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THE MENA WEEKLY STAR
Published aaoh Thursday at tba offlo* at
Mena Street mu llonert Avenue, Mena. Ark
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V. W. 8T. JOHN. Editor.
R. R. ST. JOHN. Manager.
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TUB MBNA EVENING STAR
Is a progressive newspaper furnishing
to Its reader* a dally service covering
the moat Important of the world's gen
eral happenings, aa well us those ltemi
of 'ocal news that go to make a hom<
p* ,>er Invaluable to cltlions of any com
munlty. If you want the newa In youi
home each week day. subscribe for Thi
Evening Star. By carrier or mall, 40<
ner month. __
“While there’s life there’s hope.’
Read what a man of 86 years die
near Imboden, and you will see th«
point. - _
President Taft, as soon as he hac
digested the election returns, start
ed on a trip to see the Panama canal
Can’t blame him.
If Taft ever really was deceived
into believing that the tariff law ht
approved was popular, the blinder!
now have been removed from his
eyes. _
Mexicans are knocking a big chit
off the shoulder of Uncle Sam—and
just when the talk of raising tht
Maine Should make them think twici
before getting reckless.
The Democratic party now ha!
full control of the Lower House ol
Congress, but, unfortunately, havt
a chance to excuse all failures bj
laying the blame on the Senate am
President.
Imitations sometimes are repre
Rented to be better than the real ar
tide, for instance in the ca>»e of ole
margarine. But, it takes lots of ef
fort to get the makers to call it b]
its real name.
The Mexicans are showing the bat
taste, if not bad judgment in in
suiting the Scars and Stripes and at
tacking American citizens and prop
erty in the City of Mexico, and thi
United States has no desire to ac
quire Mexico either.
The corn crop of the United States
this year is 3,121,000,000 bushels
140,000,000 more than expected,349,
000,000 more than last year and 194,
000,000 more than the greatest previ
ous yield. The chances seem good
for corn bread at least another year
It is not of so much interest thal
the Democrats in the lower House
will control $700,000 in jobs now held
by Republicans, as is the question at
to whether they will make the hold
ers of those jobs worth more to tht
people who pay the $700,000.
About the only places where the
Republican party can claim an.vthins
are where the Democratic party held
control so long that its corruptior
was intolerable—as Tennessee and
Missouri. And those were not ir
reality Republican victories—merely
a kicking out by the people of old
bosses and methods.
Every once in a while some mer
-hant putBon an owl-like counte
nance and says “advertising don’l
pay.” Then the next moment he’s
likely to have something to say
about the way the mail order houses
are ruining his business! Where
would the mail order houses be il
they didn’t advertise? Think it
over. _
It has been pretty welCestablished
that Dr. Cook was within twenty
miles of the summit of Mt, McKin
...: 1
ley when he claimed to have scaled *
the peak. That was really pretty ^
close, however, when compared with (
the guess of the men, who thought 1
they could revise the tariff upward *
and “make good” with the Ameri- f
can people.
=——-\
Champ Clark, the most pronrncr* t
Democratic member of the House of \
Representatives from Missouri, long (
ago promised to dime a team of
Missouri mules down Pennsylvania;
avenue in Washington if elected j.
speaker of the House. It’s about
time to select the rnules.
With prohibition Kansas on the
West, prohibition Iowa oti the North
and near-prohibition Arkansas' on
tbe South. Missouri went the other
way by an estimated majority of
135,000. But that’s positively no
excuse whatever for drinking booze.
It may, however, be evidence that
Missourians do not iike the kind of
temperance on exhibition by its
neighbors._
OZARK OPPORTUNITY:?.
Prof. C. F. Marbut of the geol- i
ogy d partment of the University of c
Missouri, recently spent several
months in the mountains in Missouri
near the Arkansas line, and at the
end of time issued a bulletin that ,
was published by the College of Agri- ■
culture.
Among other things Mr. Marbut -
says: (
“Cleanliness is a necessity in pro
ducing good milk.The Ozark region is 1
| one of die cleanest and most healthful i
1 in the world, because of good drain- (
, age and pure water. The drainage is
due to the presence of stones and grav- <
c! in the soil, which prevents the ac- 1
| cumulation of stagnant pools of water,
the ordinary cause of disease. Hanks
an the running streams are not muddy 1
as in prairie countries. * .
