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The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

often the reply is, No, we have not much of a school. The teacher does not take much interest" or "The teacher has favorites, or We do not like the teacher. or some such answer, which shows that the speak CT has no interest or knowledge or wish to cooperate in making the school a good one.
 Now school is a community mat ter and a community responsibility and no force should bestrong enough to interfere with the efficiency of this best of institutions. If the teacher is weak and poorly equipped, all the more reason then why the patrons should rally around that school and see to it that because of the misfortune of poor teacher the school itself shall not suffer.
 Personalities and petty grievances have no place when it is a question of the education of the boys and girls for future citizenship. You know as well as l of numerous in- stances of foolish parents who have withdrawn their children from school. perhaps for an entire term, because perchance some one was so unwise as to laugh at or ridicuIe a peculiarity of manner or dress in a member of the family, or because of a real or imagined grievance against the teacher. You know, and know, of instances of children being kept at home throughout an entire term because the parents had grievance, real or fancied, against another school patron.
 The boys and girls who are being deprived of school advantages today because of petty neighborhood mis- understandings, real or fancied wrongs, will have a number of se- rious questions to ask their parents a few years hence when they face a work-a-day world unequipped for their duties.
 It should be the business of every father and mother in every school neighborhood to see to it that the school attendan, is 100 per cent for the school term. Itmust be borne in mind that one absent pupil re- tards the progress of the entire school. If parent is aealous for the advancement of his child, he can
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
BLIND. HE SEES HUGH.

Senator Gore, the blind statesman of Oklahoma. is before the world with the statement that Vice Presi- dent Sherman. Senator Curtis of Kansas, Congressman Mcclure of Oklahoma and others are involved in an effort to bribe him to allow the McMurray Indian Contracts in which they were interested. to go through without his opposition.
 Such changes as these are amaz- ing they are almost stunning. But there is nothing in the record of the blind senator to indicate that he is man to make such statements without knowledge of their import ance, nor of the fate that would be his if they were proven ungrounded.
 It appears that, though physically blind, Senator Gore sees much more than many man with good eyes. 1t is such men as he that make the road hard for dishonest public ser wants.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
VICTORY IN KANSAS.

For weeks past that virile, aggres-
 sive state. Kansas, has been the cen ter of the focus of all eyes in the political life of the United States. It would seem almost that the fate of the great Republican party de- pended upon the result of the pri- mary election held there this week. If the Insurgents, those men who stood defiantly against Cannonism and Aldrichism. and earnestly for the people. particularly the producers, were defeated. it was felt that the Republican party had gone complete ly oyer to the trusts and big graft CTS. It then would have become attractive to only those who expected to profit by sharing in the plunder, including that bunch of Democrats who always came to the rescue of Cannon and Aldrich when they were needed to push through iniquitous measures.
 But every Cannon-Aldrich candi- date was defeated at the primary, and every Insurgent won his fight
 This great victor for integri and right should lend courage l. honest men am' statesmen in only the Republican ranks, but in th, Democratic party as well.
 1t is fight that can only end in two ways, regardless If party cr party name-in new standard of political honesty and triumph of justice, or in the downfall of our form of government.
 Sometimes the outlook seems dark, but such a victory as that in Kansas is ss bright bright ray ray of light.
 All that the country needs to cor rect evils is the education of the voters. They must know and to know they must read and think for themselves. Otherwise they are mere tools in the hands of shrewd, tricky men.
 Education is the keystone of free country-and the American people are becoming educated.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
Temperatures and Breezes.

Elmer c. Davidson. son of s. c. Davidson, writes The Star from St. Louis, asking that he be sent cool breeze from Mena He says that he notices that the thermometer registers higher in Mena at times than in St. Louis, and wonders why there is so much suffering there and little or none in Mena.
 In the first place, while the tenn perature does at times go pretty high here, those cool Mena breezes mean solid comfort even if the tenn perature is pretty high. Then again. investigation will probably show that in St. Louis the instruments are at the top of some skyscraper building where the temperatures may vary ten deg fecs or more from those four feet from the ground, where they are taken here.
 MT. Davidson signs himself Boost CT for Mena, and every man who really knows belongs to the same club.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
Just the same Old tactics to Knife the Express will of a Rule by the people.
 -Batesville Guard.
The Object of SIeep Is Rest.

