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Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
WILD TRIBE OF POETS.
Picturesque People That Are Found In
 the Philippines.

Among the wild tribes to be found in the Philippines are the Bogobos, the most picturesque people in the tropics. Their origin is unknown, and all sorts of opinions have been expressed concerning them. One tale told of them is that their first ances- tors were all poets and musicians, and that the dislike for the practical which is always noticeable among them has come down through the gen. erations.
 Those that have taught among the BogObOs say that given a song or a poem to learn and they will study and dream over it for hours, but give the Bogobo problem in arithmetic and he immediately becomes i'll and wants to go home.
 Living at Santa Cruz, in the Davao district, is Miss Benedict, a Chicago university woman, who is collecting everything peculiar to the Bogobo.
 It has been found that the bead work done by them is quite like that of the American Indian, but there is no other likeness in the races be- yond that.
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
The Power to Get the Most Out of a
 Farm With Least Energy.

The farmer may not crave political or social power, but if he is man Of ordinary ambitions he craves the power to succeed in his business. It takes power to succeed at farming 1t used to be said that when a boy wasn't good for anything else that he'd make farmer Tt takes brains to be merchant, doctor, or preacher but farmer-why anybody can farm!" But times have changed, and farming successfully on high priced land is no snap. The brains necessary to well manage a farm would make for suc- cess anywhere after sufficient expert ence were gained to "know the rope.'
 But it is astonishing that so many farmers are content to go along in such a reckless and unproftable way They never have a definite knowledge of their business operations. They know not whether it is the COWS or pigs that are carrying the mortgage, whether it is the sheep or the chick ems or the corntield that is failing to pay expenses. They feed timothy hay because they have it, and they have it because it is easier to cure than clover, and know not that there is a better feed than timothy and a better crop for the soil
 The shackles of ignorance is hold ing many a man down. Knowledge is the power that can set free. It isn't enough to know how to hold a blow straight. He must know why he blows, when best to blow, how best to do for particular crop or season. It is not enough that he know how to milk a COW. He must know how to feed her so she will do her best, and he must know how to breed her so she will perpetuate a better race than her own, he must know whether she is worth keeping at all or not.
 It isn't enough to know how many pecks to SOW of grain, but how to combat the fungous and insect pests that lessen the yield He must know what one of a great many varieties of these grains is best adapted to his farm.
 Knowledge is power-the power to get the most out of farm with the least expenditure of vital energy, the least waste, and the greatest net pro- fits per acre.-Successful Farming
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
For Cotton Select Prolific Stalks.

In selecting cotton seed we should, in North Carolina, have especial re- gard to earliness. An extra large boil is usually an indication of late ma turing cotton, and is apt to be long jointed. We need in this climate bushy, short-jointed cotton of pro- life character, and we should have marked the plants that come nearest to our ideal cotton plant before any picking has been done, always select ing from plants of the best habit and those that open earliest, selecting only the first picking for seed. The later pickings may make just as good and prolific plants, but the chances are that in the matter of earliness the seed from the first picking will be
 best.
 Do not take this cotton to the gin, but have a little hand gin at home to prevent getting the seed mixed with every one else's cotton. Then next spring plant patch especially for seed and continue the selection. Make a careful selection the first time even if you only get seed enough to plant the seed patch. Every season you will get closer to the ideal cotton plant, and every season your neighbors will be taking more and more interest in your cotton. Cotton is a plant that responds to careful seed selection very quickly, and on the other hand runs back very quickly when carelessly se- lected. The King Cotton for a year or so was very uniform cotton, but of late it is hard to find a field of King Cotton that is at all of the orig inal strain.
 The time to begin the improvement of ones corn or cotton is in the spring, and then study the crop all through the season, detassel all in- ferior and barren stalks of corn, and thin out the long-legged cotton be- fore it has a chance to distribute it's pollen through the agency the bees.
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
To Err Is Human.

