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The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
WISDOfl FROn rlR. ROOKIE
 TELLER.

MT. Rockefeller makes one thing clear and that is overcapitalization is not alone responsible for the un- healthful relations between the cor porations and the commonwealth. Mr. Rockefeller is enabled to reach this demonstration through his long interview on the evils of watered stock. These pearls of wisdom from the lips of the richest man in the world lose none of their verity from the fact that they eminated from him or, rather, that he repeated them. They are true, and not all the Rockefelers anywhere could make them false. But the service of their oracular iteration now is that they cause the reflection that Standard Oil stocks are not watered and yet Standard Oil presents a relation" that calls for drastic remedy.
 It is a fair inference from such considerations that the abuses of the times are not all to be assigned to any one cause, and that, in many instances, what appear to be causes are really only manifestations of a deeply underlying condition. If generality is permitted, the cause that MT. Rockefeller glozes over IS the willful immunity of corporations from the law Kansas City Star.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
Choir Scandal aeauIss Fa,aIIy.

Springfield. Ill, March z6-Mrs Mollie Hill Gibson. divorced wife O. Elmer Gibson of Girard, was shot and perhaps fatally injured Monday on an interurban car between Girard and Virden by Peter Clark. Tine shooting is said to have been the re- suit of a scandal ia the choir of the First Christian church of Girard as results of which Mrs. Clark secured a divorce from her husband and Mir Gibson one from his wife Clark shot five times at Mrs. Gibson, three Of the bullets entered her head He sur rendered himself to the officers.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
NO NEED TO FEAR TnE COMET

The scare which some people are feeling in regard to the comet is absurd. There is no need to fear, for the following reasons:
 The earth is enormously heavier than the portion of the comet with which we might collide. It would be like a locomotive running into a fog bank.
 The earth is spinning at the rate of 1000 miles an hour. It is like a huge, heavy top. In comparison with it. the comet may be compared to vast cloud of gas or very fine dust, with lot of the cloud stream ing out behind, or sometimes in front, like woman's hair.
 Try and lombard a big heavy spinning top with cloud of dust. What happens The top goes on spinning. The dust is violently thrown off to one side.
 This is precisely what would hap pen to the comet if it should attempt to collide with the earth. It would be repelled by the rush of our revo- lution long before it could come in contact with us.
 And the fact that the comet may be composed of fiery material need not alarm anyone. It Is by no means certain that comets are actually hot. A mass of hazy mat ter extending for millions of miles, as a comet does, needs only to be phosphoescent in order to be visible. 1t may not even be warm.
 But whether hot or cold, it can hardly do us any harm. In 1861, says Father Brennan in the Sunday Post-Dispatch. we were buried in the tail of a comet BOG, GOO miles. And there was not the slightest thing by which anybody could know that it happened. There was not even haze.
 We rushed through that comet tail unharmed, because our globe is cov- cred with big cushion of air, which is much denser than a comets tail and probably denser than its head. You can see a fifth-magni- tude star through a comets head. But you cannot often see first.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28

the fracture of winters backbone did not occur in railroad accident. Wonder if The Journal has any rec ord of winters backbone ever talk ing passage on one of the modern conveyances of meeting death? ? If the frost king could have been in- duced to have taken his chances of reaching his destiny by tying up with one of these coal cars billed for Nebraska a few months back how much suffering it would have saved the people of that country.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
One Veteran Dead.

Leavenworth, Kan, March z6-The first fatality as result of ptomaine poisoning from the hash fed to over 5000 veterans at the Soldiers home Saturday morning was the death late Sunday afternoon of William ]. Cook, aged 64 years. a member of Company c, Fourteenth Missouri cavalry. The home physicians state that they do not believe there will be any more deaths directly from this cause Cooks wife lives in Mexico, Mo.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28

master General Cortelyou issued the order after consulting with the President, and it is said that it will save the government 10 million dol lars annually.
 It is a question of reform in mathematics which the railroads are attempting to bring about now, and the administration has shown no disposition to alter the arithmetic. If the railroads were asking for a system of reform spelling they might entertain more hope. Kan sas City Star.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
The Water Ways Commission.

