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--—————— ' _ --- FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI . , | to the Imtnstrial, Coinuterolat amt Agrleulbiral »evel»p lu tut of the W.iii'lerfiil Kaaoareos of tlio State.Items of Interest tiom all (Jiutrteri* By H. E BLAKE5I.EE, JacXsoa, Mtsi. ---- ’ " 7_ fy.J i i ■ ---- Sept \V. H. Smith of Holmes conn tv has cause to be proud of the auspio iou's beginning given the movement for the promotion of corn growing among the boys of the public sehoois of that county. The meeting held at Lexington, on the 23rd was a splen did success. Nearly two bundled boys besides an equal number of ladies and gentlemen were present. Addresses were made by Prol. Per kin of the A. & M.,- A. S. Meliarg of the lT. S. department of agricul ture, State Supt. Henry Whitfield and the writer. Unusual interest was shown by all concerned and there is little doubt, of the success that will attend the venture being made by Supt. Smith. This is the first clpb of the kind to be .permanently organ ized in tile state, but a number wilt closely follow. It is a movement •-.gnificaut of a great deal. Interest in a betterment of conditions m geu • rai along agricultural lines is fast rowing in magnitude and the result, ill no doubt be gratifying in the ex re me. Our people are awakening to he necessity of an education to make vood farmers and are demanding in creased facilities from year to year, "lie proposition for an agricultural high school in each congressional dis trict will be strongly backed when •the legislature meets again, and it should be. With tire establishment of such schools, the education of our farmer boys in the right way ami improved methods employed, Missis sippi would bloom as rose. Then too, t promises to take away from life the • rudgery that has characterized it for years and make it more inviting. Farmers wilt eventually he just as well educated as lawyers or doctors and as able to look out for them selves, a condition that is fast coming about. When this is a fact, the farm will be more inviting than the crow ed' profession's and more than crowd ed commercial fields. Speed the day. In though accord with the spirit so prevalent for the betterment along agricultural lines, -the managment of the state fair to be held in Jackson from Nov. 5th to 16th, have arranged for an experimental station to be 1) cared on the fair grounds. The thou sands Who will attend the fair this :'all will have the opportunity of earning something .practical concern :ng cultural methods, fertilizing and -sed breeding. A tract of land in ire fair grounds has been selected ud preparations are under way for tutting t'he project into exeeuition. J': was first broken during the fair last fall by a traction engine of thirty horse power pulling ten big plows. Ii has been broken again and harrowed sliootk. The demonstration plates will be something lik half an acre in area. Nearly a dozen different varieties of corn, cotton and others crops will lie planted; some without fertilizer, some with moderate amo unt and others with a great deal and also with combinations. 'Cultural methods approved by various author ities will be used and 'he who com11? to the fair this fall can visit a model experiment station as well. Placards will he placed on each plat giving in formation concerning the variety, me fluids of preparation of the soil and planting cultivating, feartilizing and etc. This move will no doubt be pro ductive of great good as the immense number of people who will see i! during tire fair will be more or lest interested in agricultural matters. Ii is bound to teach a valuable practi The education of our people aloni see'll breeding will cause a large par of the seed corn purchased ntxt yeai to be in tbe ear. Two selected ear; of the same variety of coni from the same field will not produce corn ii equal amounts. Than if we are i< test it before planting it must neces sarily be bought in the ear. Than too iii, selecting on the farm, it would t* better to preserve the ears unti , - spring aiid test them before plantin; Corn in the shelled state is not near’; so easily judged as when it is on th ear. The best is none too good fo our people who are becoming so wide awake to improved methods in every -thing. '' There should be a telephone in th home of every farmer in the state It is no longer a luxury but has be come a necessity. The arbitrary pric being charged for the service wil greatly retard, if not altogether pie Vent the extension of the scrvie ■to the rural- communities. Elect legislature that will correct the evil. Tnn;k farmers in Mississippi wil ipok * more closely after the horn market this year than ever before Too. many times they have overlooks the f*<*t that they could get more fo Mississippi is stil furnishing a large crop of suckers to bite nr fake she mes of every description" offered by slick v. artists that should be doing time