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The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

then The Star thought it but right to await for a reasonable time the result of the mans illness before offering criticism.
 But it seems the purpose of the article in question to criticize local talent.' as it terms one of Mena's lawyers for the pardon of Pipkin.
 Regarding this, The Star wrote Governor Pindall and his reply was published for the information of those who read, The Star neither vouching for it's truth nor question ing it. If others believe the gover- nor's statements false. it is for them to take such action in the matter as they see fit.
 But The Star is fully i, sympathy with those people who believe that if the physical condition of Ike Pip kin in not as stated by the prison officials, it was travesty on justice to grant him a pardon, and that the man who did so and those physicians and prison officials who were respon- sible for the deception should be subjects for severe censure. Also that the excuse that Pipkin's re- lease was to avoid endangering the health of other convicts is probably a farce. It is not yet the custom to turn sick man out of home to avoid others contracting his disease, but steps are taken for the proper care of all, and the prstense that this could not have been done in the case in question is about the weakest part of the plea of those granting an unconditional pardon after two years to man sentenced to serve twenty-one years for the wilful taking of a human life.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30
". C. I. U. COLUMN.

(Catherine B. Johnson, Press Supt.l
 The w. C. T. U. held its last meet ing in July at the M. E. church, South, the 21 inst, and in the ab- sence of the president, Mrs. Olney presided.
 The meeting opened with devo- tional exercises which consisted of song, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" reading of the Twenty fifth Psalm followed by prayer and song "Blest Be the Tie That Binds. !" The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
 Mrs. Knight then read a letter from our president, Mrs. Kelly, rendering her resignation. which, after much discussion and many re- grets, was not accepted until further consultation with her, as it was decided that living a few miles in the country was no excuse for resigning.
 The regular progi am for this meeting was taken up and discussed, which was very beneficial to all pres ent and the many helpful sugges- tions and plans for usefulness will no doubt bring forth good fruit" in the near future. A paper was also read on the Origin and Duties and General Work of the White Ribboners. The meeting closed with the benediction of the order.
 The next meeting will be held at the M. E. church August 1, and the subject for discussion will be Purity.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30
DRESSING UP TIE PARK.

There is scarcely any time but what some work of improvement or maintenance is going on in Jansen park, but look over it now shows work going on of a permanent nature, the value of which cannot be over estimated.
 Father Gallagher has for more than a year given his time and best efforts to the perfection of Mena's s park and the work now in progress. the walling of the lakes and building of fine concrete bridge, is in that direction and much needed. These things will take away the last danger of mosquito breeding and possible malarial conditions from the growth of weeds that stagnated the water.
 The saddest thing in this connee- ton is that this good work, and the preparation of the park to make the best appearance possible during Mena's annual fair, probably i'll be the last work that Father Gala gher will do as park omnissioner, he expecting to offer his resignation at the next meeting of the council. This is most deeply to be regretted, as no money consideration can secure man who would more faithfully work in the good cause than has Father Gallagher without pay or promise of pay save in the apprecia- tion of his fellow citizens and the reward that comes of a work well done.
 It is to be hoped that he may be brought to reconsider his proposed action.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30
WHAT THE KIDNEYS DO
Their Unceasing Work Keeps Us Strong
 and Healthy.

All the blood in the body passes through the kidneys once every three minutes. The kidneys filter the blood. They worA night and day. When healtnts they remove about 300 grains q impure matter daily, when un' healtry some part of this impure matter Is left in the blood. lhls brings on many diseases and symP' toms-pains in the back, heau- ache, nervousness, hot, dry shin' rheumatism, gout, gravel, disoI- ders of the eyesight and hearlnE' l!,I dizziness, irregular heart, depill,' dropsy, deposits in the urine e.C, But if you keep the filters rlgh' you will have no more trouo' with your kidneys. q.
 Samuel Badt, 906 Seventh l o'' Mena, Ark, says: "Doan's h'u ney Pills cured me of q se'eio attack of backache and nnoyanVts from the kidney secretlons wiii,r rar had been with me constantly i at least two years. l proeDele"" the remedy at the Palace a nlus Co. and considered it the nneo' " medicine | ever used. nale also heard many other peoPlfF speak in the highest terms V' Doan's Kidney Pills. n,ao
 For sale ny all dealers. Iti0'' I1 90 cents. Foster-Milbnrn Ovs Buffalo, New York, sole ase"~ for the United States.
 Remember the name-Doau and take no other.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30
MENA WILL. BE PROUD.

