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The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
A Woman Can
,oliab lInnpcesqarv noise.

Abolish unnecessary nOlSe.
 Establish travelling libraries, and so bring reading matter within the reach of all.
 Help to save the forests from de- moition.
 Clean up her own back yard and make it such thing of beauty that it will be an inspiration to her neigh bors.
 See that the health of her fellow citizens is cared for by securing the appointment of a public nurse whose duty is the care and instruction of the poor.
 Secure lighted streets at night and therby prevent crimes.
 Insist upon paved sidewalks.
 Demand clean streets, and get them.
 Get rid of tramps by having an ever-ready town wood-pile. No work, no pay.
 Help to prevent the injustice of child-labor.
 Do away with immoral theaters, moving picture shows and postal cards.
 Beautify her streets with window boxes.
 Prevent telephone and telegraph companies from hacking off and mutilating the branches of trees.
 Arouse public interest in the pub lie welfare.
 Keep her garbage-box clean and covered, and insist upon her fellow citizens doing the same. She can, because she has done every one of these things. And when she does them all towns and cities will be clean, happy, whole some places in which to live. The May Delineator.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
Bryan on Prohibition.

After w. J. Bryan's lecture in Baltimore Tuesday evening on "The Prince of Peace he was asked for an expression of his views OH the liquor question and he is quoted as replying:
 "I do not regard the liquor question as national question: he said. And, as it will got be in the cam paign it is not necessary to discuss 1t. am teetotaler, so far as my per- sonal habits are concerned, and have never had occasion to act on the prohibition question but once, and that was in 1850, when l voted against a state prohibition amendment and in favor of the retention of what is known as. the Slocum law, which nxes a mini mum license where license is granted and allows communities to decide for themselves whether they will grant a license or not.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
TO REDUCE REPRESENTATION.
House Republicans Pass Bill Wn'eh
 Causes Bitter Denunciation.

Washington, May 24.-A campaign contribution publicity bill, embodylng an amendment by Mir. Crumpacker or Indiana. providing for reduction Tn the state representation in the house of representatives in those states nav ing disfranchisement laws, was passed by the house Friday by vote of l6o to 125 following a lively debate. The measure was brought up under sus- pension of the rules and 40 minutes were allowed in which to discuss Il.
 The Crumpacker amendment pro vides for the re-enactment of certain sections of the old federal election law, except that the idea of the un- enacted force bill authorizing the use of troops at the polls is eliminated. It also provides that the dirSc.ef Of the census shall submit to congress rt port of population showing the num- Der of male citizens, white and black, in each state and the number disfran- chised, for the purpose of enabling congress to ascertain the apportion- ment in representation to which such states may be entitled
 Although the Crumpacker amend ment does not in express terms state that it is especially applicable to the southern states, such, nevertheless, is accepted as the fact.
 The southern members in particular were bitter in their denunciation of the apportionment provision of the bill
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
THE RAILROADS BLACKLIST MEN7
A Kansan's Suit for Damages Is Taken
 to Supreme Court.

Topeka, May 24.--A case appealed to the supreme court from Lyon coun- ty charges that the railroads of Kan sas have entered into a conspiracy to blacklist employees of all railroads who are discharged. A. w. Brown was employed by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad as brakeman for nearly two years. He was charged with collecting 40 cents from tramp and letting the tramp ride from Flor ence to Newton. It happened that this tramp was a "spotter" for the company who reported Brown.
 The trainmaster discharged Brown and gave him service letter in which 1t was set forth that Brown was dis charged for cause In his suit for g, 900 damages Brown charged that this was the plan adopted by the rail road for blacklisting employees. Brown tried to get employment with other roads, but failed on account of this letter. The jury which heard the case awarded Brown $500 damages and S30 for attorneys fee. The rail road company appealed the case.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
VERY LITTLE DONE
MIR. BRYAN ADDRESSES 5ANN' FRS CLUB OF CHICAGO ON
 BANKING BUSINESS"
EFFECT UPON NEXT ELECTION FEARED
Declared People Would Demand Gov. ernment Bank Unless Assureo '" Absolute Security of oepos'ts- Wants the Federal Government 70 Issue This Currency.

