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Helps With the Lessons At night when the children gather around the sitting-room table studying their lessons for the next day, the telephone often rings. A little neighbor a mile down the road wants help from his school-mates. Children as well as grown-ups get pleasure and profit from the farm telephone. Do you know how little this service costs and how valuable it is ? See the nearest Bell Telephone Manager or write for our free booklet. A postal will do. FARMERS’ LINE DEPARTMENT Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company INCORPORATED. 192 SOUTH PRYOR STR EET, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Waitin’ and Wishin’. Waitin’ foh de sunshine When de sky is gray. Whinin’ an’ a pinin’ For de blues to go away. See de water trickle Down de window pane; Wish dat it would hurry ’long An’ nebbercome again. Wishin’ fob de rain storm When de drought comes ’roun; Wonder why dat sunshine keep A-dryin’ out de groun’; Better stop dis kickin’, Doesn’t help a bit, Kin’ o’ weather what you has Is all you’s gwinter git. —Unidentified. Mrs. R. L. Lindsey and sister, Miss Bessie Palmer, left Wednes day for an extended visit to Ken nette and other points in Missouri. The human race is better than iny individual in it. The Ameri ;an nation is better than individ ual American. It takes a«r the rood qualities of every good man o make the national standard, rhere are no perfect specimens of rees, but a combination of trees nakes perfection. Every row iqL :be orchard, or nursery viewed rora the end represents a perfect ;ree; for where one lacks the other supplies that lack. There is but 3tie mind on the earth and every. ;hing else is a fraction. * * * * [t takes all the good in all the jnurches to make God’s church, [t takes all the good in all human ly to make the divine specimen of inmanity.—Nutshells of Truth. Mrs Emma Ray, of West Point, ■eturned home Thursday, after a :ew days’ visit to our city the ruest of Mr. D. B. Ray. \ PROFESSIONAL CARDS J, L. HARR11S, Attorney-at-Lawj Office in K. of P. Building, Water Valley, Miss. Will Practice in all Courts, W. P. HAMILTON, attorney and counselor at lav Will Practice in all tho Courts Office in Masonic Building. Phone 180 Water Valley, Mli H. H. CREEKMORE, W. I. STONE, Water Valley, Miss. Coffeeville, Miss, CREEKMORE & STONE, lawyers, Will Practice in all the Courts J. G. McGowen Hugh M. BaddleV McGOWEN & BADDLEY, ATTORNEYS - AT LAW, Water Valley, • - Mississipp Office over Mackey’s store. R. F. K I M M O N S LAWYER WATER VALLEY, MISS. Office over Langdon’s Barber Shop W. C. BLOUNT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office at Corner Wood and Main Street Water Valley, Miss, M. C. WOODS, LAWYER, Office Second Floor Merchanl Grocery Company. Water Valley,_Mississip| Dr. S. J. Smith. Scientific and P ractii Optometrist Glasses ted adjusted and reps I ■ ed. All work guaranteed. Office in fice at Hendrick’s Foundry. Phone 78 Repair Shop. Guns, Sewing Machines and Bicycles And All Kinds of Light Machinery Repaired and Put in First Class Condition. R. L. ALLEN. Shop at Woods Street Crossing.