in the pentantiary. Fertilizer receipts wereby valuable composts may be made for one-tenth of what they are claimed to be worth, 'histor ies of "the country which are enabled to be sold .at panic prices on account of the collapse of some mythical publishing firm, bigraphical compand ium's of great men whose, greatness is assured and space gmm upon the subscription price of the 'book, etc. It would be well for our people io , steer clear of all solicitors along these [ lines and quit trying' to get some- j thing for nothing, as in nine cases out of ten, they are fakes, pure and simple and the subscriber gets little or nothing for his money. , Outside of t'lre vexed labor question j Mississippi is enjoying a period of prosperity that is nothing short of wonderful. However, there are those who continue 'to complain although such are not so common as formerly. The inequalities can be rubbed out by judicious and persistent effort, and it is the duty of every man to quali fy himself for a part in the rubbing 1 process. The writer listened 'to two 1 .distinguished gentlemen not many days since addressing public meetings. corn ounmea me Jnequnuiica ami proposed a remedy. One said that it was to educate our people and the other that it was to vote. Both "'ere unqualifiedly correct. Educate first and then vote right. A few years of intelligent, educated voting will right all that is not right just now. As has been stated in this depart ment time and again, the building of the Panama canal means a great deal to the South a Did to Mississippi. Evi dences of the truth of this is fast coming to the front. Only last, week announcement was made that a Mis sissippi lumber concern was expend ing a million dollars on its plant for the purpose of supplying 'the facili ties for furnishing -an enormous amount of lumber for which contract, had been secured. The next few years will see a great change in the railroad map of the country, num bers of the great commerce carrying lines 'that now go from east to west being changed to the South. Mrs. C. W. Howell who farm's near Greenbrier, Lincoln comnty, killed three hogs that were less than ten months old and averaged 262 pounds •rto/vVi T.f cafn fn .ctnv f.llis amount of meat did not cost Mrs. Howell two cents per pound in money The 'hogs 'were .raised largly on the re fuse from it he table and farm. There is no excuse for failure to supply meat for home consumption by our people. Quite depending upon Kansas City and Chicago to provide your smoke house and raise at least, the meat for your family right at home. The immense quantities of fertilizer being hauled out to the farm again makes it pertinent to admonish the people to study the analysis and selct the one that is best suited to their needs. What is the necessity for pay ing $20 for a ton of fertilizer that only contains $10 worth of available ingredients. Combine common sense with this purchase, as with others, amt the result will he gratifying. The corn clubs being organized promise to show an increase in this ■ great staple crop that will be -worth millions of dollai's to the state. ‘An 1 . n a 1 1 .1. J. . 11- ___ luCfcaoc VI JLU uucyucia i/v iuv ! would add $20,000,000 to our wealth in a single year. More corn means more hogs, more stb&k of every des cription and increased prosperity along all lines. < * The government is at last reeoa, 1 nizing the splendid fertility of our r soil by taking an interest in the drain ’ age of vast areas of 'swamp lands. ! Some districts have already been • surveyed and others will soon with the view of having them brought into ■ cultivation. A general movement on the part of 5 the farmers to plant more, eow .peas, • raise moi-e stock and rake up more - “home mixture” around the lot, - would soon put the fertilizer trust 1 out of business. ? Pascagoula is very much in the i lime light just now as the terminal of a number of railroad projects. I Wavnesboro is not satisfied with - • . , the recent installation of a telephone system, but is now clamoring for the 1 erection of an electric light plant to f be owned and operated by the muni ; cipality. 'Both are great conveniences ) and fast becoming necessities. i Are you proud of the fact tnat 1 Mississippi is one of only five states t that is free from graft! If so, let everybody possible knew that you an. DR. IRION SAYS HE WILL RESIGN IF STATE SELLS RIVER QUAR ANTINES STATION . P03T10N WELL KNOWN By Governor Blanchard, and Denies that He is Opposed to^ Federal Quarantine for Any Personal Rea son. New Orleans—The difficulty in the ma'tber of ithe establishment of a quarantine station by the Federal gov eminent, in view of the sale of the Mississippi river Quarantine Station , at the mouth of the river, as provided for by a joint resolution at the last session of the Louisiana Legislature, came up for discussion at a meeting of the health and quarantine commit tee of the Progressive Union in* the course