The Mena weekly star., November 24, 1910, Image 4

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IHC SENA WEEKLY STAR
PIHhM auk ThuraAtr at the offto* oi
Mom Street near Honert Avenue. Mena Ark
t, W. ST. JOHN’S SONS, Proprietor*
V. W. ST. JOHN. Editor.
R R ST. JOHN. Manager.
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smttar.
THE MEN A EVENING STAR
Is a progressive newspaper furnlahlns
to Us readers a dally service covering
the roost Important of the world's gen -
eral happenings, as well as those Item*
of 'ocaf new* that go to make a home
uj*r invaluable to cttlsens of any com
munity. If you want the news In your
home each week day. subscribe for The
Evening Star. By carrier or mall, 40c
oar month.
Jack Johnson, the pugilist, is said
by his physicians to be in a condition
bordering on nervous prostration.
Jeffries had his attack too soon to
make this of value to him.
President Taft assures the people
of Panama that they need have no
fear of annexation by the United
States—so long as they “be good.”
That is not the diplomatic language,
but means the same thing.
A prominent Japanese, comment
ing on recent Republian defeats in
the United States, remarks that
“Anything gets rotton after it has
been stagnant a long time.” Is that
what was the matter with Tennes
see? ___
Guthrie has “the call” in the capi
* . t /M I I _ 1_A
tai CUIIVWJV WIUI UftllUiuiua vn-j,
Governor Haskell continues to reside
and transact business in the latter
city. But it won’t be long before
it won’t make any difference wher •
Haskell resides._
Do the mail houses get money
that if spent with home merchants
would make prosperity? Well, the
mail order people simply are taking
advantage of their legal and moral
rights. They advertise consistently,
persistently and attractively. Don’t
blame them._
Men have learned to fly after ages
of trying—but they fall to death like
birds before the weapons of the hu
man kind. And among these pio
neers of the air, none was a brighter
shining mark for Death than Ralph
Johnstone, the Kansas City boy who
fell with his broken machine at Den
ver. _
The Standard Oil Company has,
through Judge John McCall of the
United States Circuit Court at Jack
son, Tenn., found a handy loophole
in the law by which a 30 million dol
lar fine for lawbreaking has been re
duced to $920,000. And the company
has just paid its regular quarterly
dividend of 10 per cent, netting
John D. Rockefeller 21-2 million
dollars. Good things come easy to
some people.
CHRISTIAN VS. PHYSICAL
SCIENTISTS.
About a month ago The Star pub
lished a dispatch from De Queen re
lating that a Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Mid
dlebrook had been taken in custody
while a doctor and nurse were placed
in charge of their sick child. The
article stated further that these peo
ple were Christain Scientists.
Since then Herbert M. Beck of
Fort Smith, a Christain Science lead
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VI | lliauv oil lilf vowi^uviuii v* V«»v I
case and, among other thinsgs says:
“The Middlebrooks have never at
tended a Christian Science meeting,
read a line of Christian Science lit
erature or have any interest in it.
Christian Scientists undertake to be,
and the church requires them to be,
careful lawabiding citizens.”
The Memphis News Scimitar, com
ments on the De Queen news item
editorially. The Star reprints it by
request and with pleasure:
“The physical scientists may force
us all in self-protection to become
Christian scientists. The former are
frightening us to death. Hardly a
day passes but what the daily press
chronicles a new thing discovered by
the physical scientists for us to be
afraid of. These physical scientists
may be like the promoters of war
armaments that are no sooner fin
ished than useless, and both may
bring their contentions to a reduc
tion and absurdum. The Christian
scientists on the other hand hold out
the hope of us being afraid of noth-1
ing except doing wrong. They
would place every man’s destiny in I
his own hands entirely. They dig
nify manhood wonderfully and great-1
ly exalt God, when they argue that
the promise that He is ail wise, hU
powerful and all present should be
taken seriously and for what it says.
They Beem to dignify God in urging
that He needs no agencies, material
or otherwise, to accomplish His
work. They urge that he fills all
space. He is a!l|powerful and every
where present. They repeat and re- j
new the inquiry if it is a strange
thing that God should raise the dead
“It would seem that a Christian
community would let alone these
people who urge but do not insist
for others the life and doctrines that
they profess. They dignify man
and urge that the time of roan’s de
velopment has arrived, whea the
power over life and death display©
by the disciples for many decade
after the death of Jesus can beagaii
employed, and that the time ha
come when man’s achievements o
character as well as intellect will en
courage the world to think possibl
to men those great powers promise<
by the Master when He said tha
those who believed and lived His lif
would do the works He did an<
greater works.
