Good Things
To Eat
III
Are to be found at our
store. We are here for bus
iness, and if you will give us
your trade you can live cheap
and well.
Our stock has been enlarg
ed and will be added to as
the demands justify. Good
Goods, Lowest Prices, Prom
pt Service and Courteous
Treatment are all we can
promise. Price our goods
and we will prove all that
we claim.
a y m o n d ’
Grocery.
WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISH BD THURSDAY OP EACH WKKK AT
McCRORY. ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at McCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mail.matter.
June 11th, 1902.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
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DEHOCRATIC TICKET.
COUNTY
Representative—
E. M. CARL-LEE.
Judge—
J. F. SUMMERS.
Sheriff—
W. R. CAIN.
Circuit Clerk—
Wm. MOORMAN.
County Clerk—
”ed b. carl-lee.
Treasurer—
C. L. JACKSON.
Assessor—
W. B. FAKES.
OUR NEW SUBSCRIBERS.
Below is a list of those who
paid us in advance for the News
since our last issue.
Miss Jennie Thompson, Mc
Crory, Ark. Mrs. J. T. O’Fallon,
Wynne, Ark.
In a small city like this the vice
of rash judgement is altogether too
common. Where people know
nearly all their fellow citizens
there are some who are so un
gracious and so un-Christian as to
attribute an evil motive when the
actions are prompted by the best
of motives, and they are rather
disposed to relish a tumor th,at re
flects against a neighbor. Every
body commits indiscretions, either
wilfully or through ignorance or
weakness; but harsh criticism and
rash judgements do not help the
offender, but shove him down.
away by gome of our young men
aud women iu their desire for fun
and diversion.
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Every little country village has
an ambition to become a trade cen
ter and a boom city, with no
special natural features or geo
graphical advantages. Under such
conditions what is most needed is
some enterprise on the phrt of its
local capitalists. They must make
the first advance in the uncertain
field of developement. They must
capitalize small factories and see
that they are kept employed.
When the local business is finally
developed and proves to the world
that they are successful, then out
side enterprises will be sure to
step in and enjoy your prosperity
with you. Just like a fellow who
finds a favorite fishing hole and
catches fish, and all the other fish
ermen who see that he is catching
will drop their hooks right by the
side of the lucky fisherman. The
business men of any town should
8top talking and hoping for others
to do something for the town.
They should get together them
selves and prove to the. world that
they have a money making town.
No outsider will want to fish in
our swimming pond until we prove
that they can catch fish.
WANTS COLOR IN RELIGION
Writer in The Independent Plead* for
the Commingling of Splendor
and Sanctity.
Far be it from us to disparagf
color and show. We believe in the
simple life, but net too simple. We
want sauees with our meat, sirup
with our buckwheat cakes, laces on
our gowns and frills on our rhetoric.
They are for ornament, not for use,
and we all like ornament. Cardinal
Logue feels no more spiritual for hij
scarlet, but he knows that it im
presses others, if it does not impress
him. We are not wholly spiritual,
not all of us, and the splendor of
chromatics is meant legitimately to
.affect with admiration and respect
the less spiritual, or, perhaps, the
less intellectual among us, and it has
a great influence. We find it very
difficult to live up—or down—to the
utter bare simplicity of Galilee. By
nature we are more priest than
prophet. The gospels do not tell us
the color of the seamless robe divided
between the soldiers. We think it
was blue, and that it was not em
broidered. We are not as artless as
were the disciples who followed Je
sus. We know more; we have more
taste. Some long ago contrasted the
golden priests and wooden chalices
and wooden priests of his own time;
can we not now have both of gold?
Can we not claim both splendor and
sanctity? So let Paul’s cloak, left
at Troas, be all broidered over with
gold and send it to him, but don’t
forget the parchments.—The Inde
pendent.
THE FIRST AMERICAN GLASS.
The first American glass factory
■was erected in the town of Temple,
N. H. Washington, in his diary,
speaks of glass being made in New
Haven, Conn., in the year 1789. One
would suppose by the language he
uses that he considers it a new and
quite extraordinary affair. It was
nine years previous to this, and dur
ing the very war whose issue first
enabled the country to commence its
own manufacturing, that Robert
Hewes of Boston began to carry out
the project which he had long con
ceived, but had hitherto found im
practicable, if not impossible, under
English rule—that of making glass
in America for America.—Crockery
and Glass Journal.
