The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-11-01

Editor Gazette: Your cores
pondent has made recent visit
to Huron, where he sometimes
goes to see his children there.
He found everything in good,
round, royal shape, and business
moving along like clock work,
only not so slow. Enterprise and
energy have done very much for
the place, as it has all the three
legs Of business firmly planted on
which to stand, ist, the farm.
the great basal rock that under-
lies all, End, the saw mill, grist
mill and gin that puts cotton
through almost as quick as it
comes 10 sight, often ginning 20
bales a day. 3rd, the store, from
which all the supplies that feed
the farm and hands that run the
place, come.
The work there is steady, not
only all day, but every day in the
week. The consequence is the
proprietor is not thinking about
moving 10 Texas or to some other
place to make a living, but finds
much work to do at home and
hardly time to do it in.
Mr.. Lea and wife haye Just
fitted up a magnificent school
room out Of an old house. 1t isl
astonishing what a metamorpho-
sis a little labor can make on a
building. New floors, new roof
and ceiling, with windows fitted
with new sash, fine desks and
seats for the children that MIR.
Hartman has made for MIR. Lea,
has given Mr.. Hartman noto-
riety there, and he took his first
girl out last Sunday. 1t certainly
is loud recommendation to o
man, stranger, TO be popular
enough to take an Amite county
girl out to church on Sabbath,
still this thing has been done and
may be done again.
The. greatest attraction there
however, is the teacher, Miss
Olive Ice, who presides over the
school and has both the love and
affection Of all the boys and girls.
Her name should have been Rose
instead Of Olive, so much does
she resemble the former sweet
immortal flower. She Is teaching
a private school now, but we learn
that she has the public school
there for the coming session,
which she will doubtless conduct
through the season, provided the
Pike county boys do not get to
see much Of her, in which case
the sweet Rose OF Huron might
be invited to find a residence a
little eastward and there found
another Eden for some love
stricken Adam,
Should this be the case the
Eden picture would be reversed
in one particular. You all know
what the apple and Eve did for
Adam there. In the case we
are considering, the Adam who
secures Miss Olive win always
be led away from, instead OF
towards sin, and her presence
about him form corruscated
halo Of purity which like liv-
ing atmosphere, would shield
him from the inforcing coming Of
the demon of evil, and lift him
into purer domain Of life and
thought and knowledge, and
point him to that shining way
that gllnts beyond the skies.
Like yourself Memo visited the
cemetery, as he always does when
there. The little hillock there
whore 80 graves are found, and
over which 40 cedars spread their
evergreen arms, TO seemingly
shield the dear ones lying there |
from sunlight ami from storm, ia
the dearest spot TO him that there
is in the county OF Amite. MOL
worldly noises interrupt the 81
lence that reigns there. The winds
alone sing their songs Of requiem
there and the wild birds fit on
airy wing among the solemn
shade trees, and mingle their
songs with those Of the winds
that murmur there.
There is one who sleeps there,
who was the light of my life, and |
all her thoughts and aspirations
seemed counterparts Of mine, who !
was called away in the meridian |
splendor Of her life, taken by the
Master when but 20, before the |