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The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
HOW ONE TOWN IS BOOSTED

In Hot Springs last week the busi- ness men and citizens gave smoker, the object of which was to get to- gether and help the Business Mems League boost Hot Springs.
 Among the proceedings was the selection of a committee of fifteen to assess against the various business men of that city the amount each is to pay to the support of the booster movement, a system that is in use in most of the larger cities where live commercial bodies exist.
 In talk on organization, one of the speakers said:
 s'We will make this proposition to you: If you will join the league, put up money in proportion to the bene- fits you receive, and will help us boost, we will agree to find you a buyer or else some of us will buy you out ourselves. Ofcourse you will sell . leap if you think the town is no
 ood and you want to leave it. The way to sell your property, gentlemen, is to boost your town. There are only two kinds of people, boosters and busters. xxx l do not consider it a business house unless the one conduct ing it belongs to this league, and in your rounds if you should find one who does not belong, place upon his door For Sale sign, and notify him that we will expect him to join us on the proposition heretofore mentioned.
 It was shown that Hot Springs had distributed l million pieces of advertising literature in recent years and one-fourth million postal cards. And there is a long list of things that have been done, and more to do.
 This is sample of what another Arkansas city is doing to utilize her opportunities.
 Mena must get in line and now is the time.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
The Perfect Public Servant.

William H. Taft is big man physically. He is as big of heart as he is of body. His friends love Bill Taft. And they thought when the President first mentioned him for the presidency that the people would accept him for his own sake's sake, with affection. Serene, sure, just, absolutely unselfish and, therefore, fearless; not merely courageous, mark you, but careless of personal consequences. Mir. Taft is rare combination of "the good fellow" and the good man for office" that we Americans have sighed for so long. Why haven't the people taken to him with enthusiasm
 At the close of his Philippine administration, the President de- scribed Taft as the perfect public servant" Speaking of another man, the President said that he is able, brave, expert, and absolutely trustworthy; that he does his duty up to the handle, but he does 1t to be promoted. And respect ann bition as a motive" the President explained sharply. It is fine. " But he said that Taft does his duty for duty's sake, out of sheer patriot ism and self respect. There isn't a thought of himself in his head. That's why he wanted him at home. He put the other man out in the service. Taft l want near me; want to see him every day"
 This judgment, spoken with feel, ing, and repeated afterward, witf ever fresh examples of service: rendered all around the world this sentiment accounts for the Presi dents wish to have Taft, the disin- terested, succeed to the presidency Lincoln Steffens, in June Every body's.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
LOVING Ills FORMER FOES,
 tE PASSED AWAY.

The death of General s. D. Lee. one of the surviving lieutenant generals of the Confederate army. again calls to mind the fact that soon there will be left none of the men who so valiantly fought for their be- liefs and principles in the greatest civil war in the history of the world
 In this connection, it is pleasant thought that the greatest among the.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News. l

How a'girl hates to have all her girl friends admire the man she ad- mires
 The average man hasn't enough courage to applaud until some other fellow starts it
 It IS easier for the average man to draw the line than it is for him not to step over it later.
 Remember that the i'll natured gossip that you hear concerning others IS not worth remembering.
 Even If man doesn't make any attempt to fiirt with a girl on a street car she suspects that he'd like to.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

Mena and Polk county spend hun dreds of thousands of dollars worth each year for feed for stock and for meats, all of which could better be grown at home. And yet this is no
 worse than sending away for brick with which to build our business houses and residences when the ma terial for making them is all about us and labor to be had that would spend money with our merchants. When will we use our own resources?
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

stand about a woman is that he doesn't.
 A man can quit any job he holds whenever he feels like it, except being married.
 People spend all their money keep ing up appearances to make the world think they have plenty more of 1t.
 A woman takes more joy out of finding withered flower that one of the children pressed in a book than a man does in finding $l0 bill in an old suit of clothes.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
Don't Hold Your Freight.

Wilbur Wright says the world may as well give up the idea of air ships for general traffic. It might surprise Wilbur to know how few business firms are holding back their freight for the airship. Kansas City Journal.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
GOTH CONGRESS
 HAS ADJOURNED
The Fillibuster Against Aldrich-Vree. land Financial Bill Ended by Error Excitement in Closing
 Moments.

