The Mena weekly star., February 02, 1911, Page 4, Image 4

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HAS HO SUBSTITUTE
THE MENA WEEKLY STAR
Published Molt Thunder »« the offto* on
Maas Street »<ar Hcinart Avenue, Mane, Ark.
A. W. ST. JOHN’S SOWS, Proprietors
V. W. ST. JOHN, Killtor.
R. R. ST. JOHN. Manager.
SUBSCRIPTION RATIOS.
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jl Mon the..If
Three Months..I<
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aw tier.
TUB MBNA BVBNIWG STAR
ts a progressive newspaper furnishing
ro Its readers a dally service covering
.he most Important of the world's gen
sral happenings, as well as those Itsmt
of 'opal nswe that go to make a homi
pg.ier Invaluable to cltlasns of any com
munlty. If you want tha newt In youi
nome each week day. subscribe for Th«
Bvenlng Star. Ry carrier or mall. 40c
er mouth.
Of course this weather is unusual
ly warm, but most of us can stand it
with no great suffering.
Day by day Uncle Joe Cannon’*
county is coming into note as an ac
tive competitor with Adams county,
Ohio, _
If you don’t like this murky weath
er, inquire about conditions both
north and south before you move.
You might do lots worse.
The editor of the London Punct
died recently and left a fortune ol
$5,000,000. If he got that for writ
ing jokes he was greatly overpaid.
Considering what has happened to
Cook and Peary, we hope for the
sake of his reputation Harry Payne
Whitney won’t say anything about
it if he discovers the south pole.
A merchant in a Kansas town ot
1200 spent $2,200 with his home
newspapers for advertising space last
year. The other merchants are now
marveling at his "luck.”
There never was a time when so
many people were coining to Poik
county to find homes, health and
prosperity as now. And they are
buying farms and home every day.
Mena has many advantages that
are not capitalized for even a frac
tion of their value. One of these
that is most evident at a!! timed is
her combination of beauty and cli
mate.
There’s getting to be a great care
lessness among convicts. Several
are disregarding the fact that they
can get a reduction of sentence for
good behavior and are writing
poetry. _
Heavener, according to the Dis
patch, has organized a "ten thou
sand” club with Bert Emmert, for
merly of Mena, at the head. Go to
it Bert. Here’s hoping that you
make it.
If those statues on the Pennsylva
nia capitol building are as bad as the
odor from the corruption in connec
tion with its construction it is no
wonder the lawmakers want them
draped. They should be.
Judge E. R. E. Kimbrough of Dan
ville, III., Joe Cannon’s town, says
that vote buying in that town "is
not a crime after eighteen months
have passed,” and the Kansas City
Star compliments him on his “highly
developed judicial temperament.”
The Standard Oil Company has
just paid a fine of $23,766 for accept
ing rebates. Whether the rebates
were ten or one hundred times more
than the fine is not stated and there’s
nothing to indicate that oil will be
cheaper aa a result of this penalty.
A Missouri man is claiming dis
tinction as a benefactor of the human
race, because he invented a contriv
ance to keep papers from blowing
off desks and out into the street
when a window is raised for venti
lation. Huh! He ain't so smart.
A half brick or a window screen will
do that in Arkansas.
* MENA’S OREAT NEED.
The season soon will be upon us
again when Mena’s great need will
be before os. It will be held before
our eyes, pushed over overwhelm
*», day by day.
And that great need is - a resort
hotel—not only for summer, but for
spring, fall and winter.
But it is of summer that we per
haps think the most, because that is
the season when, despite our unpre
paredness, more people come here
and try to find accommodations than
at any other season. Some do find
quarters, such as they are, and they
stay to enjoy life, to recuperate
health, perhaps, as in some cases,
find even life itself in our cool breez
es, pure air and water. Enough of
these instances occur every year,
enough come and go away and tell
of our advantages to keep others
trying to come, and that, despite our
lack of facilities, keeps our advan
tages in a measure before the world.
We have work to do. Nature has
done her share, Oso bountifully!
The beauty spot of the earih is
here and about us. It takes the
work of man to bring its benefits to
humanity. Without that aid, its
valuesareasgold and precious stones
hidden in earth, awaiting the miner’s
pick and shovel.
It takes the work of man!
Are we prepared ts do it?
INSURGENT MOVEMENT TAK
ING DEFINITE FORM.
