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Water Valley progress., 1915-05-15
Trustees Elect Teachers for City
Public School.

At meeting of the Board of
Trustees Tuesday night the follow
ing list Of teachers were elected for
the City Public School for the
1856 term.
Several of the present corps of
teachers did not apply for re-elec-
tion, while the selections were made
from list of more than seventy
applicants.
The placing of the teachers select
ed in the several grades is left en-
tirely in the discretion of Prof
Bigham, who knows the teacher
and the work to be doue.
Misses Clyde Adams, Lula Erik
son, Minnie Frederick, Leva Biles,
Cornie Mayes, Mary Morgan,
Florence Wagner, Estelle Tarver,
Emma Addington. Kathrene MUIR
phree, Okolona; Lennie Richey,
Starkville; Francis Jarman. Bessie
Hutchinson, Pontotoc; Jeannett
Pate, Annie Lundie, Oxford.
Music-Miss Ruth Fulmer, Miss
May Roberts.
Water Valley progress., 1915-05-15
Big Show Tuesday.

To be given by the Ladies Gene
terry Association at the Grand next
Tuesday evening, May 18th.
The entertainment is under the
management Of Mesdames w. v.
johnson, G. w. Stephens, g. T.
Jones, j. r. Smith and Miss Hilma
D. Smith, and these ladies are un-
firing in their efforts to drill the
little folhs in all their parts Some
100 children and number of
young ladies will take part. Ad-
mission: Adults 35 cts, Children
10 cts.
PROGRAM
Comedy in one act-"The Scrap
of Paper"
CAST OF CHARACTERS.
Miss Bella Saunders Mrs. Armstrong
Miss Estelle Williams Miss Lusk
Vaudeville Acts-By children.
Original Pantomine, THE Ro-
sary"-Miss Hilma D. Smith, in
terpreted by Mrs. j. G. Armstrong.
PART IL
'Fairyland,', Operatta-By 100
Water Valley Girls.
Water Valley progress., 1915-05-15

Water Valley Lodge, No. @459,
B. p. 0 Elks put on q show Tues
day night for the benefit of q, bunch
of clever Oakland men, who jour
neyed from the deserts of their ma
tive baliwick to the green clad hills
and fertile valleys of this joyful
oasis to have q pair Of handmade
antlers fitted between the ears of
each.
The visitors are all dead game
sports and did the high dive and
fiery furnace acts without batting
an eye They were also present"
and partook Of the waters Of life
from the babbling, foaming brook.
The party was composed of Eu-
gene Marders, James Moore Jr., j I.
A Ramsey and r. P. Taylor, can
didates for initiation, and T. G.
Bradford, who joined on demit
from New Orleans.
After the ceremonies were COM
pleted an enjoyable smoker was
held.
Water Valley progress., 1915-05-15

Brilliant program for the Gene
terry benefit show Tuesday evening
at the Grand. Don't miss it.
For Sale: Upright Piano in
good condition. Will sell here
cheap rather than ship. Mrs Flor
ence Romberger.
Prof. G.. M. Anderson and Mr..
L. +. Wisdom, prominent First
District candidates for county Of
fees, were mixing with the people
here Saturday.
Engineer and Mrs. G. FL. David
left Sunday for Cleveland, o..
where Mr.. David will be engaged
for month or more in business
for the B. Of L. e.
100 children and q number of
grown ups in the play for the
benefit Of the Cemetery Associa-
tion, Grand theatre Tuesday, even
ing, May, Is. See them!
Uncle" Wash Wilson, one OF
the few remaining old-time darkies,
died at his home in the western
portion Of the city Tuesday and
was buried Wednesday by the
several lodges of which he was a
member.
Engineer Jas. A. McClendon,
we'll known in Water Valley a
number of years ago, died in an IN
firnary in Hattiesburg Friday OF
last week and was buried Saturday
from the home Of his brother, Zack
McClendon.
Miss Hilma Smith, for several
years the popular and talented
teacher of piano in the City Public
Schools, has formed q connection
with q prominent Memphis studio
and will make her hope " 49,
Water Valley progress., 1915-05-15