Climate and water Bupply are all the
dairyman could hope to ’find. Mild 1
winters with much sunshine add to the |
comfort and health of the cattle and (
lessen the expense for shelter. Num
erous springs in all parts of the Oz
arks furnish an abundance of pure i
water.
Dairy farming is profitable in the
| Ozarks also because of the ease with <
which leguminous crops are grown. ;
W ith proper care and attention, near
ly all the Ozark country will produce !
good croys of clover and cowpeas and ■
fairly good crops of alfalfa. These .
make excellent feed for dairy cattle.
‘‘The Ozark region is notonly adapt- <
ed to dairy farming, but fruit aud ,
poultry farming are likewise profit- '
able. Professor Marbut tells in de
tail of the different branches of farm- ]
ing which are adapted to the Ozarks.” ,
It certainly would seem that every (
farmer in Polk county could well af- i
ford to devote considerable thought ,
to the above in relation to his own (
location.
In no wav possible can a good (
point be made in favor of the moun- j
tain region in Southern Missouri, .
that does not apply to Polk county, j
We have the pure air, the pure wa- (
ter, the health, we can grow clover, ,
cowpeas and all the leguminous ,
crops even better than further north, |
and we have more sunshine and ,
milder winters by far than even be- f
yond Rich Mountain—to say nothing
of 200 miles nearer the North Pole.
Not many years will pass until the
world will be brought to the reali- t
zation that Polk county, high, j
healthy and beautiful, jutting like a j
peninsula far down into the Souih- (
land, is the spot favored of earth, ■]
and just such articles as above quot- f
ed will aid in bringing it about.
F. B. Mumford, director of agri- (
cultural Experiment Station, Colum- 8
bia, Mo., will send you the bulletin -\
free on request.
THE SPIRIT TH AT WINS.
Mena today had a view of whole- j
some enterprise and public spirit (
that is worthy of emulation. t
Twenty citizens of Montgomery j r
county, busy, pushing, enterprising!r
r en, every one, were here in the in- j L
erest of their respective localities.
Phey want to help to build the Mena
it Hot Springs railroad, and in con
ideration of that help, want it built
where it will do most for the locali*
ies they represent.
In other words, they are from
ilong the line of what is known as
he northern route, the one that will
fo through or near Waters, Oden,
lit. Ida and towns along the Ouach
ta valley.
Whether or not these men attain
heir desires, they are very much in
arnest and deserve well. They
ome with data as to the resources
if their section, the prospective ton
ige, and claims as to the grades and
ase of construction.
It is just this sort of spirit, that
wins in the affairs of life. It is
wholesome and healthy and fine.
May all Western Arkansas become
noculated with it.
Soc'al'sni Will Furnish Own Proof.
When Mr. Emil Seidel wes elected
he Socialist mayor of Milwaukee
he Socialist political organization
ad an opportunity to show what an
xponent of its program would do in
responsible place. There had prev
nusly been a Socialist mayor in
layerhill, Mass., but for the first
ime the full responsibilities of a
nunicipal government rested with
hat party.
The Socialist|mayor and hiscoadju
ors did not kick the table over,
’here was nothing wild-eyed or des
ructive of good things in their work,
’hey simply gave square deal gov
rnment within the law and the con
itstition. As a manifest result of
hat trial, the Milwaukee congres
ional district has elected Mr. Victor
Jerger, a Socialist, to Congress; Mil
waukee county has elected Socialists
o all its offices and given a plurality
ote to the Socialist candidate for
lovernor of Wisconsin; and the
latpnf Wisconsin has plpi-tpif twplvp
•;semblymen and one senator to the
' ite legislature.
One may "view this with alarm"
>r not, as he is tempermentally in
lined. One may interpret its sig
lificance as he will. But one who i3
visely patriotic will seek to under
tand—really, and without prejudice
--what this entry of Socialism into
he national arena means. And one
vho is thus wisely patriotic will be
villing to let Socialism, or any other
'ism,” prove whether or not it has
n it anything of service to the Re
•ublic. He will do this, confident
hat if it has merit enough to make
ts way it will make its way, and if
t is fatally defective that too, will
oon enough be demonstrated.—Kan
as City Star.
Do Not Bum the Leaves.
