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The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03
F. s. Hammond Dead.

A telegram was received here Wednesday for K. M.Qulgley tell ing of the death of Frank Hammond at Kansas City. MT, Hammond was at one time pronl- nently connected with the Kan sas City Southern railroad and later a member of the Kenefic- Hammond-Quigley Construction Company, selling out to his part ners about two years ago because of failing health. MT. Quigley arrived in Kansas City this morn- ing, where he probably will learn of MT. Hammond's death.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03
RUST ITEMS.

B. T. Owens is beginning to pick cotton this week.
 H. J. Gam and wife visited relatives Iu Mena the first of the week.
 The Rev. J. K. Turner of near Rocky left Tuesday for Sawyer, Ok, to visit relatives there.
 William Owens has been quite sick with fever this week. also w. D. Aliens baby girl has been very low.
 The carpenters are at work on the new school and l. o. O. k. building here, the lodge rooms to be built above the school room. George Murphy who got run over and kicked by horse iu Mena, during the fair, is improv. ing slowly and Is now able to hoDble around on crutches.
 Uncle Jake Hunsaker left last Wednesday for Boonville, Ind, to visit relatives and attend ar Old Soldiers Reunion which is tc be held there.
 The ball game that was played here last Saturday between the Rust and the Rocky ball team! resulted iu a score of 17 to II 1t favor of Rust. Tbe Rust boy. have game matched with th, Mena team to be played in Men; on September l2.
 Farmer.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03
LONG TO LEAVE STATE
State Secretary of Sunday School Work Accepts a Similar Position in
 Mississippi.

Little Rock, Aug. 31.-Tonight at the First Baptist church fare well reception is being rendered by the combined Sunday schools of Little Rock to w. Fred Long, state secretary of the Sunday school work, who has resigned to take up a similar work in Missis- sippi, where the salary is nearly double that of Arkansas. Secre' tary Long has increased the in. terest in Sunday school work many fold since coming to Ark ansas.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03
To Visit Old Comrades.

J. 1. Hnnsaker of Potter left Mena Wednesday for Oak land City, Ind, where he will wis. 1t relatives and attend a reunion of the company to which he be- longed during the Civil war. These reunions have been held every year for the past thirty years and this is the first one Mr. Hunsaker has been able 10 attend. He anticipates a great deal of pleasure in visiting the old com. rades, most of whom he has not seen since the war.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03
New Real Estate Firm.

G. W. Speck and w. s. Stutz- man have formed partnership and opened real estate office on South Mena street. MT. Stutz- man recently came here from Brownsville, Tex, and purchased the Heath property in East Mena and MT. Speck, who is Mrs. otuizman's father, came to visit them and liked 1t So well here that he decided to remain and go into business with his son-in-law.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03
GRANNls GRAINS.

Mir. and Mrs. Bob Harden $ little child is very sick.
 Prof. J. B. Earle and wife speut Sunday in Granniss.
 Mrs. Ramsey visited her sister, Mrs. Myrtle Rollins of Wicks, Sunday.
 Miss o. l.. Gregg and mother, Mrs. Langham, visited relatives at Horatio last week.
 A pleasant evening was en- joyed by several ot the young people of Granuis at the home Alr. and Mrs. Michelin last Fri
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03
s. s. Baker Buys Land.

s. s. Baker Tuesday purchas- ed 160 acres of lapd lying along the railroad this side of Aeon from A. Carson, Dennls, Kelly { Stratton consumniating the deal MT. Baker will fence the tract and put 1000 goats ca 1t to clear 1t up.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03
To Speak Again In Mena.

Rev. J. c. Adams, Independent candidate for county Judge has announced that he will speak again in Mena at the court house Monday night Sept. ', and in- vites Judge Prickett 10 meet him.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03
Condemned Man Gives Alarm.

Kingston, Mo, Sept. 1.-Vern Shut, Slim Crawford and Ira Miller escaped here by prying two bars from a win low in the county jail while Sheriff Parker was away. Albert Filley, con bemned to death on September 21, re- fused to escape with them, but gave the alarm to the sheriff's family. The sheriff and posse are in pursuit
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03
A Good Farm for Sale Cheap.

240a farm, 10a in cultivation, 50a in wood lot, 80a in meadow, 3 good houses and outbuildings, ? good wells and oue fine spring. If sold at once can be had for S3,000. easy pa yments. Apply to H. G. Medford, Board Camp, Ark. *37 At
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03
The Flutes Are Angry.

