Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-10-07
Her Hills and Valleys
Are Ripe with Riches
That kiOnsiikc Cannot
Rival.

TIE gods smiled on her birth
and prosperity has been the con.
staat band maiden ef her proud
sad stately aaeeshooa-
The Garden Of Eden NIGH
care have n.sr,sn~d here. and
sss rzr~st fruit. and fair~st fiow
ers ARE With us yet in lucious
lsv-ssas-s and pristine beauty
rs~ hr famed Valley Of the
>ils. sith ~eAlth of soil untold.
- bot q tame and modest affair
shen compared vith the Valley
ef The Mississippi: and Allxdin's q
wonderful lamp In all its weird
Voyages of exploration, never
cas-, i's glowing rays on scenes
of wealth and beauty such "a
these.
Dur soil is bottomless aud
knows no bounds To it's match
less possibilities, and in its warm
heart nourish~s IN plenteous
perfection all the best and dear.
est products known to man.
With great glonous fields OF
cotton, white as the SHOWS OF
Greenland's ley mountains, and
rich ~ the fabled fortunes Of
old Golconds; with broad acres
ON acres OF Indian corn, a.
graceful ~ armies Of wood
nymphs and as precious ~ y
Forty miners dream Of luck;
with Gorgeous bottoms grox-
ing gold in cane and .taters''
aud garden truck. and green
hills glad with grazing herds;
With song of plenty in every
mouth and a priceless promise
glowing like Hopes radiant star
over every threshold. this beau.
tiful land of the beautiful name
must continue in the future as
she has In the-the ideul state
of an ideal -peaple, where God
has set his seal Of love and Ns.
ture's garden home 10 built.
Her very trees and the birds
and the bieezes that make mu
sic amor & her graceful boughs
are sweeter far than those in
any other climcs,and countries;
her grasses grow taller her
cotton whittier, her grain more
perfect; her roses are all thorn
less, and her every bird y night.
ingale. the sun shines balmier
here, and the stars at night look
down more lovingly; her men
are brsver and her women more
beautiful than may be found
elsewhere on earth; the very
dogfennel that grows in the
fence corners and barnysrds vi
Mississippi is lovelier in the
eyes Of loyal Mississippian
than the lily.margined banks Of
the old ArnO, and her clover
and meadows green are A. sweet
aud fragrant as the rosebuds Of
Paradise.
With cotton IN . thousand
valleys and cattle on . thous-
aud hills, she is fair to see rs .
painters dream OF beauty, ~
full OF promise as An April sun
rise, aud as independent as u
hog on ice.
The birthplace of chivxlry
and the home Of plenty, her
past is a picture of glory, her
present q boquet Of prosperity
and her future a dream Of per.
fection.
With the best blood of her
bravest sous, she has written
the proudest chapter in = M.
tion's history, and with her
brain and brxwn she IL stamp.
ing her impress now IN Q ne "
role on the record Of an empires
greatness.
Year by year she is forging
onward; step by step she ID
marching to the front in the
progressive development ol
modern effort, and with each
succeeding decade she is more
and more making herself seen
and felt as the sweet crowned
queen Of the Sun ny South and
wonder Of the world.
Nature has been lavish in
her creation, and God has been
good in her endowment.
Ii was when the morning
stars sang together that she
WIS made, and the hymn she
sang was one Of peace and
plenty.
From good to better, and
from better to best, she has
fioated ON till the coveted hxr.
bor of a iswless perfection is
in sight, and the warm sun rays
ofan industrial millennium are
kissing the roses in her smiling
cheeks.
Her hills aud valleys are ripe
with riches that KlOudike can.
not rival, and while she bios.
SONS as blooms the rose, all the
seductive superlatives of the
English language cannot d.
Justice to grand old Mississippi,
the brightest. fairesi jewel in a