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The Washington herald., 1907-05-31
THE OPTIMIST.

II was at the request of a friend that.
the other day. took occasion to discourse
on Death, and how one might view IT, II
not cheerfully, at least equably. Now. to
please myself I desire 10 vent my
thoughts on Life. l, being an optimist
am not one of those who hold with the
melancholy poets that life is thing to be
borne with patience: a mere hard road,
straight. and weary 20 the grave. II Is
only such distraught creatures as Mac
beth that can cry:
'Liies but a walking shadow: q POOR player.
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard more; il is tale
Told by an idiot. full Of sound and fur,
Siguifying nothing.
Life is not meant TO be held on such
terms as these. What have we to DO with
the end OF life--of our own lives. mean?
Our business is 70 live, 10 live hopefully,
courageously. deceutiy; doing our work
and hoping always for the best. What
full-booded man living life at its highest
bound, striving hard, living much. loving
much, can agree with the melancholy
Pope, who in his Essay on Man" walls
out:
Life can little more supply
Than Just 20 look about us and to die
The whole attitude is false. and serves
TO create thoughts that must work evil
to the human soul Young, in bis Might
Thoughts was as bad:
why ali this toll for triumphs q an bouri
What tho wade in wealth. or soar in famei
Earths highest station ends in Here he lies
And dust % dust concludes her nObleSt song
Luckily for us optimists. We are not
bound TO such a dreary outlook. We
know that at the end Of each days work
there IS TO be had the JOY Of knowing the
work was well done; we know that there
Is a happiness in self-sacrhice which no
thoughts Of an ultimate grave can de-
prive us Of; we know the JOY OF the
smiles Of the chlldren-the sum Of each
days life from morn 10 eve. We can
answer mo to Robert Brownings
Must We oouut
Lie curse, and not a blessing: summed up in its
whole amount
Help and hindrance, JOY and soTTow!'
And we can turn with hopeful faces 70
Mrs Browning when she cries:
I hear a sound of life-of life like orrs-
~ laughter and Of VailiuE. n grave speech.
OF little plaiutiTe Toicrs innocent.
OF life iu separate c1rIrses flowing ont.
Like our four rivers 20 some outward main.
! hear lfe-lfc."
The pessimist.c view Of life is founded
on the false theory that we are here al
lowed a space-so short as to be almost
indecent-to fit ourselves for the tomb.
There is no reflection in such a view,
that life, Ike every other blessing, is
made for use alone. What does It matter
how long we live? All that really counts
IS how we live
To live cheerfuIly; to do our work well,
70 help others % the greatest extent Of
our ability, 20 comfort the sick; strength
en- the weak-hearted: 70 furnish by our
lives an example OF striving toward
high ideal-this it is 70 know life; TO use
IT'S blessing wisely.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-31

Still beyond the Alps.
On Italy the girls now turn
The verbal tap.
Il has not shifted, so we learn,
Upon the map.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-31
InshI

Ajax defed the lightning.
Roosevelt is Of even sterner stuff He
gnrrgs f.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-31

Col William II. Fairbanks. Of Terre
Haute. Ind. who is at the Riggs House
is second cousin TO the Vice President,
but the former has never taken an active
part in the politics Of the Hoosier State
He has. naturally, the kindest feeling
toward his relative. and says Indiana will
support him Loyalty in his effort to at
tain to the Presidency.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-31
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The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04
~s< -E
 EPREss COMPANIES NOW. Y
Interstate Commerce Commission Pre- pairing to investigate Their Con
 nection With Produce Business.

Washington, March 3f.-At the recent session of congress the senate adopted a resolution directing the in- terstate commerce commission to in- ouire into statements that the Ameri- can, Adams, United States, Pacific and Wells Fargo Express companies or either of them are engaged through any agents in the business of buying, selling or handling on consignments, fruits. vegetables and oysters enter ing into interstate commerce and to report the results ofSits investigation to the senate.
 Saturday the interstate commerce commission issued an order requiring the express companies named to pre- pare and file with the commission within 90 days from service state ments showing in detail how and to what extent, if any, they are engaged in the business indicated by the senate resolution. The commission ordered further that all commercial associa- tions, merchants, producers and deal CTS interested in the proceeding have leave to appear at the hearings m the case. No time is set for the hear ings.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04
The Leading Photographer

foreverything in the picture line, See his work, which speaks for itself. Kodak work finished; ko' daks and fresh kodak supplies and photo supplies always kept ir stock. kodaks for rent, koda ks repaired, pictures copied and en- larged from any kind of pictures, in crayon, pastel, sepia, platum, etc. He carries the finest and largest stock of picture frames iu the city. Yard pictures, dining room and parlor pictures, French oval frames, paspatout binding and hangers, paper weights, post cards and photo albums, stereo- scopes and views, gold paint and enamels, photo paste. postal cards of all kinds--leather, com C. greetings, birthday and post cards Mena buildings and views. Remember the place, the Lead ing Photograph Gallery on De Queen street.
 25dw2m Bert Hiltebrand, Prop.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04
ARBITRATE DIFFERENCES

