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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

When one loses command of himself
and throws the reins upon the neck Of
passion, he may have for the moment
a certain enjoyment in the license; but
there must surely come II reaction of
regret. When he is calm again, and the
fit has passed away, every serious per-
son must be ashamed Of what he said
and what he did, of the manner in
which he gave himself away, and the
exhibition he made of himself He
will recall the amazement on the faces
of his friends, and the silence which
they adopted as a protective measure.
and the soothing language which they
used, as if they were speaking with a
baby, and the glances which passed be
tween them. He will not soon be
thought the same Of with them as he
was before this Outburst, nor will he
have the same claim upon their conf
dence as a sound and clear-headed
man. He has acted like a fretful, peev-
ish child, and has for the time for
feited his title to manhood and the
place of man.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

There is nothing in all this world
quite so irritating as overassumption
OF responsibility. responsibility can
be better tolerated. The man or WON
an-there is no distinction of sex in
the matter-who goes about the world
seeking whom he or she may rebuke,
the person who is charged with mis-
sion. is of all men most misery
He chants with Titanic glee. THE
times are out of joint" and there is
no lamentation in his declaration that
he is born to set them right.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

divorced, will be any more satisfac-
tory to the Postal Department as
clerks than they are married. If there
Is any sense in the theory that mar
rage robs a woman of the right to be
a wage-earner, then there is good sense
In the universal tendency toward di-
vorce, not only in the Postofiice De-
partment. but everywhere else. There
are conditions that unfit a married
woman for regular employment out
side the home. But no such condition
lies In marriage itself. Many childless
wives, with little turn for household
duties, may do as excellent service as
women that are unmarried or divorced
Many wives are justly proud of the
ability to maintain their own resources,
and even contribute to the household
fund. 1t is a laudable pride and a
worthy ambition. The government Is
in small business when 1t makes q
sweeping discrimination against these.
If the government is to throw its own
ponderous weight into the scale at all,
1t should be on the side of wedlock
and not against 1t. OF course, 1t is
easy to say that a marriage which
holds together so loosely is better dis
solved. But the loss of half the family
income is no small matter, especially
when the whole Of it has barely suf-
feed
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

There be many who have been wont
in times past to cast a sympathetic
tear in pity for the lonely spinster, be-
cause of the dire fate that made her
spouseless. The facts seem to show that
these tears should have been shed for
the bachelors instead The bachelors
the one to be pitied not the maid. How
often have we heard It said that the
spinsters, some of them at least, cry
out, as they wend their lonely way
through life: Anything, good Lord,
will do" All Of which is a misconcep-
ton of the real state of affairs. Instead
of the maid saying. anything will do, ."
she is clearly entitled by the over
whelming argument of numbers, to
say, Lets see the stock. If you've
got anything that suits, well and good;
otherwise, take it away. For there are
others" The census shows that there
are in the United States, 6,726, 10 bach
elors of manageable age, and only
1, 1876. 446 spinsters above the age of 20.
Who's the joke on if it isn't on the
bachelor? There wouldn't be enough
of the fair sex to go around if the law
required all men to be 30 before al
lowed to marry and fixed the age of
girls at II. Think of it, 2,531 1873 men
in this country who couldn't buy EaS-
ter bonnets for their wives If they
wanted to, even after every maiden in
the land had wed. Just exactly that
many women have. by the good offices
of the census man, been translated
from the unenviable class of those who
would but can't" to the ranks of the
"can but won't" 1t has given a new
dignity to the feminine unyoked, a
new status to the unlinked lass. There
are, 1t seems, one and threo-fifths men
for every woman, leaving out the
widowers, who are sometimes as much
given to marriage as their never-mated
brothers. For a decade, or more, girls
can pick and choose, CLEAN and garner.
turn down right and left, play with
many hearts with impunity, while men
are having a life-and-death bargain
counter scramble TO get wife before
the supply gives out.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

1t takes little to cause divorce in
these days. Almost any excuse will
serve. But it has remained for the
Postmaster General of the United
States to furnish cause that is valid
and widespread. His order forbiddlng
man and wife to hold clerkships in his
department has furnished the divorce
mill much new grist to grind. Many
clerks prefer to give up their marriage
relations rather than their pay. 1t is
always easy to get another husband or
another wife, but it is not always easy
to get another good job. One woman
clerk, drawing $1,4O0 a year, an
nounces that she and her husband.
who draws $1,SOO, have decided to
part. HE has always spent his sal
ary," she says, land l have always
spent mine" Neither cares to spend
less. The only alternative is divorce,
and divorce is cheap and easy. II
would be interesting to know by what
curious reasoning a man and woman,
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

Montreal physicians have discovered
that electricity will cure consumption.
This makes the fifty-seventh consump-
ton cure that has been discovered dur
ing the past six months. Why will peo-
pie still insist on dying of consump-
ton?
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

DR.. Hills says: II sometimes think
that the only hope for society is to
get all the authors in a corner and
shoot them for a generation, till we
could assimilate what we already
have" 1t may be recalled that DR..
Hills has added something to the max
ing of books himself.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30
He Guessed the Trouble.

