t
C. L. ADAflSON,
Jeweler, Optlcan and Engraver.
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry
Silverware, Etc. Etc.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
TWELVE MONTHS.
REPAIR WORK A SPECIALTY.
AUGUSTA, ARKANSAS.
WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THOaSDAT OP BACH VIII AT
MoCROBY. ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at McCrory
Arkansas, as Seoond-Olass mall,matter.
June 11th. 1902.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One Year, in advance. 21.00
NOTES FROM THE ALPHA
LITERARY SOCIETY.
The Alpha Literary Society com
posed of the Seventh, Eighth,
Ninth and Tenth grades of the
McCrory Public School meets in
the auditorium at 2:30 each Fri
day and renders a program com
posed of instrumental music,
songs, recitations, study of the
lire of some noted person, news of
the week etc.
These exercises are both bene
ficial and entertaining, and one of
these days the training here re
ceived will tell in the lives of the
young people of this community.
The President’s chair is now
gracefully filled by Mr. Ewell
Pollett, while at the Secretary’s
desk officiates Miss Myrtle Wood,
who not only fills, but gives digni
ty to the position.
Our friends are at all times
welcome and it will give us inspir
ation to have them visit us.
Corresponding Secretary.
WAREHOUSE COTTON TO SELL
Warehouse manager, E. W.
Chaney, informed us that there
will be a sale of the cotton now
stored in the warehouse, at this
place, Tuesday, December, 1st.
1908.
DEVIEW.
By Our Regular Correspondent.
J. M. Gibson left last week on a
prospecting trip to Oklahoma.
W, P. Best has accepted a posi
tion with Dr. Howell at McCrory.
R. L. Wright, and brother,
Taylor Wright, of Magazine, were
here Saturday on business.
After ten days stay with old
friends here, T. W. Womack re
turned to his home in White coun
ty.
Mrs. J. M. Gibson, and chil
dren, are visiting the former’s
father at Denmark, while Jim is
in Okla.
Rev. Thomas, of Judsonia, de
livered two fine sermons at Beard’s
Sunday. There will be preaching
at this same place next Sunday.
Mrs. R. D. Chappell has sold
$39.85 worth of eggs since May
1st. That is almost the worth of a
bale of cotton, yet some say it
doesn’t pay to have chickens on
the farm.
Mrs. Crssby Haggard, and little
daughter, Bertha, of Shawnee,
Okla., are the guests of the form
er’s father, Mr. Z. T. Woodward.
Mrs. Haggard was met in Brinkley
by her father.
J. M. Haggard, of DeView, and
J. M. Snowden, of Wynne, will
open up a first-class wood work
and blacksmith shop here in a few
days in the shop that heretofore
belonged to Mr. John Burkett.
Miss Annie Sue Wilder came
home from Galloway last Satur
day for a few days rest and to
spend Thanksgiving.
G. W. Pardee, of Little Rock,
was here Tuesday in the interest
of Odd Fellowship. He delighted
the members of MeCrory Lodge
No. 273 with quite an interesting
talk at their meeting Tuesday
night.
Dr. E. L. Chaffin,
DENTIST.
My work is Frst-ciass and my prices are
right. Twenty years' experience. Office at
city Drug Store, MeCrory, Arkansas.
A Living Model—
none other than yourself—is used
in the tailoring of a suit made to
your individual measure by Ed. V.
Price & Co., Chicago’s famous ex
clusive merchant tailors, of whom
we are sole representative here.
This fact is a guaranty that the
suit or overcoat will be
The Best Obtainable,
OOFVmetfT 1IM ID. v. mioo * 00.
and not to be excelled by the
work of even $50 and $75 tailors
who operate on a much smaller
scale, although our price for same
quality is less than half as much.
Your choice of 500 Fall fabrics
and 28 exclusive style designs
made up in a manner that will
satisfy completely. Ask to see
cloth Nos. 4735, 4751, 4755, 4823,
4840, then leave your measure.
HOLLAND, The Tailor
WE DO CLEANING AND PRESSING.
JUSTICE IN SMALL COURTS
•Mnd Goddess Evidently Properly At*
tended to by Leeser 8t. Louie
Dignitaries.
The St. Louis Bar association
wants a new system of justices’
courts, or a new lot of justices of
the peace. The lawyers say that in
these courts suits involving consider
able amounts are frequent and there
is a demand for judicial poise and
legal knowledge.
That’s the way with lawyers. They
have no patience with the rough
and-ready sort of justice that is de
livered in the poor man’s court.
They want technicalities, and plead
ings, and delays, and fees, all of
which contribute to the lawyers’ in
comes. But justice is done in these
small courts. A south side resident
is authority for the fact that justice
is done in them frequently. “You
ought to see justice come in contact
with one of those courts,” he said.
