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Magnolia
Gazette.
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D M. HUFF, Editor and Pubtishei.
PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WEEK.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $ j.oo PER VI AR.
VOL. XXII.
MAGNOLIA, PIKE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI. SATURDAY, JUNE U, ISO!»
NO
COTTON MILLS NEEDED.
INTERESTING F ACTS ABOUT TH
IN
DUSTRY.
The Many Benefits Derived
Therefrom Both to tne Far
mer and to the Town.
There is one feature in connec
tion with the development of the
cotton-milling industry in the
South that has been generally
overlooked by the public—a feat
ure that has perhaps oeen kept
in the background by the force of
circumstances, but which is now
beginning to call for its share of
attention. With the building of
cotton mills public thought has
been naturally absorbed with the
benefits which flow to the imme
diate locality—the diawing of a
new population, the building of
houses and the accumulation and
disbursement of capital that
hitherto unknown to that partic
ular community. In the contem
plation of the benefits of a cotton
mill to a town, their benefits to
the surrounding farming
munity have been overlooked.
Are the farmers benefitted by
the cotton mills? Undoubtedly
they are, immensely so, and no
where can the fact be more thor
oughly demonstrated than around
Charlotte. It is a recognized fact
that the mills have created a de
mand for their cotton sufficient
to secure for them a better price
than they would be able to get
under former conditions, and it
will not be necessary to discuss
this feature. The mills help the
farmer in other ways than keep
ing up the price of his cotton,
chief among- these being the
opening up of a market for ev
erything which he produces—
milk, butter, eggs, vegetables
and fruits—a source from which
he can draw from SI to S2 a day
the year around, according to
the degree of energy which he
displays, and from $2 to SI a day
during the fruit and trucking
season.
Almost any mill community in
the South affords undeniable
idenee of the improved condition
of the farmers in its vicinity.
While the plantations of farmers
remote from cotton mills have the
same cld appearance, the farms
that have been brought within
the sphere of influence of the cot
ton mills show all indications of
renewed life, of thrift and pros
perity. There is not a farm with
in a radius of six miles of Char
lotte whose appearance has not
undergone a change for the bet
ter in the past few years. In
some instances this change is re
markable.
1 have in mind the case oi one
particular farmer that will serve
to illustrate the point. Dilapi
dated rail fences used to line the
road that passes along his farm;
the fence corners were grown up
with briars a id tangled weeds,
and there were bare spots and
ugly gullies on his hillsides. His
residence was unpainted and his
outbuildings were sorry-looking
affairs, built out of odds and
ends of lumber. He is a young
man and a good worker, and his
first help came when the good
road3 bu lders came along his
way with the macadam,
fences disappeared then and he
began to take occasional turns of
vegetables and produce to town.
Later on he found that a new
factory settlement afforded him a
better market than he had hith
erto known. Formerly he had
to drive about town with his load
and on some aecasions had to
carry part of it back home un
sold. The new factory settlement
whose acquaintance he made was
the Atherton, through which he
had to pass before reaching the
city. He had been dealing with
the factory people only a short
time when he made the discovery
that they needed a great many
things which his farm could pro
duce and more of each particular
• article than he had ever thought
of raising.
Profiting by this discovery, he
began raising more fruits and
vegetables, bought additional
milch cows as his means permit
ted, and raised more hogs. He
has since been steadily engag ed
in an effort to increase the varie
ty and volume of his marketable
commodities. The cotton mill has
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His
brought, him from a condition of
I poverty and discouragement into
1 " oon ' "'on of ihnft and prosper- '
">• H'=» Helds are cleaner *nd,
; pis fciieea straigriter; he has bet
ter wagons and horses, more
cows in the pasture, pigs in the i
pen and «thickens in the barn
yard; his house «8 painted; his
children are more neatly dressed i
and hapnter looking, and his wife
wears a br.gh.or face^ This is
an actual illustration from real
life and is only one incident out
of many that could be cited.
