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Pocahontas star herald., 1910-03-25
Political Advertisement
From J. B. Baker

To the People of Randolph county:
As you perhaps know, / am can
didate for the Office of Judge of the
16 Judicial Circuit, and would ap-
preciate your support and influence
in the Primary Election to be held
next Wednesday, My worthy COM
petitors for this Office seem to be
making this capaign on circular let
ters headed with their pictures as a
qualification for the Office, and with
statements as to their relative
strength, all of which leave for
you to be Judge.
As to myself | have only to say
that | was reared on a farm in
lizard county. and studied law while
] farmed. / have now been in the
practice for twenty-three years, and
] submit to those who know me as
to whether possess the legal and
executive ability to make you an
efficient Judge. promise you who
pay tne taxes that if / do not reduce
the expenses of your courts during
my first term | will never ask you
to vote for me again, and that | will
never be a candidate for a. third
term. / further promise that it
shall ever be my purpose to guard
well the interests of every man
alike; and that / will have no
Pocahontas star herald., 1910-03-25

Young, Jno. Davidson, VIM. Flynn,
N. ID. Porter, Geo. f. Jones, Cabe
NJ. Kennedy, J. Q. Sager, Esq.
Robert S. Porter, VIM. Fryatt,
Henry Berry, G. M. Whitesides,
John. r. Henley, Geo. Mauldin,
Elw Kirby, j. G. Todd, J. w.
Blackburn, James l.. Dunn (many
Of whom are leading members Of
the different churches) and many
others of his neighbors are against
Meeks? The answer is--thev
think there are two better men in
the race.
Judge Meeks' endorsement ON last
Friday, by the central committee of
Fulton county where one member
held several proxies, and over the
protest of several others of said
committee, comes too late to do him
any good. 1t is a confession that
he is very weak in his own county,
which is known to his campaign
managers. All ask is a square
deal, and the victory is mine.
Respectfully,
DAVE KING.
Pocahontas star herald., 1910-03-25

friends to reward nor enemies to
punish at the expense of the people.
further call your attention to
the fact that 8 years ago when J
w. Meeks was elected judge, your
county scrip was worth about 80
cents on the dollar, while now it is
worth only about so cents on the
dollar What's the matter?
You. have nearly million dollars
more property on the tax books now
than then, and your taxes are high
er!
Again l ask: What is the matter?
If you will elect me Judge of
yonr Circuit Courts / will prove to
you what is the matter. Twill give
the tax payers relief, and do no
man an injustice.
Very truly yours,
j. b. BAKER.
Pocahontas star herald., 1910-03-25

King of Sharp are honorable men
and either of them would probably
make good Judge;but
Yet we find Baker of lizard and
King of Sharp after the office before
Fulton county has filed the same 8
years.
If they were from Randolph or
Baxter counties, then they would
be justified in wanting the Office.
We do really believe Randolph
or Baxter should furnish the circuit
Judge after Meeks retires, which
will be at the end of the term for
which he is now asking.
Mr.. Meeks is an honest fearless
and capable judge and sober
Christian gentleman and Fulton
county commends him to the fair
minded and unprejudiced voters of
the circuit as one fully entitled to
the recognition and respect that we
have all bestowed upon Powell of
lizard and McCaleb of Sharp, who
were also grand, good men.
We believe the voters of every
county in the circuit will so see the
question. when they understand
these facts, and cast tEeir votes for
John W. MEEKs for another term. -
Mammoth Spring Democrat 4 ADJ
Pocahontas star herald., 1910-03-25

Atty. e. G. Schoonoyer and lit
tie son, Jake, left yesterday for St.
Louis, where Mr.. Schoonover goes
on business matters,
William Chambers suDerinten-
dent of the oil mill at walnut
Ridge, was in Pocahontas between
trains Monday
Sheriff Sam Brown and Deputy
Hunter Perrin started on t heir
rounds yesterday delivering to t h e
judges the ballots ana election sup
plies for next Wednesdays primary
election.
Mrs. M. M. McHaney and Mrs.
Tom Speice and daughter, Gene.
We've, went to Poplar Bluff Tues.
day evening.
Gov. Charles N. Haskell was
exonerated of the charge of mis-
appropriation and mismanagement
of State funds in report filed in
the Legislature at Guthrie, Okla.
by the House committee composed
of five Democrats and two Repub-
licsns.
Pocahontas star herald., 1910-03-25

