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WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THURSDAY OF BACH WEEK AT
McCROBY. ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at MeCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class raall.matter.
June 11th, 1902.
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Farmer’s Union.
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20th, for the purpose of liaviug
nil tlie incorporating papers filled
out and transacting other import
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night, June, 18th. Proceeds will
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MOSQUITOES IN CANAL ZONE
Many Species of This Noxious Insect
That Are Found Only in Un
fortunate Panama.
A visitor to the canal zone of Pan
ama can have the privilege of an in
troduction to not less than 83 spe
cies of mosquitoes, 30 of them found
nowhere else. Fortunately they do
not all bite and the contagion of yel
low fever is carried by only one of
them. Certain genera, technically
called megarhinns, psorophora and
lutzia, are found, which, instead of
spreading any disease hostile to men,
wage war on their weaker cousins
and at times even on their brothers
and sisters. The yellow fever mos
quito, the only kind in America
spreading this infection, scientifical
ly called stegomyia, is very scarce.
It is possible to live for weeks on the
line of the canal without seeing a
single specimen. This mosquito is
a strictly domestic insect, never
found away from man. It breeds
only in artificial receptacles, such as
barrels, water coolers, bottles and
tin cans, in and around human habi
tations.
i The chauffeur walked up to the
! bogus blind man and dropped a dime
i into his cup.
•“Thank you, sir,” said the mendi
; cant, tipping Mb hat; “chauffeurs
are always liberal.”
But the chauffeur was suspicious.
“Ah, my man, if you are blind,
how can you tell that I am a chauf
feur ?”
The bogus blind man gathered
i Ms wits.
“I cannot see you, sir, but I can
detect the odor of gasoline.”
“Idle chauffenr laughed.
“That is impossible.”
“And why it is impossible?”
“Because I run an electric ma
chine.”
SHAM EXP08ED.
GRATIS.
I
"I say, this milk’s sour!”
“Well, there's plenty of sugar on the
table, isn’t there?”
WOULDN’T HONOR GAMBETTA.
The Republicans in France, eager
to gather all their great dead into
the Pantheon, are urging the gov
ernment to bring Gambetta’s body
from Nice. Gambetta’s nephew, col
onel of a regiment stationed in Afri
ca, writes to the Temps that this
cannot be done without the consent
of his mother, the sister whom the
statesman made his executor. The
colonel hints that she may refuse on
account of the very strong wish ex
pressed by Gambetta that his body
should be buried where it is.
A CITY AND ITS PRESS.
In some respects a modern city re
sembles a vast commercial house. In
commerce advertisement is the se
cret of success, and the most suc
cessful coadjutors of the municipal
ity in the development and puffing
of a capital are the newspapers. And
here again Berlin is lacking. Her
press is on a hopelessly low level, im
poverished, without enterprise, un
der the thumb of the authorities. In
London, New York or Paris the
press has a voice in the running of
the city.—London Outlook.
FIGHT FOR PURE MILK.
The club women in Massachusetts
are lighting against the movement
to lower the milk standard in that
state. This fight is said to be win
j ning more recruits to the cause of
j woman suffrage than anything that
has come up in the last ten years.
Mothers have come to agree with
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman in
asserting that politics which affects
the purity of milk and water is “not
outside the home, but inside the
baby.”
NOT ON THE FREE LIST.
“The trusts,” remarked the social
! istic boarder, “give me a pain.”
“I understand,” rejoined the
cheerful idiot, “that the window
glass trust charges for its panes.”
MINT ONLY AN AGGRAVATION
Circumstances Such That Georgia Citi
zen No Longer Took Delight
In Fragrant Herb.
“Yestiddy,” paid the old woman,
“when the win’ wuz blowin’ like a
campaign ban’ wagon, an’ tryin’ to
make the meetin’ house steeple be
lieve that it would look better with
its top off, I mos’ died a-laughin’ at
the ol’ man. You know, he’s alius
had a big mint bed, which wuz his
special pride when thar wuz plenty
at han’ to make mint toddies out of.
Well, the win’ blowed the fence
down, an’ what should I see but the
cows trompin’ down the mint. So
I hollered to him to hurry an’ drive
’em out. But he shook his head: ‘Let
’em hafe their pleasure with it,’ he
said, ‘fer I’m blest ef I’ve got any.
