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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-05-30
LAND FOR SALE.

20 acres, half cleared and half
in woods with 4-room tenant
house 4 miles from Marietta,
Powder Springs road, can give i'm
mediate possession. Cheap at
$500.
20 acres adjoining above l will
also sell if party desires 40 acres
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-05-30

The only people who dare think
they have a right to do nothing
are those who are fit for nothing.
Chicago Tribune.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-05-30

II is whole lot easier to lead
the public than it is to lead a flock
of sheep.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-05-30
GEORGlA-Lobb County

GEORGlA-Cobb County
7. B, Gufin, M. p. Griggs, and others,
have made application for second-class
public road, beginning at the Dallas
road one half mile west of Lost Noun.
tain and intersecting the Acworth and
Hiram road one-half mile from T. F.
Terry's store, passing through lands of
Miss E. A. Dickens, T. B. Gufin, H. 4.
Bates, G. W. Hill, W. P. Gripgs and T..
j. Lunsford, which has been marked
out by the Commissioners, and report
thereof made on oath by them.
All persons are notified that said APP
plication for said petition for road will
be heard at my Office on the 22nd day of
June next, and if no legal cause be
shown to the contrary, an order for the
same will be granted. This 7th day of
May, 1907.
JOHN AwTREY, Ordinary.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-05-30

You can generally tell big man
by the way the little fellows gather
about him.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-05-30
FLORODORA COTTON SEED

$1.O0 per bushel, or in lots of five
bushels or more 75cts per bushel.
[ sold my cotton from these seed
last fall at IA cents per pound
when the other cotton was bring
ing only 10 and 10 1-2 cents. 1t
will pay You to raise it. Seed de-
livered in Marietta. Cash with
order.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-05-30

MRS ANNIE LOIS EARLE,
Propounder, No. /, June Term, 1907,
VS.. Court of Ordinary,
JOHN BAYLEs EARLE for
and Cobb County, Ga.
EDWARD PALMER EARLE.
Application to probate the will Of samuel Earle,
late OF said county, deceased, In solemn form.
To John Bayles Earle and Edward Palmer Earle,
residence at Birmingham, Jefferson county, Ala.
bama: You are hereby notified TO be and appear
at the June term, 1867, of the Court of Ordinary
Of Cobb county, Ca, to be held on the first Mon
day, the 3rd day of June, next, then and there to
show cause why the paper offered as the last will
and testament of Samuel Earle should not be
proven in solemn form and ordered to record as
such.
Witness: the Honorable John Awtrey, Ordi-
nary and Judge Of the Court Of Ordinary. This
May 10Th, 1907. J. N. GANx,
Clerk Court OF Ordinary, Cobb CouHty, Ga.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-05-30
j. Z. FOSTER,

LAWYER.
MARIETTA, GA. Office over ii W. Legs
& Co.'S. Drug Store
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-05-30
BUSINESS CARDS
II. q. CORYELL.
Fire and Life Insurance

OFFICE on North side fublic Square, over F
Schilling's store, Marietta, Ga. Application
from neighboring towns promptly attended to-
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-05-30
e. II. CLAY.
B. T. FREY,

ATTORNEY AT LAW
MARIETTA, GA. Office up stairs in Court
House with C B Wiilingham. /. Collection
spec atty. Money loaned.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
MENA Is FORTUNATE.

In the matter of improving Jans- sen park, Mena is peculiarly forum ate in the liberality of her citizens. In nearly all cases-in fact it is a general rule-when any public im- provement of such character is pro- posed, where it is not all done by the city government and paid for entirely from city funds, at least as much money is provided by the city as is given by citizens as individuals.
 But in the case of Mena thus far the city has only been asked for $500 for park purposes, while the citizens have given more thansthree times as much.
 The lesson is: Mena wants the park improved. and the people in going down into their pockets for that purpose, have demonstrated that the best the city government can do for the promotion of the work will be none too good.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
AM UNUSUAL CONDITION.

