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PUBLISHED THURSDAY OF EACH WEEK AT
McCROBY, ARKANSAS.
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MANUFACTORIES.
You may take the dullest and
most paosaic town and erect within
its borders a busy, thriving man
ufacturing institution. where large
numbers of workman are employed,
and a new life is at once imparted
to the place. The dull monotony
of the past gives way to the sound
of the steam whistle and the
clangor of the shop. The streets
no longer look deserted. People
move with an active restleness
iu strange contract to the times
when no manufacturing was
carried on in their midst. The live
liest towns that we have in this
country are those wholly devoted
to manufacturing. The dreariest
towns, where dry-rot is visible on
every hand, are those wherein no
workshops are to be found. Man
ufacturing towns are not only
more active, but as a rule they are
prosperous, as well as being far
more enterprising affording better
social ami commercial advantages.
Typical manufacturing towns are
to be found in New England, in
fact the Connecticut river may be
be said to be lined with them. It
is invigorating to the mind, as well
as to the sight, to travel through
these towns, which justly may be
termed “bee hives of industry.”
An air of thrift and enterprise is
everywhere displayed. The
proprietors of the industrial
institutions, the tradesmen, the
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j every outward indication of that
contentment, and happiness which
arise from a prosperous condition.
There is a reason for this—a
social as well as a business reason.
First, the presence of workshops
and factories in the midst of a
community is in itself a source of
activity. These institutions draw
ing to them daily their scores and
their hundreds of workmen, bring
life and activity, not for a week,
or a month, but as long as they
are in operation. But in towns
purely commercial, or in lazy, sea
port towns where the bulk of the
male portion of the population is
at sea, there is a too percoptible
lack of life and animation. This
can be better observed than
described. But to one standing
in a manufacturing towu at the
morning hour, at noon, or at
night, when the workmen are
wending their ways to and from
work, their need be little said to
prove whence the vitality of the
town arises.
Say, do you know the kind of
fellow whose just to the world's
mind? The kind the world can’t
lose? The kind that folks enthuse
over and take off their hats too?
Why it’s the man who does. He’s
the fellow ! Not the fellow whose
grandpa got there ; not the fellow
who would if he could: not the
gentleman who’s going to some
day; but the man who does, now,
today. No sitting around waiting,
about him ; no expecting something
to happen; not looking for some
thing to turn up. No sir! He
calls the turn and turns ’em; he
takes oft’ his coat and doesn’t care
if he starts a little sweat; he
dosent need a big, brass-buttoned
copper to tell him to move on; he
keeps the procession humping to
keep up with him; he is hustle
from his feet up and from his head
down ; he is not only in the push,
but he is the push the whole thing;
and say, the way he makes things
come and business hum is a caution,
the way the world takes that, fellow
up and is good to him makes your
heart glad; he’s all right, he is;
he greases the wheels of progress
and keeps the world spinning
; around.
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There is a structure which every
graduate from school is building,
young and old, rich and poor, each
one for himself. It is called
“character,” and every act of your
lives is a stone for this structure.
If day by day you are careful to
build your lives with pure, upright
deeds, at the end you will stand a
fair temple, honored by God and
man. But as one leak will sink a
ship, and one flaw break a chain,
so one mean, dishonorable act or
word will forever leave its impress
and work its influence ' on your
character. Then let the several
deeds uuite to form a day and one
by one the days grow into noble
years, and the years as they slowly
pass will raise at last a beautiful
edifice, enduring forever to your
praise, and you cherish with the
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utmost tenderness the memories
of your school life. The old school
house, the familiar walks about
the place, the desk upon which you
wrote your name, all indelibly
stored away in memory never to be
forgotten.
A janitor in a neighboring school
threw up his job the other day.
When asked what was the trouble,
he said “I’m honest and I won’t
stand being slurred. If I find a
pencil or a handkerchief ’bout
the school, I hang it up. Every
little while the teacher or some
one that is too cowardly to face me,
gives me a slur,” “In what way 1”
asked the officer. “Why, a little
while ago I saw written on the
board, ‘fiud the common multiple’
Well, I looked from cellar to
garret, and I wouldn’t know the
thing if I met it on the street. What
made me quit my job? Last night
in big writin’ on the black board,
it said, ‘find the greatest common
divisor.’ Well, I says to myself,
both of them darn things are lost
now,and I’ll be blamed for swipin’
‘em, so I’ll quit.”—Ex.
It is much easier to lead people
than to drive them. We often
hear it said that a person was
“driven to destruction.” As a
rule this person was led to des
truction. There are so many
snares and pit-falls in the highway
of life, and so many are lured to
destruction by those who enjoy
seeing others brought to their own
level. The guide boards set up by
our churches showing to the young
“the straight and narrow way,” is
the only safe path. It is well to
remember that only the good
believe in the good, and to the
uoble alone is given the power to
recognize the noble.
The United States is the only
country in which the son of the
poorest mechanic or laboring man
may become its ruler and where
the daughter of a farmer may be
come the wife of a President and
the mother of Senators. It is the
only country where all earthly
honors are within the reach of
every citizen and where it depends
upon the individual himself
whether he will be a Senator or a
street-sweeper, a railroad president
or a railroad section hand, a
millionaire or a pauper, a general
or a policeman, a banker or a
bankrupt.
