I- Woodmkk Eounty News.
VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1909.
NO 13.
JOIH IN EULOGY
TO STATESMAN
NATION’S MEN OF WORTH
IN TRIBUTE TO ABRA
HAM LINCOLN.
PRESIDENT MAKES ' ADDRESS
Qualities and Deeds of the Great Pres
ident Set Forth by the Chief Exec
utive in Impressive Speech—Im
mense Concourse Gathered to Wit
ness Exercises in Connection with
Laying of Corner Stone of Memo
rial Hall.
Hodgenville, Ky.-—The corner stone
of ihe splendid memorial to be erected
to the memory of Abraham Lincoln
was laid by President Roosevelt. The
exercises were participated in by many
of the nation s leading men, Cardinal
Gibbons and ex-Gov. Folk of Missouri
being among those who made ad
dresses.
From all points, by train and over
roads not particularly smooth at this
season of the year, the people gathered
to the exercises. A building four
times the size of the tent provided
could not have accommodated the
crowd.
The corner stone of the Memorial
hall was laid by President Roosevelt.
In an impressive address the chief ex
ecutive eulogized the life and work of
the great statesman. He spoke as fol
lows :
"We have met here to celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary of the birth of
one of the two greatest Americans; of
one of the two or three greatest men of
the nineteenth century; of one of the
greatest men in the world’s history. This
rail splitter, this boy who passed his un
gainly youth in the dire poverty of the
poorest of the frontier folk, whose rise
was by weary and painful labor, lived to
lead his people through the burning
flames of a struggle from which the na
tion emerged, purified as by fire, born
anew to a loftier life. After long years
of iron effort, and of failure that came
more often than victory, he at last rose
to the leadership of the republic at the
moment when that leadership had become
the stupendous world-task of the time.
He grew to know greatness, but never
ease Success came to him. but never
happiness, save that which spr-ngs from
doing well a painful and a vital task.
Power was his, but not pleasure. The
furrows deepened on his brow, but his
eyes were undimmed by either hate or
fear. His gaunt shoulders were bowed,
but his steel thewrs never faltered as lie
bore for a burden the destinies of his
people. His great and tender heart
shrank from giving pain; and the task
allotted him was to pour out like water
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Born February 12, 1805 Died April 15, 1865
^le life-blood of the young men, and to
Iee' in hijs every fiber the sorrow of the
wonien. leisaster saddened but never dls
moyed him. As the red years of war
went by they found him ever doing his
jmty in the present, even faring the fu
tute with fearless front, high of heart,
dauntless of soul. Unbroken by ha
,r*d, unshaken by scorn, he worked and
•offered for the people. Triumph was his
f* ,,le last; and barely had he tasted it
before murder found him. and the kind
Patient, fearless eyes were closed for
•ver.
Washington and Lincoln.
"As a people we are Indeed beyond
ly though the problems of to-day differ
from the problems set for solution to
Washington when he founded this nation,
to Lincoln when he saved It and freed
the slave, yet the qualities they showed
In meeting these problems are exactly
the same as those we should show in
doing our work to-day.
Lincoln’s Deep Foresight
“Lincoln saw into the future with the
prophetic imagination usually vouchsafed
only to the poet and the seer. He had
In him all the lift toward greatness of
the visionary, without any of the vision
ary's fanaticism or egotism, without any
of ths visionary's narrow jealousy of ths
measure fortunate in the characters of
the two greatest of our public men,
Washington and Lincoln. Widely though
they differed in externals, the Virginia
landed gentleman and the Kentucky
backwoodsman, they were alike in es
sentials, they were alike in the great
qualities which rendered each able to
render service to his nation and to all
mankind such as no other man of his
generation could or did render. Each had
lofty ideals, but each in striving to attain
these lofty ideals was guided by the
soundest common sense. Each possessed
inflexible courage in adversity, and a soul
wholly unspoiled by prosperity. Each
possessed all the gentler virtues common
ly exhibited by good men who lack rug
ged strength of character. Each pos
sessed also all the strong qualities com
monly exhibited by those towering mas
ters of mankind who have too often
shown themselves devoid of so much as
the understanding of the words by which
we signify the qualities of duty, of
mercy, of devotion to the right, of lofty
distinterestedtiess in battling for the good
of others. There have been other men
as great and other men as good; but in
all the history of mankind there are no
other two great men as good as these,
no other two good men as great. Wide
practical man and inability to strive In
practical fashion for the realization of
an Ideal. He had the practical man’s
hard common sense and willingness to
adapt means to ends; but there was In
him none of that morbid growth of mind
and soul which blinds so many practical
men to the higher things of life. No
more practical man ever lived than this
homely backwoods idealist; but he had
nothing in common with those practical
men whose consciences are warped until
they fail to distinguish between good and
evil, fail to understand that strength,
ability, shrewdness, whether in the world
of business or of politics, only serve to
make their possessor a more noxious, a
more evil member of the community, if
they are not guided and controlled by a
fine and high moral sense.
