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The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
----'------'--sl-------..------- A FRUITFUL YEAR.

A few dayssago friend of The Star brought to the office box of very large and very finely favored blackberries, casually remarking that they were second crop"
 As second crops" of blackberries are not common to all sections, the remark caused some investigation, which resulted in the discovery that many cultivated blackberries were bearing a second crop this year, and many of the stalks are also heavily set with berries yet green.
 It is well worthy of note that since early in April the market has been continuously supplied with home grown strawberries, and indications are that the same conditions will exist for some weeks to come.
 It will surprise readers of The Star in other states to learn that it is the usual thing for strawberries to produce at least a small second crop in Polk county.
 The early varieties of peaches are all gone now, but the Elbertas are beginning to ripen and generally speaking the trees, like the earlier varieties are much too heavily laden and unless well propped will break badly. Early apples of good quality are on the market and there will ha a oood cron
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
OUR FROG.

There is frog lives in our pool And he's jolly fellow, For should you follow his advice You surely would keep mellow. "Get sdrrunk'' "carrouse"- "---in double
 bass,
 At noon and night he's crying; He must be sure the King of Frogs And likely fit for frying. He says ''Get drunk" {" and people stop And think some man is speaking, But when he bellows out "Carrouse, They go, but look quite sneaking. So here's to froggy, big and bold Whose words so plainly spoken, Who keeps it going day and night And never accent broken.
 s. s.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
Wood and Water.

The forest question involves the two great questions of wood and water. Wood is prime necessity. Our population is rapidly increasing, while our wood supply is more rapid ly diminishing. We are consuming wood three or four times as fast as our forests are producing it. Un- less radical changes are soon made in American methods of forestry, a wood famine will assuredly ensue. Forest cover on mountains and hill tops is indispensable in holding back rain water, and maintaining equable stream flow. Denuded hillsides mean an alteration of destructive floods and droughts. Forestry.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
How to Do It.

Says an exchange: If you toot your little tooter and then lay away your horn, there's not soul in ten short days will know that you were born. The man who gathers pump kins is the man who blows all day, and the man who keeps humping is the man who makes it pay. The man who advertises with short and sudden jerks, is the man who planes the editor because it never works. The man who gets the business has a strong and steady pull and keeps his trade and paper from year to year quite full. He plans his adver- tisements in thoughtful, honest way, and keeps forever at it and until he makes it pay.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
ATTORNEYS ARE SATISFIED
Read & McDonough, K. (. s. Attor. neys, Decide That Mena Can Give
 Good Title to Stilwell Park.

When it was decided 10 bui,a the railroad hospital In Mena the matter of investig gating the riebt Of the city to deed Stilwell park to the Hospital Association ", : referred to Read & McDouough ot Ft. Smith, attorneys for the Kan. sas City Southern in Arkansas aud Indian Territory.
 Hal L. Norwood took the cues. ton up in behalf of Mena and submitted full statement of inc case. The following letter indi. cates the very satisfactory results
 Fort Smith, July 3l, .O7. Mr. Hal l.. Norwood,
 Dear Sir:
 Ia the matter of the title to Stilwell park, we have examined into the question and reached the conclusion that the Hospital As. sociation will be safe in acceptino the gift of Stilwell park for the construction of the hospital. We have always been somewhat doubtful of the proposition as to | whether or not each individual property owner in the city would not have vested right in the park. Under the authorities which you have cited and others which we have examined, we Are however of the opinion that the Hospital Association can accept the property. We have so ad. vised. Yours truly,
 Read X McUonouyb.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN SUED.
Government Alleges Failure to Provide
 Safety Appliances.

Texarkana, July 14.-United States District Attorney Ownby filed suit yesterday in the federal district court, On the Texas side, against the Kansas City South ern, for alleged failure to comply (ln certain cases) with the pro- visions of the safety appliance act passed by Congress on March ?, 1893, and which requires auto matic couplers, handholds and other safety appliances on all freight cars. There are hve counts in the complaint as filed, and penalty of $500 is asked for, Sl00 in each case.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
BRYANISnS.
lConmoner.A

While cutting a $24, ,000. 900 melon the Adams Express Company is put ting up a plea of poverty in Ne braska in order to prevent a 25 per cent reduction in express rates.
 Funny, isn't it, that when the railroads want to raise rates they do not make inquiry and satisfy the public as to the justice thereof; but when the public reduces rates the railroads insist upon inquiry.
 An expert drilled into the vault of the Pennsylvania state treasury with a common breast drill in less than four hours. A lot of other experts were ahead of him, and they used only their fingers and brains.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
Texas and the Trusts.