| A condition arose at the meeting of the city council that is not only rare in municipal history, but that seemed to justify course of action by that body that under Ordinary circumstances should be discouraged.
 The sewer franchise under which the sewer system is being built con- tains no clause requiring that clos cts, sinks, drains, etc, in the district covered by the sewer be connected herewith.
 The effect of such a condition could but be the nullificatlon of the value of the sewer system, not only to the men who furnished the money and built it. but to the city as well. the public health of which absolutely requires that sanitary rules and regulations be enforced that are only possible through the general use of an effective sewer system.
 This matter was brought before the council in the form of an ordi- nance that had been tried and found good in Little Rock. and later adopt ed by Fort Smith.
 It was made plain that unless this ordinance was passed the work of construction of the sewer must of necessity cease forthwith.
 There was decidedly strong and healthful sentiment in the council against "railroading" this or any other ordinance through at any one meeting.
 Much serious discussion of condi- tions took place, and it was only after detailed consideration of the dan ger of an epidemic of sickness that the city would face during the coming hot months if the sewer be not soon constructed that the rules were suspended and the bill placed on its third reading and passed.
 The city is to be congratulated as much in the sincere opposition to rushing bill through that was evinced by some of it's representa- tives, as by the fact that the ordi- nance was put through because of the firm conviction of the majority that the emergency justified such course in this particular instance.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
HOW TO HAVE GOOD ROADS

The national government has for some years experimented to find the best methods of building and main taining good roads.
 Statistics recently compiled by the United States Department of Agri- culture at Washington show that there are nearly 2,500,00 miles of public roads in this country. only a small percentage of which are i'm proved. Necessarily it will be many years before a large percentage of this great mileage will be improved, and in the meantime it is of the utmost importance that the best possible use of facilities at hand be made. An expenditure of nearly $50, ,0o0 per annum is being ap- piled to the maintenance of these roads, and it is safe to say that the loss from improper methods is well up in the millions.
 It is pointed out that there are certain principles which underlie the art of road building and mainte- nance, and certain methods known to many engineers and road builders which are easily understood and as easily put into practice, and it is the purpose of the government to give the advantage of this knowl- edge to the people of the country through the press in the form of articles on the subject.
 As there is nothing of more inn portance in the development of this city, county and state than good roads, The Star will from time to time give its readers the benefit of the advice furnished by the Depart mcnt of Agriculture.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
Gone for a Fine Outing.

]. l.. Horner, the we'll known real estate man of Mena, has closed up his office and with his l4-year-old boy, Elijah, has gone for rest and outing that he ex- pects will last a month. They started out yesterday morning with buggy and good team of ponies with Ozark, Franklin county, as their destination, and will go from there to St. Paul in Madison county and on to Eureka Springs before returning home. They are prepared to stop by the roadside for food and rest in tbe hot hours of the day, but expect to find shelter each night. The trip will be from 500 to 600 miles in length.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
 NONE TO WISH HIM ILL.

The pardoning by Governor Pin dall of Former Senator F. 0. Butt will probably cause no regret save that it brings again to notice the unpleasant thought that he, the only man in Arkansas convicted of bood- ling, was far less guilty than many whom justice failed to reach.
 And. too. being convicted, as the governor points out, largely on the testimony of man who has con fessed to greater guilt. it will prob ably always be at least a debatable question whether or not the only man punished may not have been innocent of the crime for which he suffered. There are, at least. many ln the state who firmly believe such was the case,
 Regardless of this douht Senater
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
W. (. I. U. COLUMN
Mrs. Myrtle Moore, Press supt.)
THE TPAGEDY OF DRINK.


