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You Read the
Other Fellow’s Ad
You are reading this one.
That should convince you
that advertising in these
columns is a profitable
proposition; that it will
bring business to your
store. The fact that the
other fellow advertises is
probably the reason he is
getting more business than
is falling to you. Would
it not be well to give the
other fellow a chance
To Read Your Ad.
In These Columns.
WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED TH C BSD AT OP BACH WEEK AT
McCROBY, ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at MeCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mall.m^ter.
June 11th, 1901.
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DR. C. T. PETTIT DEAD
The body of Dr. C. T. Pettit was
brought to this place and laid to
rest in the City cemetery, at 5 :30
o’clock Monday afternoon.
Deceased was one of the oldest
and among the most respected cit
izens of Woodruff county. He
was about seventy-eight years old
and has spent about fifty years of
his life in this county; he came to
this town from Tennessee a few
years before the civil war and was
in the drug business for a number
of years; later he moved to Mc
Crory where he resided until a few
days before his death, which oceur
ed at Batesville, to which place he
with his family had moved to make
their home. He was carried to
Batesville on a cot; and it was
thought for a few days that his
condition would be improved, but
Sunday morning he grew worse
and the end came in the afternoon.
A wife, and two sons, Murray
and Phillip survive him. The
former lives with his mother at
Batesville and the latter resides
in New Mexico.
The funeral services were con
ducted by Rev. M. D. Williams,
pastor of the Presbyterian church
at this place.—Augusta Free Press.
IN ME/IORIUM.
Died; Blanche, ftge 23 years,
wife of Edgar King, near DeView
The sad news was spread in that
vicinity last Thursday morning,
Sept., 10, 1908. that Mrs. King
had breathed her last the night
previous about 11:00 o’clock and
it was not only sad news but a
shock to the entire population.
The deceased was sick only
about 12 hours, she having pre
pared her husband’s noon meal
! Wednesday, but before the mid
j night hour had arrived she had
succumbed to that dreadful dis
ease known as swamp-fever.
The mortal remains were ship
ped to Wynne and were laid to
rest in the Cogbill cemetery Thurs
day.
She leaves a broken hearted hus
band to whom she had been mar
ried the short time of seven
months; a father, two sisters and
three brothers.
The News joins the many
friends in extending their heart
felt sympathies.
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Divided They Vote.
The whistle has blown and each man
takes his place
To toll for the world at a death-deal
ing pace.
j Each movement is skillful, each brala
is alert.
While they patiently work in the fac
tory dirt.
Just look at that picture and thuj
. make a note.
That united they sweat, but divided
they vote.
The machines and the belts and the
shafting are still
And not a wheel turns—there’s a
strike at the mill.
A strike! Every workman has sol
emnly vowed
To stand by his mates till their claims
are allowed.
'Tls a brave thing to do, but don’t
fall to note
That united they strike, but divided
they vote.
The sun brightly shines as there
passes along
In holiday raiment the Labor Day
throng
Each man is decked out in his Labor
Day best—
"Labor omnia vincit," the banners
attest.
Yes. labor may conquer, but never,
please note,
While united they march, but divided
they vote. —Ellis O. Jones.
Look around you and note how you
and your neighbors divided your votes
recently and then compare this with
the solidity of the votes of the "inter
ests.”
Organise to Determine Action.
Bearish influences in the different
departments of the speculative, buy
ing and consuming cotton world are,
as usual, getting busy to hammer
down the price of cotton for both near
and fall months’ delivery. There are
two arguments now being used to de
press the price of cotton; the first,
that the consumption of manufactured
goods is not satisfactory, owing to
continued trade depression in this
country; second, that the prospects
for a large yield of cotton this year
is good in practically all sections of
the cotton belt, except Oklahoma. Up
on these two propositions the fall
months are being hammered, and Oc
tober deliveries are now around 9.20,
while December futures are Quoted at
about 9 cents by the New York Cotton
Exchange. All cotton sold by export
ers for delivery in these months are
based on New York quotations, plus
whatever premium the contract be
tween the exporter and the spinner
is agreed on. If several million bales
are sold on the basis of these figures
•very effort will be made to hold down
prices until these contracts are liqui
dated. If the growers begin to rush
their cotton to market as usual in
September and October it will be im
possible to stem the disastrous tide
of these depressive influences. If
the farmers are not well organized
and secure the co-operative strength
of the banking and business interests
of the South they will have a hard
struggle ahead to maintain fair prices.
