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THE HOME NEWS
Published every Friday at McCrory, Ark.
WALTER W. RANEY, Ed. and Pub.
Subscription $1.00 per Year ii Advance.
Entered as second-class mat
ter August 26, 1915, at the post
office at McCrory, Ark., unde:
the Act of March 3, 1879.
Friday, April 13, 1917.
Foolish Idea That Life Is Made Real
and Full When Century Mark
Is Reached.
There is a certain fascination
about living a century (a fascination
that easily leads to falsification),
fhe glory of the achievement sheds
luster on the remotest connections,
so that there is always someone to
boast of the feat, and it is one of the
few ways in which any old person
who can last out may bring fame to
posterity, Charles Henry Lerrigo,
D., writes in the Outlook.
_ - ...
11 s mucn at sne died,
^oc> ’ sobbed one old man at his
mother’s bedside. ‘‘She was old an’
didn t know nothin’ no more, an’
she had to go some time. But jes’ to
think five weeks more would ha’
made her a hundred! Clos’t as that,
an then to have all them years o’
care go for nothin’!”
Absurd, of course! As a matter
0 there is no special reason for
setting up the century post as a
goal. As Prof. Irving Fisher has
Pointed out in his famous “Report
011 National \ itality,” the most im
Poitant dimension of life is not
ength but breadth. There is little
bam in the burdensome dragging of
a de that is already spent.
OLD MAN RECOGNIZED BREED
Certainly Youngster Showed Himself
Skilled in One of the Attri
butes of a Sailor.
Jack, the gallant member of the
“king’s navee,” had returned home,
and was regaling his family with
tales of the North sea.
“Ah, I tell yer, we ’ad some awfu!
rough nights out there! Nights 1
thought I’d never live through!”
“Bah!” cried his father, an old
merchant seaman. “You an’ yer
rough nights! Why, the North sea’s
like a lake compared to bits o’ the
Pacific I been in! You young fel
lers are too mollycoddled in the mod
ern navy. Why, once I was in a
typhoon in the South seas, and it
blew so ’ard that the cap’ll gave or
ders to cut away the mast, and when
the carpenter came on deck the gale
blew the teeth clean out of his saw.”
“Grr! That’s nothing!” snorted
Jack, contemptuously. “Why, Beat
ty’s squadron the other day caught
a gale, and it happened to catch
their guns end on, and it blew the
breeches orf ’em!”
“Jack,” said the old man, Jif take
back my sneering remarks aftei
that! I can see you’re a good sail
or—in every way!”—London An
swers.
FEATHERS ON HIS FACE.
A Johnson county father who
wears a mustache, asked his three
year-old daughter to kiss him, but.
to his surprise, she backed away. He
asked her why. She answered:
“ ’Cause you got feathers on your
face.”
A few days later when she was out
riding with her father and mother
she said that her face was cold. They
asked her if she wished to sit back
between them and she said: “I
reckon.” But instead of moving to
the aback of the seat she sat on the;
edge. Her father asked her to sit
back, but she was contrary. “Why,
Hazel,” said her father, “you said
you wanted to sit back there.”
“I never,” she retorted. “I said I
reckon.”—Indianapolis News.
THAT’S TRUE
“Our life has its advantages.”
“It certainly has; we never have
to worry about having any of these
‘occupational diseases/ ”
HIGHER PRICE FOR RABBITS.
When the native Australian or the
longtime resident hears the cry,
“Rabbo, wild rabbo! Rabbo!” he
knows that he can get a cheap din
ner that will also taste good, for the
rabbit huckster is going by. But
rabbits are now not nearly so cheap
as they were before the war. The
demand for meat of any kind has
raised the price. The supply, how
ever is almost inexhaustible, and
since refrigeration and canning have
been undertaken on a large scale,
rabbit flesh, has become an important
item in the food supply of the world.
One Australian firm last year
canned 385,636 rabbits, and mil
lions go to England and other coun
tries in cold storage.—Youth’s Com
panion.
MUSIC.
Diana (out of step)—Isn’t the
time of this music awful ?
Apollo (archly)—Have you ever
heard the beat of it ?—Harvard Lam
poon.
House for rent. See C. P.
Best. Adv.3-30tf
Porch swings at E. L. Hamil
ton’s. 4-6 tf Adv
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
J. H. WEST
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Calls answered promptly
day or night.
Grays, Arkansas
DR. R. L. FRASER,
IS READY TO ANSWER
CALLS, DAY OR NIGHT.
Phone Number 2,
McCrory, .*. . \ Arkansas
L. B. WINFREE, J. P.
CONVEYANCES
I
G. W. BARBER
NOTARY PUBLIC
AND INSURANCE
Election Tomorrow
Every voter should go to the
polls tomorrow, Saturday, and
cast his vote for delegates to
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the constitutional convention.
Judge W. -T. Trice of Cotton
Plant and Hon. E. M. Carl-Lee
of Augusta are candidates from
this county and Judge A. L.
Hutchins of Woodruff county,
Judge W. J. Driver of Mississip
pi county, Hon. J. T. Robertson
of Lee county and Atty. R. E. L.
Johnson and Hon. W. W. Bandy
of Green county are candidates
from this the first Congressional
District. One delegate is to be
elected from this county and two
from this district.
Quincy starks and Burton Cun
ningham, two young colored
boys of this city have enlisted as
volunteers in the U. S. Army.
Inauguration
Of
Cafe-Parlor-Observation Car Service
On
Missouri & North Arkansas R. R.
Effective April 15, 1917, the Missouri and North Ark
ansas Railroad will operate Cafe - Parlor - Observation Car
Service on trains Nos. 1 and 2 between Helena, Arkansas and
Joplin, Missouri, and serving all intermediate points. Try
this comfortable service on your first trip. Revolving uphol
stered chairs in observation section; Electric fans; Smoking
compartment; everything convenient; lunches served in Cafe
Department.
This gives excellent service to the famous Arkansas
resorts, Eureka Springs, Heber Springs, and Armstrong
Springs, which you are figuring on visiting this year.' Large
crowds are anticipated.
Connections are as follows: Leave McCrory 12: 28 a.
m. arrive Kensettl:32 a. m., Heber Springs 12:48 p. m., Eu
reka Springs 8:25 p. m. For information address:
J. C. Murray,
Gen’l Pass’r Ag’t, M. & N. A. R. R.
Harrison, Arkansas