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The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
DONAGHEY DIS-
 CUSSES T.-5. MEASURE

(The following article was con- tributed by Governor Donaghey and printed in the current number of the Arkansas Free Lance):
 No one disputes the fact that the state needs and must have more money on it's general revenue ac- count. The opposition to the Fur |ner-Jacobson bill admits this. So far there have been but two plans sug- |gested. One is the Turner-Jacobson bill, the other, advocated by the op- position, is a straight raise of five mills on the present tax. This, in my opinion, would be unjust, be- cause it would increase the burden of taxation on the already ovcrbur- dened; it would not provide for equalization; would not provide for putting on the tax books property that is not taxed at all; would not provide for increasing the assess ment on property that is now un- |derassessed, and would not provide for an automatic decrease of the rate of taxes as the assessment in |creases.
 All of these things are provided for Tn the Turner-Jacobson bill the opposition agree, and they dare not contend otherwise, that equalization and putting of property on the tax books that IS not now assessed at all as provided for in the Turner-Ja- cobson bill is right. Then. admitting that these things are right. let's ap- ply the principle that they would adani .e :.;;5 ::..;5 assessment which can be had at once under the Turner Jacobson bill of Si50,0O0,00O. They would increase the rate of taxation five mills, which would make a total |of 721a cents on the $i00 instead of the rate now existing of 6715 cents. Then 72A cents would yield on a S45O,0000O0 assessment $225, ,0O0 more money than we need.
 The present rate of 671a cents total tax $i50,000000 would bring |enought to support the government. It would give the general revenue fund enough to pay the bills char. e. able to account. It would give the old Confederates more money than they are getting at present, and all without increasing the rat s. All of this would be accomplished simply by putting property on the tax books that Is now escaping taxation. Would that hurt the small tax payery Would it hurt anybody that IS willing to pay his fair share |of the expenses of the state gov |ernmenty
 There IS difference between the two plans. So it can easily be seen that if the plan of the opposition were adopted, 1t would be they who would increase taxation instead of those advocating the Turner-Jacob- son bill.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05

susouehana Railroad station at Aus fin to Galeton, 10 miles away, was probably the first news of today ereaL disaster to reach the outside world. The operator at Galetoh, tlie division headquarters of the road' when he caught the portentlous flash. lost no time in calling the lrainmaster into action, and m less than half an hour the Buffalo 0 Susauehanna had three rellei traihs an the way to the stricken valley.
 The trains found the track washed away six miles this side of Austin. Communication, except over the hills and in a roundabout manner, was impossible, as the whole valley was flooded. Motor parties from a radius of 40 miles around volun- teered to make the attempt to reach the village. None of these parties had returned at late hour tonlght.
 Austin, which is i04 miles south of Corning, is terminal of a branch of the Buffalo X Susquehanna rali- road. The relief trains were made lup and dispatched from Addison, N' | Y., and Buffalo.
 Austin was big numbering town | in the old days, and while the busl.. ness section was up-to-date, most ol | it's structures were wooden. There was room in the narrow valley Tor only two long streets.
 The frantic shriekingS of the big whistle of the Bayless Pulp and Paper Mills at 3:i0 this afternoon startled the throng of people in the Imain street of Austin.
 "The mill is on fire" was the gen.
 eral shout.
 An instant later a mountain oi
 water broke over the hillcrest anc swept down the half mile interven- ling between it and the town. The lcry went up from the horror strlck-
 en crowd.
 Run for your lives; the big dan
 has burst"
 Tn less than two minutes the pret- ty little mountain town of 2,500 in-
 Inhabitants had disappeared, swal- lowed by sea of water. The tele-
 graph operator at the Buffalo S lSusquehanna station, as he saw tho Hood coming, hastily ticked out tho
 last message to be sent from th' town of Austin, for Austin is nt Imore.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
IMAGINATION AND REALITY.

