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WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THURSDAY OF BACH WEEK AT
McCROBY, ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at McCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mail.matter.
June Uth, 1902.
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OUR MOTHER.
’Round the idea of one’s mother
the mind of a man clings with fond
affection. It is the first deep
thought stamped upon our infant
hearts when yet soft and capable
of receiving the most profound im
pressions, and the after feelings of
the world are more or less light in
comparison. Even in our old age
we look back to that feeling as one
of the sweetest we have through
life. Our passions and our
wilful ness may lead us far from
the object of our filial love; we
learn even to pain her heart, to op
pose her wishes, to violate her
commands; we may become wild,
headstrong and angry at her coun
sels and opposition; but when
death has stilled her monitory
voice, and still memory remains to
recapitulate her virtues and good
deeds, affection, like a flower,
beaten to the ground by the past
storm, raises her head and smiles
among her tears. ’Round that
idea, as we have said, the mind
clings with fond affection ; and even
when the early period of our loss
forces memory to be silent, fancy
takes the place of remembrance
and twines the image of our dead
parent with a garland of graces and
beauties and virtues which we
doubt not she possessed.
THE SANCTITY OF HOME.
A man has no right to enter his
own door with a cloud upon his
brow and a temper in his heart.
His coming should rejoice his wife
and children. A woman has no
right to be always complaining
about little things and showing
discontent in a thousand ways and
keeping the children in a constant
state of alarm for fear mother will
“make a fuss about it.” There
should never be a frown at the
dinner table, or at the morning or
evening meal, nor should there be
that dismal silence that sometimes
broods over the meal and takes
away the appetite. Food taken in
sullen silence will not digest The
bed and th'e board should always
be cheerful. The sleep will not
be sweet when there are tears upon
the pillow. We would be afaid to
scold a child just before the eyes
were closed in sleep. The
responsibility is greater upon the
parent than upon the children. If
the father is loving and com
panionable to his boys they will
be more apt to stay at home and
not wander off into bad company.
They would not speak of him as
“the old man.” They would not
be waiting for him to die so they
would inherit his estate. If the
mother was always gentle and kind
and reasonable to her girls they
would love home too well to make
a runaway match or go with
unprincipled young men. “Make
Home Happy,” should be the
watch-word in every family. It is
well enough to have the little
prayer. “Hod Bless Our Home,”
painted, or worked on canvas,
overhanging the mantle, but our
Creator will not do for us what we
can do for ourselves.
J P BOYLE LECTURES AT TIP.
Cody Local Union, No. 664, met
in extraordinary session at Tip,
Tuesday evening last to listen to a
lecture on the principles of the
Farmers Union, by Bro. J.P.Boyle
County Lecturer of Monroe
County. In the crowd of some 150
members, we noticed visitors from
Jordan and Whithall Unions. Bro.
Boyle gave us a very able lec
ture on what the Union has
done, what it is doing, and what
it is going to do. He talked at
some length on the necessity of a
warehouse in each county. He told
that Clarendon, the county seat of
his county, bitterly opposed the
interests of the Farmers Union at
first because of a belief that we
were fighting the merchant, but
when they were informed as to the
real iutention of the organization
they deeded a lot for a warehouse
to them and extended them a
warm welcome to their city. We
have not organized against any
1 one but for our own protection.
All other classes of labor are
1 organized and who can say. that
the farmer has no right to do the
same. ’Tis true that we are
uneducated and scarcely able to
attend to our own business, but
the one great principle of our
order is education along the lines
that so greatly concern the farmer.
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SATISFY.
That great good man the President
of these United States, who has
come in contact with every class of
organized labor in the world says
that it is absolutely necessary that
farmers should combine in order to
maintain their individuality and
respect as citizens of this great
nation. Bro. Boyle will lecture in
an open session at Beard’s Church
Saturday evening. One and all are
invited to attend.
B. W. Chaney.
Co. Secretary.
Appreciation makes stupid
people brighter, homely ones more
comely, the clumsy less clumsy,
the different self-possessed. It
need not be given in words; tones
are often sufficient, even glances or
gestures will convey ample mean
ing to sensitive souls. Try a few
words of genuine approval upon
the most stupid person of your
acqaintance and note the effect, it
will surprise you; try it on a
woman who knows she is plain and
unattractive and mark how her
eyes will brighten, her cheeks flush
and her face light up with some
thing akin to beauty. Try it on a
man who lays out your walks or
hoes your corn, and see what con
sciousness it will awaken to him.
There is that in all of us that res
ponds quickly to the voice of
eulogy and longs for it. The man
dead to this is dead to every noble
aspiration.
From the nursery to the narrow
house is but a journey, and in
that brief space between the two
termini the pleasantest domain
ought to be that of childhood.
Children alone, of human beings,
have the capacity of unadulterated
enjoyment. Their childhood,
therefore, should be the holiday
of life; its slave-day will soon be
upon them, and then farewell for
ever to the merry world, without a
responsibility, a fear or a care,
which is their rightful abiding
place until borne out into the
tumult aud the strife of the great
maelstrom. Tasks they must
learn, duties they must be taught
but those who know how to
interest the developing mind and
to feed it wisely with the elements
of knowledge, can make education
one of childhood’s pleasures.
It is a mistake to suppose that
children will acquire good manners
when they are as people phrase it,
“old enough” to understand their
propriety, if the observances of
good breeding are ignored or neg
lected in the first four or five
years. Mothers sometimes forget
that the active add receptive stage
of child-life in the nursery is
never surpassed at a later period.