The operation of the law against trust made goods, which has gone into effect in Texas, will be watched with the keenest curiosity by the country at large. Texas has set the pace in a number of reform meas ures already. It has met and con- quered the railroad octopus, and it's struggle with the Oil trust has not been entirely without com mendable results. It must be admit ted that Texas is better equipped for it's present undertaking to solve the trust problem than any other state in the Union. Nevertheless, there is considerable apprehension that the Lone Star state has invited trouble for itself in life-sized pack ages.
 The chief interest will be, of course, in the demonstration of the ability of the state to actually pro hibit the sale of trust made goods. But this concern will be shared by consuming curosity to know how Texas expects to abandon these trust made articles and the products controlled by the combines"
 In state so bountifully provided with Tong horns" and alfalfa fed hogs, the Beef trust may success fully be defed by the local butchers. With it's fruit and garden truck" the inhabitants should suffer no inconvenience in supplying their tables, but not even a Texan can live by bread alone"
 What will Texas do for raiment and wherewithal shall its people be clothed, if the goods of the trust controlled woolen mills are elected, and the law forbids the incasement of the Texas foot in the shoe of the Leather trust? What will the Texas housewife do for "sweeten" when the Sugar trust is no longer allowed to exact tribute for it's out put, to say nothing of the calamity which is certain to befall the "colonels" who are given to the habit of taking "a little sugah in mine, sah !" And the indignation of the smokers who must return to the long green" because the pro- duct of the Tobacco trust has heen tabooed will only be heightened hy theiF pompulsiah to Tight up" with
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
so1E EVERY DAY PHILOSOPHY
tAtchison Globe.

tAtchison Globe.i
 The broken heart cuts so little figure in the death rate.
 Almost any woman will tell you corset doesn't hurt her, because she never faces tight.
 No one seems to have as hard a time earning money as the woman who marries for it.
 If it were not for the funerals, there wouldn't be any family re- unions in some families.
 The rest of the world doesn't grieve as much as it should when an expert makes a blunder. When boy has old junk to sell, he always finds, when he gets to the dealers, that he overestimated its value.
 There are as many jays in big town as in small town. They are jays in a different way; that's the only difference.
 It is said that Luther Burbank has never perfected an odorless onion. However, what the world wants IS an odorless breath. The girl who is most successful in keeping number of young men interested" is most likely to let all of them get away.
 When a woman thinks some other woman has her outclassed in the the matter of clothes, she accuses her rival of "overdressing." There is very little difference in the last breakfast man has before he is hanged and the first breakfast man has after he is married. A man and woman may agree on other subjects, but there IS sure to 1 be a difference of opinion as to which has the most spare time. The boy who takes proper care of his dog is the one who keeps the dog so busy during the day time that it will be too tired to bark at nighs. If you have friend, for heavens sake appreciate him. Friends are mighty rare. The rarest blessing IS friend who really admires you. When a womun marries well, those who dislike her account for 1t by repeating with much emphasis, Well, some men always were fools. v A man can't show his sympathy for woman in trouble because GUS tom does not permit him to put his arms around her, and pat her softly on the back; at least, that is what women do who are described as ESQ sympathetic.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

and purity in politics and industrial management. Arkansas Democrat.
 Yes, there is hope. But that hope will be greatly increased when some of the trust promoters join Schmltz in prison, to say nothing of any of the fourteen indicted Arkansas leg islators who are guilty. Having corporations Ion the run may not entirely remove their power for harm, and indictments of Arkansas legislators are often slow in bring ing results.
 But here's hoping
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
ONE EXCEPTION.

We praise her doughnuts and her pies Her biscuit and her cake, But where's the man who sighs fol
 pants
 Like mother used to make? She used to take pair of pas, When they were worn and frayed, And decorate them with a patch Of some contrasting shade. And cut them off about the knees And take the waist in, too, And say that they for every day Were just the thing for you. And then she sent you off to school And when you didn't go, She wondered what got into boys That they played truanS so. Yes, we praise her jam, her "jell, Her coffee and her steak, But where's the man who sighs foi
 pants
 Like mother used to make
 Kansas City Times.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
Now, Did They !

A Missouri exchange reprints the following:
 The simplest and plainest laws of health are outraged every hour of the day by the average man. Did Adam smoke? Did Eve wear cor sets? Did Solomon chew tobacco Did Ruth chew gum? Did the chil- dren of Israel make for beer gar den after crossing the Red sea ? Did Rebecca eat gum drops and ice cream and call for soda water !? Adam was the first and was made perfect from head to heel. How long would he remain so after eat ing a mince pie before going to bed? Suppose he had slept in bedroom five by seven with the windows down, the doors shut, and two dogs under the bed? !? Suppose Eve had laced herself up in corset, put on tight shoes, sat up all hours of the night eating her fill of trash, and sizzled her hair. When you come to think of the way a man misbe- hayes himself, you can only wonder he ever lived to get there. Verify, the average man behaves as if he were little better than fool.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

your happiness is independent of them.
 Many man is shouting his con yictions to drown the voice of con science.
 The saddest people in this world are those who seem to have no sor- rows to face. :.
 The long look within ourselves VIII cure us of lot of impatience with other folks.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
Small Pig Big Lawsuit.