Washington, May 30. Having concluded it's labors for the ses. sion the House tonight shortly after 3 o'clock, adopted resolu- tion to adjourn sine die at 10 minutes before midnight.
 The conference report on the Aldrich- -Vreeland currency bill was adopted by the Senate a few minutes before 5 o'clock this al. ternoon, and the LaFollette fiji. buster was ended. The vote was 43 in the affirmative and 2 in the negative.
 The closing moments of the debate were exciting in the ex- treme. Senator Gore, the blind senator from Oklahoma, was holding the floor until Senator Stone of Missouri could get a rest, MT. Gore stopped speaking and took his seat at 4:25 p m think ing Mir. Stone was in the cham. Der. The Missourian, however, did dot expect him to couclude so soon, and was not there. Nor was Senator LaFolIette present. He expected to try to get recog- hilton later in the evening after MT. Stone yielded the floor again.
 Immediately, Senator Aldrich demanded the roll call on the pending motion to adopt the re- port, but before the secretary called the first name Senator Hepburn endeavored to secure recognition. Proceeding under an order adopted in the heat of the debate last night, the secretary had already begun 10 call the roll and the vice president ruled Mir. Hepburn out of order.
 The news that the currencg bill had passed the Senate quickly reached the House and evoked great applause. From that time on business moved with rapldlty that signified the speedy ternl, nation of the first session of the Sixtieth Congress.
 
 Closing Hours in the House.
 The closing hours in the House tonight were marked by unusual scenes. Before the night had ad- vauced very far a number ot ke- publicans invaded the center aisle carrying aloft a large sized lltho' graph of Speaker Cannon which was suspended from long handled broom, earned by Repre- sentative Bartchfield of Pennsy' vania. They marched to the tune of Tramp, tramp, tramp the Boys are Marching" after wnlca they struck up "America.'
 bryan was CnttIeu.
 In the meantime someone le' the hall and returned with heavily mounted picture ot W.T. liam J. Bryan which was alsc suspended from broom handle' and was hell up and carried oY Representative Houston ot Ten nessee, who was followed oy many Democrats singing.
 Soon the two marching proces' slons came into conflict and TOT time there was wild mix uP which really seemed to threaten serious results. There was mucn and outbursts weie increased to intensity wne" Barcthheld passed his banner iusO the press gallery and the pToces sion was there taken up m "On0'e Doe's" honor.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
EDUCATIONAL, ANYHOW.

When the methods of few New York financial crooks brought about a money stringency last fall that so suddenly checked the prosperity of the country, and from which it has not as yet recovered, there was a great cry went up for an extra ses- sion of Congress to enact laws mak- ing such calamities impossible, and, also, to so far as could be done, overcome the harm that had been done.
 But Congress was soon to assem- ble, and no extra session was called. With the converting of that body, efforts were made by several sena- tors, among whom was Culberson of Texas, to do something along the lines that had been suggested. Senator Culberson fought hard to get the movement started. He brought to bear every influence at his command. He presented logic that could no. be denied, and was not. He wanted to begin at the bottom. He wanted, first, the sen- ate to order an investigation of the CAUSE of the so-called stringency or panic. He desii ed to begin at the bottom, and then when the cause had been established, to find a remedy.
 On every hand he was met by Senator Aldrich with an objection. As method to defeat the proposed investigation, apparently, Aldrich offered financial measure or cure all of his own, and insisted that his bill have the right of way-that it would make investigation of the causes needless.
 The matter was fought out for days. Aldrich and his clique tri- umphed. and then even the agitation for his proposed law was dropped, and for the most of the session the matter of appropriations of public moneys occupied the time of Con- gress.
 But, at the eleventh hour, these smooth" leaders saw their inaction was raising a howl that threatened their supremacy. They discovered that the people who cast the votes were taking notice.
 Hurriedly they got together to find little oil to pour on the trou- bled waters. Not because they wanted to help the people. Oh, no They wanted only to save themselves.
 The Aldrich-Vreeland currency bill was pushed to the front. It was favorabIy voted upon in the senate, and may become law. If it does it is doubtful if any material good results.
 Hut it has been a means to prevent an investigation that might have made the whole country acquainted with Wall Street methods, and it has served the purpose. it's authors prob ably believe, of smoothing their way back to the places of power they now hold.
 But more and more the people are seeing these things. And the days are drawing near when intelligent discrimination will weed out those who but use their offices for selfish purpose, as a means to assist special interests in plundering the people.
 The past session of Congress has at least been an educator.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
BITS OF EVERY DAY PHILOSOPHY

