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WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THCB9DAY OY BACH WZKK AT
McCRORY. ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the PoatOQce at McCtorr
Arkansas, as Second-Class mail.matter.
June 11th. 1902.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One Year. In advance. tl.00
DEHOCRAriC TICKET.
COUNTY
Representative—
E. M. CARL-LEE.
Judge—
J. F. SUMMERS.
Sheriff—
W. R. CAIN.
Circuit Clerk—
Wm. MOORMAN.
County Clerk—
’ED B. CARL-LEE.
Treasurer—
C. L. JACKSON.
Assessor—
W. B. FAKES.
TIP’S ANNUAL PICNIC.
The Farmery Union annual pic
nic will be pulled off at Tip, Ark
ansas, Tuesday, .July, 21, 1908.
Everybody cordially invited. Bring
well filled baskets. A list of the
speakers will be announced later.
E. W. Chaney,
County Sec.
NOTICE.
On next Tuesday, July 14th.,
1008. there will be a picnic at
Grays, given by the Junior Mu
sicians’ Club of McCrorv. Each
member of the Club is allowed to
invite one person, but on account
of having but two wagons, they
ask each one invited to furnish his
own conveyance. All of the mem
bers are earnestly requested to be
at the Woodruff County News
office at 7 o’clock sharp. The
crowd will leave for the picnic
ground not later thau 7 .-30, so re
member the time and be on time.
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BIRDS THE PREY OF SPIDER
Flies Too Small for Monster Insect
That Inhabit* the Mountains
of Ceylon.
Far up in the mountains of Cey
lon there is a spider that spins a web
like bright yellowish silk, the central
net of which is five feet in diameter,
while the supporting lines, or guys,
as they are called, measure some
th ties ten feet or 12 feet. The spider
seldom bites or stings, but should
anyone try to catch him bite he will,
and, though not venomous, his jaws
are as powerful as a bird's beak. The
bodies of these spiders are very hand
somely decorated, being bright gold
or scarlet underneath, while the up
per part is covered with the most
delicate slate colored fur. So strong
are the webs that birds the size of
larks are frequently caught therein,
and even the small but powerful
scalp lizard falls a victim. A writer
says that he has often sat and
watched the yellow monster—meas
uring, when waiting for his prey,
with his legs stretched out, fully six
inches—striding across the middle
of the net, and noted the rapid man
ner in which he winds his stout
threads round the unfortunate cap
tive. He usually throws the coils
l about the head until the wretched
victim i6 first blinded and then
choked. In many unfrequented dark
nooks of the jungle you come across
skeletons of small birds caught in
those terrible snares—Dundee Ad
vertiser.
THERE ARE OTHERS.
“Bliggins puts a great deal ol
thought into his work."
"Yes; he works ten minutes and
then thinks about it an hour and a
quarter.”
FORESTRY GOES WRONG.
First attempts at forestry on the
part of the Pennsylvania railroad
have thus far resulted in something
c-loaely approaching disaster. Since
! the road began planting locust trees
on 2,000 acres of land in Pennsyl
vania, six years ago, the arborcultur
ists have set out 1,855,000 young
trees. Up to the present scarcely
one of the trees has escaped ruin by
insects, and now it is proposed to try
again with red oak, English larch,
pin and red oak and red and Scotch
I pine.
SOCIAL PROBLEMS.
New York’s 400 had been cut
down by 25 per cent.
I Still the trouble of the arbiters
! was not over, for the remainder quar
' reled as to precedence.
“Plow shall we determine the rela
tive standing of the descendants of a
> clam peddler and those who trace
• themselves back to a vendor of
>: pelts ?" the arbiters asked of each
;) other.
It, was, indeed, a puzzling ques
tion.—Philadelphia Ledger.
TOMMY’S EXPERIENCE.
“My boy,” said the good old min
s ister, “ ‘Ask and ye shall receive.’ ”
“I believe that,” responded
Tommy, with a doleful sigh. “I
asked if I could go fishing instead of
minding my kid brother on Saturday
afternoon.”
“And did you receive?”
“You bet! I received the worst
licking I ever got in my life.”
ENCOURAGING SILE.
Silas—I swan, squire, but my old
mare has just chewed up my pocket
book.
. The Squire—Don’t worry, Sile,
. that will make her go so fast she is
liable to win the races at the fair.
Silas—Why so, squire?
The Squire—Well, you know,
money makes the mare go.
ONE OF THE SIGHTS.