of which Dr. Irion, president, of the Louisiana State Board <>f Health, declared that he would -re sign if the quarantine station was ’sold bv Gov. Blanchard. The meeting was remarkable, in more instances than one, in that it •brought out the views of Dr. Irion on the question of the sale of the station, while at the same time it serv <ed p; bring Out much interesting his •tory on 1113 reiationsiiip on me ques tion as existed between Gov. Blanch ard and Dr. Irion. In answer to a question as to what would be his policy if another quar antine station were established by the Federal government, Dr. Irion re plied that his views were for the ■ maintenance of the Mississippi river Quarantine Station by the state, as had ‘been done in the past. "If the government were to es lieh a quarantine 'station, would you maintain another?” Dr. Irion was asked. 1 "No, I would not, but my successor might,” was his rejoinder. Dr. Irion stated his position clear ly, and said that if Gov. Blanchard sold the station at the mouth of the river lie would resign his position as president of the State Board of Health. The greater part of the meeting was taken up with an expose bv Dr. Irion of the views he held on the question of State and 'Federal quar antine, while lie gave his objections against tin, establishment of a Feder i at quarantine station. His chief con tention was that’ it would injure the commerce of the port, and that a Fed eral and a State system could not be amicably sustained. mi * , • 1_i!_ „ C J x lit; 'Uiccuiig uaa j/iuuuvnn^ v/j. uv*. inije results only in so far as tlie members of the committee were in formed of the stand which Dr. Irion would take in view of certain emer gencies, and was adjourned subject to call of the chairman. Mr. Walker stated shortly before adjournment that it would be better to wait until some definite word had ibeen received from Gov. Blanchard, I from the Marine Hospital Service, and from the State Board of Health which meets today, before taking ac tion. The meeting was called to order at about 4:30 o’clock. Mr. Walker stat ed that the purpose of the meeting was to see if some solution could not be found for the difficulty which threatened in view of the dual quar antine which would follow if the gov ernment bought the Mississippi River Quarantine Station. Mr. Walker stated further that he had written to Gov. Blanchard on the subject, but had as yet received no answer to his letter. He stated also that the gov ernment had made an offer of $70, 000 for the station, but that the State Board of Health maintained that it | I was worth at least $200,000. Dr. Irion was then called on. He prefaced his remarks by stating that he wished to disabuse the minds of ■the committeemen that he was oppos ed to Federal quarantine because of ■any personal reasons. Before his ap pointment as president of the State Board of Health, he said, he met Gov. Blanchard in his room in the St. . Charles Hotel, and at the time told him that he wanted it understood that if lie was appointed to the position he would oppose Federal quarantine to the last ditch, lienee he did not have any strings tied to him in so far as his policy in that direction was ■concerned. He further stated that he would not accept the position unless lie was left with a free hand and carte blanche. j “At the time the Williams bill was Truck farmers in Mississippi will look .more closely after the home market this year than ever before. Too many times they have overlooked the fact that they could get more for •their stuff at home than after taking out the cost of transportation to northern markets. Of course the home market would not soiisume a considerable quantity, but its demand it wall worth looking after by the tttttkrtai passed I took some little interest in it.” said Dr. Irion. “When the joint resolution providing for the sale of rhe quarantine station came up be fore the legislature I told the gov ernor that I would fight it. The con current lesolntion failed to pass the House .because of my opposition to it. At the time I sent the secretary of the Board of Health to Baton Rouge and had him tell Gov. Blanchard that I would resign if .the stathva was sold. The governor refused to accept my resignation. It was 'then agreed to put in the words lease or sale, with the proviso that the money was to go to the credit of the State Board of Health. This was aoc-epted.” Dr. Irion then told of the difficulty the resolution had in the senate. The bill passed, but he maintained that he did not relinquish' any of his rigbs. “'Since then,” he said. “I have been trying to jjet the Governor to meet me and thresh out the difficul ty, but the matter stands in the same state. I do not want the idea con veyed that I am an opponent of the Governor’s,” he said. “In fact, I consider him one of-my best friends, hut on this matter of quarantine we differ.” Dr. Irion said lie offered to go to Washington and discuss the matter