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The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
An Old Story Retold.

An old story has been retold in Chicago:
 A Montana gold company was fioated with high sounding name and $l0,000.000 worth of gold-leaf stock certificates.
 This stock, as usual, was sold at "a very nominal rate for a few weeks, " after which none was to be put on the market.
 It would pay wonderful dividends, and in few years the shares could be sold for at least 1000 per cent of the original cost.
 The company had all sorts of gov ernment analysis and affidavits of those who had assisted in taking the virgin gold from the lodges in great hunks, and there seemed to be no possible chance of losing.
 For several years the great cor poration thrived. and it's dupes put up total of about $640,000 on the alluring stock.
 The product during the time was about $40 cents. and now the com pany has dissolved into thin air, leaving nothing but big bunch of richly-embossed blank certificates to f... l. .l.
 When it was too late. the Montana mine inspector declares that the property is absolutely worthless. :"
 The same thing has happened time after time. but as there is a sucker born every minute" the same old swindlers never Lack for objects upon which to operate.
 It is pretty safe proposition not to bite at any of the tempting baits so allaringly dangled before greedy eyes.
 Promoters who have the real thing are not going about the country selling to strangers mining shares worth Sl00 for $l0 on the install ment plan they would raise the money some other way and reap all the benefit themselves if it were such sure thing
 Look with suspicion upon even your best friend who tries to sell you mining stock off in Arizona or
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
WHERE WAS JEFF P

Where was Senator Jeff Davis when the filibusters were appealing for help? Down in Arkansas trying to prevent the home Democrats from administering on his remains.
 Globe Democrat.
 But once agaln Jeff had better been in Washington attending to his duties than fooling with state poli- tics and state politicians. Whether true or not, he will always get credit for the defeat of practically all the candidates for state offices before the Democratic primaries. Even then many of the old wheelhorses among his supporters insisted that it was but a mishap-that Jeff would soon be himself again, with all the power of his best days.
 Davis defeat for the honor of delegate to Denver, however, was so thorough that, even aside from the misses and demonstrations of con- tempt, it is pretty plain that he will permanently retire from public life after his term as senator has been c arva1
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Thoughts Worth While.
Eternal Progress.

To develop greatness you must forget yourself, and do what you want to do because you love 1t with all the power of heart and soul.
 To state that you alone are right and that all who do not believe as you do are wrong, is an indirect way of proclaiming to the world that you do not know very much.
 When we understand life we know that it is we'll to lose the lesser, be cause in this way alone can we gain the greater. But to live in the world of sighs and regrets is to be blind to the greater that invariably comes with the passing of the lesser; there fore, there is nothing to lose and everything to gain by resolving to sigh no more.
 It is not well to ask others what they think of your work; never beg for compliments, directly or indirect. ly; never insinuate that you should be pleased to be encouraged, or that you deserve to be spoken of ir better terms. Such is egotism, and personal egotism is a positive ob- stacle to the development of true greatness
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
SAYS BRAIN DOES NOT FEEL.
French Professor Declares Stomach Is
 Emotional Center.

The solar plexus is the emotional brain. says Prof Francois Guyot. An emotion that attacks us is felt there first. Thus, if we feel anxiety it may give us, if severe. a positive stomach. ache. It may even be productive f nausea.
 While the brain does the thinking, Prof. Guyot opines that it does not feel The cerebrum, the major part of the brain, is the intellectual, but not the emotional center. The brain represents the intelligence. The spinal cord and the cerebellum, the latter the little brain, not yet well understood, and attached to the brain proper. govern equilibrium and the muscles of the body But the emotions are To. cated in the sympathetic nervous sys- tenn ramifying through the body. Their chief center Is the great plexus of nerves which lies against the back bone and embraces the stomach.
 This does not think, but it feels. What it does not feel Is not felt at all, apart from pure intellectual cog milton, and Its purely passive and sub. iective sensations may often be re. garded as warning of danger or pos sible mischief
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Colorado or Montana or anywhere else. Arkansas Democrat.
Jeff Davis Now Deserted.

