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The Washington herald., 1911-01-14
SPORTING SIDELIGHTS
Bx BILL BAILEY.

Plenty Of basketball for the District
tonight.
Dixie Walker il q boilermaker by
trade. One reason why the noise Of the
hammer never disturbed him,
The Washington Herald has given the
bowlers something to think about. Get
busy with your favorites and send along
the coupons. free trip to Buffalo Is
not to be despised.
Who said John Nolan ever rowed on q
Potomac Boat Club crew?
George Hammer has ordered BLACK
Crow" automobile to replace the one
which sent tffS White House gate into
the scrap heap! Hammer is one Of the
Districts best bowlers, in addition 20 be-
ing a fence breaker.
Carroll Donnelly, the young roller
skater, with his manager. Cotton" Har-
rison. blew into the ONCE last night,
loaded with coin and full Of pepper.
Cotton says his protege can make
Jack Woodwork look like he was tied
to a post when II comes to racing. and
will cover any reasonable amount Of
money posted by Woodward's manager.
Opening gun doomed In the Military
Basketball League last night. Ambu-
lance Corps bit the dust before Company
K boys.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-14

THE WINTER LEAGUE
Out in ths snow covered barnysrd.
Feeding the c,id-chewing cUw,
Behold the ..iligens athlete,
See what he's doing now.
He who vas houshty in summer.
Chasing " little white ball.
Mercy, nov thinss ovefturnins.
Right after the cold days in fan.
Hefoes who travel in PuIlmam,
What do you really expect?
Living On hard-tack in winter
Common old fsrMes. b. he'd.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-14

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The Washington herald., 1911-01-14

iris Speaker has found a way for left
hand batters to hit southpaw pitchers.
Doc White, the White Sox pitcher. says
Speaker hits left-hand pitchers better
than Ty Cobb or any other left-hand bat
ter in the American League. Here is his
explanation:
Speaker stands three or four feet be-
hind the plate when batting against a
The Washington herald., 1911-01-14

Plenty Of basketball for the District
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20
NATURES WILLFUL WAY.

Mena, habitually favored of Ma ture in sunshine and shower, and in all things that make for the comfort of the human kind last night met with losses at the hands of an angry storm.
 The aggregate money damage, mounting into some thousands of dollars, will not seriously handi- cap the city at a whole, but to in dividuals the loss has been severe, in some cases almost overwhelm- ing.
 But with a score of buildings damaged, some slightly and others almost wholly demolished, the feat ure that stands out strongest is that no person was seriously in jured, surely thing for which all should be most grateful, and which should make the property loss less hard to bear.
 And of the buildings that suf- fered, with a few exceptions they were of cheap frame construction, some having stood since the build ing of the city began.
 When the first shock is over, and it is found where help is most needed, if any, the. more fortunate of the city may be depended upon to give aid and comfort to those entitled to it.
 The loss, while heavy, is not of character to ill any sense crush the spirit of push and progress that has so strong a hold on our city.
 Let's make this the occasion of getting closer together than ever before, standing by one another and by our city.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20
AS TO DISCRIMINATION IN
 ROAD BUILDING.

Some of the senators opposed the Toney bill for using 100 convicts in the building of highway from Lit tie Rock to Pine Bluff on the ground that the state would thus be favor ing one region and discriminating against others.
 But if we are to have a system of state highways a begnning must be made somewhere. All the roads can't be built at the same time. In the separate counties roads are built one at a time not all over a county at once. Puliski has, ever since the Patterson law has been used, kept all it's state con- yicis on the Nineteenth street pike. When that has been finished the road building outfit will be moved to another road.
 Besides, the Little Rock-Pine Bluff road is to be built through the organization into an improve ment district of the territory to be benefited. There will be time enough to talk of discrimination when other such improvement dis tricts have been organized and have applied for more convicts than the state can supply. But why not give every trunk line highway improve ment district convicts until the available supply is exhausted? While the Little Rock-pine Bluff and the Little Rock-Fort Smith highways are being built let other districts be perfecting their organi- zation. And when bills are intro duced in the legislature for the building of trunk line highways from Mena to Hot Springs or from Fort Smith to Fayetteville or from the Missouri line down through Eastern Arkansas the legislators from the regions traversed by the Little Rock-pine Bluff and the Little Rock-Fort Smith highways will, we believe, be the strongest ad- vocates of such additional road districts.
 The important thing is to make beginning. Build even one trunk line highway and in time there will be system covering the whole state.-Arkansas Gazette.
 The Star believes the people of
 Mena and Polk county are ready for their share of the state convicts to be used on the Little Rock-Pine
 Bluff road, or any other road in
 the state where the people have the spirit of progress strong enough
 to form road building improve ment districts. If the plan works we'll, the Mena-Hot Springs high way may not be far oG.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

