THE LEADER
B. T. HOBBS.- Editor.
BROOKHAVBN. » MISSISSIPPI.
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Advance In Learning.
It is not alone on the city pavement
or in the shadow of the huge sky
scrapers that the gold brick industry
flourishes and the wily promoter takes
his commission from the credulity of
the public. The rural inhabitant
yearning for excitement and expe
rience doesn’t have to 'hunt up the
genial bunco artist, but now has the
goods delivered at his own door, says
an eastern exchange. A majority of
our readers are familiar with the na
ture and purposes of what is technical
ly known as a “merger.” There ire
many kinds of merger. The milkman
who owns a herd of cows and a pump
in good usable condition can easily
effect a merger. A would-be business
man with an abundance of money and
no experience and a practical business
man with abundant experience and no
money can form a merger. A man
with a hole in the ground, a man with
a plan for printing mining stock cer
tificates, a man who knows how to
promote and a man who has money
in the bank may get together in a mer
ger. The merger of the lion and the
lamb is as old as history. There is
something fascinating about a merger
—to the man on the inside. There
must be at least two parties to a
merger; there may be several. Some
times both are equally benefited; as a
general thing the weaker is benefited
at the expense of the stronger. The
mixing of milk and water benefits the
water more than it does the milk.
When men who own sawdust and men
who own grain merge their holdings
in order to manufacture a breakfast
food the sawdust owners are willing to
accept a smaller allotment Of stock
than the grain owners. These state
ments may seem aimless and desul
tory; but as “Cap’n Bunsby” would
say, “The bearin’ of which lays in the
application.”
The Han of Sixty.
When a man has passed the age of
60 years, his best years of action do
as a rule lie behind him. There are, and
must be, exceptions. Titian and Tin
toretto were old men when they did
some of their best work. Michael An
gelo was at work on St. Peter’s when he
' was nearly 90; Moltke and Radetsky,
Bismarck and Lord Salisbury, among
soldiers and statesmen, occur instantly;
Lord Roberts was 68 when he rode to
Pretoria, and, for that matter, the lead
ing figures on the front benches of par
liament to-day are well past the age of
chloroform. But though the powers of
action naturally diminish with the
weight of years, says the London Spec
tator, the real power of old age—the
power of criticism—must increase with
the wider horizon that each succeeding
year discloses. Up to a point, of course,
for the wisest of men know the danger
of garrulity, and are often most admir
able when silent, possibly in contempt.
But the young man who, tolerant only
of youth, will one day be forced, logical
ly, to be intolerant of himself, may per
haps remember, when praising the work
of others, that he believes such praise
worth giving, and that he always, as
a young man, thought it worth having.
Unconsciously, while he was proclaim
ing that a man over 40 was past work,
he was anxiously expectant of the praise
of men whose opinion he valued above
all the immature judgment of his con
temporaries. Always impulsive, often
important, sometimes extremely dan
gerous, he is always, though he may not
acknowledge it, doing one thing; he is
asking the approval, relying on the
support, of the senate. He wants to
chloroform those who restrain him, and
only" perhaps realizes, when others take
up the drugged handkerchief for him,
the power and value of that restraint.
Growth of Population.
Sociologists in recent years have
been giving us a lot of views and sta
tistics as to the restrictions which
society has placed upon the ordinary
course of nature, and we have been in
structed time and again that the chief
duty of man is to multiply and replen
ish the earth. On the whole, observes
the Philadelphia Inquirer, that seems
to be what the race is doing, for every
census in civilized lands indicates that
the population Is growing rapidly, due
not only to a general cessation of wars,
but to the fact that people take better
care of themselves and live longer. A
statement from the life insurance com
panies indicates that the average life
of the insured man is more than 40
years, which indicates that for thr
whole race it must be much nearer 40
than the former standard of 33. Large
ly this is due to the fact that more
babies reach maturity.
Photography, which has caught the
Empire State express in full motion by
the cinematograph, has also been
-brought into use to depict, with equal
fidelity, action so slow as the growth
of a flower. By exposing a plant every
quarter of an hour for 16 days to a cam
era it is now possible to watch a bud
open gradually; to see the blossoms
close at night and reopen in the morn
ing; to see the leaves increase in size
and the stamens peep out. And all these
wonders performed in the space of-n
minute or two.