“Let these people alone or mee
them on their own grounds of argu
ment, and not the force of violence
“At the head of the list of anni
versary congratulations to well
known people which Life prints ever;
week, there stood in the issue of Jul'
14, 1910, the following tribute t(
Mrs. Eddy, which the NewsScimitai
indorses:
“ ‘It is a real pleasure to offer oui
felicitations to one of the most re
markable women ever born in this
country. Mrs. Eddy has had trulj
a wonderful career. Moremalignec
than any woman has ever been thai
we can recall, and, on the othei
hand, more exalted, she has held hei
course in apparent serenity; and al
present, at an advanced age, is stil
at the head and front of one of the
greatest religious movements known
She has made the doctors sit up anc
be more careful; she has attracted
crowds of worshipers, and she stil
remains with us in undiminished
glory. Every effort to dislodge hei
has only resulted in disaster.'
“ ‘Madam, you have established a
true claim upon our respect. How
ever much we may disagree with
your views, it is of much more con
aomipn^a that wa ahmilH ftf*knnwl.
edge your powerful personality.’
“ ‘We give you our blessing.
Peace and a long life continue to bi
your lot.’ ”
” HANKSOIVINO QUEETINOS.
This is the fifteenth time for T e
Weekly Star and the thirteenth f r
The Evening Star that, under the
same management, Thanksgiving
greetings have been sent out to it*
numerous readers.
It is with great satisfaction that
Thanksgiving day, 1910, finds the
people in this section in better and
more prosperous condition than ever
before. Crops have been bountiful,
the prices received by the producers
enough to satisfy all reasonable de
sires, with a result that more men
than ever before have money in
their pockets and the means at hand
to supply their families with the
necessities and comforts of life.
In corresponding ratio the business
interests of Mena are thriving.
Many merchants have fouud their
sales beyond expectation and are
forced to re-order and replenish de
pleted stocks. It is the usual thing
to hear business men say that “busi
ness this fall has been better than
ever before.”
But Mena has lost the Kansas City
Southern division!
Yes, that is true—and with it a
number of valuable citizens. But
there is a silver iining even to this.
The cloud that has threatened for
years has passed by, the storm is
over, and the sun shines as brightly
as ever, and there is no more that
shifting, threatening cloud that
brought shivers of fear to the timid
wherever its unpleasant shape made
its presence felt.
Hundreds of good people, progres
.Him nnil n w r\ W/\ai n fl if a *-v P aiim aiIiiam
tages, ere coming into Mena and
Polk Connty. Thousands more will
come, and the signs are everywhere
that a better day is dawning.
Well may we this year give thanks
to the God of all for the blessings
that have been and are ours.
Let us love and work, and work
and love, and deserve all we have
and all that may be given us.
5 ALVATION ARrtY IN MENA.
The people of Mena have cause for
congratulation in the fact that the
greatest organization in all the world
for the relief of less fortunate hu
manity, the Salvation Army, is tc
establish a mission here.
For recent years in almost the en
tire civilized world, men and women,
earnest, devoted and self-sacrificing,
have taken up a work of humanity,
going into the lower levels, where
needed the mo9t, but where, too
often, denominational churches and
ordinary charity fail to reach.
Mena is fortunate in having but
few instances of suffering for the
necessities of life, and when any
such cases have been brought tc
ligh^ the people responded quickly
and liberally. However, it wiii be s
satisfaction to all charitably inclined
people to know that they have an
organization such as the Salvation
Army, that not only does the
hard work necessary and does it
willingly, but through which theii
donations can be distributed to the
really deserving and where they will
do the most good.
K EEPSBOOSTlNG
A recent number of the Sentinel,
published at Fayetteville, bears evi
dences that M. W. Izard, formerly
in charge of the Antiers hotel in
Mena, is following his conscience and
belief in everlastingly boosting Ar
1 kansas. Recently Mr. Izard wrote
s to a friend in Abilene, Tex., who
1 thanks him and then comes back
3 with kind words for our state and
f urges that its advantages be laid be
- fore the people of Texas, and es
• pecially that those who formerly
1 lived in Arkansas be induced to re
t turn. Our former fellow townsman
a in a "booster” of the right sort, and
1 if his example was followed by more
people Arkansas would come into its
t own even faster than it is.
Don’t Underrate the Small Farm.
