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H. A. LEE, Editor “Devoted to the Interest of the Editor, Exclusively." 91.00 Year
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VOLUME, 16. WATER VALLEY, MISS, SEPTEMBER 15, 1910 NUMBER 49.
Read it, Boys.
As we mingle with the crowds
in our towns and cities today and
observe the hundreds of young
men who are absolutely idle so fares
earning a dollar is concerned, we
often wonder where we are drift
ing. Hundreds of our young men
growing up in their baggy breech
es and sky blue sox, learning no
trade or profession, too nice to
perform physical labor, and as a
consequence of their bodies not
being developed for lack of exer
cise, their thinking machinery is
also impaired, and thus we are
raising up a generation of physi
cal degenerates, who are existing
wholly upon the labor or capital,
or both, of their fathers or guard
ians. Quit it young man. Get
in the “push” and learn to do
something, and learn to do it a
little better than the other fellow,
thereby becoming an independ
ent man of worth to yourself as
well as to your country, In your
youthful years you should master
some trade or profession no mat
ter how rich may be your “Dad.”
That individual will not live al
ways and unless you know some
thing his fortune will not last
long in your hands, and when it
Id goiiti you will iitstJU me utsiicui
of an early training in some trade
or profession. But whether you
ever need it or not, do you want
to drift along through life not
trying to accomplish anything of
more value than shooting the
billiard ball at just the right angle,
or being certaiu of the fact that
ir trftusers are j’ust the latest
, and that your sox are just
Proper shade? If I were you
juld find nothing more re
lative. I'd grab a pick and
^tnd get out in the ditch
the Mexican and colored
t a day’s labor really was,
them some pointers on
A Word of Kindness.
Drop a word of cheer and kindness —
Just a flash and it is gone;
But there’s half a hundred ripples
Circling on aDd on and on,
Bearing hope and joy and comfort
On each splashing, dashing wave,
Till you wouldn’t believe the volume
Of the one kind word you gave.
Drop a word of cheer and kindness—
In a minute you forget;
But there’s gladness still a-swelling
And there’s joy a circling yet,
And you’ve rolled a wave of comfort
Whose sweet music can be heard
Over miles and miles of water
Just by dropping a kind word.
—Santa Fe Employees’ Magazine.
ditch digging that they had never
thought of. It would make a
man of you physically and mental,
ly, and you would have the
satisfaction of knowing that you
had earned an honest dollar; that
you were independent of your
“dad's” money and that you were
a benefit to the city in as much as
you had set an example for other
fellows. Just suppose that every
idle young American in this
country should determine that he
would work at some trade or pro
fession. Don', you know “Dad”
would be tickled to death to as
sist in any legitimate enterprise
that son would undertake? And
don t you know it wouia oe a
great thing for the country, and
also for the boys? Get busy,
boys, and make men of yourselves.
—The Sun, Corpus Christi, Texas.
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M rs. Dave Mortimer and baby
son, David Wilson, who have been
spending the past several weeks
with relatives and friends indiffer
ent points in South Mississippi,
returned home last Wednesday
afternoon,
Mr. W. W. Lovelace returned
home last Wednesday from a
mouths’ visit to his old home in
Brewton, Ala.
Prevention of Cruelty to Men.
The dinner test in Siberia is a
good custom. A bride, on coming
to her husband’s house, gives a
dinner prepared with her own
hands as a test of the education
she has received. If she succeeds
in gratifying her guests, it is
taken as a proof not only of the
young woman’s own excellence,
but also as a recommendation of
her whole family by whom she
was instructed.—Ex.
Miss Erie Douglass, of Martiu,
Term., after a few days’ visit to
friends in our city, left Thursday
morning to take a position as
Music Teacher in the Public
school in Charleston. Miss Erie
is well capacitated to till the po
sotion and the Charleston people
may congratulate themselves upon
securing the services of thisyouug
lady.
Miss Seppie Boydston returned
home last week from a two weeks’
visit to friends in Anding.
Master Hyer Law returned to
his home in Memphis Thursday,
after a few days’ visit to friends
in our city.
Mrs, Jas. W. Cathey and three
children, Misses Mabel and Myr
tice and Master William, returned
last Thursday from a few days’
visit to Jackson, Tenn., where
they were the guests of Mr, Frank
Cathey and family.
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The many friends of the family
of Mr. and Mrs. W. F, Hobson
will be glad to learn that Louise,
their little five-year-old daughter,
is rapidly improving from a lung
illness with Typhoid fever.
Ex-President Eliot, ot Harvard, i
once said that all that was neces- J
sary to happiness was good health,^
a clear conscience and u capacity^*
for appreciation,