From the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin.
 It is great pity that all young women will not learn and practice the most importand lessons in maintain ing health and beauty. There is more truth than poetry in the old idea that " beauty sleep" should be taken before midnight.
 The object of sleep is rest and re- freshment. It is not enough merely to sleep. In the first place. sleep should be made habit.
 Slumber at any time is practically wasted if the muscles are taut and the brain active.
 Work while you work. play while play, as energetically as you will. but rest while you rest. Give yourself completely up to it. If you don t know how, learn. The men form the habit and never lose it.
 Open the windows wide. winter and summer; throw aside the pillow and let the muscles go. every single one of them; they are like rubber bands that have been stretched all day
 Relax. Don't cling to the bed as though you were afraid it would get away from you. Itis strong enough to hold you; drop your cares and worries. shut out all plans and conjectures and schemes, breathe deeply and re- gularly-meaning to inhale and exhale rhythmically-and before you know it you have slipped away.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
ONE WEAK SPOT
Most Mena People Have Weas fH'
 mad Too Often It's tue Baek.

a Most Mena People Have a Weak fH'
 mad Too Often It's tue Back
 Everyone has weak spot
 Too often it's bad back.
 Twiuges follow every sueds' twist. Dull aching keeps up, dat ''' night. ..a Tells you the kidneys Dss' help ,.:a.... ache. .,.d
 A kidney cure is what you Oesu, ''s
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 Cure backache and urinary l'ls, ?,
 Good proof in the foll0w''S S'Ia1'Ii Mrs M. V. Wilson. so5 ; Ninth St, Fort Smith, A% anII says: "An almost constant us'' 'es' ache across the small of my Osss, s,' always more severe when a,ai,ss,ed ss myself or caught cold, sa soln,'aa s;a. me sc. several montbs. lps sn,e, sn ney secretions were also a sul 'hslr of annoyance ou accouu', o' oe;aalB frequency in passage, s.,os plas decided to try Deans hioney .,,,e . \ and had my husband P1o.st ~ sstes supply for me. Alter uau ho,es , q the contents of couple : DO' this remedy l was cured. pr,cs '' For sale by all dealers. I'% ~. 5o cents Fostcr-MiIbqrn .reats @ Buffalo, New York, so'o ' for the United States. noao's-~
 Remember the name--p' and take no other.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
TffH INITIATIVE AND REFER.
 ENDUn AMENDMENT.

The Gazette refers to the pro- posed Initiative and Referendum amendment as having been drawn with "grievous if not fatal loose- ness" and proceeds to point out the defects.
 And these defects are there. They are plain to anyone who reads, and at first glance would appear to make the proposed law. as drawn, hope less if not actually dangerous.
 In drawing the amendment for Arkansas, an attempt was made to make 1t a copy of the Oregon law with added scope. The Oregon measure provides for the law to be effective in the enactment or reiec- ton of state laws. This was changed to include each municipality and county. but the person making the draft failed to carry out the plain intent by negIecting to specify that in the cases of municipalities and counties the initiative and referen- dunn provision applied to local laws, etc, not to state laws.
 Then it reads. in the Arkansas amendment that The Style of all biiis shall be. Be 1t enacted by the
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
Work as a Universal Panacea

l consider work one of the great est blessings.
 l am not sure but that 1t is the graatest blessing, says Erman J. Ridgway in The Delineator for Sep tember. must think it is, for re- call now that wrote four injunc- lions in my boy's Birth Book, and work heads the list Work keeps the body healthy, h e mind steady. When tn e heart is sick-work. When hope is dim work. After failures. get up and work. Go at obstacles on the run. Tackle impos- abilities hard Measure today by last year, five years ago. If gaining, fine; work. If losing. too badl work harder. Be glad that you have work to do. If you haven't any definite work, find it quick. and get atit. If
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
ANNOUNCEMENTS

FOR COUNTY TREASURER. The Star is authorized toannounce
 D. R. JOPLIN as a candidate for the office Of Treasurer of Polk County, subject to the will of the people at the general election in September.
 FOR SURVEYOR. The Star is authorized to announce
 ]. K. LAMBERT Of ERger as candidate for the office of Sur vayor of Polk county, subject to tho decision of the voters at the next general election
 FOR COTTON wEIGHER The Star is authorized to announce
 MATT WHITE as candidate for the office Of Cotton Welgher Of Polk county, on the Democratic ticket subject to the action of the voters at the gem erai election September D. 1910.
 FOR CuTTON WEIGHER. The Star is sauthorized to announce
 ]. c. YELL as candidate for the office Of Cotton Weigher for Polk county, subject to the will of the people at the election in September.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
The Good Roads Movement Nationwide

The importance the good roads movement is assuming is not gen erally appreciated. The campaign is no mere local or state affair. 1t is Nationwide and growing, as is evidenced by the seventeen good roads conventions arranged for this summer in as many parts of the country. New England and Cali fornia, Washington and Florida are interested. and progressive citizens in all the states between them are presenting to the people the argu- ments that are winning thousands to the cause of improved highways.
 New York takes first place among the advocates of good roads. It not only has made provision for 30 mil lion dollars to be expended on per- manent highways. but it has adopt cd the patrol system of maintenance that has proved 80 satisfactory in France. Maryland has under con- struction roads that will cost the state 2 1-2 million dollars. Each of the New England states, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kansas, Colorado and many other states have undertaken to carry out extensive plans for road improve ment. Minnesota should get into line.---St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
Just Buttsd In.