I he average American does not
• believe there is much money for him
> in the small farm, says Allan L. Ben
' son in the Delineator for November,
i Ask him if he believes he could make
• a living on a ten-acre farm for a wife
and three children, and he will throw
■ up his hands. Suggest five or ten
acres to him, and he will begin to
i suspect that you have designs upon
his life.
Even if he be disposed to wrench
his living from the soils— which,
probably he will not be—he will tell
you that he could do nothing on less
than forty acres, and that eighty
would barely give him decent com
forts. More likely, he would reject
the farming proposition altogether,
and take a polite clerkship at twelve
dollars a week, or a place in a facto
ry at ten dollars.
Our national tendency is to get
away from the land. In 1792 nine
ty-six per cent of the population
lived on farms. Now, seventy 'per
cent of the population are not en
gaged in farming. Americans are
quitting the land as if they had
measured its possibilities and found
them insufficient.
The fact is that Americans never
even dreamed of the possibilities of
ionrl nIfl Qa fVin aorfVi ia A mnoi/tAna
don’t know what it can do. They
regard Mother Earth as a lean mo
ther. They believe much land must
be used to get a small living. They
believe’all land is like a yeast cake—
good only a little while; witness the
abandoned farms to be found in New
York and New England.
Americans are wrong. A little
land is enough for a living. All
land is good. Crops can be grown
on sand if the grower knows how to
grow them. No farms ever become
useless. It is the farmer who "be
comes useless Any land can he kept
all that Ponce de Leon wanted to be
himself—perpetually young. Broad
ly speaking, no land in America ever
produced for a year a tenth of the
wealth that it is capable of produc
ing every year. If the railroads
were run as poorly as farms are tilled,
a passenger would require a week,
instead of eighteen honrs, to go from
Chicago to New York. Like of un
derstanding is the rule on the farm.
There are just enough exceptions to
prove the rule.
Want Snrcease of Elections.
Sentiment seems to becrystalizing
around the proposition to give state
officials a term of four 'years and
make them subject to recall in case
of incompetency of malfeasance,
and also ineligible for a second term,
in Kansas.
This will take a constitutional
amendment as the constitution pro
vides for a twj year term.
As it is now, the people of Kansas,
as in Arkansas, are stirred up with
politics all the time. No sooner is
one election off until another cam
paign is begun. The returns from
the recent election are not all in, yet
the politicians are beginning to start
booms for governor and other of
ficials two years hence.
With state elections held every
four years business would be more
settled, it is argued, and the people
would not be in the throes of a po
litical agitation always. Many of
the older states have adopted the
four year term and find it works
well. With the recall feature added,
it would be no trouble to get rid of
an undesirable official. What in
this applies to Kansas applies with
double force to Arkansas, for the
reason that we hold Drimaries as
well as elections and our state elec
tions are held separate from national
elections.
Arkansas would do well to agitate
for the reform to be needed in Kan
sas.—Fort Smith Times Record.
No Excuse Now.
The press of Arkansas quite gen
erally is urging a consolidation of
the fall elections at the coming ses
sion of the legislature That body
could do no more sensible thing than
to save the tax-payers of the state
the unnecessary expense of a sepa
rate election. There may have been
a time in the past that it was a just
ifiable precaution but in this day
there is no excuse for it other than
we have always done it that way,
which is a very lame excuse, indeed!
—Southwest American.
The Embellishments of Life.
Man could direct his ways by plain
reason, and support his life by taste
less food; but God has given us wit,
and flavour, and brightness, and
laughter” and perfumers, to enliven
the days of man’s pilgrimage and to
j “charm his pained steps over the
burning marble."—Sydney Smith.
Important to Subscribers
The Star will, beginning
with the issue of Decem
ber 1, have in use a new
and it is thought more
convenient system of keep
ing accounts with sub
scribers.
In making the change it
is possible that some er
rors may creep in, and
should any subscriber not
get his paper, or in any
way find an error in name
or address, he is urged to
report at once, that the
fault may be rectified.
In the meantime, such
of our Polk county friends
as are as much as a year
in arrears Lare especially
requested to call and see
us or send in the amount
due.
A. W. St. John’s Sons
Rational Brevities.
Davidson.
Activity without careful thought
is like an engine without a governor.
The straight and simple road to
heaven is get right at heart, stay
right and go forward.
What is not truth, however beau
tiful and entrancing it may be, is a
dangerous companion.
A rash act at an unguarded mo
ment may supply sorrow for the re
mainder of one’s days on earth.
The small difficulties we meet now
and then are often valuable assets in
life when properly disposed of.
F.vil sopakintr of others, whatever
their character, is totally without
good and is an extremly dangerous
occupation.
