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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

shoemaker Hans Sachs, the most eminent poet
| OF Germany, was a cobbler. So William Gift
| ford, the famous editor of the Quarterly.
| Shoes, as know them, are purely a western
| institution But there is and incidentally
| a queer juxtaposition. A Christian takes his hat
off when he enters church or a house. an Asiatic
| shows his reverence by taking his shoes off. OBJ
viously it would be quite a nuisance to stoop down
| and unlace your shoes every time you called
| friend or went to church. So the Asiatics wear
| shoes that can be kicked off easily can
| remove hats.
Some are made with straw soles and sell for
about ten cents a pair; others are made of wood;
| while still others are made of leather of various
| kinds. When shoes are reduced to such simple
proportions it is but natural to expect rather
| crude effects Peasants often cut strips of wood
| fasten a thong about the big toe and the board
| and trudge along comfortably the who
buys the readymade shoes Of America, and in some
| cases even more so. Another scheme is to use a
| block of wood and stick knob in 1t so it will rise
| between the big toe and its neighbor and by a
dexterous and practced of the toe muscles, it
| answers very we'll indeed.
In Brittany the making of shoes is village
cupation The whole family chips in on the work.
| from the six year old child to the great grand
| father, and between them they make the most
| OF the wooden shoes that on the market. An
American boy would probably fall down and skin
his knees If he to try to play in wooden Shoes
but the little Dutch and Belgian boys romp about
| the streets to their hearts content in them and
| never even drop them off
| We have been wearing practically the same kind
| of shoes for many years that we are liable to
| forget that they varied in styles radically as
| womens hats do now During the time of Edward
| W. in England the parliament had to pass law
regulating the length of shoes Some of them
were made so long as to be dangerous. Princes
sometimes wore them two feet in length
with the ends stuffed out with straw. One worthy
Scotch king doubled his back and attached the
points to his belt. But of course that style was IN
vogue before the days of trolley cars.
Then in the next generation when the law pre-
vented long, pointed Shoes they began to broaden
and this continued until they had to pass another
law to stop the broadening. 1t was at about this
time and later that choppines came in These
were high supports under the soles' hfting tne
wearers some six or eight inches the clouds
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12
MANY GOING TO FLORIDA
MORE THAN 100 MEN ARE GOING
TO HILLIARD, FLORIDA,
THIS MONTH.
THE OFFER OF FREERoUND
TRIP MAKES GREAT HIT.
They Are Going to Buy Farms In
Cornwall Farm Land Co.'s Big New
Trucking Section 80 Miles
from jacksonville.

Either the first touch of cold wealth
er or the remarkably attractive offer
of round trip to Florida free has de-
cided a large number of Ohio, Indiana,
Keptucky and Tennessee men to go
and make an investigation OF the
North Florida Fruit and Truck Farms
at Hilliard, Fla
Already over 100 have sent to the
Cornwall Farm Land Co., S15 Great
Northern Bldg, Chicago, and arranged
for starting either on the 18th or z4th
of November, with the understanding
that the company will credit the
amount of the railroad fare to every
man that buys a 10-acre farm at $2lO
on the easy payment plan OF $lO q
month. The lands are the best in the
State of Florida for vegetable grow
ing and are located on the Atlantic
Coast Line Railway within 40 min
utes' ride of Jacksonville. The Illus
trated books published by the COM
pany show pictures of growing Vege-
tables and the appearance of the I'M
improved land, also views of the town
of Hilliard adjoining the farm land.
Florida is now the established and
recognized supply depot for all the
winter grown fruits and vegetables
consumed in the north for which high
prices are paid. This new trucking
section has not yet taken on the fever
of high land prices as have most OF
Of ElnridQ
derstand that the whole of this North
Florida Fruit and Truck Farm tract is
to be sold at one price-$21 an acre.
There are many places in Florida
where large holders of land are boom
ing both towns and farm lands and the
prices are from $100 to $3.50 an acre
for unimproved land. The Cornwall
Farm Land Company's proposition
seems well worth investigating.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12
TOO MUCH FOR YANKEE.
English Munchausen Had Shade the
Better of Fellow Romancer.