Robert Browning once found him. self at dinner, at great English house, sitting next to lady who was connected with the highest aristoc- racy. She was very graciously in- clined, and did her utmost to make conversation.
 Are you not poet?" she finally asked.
 "Well,' said Browning, people are sometimes kind enough to say that I am."
 "Oh, please don't mind my having mentioned it," the duchess hastened to say, with the kindest of smiles. You know Byron and Tennyson and others were poets."
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
Hints About Making Good Hay.

Haymaking claims the attention of farmers just now and should be pushed with all possible vigor. The high prices that have prevailed should stimulate hay making.
 Crab grass is allowed to go to waste that could be made into fine quality of hay if cut at the right time and properly cured. Comparatively few of our farmers cut crab grass as early as it should be cut to make the best quality of hay. It should not be allowed to stand until the seed are ripe, nor should it be allowed to lie in the sun after it is cut until it is sun-killed before cooking or stacking. Cut when the seed are in the milk or dough state, permitted to take the sun day, then cooked and cured in the cock, 1t makes a hay about equal to timothy hay.
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
A Prayer for Rain.

The minister was having Sunday dinner with one of his brother par ishoners. Suddenly the S-year-old daughter of the house spoke up.
 70, Dr. Still, will you please say the prayer for rain tonight, so it will pour tomorrow" she urged
 "Why, dear?" asked the clergyman.
 Cause I have a dandy new um- brella and macintosh" replied the eternal womanly.-Judge
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
FARMER AND
 PLANTER
TO INDUCE FALL LAYING.
,..d variety-Not Too Much of Any
 One Kind.

,;+tIa care and additional atten- .,an and work with the hens on the aloce at this season will be well re- id This is the beginning of the fanlting or shedding season, and a aood a many of the hens are not laying, snd will not lay for some two or three -nonths under the usual course of neg ,ao+ and indifference on the part of .soIr owners. And yet, it is possi- rlo to get goodly number of fall eggs, f we will go at it right.
 Tn induce fall laying, the hens sboud have a variety of foods-not si great deal of any one kind, but, a Nile of several kinds. For this pur- nooe all the waste of the kitchen and tbo dining-room should be saved and oiyon to them. The best plan is to Move good sized pot handy, and throw all scraps into it. Let it sit at tho hack of the kitchen stove; and ot tbe close of either the breakfast, or midday meal, put some oats, or wheat in 1t too, with water, and soak all together. It will not take long to do 1t and then when cooled off some, call up the hens and give it to them. If will start them to singing and run ming about in a happy way, and soon also start them to the nest, and keen some of them laying all through the autumn and fall.
 Tn addition to the eggs this system will bring, 1t will also keep the hens healthy and vigorous and enable 4hem to shed and reclothe themselves in near feathers earlier than other wise
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07

The fact that it has been demon strated by good farmers that oats can be raised more cheaply than corn should stimulate oat growing. With this crop, as with wheat, the land should be well prepared, and only good seed should be used. For oats, SOW two bushels of seed per acre of some good winter variety.
 Rye Is another crop that should re- ceive more attention than we are giv- ing it. Almost any land will grow some rye. bu- the better the land the more rye we will get.
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
Take Your Eyes to the cornfield.

Take Your Eyes to the Cornfielo-
 This is the time to selet the seed corn in the field, provided it has not already been attended to. It has been fully demonstrated that varieties bear ing two or more ears to the stalk will yield more corn per acre than varieties bearing only one ear to the stalk. At the Edgecombe Test Farm Hast year there was a difference at the rate of about twenty-nine bushels per acre in the yield of different varieties of corn, and the yield at the other Test Farm of different varieties bore about the same ratio to each other. These facts should impress us with the importance of seed selection.
 In field selection, we advise taking flor an ideal strong, vigorous, sym metrical stalk, not too high, bearing two or more good well-shaped ears, some four or five feet from the ground, and that have medium shanks so as Ito permit the ears to turn down and she0 the rain. We do not advise se- |lecting ears that stand upright so as Ito permit the rain to run in and cause the grain to rot, neither do we ad- wise the long shank so often seen in |corn. A medium between the two ex- Itremes is best. Use care in selecting, flor if one selects only a dozen or two stalks in day and the stalks so se- lected are of the ideal type for plant ing a seed plat, it will be time well spent. Make start on such selection this month
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
Too Many Islands.