It is earnestly to be hoped that every resource of cancellation and arbitration will be exhausted before the strike of railway trainmen or dered in Chicago yesterday is carried into effect.
 The cessation of work by more than forty thousand men entails severe hardship upon at least 200. 900 individuals through the direct loss of wages.
 But the suffering and the losses of the trainmen and those dependent on them would be trifiing by com parison with the losses inflicted upon the millions of the public by the sudden arrest of transportation throughout the wide expanse of country by the roads involved.
 Though the Interstate Commerce Commission has no power to enforce an arbitration, it occupies an ideal position to make an award that should be acceptable to both parties to the controversy. It is better in- formed than any other existing body as to the actual condition of the roads. their ability to pay and the justice of the demands made by the men.
 The roads would be disposed to accept the award of the commission because it would have the moral support of the country. The men ought to be willing to accept it, for the commission has never shown favoritism toward the roads, but has, on the contrary, published much information tending to im- prove the conditions under which trainmen and switchmen work.
 Both parties to the controversy will gain the good will of the public by agreeing to submit the case to the commission or to some other competent arbitration board in order that great calamity might be avcrted. The trainmen cannot afford to lapse into a state of seige. and people in the country are not ready U lose the communication with the outside world which is leassSary to thsif taisl8aes and
The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04
LITTLE ROCK MURDER CASE

A black negro entered the room of a white woman at the capital city of Arkansas at midnight and with a vicious knife drew her life blood. He is arrested and confesses after which he is hustled away to avoid a lynching. Nearly year later he is tried for the crime and found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to three years in the peni- tentiary.
 What can this mean?
 The negro in one confession says he killed the woman on his own re- sponsibility because she refused him money.
 In another confession the negro said he was hired to commit the crime by M. D. l.. Cook and others, who belonged to the Little Rock gang of boodlers, on account of the fact that they held their meeting in this woman's house and that she knew too much to be alive.
 The negro says it was held out to him that he would get few years in prison for murdering the woman and they would give him lots of money.
 If the jury believed the first con fession their hearts must have un- dergone a wonderful softening process toward negro tiends who murder white women. Is three years the price of a woman's life. or does that jury think that it was only the tool in the form of an igno- rant negro boy with which the crime was committed, that was before them and that the real murderer is still uncaught.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04
ARKANSAS AND ITS WATER.
 WAYS

A convention has been called to meet at Little Rock April 25 to or oanize a state river commission to act with the government in perma- nently improving the Arkansas river and it's tributaries. The convention will be composed of state and mu- nicipal official representatives and delegates from business organiza- tions. Freight congestion has grown serious in the valley of the Arkansas river and other sections of the state, with traffic delayed from q week to two months, and there is difficulty in getting cars. Current business is impeded and the develop ment of resources is interrupted. The state is rich in minerals, but they have been scarcely touched as yet. Coal deposits, anthracite and bituminous, are extensive on both sides of the Arkansas river, but lack the invaluable aid of improved water transportation.
 Arkansas may well look to it's fine river system. The Mississippi is it's eastern boundary. The Arkansas runs across the entire state, and before entering travels a course in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory. It is 2000 miles long, drains 1855, 900 square miles and is navigable for 600 miles. Other navigable rivers in the state are the White, St. Francis, Ouachita and Black. Some of the smaller rivers and bayous could be effectively i'm proved. Arkansas is a part of the southwest that of late years has been leading in the ratio of growth. It should be among the most active states in promoting the waterways movement. It has few equals in its endowment of streams that ought to be covered with a busy commerce.
 St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04
The First Train Wreck

