AMID TORRENT OF HEROISM
Great European War Has Been Dif
ferent in This Respect From Other
Conflicts of the Past.
We have no hero, (in the great
European Avar), but a superabun
dance of heroes, observes Sidney
Low, in Fortnightly Review. We
live, as H. G. Wells says, amid a tor
rent of heroism. But it is the hero
ism of the common unregarded hu
man being, the man who was just
food for powder or food for pikes in
the olden wars. It may be that in
the multitudes who dimly trailed
through the battles and the marches
•and the mud and blood of the cam
paigns of the past there were soldiers
as brave, as loyal, as generous as
those Avho have been sent forth these
three years past from the cottages
and mean streets of Europe. It may
be so, for they do not figure in the
annals.
The historic muse, gathering her
skirts about her as she trips daintily
o\Ter their plebeian bodies, treats
them only as an entry in her cata
! logue. So many thousands of their
corpses, she notes coldly, left to fes
ter on the field; so many dragged off
to prison or to slavery; so many, it
| may be, butchered in the market
square or built up alive into the
walls of the fortress.
WHY HAND-RAILS ON STAIRS?
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The majority of us, subconscious
ly, no doubt, have come to look upon
handrails on stairways as a eonven- |
tional decoration—a sort of finishing
off, as it were. Yet last year 1,149
people were killed and more than
4,000 crippled in the United States I
alone, on stairways. High heels and
rundown heels are largely re
sponsible for stairway accidents,'
as well as trailing skirts. But
in almost every instance the
use of the handrail could have
saved the victims of last year’s
stairway casualties. Handrails are
intended for use, and accordingly
should be firmly grasped when going
down stairs, no matter how confi
dent one may be.—Scientific Ameri
can.
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Fakes Mercantile Company
ALL GUESS WRONG AT TIMES
Most Astute Financiers Made Mis
takes in Their Investments and
Never See Their Money Again.
Four trust companies of Philadel
phia have in their^care as trusts
$750,000,000. It was put there by
men and women who accumulated
all that wealth.
Did the makers of this three-quar
ters of a billion dollars always guess
right? Not if what a vice president
of one of those four banks told me is
true, writes Girard in the Philadel
phia Ledger.
“We never received an estate of
more than $50,000,” said he “that
didn’t have in it something worth
less. A large estate minus at least
one ‘cat or dog’ is as rare as icicles
in July.”
Had John D. Rockefeller put the
millions that he spent in Colorado
Fuel in a savings bank he would
have made a bigger return on his
money. Guessed wrong.
Had H. H. Rogers, the day he laid
out his tens of millions to build the
Virginian railroad, purchased Stand
ard Oil stock instead—he was vice
president of that company at that
time—his estate’s capital today
would be multiplied by three.
Guessed wrong.
In his lockbox, when Morgan died,
were many thousand shares of stock
that had no market value. Guessed
wrong.
res, indeed, tne ncn and oramy
as well as the poor dub often “takes
a flier” and never again sees his
money, even to kiss it good-by.
Moral: He is a spineless man who
once in a while cannot take a kick as
well as a pot of gold at the end of a
rainbow.
MENDING MATTERS
Germs are found in finger bowls,
And germs are found in kisses 1 -
One can’t hope to escape alive
From such a world as this is.
NOT SUCH A GLORIOUS JOB.
First Rookie—How do you like
the idea of dying for your country ?
Second Rookie—I don’t mind the
idea of dying for my country, but
I’m blessed if I like this job of peel
ing potatoes for her.
GOOD FIELD.
“Every rose must have its thorn.”
“Urn. By the way, hasn’t Bur
bank done anything in that direc
| tion?”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Commissioner’s Sale.
Notice is hereby given that
pursuant to an order and deerep
of the Woodruff Chancery Court
for the northern district, made
and entered at its September '
term, 1917, in a cause pending
herein, wherein J. H. Cook, et
al. are plaintiffs and Mrs. M. V *
Kitchens is defendant, I will sell
to the highest and best bidder at
public outcry, at two P. M., on
October 16, 1917, at the front
door of the Bank of McCrory, at
McCrory, Arkansas, the follow
ing described real estate, to-wit:
Lots 13 and 14 in Block Two
Johnson & McDaniel’s Addition
to thd town of McCrory.
Terms of Sale
This sale will be on a credit of
three months, and notes with ap
proved security, bearing interest
at Six per cent will be required
for the purchase money.
Witness my hand and seal this
21st. day of September, 1917,
9-21-3t L. W. Winfree,
« Commissioner in Chancery.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
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LAWYER
% McCrory, . . . Ark.
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DR. R. L. FRASER,
IS READY TO ANSWER
CALLS, DAY OR NIGHT.
Phone Number 2,
McCrory. . \ Arkansas
L.B.WINFREE.J.P.
CONVEYANCES
G. W. BARBER
NOTARY PUBLIC
AND INSURANCE
Feed, Lumber, Coal
Shingles, Doors, Rubber
Roofing, Paints, Brick and
Lime.
Corn, Oats, Chops, Hulls
and Meal.
H. D. SWAYZE
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