Many years ago Jules Verne wrote Around the World in Eighty Days and everybody was agreed that il merely was the output of an over- wrought imagination.
 Now the journey is made in less than forty days.
 Verne wrote Eighty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea-" story of a boat that travelled under the sea. Now submarines are common the world over-yessels that can per- form feats Verne never dreamed of.
 A few months ago The Star print ed thrilling story by Henry Ketch- ell Webster, The Sky Man." in which the hero was made to soar at will and for hours by the aid of wings, self-controlled and propelled. The best man has learned to do is to fly by the use of high powered engines to drive his planes aganist the air.
 And now the story comes that the Wright brothers, among the worlds greatest inventors of air craft, believe they have solved the mystery If the tuzzard and the gull, who soar the dizzy heights with scarce perceptible movement of wings, and soon are to try out a machine that with but little power, they think will fly thousand miles without coming to earth.
 Stranger things by far have hap pened-and less probable-than that Webster's imaginary air man may come to be every day flesh and blood, and that human beings may find their wings" and be able to go where desire wills without the burden of working over bad roads or paying fare to railroad.
 If this looks so impossible as to appear ridiculous, just allow your mind, if you can, to wander back less than score of years and see what you then would have thought had someone told you that, without other connection than furnished by air and water and soil, messages could be sent half around the world in the flash of an eye.
 And yet. getting back to earth and earthly things, let's not stop the Good Roads movement because some day we may fly.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
War Will Be Short.

Berlin, Oct. 1.-The impression in diplomatic circles is that the war will be of short duration. Big banks profess to have information that if is now virtually over.
 Italy planned, it is learned author itatively, to reopen negotiations with Turkey as soon as the occupation of Tripoli is assured. If there is no op- position to her progress, Italy will contest herself in Tripoli with a status similar to that of England in Egypt. Otherwise the annexation of Tripoli will follow.
 Rigorous measures against Turk ish ports are contemplated if the Turks execute their threats to ex- pei Italians and seize their prop erty in Turkey, though the possi- bility of the powers interfering against bombardment and seizure of Iports in European and Asiatic Tur- key is admitted.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
COIN HARVEY HAS PLAN
 TO IMPROVE LEGISLATURE

w. H. (Coinl Harvey, author and
 political reformer, writes as fol-
 lows to the Arkansas Free Lance: A most important political reform to purify politics in this state and
 one that is perfectly practical, is to bring about a method for creating an intelligent, efficient and honora- | bIe legislature. And here is the method l have t0 suggest: Let some
 one or a few in each county issue a call, addressed to a few upright men in each township, to meet at fixed
 hour and day at the county seat, to confer, consider and place in noml- nation, to be voted on at the prl- maries, the number of candidates 1 for the legislature the county is en- titled to. Let the call go out 90 or GO days before the meeting so as to give time to consider and canvass the situation.
 All good men now feel the impor- tance of establishing the name and honor of Arkansas and appreci- ate the offer of the Free Lance to
 help. Your paper, I presume, goes into all the counties of the state,
 and through the help of all the other papers we can get this matter well before the people.
 We have canvassed it in the Dem- ocratic party in this county, find 1t | is very popular, and will call our meeting for some time in December and put up two candidates for the Legislature, the number this county is entitled to, recommend to the pri-
 mary. In this way we will pick men who are honest and capable. The
 reputation of the legislature has be- come such that good men, often, shun being members of it, believing
 that if they go there they will find
 it loaded down with impractical and corrupt members to such an extent
 as to make it impossible to do any
 thing. By the method suggested,
 adopted throughout the state, all will be encouraged. And such a convention or conference suggested
 will select, or is most apt to select, Ithe right men, who would not uomi- nate themselves, but who will ac-
 cept when selected by such con- ference, especially when they know
 the same process is in operation all
 over the state; and that if elected
 they will sit in body that it will
 be an honor and credit to act with.
 This method leaves the primaries to
 check on it and overthrow any cor
 rupt or undue influence used to rec lommend candidates.
 1 Such meetings may be called by
 the chairman of the central com
 mittee or any one or more citizens.
 It should be addressed to well
 known men of reputable standing
 who are not in the office-seeking
 class, and they might be invited to
 select and bring with them any citi-
 zen of their township of similar
 standing who might wish to attend.
 While this method is urged upon
 the Democrats in all the counties, it
 appeals with like force to the Re- lpublicans or any other political par | ty that may have candidates in the
 field, as the character of our laws,
 the honor and reputation of Ar
 kansas is not party matter.
 l w. H. Harvey.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
War Prices Down South.