Few people have realization of the amount of work that is being done in preparing for the Fair and Celebration.
 The task that has been undertaken by the workers in the association is of character unusual when it is kept in mind that the heavy cost in money and time is met without hope for reward save as their interests are promoted by the upbuilding of Mena and Polk county through the educational advantages resulting from the fair.
 With but few exceptions the money and energy is furnished by the business men of Mena, though, naturally 1t is the people of the county that secure most of the pre- mlums and the benefits from the lessons of the fair, Mena's reward coming only through and in conjunc tion with the better development and prosperity of the ptople of the country around it.
 However, there are those outside of Us city who are taking the view that they. being largely the bene- ficiaries of the fair. should join in the labor and cost, and they propose to take hold and render valuable service, notably member of those living in the Divers Chapel neigh borhood who are going to give day with men and teams to work on the new fair grounds.
 All such may be assured of the most hearty appreciation, not only by the officers of the fair associa tion, but of all Mena.
 The fair is for all, will help all, and all should be happy to bear a portion of the burdens.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30
How Girl May Raise the Moral Stand
 ard of Her Town.

If any girl desires to raise the moral standard of her own town, 1 can think of no better way to begin the work than by raising her own morals to a higher plane. If her friends and acquaintances. whose moral standard she is striving to make better and nobler, notice that she is neglectful of her own morals, they cannot be expected to have much faith in the work that she is trying to accomplish. On the other hand, if she will make herself better and raise her own moral standard higher, then, and then only, can she expect other people to follow her example.
 Again. the girl has a great influ- ence in the home circle; greater, even, than the family may realize. If she is tempted to do something that she believes is not quite right and which she would not wish her sister or brother to do, and will re- sist the temptation, her own family will have more love and respect for her, and will notice their own little sins and shortcomings all the more and try to make their morals better. It should be a pleasing reward to a girl for her hard work in this direc- tion If, when anyone should endeavor to entice her brother or sister into wrong doing they would say, No, sister says it isn't right"
 Raising her own moral standard will also have an influence with her friends and acquaintances much the same as it has with her family. If she will require as good morals of them as she is trying to have herself they will naturally strive for her appreciation, and in doing this will raise their own morals to a higher level, thus influencing the whole town through this girls work.
 A Mena Girl.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30
CAUGHT B|G THIEF
POSTAL AuTHoRITIEs CHASED A coLoRED MAN FOR SEVEN
 LONG WEEKS.
STOLE MAIL SACK CONTAINING s5o,OOo
Charles Savage, Negro, Was Arrest. cd in Kansas City Ssturday-oov ernment Detectives shadowed Him From Town to Town--Good for Long Term In Government Prison.

Kansas City, July 26.-At 6 o'clock Saturday morning the government so. cret service landed the $50,O0O mail pouch thief.
 The attraction of old haunts and old friends, these and scar on the bridge of his nose, which habitually he GOV. cred with his cap, led to the capture of the robber. He is Charles Savage negro, and he was caught in lodging house on East Twenty-first street. Four postoffice inspectors who had been following him for several nights made the arrest The money which Savage is said to have stolen has not been recovered. The post office police believe it is hidden in this. city.
 Ever since the postoffice inspectors had learned that Savage, an ex-con- vict, was spending money layishly in Denver, they have tracked him. They followed him to Topeka and then to Kansas City.
 For the last few days every lodging house in Kansas City formerly used by Savage has been watched night and day. Every woman with whom he had associated was tracked hour by hour. Ultimately the detectives won. Savage was said to have been seen with a woman after midnight Friday night and to have gone to an old resort in East Twenty-f1rst street. Fearing that an attempt to catch him in the night might result in escape. it was decided to wait until daylight At 6 o'clock, therefore, these inspec tors posted themselves at the houses George A. Leonard, J. c. Lindland. R. s. Brauer and k. A. Mcbride, chief clerk in the inspectors office here Two of them entered and arrested Savage in bed.
 The prisoner was taken to the fed eral building and questioned He is so well known to the inspectors and has already been so thoroughly iden tified by the scar on the bridge of his nose, which he always tries to hide with his cap brim, that w. J. Vickery. chief inspector. says there is no pos sibility of a mistake having been made.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30
Hay Growing.
To the Editor Of The Star.