Larry-Me friend Casey has made lot av money avn gone to spind tn summer in tn Thousand islands. He invited me up.
 Denny-Faith, phoy don't yez go?
 Larry-Bedad, he didn't say which island avn Oi might have to hunt over noine hundred and nointy-noine be- fore Oi found him. By thot time. me vacation would be over.
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
The Duty of the Hour.

'How were you impressed by our distinguished visitors speech?" asked one prominent citizen.
 q hadn't thought about forming inn pressions," replied the other. AS I understand such an occasion, we were not there to criticise, but to give three cheers and to sing The Star-Spangled Banner"
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
A Household Necessity.

would almost as soon think of run ming my farm without implements as without Hunts Lightning Oil. Of all the liniments I have ever used, for both man and beast, it is the quickest in action and richest in results. For burns and fresh cuts it is absolutely wonderful. I regard it as a house. hold necessity. Yours truly
 s. HARRISON,
 Kosciusko, Miss.
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
makes you think SOP"
Don't Be Irritable.

"An irritated skin makes an irritable person, and an irritable person gath CTS much trouble unto himself or herself as the case may be. Moral: Use Hunts Cure, one box of which is absolutely and unqualifedly guaran- teed to cure any form of skin trou- ble. Any kind of itching known is re- lieved at once and one box cures"
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07

Some years ago 1
 began to feel weak and miserable and one day awoke from a nap with a pierc- ing pain in my back t h a t m a q e m e scream. For two
 days I could not move and after that 1 had backache and
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
Gathering and saxinn Cotton

"nue It is we'll to pick the cotton |ot apiuly as Is necessary, we should U. oo that at the expense of every 6so else; and especially do we ed |rd against the custom of picking br e-nnlng immediately. It will be Inn, 'e''er to let the cotton lie in |ror,sr ior some time before ginning, Ee,as Eaaeu the seed cotton is dry when hrn G No gin can make it's best h .Uo 0u' elther in quality or quantity
 s;n n cotton. Again, when cotton
 s"Neo' put 1t under cover.
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
How'S ThiSP

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls Catsrrh Cure.
 We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last years and believe him perfectly hon orabie in all busi/Jss transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his hrm
 WALDING, KINNAE & MARVIN,
 Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
 Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07

dizzy spells all the time. My ankles swelled and I ran down dreadfully. l was nervous and had awful headaches. l wonder that any medicine could do what Doan's Kidney Pills have done for me. They cured me four years ago and I have been well ever since"
 Sold by all dealers. 50 cents box. Foster-Milburn Co.,, Buffalo, N. Y.
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
SlinhtIu Mixed.

How did Henry get along when he had to testify in court, Mrs. Mixer?"
 He got along good enough till the lawyer tangled him all up with one of them air long hyperdemic questions"
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
Knew What Was comino.

Wife-Well, declare. Here's an old school friend of mine who hes just made fortune.
 Husband-All right, my dear. Go ahead. Tell me that you might have married him.
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
Her New Hat.

'T believe Maude is weakening in her championship of the Audubon movement against bird plumage hat trimming"
 What makes you think so?'
 T notice in public, especially at the theater, she is showing the white feather"
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
Important to Mothers,
WiIIinq to Follow Directions,

T want you to keep the patient isolated for few days"
 All right, doctor; shall we put the Ice at the back of his head or on op?"-Baltimore American.
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
TESTED BY TIME.
A Cure That Has Held Good for
 Four Years.

