Woodrukk County News.
VOL. VII.
yOUTHFUL MIND IN DISTRESS.
Awful Possibility That Loomed Before
Six-Year-Old Jackie.
Six-year-old Jackie's mother be
lieved that absolute truthfulness was
the only rock on which to build that
youthful gentleman’s character, and
the consistent working out of this
principle did away, of course, with be
lief in all such things as fairies, Santa
Claus, and other illusions dear to
childish hearts, and they became in
stead “make-believe” games, Santa
Claus in particular being a pet “joke”
between his mother and himself.
Jackie came in from play one after
noon much excited and concerned.
“Mother, Jimmie Norton believes
there is a really and truly Santa
Claus. He says he is sure that Santa
Claus does come down the chimney.
He wouldn’t believe me at all when
I told him it was just a joke,” with
rising anxiety.
Jackie's mother was somewhat non
plused. “Well, son,” she temporized,
“perhaps Jimmie’s mother will tell
him the joke some time soon, and
then—”
“Oh, I hope she will,” broke in
Jackie, forgetting his manners in his
earnestness, "because, you know, if
she don’t, when Jimmie has little boys
of his own they won't ever get any
Christmas presents.”
EMERSON’S MEMORY AT FAULT.
Had at Times Almost Entire Lack
of Remembrance.
Emerson was a notable sufferer
from the vagaries of memory. His bi
ographer relates that he met him one
uu; in uuoiuu, cuuj civ ci ivao
something, and asked him where he
was going. “To dine,” said Emerson,
“with a very old and dear friend. I
know where she lives, but I hope she
won't ask me her name,” and then he
proceeded to describe her as “the
mother of the wife of the young man
—the tall man—who speaks so well,”
and so on, until his interlocutor
guessed to whom he was referring.
Even the names of common objects
often failed him completely. On one
occasion, when he wanted an umbrel
la, he said: “I can’t tell its name, but
I can tell its history. Strangers take
it away.”
This failing of Emerson led to a
pathetic scene when he attended
Longfellow’s funeral, and remarked as
he gazed at the coffin: “He was a
sweet and beautiful soul; but I have
entirely forgotten his name.”
BREAKS A COLD PROMPTLY
The following formula is a never
failing remedy for colds:
One ounce of Compound Syrup of
Sarsaparilla, one ounce Toris Com
pound and one-half pint of good
whiskey, mix and shake thoroughly
each time and use in doses of a table
spoonful every four hours.
This if followed up will cure an
acute cold in 24 hours. The ingre
dients can be gotten at any drug store.
Vulgarity of Quarreling.
There must be a satisfaction in tor
turing human beings, for it is done so
often. Nobody blames a wife for up
holding her self-respect and resenting
insult, but there is little sympathy for
one who deliberately drives a man to
deeds of rudeness and violence. Nag
ging and indulgence in bad temper
leave indelible marks on the face of a
woman, on her voice and on her char
acter. They shrivel up whatever
sweetness nature has put into her dis
position and make her unlovely, even
in the eyes of those who feel in duty
hound to give her affection. It is often
hard to maintain silence under provo
cation. but there is always the open
door of escape, you know. A quarrel
does not thrive when fed from one
Side only, and what should he lmr>or
lant to every woman with pretenses
t° refinement is the undisputed vul
garity of bickering. Education and
refinement are supposed to lift us so
ar above vulgarity that even the hems
our skirts are unstained.—Exchange.
In Beautiful Sepulcher.
The last resting place of the great
Norwegian composer, Edward Grieg,
is one of the most beautiful in its nat
ural surroundings that could be imag
ined. By the side of a lake, at the ex
tiemity of a fiord, close to the compos
er s native town of Bergen, there is a
natural grotto formed in the solid
rock, which rises precipitously from
the water's edge. Here the bones of
le famous musician are buried, and,
*s ,ae grotto is only accessible from
io lake, the funeral cortege will have
o make the journey by water.
Molasses ar,d Sugar.