Hon. B. T. Markette, prominent
planter Of some ten miles north of
this place. lost a valuable barn by
fire Monday night. Incindiarism is
suspected, but there is no clue.
Information has reached this city
that Mr.. S. ID. Knox, formerly q
we'll and popularity known druggist
here, has failed in Little Rock.
Ark, where he has been engaged
in the drug BUSINESS for the past
severa, years. The liabilities are
placed at approximately y$15, 900,
with assets Of some $l1, 500. He
has the sympathies of Q number of
Water Valley progress., 1915-05-15
Progressive Spirit Winning.

In another column Of this issue
will be found the report of The
Peoples Bank at the close Of busi-
ness on May l, which shows q
most satisfactory condition for this
progressive financial institution.
1t has done we'll despite the So
called stringency in money matters
and offers it's customers every ad-
vantage of conservative banking.
Water Valley progress., 1915-05-15
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
TELEPHONE: Sss'Sa Sss,Szseea sea. as,

Miss Maude Payne visited friends
In Oxford weeks end to attend
State Fields Day.
Mrs. Jno. X. Hervey is spending
several weeks in Memphis with her
daughter, Mrs. ID. jennings.
For Sale: Gut flowers and
potted plants. A nice variety.
Phone 425, or call, Mrs. A. Y. Fly.
Chancellor Jas. e.. McGowen
held the regular term Of chancery
court in Holly Springs beginning
Monday.
DIR. M. w. jackson left Wednes-
day to attend the meeting Of the
State Medical Association in Hat
tiesbarg.
Mrs. May Kellar Avent left
Thursday for q visit of several
weeks to Atlanta and other points
in Georgia.
Miss May Marmon, a charming
little Memphis society girl, is
spending the week with her aunt,
Mrs. F. B. DeShon.
Mrs. Russell Miller and children
are down from Amory for q visit Of
several weeks with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. T. A. Hale.
The Novelty Club held pleasant
meeting with Mrs. G. w. Yeates
Thursday afternoon. Dainty re-
freshments were served.
Mrs. Albert s. Benson is spend
ing a month with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. James Shires, and other
relatives in jackson, Tenn.
Beginning with Tuesday next,
the Grand will put on matinees
every afternoon except Sunday.
Patronize this popular house.
Engineer and Mrs. Zack McClen-
don arrived from Hattiesbure
Wednesday for few days with
her father, DIR. j. Fl. Shoffner.
Rev. Messrs. HI. l.. johnson and
A. A. Walker left Monday to at.
tend the session of the Southern
Baptist Convention in Houston,
Texas.
A turn away" crowd attended
the benefit performance for the
band boys at the Grand Tuesday
night and the whole affair was de-
lightful.
Mrs. T. j. Binford, accompanied
by Mrs Walter Hartwell. was in
Memphis early in the week to con-
suit a specialist on the condition
of her health.
Mr.. and Mrs. FL. T. Tatum have
returned from Minter City to make
their home for the present in Water
Valley, much to the delight of
their friends.
The ladies OF st. Patrick's church
will hold q benefit ice cream supper
in the Hirsch building on Main
Street tonight, Friday. The public
is cordially invited.
Hon. Phil A. Rush of Tate coun-
ty, formerly superintendent of ed
ucation in Lafayette county, can
: didate for State Revenue Agent,
was in the city yesterday.
Mr.. A. G. Cusack's mother.
aunt and pretty little sister, Lily,
of New York City are on an ex-
tended visit to himself and wife at
the home of Mr.. B. III. Payne.
DIR. Y. D. Butler, the noted
jackson optomerist, will be in
Water Valley Wednesday, May 10,
and in Oxford Thursday, May TO-
Read his card in another column
Of this issue.
Are yon doing your part toward
fencing the cemeteryY Attend the
benefit entertainment Tuesday
night next. Pay in your 50 cents,
help that much, at any rate, and
get five times your moneys worth.
Mr.. John Smith, the progressive
The Yale expositor., 1915-02-25
On Tolerance.