The continuous rememberances of
troubles cause mental inflammation
and ultimately even congestion.
Forget them.
Corrupt association of titles and
erronious conceptions of theology
have long impressed the human mind
with a distorted view of God.
To satisfy the heart’s desire with
out a transgression of right, the
heart must be right and backed or
directed bv enough learning to steer
the thoughts wisely.
Temperance is a Christian virtue
and applies to all human actions and
thoughts and thould not be made
inert by concentration on one thing
to the exclusion of all others.
It is far better to be wronged
than to wrong another. For every
dollar wrongfully taken will cost the
perpetrator ten fold in gold eagle
coin of the realm; besides he must
meet that dollar again at judgment.
A little paint, skillfully applied,
may hide the real character of the
wood; buc mere outward pretense
cannot long hide the real human
character, for, springing from with
in, the true character will present
itself.
The dealing of God to humanity is
all that could constitute to the hap
piness of the race, while the dealing
of humanity to humanity is largely
just the reverse. Selfishness finds
lodging, more or less, in almost
every human breast.
An act requiring only a few mo
ments time to accomplish may do
inestimatable good to our fellows.
The writer, when a small boy, was
hulling walnuts when his father came
along and said: “Take a few of
those nuts and plant one in every
- 0 it. i i
uiuci cuuici umt iciilc iuw nuuve
the lane.” The small, thoughtless
boy replied: “Papa, what’s’the use?
You have sold out the place and
they will never do us any good.”
The father replied: .“Well, they
will do somebody somebody good
when we are gone.” The writer re
turned at the end of a dozen years
and saw a most beautiful row of
walnut trees, literally loaded with
nuts.
KANSAS CITY STARBEAMS
Giles: The highest liberty is in
harmony with the highest law.
Alcott. The best things are too
cheaply purchased by a lifetime’s
toil.
Several Kansas City men were ar
rested last week for trafficking in
near-butter—so near, and yet so far.
Senator Aldrich has leased a home
in New York City, and no one will
gainsay that that’s where he belongs.
The Edinburgh dispatch to the
effect that Frank J. Gould has mar
ried a soubrette lacks verification,
but it sounds more than possible.
Undoubtedly the French method
of government has some advatages.
In France the whole cabinet was
forced to resign a few days ago.
The new emergency ration used
by the army is so compact that three
days’ supply can be carried in a vest
pocket. If this frugal method of
eating is a success with the soldiers,
why not give civilians access to it?
William Jennings Bryan occasion
ally enlivens one of his temperance
addresses with an appropriate story.
Thus in an after dinner speech in
Lincoln, Mr. Bryan illustrating the
terrible strength of the drink habit,
said: "A Lincoln doctor, after ex
amining a patient, declared to him,
solemnly: ‘You will have togive up
whiskey or else lose your eyesight.’
The patient rose to his feet with a
sigh. ‘Well, Doc,’he said, ’I guess
I’ve seen pretty much everything.”
B. P. Rock and Rose Comb R. I. R;ds
j A few cockerels of each for sale at
' S».00 to $1.50 each
I l.‘k220-2t. H. Z. Fowler.
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-Sho Bargains
Below is a few of the Shoe Bargains special for this ,
We have not the space to quote all the Bargains we h^eeki
store for you. Come and be convinced. ,,ave in
-1
Our $1.75 Ladies’ Our $1.50Children’s Men’s Fine Patent
’Gun Metal Shoes, blu- Heavy Winter Shoes, Leather Shoes, bluch
cher style, special this all sizes, special this er styles, $3.00 value"
week week special this week ’ '5
$1.39 98c $2.49 '
Our #1.75 Ladies’ $1.75Children’s Vici Men’s $2.50 Box
Vici Kid, blueherand Kid Shoes, blueherand Calf Shoes, blucher
bal. styles, special bal. styles. Special styles, special this i
this week this week week I
$1.39_$1.39 $1.98
Our #1.50 Ladies’ Our #2.50 Ladies’ Men’s $2.00 and
Kid Shoes, blucher Fine Dress Shoes, blu- $2.25 Calf Shoes, blu
styles, special this cher styles, special and bal. styles! cap
week this week and plain toe, special
$1.19 I $1.98 $1.69
Ask us about our Coupon Offering. It means a Saving to*
you. ■
— THE BOSTON STORE - I
FIRES ON MOUNTAINS
After Two Days’ Flarht the Forest Of*
ficers Give Up the Battle.