Mrs. Mary Crumlish of 1130 West Third Street, Wilmington, Del, says:
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07

Finishing is the hardest part of lazy mans job.
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
Time Sometimes Flies So.

Mabel" asked the dear girls moth CT, what time did that young man leave last night?"
 Why" replied Mabel, q believe it was nearly II o'clock"
 What? I am sure it was later than that said the mother.
 How strange!" remarked Mabel. dreamily. We both thought it could mt possibly be that e"-The Catho- lie Standard and Times.
 Pays Dues.
 "Jones is the most prominent mem- Der of our golf club"
 "Why, he can't play golf?" ''No, but he always pays his dues"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-03-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

If you must be frank, be frank with
yourself.
Every defeat develops a lot of new
excuses.
Most men are optimistic as long as
things are coming their way.
Pleasing people is like laughing. 1t
has to be done without an effort to be
effective
The most sincere person in the world
does not mean it when he says, 81
don't care''
Some people get credit for being pa
tient when the fact is they are merely
afraid to talk back.
Some people who never recognize a
rebuff notice the slightest hint that can
be construed as an invitation.
Down at the bottom of their hearts
most people believe little in fortune
telling and spiritualism and the mys-
FERROUS generally.-Atchison Globe.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-03-06
Mine Preserved Bodies.

A curious story illustrative Of the
preservative properties Of carbonic acid
gas, or choke Damp" comes from
China. In the province Of Nganhwei
a party Of miners opened an ancient
shaft where, according to the official
records, a terrible catastrophe had oc-
Cured 400 years ago. When the min
ers entered they came upon the bodies
Of ITO miners who had perlshed in the
mine, lying where they had been over
taken by the deadly gas four centuries
back. The corpses to the eye were as
though Of yesterday, quite fresh look
ing and not decayed in any way. The
faces were like those of men who had
just died. On an attempt being made
to move them outside for burial they
one and all crumbled away, leaving
nothing but pile of dust and the rem
nants of the stronger parts Of their
clothing.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-03-06
Laiande and Neptune,

The astronomer Lalande narrowly
escaped being made famous by a dis
covery. He accidentally struck Nep-
tune with his glass on May 8, 1885, but
supposed it was a star. He put it down
in his notebook as a star and recorded
Its exact situation. Two days later he
struck it once more and made a record
Of 1t. But when he looked over his
notes he found he had it down as be-
ing in two different places, and as a
star cannot move in forty-eight hours
he supposed he had made mistake in
one Of his notes. If he had used his
mind a little less. mechanically, he cas-
lily might have been a Columbus,
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-03-06
ARTEMUs WARDS FUN.
How the Humorist Used 20 Win
Laughs In His Lectures.

SVOW blS t10UUOE19C WA 80 WIN
Laughs In His Lectures.
However much the audience might
laugh, even to a tumult OF merriment
lasting a minute or two or perhaps
longer, Artemus Ward stood with the
gravest mien and unmoved face. He
could not help laughing while writing
or planning good thing, but no NEGRO
mancer was ever more self poised
when he stood before his audience.
The greatest fun of the whole was
the manipulation Of the panorama it.
self. Things would go wrong every
now and then, and the audience would
fairly scream with laughter, supposing
it was mistake, while as a matter Of
fact Artemus was always at the bot
tom of it ALL
For instance, the prairie fire would
go down at the wrong time and then
break out again when the scene it was
to illustrate had wholly passed, or the
sick looking moon would refuse to
stay down in the midst, while the lee
turer was apparently almost overcome
with ve1ation and despair. Then the
wrong music would be played, and the
house would break out into roars Of
laughter, as when he touched upon one
really pathetic recital and the piano
ground out poor Mary Ann"
In the midst Of a really instructive
talk on the Mormon question or a truly
Impressive description Of the mountain
scenery around Salt lake he would
stop as if a sudden feeling Of distress
had come over him which must be ex-
planned, and, pointing to an absurd
animal in the foreground Of a picture,
he would tell the audience how he had
always tried to keep faith with them,
but mistakes must sometimes occur.
II have always spoken of this animal
as buffalo and have always supposed
he was buffalo, but this morning my
artist came to me and said, Mr.. Ward
| can conceal it from you no longer;
that is horsey" The effect was SIM
ply indescribable
When quiet came again, he would
seemingly become wholly lost to ev-
erything around him as he described
some absorbing and thrilling incident,
turning it into ridicule the next minute
by the innocent and apparently merely
Incidental remark, II did not see this
myself, but I had it from man just
as reliable as I am" -Enoch knight in
Putnam's.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-03-06
The Majority Are Right Eyed.

