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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-02-11
Washington Once Gave Up

to three doctors; was kept in bed for
five weeks. Blood poison from spiders
bite caused large, deep sores to cover
his leg. The doctors failed, then
"Bucklen's Arnica Salve completely
cured me- writes John Washington, Of
Bosqueville, Tex. For eczema, boils
burns and piles it's supreme. 25c at L.
P.-Van Werden's.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-02-11
A Freak of The Storm Toys With a
Stock Car.

Engineer Lon Williams, who has been
on the road for IS years, never had so
tough an experience as that Of the late
windstorm. Coming in Thursday night
the wind actually checked his big en-
CINE, and then he tells marvellous
story of how the wind played with a
stock car as cat plays with mouse.
1t was out at Ellston, near Grand Giver.
The car was taken from side track,
onto the main line, sent rolling up steep
grades and down, back and forth, as
the wind changed and blew from every
direction, crossed a 600-foot trestle
bridge 70 feet high, on mad race OF
nine miles, then sent it down steep
grade at the rate of 60 miles an hour
and suddenly stopped it in a sag in the
descent. Railroad men could hardly be.
lieve that the wind could play such a
fantastic trick with Shenandoah
Sentinel-Post.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-02-11
Soldier BaIks Death Plot.

1t seemed to ]. A. Stone, civil war
veteran, of Kemp, Tex, that plot ex-
listed between desperate lung trouble
and the grave to cause his death. 81
contracted a stubborn cold," he writes,
that developed cough that stuck to
me, in spite of all remedies, for years.
My weight ran down to 100 pounds
Then began to use DR.. Kings New
Discovery, which restored my health
completely. | now weigh IFS pounds.
For severe colds, obstinate coughs
hemorrhages, asthma, and to prevent
pneumonia it's unrivaled. soc and 81 90
Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by L. P
Van Werden.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-02-11
Gasoline Accident at LinevilIe.

On last Friday evening Mrs. j. S.
Poland went to the kitchen at her home
near the depot to start the gasoline
stove preparing to cook supper; as
she applied lighted match to the
burner there was en- explosion and the
stove and the floor beneath was in
stantly enveloped in flames. There was
a leak in the stove and an iron skillet
setting beneath it had caught consid-
cradle quantity of the fluid and the
flames from it nearly filled the room.
Mrs. Poland was Immediately enveloped
in flames, the lower portion Of her dress
and skirts being set on fire. Realizing
her danger she ran screaming through
the room and out of doors with the in
tention of eXtinquishing the fire by
rolling in large snow drift which had
formed in the front yard. Mr.. Poland
and Mrs. Poland's daughter, Mrs. Laura
Rurgin, who were in the front room
through which Mrs. Poland ran on her
way out, with great presence of mind,
Immediately dragged some comforts
from the bed in the room and followed
in all haste. 1t was we'll that they acted
so promptly as the snow drift had
frozen SO hard as to be impenetrable
and OF little use in eXtinguishing the
fire. But she was enveloped in the bed
comforts and the fire which was con-
suming her clothing was Immediately
smothered out. During the excitement
Mrs. Burgin's skirts were set on fire
and she was slightly burned about the
ankles and lower limbs .,efore the
flames were extinguished. Mrs. Poland
suffered some burns on both hands and
slight burns elsewhere on her body,
but her injuries were not serious. A
celluloid comb she wore took fire and
quite quantity of her hair was burned
with it. The burning gasoline in the
kitchen was extinguished before it had
set fire to the house and little damage
resulted, a number Of men who were
about the depot having ran over and
proptIy assisted in the work. Accidents
like the above related are of frequent
occurrence throughout the country,
women almost invariably being the VIC
Tins, and very few of them escape ter
rible deaths. Mrs. Poland and her
daughter may consider themselves very
fortunate, indeed, in escaping the usual
fatal results of such accidents. Line
vile Tribune.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05
Rational Breviries.
Davidson