Reno, New, Sept. LA special from Bishop. Cal. says: The warlike Flutes of Inyo county, Cal, who have been always more or less hostile to the whites occupancy of their terri tory. are now so vigorously objecting to the seizure of their water rights by Los Angeles that settlers fear trouble.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03
MANNING ORDER.

Mary F. Poa and e. II. !. Webster, plain uhs ys, Arminda Nichols, Mary F. Adney and Margaret Thomas, dciendants-ln Polk Chaucery Court.
 The defendants, Arminda Nichols and Mary x. Adney are warned to appear in thIs Court within thirty days, and answer the mpaint ofthe plalntilis, Mary E. Pou and c. H. '. Webster w. l. Green, Clerk
 August 9. 1908
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03

Dr. M. A. Bizzell of Egger was in Mena on business Tuesday, re- maining overnight.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03
II yon eat without appetite you

If you eat without appetite you need Priekly Ash Bitters. It promptly removes impurities that clog and impede the action of the digestive org ans, creates good appetite and digestion. strength of body and activity of brain. W. C. Vandiver. special agent.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03

Wilbern Philpot, merchant at Eager, was in the city on DUST ness Wednesday.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03

they go to purchase the latest styles in fall and winter goods for the Grand Leader.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03
News Notes and Personals

Il News Notes and Personals
 Editor T. F. Fulton of Cove, was Mena visitor Tuesday. Capt. l. c. Johns of Hatton was a Mena visitor Saturday.
 The Rev. B. F. Cannon of Hat ton was visitor in Mena Friday. Sam Rind, merchant at Rocky, was in the city on business Thurs day.
 F. Bowen, merchant at Black fork, was in the city Tuesday buying goods.
 G. w. Liner, prominent citi- zen of Hatfield, was in the city on business Friday. Ed Wehunt aud family left last week for Tulsa, Ok, where they will make their home.
 Ed Medford of Board Camp left last Tuesday for Maud, Ok, to visit relatives and see the country. G. w. Petty left Sunday for St. Louis where he goes to buy large line of fall and winter goods.
 H. c. Glazener of Black Springs spent Friday night in the city, returning home Saturday morning.
 Miss Mildred Burke went up to Rich Mountain Saturday for few days visit with Mrs. l Jas. Painter.
 l Bob Freeman of SalIisaw, Ok, came in Friday. leaving Satur- day for a visit with rela- lives at Board Camp.
 T. J. Bates of Big Fork passed through Mena Monday after. noon on his way for visit witt relatives at Erie, Ok.
 James Moore of Red Bird passed through Mena Monday en route home from a visi with relatives at Pear, Ok.
 The Rev. J. G. Fair, formerly of Cove, but now who resides a Lockesburg, was mingling witt friends in Mena Thursday.
 Mrs. NJ. l.. Wimberly ant children returned home Sunda, afternoon from a weeks visi with relatives at Cherry Hi.l.
 The Rev. J. A. Henderson drove over to Black Springs Sat urday to assist in a protractet meeting being held at that place ! George Barrett and Tom Blacl of Pinkham, Tex, came in Mon day to take a look over tn country with a view to locating , D. w. Davis and family of Bis 5 Fork came in Monday, leavin. ] on the afternoon train for Maud 5 Ok, where they will make thei 2 home.
 Jndge and Mrs. J. s. Kelly lief last Monday for Bogg Springs where they expect to spend sev eral days In resting and drinking the water.
 Mir. and Mrs. Frank Young , stedt returned last week from { visit with their uncle and aunt MT. and Mrs. Fred Erickson o Warner, Ok.
 The Rev. MT. Bolton of Hop, is holding protracted meetings il the Baptis; church at Big Fork They will continue until Sunday September 0.
 w. w. Townsend and wifi, , left Sunday afternoon for St Louis, where MT. Townsend zoe. to purchase fall and wintei goods for his store.
 Mrs. G. k. Perot of New Bos ton, Tex, accompanied by hel children, is visiting for a week with her sister, Mrs. Hal l.. Nor wood, and family.
 c. w. Blackman, who recently came here from Los Angeles, 1 Cal, and purchased a farm down near Jansseu, was in the city on
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03
Cancers Cured!
 No Cure, No Pay

l have a medicine that is a SURE CURE for CANCERS. It has cured thousands, and if it does not cure you you need pay for nothing. See or address; $. L. BARNES.
 Dallas. Ark
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03

w. w. Rowton. accompanied by Miss Hattie Daniels left last Monday for Kansas City, where
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03

