Water Valley progress., July 26, 1902, Image 1

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

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1°U , JULY 26, 1902 TEEMS $1 A YEAR
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The; portraits of ten of Mississippi’s greatest men are to be
placed in the new capital at Jaekson.
In order to determine who are the greatest men, a popular votl
of the State is being held through the uewspapers.
Use the attached blank for your vote, E very male Mississippian
over 15 years of age is entitled to vote and may vote as many
times as he secures official ballots.
Fill ont the following ballot, cut ont apd mail to the Progress,
addressed uHall of Fame” Vote, The Progress,-Water Valley, Miss.
THE PROGKESS’ HALL RE FAME” BALLOT.
I vote for •
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MvMMiftswff of CmkIucc.
On a day early in Jane of this
year, a man named dawkina com
mitted a crime at Marysville. Mia*
eouri; and then tried to run away
from it,
Hawkins waa a real estate deal
er and left the town because he
had forged papers to the amount
of $2,000. When be left Marys
ville, Hawkins was a finedooking,
middle!aged gentlman, wttn hair
slightly tinged with gray. At the
end of two weeks he came back a
white-haired, broken-bodied old
In the interval the man had
wandered from place to place,
pursued by the hourly fear that he
would be tracked by bloodhounds.
The fear deepened into an over*
mattering terror. He hid himself
Lin the woods.
Finall the fear became unbear
able, He returned to Marysville
and gave himself up. Twenty
years, he said, have been added to
his life in less than twenty days.
He welcomed the penitentiary as
a blessed reliefi
Itistne old story, In seeking to
dodge a financial trouble he took
upon his shoulders a greater one.
The new trouble was so heavy
that a prison seemed a heaven ef
rest after the hell into which he
had plunged.
When will men Iters that retri,
BETTER
THAN EVER.
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The IXL wants your
Laundry work and guar
antees satisfaction.
| Same conditions as
last year.
ballon It never cheated of Its vie
tint
When will men learn that they
are apt smarter than fate!
There are ether bloodhounds
than those of fleah and blood that
pursue the man that breaks the
law. The bloodhounds of eon
sieace will ever bay deep mouthed
to the soul that sioneih.
Do men imagine they are excep<
tions to the rule of fate? There are
no exceptions.
“Whatsoever a man eoweth that
also shall he reap.'’
That is the inevitable law. If a
man sows to the flesh he shall of
the fish reap oorruption. And he
will reap more than be sows. The
law of increase holds in the devil’s
domain as it does in the field of
God.—Vicksburg American.
Whether sister, friend, sweet*
heart, wife or mother, a woman !#
tha nobleat work of God. If aho
bo high-minded and pure.bearted
•If stands near tha tun. When,
from any cause, she falls the de.
•cent is so swift, the distance so
(Rent, that reatorstloa is well nigh
impossible. Every man daaervea
to look upoa his sister so a queen
of hit the virtues, his sweetheart aa
a paragon of parity, upon his wife
*M spotless priestsss oi love, and
•Pfn his mother no fin angel. They
are what ha liveal for, sad for
.MW® ho weald brave all dangers
and flndly dies. They are the
pMde of his Ufe^ihoir ssriles 11
llpminate his rigged,thorn-strewn
pith from the cradle to the grave.
Their kies ie the balm of Qiload
to bio braised and bleediag heart
w^on others forsake, dissppolnt
pappts are eore sad the world to
dirk. Cheered by o sister's affsc*
ties. soatained by a wilt's devo
tioa and npheld by a. mother’s
deathless love, It is strange a man
should foil by the wayside a vic
tim; ef vice and lost Knowing,
and loving hia owa so well, it to
almost iacredible that hs coaid
lari to the hell of ruin the sister,
daughter, wife or mother of other
meb The toll of woaianhood ie
a sad sad awful commentary upon
tha! depravity of man. Did all
mob but keep the golden rale,
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| About Your SPRING DRUGS. j
K I m tr'lill tl II I IIH « « « i n . . m - *
I No matter what you wantin Drugs It will pay you to see
usabeut it. In the first place yoi will Insure the highest
quality by eou|tnf here, and qualty considered you will be
equally sure oftawest rate. <.->■
If any compounding or presoriptloo or recipe filling i
re|tlnl. w> otiglrj service uit e| 1*11*1 elsewhere in
eh is region.
t'II costs nothing to see what we can do for you, and it is
almost certain to oust you something to not see us.