| was retained in the case. On the
evening after Montgomery d j e d
from his wound | was telephoned
by citizen of Mammoth Springs a
friend Of Judge Meeks, at the in.
stance of Mrs. Montgomery a n d
went TO Mammoth Springs, saw the
widow and in a few days afterwards
the mother of the deceased sent a
man to see me. A few days later |
received a letter from her and was
employed to assist in the prosecu,
tion. This was all before | became
a candidate. Neither had Judge
Meeks at that time announced his
candidacy in the papers. Now the
idea that the widow of the deceased,
Kay & Northcutt and that old
broken-hearted mother, who has
almost reached her three score and
ten, who knows nothing about elec.
tions nor "political plotting" whose
only son had been shot down in the
prime of life, would enter into any
sort of a plot is, OH RATS. That
old mother paid me $l25 on my
fee and | did in that case as | do
in all others, "exerted my best eff.
forts" Now it is very clear that it
was not the object of the Democrat
in that article to expose a political
plot against Judge Meeks but solely
for the purpose of injuring me in
Fulton county, where it is well
known to the editor of that paper
that | am very strong-but the lit.
tie dirty fling comes to late. | have
the race won and the people at the
poll next Wednesday will n t
such rot. The fact that there was
a hung jury in the Ellis case or to
put it in the language of the Demo.
Gratis 1.-THE OUTGROWTH OF
THE CASE WAS CERTAINLY
A GREAT VICTORY FOR
JUDGE MFEKS": The trial Judge
was the object of the trial to obtain
a victory for Judge Meeks. /
never knew before that Judge Meeks
was a party to the suit, but it seems
that the editor of the Democrat, who
is on the ground, is trying to con-
vey that idea.
As to the assault the Democrat Is
making on me because the neigh
bors of Judge Meeks, to a large
number, have endorsed me and as
to his rows with them / have moth
ing to say. | have no such troubles
with my neighbors, they all endorse
me. | never asked man in Full
ton county to sign an endorsement
for me and those who have done so,
so far as / know, have done it as a
voluntary act. AS to some of them
being republicans do not know
but Lam advised that many of
Judge Meeks' strongest supporters
are republicans.
But why are such men as f. NJ.
Daniel, G, M. Archer, Rev. E. J.
Nugent. L. P. Fraysher Justice of
the Peace, S p. Head, Thomas B.
Caldwell, John Rece, Prof. 7. S.
Pocahontas star herald., 1910-03-25

The happiest man in the land to-
day is the farmer. He sits under
his own fig tree, undistdrbed by the
maddening noise of the great city.
Banks fail, railroads go into the
hands of the receivers, booming
towns collapse, all business stag
mates. But the wise farmer can
snap his finger at these things. He
is the monarch of all he surveys on
his broad acres, and the honesty OF
his boys and the purity of his girls
is guarded against temptations, and
in them be is giving the country its
best manhood and womanhood.
The farmer is to be envied, and, if
he is not contented with his 1T, be
is lacking in wisdom.
Pocahontas star herald., 1910-03-25
Injured by Colt

Ferd Spinnenweber, Jr., was
painfully injured last Saturday eve-
ming by colt striking him on the
breast and shoulders while he was
attending to it near the barn. He
was knocked backwards against the
barn and for a time it was thought
that he was injured internally but
he recovered in a short time and is
not prevented from doing his work.
Pocahontas star herald., 1910-03-25
DR.. HuaheS Ill

DR.. j. G. Hughes and family pas.
sed through Pocahontas Tuesday
in their automobile enroute to Warm
Springs where they had been called
by the illness of DR.. w. A. Hughes,
The appearance of an automobile
in Pocahontas caused quite a sensa-
tion-among the young boys who
we,T anxious to inspect it while the
doctor and his family were here.
Pocahontas star herald., 1910-03-25
Commlssisner's Sale.