In 1865 an ounce of quinlne could not be purchased for less than $i,-
 TOO in the South. Provisions were simply enormous in price. Here are just few instances: In February a
 ham weighing 50 pounds sold for exactly $750, or at the rate of $f5 a pound. Flour was $500 barrel. Fresh fish retailed all over at $5 a pound, and ordinary meal was $50 a bushel. Those who lived in boarding houses paid $200 to $500 a month. White beans retailed at $75 a bushel. Tea went for anything from $20 a pound to $60, and coffee
 i'll like ratio.
 The most ordinary brown sugar was sold for Si0 pound. Ordinary adamantine candles were sold for $i0 pound. In a cafe breakfast was ordinarily $i0. In April sugar went to 800 a barrel and articles of wearing apparel sold, coats at $350. trousers at $i00 and boots at $250.
 Butter was $i5 pound. Potatoes went for $2 quart. Tomatoes of the size of walnut sold for S20 a dozen. Chicken varied from $35 to $50 a pair.
 The price on the bill of fare of the Richmond restaurant in Jan- uary, 1864, were: Soup, $i50; bread and butter, Si50; roast beef, plate $3; boiled eggs, S2; ham and eggs, S3.50; rock fish, a plate, $5; fried oysters, plate, $5; raw oysters, $3; fresh milk, glass, S2; coffee, a cup, S3; tea, cup, $2.
 These figures are taken from var. ious sources and have the virtue of faccuracy, if nothing else. Always was
 the fear of famine, and time and time again did the soldiers donate a portion of their rations, taken from
 their apportionment in the field, to relieve the pressing necessities. The shrinkage of the currency
 was, Of course, responsible, and some idea may be gathered from a story that went the rounds at the
 time. A soldier galloped along a
 country road and a farmer leaning
 over the fence admired the animal.
 He called to the trooper, offering to
 buy the horse.
 Give you ssO,OOO for him, John ny" he said.
 Not much, old man. just paid Sia naa .e have iiim snod," was the lreply.-Spare Moments.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
O---- ----- DANGER IN DELAY
Kidney Diseases Are Too Dancer .0us Tor Mena People t0 NeaIect


 .ous Tor Mena People to NeqIect The great danger of kidney trou- pies IS that they get firm hold he- I0re the sufferer recognizes them. health IS gradually Undermined Backache, headache, nervousness lameness, soreness, lumbaro. nrin1 ary troubles, dropsy. gravel ' and md brlghts disease follow in merci- less succession. Don't neglect vonr Kidneys. Help the kidneys with inc reliable and safe remedy. Doan,s Kidney. Pills, which has cured naos pie right here i'll this locality.
 l.. W. Clark, Heavener. OE far lller' says: A member of the family was afflicted with kidney disease Tor number of years. She was vas Dothered by pains in the small of Ihe back and kidneys and any sud- ueI move or stepping caused n dnIl aching Tn the limbs. Other svmn- toms of kidney disease led me fin Pfueure a box of Doan's Kidney rllIs and she began their use. This remedy seemed to be just what she required and soon brought her ree se leI. Continued use entirely die posed Of the complaint"
 For sale by all dealers pr;oa Su cents. Foster Milburn Co. Inf Iaio, N. Y., sole agents for 'u tha United States. 'oi a'ic
 Remember the name-Doan'e and take no other.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
WHEN JOHNSTOWN WENT DOWN
The Conemaugh Valley Death List
 Ran Into Thousands.

Pennsylvania has been the scene of more disastrous floods than any state in the union. The most ap- palling calamity of it's kind in Amer ican history was the collapse of a reservoir dam in the mountains of Cambria county, Pennsylvania, May l3i, 1889. The crumbling dam re- leased lake one and three-fourths miels long, one and a quarter miles wide and one hundred feet deep, discharging bodily the enormous bulk of water into the valley of the Conemaugh river below. The ruin that resulted, which included the destruction of half dozen towns and villages, the loss of thousands of lives and the ruin of property worth millions, since has been known as the Johnstown Flood.
 The number 6f lives lost by drowning, fire and other mishaps in- eidental to the terrible catastrophe. never has been accurately deter mined. It IS known that the number exceeded two thousand, and the es- inmates immediately after the event
 were as high as twelve thousand. The Johnstown flood was the cul-
 minating disaster of protracted
 rainy season in the mountain coun- try of Pennsylvania in the spring of 1889. There had been an almost continual downpour for weeks, and the streams and lakes of the region
 had been swollen to the danger point for days before the final mis- fortune. Tbe Conemaugh dam was
 an old structure that had been built as a viaduct for canal company and afterward acquired and height ened by club of wealthy sports men, who used the lake it created
 as fishing and hunting resort. The people of the Conemaugh Valley several hundred feet below the lake level, of whom the greater number
 were employed in the iron mills and foundries of the district, and who numbered about twent-five thous- and, repeatedly had been warned of the dangerous condition of the dam When the crash came hundreds died
 who might have escaped had they
 not grown indifferent to danger
 by constantly living in it's presence.
 and even after the rush of water down the valley mounted messen-
 gers and telegraph dispatches told of the swift approach of destruc-
 llon; but many fingered until it was too late to fly.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
THE OLD WAY AND THE NEW.