"This is a cold, unfeeling world"
he remarked bitterly.
"Ha," returned his companion.
"You have heard the ribald laugh
when you slipped on banana skin,
have you?"-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

A literary excavator has dug up and
revamped the old charge that most of
Alexandra Dumas novels were really
written by his staff of secretaries. If
there is any foundation for the charge
1t would pay most of our modern nov
elists to try the secretary plan like
wise.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

A New York City magistrate says
that women have a legal right to
smoke. The average man would not
object to their smoking so much as to
their habit Of fiaring up.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

The Dowager Empress of China and
the boxers seem to have forgotten that
lesson taught by the powers not so very
long ago.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

That Marylander who tossed a light
ed cigarette into a keg of powder had
the markings of a great chauffeur.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

When IT comes to word painting
poets and novelists are not in it with
sign writer's.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

Some claim that co-education encour-
ages matrimony. Why not? Isn't mat
rimony co-education?
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

The new process of making silk with
out the services Of the worm will not
cause the worm to turn.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

If men were half al good as their
obituaries the recording angel would
have to look for another job.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

OIL has been discovered in Africa.
That continent may now prepare to get
Itself connected with us by pipe line.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

Steps are being taken to cultivate
American oysters in Europe. Where
will the invasion end?
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30
Equally Tough.

Landlady-White meat or darki
Bosrder-It doesn't matter; I'm colol
York Times.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

If 1t wasn't for silly hens the fo1
would not have his reputation.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30

Money is king-and at the same time
a very interesting subject
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-13


A Picayune special says that
the speech made by Gov. Longi.
no at Canton fast Monday ''sway-
ed the whole crowd. It was a
masterful presentation Of the vi.
tai issues of the day and q re-
view Of the features of his adj
ministration as governor, for
which he is being criticized by
his opponent, Senator Money.
He swept the crowd with his
masterful arguments in support
of his position, and at the con.
clusion they cheered him loud
and long. It is manifest that he
captured the citizens assembled
there, and they were there in
large numbers from all parts of
the county, being representive
men Of the county in every re-
spect.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-13
IT IS NOT THE LAW.

Little Rock Ark, June 9Th, 1908.
Editor Progress-Dear Sir
l see in the North Mississippi
Herald of the 9th. inst, in an ed.
orial advocating the election of
Mr.. Vardaman as governor OF
your state the following: "The
Arkansas legislature at its last
session passed a law separating
the school taxes in exact accord
with the plan now advocated by
Major Vardaman. Yet mob ody,
not even ex-Mississippi demec-
rats, heard of an exodus of neg
roes from this state.
lam proud to say in the de-
Tense of Arkansas that there is
no such statue in the law books
of the state.
Yours truly,
LAWYER
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-13

The Mississippi river, north Of
Cairo is again on a big RISE,
caused by the great and unprec. !
edented flood pouring out of the|
Kansas, Missouri and Des Moines|
rivers, the crest of the waveI
reached East st Louis, a man.
ufacturing city with populace|
OF 81, 600 early Tuesday morning,
when a wall of water broke
through the levee and rapidly
spread oyer the city. Owing to(
the suddeness of the calamnityj
which came before daylight,
many lives have been lost, and /
over five thousand persons driy-
en- from their homes. The des-
truction of property will be coun-
teddy millions of dollars.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-13
FROST IN JUNE
Political Ambition Nipped--M Money Loses
On His Own Speech.

The much advertised address
of Senator Money in the interest
of his candidacy for re election
to a seat in the United States
Senate took place at the court
house last Saturday night.
The size of the crowd tells the
tale.
After liberal newspaper notices
and dodgers scattered broadcast
throughout the county, on a
balmy moonlight night in city
of five thousand, the largest in
his old congressional district,
there were by actual coan. 78
persons present at the speaking,
less than % of whom were quail
fed voters.
The size of the audience was a
fair indication of the strength of
Mr.. Money in Water Valley and
vicinity, and was So accepted by
warm admirers of his from Cot
feeville and Oakland who were
present.
In personal appearance Mr.
Money is sadly changed. The
vlgor is gone from Eis step and
bearing. He Jocks soured aud
aged and disappointed, and his
speech is bilious and full of i'll
temper.
On the tariff, trusts and similar
questions MIR. Money stands with
other Democratic leaders, but on
the matter of a trace issue' he is
in opposition to practically every
brainy man of the South.
The speech was a disappoint-
ment to his warmest admirers,
and they are now sorry he was
brought into the county.
1t was the speech of a loser
and confirms the growing major.
ity for Longino.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-13
Last Monday cotton for Ju

