The log cabin Democrat., 1909-01-07
TRIBUTE TO
 DIR. A. C. HOSS

The following tribute in mem- ory of Dr. A. C. Hoss, formerly of this city and a brother of Mrs. P. H. Prince of Conway, appeared in his home paper, the Jonesboro (Tenn.) Herald and Tribune of December 30.
 Dr. Archibald Calvin Hoss was born December II, 1852, and died of pneumonia at his home near Jonesboro, December 22, 1908.
 He leaves a widow, formerly Miss Allie Susong, of Green coun- ty. Tennessee, and three children, a boy of eight and two little girls.
 Except the time he spent at col lege and seven years i'll Arkansas, after his graduation at Jefferson Medical University, Philadelphia, Pa, Dr. Hoss has lived here, en- gagged in the practice of his pro fession, of which he was an able and honored member.
 He was a man of much and fine intelligence, of attainments that served him well, of a conquering will force, of a heart sympathetical ly sensitive to helplessness and suffering and such union of strength and gentleness as to make one turn instinctively to him in time of trouble.
 He was we'll read both in cur rent and classic literature, and the Bible, Shakespeare and Burns were open books to him, his delight in them increasing with his years.
 There was no trace of Cowardlce in him. Always he had the true courage that fights or endures, and whether he was standing firm for what he deemed was right or duty, or whether he was paying penalty for wrong, or error, he "quitted himself as man. "
 His death was distinct loss to the community. He was an excel lent citizen, one who aided not only in material things. but stood with all his strength for civic righteousness, for the bettering of political conditions, and against the commercializing of conscience for place and profit.
 He loved his profession and both by nature and requirements. was fitted for it, and with his best endervors he furthered its high aims and never consciously lower ed it's ideals nor transgressed against its ethics.
 As husband and father, only his now widowed wife and his fatherless children have knowledge emphasized more sorely now by its loss-how exceedingly tender and all protective that love was.
 He was an unselfsh, kindly neighbor, helpful where he could be; not much given to expressions of affection, but to the few close friends to whom his soul was knit, his love was as that of David unto Jonathan.
 He was fond of hunting, of his farm work, of his orchards and horses and cattle, and loved, with almost passion, the open air, the woodlands and streams and fields, the growing crops and the harvest ing, and tor him, as for many others, the earth proved bene diction.
 Dr. Hoss was not church mem Der, but no man was ever farther from idle or suspicious irreverance and he did his faithful best to meet the requirements for right living given by the Prophet of the Lord -"deal justly, love mercy and and walk humbly with thy God, '"
 All too hard, it seems to us, with our poor human vision, is it for him to have to go the dark, cold road alone, but
 Hath he not always treasures,
 always friends,
 The strong, true man? Two treas
 ures, love and light,
 And calm thoughts, equable as
 infants breath,
 And three fast friends, more sure
 than day or night,
 Himself, his Maker, and the Angel
 Death.