Good Things
To Eat
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
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pt Service and Courteous
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promise. Price our goods
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WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
POBIJSHKD THCBSDAT OF FAOH WEEK AT
McCRORY, ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Ofllce at McCrory
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June 11th. 1002.
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COUNTY
Representative—
E. M. CARL-LEE.
Judge—
J. F. SUMMERS.
Sheriff—
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Circuit Clerk—
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County Clerk—
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Assessor—
W. B. FAKES.
Sour or sweet—That’s the ques
tion, and its not a mean one either,
for many of us had rather take a
dose of salts than walk with your
long-as-a-rail face. Your dyspep
tic brain, torpid conscience and
sour disposition make you any
thing but agreeable compauy. You
are called a Christian too. Well,
maybe you are, but the fact is not
believed by many on earth. Pos
sibly you may console yourself
with the thought that they know it
in heaven. I doubt it. Why go
through the world always in a fog?
You dishearten many, give others
the blues, and keep scores under
clouds of doubt and darkness. You
make out that the path of the just
is not “as a shining light,” that
the way is one of gloom, hard and
difficult. The way of the trans
gressor is hard, but surely not the
path of obedience in which you
claim to be walkiug. Swing
around, my brother, and get your
eye off of self “Rejoice evermore.”
Give up your sourness; quit look
ing like a graveyard. Take the
sunny side of the street. Laugh
once in a while. Get off your
stilts and walk with humble folks,
cheer up, tone up, wake up and
see if milk is not better than vin
egar, or in other words, if it is not
better to be sweet than sour.
A TOAST TO GENTLEMEN.
The following toast to gentle
men is handed in by a lady con
tributor :
Bless ’em ! They halve our joys,
tbe> double our sorrows, they treble
our expenses, they quadruple our
cares, they excite our magnanimi
ty, they increase our self-respect,1
waken our enthusiasm, arouse our
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affections, control our property,
and out maneuver us in everything.
This world is a dreary world
without them. In tact, I may say
without prospect of successful con
tradiction, that without them this
wouldn’t he much of a world any
how. We love them, and the
dear things can’t help it; we con
trol them, and the precious fellows
don’t know it. As husbands they
are convenient, though not always
on hand; as beaux they are by no
means “matchless.” They are
most agreeable as visitors, handy
at state fairs, and indispensable at
oyster saloons. They are splen
did as escorts for some other fel
low’s wife or sister, and as friends
they are better than women. As
our fathers they are inexpressibly
grand. A man may be a failure
in business, a wreck in constitu
tion, not enough to boast of as
beauty, nothing as a wit, less than
uothing as a legislator for
women’s rights, and not very bril
liant as a member o f the press,
but if our father, we overlook his
shortcomings and cover his pec
cadilloes with the divine mantle of
charity. Then, as our husbands,
how we love to parade them as
paragons! In the sublime langu
age of the poet:
We’ll lie for ’em,
We’ll cry for ’em
And if we could we’d fiy for ’em,
We’d anything but die for ’em
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THE COMFORT OF BEING A BOY.
There is comfort to be a boy in
the amount of work he can get rid
of doing. It is something aston
ishing how slow he can go on an
errand; perhaps, he couldn’t ex
plain to himself why, when he is
sent to the neighbor’s for yeast,
he stops to stone frogs. He is
not exactly cruel, but he wants to
see if he can’t hit ’em. It is a
curious fact about boys, that two
will be a great deal slower about
doing anything than one. Boys
have a power of helping each
other do nothing. But say what
you will, about the general useful
i ness of boys, a farm without a boy
; would soou come to grief. He is
! always in deinaud, In the first
1 place he is to do all the errands,
go to the store, postoffiee, and
carry all sorts of messages. He
would like to have as many legs as
a wheel has spokes, and rotate in
the same way. This he sometimes
tries to do, and people who have
seen him “turning cart wheels”
along the side of the road have
supposed he was amusing himself
and biding his time. He was only
trying to invent a new mode of lo
comotion, so he could economize
his legs, and do his errands with
greater dispatch. Leap-frog is
one of the methods of getting over
the ground quickly. He has a
latu ral genius for combining
i pleasure with business.
