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The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24
PATTERSON SAYS HE Is OUT

With a heart overfiowing with disgust Colonel Henry Watterson has quit in disgust. In New York interview the old Democratic leader says:
 The prosperity of the United States is not and never can be de- pendent on the policy of any man or set of men; neither does it depend on politicians or political parties. The sooner we all realize that fact the better off we will be.
 Party lines have ceased to exist. We must have new party-a divi- sion of the people upon other lines. The old parties are dead. Roose- welt has destroyed what was left of the Republican party. Rooseveltism IS like Bry anism in 1896-like it in many ways. Bryan would have Mexicanized our currency; Roose- velt's reelection will Mexicanize the state. If he is to be kept in the White House, by all means let it be for life. Make him king Do more than that make him emperorl" !"
 The colonel then spoke of the hopelessness of Democracy until William Jennings Bryan is political ly dead.
 Look at Bryanl For seven years l have been proving to him why he should not longer disturb the future
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24
FIT. SMITH WANTS A BALLOON
Boosters Club Offers $l0,0O0 to First
 Airship to Land There.

Fort Smith, Oct. 19. The Fort smith Boosters Club will give Sl0,00O for the first St. Louis air ship sent up that lands in Fort smith. This announcement was made this afternoon by George Sengel, club member, after con. suItation with other members.
 This IS done to advertise Fort smith and show people of that county that this city is on the map. Boosters are hoping the winds will be favorable, and that one of the airshlps may find it's way here. Prominent men an. nounce they stand ready to make good the offer, and will put up the cash if necessary.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24
NEWS FROr1 WALL STREET

On the bulletin board of Wall Street brokers office the following was posted last week:
 l" Five thousand years ago Moses came down from the Mount and brought with him tablet on which was written, Thou shalt not steal. " Today President Roosevelt is giving the same advise, and Wall Street thinks it is news
 This, of course, is a plagiarism from Thomas B. Reed, who, a num- Der of years ago, described Roose- welt as a statesman who had dis covered the Ten Commandments. It was witty, it was true, and 1t was also a compliment to Roosevelt. The Ten Com. .nandments cannot be preached too much; and certainly no generation has needed more than this to have Thou shalt not steal preached to it. This com mandment in it's application to the conduct of great competitive busi ness was in the nature of news The country is now at last learning that unfair competition, market manipulation and rate discrimina tions are stealing.
 Having learned what constitute: stealing, it is hoped the traction lords will eventually be taught tha' honesty is a policy worth experi menting with. "-W Wall Street Jour pol
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24
WILL OKLAHOMA DO BETTERa

The objection to Leavenworth that there would be one great drunk if the football game was played there is not good. There are no more opportunities for getting drunk in Leavenworth than there are in Kansas City. Lawrence, Kansas, Journal.
 Is this all that Kansas paper can say for the prohibition of Kansas no easier to get drunk in Leaven- worth than in Kansas City. All a man needs in Kansas City is the de sire coupled with the price, and if his capacity is not too great the price is very small.
 If the same condition exists in one of the principle cities of that state which for years has boasted of its prohibition law-well it is to be hoped our new neighbor state will have better law enforcement.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24
Harassed to Death.

The Watonga Herald perpetrates this story:
 My old friend Crabtree of the real early Oklahoma days tells this tale about an early day snow storm: One day after many, many days of dry weather, a big snow came and visited our drouth stricken land. The faces of the farmers were all smiles, because it meant a wheat crop. But alas and alack and old time wind came up from the South that blew about forty miles an hour and drifted the snow northward for a day. Then came an eighty mile an hour from the North that drifted Lit back south again. This condition of wind continued daily until the snow storm was blown and worn out and not snow flake could be found anywhere in the country.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24
BIG LAND DEAL AT coyE.
Four Prominent Iowa Farmers to No,, In Bringing Fine Stock With rhem

Four rrominent Iowa Farmers to Nov,
 In Bringing Fine Stock With rheu
 A land deal of consider,hl. magnitude was closed here Sa,ur. day which involved the sale of four farms. The purchasers wer. w. A. Teters, c. A. Larreu and B. w. Ratcliff, of Storm Lake. Ia., and they get the D. D. Foil. mer farm of 160 acres, the George Neese farm of 234 acres. the John $. Whitteu place of 40 acres, and the A. l.. Coburn tarm of 40 acres, making 474 acres in all. The buyers are prominent farmers of northern Iowa and will bring to Polk county several carloads of fine horses, cattle and hogs. It is also likely that several other families will follow the first corners.
 The above deal was made through the Fulton Land Agency.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24
- THE DRU0LESS AGE.

Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the Indiana Board of Health, delivered an interesting address before the State Pharmaceutical Association recently, and some of his thoughts will bear reproduction:
 Pharmacy, chemistry, and much of the materia medica were evolved from alchemy. Alchemy started in the brilliant but absolutely unsup- ported idea of the possibility of transmitting base metals into gold. In a thousand years of futile en- desvor to make gold the alchemists uncovered mountain of valuable chemical and physical facts. Final ly the alchemist realized he had been chasing a will-'o-the-wisp, and so he again conjured up out of nothing a second pill. This time he had the idea that he could make or find a medicine which would prolong life indefinitely. A thousand years was spent in this search, and the period of iatro-chemistry, as it was called, passed without it's hopes being realized in the slightest degree.
 For another thousand years we have been searching of medi- cines to cure disease, and now, as in the other experiences, we see the futility of the search. Knowledge comes painfully and slowly. It takes thousand years, said Prof. Fish. to raise the human family a single notch If we finally con- clude. and we certainly shall, that medicine for the cure of disease is a purely fetish, what will become of the drug store and of the drug curing doctor. Obviously they will pass. They are passing now. The drug store of today and the physi- clan of today bear little resemblance to those of twenty years ago. remember when tinctures were pre- scribed by the quart and we made them in five gallon lots. Now. a pint of tincture in the ordinary store is the stock. and lasts year. The city drug store has changed more than the country store. The front of the modern drug store room is filled with sundries. A magnificent marble or onyx soda fountain and cases of cigars and tobacco, and other cases of stationary and cut glass first appear. and way back, almost out of sight. loom the ancient prescription case and the drug bottles"
 Dr. Hurty endeavors to argue
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24
WILLIAMS IS OUSTED.
Sheriff of Hot Springs County Owed
 His Election to Fraud.

Hot Springs, Oct. 9.-After the most bitter contest in the his. tory of jurisprudence in this state the celebrated contest case of Blu. chanan vs. Williams was decided today by the circuit court in favor of Buchanan.
 Buchanan opposed Williams in in the 1906 election for sheriff and, while the official count as returned by judges selected from among the relatives and friends of Williams gave the latter a ma jority, Judge Evans declared that after a careful review of the case he was convinced that fraud had been perpetrated.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24
OPERATORS EIGHT HOUR LAW

A Missouri judge has declared the S-hour law for telegraph operators unconstitutional.
 If this is right then our constitu- tion does not properly fit present conditions. It may be right to say that law cannot stand which pre- vents man from working as many hours as he wishes in his effort to earn a living, but it is not right to say that a law cannot be enforced limiting his hours in work, where human lives are at stake, so as to prevent unusual fatigue tha. brings the result of death to helpless hun dreds.
 Arkansas last legislature passed a similar law and its fate now hangs in the courts.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24

that in the future evolution of al- chemy there will come the drugless age. Following out his deductions this drugless age will have two chief constituent points: l. Soda fountains will replace pharmacies. 2. Mind cures will be substituted for medicines. In fact. the doctor now says: "The old notion that nature has provided medicine for the cure of every disease, is now not ad- vanced, except, perhaps, among the Indians, the quacks and the igno. rant. "-The Pharmaceutical Era.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24

show that Folk did not kill boodling
 in St. Louis. An organized gang or officeholders with a boodling system as complete as in the days of Folks fght. has been uncovered by Circuit Attorney Sager. These facts indl- cate that the dishonest politician IS not learning his lesson very rapidly but it is great consolation to know that there are yet enough honest prosecutors to keep up the instruc'
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24
How Long Since You Wrote Mother

Yes, we wish to know. How long since you wrote mother?
 Perhaps your mother has long since gone to her home with the angels, and if 80 what comfort you now find in being able to say that you never neglected her.
 It does not make any difference whether you, dear reader. are A young man or woman, or an old man or woman; the inquiry applies to you just the same,
 If there is any person who de- serves, yes, commands your first and constant attention. it should be your mother. She never forpets
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24
The Helping Hand.