The parting of the ways has come for Senator Davis and the old line guard the last of the fighting line has deserted him. Even Judge F. M. Fulk of Little Rock. who was found carrying the Jeff Davis ban ner into the trenches of the enemy in all of the Davis battles until the last one, has gone into the camp of the enemy and surrendered his arms. This is the last of the old guard to capitulate, and he was one of the leading campaign managers of Senator Davis and sent the boys into the woods to start the smelling process. It is to Judge Fulk that Senator Davis has sent all the mes- sages telling of his successes in Washington, lnd on the stump in the recent campaign.
 There is only one more race 1 will stand by Jeff Davis in, stated Judge Fuik and that will be when he runs for constable of Hill township of which Argenta is the county seat, and negro is his opponent. Jeff Davis committed the biggest mis- take of his life Tn allowing his name to go before the state convention as a candidate for delegate at large.
 Senator Davis has kept very close to his office since the state conven- tion and is at outs with the world in general. No more does he stroll the streets and jauntily swing the gold headed cane. He now avoids the places where crowds congregate and his evenings are spent with his family away from public gaze. Not one vestage of the old Jeff remains. He is whipped---whipped once for all, and he recognizes appalling de- feat at last.---Fort Smith News Record.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
tChica go News

Far better a life of single bliss than double blister.
 Even the chicken-hearted man may get a chance to crow.
 An ounce of action is better than pound of that tired feeling.
 A man is willing to wait long while for a woman who is worth while.
 The love of money may be the root of all evil, but money itself is good as far as it goes.
 A lot more things would go with out saying if people only had sense enough to let them go that way.
 There must be a good deal of rub Der in the truth, judging by the way some people manage to stretch 1t.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
A Surprise to Bryan.

Mir. Bryan is taking his time in preparing an answer to the charge that Wall Street money was used in the Nebraska campaign in 1904. And therein MT. Bryan is wise. Since it has been admitted that the money was received and disbursed by Democratic leaders of the state, Mir. Bryan probably wants to learn all that he can about the origin and destination of the $l5,000. In the meantime the country will readily believe that this exposure is as much of revelation to him as it is to the country generally, although even at that it is embarrassing to man who has held up Wall Street contri- buttons as one of the cardinal sins of the party to which he is opposed. Kansas City Times.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
HAPPINESS MEANS GOOD WORK
Sorrow and Misfortune Elements That
 Make Effort Painful.

On Huxley's marriage, Darwin wrote to him. T hope your marriage will not make you idle; happiness, l fear, is not good for work" But one must disagree with this eminent man. Hap piness "comforteth the hands to work" makes the brain lively, and gives courage to confront difficulties. It Is sorrow and misfortune that lower the spiritual temperature, and make effort painful Moreover, no mortal enjoys such perfect degree of bliss as to be lapped in an Elysian dream. The happiest marriage-and Huxleys was happy-brings many cares, bur dens and responsibilities Perhaps without that domestic accord he could never have accomplished the work he didl for he said, q have woman-ele- ment in me-" and for women the most whitening and destructive thing in the world is 10 bn puh7onv
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
MELLOW DOG" RULES.

The Democratic state convention voted almost unanimously for rules requiring that to vote at Demo- cratic primary the voter must swear to support the nominee, declaring that to do otherwise was to endanger the party. To quote Judge w. A. Falconor. a man must swear to support the nominees whether they are thieves or not" If to give the voters a chance to discriminate be- tween a clean and unclean man who by hook or crook happens to get on a ticket is to endanger the party, it should be endangered.
 The voters of today show consider able aversion to yellow dog" can didates, and it is far better so.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11

