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The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
PROHIBITION, PARTIES AND
 MEN

An exchange comments on the inconsistency of the Republicans in that in Arkansas they favor prohibi- tion and in Texas they oppose it. But prohibition is not a matter of politics, except as used by one or another of the parties for political effect, which is not necessarily a help to the cause. Many a man shouts for prohibition who wants some office or preferment a great deal more than he wants prohibition. The same is true of parties.
 Many people who are ardent in their belief in temperance, even in a total abstinence from any kind of strong drink, are not believers in prohibition. Perhaps the most noted of such is w. J. Bryan. Mir. Bryan positively declines to declare for prohibition, but sets the fine example of being a total abstainer
 Prohibition is a principle that alone probably will never carry any party into power in the nation. | is principle that will be fought out locally for yeais to come. and will, in the end. bring about a right con dition, one that The Star believes, vii remove the great evil from the face of the earth.
 There is no inconsistency in any party supporting the principles of prohibition in one state and not in another. The parties are made up of men, ruled by men, and it ell de- pends upon the wishes of majority of these men in any party in any community as to whether the party is pledged to prohibition or against #
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
A ROMANCE HAPPILY ENDED.
Edith Ludwig and Professor Fitzser
 aid Married.

Sacramento. Cal, Aug. 16.-The TO nance of Edith Ludwig, formerly oi Morris. H.. but lately of Palo Aito, and Prof Fred P. Fitzgerald Of stan ford university had a happy climax in this city Friday evening when MISS Ludwig arrived from the east on the overland train and was joined Dy Prof Fitzgerald to whom she was faw minutes afterward married, thps overcoming maternal objections. The feIIow messengers of Miss Ludwig had learned her story and she left the train in a shower of rice and good wishes
 Prof. Fitzgerald was waiting at the station and immediately he went to the county clerks office where H. cense was obtained. Accompanied Dy a few friends the contracting parties went to the Central M. D. church where they were united by Rev. pr. Rodda. Both refused to talk to news paper reporters after the ceremony. They left Friday night for Palo Alto' their future home.
 The love story of Miss Ludwig ana Prof. Fitzgerald is an interesting one. Their troth was plighted some time a~o and in few days Prof. F1tz- gerald went east for the marriage ceremony. To his surprise when he reached Morris his pride had been taken away by her mother ana Prol' Fitzgerald was unable to communi' cate with her. After remaining in Chicago a short while he disappolnt' edIy returned to Palo Alto.
 Although the mother objected to the marriage the father of Miss Ludwig did not and when Prof. Fitzgerald re- turned to Palo Alto he was warmly greeted by the father who said;
 .Tts all right, don't worry" and he handed the professor a telegram from his daughter telling him that she had eluded her mother and to notify
 Frede that she was coming from Chi eago. Arrangements were then made to meet at Sacramento and marry.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
More of Pipkin Case.

Mena, Ark, Aug. Is.
 In The Star of August II, l sec short article from one J. k. Neal taking issue with former article of mine. Mir. Neal starts out by making confession aud an assertion. He says he does not know much about the case. Then, Mr. Neal, why do you want to take the matter up? Why don't you leave the matter to some one that does know some. thing bout the case?
 He says have goue beyond my jurisdiction. Mir. Neal, where does my jurisdiction cease? I don't think l asserted that the governor did not have the right 70 grant the pardon; but you, b : dg inconsistent, tell me bscause l denounce the acts as usjustified and want 10 speak out in defense of my friends aud country, that l have gone beyond my jurisdic- ton. Ii l have gone beyond ny jurisdiction, aud you will show me beyond a reasonable doubt where my jurisdiction ceases, am willing to retreat back to that line.
 Why do l take so much inter- est il the matter?' B cause l feel that rights and privileges and protection have been taken from us and an insult has been thrown in our faces by telling us that we, as citizens, are not worth as much to Arkansas as eonvicts.
 As for me accusing the citizens of Mena in helping in this case, I think it is mistake. l did ac- cuse a citizeu, and 1 do now ac- cuse citizen or aiding in this matter, and l think have plenty of proof. l want to say right here that l don't blame Ike for sccepting his pardon. My com plaint is that the governor should grant it under the plea that he made.
 As to the evidence in the ease: never mpde any mention of itI then, no will I now, I dou'l think if st to impose on The Star ani $ readers in any such way. just want 10 say that che eviderS was given more than two years ago before twelve pick
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
THE HOSPITAL NUDDLE.