The Cape Cod man and the Lon
doner were travelling on the same
train together from Liverpool to the
capital.
YES" said the Yankee, I'VE do
have, considerable fog out our way.
I've seen it so thick that the land
ladies of our summer boardin' houses
could ladle it out and use it instead
O. whipped egg for the heavy part Of
the tloatin' island"
"We ave 'em, too, in London" said
his travelling companion, "but our
climate is too dirty to permit of our
eatin' it. We burn so much soft coal,
you see, the fog gets packed full OF
SCOT. The only thing we really can do
with it is to cut it up into blocks and
use it instead of peat when we want
quick fire"
And the Yankee took out the little
American flag he wore in his button
hole and put it away in his wallet
Judge.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12
NOTORIOUS DIVORCE MILL
OF South Dakota Has Been Completely
Wiped Out BY Vote.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 9.-In the
referendum of last Tuesday the people
of South Dakota have voted over
whelmingly to end South Dakota )
famous divorce mill. After the state
canvassing board meets at Pierre the
first week of next month and an
nounces officially that the new law
has been approved, it will be no long
4r possible for the discontented wives
and husbands of the whole world to
come to South Dakota, and, by spend
ing six months, obtain a secret hear
ing, freedom and the right to engage
in more marriages.
The IL largest counties in the state
on the law stands, yes, 1896; no,
1O,1S9.
The new law provides that the plain
tiff in an action for divorce must have
been an actual resident in good faith
of this state for one year and Of the
county where an action is commenced
for three months preceding the suit.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12
GOVERNORS AGAIN TO MEET
INVITATIONS AGAIN SENT OUT Rl
CONSERVATION COMMITTEE.
Will Discuss Work Which Nationa
Commission Has Been Carrying on
During Summer and Fall.

Washington, Nov. Limitations Il
a second meeting in Washington of n.
governors, or their representatives
have been sent out by the nationi
conservation committee. The date au
nounced is December l, the first gen
eral meeting of the commission itsei
for organization.
Both these meetings are the oul
growth of the white house cCnferenc,
of governors last May, at which tn
conservation movement was launched
At he forthcoming meeting the gov
ernors will discuss the work whicl
the national conservation commission
has been carrying on during the sum
mer and fall.
The outcome of this work Is the
first thorough inventory of the ma
tons natural resources the fedora
government has ever made. The in
ventory is now practically complcts
and most of the summaries on :he
waters, forests, lands and minerals OF
the United States have been handed
in by the experts who have been stead
lily at work on them for nearly five
months.
On this inventory, which the con
servation commission expects to lay
before the governors, the report which
President Roosevelt has requested the
commission to make to him not later
hn horn6
From present indications the Decem
Der conference will be second in in
portance only to the conference las
May. Governors who can not attenC
in person will send representatives
and the executives are invited to bring
advisers along as they did last spring
The governors of more than hal
the states have appointed commissions
and these commissions now are a
work along the same lines In theil
states that the national commission
| is following. The governors of mos
of the other states have announced
their intention to appoint commits
Sions.
The week beginning December
will be a conservation week in Wash
ing, bringing together may representa-
tive men from all parts of the coun
try. There will be at least four i'm
portant bodies in session here who's
purposes are connected with the con
servation movement.
Besides the meeting of the govern
ors with the national conservation
commission the country life commits
sion will hold a meeting after having
completed the first part of its swinE
around the country.
The southern commercial congress
whose chief purpose is the awakening
of the people of the IA southern state!
to the value of their natural resources
will be in session on December anC
s, and will then merge with the ma
tional river and harbors congress
which will hold it's annual meeting De
cember to II.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