The typos old pick from the case Has changed to machines rapid
 pace
 To iron and steel,
 To shafting and wheel, And the keyboard has taken his
 place. The clinking old rule and the stick With their intoxicating, rattling
 click,
 Are now laid away
 And slow prints" and gray Are out by Linotype trick. The tourist who shipped oft as
 freight, Arriving both early and late,
 Panhandllng, subbing,
 Hungry for "grubbing," Has had to submit to las fate. He walks or he rides on the road, The fields and the plains his abode; He IS working no more,
 But tramps till he's sore, Since the Linotype's stream over
 flowed.
 The old fashioned cases grow few, Machines quickly cast the lines new; Distribution is past
 And "sIugs" are all cast By the stereotype metal pot stew. A long -the-well' to the stick And the rule with the musical click, To the old wooden cases
 And the smiling old faces or the boys who were quick on
 type-plck. Adieu to the strings and the paste, To the longest we often have raced; Old-tlmers are "out,"
 But the young comps about >nd filling up columns with haste. Yet the handsetter never was known. Nor proofreader, sober, would OWL, To pass" such mixture
 Or puzzling picture As machine "pi'' often has shown. For example: mdghFdhAscrulcxyfli Oscar Langford, Union Printers Home, Colorado Springs, Colo.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
JUDGE SHAVER FOR CONGRESS-.

Every man in Mena and Polk punty, as we'll as in a good many Jher towns and counties in the Fourth Congressional district, will abncede that when Judge James D. haver decided to announce himself candidate for Congress, itwas Nj event of sufficient importance to -ause all other aspirants for the onor to pay decided heed.
 Judge Shaver has been in public fe in Western Arkansas for almost lirty years, the past ten nd a half fars judge of the chancery court
 the Sixth chaneery circuit. In |7'l that time he has, year by year, -iilt up reput stion for intelli- once and fairness that could not [ excelled. He is respected equally
 iawyers who have practiced be- .fe his court and by those who I've as citizens sought for equity atween man and man. His record
 judge has been repeatedly up- i'd in the highest courts with re- -arkable regularity.
 And. besides this public record ci ,nor, his private and social life as been free from the slightest int. And while. by every test, Fdse Shaver is ''born and bred
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
WAR ON BETWEEN
 ITALY AND TURKEY
Continued From First Page, !

dependent of five regular divisions of the Italian fleet, have been en- trusted with clearing the sea he- tween Italy and Tripoli and also the eastern part of the Mediterranean attacking and sinking of all Turkish warships and transports within a radius of their action. This is in- tended to check Turkish plans which, according to official reporls aim at an attack on steamers trans porting troops from Naples, Tranlz and Syracuse to Tripoli. These steamers are moving at the rate of ten miles, and it will take from two to four days to reach their destina- tiOns.
 Cretans have notified their repre- sentatives in Italy that they did not intend to permit the opportunity afforded by the Tripoli affair to pass without obtaining their long desired annexation of Greece.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05

Democrat, party lines will hardly be considered by those who love a square deal and a dispenser of square deals.
 should Judge Shaver succeed in his ambition to represent this dis trict in Congress, Mena, and Polk county, and the Fourth district, and Arkansas, will have reason for re ioicing.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
HOmeSeeker andTrader Look = Think - Study
1T You Don't Act, Keep This to Re-
 member the Lost Opportunity.