Franklin. Neb., June 1.-Two large cyclones passed just east of this place about one hour apart, causing one death and doing great damage to prop erty. Henry Madison, a young man who was returning home from town was caught in the center of the storm and killed instantly. Three of the Tucker family were badly hurt. U seems that the cyclone cellars saved the lives of large numbers, the houses being completely torn to pieces an cellars uninjured. Probably 20 h9us s5 within five miles of town are com pletely wrecked. Some of the oeo have come to town for shelter. losing everything they had. A large amount of livestock was killed. Both 5torms travelled northeast and caused much excitement here as both storms a2- peare@i to be headed toward the VI, A 40-foot bridge east of town w15 torn out by the wind. The growing crops are injured. All telephone wires are down and a full report is unobttinable at present.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11

fifty years in St. Paul, Minn., fifteen years of which was in the Mayor 8 office, and stepped out of office the other day a poor man. Two minutes later he was handed draft for $l1 ,000. simple gift from appreci- ative citizens. Mir. Smith is 8l years old, and such testimonial of love from his fellow men is worth more to him than all the wealth of Rocke- falIer.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
Free Mail Order House Ads.

You can hardly ever pick up a country paper that you do not see something in it about mail order houses, warning the people not to patronize them and boosting the home merchants. So strong has this sentiment grown that many of the country papers have refused to ac- cept advertisements from the mail order houses, which is very good plan. And the home merchants should appreciate their home papers and give them credit for turning down this class of business.
 So many papers throughout the country have refused this class of advertising that it was up to the mail order houses to hoodwink the country editor into boosting their stores. and into boosting the mail order business. In great many in stances they have been successful, in getting printed long letters about winning law suit about cream separator. It is evidently sent out as news item, and some of the country editors have innocently given it front page space. It is nothing less than an advertisement fer a mail order house, and the editor gets nothing for it.
 The country editor should wake up, and not be hoodwinked in this manner. Fort Smith News-Record.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
Larqest Graft on Fresh Water

Detroit, Mich, June 6.--Amid a tre- mendous din of whistles and saluting cannon, the new 444-foot Detroit and Cleveland line steamer City of Cleve- land, the largest passenger craft on fresh water, left her dock Thursday af- ternoon on her first trip, carrying 800 members of the Detroit board of com merce on four days excursion to Sault Ste Marie
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
The Dear Old Days.

Touched by his sad story. a Harris burg woman recently furnished a meal to a melancholy looking hobo who had applied therefor at the back door.
 Why do you stick out the middle finger of your left hand so straight while you are eating?" asked the com. passionate woman. Was 1t ever .broken?"
 No, num- answered the hobo. with a snufie. But during my halcyon days I wore a diamond ring on that finger, and old habits are hard to break, mum -Harper's Weekly.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
New York Press

NeW fOrk Press
 The baby's new tooth means to it's father that it's going to be a mil lionaire.
 A man thinks he's awful smart for his political party to win an election. When man doesn't cuss over his shaving it's sign he wears full beard.
 One thing a woman learns by get ting married is what an angel of patience her mother waA.
 The thing woman likes about a musical luncheon is it sounds just as if you had to pay, but you don't
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
Let Personal Merit Rule.

One of the blanks in the state plat form which the state officers, who are the servants of the people, must not forget, is that all politics is to be eliminated from all the educa- tional interests of the state. Let personal merit and institutional welfare be the rule of action. Ar kansas Democrat.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
Three bead ln collision.