The mountains north of Mena were
at times Tuesday almost hidden from
sight by a dense smoke which comes
from a forest fire which started some
time Saturday. It appears to have
originated in the valley near the
watrworks dam and has been working
northward and eastward till it now
covers several hundred acres. A
large part of this is not in the Forest
Reserve.
Forest Ranger Guy Brewer, some
hired men and some volunteers fought
with the fire Sunday and Sunday night
and thought it was out. Brewer was
called Monday to a fire on Poteau
mountain and Forest Guard G. J.
Hiett came from the Eagle Gap ranger
station to look over the fire near
Mena. When he went around the fire
line he found that it was apparently
safely extinguished.
Later.however.it broke out and about
five o’clock Monday night with three
men he went out to try and get it un
der control. They worked until nine
o’clock next morning, when they gave
it up and come to town. The line then
was about seven miles long and burning
through grass nearly knee high,but do
ing no damage except possibly to the
young growth of timber.
WORK WEAKENS THE KIDNEYS.
Doan's Kidney Pills Have Done Oreat
Service for People Who Work in Mena.
Most Mena people work every
day in some strained, unnatural
position—bending constantly over
a desk—riding on jolting wagons
or cars—doing laborious house
work: lifting, reaching or pulling,
or trying the back in a hundred
and one other ways. All these
strains tend to wear, weaken and
injure the kidneys until they fall
behind in their work of filtering
the poisons from the blood.
Doan’s Kidney Pills cure sick
kidneys, put new strength in bad
backs. Cures effected in this
locality from the strongest proof
of their efficiency. Read this
testimony.
Mrs. Charles A. Hendricks,
Rose Hill, De Queen, Ark., says:
“For two years I suffered almost
constantly from a steady ache in
the small of my back. If I con
tracted a cold or over exerted my
elf in any way, my suffering was
intensified and the kidney secre
tions became too frequent in pas
sage. Deciding to try Doan’s
Kidney Pills,I procured a box and
received prompt relief from their
use. (
I continued taking the remedy
untii completely cured. When
ever I hear anyone complaining
of kidney trouble, I recommend
Doan’s Kidney Pills.”
For sale by all dealer*-'. Price
50 cents. Foster-Milbum Co.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States.
Remember the name—Doan’s_
and take no other.
Another Car of Floor
Fresh from the mill to swap for
cornfed eggs or any other farm pro
ducts. A little cash mixed in won’t
hurt, M. K. Peninger. Nunley. 45-tf
Wanted—An experienced woman
cook and two girls to work in hotel
Appiv at Commercial Hotel. Mena
Ark. 4 3-2t 1
J. H.COX, President EDWIN II. COX,Cute H
EUGENE COX, Vice Preuldent W. I. GREEN Au’tCuli®
THE FARMERS AB|
MERCHANTS BABD
Succeeding to 9
THE NATIONAL BANK OF MENA f
Condensed Statement of J
The Farmers and Merchants Ban!
of Mena, Ark , at the Close of Business, October 27,1910. ||
Resources 1
Loans.$117,609®
Overdrafts secured and unsecured. 27®
Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures_ 9,75®
Cash and Sight Exchange. 164,471®
Total. .$292,11®
Liabilities |
Capital.$ 50,00®
Surplus and undivided profits. 8,59®
Deposits...2ft S®
Total. .$292,11®
ocaie or Arkansas 1
County of Folk 88 B§
I, Edwin B. Cox, cashier of the above named Bank, dosol^B
swear that the above statement is true to the best of my kno-gl
and belief. EDWIN B. COX, CashieM
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 27th day of Oc*|
1910. J. A. WISE, Notary PnbUM
My Commission expires September 22. 1914.
Correct-Attest: Eugene Cox, W. I. Green. j
The Oldest, Largest and Strongs
Bank in Polk County ®
Safe, Conservative and Accomodati®
NO LOANS to officers, DIRECTORS OR EMPLOY®
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RE1®
4% on Savings Accounts 4/®
4% on Time Deposits 4.« *
\% on Certificates of Deposit®
I - - -
Your Business is Appreciated and B
Have Our Most Careful Attention*
-DIBECTOKH- rl,wlN
J. H.COX
MONEY TO LOa|
ON IMPROVED rm»— !|
On Loans of $1000 and over 8 per «ot M
On Loans of $550 and over 9 perceB
Interest is payable annually and no corrirnissio11 jckjy ff^n
second mortgage notes and the loans are c offered
No long and tedious waiting. The best r
county on from Five to Ten Years time.
W. A. RAGLAND - “ u . . W jM
Office opposite Antlers'^^^^^^^^jl
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