Water Valley progress., June 28, 1902, Image 1

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The portraits of ten of Mississippi’s greatest men are to be
placed in the new capitol at Jackson.
In order to determine who are the greatest men, a popular vote
of the State is being held through the newspapers.
Use the attached blank for your vote. Every male Misaissippian
over 15 years of age is entitled to vote and may vote as many
times as he secures official ballots.
Pill out the following ballot, cut out and mail to the Progress,
addressed “Hall of Fame” Vote, The Progress, Water Valley, Miss.
THE PROGRESS’ “HALL OF FAME” BALLOT.
t vote for
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LEGEND OF SHIP ISLAND. jgZ*
*No Buzzard Has Alighted There Since 1699
“I want to tell you a little le
gend,” said a man past the priine
x of life, Vho has lived in Biloxi
continuously from hiitb, and who
baa given nau«ic;^ jcngttera no lit*
r tie study. ‘ ‘iv-hi.t £- % m about to
tell you will be corroborated by
Capt. Dan McCall, who^was light
house keeper at Ship Island for
twenty-four years; by Peter Clar
isse, Jthe present keeper; by all
buarantine officials who have been
stationed there and by seafaring
men who have traveled out of
this port. The story may sound
unreasonable and mythical, but
you can’t find a human being on
the globe who has since 1699 seen
a buzzard or bird of prey on Ship
Island.
“In that year—1699, ’’ went on
the narrator, “a Catholic priest,
woo came over with Xiemoyne
de’Iberville, the French explorer,
and landed at Ship Island^ died
and the remains interred near the
centree of the island. Before his
death the priest prayed God that
no buzzard, bird or beast of prey
ahould ever disturb his bones. It
was desire that buzzards be ban*
ished from the island, and never
permitted to return.
“And to this day no one has
seen a buzzard on Ship Island
\ toil. The vultures frequent Horn,
BETTER
THAN EVER.
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The IXL wants your
Laundry work and guar
antees satisfaction.
Same conditions as
last year
Chan del islands, and
can be found any day on the coast
of tbe mainland—four points
>vhicti form o compass about Ship
Island. On Cat Island, where
stock-raising is carried on exten
sively, butchers complain that it
is very hard to raise ho^* because
vbvk.dtt.fc iotra m'-piga; lunne
diately after the birth of swine
bazzards swoop down and pounce
upon the defehceless animals. At
Horn and the Chandeleurs animal
life of the sea is washed ashore—
sometimes tons and tons of dead
jflsh—anp upon this flotsam the
vultuses feed. Along the Missis
sippi coast carrion is much more
easily found, and buzzards here
are a nuisonce.
“But at Ship Island, where fish
are washed up the same as at the
other places, no birds of prey
ever come. Captain McCall one
time saw a buzzard circle the
island, cross and recross it and
finally -alight on a long spar pro
jecting from the sand. It remain*
ed but a few moments and never
touched soil.
jluu its* me iu auuuum iur mjjb
singuarly strange fact. All I c?n
say is this continued banishment
of buwards from soil wherein lie
the bones of a man of God—a
priest who had invoked divine
aid in the preservation of his mor
tal remains—is evidence^f the
power and supreme eout*#l of the
Creator. Give as many scientific,
explanations as you will, none can;
show why buzzards avoid good
and extensive feeding grounds.’’
—Biloxi Herald.
Do Something for Somebody.
There are many children’s hos
pifnls in this land, blessed places
where the little suffering ones
are cared, and sent back to the
world well, or administered to
^?jth tender love, if it is ordained
that they are to slip away to an<
other world. For these helpless
little ones there are long, dreary
days, and it takes a good many
things to amuse them and make
the hours seem less wearisome
Why not let your children go onl1
into the woods and fields and
pick wild flowers, mosses and
leaves and take to the little sick
See si.- ;
About Your SPRING DRUGS.
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Nq matter what you wantin Dru?3 it will pay you to see
us about it. In the first place you will insure the highest
quality by homing here.'tfhd qualty considered you will be
equally Wre of lowest rate. . „
If any compounding or prescription or recipe filling i
required, yre can give service not equalled elsewhere in
thts region.
fit coats nothing to see what we can dp for you, and it is
al mo st certain to ooat you something t^^pt see us.
, v Spencer & Jennings.