The term “molasses" is properly ap
cl to the saccharine product which
■separated from sugar in the process
manufacture. A syrup is the direct
loduet of the evaporation of the
Juice °f a sugar-yielding plant or tree
^ " lout the removal of any of the
“ ‘ ‘ii- The term molasses applies to
" saille process with the exception
the fact that the sugar has been re
n°'ed at least partially by crystalliza
°n and some kind of mechanical sep
ntion of the crystals from the re
gaining liquid
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THE TOPICS
OF A WEEK
Hut-oho Xu-pah, last of the medi
cine men of the Five Civilized Tribes,
is dead at the age of 95 in the Snake
hills of the Creek nation. For half
a century he has been one of the
most turbulent spirits among the In
dians of the eastern part of the new
Oklahoma. He maintained his sway
until death. Hut-cho Xu-pali led
the last rebellion of the Creeks in
1880. His faction was subdued by
the Creeks themselves before the
United States troops got there,
llut-cho Xu-pah’s band of fifty was
annihilated and he was condemned
to Heath. But so great was the awe in
which the old medicine man was
held that no one could be found to
be his executioner. With his adher
ents dead and himself imprisoned
his influence was so potent that he
compelled the election of a friend as
chief, the Creek Is-par-hech-e, and
was pardoned. Hut-cho Xu-pah took
the part of the United States during
the Civil war. He was known to the
Union soldiery as the Alabama
Phrophet. Always he asserted that
he was under the special protection
of the Sunreme Beiner and claimed
power over the lightning. Until
his death many believed him to have
supernatural powers. He was trans
ported from Alabama (10 years ago
and was the last of his kind of In
dian. There are no more medicine
men in the Five Tribes.
The Italian Bureau of Emigra
tion publishes statistics showing the
movement of Italian emigrants dur
ing the first three quarters of this
year. The total number of persons
who emigrated was 98,128 and 48,
!)9(J went to the United States. The
total number of repatriations was
222,301 and 173,007 returned from
America. During the corresponding
period in 1907 the number of emi
grants to America was 261,600 and
of repatriations only 62,926. Emi
gration is decreasing to Argentina
and Brazil, also while repatriation
from these countries are increasing.
A great number of returned emi
grants have money saved to keep
them, but the majority are destitute.
As a result crime, especially in
southern Italy, is increasing, and the
police suspect that the returning
emigrants have introduced the Black
Hand into Italy.
A posse of deputy United States
marshals surrounded a cabin near
Wilburton, Okla., Wednesday night
and captured Col. Deavalo and
John Castro. The charges against
them are conspiracy to overthrow
the government of Mexico. The
seat of their operations is said to be
in the state of Sonora. Castro is
the editor of a Mexican revolutionary
paper published in McAlester, and
Deavalo was a boarder with him in
his cabin near the Busby mines.
Both men have indictments against
them in the United States court in
San Antonio. They were taken to
that place.
Tiie situation in India has not
shown such a menace of serious up
rising as it did Wednesday for many
years past. Attacks and attempts
on the lives of Englishmen, officials
and civilians are of almost daily
occurence.
Joe Miller, a negro of Burdette,
Ark., was held up and brutally
beaten by negroes at South Fourth
street and Gayoso avenue Memphis,
Tuesday morning. The highway
men secured $27.
The wife of W. S. Odle of Lexing
ton, Tenn., picked what appeared to
.be a boil an inch below the knee
of her 8-year-old daughter, Maude,
and found a needle working its way
through the flesh.
Because he saved the life of his
chum while playing in the old swim
ming hole 20 years ago, Bill Hum
phrey, of Guthrie, Okla., was left a
fortune of $1(5,000 by the death of
his chum’s father a short time atro.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1908.
Conveying to the American gov
ernment the gratitude of the Chinese
people for remittance of a debt
amounting to nearly $14,000,
000, Tang Sliao Yi, powerful
figure in the affairs of the Chinese
empire, arrived in San Francisco
Sunday on the steamer Mongolia.
With him was Prince Tsai Fu, a
member of the royal family, and a
large retinue. Thrice in the history
of the oldest nation has there arisen
occasion for the appointment of such
a commission as was domiciled in
the Fairmont Hotel, and never has
a foreign power been so strongly
represented through diplomatic
channels during the period of a crisis
of world-wide importance. In his
honor, the dragon flag flew Sunday
from the mastheads of a score of ves
sels in the bay, guns mounted on
the harbor front boomed out a salute
and thousands of his countrymen,
silk-robed or silk-hatted, thronged
the dock where his escort landed.