Washington, March 24.-The lni- tial meeting of the Inland Water Ways commission is to be held April 29. Chairman Burton and w. J. Mo Gee, of the bureau of ethnology, who is a member of the commission had a talk with the president Saturday about the proposed work of that body. Mir Burton expects the commission will make at least one trip from St Paul down the Mississippi river to New Orleans, with incidental visits to places along the stream.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
Sneaker Cannon ouarantlned.

Colon, March 26.-The stealne, Bluecher, with Speaker Cannon au. Representative of the United Sta'e' congress on board, arrived here suu' day. The congressman were not pe'' mitted to land owing to the fact lna' the Bluecher had been out from yer ezuela but five days. Six days are \. quired by the quarantine regulation' and the health authorities were " willing to establish a precedent ln S yor ct ths congressman
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
PINE BLUFFS FIRE AND RE-
 INSURANCE,

At Pine Bluff on Friday the great plant of the Bluff City Lumber Com pany was damaged by fire to the amount of half million dollars Here is a paragraph from the dis patches telling of that fire which every man in Arkansas should reac and ponder on:
 The local insurance companies vii not lose heavily, as they reinsurec the risks in foreign companies.
 There is the terrible practice o1 reinsurance that Jeff Davis so ve- hemently denounces. That is the terrible practice he has gone up and down this state calling a regular blind tiger transaction"
 Reinsurance is worked this way, You insure your house for $l 900 in Little Rock local company, for instance. The local immediately reinsures $950 of that risk in for eign company lone of the old-line companies that Jeff Davis spent several years in running out of Ar kansas, but in which, we believe, he is careful to keep his own house in- sured. If fire loss of $1 900 comes on that policy. the foreign company pays $950 of the amount and the local company $50.
 Now any intelligent man should be able to see that this practice. which is denounced in Arkansas as an il- legal one, which Jeff Davis says is a blind tiger transaction, is great protection to the policyholder. be- cause it puts back of his policy the millions of assets of the foreign company in which the largest part of the risk on his property has been reinsured.
 We notice that in this $500, 900 fire at Pine Bluff the Travellers Insur- ance Company of that city lost only S1, 900. The Travellers was wise enough to be conservative, to not put all it's eggs in one basket. But the Travellers could have written a large amount of insurance on the lumber cempany's plant and then saved itself from any loss in excess of $1 ,000 by reinsuring all the risk except $1 ,O00 in foreign companies. Possibly the Travellers did do some thing like this.
 The biggest part of the insurance on Arkansas property is secured by means of reinsurance. And yet reinsurance could be stopped to- morrow by an adverse opinion from the attorney general. What spec taclel A civilized people in the glorious dawn of the Twentieth cen tury are dependent for the biggest part of their insurance upon pecu- liar device which may be stopped at any timel Why can't the people of this state have the same opportunity to insure their property against fire that is enjoyed by the people of every other state in the Union ?~- Arkansas Gazette.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
The Penrose Verdict

Washington, March 26.-The senate committee on military affairs Monday received from the acting secretary of war copy of a telegram from Brig, Gen. McCaskey, commanding the de partment of Texas concerning the Major Penrose court martial The telegram says that Penrose was ex- onrated but that the court found that the shooting up' of Brownsville was done by men of the 25th infantry.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
Grain confer ,nce Postponed.