Editor T. F. Fulton of Cove, was a Mena visitor Tuesday.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03

c. F. Crawford and w. l. Me Kinney returned Sunday after noon from St. Louis, where they had been to purchase fall and winter goods for thelr respective stores.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03

Capt. J. c. Johns of Hatton was a Mena visitor Saturday.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03

Miss Mamie Parrish of Cove, came up Tuesday afternoon foI visit with Mir. and Mrs. [. D Johnston.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03

The Rev. B. F. Cannon of Hat ton was a visitor in Mena Friday.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-03

Mir. and Mrs. Fl. R. Bennett are back from Michigan City,
 Ind, where Mir. Bennett was em- ployed as conductor on the Chica- go, Lake Shore X South Bend railway. They will be at their farm near Rocky during the fall and winter. The climate and water at Michigan City dld not agree with MT. Bennett's health.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-28
SLAP AT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.
President Wilson Declares Methods Of
Last Two Decades Worthless.

DR.. Woodrow Wilson, president Of
Princeton, made q speech the other
night in which he condemned the sys-
tenn of education that has been fol-
lowed for the last two decades as al
most worthless and made a plea for
an educational system laid upon a
scientific basis, says the New York
World. He made his address before
the convention of the Association of
Colleges and Preparatory Schools,
held in the Townsend Harris hall Of
the University of the City of New
York.
President Wilson said we have just
passed through a period when in
educational matters men did not hold
themselves to plan, but opened wide
the gates; "a period" he said, when
to the wide domain of knowledge has
been added subject after subject until
the domain itself had to be widened
to take them in; a period Of the so
called elective system of studies when
the student himself selected the stud
les which he thought most worth
while to him. a period of dispersion.
Of dissolution, Of standards, abound
ing in pedagogic theories, making ex-
periments put forth out of education
al curiosity rather than deep convic-
ton.
1--WE all know that the children in
the last two decades in our schools
have not been educated. With all our
training we have trained nobody.
With all our instruction we have in
structed nobody. 1t is not necessary
for me to tell this audience that in
formation is not education. But we
are on the eve of period of recon-
struction. We are throwing away the
aimless and standardless methods OF
the past and coming down to the fun
damental truths which are at the ba-
sis of all real education.
Education in this modern age
stands in need of two things. The first
Is technical training. The majority OF
our young. men must be made me-
chanics not merely of the hands, but
also of the mind. There Is no limit to
the physical and intellectual mechan-
les needed. The great majority Of our
youths should be given an exact and
thorough technical training.
Second, we need that kind OF edu-
cation which for many ages has borne
among us the name OF liberal edu-
cation If ever an age needed states
manship of mind, of men lifted lit
tie above their fellow men who can
see beyond the horizon, 1t Is this age.
If we have this great army of me-
chanics with no one to see visions, no
one to overlook the field, no one to
organize the forces, we shall stumble
upon immediate disaster. There Is so
much to coordinate in our thinking
that we are sadly in need OF think
ers."
DIR. Wilson said there should he
fewer subjects taught and suggested
that it was better that student
should be we'll taught in one or two
branches than to have a smattering
of several. AS now conducted, he said,
the student is among a miscellany or
studies and master of none.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-28
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,

In the Court Of Common Pleas.
M. E. Johnson, Plaintiff, against j. c.
Chambers, Mary Ann Allison, John b.
Erwin, w. E. Erwin, Mary Q. Withers,
George ]. Steele, Porter Good, ]. Hol-
brook Good, Fannie Garrigues, Annie
Fletcher, Sue Herring, Martha Gill
liland, Robert Meek, Cornelia Hill
erman, other children, if any, of
Eliza Meek, deceased, (names un-
known), Katie Beasley, Virginia
Collins, Eunia or Annie Chamber
lain, other children Of John Smith,
deceased, If any, (nameS unknown,
and other next Of kin Of Carolina
Kennedy, deceased, If any, (names
unknown, observation-disclosures for
Relief Complaint Filed).
To the Defendants above named:
YOU are hereby summoned and re-
= Il uuired to answer the Complaint
in this action, which has this day
been filed in the office of the Clerk of
the Court of Common Pleas for the
said county, and to serve a copy OF
your answer to the said Complaint on
the subscriber at his office in York
Vile, South Carolina, within twenty
DAYS after the service hereof; eXclu-
sive of the day of such service; and II
YOU fail to answer the Complaint
within the time aforesaid, the plain
tiff in this action will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in the
Complaint.
Dated Yorkville, S. c., December "a,
A. D., 1907.
Plaintiffs Attorney.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-28
Atmospheric Conditions.