Speaking of railway wrecks m the United States, an exchange says of the first one:
 ''On July 24, 1916, occurred the first railway accident of note in the United States. It happened on the Erie road, then less than five years old. A car went through Seaman s bridge, near Monroe, Pa. Three persons were killed outright, three died later of their injuries.
 This casualty aroused great inter- est at home and abroad. No col umns from the railway officials were printed explaining that the accident was unexplainable. There was no board of railroad commissioners to certify that everything it could find in the roads equipment was all right.
 In suits for damages it was estah- lished that the wreck was caused by the collapse of a cast iron spoked wheel. The railroad paid the judg. ments. And straightway the wheeI with spokes gave way to the solid pattern used later on all the roads in the country
 But that was sixty years ago.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04

the business of the state Certainly the legislature is in poor business when it is willing to jeopardise the interests of the policyholders.
 As we have already observed, the best securities in Tennessee, for in- stance, are already pre-empted. An insurance company compelled sud denly to invest fixed amount here would necessarily be compelled to invest in wildcat securities, and this would lessen the earning capacity of every policy in the state It would be neither a safe nor a sane system. The insurance committee has made mistake in supporting such a measure. and it is to be hoped that the legislature willvote adversely to it, and that Governor Patterson will use his influence to defeat it. We take this position purely in the in- terest of the policyholders, whose welfare the governor should look after. Commercial-Appeal.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04
LOGIC Or EVENTS AGAINST
 A RAil. WAY STRIKE.

The enormous interests involved in the operation of all the western railways and the certainty of great loss and privation to both employees and employers if this railway opera tion is tied up' or seriously im- peded, makes it difficult to believe that the threatened strike of railway employees will not be averted. Now that arbitration is offered at the intlmation of the President the way ought to be clear to an adjustment of differences that will be fair to those directly involved and will at the same time conserve the interests and rights of the people.
 The success of the Presidents interposition in the anthracite coal strike should assure the trainmen that they will have a Square Deal in any field of arbitration which, though provided by law and not directly emanating from the Presi- dent, has his supervision and appro- val. The character of the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Com mission and of the Labor Commis- sioner affords a further pledge that all grievances will have fair deter imitation.
 Regarding alike the interests of the 50,000 western railway opera tives and the welfare of the whole people, there was never | more in- opportune time for the paralysis of widespread railway strike. Af- fairs Tn the transportation business of the country have reached that stage where the Square Deal in rail- way operation is assured if no dis aster inervenes to stop or greatly check the progress of benihcent events. Anti-repate laws. fair rate charges, prevention of irresponsible stock manipulation and amenabihty are among the certain results if the Roosevelt policies are permitted to have clear way.
 Can the railway employees afford to play into the hands of the inter- ests that are workinp for a reaction from the Square Deal policy Would it be a tenable position for them to refuse to submit their claims to impartial arbitration, knowing that the more just their presented grievances may be the more certainly there is that public sentiment and the arbitrator's de- cision will uphold them Kansas City Star.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04
HAS HE LEARNED HIS LESSON

Ex-Senator J. R. Burton, who was sent to the United States Senate by the railroad lobby of Kansas, and according to his statement was sent to jail by President Roosevelt, says he was rallroaded through.
 It might have been little better if he had been sent along in flying machine for he could not have been hustled along any too fast to suit the people. But the facts are that Bur ton went to jail only after every legal technicality known to our over patient courts had been exhausted. After few months confinement he is out again and is getting great deal of attention from the public. There is something in human nature which causes certain amount of attraction to center in any noted violator of the law and this man who fell from so high a station is en- titled to his share.
 If Burton comes out to begin a new life and an honest one, well enough, but if he has not learned from the lesson given him and thinks he can play the martyr and win fame and fortune by talking and writing" he will probably find it an up hill task and eventually land in an obscure nich in history far below the plainest, unassuming citizen and the only good the world will gain from his passage across life's stage will be the lesson others may learn from his untrue and faltering foot steps.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04
TnE CENTRAL FACTS.

This is great country and MT E H. Hartman knows it. He knows also that it is going to be greater and that soon.
 There is much left to be de- veloped," he tells. Towns are growing up like magic and the peo- pie are toiling like Aladdin-lamp genii. The railroads are nol over capitalized for the country and its capabilities"
 These are not mere rhetorical and metaphors.
 They are solid facts. They will become more and more solid. The magic of growth will continue. The railroads will continue with it. They will go forward as the country goes forward.
 It is also fact that now at this present writing they are mot over capitalized for the country and it's capabilities"
 On the contrary they are under capitalized on that basis. There will be room on that basis for an- other hundred million or so in fresh and beautiful new paper capital in the next month.
 But what is it MT. Hartman pro- poses to capitalize, the railroads or the people who are "toiling like Aladdid-lamp genii? Does he think capital stock ought to be based on investment or on "the country and capabilities ?" Post-Dispatch.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04
LEGISLATIVE CONTRARIETY

The Wall Street Journal of New York is a paper published to give information to investors. Its issue of March l3 contained this informa. ton.
 A bill has been introduced in the state senate in Arkansas which makes it unlawful for nonresident to purchase or acquire property in that state. The bin is in line with a recommendation made by ex-Gover- nor Jeff Davis to restrict owner ship of property in the state by foreign corporations.
 Then a bill was introduced in our senate to make life insurance com panies invest in Arkansas securities 75 per cent of the reserve on Arkan- sas policies.
 Might not a law compelling foreign corporations to make investments in this state be somewhat in conflict with law forbidding non.residents to acquire property in this state ?- Arkansas Gazette.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04
AN EMPHATIC MISTAKE.