Topeka, Kan, March 26.-The con ference of grain shippers and mem bers of the boards of railroad com missioners of Texas, Kansas ana Oklahoma which was to have been hslo at Wichita Monday. has been post poned until March 30 on account o' the inability of tho Texas comnlls. sioners to be present. The object ol the conference is to arrange eyidencs to be presented to the interstate corr merce commission to secure redac' ton and adjustment of grain rates v the gulf.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
sxpsodlno Heater Causes Panic

Cleveland, March 2j.--A water heater in the dining room of the railroad Young Mems Christian ar. sociation building at ConIngwood. a suburb, exploded early Monday caus- ing panic among the 30 persons in the place who were mostly asleep when the accident occurred. Fire followed the explosion and portion of the building was destroyed No ons uas Injured
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
Would Floht for Their countrv.

New York. March 24.-A commit tee of young Nicaraguans represent ing about 100 who are college stu dents here and in Philadelphia waited upon Pic Bolanos. the Nicaraguan consul-general here. and volunteered to fight against Honduras and Salva. dor in the war now going on.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
Louisville Election Case Decided.

Louisville, Ky, March 24.-Judges Miller and Kirby Saturday decided the contested Louisville city election cases by sustaining the democratic officeholders and refusing to nullify the 1905 election, except in few un. important cases involving only magis. trates and constables. The court holds that the fraud practiced was not sufficient to invalidate the cleo. tions. Appeal will be taken.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
Bras Band for Burton.

Abilene, Kan, March 24.--Former Senator Burton was met with band when he arrived here Saturday after. noon and escorted to the Pacific hotel where a reception was rendered him Requests for seats to Saturday nights meeting have come from many out side towns. The receipts from the sale of seats will be given to the local public library.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
HAD TO MAKE A SHOWING

What an awful good place Fort Smith must be, when grand jury can work for two weeks and find so little to make showing on that it will indict drug men for selling dire necessities and the little dago in his hole in the wall, for selling fruits.
 It must be case of little doing and a large desire to draw some of the public funds for jury service.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
Panic on Berlin Rourse

Berlin, March 24--There was a panic on the bourse Saturday owing to Fridays advices from New York. Prices in all departments suffered a sharp relapse. mining shares losing ten points Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania declined five points and Canadian Pacific II points.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
RIodaett Succeeds Dyer

Washington, March zf.-The ap. pointment of Henry w Biodgett to be United States attorney for the east. ern district of Missouri to succeed D. F. Dyer, appointed federal judge, was announced at the White house Saturday.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
Boston Teamsters May Strike.

Boston March 26. With strike of 5000 team drivers in and about Boston nending, the executive com mittee Of che general truck teamster union No. F has been given full authority to act in the matter.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
He Got or Easy.

Richmond, Va, March 22.-- Joshua Harrison was Thursday at Elizabeth City, N C., sentenced to 20 years, Imprisonment for the kndnaping and murder of boy Kenneth Beasley, two years ago.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28

magnitude star through the St. Louis atmosphere. It is probable that a St. Louis smoke could put out of business the best sort of comet that ever happened '---St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28

Paris March 26-rhe Nlcaraguan legation Monday received the fol- lowing dispatch from Senor Gomez. the Nicaraguan minister of Foreign affairs confirming the previous re- ports of Niearagua's victory at Chol- uteca:
 'sCholuteca (donduras) taken. AL lied armies of Salvador and Honduras routed everywhere President Bonil- la has sought refuge at San Lorenzo with 200 men. Our ships have sailed to capture them. Tegucigaipa will fall Tuesday"
 Negotiations for peace in Central America are being carried on here with great earnestness. MT. Greet, the Mexican ambassador, and MT. Cora. the Nicaraguan minister, both discussed the Central American war Monday. with Mir Root, and although Mexico and the United States have not yet found a way to restore har- mony it is believed than an arbitra- ton will be effected soon
 It is known, however, that Mexico and the United States do not care to advise Salvador and Guatemala to remain neutral and in fact do not wish to take any active part in peace negotiations unless Nicaragua indi- cates in some manner that it desires peace Mexico and the United States are unwilling to force peace which might be distasteful to either of the three countries involved but it is be- lieved that some plan will be evolved which will make possible an arbitra- ton that will in no way humiliate any of the beligerents.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28