When Speaker Cannon came &c
Washington for the session of con-
gress he went over to the White House
and was there held up and asked what
he thought of the financial situation
lust then much in the dumps.
Reminds me-" said the speaker, ac-
cording to the Saturday Evening post
"of two men who stayed out late one
night and were afraid to go to theil
homes. They took little room. in
small hotel and turned in the same
bed.
"An hour or so later the man on the
inside woke up, sitting. There WASH
a particle of air in the room. He nudgeo
his companion and said Wake up, Bill
and open a window or door or some
thing. I'm sitting. We must have some
air.
Bill got out of bed, felt around ir
the dark and finally found door which
he opened. Then he got back into bed
not knowing he had opened pantry
door instead Of a door leading to the
outside.
Ibid you open something? asked
his companion.
Yes
"'How's the weather outside"
"Rlack as tar said Bill, and smells
Of cheese"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-28

business men sat on same: E. E. Cloud,
foreman: J. Ed Roddey, ]. c. Lindsay,
George Beach and J. n. McElwee. Lay
was represented by Attorney McDow
of Yorkville and the city by w. B. Will
son Of this city, and during the exam
ination of the many witnesses on both
sides these lawyers had several lively
tits. The case was given to the jury
late yesterday evening and they brought
in the following verdicts after about
two hours elaboration: Guilty of public
drunkenness; not guilty of resisting ar
rest. Recorder Craig fined Lay $25 or
thirty days for drunkenness. He,
through his attorney, McDow, appealed
to the circuit court. There was much
comment INDUCED in concerning this
case, and the outcome will be watched
with interest by many, as it is reliably
stated that Officer Miller will be pros
ecuted by Lay for assault and battery
with intent to kill. Officer Miller says
Lay was attempting to draw a pistol
at the time he struck him, but it was
proven Lay had no gun on him. Miller
has not been arrested yet for the as
sault on Lay.
GASToN.
Gastonia Gazette, January "a: Mr.
Oscar Neill passed through .Gastonia
Wednesday en- route to his home at
Glover, S. Geo.. Mrs. r. J. Bingham
arrived home Saturday from Atlanta,
where she has been for some time, hav-
ing taken sick there, while on visit to
her mother. We are glad to say that
her health has improved. go. Mr.. L
M. Kendrick returned Wednesday night
from Kings Mountain, where he has
been for the past two weeks working
up q new conclave of Hehtasophs. He
expects to organize in about week
with a good number Of members. .....
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Hope Wilson Of Bego-
MIA. have the sympathy of many friends
over the sad death of their infant
daughter, which died Wednesday morn
ing, when only one week old. Mr.. Will
son is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. I. N
Wilson of Gastonia, and this is the first
death among their eighteen grandchil'
dren, which fact makes the death ar
especially sad one. Funeral services
were conducted by Rev. g. A. Sparrow
and the remains of the little one were
laid to rest in Union cemetery Wednes'
day afternoon.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-28

THE ART OF ORGAN GRINDING.-
While the organ grinder ate the thickly
buttered slice of bread on the back
porch, the summer resident who had
provided the repast amused herself by
trying to turn the crank of the organ
steadily.
1T must be quite difficult to turn the
crank in such excellent time aS YOU
do" she said at last.
NO hard. if you no hava da monk,
replied the organ grinder, with mel
ancholy smile. "Turna da crank, keepa
da time and watcha da mOnk-dat TAXA
da arteest!" Companion.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-28
Love and Wedlock.

A man of middle age and youth o.
romantic appearance sat alone in
smoking compartment of nearly emp
ty evening train. In the solitude the
youth took a photograph from nj:
pocket. looked at it and then said tc
his companion feverishly:
Were you ever, sir, in love?'
The man Of middle age started. He
laughed.
WAS 1 ever in love?" he repeated
as he relighted his pipe. Was l ever
in love? Well, 1 don't know if
you don't know?" cried the youth
We'll if you ever had been in love
you'd know it, Why, when you're ir
love your life is a sweet dream, you
have no taste for food, you think Of
nothing but the beauty Of
Were you ever married." snapped
the middle aged man.
mo, but
We'll, if you ever had been you'd
know it. Why, when you're married
your life is
But the youth, with a scowl, edged
off to the far end of the carriage an6
got out at the next station, disgusted
London Scraps.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-28
Aamuruns department.
A Lawyer Caught.