Fools burn leaves, leaving for them
elves a pinch of poor ashes, but send
ng back into the air what was taken
rom it by the process of growth,
’hese thousands of tons are not made
iut of the earth, but out of the air and
ire intended to be turned over into
oil. If you plant a tree in a tub of
lirt and leave it there until it weighs
•ne hundred pounds, you will find,
>y weighing the dirt, that the tree was
lot made up of what was in the tub,
>ut almost altogether of what it could
let from the air—carbon and nitrogen
or the most part, with hydrogen com
>osing a good share of the liquid part
if the snn
The elements of the soil that are
lot in the air are deep down under
he surface of the soil, or incorporat
;d in the rocks. The most important
tre potash and phosphorus. You get
ome potash from ashes, weed waste,
oap suds, and there are a few soils
hat in their natural state are entirely
leficient in this element. The timber
oils of our corn belt contain about
wo thousand pounds of phosphorus
>er acre. Raising crops that use up
hese elements steadily lessens the
lossibility of growing any crops at all.
Ve have got to find them in the soil,
f we use them up, we have got to re
dace them,
Agriculture should be renamed aeri
ulture, because we are really taking
fom the air the larger parts of our
mnual crops. What we must know
s how to do this most readily. Our
athers knew that they must use
nanure and they knew that they must
otate crops. They knew, also, that
iving plants fed on decaying plants,
his having first served as food for
inimals.—Outing.
LaFoilette as a Prophet.
The loss of Senator Beveridge to
he progressives in the Senate will
ie to some extent compensated for
iy the election of three new pro
Tessives by the legislatures chosen
'uesday. In Washington Miles Poin
exter will succeed Piles, a stand
latter. In North Dakota Represen
ative Gronna will succeed Purcell
nd in Michigan Representative
'ownsend will succeed Burrows.
Poindexter has been a bold and
ggreasive fighter in the House. He!
dll be an important addition to the!
rogressive forces in the Senate, j
Ironna has always been a e’ependa- j
le insurgent, and can be counted
n with certainty. Townsend i:i a
tan of gnat ability, who was num
ered among the near-insurgents in
the House. It may be assumed,
however, that he understands why
his state elected him to succeed Bur
rows, and that he will be found con
sistently on the progressive side,
where he belongs by conviction..
“And how many 'progressives are
there?” was the sneer thrown at Sen
ator La Follette in the tariff fight
“Two years ago,” was his reply,
"I stood here alone. Now there are
six or eight of us—and our number
will increase ” A good prophet, La
Follette.—Kansas City Star.
The Treating Habit Analyzed.
The Horse Editor’s notion of the
treating habit: “Did you ever delve
into the philosophy of the treating
habit? Did you ever see a man show
any symptoms of sense in that direc
tion? Did you ever see anybody
hand around silver quarters, or
packages of groceries, or pairs of
socks, or any other useful article to
friends they wished to please? Why
is it that the treating fiend who is so
highly gratified as his friend digs
down into a cigar box for a Queen
would feel a contempt for the same
party if he should, instead, take a
plug of chewing tobacco, a pocket
comb, a couple of lead pencils, or
anything else he might happen to
need? Why does he limit his gener
osity to liquors, cigars and soda
fountain froth when there are so
many useful things his nickles and
dimes would buy? The more we re
flect upon this question the more be
wildered we become in trying to
understand it. On one point, how
ever, we are perfectly clear, that
most men who ‘set ’em up’ to Tom,
Dick and Harry are hog wild about
economy when their wives and
daughters want £ a little pocket
change.—Kansas City Star.
Food Adulteratian Years Ago.
Good work and honest dealing
were exacted by each guild of its
members, and their laws against
adulteration and the like were al
most savage in their severity. In
the year 1546 two grocers were
burnt in Nuremberg for adulterat
ing saffron and spices. A similar
instance occurred at Augsburg in
1492. In some towns, makers who
did not properly bake their bread
were shut up in a basket fixed to the
er.d of a pole, and soused to the bot
tom of a pool of dirty water as many
times as were thought necessary tc
reform and make better tradesmer
of them.—“The Story of France,”
by Thomas E. Watson.
KANSAS CITY STARBEAMS.
John Quincy Adams: The hearl
will break, yet brokenly live on.
This is another year when Maine
had no monopoly in the matter oi
going hell-bent.
Next time the tariff will be re
vised by those who are not blinded
by their infatuation with it.
“Senate may be a tie” says a head
line. Heretofore Aldrich has had
the Senate tied—hand and foot.
