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Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-03-12
FIoyd Names Cadets.

Congressman Floyd has appointed
as cadet to the Annapolis Naval Acad.
envy M. P. Doxey of Benville and as
alternate, Arthur King of Fayetteville.
Roy White as cadet to West Point
and Fancher d. Reagan of Usage as
aItarnata
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-03-12
Negroes Condition Serious,

II Is reported that John Branch, the
nesro who was shot by Frank Hays,
a notei clerk at Hot Springs, a few
nisn.s ago, is in a serious condition
az me result OF blood poison having
=. IN Hays was released on $500
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-03-12
New Jail For Bradley County.

A contract will be let in April by
Judge Singer for a Jail for Bradley
county to cost about $4,000. 1t will
be well equipped and with separate
quarters for women.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-03-12
Insurance Company Retires.

The Mississippi Home Fire Insur
ance Company has notified the state
auditor that it had decided to dis
continue operation in Arkansas.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-03-12
Phil Tabor to Pen.

The final chapter in the famous
robbery of the Pacific Express on the
Cotton Belt Railroad at Redwater,
twenty miles south of Texarkana, on
the night of December 1. 1906. was
written when the penitentiary doors
at Huntsville, Tex, closed on Phil E.
Tabor. Tabor secured $4,000 from
the car, of which sum only $4,000
has ever been recovered. Before
rifing the car. Tabor Drained the
messenger with bludgeon, and then
threw him from the train for dead.
The messenger subsequently recover
ed. Tabor was located three weeks
after the robbery at San Antonio and
was arrested He was brought back
to Texarkana. and tried in the dis
trict court in September last He
was convicted and given life term.
He appealed, and the Texas court
of criminal appeals recently affirmed
the judgment. Tabor was taken to
the Huntsville penitentiary Tuesday
morning by Special Agent Morse.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-03-12
May Bring Belgians to Settle Here.

Consul General Paul Hageman of
Belgium, consul to the United States,
with headquarters at Philadelphia,
was in conference Thursday with Ag-
ricultural Commissioner Guy B. Tuck
er at the latter's office in the state
house regarding the bringing of num-
Der of Belgians to this state for the
purpose of colonization. Mr.. Tucker
presented the consul with large
amount of data concerning the induce
ments of Arkansas land, and Mr..
Hageman expressed himself as being
very favorably impressed. He is said
to have stated that he is thinking of
bringing a number of Belgians to Ar.
kansas to settle in both the eastern
and western portions of the state.
Mr. Hageman is touring all of the
Southern states looking over the
ground with view of picking out the
most desirable territory for locations
for his countrymen.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-03-12
Companies Incorporate.

Articles of incorporation and agree
ment have been filed with the secre-
tary of state by the following COM
panies
The W. c. Rhea Mercantile Com
pany, which will engage in a general
mercantile business at Rhea The in
corporatorS are: w. C. Rhea, ]. D.
Powell, w d. Moore, Charles E. Fra
zier and j. E. Ezell. The company
incorporates with a capital stock of
$4,000, of which $2,525 has been sub
scribed.
The English-Grant Lumber Com
pany, which will engage in the lumber
business. The incorporators are: E.
Y. English, j. e. Grant and Chris Led
widge. The company will have its
Offices in Little Rock 1t incorporates
with capital stock of 100000, of
which $4,000 has been subscribed.
The Alma Canning Company, which
will engage in the canning business
at Alma. TIE ;ncorporators are: w.
Chesterfield, T. J. Jones, l. w. Black,
J. d. Byers, ]. f. McGehee, J. J. GRAY
ems, w. A. Alkire, O. /. Gates and
James McCord. The company incor-
porates with capital stock, all of
which has been subscribed.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-03-12
Adjourned After Investigation.

The state charitable board adjourn
ed Tuesday evening after making an
investigation of charges of mistreat-
ment of patients at the insane asylum.
1t developed during the Investigation
that one of the attendants whipped
and otherwise mistreated several pa
tents, and, as soon as he was discov-
cred left the institution. The board
exonerated DR.. Stinson, the superin-
tendent, from all blame in the matter.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-03-12
Construction Company Enters.