There is no doubt that Nena as d whole and her citizens individually feel aggrieyed over the last annouce- mant made by the chairman of the board of trustees of the Kansas City Southern Employees Hospital Asso- c,ation, and there are few if any but will grant that such feelings are justified. It is hard to satisfy city or man that has entered into a c c1ntract 10 do certain things for a 1nsideration and has done these things religiously and then. after delays on the part of the secord party covering years, be told that a tion is indefinitely postpored That the Delinquent party has good intentions intends to carry out the c ntract at some undesignated time
 is hardly all that should be ex pected.
 However, before taking any radical steps in the matter Mena should be sure of her ground and, to this end an effort will be made to have Mr. Coughlin, chairman of the board of trustees, stop over in Mena on his return from the south, where he now is, and meet with the business men and the contributors to the hospital fund.
 Mena wants nothing more than a fair deal. but surelv wants that
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
POLICE KEPT BUSY
RIVAL ARMIES DESCEND ,lpo. PROSPERITY CONGRESS IN
 NEW YORK.
HERMAN LED ONE BAND OFUNERH0yFD
The Police Dispersed His "Armv.
 Later a Memorial from the lln.-
 ployed Was Presented to tn. c." eress-clews Says ss,ooo ooo mn Are in Sight for Farmers.

New York, Aug. 16.-Two rn., armies" descended upon the meet,na of the Commercial Travellers In,as State Prosperity congress here pr, day. First came grim looking maa under the leadership of Alexanaa. Berkman, professed anarchist wh. some years ago shot H. c. Prick ,ss millionaire, after the Homestead s,oa strike riots. It was necessary for K. police to dispel the "army" and Rars man angrily reproached the followas, as a Tot of spineless. drivallirs idiots" for not opposing the police Berkman and his followers said ina, they represented 10000 unemulovoa working men. The second "armvn was composed of determined suffra gettes. They also demanded recognl tion by the prosperity congress
 After Berkman and his follower, had been dispersed. a committee 2, unemployed asked that a resolution + had prepared be presented. It wos accepted but not presented to tha congress. It stated that while tharo was demand for workingmen in the western states the men had been out of work so long they did not have clothing or tools or money for trans. portation to the waiting. positions The resolutions was free from bitter language and stated that the authors of 1t were in thorough sympathy with the prosperity movement.
 Acting Mayor MeGowau of this city welcomed the participants in the meet ing. Herman A. Metz, comptroller of New York City, was a speaker. c w Rice, former past supceme coup. cillor of the United Commercial Travellers of America, and H. 0. Gray president of the Travellers Protective association, responded to the welcome
 At the afternoon session Henry Clews, the New York banker. spoke on the financial situation. He aid that the combined value of the crops this year would be about sS.0o0 0OO. 000 That means" he added, "that the farmers will have money to burn this fall.'
 Other speakers were E. C. Simmons of St. Louis. president of the National Prosperity association. and A. H. Eastmond of this city. Before the ses. sion adjourned the committee on res olutions reported, and 1t was learned that recognition had been given the committee of unemployed" The committee deplored the fact that so many men were out of work.
 The resolutions say, in conclusion: We are in favor of any measure which will give employment to the unemployed and will start the wheels of every manufacturing plant in America and we further pledge our selves to the sale of American made goods"
 A mass meeting of the unemployed to be held in Union Square Sunday af ternoon to protest against the reports of prosperity was announced Friday by the propaganda league of the h. dustrial Workers of the World. The meeting was called by John J. Cooke who declared that the alleged pros perity is a grandiloquent bombast
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20