lS B-230a, 2i miles cast of Mena; Boa cleared; orchard, spring and house; timber will cut f,250000 feet. A big bargain at s5 per acre. H B-One of the finest locations in Mena; one and one 4-room house; fine frontage. Price on ap- plication.
 b B--i46a, 7h miles vast of Gill; ham; some good pine and oak that has never been cut over; 10000 ties; good orchard or farm land. $500.
 10 B-i0a. F miles from Hatfield; line orchard land. $i75.0O. Wanted-Arkansas property to trade Tor Western Oklahoma and
 Kansas Land. tall and see us--we will meet you
 half-way in deal HomeSeekers information Bureau Opposite An tiers Hotel mennA, Ark.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
E. J. Lundy for Senator.

To the Voters of Polk md Scott Counties:
 1 am candidate for State Sen- ator, subject to the action of the Democratic primary.
 At later date l shall try to give all the voters an opportunity to learn my position on all public mat ters.
 Thanking you for your support. l am, Yours most truly,
 Elmer J. Lundy.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05

George w. Donaghey. governor,
 and' George A. Cole, president of the Arkansas Farmers Union, urge the farmers to hold their cotton for
 higher prices about i5 cents seem ling to be the ideal figure. Now what will the farmers do?
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05

There is suspicion that there is an advertising scheme behind that story that prison convict ma le good whiskey with few prunes and a fountain syringe. Thoje California fruit growers are sharp ones.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05

The president of the Conservation &songress in Kansas City says science is responsible for the wide Sap between the producer and the Consumer, and the high price of foodstuifs. It must be confessed nhat the system used by the r il-
 'oads. commission houses, etc., to set the bulk of the profit is down 10 a mighty scientific basis.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05

{, In the French warship when a petty officer discovered that a fire vas burning near the powder maga-
 lines and reported the fact to his -uperior, the latter, in effect, told lim to git out" and attend to his
 wn duties. Then both died. From -everal angles; lheee would would nave .een a different story if Americans lad been involved.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05

Bryan says 1t took four and a half years of litigation to prove that officials of law-br, aling trust cor operations can he sent to prison, and intimates that he'd like to see the Knowledge put to some use.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05

Morris Sheppard now aspires to Joe Bailey's place in the United States senate. Soon Bailey won't have anything to interfere with his
 valuable service to the trusts.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
For Congress. For C0nareSSman

JAMES D. SHAVER authorizes the announcement of his candidacy for the office of Congressman of this, the Fourth Congressional district, subject to the action of the Demo cratic primaries.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05

Madero is playing safe. Learning of probable trouble on election day, he sent out soldiers and whipped the stuflln' out of the enemy.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05

It now develops that systen atic vote buying exists in Mississippi along lines similar to those in vogue in Ohio. After all, human nature is very much alike, and this dis dressing situation may show up most
 anywhere except in Arkansas, of
 eoursa
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05

The Italians are whipping the Turks almost as easily as the Span iards expected to 'clean up" Amer ica some years ago.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
WHISTLE THEIR DEATH CALL.
Hundreds of Persons Believed Ii
 Was Fire Alarm.

Corning, N. Y- Sept. 3O.-AThe dam has burst. We are going to fly for our lives"
 This message, flashed by the tele- graph operator in the Buffalo &
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
For State Senate.

ELMER J. LUNDY authorizes the announcement of his candidacy for Senator of this, the Thirty-third Senatorial district, subject to the action of the Democratic primaries
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05

Without any desire to be inhos- pitable, Miss Summertime has mighty near worn out her welcome for this year.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
THE TRUTH ABOUT sLu,no
r.Ik No. s.

Avoid iicuid bluing. In every city 0srs ts an accumulation of junk bot uss which are gathered up and filled wfh weak solution called b7uing Don't buy water for bluing.
 Buy RED CROSS BALL BLUE: a b-cent package equals % cents worth of liquid blue. Makes clothes whitsr sAAn saev. ALL GOOD GRoCERa.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05

Anyhow, there is no danger of the water works dam above Mena giving away and drowning half the inhab- itanls.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05

Cleanse the liver and bowels and regulate the system by using Prick ly Ash Bltters. It creates and sus- tains energy. W. C. yandiver. spec ial agent; Jackson Drug Co, special agent: Davis Drug Co. special agent