 Every feature of the drink evil IS tragic. From the youth who loses his moral courage and takes his first drink, to the old man writhing and shrieking in the agony of delirium tremons every step of the way IS paved with tragedy.
 But there is one feature ot the evil that seems to us to embody the real tragedy of the drink.
 It is not the murder of man by some drink-made demon. It is not the demoniac shrieks Tn the asylum of drink-crazed inmate.
 It is not the grinding poverty of @ ru.n-cursed family.
 It is not the lock-stepped columns of the whisky-made criminals of our jails.
 It is not the gaunt hollow-eyed faces of the alcohol-poisoned con- sumptives.
 These are all fearful things, but the real tragedy of drink is the des- truction of young men in hope, of ambition, and of moral perception. Long before the drinker becomes drunkard he loses his self-respect; long before he becomes a criminal he loses his sense of moral porpor- tions; long before he becomes a murderer he mas lost every hurlan- itarion instinct. The tragedy of the drink is that it kills character. l Drink makes our paupers; it ere ates our criminals, it manufactures our murderers, it multiplies our in- sane.
 There are thousands of men and women who are not yet drunkards, not yet criminals, not yet murderers, not yet insane, but who are wrecks on the sea of life because drink has l lured them onto the rocks of pleas ure and laziness and evil association; has broken the rudder of their res olution and made them subject to their desires and habits rather than superior to them.
 One of the evil results of the drink traffic is that it has attracted to it. self thousands of young men throughout the country, who deco rate our saloon corners, who are leading puposeless and usless lives. | This is the tragedy of the drink.
 This is what makes the drink question a problem of government. Our government was established to protect its citizens. Any influence as demoralizing as that of the drink traffic should be under the ban of law and not protected by it.
 We can end this tragedy of the drink, and the prohibitionist of America under God will do it. Home Defender.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
1ENA IS CLEANING HOUSE

The clean up epidemic has taken hold in earnest. In all parts of the city today, especially in the business portion weeds, trash and filth are on the move.
 The weeds in the court house block are down and piled up ready to burn or be carted away, and the Public Library block has been treated likewise, and both present very attractive appearance.
 Many of the most enterprising business firms have already cleaned up around their places of business or having 1t done, and Mayor Olney and Marshal Bickle are out looking after the delinquent ones.
 In some instances lime is being used, and this should become more general. There is nothing that will do more toward dispensing bad oders, purifying the surroundings and checking the breeding of flies than the liberal use of lime around closets and back yards.
 The general health of Mena is remarkably good according to re- ports of the doctors. and if the good work of cleaning up goes on as it is now started this satisfactory condi- tion will continue.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
SENTENCE SERMONS.
Chicago Tribune.)

There is no loyalty without love.
 Living heartily is one secret of living happily.
 He who prays for himself prays only to himself.
 To defer a right determination is to make wrong one. The weapon of malice always goes off at the wrong end.
 The only evil that can harm us is the evil that we love.
 The acid of envy is to eat out all happiness from the heart.
 The fairest flower of joy springs from the soil of sacrifice.
 It never hurts your grip on doc Urine to lay hold of duty.
 You can do little for humanity without the saving salt of humor.
 There is no complete understand ing of duty until it IS completed.
 The man who lives with the God does not have to advertise the fact.
 The man who borrows trouble is little better than the one who makes it.
 No learning can make up for the lack of that which the home can give.
 You cannot bear the fruits of heaven if you live in the clouds of hatred.
 There is no particular virtue in a keen appreciation of the vices of others. The greatest sins are the ones committed against the least of the children.
 When. the wage is the end the work loses much, but the worker loses more.
 If you are afraid of being mis- understood you are not likely to do much worth understanding.
 It makes little difference whether you want to be known as good or want to know the good.
 It is possible to take the right way Tn life and yet to take life in such a way as to lead others wrong.
 A review of life reveals that the things we most regretted at the time are the ones that we owe most now.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