Some people never praise anyone but the Lord. -Atchinson (Kas, ) Post. Yes, and there are a lot of 'em who don't think of Him unless they are in awful trouble when it is supplication instead of praise.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
Famous German suroeon bead

.Wiesbaden. Germany March 26.- Professor Won Bergman. the famous surgeon died here Monday morning He was operated upon Tuesday for ap- pendieitis.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
Missouri Banned bad

Pleasant Hill, Mo. March z2.-Wil. liam Wherritt, a prominent retired farmer, late of Jackson county, died here Thursday aged 67.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28

The Kansas City Journal says: Let us be fair with the railroads. Il must at least be conceded that
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
NICARAGUA IHE VICTOR
Army of Honduras Badly Defeated and President Bonilla in
 Full Flight.
FALL OF HOgDu8AA CAPITAL EXPECTED
The United States and Mexico to be Appealed to by Nicaragua to Take Some Steps to Force Guatemala and Salvador to Keep Their Neu- traIity Pledges.

Washington, March 26.-Advices re- ceiyed here indicate that President Bonilla of Honduras is in sore straits. His army has been defeated by the anisd forces of Nicaragua and the Honduran rebels at Choluteca, the army dispersed and the president flee ing in a boat across the gulf of Fon- seca. The dispatches indicate that the war Is almost at an end, unless the defeated leader can gather another army from Salvador and Guatemala.
 Another dispatch says that Presi- dent Bonilla is defeated and that he is hiding in San Lorenzo with 200 oi his followers, and that President Zelaya of Nicaragua has sent rorce after him.
 According to the dispatches which have beer. received by MT. Corea, the Nicaraguan minister, the capture of the capital of Honduras is almost a certainty
 It Is noteworthy that Choluteca IS the scene of the defeat of President Vasquez of Honduras years ago b, the allied forces of Nicaragua and Honduran rebels Vasquez disappeared after the battle, and it appears hele that a similar fate Will befall the present president of the belligerent republic.
 The Nicaraguan and rebel forces are preparing to march upon Tegucgaipa From all indications, the resistence will be slight, for with the absence of the leader, Bonilla, the fight will be of short duration.
 It was at Choluteea that President Bonilla had ordered all the available Honduran and Salvadoran troops to concentrate and for several days II has been rumored. that in all probabili- ty the big battle of the war would take place there, as the Nicaraguans and their revolutionist allies were marching toward the same place Sunday it was reported that the Nicaraguans had inflicted a severe defeat on the Honduran troops near Choluteca and had captured their posi- tions with the aid of artillery The government of Nicaragua has not received details of the fall of the city yet. but expects to hear from the victorious generals shortly
 When shown the Associated Press dispatch announcing that President BonilIa had fled from Honduras. Min ister Corea said he believed the fugitive president would go to Salva- dor and again recruit his army for second attack on Nicaragua, unlesa the United States and Mexico exercise their good offices to the extent of in- sisting that Salvador and Guatemala maintain neutrality.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
WILL HELP MF. MARVIN.
President Willing to Extend Govern ment Aid in Locating Delaware
 Mans Missing Child.

Washington, March z4.-Presiden' Roosevelt Saturday addressed the following letter to H. N. Marvin, ol Dover. Del, who asked the president if government aid could not De ex' tended toward the recovery or ms missing child:
 My Dear MT. Marvin:--l am m re ceipt of your telegram of the zzno instant. Anything that the govern ment can do to help you will of course be done; for save only the crime ol assault upon women there is none so dreadful as that which has brougn' heart breaking sorrow 70 your house hold. I have at once communicates with the postoffice department ask ing that all aid we have in our power to give along the lines you mention or in any other that may prove prac ticable. be given you.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28

Wonder if the recent squeeze in stock had any bearing on the Pitts burg flood
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

