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Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-02-20
VILLAGE of Wampoo Burned.

Wampoo, hamlet six miles west OF
Kio, was destroyed by fire Saturday
night. Three stores, the postoffce and
two or three dwellings were burned
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-02-20
Special officer Acquitted.

special Officer ]. L. Boone was tried
no1 e a jury in a justice of the
s az court at Hot Springs, Thurs
s;.. and acquitted on the charge of
lan oing the peace by using abusive
man -
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-02-20

Charlotte, N C-While one masked
robber held up the cashier in true
wild west" style, his two compan-
ions looted the vault of the Bank of
Granite Falls, N. c.. early Saturday
night, secured all the cash in the in
stitution, $1,000, forced the cashier to
enter the vault and after locking him
in, made their escape.
The robbery, which was one of the
holdest in the criminal annals of the
state, was not discovered until Sun
day morning When Cashier w. G.
Whitnant did not appear for break
fast his family instituted a search.
On entering the bank a feeble tap
ping was heard in the vault and when
it was opened the missing cashier
staggered out, more dead than alive
from his 10 hours of close confine-
ment.
According to the cashiers story,
three strange men, wearing masks,
entered the bank at 6 o'clock Satur-
day evening, and. while one of them
held him up at the point of a pistol,
the other two, Notwithstanding the
fact that pedestrians were passing the
door, proceeded to help themselves
to the banks cash. Their work was
done quietly and rapidly.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-02-20
Illness in franklin County.

vos up pneumonia and measles are
co, prevalent throughout Franklin
fata, There Ncre only half dozen
e,sa cases, ans they were cases OF
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-02-20
Takahira Lands With olive Branch

New York.-Declaring that war be-
tween the United States and Japan
would be the most inhuman event
in the worlds history" and is too
hellish' to be thought of, Baron Ko-
goro Takahira, the new Japanese am
bassador to Washington, said Sunday,
upon landing in New York from the
steamer Etruria. that the Japanese
people know absolutely nothing of a
break in the cordial relations which
have been historic between the two
nations Talk of war. Baron Taxa
hira declared is, utterly unintelligible
to him, unless, as some one had sug-
gested, it is spread broadcast to serve
the commercial ends of some newspa-
pareS
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-02-20
Found Dead In Bed.

Mrs. Carrie Seay, aged 70 years, and
a pioneer resident of Hot Springs, was
found dead in bed Tuesday morning.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-02-20
Judge w. S. Mccain Dies of Pneu-
monEa.

Judge William Simonton Mccain,
enc of the most prominent and respect
ed citizens of Little Rock, die dat 1:50
o'clock Tuesday afternoon at his home,
SIT Gaines street, after an illness of
only two weeks. Death was caused
by pneumonia.
Judge Mccain was taken sick Sat-
urday, February /, with la grippe,
Within two days it developed into
pneumonia. The sickness was brought
on, it is thought, as ire result of his
venturing out into nard cold rain,
and getting his feet wet, after recover
ing from few days illness with la
grippe only short time before he was
taken down for the last time Kidney
trouble also set in few days ago, his
death being caused by the compiled
ton of diseases. His death was not
unexpected, as his condition had been
considered very critical for a week,
and the physicians gave out practically
no hope for his recovery
Judge Mccain was born in Upton
county, Tenn, May 81, 1S4S. He was
left an orphan at the age of u years,
and from then on had to struggle hard
for living and education. His 1ctive
mind and sterling ambition carried
him through. He toIIed especially
hard in securing an education under
many difficulties and succeeded in Sc
curing not only a liberal education
along common lines, but became a
scholar in both Latin and Greek.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 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 a curiosity, but up to a
few years ago, a Chinese girl whose feet were
four inches long found it a difficult proposition to
get married, while the parents of the girl with the
two-inch foot was overrun with applicants. AS
g. compensation to these Chinese women for the
tortures they underwent during the time their
feet were being maltreated they took great pride
in embroidering 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
u%facture, roughly stitched and crude in appear
ance.
Just why shoes for poor persons came into
vogue is a question that remains unanswered.
They originated in the ,Grecian 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 a
quarter to a half inch thick. And she does not
have corns, either.
But Americans need not complain of the in
stitution. We made 242,110,035 pairs of shoes
in 1905, or a pair for every inhabitant of America,
France, Germany, Austria, and a few of the small
err countries. The value of the industry was $780,
170,458. All that was for one years output, or
more money than there was in the world when
the first sandal was made. The American shoe
is now walking the streets of every capital of
the world; it 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 corners stop a moment
to examine it 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 its
feet. In the days centuries upon centuries ago,
when man was only a 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-
tons 'pedes' are disappearing. Toenais, no
longer being an actual need among tribes which
wear shoes, are disappearing and a scientist a
few years ago declared that within 100 years
there will be no toenails.
Even the American Indian who, a hundred years
ago, wore moccasins, today clothes his feet in
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12
SHOWS NEgp Of SUBDIVISION.
Record of Failed National Banks
Makes Potent Argument.