In heart full of love there is nc room for evil.
 He who has done his very best has met all requirements.
 Happiness in the result of a com plete absence of mental worry and physical pain.
 It is more honorable to be ar avowed enemy of a cause than an unfaithful member of it.
 Meet your financial obligations promptly by making only just So many as you can discharge.
 Disease in any form is positive evi- dence of a violation of the laws of health on the part of someone.
 Love to God and man evidenced by energetic efforts to help hnmani- ty in general, is true christianity.
 The creative fiat. "let there be light, is silently but surely evolving the eternal kingdom of spirit and perfection.
 Every effort toward fraternaIism IS an inestimable addition to the work of elevating the human race to higher planes.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05
The Gentle Cynic.
lArEnnsns tiazette.l

A kick in time may also save nine.
 No man wants to go to heaven by the aeroplane route.
 Don't wait for opportunity to knock. Have the door open.
 Man wants but little here below, except the things he knows he can't get.
 Some of us complain that we don t get all that's coming to us, and are lucky at that.
 It doesn't make much difference what we think so long as we don't think out loud.
 It sometimes seems to the rest of us that success comes to man in spite of himself.
 When a girl thinks she has swan like neck she is apt to make goose of herself over it.
 Some women are such bargain fief.ds that they would demand cut rates for surgical operation.
 The people who sheer at us would probably be very much surprised to know what we think of them.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05
U. OF A. SCHOLARSHIP
Offered by the Arkansas FsdsIaliai <
 Women's Clubs Examiaaliou
 Here August 6 and !.

The Arkansas Federation
 Women's Clubs has ofered s
 scholarships in the UuiveTsi.I
 Arkansas. One of these sche'e E ships is for young men aud
 for young women. The seholf ships are good for ore year ani
 the Freshman class of tue u@l versity. The object oi h| scholarships is to make ths va versity better known and apgF ciated in tue state and toglVe'M young men and young ~Ona from small places the aovadlaso| of the University.
 The first scholarship paysss| and the second rays sl4V. Vs of these will be a~ardsd 10 '''l young man making the hlgas| grade ip competitive ezsllll's. ton. aud the other 10 tbe yoa'' woman making he highesl g''sel or these two, the one niaKlug N, \: high grade will receive " and the other $40. t ls s''' 's mated that the amount Q, ~. 's scholarships will pay most ol ...s x. actual expenses of the aeau'D' year at the University.
 The questions for the exanlsm ';'. tion will be sent by the eAiu% , '. ing board of the UniveTs'y I.,. ! the county examiner of eseus l'''s,. sUss ty. and he will hold ihs exa'p's ,",a ton on August c and z l,s. z '. Examination will be heid a'e,s ,s tial school building Msn s'.i ai Each applicant will be eSp,'As s N to pay a fee of one dollar lV z, N <, examiner. The papers WI s''s x, sent 10 the examining Dos'"~ University who will grade ~. '. z, pers and award the scllola'''
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05
A LEGISLATIVE BLUNDER.

As an example of local legislation blundering, that of the Arkansas legislature of 1909 is most interest ing to the taxpayers of Polk county.
 In 1907 the legislature passed a special law providing that the assess ment of real and personal property in certain counties, including Polk county, should be made by the coun- ty assessor and .he justices of the peace in the various townships. The plan worked well.
 In each precinct one or both of the justices nearly always had a per sona knowledge of the propel ty being assessed a knowledge impos- sible to the members of any equali- zation board. Sometimes this caused reduction in the values placed on 6 piece of property, and again it brought out the existence of property that otherwise would have escaped taxation.
 This neighborhood equalization" gave very general satisfaction, at least in Polk county, and there was no desire to have it changed. There is little doubt but it would have worked we'll all over the state.
 As a result, Washington county desired to be included in the law. The legislature agreed, and under took to extend the law to that county.
 It did so, all right, but by what evidently was an error, cut out Polk, Newton, Searcy, Stone, Cross and Green counties placing them back uuder the original law, again plac- int the assessment of property in the hands of the assessor alone, to be followed by q review by an equali- zation board of three members.
 When this evident error was dis covered, and Assessor Johnson noti- fled, the assessment work had been completed, according to the special act of 1907. Governor Donaghey had no other alternative, however, in the m itter. He had to follow the law, and therefore appointed an equalization board.
 As to how the various justices are to receive pay for the work done is another question.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05
OvERsooAAR6 THEY 60.