New fOrk Press.
 Virtue is it's own reward because nobody else will give any.
 A man could enjoy even being sick abed if it was against the law.
 A conscience is something to wor- ry you for fear you are going to get caught.
 The best recipe for not getting scolded when you go home late is to stay away.
 When a thing she wears is com fortable a woman is generally ashamed of it.
 Marrying a woman is very use- full thing to teach you how you don't t understand her.
 A man would have to have a lot of brains not to try to make people think he had more.
 The best way to imagine how hard it is to go to heaven is how easy it is to get out of debt.
 The rich would get terribly poor if there weren't SO many poor people to raise money for them.
 A woman is afraid if she had no clothes out of fashion at her funeral they wouldn't let her into heaven.
 The reason millionaires have so much money is they don't take ad- vice about how to get rich, but give it.
 A comfortable thing about preach ing things is you can keep so busy at it you haven't any time to practice them.
 The trouble with good reputa- tion is that even if you try to live up to it most people know you are a hypocrite. The wife with theories that won't work tries to make a man happy; the successful one makes him com fortable.
 A man thinks he is mighty gener- ous to his wife to make an allowance and then not give 1t to her so she can think she is saving money.
 If girl who makes her living be- fore marriage can earn ten or twenty dollars week she gets it; after she is wife she earns hundred or so, but is lucky if she gets anything.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
A Risky Business.

The Adams Express Company has "cut a melon" of two hundred per cent, dividing among it's stockholders new four per cent bonds to the amount of S200 per share, The Adams Express Company is one of the four arguments which John Wannamaker, when postmaster general, said had been advanced against a parcels post service. The other three were the United States, Wells-Fargo and American Express Companies. These corporations be- lieve that the business of carrying parcels is to precarious to be under taken by the Postoffice Department. The government might lose money on it.-Collier's,
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
REV. A. T. WEIGHTS TEAM DROWNED
Drove Into Prairie Greek Sunday and
 Had Narrow Escape.

The Rev. A. T. Wright had a narrow escape from drowning and lost a team of mules when he attempted to cross Prairie creek at Ransom Sunday morning. He was on his way to Mena to preach at the Christian church on Port Arthur avenue.
 When MT. Wright saw the danger he turned the heads of his team upstream in the hopes of reaching the opposite side, but the mules became tangled Tn some branches and they were swept under foot log, where they were speedily drowned. MT. Wright managed to reach the bank after considerable difficulty. He went to the scene of the disaster today to recover the harness and take the bodies of the animals from the water.
 Two boys who were riding in the wagon saw the danger iu time to jump back to shore.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
brought thousands of dollars into the state.
"Mr Dooley' on Taft.

In the July American Magazine "Mr. Dooley" writes of the presl- dential candidates. Of Taft he says:
 His rale position in the cabinet is Official Jollyer. He's tn Happy Hand. When there's ruction amy where T.ift starts out an cleans it up. A man goes into tn White House with letter firm James J. Hill. There's sound iv breakin. glass an furniture, an tn visitor is fired out iv a window. Where does he fall? Into Taft's waitin' arms. Where ar're ye goin, frind 7 says Taft. To hardware store to buy me gun, says tn man. I have another letter in me pocket firm Haitch Haitch Rogers, he says 'Ah, set here awhile. says Taft, pullin' him into a chair. Have good see gar. Put wan into ye'er pocket to smoke afther supper, Isn't it a fine day, ain't it? I've got conun- dhrum l want to tell ye some time. Ye're not mad, are ye? Don't mind tn little fellow inside. It's his fun. Why, yesterday, he threw a lighted lamp at me an I'm his best frind. An tn man goes back to Herkimer county and shows tn place where Rosenfelt hit him."
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
EVERY DAY PHILOSOPHY.
(Atchison f3lobel

(Atchison Globel
 A mob usually has plenty of cour- age, and not much sense. A boy never thinks he is so smart as when making fool of himself.
 The chances are if people distrust you. the fault lies largely with your self.
 The man who feels called upon to save the country usually wants lot of help.
 If men were not such poor shop pers, what a lot of old stuif the stores would have left on hand.
 There may be something which looks worse than weeks growth ot whiskers, but 1t hasn't been dis- covered.
 The first thing to do in cleaning house is to find out which of your neighbors borrowed your step-lad- der last.
 The town man is always figuring on retiring to farm, while farm CT expects to spend his idle years on a farm.
 The idea that there are two sides to every question didn't originate with any of the parties directly interested.
 l It is seldom a letter affords the man who receives it as much satls- faction as was experienced by the writer in getting 1t off his mind. Talk with the average man abont his line of business, and you can learn a lot of it's disadvantages, provided he isn't thinking of selling it. A girl doesn't usually take much interest in foreign missionary work so long as she is fairly successful in leading young men into her church. | When woman shows her new hat to a man, and he doesn't admire it, she says: 'I'm sorry you don't like l it." What she really means is, Its pity there never was man who had any taste" The Don't Worry Club will make a study of the life of the late Mrs. Blank. It is recalled that she wor- ried four years over what school to send her boy, and that he died when he was 5 and never had to go to school. Mrs. Blank also worried great deal over the prospect of going to the poor house, and saved and scrimped in a way that made her life wretched. She died with her husband owning big bank ac- count she had denied herself to help save, and now second wife is help | ing to spend it. Many incidents like this in the life of Mrs. Blank will be recalled at the meetings of the Don't Worry Club.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
A GOOD THING TO PUSH ALONG