BUILDING A NEW JERUSALEM
Traveler Notes Distinct Advancement
Made by Inhabitants of the
Holy City.
Writing from Jerusalem to a
friend in New York, Adolf Stimer,
who made a tour of the United
States last year to study economic
and social conditions, says: “I know
the energy and the creative power of
your people. New states, great
railroads, monster works of en
gineering and architecture are taken
as matters of course and excite lit
tle comment. But when I see what
is being done here I must reserve a
fraction of enthusiasm for the peo
ple of Jerusalem. They are not
goaded on by competition, and their
surroundings make for indolence and
stagnation. Nevertheless, a spirit of
progress has developed which com
mands respect. If you lived here
you would know what a new house
in Jerusalem means, and you would
stand aghast, as I did when I was
toldr that 200 had been completed in
the last three months. Jerusalem is
shaking off its garb of antiquity—
a new Jersualem is building.”
BRAZIL'S BLACK DIAMONDS.
The mining methods employed are
of the crudest nature, and the 'work
is all done by native miners. The
diamonds are found in a gravel
known as “cascalho,” which is ob
tained on the sides and slopes of the
Sincora mountains and in the Para
guassu river bed and tributaries.
Owners and lessees of diamond lots
generally allow well-known miners
to work their properties, who receive
a return of one-fifth to one-fourth
of the value of their finds. The for
mer generally buy in all the precious
stones themselves and sell them
either on the spot to the diamond
buyers who represent the Bahia
firms, or the stones are shipped to
Paris or London for their account,
or on joint account with the firms
established in Bahia, with their head
offices at home. They receive from
these firms from 80 to 90 per cent,
of the value of the invoices, and the
balance is paid after the goods are
disposed of.
FARMHOUSE ANTIQUES.
A highly ingenious device for put
ting on the market “old” furniture,
the faking of which is quite a con
siderable industry in the western
midlands in England, has been told
by a dealer.
He had 80 Welsh farmhouses on
his books, in each of which he had
deposited for use of the tenant, but
also in the hope that holiday people
might desire to buy them, “old”
dressers and cupboards and tables.
The inexperienced hunter for old
furniture invariably looks for worm
holes. They are provided for him
by a judicious peppering with small
shot, and lest he should be suspicious
and probe for worm dust They are
carefully “salted” with fine sand.
LAYING THE BLAME.
Wifey—At New Year you were ready
enough to swear off what I asked you,
but you haven’t kept your promise.
Hubby—That’s your fault, my dear.
Why didn’t you furnish me resolutions
that were warranted not to break?
NOT COMPLIMENTARY.
“Well,” said the young lawyer,
after he had heard his new client’s
story, “your case appears to be good.
I think we can secure a verdict with
out much trouble.”
“That’s what I told my wife,”
said the man, “and yet she insisted
at first that we ought to engage a
first-class lawyer. — Philadelphia
Press.
A FINE TABLEAU.
“The citizens’ committee found
Cinoinnatns at the plow. “What
does this show?”
“Shows that he had a good cam
paign manager. I’ll bet they all
bad their pictures taken with the
plow in the foreground.”
ALLOWED EVASION FOR ONCE
B«Mant Judge Saved Witness from
Embarrassment He Knew Would
Be Inevitable.
One of the best-known judges in
Alabama, famed for his severity
and his uncompromising loyalty to
the traditions of procedure, had oc
casion recently to try a case in which
one of the witnesses happened to be
an actress of no small popularity in
the south.
It chanced that the nature of her
evidence was such that the usual
question about her age was not like
ly to be omitted, so when she came
to the stand his honor told the court
clerk to suspend action for a mo
ment; then, turning to the actress,
he demanded:
“Madam, how old are you?”
“Twenty-six,” replied the witness,
who is 36 if she is a day.
“Very well,” said the judge polite
ly. “I asked you that question be
cause, if I hadn’t, it would surely
have been asked you when the attor
ney for the defense cross-examined
you. And, now that you have told
us your age, do you swear to tell the
truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth ?”
HEAR, HEAR!
Old Girl—And why did you leave
your last mistress?