At the German-American Chamber
of Commerce in New York DR.. Adolph
Muller, an agent for the purchase of
woolens, said:
"a better spirit, spirit of toler-
ance, is now manifesting itself On
the boat coming over a French shoe
buyer and an English cloth buyer
shared my table with me and we got
on well.
Gentlemen l said to those chaps
one morning, we Germans and you
English and you French are not all
thieves, vandals and murderers. With
us It is like the dog riddle.
Why is a dog like man?' boy
asked
"'Give 1t up said another boy.
Because it's bow-legged'
But said the second boy, all dogs
are not bow-legged.'
Well, neither are all men,"
The Yale expositor., 1915-02-25

Samson" she told him. 81 warned
you then that it was the moon talk
ing"
NO." he said firmly, "it was not the
moon. l have since then met that fear
and analyzed 1t. Ny feeling for you is
the best that man can have, the hon.
est worship of friendship. And" he
added, Il have analysed your feeling
for me, too, and, thank God! | have
that same friendship from you. Haven't I
IL"
For a moment, she only nodded; but
her eyes were bent on the road ahead
Of her. The man waited in tense
silence. Then, she raised her face, and
1t was a face that smiled with the
serenity Of one who has wakened out
of troubled dream.
"You will always have that, Samson,
DEAR" she assured him.
Have l enough OF it, to ask you to
do for her what you did for me? To
take her and teach her the things she
has the right to know?"
I'D love it," she cried And then
she smiled, as she added: "She will
be much easier to teach. She won't
be so stupid, and one of the things |
shall teach her"-she paused, and
added whimsically-"will be to make
you cut your hair again."
But, just before they drew up at the
house of old Spicer South, she said:
81 might as well make a clean breast
of it, Samson, and give my vanity the
punishment it deserves. You had me
in deep doubt"
About what?"
"About-well, about us. | wasn't
quite sure that | wanted Sally to have
you-that | didn't need you myself.
I've been a shameful little cat to Will
fred"
But now" The Kentuckian broke
off.
Now, I know that my friendship
for you and my love for him have both
had their acid test-and | am happier
than I've ever been before. I'm glad
we've been through it. There are no
doubts ahead. I've got you both"
About him." said Samson, thought
fully. MAY l tell you something
which, although it's a thing in your
own heart, you have never quite
known?"
She nodded, and he went on.
THE thing which you call fascina.
ton in me was really just a proxy,
The Yale expositor., 1915-02-25
TAKES ISSUE WITH EDISON
Here Is One Man Who Does Not Be-
Iieve the World Will Give
Up Sleep.

Mr.. Edison says sleep is bad habit,
and that we shall some day get over
it. Like drinking and smoking, it is
to be among those things which we
shall try in time to give up on the first
of the year. He says people called him
crazy when he said electricity would
supplant all other motive power In
transportation, and one therefore hesi-
tates to say that he is crazy about
anything. However, we will hazard a
guess that if he is off his box any
where, it is with respect to the pleas
ant custom of indulging ourselves in a
good sound snooze. How else we are
to refresh ourselves from the days
work we cannot imagine. The trouble
with this objection, as it applies to
Mr.. Edison, is that he doesn't think we
are wearied by the days work. He
and some of his associates worked at
something for a given period of time
Fl hours a day, and they all gained
weight! He leads US to infer that it is
what we do when we are not working
that wearies us. Thinking over it
briefly, we believe there is something
in that. Probably half the things we
do in our leisure time is very hard
work. The celebrated tired business
man is only tired when his wife wants
him to go out somewhere after din
ner. 1t is the opera and the fox trot
that wear him out. Still, think of CIV
ing up sleep! If it is a habit, it is a
nice one. We have got some glimpses
of what Mr.. Edison means when we
have tried to sleep in a chair car, but
given a feather bed and a soft pillow,
we don't get him at all. Last night,
for instance. Wasn't the habit deli
cious last night?-St Louis Post-Dis.
patch.
The Yale expositor., 1915-02-25

