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Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-15
GIRLS wilma DELAYS WEDDING
OF a YOUNG COUPLE.
AFFIANCED HUSBAND is SENT TO AFRICA
Southern Miss Insists That None But Preacher
Who Performed Marriage Ceremony for Her
Parents Can Tie Knot for Them
Lover Now Seeking Him.

They were engaged secretly for months,
and, although there were no objections
to the match except on account of
youth, they ran away. They did not
elope exactly, but one beautiful evening
while driving through the wooded coun-
try they came to Crowley, and there
the young man proposed that they stop
and get married. They inquired the
way to the home of the minister, and
were directed to the house in which
Rev. John w. Miley then lived, and they
were married and returned home to re-
ceiYe the forgiveness of their parents
and the congratulations of their friends.
Miley, it seems, was district preach
er and was riding circuit through the
hamlets in that district, having no regu-
lar church, but preaching in the school
houses and in the homes of his follow
ers. He gave the young couple his
blessing, Hinshaw gave him generous
fee, and they parted.
Liza Hinshaw knew the story of her
mothers romantic wedding, and when
she first began to lengthen her skirts
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-15
BROKEN EGGS STILL EGGS.
Appraiser Holds That They Must Be
Levied Upon Though Sold to
Consumer by the Gallon.

New York.-General Appraiser
Waite, for the board of general APP
praisers, has just handed down de-
cision overruling the protest of L. E.
Spencer against the assessment of
duty by the collector at Detroit at five
cents a dozen upon an importation OF
eggs from which the shells had been
removed The decision says:
1T seems that in handling eggs for
expectation from Canada many Of
them are cracked or broken. From
these shells they are removed, and
are imported into the United States
and sold by the gallon, and are used
the same way as any eggs would be
dsed by bakers and confectioners.
NO change whatever is made in
the condition of the eggs except that
the shell is removed. We think egg~
would remain eggs whether sold by
the bushel, gallon, or by the dozen.
Hence our conclusion is that the as
sessment by the collector was right"
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-15
FIGURES AND FINDINGS.

Frances imports last year amounted
to 1894 800, exports 1852 ,344, 800.
In 1904, imports were 5000, 462, 900, ex-
ports SS9O,191,20
Of the SAG steamers and sailing YES
sells lost last year England lost 209,
America 10, Norway 90, Italy and
Russia each 81, Japan "a, France 80,
Sweden 81.
During the late war the japanese
lost only $4,000 men from sickness, as
compared with $1,000 from wounds; a
proportion withoH. parallel in the rec
ords of war
According to d recently published
official statement. tetanus is extremely
prevalent in Cuba, especially among
infants. During the last five years
over % per 1000 of newborn infants
have died of tetanus.
Returns of the coal production In
the departments OF the Pas de Calais.
and the Nord France, comprising 25
collieries, show an increase on the
year from 22,713, 0C3 to 24,272,07 tons;
coke from 1,543,343 to 1,772,7S5 tons;E
and patent fuel from 913,520 to 971, 068
tons. The region produces about one
half the total production of France.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-15

Just because the bride insists on be-
ing married by the same minister who
performed her mothers wedding cere-
mony, the great event has been post
poned and d worldwide search is at
present going on for the man.
Rev. John W. Miley is the missing
preacher. Nineteen years ago he re-
sided at Crowley, a hamlet near Will
mington, n. c. The United States has
been searched from end to end and the
frantic lover is now preparing for trip
to the Congo in search of him. The trail
of the minister has been followed to In
dia-and now to Africa--with faint
hopes Four Rev. Mr.. Mileys have been
discovered, but Rev Mr.. Miley who
united Mason Hinshaw and Miss Fred
erick Willis in marriage 10 years ago
is lost.
And because Rev. Mr.. Miley cannot be
found the marriage of Davis Pickens to
Miss Liza Hinshaw cannot be cele-
brated.
So Pickens, deserving his plantation
and turning his business over to his
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-15
THE EDITOR
Explains How to Keep Up Mental
and Physical Vigor.

