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The Harrison times., 1916-12-23
CHRISTMAS CREED UNIVERSAL
Adjusts Itself to All Conditions and
All PIaces--lt's Magic influences
the World.
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The festival called Christmas has
come to have a creed wider than any
ritual Its magic has influenced the
world in a degree more profound and
far-reaching than that of any other
recurring incident marked by the his
tory of mankind. Its sentiment has,
indeed, overftowed all boundaries, both
of sect and of social condition. It's
high, clear note of cheer and charity
has appealed to an unbOunded degree
wherever human ideals have had sway.
Pessimism halts at its portal.
The creed of kindness adjusts itself
to all conditions and all places. 1t
seems to be good working creed,
despite the unattractive phases of per-
functory giving and taking. 1t is
cheerful creed. 1t strews life with gay
ETY. and color. 1t is a elimination to
sentiments of fair play, to active SYM
pathy, to the do-it-now impulse.
Christmas has no climate. 1t giOws
where life is green and where it is
white. In city and in country, in the
hills and on the desert, among the
pines and among the palms it finds
voice. 1t Is holy day and holiday. 1t
drapes the altar and the hearth. 1t
has many American versions, and
many races add their varying symbols
to it's tenderness and to its animation.
Above all, the call of Christmas Is
"Peace on Earth" In the present
grievouS crisis of the world there is
significance in this call beyond that of
any crisis mankind ever before was
called to read. That war has darkened
Christmas for so much of the world
may well seem, at the moment, the
crushing condemnation of all such con-
flicts.
Yet it will remain true that the full
beauty of the day and the time is due
those who may find that beauty. Chill
dren of every land seize it for their
own. And Except ye become as one
of these" life loses it's saving luster.
The Harrison times., 1916-12-23

ess. 1t Is, therefore, only partly
parasite so far as dependence upon
host for food is concerned, but ap-
parently none the less harmful on that
account. 1t secures from its host only
what the normal shrubbery plant de-
riyes from the soil, namely, water and
certain necessary mineral constituents.
Imagine a grapevine or a trumpet
creeper while retaining its foliage, to
sever connection with the soil and to
thrust rootlike outgrowths into the
body of the tree to which it clings, in
order to absorb from the tree what
before it absorbed from the soil. This
would represent the relation which
mistletoe sustains to its host"
1t is interesting to note that there
are points of difference between the
American mistletoe and the European
mistletoe, to which such a wealth of
legend and romance attaches But the
points of difference are not import
ant, and the American Is very like
the European mistletoe in its appear
ance and its habits of life. The name
'mistletoe" was long ago applied to
the mysterious parasitic European
shrub to which centuries later Lin
naeus gave the name viscum album.
Since chat time related species have
been found in nearly all parts of the
world, especially in the warm coun.
tries. The family of mistletoes Is
now known to be large one, en-
bracing more than six hundred species.
1t has been written that in the course
OF botanical explorations in the west
ern hemisphere numerous representa-
tives Of the family were found, and
among them was one which so close
ly reSembled the original mistletoe
that it was given the generic name Of
viscum, with the specific designation
OF "favescens," and one early botan-
ical explorer, the celebrated Thomas
Walter, called the specimens which he
found in the Carolinas viscum album,
under the impression that they were
Identical with the European plant.
The Harrison times., 1916-12-23
PLANT A PARASITE
MStIetoe, Christmas Decoration,
Lives Off Other Trees.
Fastens Itself Upon Host Where X
ThriVes and Destroys-Difference
Between American and Euro
pean Varieties.

.adk~%z~< HE miStletoe season
GSNsSy is at hand, and a
EH A&ET great many thoughts
t&<SHTM1-g are being given to it
E<9k and a great many re-
s~&$tsAs ferenceS. humorous,
SemihumOrOuS and
sentimental, are being made to it.
Many boughs, branches and pendants
OF this beautiful and mysterious plant
are being severed from the oaks and
other trees and now hang from chan
deliers, gas burners, door jambs or
other places where women ana young
girls may pass beneath it.
A great deal has been learned about
mistletoe by the botanists, and yet
there is much about the curious plant
which the wiSest men do not know.
The variety with which people are ac-
quainted is a parasite, yet it is not
altogether a parasite.
William L. Bray, an investigator in
forest pathology for the Department
of agriculture, has written this for the
Washington Star:
"The plant is a parasite. 1t fastens
itself upon its host, the tree, pene-
trates its tissue and draws nOurish-
ment from it, defOrming it ana sap
ping its vitality. Yet the mistletOe is
green, leafy plant; that is, it pos
sesses the pigment chlOrOphyll, which
gives the green color to normal veg
citation. Some of the tropical species
of mistletOe bear leaves as large as
those of the American elm.
"The. presence of green leaves in
dicates that the mistletoe has the
power, which independent green plants
everywhere possess, of constructing
organic foodstuffs, such as starch,
out of inorganic compOunds-carbon
diOxide and water-utilizing sunlight
as the source of energy in the proc
The Harrison times., 1916-12-23
A little editorial talk