Washington. May 23.--A resume or the present session of congress ehcits the interesting fact that there were more important questions presented to and discussed by congress on Wnich the public generally, or sections or classes demanded action than ever De- fore in it's history. majority oi these were of President Rooseveits making. Comparatively, the enact ments were few On the other hand the aggregate of appropriations was great and when the final hgures are obtainable it is not doubted that they will exceed those of any previous. ses- sion in times of peace.
 Standing conspicuously above all other questions with which congress dealt was the effort to pass an emer- gency currency bill. Thrust upon the attention of legislators at the opening of the session by financial depres- sion that had not fully subsided, 1t was the first big question to be considered. Likewise it was the hardest to meet and it did more to delay adjournment than any other measure The senate and house failed to agree, with the result that a commission of senators and representatives in congress, whose duty 1t is to study the question and report at the next session, was the alternative adopted.
 It is conceded that more legislation would have resulted had 1t not been for the pending national elections. The elections placed the majority in deli cate situation-a fact not overlooked by the Democrats in the house, who further complicated the Republicans position by filibuster to compel the passage of measures demanded by President Roosevelt and opposed by a majority of the Republicans in both branches of congress.
 Out of this condition of affairs was steered a new employers liability law to take the place of that declared un- constitutional by the supreme court, and there is pending bill, providing for the compensation of government employees in hazardous occupations who are injured in line of duty. Other matters of equal or greater import ance to organized labor failed. These include an anti-injunction law; pro vision for the exemption of organized labor from the treble penalty clause of the sherman antitrust law and oth- CT amendments to relieve labor unions from operations of this law.
 Some of the striking things urged upon congress by President Roosevelt, other than those already mentioned, and which were not enacted, resulted l in compromiseS
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
Ths Straight and Narrow Way.

Now that President Roosevelt has yielded to Congress and signed the measure putting back Tn God We Trust" on the coins, the country must be regarded as in the straight and narrow way once more. Now if the jealous persons who are constantly striving to get the name of God in the constitution should only succeed, the nation would need worry no longer over such worldly matters as graft and monopohes and franchise grabbing. Kansas Ci y Times.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
Circulate the Money.

This is the first billion-dollar Con gess. Well, why not? Why not change our mind about the making of these enormous appropriations :? What the country wants is to get the money into circulation. and there is probably no better way to do so than to u7e it in the erection of public buildings, the paymen. of pensions, the making of internal improvements and even the building of battleships. Let the money be kept in circulation. -Arkansas s Democrat.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
----7-7-1--1l-7-77 A LOST OPPORTUNITY

John Sharp Williams has tied the hands of Congress for twenty-eight days because the Republicans under the leadership of Joe Cannon would not pass any of the much needed laws insisted upon by Roosevelt. With almost all the common people believing in Roosevelt, that political move nent makes lot of trouble for his enemies in his own party, and it should. The people do not care so much how or by whom good laws are passed and enforced as they do that they be passed and enforced and if the Republican leaders were wise they would have joined with the Democratic minority and either accomplished something or make the minority go back on its proposal to support the President. But it is too late now, and the Democrats have certainly scored on tie reac- tionary Republicans.
 In the meantime the taxpayers have paid the costs of a useless Con gress for twenty-eight days.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
HAYWARD REVEALS HIMSELF

Some months ago. at the time when Samuel J. Hayward had been acquitted by the Idaho courts of complicity in the murder of Cover nor Steunenberg, The Star stated that it believed justice had been done, but that. Hayward 's'reputation of being an agitator and that he was far from being a safe man for a leader.
 For these sentiments The Star was criticised by some of Rewards ad- mirers, but the following is an emanation from the mans brain, it would appear that he was even un- deserving of the sympathy that was given him. He says:
 To hell with the courts. To hell with the injunctoins, and to hell with the judges who grant them.
 "I consider policeman pimple on society and boil on the body polite" said Haywood. "Detec- tives are even worse. Injunctions that are granted to demonstrate how tyrannical a judge can be sht uld be trampled under foot and ground to pieces. Likewise the judges who make them and who have sweet breads instead of brains. know a little about them
 As he in similar strain villifies Roosevelt, Bryan. Gompers of the American Federation of Labor and John Mitchell, the greatest labor leader the miners of America ever had, few intelligent people there are who would think him fit for American citizenship. much less for consideration as a candidate for President of the United States, and none should make so much effort as the Socialists to have him retired tc the depths of oblivion.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
THERE WAS NJ ROW
WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALLY DE- MES A PUBLISHED STORY OF
 DIFFERENCES IN CABINET.
SAID TO BE OVER NEW HAVEN RAILROAD
if Was Stated That the President and Mir. Bonaparte Had Disagreed So Seriously That the Attorney General Had Threatened to Resign-pians Been Made for Three Months.