OF. S,4S9 national banks organized
in 43 years, 447 have failed, and AIS
of these that failed owed their trouble
to ~defalcations, frauds or other viola
tons of law, including excessive loans
to directors.
Lack Of proper government supervi'
sion was largely to blame, five per
cent. of our national banks suffering
through dishonest banking. That
means one national bank in every 20.
The government has allowed this to
go on year after year, although the
department of the comptroller of the
currency in 1907 spent but $41S,759.41.
while the tax on circulation paid the
government $2,S06, O70.54.
Charles w. Morse is on trial in
New York for violation Of banking
laws. Evidence shows that his Bank
of North America padded accounts,
made blind" loans. recorded fake de-
posits and had handed out almost two
millions of dollars to concerns owned
by Morse and his friends.
Letters in evidence show that the
comptroller of the currency had known
of this for a long time before the crash
came.
Did he close the bank? He merely
warned Morse to be more prudent"
In 43 years of national banks the
United States government has gained
from them $50, $50, 915.24, while depos.
itors have lost, by the failure of one
out of every 20 banks, 47,911,5 S3.
The Morse case shows why.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12
A MjSouotation.

From an obviously inspired Wash,
ington dispatch to the Tribune:
On October Ia the president an
swered, stating that he had heard that
Mr.. Hartman did not think it wise
to come, and continued:
IF you think there is nothing spe-
cial | should be informed about, o. no
matter in which | could give aid, of
course, give up the visit for the time
being, and then a few weeks hence,
before l write my message, l shall
get you to come down to discuss GER
tain government matters not connect
ed with the campaign"
Tut! tut! Keep the record straight.
This is what the president wrote:
IF you think there is any danger OF
your visit to me causing trouble, or If
you think there is nothing special"
etc.
What could have been Anybody's
purpose in cutting off the first part
of that sentence, and conveying a
false impression by beginning the sec,
ond IF" with a capital "I?" Wisdom
cannot be supplanted by cunning
while memories continue to be green
-Harper's Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12

Mrs. Lenora Bodenhamer, R. T. D. 1,
Box 90, Kernersvilie, N. G., writes:
81 suffered with stomach trouble and
indigestion for some time, and nothing
that 1 ate agreed with me. was very
nervous and experienced a continual
feeling of HneaSineSS and fear. / took
medicine from the doctor, but it did me
no good.
II found in one of your Peruna books
a description of my symptoms. l then
wrote to DIR. Hartman for advice. He
said l had catarrh of the stomach. l
took Peruna and Manalin and followed
his directions and can now say that |
feel as well as l cver did.
81 hope that all who are afflicted with
the same symptoms will take Peruna,
as it has certainly cured me-"
The above is only n of hundreds
who have written similar letters to DR..
Hartman. Just one such cast as this
entities Peruna to the candid consider
alton of every n similarly afflicted. If
this be true Of the testimony of one per-
son what ought to be the testimony of
hundreds, yes thousands, ofhonest, sim
cere people. We have in our files a
great many other testimonials.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12