There seems to be no danger thal
the small boys will ever carry ofl
those 92-ton gates of the Paname
canal.
Apparently it was a happy circum
stance that President Taft issued hit
Thanksgiving proclamation before
instead of after.
Perhaps Professor Bell, who has
discovered that monkeys can talk
may be induced to persuade the
monkeys to forget it.
La Bruyere: It is happiness to be
nobly descended, it is not less to have
so much merit that nobody inquires
wether we are so or not.
In the next Congress Mr. Cannon
will be almost the only surviving
member of the once merry and num
erous insurgency-ls-Dead Club.
J hree nights in abbreviated "pup”
tents are enough to make the soldiers
from Fort |Leavenworth growl that
the army has gone to the bow wows.
“To follow the leadership of th«
Reactionaries is to walk into inevit
able defeat”—this is from no less
authority than Nicholas Long worth
himself.
The Voters were very kind to the
brewers last Tuesday, but the brew
ers- should not get the idea into their
heads that it’s because they’re Irre
sistible.
Champ, according to Webster’s
dictionary, means “to bite.” Well,
the indications arc that the next
House of Representatives is going
to bite, all right.
The widow of “Lucky” Baldwin is
the co-respondent is a divorce suit
in Los Angeles. By which token it
appears that Mr. Baldwin is not only
dead but still lucky.
William Allen White of the Em
poria, Kas., Gazette, thinks the dead
game sports who are betting 2 to 1
on Dix in New York, have already
forgotten the lessons of the recent
episode in Reno, Nev.
“When your wife comes home
from her long stay at the summer
resort,” a husband was asked, “do
you tell her everything that went on
during her ubsenoe?” “No,” he re
plied, “but the neighbors do.”
Farm Produ es Lead All
By C. F. Adams, I loan and Director, Univer
sity of Arkansas. Fayetteville.
Each class of i..“n contributes its
share to the welfare and advancement
of our country. The farmer’s part
am be ascertained somewhat afler the
following fashion:
The gold output of the United States
in 1907 was $90,000,000; California
contributed in fruit alone $101,000
C00.
The sixteen battleships winch
___J ask for TRADING COUPONS —
-IT MEANS MONEY TO YOU !
Best Calico, all colors Ladies’ and Childrens’
Per yard Fleeced Underwear
5c 23c
36 inch LL Muslin Mens’, Ladies’, Chil
Per yard drens’ 15c Hose at
5c 85c
Good Grade Cotton J. & P. Coats Best
Checks, per yard Thread, per spool
5c 4c
Good Grade Outing, Good Grade Pearl
light and dark color Buttons, per dozen
62c 2k
75c Mens’ Fleeced
Underwear, each
43c
75c Mens’ and Boys’
Coat Sweaters, each
43c
75c grade Mens’ Dress
Shirts, each
49c
Big Reduction Mens’
Ladies’ and Childrens’
Shoes
I Space will not permit us to quote all the bargains we have
mena THE BOSTON STORE ark
steamed around the Horn cost us
$97,000,000; New York and Wiscon
sin produced milk valued at $126,
000,000.
The world gave us in silver $107,
000,000; Illinois donated in corn
$125,000,000.
Our Army and Navy called npon us
for $178,000,000; And Texas’ Cotton
replenished us with $218,000,000.
Pig Iron in the United States stood
nt $312,000,000; And our wheat crop
gave us $500,000,000.
The world’s gold gave to our coffers
$390,000,000; While our working cap
ital in hay was $660,000,000.
We burned in coal the sum of $510,
000,000; And grew cotton wortl:
$675,000,000.
The expenses of our Federal Gov
ernment was $700,000,000; And oui
dairy products paid for it, and had £
balance of $100,000,000.
Our national debt was $1,200,000,
000; W'hile our corn crop could have
paid it off and would have had a bal
ance of $150,000,000 left, with whirl
to purchase seed.
These figures are based upon prices
paid to the farmers, and not on prices
to consumers. Truly agriculture is
something like atmospheric pressure
It is so common that we do not rec
ogmze us reaiuy. use a nsn w«
never fully realize the nature of oui
environment until we get out of it
Conservation and intensification as
regards the soil is the most funda
mental economic problem before us.
Rational Brevities.
Davidson.