Thar’s mint enough thar to make
toddies fer half the colonies in the
state, an’ no demand fer it. Let
the cattle be.’ But I tol’ him, ‘the
mint’s good fer sickness.’ ‘It can’t
cure mine,’ he said. ‘I ordered a
gallon jug fer sickness ten days ago,
an’ blest ef the train that wuz ter
fetch it lias got in yit. Mint only
remin’s me of what has been, an’
what ain’t.’ An’ with that he went
in the house, an’ helped the win’ to
slam the door.”—Atlanta Constitu
tion.
THE FUNERAL BAKED MEATS.
The Irish are the only people who
keep up the ancient custom of feast
ing at a funeral. The Seeress of
Shawmut, dear old Mother Cum
mings, excused herself from work to
go to a funeral in Newark, and ex
plained to her employer next day:
“I ain’t so fond of funeral* an’
wakes an’ such as I used to be, an’
don’t go so often aa when I was
younger; but yesterday was certain
ly a beautiful performance. There
were 33 carriages an’ four of ’em
full of flowers, one carrying the gates
of heaven wide open an’ seven feet
high. Mr. Murphy, you know, was
a very tall man. The dinner was the
best I have eaten in many years, an’
I’m goin’ on 80. Tables were set in
sight of the grave, and each of us
had our pint with a fine sandwich,
an’ snuff if we wanted it.”
TEST FOR WEDDED BLISS.
An English traveler in northern
Nigeria describes an interesting cus
tom connected with marriage which
he came across among the Fulani, a
tribe of wandering herdsmen who
show no trace of negro blood and are
supposed to be of Asiatic origin.
One might almost suppose that they
had advanced ideas about the rela
tions of the sexes. Before a man is
allowed to marry he has to stand a
sound thrashing without wincing.
In some parts of Europe this test of
fitness for the wedded state might
more reasonably be applied to the
woman. One is reminded of Thom
as Edgeworth’s friend, who in select
ing a bride, dropped hot sealing wax
on the girl’s arm and fired a pistol
off near her ear.
SIMPLE ART RULES.
The Munich Jugend has dis
covered five new signs by which to
detect the school to which a painter
belongs: (1) If he paints the sky
gray and the grass black, he belongs
to the good old classical school; (2)
if he paints the sky blue and the
grass green, he is a realist; (3) if
he paints the sky green and the
grass blue, he is an impressionist,
(4) if he paints the sky yellow and
the grass purple, he is a colorist; (5)
if he paints the sky black and the
grass red, he shows possession of
great decorative talent.—Christian
Register.
GOOD TIMES FOR SAILORS.
The California Woman’s club of
San Francisco had a baking day for
the benefit of the fleet. It was esti
mated that if every woman in San
Francisco baked one cake and made
one pie every sailor would have a
whole pie and cake to himself every
day for a week. This treatment, the
women assert, will do more than all
the laws tlrnt can be passed by con
gress to make the fleet never care to
leave Pacific waters.
TRYING TO THINK ALONG.
“Everything in nature is useful,”
said the philosopher. “Even the
beasts of the wilderness perform
eome service in the great scheme of
things.”
“That’s right,” answered the man
who is not profound; “if it were
not for the beasts of the wilderness
we wouldn’t have any zoo to go to
on Sunday.”
DOING GOOD WORK IN JAPAN
Success Attending Movement to Amel
iorate the Condition of Fac
tory Employee.
.Japanesefactor)"girls are employed
by the thousands under the most
calamitous conditions. They have
no opportunities for education and
the majority therefore can neither
read nor write. They are housed in
insanitary, crowded, and immoral
lodgings, with inducements to wrong
on every side. The most successful
attempt to better their lot has come
in a factory girls’ homo under the
control of a missionary board, but
originated and directed by Shiujiro
Onerto, a Japanese business man.
Government inspectors have ex
pressed amazement at what has been
done, and have mentioned it in their
reports so that it has become a model
for the entire nation. In conse
quence a cotton thread spinning fac
tory in Kyoto has recently erected
a dormitory for its 400 operators
and provided it with school rooms,
dining and reception rooms, and a
Buddhist chapel, where services are
held once a month.
During the five years of the origi
nal factory girls’ home it has housed
over 500 girls, much to the gratituds
of parents and girls.