Lessons from Lincoln's Life.
“We *of this day must try to solve
many social and industrial problems,
requiring to an especial degree the
combination of indomitable resolution
with cool-headed sanity. We can profit
by the way in which Lincoln used both
these traits as he strove for reform. We
can learn much of value from the very
attacks which following that course
brought upon his head, attacks alike by
the extremists of revolution and by the
extremists of reaction. He never wav
ered in devotion to his principles, in hia
love for the union, and 0i his abhor
rence of slavery. Timid and lukewarm
people were always denouncing him be
cause he was extreme; but as a matter
of fact he never went to extremes, he
worked step by step; and because of this
the extremists hated and denounced him
with a fervor which now seems to us fan
tastic in its deification of the unreal and
the impossible. At the very time when
one side was holding him up as the
apostle of social revolution because he
was against slavery, the leading abo
litionist denounced him as the “slave
hound of Illinois.” When he was the sec
ond time candidate for president, the ma
jority of his opponents attacked him be
cause of what they termed his extreme
radicalism, while a minority threatened
to bolt his nomination because he was not
radical enough. He had continually to
check those who wished to go forward
too fast, at the very time that he over
rode the opposition of those who wished
not to go forward at all. The goal was
never dim before his vision; but he picked
his way cautiously, without either halt or
hurry, as he strode toward it, through
such a morass of difficulty that no man
of less courage would have attempted it,
while it would surely have overwhelmed
any man of judgment less serene.
Man of Great Toleration.
“Vet, perhaps the most wonderful thing
of all, and. from the standpoint of the
American of to-day and of the future,
the most vitally important, was the
extraordinary way in which Lincoln
could fight valiantly against what he
deemed wrong, and yet preserve undi
minished his love and respect for the
brother front whom he differed.
Strong Sense of Justice.
“He lived in days that were great and
terrible, when brother fought against
brother for what each sincerely deemed
to be the right. In a contest so grim
the strong men who alone can carry it
through are rarely able to do justice
to the deep convictions of those with
whom they grapple in mortal strife. At
such times men see through a glass dark
ly; to only the rarest and loftiest spirits
is vouchsafed that clear vision which
gradually comes to all. even to the lesser,
as the struggle fades into distance, and
wounds are forgotten, and peace creeps
back to the hearts that were hurt. But
Lincoln was given this supreme vision.
He did not hate the man from whom he
differed. Weakness was as foreign as
wicked to his strong, gentle nature; but
his courage was of a quality so high
that it needed no bolstering of dark pas
sion. He saw clearly that the same
high qualities, the same courage, and
willingness for self-sacrifice, and devo
tion to the right as It was given them to
see the right, belonged both to the men
of the north and to the men of the south.
As the years roll by, and as all of us,
wherever we dwell, grow to feel an
equal pride In the valor and self-devo
tion, alike of the men who wore the blue
and the men who wore the gray, so this
whole nation will grow to feel a peculiar
sense of pride in the mightiest of the
mighty men who mastered the mighty
days; the lover of his country and of all
mankind; the man whose blood was shed
for the union of his people, and for the
freedom of a race, Abraham Lincoln."