Our alphabet has but 26 letters
yet these 26 are sufficient to spell
over 300,000 words and convey in
definite range of thoughts. Despise
not small things.
Every one should so polish his
thoughts, as to make the n like
flowers in the choice variety of fra
grance, or like harps turned to the
richest harmonies.
To take one’s cross means to sacri
fice all personal desires to the rule
of divine law.
Be reasonable, for it is the only
road to just and correct conclusions.
That which is formless is spiritual
and therefore invisible to the nat
ural eye, is eternal and impondera
ble; white all that is visible is pon
derable, transitory and must perish
like the autumn leaves. The former
is under divine guidance and des
tined to progress forces.
Many a good Christian—so far as
real character is concerned—bring
down upon themselves criticism ga
lore and all on account of allowing
some word or act to slip away un
noticed by the guard of Christian
discretion, while at the same time, if
the criticiser would look a little
deeper into the real character of the
criticised one, they would feel like
absenting themselves to some lonely
spot with some first class kicker and
have themselves thoroughly kicked
for 15 minutes.
BITS OP EVERY DAY PHILOSOPHY
(Atchluon Globe.)
“A bashful man,” says an old
proverb, “will make a woman
brave.”
An ordinary days work is enough
to distinguish a man, if he does it
well.
When a man reaches a point of
giving a second mortgage his af
fairs are reaching a dangerous state
S*The average woman doesn’t be
lieve her husband truly loves her
unless he loves her kin.
If you want to make a woman
good and mad, just intimate that c
she is not bringing up her children ' £
right. < ,g
Women are worse than men to sit j
around and tell about the automobile
they intended to purchase in the fc
spring. g
| |When young folks say “things are
different now,” their tone indicates j
a belief that people were formerly ,
a little slow. j
Every time we hear of an opera
tion for appendicitis we feel shoot
ing pains down where we believe
our appendix is. ,
When a married woman con- ‘
gratulates a bride at a wedding she ,
always says; “I hope you will be as
happy as I am,” but a Spin his to
make up something new every time.
Some Things to Do This Month
Gather the cotton as it matures,
keep it in the dry after it is baled;
in boil weevil territory cut down
and plow under the stalks.
Sow rye on all cotton, corn and
other cultivated land where nothing
else is growing.
Finish wheat sowing; see that the
land is well prepared and the seed
good, and sow with a drill if possible.
Do some fall plowing; plow deep
and thoroughly; use at least two
horses and a good plow.
| Fix up the barn and sheds so that
the live stock will keep dry and
warm. If the whole south side is
pen, it doesn’t matter, but the little
oles the wind blows through keep
toek uncomfortable.
Plant an orchard; set out berries,
rapes and small fruits; plant some
hade trees and make a lawn.
Study the problems of feeding and
ind out the grains that will best pay
mu to use with the rough feeds you
lave.
Get some good books and papers
’or the young folks to read on long
w-nter evenings; provide some games
md if possible music of some sort.—
Jtarkvilie (Miss.) Progressive Farm
er and Gazette.
Brick and Mortar.
rrom “Irish Life and Humor."
Two Irishmen were arguing who
was the cleverer.
“Well,” said Pat, “I’ll bet you
•an t tell me what keeps bricks to
gether.”
“Shure,”said Mike, "it'smortar.
“No,” said Pat, you are wrong;
that keeps them apart.”
Prickly Ash Bitters can be depend
ed on on to cure the kidneys, correct
the urine, strengthen the stomacl
and relieve backache.
Jackson Drug & Furniture to,
special agents. _
Davis Drug Co., special agent.
W. C. Vandiver special agent, j
“It
Cured
My
BacK”!
twenty-nine years I have
been at intervals a great sufferer
from rheumatism. During th
time, no telling how many gj
Ions of the various kinds of lini
ments and oils I have usd and
with but little relief.
I was confined to my bed help
less. I tried Sloan’s Limrnent
and used it with such satisfactory results that I sent for two arge
and I have up to this time used about half a 50 cent bottle wi 1 P ;
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Got Ease in Less Than Ten Minutes. „Iam
Mr. James E. Alexander, of North Harpswell, Me.,"ri ' j,jch has
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brought on rheumatism in the sciatic nerve. I had it so a j
when sitting in my chair, that I had to jump on my feet to ge
at once applied your
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Sloan’s Liniment does not need any
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Try it for Rheumatism, Sciatica,
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