Young Ditto—I’ll tell you when you
tell me why your last maid left you.
DISCOVERING MEXICAN TOWNS.
The federal government, in view
of the fact that there is not a single
map of the republic containing all
the towns and ranches of the dif
ferent districts, has decided on the
creation of the Sociedad Geografiea
Exploradora, whose members are
traveling throughout the republic
drawing up plans of the different
districts visited by them, says the
Mexican Herald.
Very curious occurrences are re
ported. It is said that members of
the commission when exploring
woods and valleys have discovered
towns of from 100 to 500 inhabitants
the existence of which were unknown,
these people living completely iso
lated from the rest of the world.
ONLY ONE LIFE.
The chief of the fire department
of Philadelphia, watching a danger
ous fire in that city not long ago,
was amazed by the daring of a re
cruit in the service, a young fellow
plainly of German origin.
After the new fireman had
emerged from his perilous position,
the chief met him with many expres
sions of commendation and admira
tion.
“Well done, Hans, my boy!” ex
claimed he. “But I never expected
to see you alive again!”
“Alife again?” repeated the Ger
man, surprised, “Vy, I hafn’t peen
dead yet!” — Illustrated Sunday
Magazine.
HEART FAILURE.
“Yes, I have great faith in the
conscience fund,” she confided.
“Now, I returned a quarter I had
taken out of John’s pocket five
years ago and he dropped me a ten
dollar note as a reward for my hon
esty. Do you think your husband
would drop anything if you should
return him a quarter under the same
circumstances ?”
Her friend gazed at her curiously.
“Yes,” she replied, solemnly;
‘“he’d drop dead.”
NOT A RAPID GAME.
The train was just pulling out of
the Grand Central station, in New
York.
“Wouldn’t you like to play a game
of chess?” asked the man with the
derby hat.
“I won’t have time,” replied the
man addressed; “I*m only going as
ifar as Chicago.”—Yonkers States
man.
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That WOOD & SON are sel
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other firm in town.
That the groceries WOOD &
SON sell give better satisfaction
than any other sold in town.
That the reason for this is
that WOOD & SON have the best
and freshest goods, always sell
reasonable, and just wont let a
customer be dissatisfied if they
even think he is.
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OUR NEW SUBSCRIBERS.
Below is a list of those who
paid us in advance for the News
since our last issue.
John Shearer, McCrory, Ark.
GRAYS.
By Our Regular Correspondent.
Ed Crisp, of Searcy, spent Sun
day in Grays.
Joe Blackwell visited his sister,
Mi'S. H. L. Strickland, last week.
Dr. Ritchie, of Gregory, visited
Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Crow, Sunday.
The fish-fry on Cache River
Thursday evening was a very en
joyable affair.
Lillie Johnstone, of Tupelo,
visited Forrest Brewer, the latter
part of the week.
Mr. Ward, of Water Valley,
Mississippi has been visiting his
daughter, Mrs. Pearl Jackson, the
past week.
Mrs. Jim Crisp and children ar
rived in Grays Saturday afternoon
for a few days visit with relatives.
Mr. Crisp has been here the past
two weeks taking treatment for
rheumatism.
Saturday night May, 30th, an
immense crowd gathered at the
public school building to witness
the closing exercises of the school.
Our efficient teacher, Miss Effle
Walker, had spared no little
trouble to prepare an interesting
programme and her pupils had re
sponded royally to her efforts.
The audience, which gave strict
attention during the entire eve
ning, although crowded nearly to
suffocation, gave evidence of the
high appreciation these efforts
awoke. When we consider that
Miss Walker is the first teacher we
have had who has given the chil
dren any instruction along these
lines her success is the more pro
nounced. Without a blunder the
different numbers were rendered,
as only the best training can in
sure. Especially enjoyable was
the music furnished by Mr. Eagle
Walker, Miss Waxie Walker
and Misses Mamie and Hattie
Williams, all of Higginson. Miss
Waxie Walker also assisted with a
recitation. We are to be congrat
ulated upon having secured Miss
Walker’s services as teacher for
another year. On account of ill
ness in her home, Miss Walker
and her relatives left Sunday at
noon for Higginson.
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