(Atchison Globe.l
 Everyone can stand little more than he thinks he can.
 There is no such thing as poor luck, but there is such a thing as shiftlessness.
 It is your friend who picks you to pieces; other people are indifferent and let you alone.
 About all some men do is to spend their time getting ready to do some thing they never do. There never was church so small that it didn't seem plenty large enough on prayer meeting night.
 When the under dog begins spend- ing his time working to get on top, he is liable to always be the under dog.
 There are times in every mans < life when the way to earn his friend ship and gratitude, is to ask him no questions.
 People who are married don't say much about love, but they have a greater need for it than those just engaged.
 Your friends may sometimes act mad because you do not come and see them, but they are not as mad as they seem.
 There are some choir leaders who act as if they believe the music in heaven will not be worth hearing until they get there to direct it. People are so suspicious of each other that when man fails to get a letter at the postoffice, he imagines it is because the postmaster hates him.
 When a woman past 40 buys hat she does not ask her friends if 1t is pretty or becoming; she says in an anxious voice: Do you think 1t is too giddy for me? 2"
 Every man thinks that if he didn't have to stay in his home town and look after his family, he could go to some new country and make a fortune in the course of a year.
 Did you ever notice that the man who does not talk" about others is generally greatly admired You can be admired in the same way, and feel better in that tender spot way down in you.
 Though men and women are sup posed to think great deal of each other, anything you say against the women will make the men laugh and anything proven against the men makes the women applaud.
 The average man is not very giddy. He works down town all day, and, when he gets home in the evening, it is hard work to drive him out. You can get hundred women to an afternoon reception, but you can not get third of that number to an evening reception.
 Every time a new baby is born in family the fond father and mother start bank account for it, which they draw out and use for themselves before the baby is six months old. If all of us had the bank accounts our parents planned for us, we would rival John D. Rocke- feller.
 Notice young man at lunch counter: he will eat everything and swallow it whole. A man between 40 and 50 will be very delicate, and eat deliberately. The old man finds his stomach giving out. The young man could save himself lots of trou- bic in the future by eating with more care.
 An Atchson woman is writing book of dreams, and every night she dreams new chapter. She claims that she IS inspired, and the neigh bors who have seen what a poor housekeeper she is, and have noticed how long the dishes remain un- washed, and the beds unmade, while 1 she is gazing into the sky, think that something like that must be the matter with her.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

It is said that President Roosevelt makes no concealment of his disap- pointment over the failure of Con- gress to enact progressive legislation. The regrettable thing is that this is not merely personal chagrin. The people have been so closely in accord with the Presidents policies that his disappointment is necessarily theirs. He has taken the country into his confidence. His efforts to secure legislation have been made through public messages. He has had the support of the people, and all he can do now is to leave Congress and its record with the people. - Kansas City Star.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

Congress now has before it meas ure to regulate the laundries of Washington. As long as it has nothing else to do for the coun- try at large, why not spend a few hundred thousands to protect the shirts and collars of the statesmen from the abuse of the laundrymen :? Why mt
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
Friendship.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true cri- terion of the attachment of friends; and that the most liberal professions of goodwill are very far from being the surest marks of it.-George WaObinOton
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR.

HUN NVt7KS ' T tSf'''''H The star is authorized to announce FRED W. THORNTON as an Independent candi- date for the office of County Assessor or Folk county. subject to the action Of the voters at the September election,
 FOR ROAD COMMISSIONER. The Star Is authorized 10 announce J A M ES EMERSON as a candidate for Road Com missioner of Mena Special District, subject 10 the action Of the voters at the general election in September.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
was rearet

Congress adjourned, the state and national conventions have the floor, and then politics will keep up the turmoil until November, when things being normal, we can all settle down to business and again get acquainted with General Prosperity.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

Bryan wrote letter to Taft urg- ing that the source of all campaign contributions be made public before the election. Taft not only approved the idea but showed he was already on record as urging the reform. Certainly the square deal' idea gains ground. The day of honesty ir nolitics draweth near.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
state of ohlo, clty of roIeao.
Lucas Tounty-- ss.

Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he ls senior partner of the firm of F. J. City of Toledo County and State afore- said. aud Chat said firm will pay the sum or ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR RS for each nnd every cass of catarrh that cannot De cured by the use Of Halrs Catarrh Cure FRANK j. CHENEY
 sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this 9th day of December, A. ll. 1886. A w. GLEASON
 tSealJ Notary Public.
 balls Catarrh Cure is taken internal Q " and acts directly on the blood and mncus surfaces ot the system. Send for testimonials free.
 r. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo. 0. Sold by all druggists, 75c.
 Take Hairs Family pns for cons ipation.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

criminal insane, may live and die feeling that great injustice has been done hin in keeping him in confinement for the murder of Stan ford White. But the injuctice was in his earlier days in the way he
 was reared.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
This Congress and the Next.