The Leland Stanford, Jr., university
has the greatest endowment of all the
leading educational Institutions in this
country. Its productive funds amount
to $20,000,000 par yalue. Girard college
comes next with $17,715,000; then Har
vard with $16,755,000, and Columbia
with $15,847,000. AH others are in seven
figures instead of eight. And the Stan
ford endowment is the gift of a single
individual or estate, instead of an ac
cumulation of gifts, as in the cases of
the other colleges and universities, ex
cepting Girard._
The recent completion of some of the
gigantic power units in New York re
calls a prophecy made by Thomas A.
^Edison in 1878. He declared the day
would come when he could light the
whole lower part of New York city from
one machine. The day has come.
A new drug, marrahuana. is being ex
plotted by a Chicago university profes
nor. It is said to be a substitute for to
hacro opium, cocaine and hasheesh
and sis deadly as aii of them pH to
gether. ; . * ... Jf,
GEN, F1TZHUGH LEE
HAS PASSED AWAY
Death Followed a Stroke of Apo
plexy While Traveling.
THE SUMMONS A SUDDEN ONE
None ot Him Immediate Family With
Him, the Final Call Coming la
the Providence Hospital,
Washington.
Washington, April 28.—Gen. Fitz
kugh Lee, U. 8. A., retired, and one of
Virginia's foremost sons, died at Prov
idence hospital here Friday night from
an attack erf apoplexy which he suf
fered early Friday morning in a train
while en route from Boston to Wash
ington. After Gen. Lee had been re
moved to the hospital It was evident to
the attending physicians that his case
was a serious one, but they believed
that his strong vitality and will pow
er would assist materially in a partial
recovery at least from the attack. His
condition remained fair,considering the
severity of the attack during the day,
but shortly after 0 p. m. he began to
grow weaker, his breathing became
more rapid and his pulse lower, termi
nating in less than two hours in death,
The end was peaceful and without pain,
the general remaining conscious until
within five minutes of the end. Half
an hour before death Gen. Lee recog
nized his brother Daniel Lee, who came
into the room for a moment.
GEN. FITZHUGH LEE.
A sad feature of the case is that al
though Gen. Lee was blessed, with a
family consisting of a wife and five
children, not one of them was with
him at the time of his death. The gen
eral was 68 years o? age.
Gen. Lee was conscious throughout
the day and recognized those who were
admitted to the sick room. Necessari
ly these were very few persons, and
included the attending physicians, the
nurses and several relatives who came
to visit him. While not suffering any
pain, the general was rather uncom
fortable most of the time, his breathing
being difficult, and his articulation,
when hd attempted to speak, being
heavy and thick. The Orders of Lieut
George Lee, a son, who was about to
sail for the Philippines, have been
changed, and he will come to Wash
tion, and it is expected will be ac
companied by his sister, the wife of
Lieut. Brown, who also is now on the
Pacific coast, and whose orders were
issued directing him to sail with his
regiment for the Philippines.
The news of Gen. Lee’s death was a
severe shock to his numerous friends
in Washington. This was evidenced
by the many inquiries made at the
hospital throughout the day and even
ing. Gen. Lee’s attack is attributed
largely to his activity in behalf of the
military and naval review which is to
be held in the vicinity of Jamestown,
Va. His heart and soul have been in
the work and he labored zealously to
make it a success.
Gen. Lee has been a prominent figure
in Washington, and he always was
given a hearty reception wherever he
went.
Prior to the Civil war, at the begin
ning of which he resigned his commis
sion in the United States army, Gen.
Lee saw considerable frontier duty in
movements against the Indians. .He
was an expert cavalry officer, and on
pne occasion, June 16, 1860, he was en
gaged in a hand-to-hand encounter
with Comanche Indians near Camp
Colorado, Tex. His services in the
confedereate army as a major-general
are well known, and during the inter
val between this war and his active
work in the Spanish-American war,
Gen. Lee filled a number of important
positions, including the governorship
of Virginia, the presidency of the
Pittsburg & Virginia railroad, the col
lectorship of internal revenue for the
Lynchburg district, and the consul
generalship at Havana. Following his
honorable discharge from the volunteer
army on March 2, 1901, Gen. Lee was
appointed to the regular army with the
rank of brigadier general, and with this
rank he was retired in the March fol
lowing.