Warren, July IA big law suit was had over a little Berk- shire pig yesterday, which held the attention of a justice court all day. It required the evidence of people from Portland, Dermott, kiugsland and New Edinburg and other places too numerous 10 mention, as we'll as many oi the good ladies from Quality Row and other parts of the city, before the case could be decided.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
LAPS CAUGHT SNEAKING IN.
Immigration Officers Arrested Five
 0rientals on the Texas Frontier.

San Antonio, Tex, July h. The immigration inspectors in Laredo, on the Mexican border, arrested five Japanese near Greens Station yesterday as they were making their way into the state through the brush. This makes fifteen in all that have recently been arrested. All of them will be sent in charge of an officer to San Francisco for deportation to Japan.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

the old time flint and finder since the matches of the Match trust have been placed on the "contraband list"
 But notwithstanding the difficult ties to be surmounted in the solution of the trust question, the world is ready to concede that If anybody kin, Texas kin. Kansas City Star.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
A MENA BOY SEEING THE WORLD
Jim Pipkin Has Returned From Trip
 to English Cities Will Go Again.

Jim Pipkin, half brother of ". M. Pipkin, came in Sunday night from New York, where he landed from London, E. c., about ten days ago. Jim has been on a tour of the British Isles since last April and intends to go again shortly, as he found it very easy to work his way across the At lantic.
 His starting point was New Orleans and from there he went to New York, thence to Liver pool. After exploring Liverpool, linn went to the biggest city Tn the world, London, and after a month of sightseeing returned to New York and came across the country to Mena, where he was reared.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
SUNBEAnS.
Eternal Progress. ]

Dry your tears; life was not made for sorrow. Whatever you do, be happy.
 Whatever happens to you. if you take it in the right way, it will make you glad.
 Look for the good, the true and the beautiful, and never expect to meet anything else.
 The is a sweet bye and bye for all i, but there is also sweet eternal now for all. It's yours for the asking.
 To be happy, contented and serene in the midst of diversity is the mark of a great soul; but in the presence of such soul diversity will not long remain.
 No one ever lost anything by being kind; when kindness seems a failure, we should remember that it is just as important to be kind to ourselves as to others.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

truth. He don't write it exactly as I would, of course; that's because he don't enter into it. puts on his glasses before he looks at it--writes it with a little touch of dude.
 Still, there is something alluring in the subject and the way it is han dled. Roosevelt seems to have realized it's character-its shape and size to have honestly imbibed some of the spirit'of that Western life. "
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
ICE CREAM MAKES 20 SICK.
Lewisville Physicians All Busy After
 Church Supper.

Lewisville, July l5.-Great eS. citement prevailed here last night when twenty people became sud. denly and dangerously i'll after an ice cream supper given by the ladies of the First Methodist church. It is supposed the sick- ness was caused by piomalue poisoning coming from tue ice cream.
 All the physicians in the town were busy and succeeded iu saving the lives of all.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
SENTENCE SERMONS.
lChicago rrLhnne.l

To love tradition is to limit truth. A good many resolutions die of heart failure.
 No man possesses more religion than he practices.
 When men say "our faults" they usually mean yours.
 Smiles help, but it often takes sweat and tears to keep life sunshiny. Some are more anxious to forget their sins than to have them for given,
 You cannot enjoy riches antil
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
FREE ADVICE TO CnAUNcEY.

Note-Chauncy Nj. Depew may purchase home in Paris. o, Chauncy M. Depew, Do your stories pass for new
 In Farce? Does your manner debonair Make the people over there
 Te-he? Do you hope with grimace bland To make that enlightened land
 Guffaw? Then make sure the French don't chaff And don't tell you, when they laugh.
 He-haw.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
Walt Whitman on Roosevelt as a
 Nature Writer.

Walt Whitman thought well of Roosevelt as nature writer. His opinion, set down in the July Ameri- can Magazine, is interesting in view of the Presidents recent controversy with the mature fakirs:N
 Have you seen RooSevelt's paper
 ranche paperl It Is interesting. { Ike itl he gets pretty nsaF the
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
DIED OF HYDR0PHoBIA.
Little Daughter of J. P. Carnahan of
 Fort Smith Succumbs.