“She gets done all right. Every
justice is a regular Packy McFar
land.”—St. Louis Republic.
SOMETHING ABOUT PEAFOWLS.
India is the real home of the pea
fowl. In that country they are
hunted, and their flesh is used for
food. As they live in the same re
gion as the tiger, hunting them is
dangerous sport. The long tail of
the peafowl is really not its tail, but
feathers that grow out just above it,
and are called tail-coverts. This
bird has been known for ages. It is
mentioned several times in the Bible.
The ancient Romans considered the
brains of the peafowl a dainty tid
bit, and used to kill thousands of
them to get the brains for their em
perors' feasts.
WHY NOTt
“This,” said the teacher to her
class of small arithmeticians, “is a
unit.” She held up a pencil. “This
book is a unit, too,” said she. “And
these are units.” And she showed
them a raler, a flower and an apple.
Then she peeled the apple, and,
holding up the peel, said: “Now,
children, what is this ?”
Silence.
“Come, you know what it is,” she
urged.
Little Bill’s hand went up slowly.
“Well, William?” said the teacher.
“Pleathe, ma’am, the skin of a
unit.”—Harper’s Weekly.
BERNARD SHAW’S EGOTISM.
Some time ago Mr. Stead in Lon
don wanted to gather about him
some of the brains of Europe and
then moke a trip around the world
in the interests of everlasting peace.
He asked G. Bernard Shaw to be
one of the party, which invitation
most men would have thought a
compliment, but Mr. Shaw said:
“My dear Stead, I have far more
work to do than kings and queens,
but if you will bring a collection of
rulers to my house in Adelphi Ter
race I should be very glad t» talk to
them anv moraine.”
ONLY LACK OF FACILITIES.
Clara’s aunty took her out for a
visit to Niagara Falls. After view
ing the great waterfall for some
time, and the little girl failing to
make any remarks, aunty tried to
draw some expression from her as
to what she thought of the spec
tacle. Finally she said:
“Oh, yes, I s’pose so; but I fink
our creek at home could do it if
it had a place.”—Woman’s Home
Companion.
THE STEPMOTHER.
“You are my world?” the young
man cried passionately.
“And you my sun. You know,
Algie—”
Flo Footlits fitted a fresh cigar
ette in the long tube of meerschaum
and amber.
“You know, I promised to marry
your governor last night.”
209,000 DOSES.
A little drug store on Avenue A,
New York, has been exhibiting in
its window a number of old scrap
books in which are pasted prescrip
tions yellow with age. These date
back to the firm’s establishment. A
printed sign in the window said:
“209,000 filled correctly. Why not
bring your prescriptions to us?”
UPHOL8TERED.
Knicker—The fashionable wom
an’s figure is like a slat.
Bocker—While the mattress, bol
ster and pillows are worn on the
fe#jd— N. Y. Sun^
REFUSE TO ACCEPT CHANGE
One New York Establishment Where
the 8hopper Can Not Give
Away Money.
There is one thing that a wan or
woman cannot give away in a cer
tain kind of a shop in New York,
and that, curiously enough, is mon
ey. Plenty of women try the ex
periment, but they always meet with
a courteous but absolute refusal
from the persons they try to give
it to. This is the matter of small
change left over from some pur
chase. Women who have grown tired
of waiting for change amounting to
five or ten cents frequently are heard
to exclaim to the saleswoman who
waited on them: “Oh, I can’t wait
any longer. You may keep them
change.”
To this the invariable answer is:
“It is impossible, madam. I cannot
take the money. You will have to
wait for it.” And madam does
have to wait, unless she is in the
particularly bad humor of one shop
per who was heard to blurt out:
“Oh, you may throw it on the floor,
then,” as she flounced away from the
counter.
IT DEPEND8.
The red-haired girl’s face wore a
worried look as she joined her
luncheon cronies at table.
“I can’t order much for luncheon
to-day,” she announced; “I’ve just
lost some money.”
“Much ?” asked a sympathetic
neighbor.
“Two dollars.”
“Humph! I don’t call that
much,” remarked the office manager
who draws $25 a week.
The red-haired girl looked at her
a moment. “Oh! no,” she said, “I
was going to throw it in the street
any way.”
THE TALLEST ACTRESS.
This distinction belongs to Miss
Irene Smith, who plays La Bebe
Bax in the new Drury Lane drama.
She stands 6 feet IV2 inches in her
stockings.
It seems somewhat incongruous
that she should wear high heels, her
hair brushed high over a pad and a
high hat in order to give a greater
impression of height. That is, how
sver, what she does, so as to realize
the description of being six feet four
inches in height in accordance with
the design of the authors.—Tit-Bits.
8ARCA3TIC.
