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The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
ELIJAH" TRIES HANGING
Religious Fanatic at Fort Smith, De- nied Legal Execution by Courts.
 Attemnts to Commit Suicide.

Fort Smith, June 20. 0.-Elijah Skaggs, the self-styled reincar- nation of Elijah the Prophet, IS determined to die. Denied the short shrift of legal execution by the courts, and disappointed with the prospect of 2l year term spent in the peniientiary, he attempted his own execution this afternoon by hanging him. self. He cut off the end of the swinging bunk i'll his cell and tied the rope to d sewer pipe Tn the ceiling, and the other end around hls neck. Then he jump cd from the top of the cage, II feet high. The rope broke and he fell to the floor, breaking his jaw and cutting his face badly. He is determined 10 die that he may rise again the third day, aud prove the resurrection.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
5c White Lawn 3lc.

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The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
state of Ohio, City of Toledo

,,.,,ii, Cheney makes oath that ne ,s senior partner of the firm ot me Cheney < co, doing doing ons onsiissst state afore- SLY oaa oa that said firm will pay the sun sum sal9 s 5,NF SIsu HiiIfNDRED DoLLA Rs Tor eactt aot and ts every case of catsrrih1 i1ais 5pst catarrh De cured " FRANK J. CHENEY sworn to before me and sgpssragrfh pnersmher' s
 srasance. this eth day ot , DscsIiipe' .epJ ? A. D 1886. A. Notary Public.
 (Seul) -,,,., te taken internal
 hhllS aets directly on the blood aau s,.
 ne,,s surfaces of the system 9ei'0 testirnonials free, .-,sN, A ro Teledo c.
 ssola bv ali druggists l9c ,.,,sttnation
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
N0Rw00D NAMES ASSISTANT.
C. A. Cunningham Will Be in Attorney
 Generals Office.

Hon. Hal l.. Norwood, Demo- cratic nominee for attorney gem eral, returned home Saturday afternoon from a business trip of several days at Little Rock and Texarkana. While in Little Rock Mir. Norwood gave out a state- ment 10 the effect that c. A. Cum bingham of Dardanelle, would succeed Dan Taylor Of Pine Bluff, IS assistant attorney gem era of the state.
 On being interviewed Monday moroing by a representative oi The Star in reference 10 the ap- pointment of Mir. Cunningham as assistant attorney general Mir. Norwood said: You eau say that l have determined to appoint c. A. Cunningham of Dardanelle.
 O be my assistant. He is ccm- pctent and sound Democrat, a graduate of the University of Arkansas and of the University of Virginia, and is better equipped for the practice of law than the average man. He is a personal friend, and was a warm support CT of my candidacy for attorney general and take pleasure in naming him my assistant, for can do so with the feeling that the interests of the state will be in safe hands with him in the cfice.'
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
15c White Lawn 8lc.

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The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
sherman,s Home Town JubIlateg.

Utica, N. Y.. June 2l.-The news of James $. Shefman's nomination for vice president was received in this. his home city, Friday with the ringing oi bells. the firing of cannon and gen eral display Of flags.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
FACTS ABOUT DOGS
Editor Denver Dog Fancier Magazine Writes Interestingly Regarding
 Hydrophobia.