Lint cotton is worth more than its
fair market price today, and it will
be worth much more in October than
the present future quotations for that
month indicate. There must be some
thing done aside from the mere work
of organization. That is, of course,
the first step, provided organization
is based on sound business princi
ples. The business end of marketing
cotton is the most vital and impor
tant part of the cotton Industry to
farmers. If the crop is not sold at a
profit there is but little satisfaction in
the industry.—The Cotton Journal.
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' There was a time when people culti
vated corn with a garden hoe and
made the work profitable. Today you
oeuldn’t hoe enough corn to pay the
taxes on the land hoed. Then came
the single shovel plow, and after that
the double shovel. As the years went
by the expense of growing corn in
creased, and the double shovel plow
was too slow, so the walking cultiva
tor was brought out.—Frank D. Blake.
The men who have achieved suo
oesa are the men who have worked,
read, thought more than was absolute
ly necessary, who have not been con
tent with knowledge sufficient for the
present need, but who have sought ad
ditional knowledge and stored It away
for the emergency reserve. It Is the
superfluous labor that equips a man
for everything that counts most in life.
—Cushman K. Davis.
"Qlvlng The Soil a Square Deal.”
That Is a catchy expression about
"giving the soli a square deal" which
Samuel W. Allen, of Chicago, has ap
plied to his farm experiments made
with a view to conserving soil ferti
lity.
"That reckless and wholesale de
pletion of the fertility of the soil In
this good land of ours," says Mr. Aller
ton, "is beyond all question the big
gest and most serious one now con
fronting the American people—it Is
bound to remain the biggest problem
tor many years to come."
HOW BUNDS GET FORESTS
Seeds of Plante and Trees Are Carried
Far on the Feet of Journeying
Birds.
Darwin explains how islands get
their forest growth in this manner:
He took from the foot of a wood
cock a cake of dry earth in which
was a seed of the load rust. He
I planted the seed, and it germinated
; and flowered. Prof. Newton sent
! him the leg of a partridge which
had been wounded and unable to fly
! Attached to it was a clod of earth
weighing 6% ounces. He broke up
the clod and placed it under a bell
glass. No fewer than 82 plants
sprang from it. It is the more in
teresting to know that the clod of
earth containing this treasury was
kept three years before planting.
It is believed in this manner seeds
of various trees have been carried
j and deposited on far-away islands
| where the product has grown and in
I creased.
FEMALE PHILANTHROPISTS.
Over thirty millions of dollars
were given by women to philanthropy
during the past year. Mrs. Russell
Sage gave more than any other one
person with the single exception of
| John D. Rockefeller. While some of
| her gifts are not large they mean
much to some young people. She
recently gave $2,700 to pay the rent
of the school building .of the Pascal
institute in New York city and to
cover the expenses of free vacation
classes for young children. To Sag
j Harbor, L. I., she gave the fair
grounds to be turned into a park
especially for the children. When
the citizens proposed changing the
name of the village to Sage Harbor
she declared that the old place
should cling to its original name.
INCONSOLABLE.
The surges crashed mournfully in
the darkness against the old pier.
“This blow,” he said, “is one
! from which, alas, I shall not recover,
j Nevermore will I look upon the face
; of woman save in bitterness and sor
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j row.
The young girl, profoundly moved.
! said in gentle tones:
“Do not take my refusal so to
j heart, Mr. Mannering Harold. There
are lots of nice girls left, I assure
j you. I know one at the Surf house
j who would suit you precisely. She
I is pretty, amiable, clever—”
“Has she got any money ?” he in
terrupted.
POKED FUN AT NOBLE8.
William Redmond, the Irish lead
I er in the British house of commons,
recently in a genial mood and in
i playful allusion to the titles of no
bility and knighthood recently con
ferred, asked whether, “as a matter
of general convenience and in order
that honorable members might know
how to address their colleagues with
; becoming respect, it could be ar
ranged that honorable gentlemen
' who had joined the titled classes
i should wear rosettes for at least one
month after the conferment of the
I title.” No minister was bold enough
! to answer.
HIS FIRST IMPRE8SION.
Pearl—I shall never go walking
with an epicure again. They are
perfectly horrid.
Ruby—No poetry in their souls,
eh?
Pearl—Not a particle. I took him
up on the mountain summit and
showed him the beautiful red sunset.
| Ruby—And what did he say ?
Pearl—Why, the abominable man
1 actually said it reminded him of a
broiled lobster.