A little editorial talk -
about joys and SOr-
rows, failures and
achievements of the old
year, and hopes and
promises for the nezv ::
Suggestions for a NeaV
Years EUe party: Also
a tezV zVords by a doctor
about a" Swearing off"
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UnkIndest Cut of All.

"Whats Dodsworth so MAD about?"
"You know he weighs approximate
ly two hundred pounds, and prides
himself on being every inch a manT
"Of course"
"Well, some spiteful person sent
him wrist watch for Christmas
present"
The Harrison times., 1916-12-23

Engaged Girl-Tm going to give
John a cigar case ana diamond
stickpin. What are you going TO give
Frank?
Married Friend-Oh, I'm giving him
a fireless cooker and a dime savings
bank.
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His Portion.

Bill-Do you expect your landlady
to give you anything for Christmas2
Jill-Sure.
what do you expect It to beT" !
"Oh, the neck, l reckon" ;
The Harrison times., 1916-12-23

TANDlNG as we are, upon the
threshold of another year, many Of
us will, in fancy, go back over the
twelve months that have passed
and smile when we recall the New
Year resolutions" we made year
ago.
The Harrison times., 1916-12-23

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Mu GhriHtmaa Urrr
On
Christ
mas morn
ing aohen
awake. and
sleep duSf from
my eyes shake, I
see a sight thar
makes me start and
causes fhumpings in my
heart! A Christmas tree
oh, pretty Sighf-wifh con-
dies, bells and balls oiight.
With horns and dolls and sugar
pfumS. and skates and trains and
beating drums. And oh, IL Is a zcon.
der-free. with heaps of things for me
TO see! Rare gifts hang upon
the side, which finSeied fairies
cannot hide. A soldier
doll. a doll house.
TOO. and strings
OF gold
come TO my
view, and
as look
Jeem 70
hear SiVeef
Christmas
music Soff
and clear.
A Merry Christmas IL seems 10 sov.
"A merry. happy. holy day!
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Wise Willie.
After five-year-old Willie had gone
to bed on Christmas eve his mother
went into the room to see if he had
hung up his stocking properly for
Santa Claus. Much to her surprise
she found that the little fellow had
appropriated one of hers for the occa-
sion and mad attached slip of paper
on which he had printed in bold
hand one of his Sunday-school texts:
THE Lord lOvvEtH CheaRfuLL
giVveR."
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His Portion.
Bill-Do you expect your landlady
to give you anything for Christmas2
Jill--Surp
The Harrison times., 1916-12-23

tenlions were of the very best, but Gid
no. have the will power to live up to them
Pray what is the' sense of making new, onesY
Well, forget last years good resolutions and
,A1 the past year entirely Turn with llt nope pc
" lonhdeHce to the great new year about to
w TT1yes, make new good resolutions as
e-r n em as your brain can conjure up. Per-
tu did fail to keep the good intentions
.lade you so happy when you thought them
but remember you are very human. Indeed,
, II we all were not so very human there would be
Iolutely no need of ever making any kind
pod resolutions.
w of us will see the old year go with few
1t brought us, perhaps an extra share
and diSappointments, but are we not all
letter and stronger for them, and will not
lessons they taught us stand us in good stead
.dlring the coming days? Dear friend, let me as
sure you that the difficulties and discouragements
YOU surmounted during this still present year will
without question make you better and Drawer
woman.
Welcome the new year. and by all means make
new good resolutions, Every one of us needs to
make them, because as have said, we are all
man or woman.
In the hearts of most of us is wonder, curl
osty as to what the coming year may bring to
MS whether good fortune or bad, sorrow or joy.
How many of us realize that the shaping of our
fortunes during the year to come is in our hands?
We do not need TO depend on some imaginary
fate TO deal us out good luck bad, as she will,
If we have the earnestness and the desire to sue
The Harrison times., 1916-12-23
All Desire Happiness.