Cannon went to Kansas to raise h-l, and succeeded. He stirred up the Insurgents. caused them to put on their fighting clothes and the re- suit is that the standpatters saved only two of their congressman, one of them. Anthony, pulling through by a majority of l07 votes in a dis trict which he formerly carried by thousands. It does not always pay to go into strange community and tell the people there how to run things. Times Record.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
A LOSS TO nENA.

The burning of the Hendrix Academy building is loss to every person who expects to cast his lot with Mena, and lossto Mena as a city.
 Coming as it did on the very day that those who were in charge of the property were to take the first steps toward reconstruction and put ting in shape for the opening of the greater educational institution, the Mena Hendrix College. it is with the the most poignant feelings of re- gret that hundreds saw the tongues of flames shooting high from the doomed structure.
 To Prof. w. D. Sharp it is even a worse blow.
 After carrying on extended ne- gotiations for many weeks, with the faculty for the college engaged, the cepy for the college catalogue in the hands of the printers -and the pro- lessor himself in the field soliciting for students such a calamity is in- deed sad.
 But the trustees are taking hold of the problem as though they ex- pected to have it rebuilt as quickly as possible. and they should be given every possible encouragement.
 Mena is the ideal place for educa- tional institutions. This one mast not be lost.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
People Will Be Better Then.

An editorial in the Chicago Biblical World predicts new religion with this keynote: How you live, not what you believe" As finality, there can be no other test. By their fruits ye shall know them. "-- Times Record
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
Speaking of the Initiative and Ref

Speaking of the Initiative and Ref erendum the Arkansas Democrat says 'It is not what the people want, but what they are permitted to have that does them the most good" And when they have the I. and R. they will have considerably more to say about the permitting" than when it's all in the hands of politi- clans.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

The Star believes that the adop- tion of the 10th Amendment, the Initiative and Referendum. will re- suit in giving the state. county and city more careful officials and better laws. It will have a strong tendency to keep in the minds of officials that they are servants, not masters, of those who give them position.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
Couldn't Expect It.

One day Helen had been very naughty and her mother said. Helen, if you are naughty you can't t go to heaven"
 Well" said Helen, ''I can't ex- pect to go everywhere. l went to Uncle Toms Cabin once and the circus twice. "---Human Life.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
Sunflower Philosophy.
fAtchiaon (Kns.l } Globe.l ]


 A college student may have sev- eral reasons for attending chapel exercises, but praying isn't one of them.
 You may have noticed that the love candidate bears you begins to wane as soon as he learns you have voted.
 As a general rule, when it is said that beth sides are confident, it means that neither side feel that way about 1t.
 We have heard of the man who thinks more of good lecture, or of q good book. than he thinks of his stomach, but we never knew hlm. Women, i'll their conversations, have great deal to say about dry cleaning" {" Why not use it, what ever 1t is, on their sons who kick and scream at the sight of a wash bowl?
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

secure that end by seeing to it that his neighbours children are also in their places. Nothing so handicaps
 the progress of the school as irregu- lar attendance. Mrs. F. L. Stevens, in Starkville (Miss.) Progressive
 Farmer and Gazette.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

you have done your work, and earned leisure, and are not worn out, don't rust out. Travel; study; go in for community work; lend a hand; help somebody somewhere. somehow. That is living.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

When Senator Gore made the bribery charges every single man named said they were false. But each day other bribe offers are brought to light. Now they say Gore vas unfair. But in the end it is probable it will be shown that Gore was right"
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

A noted Japanese historian says war between the United States and Japan is sinevitable. May be so. And if it occurs the historian may have a different story to record than in the Russo-Japanese difficulty.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

spite of the fact that corporation lawyers and some of the politicians and lobbyists are doing all they can to bring about it's defeat. It gives this kind of gentry about the black est eye they have had put on them in many a day. Eureka Springs Times Echo.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

J. B. Earl writes from McKaine that while he is teaching this summer in Lafayette county and will teach at Gillham through the fall and winter, he thinks he is Polk county teacher, as he is just out of Polk county little while getting ready to come back and stay for life.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

A figure crank says it would take one man 13.500 years to husk the Missouri corn crop. That informa- tion is almost as useful as would be the data on how long it would take one man to eat railroad tunnel through Rich mountain.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

Those Kansas Insurgents should buy Joe Cannon some extra black cigars to repay him for coming out there to fight them.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