The little one is taking impressions
every moment, acquiring gentle
habits or the opposite, picking up
words and sentences, surprising
his elders by the facility with
which he learns what they would
rather he should not know. In
the baby’s home the foundation is
laid for good or bad manners of
the mature man.
A foolish woman can make a
lover a husband, but it takes a
bright woman to keep a husband a
lover.
Subscribe for the News and be
happy.
Let every mother that however
humble her home, however
monotonous her life, if she be
patient in well doing her children
will be better because she has lived.
Over her self-sacrifice, her love,
her faith and courage they will
enter the promised land that other
wise they might not have reached.
And not her children only, but all
with whom she comes in contact,
will be uplifted and strengthened
by her purity and steadfastness.
Be content then, to live each hour,
each day, “gathering up the
fragments,” giving the kind word,
the loving thot, the tender sym
pathy, doing the homely duties
that lie nearest, as a daughter of
the King, as a queen in the royal
line of motherhood, knowing that
all these things are helping to
make those who come after you
“better because you have lived.”
We are greasing the wheels of
life when we speak kindly to the
poor beggar in the street, or to the
blind man who is waiting for a
friendly hand to help him across
the road. We are greasing the
wheels of life when we perform
any kindly action, when we bring
a ray of sunshine into any home,
and help to give pleasure and hope
to any of those who are sad and
distressed. How various are the
ways of greasing the wheels of
life; when we make the best of
what we have, and look forward
with pleasure and hope to the
future, then we help to make life
go smoothly.
A Kentuckey editor printed the
following: “The fellow who is
courting a certain married lady
had better leave town as the hus
band is on to him.” The paper
had not been out an hour before
every man had left except three
cripples and a man who had not
read the paper.—Livingston Ban
ner.
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Little arms encircling the neck
will make the heart light over
which no diamonds sparkle. All
the grand pictures and splendid
works of art one can possess will
never adorn a room as do the
smiling faces of those dearest to
us. The things that may be
bought are pleasant to have, nor
is wealth to be despised ; but never
pity the poor man who has the
wealth that gold cannot buy, nor
the woman who’s jewels are those
of which Cornelia was so proud
—good and obedient sons.
When we get at the bottom it ia
doubtful if there is a millionaire in
the country who has observed the
golden rule in the amassing of hie
fortune. He has lobbied legis
lation ; he has beaten the people
out of franchises; he sold impure
food; he has Bold at extortion
prices; he has paid starvation
wayes.
When you talk to a man or a
child about his faults, don’t stand
over him with a club.
J. T. O’FALLON
Contractor and
Builder.
Estimates on build
ings of all kinds.
Interior decorating and
sanitary plumbing a speci
alty. A portion of your pat
ronage respectfully solicit
ed. All work honestly done.
Heaveh gave every man time for
some useful purpose, and a per
son’s life must have been sadly
spent if there are no green spots
in the wilderness of the past, to
which he can turn back with
consolation and pleasure. How
many live in the world as useless
as if they had never passed through
life, as a mere cipher, and leaving
the world without performing a
single act of kindness to a fellow
creature, or leaving a single trace
by which their memories may be
perpetuated to prosperity, either
for their usefulness, their virtue
or their charities.
The man who is always telling
about his good character should be
careful to always have it with him.
Subscribe for and advertise in
he Woodruff County News.
Innocent amusement transforms
tears into rainbows.
COTTON PLANT.
By Our Regular Correspondent
Mrs. Dr. Harville is visiting in
Little Rock.
Miss Bessie Brooks is visiting in
Newrk., this week.
Mr. Snoddy returned to his
home in Lafayette, Ind., Monday.
Miss Hayes, of Texas, is the
guest of Mrs. J. C. Hayes, of this
place.
Mrs. Edgar, of Yellville, is the
guest of Mrs. Chas. P. Meehau,
this week.
Rev. Morrow, of Augusta, filled
his regular appointment Sunday
in this city.
Edgar Winnenberg is spending a
few days in Beebe, with his sister,
Mrs. Will Thompson.
Miss Jamie Lynch died at her
home last Wednesday. Burial
took place in the family cemetery.
Mrs. Milton Vaughan, and lit
tle grand-child, Catherynn, of
Little Rock, are the guests of
Mrs. R. C. Lynch.
A number of our young people
enjoyed a game of cards at Mrs.
McGowan’s last Monday night.
The Cotton Plant band has be
gun to practice on every Tuesday
and Thursday nights. We wish
them great success.
deview.
By Our Regular Correspondent
Large crop of black-berries.
Luther Barbee has gone West
Miss Velma Crossett closed a
successful term of school, Friday
Mr. Henderson, of White
county, visited friends here, this
week.
Mrs. Cora Johnson, of McCrorv
was the guest of Miss Myrtle Beat’
Sunday.
A Sunday school was organized
last Sunday with Mr. G. Stark as
superintendant.
Mrs. Scruggs, of Judsonia
visited the family of. her father’
Mr. Shadle, last week.
Fletcher Redding, and family,
of near McCrory, visited friends
near DeView, last week.
W. P. Best, of Judsonia, visited
his grand-children, Miss Myrtle
and Porter Best, last Saturday
and Sunday. J
The good people of DeView
have organized a society, the ob
ject of which is to do all the good
possible unto everyone.
Z. T. Woodward, and wife, Jno.
Burkett and J. S. Haggard have
returned from Richmond, Va
They praise the good people of
that city very much for the nice
time shown them while there.
Mrs. Mabel Shoup, and son,
Edmund Pound, and Miss Mollie
Skinner, of Augusta, are guests
of Mrs. Fletcher Lewis.
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