Are we going to be a race of
stoop-shouldered men! One
would naturally think so to look
over almost any large crowd, walk
down any crowded street, or glance
at the average male human being
he meets. The man who walks
with his head erect, his shoulders
thrown back and his chest extended
just as nature intended he should,
is a rarity and is remarked about
wherever he goes. The average
man, and more’s the pity, the
average youngman, walks as if he
were very tired.
The picnic season is now upon
us with the usual accompaniments,
fleas, mosquitoes, grass chiggers
and gnats. -But there are bushels
of fun in a day’s outing, anj- how.
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Can anything be more pleasant
in the bush hum—drum of after
years than to permit your minds to
wander baek to the days of school
life; the sweet memories and
incidents that will eome up, the
smiling faces and pleasant coun
tenances ; the old school house
door that has so often admitted
you, swinging back aud forth on
its hinges the very walks speaking
forth of happy hours; while at
your side stands the noble teacher
who watched you every move aud
was as interested in your success
as you were yourself. As these
recollections come back to you
whose school lives have been spent
in this community, your eyes will
moisten as you realize those days
are now gone forever. Never
again will those days return. You
who for so many months aud years
have been like one family and
participated joyously together in
the school room and play ground
have doubtless pledged loyalty
and faith to the school. You now
step out of school life into life’s
school and will be scattered far
and wide, but the memories of
your school days will ever form
the brightest link in your chain of
thought.
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By Our Regular Correspondent.
Ed Hartin Sundayed in Searcy.
W. H. Strickland was in Mem
phis last week.
Mrs. Miller, of Revels, is visit
ing Mrs. Stewart.
Mrs. Laura Duncan is home
after a two weeks visit in Hickory
Ridge.
Misses Jessie and Nora Sims
and Miss Lou Clifton spent Sun
day in McCrorv.
Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Hayes went
to Jack son port, Sunday, returning
Monday afternoon.
The Misses Jones, of Tupelo,
came Monday afternoon for a visit
with Mrs. Nina Strickland.
The Sunday School at this place
will send two representatives to
the Sunday School Institute to be
held in Searcy in July. Mrs.
Strickland and Miss Lou Clifton
have been appointed.
Little Dewey Hays narrowly es
caped serious injury last Wednes
day afternoon. He was trying to
catch a horse, when the animal
whirled and kicked, striking him
a square lick over the right eye.
Dr. Brewer was summoned at
once and found the head badly
bruised but the skull uninjured.
The fact that he was so close to
the horse prevented him from get
ting the full force of the blow.
Walter Jimerson and H. C.
SJiearer have been in Higginson,
this week, on business.
Mrs. L. McFall, and daughter,
Pauline, returned Saturday from a
few days visit to friends and rela
tives in eastern points.
The best use we can make of
our life is to live so that we shall
be a benediction to every one we
meet.
LIFE A STORY BOOK.
Life is like a story book,
Of several little pages,
On which we write our every deed,
Without much thought of how it reads.
To us in after ages.
We begin to write in early morn,
And make our little preface,
The mirrow of our lives to be,
Which lasts through all eternity,
Is fixed beneath the surface.
With busy hand we write at noon,
Our well established ways,
Crowd its leaves with golden sheaves,
Of cultured brain, or lives of ease,
To read through endless days.
At evening when the sun is low,
And eye is dim from using,
We close the book with hearts aglow,
Or feel a pang of awful woe,
It’s for our own perusing.
I. E. Thomas. Alvin, Texas.
The above poem was composed by Rev. I. E. 1 homas
now pastor of the M. E. Church South, at Alvin, Texas
Rev. Thomas was once a long-time resident of this county
and his Woodruff county friends will be glad at learning
that he is making as great, if not a greater success in the
Lone Star State as he did in Arkansas. In the above
poem he very truthfully hands to us the real story book
of life. Success to you and yours, Brother Thomas.
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Died: About 8:30 o’clock
p. m., Wednesday evening, June,
12, Daisy, age 2 years, the only
child of Mr. and Mrs. Jarrett
Jelks, a few miles north of this
city. The News joins friends in
extending sympathy to the bereaved
parents over the loss of the pride
and joy of their home.
Last Saturday, Sheriff Cain was
taking a negro prisoner to Au
gusta to answer the charge of
house-breaking. The Sheriff and
prisoner were aboard the west
bound passenger train and just as
the train was nearing this city,
some three miles away, Mr. Cain
walked to the water cooler for a
drink of water, leaving the “coon”
in charge of a friend, Mr. Higgin
bothom. Mr. Cain had not more
than reached the water tank when
the negro prisoner, hand-cuffed,
jumped from a window of the
train on the opposite side of the
car in which he was sitting. The
train was running at a rate of
40 miles an hour when the negro
went head-long down to the
ground. Sheriff Cain immediate
ly had the train stopped and ran
to the place where the prisoner
had made his leap. At first sight
of the prisoner he was lying on
the road near the track, but when
he saw the sheriff coming he ran
into a thicket nearby. Upon the
arrival of the train at McCrory
officers were notified and together
with individuals went at once to
assist Mr. Cain in the search. Af
ter three and one half hours of
careful hunting, “Uncle John”
Raymond, “alias” Sherlock
Holmes, covered the “coon” with
a pistol and cried aloud, “Here he
is boys.” The Sheriff took charge
of the negro and carried him to
Jelks where he caught the six
o’clock train for Augusta.
C. W. Wood, marshall of New
port, and deputy, were in the city,
Wednesday, on official business.
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