To the Editor of The Star.
 In response to your request I will try and give you some of my experi- ence with grasses in Arkansas.
 When bought a farm I realized the fact that I could not succeed without some kind of grass or clover so l started in to find one that would grow and stay with me. I have tried red clover, mammoth clover, alsike, alfalfa, timothy, red top, or chard grass, English rye grass, brome grass, meadow fescue, and others l tried red clover on we'll prepared land sown in the spring three different sowings. Got fine stand each time, but August got my clover. Then took a piece of land, one-fourth of an acre, plowed in July and put it in fine condition and sowed in September, about the 10th. Seed come up fine and stood the winter all right. and without any fertilizer, withstood the August season. After cutting a fair crop of hay, took off the second crop in the fall and. thinking I had good thing, put on heavy coat of ma nure the next spring and cut ton of fine clover. So much for red clover.
 Alsike was sown in spring, cut fair crop in July, was a good stand and bid fair to be all right, but pas ture was scarce in this neck of the woods so put in the pasture and the stock in two years grubbed it all out.
 Mammoth clover was only sown in the spring, came fine, but disap- peared in August.
 Alfalfa was tried three times on land as it was, without any manure. and with as heavy maturing as was thought permissible. Seed came all | right, good stand. Moved two or | three times to keep the weeds down, but in July it would turn yellow and just melt away. 1 then took a piece | of land l4x80 feet and put on it eleven wagon loads of manure (single box), plowed it several times l2 inches deep and sowed the seed | about the 10th of September, got line stand, stood August and win tered all right, but let the stock eat t down. 1 think now that land | treated in the same way and not oastured at all until it is fairly es- -ablished will grow alfalfa without ! doubt. w. J. Spillman, United States agriculturalist, in a private etuer says If you will use twenty i've tons of good manure and half on of lime per acre, summer fallow md SOW early in September you can yrow alfalfa on your land"
 lngle Nook Farm.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30
1 MILLION IN SCHOOL FUND
Estimate of George B. Cook Indicates An Increase of Over S300.OOO-
 Nearly S2 Per Capita.

Little Rock, July 25.-Prof- George E. Cook, superintendent of public instructions, estimates that the common school fund to be apportioned to the schools of the various counties this year will reach $l,000.C00. He gives as his reason that the levy this year is one more mill than was levied last year, at which time S677 900 was paid into the state treasurer by the collectors ot the various counties. There were 553,0OO children reported in the last school census, which made tue per capita $l.27. This year tbe per capita will be nearly B, ac- cordipg to Prof. Cook.
 Reports of the county examiners are now beginning to come ID, and all must be received by the superintendent of public instruc- tions before August 10, because the informa ation as to enumeration must be tabulated for the use ol the state board of common school commissioners, which meets Sep tember l, to apporliou the fuud among the various schools, ana this leaves but 20 days Tn which to do the work.
 It is believed that the enutier' ation this year will show some increases over last.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

months after the law went into effect, says the Dallas News. deposits in the guaranteed banks of the new state, being all of the 497 state banks and fifty-four of the national banks, had increased nearly $4,0OO,0O0, total deposits Tn these banks agaln reaching the level which obtained before the panic. At the close of the same period the deposits in the 225 national banks of Oklahoma which had not availed themselves or the guaranty law were still $3,OOO,- GOO short of the total which they held before the panic. A bank at Colgate failed. It did not create a ripple. The commissioner of bank ing immediately announced that he was ready to pay off the depositors. The only difficulty encountered was that the depositors were slow about coming for their money.
 What does this prove? Merely that the guarantee is popular with the people. Yes, that is all. Mere ly that. But that merely happens to amount to a whole lot. Every body has long agreed to the propo- sition that if people would deposit their money in banks and leave it in them until they actually needed it there would be no such thing as a bank panic. So the fact that the guaranteeing of deposits is popular with the people seems to be about all that is necessary in this regard. Southwest American.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

been clamoring for foreign labor to take the place even of the negro labor should take this lesson to heart. If a cotton planter replaces his ne- gro labor with cheaper kind, he will cut off the ability of the negro to buy; this will reduce the demand for the manufacturers goods, throw more laborers in the non- consuaaing class, and an endless chain is started that will in the end mean less demand and less price for the planters cotton. This is true and logical result of the employment of cheap labor no matter where it starts.
 There is another important fea- ture. It is well known that for many years the stream of undesir- able foreigners to this country has been augmented and largely main tained by the use of agents seeking cheap labor for various large indus tries. Without these methods, the larger part of the foreign immigra- ton would be made up of the better, stronger class-young men who would come because they were dis satisfied with home conditions and had the energy and will to get out and seek something better. The class that has to be stirred up by glowing promises of agents sent for the purpose would stay at home, and the influx of the hordes that com pose the most degraded element in the great cities and drain the life and strength of the whole nation would cease.
 Well may we rejoice at the awak- ening.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

yet in the experimental stage, though there are some growers who Mink they are on the way to success.
 The Star especially urges upon it's readers to study the hay and forage question at the fair in August, where many fine displays will be on exhibition. In the meantime com munications giving the experience of Polk county farmers in hay and forage growing will gladly be re- ceived by The Star.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30
ARE SEEING TORE CLEARLY

Reports from Pittsburg, Pa, an- nounce that some of the largest labor-employing plants of that city have decided to hereafter use only American labor, having notified 10000 foreigners who went home at the beginning of the financial strin- .gency that they need not return.
 It can be safely said that such a step was not taken merely because of a greater love by these big em- ployers for the American laborer. They have. after years of experience in the use of cheap" foreign labor, definitely decided that it was expen- sive-that the American is a better worker and therefore worth more money, and that, too, he spends his earnings at home.
 Many a manufacturer has thought that could he get cheap labor his path to prosperity was made easy. What he failed to see was that he at the same time cut off the demand for his product cheapencd it, He did not stop to figure that each American laborer who was worth and demanded good pay was thrown out of employment his ability to sell his product was curtailed. The foreigner was not only worth less as a worker, but consumed less. and his surplus money was sent out of the country.
 The Southern planters who have
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