ceive from the state tax about $3,500. This gives the school dis trict little over si0,0O0 year, out of which an eight-months school term is held after making payment on the school bonds sold for build ing purposes.
 We will venture the assertion that for years to come Mena will have five times as many students as all four of the agricultural schools combined.
 Will the legislature want to cut down the S3,5O0 appropriation that comes to the 1000 children in Mena, when it can give S5OOO00 for the hundred or two that go to the agri- cultural schools?
 Again there are country districts in Arkansas where the present tax only provides funds for four or six-months' term with one teacher, where there are as many children as will be found attending any one of these agricultural schools.
 The agricultural schools are all right. The appropriation of F mil lion dollars to them is all right, if it is properly spent, but don't cut our common school fund.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20
Resnurces nf Arkansas.

There is no question that an er- roneous impression regarding the state of Arkansas has prevailed for years. There is little doubt that an erroneous impression of the state of Arkansas is prevalent in many quarters today. Popular belief a. bout Arkansas, however, is founded mostly on conditions that existed in the state two generations ago. The Arkansas of today is not the Arkansas of the civil war period; it is not even the Arkansas of twen- ty years ago. It has been keeping pace for the last ten years, at all events, with the great Southwest, and it is giving promise of greater progress at present than at any pre- vious period in it's history. The reason for this is that it's resources are becoming better known. The extent and character of these re- sources, as they are presented by Agricultural Commissioner Phil
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20
MONTGOMERY TIMES IS BACK
 HOME.

The Montgomery Times, which suffered the loss of it's entire plant when Mt. Ida was nearly destroyed by fire a few months ago, will issue from it's own new plant next week. Editor Sherman, who has kept hla publication going regularly since the fire by having the paper print ed in Little Rock, says in The Times last week:
 "A temporary frame building has been erected on the lot occupied by The Times before the fire, and the equipment of the new plant has has arrived and is being installed. In another week The Times will is- sue from it's own press with new type, and with a clean and up-to- date news service. The Times will be published in the temporary building until the com pletion of Mt. Idas stone business block, when the entire plant will be moved to the east room of the new structure"
 Editor Sherman has got pluck and ability, and deserves we'll of the people of his county.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

lips. will prove surprising to those who have been content heretofore with a mere superficial knowledge of tho state.
 Some of the figures are impress sive. For example, Arkansas pro- duced last year S200,000,OOO worth of agricultural products. The state cut of lumber was worth like sum. In it's fertile and beautiful valleys are over i0,000,000 bearing apple trees and 5,000,00O bearing Elberta peach trees. Arkansas contributes largely toward the strawberry sup ply of the northern markets from the 50,000 acres devoted to straw berry cultivation. Everything that grows within the borders of the country thrives in Arkansas. Its ag- ricultural resources alone would make it a prosperous and wealthy commonwealth.
 But Arkansas is also one of the great mineral states of the Union. It's mineral lands have an aggregate area of over 100000 acres. Of this over 6,l00,000 are underlaid with coal. Arkansas coal is specified by the government for use in the navy. The state also has beauxite and kaolin mines; it has immense slate fields, magnificent marble quarries, great beds of cement and chalk. Moreover, there are no less than forty zinc mines in the state, while there are ten lead mines. There are rich deposits of fuller's earth, and in Pike county there is a diamond mine in actual operation.
 Industries of other kinds are not very fully developed, and yet Ark ansas has a large number of pros porous manufacturing concerns. It is famous cotton state. It is well watered. It is we'll wooded. It has six institutions of higher education besides state university. In the coming southern commercial con- gress in Atlanta, Ga, these facts will be brought out, with many others equally interesting and i'm portant about a state that needs only to be better known to be more thiekly populated. Arkansas cer- tainly has basis upon which to found useful bureau of publicity Christian Science Monitor.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20
The Criminal Talk of War.

It is crime to talk of war with Mexico.
 It is a crime to talk about war with Japan.
 All the American property in Mexico would not justify it.
 All the American property in the Philippines would not justify it.
 Whatever economic or strategic arguments may be advanced in it's favor, there are more than 90,000,- 900 human arguments against it. as many as there are men, women and children in the United States.
 There is but one justification for rights of humanity, but the rights of humanity are not on the side of war, but on the side of peate, so far as the United States is con- cerned.
 Every influence in this republic that puts men above money should fight against war at this critical i5ifiie, when war in the interest of property, war in the interest of politics, war in the interest of false national pride-yes, and for the de- liberate purpose of diverting the attention of our people from ur- gent domestic reforms-is possible because those who fill the seats of the mighty put money above men.
 The American people have not half fulfilled their destiny on this continent. They have not half fln- ished he building of the nation in either the material, the social or the spiritual sense. They have not half done their duty to their own.
 And they-some of them--talk of spending a billion of money and thousands of lives in protecting investments" in extending trade" in playing the wretched game of world politicsw
 It is monstrousl
 The day may come when we shall have to fight to protect our own men, women and children, but to-
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20
DON'T SACRIFICE THE COMMON
 SCHOOLS.