The worm has turned. The tyrant who reads and pays not has gone too far. The thorn is in the flesh, but the victim arises defiant. He who freely served will freely serve no more.
 In other words, Editor Mizzles of the Arkansas Traveller is plainly wor- ried. For months he has suffered in silence while selfish mortals absorbed and reveled in, and waxed wise, on the knowledge brought forth from his brain. But they did not their part in feeding his body-and the print paper trust.
 But the end had to come. It has come. More in sorrow than anger, Editor Mizzles delivers this message:
 This is the last copy of our paper that many will receive unless some kind of remittance is. received from them at once. We have carried some over so long that we are perfectly ashamed of ourselves and them. too. A few of them appear to be veritable parasites; and we are strongly of the opinion that there are some among them that would be glad to ride us slap to death and bury us in the pot ter's field if they could. Overheard they go.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05
Human Life Quoted Cheap.

Human life is still quoted cheap.
 It is too easily taken and the talk ing too rarely punished.
 Statistics that have been kept m Arkansas show that the homicides Tn the state will almost average one a day-and the number of cases m in which the extreme penalty of the law is visited upon the guilty persons is negligible.
 It may not amount to what the vivid writers for the daily press denominate "a carnival of crime, :" but it is too near that for the good of the state.
 When killing becomes a business | it is time to call halt and see if something cannot be done to check the nabitual taking of human life. The Commercial Appeal has the following most pertinent editorial on the subject setting forth facts that should drive home to every reader some of the menaces of the murder-fest:
 They have gone to killing lem by shooting over a judges shoulder. They kill them in the court room. They kill them in the presence Of a mother.
 United States senators have to jump lively to escape the flying bullets.
 The business of killing goes merrily on from New Orleans to Cairo and | from Little Rock to Bristol.
 The killers each day become little more reckless of consequences.
 They are beginning to regard kill Ing as a divine right
 And care nothing for the law.
 And they care nothing for the law because the law has become weakened by the lawlessness, or inefficiency, or the timidity of those elected to enforce it and of those put in a jury box to vindicate it.
 Will the man who killed the other man h the office of a judge, in the presence of the dead mans mother. be hanged !?
 Will the men who took a negro out of jail in Henry county be punished Will single murderer of Rankin die at the end of rope
 Will water run uphill, or will il snow in July?
 The same word answers all of thes c questions. Gazette.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05
BITS OF EVERY DAY PHILOSOPHY
(Atchison Globe.

tAtchlson Globe.l
 No greater harm can be done some men than to praise them.
 Any boy can fool his mother. but any man cannot fool his wife.
 When it is said of a man that he i bull headed, it means that he is fool ish.
 It costs as much to be the father Of belle as it does to own a race horse
 There is not much demand for people with abnormal nerve, except as book agents.
 A man frequently has two wives to support without being bigamist: his own and his sons
 It is impossible to make your con- duet perfect, but it is easier to make 1t better than it has been.
 After man has occupied a biz position he usually continues big feeling as long as he lives.
 If an article is offered to you at a price, you know is low enough, don't maggie and expect to get it for less.
 When you show some men a favor instead of appreciating it, they fiat ter themselves that they have worked you.
 A woman always insists upon de- clding whether she does her duty as a Wife; she will not permit her hus- band to decide.
 There are lots of good and ohl;o- Ing people in the world, but few cases have been recorded where . family moved out of a house and left it clean. anu
 There is no such thing as a man entirely bad or man entirely good Good and bad are mingled in every one until it is hard to tell where ths one begins and the other ends. We don't like these gratitude, debts. You are always hearing neo- pie say, T have been that mans best friend and made him what bs 2 IS, put ne isn't grateful" A man does another a ten cent favor and grumbles all the rest of his life .u ha' cause he doesn't get hundred doI lar favor in return. uoi-
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05
A GOOD REASON
Mena People Can Tell You Why If vs so