If Amer 1ment NO. 10 means what it says any county or city can have any law passed to suit it, and whilc the state is responsible for what is done in it. the state has nothing to say as to what is done in a county. = Hope Gazette.
 Please read Amendments Nos. l0 and II. Study these and decide if you want them. If so, go to the polls and vote for both. We believe both are good amendments and should be adopted. -Morrilton Dem- crat.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

It is said complaints arc being made about the poor quality of pa- per used in printing 5000 bills. No such kick ever come from a country adifor
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

Every single man that Senator Gore of Oklahoma accuses of being interested in the bribe offered him denies the charge. We'll. what would you expect?
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

It is just little interesting that those Indian contracts that they are said to have hoped to get through Congress by bribing Senator Gore had been turned down by President Roosevelt. Teddy generally saw a shadow in the firewood if it was fhara
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

J. w Ryals. principal of the Cherry Hill school district No. 10, says that R. B. Harmon. Isaac Garrett and T. J. Barton. the directors, all have visit
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

Double your business that good, but how? Read ''the how" i'll an ad in The Star today
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

It is objected to Amendment No. 10 that some of it's provisions are not perfectly clear. The principle IS clear-that the people themselves have the right to pass upon laws and amend the Constitution without be- ing thwarted by the legislature. If there are defects they can easily be corrected under provisions of the amendment itself, as a majority of those who vote on any question can settle it. We have faith in the peo- pie of Arkansas. We believe that they are entitled to a method of ex- pressing themselves. This amend ment provides the method. Let ev- cry man who believes in the people vote for the amendment. Western Methodist.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
The Duty of the Parent to tue School

l have repeatedly asked parents. when visiting school neighborboods. Have you a good school ?'' Very
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
SCHOOL. NOTES.

L. N. Whisenhunt writes from Gen. ter (Hartley) with much enthusiasm, telling us of his enrolment, good work being done in his several classes, dis cipline, and especially of the following feature in this work: Viz, compost tion and writing of short poems by the pupils. Tell us, Brother w., how you secure results. There may be dormant minds in Polk county need ing but to be awakened in order to find themselves poets of no mean or der. Agriculture is taught in this school.
 Why not all the schools have day, common to all, for decorations? What do our readers say?
 W. A. Griffin has enrolled fifty-nine at Rocky. He tells us nothing con cerning his school or his work.
 Miss Beulah Davis opened school at Hatton, August 1. We hope to hear more fully concerning her work in the future. Miss Davis is secretary of the Polk County Teachers Association, which meets this fall.
 Mrs. R. A. Montgomery is teaching at Corinth; her directors, Messrs. J. w. Quinn. w. L. Vaughn and J. A. Vase have each visited the school; Mesdames Holiday, Frederick. Chap man, Misses Frederick. Fleming and Wallace have also visited the school.
 Mrs. Montgomery is following the suggestions of the state superintend- ent in regard to the course of study. She endorses the idea of a uniform course for the county and has good class in agriculture.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

Look out for malaria. It is season. able now. A few doses of PrickIy Ash Bitters is a sure preventative
 Davis Drug Co. special agent.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11

Much effort is being made at Dallas to secure better reading in the classes. Numerous devices are used to secure the reading habit. Persistent effort will tell
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
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ks progressive newspaper furnishing to It's readers a daily service covering erai happenings, as well as those items of local news that go to make a home pa ger invaluable to citizens of any com munity. If you want the news in your Evening Star. By carrier or mall. 40c ner month.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-11
STATE PRESS COMMENTS ON
 AMENDMENT NO. 10.

Governor Donaghey thinks that if proposed Amendment No. 10 is not what 1t ought to be, then the courts can construe it to mean what the majority of the people thought it meant when it was passed by the general assembly. That's all right, but then suppose the court, in it's wisdom, saw fit to construe it the other way ?---Springdale News.
 If it is the intention of the amend ment to cut up the state into small principalities, each operating under its own peculiar laws, and such is the desire of the people. they will very probably adopt the amendment. It is new thing in this country, advocating a new doctrine, and re- quires close study and the exercise of good judgment, regardless of the fact as to whether it applied to the state as whole or to any part of it. It is up to the people to vote on, and they should vote intelIigentIy. Mon cellonian.
 The latest convincing @ argument against Amendment No. 10 is that Judson King is from Ohio. The Declaration of Independence was not signed in Arkansas. --Batesville Guard.
 Granted that the language used in stating thepurpose of theamendment does not conform to all the rules of grammer, the amendment would be effective just the same, and in the way intended by the legislature. Bonneville Democrat.
 
 There is no doubt in the minds of the friends of Amendment No. 10-- the initiative and referendum that [ t will get a very large majority of the votes cast at the coming election. lf fe 0aiftaftsr ma au .tf..rv ftus. tr~ s~.