thing. He recently declared against the pistol-toting habit and more recently declined to pardon four persons convicted of that senseless, dangerous offense. Keep up this lick. governor. Fort Smith Times.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

welfare of the South as well as for the benefit of the entire country, the forests of the region should become permanent. The soil will bear no other crop than trees, and with these removed the mountains become a menace, their washable soil being quickly carried into the streams by the heavy rains, causing floods and failing water-power.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
CHANcERY COURT IN SESSION.
Hudgins Estate Case Settled IT Decided
 In Favor of Plaintiff.

Chancery Court was in session Monday. The only case before court Monday morning was tne suit ot Anna Hudgins to quiet the titles of the lands belonging 10 the J. G. Hudgins estate.
 The case was decided in favor of the plaintiff with the exception of the Durham Whitfield land is which instance the court ordereu that one-half the proceeds of tne sale of the land be credited to 'pe J. c. Hudgins estate and the par auce to the estate of Holder Huo' gins.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
The true statesman never barters 

The true statesman never barters his conscience for office.
 Reformation without equity is like a household without virtues.
 Discomfort is generally the fap end of too much enjoyment.
 Self-belief, self-respect and self help are bracers for victory.
 Honest praise for honest work will generate more and better work.
 Men and nations win by love and virtue and lose by hate and vice.
 In the long run the fraud and thief get the hot end of the poker.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
Needless Alarm.

The Michigan minister who is alarmed to see little girls with Teddy bears instead of dolls should calm himself. Teddy bears in the arms of little girls don't indicate race suicide half so much as pug dogs in the arms of married women. Kan sas City Journal.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
STARvE THE BOIL WEEvIL

Now that the dreaded boil weevil has invaded Arkansas, the fight of the cotton growers must begin. Various methods to eradicate the pest, or to in a measure control its depredations are being suggested by those who have studied its habits. In view of the peach strawberry black berry and other fruit crops. to say nothing of the potatoes and vege- tables that are making Arkansas famous this year, would it not be we'll to fight the weevil by starva- tion- planting other crops instead of cotton.
 This should appeal especially to Polk county, which is least fitted to cotton growing and is best for fruit.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
Too Far Gone.

The business man who says busi ness is too poor to spend any money for advertising is in the fix of the sick man who is too sick to send for a doctor. Port Arthur News.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
STARLETS.

You will realize your ideals when you be- gin to live them. Eternal Progress.
 The greatest joy is the giving of joy to hose who have it not. Eternal Progress.
 What good gift have my brothers, but it came from search and strife and loving sacrifice. .-S Sir Edwin Arnold.
 Play is the great social stimulus, and 1t is the prime motive which unites children and draws them into comradeship. Jane Ad- dams.
 Any man who looks to doctors and medi- cine to make him well, and keep him well, is headed for the monkey house. = Ebert Hubbard.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
sOnE LEADING EDITOp,A, .

baltimore American.l
 Better laugh in your heart than in your sleeve. '' gerous partners.
 Those who tighten their meals lengthen their lives.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
The Voice of the Boodler.

August will soon be here, and then once again the voice of the boodler will be heard in the land. The state of Arkansas has enough suspects to keep it employed for several months. Let no guilty man escape. Democrat.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

When Police Judge Kyle of Kan sas City found in colored woman brought before him a long lost "auntie" of his happy childhood days, the unwritten law received official recognition there and then, and the workhouse lost a prospec- tive inmate. And nobody planes the police judge.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

The railroads of Kansas are ap- parently up against it. They sue ceeded by hard and expensive fight in the last legislature in defeating the 2-cent rate law and now they are likely to be forced to grant the rate in order to compete for busi- ness with the roads in Nebraska, where 2 cents is the legal rate, for the east and west travel.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

When the Burlington railroad announced that it would grant a 2-cent rate over all it's lines, it also said it was going out of politics and would cease all efforts to influence legislation. It is suspected that lobbyists come too high since there has been such an increase in bribery cases
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

The prostration of Mena young man from heat near De Queen caused inquiry to be made of phy- sicians in Mena as to whether a similar case has ever been known here. The answer is that so far as known no person has ever been overcome by heat prostration in Mena or in Polk county. De Queen, while but about 50 miles south of Mena. is at a much lower alti Jude.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

Green grass, the shade of beauti- full trees, flowers, pure water and air will, so long as the world lasts, attract the little child, the young, the mature and the old. Mena's little park has all these things and it IS adding much to the pleasure and health of the people of the commu- ritu
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
Facts About Buttermilk.
From New York Press.