The Atherton settlement, which
this farmer found a source of
cash supply, contains about 800
people, and he is only one of
many other farmers who ex
change farm products for cash
with these people. Then there
are eleven other milling settle
ments in Charlotte similar to the
Atherton. Each of these popu
tous centers creates a demand
upon the farmers which they find
it profitable to supply. Take the
individual case of the farmer
which has been given as an illus
tration and apply it to the sev
eral hundred farmers within
reach of the cotton mills, and the
benefits of the mills to the farm
ers will be realized in a most
forcible manner. I do not know
of any better way in which to
answer the question, Does the
cotton mill benefit the farmer?
1 do not want to be understood
as making the claim that the im
proved condition of the farming
community so apparent in the
vicinity of the cotton mills is due
entirely to the mills, but I do
claim that the cotton mill is the
chief factor, the principal con
tributor to the prosperity which
has recently overtaken the South
orn milling communities. This
prosperity is in evidence on ail
sides of Charlotte, and the same
is the ease in adjoining milling
towns. The Odells, at Concord,
can show you farmers now who
ride sulky plows and drive to
town behind blooded horses who
used to plow à bull and hoof it to
town. Dr. John MoAden car.
tell how, since the cotton mills
started in Gaston county, the en
tire farming community has been
enabled to secure a good finan
cial standing as the result of huv
ing had a market opened to them
for their products, and that in
the vicinity of the mills at Me
Adenville there are fewer debts
among the farmers arid a fairly
good supply of money on hand. I
some may bay, is the
testimony of millrnen, and they
may object to accepting it on
that score. Then there is still
more convincing evidence, and *
that is the courthouse records,
where the lien3 and chattel mort
gages are shown. Thatisanin- s
dex that cannot be questioned,
and it sustains the claim of the
cotton mill as the friend of the '
farmer. The county records in
the courthouse in Charlotte indi
cate a steady improvement in the
condition of the farmers. There
is not only a decrease in the
number of crop liens and chattel
mortgages recorded, but those
,filed for registration are for
smaller amounts in the aggre
gate. This is as good an indica
tion as cqpld be desired that the
fat mers are getting out of debt,
and I think it has been satisfae
torily demonstrated that the eot
ton mill is playing a very im
portant part in the bringingabout
of this era of prosperity in the
agricultural community.
The farmers in sections where
there are no cotton mills are be
ginning to see the benefits of
these corporations, and, as a re
suit, they have begun to do a lit
tie thinking for themselves. They c
are fast reaching the conclusion
that the hum of the spindle is
sweeter than the voice of the pol- c
itieian, and that it is better for
them to build cotton mills than to a
waste their substance on thedem
agogue. As a result, community a
sentiment is undergoing a rapid
change. The disposition to fight
corporations is giving way to a
determination to build cotton l
mills, and this means that the
South has at last found the road
to prosperity and is traveling it.
—Wade H. Harris in Southern
Farm Magazine.
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This,
Dr. W. R. Brumfield, a prom
inent physician of Huron,
attending to business here Friday
was
WILL NOT BE A CANDID \TE.
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to run for hk-emh tion,
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Legislature and Expresses Ilia
i Views on Necessary Leg
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islation.
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Editor Gazette: I have been
honored by numerous and re
peated requests from citizens of
our county to become a candidate
for re-election to the legislature,
and believing it my duty to them,
and to others who so generously
aided me in the canvass four years
ago, to answer them publicly, !
will ask you to do me the kindness
to let this letter appear in the next
issue of your paper.
