THE BE5T
COUNTY
IN THE STATE
VOL. I.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1901
NO. 33
OllR LOSS WILL BE
YOUR GAIN”
We beg to announce to our CUSTOMERS and FRIENDS
and the PUBLIC generally, owing to the recent epidemic
in our town, the greater part of our trade was scared away
LEAVJNG US OVERSTOCKED in every department. Our
STOCK must be reduced. With that end in view, we wili
make very low prices on ail OUR FALL and WINTER
STOCK of General Merchandise.
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Hailey & Atkinson.
McCRORY, Arkansas.
A TRIP DISCRIBED.
The following is an excellent
discretion of a trip up the Ten
nessee river asdiscribed by Prof.
J. W. Wilder in a letter written
to his uncle and aunt.
“Florence, Ala., is on the Ten
nessee river and boats go past
here every day. One tine morn
ing several weeks ago, I went
down to the landing and got on
b >ard the Lucile, an excursion
boat headed up the river. When
we got to the L&N bridge, it turn
ed on a central pillar to let us
pass. On we went to the famous
muscle shoals. The river was
high and swift and sometimes it
seemed that we made no progress
at all. But finally we reached the
first lock through which we
reached the canal. We floated
into a place which looked very
much like a large box with high
walls. Heavy iron gates closed
behind us. Then the water was
let to run in from the canal and
we were raised up about 12 feet
to where we could float out into
the canal; the nezt lock raised
the same way. When we had
passed 9 locks we had been ele
vated 75 feet and were over the
shoals. It was a merry party,
amused by such things, as a pic
nic dinner, melons, and music as
well as natural .scenery.”
We are glad to notice that our
friend has been elected president
of the Lafayette Liteaary Society
an honor of which anyone could
be proud.
THE EFFECT OF BOOKS UPON
CHARACTER
Perhaps there is no one thing
which enters more deeply into
the warp and woof of one’s char
acter, than the books one reads.
One of the greatest blessings
that can come to a young life is
the love of good books. The prac
tice of keeping before the young,
growing mind, beautiful and up
| lifting images, bright, cheerful,
healthy thoughts from good
books, is of inestimable value.
The difference between the fu
ture of the boy who has formed
the habit of good reading, and
the one who has not, is as great
as that between the educated and
uneducated youth, between the
boy who is reared in a poverty
stricken district and the one who
is brought up in a comfortable
home, amid pleasant surround
ings.
Next to the actual society of a
noble, high-minded author, is the
benefit to be gained by reading
his books. The mind is brought
into harmony with the hopes,
the asperations, the ideals of the
writer, so that it is impossible,
afterwards, to be satisfied with
low or ignoble things. The hori
zon of the reader broadens, his
point of view changes, his ideals
are higher and nobler, his whole
outlook on life is more elevated.
The importance of having great
models, high ideals, held con
stantly before the mind who it is
in a plastic condition, cannot be
overestimated. The books we
read in youth may make or mar
our lives. Many a man has at
tributed his first start and all his
after suecessto the books read
in his boyhood. They opened up
to him his possibilities, indicated
his tastes, his tendencies, and
helped him to find his place in
life. They permit men and wom
en to form examples that are use
ful in carrying out high ideals,
and they bring pleasure and con
tentment to all.
BRAIN ENERGY.
The most important factor in
the existence of every person in
the workaday world is energy.
To be energetic is to be compe
tent, and competent is success.
Every man, woman, or child may
be likened to a steam engine,
that tireless creation of human
hands which performs such a
vast proportion of the world’s
work. Without the energy that
is supplied by the application of
heat to the complex machinery,
the engine would be worse than
useless. Energy quickens every
dormant possibility of its mech
anism; and, properly applied, it
gets the very best that is to be
obtained out of the otherwise
useless mass of bulk and weight.
It is an excellent practice for
young men to visit power houses
and factories where great en
gines are at work, and to observe,
with stupendous care, the evo
lution and involution of the vast
amount of energy that is direct
ed, by its tireless efforts,
throughout the building or
across distances of many miles.
Without the energy that is gener
ated in the power house, the cars
in the city streets would stop,
the lights along our public
thoroughfares would go out, and
the things which are now of infi
nite utility and value would be
come mere heaps of rubbish and
waste.
Young man, your brain is
your power house; your phy
sique is the engine it is intended
to energize; the goals and mile
posts of your dreams are the
street oars and lights which you
must keep in operation. Keep
your eyes on the throttle of the
engine. Peed the fire-box—the
stomach and the nerve centers—
with the best obtainable fuel; be
careful not to clog it with inferi
or substances. The engine will
run if it is kept clean and bright,
well oiled, and in good repair.
Even steam engines get tired.