Joliet, H., June 6.-Three persons were killed, 20 seriously injured in a collision between an Elgin. Joliet & Eastern freight and an Aurora &
 Joliet Electric car Thursday night at Big Slough, seven miles west of Joliet. w. w. Walfeld, Aurora; c. II. Whit. lington, Plainfield, and F. w. Beale, a oricklayer of Chicago, were killed The accident was due to misplaced signals.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
BITS OF EVERY DAY pnlLosopH,
(Atchison Globe ]

Most peoples idea of a good con- versationalist is one who knows how to listen.
 There are too many people in the weuld who use their nest eggs to make cake cf.
 The men who can give satisfactory explanations of their failures are the ones who become loafers.
 You will be compelled, finally. 10 learn that your opinions do not amount to much. The sooner vou learn this important fact. the bet ter.
 Don't take up a mans time in
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11

talking to him about the smartness of your children. He wants to talk to you about the smartness of ms children.
 The nearer young person car initiate the steadiness of an older person, the better it will be for him
 There are so many worthless mer in the world that man who be hayes himself half the time, is toler- ably sure to become distinguished
 The trouble is that time flies with the man who is really trying to ac complish something every day. ane drags with the lazy loafer who ha' nothing to do.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11

Attorney General Bonaparte has started a move against the Standard Oil Company for relating that may mean a fine of 6S million dollars if the courts assess the maximum fines according to law. Let's see. When was that % million fine paid?
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11

Fairbury, Neb., June 7.-Heavy rains were reported all over south central Nebraska Friday. Every stream is out of it's banks, farm property in the bot tom lands is badly damaged and rail road traffic is blocked. A washout of a bridge south of this city has com pelfed the suspension of traffic on the main line of the Rock Island road, and all trains on the St. Joseph & Grand Island road between Fairbury and Maryville, Kan, have been annulled The rainfall in this county Thursday night varied from five to seven inches
 Near Jansen, east of this city. a fatality Is reported Joseph Flaming, farmer. was aroused at four o'clock Friday morning and found flood waters of Cub creek flowing into his house. Flaming and his family fled on horse back. the father leading the animal, while his wife and two children clung to it's back Their three-year-old child was swept away and drowned.
 At Edgar, Neb., near Fairfield, number of buildings were blown down. The Blue river is 13 feet above low water mark in northern Kansas and near Wetmore the lowlands are reported under water for a distance of 12 miles wide.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
Convicted of Brand

Indianapolis. Ind, June 6.--Harry P. Brunaugh. charged with presenting a fraudulent claim against the city for making asphalt street repairs, was found guilty late Thursday afternoon. Sentence, when passed. may give from two to IA years in the penitentiary and fine of from BIO to 1000.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
No Occasion For It.

My dear" said the old man to his daughter on the morning of her we'd ding day. T don't see how l am going to get along without you'
 Now, don't let that wo..y you, papa replied the fair maid as she ad- iusted her bridal veil George con. fessed to me last night that he hadn't enough money even 10 buy a second hand stove, so instead of losing me 1t looks as if we were going to stay right with you"
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11

Glen H. Curtis, the man who trav- eled mile faster than any other in the history of the world, going the distance in 262-5 seconds on mo- torcycle, now desires to make a try at fast going with a flying ma chine. It would be well for him to practice on sudden stops in the mpantirne
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Injured in Colorado Wreck.

Aspen, Col, June 7.-Eleven persons were seriously injured in wreck on the Aspen branch of the Denver X Rio Grande railroad two miles below this city late Friday afternoon. The Aspen Glenwood Springs accommodation train was ditched by spreading of the rails and ore passenger coach turned completely over
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oil Man MortaIly Hurt.

Tulsa. Ok, June 7.-Ernest Wien, a bumper, employed in the Glenn oil field, was shot and mortally wounded while on his way to work Thursday night. Posses in pursuit of the would be murderer overlook them Friday af- ternoon near Keller. but the men made their escape.
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sometimes It ls Hard Eno,,ob

One great trouble said the dis tingushed foreigner, "is that 1t is too easy to get divorced in this country
 My dear sir" replied the thought ful American, T am afraid you have Jumped at a conclusion. You have never been married to any of our women whose one object in life was to go little faster than their neigh bors. have you?"
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
Prosperity Item.