The Morava Construction Company
OF Chicago, incorporated under the
laws of Illinois, has filed copies OF its
charter with the secretary of state.
The company is incorporated with
100000 capital stock. 1t claims to
have S359,47953 assets and $47,910S0
liabilities. 1t also claims to have
500 invested in Arkansas. The
company names as its agent in Arl6an-
sas, Kirby Riffel Its Offices are To-
ated in Little Rock.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-03-12
Harrisburg Gutter Flooded With Beer

The climax in the prosecution of
Ed Payne for the alleged illegal sale
of liquor was reached when, by order
of court, Sheriff Bradsher and Mayor
Griffin, assisted by citizens of Harris
burg, emptied into the gutter 1900
bottles of beer, which were seized by
Sheriff Bradsher in a raid made on
Payne's resort and subsequently were
placed in the lookup. The emptying
was witnessed by several hundred
citizens, many ladies being present.
Rev. w. M. Pinson, the preacher de-
tective, who secured evidence against
Payne, under supervision of the Anti
Saloon League of Arkansas, was pres
ent with kodak and made exposures
of the scene. Payne was arraigned
under three charges, having already
been fined 5000 in each of six cases,
and when court opened he pleaded
guilty and agreed to quit if let off
with two fines of 5000 each, a 500 at
torney fee and all costs, which was
agreed to by all parties.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-03-12
s1,ta2,e54 Worth of Apples.

The statistics for the fruit ship
ments for 1907 has just been complet-
ed by Judge |. B. Lawton of Benton
vile, and certainly makes a fine show
ing for Benton county. In gathering
these statistics from all over the coun-
ty, Judge Lawton had some help, but
it was great undertaking, and fruit
growers will be greatly benefited by
it. The figures demonstrate that Ben
ton county is one of the greatest fruit
counties in the world.
There were 1,163 carloads of apples
shipped out, and 283 cars put in cold
store, and it is estimated these brought
$630,960. The evaporated apples
brought $359,100; cider apples, $751;,
ia; distillery, $4,000; apples at can
ming factories, $4,000; dried apple
waste, $46,080, or a total of $1,192,65
for the apple crop.
With more than 100000 paid to
the growers for apples alone, CONNER
cial orchard growing is becoming quite
a big and profitable enterprise. 1t
must be remembered, too, that the ap-
pie crop in this county last year was
only partial crop, being on an aver
age of about 40 per cent of full crop.
The price was most excellent, the best
for many years, and this largely made
UP the deficiency in quantity.
The figures also show 1,525,915 bush
els of apples reported, and if all sales
were reported it is believed the ag,
gregate would easily reach one and
three-fourths million bushels.
There were 163 cars of peaches sent
out, los carloads of strawberries, 49,
80S crates of blackberries, and 6,841
crates of raspberries produced. All of
these Judge Lawton estimates sold for
100000. The berry crop was light
and the peach crop was lighter, only
small percentage of the trees bearing.
The total amount according to these
figures paid to the growers for the
fruit crop of 1907 was $1,731, 654
Night Waterman Robbed and Slain.
J. ]. Mangham, night Waterman at
the Post Pipe Company plant on Rose
Hill, Texarkana, was found at his post
of duty at 6 o'clock Sunday morning,
lying in pool of blood unconscious
and with his skull crushed in two
places. An iron CRATE bar with which
the assault was made lay beside the
victim, whose money and pistol were
taken. Robbery was undoubtedly the
motive.
Mangham was known to have had
about ten dollars on his person Satur-
day night. He was taken to sanitari-
UNI, where he died Sunday night.
There is yet no clue to the murderers.
He was GO years old and leaves wife
and two children,
Blue-grass blade., 1908-11-29
MRS. M. FISKE