A New Jersey editor writes:
"A long indulgence in improver food
brought on condition of nervous dys-
pepsia, nearly three years ago, so Sc
we're that | had to quit work entirely.
l put myself on strict regimen of
Grape-Nuts food, with plenty of out
door exercise and in few months found
my stomach so far restored that the
process Of digestion gave me pleasure in
stead of distress.
ut also built up my strength SO that
was able to resume my business, which
is onerous, as | not only edit my own
paper but also do gfeat deal of ou-.
side writing.
Il find that the Grape-Nuts diet en-
ables me to write with greater vigor
than ever before and without the feel
ing of brain-fag with which | used to be
troubled. AS to bodily vigor-I can and
do walk miles every day without fatigue
"a few squares used to weary me be-
fore | began to live on Grape-Nutsi
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Greek, Mich
There's reason. Read the little book.
"The Road to Wellville." in pkgs.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-15

foreman, has left Carolina and started
to search the world to find the missing
minister, bring him back if he is alive,
or to produce absolute proof of his
death.
All this trouble, and travel, and search
results from the fact that Miss Hinshaw
refuses to become Mrs. Pickens unless
the minister who married her father and
mother also can perform the ceremony
for her.
Miss Hinshaw is handsome, win
some, clever and witty girl, the daugh-
ter of well-to-do planter; and her
mother, who was known through all the
Roanoke section 20 years ago as the
beautiful Miss Willis left heritage of
beauty to the girl. The mother died
when Miss Hinshaw was II years old,
and the girl remembered the tall, dark
haired, dark-eyed mother, whom she
had loved so passionately, and even
after years she remembered her moth
er's romance as her mother had told it
to her.
Mothers Romantic Marriage.
Hinshaw and his wife had been mar
Sied under romantic circumstances.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-15

Nearly two years ago, when Miss Hin
shaw was but 16 years old, Davis Pick
ems came accounting. He had grown up
ON the neighboring plantation, but in
the fox hunting, the riding, the shoot
ing and his going away to school at
Charlottesville he had paid but little at
tention to Miss Hinshaw, or, indeed, to
any other girl. She had seen him when
he came home at vacation times attired
in his gray uniform, with the quadruple
rows of brass buttons, and had fallen in
love with the uniform. So when they
met it was case from the first. and
they were engaged before he went back
to school to finish his career.
They did not keep their engagement
a secret, and they had no trouble in get
ting the consent of "Mase" Hinshaw,
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-15
TO FACILITATE TRADE.
Industrial and Commercial Museum
to Be Established at Pc
king. China.

According to the Anglo-Japanese
Gazette the Chinese minister Of COM
merce has made the necessary arrange.
ments for the establishment of an in
dustrlaI and commercial museum at
Picking. A site for the erection of suit
able buildings has already been ac-
CURED 1t is intended to establish a
permanent exhibition of Chinese and
foreign goods in the museum No pro-
vision has yet been made for the pur-
chase of artistic exhibits, and it is
probable that the museum will be used
more especially for commercial and in
dustrial purposes. < is anticipated that
the museum will serve as a record OF
the progress made by Chinese manu-,
facturers, and at the same time that
foreign exhibits will incite the native
industry to still greater efforts. 1t is
probable that foreign manufacturers
who find a place for their wares in this
museum will profit by an increased sale
in Chinese markets. The Japanese are
taking an active part in the organiza-
tion of the museum, and, indeed, it is
not unlikely that they are responsible
in some degree for its inception The
buildings are in Japanese style, and
japanese merchants and manufacturers
have promised to cooperate largely.
Foreign firms will find 1t to their adj
vantage to obtain place in the mu
scum, affording as it will an oppoF-
tunity to display their goods to great
advantage
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-15
Unique Applica ton.