In his telegram to the president MT Marvin said that many threaten ing letters are sent him every day saving his boy may be killed by supposed captor and suggested thai they be looked into. He also said tha he had sent out pictures and notices regarding his kidnapped boy and w1' told that the postmasters were no' allowed to display them in the public buildings. The father said he be lieved a word from the president tc the federal authorities he suggested night be the greatest aid of all.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-12
IGNORE THE
POPULAR
OPINION

in some way or other reflection, more or less
severe, upon him. sometimes mere expression of
regret, at other times mputaton of lack of in
telligence even integrity.
Back of all this is very common belief that
the judge should reflect in his decision the popular
will This is said to be a government of and by
the people, and many conclude therefrom that
the popular opinion, should be accepted by the
judge and made the decision of the court
Herein lies fundamental misconception of the
functions of judge While the executive and the
legislative branches of the Government may right
fully be expected to carry into effect the wishes
and opinions of the dominant party flor they the
agents of that party, elected for the purpose of
putting in force by legislation the will of that
party, thus making this Government of the
people,, yet the judge has such function, and in
no proper sense is he representative of any party.
A judge, like any other person, is likely to make
mistakes. He is the less man because he is
invested with judicial Office. He has the lnita-
tons of finite nature. There is infalbility in
the rulings of court. We all recognize that We
make allowances for it; but the moment we feel
that judge has sacrificed his convictions to de.
L.. of. 81 Il.
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THE TRIUMPH
OF THE
MUCK RAKERS

pirate that which does rightfuly belong them.
The President is huge despot, the Senate filled
with the tools of unprincipled wealth. the House of
Representatives ever striving to dodge between
profitable wrong and outraged public opinion, and
the courts obstacles in the way of avenging justice
Notwithstanding all that to-day appears on
the surface the thoughtful the hour of
derium passing, and believes that the sober COM
mon sense of the American people will ere long
assert itself and wisely discriminate between those
who striving to put an end to wrong and injus-
tice and those who seek notoriety revenge.
AS stated, judges, like others, are criticized and
attacked, and it is the part of wisdom, instead of
denouncng their assailants consider their duties
their relations to the people, and how much they
fail, and how far deserve criticism and attack And
first let it be said that the great of business
in the courts is conducted in such way to
receive-and rightfully receive-general approval.
Take the vast bulk of the litigation between ind-
viduas, suits notes, in ejectment, for damages,
etc. There is general belief that it is conducted
with the purpose and with the result of securing
justice. And it matters not whether the presiding
judges are elected appointed, whether the
of office is short for life.
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PROVOKED unjust ana mdlS-
criminate accusations.
As one reads some yellow
journals, it would seem as
though no honest man was
engaged in business. but that
all were striving without re-
gard to right to overreach
their neighbors and appro-
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or sectional lines, it
would cease to be an
object of testing and
become one of seri-
Gus criticism. In
deed, while in a par
ticular case there
maybe general regret
on the part of those
who are interested
and disappointed in
the decision, "a re-
greet which ofttimes
provokes condemna-
ton of our, judicial
system and a. desire
for a chanpe.-yet
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he decide in accordance with
our views. If the latter feel.
ing is very strong, if the in
terests involved are large or
multitudes are deeply affect
ed. almost certainly there
will be no compliment paid
him for his independence, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-12

even they who have that feeling and desire would
not like to believe that the judge acting from
partizanship, or was in any way so tied or COM
plicated that in all cases in the future he would
be bound by the same partizanship. All honest men
want the independent judgment of an honest man.
So there arises this contradiction desire that the
judge should be honest and independent, and on
the other hand a wish that
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attack, the judiciary cannot hope to escape. The
freedom of the press permits, while angry disap-
pontment invites, repeated assaults. 1t is called
the day of the muck rake. Not that every charge is
calumny. On the contrary, the muck raker has
brought to light much of wrong and filth. and for
that is entitled to credit but the success which has
attended honest efforts in this direction has only