SNAKE OPAL LUCKY.
A “snake opal” must be an inval
uable possession. It is the “lucky
atone” of the Mojave Indians, who
say it frightens away bad luck. The
stone is not beautiful, but might ap?
peal to those who like “gems” that
are “different.” It is said that the
Indians never allow these stones to
leave the tribe if they can help it,
and will not part with one for any
consideration. Tradition has made
the stone one of good omen, but that
counts for little, as tradition is gen
erally hooted at in the present day,
and wherever it raises its head other
stones than snake opals are shied
at it. Perhaps some superstitious
bridge player, however, will try to
get hold of a snake opal and try its
efficacy.
SUCH IS HABIT.
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Drowning Lady (to Bhop assistant
on the bank)—Help, I'm drowning!
Throw me a life belt.
Affable Shop Assistant—Certainly,
madam; what size do you take?
NO WIFE FOR THE POOR MAN.
The girl who doesn’t take care
of her clothes is no wife for the poor
man; she needs some one who can
give her an unlimited dress allow
ance and a maid to look after her.
There is another point. If it is
too much trouble to take care of her
clothes before, it will be too much
trouble to take care of her house
keeping stores after marriage, with
the result that a large part of them
will be wasted.
PARADOXICAL TYPE8.
“Funny, isn’t it, that all poets
and romancers make the typical
milkmaid rosy-cheeked.”
“Why shouldn’t, she be?”
“Because the nature of her occu
pation makes her a pail girl.”
ARE ALi OF ROYAL LINEAGE
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Thousands of Residents of the British
Isles May Properly Lay
Claim to Throne.
It is said that in the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland,
there are living to-day no less than
12,000 persons of royal lineage, of
whom 2,000 or 3,000 have by right
of descent better title to the throne
than has King Edward.
Unfortunately for them, however,
and for the 2,000 or 3,000 others
living abroad, they are barred from
putting in a claim by the act of
settlement of 1701, which fixed the
succession on the descendants of So
phia of Hanover, granddaughter of
James I.
One genealogist has carefully
traced all the descendants of Edward
IV., Henry VII. of England, and
James III. of Scotland, down to
kings, nobles and commoners of to
day. This authority finds almost
every Christian monarch of Europe
among them, many of the European
nobility and a great host of Smiths,
Browns and Joneses. The pedigree
of every one of them is presented,
and each is placed in the order in
which he would by right of birth re
ceive the crown.
The name of Princess Louise of
Bavaria stands first among them,
but even the duke of Devonshire,
who is numbered 3,653, is ahead of
King Edward. He i3 a descendant
of Her-}’ VII. in the sixteenth gen
eration, through Mary Tudor.
As there are nearly 12,000 per
sons altogether listed by the author
ity quoted, and as each one of them
is shown to be descended from a
king, the author should have little
difficulty in selling at least 12,000
copies without even calling on the
“friends of candidates.”
WIT WON THE DAY.
A prosperous saloon keeper down
town tells with great enjoyment of
his struggle to get naturalization
papers after his arrival in this city
from Ireland. He had studied up,
on the suggestion of a relative who
had preceded him in gaining citizen
ship, and when the judge asked him
who would succeed the president in
the event of the death of the chief
executive he promptly answered:
“The vice-president, sir.” Then the
judge asked: “In case of the demise
at the same time of both president
and vice-president, upon whom
would fall the duties of office?”
This was further than the applicant
had delved and he shook his head.
Thinking his language had not been
understood, the judge impatiently
asked: “Who would get the job?”
With a broad grin the Irishman
promptly answered: “Who else but
the undertaker, sir?” Even the
judge had to smile as he said, curt
ly: “Application granted.”—Phila
delphia Hecord.
PRECAUTION.