Applying for = post in the police OF
the central provinces of India, ma
tive wrote: Il have a good long equi-
line nose, piercing eyelashes on g
semy globular face and good ply,
siQue. My family has a history that
takes my imagination back to three
pedigrees, when my grandfather was q
rillioner. With the vissicitude and
times matter change, and my father
was driven to the necessity to ac-
cept schoolmastership. Ultimately
he enjoyed his well-earned pension by
the time he gave up his ghost. In
case my aspirations turn out real
ity, shall as a matter of course be
bound to prey God for your long life
ard prosperity"
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-15
BEAT ROLL AT 8o3 BURIALS
Veteran of Civil War, Still Hale and
Hearty, Holds Record of Serv-
ice at the Grave.

Easton, Pa.-William Trumbore, o.
this city, has made remarkable rec
ord as drummer at the funerals of
veterans of the civil war Up to rate
he has sounded the muffled roll at the
funerals of 500 fellow comrades, be
sides u Sons of Veterans.
When the civil war broke out Trum-
bore enlisted in the Fourth regiment
New Jersey volunteers, serving under
Gen. Phil Kearney, and later undet
Gen. A. ]. Smith. In 1862 he went our
with the Twenty eighth Pennsylvania
regiment in the emergency call for the
suppression of troubles in central
Pennsylvania.
Trumbore was honorably discharged
from the army with sergeant's rank.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-15
Wedding Is Postponed.

Her trOuSseau was all prepared, the
preparations made, the negroes all ex-
cited over the coming marriage of
''Missie" Liza, but the girl refused, and
the wedding was postponed.
No definite date was set then, as she
promised to marry him as soon as he
found the minister.
Pickens then sent an appeal to the
officers of every church organization in
the country asking for information. He
advertised again. Finally he learned
that Rev. Mr. Miley had served as
missionary in India and then had been
sent to Africa
Whether it is the same minister or not
Pickens could not learn. He had, ac-
cording to the church authorities, in
herited quite a sum of money and had
volunteered for the work, paying his
own expenses and acting as a sort of free
lance missionary.
Pickens cabled American and English
consuls, wrote to resident missionaries,
tried in every means to get into COM
munication with his man, or the one he
supposed to be his man, but never could
hear directly. He finally learned that
the minister was among the natives in
the French Congo region.
Now he is preparing to start for the
Congo. But there are those who declare
Miss Hinshaw is beginning to waver,
and that she will decide at the last min
ute that any minister will do
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-15
remperance Has Money Value.

A Swiss life insurance company has
taken action which indicates that tenn
peranceJ has money value. 1t has I'M
dertalIen to insure members OF a tenn
perance society composed of railway
employees for four per cent less than en-
ployes who are not members of it. For
some time past a Swiss accident insur-
ance company has given total abstain
ers reduction of ten per cent. in insur-
ance rates So we'll satisfied is the COM
pany with results that after January l.,
1906, it will make the reduction to total
abstainers Is per cent.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-15
Enough.

Knicker Did they probe for the bull
let?
Bocker-No the victim was a finan-
cier who said he was sick Cs iuyestigas
tion.-N. Y. Sun.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-15

she vowed that she was going to be mar
ried by the same minister who married
her father and mother She remem-
bered her mothers story of how the
kindly preacher extended his hand in
blessing and the words of advice he gave
them.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-15
who Knew and liked the handsome son