Xot until the Mongolia dropped an
chor in the harbor did Tang Shao
Yi and his staff learn that the
dowager empress of China was dead.
In Honolulu the cable brought news
of the emperor’s death, but said
nothing about the dangerous illness
that threatened the end of the
dowager empress’ remarkable career.
An important experiment has been
made on the farm of II. D. Cooner,
Following is a list of the Grand
Jury summoned by the United
States District Court to serve at the
term to be held in Batesville be
ginning December 15: J. S. Hurst,
Maynard, Randolph county; Levi W.
Kell, Imboden, Lawrence; L. C.
Dehls, Kahoka, Stone; William El
liott, Quitman, Cleburne; F. M.
Daniel, Mammoth Spring, Fulton;
J. B. Duvall, Ravenden Springs,
Randolph; John Moore, Ravenden
Springs, Randolph; William King,
Curia, Independence; Frank P.
Helm, Batesville, Independence;
Samuel Gentrv, Shiloh, Cleburne;
G. M. Thompson, Sandtown, In
dependence; J. R. Davis, Ilamil,
Randolph; Alfred Thomas, Evening
Shade, Sharp; Thomas Copeland,
Byler, Izard; John Early, Pocahon
tas, Randolph; William Jones, Mil
ler, Cleburne; S. E. Cogswell, South
Fork, Fulton; W. B. Huddleston,
Batesville, Independence; C. C.
Presley, Mammoth Springs, Fulton;
John Ainsley, Supply, Randolph;
James Shemwell, Pittman, Ran
dolph; W. E. Moore, Alco, Stone;
Harvey A. Nelson, former treas
urer of the Elks theater and one
time society leader of Pine Bluff,
was acquitted of a charge of grand
larceny in the Circuit Court Mon
day. lie admitted taking a diamond
locket from Mrs. Van Knox, at
whose home he formerly lived, but
declared that he intended to return
it to its owner. He was acquitted
by a jury in four minutes. He
pawned the diamond and it was re
covered before his arrest. The state
failed to prove felonious intent. Im
mediately after his acquittal Nelson
was rearrested on a charge of ob
taining money under false pretenses,
but friends made bond for him.
Prosecutor Jones says he will be ar
rested to answer several other
charges.
At a meeting of a committee of
ten members of the Conway Baptist,
church at Conway the question of
building or remodeling the present
church in order to give more room
was discussed and it is understood
that the committee will recommend
■fVin f n liflnrl IT1PW
house of worship, but members of
the committee will give out no de
tails until their report has been made
to their church. ‘‘It is recognized
by all of us,” said the pastor, Rev.
J. J. Hurt, Monday “that our
church is very weak financially and
that we must sacrifice to the limit
in order to erect a church building
adequate to our needs, but our peo
ple seem ready and anxious to go
under the load.”
At the meeting of the Siloam
Springs C’itv Council $3,009 of city
scrip was destroyed. During the
past two years the city issued $12,
105 in serin. When the present
administration took charge the total
floating indebtedness of the city was
$4,906.51, of which $4,790.28 was
issued by the Kemper administra
tion and $139.74 by the Zimmerman
administration and $36.50 by the
Steele administration. During the
past seven months of the Paul ad
ministration scrip to the amount of
$822.98 was issued. After the can
cellation of the scrip, the total float
ing indebtedness of the city stands
at $2,780.43.
The Circuit Court of Monroe
countv convened at Clarendon Mon
day morning with a large number
of cases on the docket. Judge Eu
gene Kmkford will preside and the
interests of tire state will be looked
after by Prosecuting Attorney
George W. Clark. In his instruc
tions to the Grand Jury Judge Lank
ford laid special stress upon the law
prohibiting the carrying of conceal
ed weapons and cited the killing of
Senator Carmack as an instance of
the evil of carrying the “convenient”
pistol. The Grand Jury was secured
with some difficulty, as nearly half
the first panel was excused for vari
ous reasons.
County Judge Jesse A. Harp of
Sebastian county dismissed Saturady
the petition asking the revocation of
the saloon license of Harper & Wil
at Fort Smith. The petition was
based upon the allegation that the
Fort Smith firm had sold liquor to
a minor, but the evidence proved
that the order was received by mail
from an Oklahoma town, accom
panied by a postoffice money order,
and that the firm could not have
known that a minor had sent them
the order.