Kidder—Come to town to see the
sights, eh. Well, you don’t want to
miss the big mirror in the lobby of
this hotel.
Farmer Wayback—Do tell? Some
thin’ worth seein’, eh?
Kidder—Yes, indeed. You won’t
see all the sights unless you take a
look at something like that.—Phila
delphia Press.
There are no Cnion farmers’ smoke
houses in Kansas City nowadays.
The factories are rather slow about
coming to the field, hut they are com
ing all the same.
Always when the world has a great
crisis, it Is the plow that furnishes
the “man of the hour.”
When you don’t have to buy some
thing to eat, there Is little occasion
to rush the cotton to the market
The fearful rainstorms in Texas and
Oklahoma and* Arkansas have cut
down the crops, cotton along with
the rest of them.
How is that flower yard you plant
ed for the frau last spring getting
on? Don’t you think that you should
sorter superintend it along from time
to time?
The vegetables you grow in your
own garden have probably not been
exposed to all the filth and dirt that
those go through which are shipped
in.
Beat the doctor by having plenty of
good water on your place for all do
mestic uses, and plenty of good vege
tables and fruit for your “internal
economy.”
Warehouses are fine forts for the
cotton to be taken care of in, bnt the
diversified crop is the gun that slays
the enemy who makes the warehouse
necessary. Ain’t that the truth?
The Southern Farm Journal sug
gests that before you begin to abuse
the seed dealer for the poor quality
of the seeds he sold you, to remember
that some poor farmer sold those seed
first to the dealer.
Cotton is going to keep right on
going up. There is plenty of demand
for it, and the use is increasing. There
is no large amount in the hands of
either speculator or spinner, and ev
ery man you meet is a consumer.
Keep a stiff upper lip and cut the
crop.
How and When Flies Breed.
We are told that ninety nine of
every hundred flies that infest houses
belong to the family which breeds in
stable filth. One female lays an aver
age of one hundred and twenty eggs in
a season; th eegg hatches Into a mag
got that eats ravenously and grows
fast for five days; the maggot turns
Into a pupa and sleeps nearly five
days, then in about ten days from the
laying of the egg the fly emerges from
the pupa state with wings—an adult
fly, to travel about and spread disease
wherever it finds an opportunity. Bach
of the young female flies is soon ready
to take up the work of multiplying its
kind. Each fly is capable of visiting
a garbage heap and carrying thence
germs of such diseases as typhoid
fever or dyphtheria. Some of our sol
diers while in camp during the Span
ish War were infected with typhoid
fever by flies that had access to bcw
age swamps. A farmer who keeps hie
own place clean may be made sick
by flies that come from a garbage pile
of some sick neighbor. We are told
that If there were no filthy barn yards
or stables there would be no flies,
since they would have no place to
grow; and we are also told that they
will grow in any animal or fowl ex
crement. A firm compost heap is al
most free from maggots, as the female
flies can not penetrate such heaps to
lay eggs. A hen working in a heap
of manure will destroy many young
flies. The hen also makes the surface
too dry for hatching the fly eggs.
All this shows that each person
should keep hi3 own premises clean
and have his house screened, so that
flies may not come from a neighbor’s,
where there is sickness, and thus oar
ry the disease. It has been stated
that one female lays an average of
one hundred and twenty eggs in a
season, and supposing that one-half
that many lies develop; figure up what
the number of her offspring is after
three or four generations.
Do not be content with keeping
the premises clean outdoors and
screening the house. Do not leave
food uncovered, and keep the floors
and the tables clean. It is an error
to keep a room dark continually to
keep out flies. Flies do not like a
room where there is no moisture or
mold. Let in the sunlight, and make
the room unpleasant for them.
Where there Is no suilight they will
find conditions they like, even though
they gather at windows where light
comes In. Have screen doors hung
to swing outward, so flies will move
from the door as it is opened.—South
ern Farm Gazette.
Burbank Talks About Pecans.
Luther Burbank, the horticultural
wizard of California, is quoted as say
ing, regarding the possibilities of the
pecan industry of Texas:
"If I were a young man I would go
to Texas, knowing as I do the possi
bilities of the pecan Industry, and de
vote my life in propogatlng new
species of the pecan and in doing the
same work there in nut culture ae I
i have done here In other lines of hor
ticulture. Your pecan Is superior to
our walnut, and you are standing in
your own light; why not develop it?
Valuable Louse Treatment.