| the following article written by the litor of the Western Dog Eau. cier for the Fort Smith Times will probably be of interest in Mena at this time:
 Dear Sir-Iu response 10 ycur request, l send you some facts on hydrophobia. The best defense against hydropaobia Is a clear understanding of the disease.
 1t IS fact that the disease can be diagnosed with certainty. de. spite the denial of its very exist. ence by some whose minds are closed to undesired evidence Although, in the absenc of prop. CT treatment, its deatu rate in human beings is practically 100 per cent of all cases, the Pasteur treatment has reduced the percen tage of fatality to some extent. In cases of inocculatiou, safety depends upon prompt recognition of the danger and an instant re- sort to the one remedy the relia- bility of which has been proven by experience.
 Owing to the rarity of genuine hydrophoDia, many false ideas have grown up in relation to 1t; and what often passes for evi dence of the disease is largely unreliab ble. The mad" dog does not always froth at the mouth, nor does 1t always "hate water;' neither is the disease any more a product of summer heat than of winter cold.
 Contrary 10 general conviction a dog suffering with rabies has no inclination to bite except in blind resentment against inter- ference with him. The presence of the disease IS marked by two phases, one an impulse to lie mo- tionless and the other during paroxisms blind impulse to con- stant and purposely fight.
 In great majority of cases the dog which acts as rabid dogs are popularly supposed to do, can be confidently diagnosed as suffer ing from an acute phase of some of the more common diseases to which dogs are subject md which produce suffering; often dogs are killed as mad dogs" which are simply suif ring from that very prossic malady, acute digestion.
 There IS but one cause fir hy- drol hcbia in dogs and that is infection in the blood through a wound inflicted by rabid ami mal. Feeding we'll or i'll, pam pering or abuse, home or an estray, has absolutely nothing to do with the matter. The stray dog is no more dangerous than the household pet except that he IS more likely to come in contact with infected animals, and be- cause in the early stage his illness receives no attention. The ex- captions, however, are quite suf- ficieut to warrant the extermina- tiou of the stray dog.
 There is an additional reason for such extermination; in almost every outbreak cf genuine hydro phobia, the infection is carried into the neighborhood by the tramp dog, which generally bites one or more dogs before the pub lie is warned.
 The use of the muzzle is effee- tive in preventing and extermi- hating hydrophobIa, provided 1t is worn for a long time by every dog in the infected district, but is intellectual in a district subject to the invasion of dogs from other sections.
 The average muzzle is a cum
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
l0c Gingh ams and Dress Duck 65c.

One lot of Dress Duck and Ginghams, good patterns to select from and desir- able colors, regular l0o value, sale price per yard .................... 615cs
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
HIKE E. WRIGHT
 ! FOR TAFT'S PLACE
uoror For the Southern Man Is Re-
 ceiviug Hearty Congratulations VI on His Selection for the # Cabinet.

H,#f h Shf
 ereral Luke Wright, who is to
 ,,cceed William H. Taft as sec
 etary of war, is being showered
 uith congratulations. In addi-
 ;on 10 personal calls and tele-
 hone messages inside the city
 b has received many telegrams
 rom various sections of the coun-
 sry, all couched in cougra'ulatory 5 language.
 Why He Was Selected.
 Washington, June 20. The xtatement given out at the White
 yJouse concerning Mir. Wright's s
 Appointment, says:
 "As Philippine commissioner
 End later as vice governor and
 bovernor. he won the affection nd regard of the army to high Iegree. and many of the most |4listiuguished of the men who Served in the army at the time he |sEas in the Philippines have urged 8his appointment because they felt ss a peculiar way that he was Their champion and Tn peculiar Nav understood them and their Needs. This is especially true az f feoards the men who were Union Veterans of the Civil war, for 4hese grew to feel that he was slways specially interested in 5their welfare.
 H "Moreover, his great admins 7trative and legal ability, both peculiarly lit him to deal with the problems in the Philippines, Panama and Cuba, for the work ci the war department IS now &uch that only a man with special Fitness and unusual training is N be to do justice to 1t. Of all sthe men in the country, the pres- ident feels that Luke Wright is Ahe man best equipped to take up ahe work of the department, (which for the last seven years has been under the control, first of Root and then Taft.
 "As a young man he was cap aain in the Confederate army. He 1s one of the leading lawyers, not |only of his state, but of the en- tire south. He has also been fore |inost in advocating and insisting upon fair treatment for the color led people. He first definitely es- |tablished his reputation in the |terrible days of the yellow fever epidemic at Memphis when he practically made himself mayor |of the town and took charge of |all of the relief measures, show |lug what may justly be called heroic devotion to duty and in- difference to his own life, togeth- Ter with the masterful qualities of Ia successful administration in a great crisis. He was himself stricken down by the plague he was fighting, but lived to see it stamped out and himself to take part in oue of the model health cities of the world.
 "ie was appointed by Presi- dent Mckinley as one of the Philippine commissioners and en- joyed President McKinley's htartiest confidence, being select ed as one of the southerners who were in sympathy with hls admin istratiou. By President Roose- welt he was promoted first, to be vice governor and then governor ot the Philippines and afterward made first ambassador to Japan. In all positions he served with signal fidelity and ability and has been h hearty and outspokeu agreement with the administra- tinn in all lie r,olicinc
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
l0c White Dress Duck Sc.