Last Monday cotton for July
delivery sold in new Orleans at
13 cents, the best price in twelve
years. The advance was caused
from the fact, which it is now ad.
mitted, that practically cotton
famine prevails throughout the
world. The new crop is
at present a month late. The re-
cent floods in North and South
Carolina. and the threatened ov-
e. flowing Of cotton plantations il
Arkansas and north Louisiana by
the Mississippi river are all
4actors to boost prices.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-13

Senator Money loses votes
where ever he speaks.
Watch the State candidates
scramble into the Longino boat.
They can see who the winner is.
The Ohio state Republicans
convention endorsed Roosevelt
for . second term, Senator Ham
na got badly mashed.
Senator Moneys personal at
task on Longino IS administration
b winning votes for the Cover
nor oil over the state.
Half . dozen or more candi-
dates for the::various State Offices
Are following Gov. Longino's ap.
pointments and reaping theoben~
ct Of. the crowds he draws. How
many are following Mr.. Money!
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-13


One of the most disasterou S
floods, both as to life and prop
erty, occurred the other day in
the Pacolet valley, near Spar tan
burg, So, as the result of cloud
burst, in which 58 lives were lost
and several of the large cotton
mills were either swept away or
wrecked. 1t is conservatively
estimated that the destruction of
property will aggregate over
three million dollars, and that
nearly ten thousands persons in
that section of the State will be
thrown out of employment. MANY
OF the people are entirely desti.
tute of the necessaries of life.
all of their belongings having
been swept away by the flood,
The managers of the mills are
doing all in their power for them.
An appeal has been issued ask
ing for contributions to aid the
sufferers.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-13
Mississippi Matters.

Artesian water has been struck
at Jackson at depth of 1,173
feet.
A fire at Ittabena damaged the
cotton oil mill to the amount of
$4,000.
A spoke factory will be estab,
lished at Carrollton. / twill en-
ploy about forty men.
Over 500 applications to the
girls State Industrial Institute
at Columbus for tho next session
have already been received.
The prospects of the summer
normal school at Oxford, which
begins soon, are that it Will be
more largely attended than ever
before in the history of the State.
The State press is enthusiastic
in it's praise of our new State
capitol building. 1t reflects cred.
it upon the great Commonwealth
of Mississippi.
A train Of twenty-five cars
loaded with beans, cabbage and
tomatoes was shipped from Crys-
tai Springs Que day last week for
northern markets.
The union railroad men of Me-
rldian have served notice upon
the officials of the Y. M. @. A. that
they will withdraw from the AS,
sociation if the non-union men
are permitted to retain their
membership in that body.
VIM. Ressums, a prominent
merchant at Tillman Station, in
Claiborne county. attembted to
snatch his deg from the wheels
OF passing freight tt ain on the
Z. & M. V. railroad, was struck
oy the engine and instantly kill
jackson seems to be in earnest
in its attempt to get rid of the H.
licit liquor dealers. The police
have instituted a series of daily
raids upon the liquor joints and
have succeeded in capturing sew.
eral wagon loads of iatoxicant
drinkables.
Information comes from the
delta section of the State to the
effect that cut'worms were never
before known to be so destruc-
as they are this season. The lit
tie pests are attacking both corn
and cotton and causing incalcu-
liable damage.
A most remarkable deed, drawn
up in all the formality of a con-
veyance of realty or chattel
property, was placed on record
Saturday in the chancery clerks
office at jackson. The property
conveyed is a child from a di,
vorced woman to her divorce ed
husband.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-13

Gov. Longino is daily grow
ing stronger in favor with the
people, and the prospect of his
triumphant election has passed
the doubtful line.
New Orleans treated the old
Veterans so nicely at their recent
reunion the demand comes up
from all quarters that the city be
adopted as the standing place of
their annual reunion,
Chairman Miller has called a
meeting of the State Democratic
Executive Committee for June
22, to make arrangements for the
primaries to nominate the State
and senatorial tickets.
President Roosevelt has re-
turned to Washington from his
two months trip throughout the
west, and Immediately on his
arrival instructed the Post Mas
ter General to probe the Post
Office scandal to the bottom. More
sensational developments are ex-
pected.
State Superintend of educa-
ton Whitfield has completed the
work ofapportioning the semi. an !
nual distribution of the school
funds amounting to over $4OO, 900
Yalobusha will receive $4,336
Water Valley seperate school
ditrict receives $91t.O2 and Cot.
feeville $7S.79.
Reliable information from all
sections of the state, where the
people have had an opportunity
to hear Gov. Longino speak,
strongly indicates that there NO
longer remains a doubt Of his
election: and it now seems that
the only question is, how large
will be his majority,
A few days ago about thirty
negroes who were throwing up
dirt for new railroad bed near
Evansville Indiana were
driven off by q gang of white men
who wanted their jobs. Had this
outrage occurred in the South it
would have raised howl of in
dignation throught the width and
breadth Of Yankeedom.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-13
Royalty Assassinated.