In The Star this week gives the ac
count of a political movement that, if
it succeeds, may completely renovate
the old Republican party and give it
a chance to again make itself a credit
to the nation and the people. It is
almost, if not quite, a revolt—at the
head of which is a number of the
strongest and best known public men
and statesmen of the country. Of
this, the Kansas City Star, progres
sive in everything, says
.... “And for the enactment of
all legislation solely for the common
“That is the final clause of the
short, clear, bold declaration of prin
ciple and purposes signed by nine
senators, six governors, thirteen
congressmen and twenty-three other
representative citizens of this coun-!
try in founding the National Fro-!
gressive Republican League.
“Nothing more inspiring and |
splendid with promises has happened
in the history of the Republic in
forty years than this movement
against national evils. It demands
the restoration of the government to
the people—not as a result of tem
porary hard times or panic or dis
order, but as the outcome of calm,
clear-headed examination of the
conditions existing in and dominat
ing a nation prosperous and in every 1
large detail except those of politics
ana government, progressive.
“There is no red fiag at the head
of these half-hundred citizens. Ev-1
ery man of them has proved his right:
to confidence and leadership. Every
one of them has faced political
destruction for the sake of the prin
ciples formulated and set forth in
the league’s declaration; some of
them have accepted sacrifice but
never with dishonor.’’
“What the outcome of this great (
movement will be is for the near fu-1
ture to disclose. That the response
to its unequivocal declaration for
genuine liberty and the square deal
will be widespread and by multitudes
is certain. Nor can it be doubted
that no definite and radical a plan
for giving practical expression to
the wide and growing intolerance of
the evils of government by special
interests will appeal, promptly and
strongly, to a broader field of pro
gressive citizenship than is bounded
by the party name to which the or
ganizers of the movement have hith
erto given allegiance.”
“Every man who believes that
government should be of, by and for
the people has cause for gladness in
this movement of loyal Americans of
proven merit and unselfish ideals, to
make citizenship triumphant.”
ARKANSAS NEWS SERVICE
UROWS.
The Star has, for several years,
been using the parke News service
from Little Rock, conducted by that
energetic and able newspaper writer,
A. W. Parke. Both this paper and
its readers,therefore,will be interest
ed in the strengthening and better
ing of that news service, as indicat
edby the following editorial from
the Arkansas Democrat:
EDITORIAL CHANGE.
The resignation of Clio Harpu- as
editor of the Arkansas Democrat
makes necessary some chauges in the
editorial staff of the paper. While
the policy of the paper will be un
changed. the personnel of the staff
will cbajge.
Mr. Harper, who has been connected
with the paper as reporter, city editor
and managing editor since November
26, 1893, has voluntarially severed his
connection with the paper and Monday
becomes associated with the Parke
11 arper News Service in Little Hock
The staff of the Democrat feels the
loss of Mr. Harper from its force, and
his going away is a source of regret
to those who have labored with him
and for him, and who have admired
his splendid ability, his unselfish de
votion to the work, and bis earnest
ness and sincerity.
Mr. Harper has been with the Dem
ocrat from his youth up, and in every
department in which he has been plac
ed, from the humblest to tbe most ex
alted, his services have always borne
the stamp of honest effort, hard work
and sincerity.
That he will remain in Little Rock
and in Arkansas is good for him and
good for the State, and the time will
never come when hi* anility and true
worth will not be recognised and re
warded by the people of the State.
In the editorial conduct of the paper,
J. L. Carraway will take the desk in
the office vacated by Mr. Harper. Mr.
Carraway has beeu engaged in daily
newspaper business in Littie Rock for
the past eight years, and is well known
as a newspaper man of ability. Ar
kansas Democrat.
OVPORTUN.TY BUT HALF UTIL
IZED.
At the Kansas City Southern sta
tion bare, located in the old eating
house room, is beyond question the
finest display of agricultural prod
ucts in the state of Arkansas. Most
of these were gathered from the
farms, gardens and orchards of Polk
county.
Then there are samples of Polk
county minerals, slate from Mont
gomery county on our east, and
many other products from all along
the western line oft Arkansas.
In addition, and this is a great at
traction, there is on display a won
derful and beautiful exhibition of
natural history specimens gathered
and prepared by W. A. Tomlinson,
and by him loaned free for the pur
pose of adding interest to the show
ing.
There is not a man or woman in
Mena but could learn something by
studying this grand display, and
The Star believes that a few mo
ments spent in viewing it would
make each one feel more interest in
his or her county. It would make
them proud of Polk county and
Western Arkansas.
