The Osceola times. [volume], November 26, 1898, Image 6

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I FROM THE COUNTRY. E
I Newsy Letters From Our |
< Correspondents.
Golden Laxe Items.
Rev. B. H. Wallis preached us his
lust termon for this conference year,
Sunday, he <xpects to leave during
the week for conference.
Mr. Achilles Rhodes has been on
the sick list. He had to call In Dr.
Harrison to see him. He Is up now
and eating his three mcala a day.
Tht storm on the 21st blew out
lots of the 4c. cotton and will make
the grade much lower.
It looks like the river will get in
to Golden Lake from the way the
bank is caving in this, Bend 35.
Mess. Wilson & Beall shipped a
barge of lumber last week and are
loading another which will be ready
In a few days.
Mess. Uole and Dunlap visited
Pecan Point, Sunday, and Mess,
bnphrey, Johnson and McGlnntss of
Bardstown, were out to preaching
Sunday.
We are glad to see that Mr. Will
F. Harrison of/iur county is a candi
date for Journal clerk, of the next
house, and we hope he will be suc
cessful, as 1 can't remember, when
any of our boys ever bad any thing
in the house aud our members have
always help elect from some other
county, and I think it is our time
now, and don't think they could
elect a better man in the state than
Will F. Harrison; and then he is a
genuine native also.
The cold weather caught the Gins
napping and it required some time
to thaw out the pipes. The engi
neers say, it will be some time before
they are caught again.
You can always tell when business
is very dull, as the clerks can be
seen visiting around, hut always say
they have business to look after.
Mr. James Anthony, deputy county
Surveyor, was in town this week
doing some surveying. He generally
brings rain or a storm with him, and
he certainly got In just ahead of the
worst we have seen this season.
Mr Joe Brown of Cross bayou was
in town this week, he says he wants
the rail-road to pay for the cotton
through his Held any £ay. The
idea doesnt seem to have struck him
that his cotton isn’t, worth so very
much more than anybody else’s.
The picker gets all the moneV there
is in it; and if the railroad picks it,
or digs it up, who is the loser?
Exchange.
Present Day Thoughts.
BV GUOSVK'OR DAWK.
A Thauk*giviug Exhortation: The
giving of thanks is not an excuse for
boast log. One Pharisee did thank
God that tie was not as other men,
but we are justified in thinking less
of him than of the publican upon
whom lie looked down. Thus must,
it ever be. if life Is just; for the
human creature is so picayune in
comparison with the great universe
that blatant, boasting ways are fool
ishness, and quiet duty-doing efforts
in the place where we are, the high
est wisdom,
That is the word thAl strains on
most of us “Duty! Duty!" From
our childhood days we have associat
ed ttie word always with the thing
tha'- we felt inclined to do.
Even in our maturity we cannot find
1t vasv to do the thing that lies
straight before us, but we needs
must long after some greater sphere
in which to give full sway to our
remarkable powers. Thus we eye
some one eJae's path enviously, loose
sight of our own, and end up with
being unworthy of that which we
hitherto had done well add done
properly.
It is blindness to live in such a
way. We can not hasten the motion
of the world by wishing it to move
faster. Our only hopexif ever getting
recognition al ul! is. not by hoisting
:i signa! to anounce that there is a
great man. plodding at a silly un
woriny task, hut by doing the task
*o will that It shall lead to enquiries
for I’m great mind that could be so
careful over little details.
Mark it well, then:— the only way
to lasting greatness Is by doing with
all our might the thing that ought
to be done. The way to a broader
comprehension of life find its later
duties is by doing the one that comes
first, artfl doing It well. The face
that Is bent to its own task like the
head that is bent low to look beneath
the rank growth of a tropical forest,
is the one that sees wiser and deeper
than does that of the upright idler.
If you have a genuine desire to give
thanks, let it be more because you
feel awaken than tiecause you dream
of greatness; more because you have
patience to do what you ought than
because of vague aspirations for
extraordinary glory in the future.
Heights are not yet Jumped up by
human beings; there is still the
stupid method oC climbing to go
through. But, by the way, heights
are sometimes jumped down by blind
fools, who lift their eyes awav from
tbe safe path.
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But enough of personal exhorta
tion to that rarest sense—good sense.
Thanksgiving is a national affair
with us, and above al) little rejoic
ings over gain or comfort or pleasure
that has come to us individually
must rise a united feeling of thanks
that swallows up the lesser, even as
ddy devours the dawn.
What now do we see over which to
rejoice. A duty seen and a duty
done: a bowing of the face to a task,
and then a lifting of the heated brow
to the air of a broader outlook.