Once the sincere human heart becomes firm its devotion
truth the orthodox superstition shall prevail
against it.
S admittedly mainstay church.
falls the this gigantic
son The high regard and esteem man enerans for mother
sister wife and daughter prevents in instances in
procivies feeling thus
aged she plods along give strength to that institution
that leads TO her constant degradation.
This the rule there exceptions and in the
course of time the executions will prove to be in excess of those
conforming True indeed all cannot be
Josephine Henry NJ Cloz but the subject of this
rbulaions sconed
superstition adhering truth has
lived the partial triumph of the principles of Free
thought. This sketch partly photographic have
the told personal vein that readers
realize full worth of such noble and heroic
character.
Fiske the ninth child of Lewis R. and Sarah T.
Anthony She born Sandford New York the goth
September 1886 therefore in her sixty third
At fifteen of she moved with her parents to Harmon
jersey where she of her fe and in
1866 years d. Fiske
n Freethough husband
Civil serving years in Minis Battalion
Artillery them
daughter Willie, being
expert swimmer already three from watery
but the nineteen he to the OF
fourth, the life but his strength
he found watery himself. This the
first great acon that to the life of the devoted mother
True its stubborn pesency the Christian superstition asa
ed her the of such trial Speaking of this in
cdent herself Mrs Fske One good praying Methodist
and said Now Willie has to hell;
religion reply character
istc of life for the sorrowng mother Immediately spoke
and said: T Willie has to hell want to there too
hell would be with him. hell without him.
OF it had to this praying Methodist
who had sacrificed his life the service or
Others not believing could possibly deserve aught but hell Yet
this Christian teaching and realizing the absurd of such
infamous doctrine Mrs Fke spurned the system and has
Feethought principles through all the intervening
in her loyal and true to Free
doms she days vigor youth.
Concerning her tendencies Freehought Mrs Fske
writes: "My father pioneer Sanford His nearest
neighbos Indians panthers father had only
words OF praise for the Indians He time red hot
Methodist He attended church At about the time
birth he broke from the church and became Free
Blue-grass blade., 1908-11-29

thinker. Ministers house father
that he Father them Bible that
they and this made them mad listened the
They challenged
debate the largest hall they could find 1t
The platform was filled with ministers all arrayed against my
father When he entered the hail. his full of books
Bible Other carrying
him. The ministers
with the when replied that
by him references they refused debate him
the hall Many after that met and talked with gentle
present quite
father that learned the inconsistency
dity of the Christian system of religion"
md prone Mistakes will
arise the course of life and one mistake recognized
by striking
to Her mothery
childrens belief that they
themselves The result that the children
members, looking the
the she had done forty
subject of religion,
them to be yet they
ing church members who dealt derhand in going about it. While
I
He said word to the subject of religion He sat
my About the his
preacher laid in
boy Joined the church Then they came to and because
Joined insisted that should also join They all
by this time why refused to do So"
But what was result? Christian charity at best
became best Punishment brave
the truth Talk about martyrdom all
of all the combined could
Christian cruelty inflicted this Read
'Niy boys joining church. mother at
nfdel They would not live with Hot and words
We parted each live life. could
babe My eldest the
me and baggage, unless stopped
ndugng in arguments Mehodss As
Of the always having them forced
told him slave and parted At the
Of the separation told him that the time should
that he could break from the degrading superstition
to mother We meet sometimes but do not
never"
Talk courage pos
such dauntless spirit and herosm
noble characters that here depicted
strength No trial tribuaon
promise could
course SUCH the Blade
Mrs Fiske a place in the list Of mmortals
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-01
TO ACQUIRE GRACEFULNEss.

A plain girl who knows how to
stand, move and sit with ease, is far
more admired than the beauty who
is clumsy and awkward. Some girls,
of course, are naturally graceful. But
there is no reason why those who are
lacking in this respect should not add
to their charms by carefully culti-
waiting the art. An erect carriage,
graceful walk, graceful manner of
sitting and rising, are absolutely
necessary if a girl wishes to be really
charming.
And it is quite within her own
power to acquire these virtues. In
the first place, she must study her
own defects and the faults of other
girls also, in order that she may avoid
them. Do not try to copy the grace
full girl offhand, so to speak, by fore
ing yourself into what, to ycu, would
be unnatural poses and attitudes.
That is not the way to cultivate
gracefulness. In fact, by doing SO
you will probably only make your
self more awkward and clumsy. By
always trying to avoid the little
faults, however, which prevent girl
becoming graceful, you will, as time
goes by, find yourself drifting quite
naturally into the ways and manners
of the graceful girl.-New York
Weekly.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-01
A PUzzLER FOR PA.