But the real purpose of the effort
that brought these things together
was to “show” those who doubted
what port of a country this is and
what could be produced here.
Therefore, when a man, friend or
stranger, comes along who does not
know cherefully take him by the arm
and spend a few moments in “show
ing" him. Utilize the opportunity
at hand.
The Great Express Monopoly.
"That public interest Jin the ex
press business should at last be awak
ened will strike you as inevitable
when once its size, ramifications and
peculiar closeness to the daily life of
th6 people are understood,” writes
Albert W, Atwood in the February
American Magazine in a very remark
able article entitled ‘‘The
Great Express Monopoly.” Mr. At
wood shows that the express compa
nies, six of whom control !J0 per cent
of the country’s business, have ceas
edjtheir tremendous privileges with
out legislative interference, and, al
though they are common carriers by
every principle of law, common,
judge-made, and statute, they have
carried on their gigantic operations
unhindered, charging what tariff
seemed good to them, rolling up un
heard of profits and assuming the
duties which a neglectful govern
ment should long ago have assigned
to an organized parcels post. To
show how closely the express busi
ness affects the public, Mr. Atwood
describes as follows a few of the
functions the companies perform:
"An express company will file le
gal documents, redeem pawned ar
ticles, collect notes, drafts and ac
counts. It will execute deeds, con
veyances and contracts, enter and
clear at custom houses any desired
articles of import and export, trans
port goods in bond to any desired
port of entry, exchange foreign
money, pay gas bills, and, in short,
will attend to any legitimate business
transaction as the customer’s agent.
Among the articles which an express
company makes a specialty of trans
porting are gold, silver, bank notes,
currency, deeds, contracts, precious
(tones, jewelry, watches, clocks, gold
and silver ware, plated ware, costly
pictures, statuary, musical instru
ments, laces, furs, silk, china, stain
ed glass, birds and perishable goods.
‘‘Perhaps you have thought of a!!
Lhis before, but do you also know
:hat the six largest express
companies are among our greatest
jankers? With them in one year the
public has deposited $352,590,814 and
dieir transactions in money orders,
rhe American Express alone handled
learly 17,000,000 money c rdcrs in
ine year. That the public has confi
lence in the safety of the express
romoanios as banks admits of no
loubt, and and it has been credibly
■eported that in the panic of 1907
noney was withdrawn from banks,
which the people did not trust, and
nvested in express money orders.”
Education vs Instinct.
Jacob Wendell, Jr., who plays the
>art of the dog in Maeterlinck’s
Irama, was dinning in a restaurant
recently when a man, recognizing
him as the actor, approached and
mid:
“Parden me, but you take the part
af the dog in ‘The Blue Bird,’ do
you not? Of course you don’t know
it, but I can really bark lots more
like a dog than you.”
“Well, you see,” answered Wen
dell, "I had to learn.”—From “Suc
cess Magazine.”
Rational Brevities.
Davidson.
Every evil consequence is a voice
of warning and a demand to correct
a wrong.
A kind word or deed to or for
some one every day is a nflost valu
able asset in life.
Fertility of brain, like soil, de
pends on scientific development and
continuous judicious cultivation.
Public methods that produce the
greatest general good to all the peo
ple are the proper and correct ones.
Theories of spiritual affairs based
r>n or measure*! by the limited scope
jf trfii.- or o'i the five human senses
ire too rickety. They do not rest
on the rock foundation of eternal
truth.
More’>ountifu!ly than the sunshine
are the blessing* of God bestowed
upon humanity, yet we often com
plain.
The only way to reform men is to
meet them on their own level and
with a loving hand lead them to
higher grounds.
Some of the high cost of living is
usually traceable to useless extravi
gunce on our part. Many so called
luxuries are but curses in disguise,
as are many so called curses real
blessings bestowed on the unappre
ciative.
Out of the Ginger Jar.
From February Farm .Journal.
The ail-round man may also be
square.
Some men are born good, but more
are made good by their wives.
One of the very best rolls for break
fast is n prompt roll out of bed.
Toe the mark; but when you ara
chopping wood, also mark the toe.
The hum of industry beurs no re
lation whatever to the ho-hum of the
lazy man.
“Hitch your wagon to a star,”
Sang the poet, heart afire;
But when going to the mill.
We will trust old Dobbin still.
Time is money, but it requires a
great deal of time to convince some
folks of that fact.
The squirrel travels a good deal by
rail, though he is never compelled to
show his ticket.
When the pay is $9 a week it is a
job; when the compensation is $25, it
is a position.