lator offered and the consumer must pay what the Shylscks de- mauded. Tbe good book says: By the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread until thou return to the ground" The speculator says we won't obey the mandate.
 The Farmers Union is acting on the side of the Lord and would invoke His blessing on well doing. Our motto is that every one should euj j5y the value of his own products by fair exchange for those things which are pro
 duced by other artisans. The farmer is not independent of all other trades, but without the products of the ground all other enterprises must fall. We are not arrsying ourselves against any legitimate business. Our merchants are necessary to the progress of our great civilization. Legitimate trade and trausporta- tion are absolutely necessary to make the exchange. The press, telegraph and telephone brings all parties in close proximity with each other. l soon look to see the air navigator bid farewell to the ght of way. The telegraph will soon take down the wires
 Piot. Edison has made 1t possible for all th1 people in the world to hear the same sermon preacl C at the same hour, but they will remember that all must c.ose wnen the farm lails to make
 mother earth blidg forth. There are some things which the farmer must consider for him. self; there are some products of the farm which, from it's nature, is perishable. Supply and de. mand must govern the market. If the supply IS too great the price falls. Tne bucket shop speculator keeps bis hands if. He cannot cover the market
 Nature interyenes and II is re. stored to the great laboratory from whence It came. The only remedy is the canning factory. Every farm should be provided, either individually or collectively, and have everything that is valu- able. The cannery is as safety valve to steam boiler. Every peach, tomato, bean, pea, berry, and even sweet potatoes can be saved and sold at a renumerative 1 price. We should feel proud of standing at the head of the pro. cesslon, offering all the good things to eat 10 those who have their shoulders to the great wheels of progress, but with a concert of action the droues vi society will be stung out of their hives. K. Osborn.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
THEY ARE AFTER CANNON

The Methodists of the country are certainly after the scalp of one Joseph Cannon, the man who has shown his power so long to make the lower house of Congress dance to any old tune he cares to play. And the cause of it all is that Joe has been so consistent in his efforts to keep prohibition from prohibiting that for five years he has prevented the passage of any proposed law that would give prohibition state the right to confiscate shipments of liquor as soon as they crossed the line. The law is one that, together with one stopping the general govern ment from issuing licenses to sell liquor in prohibition territory, should be passed as matter of just common honesty. The right or wrong of the principle of prohibition has nothing to do with it. If state wants prohibition and passes the necessary local laws it should cer- tainly have the right to enforce them without interference from the outside.
 The Methodists are coming near getting into politics. as Uncle Joe probably will find out when votes are counted.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
BITS OF EVERY DAY PHILOSOPHY
Atchison Globe. ]

tAtchison Globe.)
 It is the man who becomes discour- aged who gets left.
 A man abuses his stomach more than he does his enemies.
 If you could hear what people say about you, you wouldn' tbe concelted.
 A man has his clothes made to fit him; woman makes herself fit her clothes.
 The man who gives great deal of pity, is usually conspicuous for giv ing little else.
 Ambition with some men is lazi- ness; they have an ambition to live without work.
 Praising a man has tendency to make him believe that he amounts to enough already.
 About one-tnird of mans life is spent asking questions that never should have been asked.
 It is often cheaper to be imposed upon than it is to fight: this fact re- suits in many unfair men.
 WI en man really loves his wife, is it because he is good man, or because his wife deserves it.
 Get man to tell you his troubles and he will begin by saying that every one imposes upon him.
 One of the greatest ambitions a man can have is to have horror of making his friends trouble.
 Ask any book agent or peddler who sent him to you, and you will find it is one of your best friends.
 When a man tells a girl he isn't worthy of her, he doesn't mean it, as she finds out after they are mar ried.
 You are what the opinion of your neighbors make you, but by your own conduct you make their opin- ions.
 The best girl in the world is the one who remembers that her mother is a human being, and sometimes gets tired.
 Don't despise the ignorant man. If it were not for him the smart peo- pie would not have chance to show how much they know.
 Every young man feels as though he had received a cold shower bath when his best girl asks him how much he gets month.
 "A woman's faults may not be as bad as a mans, we heard a man say today, but they are quite as trying to him as his are to her"
 The trouble in family is called skeleton. but is usually some awfully alive flesh and blood person with no prospect of becoming a skeleton.
 Some men are naturally med dlesome, and do not know it. Look yourself over: do you butt in and make yourself unnecessary enemies !?
 A rule, a man who has a nous tache he can twist, or whiskers he ran stroke, is three times as long in making up his mind as man who hasn't.
 If you are anxious to know how much your friends will miss you when you are dead, leave town for a few months; when you return no one will know you have been away
 When a man springs a scheme on you, spring one back. It is your only defense. The only way to sub- due the man who is selling chances on a music box, is to offer tickets in a raffle for shotgun.
 When two men have been poor together, and one begins to prosper lmhe m poor man complains that the rlch man treats him differently, "I put Tn nlne times in ten it is the poor man who started the differ ence.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
EYES EPIGRAMS.
New York Telegram. ]