It is reported that there is bin before the legislature proposing to reduce the state school tax from 3 mills to 2is mills.
 It does not seem possible that such a law could get to a final pas sage.
 In the face of the fact that s50e.- 900 has been appropriated for the four new agricultural schools, it would be nothing less than dis grace to attempt to economize by cutting on the revenue of our com mon schools.
 Mena, as an example. has 1000 school children. We vote our full limit of ! mills local tax, and re-
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20
Pork and Beans Cure for Consump-
 tinn.

Boston baked beans and pork will be made a regular daily article of diet at the state sanatorium at Rut- land for consumptives. They will be given trial to determine if they possess special properties tending to cure tuberculosis, alleged to have been newly discovered.
 A report by Sir Hiram Maxim, an English authority, that experiments have proved baked beans and pork especially good for the disease has been read with great interest by Philip B. Bartless, superintendent of the state hospital.
 Boston physicians expressed sur prise at the report of Sir Hiram Maxim that baked beans and pork had helped many English consump- lives more than cod liver. oil or anything else he had used. They said they had never recommended pork and beans to any extent.-Bos- ton Post.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20
RATIONAL BREVITIES.
(DaVidSOn.)

Much talk frequently accompa- nies shallow intellect.
 Those who have no confidence in humanity stand on very dangerous ground.
 Many a complaint is hurled at public officials merely from force of habit.
 An extensive use of the paint brush would add greatly to the beauty of Mena.
 Innocent pleasures are blessing to humanity and should receive ev- cry encouragement.
 Mans usefulness on earth de- bends largely upon the extent of his knowledge of human nature and the laws governing material things.
 A man may write his name on many honor rolls and fill high of fees in the gift of the people and yet not have a good moral charac- ter. Such is a menace to good so- ciety.
 Real fear is Natures warning and is necessary to prompt caution, while cowardice is an unfounded imagination calculated to demor- alize and render that mentality in- capable of discrete direction.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

The Gazette tells in a very inter- esting way that the only way 10 get system of state roads is to begin somewhere and build a road. The Star favors a system of state high ways, and believes that the quick est way for Polk county to get the benefit of such is to start and build a good road in it's own terri tory-say from Mena to the Mont gomery county line. It could then reasonably expect Montgomery to take up the work, and then Gar land would be sure to do so. The way to get thing done is to be- gin. The Star believes Polk coun- ty should begin to build good roads.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

Tom L. Johnson was in his life one of the truest friends the people of his city ever had, and before he died he illustrated his character by the following expression: When I die l hope the people will make a playground over my body. I would rather have the children romping over my grave han a hundred mon- nmnnfsn 2
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

day the reverse is true-the way to protect our men, women and chil- dren is NOT to fight.
 We have nothing in Mexico, noth- ing in the Orient, that compares in value to the lives of our people, to their social welfare and progress.
 And that interest demands that own struggle for freedom shall go on without interruption by war Southwest American.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

Considering the methods used to gobble all those agricultural schools a few people on the inside will won der how much poodle there will be in handling that s500,00O appropria- tion
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

Those St. Louis capitalists who took that S65,000 water works bond issue at 100 per cent with trimmings thrown in didn't seem to think that Mena had gone to the bow VOWS. And. swallow this whole, when Mena has first class water works system, she will have a mighty strong foundation on which to build greater prosperity.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20
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The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

The Star believes that those az ritultural schools arc splendid in- stitutions, but it has not forgotten how three-fifths of the state, the mountain parts, were denied one Of them, and chance to educate it's young men in the kind of farming they would do at home. Therefore.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

A ride through the country in most any direction from Mena will show why there has been no need to worry about railroad divisions, and for the general confidence in the future. Few in Polk county a year ago ever dreamed of seeing so many farm improvements as are now in evidence.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

Mena just has no excuse at all 10 got puffed up about it's little torna- do. At about the same time that it's blow came, six towns in northeast Oklahoma, eight in Kansas and ten in Missouri had similar visitors, and in some of these quite a number of lives were lost. It was q very breezy time in the Central West.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

Read in The Star what the people of Wynne and Cross county did in a days road building. Then see if you can believe that Mena and Polk county cannot have a good pike road from one side to the other if we try for it.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

After the announcement that the Aldrieh Rubber trust has purchased many rubber plantations in Mex leo, one does not have to go so far to find at least one reason for the warlike demonstration on the Mex ican frontier.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

The double tracking of the whole Hartman system of railroads is to be pushed at once. How's this? What about those "confscatory rates" and all that adverse legisla- ton?
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