A little girl of seven or eight years stood one day before closed gate. A gentleman passed slowly. The little girl turned and said to him, Will you open this gate for me?
 The gentleman did so. Then he said kindly:
 And why, my child, couldn't you open the gate yourself ?"
 Because" said the little girl, "the paints not dry yet. Look at your hands !"-Baltimore Methodist
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24

Cassie Chadwick touched up a few bankers along high-finance lines, and as a result died in felon's cell a few days ago. There are some high financiers of the male persuasion who have touched up the great American public who are liv- ing in regal splendor. There is nothing in this comparison in ex- tenuation of Mrs. Chadwick, but it will call attention to the fact that a good many bigger thieves than she are yet at large and most of them still busy. Southwest American.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24

The only objection we have heard to the "stitch in time" street work is that an honest man can't be found to do the work. Or at least one honest enough to do the work with out having boss over him. It may be that the man who is looking after the neglected spots along our busi- ness streets at the present time is not honest, but if you will take the time to walk around and see how much work he has done since going on duty you will think he has earned his salary.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24
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The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24
BITS OF EVERY DAY PHILOSOPHY
lAtchisnn Glnha l

tAtchison Globe.) Nothing like old age to knock the conceit out of man.
 Art has never been equal to the old-fashioned country hams. The most wearisome cross of re- ligion is poor preacher.
 Woman is never made vain by woman; that is man work. There is no sweetness in the smile that smiles for everybody.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24

of the once real party in which l was raised. But haven't feazed him. If he is weak today, he IS strong tomorrow; or vice versa; He will not get out of the way ot others. He will ditch the train II he cannot ride in the box.
 "He is a destroyer of plans and 2 breaker of images. 1 am sick and disgusted with the people of my state. have quit.politics forever.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24

and that under the circumstances nothing is more infamous than the suggestion of war" The burst of applause which greeted these words, according to the Japanese press re- ports, would indicate that they voiced the feelings of both sides. A Tokio dispatch to the New York Sun said:
 "Mr. Taft's fearless and outspoken treatment of the dreaded topic ap- pealed strongly to the administra- ton that American sincerity has always commanded here" At the same time Japanese papers--even those unfriendly to the ministry declared that the American fleet would meet in Japan a no more hostile demonstration than that accorded to Secretary Taft.
 Mir. Taft in his speech said in part For moment, a moment only, 6 little cloud came over the sunshine of the fast friendship of fifty years Only the greatest earthquake of the century have caused even the slight. est tremor between such friends. do not intend to consider the details of the events in San Francisco. can not trespass on the Jurisdiction of the Department of State. It is for my colleague, Mir. Root, or my friend, Mir. O'Brien, to discuss this matter. say that there is nothing in these events that cannot be honor ably and fully arranged by ordinary diplomatic methods, between the two governments, conducted as they are by statesmen of honor, sanity. and justice. War between Japan and the United States would be crime against modern civilization. It would be insane. Neither the peo- pie of Japan nor the people of the United States desire war. The governments of the two countries would strain every point to avoid such an awful catastrophe. Neither would gain anything"
 Mir. Taft added that it gave him pleasure to bring this message of good will from President Roosevelt and he felt that the fact that the Japanese emperor had for the sec ond time honored him with an invi- tation to an audience was due to his majesty's desire to send a similar one to the United States.
 At about the same time this speech was being made at Tokio the New York Sun was announcing in a double leaded editorial that "the American navy is going to the Pa cific ocean for war with Japan"
 This certainty is a sample of yellow journalism" which surpas- ses any limit heretofore set.
 The Washington Evening Star (Ind. comments on the subject as follows:
 There are differences of opinion in this country about the wisdom ot ordering the fleet to the Pacific and there are as wide differences about the proposition of the third term for MT. Roosevelt. But the effort to make it appear that wal with Japan is on the cards as g feature of the third-term project, and that the President so under. stands and is playing the game using the fleet as an instrument tc that end, IS form of campaigning so reckless as two deserve the sever. est condemnation"
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24
THE MryA EVENING srAR