"Most right handed persons are also
right eyed" an oculist said ''Of
course they can use their left eye just
as well as their right one, but they
think they cannot. For an instance,
in the navy or army recruiting sta
tons one Of the examinations consists
Of reading certain printed letters with
one eye closed. In almost every case
where the applicant is right handed
he will close his left eye first and give
the right the preference. And when
he comes to read with his left eye
alone it is more difficult. Now, If that
mans eyes were to be examined by
an expert oculist both would probably
be equally strong, but the right handed
man always does most Of his one
eyed work with his right eye."-Kan-
sas City Star.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-03-06
Get What You Ask F0r.

When you see an article well-ad ver-
1lsea i IN The newspapers, you may be
sure It's good article, for advertising
only pays II the goods are honest and
posses merit. The people who make
a speciality OF one advertised article,
Ike Cascarets, Candy Cathartic for
example, stake their whole business
exlsenc e, on it's doing what they say it
VIII. They must "make good'' as the
saying is; Readers of this paper are
urged to be sure that they get what
they ask for, when they ask for an
advertised article, for it's the good
thing that is initiated and counter
feited. Don't accept substitutes! In
slst on getting the genuinei
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-03-06
GLASS is PECULIAR.
Il Has a Number Of Curious and Con-
Trajectory Qualities.

Il Has Number of Curious and Con-
Trajectory Qualities.
Glass is one of the most interesting
as we'll as one Of the most peculiar
things in the world. It has curious
and contradictory qualities, and many
astonishing phenomena are connected
with it. Brittle and breakable as it is,
yet it exceeds almost all other bodies
in elasticity.
If two glass balls are made to strike
each other at given force, the recoil,
by virtue of their elasticity, will be
nearly equal to their original impetus
Connected with its brittleness are some
very singular facts.
Take hollow sphere with a hole
and stop the hole with the finger, so
as to prevent the external and internal
air from communicating, and the
sphere will fly to pieces by the mere
heat Of the hand. Vessels made Of
glass that have been suddenly cooled
possess the curious property Of being
able to resist hard blows given to
them from without, but will be instant
~ shivered by small particle Of flint
dropped into their cavities. This
property seems to depend upon the
comparative thickness Of the bottom;
the thicker the bottom is the more Ger
tainty of breakage by this experiment.
Some Of these vessels, it Is stated, have
resisted the stroke Of mallet given
with sufficient force to drive nail
into wood, and heavy bodies. such as
musket balls, pieces Of iron, bits of
wood, Jasper, stone, ETC., have been
cast into them from height Of two
or three feet without any effect, yet a
fragment Of flint not larger than pea
dropped from height Of three inches
has made them fly.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-03-06
How to Remain Young.

10 continue young IN health and
strength, do as Mrs. N. F. Rowan, Nc.
Donough, Ga, did. She says: ..Three
bottles OF Electric Bltters cured me of
chronic liver and stomach trouble.
complicated with such an unhealthy con
dltlon OF the blood that my skin turned
red as flannel. | am now practically 90
years younger than before | took Elec-
tric Bitters. I can now do all my work
with ease and assist in my husbands
store" Guaranteed at Q. N. Olson, Drug
Store. Price SOC. 2