It will, of course. be urged apro- pos of the insurance legislation pro- posed in this state, that we have as good securities in Tennessee as any where else, and that the insurance companies ought to be required to invest here some 70 per cent of their reserve. This, of course, is flatter- ing to our state pride; but after all it is question of fact and business.
 It is a self-evident proposition that it is to the advantage not only of the policyholders, but of the management of company to make the best investments possible. The question of locality does not enter into it. The same principle is in- volved here as is involved in the traditional democratic idea of free trade. Democrats believe that there should be an open door, and that an American has right to trade when and where it will be most to his advantage.
 The same idea should be applied to the insurance question. The legis- lature should be guided singly by the idea of protecting the policy holders. They put up all the money on which insurance companies are run. It IS their investment that should be safeguarded.
 The policyholders as a rule are willing to leave the question of in- vestment to the officers. Why then should the legislature interfere? :? If the policyholder joined in pet i tion to require local investments amounting t. 70 per cent of the reserve it would be different mat ter. but they have so far been silent. The fact is that they would prefer gilt-edged investments, no matter where they are to be had.
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The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
 that Contain riercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell aud completely deranse the whole system when entering it tn rough the mucous su rfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescription from reputable physicians as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Halls Cttarrh Cure, manufactured by r. ]. Cheney X Co.,, Toledo O , contains no mercury. and is taken internally. acsipg directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine It taken internally and made in Toledo. Ohio, by F. J. Cheney X Co. Tes- tmonials free.
 Sold by Druggists Price Toe. Ter bottle.
 Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04
 TIE BROWNING BILL AND THE ANTITRUST LAW.

The senate passed on Thursday the Browning bill, which would al- low the old line insurance companies to do business in this state if they are not in combination to fix rates on Arkansas property.
 This bill is similar to the Balch bill except that the Browning meas ure specifically provides that the antitrust law is not repealed save as to allowing the insurance com panies to do business in this state under the conditions we have men tiCned.
 A great obstacle in the way of the Balch bill. which was defeated in the house, was the fear that it would repeal the antitrust law. This point was discussed at length in the senate on Thursday and good lawyers in that body unequivocally denied that the antitrust act would thus be repealed.
 The Gazette would not consciously be party to such a trick as repeal ing the antitrust law by apparently amending it in only one particular. Senator Lee said the Texas antitrust law had been amended so as to re- lieve farmers from it's provisions and that this was not class legislation because it did not favor one class of farmers over another and that the Supreme court of the United States so held. Arkansas Gazette.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04

disposition to do the fair thing by that states University to build up strong institution of learning on the sole foundation of the peoples support. It is to be hoped that disposition may be found Tn the Arkansas legislature.
 The standard of what is fair to the University should be q liberal one. To give that fine institution a square deal is to be square" to every boy and girl in the state and to every person in the state No special interests have lien on the commonwealth's great school at 1 Fayetteville. None of the taint of bloated fortunes pollutes its well of learning or the atmosphere which surrounds 1t.
 Every dollar it receives IS the peoples money and the people of 1 Arkansas should be proud to nam tain such a great agency for the up lifting of their own generation.
 If we have good and true men at the head of this institution, and we believe we have, it is to be presumed that the appropriation they ask for is not out of reason and insofar as is possible it should be passed with out heavy cutting We believe that if any legislator wishes to be gener- ous in University provisionshe should be satisfied in the assurance that the people of Arkansas will sup port him if he gives his wlsf execution.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04
A Blast Furnace Accident.

Youngstown, O., March 51.-Steve Zramski is dead and Frank Holsing- CT is thought to be fatally burned as the result of an explosion at the Low ellviile furnace, eight miles east, Sat urday. Six other workmen were se- verely burned The explosion was caused by slip in the furnace which blew out the bell
The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-04
Stray Pig Taken Up.

l have taken up stray pig at my home and the owner can re cover it by paying for this notice and the trouble. It is about si, months old, marked underbit 1T both ears and split in right
 Owner please call. Mrs. D. F. Longnecker. B 2t WI