Rains have fallen generally over
Grant county and have extinguished
the forest fires, which were doing
considerable damage. While the
damage to property has not been so
great, tt the mast, or fruit of the
oak, which is so essential to the big
hog raisers and which is a very
large crop, has been entirely wiped
out where the fire went.
Henry Simmons, a former deputy
sheriff of Cross county, was arrested
Saturday and placed under bond on
the charge of assault fo kill. Sim
mons was engaged in a quarrel with
a brakeman named Thompson, whom
he shot at three times, none of the
shots taking effect.
Charles Clark's residence at Deca
tur, together with all its contents,
was destroyed by fire recently. The
property was uninsured.
near Nashville, Tenn. Ninety-six
hogs which had been exposed to chol
era were inoculated with serum re
cently discovered by Dr. Marion
Dorset of the United States bureau
of animal industry. Dr. M. Jacob
of the Tennessee experimental sta
tion at Knoxville directed the in
oculation of the swine. The serum
is composed of the blood of healthy
hogs, compounded with chemicals
in accordance with the discovery of
Dr. Dorset. The result of the ex
periment will be of great importance
it being estimated that the annual
loss of hogs by cholera in Tennessee
amount to half a million dollars.
It is claimed that previous experi
ments have been successful.
Gov. A. E. Wilson, of Kentucky,
announces that he will soon with
draw a portion of the soldiers from
the ‘"'black patch.” He does not say
from what counties they will be
taken, but it is safe to say that in
Trigg, Calloway and Christian,
where night riders have been most
active, a sufficient number will be
retained to protect the citizens and
officers who have been vigilant in
suppressing night riding. No trou
ble has occurred in the “black patch”
for several months, but there is no
doubt but what peace has been due
to the presence of soldiers. In many
instances serious threats have been
made against men who were witnes
ses against the riders. So far as the
tobacco war is concerned, it is be
lieved to be practically over.
Reassured by the reports that the
cholera has completely disappeared
from Manilla, Rear Admiral Sperry
has altered his determination not to
permit the men of the Atlantic bat
tleship fleet to land, and he has uoti
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pared to enact the program original
ly planned by the city, and that he
will endeavor to carry out such por
tions of the program as possible be
fore the departure of the tleet for the
Mediterranean.
Will Anderson, a negro suspected
of being Will Mack, the negro who
criminally assaulted Miss Myers, a
16-year-old white girl at Pelahatchie,
Miss., last Friday, was shot to death
Sunday by a sheriffs posse near
Brandon, Miss. The negro refused
to halt when the command was given
to surrender. Governor Xoel Mon
day offered a reward of $f>00 for the
capture of Mack.
While attempting to arrest three
negroes who were disturbing public
worship at Owl City, four miles east
of Tiptonville, Tenn., at 11 o’clock
Sunday morning, Deputy Sheriff
John Hall and Richard Burrus,
whom he had deputized to assist him,
were both shot, and it is believed
that Hall will die. The negroes es
caped, and a posse of 150 men, under
the leadership of Sheriff Haines, of
Lake county are in pursitit of them.
\\ mirey closer, i-sarren rork. Izard.
An Iron Mountain locomotive,
which whs attached Saturday by
officers on the Texas side to satisfy
a judgment against the company in
favor of J. C. Jowers was released
late Sunday afternoon, an agree
ment having been reached by the
terms of which Mr. Jowers was to
get his money without further de
lay. The engine was kept chained
to the tracks for 24 hours in the
yards on the Texas side during
which time it was visited by a large
number of curious persons anxious
to see what an engine “in captivity”
looked like. It was the first chain
ing up of a locomotive at Texarkana
under such circumstances in a long
time, but similar cases at rare inter
vals occurred in former years.
The Benton County School Di
rectors’ Association will hold it an
nual meeting at Bentonville Satur
day, December 12. The program
will be as follows: Address by
President W. T. Gann; “Value of
Organization and Co-operation of
School Directors,” F. G. Linsey, II.
W. Gipple and M. F. Lennard; “The
Law Itegarding the Graded Course
of Study.” D. I*. Woolwine and 0.