Not in more than thirty years have the majority members of the house of representatives gone before the country for reelection with such a bad bill of claims as the present majority will have to present to the people. The coming campaign will be one of explanations, and it will be mighty hard explaining. No good excuse can be offered to the country for the complete failure of construc- tive legislation. No line of reason ing that will appeal to the voters can be followed for the disregard of of those measures that have been shown by the President and others to be necessary at this time. Even the dissenting wing of the Republi- san membership is not in a fortunate position, for it consented to failure rather than unite with the Demo- cratic side to secure the enactment of urgent measures recommended by the President.
 Fortunately the failure of Con- gress cannot be charged to President Roosevelt, nor to Secretary Taft. | who has stood for the Roosevelt I policies and will represent those policies as the Republican nominee for the presidency, The voters who are in sympathy with the present administration and desire its policies continued will seek. and should seek
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

The Kansas City Southern would have felt even more proud of being called upon to furnish track for the passage of the Missouri. Kansas X Texas trains if it hadn't had a'tie- up of it's own just below Kansas City.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

A woman who so successfully posed as a great financier as to work" a number of Kansas City business men and interest the bank CTS, has been sent to her friends as "harmlessly insane" What if she had stolen a pair of shoes?
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

A Kansas woman recently married a man whom her friends thought beneath her, and they were sorry for her. Later she came to the same conclusion and openly showed her feelings, when the sympathy all shifted to the husband. There's a ,,,n,a1 hara
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
Common Sense ys. Law.

Right on the face of the thing here seems to be a pretty good case against the constitutionality of the Pure Food law. That law directly
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

Young dentists are to have a chance to practice on the states convicts. The operations probably will be painless to the operators.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

Harry Thaw, that unfortunate young man who. because his parents were rich and never taught him to work or do useful thing. followed a life of absolute habits that finally landed him in an asylum for the
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

There have been rains over the whole country from the lakes to the gulf the last few days. Mena has gotten off lightly. perhaps because she had so much in April and the first half of May.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

Up in the Ozar6s lies fair Mena, !" and hundreds are visiting it because they must come up on our railroad to get out of the water. Wonder how many Menaites are striving to give the visitors an idea of the good things to be found hereabouts It is rare opportunity if property ,,tiIi1ad
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
Dr. Pool to Move Office.

l have moved into new olues quarters over the Farmers AuS Merchants bank. Come in anu pay your bills and help me Pa' my rent. A, J. Tvo'
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
women.

Extra Session" Hamiter is at least responsible for "Stay-at- Home" Pindall and may result in Delegate Davis.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

A deg recently took on sudden value by swallowing a diamond. To swallow an imitation diamond would raise the stock of some men.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

The great American game of Duck the vice presidency" is now going on. It beats the band how many men there are who feel too big to take the office that Roosevelt arcppted
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

Korean men are not allowed to wear trousers until after they marry. The same rule applies to American xuoynpp
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04

The custom of selecting dead ones" with a barrel" as candidates for vice president should cease along with lot of other campaign methods.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
STARLETS.

Our beautiful cities would still be in the forests and mines but for dreamers. Sue cess.
 have often wondered how every man loves himself more than all the rest of men. Antonius.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

New York Press. The one thing man can under
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-28
MAD DOG CAUSES
 BIG EXCITEMENT

Considerable excitement was caused on the down town streets yesterday afternoon when the cry. Mad dog, " Mad dog sent the people on the streets scurrying to the stores for safe
 ty. The dog reported to be mad startd out on Main street near the Dreyfus store and bit four dogs on that street and then turned into West Barraque to Pine. By this time quite a crowd was in pursuit and several policemen also. The dog turned down Pine till he reached the corner at Mann-Tankersley drug store. where he snapped at small terrier. After going down Seeond as far as the Elks the dog turned around and passed down East Second, where trace of him was lost. The authorities are on the lookout and all stray dogs will be shot as a measure of safety. No one was bitten by the animal, though he snap ped at several ill his way. The ami nal seemed hardly more than in the first stages of hydrophobia and was not frothing at the mouth.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-28
BRIEF MENTION.
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Miss Annie Stigmeyer Of Clarendon is the guest of Miss Lydia Vitz.
 Mrs. W H. Jameson and Miss Edith Jackman are visiting at Fort Worth, Texas.
 Judge James Gould has returned from his vacation spent in Missouri and Chicago.
 Dan Taylor assistant attorney gen eral. is reported to be eonvalescent af- ter ten days illness.
 Misses Clara and Lucy Hearn Broadstreet have returned from a visit at Heber.
 Miss Jeannette Silbernagle has re- turned to Little Rock after a brief visit to friends and relatives. ...4s--- --.----'
 Mrs. ]. T.. Buck and granddaughter. Miss Olivia Alexander. are the guests of Mrs. A. R. Sherril at sherrill.. ...-...-'-'
 Miss Eliza Aiken, who has been spending the past two months at Eu- reka Springs, returns home today. Misses Mildred Gaunt, Leota and