For Lincoln Memorial Monument.
Springfield, 111., April 29.—The Illi
nois house of representatives concurred
in the senate joint resolution petition
ing the national congress to appropri
ate $3,000,000 for the erection of a
Lincoln memorial monument in Wash
ington. _
Veteran of Two War* Dead.
Greenville, Miss., April 29.—Capt.
John W. Ward, a veteran of the Mexi
can and civil wars, and a leading edi
tor of this state, is dead at the age of
81 years. He belonged to many secret
societies.
Railroad Merger Bill Vetoed.
Denver, Col., April 28.—Gov. McDon
ald has vetoed the railroad merger ex
pansion bill passed at the late session
of the legislature, the purpose of
which, as represented, was to enable
the Colorado & Southern Railway Co.
to extend its lines to the Gulf of Mex
ico and in other directions.
Killed tor a Live Wire.
Fort Worth, Tex., April 29—Henry
Williams, aged 25, was electrocuted at
the Ladd dairy farm, near this city,
while making repairs on a wire.
Electrocuted Accidentally.
Schenectady, N. Y.. April 29.—Victor
N. Yont, a graduate of the University
of Nebraska, employed in the test de
partment of the General Electric Co.,
was electrocuted by coming in contact
with a transformer carrying 6,000 volts.
His home was in Brook, Neb.
Charred with Abduction.
Kansas City, Mo., April 29.—W. O.
Perry, who Is charged with abducting
Pearl Farrell, 14 years old, from her
home at South Omaha, will be re
turned to that city for tridl. The girl
wili accompany him.
“IBOHQUILL" TALKS BACK
Former Pension Commissioner Ware
Replies to Commissioner Warner.
He Saya If Any Old Soldier Haa Re*
eelved a Pension Wrongfully
Publish Hla Name.
Topeka, Kas., April 29.—Eugene F.
Ware, former commissioner of pen
sions. in repuly to charges made by the
present commissioner, Warner, of al
leged violation of order No. 78, thereby
causing an extra expense of three
quarters of a million dollars, said: “I
do not know to what particular cases
the commissioner refers. A soldier
might have a right to a pension, and
thousands of them had, but under the
aid law and under Order No. 78,
known as the old age order, and hence
it would make no difference under
which issued.
“It is not a question of whether,
technically, order No. 78 was violated,
but whether some old soldier got a
pension or an increase to which he was
not entitled. I know nothing about
what the commissioner has found, but
in justice to the reputation of the
honest and capable men, who are his
subordinates in the bureau, he ought,
before making the charge examine and
see whether any old soldier has got a
pension or increase who was not entitled
to it, and ought the publish the names
of such pensioners, giving the individ
ual names and instances. I think he
owes it now to the public to print the
names and the company, regiment and
state, and give facts, not generalities."
STORM PLAYS SAD HAVOC.
Bridges Swept Away at Hannibal—
Serlona Damage at Point*
— In Illinois.
St. Louis, April 29.—Among the re
ports received of Friday afternoon’s
storm wero tho following:
At Hannibal, Mo., bridges and cul
verts were carried away by torrents of
water, and the damage from hailstones
is reported to be heavy. A number of
barns and outbuildings were leveled by
the wind or fired by lightning at Mex
ico. New Cambria was the center of
a record-breaking hail storm.
Kintnundy, 111., was swept by a tor
nado, which wrecked a number of
houses and leveled telephone and elec
tric light wires. A storm of similar
intensity visited Patoka, 111. Peoria
reports heavy damage from a wind
which swept the city at a velocity of
40 miles an hour. At Beardstown an
especially destructive wind storm pre
vailed, overturning river craft.
Miles of fences were washed away
and many bridges were carried out by
the booming creeks and branches,
which are far out of their banks.
Hail., varying from the size of a hazel
nut to one inch in diameter, fell at
many points, and fruit trees were
stripped of their buds. Early vegeta
bles also were badly damaged by the
hail, and strawberries suffered exten
sively.