S &|wttcer St Jennings.
there weald not be n wrecked
home, » blotted life, h broken
heart, or a fallen WMtt in the
wide world.—Ex.
Beys. Aspire.
Be something, boys; do some
thing with this life of yours. God
gavs it to as and it la stamped
with the insignia of divinity. It
youth it wanted, opportunities
neglected, all will soon bjtyond
recall. Set up each for U&T*
standard of, excellence, and wolk
with all that is hast in yon man.
tally, morally and physically to
attain that idoal.
Parity of life, intensity of pur
pose, these are cure foundation
atones on which to build—with a
Ihlth in God's goodness and mercy
which will not foil you in your
need* The weakest need not
fear.
Inscribe truth upon your ban
ner—speak truth, live truth. “A
man who breaks his word, bids
others be false to him,” and the
trners you are to yourselves, the
more goodness and nobility you
will see in other men.
f The Christ, the divine type, is
ear tarijg,ddeal—study that type.
You heed not search for it in the
society of the world's famous men
—but in association with good
men. “Goodness proves God,
science cannot explain Him.”
Follow Christ in your dealings
with your fellow students. He did
not condemn, but forgave all. We
cannot Judge what evil associa*
tion may have done to mar an in*
nately noble character. Judge no
man harshly. The fall for which
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we censure him may be God’s way
of making him rise to take a firm
er, sorer stand.
Lit us all be thoughtful of those
among us who have so recently
set up the divine ideal. Give thorn
a helping hand—spesk a word of
cheer, and let them fool that we
too have journeyed the same way
and that we all
“May rise on stepping-stones,
Of our dead selves, to noble things,
God willing.”
liemember, boys, you are the
coming men of the twentieth een
tury, Do noble work—act well
your part—and make it an era of
success—of good will to your fel
lowtmae, and as Seneca wrote to
bis friend Lucillus: “Life is like a
play upon the stage, it signifies
not how long it lasts, but how
well it is acted. Die when or
where you will, think only of
making a good exit. *
The Qsees sf Room.
Honor the deer old mother.
Time ban scattered snowy flakes
on her brow, plowed deep fur
rows on her cheeks, bnt is ohe not
sweet and beautiful nowf The lips
are thin and shrunken; but those
are the lips which have kissed
many a hot tear from the childish
cheeks, and they are the aweetcit
Lips in the world. The eye is dim'
yet it glows with the soft radiance '**
that can never Cade. Ah, yes, she
is a dear old mother. The sands
of life are hearty run oat, bat foe*
bleis she ' is1 she will go farther
*nd reach down lower for yon
ihan any other person on earth.
You pannot enter a prison whose
bars can keep her Out; you cannot
mount a scaffold too high Cor her
to reach that she may kiss and
bless you in evidence of her death
less love. When the world shall
despise and forsake you; when it
leaves you by the wayside to per
ish unnoticed, the dear old moth
er will gather you in her arms
and tell you all your virtues, un
til you almost forget that your
sou* is disfigured with vices. Love
her tenderly, and cheer her de
clining years with holy devotion,
—Selected.
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Here is the veidict 'returned In
a recent suit against a railroad in
Pennsylvania: “If the train had
been run as it should bavs been
ran; if the bell had been mag ns
it should have been rang; if the
Whistle bad been blown as It
should have been blown—both of
which they did neither—the cow
would not have been injured when
she was killed,”
The Clarendon Chronicle says
one of the most inhuman outrages
in the annals of crime wss perpe
trated on the editor of the Ohron*
iele while in Stutgart last Wed- •
nesday night. After he had re
tired for the night, two frolicsome
girls procured his pantaloons and
sewing up the bottom of the legs,
threw the doctored garments back
through the window, tquealed out
“Are.” He is now laid up for in
reuairs.
A dispatch from El Paso, Tex.,
July 16, says a Mexican women
in that city has given birth to two
healthy children, the second one
being born six weeks after the
first. The case in s naturaly
caused considerable eemnent
among physicians, *