A pleasing result of the hurriedly- prepared-for gathering in the park recently is frequently expressed wish that a similar event be held, but on larger scale.
 This is the right spirit and there is no doubt but Mena contains plenty of it and all that is needed to put it into effective use is little effort.
 Mena is blessed with large num- Der of women who have individually and collectively been force in de- veloping all that is good and uplift- ing in the community, besides lending aid to many of the material enter prises that have made the city what it is. and they all have large inter- est in the little park.
 It has been suggested by some of the members of clubs and societies that the different organizations fur nish and have charge of refreshment tables at the park on some evening that may be selected later.
 It is thought that the excellent De Queen band can be secured, and with proper arrangements for lights, would give an enjoyable concert during the evening. Enterprising merchants are preparing to place a goodly supply of seats in the park soon, and these will add greatly to the comfort of such gatherings.
 There are other features being talked of that would make such an evening full of good cheer, and at the same time do fine work for the park.
 Aside from the mere enjoyment of such an assemblage of Mena's peo- pie, it would bring the people to- gether in one accord and develop the spirit of fraternity and love and increase their regard for the city of their homes.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
A BEAUTY SPOT ON GODS
 GREEN EARTH.

A reader of The Star who has been in Mena but whose home is in North Missouri. in renewing his subscription. writes interestingly of his experience here. Among other things he says:
 Your paper is o. K. Mena is cer- tainly beauty spot on Gods green earth and has many blessings to be thankful for The good water and fresh air from the mountains will be great factors in making the new hos pital famous.
 And it may be added that as the country about is developed it's pro- ducts will combine with the climate in making the Ozark regions of Arkansas famous. As an example, the biggest peach crop this year of any state lh the union. to say noth- ling Of the strawberry cron that
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
COUNTY COURT IN SESSION
Business Largely of Routine Charac-
 ter-County Revenue S19,13i.


 The County court was in ses- sion at the court house Mon- day and today and transacted q tue usual amount ot routine busi- ness.
 The report of the road over seers and the allowance ot their claims occupied the greater part of the afternoon, Monday.
 The movement to divide the Acorn school district into two separate districts did not succeed, partly on account of the lack ot proper publication of the notice, and the matter will be taken up next term.
 Tuesday the collectors settle ment occupied some little time.
 United States judgments amounted to S821.91.
 General county re V e n u ( amounts to $19,131.
 Poll tax receipts, S2,S9S.25' from which must be deducted 2 per cent as treasurer's commission
 There are $500 iu penalties to be added to the school fund.
 Tine district school tax, from which uust be deducted ? pei cent treasurer's commission, amounts to Sl4,552.95.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
For Twenty Years.

Other Ghin remedies have sprung up iourished for brief season, then passed away-even from memory-but for twenty in the field Of action. The reason Is simple It has merit IL actually cures Chills and Fever while the majority of others only promise to. One bottle gqaranteesd 70 cure aHy aaa ease
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
Looks Bad, Anyhow.

The near approach of the Fourth of July stirs the patriotic blood of the Laddonia, Mo, Herald to utter ance thus: "They are trying to con- vict an American out in Idaho, whose ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence, with a testimony of a Canadian who confesses that he was run out of his own country for crime and came here with anarchy in his heart"