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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
Personal AND GENERAL

Chemists say that papers written with
the ink in general usc to-day will be il
!esihe In twenty seven years.
Luther Burbank, tho horticultural wiz
n: d, is going to introduce his spineless cac-
tus to the deserts of Nevada.
A crystalline body that he calls trcho-
toxin is regarded by DR.. -Delos S. Parker as
an active agent in producing badness.
It is estimated that the total amount OF
coal in North China. where are most Of the
coal fields Is COS. 900 900. 900 tons.
Babylon was probably the first city to at.
tain population of million. The area OF
the city was 225 square miles.
The consumption Of Indian coal in 1907
about one-third OF this. 100000 tons.
Money has been advanced for the pur-
chase of hand-power spinning machines In
Kahn. Persia. with view to spinning Per
sian wool for carpet and rugmal1ing.
A Massachusetts, boy. Nathan Sampson
has found venerable turtle which bears
markings made by his grandfather. now
clghty-one years old which We're put on ii
lS4o, and by his great grandfather, who
marked the same turtle In 1916.
The little deer from which the musk i.
obtained ranges in the Himalayas an.
Iibetan mountains, 5000 feet above SET
greatest quantity OF musk The deer are
shy and alert and difficult OF capture.
Easy going, happy go lucky Judge Will
liam Charles Adamson Is a son OF Georgia
tils early uuSs we're spent III Worklhe OF
a farm. and In hauling goods and cotton
between Atlanta and Bowdon. He after
ward took n course at Bpwdon College,
graduating with the degree of A. B. In 1874
| Tho late Nalerian Cribayedoff was one o
the first American newspaper sketch artists
| AS Grbayedon said himself. his fame wa
due not to his great artistic skill, but to hi
| luck In coming first. And he added With
! laugh that 1t was always lucky to com
carly and avoid the rush.
| The Duchess of Buckingham and Chnndo
/ Is the author of novel which Roulis vii
| publish very soon. 1t has the title Pen
/ vala of the Black Watch" and its scene |
laid by Tweedside and in Egypt during tn
| Tel-el-Kebr campaign The duchess know
| the scottish dincc, well and is familia
J with Scottish customs and ways.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
Ans,,ers ,1r. Ciaytor.
IL rhe 1,inas.nisna1cl,.

Editor Of The Times Dispatch:
Sir,-The communication Of Mr.. a.
B. Clayton, regarding circular letter
recently issued by the Commercial
and your editorial "The Drummers and
issue Of eth Instant, do the organi-
cation Of the United Commercial Trav-
elers an injustice, which, know. was
unintentional.
The United Commercial Travellers as
an organization Is in no way respon-
sible for the circular letter. nor did it
originate in the supreme office. Tho
supreme secretary of our order. with
headquarters at Columbus, has Issued
positive denial of being connected In
any way with the letter issued by the
Commercial Travellers Taft Club, or
its circulation. His office did not
know OF the existence of the "circu-
lar" until protests arrived from those
who had become confused by the SIM
llarity Of names of the two separate
and distinct organizations.
If the roster or mailing list of the
United Commercial Travellers of Amer
ica was ever used for the benefit OF
the Commercial Travellers Taft Club
it was direct infringement OF long
established rule. which prohibits their
use for such purposes, and was done
without the authority, knowledge or
consent of the supreme office. When
ever or wherever our order enters the
political arena its charter Is forfeited
and revoked.
The Order of United Commercial
Travellers is non-partisan and non
political. giving to its members the
same freedom and privileges in poll
tics non-members enjoy.
The above is a statement of facts
which are matters of record. and can
be substantiated by officers and mem
bers of Richmond Council No. l59,
United Commercial Travellers.
Like Brother Clayton, am Dem
ocrat OF the deepest dye. but having
heard the communication from the
supreme secretary read, ! feel justi-
fed in making the statement. and to
sion that our order has entered poll
tics to advance the cause of any can
didate of any party.
Member OF Richmond Council. No.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
Termination of Schools.