Drowning Man—Drop m» a line?
Humorist (looking on)—What’s the
use. There’s no post office where
you’re going.
8TUNQ1
“What just about breaks my
heart,” sighed the impecunious girl,
“is to look out the car window and
see the lovely fall suit on the wax
figure in the window of the depart
ment store, with a price tacked on
it that just suits my pocketbook,
$10 say, or something in that neigh
borhood, spring off the car, main
for the suit department^ and find
that the price is tacked on the fux
tippet that winds itself about the
neck.”
JOHNNY’S DEDUCTION.
Johnny—I saw a daddy-long-legs
this morning, and it set me think
ing.
Teacher—What were yon think
ir.j about?
Johnny—That if the daddy-long
legs got rheumatism in his legs there
would be little wellness left
THROWN OUT BY MACHINE.
Many workmen are planning to
leave the Island of Samoa, in the
Mediterranean, 43 miles southwest
from Smyrna, because of the intro
duction of machines for cigarette
production, which permits a daily
output of 100,000 cigarette*.
Farmers Educational
—AND—
Co - Operative Union
Of America
Can Farmers Afford to Figure?
Many termers seem to have a dread
of figures In connection with the busi
ness of their farms. They seem to
think that farming that is measured
by figures won’t pan out, but if they
"go It blind” they will get through
in Borne way. Is this true? Is It
a safe plan to rely on?
How long would a merchant, banker,
manufacturer or other business man
stay in business If he worked on such
a plan as that? He would soon be
unable to know "where he was at.”
He would not know whether he was
on the road to success or to failure.
And the probability is that he would
not remain in business very long.
But business men work on a differ
ent plan. They figure and keep ac
counts. They know the cost of each
particular article or transaction and
by means of this knowledge are able
to know what particular items of their
business bring in the profit and why
viucis uu uui ya/. iu«u iuo/ vou vui.
out tbs unprofitable transactions or
change plane in such a way as to
bring profit out of what has been un
profitable.
Now why can't a farmer apply the
same principles to bis business? Why
can’t ho figure up the cost on every
article he produces then say "Cost plus
profit equals selling price.” If we
could do that we could hope to be
successful in maintaining fair and
stable prices on our products. Some
farmers do figure carefully and keep
accounts correctly. And when they do
they are sure to learn that a consider
able part of the business of the aver
age farmer falls below cost instead of
giving the farmer a profit. Then when
they learn where the drain is, the
next step is to stop it and do only
those things on which they can realise
a profit.
In order for farmers as a class to
become business men and thus be
able to protect their rights, it is
necessary for all or most of them
to keep accounts carefully.
Every time a farmer produces and
markets a crop of grain, hay or any
thing else he ought to know exactly
how many days work was devoted to
it, and what each day's work is worth
no matter whether the work is done
by himself and family or by hired
help. Then he ought to figure care
fully not only the first cost of imple
ments, harness, etc., but also the
natural wear and tear as well as
amout paid for repairs and the time
spent In going to the shop.
“Oh!" says someone, a farmer
must not count his time or he will
get left sure. Oh my brother there
Is where you are wrong. If you are
not making wages for your time in
addition to all of your expenses you
had better quit farming and hunt an
other Job.
A farmer ought to keep an account
with each particular field and know
not only the cost of labor and Imple
ments used on It, but also the
value of fertilisers applied, and as near
as possible, the amount of fertility
drawn from the soil by the crop pro
duced on it. Because when we reduce
the fertility of our farms ws ars like
a business man who makes a draw on
his capital. Many farmers Imagine
they are Increasing their wealth, when
In reality they are only transferring
so much from the value of their farm
to their pocket or their hank account.
Again carefully kept figures In the
dairy department of our farming will
often show us that one cow yields a
handsome profit while another does
not pay for her feed.
In such cases the careful farmer
will dlapose of the poor cow and take
all the better care of the good one.
Some flocks of chickens pay well
while others do not pay expenses If
we would carefully figure the value
of what they eat and what they waste.
The remedy should be to either quit
the chicken business or use better oare
in the management of our flocks and
their surroundings.
And thus It Is throughout a long
list of the different departments of
our business. Farming is a compli
cated business and requires not only
brain and brawn but real business
management.
Brother and sister farmers let us
take up all of these matters In the
local union paper and discuss them
In a way that will result In greater
pleasure and profit to ourselves and
families.
Desoto, 111. W. D. Crews.
Neighbor Coldfeet says: “It don’t
pay to give a fancy price for the serv
ices of a bull or stallion.” Coldfeet
never does and that Is why he can
never get a decent price for a colt
or calf.