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ones? It will be4a joy, also a
lesson to your child to do this
besides bringing sunshine to the
children who are bound down on
beds of pain and whc^cannot get
ou into the sun.<il|frre fhemselves
Scrap- books are also welcome,
but remember, that for very
feeble children who- have often
to lie flat, being kept perhaps in
braces, an ordinary scrapbook is
too heavy. A b. iter plan is to
aa. a large i-. „ &•>' of est& board
and paste pictures on' either side.
Get the pictures from old maga
zines and group them on cards,
haying the same subjects togeth’
er, and present to the little suf
fer. 11 is not possible to oven
estimate the pleasure these little
inexpensive things give to these
wee sick ones_Ex.
Only a Drexm.
A poor workingman told his
wife wakening one morning, a cu*
rioua dream which he had diring
the night. He dreamed that he
saWyoming teward him four rats.
Thejflrstjwas very fat and was fol
lowedj^y two lean ones, the rear
one being blind. The dreamer
was greatl^erpiexed as to what
evil might foliow, as it is under*
stood that to dream of rats means,
calamity, fie appealed to bis wife
concerning it, but she, poor wo
man could not help him. His son
who heard his fkther tell the story,
volunteered to be the interpreter.
The fat rat, he said is the man who
keeps the saloon you go to so of
ten; the two lean ones are mother
and me; and ihe blind rat, father,
is yourself!
E"flour I j
read! J
Bakes Whiter Bread! «
Bakes Better Bread! «
‘Thau Any Other Flour Manu- j
f actured. <
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4 A FRESH CAR LOAD I
Buy It! Try It, <
——L. W.— ]
MACKEY.
The Flour Merchant. j
> Plaone S3.
A Christ-Like Errand.
The Well Spring tells the foil
owing story of a real hero who
wore the gray daring the late
war:
“The day after the battle of
Fredericksburg, Kershaw’s bri
gade occupied Mary’s Hill, and
Sykes’ division lay 150 yards
ahsad, with a stone wall between
the two forces. The intervening
space between Sykes’ men and
the stone wall was strewn with
dead, dying and wounded Union
soldiers, victims of the battle of
the day before. The air was rent
with their groans and agonizing
crles/)f “Water! water!”
“General,” said a boy‘sergeant
In gray, “I can’t stand this.’’
“What is the matter, sergeant?”
asked the General.
“I can’t stand hearing those
wounded Yankees crying for wa
ter; may I go and give them
Borne?”
“Kirkland,” said the General,
“the moment you' step over that
wall, you^l get a bullet through
your head; the skirmishing has
been murderous all day.”
“If you’ll let me, Pll try it:”
“My boy, I ought not to let you
run such a risk, but I eannot re
fuse. God protect you. You may
go.”
“Thank you, sir,” and with a
smile on nis bright, handsome
face, the boy sergeant sprang
away over the wail, down among
the snffererB, pouring the biesB:d
water down their parched throats.
After the first few bullets his
Ohrist-like errand became under
stood, and shouts instead of bul*
lets rent the air.
He came back at night to his
bivouac, untouched.
“Inasmuch as ye have done it
unto one of the least of these, my
brethren, ye have done it unto
me.”
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“They sat on the steps at mid*
nigt t, two fools that were better
in bed; murmuring honeyed noth*
ings, while the silver moon hung
her head. Two fools with joyous
elation swooped the microbes on
their lips, and thrilled with a
queer sensation from their toes
to their Unger tips. Telling the
same stuff over and over that was
nothing when it was new; giggling,
gashing and burning, but frozen
through and through. This the
fond affection the young folks
have to bear; they think it love
undying and angels in envy stare.
The bachlor thinks it is nothing,
the old maid says it is vice, and
mamma says it is naughty, but the
youngters say it is nice.”
Mr. Hanna’s slogan for the
coming campaign is: “Keep on
letting well enough alone.' ’ This
will be an interesting campaign
cry for the people who are una
b’e to obtain meat as food be
cause cf the exactions of the
* rasts. It will also bo an inter* ,
esting cry for the consumers gen*
orally whose income has under*
goue no ^material increase, but
whose living expenses have been
doubled because of the control
which the trusts have over the
necessities of life_Omaha Her*
aid.
Many a man who thinks he is
a hero to his wife is merely a
1 freak with a swelled head.
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