For reasons that would notin
terest the public, but which nia
teriaily concern myself, I have
decided not to enter the race, this
year, for representative. It might
be proper to say, however, that. I
could not serve as representative
without financial sacrifice and in
convenience, and! am not in po
sition to bear the one or the other,
Professional work is claiming
most of my time, and I think it
expedient for one in my position,
whose responsibilities are becotn
' n S more considerable, to devote
to su °h work as much time and
attention as possible,
I know that 1 have a proper re
S ar( t for the people who ejected
me, and that none could be found
w ^°' s more anxious than myself
to see their prosperity advance,
01- 'heir weal assured. It was my
desire while serving in the legis
' ature to bring home with me as
surances that beneficial laws
w °uld be enacted and needed
changes made. In truth, I ac*
complished but little, and little
indeed was the good accomplished
hy the whole legislature. Myef
forts there, however, were my
host and most constant, and the
«obéit allons 1 have received late
ly testify that those efforts, though
not fruitful to any great extent,
have been liberally endorsed, and
that tm incumbency has not been
disregarded,
* think the next, legislature
should pass a resolution, submit*
ting to the qualified electors a
proposition of change in regard
to the school tax and distribution,
I believe the time is ripe for the
passage of this resolution,
each county retain its school
'axes and let those that have
heretofore received our support,
* ev y a supplemental school tax
f° r themselves. There would be
no difficulty in reaching this
s "It with a compulsory law for
'he collection of poll taxes. The
situation is briefly this: The Delta
' s as r '°h as the valley of the
Nile; almost without limit as to
resources, while its population
exceeds that of any other territo
T °' area in Mississippi: Yet,
because of the immense colored
population that pays no poll tax.
'he hill counties—most of them
poor—are compelled under the
present iniquitous system to take
'heir white children's money and
send it to the Delta for the edu
cation of negroes and a few white
children whose terms of school
last seven or eight months, and
"'hose teachers, black and white,
receive almost twice as much for
their services as do the best white
teachers in Pike county.
T he ne S ro is practically out of
polities at present, but the
P? ns ? incurred in so disposing of
, m * s alarming and the results
"^11 b e i ar reaching to the white
c nij < i ren who are thus deprived of
'heir school money. Disfran
cai8 ement is not a penalty : it ex
c ''es no ambition to support the
government, nor does it stimulate
a desire to vote. A law, to be
effective, must be provided with
a P eI >alty. It is only the vindi
ca ' or y element in criminal law
'I»®'gives force and vitality to
'he statute. Enforce the collec
* on P°" taxes and let each
count y manage its own schools
an ^, P a i' ^ or 'hem.
This state ought to enact a law
against trusts, such as Texas en
acted recently. I believe that
this law provides that all who
hereafter become engaged in
trusts in Texas must forfeit both
principal and interest of all claims
sought to be collected through
the courts. If the trusts are not
Let
re
ex*
checked, competition will be do
Utroycd; and trade without com
. I petite n will become the equiva
•' : lent of theft and robbery.
trust? should bo throttled an i
law he enacted by Congr,
("■event dealing in futures
| if the states themselves will see
to the equalization of tax burdens,
there will be a chance for the far
mer and a proportionate chance
f or other honest men who derive
from him their living.
In conclusion I thank the neo
nie for the honor they show me.
It would be an act of as great
violence to my own feeling, as of
injustice and ingratitude to the
generosity of the people of this
county IN should fail to express
my thanks for their former kind
! ness, and to reciprocate to them
my sincere respect and good
wishes. Very truly yours,
ß. VVkhii.
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DINAN NEWS.
Duian, Miss., May 21, 18°9.
Rev. W. R. Johnson, of Nor
fiold, Miss., preached quite an
interesting sermon at Dinan
school house last Sunday eve
ning. All who attended report
that it was very instructive.
Mr. E. C. Thornhill and charm
ing daughter, Miss Mattie, of
Walker's Bridge, Miss., were
visiting relatives and friends here
this week .
Miss Joe Bullock has been
quite ill this week, and wo trust
she may soon bo convalescent.
Mr. Henry Magee and family
were the guests of Mr. W. 11.
Magee Sunday.
Mr. J. D. Bearden, of Bridges,
was hero last Sunday.
Mr. W. W. Thornhill, of Walk
er's Bridge, was enjoying him
self at Dinan last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Knight,
of Bridges, visited Mrs. A. F.
Davis and family last week.
Mr. Berkley Thornhill,
panied by Ins sister, Miss Emma,
were the guests of Miss Rosa
Ginn Inst Sunday.
Misses Edna and Lucy Bullock
wore the cherished guests of Miss
Lotiio Magee Sunday.
Mrs. F. G. Andrews, who has
been on the sick list, is now im
proving, and it is hoped that she
may soon recover from her severe
illness.
Miss Myrtis Richmond is visit
ing her brother, Mr. Briley Rich
mond, this week.