with Dr. Wyman and the Sec retary of the Treasury, but the Gov ernor had not seen fit to let him do so. At the. time the government made an offer to Gov. Blanchard of $75,00(1 for I he nnrebase of the Mississirvni Quarantine Station Dr. Irion said he made a full report to the state 'ex ecutive irt tli he placed the. value of the station high above that which had been offered. The reply -of the secretary of state • was to tire effect that if the slate did not accept, a Federal quarantine station would 'be established. Dr. Irion -here produced a map, by means of which he explained that the Williams hill provided for the estab lishment of four quarantine stations along the coast line of the United •States. It had failed, he said, to ob tain control of the principal stations along the Atlantic seaboard, includ ing New York, Boston and Philadel phia. Louisiana, lie explained, maintain ed five quarantine stations, viz: At Lake Charles at the Atchafalaya riv er, Lake -Borgne Rigolets and the Mississippi River Quarantine Station, which paid the expenses of operation of the other stations. In the other stations. In the other four, however, there was a deficit of some $6000 per year. At this point Dr. Irion said that if the -revenues from the station at the month of the river ceased the board would not be able to operate the oth er stations as no funds were provided by the state -for their running ex penses. quarantine, as related to-vessels in the lakes. Dr. Irion said that schoon ers and other craft would be com pelled to go several hundred miles out of their course to the station at the mouth of the river for fumigation. This would injure the Lake Pontcbar train trade, the Lake Borgne trade and the -coast trade. Here he showed figures -as to the vessels which had called at the Borgne, the Rigolets and other stations. During 1906 some 4911 passengers and 1120 schooners had been attended to at these sta tions. Excitement Over Treaty. St. Thomas, D. W. I.—There is in tense excitement in Santo Domingo regarding the new American-Domini can treaty. The ministers demand the withdrawal of Senor Valasquez’s portfolio or that the president ac cept their resignation. It is stated that another revolution is. threaten ed. Grady Libel Law .Repealed. Harrisburg.—The bill repealing the Grady-Salus libel law of 1903, which was advocated by Governor Penny packer and indorsed by practically the entire press of Pennsylvania, passed the house of representatives by a vote of 152 to 0. The bill now goes to the senate. Bacon appointed Senator. Atlanta.—Governor Terrell ap pointed Senator A. 0. Bacon, United States Senator for the ad interim term between March 4 and the meet ing of the legislature next June when lie will be elected for another full term. Wells ton.—Samuel Beatty, 76 years old was awarded damages of $101 by the circuit court against the Southern Ohio Gas Company for the less of a luxuriant growth of whiskers burned off in a gas explosion in this city two years ago. Waynesboro is not satisfied with the recent installation of a telephone system, but is now clamoring for the election of an electrie light plant to lie owned and operated by the muni cipality. 'Both are great conveniences and fast becoming necessities. Are you proud of the fact that Mississippi is ofie of only five states that is free from graft f If to, 1st amybfldy powiW* know that yett Aftj | Jenny Washington, Philip Vickers Fithian, a tutor ait Nomini Hall, Virginia, in 1774, gives this descrption of Washington’s niece, Miss Jenny Washington. Evidently she was a personable *young lady, with all the graces of her time. “Miss Washington Is about seven teen. She has not a handsome Face, but Is neat in her DresB, of an agree able Size & well proportioned and hr.3 an easy winning Behaviour; She is not forward to begin a conversation, yet when spoken to she »3 extremely affable, without assuming any Girlish affectation or pretending to be over charg’d with Wit; She plays well on the Harpsichord & Spinet; under stands the principles of Musick, & therefore performs her Tune3 in per fect time, a Neglect of which always makes musick intolerable, but it is a fault almost universal among young Ladies in the practice; she sings like wise to her instrument, has a strong full voice and a well-judging Ear; but most of the Virginia Girls think it La bour quite sufficient to thump the ICeps of a Harpsichord into the air of a time mechanically, & think it would be Slavery to submit to tho Drudgery of acquiring Vocal Musick.’’ RABBIT PIE ' Cut the dressed rabbit Into small pieces, taking out vhat bone you can; let lie in cold, salted water for one hour {boiling the hones mean while), Drain the meat, strain the bones out of the boiling water and put the meat into it, and let boil un til perfectly tender, adding a bay leal half a dozen peppercorn, a sliced onion and a stalk of celery. 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