COMMERCIAL CONDITIONS.
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Summary of Brad*treet’« Weekly
Review of the Conditions of
Trade and Industry.
New York, April 29.—Bradstreet’s
weekly review says:
Irregularity still characterizes dis
tributive trade, while industry is active
and outdoor construction ia of unpre
cedented volume. The weather has
been rather too cool for the best of
crop preparation or germination. La
bor is well employed, and with the one
conspicuous exception—Chicago—
where the teamsters’ strike affects
trade and shipments, disputes are be
low the average. Prices of many sta
ples have been weak and unsettled^ and
cereals, cotton, some kinds of pig iron,
copper and country produce have
moved lower. Railway earnings are
good, and bank clearings this week,
owing to holidays, are smaller than
last week’s, but heavily' exceed a year
ago. Collections generally are rather
tardy, especially at the south. Crop
conditions, though the season is back
ward, promise well as regards the
cereals. A heavy wheat yield is in
prospect.
NEARLY NINETY THOUSAND.
The Total of the Alleged Peculations
of Ex-Tax Collector Smith of
Sam Francisco Grows.
San Francisco, April 29.—Former
Tax Collector E. J. Smith’s defalcation
is still growing. It was discovered,
Friday, that In addition to embezzling
large amounts of money, the former
tax collector obtained several thou
sand dollars by means of forged de
mands on the city treasurer, purport
ing to come from clerks and other em
ployes for services rendered or for sup
plies furnished. Some of the names
signed are said to have been fictitious.
The total of Smith’s peculations, so far
as tabulated, is nearly $90,000, one
item of $4,000,and a number of minor
delinquencies having been found Fri
day.
Charged With Murder of Father.
Shawnee, Okla., April 29.—Minnie
and Mary Crowe, young daughters of
John Crowe, who was killed at his
home at Asher recently, have been
placed in the county jail, charged with
the murder of their father. A young
brother gave information upon which
the arrests are based.
Knowlea Off the Par Roll.
New York, Aprif 29.—President Alex
ander of the Equitable has dismissed
Henry H. Knowles, former superin
tendent of agencies and for 40 years an
employe of the company
Futthless Wife aad Mother.
Monroe City, Mo., April, 29.—James
Mitchell and Mrs. William Mosley, of
Centerville, la., are under arrest here
on complaint of the latter’s husband.
Mrs. Mosley deserted her two little
girls and eloped with Mitchell.
Railroad Station hooted.
St. Louis, April 29.—The railway sta
tion at Kimmswlck, 20 miles south of
here on the Iron Mountain, was looted
of everything of value, including $1,000
j tickets. The robbers did their work
in the night.
Grove Doubts Schwab Compact.
Philadelphia, April 29.—Presiden*
Henry S. Grove of the Cramp Ship
Building Co. doubts the reports that
Schwab has secured orders for Russian
warships. Mr. Grove hts just re
turned from St Petersburg, where he
sought contracts.
Engineer Bested Negro Tramp.
Montgomery, Ala., April 29.—In a
deseparte fight in the cab of a loco
motive, Engineer Will Reynolds over
came a negrh tramp and threw him
from the tra'ih, klU’ng him, just below
Montgomery.
Greater Mississippi
Devoted to the Industrial, Commercial and
Agricultural Development of the State’s In
comparable Resources A Items of Interest
Picked Up Here and There A A A
By H. E. BLAKESLEE, Jackson.
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By Invitation of the writer, Hon. H.
L. Whitfield, State superintendent of
education, contributes the following
thoughts upon educational matters
pertinent to Mississlppians and a
"Greater Mississippi.” Mr. Whitfield
is very enthusiastic In his work and
the items are well worth the p«riffial
of all:
"That Mississippi’s great natural
resources have been discovered to
the outside world, there is no ques
tion. Every train that comes within
our borders from the North brings
men who are investing their means
In our lands, men who are to promote
great enterprises, and skilled men
who are taking the responsible places
at large salaries.
“We are permitting these great nat
ural resources to fall into the hands
of outsiders. We, by failure to train
our boys for the higher work of this
complex age, are permitting most of
the skilled and high-paid work to be
done by people who come from places
that have put a premium on prepara
tion for work. If the names of all
the civil and electrical engineers,
architects, and, in fine, all the skilled
men who are doing work in the State
could be secured, it would show that
by far the majority of them are not
our own boys.