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The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24
 LINGO YELLOW JOURNAL.

At the Tokio banquet given Sec retary Taft he said m his speech that "A war between America and Japan would be crime against civilization
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24

Developments of the last few days
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-11
SEASONS SNOWFALL AT
new YORK A. INCHES
Ground Covered to Depth
of Six Inches.

New York, March 11.-Leaden skies
and the ominous east wind. to which
New Workers awoke yesterday. dashed
any hopes they may have entertained
that the backbone of winter, locally
speaking, had been broken. For sev-
eral days the sun had shone promising
ly, but the city's 18th big snowstorm
came yesterday.
Throughout the forenoon there were
intermittent flurries, and at noon the
storm proper came, and it came fast
and furious, while a stiff wind kicked
up formidable drifts, unpleasant re
minders of the great blizzard of 'SS
the anniversary of which is but two
days distant. Toward night, howeve-
the wind died away, and early in the
evening the snowfall ceased. In eight
hours nearly six inches had fallen
bringing the total snowfall of the win
ter up to A inches.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-11
IOWA TO HAVE LOWER
RATES ON LIVE STOCK
Rail Commissioners-Adv
Over Illinois.

Des Moines, Iowa. March 11.-By
unanimous vote the state board of rail-
road commissioners Saturday after
noon decided to order a general reduc,
tiOn in Iowa freight rates on cattle,
horses, mules and sheep, amounting to
about IS per cent. The decision came
as a result of the action of the Iowa
Corn Belt Meat Producers association,
which with the railroads was given an
extended hearing on the question of
rates al several different times. Ur-
gent reasons were advanced by the
commission also for the establishment
by the railroads for a feeding in tran
sit date for Iowa such as that enjoyed
| by the Nebraska cattle feeders.
AS to hogs, it is said the Iowa rate
| is now lower than that in Illinois. The
new rate as to other live stock will give
| Illinois differential not exceeding
| per cent, whereas heretofore it has en-.
joyed a differential of more than q
| per cent. The rates now in force in
Iowa have been effective more than II
years, no changes having been made
! in that time
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-11
JEROME UNABLE TO BRING
IN MRS, THAW'S AFFIDAVIT
ARRANGEMENTS COM
PLETED FOR FUNERAL
Of ALEXANDERDOWIE

Chicago. March IA touch of the
ostentation that marked the rule of
John Alexander Dowie in the Christian
Catholic church which he founded will
be observed during the funeral services
of the deposed leader The white rob
ed choir which was shorn of its vest
ments when Overseer Voliva assumed
control in Zion City, will take an active
part in the ceremonies, which will oc-
cur Thursday afternoon in Zion taber-
nacle.
Judge V. v Barnes, one of the COM
mittee of elders of the church, who re-
mained faithful to Dowie, will conduct
the services and deliver the funeral
sermon Tuesday and Wednesday the
body will lie in state in the reception
hall of Shiloh house, the Dowie e i
dence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-11
SWEDISH VOTERS
FOR A THIRD TERM
State League of Clubs Indorses Roose-
welt and Gives Praise of
Fred Busse.

Rockford, H., March 11.-Preside 1t
Roosevelt was urged to be canii-
date for another term by the Illinois
league of Swedish-American repubii-
can clubs. which met here Saturday.
A resolution indorsing the candidacy
of Fred Busse for mayor of Chicago
was read with a storm of applause
from the 400 delegates. Resolutions
also were adopted indorsing Governor
eneen's administration. The expect
Ell contest over the election of the
leagues officers did not appear. Just
us l.. Johnson of Aurora being elected
president without opposition. Aurora
will be the next meeting place.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-11
EiatIees Cure For Badness.