Science has decided that a kiss is
infectious osculation, but plain people
are satisfied with the good old name
We are disposed to say unkind
things about the mule, but the tact
remains that there are many men who
are worse kickers.
Little Johnie Jones found a switch
and took it to his teacher, but it hap
pened to be one that she dropped in
taking off her peach-basket hat.
“Kindly Mail Check."
How dear to our heart is the steady
subscriber
Who pays in advance at the birth
of each year,
Who lays down the money and does it
quite gladly,
And casts round the office a halo of
cheer.
He never says—“Stop it; 1 cannot af
ford it,
I'm getting more papers than now I
can read,"
But always says—“Send it;ourpeo
ple all like it—
In fact, we all think it a help and a
need."
How welcome his check when it reach
es our sanctum.
How it makes our pulse throb; how
it makes our heart dance.
Wo outwardly thank him; we inward
ly bless him—
The steady subscriber who pays in
advance.
--^Kx.
SICK MAN SENT HUME.
A. J. Grissom, Who Has Been in Texas,
Goes to Relatives.
A. J. Grissom, who two years ago
was married in Mena to Miss Mollie
Pool, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A. J.
Pool, has recently been in Amarillo,
Tex., suffering from tuberculosis. A
few days ago he was informed that iiis
case could not be benefited, and was
advised to go to his relatives.
Mrs. Grissom, who has been with
her mother here since the death of her
father, was notified, and joined her
husband Sunday at Howe and
went with him to his old home in
Holiond, Ark., where she will remain
and assist in caring for him.
Wants to Know Every Day.
W. T. Bradbury, formerly one of
Mena’s best known business men,
now located at Cleburne, Tex., has
since leaving been a reader of the
Weekly Star.
He writes: "Please change my sub
scription to the daily puper. I have a
deep and abiding interest in Mena and
her citizenship and therefore enjoy
getting the news as often as possible."
Bought More Land.
Daniel Featherstone, who came here
recently from Iowa and purchased
what is known as the Head fruit farm,
120 acres, a few miles west of Mena,
Saturday bought 40 acres adjoining,
Hamilton & Horner making the sale.
It is understood he will buy more Polk
county real estate.
New K. T. Commandery.
Monday Mark P. Olncy as Grand
Commander issued a dispensation foi
a new Commandery of Knights Tem
plar at Mammoth Springs to be known
as Calvary Commandery. This makes
twenty In the state.
More “Quiet" Mena Business.
The Kansas City Southern Monday
unloaded to Mena one car of household
and farm implements fora new settler,
six cars of commercial freight and five
cars of merchandise.
Bright's disease is more dreaded
by physicians than any of the serious
disorders with which they have to
deal because of its insidious and
malignant character. If prompt
action were taken when heaadches,
urinary disorders, digestive troubles
first appear, much suffering and
sorrow would be averted. Prickly
Ash Bitters will quickly stop the
spread of the disease, quiet the in
flammation, heal the kidneys and
bladder, strengthen and regulate the
liver, and drive poisons and impuri
ties out of the system,
Jackson Drug & Furniture Co.,
special agent*.
W. C. Vandiver special agent.
PROTESTS TO PIT
AMERICAN CONSUL TO TURKEY
OBJECTS TO CONDUCT OF
80LDIERS.
ON SHIP BEARING AMERICAN FLAG
Assaulted a Frenchman Who la Act
ing As American Consular Agent at
Dexandretta — Americana Control
Ship on Which Row Occurred.
Constantinople. Jan. 30.—J. Ridgely
Carter, the head of the American em
bassy, lodged a protest with the Porte
against the assault and indignities to
which the American consular repre
sentatives at Beirut and Alexandretta
were recently subjected.
It appears that a sergeant instigated
mutiny among fifty Turkish soldiers
a ho w ere being transported on the
Bteamer New Jersey. When that ves
sel reached Alexandretta it was flying
the American flag, and the American
consular agent, John T. Peristiany,
went on board to investigate. He was
attacked by the soldiers and driven
from the ship. His hand was cut and
his ooat torn off.
The local police arrested some of
the soldiers, but the captain of the
New Jersey refused to surrender the
sergeant, the ringleader. The vessel
proceeded subsequently to Smyrna,
where there was a second row over
the question of whether the soldiers
or the sailors of the New Jersey were
primarily at fault. When the vessel
docked its second mate was arrested.
