WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
POBLISHBD THCRBDAT OF BACH WEEK AT ‘
McCKOBY, ARKANSAS. '
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at McCrory
Vrkansas. as Second-Class mall.matter.
June 11th, 1901.
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tices, Obituaries. Resolutions of Respect,
Programmes etc. all occupy space and space
s a printer’s stock in trade. Therefore above
named rates apply.
If the editor desires to donate anything at
any time to any cause, he must do so out of
his own pocket, as he is held responsible for
the space. Respectfully,
This New&
THOUQHTS ON THE I
CHAINLESS RRAYER.
Editor of the News :—
With your permission, I wish
to express some of my thoughts
upon what is being circulated thru
the country known as the Chain
less prayer. In it is a request to
write nine copies of the prayer
and send one every day for nine
days «.nd to nine different persons.
It is said to have been first started
by one Bishop Lawrence, and he
who will not write that prayer
will meet with some horrible ca
lamity, and he who will comply
with it will meet with some happy
experience, yet the bishop does
not give one single reference from
God’s Holy Book, touching upon
that point, therefore we fail to see
any great importance by comply
ing with the request. Not that
we don’t believe in prayer, but in
this particular form and method
we fear will cause more supersti
tion than real spiritual life among
the people, as it carries with it a
threat that would bring sudden
calamity if we should fail to carry
out this particular form. Now it
is very evident that he who never
prays can never expect to experi
ence that life and happiness of
spirit that is promised to the hum
ble consecrated Christian, whose
heart is lifted up to God in thank
fulness and prayer. Every day,
as Sjt. Paul says, that first of all
prayer intersession and giving of
thanks be made for all men and
again he would that men pray
everywhere lifting up holy hands
without wrath or doubting. So
we think that prayer does not con
sist so much in the words spoken
or the mauner in which it is writ
ten, as in the siucerety of the soul.
The great Poet says prayer is the
soul’s sincere desire unuttered or
expressed, the emotion of a hidden
fire that burns within the breast.So
our Lord says the power of prayer
is in Faith. In speaking to his
disciples once he said, “Whatso
ever ye ask in my name believing,
nothing doubting,ye shall receive.”
So let us not fear God as iho’ he
was some great torrent ready to
send afflictions upon us, but fear lest
we should do somerniug iiiai would
offend his Holy Majesty. And so
we prefer to give hoed to the
Blessed Lord and take his advice
on this question. When he was
teaching his disciples he said,
“When thou prayest enter into
thy closet and when thou hast
shut thy door, say, Our Father
which art iu heaven, etc (known
as the Lord’s prayer.) And so my
dear readers and friends our pray
er to God is that he may help us to
have more faith in our prayers,
that he will not with hold any good
things from us. And now may
his blessings rest upon all who
read these lines is my prayer.
From one who is a lover of Christ
and his people.
A Friend.
Young men, the first, question
your employers ask themselves
when business becomes slack and
it is thought necessary to econo
mize in the matter of salaries is,
“Who can be best spared?” The
barnacles, the shirks, the make
shifts, somebody’s porteges, some
body’s nephews, and especially
some-body’s good-for-nothing,
young men, please remember that
these are not the ones who are
called for when responsible posit
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ions are to be filled. Would you
like to guage your own future for
a position of prominence? Would
you like to know the probabilities
of your getting such a position?
Inquire within ! What are you do
ing to make yourselves valuable in
the position you now occupy? If
you are doing with your might
what your hands find to do, the
chances are two to one that you
soon become so valuable in that
positi -n that you cannot be spared
from it, and then, singular to re
late, will be the very time wheu
you will be sought out for promo
tion for a better place.
We have not done onr duty by
our children until we have done
our utmost to surround them with
the best moral influences, to
strengthen them with highest re
ligeous instructions within our
power and to lead them on lines
that are vitalizing by going that
way ourselves. Morals are peculiar
ly contageous,life is communicated
by life ;sincerety and simplicity are
not transmitted by precept but by ex
ample. “Whisper the word of
God to the child,” said Jean Paul
Ritcher, “in the presence of the
sublime and the majestic.” In
the presence of things calm and
soothing,” said George McDonald,
and we would add, ((In the pres
ence of the beautiful, the familial'
graces, homely sanctities, the pan
i sy, the swallow, the purring cat,
the faithful dog, the gentle horse,
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the sleeping babe, a father’s hug
and a mother’s kiss.
If we would teach a child to like
that which i3 good in reading, we i
must establish the liking in his
early years. It is not enough that
we shall tell him in later days that
certain books are good and bid
him read them. When he is
grown up he will choose that
which he likes and our work is to
lead him to like good things. We
cannot begin too early. The
nursey tales should be those which
have fed the children of many an
age and clime. The song, the
hymn, the poem should be those
that tre worth reading and recit
ing. Let us make the beautiful
story and hymn a part of the
child’s early environment. More
than this, let us remember that in
teaching the children to read good
books we are re-enforcing them
against the ills of life. Accom
panied by noble thoughts they
shall go to their drudgery and toil
with a brave spirit, and made
melody in their hearts even when1
their hands are rough with toil,
they shall dwell with the great
and good and then moments of lei
sure shall be rich because of these
good times of youth.
The term printer’s devil as ap
plied to the boy who does the chor
ing around a printing office. has a
peculiar romantic history. In
early days printing was styled the
“black art,” and printers were
supposed to be in league with Sa
tan. But it was in the time of
Aldus Minutius in Venice that the
matter took a serious turn. This
was 1 he famous printer who first
published the Greek and Roman
classics. He took into his employ
a negro boy who was homeless on
the streets of Venice. The people
supposed the boy was an imp from
Satan and that he assisted in print
ing. Mobs collected about the
office and were about to wreck it,
when the boy was biought forward
and exhibited showed that the boy
was flesh and blood, but he was
still called “the printer’s devil”
and every boy in his position ever
since has been so called.