It is open to every mans observation
that the last thirty years, In which
women have taken the place OF men
unit! they are threc-quarters Of the
teachers. where once they were only
a fourth. have seen the entire advance
tiative. quickness, invention. resoiu-
ton. the general capacity to rise and
to organize are noted by every OBJ
server from abroad, and were never
moro diffused, The manners OF the
American have improved as never be.
tore School attendance has grown
National progress is apparent at al
points, moral and material, esthetic
athletic ana intellectual. If "feminiza.
ton" in the schools is injuring this
American. as Dr.. Hall charges. the
practical results in tho popular adj.
vance are envled by the world. Every
nation desires what has come hero
where the children of the State have in
the public school the care OF that uni
Yorsal mother---the American woman
eacher.-Phila delphia Press.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
ALDnlcn AND MIR. CAN


x Amid the vaoillation and floundefins
i,at marked the past session OF con-
dress two figures stand out whose out
: Zines were always distinct and whose
impose never wavered.
senator Aldrich aud Joseph G. Can
non. Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, came to the conclusion be-
f,,re the assembling OF Congress TINT
.fbe time was unpropitions for new
legislation and that the situation was
tilll OF dangerous possibilities for the
republican party. With the big game
If a presidential contest in their minds
they determined that no legislative
sins of commission at least should be
charged to that party. And to this
decision they ciuns with unshrinkinS
trmness. Neither the ins!stence Of
PRESIDENT Roosevelt, the taunts of the
opposition nor the insurrectionary
groups among their own followers
could change 1t. Unmoved, yet with
sedulous attention, they watched the
diversity OF opinion. the cross-cur-
rents OF purpose which contended be-
fore them. They had one object: that
Congress beyond the current appro-
priation bills should do as little as
possible. That they succeeded, the diff
.erence between what was attempted
% do and what was done is abundant
proof.
One factor alone affected them, one
factor alone caused them to shift, and
hat was good politics." Under this
stimulus. when they saw that the
enactment OF some currency relief
measure had become political neces-
sity, they suddenly waxed eager and
resolute for positive action. Hence, 70
this acumen in perceiving what the
constituencies could be fed on is the
country under doubtful obligation for
he passage of the compromise currency
5iil at the last moment.
on no occasion during the session
has Mr.. Cannon used more despoticall,
his rule over the House. or Mr.. Aid
rich more skilfully shown his diploma
lie management and parliamentar,
adroitness' than each of these MGR
did in getting their respective cham.
hers TO accept this bill. The country
was surprised, Congress cajoled. Sen.
atoF La Toilette overwhelmed.
contemporary 9pinion will not allo "
either to Senator Aldrich or Mr.. Can
non the name of statesman Contem.
porary criticism at times mputes to
both motives of conduct which are
neither flattering nor honorable. Ye,
both opinion and criticism must admit
mat both have keen perception OF
WHat they want done and signal abil.
itS' in obtaining ii.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
The Lamp Holds Ont.
Mixed.
PINCHED PRINCES.
European Royalties Troubled to MAX.
Ends Meet.


:, Hard times. indeed, are fallen upon
the earth when royalty joins the sub
merged tenth and takes a station In
the bread lire. 1t is not quite so bad
Emperor Williams recent cry OF dis
tress Is seconded now by reports of
hard times at Lisbon. The royal house
field is besicged by creditors and the
isfy the grocery bill If. suits now penu-
ing succeed. What wonder Emperor
William cannot make ends meet on
s3.s46,l2l year. although he has
money. The King OF Portugal receives
only miserable $4,000 a year. and
his present trouble seems to spring
from difficulty in collecting even this.
Russia. where the Car is understood
to be much stra!tened, recent drastic
revolutions and i'll considered political
movements having reduced somewhat
tomarily receives from his 100000
square miles of land and his Siberian
mines. King Leopold OF Belgium. as
We know, is now struggling with a
on cutting off his Congo income and
throwing him back on his pittance of
s660.0O0 year Only the Sultan, with
MS S75OO.OO0 a year. seems really con-
no waves Of popular clamor, no, fasty
Legislation, to interfere with the Sui
tan's business in Turkey.
What the present straits, real or
alleged, Of royalty are to come to we
can only surmise. Their misery may
be only affected as means of soaring
beck the food of public ownership Of
kings sentiment that is passing over
Europe. Again, the trouble may be
real, for the style of royalty is ex-
| pensive. Whether the people will come
i to taw with their taxes or decide that
the bauble OF royalty costs more than
| It is worth is the important question
that time must answer.-Nebraska State
journal.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
VAST PROJECT.
Government Acquisition OF Territory
Forming Grent Watersheds.