Spa, you know"
'No, DON'T"
"Don't what, pa :"
Don't know the answer to what
ever question you are going to ask" )"
"Why, you don't know what ! am
going to ask, do you, par"
"No, of course not"
"Then how do you know you don't
know what it isl"
''I don't know what it Is that /
don't know but all the same l know
/ don't know it."
"But, pa, if you don't know what
it is that you don't know, how do
you know that you don't know! If
you don't know, it seems to me that
you don't know whether you know
or don't know, and
1T know 1 don't know, simply be-
cause DONE know the answers to
any of the outlandish questions that
your peculiar inquisitiveness is for
ever prompting you to ask"
'But, pa"
"Ah, we'll ask your question and
be done with it. What Is it that you
want to know ?"
"Why, II don't know. You've
made me forget it !"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-01
THE PROPER ADJECTIVE.

At the close of a revival service in
Philadelphia the minister of the church
went down the aisle, according to his
custom, to greet the strangers in the
congregation. ST don't think you
are member of our church., said he
to one as he warmly shook his hand.
"No, sir" replied the stranger.
"Well, you will not think me unduly
curious if ask to what denomination
you belong?" asked the minister. II
suppose" responded the other, I'm
really what you might call sub
merged Presbyterian?' "a sub
merged Presbyterian" ?" exclaimed tde
minister. II should be glad if you
would explain" "Well, 1 was
brought up Presbyterian, my wife
is Methodist, my eldest daughter is
a Baptist, my son is the orgsnist at a
Unitarian church, my second daugh-
ter sings in an Episcopal choir, and
my youngest goes to a Congregational
Sunday school" But" said the
minister, aghast, "you contribute
to some church 7" Eyes contri-
butte to all of them" was the answer.
"That's what submerges me-"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-01
WHITE HOUSE COURTESY.

If any President of modern times
were to exhibit the official indecency
that John Adams exhibited when JEFF
ferson became President he would be
denounced by every reputable news
paper and intelligent citizen of the
land. 1t was then, as it is now, the
accepted duty of the retiring Presi-
dent to receive the incoming Presi-
dent at the White House and accom-
pany him to the Inauguration cere-
monies, but the last official act of
Adams as President was the nomina-
ton of member of what were called
midnight judges" the night before
the Inauguration cf Jefferson, and
during the night he and his family
withdrew from the White House,
leaving none but the servants to re-
ceive the incoming President, writes
Alexander K. Mcclure in the Circle.
1t was President Polk who first had
the courage to disregard the political
passions Of the times by inviting Hen
ry Clay, who had been his COMPETE
for. to dine with him and Mrs. Polk
during which Clay had been Sena-
tor most of the time, and it shocked
the Democratic sentiment at the time
when it was announced that Clay had
dined with President Polk, not on
state occasion, but had been welcom-
ed at the family dinner as friend.
Clay was the soul of chivalry, and
Polk was man Of unblemished char
acter and high attainments, and his
example of courtesy to Clay has never
since been broken.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-01
COULD NOT DENY IT.

The attorney for the defense look
ed keenly at the witness who was
testifying for the prosecution. "Your
name, if I understood you correctly, f"
he said, lis Horace Hinsey. Is that
right?"
Eyes, SIR"
Ibid you ever live in Nashua 7"
eyes, SIR"
"Mr. Hinsey, have you ever been
arrested on criminal charge ?''
No, sir !'' indignantly answered
the witness. Never p
"Did you ever commit an offense
for which you might justly have been
arrested?'
Never, sir p
"Mr. Hinsey, is it not fact that
you once stole from your own father?"
Here the attorney for the prosecu-
ton interposed, but the witness chose
to ansyeTa nsy, 8. sO -eAs4a.n.s,.. 1sess4
in my life r a
''Now, Mr.. Hinsey," " said the law
yer, suppose Snould tell you tnat
I knew of a case when you did steal
from your father"
Instantly the witness brow cleared.
Gentlemen" he said, turning to
the jury, he's right. I remember
now. When l was about eight years
old 1 stole half a dozen eggs from my
fathers grocery store, took them
down under the bank of the creek,
cooked them and helped eat them.
This lawyer, who was a boy then,
not only helped me steal those eggs,
but put me up to stealing them. How
are you, Jim?"
The Judge and jury joined in the
laugh that followed, and the rest of
the examination was conducted on
more friendly lines. Youths Com
bGnion.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-01