VINO Knew ana liked the handsome sou
of his old friend.
About year ago the young lover
asked his ffancee to Eet the date. And
right there the trouble commenced She
consented to be married on May Ii, but
stipulated that Rev. Mr.. Miley must per-
form the ceremony. Pickens, who did
not care who performed the ceremony,
laGghingly asked why she wanted that
particular minister instead of the home
preacher. And she told him the story
of her mothers romance and of the
childish VOW she had made that she
would be married by the same man.
So he told her that he would make the
arrangement.
by the way" he said. where does
Mr.. Miley live?"
Il don't know. l never thought of
that" replied the girl He lived over
at Crowley then"
"Ill drive over to Crowley tomorrow
and find him, said the lover
Begin Search for Minister.
That was the beginning of the world
ems went to Crowley and found that
the minister had moved away from
there Is years ago, less than year after
he performed the ceremony. He hunted
among the old inhabitants until he
found one who remembered that Miley
had gone down somewhere near Spar
tanburg, S. c., to preach. Pickens went
there and learned that the church had
sent Miley as missionary minister into
the hill country of the western end of
the state.
By that time it was April, and the date
set for the wedding was approaching
rapidly Pickens wrote, appealing to
the church authorities to give him some
trace of the man.
The latest record they had of him
was 1896, when an entry in the books
showed that he had resigned charge
near Murphy, and no further trace of
him was found.
Pickens hurried to Murphy. The
Darishioners remembered that Rev. MI
Miley had been offered a missionary po-
sition-they thought in some northern
state-and had accepted. Then Pickens,
getting panic stricken, placed adver-
tisements in scores of newspapers, ask
ing for information regarding the min
lister.
The advertisements brought results.
He found four ministers named ]. w.
Miley and nine ministers named Miley
whose first names were not definite. The
week before the date set for the wedding
he received telegram saying that the
man he Sought was preaching near Bel
fast, o. He wrote and telegraphed, hop
ing to the last minute that he might be
able to get the minister there, and then
received a reply from the Belfast Miley
stating that he never had lived in the
south at all, but would be proud and glad
to come on and perform the ceremony
For a time Pickens hesitated whether
or not to bring on the Belfast.minister
and pass him off as the Niley who was
wanted. Then, realizing that discovery
of such trick might wreck the life hap
piness of both, he abandoned the idea
and, going to Miss Hinshaw, he pleaded
with her to give up her plan, and to let
the home minister perform the cere-
mony.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-15
RANDOM YARNS,

a sanctimonious bore whose hobby
was anti-Catholicism went to the great
evangelist one day and put the direct
question: MIR. Moody, do you ever
intend to do any preaching against the
Catholics?" Yes, | may some time"
"When will that be-" After the Prot
cstants are converted"
The late Bishop Mandell Creighton
was once asked if he could state the
difference between an Oxford man and
a Cambridge man. The professor, as
he then was, Immediately replied: "An
Oxford man looks as if The world be-
longed to him; Cambridge man as if
he didn't care to whom the world be-
longed"
Here is fish story told by British
nobleman: An Irishman had caught
big pike. Noting a lump in its stom-
ach, he cut it open. LAS l cut it open
there was mighty rush and a flap
ping Of wings, and away flew a wild
duck, and when I looked inside, there
was a nest with four eggs, and she had
been afther sitting on that nest"
A good story is told of Lord Iveagh-
He was once travelling through Ire
land with the lord lieutenant, and two
carriages were reserved at a certain
station, the one for the lord lieutenant
and the other for the distinguished
brewer. The porter, sticking the re-
served mark on the first carriage, re-
marked refectively: an that's for his
Ex," and at the second carriage, An
this is for his XIX"
Congressman Madden, of this city,
was discussing the traits of character
of the Irish. Il went to call on con-
stituent of NINE" said MI. Madden,
ito see a new baby. found the
youngster all battered up, black and
blue in spots. What's the matter with
him. asked. oh, nothing, answered
his mother. You see, he was christened
yesterday and while his daddy was
holding him the six o'clock whistle
blow
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-26
RIGHT FEEDING OF YOUNG
STOCK.