At this stage of the quarrel the Amer
ican consul general, Ernest L. Har
ris, took a hand, with the result that
he was abused by the warring fac
tions. However, he brought about the
arrest of the sergeant
The New Jersey Is one of the ves
sels plying Turkish waters which has
been given American register and con
__It .. . I_A ~ iA.. ik. A mamI
can flag, by the United States consul
general at Constantinople, because It
is controlled largely by American In
terests.
John T. Perlstiany is a citizen of
France and was appointed American
consular agent at Alexandretta July
Ifi, 1908.
LONDON TO SPEND 70 MILLIONS
To Make the City the Greatest Port
in the World—Best Harbor
Facilities.
London, Jan. 30.—The port autho*.
ties propose to spend 70 million dol
lars in improving the dock and harboi
facilities of the Thames Estuary witt
the view' to making London in realit)
as well as in name the first port oi
the world. The plan includes the
dredging of uie river channel from
Tilbury to I^ondon bridge one thou
>und feet wide and thirty feet deep;
the construction of three new docki
at Tillbury of 05,120 and 138 acres re
spectively. The existing docks will b<
enlarged and deepened and the en
trances widened.
MEXICANS TO UNITED STATES
Refugees Who Do Not Wish to Fighi
With Either Faction Cross
the Border.
El Paso, Tex., Jan. 30.—Mexicat
refugees are flocking over the bordei
into Tevas, near La Jitas, east of here
in Brewster county, to escape taking
sides either with the federals or the
rebels. Many are bringing theli
horses and cattle and United States
government officials are somewhat
puzzled over the situation that con
fronts them. If they seize the ani
mals for duty the Mexicans will be
destitute Few of the refugees have
any food, hut If allowed to keep theli
animals probably will be able to gel
employment.
ror driving outdull bilious feeling,
strengthening the appetite and in
creasing the capacity of the body for
work, Prickly Ash Bitters is a golden
remedy.
Jackson Drug & Furniture Co.,
special agents.
W. C. Vandiver special agent,
END TO BUCK INJUNCTION CASES
As Disputing Parties Had Settled
Their Differences Supreme Court
Threw Out Case.
Washington, .Ian. 30.—Oral argil
ments in the so-called "boycott" case
of the Bucks Stove and Range com
pany, of St. Louis, Mo., against the
American Federation of Labor, were
stopped by the United States supreme
court here. The court reached the
conclusion tha: the parties to the case
had settled their differences out ol
court and that therefore no issue re
malned for it to pass upon.
Following that action the court lls
tened to oral arguments on the "con
tempt case" embracing the chargee
that Samuel GomperB, John Mitchell
Frank Morrison had violated the in
junction of the supreme court of the
District of Columbia in the “boycott”
case Each has been sentenced tc
jail
Alton B. Parker, counsel for defend
ants, said the principal charges
against his clients were summarized
as being that they hs4 Issued publi
cations in violation of the injunction
against boycotting Since the acts ol
his clients were only prohibited by
the void portions of the decree, h«
urged the district supreme court could
not punish them for contempt, undej
ths statutes of the United States.
The man who was “bom tired”
should use Pirckly Ash Bitters. It
makes work a necessity to give vent
to the enegy and exuberance of
spirits generated by functional act
ivity in the system.
Jackson Drug & Furniture Co.,
sjteei&l agents.
W. C. V andiver aoeciai agent.
.. . EDWIN II. COX, Cashier
EUGENE*COX, Vice President W. I. GREEN, AssH Cashier
THE FARMERS AND
MERCHANTS BANK
Succeeding to
THK NATIONAL BANK OK MBNA
Condensed Statement of
The Farmers and Merchants Bank
of Mena, Ark., at the Close of Business, October 27, 1910.
Resources
Loans.$117,609.07
Overdrafts secured and unsecured. 273.64
Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures- 9,755.86
Cash and Sight Exchange. 161,479.01
Total.*.$292,117.58
Liabilities
Capital..$ 50,000.00
Surplus and undivided profits. 8,592.98
Deposits. 233,524.60
Total.*.$292,117.58
State of Arkansas
County of Polk
I, Edwin B. Cox, cashier of the above named Bank, do solemnly
swear that the above statement is true to the best of m.v knowledge
and belief. EDWIN B. COX, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 27th day of October,
1910. J. A. WISE, Notary Public.
My Commission expires September 22, 1914.
Correct-Attest: Eugene Cox, W. I. Green. /
The Oldest, Largest and Strongest
Bank in Polk County
Safe, Conservative and Accomodating
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