Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-02-10
BARDsrowN, KY, Feb. LIST. 1876.

bARDSTOWN, N.Y., rep. ISL, 1910 :
Dear '.Herald,"
did not know how
much home paper is worth till heinz
away. have had chance to see how
much news.they contain. Whisper in the
ears Of your county people that they mutt
keep 1t up. Scott asks whether there is
"a man with soul 50 dead
Who never TO himself hAs said
This is my own, my native land"
And our own home papers are tho best
things to keep the soul from being 80 dead
rs to have no home attachments.
We have valuable novelty out here in
the line Of shoes. Some OF our fellow
townsthen have Invented and patented a
shoe which is dryer, warmer, more neal
thy and cheaper than our ordinary shoe,
and quite as easy to walk in. The prom =
rient point of the invention is to change
the mode of making the shoe SO as put on
q light wooden soul instead Of leather,
without making the shoe stiff and awk-
war.ia
The plan of making is as follows: No
welt is used The leather insole is laid on
the bottom of the last. the upper leather is
stretched over the last, and its edges are
folded over the edge of the insole and sew
ed to it AS these stitches are exposed to
no wears and to very little strain, they DO
not need to be taken With as much care as
in sewed shoe Then inside of the shos
is slipped another ihs5ie of carefully tenn
pered steel, with nut containing screw
thread extending down through the ieath-
er insole at two or three places. On this
steel is laid thickness OF flannel to keep
the foot from coming in contact with the
steel. This completes the inside OF the
shoe.
On the outside, underneath the insole,
is placed one block OF wood for heel and
another block OF wood for the sole. Screws
pass from the outside through the wood
and the leather ihsole, and screw into the
thread in the steel insole, binding the
whole three parts OF the sole together.
is preserved by the steel In the
shank which connects the wooden heel and
sole.
One would think that wooden soled shoes
would be very noisy, out see men walk
ing about every day with these shoes on,
and cannot notice any more chatter than
is made by the leather. Certain it is that
In wet weather, the wooden soles viii not
wet through, and in cold weather they
will keep the foot very warm. There is
much less work in making this shoe than
in ordinary ones. and wooden sOles are
cheaper than leather. Therefore they ought
to be cheaper. And they will last longer.
For leather shoes bend at the ball of the
loot and crack the upper leather at each
side of the ball. But in the wooden soled
shoes there is no such crease in the upper
feather to crack II.
1 saw a man the other day wearing a
pair of these shoes except that he had put
on soles made OF packing rubber. These
were even warmer than the wooden soles.
What winter we have had, If winter
could be called which snow had none, dis
on ground or fence or tree,
In this western hemisphere, and these nor
thern ATTITUDES. True, along the shores Of
The Mediterranean, where oranges were
ripenning at the time, and the markets
were filled with fresh radishes, pears, up.
piles, pomegranates, grapes and all sum-
mer vegetables except peas, satisfy and
corn, they had an untimely snow storm
on New Years eve. 1t must have been
the snow storm that ought to have fal Ell
here In the cold snap before Christmas,
waited across the ocean and lighting to-
tally unexpected visitor in their midst
Yet just as l write winter seems u have
felt the point OF my remark, for here comes
a snowstorm, the first (of any accounD this
winter, land don't know whether this one
falling on the damp ground will be worth
AS for ice--well there is but
one ice house that know of in town that
has pound of Ice in it, and half of that
was hauled on the Sabbath. am told that
very little ice has been gathered OH the
northern lakes. Five cents pound is the
price at present, and they say that soon it
will command ten cents pound. 1t az
most makes one shiver to think of no ice
all next summer.