1t was from this queer style that the high heel
developed only in those days the heel was sever
al inches higher than those now worn.
OF course, the smallest shoes of all are worn by
Chinese women. Some of these are only two
inches long The present empress is trying to
break up the cruel custom of misshapening the
feet. Probably in another generation these di-
minutive shoes will be curiosity, but up to
few years ago, Chinese girl whose feet were
four inches long found it difficult proposition to
get married, while the parents of the girl with the
twO-inch foot was overrun with applicants. AS
a compensation to these Chinese women for the
tortures they underwent during the time their
feet were being maltreated they took great pride
in cmbroidering beautiful designs upon their
Shoes Very few shoes for women are on sale
in China, as nearly all women make their own.
In the northern countries, coarse leather boots
are the customary footwear, partly on account OF
the cold, but principally because a low shoe is of
too shallow draft to navigate the poor roads. A
large percentage of these boots are of home man.
ufacture, roughly stitched and crude in appear
ance.
Just why shoes for poor persons came into
vogue is question that remains unanswered.
They originated in the Grecan sandal and have
developed with the increasing tenderness of feet to
the heavy leather affair we all know. Yet an
Irish lassie who goes about barefooted all her
days has a natural sole upon her foot from
quarter to half inch thick And she does not
have corns, either.
But Americans need not complain of the in
stituton. We made 242,110,035 pairs of shoes
in 1905, pair for every inhabitant of America,
France, Germany, Austria, and a few of the small
countries The value of the industry $780,
17O,45S All that was for one years output, or
money than there was in the world when
the first sandal made The American shoe
is now walking the streets of every capital of
the world 1t Is in the shops in every center of
trade; and even on the thresholds of far eastern
temples, the American shoe lies beside the crude
wooden sandals, and late comers stop moment
to examine 1t and try it on, if no one is looking.
One of the greatest problems which modern
civilization has had to face Is the clothing of it's
feet. In the days centuries upon centuries ago
when man was only wild beast of the jungle,
he wore no shoes and therefore was not bothered
with corns. But to-day when every part of the
body is covered except the hands and head, mans
wearing of shoes has become a necessity
Thus some of the functions of modern civiliza-
tions "pedes" disappearing. Toenails no
longer being an actual need among tribes which
wear shoes, are disappearing and scientist
few years ago declared that within 100 years
there will be no toenais.
Even the American Indian who, a hundred years
ago. wore moccasins, to-day clothes his feet in
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

In Magdeburg, Germany, two physi-
clans are using what might be called
radiumized water in the treatment OF
gout and rheumatism. Recent ex-
periments by medical men of reputa-
ton are stated to have established the
fact that the gas emitted from radium
possesses the same qualities as the
cadium Itself and is the principal heal
,rg factor in the various mineral wa
Lars used in the healing Of diseases.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

While discussing the Juvenile court
before the charities and corrections
conference of Washington, Judge s. J.
Chadwick of Colfax said less law, not
more law" was the fundamental idea
underlying the modern system Of deal
ing with the juvenile delinquent. and
he added that what Is needed is the
sweeping away of the rigors and hard
ships of fixed rules" so that judges
may have "unrestrained discretion to
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

Ever since the passage of the pure
food law, manufacturers have com.
planned of the injustice of denying
them the use of the small amount of
preservatives necessary to keep GER
tain kinds of food products from fer.
mentation or other form of deteriora.
ton. Prof. Wiley of the bureau of
chemistry in the department of agri
culture has appointed a pure food com
mittee, to represent the differen
states having pure food laws, the OBJ
jeCt of which will be to harmonic the
state laws with the laws of the gov.
ernment. The committee will also
without doubt, define what is a safe
amount of preservative to be used. 1t
is said that there has been an increase
of ptomaine-poisoning since the pure
food law went into effect, but perhaps
the statement like some of the food
products, can best be taken with a
grain of sailor of boracic acid.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

deal with each case in his own way
considering the child, its environment
its opportunities, its disposition and
its hopes"
Such is the modern progressive
view. and its soundness is too appar
ent to call for special emphasis The
hard rules of the law are not for tst
child. Applied to the child, they Otter
confirm untoward predispositions and
tendencies. The broadest possible dis
cretion should be given courts created
to deal with Juvenile delinquents.-.
Sesttle Post-IntelIigencer.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