From New York Press.
 Long before Fairbanks learned to milk a COW the buttermilk cocktail was invented. As blood cooler in hot weather 1t has no equal. As a tonic it is superior to everything al- coholic. As an alternative it is with out rival. A glass. A cube of dill pickle. A lump of ice. Buttermilk to the brim. Quaff and rejoice. Such drink would not hurt the chances of any prospective candi- date for president.
 There is sweet buttermilk and sour buttermilk. Let the former severely alone. Give it few days in the ice box and it will ferment. Then drink it. In the old days in the country no housewife ever thought of churning until the milk was sour. and the residue after the butter was skinned off-was nec- tar for the gods. Buttermilk from the modern creamery is a fraud. Never touch it unless it is perfectly white Yellow buttermilk is danger ous.
 Did you know that buttermilk was a waste product in the North up to about 1870? Fact. have a vivid recollection of fine specimen of Yank touring the South at that time. At dinner in roadside inn he said to the waitress, What have you to drink2" We have some delicious buttermilk" she replied, and fetched a glausful. "Oh take that stuff away" hs cried; i've only feed t
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

Every train from the South car ries people who are endeavoring to find relief from the heat and mos quitoes. They want accommoda- tions where they can rest and recu- perate and are willing to pay for all they get. So soon as Mena prepares to take advantage of her fine climate she will confer blessings upon these people and thrive in doing so.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

When every visitor who comes to Mena from the North and South is enchanted with the delightful sum mer weather and freedom from tormenting insects, to say nothing of the beautiful and restful scenery of the wooded mountains all around, there must be reason.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
approve that plan in Texas.

It has been estimated that Texas alone sent 16,000 people to Colorado for rest and recreation last year. Suppose next year Mena was pre- pared to care for one-tenth of that number and they spent but $100 each? What do our business men men think of it?.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
rnr MENA EVENING srAR

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The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
 THE HUMBLE BEE.

Wiser far than human seer, Yellow-breeched philosopher 1! Seeing only what is fair, Slipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff and take the wheat.
 R. w. Emerson.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25
THE LITTLE THING.

Shrink not to do the little thing;
 With praise of such does heaven rinp shrink not to speak the little word Of kindness, oft the sweetest heard. Shrink not the smallest mite to give: If 'tis your best, God will receive. '
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

taking advantage of other condi- tions that nature has so bountifully provided. The announcement that the Kansas City Southern railroad is preparing to establish a German colony in Polk county is welcome news indeed
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

Texas merchants are demanding a special session of the legislature to repeal the law making 1t a crime to sell any kind of trust-made goods. There is nothing said about letting the law become obsolete" or a "dead-letter." They don't seem to approve that plan in Texas.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

Harry Thaw's mother has just sold coal lands to the amount of $2,000,0 That will make the lawyers take notice" but the gen. eral public has had too much Thaw already.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

A moonlight summers night in Mena's pretty park is a tonic to mind and body. But would not the strains of music from a good band add a joy for young and old?
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

A double-header train of refrig- orator cars containing peaches passed through Mena this morning. These cars were loaded at Horatio, De- Queen and other points just south, and at the prices this year will bring immense returns to the growers. The time should not be far off when the territory around Mena will also be shipping train loads of fruit. The climate and the soil and condi- tions await the coming of the men who will make them produce as good fruit as any spot on earth.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