A lady took her four-year-old son
to the family dentist. He found a
small cavity, so the operation be
gan. The burr had no sooner touched
the tooth than the child began to
scream. At the end of 15 minutes
the mother was deathly pale, while
the dentist wiped great beads of
perspiration from his brow. Tom,
however, fairly swaggered across the
room. “That didn’t hurt,” he boast
ed, with a broad smile. “Then why
did you scream so?” cried the ex
asperated mother. “Because I was
afraid it was going to,” explained
T om.—Lippincott’s.
NOT AN ASSET.
“So you are going to have a coat
of arms in your family?”
“Yes,” answered the great manu
facturer. “It’s no good as a trade
mark for anything I am selling, and
they wouldn’t let me use it if it
was.”
PHILOSOPHY OF PESSIMI8M.
Scott—An optimist is a man who
doesn’t cry over spilled milk.
Mott — The pessimist doesn’t
either; he feels that the spilled milk
was more than half water, anyway.
POP HAD FELT IT.
Young Music Student—Father,
the teacher says that in time I will
acquire a fine touch.
Parent—Huh, tell him for me
that you’ve already got it.
NOT QUITE.
Sir Toby—And did you draw your
sword and run him through?
Sir John—Well-er-almost. I did
all hut tin* last two words, forsooth.
—Kansas City Times.
These days we sit on the sunny
side of the car, walk on the sunny
side of the street and sit in the
sunny window of the house. Let
us also walk on the sunny side of
of life and see the sunny side of
disjointed things of life.
The roads to greatness are still
open. The avenues to human
preferment have never closed; no
obstruction is there today that has
not always existed. But not all
those who seem to reach the sum
mit may be considered truly great.
All greatness that lacks the ele
ment of greatness must be false.
The man who rides oyer the just
rights of .others in order to secure
his own advancement, is lacking
in all that constitutes true great
ness. Wisdom, zeal, courage,
perseverance, and knowledge, are
some of the traits of character
that push one to the front. But
above all things it takes industry
to make advancement. We must
begin young. Time must not be
wasted $ it is too precious to those
who expect to succeed. Idleness
must not be tolerated. The men
who reach notoriety are busy men.
SWASTIKA.
Mrs. Will Dilliard was hostess
to the Swastika Club, Wednesday
June 10th. As this was the last
meeting of the season, quite a
lengthy program was arranged,
but owing to sickness, and absense
from town, of some of the mem
bers, there were only a few num
bers given. Mrs. George Barber
gave a beautiful reading from
“Under Two Flags,” Ouida. The
sentiments of this reading were
beautiful, and Mrs. Barber deliver
ed it in a manner that held the au
dience spell bound. Mrs. Dilliard
gave q piano solo that was highly
enjoyed. Mrs. Sibly and Mrs. L.
J. Dilliard were the Club guests.
A rare treat that was highly ap
preciated, was the impromptu
piano numbers by Mrs. Sibly. Her
soft and gentle touch is character
istic of her lovable disposition, and
the music went straight to the
hearts of her listeners.
It was decided that the Club
have a fishfry, July 4th. As this
was the last meeting of the Club
year, each member drew out a
book. The Club will get a new
lot of books in the fall.
After all business was finished,
delicious refreshments were served.
The reception hall was beautp
fully decorated in the Club colors,
white and green, with the Club
emblem, the Swastika, suspended
in the centre.
The Club will not have another
regular meeting until October.
WHAT WE ARE OR ARE NOT.
The longer we live, the more we
learn, and the more we learn, the
less we think we know. Such is
the inconsistency of man’s ideas".
The less one knows the greater his
opinion of his abilities and wis
dom. In the morning of life a
conceited man prides himself on
his greatness, and wonders to
what grand channell he will con
fine his talents. He looks upon
his school district as the great
genius in whose keeping the
world’s nature rests. He im
agines that when he speaks, na
tions tremble, mountains totter and
sea becomes silent.
He imagines that a gaping and
wondering populace are gazing on
him with open-mouthed wonder
and iron-clad astonishment, and
that he holds the world in the hoL
low of his hand with a grasp that
is perpetual.