“Some say let us offer every in
ducement to encourage the capitalist
and skilled men to come into the
State for the purpose of developing
its great natural resources. While
we should cordially welcome any
good citizen who wants to cast his
lot with us, yet should we rely on
foreigners to do .this work for us?
What use will a developed-State be
to our people if it is owned by oth
ers? Do you want .your boys to be
satisfied to do the drudgery and mus
cle work for low wages, while the
profit on the investment and the high
salaries paid for skill go to outsiders?
What is it worth to our people to
stand off and see such great activity
without being participants in it, or
without receiving any of the great
profits derived from the work?
“No, my friends, there can be only
one true, genuine prosperity for Mis
sissippi, and that is to have Missis
sippi resources largely developed by
Mississippi blood. Old sensible peo
ple will agree that it is the people and
not the_physical State that should be
considered. How can this end be at
tained? There is only one way under
high heaven, and that is to dignify
the training of the individual. First,
we should make our common schools
the peer of any in the land. It mat
ters not what calling a boy may final
ly adopt, it is in the coipmon schools
that he is revealed to himself and is
made conscious of his possibilities; it
is there that he can view the great
world and decide for himself his
course in life.
“The common school Is tbe neces
sary basis for ail other training, and
if the future of the State is to be
determined by tbe character of train
ing we give our fine Anglo-Saxon
blood, then it follows that the first
work to do in the great scheme of
the State’s proper development is to
make better the schools that aff“o»r
people first attend.
"Because children have to work in
the fields is no reason why a county
should not have a regular school
term.
In the first pLace, the training of
their children should be a parent’s
first duty and highest responsibility.
That person has a very low concep
tion of parental responsibility who
would only look to his child’s prep
aration for life when there is nothing
else to be done. No one has ever
said that children can be properly
reared and trained without expense.
To do so often means harder work
and greater sacrifice. But is there
any other worthier motiv’e, or greater
compensation for increased toil and
self-denial, than to see the beautiful
children God has given you daily in
crease in usefulness to their family,
to themselves and to God? Fathers
and mothers, when you see your chil
dren, through the results of your toil
and self-denial, being raised constant
ly to a higher plane of life, do you not
feel that you have been paid a thou
sand times over for all the extra work
and sacrifice it has occasioned?
“But, unfortunately, there are some
who look on their children as they do
their beasts of burden—value them
only for the service they can get out
of them. It is especially to such peo
ple I want to make an argument; Let
us take it for granted that even the
most indifferent parents to the wel
fare of their children would like to
send their children to school when
they are not of material service on
the farm. In other words, if you
want to send your children to school
without losing their services on the
farm, it is necessary that they have
as nnjfih opportunity as possible to go
to school before they are old enough
to be of material help on the farm.
There is a gap of from Jive to seven
years between the time when a child
is old enough to go to school and be
fore he is old enough to do regular
farm work. Now, if you want to send
your children to school, and intend to
keep them in the field when old
enough to do regular work, then -it
follows that you should have as good
schools and as long terms as possible
during this time. Let us illustrate:
•If a fchild can go to school for five
years before his services are required
on the farm, he will get twenty
months schooling in terms of four
months a year, while he would get
forty months schooling with eight
month terms. He would not only get
double the months of school without
losing him from the farm, bufr he
would get better schooling each
month, as one month of a long term
is much better than one month of a
short term. Then, again, longer serv
ice each year would procure a better
teacher.
“Agricultural people should, more
than any other people, have a long
school term. If they educate their
children it must be when they are
young and during this time when they
are not of material service on the
farm they shou’.d have just as much
and just as good a school as possible.
“If the children of Mississippi could
have the, advantage of good schools
for full terms only for the time that
they are too young for regular farm
work they could get the foundations
of a good education, they could be
pointed to higher service to the State
and to God
“Jt is the universal experience of
those who have been engaged in the
effort to get longer terms, that one ar
gument that the opponents of better
schools always make, Is tnat If the
children do not go regularly to a short
term that they will go less regularly
to a longer term.