Drennie. You were liking qualities in
me that were really his qualities. Just
because you had known him only In
gentle guise, his finish blinded you
to his courage. Because he could turn
| to woman the heart OF a woman, you
failed to see that under it was the
iron and fire. You thought you saw
those qualities in me, because wore
my bark as shaggy as that scaling
hickory over there. When he was get
ting anonymous threats of death ev-
cry morning he didn't mention them
to you. He talked of teas and dances.
/ know his danger was real, because
they tried to have me kill him-and
IL I'd been the man they took me for,
l reckon I'd have done it. l was mad
to my marrow that night-for a min
ute. l don't hold a brief for Wilfred,
but know that you liked me first for
qualities which he has as strongly as
land more strongly. He's a braver
man than /, becuse, though raised to
gentle things, when you ordered him
into the fight he was there. He never
turned back or fiickered. I was raised
on raw meat and gunpowder, but he
went in without training"
The girls eyes grew grave and
thoughtful, and for the rest Of the
way she rode in silence.
There were transformations. too, in
the house of Spicer South. Windows
had been cut. and lamps adopted. 1t
was no longer so crudely a pioneer
abode. While they waited for dinner,
girl lightly crossed the stile, and
came up to the house. Adrianne met
her at the door, while Samson and
Horton stood back. waiting. Suddenly,
Miss Lescott halted and regarded the
newcomer in surprise. Ii was the
same girl she had seen, yet different
girl. Her hair no longer fell in tangled
masses. Her feet we're no longer bare.
Her dress, though simple. was charm
ing, and, when she spoke, her English
had dropped its half-illiterate peculiari-
ties, though the voice still held its
bird.like melody.
"Oh, Samson" cried Adrienne, you
tWO nave beSh uOSSANhhB mos oohJ'
you we're making up, dressing the part
back there, and letting me patronize
you"
Sally's laughter broke from her
throat in a musical peal. but 1t still
held the note of shyness, and it was
Samson who spoke.
Il made the others ride on, and got
Sally to meet you just as she was when
left her to go East" He spoke with
touch OF the mountsineer's over-sen-
The Yale expositor., 1915-02-25
CHAPTER XVI-Continued.
(Copyrisht. 1913. by W. J. Watt d Coz

Then, again, silence settled on the
town, to remain for five minutes un'
broken. The sun glared mercilessly on
clay streets, now as empty as a CEN
etery. A single horse incautiously
hitched at the side of the courthouse
switched its tail against the assaults
of the flies. Otherwise, there was no
outward sign of life. Then, Callomb's
newly organized force of ragamuftin sol
diers clattered down the street at
double time. For a moment or two
after they came into sight only the
massed uniforms caught the eyes OF
the intrenched Hollmans, and an
alarmed murmur broke from the court.
house. They had seen no troops de-
train, or pitch camp. These men had
sprung from the earth as startlingly as
Jason's crop of dragons teeth. But,
when the command rounded the shoul-
der of protecting wall to await fur
ther orders, the ragged stride Of their
marching and the all-too-obvious bea--
ing Of the mountaineer proclaimed
them native amateurs. The murmur
turned to howl of derision and chal-
lenge. They were nothing more nor
less than Souths, masquerading in the
uniforms of soldiers.
What orders?" inquired Callomb
briefly, joining Samson the store.
Demand surrender once more-then
take the courthouse and jail" was the
short reply.
Callomb himself went forward with
the flag of truce. He shouted his mes
sage and a bearded man came to the
courthouse door.
Tell EN-" he said without redun-
dancy, "thet we're all here. Come an
git u.s."
The officer went back ard distribute
ed his forces under such cover as Of
fered itself about the four walls. Then
a volley was fired over the oof and in
stantly the two buildings In the public
square awoke to volcanic response of
rife fire.
All day the duel between the streets
and county buildings went on with
desultory intervals Of quiet and wild
outbursts of musketry. The troops
were firing as sharpshooters, and the
courthouse, too, had its sharpshooters.
When a head showed itself at a barri-
caded window a report from the out
side greeted it, Samson was every.
where, his rifle smoking and hot-bar.
relied. His life seemed protected by a
talisman. Yet most of the firing, after
the first hour, was from within. The
troops were, except for occasional pot
shots, holding their fire. There was
neither food nor water inside the build
The Yale expositor., 1915-02-25
MEAT CLOGS KIDNEYS
THEN YOUR BACK HURTS
neys II Bladder Bothers YOU
Drink Lots Of Water.