As a rule farmers are too penurious
when they come to managing the
affairs of their own organizations. We
are willing to pay princely salaries to
bank presidents, railroad presidents,
compress managers, cotton companies
and a hundred others, but we want our
own people to live on salaries so mea
ger that they cannot support thslr
families while they serve us. Brethren,
wske up to a realisation of the fact
that the more you put Into your or
ganization the lees you will put Into
the vaults of those Interests which
•terse* you
I« Cotton Too Ctio^.
business farmer wM —fttmi
kU operation like any other Vuta^
■•a. There Is good reason who tt*
Booth should hold cotton tor higher
prices. The whole crop la not needed
by the mills In three months and asm*
one must hold it until it i* needed
W# think tt will pay tho South to hold
It and giro It to the world ns it is
needed at a fair value.
The first item that a mershant or
a manufacturer would consider would
b« the cost of store and stock, or man
ufacturing plant; then the sost of *«.
oration, plus the services of the man
ager, plua a profit, would determine
the price at which the article of eea
meroe or manufacture should be eeld
Is not the farmer entitled to Just at
much. There has never been In the
history of this country If we except the
civil war period, a time when the price
of every thing that la needed for the
making of a crop of cotton was kigh
er than at the present time. The price
of live stock, the price of grain, hey,
labor, all are at top prices, and hare
been for more than a year; every com
modity under the sun is relatively
higher than cotton, and the planter of
cotton who makes out of his product
only a little more than the cost ef
production is going backward, pot.
ting himself in debt to make clothes
for others.
During the cotton season of 1909
1907, cotton reached the highest price
ring the season of 1903-1904, when the
market advanced to over 16 cent* per
pound for middling cotton, under con
ditons that nearly every one Interested
in cotton is familiar with, conditions
which forbid using that year as a
fair example in an argument for
higher prices, for in that year was
raised one of the smallest of the crops
of recent years, following the carry
ing over from the season before a very
■mall visible supply. In the season of
1906-1907 we have a normal condition
of trade to reckon with, the second
largest crop on record, a crop of 13,
640,000 bales, with a visible supply
from the previous season of *64,009
bale#. In that year there were taken
for foreign and domestic mills 12,976,
000 bales, leaving a surplus at the ead
of the year of 1,285,000 bales, visible
supply. The highest prtoo reached
was at the very end of the season,
when the trade knew that there was
a surplus mentioned, indicating thst
there was, and is, an actual need for
that much cotton to be carried as a
surplus stock. Statistics show an In
crease of consumption that more than
keeps pace with the production of
eotton, and we have passed the dsy
whan eleven million bales is consid
ered a normal crop; more likely is it
that we need a crop of thirteen mil
lions, and anything under this means
a short crop. Last year, la spite of
the miserable trade conditions, the
mills took 11,800,006 bales of cotton,
and It takes but a 10 par cant Increase
over these figures, apparently an ab
surdly low estimate, to bring the
amount needed to over 11,000,000 bales.
Now, after the bad weather and the
setbacks that the cotton plant has suf
fered In the last few weeks. It la not
likely that we will have a crop asy
where approaching such figures, and
there will be a consequent shortage of
supply. The present price of cotton is
too low. There should be marketed
only enough to supply the actual de
mands of consumers.
Farmers’ Union National Cottoo
Committee.
O. R. Hightower, Secretary
Amerloan Farmer.
The American is on top. He holds
the destiny of this country in hi*
grasp and yet he is not grasping.
He makes few demands and Saks
few favors.
He only wants what properly belong*
to him and if these things are secure*
every interest in the nation is served.
Among the few things whioh he
craves is to be governed so econlmi*
celly, that the burden of taxes ®*y
be lowered.
He asks for lower freight rates that
the products of his farm may reach a
market where the consumer can pur
chant* and consume.
Hie asks that the laws which pi**
an unjust burden on him be repealed
that exact Justice to all may be s*
eured. . .
He abhors all laws granting special
privileges and opposes all meaters*
which build up fortunes for one
and impose burdens upon another
class.
He lays no claim to superior citisen
shlp, but looks with suspicion upon tn#
sycophant who fawns at his feet.
He admires manly lndependen
of tho sesker after Politic*! ^®
ment and dlspisea fraud and politic**
He la oourageous and g®°6r°^r
patiant and forgiving; but will never
subscribe to the doctrine
spoils belong to tho victor.
He know, that there ****»£
spoils, for spoils are talntadhT *
caption and deception i» ^
irruption.—Oklahoma Farmer
Nature did not design man to hi*
msolf and that was unfortanats. <►
mm several of us In our locality
ould like to get at ourselves S°®#
Lit
ter was going to laava an
subicrlplon and bought him *
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d mutt and we were reallT 1 ^
mtrlbute to his leavo-takiM^^ ^
>afereuoe decided T?
s uprooted for another year.
10 sorrowing In elleneo.