One active beech nut, given a
chance will result in a forest. One
little thought started right will go
around the world and keep on its
travels. It gets there by moving,
not by sitting sulkily in the saw
dust and wishing it were a plum
| pudding. Move on. Catch on.
Hold fast as long as you can, and
if you are knocked off, grab for
. the next car that comes along and
. you will get there. But don’t
i start in the wrong direction. Do
1 not start for the drunkard’s grave,
or you will be sure to get there.
Do not start in to go blind when
ever some “smart aleck” blows the
horn for you to fall in, lest you
fall in where it is deep and ever
remain there. Be active or get
out of the way, and in one year
see how much better off in mind,
body, and comforts you will be.
It is a fact which mathematics
cannot explain, that the more
affection we leave at home the
more we carry with us.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Augusta, Arkansai
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Raymond & cO.
Young men, you are the archi-1
tects of your own fortunes. Rely
upon your own strength of body;
and soul. Take for your star, \
self-reliance. Don’t take too|
much advice—keep at your helm
and steer your own ship, and re
member that the great art of com
manding i§ to take a fair share of
the work. Think well of your
self. Strike out. Assume your
own position. Put potatoes in a
cart over a rough road, and the
small ones go to the bottom. Rise
above the envious and jealous.
Fire above the mark you intend to
hit. Energy, invincible determi
nation, with a right motive, are
the levers that move the world. Be
in earnest. Be self-reliant. Be
generous. Be civil. Read the
papers. Advertise your business.
Make money, aud do good with it.
It wasn’t a Missouri editor but a
printer’s devil who was going
through his first experience on
“making up” forms. The paper
was late aud the boy got the gal
leys mixed. The first part of the
obituary notice of a peculiar citi
zen had been dumped in the forms,
and the next handful of type came
off a galley describing a recent
fire. It read like this: The pall
bearers lowered the body to the
grave and as it was consigned to
the flames there were few if any
regrets, for the wreck had been an
eye-sore to the town for years.
Of course there was individual
loss, but that was fully covered by
insurance. The widow thinks the
editor wrote the obituary that way
because the lamented partner of
her joys and sorrows owed him
five year’s subscription.
That man must have some place
where he aud his fellows may
congregate for reoreatiou aud in
struction, where toil and business
cares may be cast aside for a
evening of pleasure and social di
vertisement take their place, is a
recognized fact. The lodge offers
one of the best solutions of this
question, as is evidenced by the
many orders that have sprung up
in this country within the last dec
, ade. Besides these are the numer
1 ous older and grander orders, all
of which have been important fac
tors in the educational and moral
t developement of the people.
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The “big head” is a popular
way of expressing a common and
very frequent ailment. It arises
from various sources, but real
foundation is a lack of sense. A
little money develops it in some
people; a few good clothes gives it
to others; a little office, where a
chance is given to exercise a lit
tle authority, is often the cause of
it, while others get it having a lit
tle better job than their associates.
The truth is no sensible person
gets the “big head.” The one
who became stuck up and stiff
necked from sources of any kind,
are weak in the intellectual caliber.
Where is the man so happy as
the one who applies himself to
manual labor? Where is the
home so happy as the one where
each member of the household
feels, at the close of the day, that
they have performed some at least
of the many duties devolving up
on them? There may be a clash
some day'between capital and la
bor. Should this peroid ever
come, the hope is that labor, with
the conquering tread of a hero,
will trample beneath its heel the
power that has, to a considerable
extent, made labor laborous. We
are all laborers in our city.
The average farmer is probably
not aware of the fact that an aver
age mule sells for $10 a head
more than horses. Such is the
case, and the price has been grad
ually risiug for a number of years.
There has never been what would
be called an over-production of
mules, while the market has often
been unable to fully supply the de
mand.
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Perhaps there is nothing that in
terferes more with effective school
work than parties given during
the school week. If the time act
ually spent at the party alone be
considered, the ill-effects on school
work would possibly not be so
marked. But experience has
taught all of us that the mind can
not be centered on school work
either while anticipating a jovial
time or while the impressions of a
night of amusement are fresh in
our memories.
Pew business men have more to
contend with than an editor. The
only means the editor has of mak
ing a living for himself and family
is by selling space in the columns
of his paper. His newspaper col
umns are the same to him as the
shelves of dry goods are to the
merchant. No one thinks of ask
ing the merchant to give him the
dry goods from his shelves, but
few they are who hesitate to ask
the editor to give them a few col
umns free in his paper.
There is an aesthetic side to the
good roads movement that is of no
little importance. What is drear
ier, what more depressing than to
drive along a country road deep
with mud and furrowed by ruts
the water standing in pools in the
road and where ditches ought to
be.
If your Christianity will not last
all the week and stand the wear
and tear of every day life, you
may be sure you do not posess the
real article.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that pol
icy number Five of this company,
which was in the hands of ex
agent ut McCrory, C. M. James,
has either become lost, misplaced »
or stolen from Mr. James’ office.
It has never been issued by an
authorized agent of the company, '
and no premium thereon has ever
been paid to the company. No
liability under this policy will be
recognized by the company. This
is notice to any party who may
have the policy that it is not valid
and if it purports to have been
issued by an agent of the company,
such issue has been fraudulently
made, and any person finding it in
their possession is charged with
returning it to this company.
(Signed) Continental Fire
Insurance Co. op Arkansas.
Little Rock, Arkansas.