ML com -
Messrs. Lewis Beard, Hosea
Luter, and Oliver Kllzey were
welcomed at Mr. L. 11. Ginn's
last Sunday.
Candidates appeared to he very
lively in our midst last week.
X. Y.
BROOK H A VEN N E WS.
From The Leader J
President Chambers is greatly
improved and expects to be out
at commencement.
The remains of Miss Allen, of
Hogue Chitto, were brought here
yesterday and interred in the
cemetery.
The negro school house in Pe
tersburg was burnt to the ground
last Saturday morning at 2:30.
It was probably the work of any
incendiary.
Rev. A. R. Bond and wife
spending the week in town. Bro.
Bond will remain over until next
Sunday, at which lime Rev. W.
T. Lowrey, of the Mississippi
College, will preach at the Bap
tist church.
are
We regret to hear of the death
of Mrs. Doherty, mother of Mrs.
Bradshaw. She «departed this life
at Clay City, 111., on Monday of
last week. Mrs. Doherty was a
refined Christian woman who en
joyed the esteem of all who knew
her during her reeidenee in this
city.
Rev. W. C. Black, D. D., edi
tor of the New Orleans Christian
Advocate, will preach the
mencement sermon at Whith worth
Sunday, June 11. Dr. Black is
one of the most eloquent and pro
found pulpit orators in the south
and those who hear him are sure
to enjoy a treat.
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Mr. Oscar Roberts, and wife,
who reside in the neighborhood
of Terry's Creek were in town
Friday. Mr. Roberts says it has
not rained at his house in eleven
weeks and cotton has not come up
RotftL
^ Absolutely IPure
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
Powder
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
persons, even
among the most prominent, re
publicans, are—it cannot be pos
itively stated what that purpose
is, hut the inference is that it is
intended to pave the way for one
of two things; a call for volun
tears to re-enforce Otis, or to
make the people of this country!
satisfied with some dicker that is
about to he made with the l-'ili
pinos, and which they would
naturally he inclined to he die-i
satisfied with. The preponder
nnce of opinion in Washington
'hat it means more volunteers.
Orders have been sent to the <
viiian members of the Philippi
commission that they must do
nothing to interfere with the mil
itary plans of Gen. Otis, which is
confirmation of the reported
wrangles in the commission.
After holding it back for many
months, Mr. McKinley has
sued his much advertised order
modifying the civil service rules, j
It doesn't appear to please any- i
body overmuch. It excepte tt
total of somewhere in the neigh- I
horhood of four thousand places
from the operation of the civil
service rule, hut as most of those '
places are already filled hy ro
publicans, it will make compara- ,
tively little new patronage for the !
republican leaders, ft doesn't
touch the government printing j
office, which so many republi-i
cans have been trying so hard to !
get thrown open to them.
far as the party workers are con
earned. the order is likely to do !
more harm than good to the re- j
publican party.
Representative Dalzell, 0 jj
Pennsylvania, who stands about j
as much show as Payne, the New
York anti-Platt candidate, drop
pod into Washington aday or two
ago and announced that he was
a candidate for speaker. He
could riot control three votes in
the Pennsylvania delegation,
counting his own, to save his
neck. Bingham is the dummy
candidate of the Pennsylvania
delegation, and will remain such
until Quay decides who shall get
these votes.
No surprise was caused in
Washington by Senator Platt's
flat-footed declaration that Me
Kinley and Hobart would be re
nominated. So far as McKinley
is concerned, Platt has been
mortgaged since early in the
present administration; his en
dorsement of Hobart means that
if ho ever had any idea of help
ing to get Roosevelt second place
on the ticket, it has been aban
doned, but whether because ne
wasn't pleased with Roosevelt or
whether the latter wasn't pleased
with the idea of second place, is
a matter of conjecture, but the
former is more likely to be true.
The declaration of Senator Pen
rose, who is Boss Quay's man
and mouth-piece, in favor of
McKinley's renomination is noth
ing more than a bid for adminis
tration help for Quay in his con
general
ms
MAY NEID MO HI
TROOPS SOON.
Civil Service Rules Modified—
Platt's I )eclaration—Cuban
Vessels, etc.