Several newspapers, of which the
New York Evening Post is one, say
that they do not see how the presi'
dent can afford to ignore Mr.. Parker's
statement of old, reiterated now, that
800, 900 was got from the Standard
Oil Company for the Roosevelt cam
paign fund of 1904, and that more
was demanded but it was refused,
There was a letter, Mr.. Parker re-
peats, from President Roosevelt to
Secretary Cortelyou, then the chair
man, ordering him to return the $780,
900, but that it was not returned. The
Post thinks, as the president SO
promptly took a hand in the Standard
Oil questions raised in the cases of
two public men recently, that it is in
cumbent on him to explain this
Standard Oil episode also AS this
is only a demand for publicity after
election" which is good Roosevelt
doctrine, why should not it apply? In
good truth the people are sore and
suspicious at this whole a of cor
ruption, dating back from the insur'
ance company contributions and the
Hartman salvation fund of $260,000
and coming to the present day with
this and other charges like that of the
Panama canal deal. If there is moth
ing in these things a short story will
soon tell it. If there is-well popular
resentment is at the point where il
will take silence as consent and go on
with it's belief. But this will not end
it. The truth will have to come out
and sooner or later it will.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12

American railroads are complaining
all the time that they cannot lay
hands IN money enough to provide
double tracks wen where they are
necessary to cope with the growing
traffic. Yet a reduction of eight dol
lars a ton in the price of steel rails
would enable the double tracking of
more than rs per cent. more road for
exactly the same cost.
Why should the tariff favor the TO-
eign railroad at the expense of the
American railroad?
Once upon a time protectionists
successfully Haunted the bogy of Euro
pean cheap labor, and pleaded the
high tariff as a necessity to maintain
a high wage and a decent standard Of
living for the American skilled arti
san. But this bogy vanishes when we
consider that every employee of the
highly-protected United States Steel
Company earns for the stockholders
an amount every year equal to his
wage.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12

brogans and he would laugh at his brother red
skin who took to wearing animals skins on his
feet. There are few tribes in the world to-day, ex-
cept in the darkest portions of Africa, who still
spufn the wearing Of shoes in some form or other.
OF course, every nation has it's own special kind
of shoes, some of which consist of nothing more
than a fiat piece of board and a strap. That
sort are classed under the general caption of
Sandals"
Hundreds of years ago, when people wore no
shoes they never complained of rheumatism; they
never had ingrowing toenails, neither did they
cultivate corns and seldom could they boast of an
attack OF govt. They called it evil spirit" then.
But the advance of civilization had its drawbacks.
The feet were clothed, but at the same time the
wearing of the shoes brought on disease of these
supports and some authorities doubt whether
civilizations feet are any better off to-day than
they were a thousand years ago when they were
filled with ~slivers, brambles and the like, but
were not nearly as wide a topic for discussion as
they are to-day, for then people didn't mind the
little inconveniences. To-day, great progress hav-
ing been made in that line, smaller ailments of
the feet are a source of complaint.
The most civilized portions Of the world have
developed a tenderness of the feet which has be-
come a tradition in the circles which have made
the greatest progress. People who wear pointed
shoes are compelled to suffer the same agonies
that would come if their toes were bound together
with adhesive tape and they were compelled to
walk about thus conditioned. Others who wear
shoes too small have swelling of the feet when
they take off thei, shoes. Shoes too large produce
corns, just as do small shoes.
Young ladies and some older ones who follow
the fashions with good intent, equip themselves
with French-heeled shoes, which raise the heels
into the air from three to six inches. This of
course gives them a beautiful instep, they claim,
and it also keeps them walking on their toes. II
twists the spine and exerts pressure upon the
base of the brain which brings on fearful head
aches If the practice is kept up for any length OF
time each day. Skeptical persons with set ideae
on shoes are talking Of asking the next session
of congress to put a tariff on French heels which
will effectively bar them from this country. But
there are so many wives of congressman and sen
ators who declare that French heels are far more
comfortable than halfinch heels, that the bill has
about as much show as the traditional SNOWFALL.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12
liz This Treason2

The Providence Journal points out
that the presidents attack upon the
work of Mr.. Olney as attorney general
of the United States was sheer
demagogery." Mr.. Roosevelt said
that the only new case which Mr..
Olney as attorney general brought
under the antitrust law vas directed
against combinations of workingmen.'
By this the president obviously refers
to the action taken by the Cleveland
administration to prevent the obstruc-
ton of interstate commerce during the
Pullman strike-an action In which
Mr.. Taft as circuit judge was con
cerned.'' The Journal is correct in its
estimate of that part Of the presi
dents letter, for it was a tissue OF
Misrepresentation designed to pro
duce "a 'momentary effect"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12
Trusts Are Republican,.

