The Harrison times., 1917-09-29
T. J. ESTES WRITES AGAIN
OF HIS RECENT VISIT HERE.

EQllOT lmtS.
As should be common in that great
fruit and vegetable section OF country,
our son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. aid
Mrs. W. w. Paden, of near Olvey, have
home Gamer. a fine tomato patch
and lots OF vegetables and fruits TO
can and TO preserve, and we had the
pleasure Of helping some while there.
noted many improvements in Har.
rison. The handsome new court
house, streets, payements, business
and home buildings, etc. | also fig
ure that some of the foresighted and
lucky wheat growers of Boone coun-
ty will, this year, realize from $40 10
SEQ per aacre, and the lucky corn and
cotton raisers will realize handsomely,
too. Good luck to you old boys You
have had many hard tussles, but you
are sure winners this time, and hope
this is the year that many of you will
get above the dead line Take c0ur-
age and try the harder next year
But the causes that have brought you
these good prices for your products
have saddened many poor hearts ana
made the struggle harder for many
unfortunates.
While | was at Yellville eX.Sheriff
Perkins told me that about two years
ago some parties were overhauling
and repairing the old home in which
was raised at Yellyille and found a
salt barrel above the ceiling, which |
thus explained: During the Civil War,
when chances to get salt were almost
impossible, my father pried off some
short boards Of ceiling in one corner
and put that barrel up there with salt
in it, and the barrel, but not the salt
had remained there in its war time
hiding place for many years. That
was a time when we had to hide
things to keep them. The dirt was
dug up in about all of the smoke
houses and put in hOppers and water
run through like lye and then boiled
down to salt and we thought it was
awful fine, too
While ! was at Flippin | visited the
cemetery on the hill nearby where
many relatives and old time friends
lay in the peaceful sleep of death;
where the suffering, and sorrows do
not disturb; but as John, the Reve-
lator says, They rest from their Ia
bors and their works do follow them. =
And as | stood by the graves of my
dear old father and mother ! thought
Of the many things they had done for
me-of the worry, the suffering, the
patience, the anxiety, the care and
the many others; and of the many
opportunities had let slip by when
could have made their lives happier
and brought them pleasure instead Of
sorrow-of my unthoughtedneSs care
lessness, naughtiness and unappre.
ciativeness-of things | ought not to
have said and done. These | remem.
bered with shame and sorrow. But
it was with pride and pleasure that |
remembered the too few things ] had
done to please them and brighten
their lives and to make their lives
more pleasant and easier. But the
opportunities were too often neglected
or unnoticed, just as is the case with
other boys, young men, and girls, TOO.
Like you are, or should be, | loved my
parents and wished them the very
best possible and it was a great pleas
ure to me to do anything for them or
to please them, but |, like you. was
too careless and unthoughted AMI let,
so many opportunities pass unim.
proved Boys, | am old man now and
give you this with the hope that it
may benefit both you and your par
ents, Soon they will be beyond reach
of your words of love, cheerfuIness
and kindness, of your acts of helpful.
ness, of your tightening of response
bilities, sorrows and burdens. Think,
boys, and watch for the opportunities
and do not let them pass mn0ticed
and unimproved, And | speak the
same to you, girls, also If yor want
a good husband, and Of course, you do,
then choose young man that loves
his parents, is sober, truthful and hon
est-a real manly man. And, boys, if
you want a real wife then choose a
girl that loves her parents better tnan
any body except you, and is kind and
helpful to her mother, and take no
other,