Fort Smith, July IA A mes- sage was received today by J. P. Carnahan from New York stating that his little daus hter, who was bitten by mad dog here a month ago, died at 10 o'clock last nig ht. The little girl developed hydro phobia in the morning and died twelve hours later. The body will arrive Tuesday morning.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
CHRISTIAN CHURCH TO BUILD.
By Almost Unanimous Vote It Was
 so Decided Sunday.

There was an interesting time at the Christian church Sunday. Besides the good services, and the addition of a new mber, the question of building new church or repairing the old one was taken up, and by almost a unanimous vote of the mem bership it was decided to do away with the idea of remodeliug the old building, but instead to erect new one.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
STARLETS.

Make the best of the present and the future will be better.n
 "Whitewash doesn't last long, whether il be put upon wall or on a reputation.
 "There is this difference between pleas ure and happiness; one is brass band, the other the song of bird
 The person that runs away from his troubles will find more troubles at his next stopping place. Eternal Progress.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

Keep your system in perfect order and you will have good health, even in the most sickly seasons. The occasional use of Prickly Ash Bitters will insure vigor aud regularity in all the vital organs. w. c. Vandiyer, special agent.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

h warm weather Prickly Ash B'tters helps your staying quali- ties. Workers who use in occas. ionally stand the heat better and are less fatigued at night. w. C. Vandiver, special agent.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
Bob Taylor Soon To Have Son.iu-law

Memphis, July 14.-Cards an- nouncing the engagement of Miss Lorette Taylor, daughter of United States Senator Robert L. Taylor of Tennessee, and Camp. bell Pitcher, prominent attorney of Nashville were issed today.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
HOPEFUL SIGNS.

With five years in the penitentiary for Mayor Schmitz, Standard Oil fac ing rr3bable fine of $29, GOO, 900, the Santa Fe indicted in sixty-tive counts for unlawful rebates, the Tobacco Trust on the run, and indictments pending against fourteen members of the Ar.
 kansan legislature for bribery aud cor. gpPtl9a. theFs s gsf hope foF heneAty
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

If you have no appetite ", your meals something IS wroDs with your digestion, llysr 7 bowels. Prickly Ash Bi''sls 'as clenses and strengthens "A stomach. purifies the bowels a,. dps creates appetite, vigor ana cues. s.. fitness. w. C. Vandiver, sp' cial agent.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

The promised summer hotel will not solve the problem of caring for those who will come to spend the hot months in Mena. It will be but a stimulant in the creation of de- mand many times as great as we face now.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

Mena has a larger revenue this year than at any time in it's short life and it should result in much improvement. There is nothing that will help it more than good roads and smooth, clean streets and doubt less another twelve months will show a vast improvement in this direction.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

Of course the movement of Ameri- ca's warships was not a threat to Japan, but it will be noticed that the Japs are not nearly so much of- tended now as they thought they were few days back.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
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The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

The American warships will soon be just where they would be most needed if the Japs should undertake to "colonize" California. The Japs will now probably be less inclined to magnify small local disturbances to the proportions of national insults.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

The Garden boys seem to have dropped out of public notice. Ex- Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco is threatened with cloud of oblivion also, but it's different.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

Do you suppose that the practice cruise" had anything to do with Admiral Sakamotp's sudden change of opinion regarding Uncle Sam s naval officers
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

The fact that while Japanese high officials are talking of love for the United States others are spying about California's coast defenses lends considerable weight to the war scare" talk of Hobson and
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

The Haywood trial in Boise is said to be nearing its end." That would be more consoling if it was not so likely to be rehashed in the Mover case.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
Has Products to Get the Gold

What does Arkansas care for Alas kan gold mines, when it has straw berries, peaches, apples and pota- toes, not to speak of cotton, yellow pine and diamonds. Arkansas Democrat.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

For some time past the country correspondents have each week writ ten to The Star that Train is badly needed" and the rain came every time
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

appropriated for crossings aud 5000 for street work.
 There is on hand in the city treasury at present about seven thousand dollars.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18
CITY REVENUE OVER si3,oUO.
Largest Ever Collected About 1000
 Now in Treasury.

Sheriff and Collector Cunning. ham last Saturday paid into the city treasury the amount due from the city tax collected by him amounting to about $, 100.
 This IS the largest sum ever collected for city tax. The reve. nue of the city for the current year will be about as follows:
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

Dame Nature is doing her best to make up for the injury to crops caused by the late spring.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

Do not tail to get one of Lochridge's big circulars, tell ing all about the Great Mill Remnant Sale, which hegips July 2e aHd will coaliuua for tan days,
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-18

If we were in Kansas we would now assert that the corn crop is saved "