The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-07-20
FIT. LYNN FLASHES.


The humidity Of the atmosphere
today is not conducive to physical
comfort, neither does it promote
original thought. Therefore, my
dear readers, you need not look for
any very brilliant flashes in this
letter.
News did not accumulate to any
great extent the past week.
| am pleased to note that Mrs. r.
L. Tupper is convalescing, after a
weeks serious illness. Trust the
improvement may be permanent.
regret to learn that Mrs. w. M.
Owen was taken suddenly i'll Friday
evening. trust the lady will soon
regain her normal good health,
Johnnie, 7-year-old son of Mr.,
and Mrs, A, j. Ramsey, was strick-
en- with fever last Saturday, The
doctor reports him some better at
this writing,
Notwithstanding the sickness not
ed above the health Of this com
.munity is generally good.
Sulphur river is getting quite
low and the surface water of the
bottoms is about dried up,
The farmers hereabouts are anX-
ious for the rain makers to get to
work, Corn is suffering from the
hot, dry weather-it begins to look
like a drought, | trust a rain fall
will occur before any material dam
age is done.
Mrs, Mary Ramsey went to Tex
arkaua last Thursday to interview
a dentist which was satisfactorily
accomplished in time to come home
on the return train.
Capt, u, l., Tupper went to the
Gate City Saturday on business,
The Capt. Sundayed with friends IN
the city,
The only social ripple on the pla-
cid surface Of society last week was
something entirely new, 1t being no
less than a water melon party A
liberal hearted gentleman bought a
load of melons and invited every
body both great and small, to as.
sist him IN eating them, Next,
The friends of =, p, ELAN will be
surprised to learn that he sustain
ed a severe attack Of love sickness
a week ago, and has suffered a
great deal of anguish between hope
and fear His friends have hope
that with good nursing he will pull
through, My dear boy, that Is the
fruit Of exposing yourself to con-
tagioni but you can console your.
self with the knowledge that a
second attack Is not near so dan.
gerous as the FIRST
The Lynn Sunday School was but
slImly attended owing to the OPP
presslyeness Of the weather But
the Sunday night prayer meeting
was largely attended, which is very
encouraging to the leaders In the
Masters work
Now, my friends, as my letter Is
short, owing TO the lack Of material
upon which TO build, ! will add a
paragraph Of my own deduction,
"Human Sympathy" taught me by
experience, There Is no other in-
0ucnee 30 powerful In awakening
the affections Of the average hu-
man heart, Few, even Of the
roughest nature, whom II does not
Influence It eonstralns much more
powerful and effective than force
can do A kind word, sympathet-
ic look will NIcct those with whom
coercion has been tried In yalu,
sympathy invites love, confidence
and trust, when harshness proyoRea
aversion and stubborn resistance,
All, my friends, beware of harsh.
ness aud let M cultivate a sympa.
thelie bearing toward our fellow
creatures and thereby lay up treas
ures whom moth and rust do not
corrupt nor thieves break through
aud steal
with kindly greetlnga to the
readers Of the TFXARHANlAN, ! an
yours, ON0BsAaWBEK,
~ Lynn, Afku July 10, 'D7