“Weary not la well doing" applies
as much to chicken work aa it do<~o
to the Lord’s work. It takes time and
attention to raise a large number of
chickens.
Many people plan largely early in
the spring, set every hen that clucks
and stays on the neet over night.
When the chicks are hatched, their :
enthusiasm has vanished, and they
turn the chickens loose to the mer
ciee of the lice and mites, with only
a little feed thrown to them now and
then, and wonder why “I never have
any luck with chickens?" Again, some
few overdo the thing. One man 1
knew (by the way, a man who does
not know how to care for ahickene)
put a prepared liquid lice killer in a
spraying machine, sprayed them with
it, full strength, when at roost, and
next morning carried off a lot which
he said had died of cholera.
We have no cholera in the Panhan
dle. But I do really believe lice—
Che big lice, not mites—cause nine
tenths of the ills which befall young
chickens. Before I learned how to
rid fowls of lioe I lost half I had
hatched, but now I lose very few.
Out of eighty five I have lost only
three this year.
Get some good lice powder—not in
sect powder, but lice powder, especial
ly prepared for poultry—put some in
a pepper box; dust the little fellows
when you take them ofT the nest Put
them in an air-tight box (I use a paste
board shoe box) for three to five min
utes; ; the Hce will fall ofT dead In the
bottom of the box. Do this twice
each week for two weeks and then
once a week until they are weaned.
Feed them Intelligently and yon will
raise them nearly all In the Panhan
dle, or at least I do. But those Rhode
Island Reds are thrifty little fellows,
anyway, and they grow fash It pays
to take good cars of them, for there
is more money in eggs and chickens
than any product of the farm for the
amount invested.—Mrs. E. E. Adams,
Potter County, Texas, in Farm and
Ranch.
Don’t Need to Be Petted.
The farmers don’t need to be petted
and talked to like they were chil
dren.
The politicians and gravy hunters
will tell the fainners what great things
they can do, and say nice things about
them, and how thep are oppressed—
and this reminds us of the proverb
that “faithful Is the rebuke of a friend,
but the kisses of an enemy are de
ceitful.” The Guide thinks the farm
ers, now that they are being enlight
ened, should see their duty to their
country and perform it.
What’e the use of being petted?
Kow does that help the matter?
What we want is downright plain
talk, and when you hear a man get
up and shell the corn down to you
In a way that you want to kick your
self, he is more apt to be your friend
than the man who, with tears in h'.s
eyes, says he loves you, oh, so good
Farmers, listen to the advice and
even the rebukes of your friends, aud
heed not the caresses and kisses of the
deceitful enemy.
Let us always be plain with each
other and with the union. When we
think some things are going wrong
we expect to say so, and if our read
ers think we are going wrong we will
thank them to tell us about it. Don’t
try to pet us. Tell us the barefaced,
plain truth.—Farmers’ Union Guide.
Union Arrows.
Home and Farm:
It Is easier to raise five pounds of
pork than one pound of cotton, and
the pork will sell for the most money.
The picnic season is on hand, and
the Union should have a good crop
of them.
A little more pork, Mr. Farmer, a
little more pork and not quite so
much cotton.
There may be some of your good
neighbors who have not joined the
Union. If so, they should be shown
tihe advantages of co-operation.
Don't neglect the social features in
the meetings of the local Unions. The
women should form the most promi
nent feature in these.
The Southern farms need more
grease, and pork that is produced on
the farm makes the best kind.
Six million bales of cotton will sell
for as much as 12,000,000 hales, but
It seems like a difficult matter to get
the Southern farmer to see it.
The Union man who seeks to take
advantage of a reduction of the cot
ton crop by not reducing his own is
more of a dis-unlon man than other
wise. He is a “scab.”
Diversity of crops is the best so
lution of the cotton question. More
com and pork and less cotton. This
is one of the most important subjects
for education in the Union.
That the Farmers’ Union maay
make mistakes is not denied. It la
not infallible, neither are the officers
and members. It Is composed of hu
man beings, and it is human to err.
But its objects are grand, and the
spirit which moves it in the great
work It is accomplishing should com
mand the respect and admiration of
all good people.
It is probable that the principle of
selfishness can not be entirely elim
inated from the human heart, but It
should be made to take a back seat
In all transactions of the Farmers’
Union.
Have you a Farmers’ Union In your
neighborhood? If not, go to work to
have one and get in the swim.