Notice Is hereby given that by yirture OF n
decree of the Randolph Chancery Court.
made and entered OF record at Its March,
1910 term In cause then pending therein
wherein W. T. BisDham was complainant,
and John Ford, Pearl Warner. Middleton M.
Carruthers. Tom K. Ford. Christie Bell Lewis.
and others. were defendants. the under
signed. appointed Commissioner to execute
the said decree. will on
SATURDAY. APRIL q, 1910
at the north front door OF the Court house,
in the town OF Pocahontas Randolph Coun-
ty. Arkansas, between the hours prescribed
by law for judicial sales. offer and expose for
sale to the highest and best bidder the fol-
lowing lands. to wit; the south west quarter
OF the north west quarter OF section Seven-
teen n0 and the south east quarter of the
north east quarter OF section Eighteen (Is) all
In Township Nineteen (19l North Of Base line.
In Range one tD east. containing 80 acres.
more OF less; said lands comprising the lands
formerly owned by James Ford, Sr. now de-
ceased.
Said sale will be made for the purpose OF
partitioning and dividing the proceeds
thereof. among the parties to the said cause,
as their respec tive rights and interests were
found and fixed by the Court.
Sale will be made on a credit of three
months. purchaser being required to execute
note with approved personal security. bear
ing interest from date Of sale until paid at
rate OF ten per cent per annum; and a lien
will he retainsd on the lands for the pay
ment OF the purchase price thereof and in-
terest thereon. This March %, 1910.
j. J. LEWIS.
Commissioner in Chancery.
March % 81
Pocahontas star herald., 1910-03-25

Missouri is to have an egg-laying
contest with a thousand hens in il.
Thus does that great state give its
devotees a chance. Hereiis an in
spiration instituted. We shall soon
hear of an Ode to Cackle, the
Lyric of the Lay, a new version of
that old problem: "Who broke the
Lock on the Henhouse Door?" and
a rhapscdi; travesty beginningl"you
may break, you may shstter the
shell if you will, but the high
society odor will hang around it
still"
Pocahontas star herald., 1910-03-25
Erecting Farm House

w. G. Roark, one of our good
friends of the east side was in Poca.
hontas Saturday. Mr.. Roark in
forms us that he is building forhim
self very substantial, ten-room
farm house. He is building the
walls of solid 2x4s and win veneer
them with six inch layer of con-
crete. The building will certainly
be a substantial one.
Pocahontas star herald., 1910-03-25

An exchange rightly remarks that
ga girl who can put good
square patch on pair of pantaloons
or command a regiment of pots and
kettles, may not in the eyes of ten
per cent aristocracy seem as ac-
complished as the girl who can
embroidery and work worsted dog
on a blue ground or hum the "Sweet
Bye and Bye" but the working
girl in every day life, is worth a
ten acre field full of the other
kind "
Pocahontas star herald., 1910-03-25
MORE ABOUT MEEKS

lizard county held this Office for
more than 90 years in the person OF
Judge Powell.
Sharp county held the Office for
IL years in the person of Judge Nc
Caleb.
J. B. Baker of lizard and Dave
Pocahontas star herald., 1910-03-25
Five Mail Clerks Iniured

The Iron Mountain fast mail
train No. Z left the track at Alicia
last Friday morning and five mail
clerks IN the cars were slightly in
lured. The members of the crew
escaped without any injuries and
the clerks resumed their run. The
accident was caused by a broken
rail.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-06-18
A cRuMBLlne CIVILIZATION.

Is there anyone who doubts that
great change in the social order is
impending? Do you really think that
things will continue as they are now
for another decade? If you do you
are In dwindling minority.
Look calmly, deliberately and firm
ly at the most striking facts in the
world in which we live.
Look first at the basis of all So
ciety-the way in which we are pro-
duoing and distributing the things by
which we I've. Look at the Industrial
organization of society.
Here are the big, the undisputed
facts about that industrial society.
The marvellous new and improved
methods of production serve only
10 pile higher the already overload
ed Golfers of a few trust magmates.
Today half-dozen men bestride
he Industrial world Colossii of our
present society--yet unable to con-
lrol the giant forces that bring them
heir wealth.
So fast does the surplus product
filched from labor pour in upon them
hat the most stupendous undertak-
ings they can conceive are incapable
If absorbing the heaped up values.
We have passed through one panic
It was little more than a financial
Hurry compared with the collapse
that must come when the reconstruc-
lion of industry now under way shall
have time to pour forth the result
# the multiplied product that this
.ebuilding will make possible. The
constant rise of prices and steady
rushing of all organized effort to
| ncrease wages grinds labor between
upper and neither millstones past the
point of endurance.
II we are industrially insolvent
our political bankruptcy is even
more complete. The favorite text
Of the magazine writer's today is
he collapse of the political parties
If capitalism. These parties have
become but whited sepulchres con
cealing all manner of rottenness
They have so decayed that they are
incapable of defending even capital
lst interests
The corruption of industry is re
fl cted in the foulness of politics
The veil is never lifted from cor
ner of modern industry that a brood
of thieves is not uncovered. Witness
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-06-18
IDAHO DEPUTY LEAVES
WITH HOWARD HUNTER