But, after all, we want something more out Of
the wear to come than just material success, well
come though that may be. Success Is not always
attended by happiness, and what we all desire
in reality In 1917 is happiness no matter what It's
source. To be contented and happy, that Is the
most we can wish for anyone, including ourselves.
We can find true happiness by making and keep
ing the proper kind Of New Years resolutions.
The annual period for taking stock of our
mental spiritual and material resources mas
most of us about where we were year ago. We
ora living about the same. We are thinking about
the same thoughts
We are animated by about the same expecta-
tions When we are depressed 1t Is because or
the same old fears
Some have learned something In the dying
year. Some have not. Some hope to learn during
the coming year.
Most Of us spend the main portions OF our lives
In disappointment over the failure of that which
we boped might come to pass, balancing that with
our washed.out pleasure that the worst OF the
things we feared did not happen. Some of us
lack grip upon ourselves
This annual stocktaking Of our mentality
should light the future of the coming year with
the experience Of the year just passed. II II
doesn't do that we are not doing the Job right
The extent ~ which we have learned our les
,ons In the old year will be the measure In which
No may gauge our expectations for the new year.
Turning the New Leaf.
From time mmemoriul It has been the custom
Of the forehanded good odfashioned neighbor to
SQUARE up his accounts make new resolves start
cutting of certain bad habits, and turn over
new eaf|L
This Is perfectly reasonable and natural. AS the
calendar marks a new cycle Of time, 80 we In
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-04-21

Infants white Coats, of all wool
cashmere and crepella; hand en-
broidered collars and cuffs; some
with silk braids: fine quality lin
ings; choice of several models.
Sizes six months to 3 years.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-04-21
Children's Coats, $4.98
and Sc. %

Children's Coats. of serge. checks
and silk poplin, also covert cloth (:
newest models, belted and REFER
or box styles: lined with. fine
quality sateen. Well tailored.
Sizes 2 to 6 years.
The Little River news., 1916-04-29
ARDEN NEWS.

Arden, April 2S.-(Special.)-- )--hor- ace Hodges has returned home after visit of several months with rela- tives in Missouri l !ue Fortune of Texarkana is visit ing hic Sister, Mrs R. S. Davis
 Miss Oracle Johnson of Ashdown vstod friends here Saturday and Sun day.
 w. Curry and family have moved I from this place to Baker. We regret very much to lcse this family from our midst, but wish them success in their new home.
 Miss Bonnie Bradshaw visited rela- lives near Richmond Saturday and Sunday.
 | Mrs Salle Bradshaw visited here several days last week.
 Miss Bessie Curry entertain Ad the young people of this place Tuesday night with a Rock party. All enjoy ed themselves very muck. l The following enjoyed fish fry on
  Walnut bayou near the steel bridge last Saturday: MT. and Mrs w. J. Perry, Mr. and Hrs. Ed Grant, Messrs. Steve Crews, Carl Withem, R. s. Davis and Steadman Davis, Misses Lizzie Bouyer, Annie Young and BadrIce Withem. Much excitement was caus- ed by one of the party falling in the bayou. (No names mentionedl
 MT. and Mrs. W. M. Dye returned here last week prom Baker
 MT. and Mrs. P. s. Davis have re- turned from a visit to Center Point. The Farmers Union enjoyed an in ,teresting meeting at Wades Chapel Thursday. Dinner was served on the grounds.
 l Mrs. Julia Brown will leave next week for visit to her daughter in Monroe, La. /
The Little River news., 1916-04-29
Notice for Publication.

Department of the Interior U. s. Land Office at Camden, Arkansas. Notice is hereby given that Mary D.. Chapman of Long, Arkansas, widow of Alonzo Chapman, who on April 23, ia10. made a Homestead Entry, Serial No, o4334. for the W. NEi, NW4 SE4, and the Nl14 NWi. section 36, town ship F S., range 29 w., 5th Prln- cipal Meridian. has filed notice of in tention to make Final Five Year Proof to establish claim to the land above described. before the Circuit Clerk of Little River county, at Ashdown, Ark ansas. on the 27th day of April, 1916
 Claimant names as witnesses: John Garner, Long. Ark. Sales Stephens. Fl. A. Hale. A. F. Hale, of Ashdown., ,Arkansas.-R. D. Newton. Register. s
The Little River news., 1916-04-29
"DodsOn's Liver TCna' Is Harmless | Clean Your Sluggish Liver
 and Bowels.