EREEMAN IS
APPOINTED
Governor Donaghey Names Succesor
to the Late Senator Nance
of Benton County.
Fleming Freeman of Rogers has
been appointed to fill the vacancy in
the Senate made by the death of
Senator Robert L. Nance in the Thir
ty-fourth senatorial district.
A large number of petitions were
sent to the governor suggesting the
names of various persons for the place,
but of all the recommendations, that
sent by influential men of Benton
county appealed to Governor Dona
ghey more strongly than any of the
others, and the appointment followed. •
Senator Freeman is widely inter- 1
ested in business in his section of
the state and is directly in the lime
business. He is from the same city 1
as the late Senator Nance and was a
close friend of the senator’s.
TEACH STRANGE RELIGION.
So-Called “Holy Rollers’’ Pray in Un- 1
known Tongue but Teach From
Scriptures.
Van Buren.—So-called “Holy Rol- 1
lers” are, by their spectacular pro- i
ceedings, drawing nightly crowds to
their meetings. Praying in a strange
tongue and lying in trances are some
of the queer things they do. Members
of the strange cult will take no money
and they preach entirely from the
Bible.
“Holy Rollers’’ is merely a name
given to them by the townspeople, as
they have nothing in common with
the sect of the “Flying Roll’’ or real \
Holy Rollers of Australia, who have ,
established large and flourishing col- ,
onies in various parts of the country
The chief of these colonies is at Ben
ton Harbor, Mich., a beautiful city on .
Lake Michigan, in the heart of the \
famous berry and fruit district. The ,
clony there is presided over by “Ben- ,
jamin and Mary,’’ is highly prosper- (
ous, owning its wide acres and orch
ards, pretentious buildings, and even ,
its own steam railway line. The sect
represented here is thought to be
that of the “Unkonwn Tongue,” which j
has made its appearance in many
parts of this country.
NICHOLS HANGED AT MARION.
The Man Who Slew 15-Year-Old Lad is
Dropped to His Death.
Marion.—For the third time within
thirty days the gallows at the court i
house in Marion quivered with the ,
falling body of a condemned man, ,
and from its arm hung the corpse of a ■
man who had paid the penalay for his ,
crime. (
The body was that of P. G. Nichols,
convicted of the murder of 15-year-old
Ed Smith near Island 30 in Crittenden
county. The execution was the result j
of the jury’s verdict of murder and
could not be stayed even by the deter- (
mined efforts of the friends of the 1
doomed man and a petition for a com
mutation of the sentence that held 1
page after page of names signed to
the request.
Nichols made a persuasive address ‘
to those who witnessed his execution.
He did not refer to the killing of
young Smith, but confined himself to
thanking those who had taken care of *
him while he was a prisoner. He paid
thanks to county officers for treat
ment in jail. After delivering his ad- (
dress he offered a prayer that all who i
were with him might lead better lives t
and be saved. He sang a song which 1
he had composed while in jail. This 1
he declared was all that he wished be- t
fore being dropped into eternity. t
Bishop to Aid in Raising Fund.
Conway.—President Stonewall An- (
derson has received a letter from
Bishop E. R. Hendrix stating that he
will come to Arkansas and spend sev
eral days during the latter part of
March assisting in the campaign for ^
$300,000 endowment for Hendrix Col
lege. In order to assist in this work
Bishop Hendrix has canceled several
important engagements in his capac
ity as president of the Inter-Church
Federation of America.
A rally will be held at Tittle Rock '
on March 30, at which time the col- f
lege authorities believe they will be 1
able to announce that the desired
amount of endowTment has been se- -
cured.
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Russellville.—Dover, 10 miles north 1
of here, will hold an election soon j
to choose a mayr and other municijal i
officers Dover was made an incor- <
porated city in 1852 by a special act \
of the legislature . It elected regularly ]
the entire body of municipal officers
up to 1887, then discontinuing to do
so on account of the county seat be
ing removed to Russellville, this great- (
ly depopulating the town. Dover has £
been growing the last few years, and ,
now boasts of as fine a school, bank >]
and mercantile houses as any town of t
Its size in the stats. ,
KILLS WOMAN—SHOOTS SELF.