Washington. May 24.-The White House made official denial Saturday of a story that serious differences arose Friday between the president and Attorney General Bonaparte on the question of bringing suit against the New York, New Haven X Hart ford railroad. The story went so far as to say that Mir. Bonaparte hat threatened to resign.
 The White House statement. which goes into detail, is corroborated by the personal statements of cabinet officers.
 The statement made public by the president follows:
 "The story is mere invention. There was no difference whatever be- tween the president and the attorney general over the New York. New Ha- ven x Hartford suit. Yesterday morn ing attention was called from Massa- chusetts 10 the fact that the Massa- chusetts state court had already acted against the trolley lines so far as Massachusetts was concerned; and the suggestion was accordingly made that the action should be brought in other states. inasmuch as the purpose of the suit had already been achieved as far as Massachusetts was con eerned.
 The president put the question be- fore the attorney general and asked him to bring it up at the cabinet meeting, which was then only half an hour off As a precautionary measure the newspapers that had been given the announcement of bringing of the suit were asked 10 hold it up.
 "The matter was then discussed in the cabinet, and it was decided. that the action of the state court in Mas sachusetts would make no difference in the course of procedure, and the newspapers were at once notified that the announcement of the bringing of the suit would stand.
 There was no division of opinion in the cabinet and not the slightest friction or even discussion of any kind between any of the cabinet officers and the president. or among the of ficers themselves The suit in ques. ton was determined on some three months ago The only question dis cussed yesterday was as to whether 1t should be brought"
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
WOULD STOP A MERGER.
Suit Filed Against New York, New
 Haven & Hartford Railroad.

Boston, May 24.-A bill in equity to restrain the New York. New Haven X Hartford Railroad company from ex- ercising any control over the Boston & Maine railroad, and to separate the New Haven road from the various trolley lines 1t has acquired, was filed in the United States circuit court here Friday by United States District At torney Asa P. French. acting for the federal government.
 The bill in equity was brought un- der the Sherman act of 1890 and charges that the New Haven road ac- quired numerous trolley lines and is attempting to control the Boston & Maine railroad in restraint of trade.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
 Yes. Save the Old State House. !"

Because Speaker Hamiter, in call ing an extra session of the legisla- ture to have work resumed on the new state capitol, said the present state house is unhealthy and un- safe" the Pine Bluff Commercial attempts to justify itself for having called that historic pile an old shack" and urged it's demolition. The Commercial also improves the opportunity to try to make rebuke lie against the Gazette for saying that the old capitol should be pre- served.
 Of course reference to the old capitol as unhealthy and unsafe" does not condemn the build ing to destruction. If it is at pres ent unsanitary it can be made sani- tary. We do not believe for a moment that the old capitol is un- safe in structural sense. At times and in certain places the ceiling shows an affinity for the floor that refuses to be satisfied with anything short of actual contact. and there is of course danger that some obstacle like the head of a state official may intervene between the floor and a descending piece of the ceiling; but such defect is one that can easily be remedied.
 The old state capitol is one of the purest and most serene expressions of the fortnight and sincere archi- lecture of our grandfathers. It is the dignity of age set down amid the newness of the day. To destroy it would be an act of vandalism comparable to destroying the man.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
TELEeRAPHIc 9REVITIEs.

Six saloons will be abolished as the result of recent election at Denver,
 Incomplete returns from Tuesdays Democratic primary in Florida show that Gov. Broward's plurality for United States senator will exceed 2,O0O Gilchrist, for governor, leads Stockton by 2,50O.
 Former Police Inspector E. s. Whit taker of New Orleans was Friday night found guilty of assault with a dangerous weapon. Sentence was de- ferred
 James H. Wade, for 25 years secre- tary of the University of Michigan, submitted his resignation Friday to the board of regents and it was unani- mously accepted.
 Ike Watson, the negro who killed Policeman White at Meridian. Miss. Thursday, was shot to death by a sheriff's posse eight miles west of Columbus Friday.
 The bill requiring publicity for cam paign contributions has been passed by the house by vote of l60 to l25.
 Gov. John Sparks Of Nevada is dead on his farm near Reno of Bright's di- sease. He was born in Mississippi in lS4s.
 Representative Victor Murdock of Kansas gained applause from both sides in the house in speech against the ship subsidy bin in which he criti cised the speaker and the house lead CTS for putting legislation through un. der gag rules.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
RAIN AND WIND IN KANSAS.
SaIna, Lindsborg, McPherson, Mar
 quette and Wellington Got Wet.

Salina, Kan, May 24.-Another heavy windstorm visited Central Kansas Fri day night and is followed by steady cold rain The wind blew with great velocity in this county and broke many trees down Some localities report the wheat badly blown over. The storm seemed to be heavier south of here. At Lindsborg, McPherson and Marquette the wind was unusually heavy and the contents of a circus tent were scattered all over the prairie south of here. No injuries are re- ported.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
Three Evils. Says Cardinal.

New York, May 24.-In his praise of America, its progress and wonder ful prosperity. Cardinal Logue sound ed a note of warning against Anarch- ism, Socialism, the divorce evil and the lack of religious principles as con stituting the gravest menace to the nation. Anarchism, he declared, should be eradicated wherever exist Ing, root and branch; a Socialistic government, if it's doctrines were put in practice, would crumble and fall within six months; the divorce evil threatened the very foundations of SO ciety, while the lack of religious faith IS inimieal to the political and moral health of any community.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
For Emnounded Stock.