 A florist naturally sees some good m every blooming thing.
 "Halting rhyme" maybe, is when the poetic feet don't match.
 A truly sharp person knows that cutting remarks do not pay.
 Much that is catalogued as clever ness is merely heart run to head. Sometimes the winds of doctrine blow the flame of true religion out. The quietest conversation these days feels like a heated argument. At least deaf man can't keep on hearing those same old stories.
 A lie by any other name isn't nearly so liable to precipitate hos tilities.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
Cured Hay Fever and Summe
 Cod

A. S- Nusbaum, Batesville. Ind
 wfiles Last year l suffered three months with a summer 6 i'd 50 dis. tress ng that it interiered with mv business l had many of the symn. toms of hay fever, and q doctor,s nre. scription did not reach my case. and | took several medicines which seemed only 70 aggrayato it. Fortunately | insisted upon having Foley's Honar ana Tar. lt quickly cured me. My mite has since used Foley's Honey ana Tar with the same success. |" Sold hv all druggists. '
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
RRlsToW GIVEN A RECEPTION.
A Non-Partissn Jolllfication Held al
 Sallna Friday Night.

Salina, Kas., Aug. 1G.--A non.parti. san reception was held at Clanin kall m Oakdale Friday night for J. L. Bris. tow, Republican candidate for United states senator, and R. A. Lovitt, Dem. oeratic candidate for congress from the Fifth district. About 5000 people attended. A concert was given and speeches were made by James A. himball, R. P. Cravens, T. D. Fitzpat- rick, W. W. Wilson and T. l.. Bond MT. Bristow and MT. Lovitt responded.
 MT Bristow has been slightly i'll fol three days, but is much better now.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
soaer O. Mills No. So Well.

Baltimore, Md, Aug. 16.-lnforma' ton from the Johns Hopkins hospital Friday night is that the condition of Former Senator Roger e. Mills oi Texas is not so favorable. Senator Mills underwent an operation for an intestinal trouble on "Wednesday ana has made satisfactory progress toward recovery until Friday when the neat and humidity told against him, though not sufficiently to cause his atteho' ants alarm.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
More About Razorback Hogs.
To the Editor of The Star.

10 the EullOr or The Star.
 1 notice in a recent number of your paper an article on razorback hogs, written by a friend to that class of animals and against hog law. He says he lived twenty years under a hog law. If he did he saw better hogs at one-half the cost of meat grown by letting razorbacks run at large.
 Now this is from experience. l was born where there was a hog law and every farmer in the country tried to get the best stock. 1 am going to tell you of some facts in hog raising that I can prove and will furnish anybody with the name of the party, if he doubts my word.
 This party had put up in lot, not pen, a bunch of Duroc Jerseys. He fed them slowly until 6 months old. then fed them all they would eat and at 10 months killed them. When dressed they netted him PAT pounds each. The amount of corn consumed by each hog was thirteen bushels.
 Can you do that with razorbacks :? Not on your life. They must be at least one year old before they are fit to put in a pen.
 have fourteen head of razor backs, some 3 years old and some yearlings. If there is one of them now that will weigh 100 pounds l will give the bunch away, and l have stopped my hogs every day. They have destroyed one-haif acre of potatoes just as they were ready to dig and four rows of sweet po- tatoes.
 Now the potatoes, dogs it takes to get them out when they get in and shotgun shells, will make those hogs cost me more than Poland Chinas fed on $1.50 corn. Further more that man never saw Illinois or Oklahoma corn sell at 15 cents a bushel.
 If less people in Polk county would try to raise corn by sitting on their front porches instead of getting out in the field they would have corn to fatten their hogs or and would not make their neighborS get out and repair fences all the time.
 Yes, my fence is bad, so are my dogs and gun for razorback hogs l When l came part of the crop was planted on my place and 1 had nc time and could not get help to fence, but l have prot tected a part of my crop.
 l consider this one of the greatest drawbacks to this country. There would be more land cleared and i fenced if it were not fact you al. most have to build solid fence or run and tell your neighbor to put up his hogs.
 Now l am not in favor of a general stock law, but l am in favor of a hog and sheep law aud I have talked with lots of people and they are of the same mind.
 Just let it come to a vote and that will tell the story in short notice.
 l want to call your attention to one deal that went through the other day. A man bought four head of hogs two years old past and three pigs for the small sum of S5. What do you think of that for a hog price? Are you still in favor of razorback hogs?
 will close hoping this will be in voted on this fall. Yours truly,
 w. A. Miller. Wickes, Aug. F, 1908.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
A Tramp,s Bullet Fatal

