Water Valley progress., September 06, 1884, Image 1

About Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918

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GLASSWAkk,
queensware,
baskets,
CHROMOS,
,-v TOWELS,
Handkerchief*, Hosiery, Napkins
Toys, Novelties and
PANOT GOODS,
the Lowett.
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Water Valley.
Office over C. C. Boyd’s new brick store^Mnin st.
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^*"%TTORNEYS at law,
I Water Valley, Miss.
HTOffii t at old post office, in the Lamar Block.
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^■|ll.IAMS & JACKSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
p - A Water Valley, Miss.
• over weatheny, McFarland & Davidson
L MARTIN,
TTORNEY AT LAW,
Water Valley, Miss.
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COMHITNICATED.
Editor Progress:
In this, the most important contest
which has ever adorned the American
history, a war of words should be
studiously avoided. God deliver us
from a war of words. The power of
words will separate hearts sooner than
the sharpest sword. The sting of
of words remains in the heart through
a whole life-time. There are, to-day,
thousands of good men who «r« luke
warm and found jn the ranks ofjthe
opposition party-alone because of the
lasting power of the sting of words,
uttered'through a mistaken idea of
men’s motives in favoring and in op
posing the late war. Any exhibition
of emblems of that unhappy struggle
only serves to kindle afresh in the
hearts of the people the bitterness of
that contest, which cannot end in
good results. Words of advice and
words of condemnation have a very
different effect—one appeals to the
Sietter judgement, while the bthef
arouses the bitterest passions. I do
not believe any man was ever con
verted by preaching to him the terrors
of hell, while thousands have been
by preaching to them the beauties and
excellence of the religion of Chriat
It is easy to speak words but hard to
MMbdicate their damaging effects;
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Floating banners, roaring cannons
and the smell of powder is the thing
to excite men to deeds of valor, but
sound logical argument is the thing to
reach the better judgement of men and
to harmonize them at the ballot-box.
There is no doubt but that the devil is
stalking abroad in the land, seeking
whom he may devour, but I never
thought it a good policy to bring him
into notice, even by the severes
abuse. The finer feelings of man, as
well as the soul need food of a purer
kind.
ivnue as an individual 1 might
most heartily endorse immersion as the
true mode of baptism while at the
same time I would bitterly oppose the
erection of a baptismal lank in the
midst of a union protracted meeting;
I believe it would have the effect to
chill the revival, and for the further
reason that the most important work
eas not yet been done. The moral of
this is - Away with . party prejudices
and party demonstrations. Harmon
ize the people in one common cause
and upon one common level betore
the law; teach them to forget what
they have suffered, and learn them to
work harmoniously for what they need
in the future, and then when the
government nas been brought back to
its Christian purity, with faithful ad
ministrators installed, and when all the
subjects shall have been fully prepar
ed for the baptismal ceremony, then,
if needs be, we can have a jubilee in
a clear place. This accomplished, I
have no doubt but Grover will CU(a)ve
to what is honest and right and will
land in the White house sure, and
then the old legal maxim, Lextalionis.
may be forever forgotten. No party,
creed or class of our people need to
ehurch dignitaries md priests, follow
by a choir of boys wended their way
j/aai uui uiup auu uvcr me unis in
search of Rojil master, the beat
ng of the tfcr ceased its mo
notonous rhich we are now
thicn meant: “I am
fhe Abyssinian
by the sound of the drum; people
knowing to their costthe “Bring your
tribute!” qr Stay, spare not 1" if it was
not forthcoming, ti»e memory of
which makes an Abyssinian husband*
man shudder to this day. It bas a
wonderful quaintnest about its tone
which is highly effective; and on the
morning in the silent darkess the drum
signaled the coming Johannes it was
indeed a grateful sound to us. We
had been virtually been prisoners for
the last five weeks, anxiously awaiting
his coming, so that we might get away
an end our unvaried life in
of Adowa; for
mild shooting, we
leave the camp
ces of interest
icn crew. At Wfe” last moment Ras
Allula was struck with the brilliant
idea of firing a salute in honor of his
monarch entering Adowa, so
he hurriedly sent down to our
camp for necessary men and blank
charges. When our scratch crew ar
rived, the king was too near and the
people too excited to pay any atten
tion to any order to stand clear of the
guns, so the officer in charge waited
until his majesty entered the cour1
yard, when with great difficulty six
rounds at irregular periods were got
off to the astonishment of the crowd,
who rushed round after each report in
great wonderment, some warriors
riding up, flourishing spear in hand,
at the mouths of the little guns.
Others were too proud to move away
when the “Stand clear” was ordered,
wnich so exasperated the Ras officer
that he cried: “Never nnnd, shoot
them down.” The camp followers
now arrived and tents in large
numbers were pitched up hiH and
down dale, the beasts of burden mak
ing for the fields and eating up the
grass like locuts.—Cor. London Daily
News.
Cotton picking by Machinery
The perfection of a practical cotton
rvlrlrini* marliino ia ru«rarrl«/l as A■■»*»»»■>
any more
or the threshers,
in the wheat belt
planters to increase
creage, to gather their
critical time when it is
add largely to their profit',
should add to the general prosperity
of their section, in which all indus
tries and temperate citizens
share.—Boston Htrald.
What a Woman can Do.
Woman are too modest and have
been too long suppressed by the ty- •
rant man to assert their just clapM ‘j
superiority over the lord of cr
But there are lots of things that a w<
man can do that a man cannot.
A woman can hold more clothe*
in her mouth and talk thro
knot-hole in the fence at thaj
time than a man can.
A woman can arrive at aconclemion
without the slightest trouble of rea- .
somng on it and no sane man can do