"This argument has been made In
each of the forty counties that have
lengthened their school terms by
county taxation; yet in each instance
it has proved to be untrue. Our ex
perience has proved this to be true,
that the longer the school term the
better the average attendance.
“This is not strange when you think
just for a moment, a longer school j
term means a better school senti
ment, which results in having better
schoolhouses and teachers. Educa
tion is thus dignified by the people,
and each parent makes greater sac
rifice to send their children to school.
Teachers who work in their profes-1
sion for from seven to eight months
a year can afford to spend more on
preparation for their work than they
could when they taught for only four
or five months a year and had to sup
port themselves for twelve months
on a few months salaries.
“Let us look on it from the stand
point of a child. When a boy sees
that his parents are so indifferent and
place so low an estimate on-the value
of an education as to be unwilling to
pay a small tax to improve education
al conditions, that they are satisfied
with the indifferent teachers that us
ually teach the short term schools—
the long term counties usually draw
the best teachers of the short term
counties—he gets the idea that the
school is not of much Importance:
the consequence is, that he has not
much faith in the school as an im
portant factor in his life, and as one
cannot get more out of a thing than
he has faith in it, he takes very little
interest in school, staying at homo
for the most trivial reasons. He
starts to school and goes for a few
months when the school is out, he is
out of the school for about two-thirds
of the year, comes in contact with
things that do not raise his idea's or
stimulate his ambition, gathers a
head full of rubbish which displaces
practically all the information he got
during the short school term. When
he returns to school he finds a differ
ent teacher, but of about the same
grade, is started about the same place
in his book. Going to school this way
is not business. There is no hope in
it. But when there is a school taught
by a competent teacher, which is
long enough for him to finish a set of
books in one year, he soon finds out
that the school is a necessity for his
proper preparation for life, he is
made to feel the thrill of progress,
ambition is born, he has had a soul
awakening.
“The school is the State’s greatest
institution set aside and devoted to
the grand work of training her chil
dren, and it matters not how superior
their natural endowment may be, the
character of training which they re
ceive cannot be any better than are
the schools. It is in the common
schools that- the basis of this work
must be done, for the great number
of children it cannot be done else
where. It is in the plain school of
the people that a child is revealed to
himself and is made conscious of the
power with which God has endowed
him; it is there that he will learn the
lesson of human responsibility, and the
obligation resting on him to use his
lipwers intelligently for his own good,
for the good of society, and for the
honor of God. For this reason the
common school is the richest jewel
that glitters in the diaden) of a na
tion’s glory.
“The school is but a mockery which
fails to impress upon its pupils the
great truth that their endowments
are the talents which God has com
mitted to them, and that their first
duty is to deve’op them to the utmost,
and that a failure to do so is the
greatest sin that can be committed.
“Parents, what did 'God give you
these beautiful children for? Did He
give them.to you that they might be
your slaves? Do you regard your
children just as you do your beasts of
burden? When your final accounting
time shall have come, what matters
it if you may have a few dollars,
saved up, about which your children
in all probability will contend in the
courts and brothers and sisters be es
tranged from each other? Or did Ho
give them to you to satisfy their ev
ery animal appetite, that they might
eat, sleep, drink, breathe, die, and be
forgotten, just as the insects of yes
terday? Certainly God gave you
these beautiful children for higher
purposes than these. What does cfar
experience and observation teach us
that a child might be? Let us, as did
the Savior on one occasion, take a lit
tle child and place it in our midst;
what can this pure work of God be
come? We know that if we deal with
it as God would have us, if we make it
obedient to authority at home, and
send it to a school where the teachter
understands those laws that must be
observed in the process of develop
ment of the child, and keep it away
from the contaminating things of life,
the result is a useful, productive, God
fearing citizen; but if we let it grow
up like a colt on the waste, pay no at
tention, to it at home, but permit it to
come in contact wih everyhing low
and vile, do not provide for its proper
education, pay no attention to what it
thinks about or what it does, and
give it no systematic training, it will,
as effect- follows cause, become a
slothful, vicious man—a shame to its
parents, an expense to the State and
a dishonor to God.