Ugh Calomel makes you sick. It's horrible! Take dose of the dangerous drug tonight and tomorrow you may lose Q days work.
 Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones.
 Calomel, when it comes into contact
 with sour bile crashes into it, breaking it up. This is when you feel that awful
 nausea and crampins If you are slug
 gish and Gall knocked out" if your
 liver is torpid and bowels constipated
 or you have headache, dizziness, coated
 tongue, if breath is bad or stomach sour,
 just try a spoonful of harmless Dodson's
 Liver Tone tonight on my guarantee.
The Little River news., 1916-04-29

W. 4. Curry and family of A'.'sl l hatc nCs cd to Patmos, Hempsteae cornly. where they will make t'l. IF | Eome. The New will follow them 10 their new home and keep them posted Miss Ethel Dowda left Wednesday evening for Little Rock to attend a l meeting of insurance writers of Ar ! kansas. She is the manager of the l McIver Abstract and Insurance Com ! Dany of this city.
 Tom Poland, who returned home several weeks ago from Waco, Texas, after breaking his hand, will leave III a few days for some place to again play ball. He thinks his hand Is su1, iIcently we'll to play the remainder of the season. He is not definitely To- cated yet
 Mrs. Obarr of Winthrop, is visiting Mrs. T. H. Derryberry near the city. 1 ***Will Adams of Foreman was a vis- itor to this city Sunday. ***Our old friend T. w. William of Cerro Gcrdo, Ark, was in the city Saturday-Idabel Gazette
 Arthur Hill, postmaster at Ashdown was in the city yesterday. visiting his mother, Mrs. Emma Greene **. .MrsO. M. Oliver of Ashdown was a guest at the Barlow yesterday **#E c. Payne of Ashdown was at the Barlow Mon day. ***J. H. Wallace, of Saratoga, who has banking interests at Ashdown and Nashville, was in the city Monday aft ternoon enroute to Little Rock to at tend the Bankers ConventiOn.-Sta of Hope. Wednesday.
 Mesdames s. c. Marr and J. w. Ringgold - re hostesses to tle mem bers of the Methodist Missionary Soc iety Wednesday in the church. The church parlors were beautifully dec- orated with roses and ferns. The fol- lowing interesting program was giv- en: Mountain and Rural work in China, Mrs. T. B. Cook; The Laura Haygood school, Mrs. R. M. Price: How can the church be made a com munity Center? Mrs. J. M. Johnson; During a short business session the society voted to have dinner and bazaar May 9th. At the close of the program the hostesses served a deli cious spring luncheon and presented i each guest with corsage boquet of roses.
The Little River news., 1916-04-29
Confirmation Notice.

Notice is hereby given; that J. B. 1urks has this day filed in the Chan .Eery Court of Little River county. Ar kansas, his petition, praying the court 70 quiet and confirm his title to the following described lands, situated in said county, towit: The NE1 NV,
 section 12. township 13 S.. range 32 west; part of the NWa of the NWs of section F, township 13 S., range 32 ~est, described as follows, towit:
 Commencing at the NE corner of the WI NW4 said section 12; run thence south 330 yards; thence west 132 yards; thence north 330 yards thence east 132 yards to the point of begin ming, containing 9 acres in the NE corner of the said NV NV also commencing again at the said NE cor aer of the said NW4 NWa section F, township 13 s. Range 32 Vest thence north no yards; thence west I3z yards: thence sCJth 1l0 var s:ther e. east l32 yards to the point of begin ming, being 3 acres in the SEE corner of the SWi SWl section l, township i3 S., range 32 west. Therefore. all persons who have or claim any inter est Tn said lands. or any part thereof
 are hereby warned to appear at the May term, 1916 of said court to show cause, if any they have, why the title in and to said land should no, be Quieted and confirmed in said petition e.. Given under my hand anc the seal of said court on this the 2Sth day of April, 1916.-Chas. H. Park, Cir Cuig and Chancery Clerk. Sat A
The Little River news., 1916-04-29

Watson Furlow has accepted pesl- , tion with the Wilson Lumber Corr pany at BOkhoma. He writes for the News to be forwarded to him at that place
 Miss Kathleen Davis was taken to Texarkana Thursday evening for an operation for appendicitis She was visiting in Foreman when she was taken ill.
 Mrs. Austin Bettis and children were the guests of MT. and Mrs. Geo. Steel Thursday while enroute to De- Queen and Lockesburg to visit with relatives.
 MT. and Mrs. Clyde Briant are enter taining number of friends Saturdaj, evening in honor of Misses Corbett, Zink and Levinson, the latter two of TeXarkana.
 A. Goldsmith, who has been very ill at Texarkana with pneumonia. re- | turned home Thursday His many friends in this city are glad to see him able to be up again. H. J. Tyson and Dr. A. w. Rice went to Arden Thursday, where they attend a meeting of the farmers Un- ion, and also addressed the union of hog cholera and tick eradication.
The Little River news., 1916-04-29
Notice for Publication.