W. Patterson; “Should We Work
for County Superintendency?” E.
VI. Bogy, F. M. Haswell and Carl
A. Stark; “Benefit of Consolidated
School Districts,” J. C. Lennon.
J. W. Jennings, a prisoner in
the Hot Springs jail, under a seven
year sentence for assault, assaulted
E. J. Williams, negro prisoner, on
Wednesday, with a mop handle,
striking him on the head and inflic
ting injureis that are liable to prove
fatal. The trouble is said to have
been the result of a vile epithet
which Jennings alleges Williams ap
plied to him Tuesday night. Jen
nings was recently granted stay of
sentence for 20 days, 12 of which
have expired.
Boyd Buchanan shot three times
it a burglar who was trying to enter
his residence at Prescott through a
window Monday night. Several
houses in Prescott have been entered
recently by burglars.
The smallpox situation at Sul
phur Rock is not as bad as first re
ported. All those who were afflic
ted with the disease are now conval
escent.
Prof. O. D. Link, formerly as
sistant of the Normal Academy at
Mount Ida, but recently studying
law in the office of Attorney G. It.
Howell at Caddo Gap, is under ar
rest on charge of “larceny after a
trust." The warrant was sworn oui
in Georgia, to which state Professor
Link probably will bo taken for trial.
Mrs. Mary Phillips, of Gravettc
fell upon the sidewalk at Gravette
and her hip was dislocated.
NO. 3.
HEALTH VERY POOR—
RESTORED BY PE-Rl-NA.
Catarrh Twenty-five Years—
Miss Sophia Kittlesen, Evanston, 111.,
writes:
“I have been troubled with catarrh
for nearly twenty-live years and have
tried many cures for it, but obtained
very little help.
‘•Then my brother advised me to try
Peruna, and I did.
*’My health was very poor at the time
I began taking Peruna. My throat was
very sore and I had a bad cough.
“Peruna has cured me. The chronic
catarrh is gone and my health is very
much improved.
“I recommend Peruna to all my
friends who are troubled as I was/’
PERUNA TABLETS :—Some people pre
fer tablets, rather than medicine in a
fluid form. Such people can obtain Peru
na tablets, which represent the medici
nal ingredientsof Peruna. Each tablet
equals one average dose of Peruna.
Man-a-lin t!ie Ideal Laxative.
Ask your Druggist for a Free Peruna
Almanac for 1909.
NINETY-EIGHT FEET SHY.
Mr. Gouty—Thank heaven, I'm not
a centipede.
We wonder that some of our enter
prising firms with the great resources
at their command do not produce
cheap artistic pottery, for it would pos
sibly create its own market after a
time. One cardinal faith among most
shopkeepers appears to be that art:
with a big A must be paid extra for.
Until we get rid of this foolish be
lief we shall not make much progress,
in popularizing art.—British Architect.
Inartistic Pottery.
I i\/1 m /"» a nurnTiP riut pmt
Glow of Health Speaks for Postum.
It requires no scientific training to
discover whether coffee disagrees or
not.
Simply stop it for a time and use
Postum in place of it, then note the
beneficial effects. The truth will appear.
"Six years ago 1 was in a very bad
condition," writes a Tenn. lady, “I suf
fered from indigestion, nervousness
and insomnia.
“I was then an inveterate coffee
drinker, but it was long before I could
be persuaded that it was coffeq that
hurt me. Finally I decided to leave it
off a few days and find out the truth.
"The first morning I left off coffee I
had a raging headache, so I decided I
must have something to take the place
of coffee." (The headache was caused
by the reaction of the coffee drug—
caffeine.)
"Having heard of Postum through a
friend who used it, I bought a package
and tried it. I did not like it at first
but after I learned how to make it
right, according to directions on pkg.,
I would not change back to coffee for
anything.
"When I began to use Postum I /
weighed only 117 lbs. Now I weigh
170 and as I have not taken any tonic
in that time I can only attribute my
recovery of good health to the use of
Postum in place of coffee.
"My husband says 1 am a living ad
vertisement for Postum. I am glad to
be the means of inducing my many
friends to use Postum, too.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well
ville,” in pkgs. "There’s a Reason.”
Ever rcnil the above letterf A new
out* appear* from time to time. They
are {genuine, true, and full of human
Interest*