“It is not claimed that our schools,
as organized and conducted, are
equipped to do this work, even to the
extent to which they go. We can
never hope for our schools to do their
great work until thinking Mississippi
takes hold of the question, until the
school is dignified in the eyes of all.
Just as long as a great part of our
people subordinate the school to ev
ery other convenience, just so long
will our people do the world's drudg
ery. If we all agree that the train
ing of the people is a condition prec
edent to the proper development of
the State, and that the common
school is the place for the beginning
of this training, then does it not fol
low that in practice the school, should
be first? Should we not be more
careful about sending, our children to
school regularly, in providing better
i schooihouses, to secure stronger
teachers; have longer terms, and, in
[ general, subordinate other things to
the school? We send our children to
school and stop them to suit every
thing else; start, stop, and divide the
school to suit our convenience in all
other matters; levy taxes for every
thing e’se before we do for schools,
when unquestionably education is the
best and most far-reaching return for
their payment; elect teachers because
they are poor, or because they are
kindred, or related to some frtfmd,
political or otherwise; complain more
about the conduct of the school than
we exert energy and endeavor to sup
pHy the means to renovate the school
house. In fact, all other duties must
be performed and other expenses
paid, and other things must be ar
ranged, then if there are any re
•
sources left w« aply them to the
school.
“Certainly, looking at the matter
from the standpoint of vital State pol
icy, the subject matter of better
schools is of the highest considera
tion, and should receive our best
thought and first self-denial and ex
penditure of time and means.
“Very few contests come up to the
State Board of Education from dis
tricts where there is a comfortable and
well kept school house and where
school Is maintained fftr a full session
with a good average attendance. The
citizens of such neighborhoods take
an Interest In their schools and re
gard them as a medium for the edu
cation of their children and not mere
ly as furnishing an opportunity for
constant factional differences and
contests.
“Surely, God gave us our children
that we should briBg them up in the
way that will enable them to give td
society their best possible service
and be the greatest honor to Him.
It is true that this holy work requires
the service, sacrifice and self-denial
of the parents, but in doing it they
become truly ennobled. Of course, it
will cost effort and some means to
rear and properly train children, but
is there any other prize of life' worth
as much as a child well prepared for
the duties and responsibilities of thiB
life and fitted for the life eternal?
“Parents, let us consider the pre
cious children that God has loaned to
us as our talents, and when He.
comes again, let us, not like the sloth
ful servant of old, bring them to Him
undeveloped, but give them back to
Him with all their powers for good
infinitely multiplied.”
* * •
Some newspaper in the State has of
fered as a motto for the Cotton Plant
ers’ Association the saying of Col.
Jo Slack, “lengthen your corn rows
and shorten the store account.” This
is a very good motto and one that has
been adopted, in part, by a large ma
pority of the farmers of the State
There has been a shortening of store
accounts for some time, and the cred
it business has been reduced to a
minimum. With the adoption of the
first part, which is now being put in
force, better times than ever are
ahead for the good people of Missis
sippi. The prosperous years just
past are likely to be repeated with a
greater degree of prosperity.
• * *
Indianola is another town that has
achieved wonders during the past
year in rebuilding after a series of
destructive fires. After each confla
gration and ^he attendant large losr
of property the people have begun rc
building before the ruins had ceased
to smoke, and the prediction is that
in a short time Indianola wjll be
larger and much better than ever be
fore. Blessings frequently come ii
disguise, and more especially when
backed up by a live and progressive
citizenship.
* * *
, The State experiment farm at Holly
Springs is reported in good condition
for the first year, especially when the
nature of the land used is taken into
consideration. Manager Wi’son has
demonstrated to the farmers of thai
section something already of what
can be done with a poor hill farm un
der the right management. The sta
tion' will be worth thousands of dol
lars to that section of the State and
Marshall county is to be congratu
alted upon securing its location. .
The wonderful growth of Mississlp
pi cities and towns in general is re
flected in the advancement of Gulf
port. As an indication of what has
been accomplished there since 1900
the following figures showing the pos
tal receipts for each year is pretty
conclusive evidence that the growth
of that city ras been phenomenal:
Year end’g March 31, 1900. :$ 2,563.92
Year end’g March 31, 1091.. 3,450.63
Year end’g March 31, 1902.. 4,599.80
Year end’g March 31, 1903.. 8,118.64
Year end’g March 31, 1904.. 13,655.53
Year end’g March 31, 1905.. 17,407.27
This shows an increase of seven
fold in five years, which is indeed a
highly creditable showing for Missis
sippi’s greatest deep water port.