The Black Springs News says We have sat here with idle hands, and then relates how good things have gone from Black Springs to Womble, the rival town. Then it relates that the Caddo Valley bank and three of our leading merhcants" are moving to Womble. The News seems to have surrendered to the worst and says: But, let's die easy Thus it would seem that Black Springs may soon join our Dallas as but picturesque memory.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

It has long been known that Ger man people would most quickly and effectively develop this region by covering the hillsides with vineyards and fruits of RI k!pds as well as hv
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-25

lives of our presidents as it is of the tyrants of the greatest despotisms.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-11-16
rng sourA TO THE Hgscs

In the Manufacturers Record Of
Bovember Tth is an editorial article
entitled The South an a Saving
Power OF the Country" the feature
Of which is the influence OF south m
eotton upon present financial condi.
IONS. Our contemporary says that
$Ae south holds a call upon the
worlds gold TO the extent of $780,
100000 to s5O0.O00.O00 for the cotton
which 1t will this year furnish to
EuronI Every dollar Of gold mined
IN Europe during the past year
would not be sufficient to pay the
Aill. and this call which the south
has upon Europe is one which will
prove not only Al great blessing to
the south. but great blessing to the
sntire country.
The Manufacturers Record ad Is
that this money. whether paid in
actual gold or In other ways. will
40 strengthen the financial situation
not only Of the south but of New
York and the country at large as to
make the south the saving power in
American financial interests. And it
concludes with the following:
The whole county, every bust
Eess man in Il. whether he be manu-
faeturer, merchant or banker, farmer
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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-11-16
4 MATER OF History.

II VIII not do TO dismiss the story
that Gen. Grant. Gen. Thomas and
Admiral Fa-ragut applied to Presi
dent Davis for commissions In the
Confederated army as mere FANG,
until all the sources Of evidence have
been explored and exhausted. Tie
idea IS not so absurd as some psople
insist and there may be some actual
record of the fact. As far as Gen.
Thomas is concerned, Chaplain Gen
eral Jones Of the United Confederate
Veterans states that he has published
several times the statement that this
officer MDlied for commission in
the Confederate serylce that he
has in his possession a letter In
which Gen. Thomas practically ad
mits that he made such application.
SO there Is no absurdity in that part
Of the story, at least.
The Columbia State thinks the
idea Of Grant Rving beer refused a.
commission by President Davis
afterwards being the man Who
ceiyed the sword of Lee in 81
der lis too melodramatlc for
day consumption. No more so "a
the possibilities suggested IN the gau
thenticated record Of Lees refusal or
the officer TO command the FEDERAL
armies against which he later con.
tended SO brilliantly. After all II
was narrow choice between the
north and the south for the Amerl-
can to mako in that great struggle
OF the sections, and there are many
cases of decision being moved by
momentary impulse or a particular
circumstance. Gen. Lee did not drag
his sword for the Confederacy ID
cause Of his support Of the cause OF
secession but because bis native
state. against his own persuasions Of
the wisdom of Its course, determined
to secede. He resigned his commits
sion as an officer Of besIJpited Sta e.
army only. when Wig determined
to withdra from n that ha
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-11-16

the sections. Grant had long@sstd in
the section where sentiment wa
most divided He had resigned from
the army and his eff lrts to return
to the service had not been received
with encouragement. There would
have been nothing strange in his ap.
plicatiop to the Confederacy for a
military commission.
But this is all profitless specula-
ton and should not be engaged In
on idle sugges len But there seems
to be a possibility that it is has d
on some real evidence and that evil
dence shcud be explored There
are some things belonging to Presi-
dent Davis which are held und T seal
at New Orleans by q responsible Gus
todian which have been referred TO
as containing matter relative to this
subject. The daughter of MIR. Davis
says she knows nothing of the con.
tents of the lett rs and she kaows
no reason to suppose that they re-
late to the alleged application Of the
Union commanders for service in the
/ Conf de~ate army. Those letters
should be examined and if they con.
tanned any eyidencaAf the matter ii
should be. given toNhe world. Wills
no, a vital matter 1t is still a thing
Il raj histol' cal interest and value
and should be determined if it Is
possible to determine it.