Judge—You say the prisoner stole
your watch. Can you Identify It?
Witness—It had my sweetheart’s
picture In It
Judge—Ah! I see; a woman In the
case!
TO UNEARTH MEMPHIS.
Memphis, on the Nile, one of the
greatest capitals of the ancient
world, is buried beneath the ground
which is now under cultivation by
the villagers of Mitrahineh, who will
have to be transferred to other plots
and will be compensated before the
contemplated work of excavation
can proceed very far. It is estimat
ed that an expenditure of about $15,
000 annually for 15 years will be re
quired to excavate the temple sites,
apart fromthe city. The unearthing
of Memphis, which contained the
finest school of Egyptian art, will
be by far the greatest archaeological
work of recent times and must re
sult in a vast addition to the world’s
knowledge of ancient Egyptian his
tory and civilization. The work will
soon be begun by Prof. Petrie, head
of the British School of Archaeolo
gy in Egypt.
MAKING ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.
In the great shops of a well known
electrical company are some 300
young men, clad in workmen’s gar
ments, assembling small apparatus
and testing dynamos, transformers,
railway motors and lighting appli
ances of every description.
These men have come from uni
versities, colleges and technical
schools, not only in this country, but
in all quarters of the civilized world.
And they are supplementing the
theories upon which they have spent
years of study with the admirable
practice to be obtained in the finely
equipped shops and the variety of
apparatus manufactured.—Scientific
American.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
“Cholly Clymer is only a parvenu,
and yet you told me he was in high
life.”
“So he is. He passes the greater
part of his existence in the thirtieth
etory of a skyscraper.”
TOO DANGEROUS.
“You must be very careful with
: your daughter, Mrs. Comeup. She
has a rapidly growing mentality.”
| “Oh, good gracious, doctor! Will
4m have to have an operation to
n& it ?”
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A COMMUNICATION.
This week, we received a com
munication from Gadsden, Tenn.,
written by a lady friend of the
subject of the article and we gladly
publish the same. The piece is
well composed and shows very
plainly the good Christian life
which was lived by that noble
character, Mrs. Mollie Boykin, a
sister of our fellow-townsman, C.
W. McCrory.
IN MEMORIUM.
On May, 29, 1908, Mrs. Mollie
McCrory Boykin passed from this
life into the Heavenly Home to
dwell with Him whom she loved
and worshipped in this life.
Mrs. Boykin united with the
Methodist church early in life and
lived a faithful Christian until
death.
Funeral services were conducted
at the home by Rev. Holly, after
which the remains were laid to
rest in the Raines’ cemetery.
There were some special char
actistics in the life of this dear
one that touched the hearts of
many. One was kindness. This
lovely trait will cause her name to
live in the hearts of all who knew
her. It seemed her greatest
pleasure to do someone a kindness,
always forgetting self in her work
for others and was ever ready to
assist the sad and heavy-hearted in
banishing the clouds and finding
the sunshine, and to point the dis
couraged to the contemplation of a
higher and holier life.
With sad hearts her loved ones
watched by her bedside, trying by
every earthly means to drive back
the dreaded messenger. But God
knows best and our precious one
fell asleep in the arms of Jesus to
awaken in heaven. Her death had
no sting and the grave no victory.
Her very countenance spoke what
her heart was saying, “Thy will
be done.” How sweet to pillow
our heads upon God’s truths in
uature’s last struggle and soothe
our pains by its record of love.
Her death has cast a shadow
over many friends and relatives
who loved and enjoyed her associa
tion. She will be sadly missed,
but while we realize she can be
with us no more on earth, her
memory will ever linger with us.
It is hard to give up our friends
and loved ones but when they die
as this good woman did, we can,
by faith, see them radiant in the
glad city whose builder and maker
is God.
The high esteem in which she
was held was duly attested by the
large crowd of sorrowing friends
who attended her burial.
Let us emulate her virtues and
strive to meet her on glory’s gi *
ed shore where sad farewells wii
be no more.
One Who Loved Heb.
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KAN. CITY HEAT HARKET
Choice, fresh Meats, Fish, Vegeta
bles, Dairy and Poultry Products, and
Country Produce.-—A Variety of Good
Things to Eat is What We Endeavor to
Offer the Trade at All Times.
HOflER VEAZEY