Fatal Shooting in Private Cafe—An
other Man’s Wife the Victim.
Hot Springs.—A sensational double
tragedy was enacted here in one of
he palatial private cafe apartments
3f the Illinois Club, when Willim Gar
ler, a former office! of the city, shot
md instantly killed Mrs. Charles Eder
ind fired a 45-caliber bullet through
lis own head.
In Garner’s pocket the following
aloodstained note was found:
“Kid: You have fooled the last
nan you will ever fool. Bury me
tlone in some desolate place.
^Signed) W. P. GARNER.
“P. S.—May God bless and care for
ny two dear boys.”
The shooting was without witnesses.
I few minutes before the shots attract
ed attention Mrs. Eder slipped quiet
y into the private cafe and waited a
'ew minutes, sending an employe for
larner. Garner arrived iq the room
shortly afterward and sent the waiter
or light drinks. Three shots from a
15-caliber pistol rang out and M. Gold,
smith, first to reach the scene, found
he two bodies lying apart on the
leep carmine rugs, the lifeblood fiow
ng out. Neither spoke after the shots
vere fired. The woman was fully
iressed, still wearing her veil, glove
ind top coat, when found. She had
reen fatally shot through the right
ung and bled to death without utter
ng a word.
HOME BURNS—CHILD PERISHES.
Second Fire in Residence of Philip
Gray at Bradford Results Fatally.
Brafdord.—A child of Mr. and Mrs.
3hilip Gray, living four miles from
own, was burned tuo death in the de
itruction of their home by fire Thurs
iay afternoon.
Mr. Gray was working in the field
it the time and his wife was washing
l short distance away when she dis
overed the house ttj be on fire and
he roof ready to fall in. She suc
:eeded in removing the eldest two
■hildren, but was driven back by the
lames when she undertook to rescue
he youngest child.
This is the second time in one year
hat Mr. and Mrs. Gray have lost their
tome by fire.
TIE PLANT TO REOPEN
Will Again Employ Two Hundred Men
After This Week
S. R. Bindley superintendent of the
^yer-Lord Tie Company, announces
hat the plant, which has been shut
lown since December 1, will reopen
lext week with a force of 200 men
Phe plant will be operated to its full
capacity, and will creosote 12.000 ties
laily.
The Rock Island is the main eon
umer of the output of the Ayer-Lord
dant, on which road it is located,
luring dull times last fall the railroad
ompany retrenched in its purchases
if supplies, including ties, using the
ies it had on hand before ordering
nore. Its supply is now exhausted,
10th for replacing old ties and those
leeded for new work, which insures
, steady run at the Ayer-Lord plant.
HAS NOT SLEPT IN 96 HOURS.
,eculiar Affliction of a boy Recovering
From Mumps.
Blevins.—Ralph Tribble, a student
f the school here, is suffering from
, peculiar malady which is thought
o be the result of an attack of mump3
rom which he is convalescent. He
las neither slept nor been sleepy for
he last 96 hours and the doctors are
nxious over his coadition. He was
pparently well of the mumps wh.en
is present condition attracted atten
ion.
There is apparently an epidemic of
nunips here and it is thought the
chools will have to be closed soon
n that account. Wallaceburg, near
ere, is also reporting many cases of
r.umps.
Night Rider Trial On.
Fort Smith.—Charged with murder
a the first degree, five men, farmers
f Scott county, were placed on trial
t Waldron, Ark. The defendants are
ccused of membership in a mob
vhich three months ago called out
ohn Bailey and lynched him The
uurdered man had been warned to
cave the county because of his re
usal to hold his crops for higher
irices. A gang of 60 "night riders”
isited his home several nights later,
ailed out Bailey aud his housekeeper,
shipped the woman severely and
ynched the man.
Sawmill Completed.
Kingsland.—The Kingsland Lumber
lompany lias completed its new plant,
awmill and planing mill, and is now
inking yellow pine lumber In a rush.