of the time,' - she answered, trying
hard to hide the traces of her tears
and smiling bravely. lyon know
there was nothing left, so 1 left COL
lege and after a course in shorthand
accepted the position of stenographer
at the hotel up there for the summer. "
Then she told him of the note and
cause. He listened attentively and
said, Poor little grille Why own
that hotel and these woods and that
castle like house on the hill command
ing such splendid view of the lake.
I bought it for summer home do
you like it?
''The hotel is leased for this season,
but next year I am going to turn it
into golf club. clearing away part
of these woods to enlarge the links.
I was just looking over the place bit
when 1 had the good fortune to run
across you, and now, Nat, there is no
end Of happiness in store for you:"
city, must find another position. =
"Now, look here, Nat, why don't
you stay right here? You know I
love you and l intended to tell you
so, and ask you to marry me as soon
as got out of college. Then your
mother died and 1 knew l must wait,
and then you disappeared ascompletely
as though the earth had opened and
swallowed you."
She did not answer, but sat silent
ly thinking of the note and the hot
city, and turning suddenly. she ask
ed, "Is it because you are sorry for
me thatyou are asking me, Malcolm 7"
"Why. bless you, Nat, it's because
l love you and have loved you ever
since we were kiddies, and your hat
fell into the brook and / waded in and
rescued it and was soundly spanked
for getting wet"
They laughed at the happy recol-
lection and as he took her in his arms
she nestled closer and gazed silently
across the lake to the house overlook
ing it that was to be their home
Mew York Evening Journal.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-01
RUNNING AS EXERCISE.

The fact that person is capable of
doing the best running and speed
walking before the thirtieth year need
not lead those who have passed the
third decade to think that they are
on the down grade Of life, says an
authority. These exercises call for
elasticity of the arteries, and that
lessons soon after the thirtieth year,
but powers of endurance increase in
the well preserved man or woman up
to fifty or fifty-fve or even later.
Soldiers of fifty are like leather and
can perform feats of endurance that
would kill the stripping, and the same
is true of women.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-01

WIFE-"I have about made up my
mind, John, that when I married you
l married a fool" Husband-"That
reminds me Of remark you made just
before we were married. You remenl-
Der that you said it would be hard to
find two people more alike than you
and T."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-01

= Chief Statistician Clark of the Ag-
ricultural Department estimates that
the ninth successive good harvest is
practically assured to the American
farmer and that the crops of 1908 will
be worth nearly So, ,ooo, 200, 900.
Eight billion dollars would pay the
net interest bearing national debt nine
times over. Or it would pay the net
nationol debt and leave enough to buy
at par the stock of all the railroads in
the country. 1t would nearly pay off
the entire bonded debt of every Amer
ican railroad. At assessed valuations
it would buy every acre of land in
New York city and replace every
building in it, with a little remnant
over equaling the combined assessed
valuations of Chicago, New Orleans,
St. Louis, Seattle and San Francisco.
Corn does not travel far from the
place where it is raised, which is lucky,
as there are not railroads enough to
carry it. A crop of 2,7oo, 900, 900
bushels should load 2,52o, 900 thirty
ton cars, $40, 900 more freight cars
than there are in the country of every
sort. The freight cars of all the
world would not carry our wheat and
corn. If there were cars enough and
if the wheat and corn were loaded into
thirty-ton cars, forty to train, and
trains were run at two miles intervals
at a speed, including stops, of thirty
miles an hour, night and day, it would
take nearly six months for the process
sion to pass reviewing stand. A
bin built the size of a city block, 600
feet by 200, would need to be more
than six miles high to hold this wheat
and corn alone. The hay and cotton
crops and the stupendous annual egg
yield of the American hen are in bulk
and value equally amazing.
There is little in these facts to JUS
tify pessimism. If there are rats in
the nations granary it is the nations
business to drive them out and keep
them out, but the material basis of
prosperity is broad and firm in the
! matchless abundance of nature.