Government Acquisition of Territory
Forming Great Watersheds.
:, A bill has passed the United States
Senate, and is now in the hands of u
Committee on Agriculture. appropriate
ing s5,O00,o0O for the purchase of lands
forming the watersheds of navigable
streams in the Southern Appalachian
Range within Maryland. the Virginias
and carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Georgia and Alabama, and also the
watersheds In the White Mountains of
New Hampshire and Maine.
If this bill passes 1t will virtually
complete the preliminary plans OF the
Federal government for the reforesta-
ton of the watersheds of the entire
country These plans have two-fold
object, one, being the conservation OF
the great forests which constitute the
major part of the timber growing
regions Of the United States, and the
other having. in view the controlling
OF the annual spring floods which now
upon the low lands. and also the dis
tribution Of the flood waters of the
rocky Mountain region by means OF
Irrigation bitches flowing from great
the West. The national government
has up to the present time set apart
| lbO,000,000 acres of forest reservations
all in the trans Mississippi West. in
Guiding The watersheds Of the Rockies
and the Ozark Mountains In Arkansas
rivers of this Western country as vel
as the Arkansas, White, Current and
Red Rivers in the Southern States. The
acquisition OF the watersheds of the
| Appalachian Mountains will give the
government control of the headwatcr>
of the Ohio, Tennessee Cumberland ant
other large rivers besides innumerablt
| smaller strenms.-Kansas City Journal
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
THE FIGHT FOR A GOvERNoRsH1p
IN GEORGIA


State prohibition. which might have
changed many things. has apparently
had no effect upon Georgla's ability to
develop gubernatorial campaign of en-
|ceeding great bitterness. Georgia is max
ing something of reputation for her
self in this direction. The struggle
between Hon. Clark Howell and Hon.
lIoke Smith two years ago was tense.
taut and terrible. Now Governor Smith
finds himself engaged in second
fight, marked by even greater ami
mosities. In opposition to strange
little candidate armed with a personal
srudse, who has conducted a long cam
vass without once making a speech
joseph NJ. Brown was dismissed from
his post as railroad commissioner by
Governor Smith soon after the latter
took the chair. In his present effort
to wrest that chair away. the element
of squaring accounts is doubtless not
wanting. Hoke Smith has stumped
the State from end to end but Joe
Brown, who says that he cannot make
a speech, has sat still at his Marietta
home and sought to beguile the voters
through his lieutenants and the news
papers. The absence OF any marked
difference in platforms has made per-
sonalities inevitable. Both candidates
preaching prohibition and negro dis.
franchisement, what was there to talk
about except each others shortcom-
ings?
| The primary on Thursday will settle
the matter definitely. But really
Georgia ought to follow the example
of the majority of States and give her
Governor four years term. A six
months campaign of an exceedingly
heated nature every two years. abound
ing in feeling and monopolizing the
thought and interest Of everybody, is
more than the peace OF mind of any
State can stand.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02

zine tend to confirm the familiar asser-
ton that suicide increases directly
with spreading civilization. Mr.. Ken
| nan finds that the annual suicide rate
| in THIS country was twelve per million
In 1881, and the total number OF sui
cidcs in that year was COS. Last year
the rate had risen to 12G per million
and the total number was 10,7S2. Since
1890, self-destruction has cost tho
United States 10000 lives. It has cost
France 274.OOO lives since 1871. ana
Germany 15S,o00 since 1893. No fig
ures are available for century ago,
but It Is certain that the records OF
that time would show no such CHASTITY
totals as this.
StrilSingly enough. Mr.. KEENAN, finds
that there Is more or less we'll de-
fined suicide belt" 1t lies in the
north temperate zone. and 1t lies there
but because that zone has produced
the most highly developed and COM
plicated civilization. Here "thc strug
gle for life is fercest. the interfer-
ence with natural laws Is most extern
sive. and the wear and tear OF the
economic contest is most acutely felt"
People in tropical countries rarely
kill themselves. BY the same token
they lack those qualities of force and
ambition which make for a progress
sive and expanding civilization. 4
similar relation between environment
and individual tendencies no doubt az
plains Mr.. Remnants suicide belt" The
very nervous energy which cold eli.
mate evolves in the human body 10
fruitful and noble ends propels men
into those desperate emotional crises
whence. to their overwrought imagina-
lions. self-destruction offers the only
exit.