The age-herald., 1898-04-01
OVER THE LINE,
 IN MISSISSIPPI

prehensions as to crippled manufacturing corporation are raised, and many favor q quick repeal of the law. The sentiment in Meridian Is that anything is better than $ tax that cripples a factory which affords employment to labor.
 
 Jackson, the capital of the state. is ans other town that Is afflicted with wretched playhouse. It's opera house was recently described a cross between hide-housa and livery stable. The southern towns that are compelled to accept seats In unfit theaters should get together. hold a con. vention, form a circuit. or do something else of a desperate nature.
 Governor McLaurin Is often taken III, and his illness is variousy diagnosed as neuralgia of this or that organ, but the information always goes along with the diagnosis that his condition is not con} sidered serious. He recovers only to bd again attacked.
 Mississippi owns three farms, or about 5000 acres all told. TAe state also leases ten other big farms. all located in the rich delta country. These farms and the personal property upon them arc worth
 
 of the state raise corn and cotton. Mist sissippi has proved herself a frst-clas1 farmer. and has also demonstrated to her sister states that convicts can be handled proftably, and at the same time humane'N The crop this season included 4,100 bales of cotton, worth fully $1OO,0Oo
 The Mississippi board of health Is preA pairing to give Yellow Jack a warm recepa ton if he re-appears, as people fear he wilh after such a mild winter The legislature gave the board much greater powers and a much greater sum of money. and therf will be a vigorous campaign In the event of another outbreak. It is proposed that the disinfecting plant be removed from Cat Island, near Scranton, to Round Iss land, which is not near any town
 A considerable number of Choctaws still live in the state, and not long ago, in Leakd county, there was "A Red Indian ball play" In some way dsagreements aroset and both sides sought the shelter of treess from which they began to pump hot leads Among the killed and wounded was q souaw, and the people began to wonder ih civilization is still failure among "th9 Red Indians" It Is generally thought 10 would not be if the sale of red liquor at such entertainments could be suppressed.
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 A state agricultural society was recently organized at Aberdeen. This, says Mis- sissippi paper, is something the farmers have needed long time They have need" ed greater opportunities for getting tos gether and swearing to plant less cottont and then going home to double the acreages
 Mississippi considers herself honored in the election of Col B. l.. Russell to th9 presidency of the Mobile and Ohio railroads Thirty-two years ago he was poor young farmer, blowing his land in Potomac county, in his native Mississippi. He wene through the war as a private. and came out of it strapped" But he went t0 work He cultivated some land in the sumo mer season, going to school in the wintep season, studying law at odd times. m 1871 he was admitted to the bar, and began practice at Verona. At the end Of four wears he became the general solicitor of tho Mobile and Ohio company. His careeR has S nee tl.at time been continuously suc> cessful He was chosen first vice president and upon the retirement of Col. Clarke. hs was placed at the head of the gerat corpora ation. He is a man of generous instinctst and in Mississippi no man is more popus lar.
 Meridian has floating debt of $40,O00, but there is capitalist in that town who has guessed and estimated the thirst Of his fellow citizens, and he offers to pay the debt of the city if he can have an exclu. sive saloon right for five years. and to pay besides the state and county licensa fees.
 Natchez thinks Natchez is the only p,ace south of Memphis where a bridge over the great river should, or can, be built. The talk as to @ bridge at New Orleans givea the citizens of Natchez a tired feeling.
 Just before the legislature adjourned it passed a bill providing that the discipline of the state industrial school for women should be vested in the president. man, Gov. McLaurin vetoed the bill, and in hiS veto message he said: .sg,,.
 "If the teachers selected in the female institute are women. there should be no presidntial authority oyr5 them placed on the statute books that Is not in the sand way placed over men who are teachers ih male colleges, thereby placing upon the statute book an implication that MissisA sippi has no women capable and willing to discharge the duties of a professor in fe. male colleges as men are capable and wills ing to do in the male colleges.
 'It is the pride of our state that no peo- pie can vie with Mississippians in theip gallantry, respect and courtesy to women and girls. It is distinction of southern men that they will not occupy a seat on any occasion where a woman is compelled to stand upon her feet. The inspiration derived from the name of mother, wife. daughter, sister, moves a Mississippian above any other influence that can reach him.
 "Let us continue in this high apprecia- that of woman, her sphere. influence. and destiny; let us carry this high regard into all our dealings with the women and girls of our state Let us educate our girls on the same high plane that we do our boys: