THE BEST
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VOL. I.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1901.
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NO. 24.
VERY COOLING.
Editor News: Elder Rice, in
his report of the meeting that he
recently held in DeView, as pub
lished in his paper—The Gospel
Missionery (so called) says: “The
publisher of the Missionery re
cently closed a meeting at De
View Ark., after a siege of a lit
tle over two weeks. No visible
results excepting that four men,
all heads of families, were re
stored to fellowship by manly
acknowledgements, and two took
membership. The brethren at
DeView have under way the only
house of worship in Woodruff
county where the gospel is
preached in its ancient simplicity
and purity. The various sects
have houses, but so for as I
learned they are making poor
headway in their unscriptural
work. About all the sects can
do is to confuse the minds of the)
people and keep them from
knowing and obeying the truth,
etc.”
Nowr, Mr. Editor, for cool,
brazen, and Pharisaical egotism,
I have never seen the equal of
the above. From all such, good
Lord deliver me. Think o it.
A little sect which withdrew
from the Baptist church under
the leadership of Mr. Alexander
Campbell in 1827; which was
never heard of in all the history
of the world before that time,
assuming itself to be the only:
church of Christ on earth and
charging that the Methodist,
Baptist, Presbyterian and all
other denominations, are only
sects confusing the minds of the
people and keeping them from
knowing and obeying the truth.
Let us see, the Campbellites have
only one house of worship in
Woodruff county. Elder Rice
held a meeting in that for over
two weeks with no visible results,
excepting that four men were re
stored.
I speak now for the Methodist
alone. We have twelve church
houses in the county, and nearly
one thousand members. At our
meeting at DeView* of nine days’
duration, which closed cm the eve
of the commencement of Elder
Rice’s meeting we had twrenty
professions of faith in Christ and
sixteen additions to the church,
fifteen by baptism and a great
many lukewarm and backslidden
members restored to the divine
favor. Now I ask w*hy this dif
ference betw'een the success of
our meeting and Elder Rice’s? I
think I have the answer. In our
meeting we had our k ibles and
hymn books and we made our at
tacks on sin and the devil instead
of waring on other denomina
tions and w*e depended on the
Holy Spirit to help us to preach
Christ and him crucified and to
make the gospel wrhich we
preached the power of God unto
salvation to every one that be
lieveth, hence, our success.
Elder Rice began his meeting
by raising a war on the sects
and instead of bringing or calling
to his aid the Holy Spirit to give
power to what he believed to be
the truth, he brought his charts
and blackboards to prove his
dogma’s of baptismal remission
of sins and his sect as the only
church of Christ on earth, hence
his signal failure.
Our Savior’s test of a true
church or a true Christian is
fruit. By their fruits ye shall
know them. Matt., 7-20.
S. L. Cochkan.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT
CIRCUIT COURT.
The long looked for, and much
talked of, and gladly welcomed
circuit court of the southern dis
trict of Woodruff county convened
Monday, September 2nd with
large attendance, says the Cot
ton Plant Arkansian. The first
business attended to was the ad
mitting of three aspirants to the
bar, L. R. Settle, R. T. Jordan
and John R.* Meehan, after
which the following docket was
disposed of:
State vs Amos Horton, guilty,
fined $1.
State vs Primers Trice, dis
missed.
State vs Allie Shelton, gaming,
fined '.$10.
Stale vs E. L. Koch, gaining,
fined $10.
State vs Thomas White, gaming
dismissed.
State vs L. Spears, gaming,
fined $10.
State vs T. W. Farrar, gaining
fined $10.
State vs T. W. Farrar, gaming,
fined $10.
State vs T. W. Farrar, gaming,
nol pros.
State vs T. W. Farrar, gaming,
nol pros.
CIVIL DOCKET.
W. T. Day vs Henry Clay et al,
judgment for plaintiff $160.00.
J. B. Kittrell and B. A. Trice
vs Mrs. Lillie Spivy, verdict for
defendant.
Love Banks & Co. vs Wiville
Gin & Milling Co., judgment for
plaintiff by default for $216.40.
Robinson, Jeffries. Ayer Land
& Tie Co., vs T. Nordman, con
tinued by consent.
James T. Brice vs T. D. Patton,
verdict for defendant.
A. C. Carter & Son vs A. M.
Shelton, judgment for plaintiff.
The grand jury examined 51
witnesses and returned 24 in
dictments.
PULL OF BACTERIA.
Dr. George Newman, demon
strator of bacteriology at King’s
If you are in need of anything in the General Mer
chandise line, YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY BUYING
NOW. To make nxmi for my fall stock, I will sell at a
VERY TjOW FIGURE all my Summer Stock, Prints at
cost. I have a complete line of Drugs, Stationery, Cut
lery, and Undertaking Supplies. Yours for business,
A. S.THOMPSON, DeView.
College, London, has made a
discovery. According to him,
there is scarcely a cubic inch of
soil which is not infested with
bacteria of some kind. Some of
these germs, however, are neces
sary to health.
Dr. Newman claims that ordi
nary earth may contain any
where from 10,000 to 5,000,000
germs per gram; and, wherg the
soil is poluted bacteria may be
present to the extent of 100,000,
000 micro-organisms per gram.
Vegetables, which have hither
to been pronounced as being the
most healthful of foods are now
claimed to be full of harmful
bacteria. Among the most dan
gerous germs found on vegeta
bles are the bacilli of tetanus, or
lockjaw. This tetanous is now
generally admitted to come from
dust and dirt rather than from
injury by a blunt, rusty instru
ment as it was supposed. The
hands and feet are more open to
the accumulation of dust and
dirt than any other portion of
the body. The tetanous baccil
lous readily finds a culture me
dium in these wounds, and the
germs develop with remarkable
rapidity.
I he analyses ol various vegeta
ble substances prove that teta
nus germs are present in the
majority of cases. They are
found on potatoes, cabbages, let
tuce and beets. Cholera mi
crobes come next in the order of
prevalence. The germs of ma
lignant edema have oeen found
in radishes, lettuce and celery,
and cabbages have been shown
to contain a large number of ty
phoid baccilli. In some cases
vigorous tubercle baccilli (con
sumption germs) were found on
the leaves of green lettuce, and
even in celery. While cooking
destroys a large quantity of the
germs, there are many vegetables
which are eaten raw and which
contain endless thousands of dis
ease-breeding microbes. Toma
toes, lettuce, cabbages, celery,
radishes, cucumbers and other
vegetables are often eaten with
out cooking or being subjected to
sufficient heat to kill the bacteria
they contain.
ABOUT THE THUNDER.
The contention of certain news
papers that Governor Davis is
trying to produce thunder for a
subsequent campaign in his ef
forts to correct what he charac
terizes as abuse in the convict
system, is the veriest rot, and
happily is not obtaining currency
with the people. The very jour
nals giving expression to such
views cannot help but see the
ludicrousness of their views if
they will but hesitate long enough
to reflect that Governor Davis
carried 74-75ths of the state in
the last campaign and has grown
in strength since, and conse
quently does not need any thun
der. He is only trying to carry
out his pledges to the people,
made in good faith in the last
campaign, and these journals
should blush for shame that
their columns are not used to
support any effort he may mahfe
in that direction. It would cer
tainly be more agreeable from a
personal stand-point for the Gov
ernor to sit quietly by in all in
stances and let all conditions re
main as he found them, be they
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good, bad or indifferent, and
those who would condemn him
because he brings about unpleas
ant things in what he conceives
to be the discharge of public
duty, are but poorly fitted for
moulders of public opinion. The
Governor may commit errors in
trying to do what he thinks is
right, since no man is infallible,
but those who are interested in
good government will try to aid
and guide him by their wisdom
and council, regardless of parti
san feeling, if they give the best
service of their talents to their
country; and not blindly con
demn an action or a method re
gardless of the merits or de
merits of the case, which they
have in the meantime given no
attention.—Dardanelle Post-Dis
patch.
NOT UNLAWFUL.
A lively lawsuit took place in
Green county last week in which
three boys were charged with
stealing watermelons. The trial
was largely attended by the
people in that neighborhood, and,
although the proof was conclu
sive against the boys as might
be expected the lads came clear.
The ’Squire said that the proof
showed that the boys were in the
melon patch, and that the melons
disappeared but claimed that the
proof of the boys getting the
melons was only circumstantial.
Two defenses were plead for the
boys; first that they did not steal
the melons, and second if they
did the melons were green and
of no value, and hence could not
be the object of larceny. Water
melons no doubt come under the
“free-for-all” list, and are not
subject to the actions of our law.
A MIND KEADEIi.
“He wor a great mon,” said
Patrick.
“Who wor?” asked Mrs. Mur
phy.
“Th’ mon I met tonight. Oi
wor in Casey’s when he said to
me:
“ ‘Oi’ll bet yes th’ driuks an’ a
dollar thot I can guess your name
in three guesses.’
“ ‘Done, ’ sez Oi.
“He done ut, an’ we both
signed.
“‘Me tir-rst guess is Jones,’
sez he.
“ ‘Wrong, sez Oi.
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“ ‘Me second guess is Gold
stein. ’ sez he.
“ ‘Tis not,’ sez Oi.
“ ‘Oi have one moi-e guess
cornin’, ’ sez he.
“ ‘Yes have, ’ sez Oi.
“‘Me last guess is Murphy,’
sez he.
“ ‘Bedad, you’re roight?’sezOi.
“Oi wonder how he told?” said
Mrs. Murphy.
“He wor a great mind reader.
He told me so himself. Ut wor
worth th’ money!”—Detroit
Free Press.
If Hugh Shearer and some of
the other .yellow-hammer or
woodpecker hunters would try
the following plan as used by an
employe of the Union Stock
yards of St. Louis they would
no doubt have success. In speak
ing of his method the man says:
j “I have a patent that brings me
j all the yellowr-hammers and
woodpeckers I desire, and costs
nothing for gun, powder or shot.
This patent is simply a long pole,
run up through a wild cherry
tree, extending about four feet
above the top branches. You are
j no doubt aware that a woodpeck
lerora yellow-hammer will al
ways light with their breast
i against a dead limb before they
! attack the fruit. Its work is easy.
After the pole is put in place, I
: stand with a mallet in hand at
the foot of the pole, a boy is sta
j tioned some distance from the
I tree, and informs me when a
bird lights on top. A sharp jar
| with the mallet brings down the
bird almost stunned to death,
;andl then ring off his head.
Hundreds of birds can be taken
! in this way, and your larder kept
j well supplied with fat, juicy
I birds.”
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Water Cure for Chronic Constipation
Take two cups of hot water
j half an hour before each meal
and just before going tut bed, also
a drink of water, hot or cold,
about two hours after each meal.
| Take lots of out door exercise—
walk, ride, drive. Make a regu
lar habit of this and in many
cases chronic constipation may
; be cured without the use of any
| medicine. When a purgative is
required take something mild
I and gentle like Chamberlain’s
; Stomach and Liver Tablets. For
: sale by Dr. ,T. B. Neal of McCro
ryandA.S. Thompson of De
View.
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