The trust evil has grown up since
the Inauguration of Mckinley. Before
McKinley's inauguration there was lit
tie ground for prosecution. Some of
the laws under which prosecutions
have been instituted were not in force
during C%leveland's administration be-
cause the evils they are intended to
correct were not then known.-Florida
Times Union.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12

In Magdeburg, Germany, two physi-
clans are using what might be called
radiumized water in the treatment OF
govt and rheumatism. Recent ex-
perlments by medical men of reputa-
ton are stated to have established the
fact that the gas emitted from radium
possesses the anne qualities as the
radium itself and is the principal heal
ing factor in the various mineral wa
4ers used in the healing Of diseases.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12

Now will Mr.. Bryan be good? Does
not he see, cannot he see that the fact
that anything has been done, or left
undone, by a certain distinguished
person is complete and satisfactory
evidence that the doing or the neglect
was altogether proper and was at
tended with beneficent results to the
public and to the great cause Of
righteousness. 1t is curious that any
one of Mr.. Bryan's perspicacity should
fail to see the tremendous difference
in whose OK is gored and what bull
does the goring.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12
Benefit in Radiumizcd Water

II 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
radlum 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 a short space Of time, when
the water Is drawn Off and used for
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12

deal with each case in his own way,
considering the child, it's 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 the
child. Applied to the child, they often
confirm untoward predispositions and
tendencies. The broadcast possible dis
erection should be given courts created
to deal with juvenile delinquents.-
Seattle Post,Intelligencer
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12
Would Risk One More Bottle.

A Frenchman from the provinces
who was paying a prolonged visit to
Paris found his hair was leaving him
at the top Of his head, and took his
barber to task about it. you sold me
two bottles of stuff to make the hair
grow" ut is very strange 1t won't
grow again." said the modern Figaro:
Il can't understand it." Look here!"
said the countryman. II don't mind
drinking another bottle, but this must
be the last!"-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12
Brazil Takes Forward Step.

The latest plans of the Brazilian III
thorities interested in improved agri-
cultural methods in Brazil is to en-
ploy a numbel Of travelling professors
of agriculture, who shall visit different
sections of the country and give prac-
tical instruction in modern agricul-
ture. Experimental fields are also to
be established in this connection.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12

a Hans Sachs, the most eminent poet
of Germany, was a cobbler. So was William Gift
ford, the famous editor of the Quarterly.
Shoes, as we know them, are purely a western
institution. But there is a reason and incidentally
a queer juxtaposition. A Christian takes his hat
off when he enters a 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 on a
friend or went to church. So the Asiatics wear
shoes that can be kicked off as easily as we can
remove our 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 some rather
crude effects. Peasants often cut strips of wood,
fasten a thong about the big toe and the board
and trudge along as comfortably as the man who
buys the ready-mades shoes of America, and in some
cases even more so. Another scheme is to use a
block of wood and stick a knob in it so 1t will rise
between the big toe and its ~neighbor and by a
dexrerous and ~practiced use of the toe muscles, it
answers very well indeed.
In Brittany the making of shoes is a village oc-
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 are on the market. An
American boy would probably fall down and skin
his knees if he were 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 so many years that we are liable to
forget that they varied in styles as radically as
women's hats do now. During the time of Edward
Nv. in England, the parliament had to pass a law
regulating the length of shoes. Some of them
were made so long as to be dangerous. Princes
sometimes wore them even 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
we're high supports under the soles, lifting the
wearers some six or eight inches nearer the clouds.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12

Mr.. Tafts tariff speeches in Kansas
and Nebraska afford mighty little com
fort for people who want the tariff TO
be revised downward. He talks like
She late Mr.. Dingley when addressing
he Home Market club,--Springfeld
.eIEb,ican.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12

1t requires acquaintance with only
a few OF the related facts to bring the
conviction that any effort the Repub-
licans may make to alter or revise or
reform the tariff will be a farce so
far as the gaining Of any relief from
the injustice, oppression and special
privilege concentrated in Dingleyism
Is concerned.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-12
The Child and the Law.

While discussing the juvenile court
before the charities and corrections
conference of Washington, Judge s. ].
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 funrestrained discretion to