Department of the Interior, U. s. Land Office at Camden, Ark, March 31 is1s. Notice is hereby given that Lee Nelson, of Wilton, Arkansas, who on December 13, 1910, made a Home stead Entry, Serial No. 04625 for the t'rl. SEi NWl. Frl SWi NEi, Frl NJ SEi, Frl. s! SEi and the Frl. NE1 SW3, Gall on the right bank of the river) section 23 township II south, range 30 w., 5th Principal Meridian aas filed notice of intention tC make tlnal Five year proof. to establish claim to the land above described, be- fore the Probate Clerk of Little River County, at Ashdown. Arkansas on the 18th day of May, 1916. Claimant 0ames as witnesses. Joe Cleaver, James Talley. Toney Harden, Andrew Nealey. all of Wilton, Ark.-R D. New ton, Regiter. 3S Sat
The Little River news., 1916-04-29
SAVED FROM KNIFE Bf
 WONDERFUL REMEDY
Fearing an Operation, Fannie Rupert Tries Treatment and Laughs
 At Surgeons.

Fannie Rupert of Linevile, Ark, sui tered from stomach troubles and di- gestive Arrangements of years stand ing Her condition was serious and doctors urged an operation. She feared that because of her age.
 She took Mayr's wonderful remedy and right away '..sr appetite came back and her E,3l T improved rapidly She wrote:
 T received y0t- comedy and it has done all that you said it would do.
 T fee better than I have for twen- ty-fye years, and the doctors said there was no cure for me except an operation, and I was too old. My Friends are astoDished at the way l eat now"
 Mayr's wonderful remedy gives per manent results for stomach, liver and intestinal ailments. Eat as much and Whatever you like. No more distress after eating pressure of gas in the stomach and around the heart Give que bottle of your druggist now and try 1t on an absolute guarantee-if not satisfactory money will be re- turned. advt Mo- 4
 Fer Sale by Boyer Drug Store and all other reliable druggists.
The Little River news., 1916-04-29
GAL L0MEL WHEN BILIOUS? NO! STOP!
 MAKES YOU SICK AND SALIVATES

Here's my guarantee-Go to any drug store and get 50 cent bottle of Dod- sons Liver Tone. Take a spoonful and if it doesn't straighten you right up and make you feel fine and vigorous I want you to go back to the store and get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying the sale of calomel because it is real liver medicine: entirely vege- table. therefore it can not salivate or make you sick
 l guarantee that one spoonful of Dod- sons Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of that sour bile and constipated waste which is clogging your system and mak ing you feel miserable. l guarantee that a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire family feeling fine for months. Give it to your children. It is harmless; doesn't gripe and they like it's pleasant taste.
The Little River news., 1916-04-29
$500 No
 Inducenaent
Real Appreciation shown for Great
 Benefit Received.

The Boyer Drug Store leading local druggists are now agents for Hays Specific, the great system tonic of which E. M. Johnson, of Sharon, Tenn. wrote when he said:
 "I have used 1-2 bottles of your Hays Specific for long case of cine I ever used, as I was all bent over, could not stand straight. 1 am now all right, and would not take
 Hays Specific, the great system ton- ac, can now be bought here in Ash @adown, from the Boyer Drug Co. adv
The Little River news., 1916-04-29
ASSESSORS NOTICE

will be the following places the date set assessing all Personal Property subject to Taxation in Little River County, for year, 1916. River township, Richmond Monday Tuesday, June and 6.
 Franklin township Davis School House. Wednesday, June T. Franklin township, Red Bluff, Thursday, June 8. Johnson township Ogden, Friday and Saturday. June and 10
 Cleveland township, White Cliffs Monday June 12. Arden township Arden, Tuesday, June 13. Arden township Wades' Chapel, Wednesday, June 14 Richland township, Crten Ridge, Thursday June 15 Jackson township, Union Gin Saturday, June IF. Arkinda township, Jewel Monday, June 19. Caney township Gordo, Tuesday, June 20. township Pauey School House. Wednesday, June 21 township Miller School House. Thursday June 22 Little River township Winthrop Friday and Saturday. June 23 and 24
 Davis township Jones' School House. Monday June 26 township Alene, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 27 and 28
 township Oak Hill Church. Thursday June 29 Cleveland township, Wilton Friday June 30 Saturday. July 1.
 Ashdown, House. during July of Court, July to 15
 Arknda township, Arknda, Monday, July 17. township Foreman Tuesday, July IS Saturday. July 22.
 Ashdown, Court Monday July 24 to Saturday, Aug after which time there will be penalty of $0O charged everybody failing to
 K. M. DILLARD
 TAX ASSESSOR LITTLE RIVER COUNTY.