Ottumwa, Kas., Aug. 16.-E. R. Heiyley. an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway brakeman, who was sbot by tramps on a freight train near Leob, Kas,, early last Monday morn. Ing, died in the hospital here Friday. Helvley was 34 years old. His home was at Ill Ruby avenue, Argentine He leaves a widow. The burial will be in Sugar Valley. Pa.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
TO TRY FOR A BIG PRIZE.
Wilber Wright Will Attempt to Win a
 S5o,ooo Prize for Airship.

Paris, Aug. 16.--Wilbur Wright said that he was willing to com pete for the s50.000 prize offered by Lord Northcliffe of the London Daily Mail for successful airship flight from London to Manchester, dis tance of 200 miles.
 Competitors are allowed three stops on the way
 Asked if he believed there was any chance of the prize being won soon Wright said:
 Tt will be won within three years, and l am resolved to compete for it at no distant date. perhaps after l have finished in France with my pres. ent machine"
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20

China has seized another Japanese steamship. The "chinks" must be getting up a good deal of courage to knock off chips in that fashion, as it has not been announced that the Japs have lost their fighting ability
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FpR cOuNTY ASSFssOR.

fbA AOl M tfFrai-fSfs0tNs -. The Staf fS authorized to announte fRFl W. THOR<TON as an Independent eandi tate for the office of ounty Assessor of Toll county, subject to the action of the voters n the September election.
 TOR ROAD COMMISSIONER. The star Is authorized to announce JAM Es EMERSON as a candidate for Road com missioner Of Mena Special District. sub1ec to he action Of the voters at the genera election in September.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20

A Mississippian is reported to have left his home for fear his wife would kill him for his life insurance. Had he thought very great deal of his home it might have occurred to him to cancel his insurance.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
Hartman RatiouaIism.

V " Hartman says what is need ed ls, Cooperation and rational im' Gould agrees with him. un- doubtedly, and probably wishes he had been practicing as well as
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20

Harry Thaw, in filing bankruptcy papers, shows his defense has cost him over 1-2 million dollars. His was a rather expensive transgres- sion, and he probably agrees that his way has been hard
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20

There should be a word between a pesslmist and optomist. Things were not ordered for the best and they were not ordered for the worst but they were ordered, and no amount of hope or despondency can alter them a particle.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20

The Sultan of Turkey wears steel underwear. It should be of chilled steel this time of year.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
LEGAL NOTICES,

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
 Department Of the Interior, Land oilise ,aas :"
 Dardanelie, Ark, August lo' l"o Notice is hereby given that
 JOHN II. WELTER
 of Eagleton. Polk county, Ark, who on seoa, sIA, l6, 1902 made Homestead Entry No. -- 9l Serial No Oigil. for the SEl4 Skl4, sec. <, <, ltIz NEl4, See s2. and NWl{ NNAe sec. Ss Typ. N, k. 3I w., 9th F. M., has ilea nos'to s " of intention to make final nve-yeaI pio9t,'oS establish claim to the land above deser,,see,u ,ss,s before the Clerk of the Circuit Court or ff foi'f county, at Mena, Ark. on the D'h ua' v Septemb Der. 1908. ...,as N Claimant names as witnesses; lnp lnptN"E E al Rhlneburger, Charles l. Morris' Johh trt N logg and Mike Wilson, all Of Eagieloh . ~ Y Aug. 20. Joseph II. Battenteld, hesissuI.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20

We are grateful to the govern ment for the weather reports, but would appreciate a good rain more.