King Alexander and Queen
Draga, Of Servia together with
several members of their families
and Mininisters of the Servian
Cabinet, was murdered in their
palace at Belgrade Wednesday
night by revolving regiment OF
servian troops led by Colonel
Mischief.
The King was shot and the
Queen and other members of the
royal household were bntchered
with an axe.
A new government has been
formed and the Servians seem to
accept the changed conditions
calmly.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-13
Program Of Farmers Institute !.

Juno s, 1908. :
Editor of the Progress.
Dear Sir:--
Commencement being over, vel
are now giving our attention tol
The Farmers institute Programe|
for this summer, and we are Civ
ing definite dates for tsame
Please give notice to the psople
OF your county that they can have
from two to three Institutes free
OF all cost by applying to the J.
President of the A. & M. College.
Preference will be given to the
communities of the county send
ing in the largest petitions asks
ing for an institute. We would
like for the petitions to state
what subject the people CT the
community would like 20 naveI
emphasized; whether dairying, live
stock, trucking, diseases of AMI.
mails and plants, fertilizers, or
general agriculture, and also
about what time in July or Aug1
ust would suit.
Thanking you in advance T am
Respectfully,
J.C. Hardy, President
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-13
Spencer g Jennings.
Prescription Druggists.

Ralph Davis, a Memphis law
yer OF some note, has been arres.
ted in st. Louis on the Hot
Springs charge of perjury, he
will go back to Arkansas for
trial.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-13

For State Senate 18th District.
(Vsupsssl q the Counties Of Yalobusha and Grenada)
Hon. Jas Moore of Yalobusha
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-13
COUNTY ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Progress is authori zed to mako
the following announcements, subject
= the action Of the Democrat prim.
Ary.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-13

Artesian water has been struck
at Jackson at a depth of 1,173
feet.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-13

Gov. Longino is daily grow
ing stronger in favor with the
people, and the prospect Of his
triumphant election has passed
the doubtful line.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-17
TRIBUTES TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON "SAGE OF CONC

the poet-philosopher. It is the Philosophy
Of the seer and not Of the system maker.
For my W part I ind that after read
ing the essays and the addresses, turnins
them over and over again and cleaning WE
dom there, I come back every time to tne
choice gems OF wisdom from him IN verse
n n never an entire poem that I care Tor.
but only q few lines standing by themselves.
It IL precisely as with his essays or prose
writings. We know him by the paragraphs
and not by the essays or the volumes.
The best Of what he has said In his prose
writings reappears for me in his verse, and
these verses have become to me a kin Oh
ethical hymn book.
The best thouehts Of the best minds are
reproduced by him in this way In . rev
lines, and by that means stay on In ones
thoughts forever.
1 suppose he had read his Darwin. or. II
not. he had caught or almost by instinct
to the doctrine Of evolution. And 1t IL all
contained in those six familiar lines;
A subtle chain OF countless rings
The next unto the farthest brings;
Tho eye reads omens whore Il goes,
And speaks all languages thu rose;
And striving to be man. the worm
Mounts through all the spires Of form
This presents in verse the doctrine Of the
conservation Of energy. the law Of gravity
and the standpoint Of evolution.
I ask for a picture OF the ideal type Of
man. all that Eoes to make up the perfect
soul. the rounded. complete human creature.
And I and It In these four lines:
HIS tongue was framed to music.
And his hand was armed with skill
His face was the mold Of beauty.
And his heart the throne Of will
We ask for something that shall ccnfrm
us In our sidealisrn. keep our faith strong IN
ourselves In spite Of the new science or the
new psycholc.y, something that shall hold
us on to our faith In soul. But It can't be
in soul rs SUCH. It must be in some phase
Of our inner life. What II It that marks NJ
OF from all other living creatures7 1 know
OF nobody who has ever said It better than
in these eight lines by Emerson:
Tbs nsnd that man hssTio
10 love OF the Best:
Tawns the pit Of the Dragon.
Lit by rays from the Blsst.
The Leths Of nature
CaH't 'trsnas him again.
whose soui sees the r,rfsct-
which his sys SEEKS n vAiA
Do " wan an s1pressien Of his sym-
patty on tbs reiiStous ads. his breadth q