Eight thousand men who have been out of employment for months have returned to work in Alabama this week. The sun of renewed prosperity is forcing its way through the clouds. Get into the sunshine.
 Arkansas Democrat.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11

In London William Astor. Jr., as stunned the role of temperance advo- cate, urging that all alcoholic stimu- lants be used but twice day. That may be what they call temperance" in England, and according to Web ster, but it would not pass as the w. c. T. U. brand.
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Where Others Failed

Each spring for five or six years broke out with akind of Eczema which nothing seemed to relieve permanent ly. Finally 1 tried box of Hunts Cure, which promptly cured me. Two years have passed but the trouble has not returned y Mrs. Kate Howard,
 Little Rock, Ark.
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Lincoln, Neb., June 7.-The Rock Island railroad received a report Fri day night that the town of Scandia, south of Chester, and just across the Nebraska line in Kansas. had been practically wiped out by tornado. No details were given and there was no confirmation of the report. The Burlington received a report that the town of Riverton, near Franklin, had been damaged.
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Independence, Kan, June 7.-The verdigris river at Neodesha is within six inches of overhowing it's banks and was expected to go over the line Friday night, The water, which is the highest in the history of this part of Kansas, is reported rising at a mum Der of nearby points. At Fredonia the Frisco railway station is flooded.
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Planue at Trinidad.

Port of Spain, Trinidad, June f- There have been two cases of bubonl' plague here, both of which proHes fatal No new cases have been re ported and every precaution is pein4 taken to prevent a recurrence of tn' disease.
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After all Polk county may be un- fortunately situated There's too much water these days for farming or fishing and not enough for steam boatinp.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11

In Kansas City it is reported by labor authorities that there are al- most no men out of work. In St. Louis business has reached a high prosperity point. In New York the hotels are filled with buyers from the West. These are important prosperity straws, but the first is most important. All classes soon are prosperous when labor is well employed.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11

Donaghey's campaign was practi- cally won on his fight against Jeff Davis. It is fair to presume that Arkansas is in line for new deal at the state capital.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11

It is interesting to note the large number of reduced rate excursions advertised by the railroads this year in face of the promise that all such things would end when 2-cent fares went into effect.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FoR couNrY AssEssoR.

The star is authorized to announce FRED W. THORNTON as an Independent candl- 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 JAMES EMERSON as candidate for Road Com missioner of Mena Special District, subject to the action Of the voters al the general election in September.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11

A scientist makes the prophecy that the worlds water supply will be exhausted within few million years. With this in view has not the weather man been rather to prodigal of late?
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11

Police Judge Lindsay is money getter, having gathered in $l48 from delinquents during the past thirty days enough to pay the salary of the judge and half the police
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11

The way the Donaghey slate went through at the convention is one more straw showing that Jeff Davis is down and out.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11

An Eastern paper, speaking of the latest jolt given Jeff Davis, re- marks that "even Arkansas is get ting particular. Perhaps it's only getting better acquainted.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11

The bank robbers operating in Kansas seem to be making light of the idea that the James gang that so long terrorized Missouri could not have existed when the modern means of quick communication were
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11

lt has long been the proudest boast of the senate that freedom of speech in that branch of the upper house was untrammeled that it was left to the house to apply the gag rule. But the breaking of the re- cent filihuster spoiled the proud record. There was an unusual provoeation. It was understood that Jeff Davis VI Is socn to arrive to enter the lists against LaFollette in the long speech contest.
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It would have been worth good deal to Menaites to have heard Will Steel's speech nominating the next attorney general of Arkansas.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-11
WINDS AND WATER
NORTHERN KANSAS AND SOUTH ERIN NEBRASKA SoFFEhS
 FROM WIND AND RAIN.
MANY STREAMS OUT OF THEIR BANKS

The Blue River Near Wetmore, kan.i Is 12 Miles Wide--Scandia, Kan, Reported Wiped out--Wires Are pown-Bridees Gone-lnformation Hard to Get.
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Robert A. Smith held office for