But as days, and months, and
years pass in rapid succession, the
young man finds out that he is
possibly mistaken and if he would
wander away and get lost some
one or more of all the people on
the earth would not miss him. By
and by he begins to realize that he
is only one of the many millions
of people, and instead of standing
forth as the center of attraction,
he only fills a small niche of some
obscure corner, and really attracts
but little attention. The ignorant
man who realizes his ignorance
and who does not seek to pass him
self off for more than he is worth,
is pardonable, but the self-conceit
ed man who tries to pass him self off
off at a premium, is to be pitied.
The best way is to hold one^ self-.
esteem down and not rate himself
too high. The man who climbs
the highest has the fartherest to
fall.
It is more pleasant to be invited
to take a higher seat than to be de
prived of it. It is more pleasant
to be king of a cottage than ser
vant of a palace. It is better to be
a good five cent piece than a bogus
quarter; in other words, it is bet
better to hold ourselves at what
we are honestly worth. The
world is full of people who never
learn anything because they think
they know enough to begin with.
Thousands are teaching when they
ought to be taught; thousands be^
lieve themselves wise when their
ignorance is lamentable; thousands
believe themselves clothed in gold
when they are ouly thinly plated
and the copper shows through in
many places. The wisest are com
paratively ignorant and thousands
of men who have grand ideas of
their own abili ties will some day
wake up to the realization that
they have been laboring under a
large sized delusion. Many a
young man’s life is gilded by
bright dreams that come in the
early stage of the game, but later
on he finds that these dreams are
only empty, and O, how little is
the change when it comes.
C. L. ADAHSON,
Jeweler, Optlcan and Engraver.
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry
Silverware, Etc. Etc.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
TWELVE MONTHS.
REPAIR WORK A SPECIALTY.
AUGUSTA. ARKANSAS,
McCrory
Hotel.
FIRSTCLASS ROOMS
And GOOD FARE.
Your Patronage Re
spectfully Solicited.
MRS. JOHN C. VEAZEY, Prop.
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It is not generally known, but
never-the-less a fact, that there are
people still living who can remem
ber the time when tomatoes were
raised merely for their beauty as
we now raise roses. While its
beauty was admired it was consid
ered like the poisonous oak,
dangerous to even handle except
by “dark complected” persons.
Years of acquaintanceship, how
ever, wore off superstition and a
few “fool-hardy” actually owned
up to having tasted the fruit.
From this small beginning has
gradually grown s use that makes
today an industry with a com
bined capital of over thirty mil
lions of dollars, which disburses
millions of dollars to its employes
each year and aggregates an out
put of two hundred and forty mil
lian cans.
One hour a day withdrawn from
frivolous pursuits, and profitably
employed, would enable any man
of ordinary capacity to master a
complete science. One hour a day
would m^ke an ignorant man a well
informed man in ten years. One
hour a day would earn enough to
pay for two daily and two weekly
papers, two leading magazines and
a dozen good books. In an hour
a day a boy or girl could read
twenty pages thoughtfully—over
seven thousand pages or eighteen
large volumes in a year. An hour
a day might make all the differ
ence between bare existence and
'useful, happy living. An honr a
day might make—nay, has made
an unknown man a famous one, a
benefactor to his race. Consider,
then, the mighty possibilities of
two, four, yes, six hours a day
that are, on the average, thrown
MAKES OLD THINGS NEW
C'lSifl Utnttf instantly restores
the brilliant newness and finish of
Pianos, Furniture, Picture Frames
interior Woodwork, Hardwood
Floors, and all polished, varnished
cr enameled surfaces.
It renews and redresses every
thing it touches. Revarnishing is
unnecessary, Localises scratches,
stains and dirt instantly disap
pear, leaving a smooth, brilliant
surface.
liquid Utn«ef is not a varnish, but
a surface food that is absorbed by
the old finish, instantly restoring
the latter to its original bright
ness. Easy to use—only a piece
of cheese cloth is necessary. Dries
instantly.
One delighted customer writes
that it is worth $100 per bottle.
The price is only 50 cents.
t levs trlel bottles at IOc. each
Sold by
KAN. CITY HEAT HARKET
Choice, fresh Meats, Fish, Vegeta
bles, Dairy and Poultry Products, and
Country Produce.—A Variety of Good
Things to Eat is What We Endeavor to
Offer the Trade at AH Times.
HOHER VEAZEY
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