No man or woman who eats meat
ing the kidneys occasionally, says a
well-known authority. Meat forms
uric acid which excites the kidneys,
they become overworked from the
strain, get sluggish and fail to filter
the waste and poisons from the blood,
then we get sick. Nearly all rheu-
matism, headaches, liver trouble, ner-
vousness, dizziness, sleeplessness and
urinary disorders come from sluggish
kidneys.
The moment you feel dull ache in
the kidneys or your back hurts or if
the urine is cloudy, offensive, full OF
sediment, irregular Of passage or at.
tended by a sensation of scalding, stop
eating meat and get about four ounces
of Jad Salts from any pharmacy; take
a tablespoonful in a glass Of water
before breakfast and in a few days
your kidneys will act fine. This IA
nous salts is made from the acid Of
grapes and lemon juice, combined
with lithia, and has been used for
generations to flush and stimulate the
kidneys, also to neutralize the acids
in urine so it no longer causes irrita-
ton, thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot
injure; makes a delightful efferves.
cent lithia-water drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep the
kidneys clean and active and the blood
pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney
complications.-Adv.
The Yale expositor., 1915-02-25
No Task for Tyros.

One of the men at the front has told
US how he tried to milk cow-with-
out the expected result. This is not
an easy task for an Impractical hand.
Leslie Stephen was once on a long
tramp in Switzerland, accompanied
by his friend, Doctor Morgan. They
missed their way and found them
selves, parched and hungry, far from
any dwelling place. At length they
came across a COW, from whom they
determined to extract some nourish-
ment, each holding on to her horns in
turn, they had to abandon all hopes
of milk. This, remarks Doctor Nor
gan, is "one of the very few occasions
on which l ever saw Stephen fairly
thwarted."
The Yale expositor., 1915-02-25

sitive pride. II wanted you first to see
my people, not as they are going to be,
but as they were. ! wanted you TO
know how proud / am of them-just
that way"
That evening, the four of them
walked together over to the cabin Of
the Widow Miller. At the stile, Ad-
rienne Lescott turned to the girl and
said:
II suppose this place is pre-empted.
I'm going to take Wilfred down there
by the creek, and leave you two alone"
Sally protested with mountain hos
pitality, but even under the moon she
once more colored adorably.
Adrienne turned up the collar OF her
sweater around her throat, and, when
she and the man who had waited, stood
leaning on the rail of the footbridge,
she laid a hand on his arm.
HAS the water flowed by my MILL
Wilfred?" she asked.
What do you mean?" His voice
trembled.
w III yOu nave any lhih6 w ooh AAN
when Christmas comes?"
IF | can wait that long, Drennie," !"
he told her.
Don't wait, DEAR" she suddenly ex-
claimed, turning toward him, and
raising eyes that held his answer.
Ask me now!"
But the question which he asked was
one that his lips smothered as he
pressed them against her own.
BaSk where the poplar threw It's
sooty shadow on the road, two figures
sat close together on the top of a
stile, talking happily in whispers. A
girl raised her face, and the moon
shone on the deepness of her eyes, as
her lips curved in trembling smile.
you've come back, Samson" she
said in a low voice, but, if I'd known
how lovely she was, I'd have given up
hoping. l don't see what made you
come"
Her voice dropped again into the
tender cadence of dialect.
Il couldn't live withouten ye, Sam
son. / jest couldn't do hit" Would he
remember when she had said that be-
fore?
Il reckon, Sally" he promptly told
her, 81 couldn't live withouten you,
neither" Then, he added, fervently,
I'm plumb dead shore l couldn't"
THE END.
The Yale expositor., 1915-02-25
BILIOUS, HEADACHY,
SICK ''CASCARETS'
Gently cleanse your liver and
sluggish bowels while
you sleep.
Get a 10-cent box.