Washington people have so long prided themselves on the cleanliness of their city that when investigation proved it to be especially dirty they at once began to worry about how filthy must be other cities, and will send out bulletins advising them what to do. That's real human na. tore for you. Even Mena had a cleanup day befroe Washington thought of it.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

has two acres from which he got even 100 bales. C.P. Coulter is also harvesting his crop of bermuda. If given chance the bermuda crop, which many farmers consider pest, will give good account of itself. When you can get from two to three cuttings per year the great profits in this crop are evident. Land not good for general farming would grow bermuda proftably. burg Enterprise.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30
Kickin'.

Eyerybody's kickin', Kickin' bout the heat; Kickin' bout the prices We pay for things to eat. kickin' bout the railroa is
 An the government; kickin' bout the taxes
 An the way they're spent. kickin' bout the autos
 An the pace they set; Kickin bout the grafters
 An the pull they get. Old mule looks dejected,
 Says in tones demure, When it comes to kickin'
 I'm an amachoor. 7"
 Farm Journal.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

A newspaper tells it this way: Standard Oil Relieved of $29, ,240,- GOO Fine" Most people world have been better pleased had the last word been omitted.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30
ANNOUNCEM ENTS.
rop cotrNTy ASSESSOR,

FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR. The Star is authorized to announce FRED ". THORNTON as an Independent candt. date for the office Of County Assessor Of Folk county, subject to the action Of the voters at the September election.
 FOR ROAD COMMISSIONER. The star is authorized to announce LA M ES EMERSON as a candidate for Road Com. missioner of Mena Special District subject to the action of the voters at the general election In September.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

Arkansas will have more than $500, 900 added to her common school fund this year by the 1-mill increase in tax. Aside from the direct bene- fit to the schools it is worth the cost as an advertisement to the state. Good schools always look good to seekers for homes in any country.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30
Guaranteed Deposits Popular.

"The proof of the pudding is in the eating of it." The proof of the efficacy of the bank deposits insur- ance scheme is the efficiency of it as seen in the actual operation of the plan in Oklahoma. Within three
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

Judge Peter Grosscup of the Court of Appeals, who rendered the deci- sion in favor of the Standard Oil Company, has announced his early retirement from the bench. saying that the practice of corporation law is more remuuerative. Doubtless the s andard Oil corporation could find work for him.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

The Turks do not develop any great enthusiasm because of the act of the sultan in granting them po- litical freedom. Perhaps they have been watching the way it worked in Russia, where the czar put members of the legislative bodies in prison who advocated ideas not his own.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

In England they are going to pen sion old people of more than 70 years who are unable to earn a living. In Arkansas they make them pay a poll tax even if they are 100 and unable walk on the roads.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

Charles J. Glidden promises that within eighteen months passengers and freight will be carried by regu- larly established air lines with greater safety than on land. It would not be advisable, however, for Polk county road overseers to cease trying to make good roads on this account.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

The United States court of ap- peals intimates that Judge Landis violated discretion" in assessing the big fine against the Standard Oil Company. But that has been more than offset by the discretion shown in making the collection
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

Wireless telegraphy, wireless lighting and other uses of electicity by wireless methods will be demon strated at Mena's big fair. That's getting things up-to-date.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30
Money in Bermuda Hay.

w. H. Addington has just com pleted moving his bermuda hay. He got 337 bales, which he sells at Soc per bale, in this cutting. He
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

The government is now planning to begin a war on the mosquito. Will that mean 'cessative war on the octopus
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

 and theot who have luck. yin bushes a virtue beyond esteem business transaction may be by ndnct writing Pull yourse together made e get them clear
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  approaches let the Store guest first they hs approval you are yedaby detained from work, send word why. Lnpudent great unfa patience and poeness and how much better feel <
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30

CHARLES LAMB said that when he reached his office
 fifteen minutes late he always went away hall an hour earl;er so to make the matter right This was joke
 The chronic late is always marked the tmebook for lavoff when times get scarce" Your interests are the interests of the house. and theirs are yours-BE ON TIME.
 As to the habit of getting everything packed and ready for quick scoot when the bell rings this does not mean for you raise Work as if you owned the place-and perhaps you may.
 Yong men who oter around the entrance to the store or factory and smoke gossip chew and spit, would do well to eliminate it. Be peculiar and when you come to your work go to work, if be five minutes be-
 4Lo uuho tn ha foro~
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-30
ROYCROFT PHILOSOPH Y
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