Deputy Sheriff Hart from Blaine
county, Idaho, arrived in Enterprise
Wednesday evening and left Thurs-
lay morning taking with him Howard
Hunter, alias Lee West, charged with
iorgeries. Accompanying the deputy
sheriff was Detective Kulper Of the
American Bankers association who
lad arrested Hunter in Joseph, In
stead either of Handwriting or shackl
ng the prisoner the officer in charge
placed him in what Is known as the
oregon boot. heavy piece Of
metal fitting closely about the leg
above the ankle.
Hunter, as will be remembered,
was arrested and brought to Enter
Prise last Wednesday. He Will be
aiken to La Grande and from there
o Blaine county. Idaho, where he
will be made to answer the charges
against him. The prisoner feebly
protested that there IS q mistake.
and that he is not the man wanted,
out the officers in charge are salts
lied that they have the right per-
son. His forgeries aggregated only
s1s5.
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81 walked so far" she said. "7ou
know he was very interesting when
he spoke off, She turned little
Aunt Marguerite" she went on, when
am to try on the wedding dressT
The head of De valette sunk to his
breast. His lips trembled a little. for
God had brought great light to him
and. in torturing the pride. had opened
to his day the soul. And so valette's
head sunk upon his breast. and his lips
trembled.
Then came the priest. and Gilbert
was with him. De Valette slowly
turned. To Gilbert he motioned-mo-
toned that he mdst go down to the
great seat before the fireplace. Gil
bert. wondering. went. He came to
1t and leaned over. At length she
looked up. as one awakening. and
slowly there came into her eyes q
light-the light of reason-the CLEAN
of soul--of soul lost that is returning
to its own.
Into his eyes, eager, now beginning
to dare to hope. she looked-looked fol
long, long time. BY and by she thrust
forth slender white hand-thrust II
forth slowly, and at length it touched
his coat. and then 1t shivered little.
"Gilbertr' she cried. There was sou
in the voice. too. now-the soul that
had come again. to the eyes.
He said brokenly. "Madeleinew
For a long, long moment they stayed
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COPYRIGHT. 1910. BY AMERI