Doan's Kidney Pills curss tbe cause of disease, and that is whv the cures are always lasting This remedy strengthens and tones m the kidneys, helping them drive out of the body the liquid poisons that cause backache, headache and dlstres ing kidny and urinary complaints. Mena people testify to permanent cules.
 Samuel Badt, eos Seventh St
 Mena, Ark, says: "Doa.'s Kn.nay Fills cured mo of a SC tcle attaei, or or Dackache and an annoyance rom the kidney secretions. which ,l nad clang to me con stantIy for at. leaSs two years 1 procured th;s remedy at the Palace Drug cn ana consider it tl.c best ever used. l have alo heard manr e'rer ,a'. people speak In the highest. 'erlps ,. of Doan's Kidney PilIs.''
 For sale hy all dealers. pr;co sV s cents. Foster Mliburn cn ,s new York, sole agents for ths {. :. haemember \ the nalne-Doap' | and take no other. o""
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05
Pointed Paragraphs.
lChicago Nasca


 He's poor dentist that is unable to get at the root of the matter. A man can't be as wise all of the time as woman is some of the time When man falls in love he quits laughing at other victims of the disease. w If a mountain refuses to come to some men they put up a bluff of their own.
 The only noticeable thing about some men is that they are unworthy of notice. Ss Some women can't help referring to dollar boat excursion as yacht ing party.
 There are too many men in this world who are not content with wasting their own time.
 A few people go around the world put the majority of us are satisfied to pass through it.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05
August American Boy.

The delightful sports and past times of summer outing shown in the front cover picture of the Au- gust American Boy are in pleasing accord with the contents of the magazine. The popular serials. Winning His Shoulder Straps and The Young Continentals at Lexing- ton, are continued with increasing interest. Of the many fine short stories, there are, The Deans Diag- nosis. showing how some mischievous boy was reformed in the effort of reforming another mischievous boy; The Forward Step tells of the hero ism displayed by boy who thought he was afraid; The Camp of the Royal Pirates, particularly jolly story of the camping experiences of five boys on their vacation; An At tractive Cannon tells how an in. genlols boy stirred up a whole town. The various department editors seem to have made extra efforts in this issue as there is something for every boy with a hobby. In addition there are over 93 illustrations. $l.OO a year. The Sprague Publishing Co.,. Detroit, Mich.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05

ment and more and more demand of their road overseers good and eff ficient work, and in this are assisted by the county road commission. But it is hard fight in eompara- lively new county, made more diffi- cult by the fact that many miles of new roads are opened up every year.
 Perhaps the feature that needs most attention here is the MAINTE- NANCE of the roads. They should receive little CONSTANT attention so that the work of days should not be lost from the lack of the work of minutes, as often occurs.
 But the people of Polk county are said to have better roads than their neighbors, and will keep up the work. The most distinctly are not of the class which prefers to pay for bad roads instead of for good ones.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05
 A NEW MENA DEMOCRAT.

The Mena Democrat, which under the guidance of Editor H. P. Robie went down and down and then out, has been revived in another form under the direction of M. w. Lind say, this time taking the same title as when formerly conducted by Mir. Lindsay, The News Democrat. Mr. Lindsay promises to present the principles of Democracy, "as seen by the editor" which Pike's friends all believe means an honest dealing with any issue that comes before the people. It is promised that all subscribers oss the former paper who were paid ahead w.li he credited for the amount due them and the paper sent for the unexpired time. The Star extends to the new News Demo- crat a cordial welcome. May its days be many and useful.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05
Footpatts to Peace.

To be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
 To be satisfied with your posses slons but not content with yourself until you have made the best of them. To despise nothing in the worlf except falsehood and mean ness, and to fear nothing but cow ardice. To be governed by your admlrations rather than by your dlsgusts, to covet nothing that is your neighbours except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manner To think seldom of your enemies.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05