MI88ED BASEBALL PRACTICE.
, Charles A. Keath, who holds one
of the American Rhodes scholar
ships, recently returned to Philadel
phia to join the St. Louis baseball
team of the American league. He
has put in one year at Oxford and
has two more ahead of him. Keath
said the only practice he could get at
1 Oxford had been with other Ameri
can Rhodes men.
YES, INDEED.
—
i “The man who raises his children
properly deserves a great deal of
credit.”
Farmers Educational
—AND—
Co - Operative Union
Of America
Let it Slide.
Life’s too short at most to wrangle.
Let it slide!
I’m opposed to clash and jangle.
Hate and pride.
You’ll be happy all the quicker
If you Just forbear to bicker.
Do as I do—let’er flicker
Let it slide!
Cure’s less easy than prevention,
Let it slide!
Don’t in any sharp contention
Long abide.
Don’t be to opinions wedded,
Down in bedrock fast Imbedded;
Don’t be foolish and mule-headed;
Let it slide!
Yes, I’ve found the plan is bully.
Let it slide!
Helps a fellow wonderfully
Once it’s tried.
There are times its application
Wouldn’t have my commendation,
But—with due discrimination—
Let it slide!
How Farmers Saved a Business
House.
An interesting case where a business
house selling implements to farmers
and receiving four and six months
notes in payment, was saved early
this year by the makers of these
notes, came recently to the knowledge
of the writer of this. That business
house found itself without sufficient
ready cash to meet its maturing obli
gations, but was in possession of farm
ers’ notes varying from $100 to $600
and amounting to almost $44,000 all
in all. The banks refused at that time
to discount those notes received in
payment for orders secured by adver
tising. When the advertising agent
of the firm called for the payment
of his monthly bill he was surprised
to receive an offer of a four months
note in payment of it, instead of the
usual check with which the firm used
to settle its monthly advertising ac
count for a number of years. The
advertising agent suggested to the
manager of that firm to appeal to the
farmers to take up their notes be
fore maturity, by offering them a dis
count of 5 per cent. This suggestion
struck the manager as a splendid one
with the result that within twenty
four hours a letter was mailed to the
farmers whose notes the firm held de
scribing the conditions of the larger
cities, the difficulty of getting even
good notes discounted by banks and
offering a discount of 5 percent to all
willing to take their notes up before
maturity. Within one week every one
of those notes but two amounting to
$650, were redeemed by the farmers.
The replies came in quicker than ex
pected. Not only this, but a number
of farmers offered to buy more imple
ments for cash if acceptable terms
could be offered. Only two farmers
did not reply and the reason of it
was, as was learned later, that they
had gone with their wives to Cali
fornia.
This case shows what wealth the
farming population has accumulated;
how eager it is to take advantage of
conditions and what market there is
now for those seeking patronage for
legitimise propositions by the right
kind of advertising in desirable agri
cultural papers.—Guenthers Journal.
Pig Money In Waste Land.
The woven wire fence is revolu
tionizing the hog industry in the whole
country, and when farmers learn to
utilize every bit of waste land for pas
ture for their hogs the herds will be
healthy and the cost of production will
be decreased many dollars. It won’t
do to allow the pigs to lie In the shade
of the corn cribs or to allow them
only a run <rf pasture. Feed a litte
corn all of the time that the pigs are
running in the pasture. The grass
grown pig does not appear so attrac
tive with his working clothes on, but
when he is well developed and ready
to be fitted he makes the pampered
pets look like 30 cents. He makes a
fine appearance and is a credit to his
owner and feeder.
Milk Trust In Trouble.
From evidence obtained by the
state’s attorney of Chicago, it seems
pretty well settled that the big milk
oompanies have divided up the coun
try in that seotion and apportioned
each sliee to a member of the trust.
Farmers testified that no two compan
ies operated in the same town and
that prices were fixed by the milk
companies in every case and never
by the farmers. The only consolation
the farmers get out of it is that there
seems to be a faint possibility that
some members of the trust may in
time be introduced to the inside of a
jail.
Hard Work.
Hard work is the secret of success.
It will come quicker if to hard work
are added such other attributes as a
genial, sunny disposition, the ability
to make friends quickly, etc., but the
foundation and groundwork of success
Is hard work and the man just getting
into the merchandise business, who
follows the rule, who buys carefully
and sells carefully, at all times safe
guarding his credit, and who has no
very bad habits, will win the goal
•vary time—Southern Merobaat.