Then. tensely: "Listen! I know this
The old people taught me when was
child that when soul is lost the
one who loved it most shall go to the
place where it was lost and pray for
it to come back. Go to the chapel at
Valette. There you will see the can.
dies that her father keeps burning for
her. There she lost her soul. You
loved her most. Pray for her therev'
He cried. in the petulance of fear:
"What foolishness are you talking"
'Gt is true" she replied. IF you are
the one who loved her most pray for
her there. and the miracle will be
granted. oh, | beg you to do itv' pas
sionately. "Aly own soul will not rest
until you have! Go to yalette-to her
-and pray!
So Gilbert went. He found her
there in the great room of Valette.
O'Mara was there. and her father. but
Of them he took little heed, for when
he saw her he started forward, arms
outstretched.
Madeleine" he cried chokingly.
She looked at him.
"Yes?" she said
He said hoarsely:
you're angry with me''
She shook her head.
! But" he persisted eagerly. yet puz-
zled, you aren't glad to see me-
NO"
He drew back little. white, stun
ned
"You-you don't love mer' he whis-
pered. Then, you changed so quick
/ ly."
Empty voice said slowly:
"Yes; think that is it. I've
ehanged-I changed when Gilbert
died" His face went yet more white
She. went on: Il lost my soul then
1t went away from me at the altar
think 1t must have gone with Gil
bert's."
Empty eyes watched him go. The
! little figure. turned and slowly went
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| you're wrong to compel me to do
thisw she expostulated agitatedly.
"And If what they say Of her in the
village is true
"What is thatY
"That her mind" she began hesitat-
ingly; then. I'm afraidp'
"Afraidw he said slowly. "It is
only a little white butterfly that has
broken its wings"
He might have said more. But then
she came-the little figure that they
had tortured the soul from. She came
slowly into the room, and calmly, and
the great emptiness might have been
great peace had one not known.
Under her breath her aunt cried,
"My niece!' And then. as she came
nearer, this slender figure with the
empty eyes. she said:
''You know met"
Empty eyes turned to her. Empty
voice answered:
"Yes; you're Aunt Marguerite"
"You looked at me as though were
stranger. All. to think you brought
this suffering on yourself"
Empty voice said slowly, evenly:
"SufferingY
"She does not suffer-" declared
O'Mara. Her very incapacity for
pain is her disease. If only she could
feel. even to suffer! The day that
again you see tears In her eyes she
will be saved"
Mile de valette spoke quickly, Sc
verely:
"she ought to feel! She ought to
thinkw
81 do think said the empty voice.
"I think all the time. j keep wonder
ing-wondering-I wonder why Gil
bert died. That was curious
"You ought not to think Of him!
eou ought to shudder at the thought"
81 think-and remember" the emp
ty voice continued. Il remember that
Raoul said 1t came to you all at once;
1t absorbed you. so that not fear nor
shame nor death could stop you. And
remember that 1t did come to me
Just as he said. You see how well
remember that That was just the
way 1t was then"
"You ought to think Of your punish
ment!"
"Ought II" Empty eyes were raised.
"was that punishment when I lost
my soul? ! don't see how 1t can be.
Furnishing is hurting. isn't it? How
( can be punished when nothing hurt
meY'
. But 1t ought to! You must feel It!
'But can't. Don't you see? / an
r dead. The candles are e'lighted for me
don't know where my soul is. Il los
1t when | died. If you do that yo1
/ can never find 1t again. There was tn
j forest, and followed him and foun
him there. And loved him ver
much. That is why died. thin
, all the time. you see, and hav
found out that If you love any on
very much you must lose your SOU
r for 1t and die"
Mile. de Valette shook her head slow
r ly. Tears came to her eyes.
Broken wings!' murmured tn
a priest.
: "Why do you cry?" the empty voic
asked. THAT'S only one Of Gods way
isn't it?
s Gods ways!' cried Mile, de valett,
Goods punishment Of sin!"
= The priest turned upon her.
Gods way!" he cried vehement.
'Do you think a worm In the dust ca
( understand why man rides by? ID
8 you think that because we can see th
beginning of one of Gods thoughts on
r little minds can follow to the end {
.s what he is thinking? Down here In tn
a dust we call them Gods ways, br
1t they are only mans mistakes. Dow
lr the river there were men-God's ere,
to lures, brothers they should have bee
A. killing each other. And they kllle
this boy! There's one old man ovt
yonder so filed with phantoms an
cobwebs and the ghosts of things tn;
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shouldn't have been that he Tets his
pride murder the father in him. And
the two crimes together are destroy
ing this child. You call that Gods
way?" he demanded almost fiercely.
''I'll tell you one thing l know about
Gods way, by faith! That he never
punished the good love, and say to
you this was good love! 1t came to
her just as a rose comes to its bush
In spring; she had a right to 1t as
much as the tree to its blossoms, and,
like them, it was good. tell you there
was no fault in her that will offend
God, and in the end he will give her
peace"
Now it came to pass that Crawley,
the recruit of the shock hair and the
nerveless spine. had lied. The massa-
ere that he said he had seen had been
no massacre. The defeat had been a
victory. While the others had fought
shoulder to shoulder, he had lain jowl
by jowl with Fear deep in the forest.
And that Fear had breathed into his
car the things that he had come back
to tell-breathed so insistently that he
who listened had come to believe them
almost as so.
Gilbert Steele came back from the
battle, for the blow that struck him
was not deadly-came back with JOY
in his heart and gladness in his eyes
came back to Madeleine Madeleine de
Valette. In the village they told him
where she was. They would have told
him more. but he would not watt and
wonder was buried under anticipation
Going. he met the gypsy woman who
had wrought the harm-L' Academic
She had come with the news. 1t was
In her to do what little she might in
atonement. Stopping him, she said
"M'sieur Gilbert, you must go to the
chapel of valette and pray for her."
"She is not deadv' he cried hoarsely
She shook her head. mo" she said