They cannot be operated cease
lessly. There must be times of
recuperation even for that mass
of metal, and there is not an en
gine in operation, to-day, which
has not its hours of rest. The
human engine likewise demadds
them. — P. V. R. Dey.
A MAN WHO NEVER HAS A
MINUTE.
If there id anything that mal&s
one feel uncomfortable, it is at
tempting to stop in the street a
man who is invariably in a rush,
never has leisure, and always
gives you the impression that he
is late for a train. Every mus
cle or lineament of his face indi
cates haste; and, when you leave
him, he makes you feel like a
thief, for stealing his valuable
minutes. He holds his watch in
his hand: he edges away from
you, and tries to show you in ev
ery possible way the immense
value of his time. He seems to
think it is a sin to move at mod
erate speed.
The student who is never seen
on the playground, but grinds
and grinds away in his room,
when others are at their recrea
tion, is often outdistanced, in real
life, by the boy who learned to
study while he studied, and play
while he played; and he has occa
siou many times in life to envy
the boy with a strong, sturdy
physique, and robust health,
whom he reprimanded for wast
ing his time at school.
It is pitiable to see people on
the street cars, in our large cities,
who are impatient of a moment’s
time that they are keyed to con
cert pitch and ready to jump at
any minute. All seem in a hurry.
They do not take time to sit com
fortably, but are on the alert,
with every muscle on the strain,
and can’t even wait until the car
gets to its stopping place. They
get on and off the car while it is
in motion. There is no repose or
restful ease in their lives. Such
people have never learned the les
son that leisure is as useful to
humanity as activity.
People who are always in such
a hurry, fretting and fumiug be
cause they are wasting a moment,
are nearly always superficial.
They have no reserve in their
lives, no balance, and never carry
great weight. They are like the
waves on the top of the ocean
lashed into fury and foam by the
storm, compared with the silent
power and reserve of the depths
beneath, which no agitation ever
ruffles.
Strong characters are calm
and diliberate. They can hurry
in an emrgency, but they almost
invariably avoid emergencies by
forethought.—Success.
BUSINESS AS A SIDE LINE.
It would surprise you if a list
could be prepared showing the
number of clerks employed in the
government departments in this
city who make a good living on
side lines, said the head of a bu
reau of the treasury the other
day to Washington Times man.
Many of these people devote
hours of the time for which they
are paid by the government to
schemes of all kinds from which
they manage to derive a good in
come. As matters stand today
the tenure in office of a clerk is
much longer and safer than it
has ever been before, and while
all of them are getting good sal
aries they seem to have an idea
that the world owes them two
livings and they are getting them
in strange ways. Personally, I
am acquainted with clerks who
have established real estate and
rooming agencies, shoe stores,
bucket shops and chicken farms.
At least one of them has a flour
ishing loan business. Then the
clerks who are engaged in the
study of law and medicine' are
numerous. There are scores of
embryo lawyers in all the execu
tive departments and full-fledged
doctors by the dozen. Many of
these do a little business on the
side when it comes their way,
but few of them dare advertise
for it. Some years ago the “sun
down doctors” were very promi
nent in Waskington, but of late
they have been kept down. These
“sundown doctors” were govern
ment clerks who practiced medi
cine after office hours, and many
of them even left their desks
during the day to make profes
sional calls and to prescribe for
patients. This scheme has been
broken up, but there are many
others which have not. Many
attempts have been made to com
pel the clerks to do that for
which they are paid by the gov
ernment and nothing else, but
these have never resulted in any
thing.—Ex.
AMERICA’S GREATEST HUMORIST.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
clinched its right to its title as
the best of all Sunday papers,
when it annexed that unique
philosopher, “Mr. Dooley,”
otherwise Finlay P. Dunne, who
will hereafter deliver his funny
discourses through the Sunday
Post-Dispatch.
H. C. James of near DeView
was in town on business last
Tuesday.
George Merrill, one of the best
farmers and citizens of near
Wiville was in town last Tuesday.
Jumped on a Ten Penny Nall.
The litte daughter of Mr, J. N.
Powell jumped on an inverted
rake made of ten penny nails, and
thrust one nail entirely through
her foot and a second one half
way through. Chamberlain’s
Pain Balm was promptly applied
and five minutes later the pain
had disappeared and no more suf
fering was experienced. In three
days the child was wearing her
shoe as usual and with absolute
ly no discomfort. Mr. Powell is
a well known merchant of Fork
land, Va. Pain Balcr-is an anti
septic aud heals sueh: injuries
without maturation and in one
third the time required, by the
usual treatment. For ' sale by
Dr. J. B, Neal of McCrofy and
A. S. Thompson of DeView, Ark.
Bon Ton
Boarding
House.
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