Washington, May 29.—There
is something decidedly suspici
ous in the news from the Philip
pines. Not a line of press news
can be cabled from Manila until
it has been approved by the Unit
ed States Military Censor, ami it
is not likely that he would
ap
prove anything the administra
tion did not wish public. Hence,
tile publication of the statement
that it would be impossible for
Gen. Otis to
coiuiuer even the
entire island of Luzon, not to
mention the remainder of the
group, so that it would stay con
quered, without a large' increase
in his
army, was allowed to pass
the censor for
being in the
administration, few
Not
a purpose
confidence of the
h
;
no
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test to get his seat in the
Tuts was doubtless pleasing to
Mr. McKinley, whether he
to help Quay or not, as he fount!
Quay decidedly "uppish"
wards the administration while
he was in the senate.
The administration
particular to 1 avo the
circulation given to the report of
the beef court of inquiry, but, it
has now discovered that till of the
$200,000 set aside to pay for the
inquiry has been used up arid
has ordered work stopped on the
printing of the testimony, upon
which Unit report was supposed
to be based, after it had all been
put in type. It has all along been
contended by many that the nd
intended to
make the testimony public, and
this action mnkesit look us though
that contention was correct.
Secietary Algor has been put
ting his foot in it again,
days ago, ho caused an order to
ho issued by the war department
instructing the military author!
ties in Cuba to give clearances to
^ban vessels under the Cuban
,u the sumo lime slating
„ 11 v, ' ri =" ,lN Hying the Cub in
1 ' vu ! lcl not be under American
P p °teetion. As there is no Cuban
k ov «rnment, them can he no ruc
j °8 , n>''-«'d Cuban ,flag; hence the
T ll ' r Hl, 'ikcH the average man hh
,? roUs \ ÖoniebtKly called Mr.
McKinley's attention to the order
iUU he directed that it he referred
10 the attorney general for an
<,, * l,,,on ' This opinion a it is ex
P oeu '«i, will knock th
at anybody's mercy; they would
nave no consul to appeal to in
caBO u,, j>n>t treatment of
sort, and no standing in uny
!' ,,ul 't of admiralty. Alger's spec
lal 'y appears to bo doing the
thing,
the Dewey Home fund isn't
Knowing as fast as it might,
'I'd not reach a total of $5,000
today. Unless it gets
! )n not bo big enough to
! u - v a Washington house by the
tirno Dewey gets home,
^ ^ ' HER CROP I.ti LLET1N.
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HI MMAUV •''or the week ending
state indicate a greatly improved
con fbtion due to the rain that fell
;b Jr i"R the early part of the week,
The precipitation while light was
somewhat gen irai in extent and
has done much toward reviving
gardens, bringing up late-planted
(; otlon, and softening the cloddy
0O 'b There is still much demand
' or rain > but just as this report is
"bout to go to press heavy rain
billing at Vicksburg. The
n 'ffbts have hesn too cool in most
««étions for satisfactory growth uf
C0| t' J "- Some cotton is being
plowed and looks fair, lat« cotton
very unsatisfactory and much
^«planting has been
■riiiti .
mean"
to •
verj
widi'Ht
ministration never
Several
order out.
^ oii^hf ttriNWiT for Cuban voeeels
t>> from one Cuban port to an
other uuder *ueh acloaranoo, but
any porjt outside of Cuba, the
masters of such vessels would bo
: ;i
any
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MONDAY, MAY 29, 1899.
Reports from all sections of the
necessary.
The stand for early planted is va
riously reported, but taken
whole it is good.
The corn crop is encouraging,
R t there are varied reports upf
*ts condition, It is being work«
out extensively, early com has
been plowed a second time an<l in
some localities it is ready to lay
by. Taking the entire state the
stand is good.
The oat crop is nearly a failure.
In Newton county the crop is be
ing harvested, but is far from an
average yield. In the southern
section the outlook is decidedly
discouraging.
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ed
A case of yellow fever was
found in New Orleans the early
part of this week, but the health
officers who investigated the
same and inspected the city, an
nounce that there is no cause for
alarm and consequently there
will be no quarantine yet awhile.
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