We must be sure that we are start
ed right and then push and push hard
no experiment-but liberal feeding
of the right kind of feed. 1t must
be right and it must be liberal. With
plenty of fresh air at a proper tenn
perature, and with sanitary surround
ings, we have our system started on
the right, broad guage road.
But they will take on the pinched
appearance at short notice if the prop
er feed or conditions are not forthcom-
ing, and right here is where multitudes
''fall down" They start the chick
along in mite shape, and after the hrst
interest wanes or other work presses,
the chickens are fed when they think
of it, with whatever comes handy and
then they wonder why their pullets do
not lay as early as theis neighbours
across the street and that the cocker
els are lean, lank, thin fellows when
they should be fat and bringing good
prices. Again they have let an OPP
portunity slip past them.
The pullets from our hit or miss feed
err after being placed in winter quar-
tiers and literally fed VIII start lay
ing in time, but they must first get
a good comfortable layer of fat over
them before they join the ranks of
the producers. This wastes valuable
time, and when eggs are high it seems
to take longer. If the same feed had
been added to the growing ration they
would have come to laying from one
to two months earlier and in the case
of the cockerel have gone to market
at least six weeks sooner and at much
better prices. Look which way we
may, we can find no excuse for scanty
feeding, unless you wish to work off
some sour, musty stuff on your birds
and by keeping them half starved get
them to eat it and exist Eve cannot
say "thrive') in halfhearted way
G. e. Pollard
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-26
Whlstlinu,


In boyhood when you joumeyed
home
And darkness wrapped the world,
Weird beasts and ogres lurked about,
Each bush an imp would hold.
Nhe rocks took unfamiliar shapes,
The trees were stiff and stark,
And then to keep your courage up
You whistled in the dark.
You travel through this vale OF tSars
In darkness wrapped around;
You do not know from where you
came
Nor whittier you are bound.
Strange shapes arise on every side
More dread than COLLINS are,
Devourers worse than ogres grim
Your Swallowed pathway bar.
And then you strike Old Hundred
up
Your spunk to keep spark,
For after all, what is a hymn
But whistling in the dark.
--McLandburgh Wilson, in the New
York Times
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-26

salt to suit the taste. Sift the salt
evenly over the butter, pass the work
er over it, then run the butter and
work again or until the salt is thor
oughly worked in. 1t may then be
set away for few hours, after which
it should be given a second work
ing.
The price of the COW does not indi-
cate her value as producer. Gilt
edged butter is something that de.
ponds on how it is made. The COW
gives the milk, but upon the manage
ment of the milk, cream and butter
depends the quality.
The farmer has been scolded, sham
ed and thoroughly lambasted for not
taking better care of his cream, and
with what result? Poor cream con
tinues to come, and bad butter con
tinues to go-American Cultiyator.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-26
A pensioner Of Charles x.

Although France has witnessed thir-
ty-six years of republic, preceded by
twenty-five years of empire and by
some eighteen years more of limited
monarchy, there has fingered on until
the past week the last item on the
civil list of the last King of France,
Chales X. In 1880 Chales granted
a pension of 1900 francs a year to one
Of his men servants. And year in
and year out ever since, whatever
system might be up or down, the good
fellow has religiously presented him.
self on pension day to draw his 1900
francs, and just as religiously every
succeeding finance minister has had
it ready for him. The old worthy has
just died, centenarian.-Londor
Globe.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-26

Potter danced round on alternate feet,
and through all this Tapping of wings
and shrill cries of warfare the dim
form of Peter, the wicked cat, could
presently be discerned, crouching in
corner, and wincing and blinking
his eyes apprehensively every time
Mrs. Potter made g peck at him.
After Peter had been rescued, and
Alicia had made him make friends
with Mrs. Potter task requiring
great diplomacy we carried the
shamefaced Peter back to the house,
Fido trotting along behind with a
singular air of satisfaction.
And here we are Peter has finally
been persuaded to hold up his ears
with some approach to his usual
jauntiness. Fido is sitting UP" look
ing pleasant and catching an unheard-
of number of bits of meat in rapid
succession, while Peter has humbly
tucked his two front paws beneath
him, and is lying by Fido's side.
kiss him, Fido!" cried Alicia. kiss
him nice!"
And as Fido makes hasty and gen.
eral lap at Peters head, both the pets
sigh with a great content
"Cock-a4doodle-do-o-o cries Mrs.
Potter, from the garden in sleepy
tones. "Cock-a-doodle-dod
And as at last we turn to that IA
nous old-fashioned sage pudding
with raisins in it-peace, sweet, balmy
peace, has settled on our household
once again.-Youth's Companion.