Nations are only men-aggregates
The nation that does as it should is
bound to be lead forward, Just as the
man is. Thus with us; and this
years Thanksgiving season Is one
that will have a fuller glory given to
it nationally than with many that
have gone before. We heard a cry
of distress, we felt that It ought, to
cease; beneath the very skirts of our
outspread land were deeds of vfo-
Ifence done. We turned neither to
the right nor left; we did not stop to
weigh the value of coins in our hand.
We smote because of the memory of
our liberty-loving sires; we smote
because commercialism had not dried
up human kindness; we smote be
cause our sons chose actual danger
rather than idle dalliance, we smote
because it is better to die for the
right than to live by permitting a
wrong. Let our thanks he that a
valiant past is echoed by a valiant
present.
When we ceased and lifted ot r
eyes it, was as though a transforma
tion had taken place. This narrow
ing thought of safe isolation from
the rest of the world had vanished,
even as the habiliments of childhood
are suddenly efiar!ged into those. < f
manhood. The transition was so
rapid that we were hardly aware
either when or bow we were pushed
out into the. great, broad, restless,
world, for good or for bad. Yet, it,
was the doing of the thing that had
to lie done wnich brought the broader
change. It is worse than idle far
ns to look back to where we have
hitherto stood. The steps can not
be ret laced. Let our thanks ba that
we saw our way clearly, and that, a
broader thought of international i'fe
will be ours forevermore.
A national bestirment of heart
obliterates all lines. Else is it not
national. A common dangeF or a
common enemy welds all factions.
So. to us, at this season, one of the
devoutest sources of thanksgiving is
that though political parties in
internal affairs still remain and must,
yet, internal rancor has died ou>,
and the memory of our titanic
struggle has been allowed to lapse in
order that both North and South
might, unite in an errand of mercy.
Let, our thanks be that, from north
to south, aud from east to west, the
spirit has been one. si that no
section can say of another that it is
lackink in devotion to the cause of
the oppressed.
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With every individual aud every
nation that bows in gratitude before
thb Ruler of hearts and of nations,
there must, !>e minified Ulih tie
praise a prayer for wisdom to meet
the problems of the days yet to come
Broader life carries with It increasid
responsibility, and therefore Increas
ed danger of mistakes. Yet a true
tain or a true, nißloo is not pusil
lanimous enough to cry back to times
of cilSe and sloth.
Onward to the hew duties Is the
wofd.
The Spanish Reace Commissioners,
at Varis, have been given free lati
tude to make grand plays to the
galleries of the world, with little
effect; they have been allowed to
make use of all the diplomacy at
their command, and they have play
ed all tbe reserved cards held up
their sleeves. Now time is up, and
our commissioners have called for a
show-down in the shape of an alti
matum, and the next meeting of the
Commission, will decide the Philll
pine contention, which will be not
latter than next, Monday.
The revolutionary ami outrageous
character of tbe McCleary bill for
which the Tories are making their
last desperate fight, mav be readily
understood by the following state
ment of what it would do if enacted
into law:
1. Retire $346,050,000 of greenbacks.
2 Stop coinage of silver dollars.
3. Make $500,000,000 of silver re
deemable in gold.
4. Make debt contracts, public and
private, payable in gold.
5. Turn over to banks all power to
issue paper currency.
6. Secure bank currency by assets
only.
7. Leave depositors without protec
tion.
8. Enable l'anks to contract or expand
their currency nt will.
9' Create a bank monopoly.
10. Leave honest banks at the mercy
of dishonest ones,
11. Make legitimate banking hazard
ous.
12. Increase the value of our debt
obligations, national and private, many
hundred million dollars.
13. Open an avenue tor wildcat bank
ing.
14. Provide a twelve-year board to
control currency.
15. “Mako money tlie master, every
thing else the servant.”—McKinley.
It, is positively astounding that
such a piratical measure can find
supporters in an enlightened age like
this: and yet it is a fact that this
bill is the product, df Mr. McKinley’s
Secretary of the Tiedxiiry, that it, is
approved by the President himself,
and wi ! i lie pushed to a possih’e
passage), the w holb weight and in
fluence of tie administration. But
after al . what better Should we ex
pect from a party that, can and does
unblushingiy advocate, the continu
ance o f t hat other monstrosity, the
single gold standard? The two are
i i I ict parts of one geneaal measure,
intemhd trim tbe beginning to
subjugate (he people and establish a
permaio u aristocracy on a basis of
wealth. The McCleary bill is the
culmination of the whole infamous
buxines-,, ihe ot,e thing that, was in
contempla’ioa even before the crime
of '73 wa- • nacted —Ex
MONTHLY
SUFFERING. |
*phousands of
women are
troubled at
monthly inter
vals with pains
in the bead,
back, breasts,
shoulders,sides
hips and limbs.
But they need
not suffer.