Tiey have about eight miles of rail
oad at present and are extending on
orth into the timber
ROBBERS SENT
TO PRISON
Three Plead Guilty to Charge and Get
Sentence to Atlanta, and a
Fine of $500.
Batesville.—An adjourned term of
Federal court was held in this city
for the purpose of trying Arch Wes
ton, Charles Gregory, alias Jim
French, and H. B. Bertrand, who were
jointly indicted for robbing the post
office at Clover Bend in May last. All
of the defendants entered pleas of
guilty and were sentenced by Judge
Triebr to serve four years in the Fed
eral prison at Atlanta, Ga., and were
also fined $500 each.
These men with two others attempt
ed to blow the safe of the Clover Bend
postoffice, and being unsuccessful at
that procured about $:10 cash and post
age. The other two were recently
sent to Fort Leavenworth for other
offenses against the Federal laws in
Missouri.
It is generally supposed that these
five men were responsible for many
of the robberies occurring over the
state during the past few months.
Bertrand had recently been pardon
ed by Acting Governor Pindall from
the state penitentiary.
LAWMAKERS GIVEN BANQUET.
Little Rock Business Men Entertain
Arkansas Legislators.
Little Rock.—The business organiza
tions of Little Rock, headed by T. H.
Bunch and George R. Brown, tendered
the members of the legislature and
state officials an elaborate banquet in
the assembly hall of the Hotel Marion
Covers were laid for 300, and every
seat was occupied.
Former Chief Justice Joseph M. Hill
presided as toastmaster, and the
speakers included Governor Donaghey,
Bishop Morris, H. L. Remmel, Attor
ney General H. L. Norwood, Senator
H. K. Toney, Prof. J. H Hinemon,
Representatives Parks and Newton
and Senator Otis Wingo.
The business men of Little Rock,
who were the hosts, demonstrated
anew their hospitality, their generosity
and their good fellowship in the feast
spread for the lawmakers of the state,
and it served to bring the people of
the entire state into closer touch
touch with the Capital City.
AMATEUR OFFICER SHOOTS.
Escaped Prisoner Refuses to Halt and
Citizen Fires on Him.
Pine Bluff.—Guy Saunders, a young
white man, tried to arrest Lee Pick
ering. another young white man who
escaped front the city chain gang Sat
urday, and when Pickering refused
to stop running Saunders fired the
contents of a double-barreled shotgun
at him. Many of the buckshot took
effect and Pickering fell to the ground,
painfully wounded. Saunders then
called up police headquarters and ask
ed that the patrol wagon be sent for
the wounded man. Pickering was
taken to police headquarters, where
he is being cared for. His back and
legs are perforated with buckshot, but
his condition is not necessarily serious.
Saunders may be arrested, as the rel
atives of Pickering say they will pros
ecute him.
Blind Tom Finds Son.
Texarkana.—Thomas R. Fisher,
known as 'Blind Tom," who has been
begging on the streets of Texarkana
for many years, received a letter from
his son at Little Rock, telling him
to come and live with him About
25 years ago "Blind Tom" married in
Mississippi and moved to Texas, where
he met with an accident while hunt
ing, which cost him his sight. Soon
after he lost his young wife and their
infant son was taken by a charitable
institution. Blind Tom had not heard
of him since. The son has been in
Alaska and has accumulated consid
erable money. Martin V. Fisher, the
son, has recently married and is mak
ing Little Rock his home and has been
in search of his father some time.
RAILROAD SCORES 14 POINTS.
Judge Trieber Sustains Some of the
Exceptions of the Iron Mountain.
Little Rock.—Fourteen of the 26 ex
ceptions filed by the Iron Mountain
railroad to the answer of the Arkan
sas Railroad Commission in the case
of Iron Mountain vs. J. E. Hampton
et al. were sustained by Judge Jacob
Trieber in United States District
Court.
The case involves a temporary in
junction granted by the courts against
the railroad commission restraining
the assessments or fines against the
Iron Mountain for failure to furnish
cars at certain coal mining points
on the Fort Smith line in 1907.
The court granted the attorneys Sor
the commission 30 days in which to
prepare at amended answer in the
cause.