Timely Hint* on Farm Land. ]
The sign of the silo marks a pn>J
gresslve farmer every time.
A case of ingrowing selfishness Is I
worse than an Ingrowing toe nail. ■
I would not give a cent for a hen
that will not sing—nor a man, either
Song.and work go together.
Sprayed the trees In May? Very
good. But Mr. Codding Moth ought
to have another dose this month.
Too much water and wet, mushy
foods will not lay on fat. It takes the
concentrated stufT to do that.
The man who cannot kick the hired
man harder than the hired man kick*
the cow doesn’t deserve the name of
farmer..
We are likely to have good late
pasture this summer, but that is no
reason for neglecting to sow forage
crops next year.
August is just as good month in which
to make new resolutions as January
—just so one makes them and sticks
to them.
This is the month In which hens’
nest closes up like Hetty Green’s
charity purse unless good shade and
extra attention Is provided.
It takes courage to keep on raising
sheep or hogs or anything else when
prices show a weak backbone for a
couple of years in succession. But
the man who has the grit to stick
to the business will win in the long
run.
Do not make the mistake of filling
the silo with corn that is green. It
sours quickly and has little feeding
value. Wait till it is ripe.
Eggs have a lot of albumen in them.
Skimmed milk is rich in it, too. Put
the two together and see if you do
not think it would be sensible to feed
more milk to your chicks.
Justice to All.
Truth never contradicts itself.
Neither does justice ever come into
conflict with justice. Whatever condi
tions are just to the farmer can be
no less than just to all men. No man,
is wronged. “Right is right and
wrongs no man.’’ On the other hand,
whatever is less than justice to the
farmer is less than justice to all men,
who participate in the inequality—<
less than justice even to the specula
tor and the capitalist, who wax fat oil
the farmer’s toil. It is true they do
not object to the injustice—they llk»
it—but it is a fact that people who
submit to wrong conditions do injus
tice to their oppressors as well as to
their children. What is more, to the
point is the thought that all honest
men—all who want Justice, no less,
no more, whether farmer or laboring
man, can join hands as brothers in
the noble work of accomplishing hu
manity’s freedom. Moreover, one class
unaided Is not equal to the job—each
needs the other. Whatever is jus
tice for one is justice for the other.
Injustice the same. No man llveth to
himself—likewise no class. The farm
er cannot achieve Justice for himself
without emancipating the world!—Na
tional Co-operator.
What to Teach the Boys.
A philosopher has said that true
education to boys is to "teach them
what they should know when they
become men.”
1. To be true and to be genuine.
No education is worth anything that
does not include this.
2. To be pure in thought, language
and life—pure in mind and in body.
3. To be unselfish. To care for the
feelings and comforts of others. Te
be generous, noble and manly. Thle
will include a genuine reverence for
the aged and for things sacred.
4. To be self-reliant and self-help
ful, even from childhood. To be in
dustrious always, and self supporting
at the earliest proper age. Teach
them that all honest work in honor
able, that an idle life of dependence
on others is disgraceful.
When a boy has learned these four
things, when he has made these idea*
a part of the being—however poor, or
however rich—he has learned the
most important things he ought te
know when he becomes a man.
Farm Hands Should Marry.
The man who works on a farm for
others makes a mistake if he allows
his twenty-fifth birthday to go by with
out having a wife and a bit of land o|
his own. If he has learned his Jok
well he has provided for half the
battle of farming, and if he has only
a few hundred dollars laid by It will
do for a start. He can rent if he can
not buy, but good improved little
farms can be had on pretty easy terms
these days. It’s better to be your own
boss and not depend on the whim ol
somebody above you for your Job,
And a man past 25 and still a batchsV
or is on the wrong track and la miss
ing the best part of life.
Jap Millet for Poultry.
Japanese millet makes excellent
poultry food. It may bs sowed as
late as the middle of June and ma
ture a crop in the latitude of Chicago
In a very satisfactory way. Prepare
the land thoroughly and sow thickly.
If the farmers will only keep a strict
account of the poultry they consume
at home during the months of June,
July, August and September, when the
young birds begin to get large enoug
to eat, they will soon begin to sss
what a saving their poultry Is to them.
Keep In touch with the market P1 ,c*
and give due credit for every bird an
egg consumed and be fair with bid'ie
You will be surprised and you will no
need false teeth so soon either.
Keep your growing chicks well sup
piled with green food.