• * *
Captain Jones, of the Gulf & Ship
Island road strenuously denies the
connection with the lumber syndicate
attributed to him by the newspapers.
Ho asserts that he nor his road has
any connection- whatever with the
Goodyear syndicate, or any other syn
dicate which may be attempting .to
control the lumber output of Missis
sippi. The manner in which Captain
Jones handles the subject caries con
viction that he is in earnest about
what he says. It should be a source
of gratification to the friends of Cap
tain Jones, and they are legion, to
know that he is in no way connected
with tho scheme proposed and being
put in operation. Nothing would
more seriously cripple the timber and
lumber business of the State than the
successful termination of this pro
ject.
• • *
Hecry Bobbitt, of Velma, Yallo
Starkville recently voted to issue
$8,000 in bonds for the purpose of en
larging and extending the water plant
to take in new territory which has
grown up since the plant was in
stalled. The vote stood exactly at
two-thirds of those qualified, hence
was not nearly unanimous. It is
grtaifying to know, however, that
there were enough citizens who de
sired to see the improvements to put
them through.
* * *
busha county, sold a home-raised colt
last week for $200. Then there are a
number of tenderfeets who say that
you cannot raise as good stock in Mis
sissippi as anywhere in the world.
His Wife Henpecked Him.
Senator Gorman was talking about
a statesman whose great talents are
coupled with an unusual mildness and
gentleness of disposition.
“Poor fellow,” said Senator Gor
man. “He lets himself, perhaps, he
imposed upon. Tils wife henpecks
him. But he told me once that he
would rather be henpecked any time
than have "a row and cause pain.
Then he told me how, when he was
governor, he had a page boy, a little,
fat page boy in a tight blue suit with
brass buttons. One day the page boy
committted some crime—stole postage
stamps, kicked the cook or something
of that kind—and the governor, in his
gentle way, set out to give him a lit
tle religious admonition.
“ ‘Wiiie,’ he said, ‘don’t you know,
Willie Pitcoe, that there is a higher
power always watching us?’
“‘Yes, sir,’ said the pag'
“ ‘Who is it, wretched boy.’ the gov
ernor went on, ‘who sees and hears all
we do, and before whom even 1 am as
x crushed worm?’
*■ ‘The missus, sir,’ said WiHie.”
A Domestic Picture.
Wife (much excited)—I gave her a
piece of my mind.
'Husband (sotto voice)—I should
think, Maria, taking into considera
tion the mind you had to start on—
; and the number of pieces you have
given away—
Wife (catching the last part of his
remark)—What’s that you are saying
about my mind, John—
Husbapd—My love, I—er—only
said that—er—rf you didn’t quit being
so generous that soon we—er—would
not have any left for ourselves. That
was all I said, Maria!
FAMOUS ATHLETES 'Kg PE Mi -NA
As a Spring Tonic to Get the
System In Good Shape.
**1 advise
all Athletes
•who are
about to go
in training
to try a
bottle of
*Pc-ru-na/*
-J. W.
Glenister.
John Glenister, Champion Swimmer and Only Athlete to Successfully
Swim Through the Michigan Whirlpool Rapids.
PE-RU-NA
to novates, Regulates, Restores a
System Depleted By Catarrh.
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“During the springtime for the
last few years, I have taken several
\ kinds of spring tonics, and have
; never received any benefit what
ever. This year, through the ad
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1 “ / advise ali athletes who are
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! In good shape." Yours truly,
|JOHN W. OLENISTER.
ATnLETES realize the importance
^ .of keeping in good bodily trim.
The digestion must be good, the cir
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If the slightest catarrhal condition of
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Those who lead very active lives,
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Athletes everywhere praise Peruna
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The vocation of some men may al
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He must keep in the “ pink of condi
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In order to do this he must avail
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Therefore athletes are especially
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Peruna never falls them.
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