Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-11-26

"NO CiO 4Ol1OH1uS Ic1ClcuCeS W Uu0
troubles that now yex Nashville,
Tenn, and state: "But in the
midst of our prosperity there are
clouds which darken and cast
their shadwos athwart our way.
Let US hope that these will
presently pass away, and that the
same divine hand which has gather
ed them will scatter them again and
the warning has been taken and all
our people learn again the lesson
which some forget, that in law is our
surest hope, and that only in obedi-
ence to its eternal commands can
we live in social order, enduring
peace and fulfill the high mission of
civilized life. Let us so live that
good will and gentle peace may come
down from heaven to bless us all,
that justice shall reign among us,
that we are saved from intolerance,
dissensions and suspicion and from
the evils which flow therefrom to
vex the state and divide the people.
Let us pray that mercy will bring
her balm Of healing and bind up
the wounds Of bleeding hearts,
wherever they may be, that inno-
cence will not suffer, that our land
be washed of bloody stains, that we
may have hope and charity and not
forget the gentle Son of God taught
that charity is the greatest of these"
The trans-continental balloon race
between the two big balloons, Ameri-
ca and United States which started
Monday from Los Angeles, Cal,
ended where it started. The United
States was brought in from Corona
Tuesday in an automobile. The big
gas bag was the plaything of variable
winds all Monday night and the oc-
cupants of the basket gave up the
struggle to get over the mountains
Tuesday. They descended, secured
an automobile, packed the debated
bag in the tonneau and drove to
Los Angeles.
While more than 100000 chang
ed hands in Spokane, Wash, on the
result of the national election, the
highest price, physically, probably
was paid by Archibald W. Eaton, a
conductor on street car line, who
agreed with J. A. Reeves, a fellow
employee, that in the event of Bryan's
defeat he would use his nose in
rolling a peanut half-block in a
public thoroughfare. Eaton was
game and he did his little stunt
while thousands of pedestrians fol-
lowed his course.
Hanging by one foot for several
hours, Peter Smith, aged IS years
and wealthy, nearly lost his life at
his farm near Columbiana, Ohio,
Monday. He was in a tree picking
apples when he lost his balance and
fell 1t was only by sheer luck that
a daughter came along and found
him. With other members of the
family she succeeded in getting him
from the prong in the tree where he
was caught. He is in a serious con-
dition.
The simplifed spelling system has
been given an impetus in the South
west through its adoption in the
Houston, (Tex,) public schools.
Superintendent P. W. Horn asked
the School Board for authority to
teach the new system, and announce
ment was made Friday that the
board had granted the request.
Gene Doudel a 16-year-old negro,
of Hamilton, Ga, confessed TO kill
ing Ernest Walsh, IL years old, also
colored, beating him on the head
with a rock and throwing the body
into a creek after robbing it Of 81.
The murdered boy was enticed into
the woods.
Fire originated in a marsh near
the plant of the Florence Pump and
Lumber Company at Mobile, Ala,
Tuesday, destroyed the plant, causing
a loss estimated at $50, 900, partially
covered by insurance.
S. Locke Breaux and others,
claiming to represent the rice
growers of Arkansas, Texas and
Louisiana, Thursday before the
Ways and Means Committee at
Washington, appealed for the re-
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