errors in the trial court which did not impair the substantial rights oi the defendant.
 Judge Furman's admirable state ment of the principle which should guide appellate courts was fortified by the fact that the principle did guide the Oklahoma supreme judges. The principle was started in a case where a judgment was affirmed, al- though an obvious technical error had been committed in the trial of the case in the lower court.
 It further emphasizes the sound ness and merit of the course of the Oklahoma court to contrast with it the technical action of the Missouri Supreme court, which recently re- versed a judgment of conviction for no other reason than that the indict- ment recited that the offense was against the peace and dignity of THE state"
 For many years there has been a steady growth of popular protest against the technical decisions of courts and the consequent delays of justice and miscarriage of justice. Many public men, including the former Attorney General. MT. Bona parte, Mr. Roosevelt, Federal Judge Amidon of North Dakota and others, have recently given insistent expres- sion to this popular protest. MT Taft, as a presidential candidate, declared that the reform of court procedure by the elimination of needless delays in trials was funda- mentally the most important ques' tion before the American people. The advanced, common sense ground taken by the Oklahoma court, and practically identical ac' tion of the Supreme court of Kansas of little while ago, Indicate that public sentiment is having it's rightfu effect upon the courts. Also, they demonstrate that the courts have the inherent power to reform their own procedure if they will.-Kansas | City Times.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05

nasty musty smell to it, inspires more confidence than a new bill just started on it's wanderings.
 What do the people do on Sunday to make them feel so tough on Monday!
 When we look at some men who say they were sent to save the world we can't help laughing.
 There are a number of disagree able things to step in. But did you ever have experience with chewing gum?
 When real nice women spead of a husband who is not true to his wife they say the words in a mortified whisper.
 Women are always looking for husbands with money. Does 1t ever occur to the women that men are also looking for rich wives?
 Before a woman has returned from her wedding trip she has all her plans laid for freezing out his kin, and making a home for her own.
 It is a rare letter from a mother to son that doesn't caution him to be good, and rare one to a daugh ter that doesn' tell her to have as good q time as she can.
 Did you ever notice that warn ing precedes almost every tragedy, and that the warning was not heed- ed? No one pays any attention to warnings, and all danger signs might as well be taken down for all the good they do.
 Some one should write book on rules to be observed when a neigh bor borrows an article, and fails to return it. Should one go boldly af- ter it, suffer in silence, or bring suit? Some one is always suggesting laws to benefit the people, and in this great day of reform, the borrowing nuisance should be regulated.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05
Reform of the Courts From Within

The enforcement of the doctrine of harmless error in Oklahoma will greatly improve the character of our criminal trials. Lawyers will be com pelled to try their cases upon their actual merits, and will cease devoting so much time in attempting to force technical errors into the ereeord. The reversals of the just convictions of the guilty upon merely technical questions is the prime canse of the want of confidence in the courts. The want of confidence often results in mob violence on the part of long suffering and outraged public. Judge Ftrman of the Supreme court of Ok lahoma.
 ''The doctrine of harmless error" is the doctrine that courts should not reverse judgment of conviction and grant a new trial to defendant in criminal prosecution because of
The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-05
WAS A DRY sUNDu
Slight Mishap Caused Lot, < ,| With Water works aad cis \
 Gut Off. Y

From about II o'cloct <. until Monday morning ii. was cut off from the citv to give time to re6ll lbs pipe, which was practical, ' tied at that time.
 Saturday It was usr..,.. take out a section of n,us feed line near the wst,r., dam. h doing so alr ', ' | ! lowed to get into this lias NJ formed a stoppage ,u ns where Il crosses the x NJ farm. Al this point was s,] to be a cap, placed lttre lm \ purpose ot meeiius ioa ' emergency-to 10 be remoyed N the air ou
 So far as known, no on. ... the exact location of ,6j, 7, unless 1t was Charlie Eylw old superintendent. The vic,I however, was known, aud X several hours spent at excsy.i the soughi-ior point was Ico A few moments later the cspl removed, the air allowed Is cape and the water again ao through the line.
 In the meantime inc city been freely using the waiqi the standpipe, and il WAS pi cally empty, The valves o1 line to town were then closet order 10 give ii a chance to and the town was dry Monday, with, however, D of water 10 meet any emtrg in the way of fire if 1t had called upon.
 If the dry weather conf the strictest economy shouI used, as otherwise there aTe 10 be more ''dry times" D the well can b. drilled.
 The derrick for the dtil'i in place, wotkm n are rspa an engine at the site for p and the machinery that va dered is now expected to daily.