Sick headache, biliousness, dizzi'
ness, coated tongue, foul taste and foul
breath--always trace them to torpid
liver; delayed, fermenting food in the
bowels or sour, gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged in the In
testines, instead Of being cast out
of the system is re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue it causes con-
gestion and that dull, throbbing, sick
ening headache.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases, take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated waste matter and
poisons in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep-a 1O-cent box
from your druggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. Adv.
The Yale expositor., 1915-02-25
1--WE Lays Down."

ing, and at last night closed and the
The Hollmans, like rats in a trap,
grimly held on, realizing that it was to
be a siege. On the following morning
a detachment of "F'' company arrived,
dragging two gatling guns. The Holl-
mans saw them detraining, from their
lookout in the courthouse cupola, and,
realizing that the end had come, re-
solved upon a desperate sortie. Stimuli
taneously every door and lower win
dow of the courthouse burst open to
discharge a frenzied rush of men, fir
ing as they came. They meant to fight
their way out and leave as many hos
tile dead as possible in their wake.
Their one chance now was to scatter
before the machine guns came into ac-
ton. They came like a food OF hui
man lava and their guns were never
silent, as they bore down on the barri-
cades, where the single outnumbered
company seemed insufficient to hold
them. But the new militiamen, look
ing for reinsurance not so much to
Callomb as to the granite-like face of
Samson South, rallied and rose with
yell to meet them on bayonet and
smoking muzzle The rush wavered,
fell back, desperately rallied, then
broke in scattered remnants for the
shelter of the building.
Old Jake HOLMAN fell near the door,
and his grandson, rushing out, picked
up his fallen rife and sent farewell
defiance from II as he, too. threw up
both arms and drepped.
Then a white flag vavered at a win.
The Yale expositor., 1915-02-25
Modern Method.

Apropos of an elderly Chicago bank.
er, whose wife had threatened to di-
vorce him on account Of his affection
for a beautiful stenographer of seven
teen years, George Ade said:
"A tragedy, this, of a not uncommon
kind, a tragedy due to our modern
business methods. The grand old
merchant prince of the past used to
take his pen in hand. Today, II seems,
he takes HIS typewriter on his knee"
The Yale expositor., 1915-02-25

dow and, as the newly arrived troops
halted In the rtreet, the noise died sud
denly to quiet. Samson went out to
meet a man who opened the door and
said shortly:
"We lays down."
Judge HOLMAN, who had not parti Il
pated, turned from the slit in his shut.
tered window, through which he had
since the beginning been watching the
conflict.
That enGs it," he said, with a de-
spairing Shrug OF his shoulders. He
picked up magazine pistol which lay
on his table and, carefully counting
down his chest to the fifth rib, placed
the muzzle against his breast.
The Yale expositor., 1915-02-25
Experience.

Experience is great teacher"
Isn't it? There's Browns case"
What about Mr.. Brown?"
He married widow"
81 know"
We'll, Brown had an idea that he
was a handy man around the house.
About the second week after his mar
riage she caught him with monkey
wrench on his way to fix some of the
water pipes"
What did she do?"
"She stopped him"
"Why?"
''She said her first husband had the
notion that he was a plumber, and she
had all the trouble from that source
that she wanted"