To have fine healthy complex lon--the liver must be active, the bowels regular and the blood pure. All this is brought about by using HERBINE. It thoroughly SCOUTS the liver, stomach and bowels, puts the body in nne condition and restores that clear, pink and white complex ion so much desired by ladies. Price 50c. Sold by Jackson D. & F. Co.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

J. Adam Bede asserts that Lori mer is the cleanest man in the Unit cd States Senate. This just settles it. The present roundabout meth cd of choosing senators must gol
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

Sometimes scientists are of some use-the one. for instance, that pro- claims that women would be better of if they did not wear hats. But, again, why didn't he say so weeks ac09
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

Keep your eye on Judge Nick Martin. He's not overlooking any of these good roads" stories, nor the methods that make their build ing successful in other places than Polk county.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

All Mena sympathizes with those individuals who lost by the storm, but when the rebuilding is com pleted, in aided beauty and in sol- idity and strength, they will have cause for rejoicing.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

Senator Lorimer is said to have spent several days recently in ex- amining tunneling machinery. Per haps he's looking for a machine that will pull the hole in after him.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

One thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven men have thus far been indicted for selling votes in Adams county. Ohio. and not q man found who bought any one of them.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

One does not have to assume the guilt or innocence of Dr. B. c. Hyde to safely assert that had he been unable financially to hire such an array of eminent counsel he'd have been hung long ago.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

we may be excused for not showing much enthusiasm in helping pay that s500.0O0 appropriation for the four lowland country schools.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

Abe auef, the notorious San Francisco boodler, is said to be do- ing a grand work in conducting a Bible class among his fellow con- victs in the San Quentin peniten- tiary. But those who read the evil denee of Ruefs crookedness may be excused for noting that some men get awfully good when they no longer have chance to be bad.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

The Filipinos are demanding immediate independence" So far as most of us are concerned they are welcome to it and a plenty. But if the United States turns them loose they will be independent" about as long as a snowball would last in July--in Heavener. They would belong to Japan right now.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

Every day now makes it more sure that Polk county is going to have at least plenty of peaches and cream for home consumption this year. And strawberries already are here!
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

Man has fallen. Hail him. you Who realize him stanch and strong and true. He found us dollar-bound and party-bind; He leaves City with Civic Mind, Choosing her conduct with conscious care Selecting here, another there, And seornng labels. Craft and Graft and Greed Ran rampant in our halls and few took heed The Public Service and Public Rights We're bloody bones for wolf and iacka fights. Now, the Corporate Monster licks the hand Where once he snarled his insolent demand. Who tanned it? Answer you will But truth Is truth, and his the credit still Man is fallen Flout him you Who would not understand and never knew Tranquil in triumph in defeat the same He never asked your praise nor shrked your blame; For he as Captain of the Common Good, Has earned the right to be misunderstood Behold he raised his hand against his class; Aye, he forsook the Few and served the Mass Year upon year he bore the battles brunt; And so the hiss, the cackle and the gruntl He found striving each his selfish part He leaves a city with Civic Heart Which gives the fortune fallen brth And reunites him with his Mother Earth; Which seeks to look beyond the broken law To find the broken life, and mend it's flaw Man has fallen Nay, no demigod But plain man, close to the common sod Whence springs the grass of our humanity. Strong Is he but human. therefore sometimes wrong Sometimes impatient of the slower throng, Sometimes unmindful of the formal thong But ever with his feet set toward the height To plant the banner of the Common Right And ever with his eye fixed on the goal The Vision of People with d Soul And is he fallen? Aye, but mark him well: He ever rises further than he fell. A Man is fallen? l salute him. then In these few words: lie served his fellow men; And he is passing. But he comes again! He comes againl not in that ful-neshed form, Winch revelled m the charge, which rode the storm But in that hrm-fxed spirit, which was he, That heritage he left for you and me: Before no Vested Wrong to bow the knee Before no Righteous Fight to shirk. or flee Before ail else to make men free free freel
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20
Lindsay.

It is said that the wheat crop in Western Kansas is in dire need of rain-and Polk county is just ach- ing to divide.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

o, yesl If it's justice" you want, apply at the Odd Fellows hall, the headquarters of His Honor "old" Lindsay.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

Really, there's not enough spring poems coming in these days to kin dle the necessary morning fires. Helpl
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

Indigestion is the direct cause of disease hat kills thousands of per- sons annually. Stop the trouble at the start with a little Prickly Ash Bitters; it strengthens the stomach and aids digestion.
 w. c. Vandiver, Special Agent.
 Jackson Drug Co, Special Agent:
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

Mena must be woefully behind the times. All this talk about har- em skirts, and not one has been seen on the prominent streets.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-20

Fishing IS all right in season. but there is a guess that there are those who are convinced this is not the season.