Pierre Cartier, a Partisan jeweler OF
the beautiful and gay Rue de la PaiX
said the other night in this city that
American women wore jewels with bet
ter taste than any other women in the
world.
Can they be deceived in jewels?"
girl reporter asked. "Will counterfeit
gems delude American women"
"My dear young lady" said NJ. Car
tier, IAN expert, given the right condi-
tions. can be deluded. Who, indeed
cannot be deluded-deluded in the mat
ter of Jewels Of furs, of anything?
Here is a case in point-the delud-
ing of a very sharp. smart, quick law
yer.
Mr.. Barr gentleman said to this
lawyer at a dinner would like your
opinion on a knotty point of law. An
uncle of mine has a peacock, and last
fall It got into neighbor's garden and
laid an egg there. The neighbor claim
ed the egg, my uncle claimed it as we'll,
and the two have been fighting ana
SQuabbling over the matter ever sIllce'
Now. sir, what is the law on the ques-
tion?
1T is an easy question to settle
said the lawyer, with patronizing
smile. Admitting that the egg was laid
on the neighbor's ground, the neighoor
nevertheless has no claim to 1t unless
he can prove that the owner of the bird
took no steps to prevent it from stray
ing. In a precedent case
Excuse me- said the other man, 'out
this case has no precedent
"Wen,' said the lawyer, you know
more law than I, do you? I remem-
Der distinctly precedent case where
"No, you don't said the other.
what do you mean? exclaimed the
lawyer angrily.
"I mean was the firm reply, that
YOU never heard before of peacock
Iaving an g'"-Washington Star.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-28
A BURMESE TIGER.
Brinoina Down One of These Kings OF
the Jungle.

1t must be the king Of the jungle.
The anger of the monkey people said
it, and the terror in the eyes of the
bullock. pictured it. He was straining
back at the strong rope that held him,
and from his frothed lips issued q low
moaning below of fear His fawn COL
ored skin, soft as silk, was as tremu-
lous as shaken water.
The bullock was a watch that timed
accurately each yard in the tigers ad-
vance. His abject terror filled me with
pity. It was strange, ineXp1caple
thing, this intuition Of the animal
world that taught them wherein lay
great danger.
Now, I knew that stripes were close,
for the monkeys, running nimply 70
the top of their tree shot away with
downward swoop to the branches of
another, scolding and calling to each
other as they fed.
The bullock had almost ceased to
below and stood, fore legs wide apart
and head lowered to the ground,
transfixed in terror.
Suddenly through the bushes ten
yards from our machan was thrust
the sneering yellow muzzle of a tiger,
and his red brown eyes glared with
horrible cupidity at the animal that
was now fascinated to silence. Atop
this face of evil the rounded ears,
black rosetted, were twitched back an
grily. a.
Even in it's dreadful menace, in its
suggestion of brutal ferocity, the
stealthy approach Of the tigreas was
beautiful to see. A creep Of yard or
two, then she crouched, head low to
earth and tail lashing from side to
side with vicious jerks.
The cub was evidently being school
ed. Close behind his mother the
youngster skulked, his young, foolish
eyes shifting from point to point as
though he did not quite know what 1t
all meant.
AS we lay side by side both our rifles
were trained on the tigress.
She was head-on to us, and either
the brain shot or the point OF the
shoulder or the vertebrae Of the neck
were there to choose from.
knew that Dan would nudge me
when we were to fire, and / waited,
finger on trigger and my eye lying
along the sights.
The tigress crouched and turned her
face toward our machan, though her
eyes still rested straight ahead.
I felt the soft push of Dams knee on
my leg anu pIcSScu lily liSiipiihS III
ger to the lever.
There was a roar of both rifles,
little cloud Of. smoke, a sulphurous
breath in our nostrils, and below in the
barren paddy field many devils were
tearing up the earth with a great
noise.
gagged her!" Dan calculated, for
the great beast, tawny and black strip
ed, was on her side. clawing viciously
at the sod.
Again our rifles spoke.
Slowly the huge head fell fiat to
earth, the red eyes lost their ferocity-
or was it only a CLINT of pity for the
dying that fancied this-the breath
sucked and sputtered through the
blood that ooZed from mouth and nos
trils, and waiting with impatience for
little in our machan. we saw death
come and put the seal of silence on
the battered form OF beautiful
strength.-"Bearding the Burmese
Tiger" by W. A. Fraser, in Outing
Magazine.