These pains are syiriptoms of
dangerous derangements that
can be corrected. The men
strual function should operate
painlessly-
MbmW
makes menstruation painless,
and regular. It puts the deli
cate menstrual organs in condi
tion to do their work properly.
And that stops all this pain.
Why will any woman suffer
month after month when Wine
of Cardui will relieve her? It
costs fr.oo at the drug store.
Why don’t you get a bottle
to-day?
For Advice, in cases requiring
special directions, address, giv
ing Symptoms, “The Ladies’
AdviAdby Department,” The
Chat&hooga Medicine Co.,
ChattShooga, Term
Mrs. I&2ENA LEWL***
..., of Osiv tlfle, Texas, sayss
“I Wat troublsdMt monthly Intervals
wttk terrible tains In my head ana back,
but have been entirely relieved by Wine
al CarM. i
LOST, STRAYED OB STOLEN.
On. W about the 10th inst, from my lot, In
Osceola, a bay horse, in good condition, about
H'A hands high: works to a buggy and Is a fine
saddler. A suitable reward will be given for
his return or information leading to his recov
ery.
Rav. J.
FOR SALE!
A light one horse wagon, one buggy, with
harness, plow and gear, one saddle and bridle.
All new, and used but little, Apply to,
A. W. Walker.
FOk.SALK.
Twenty head of males with harness, wagons,
and tools will be sold at Pecan Pt. Ark. Sat.
Dee. 17. Terms, 12 months, with approved
security. Mrs. E. E. McGavock.
E. E. WALKER & CO. i
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STAPLED FANCY GROCERIES. |
( Tropical Fruits, Candies, Fresh Canned Goods, Jel- j
< lies and nest grade Tobaccos. M a, 5
I Nice Game Lunches Served at al! Hours. $
| Cakes, Pies and all kinds of Lunch Goods constantly 7
hand. Gall and see us.
was©®, WARD €©.,
Cotton Factors
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Commission * Merchants.
A- & Liberal Advances Made on Consignments. £ *
WEST COURT BT. MEMPHIS, TENN.
B. W. HALE & CO.
COTTON FACTORS,
—AND—
Commission Merchants.
316 Front Street,
Memphis Tenn.
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! Bank of Osceola, j
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( PAID-UP CAPITAL, ©35,000,00. ■
J TJ'.TXTICILriIDED PE.OFITS, $2,550. $
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< c4pt. 8. s. Semmes <
( ti?* Your account is solicited. Special attention given to collections. i
For Information
About
Mississippi County J
f Timber Lands, ■ #
S ★★★★★*★* A- A*
L Write ARCHILLION & ROUSSAN, *
Branch Mice, REAL ESTATE AGENTS, L
Clear Ark. osceola, Arkansas.
TLIP Huitabln lands we have for homes lie between and Blvthes
-1 ll"l ville. The jnw ground which sets in shout a mile north of Luxora mis
■ ads prohiiecVira in tl'teir estimate of the quality of the lands farther north. Out
Lind- net in 31, miles from the river bank and there are some exceptloiiably fine
Inmii in bodies of sevetAl hundred acres, upon much of which there is no sign of
overflow. The timber <iu these lands is worth from $2.50 to |3.fio per acre, and is
< im ui tlv increasing in value. The terms on these lauds ate very liberal. By
n iying 75 cN. per m-re cash you obtain seven years time. Saw mills c.inuot ' long
icir.'dn out of gnis locality, 'fhu itreat amount of valuable cottdh wood aoct itscon
venien"e to the river must soon sell these lauds. They lie in dose proximity to
the mill sites now being opetated on and which will soon cut lilf or exhausted.
TIIP Matthews & Whitaker lands, ft,649 neres in a block, is a line location
lil i’ l for a colony. Theise lands are very level, and are the highest in thd
county. Some 1’3(10 acres were uncovered during the last, overflow. A company
shonhi l„. organized to purchase these lands, locate Saw Mills, tram out the tim
ber and put the hinds in cultivation. The settlements <>f Blythesvlile and Clear
l ake are lined up to these lands with eight miles of fence. Lying ns they do be
tween the growing settlemenu of Chickasaw ba and Luxora tlu-yTre rai idly ad
yunchig in value. Lands two iniles north of Luxora have beeii lately sold for |7,-
5o per acre after the saw mill timber had been removed iinrl previously sold to
the saw mill for SB.OO per acre. Nothing increases the value of land so cheaply
aa deadening the timber. An investment of 50 cts. per acre will increase the
worth of land at the rate of at least one dollar a year for several years. The lands
above mentioned is so desirable for homes. That after the saw stocks were re
moved nnd the rgihainlnc timber deadened, wltUlii d year dr two, th« land would
be worth SIO,OO per acre. '
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