Four steers and one COW all de- horned and branded with Bar A on left side and shoulder and marked with an over slope in left ear ndswallow fork in right ear. Also one yearling bull marked with crop of left ear and split and under bit in right ear. The above described stock was taken up on the 20th day of May and will be sold at the city pound in Mena on the 2nd day of June.
 G. F. Blckle, Chief of Police.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
CHURCH DEDICATION.
Exercises at New House of Worship.
 East of Town.

Quite number of Mena people drove out to Ransom, three miles east of town, Sunday morning to attend the dedication of the new NJ. E. church, South, building recently completed at that place. An interesting program was rendered and a large crowd was in attendance.
 In the afternoon Children's Day exercises were held which were greatly enjoyed by lhcsl present.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
Denver LookIna for 100000.

Denver, May 23.-From reports now in the possession of President c. M. Day of the Denver convention league it is evident that more than 100000 visitors will attend the national Dem ocratic convention in this city in July. Eleven hundred reservations have al ready been made from New York state alone and the Empire states delega. ton probably will number 2,500.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
(Chlcago News.

Getting in touch with men of af- fairs is a good thing they will stand for the touch.
 When the average woman has trouble with her head she consults a milliner instead of doctor.
 As rule the world doesn't pay much attention to man whose wife claims to have made him what he is,
 When it comes to inquisitveness and suspicion almost any woman can give a detective cards and spades and beat him out.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
penver's Hall Win Be Ready.

Denver, May 24.-The contractors employed on the new Denver audi torium, where the Democratic conyen- ton is to be held July ', will walk out of the building June with their work complete. It will take week more to clean up and arrange the seats and do all the house setting, and then the big convention hall will be ready for the public.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
Illinois Levee Breaks.

Springfield, H., May 24.-The levee four miles west of Havana along the Illinois river broke Friday morning and 6,O0O acres of farming land is all covered with four feet of water whiiv 25 families have been compelled to abandon their homes. The property loss is large
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
For Sale.

160 acres land, 20 acres lu culti. vation, Broom house, good oui. buildings, 200 bearing peach and apple trees, all the choicest of fruit, good spring at house. All fine tillable land with good hard wood timber on same. A healthy location. In 2 miles of Wickes
 Ark, 25 miles of Hatton, Ark. If sold at once, price, 5. 50 per acre. Address or call on C. l.. Whitten, Hattop, Ark. p
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
Holes in the Stamps Now.

Kansas City, May 23.-The post. office department has hit upon a plan to prevent the stealing of postage stamps or their sale after they have been stolen. Stamps may be perforat- cd by letters, numerals or marks not covering more than one-haIf of a square inch The perforations must not exceed ne-thirty-second of an inch in diameter.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
Euann at the White House.

Washington, May 24.-Rear Admiral Evans, looking none too well, but say ing that he was as lift as fiddle," called on President Roosevelt Friday The president congratulated the ad- miral on his successful trip with the battleship fleet to the Pacific coast.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28

Perhaps the reason Roosevelt so long hesitates to send fleet to Venezuela to chastise her into de- cency is that he is afraid that the United States might find that coun- try on her hands to have and to hold. A fleet went over to the Philippines one time. you remember.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28

The Japanese in San Francisco who came near involving the United States and Japan in war have at last settled their claims for $450. A sample of how a great international crisis can slide into the class of a backyard spat.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28

The Kansas City Star has already paid four rewards of S100 each for four convictions of election crooks nj Kansas City, and four of said crooks will serve two years each in the penitentiary. A few such cases are needed in many communities to create respect for an honest ballot.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28

An Indiana congressman has sent his constituents 1S,500 packages of seeds. That ought to be enough to line his pathway to another term with flowers and greenery.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28

ding the state of those pests. Just at this time when huckleberries and picnics are ripening lots of Mena people would be glad to have few million parasites turned loose on the crop of ticks and cl iggers.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28

The Democratic platform adopted in Missouri devotes much space to the boast that during. the control of that party the school fund has not been unlawfully squandered. We'll, now, that is something to brag about. isn't it7
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
Timber Cutter Arrested.

Deputy United States Marshal J. l.. Holt returned Friday afternoon from Fort Smith, whele he had been to place Robert Floyd of Sevier county in the Federal iail on a charge of cutting gov ernment timber.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28
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The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28

The penitentiary board is asking bids for the hire of 200 convicts for one year. It is to be hoped that the bard will make no arrangements that will interfere with Donaghey's plans to use conyicts in building pub- lic highways. Nothing will attract more favorable comment to Arkan- sas than to be known for it's good roads.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-28

The Farmers Union is calling upon farmers to blow up 10 per cent of their cotton. In some of the river bottoms this year such a course is hardly necessary. The high waters did even better.