Increase in the number of college
degrees may not in itself be a good
sign. The progressive decrease since
1900 of the number of medical diplo
mas awarded means a great gain in
the quality Of the men intrusted with
the health of their fellow men. In
1906 over $4,000 men and women re
cei~ed the degree Nj. D. lin 1907 the
number dropped thousand, and this
year the decrease was sixteen hun.
dred. During the year several medical
schools not in good repute were
closed. Most of the great medical
colleges require an A. B. degree or its
equivalent for entrance "Half-baked"
professional men are nc use to the
community, and even when the stan
dards of the medical schools are high,
there will be plenty of incompetent
men in the profession.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12
The Poor Rich.


During the past eight months the
rich have had-a hard time. A railroad
director said recently that 1T is a
great deal harder for a man who has
been living at the rate of two hundred
thousand year to get down to fifty
thousand-a-year standard than 1t is
for man who has been living on SIS
a week to get along on SO" This must
be so because the fifteen-dollar man
has got along on ten so often that it
is easy, like any habitual privatiOn.
The multi-millionaire is a green hand
at economizing, and should be pitied
by the expert poor. But he gets no
sympathy, and in one respect deserves
none. Only this summer a Newport
tradesman announced publicly that he
would not give his rich customers
more than 80 days time in which to
pay for the corned beef, prunes, salt
Goldfish and other delicacies that bend
their tables. The curse OF the rich is
their poverty, and 1t is a pity TO see
them ground down by tradesmen. OF
course it is hard that in summer, when
the rich are taken from the slums and
sent for fresh air to Newport and
other resorts, they have to be troubled
with bills. But holidays have their
responsibilities as well as their relax
ations. A story comes to the Youths
Companion Of wealthy man to whom
bill was brought on Christmas morn
ing. This seemed to him an outrage
but when he went to the door, fuming
with protest, he found a boy, who
said: Sorry to trouble you, boss, but
jest have to have that seven-ffty for
our Christmas dinner"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12
Benefit in Radiun1ized Water

Il has been found that the various
mineral waters lose the radium gas
in transportation, and after long ex-
periments a means has been devised
for charging distilled water with
radhm gas through a comparatively
inexpensive apparatus placed in drug
stores, hospitals, etc. A small piece
of radium is placed In this ingenious
device and the rays permeate distilled
water for short space of time, when
the water is drawn off and used for
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12
Thuus Were Busy,

Chattanooga, Tenn, Nov. 9.-During
Saturday night four persons were
found unconscious in the streets of
this city, having been knocked in the
head by thugs. One of the victims,
Charles Baggett, negro, died. B. L.
Owens, a white farmer, had his head
cut open. He said negro struck him
and robbed him. The last victim was
a negro women, who was found on
East Ninth street with a ghastly cut
in the center of her forehead.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12
Bone of Contention.

death usually heals all family diff
ferences," said the old-fashioned philo.
sopher.
YES" replied the shrewd observer,
but usually the reading of the will
separates them again. n."-Detroit Free
Press
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12
Sentenced To EIoht Years in Priso

Denver, Col. Nov. 9.-John E. Good
ing, president of the defunct State
Bank of Rockyford, Col, was SEN
fenced to serve eight to ten years ill
state prison. He had been convicted
on charges of making unlawful use of
the banks funds and receiving de-
posits after he knew the bank to be
insolvent.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

A New York boy was arrested for
stealing disease germs He took them
from the laboratory of scientist Do
not think for a moment that he was
pinched for contracting the measles
from Johnny Jones across the way.
Stealing disease germs in the latter
way has never bsen treated as a
crime
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