The secret work of the Union Is en
tirely unobjectionable. It is only for
the purpose of protecting the members
from being imposed upon by those
who are not members, and are uoi
worthy to become such.
KAN. CITY HEAT flARKET
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
V
Tuesday at noon, Mesdames
Thad Hartin and Hugh Shearer
left on an extended visit to the
family of Mr. Dick Hartin, at
Blum, Texas. They were accom
panied to Little Rock by Thad and
Hugh and also Wade Jeffries., they
returned home Wednesday after
noon.
A very successful game was
played by Dan Cupid last Friday,
when Mr. Jerome Fespermau and
Miss Winnie Lee Oliphant were
driving from Cottou Plant to Zent
when they decided to go to Wheat
ley where they boarded the Rock
Island train and went to Memphis,
where, at the unusual hour of
twelve thirty, a. m., they were
quietly married in the presence of
the groom’s step-father and a few
friends. Both are well known in
Cotton Plant and very popular in
the leading society of that place.
They returned from Memphis
Monday and after a short stay
with the bride’s parents at this
place, they went to Cottou Plant,
where they are at home to their
many friends.—Zent correspon
dent in Monroe County Citizen.
IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?
When you hear this question
asked by a man or woman, with
lips curved downward and voice
attuned to discontent, you may set
that person down as supremely
selfish. He or she asks practic
ally, ‘Hs life worth living for
me? ’ Worth living? Of course
it is, so long as there is one single
other soul iu the world. If {he
querist were the last bf his race,
then indeed tlm answer might well
be‘‘No;’’but while there is an
other human being for whom we
can do a favor, or whose interests
we may advance, life is indeed
“worth living.”
Friend, when you find yourself
depressed and inclined to think
that life holds nothing for you,
look around you (not very far
away), ami do the very first favor
for another that comes to your
hand. It may be a very small
one, but do it; aud keep on, day
by day, hour by hour and minute
by minute, working for others, for
truly this alone makes life worth
living.
THE EVIL IN FRETTING.
There is one sin which seems to
us is everywhere and bv every
body underestimated and quite too
much overlooked in valuation of
character. It is the sin of fret
ting, so common that unless it
rises above its usual monotone we
do not observe it. Watch any or
dinary coming together of people
and see how many minutes it will
be before somebody frets—that is,
makes more or less complaining
statement of something or other,
which most probably every one in
the room, or in the car, or on the
street corner, it may be, knew be
fore, and which probably no one
can help. Why say anything
about it! It is cold, it is hot, it is
wet, it is dry; somebody has brok
en an appointment; ill cooked
a meal; stupidly or bad faith
somewhere has resulted in discom.
fort.
There are plenty of things to
fret about. It is simply astonish
ing how much annoyance may be
found in the course of every day’s
living, even at the simplest, if one
only keeps a sharp eye out on that
side of things. Even holy writ
says we are prone to trouble as
sparks to fly upward. But even
to the sparks flying upward in the
blackest of smoke there is a blue
sky above, and the less time they
waste on the road the sooner they
will reach it. Fretting is all time
wasted on the road.
POPULAR YOUNG MAN
DROWNS AT POCAHONTAS.
Pocahontas, July, 8. (Special.)
Charles P. Cloves, aged 25 years,
a prominent young business man
of this city, member of the well
known firm of Johnson
Cloyes Hardware Company, was
drowned in Black River at this
place about 8 o’clock Monday
night. Mr. Cloves, in company
with several of his young friends,
was bathing iu the river just above
the railroad bridge, when it was
proposed by some members of the
party that they swim across the
river. Cloves being a good swim
mer did not hesitate to join them
in the attempt, but being not very
well acquainted with the water at
this point he was caught in the
current and carried down in the
presence of his companions who,
having as much as they could do to
save themselves, could render him
no assistance. The news was
brought up town and a large num
oer of citizens hurried to the
scene, but owing to the darkness,
it was impossible to do anything
toward the recovery of the body,
At an early hour yesterday
morning a large crowd gathered
with boats, drags, etc., and began
searching for the body, but up to
this time it has not been found.
The water where he went down is
about 12 or 15 feet deep.
! Mr. Cloves was a model young
man. He was a son of Rev. A. C,
Cloves, a well known traveling
preacher of this section. He for
merly lived at Paragould and
; Memphis, coming here about a
j year ago and engaging in the
hardware business. He made
i friends very rapidly and was
prominent in all church and Sun
day school work. His parents are
now living at Paragould. Dem
ocrat.
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