Dr. Thomas l.. Shearer of Baltimore.
who for year has been going about In
all kinds of weather without a hat. re-
Gently declared that by it he has cured
incipient badness. Dr. Shearer says
when he sought remedy a year ago
he observed the fact that Indians. Es-
kimOs, japanese and East Indians gen
orally go without hats and that they
were never known to be baldheaded.
From careful observation DR.. Shearer
says the derby hat Is the most destruc-
tive type of hair destroyer, while the
soft hat is not so bad. Since he began
his experiments of going without hal
DIR. Shearer's hair has grown material.
ly. During rain and snow storms he
carries an umbrella.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-11
IN WAR ON VICE
GaleSburg Mass Meeting Held
to Declare for Enforcement
of the Laws.
WOULDPLEDGECITY OFFICERS
Present Administration Criticised by
Prominent Speakers for Be-
ing Lax.

Galesburg, ILL.,, March 11.-A mass
meeting attended by hundreds of voters
was held in the circuit court room yes
5erday afternoon to arouse sentiment
favorable to the election of city officers
pledged to enforce the law strictly and
impartially. Charles w. Williams, a
well known horseman, whose race track
operations a few years ago were the
sensation in sporting circles, presided
Many Are Heard.
Addresses were made by President
Fisher of Lombard college, President
McClelland of Knox college, John NJ
Vivion, Attorney Roy Arnold, ex-State
Treasurer NJ. o. Williamson. Alderman
H. H. Griffith, DR.. Bower. Rev. C. A
Vincent, and others, all favoring better
law enforced.
The city administration was CRITICS
ed for its alleged permitting of gam
bling and violation of law by saloons.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-11
Jurors Drink; In Contempt.

Terre Haute, Ind, March 11.-Judge
Thomas of the circuit court at Paris
ILL.,, has ordered Jack Williams and
Burns Connery to report in contempt
proceedings because they slipped out
of the jury room Friday night anj
made a night of it drinking. The jury
had gone to its room to deliberate on
a case when the two men climbed
through a window and did not report
until Saturday morning just in time tC
sign a verdict for the defendant.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-11
STRIKE SYMPATH|zERS TIE
UP LOUISVILLE STREET CARS
FAILURE TO VOTE AT
PRIMARIES MAY COST
YOU3 PlUNKS A YEAR

Springfield, H., March 11.-Citizens
of the state who consider their time
too valuable to be wasted by voting
at the primaries of their respective
parties or who do not believe in mix
ing in politics" to the extent of cast
ing their votes at such elections, may
find themselves assessed So yearly IS
penalty for non-actiOn if a bill intro
duced by Representative Krape Of
FreepOrt today becomes law.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-11
Lemon Club Is atest

Lemons are to be the ammunition of
Atlantic City's newest bachelor club to
forward its anticonnubial principles.
Organized among young attorneys and
business men. the society is known as
the Atlantic City Order Of Lemons.
The most drastic bylaws require any
member who so far forgets his obliga-
tons as to even become engaged to a
young lady shall give q lemon dinner
Mt his own expense to fellow members.
providing lemon pie, lemonade, lemon
water ice and for dessert one lemon
apiece, with stick of lemon candy.
With each other course selected lemon
must be served In some FORM"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-11
FIRE ENDS CHURCH REVIVAL
Presence of Mind of Evangelist and
Choir ScatterS Audience of 1000,

Aberdeen, S. D.. March 11.-While
revival services were in progress in
below a platform on which 500 me'n-
bers of the choir and the preache s
were sitting. The place was packed
with people. fully 1000 being present
The choir began singing and ministers
went among the congregation advising
them to leave quietly. Some of the
more eXcitable people made their exit
through windows, but in 10 minutes
the immense hall was empty. The fire
was soon extinguished.