Life, color, demonstration and mo-
tion" will be, the managers say, char.
acteristics Of the Alaska Yukon Pacific
exhibition, which is to be held next
year at Seattle, Wash But if an added
promise is fulfilled, that "everything
will be in readiness at least a month
before the opening date" June 1, thai
will be distinction beyond all other
such fairs.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

Maj. Gen. Fred Grant continues to
lead off in all the test rides of the
army officers. However, he is still in
his forties. and is a fine disciplinarian
as well. He not only doesn't complain
Of S0-mile rides per diem, but rejoices
in the sport.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

Although apples have been raised in
the east a good deal longer than in the
west, it is the west which leads of
with the first national apple-show
which will open in Spokane, Wash, in
December. The $4,000 in prizes are
to be open to the world. For the best
carload of standard commercial win
ter apples prize of $500 will be
given, and Hor the largest apple an
apple of gold.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

Mount Vernon. H., has a "blackbird
pest"--or had, until 1t remembered
that from time immemorial blackbird
pies have been among the luxuries of
kings; and now 1t Is killing the birds
by the bushel and cooking them.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12
Accidentally Killed Friend

Laurens. s. c., Nov. 9.--An effort to
perpetrcte a practical Joke upon Miss
Mary Brown resulted in the accidental
killing Of Thornwell Boyce. white
man, of this county. by his friend,
Wade C. Pinson, while they were out
driving with the young lady.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

Rejection of the proposal to use the
Washington monument as wireless
telegraph station is reminder that
although the inventor is the hero OF
the present hour he is not quite the
whole thing.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12
Morninu Tonic,

The duty of the young man toward his future
self is the greatest duty that he has 1t is create,
than his duty to parents. friends or society, foI
it includes all these. We should so live that oul
future selves shall have nothing to reproach us
for. Keep clean, keep the body clean from vice.
from drink, from drugs. Keep the mind clean
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12
Wrinht'a Luck.

Paris, Nov. 9.-The nomination OF
Wilbur Wright, the American aero.
pianist, will go before the grand coun.
Gil Of the Legion of Honor Monday,
and he will probably be included in
the new years list of decorations.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

The first football accident has hap
pened in Massachusetts, where a stu,
dent in class game had his back bro,
ken. This looks as if the human sac.
rifice to the game will be normal.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12
Killed the Shipwrecked.

Annoy, Nov. 9.-The bodies of Is of
the 200 victims of the wreck of the
small steamer, which occurred near
Tungan, have been brought here. Some
of them were killed while in the water
by piratical boatmen, intent on robbery.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12
Voted To Accept Reduction.

Niagara Falls, N. Y, Nov. S.-Two
hundred paper makers, who have been
on strike since August against cut
in wages by the International paper
corporation, Sunday voted to accept
the reduction.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

forth way back in the third century
preaching Christianity in the !, day
time and making shoes at Night.
Some said he stole the leather, While
others declared that he got it from
heaven. The former assertion was
probably instigated by the less
sanity cobblers, for St. Crispin sold
his shoes very cheap
The shoe trade had quite a high
station in the old days. George
Fox, the first of the Quakers, was
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

Cities that never clean up until the
specter of cholera stalks down their
dirty streets generally find their fren.
zied efforts too late.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

Delicious cakes and pastries are pro-
duced by the use of Souders' Cream Of
Tartar Baking Powder and Souders'
Flavoring Extracts. All good groceries.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

If the energy that women expend in
making fools of men could be concen-
trated-but what's the use of speculat.
ing with impossible problems?
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12
The Child and tine Law.

drinking or bathing, as prescribed by
the physician.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12

OT many cobblers of the
present day know that they
have a patron saint, but
they have. Saint Crispin
was his name and he held
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-12
Greenville Journal.

E. c. oTWELL, Ed. and Pub.
GREENvILLE. OHIO.