The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-19

ing up this course through the season he found himself in possession Of small crop and no debts, and when ne sold his cotton at the usual time ana TOT the largely increased price of this last winter, he was able to laugh at ms more fortunate CD neighbor, whose eX- client credit in 1899 had run up store bill that was just about equal to the value of his whole crop. With cotton this year at eight cents per pound, as against five and half cents one year ago. and turpentine doubled in price, and with men securing the country In search of laborers at good prices and cash payment at the end of every month, instead of the old method of store truck at very high price, there is visible improvement in the appear ance and conduct of the colored popula- ton. Tn southern Mississippi farming began as early as February by planting vegetables that would mature ana De marketed in season to make crop or corn and cotton on the same ground An improved system of farming, py which the cows that run in the woods, and are always long on horns and snort on milk could be kept in small pastures and fed on crops grown in the vicinity would result in saving a large amount of valuable fertilizers to take the place of the swindling mixtures with which the country is too often flooded. The same thing might be done with the hogs which like the cattle, run in the woods during the winter and acquire condl- ! tion of leanness that means large waste of good feed to overcome later in | the season.
 | The Alabama Land & Fruit company | in this immediate vicinity has fine l tract of land under cultivation that ought to be an object lesson for the whole of Wayne county, The superin- tendent of the Robinson Land X Lum- Der company informed me that much of l the southern pine land after being stripped of It's timber was capable of being brought to a very high state of | cultivation with intelligent working so that as numbering goes out, farming Tn | fruit, corn, cotton, potatoes and other products of the soil comes in and in | time cattle and hogs will be raised for other and more useful purposes than speed.
 1 A clipper built pig and COW lean enough to cover the tract of woods ne- cessary to furnish a scanty subsistence may have their good points, but Ntw England born and bred farmer will not "get on to them" at once The absence of the saloon is marked feature in this part of Mississippi Mir Swift, of the Lumber company, told me that they | had no use for saloon about their property, and he knew of none in all the region, They do not even require "canteen to promote temperance among a race that takes to whiskey nat urily. nd the fact that man. black or white, who persists in getting liquor from Mobile, seventy miles away, and making a nuisance of himself, is very soon out of a job, operates vastly better as a promoter of temperance" than all the illicit Griggs gln-mills that are per mitted to exist in defiance of law, both state and national, wherever the United
 States army goes on it's peaceful CD mission of civilizing and elevating the
 poor Cubans and Filipinos. When saw so many jugs in the express cars at
 Mobile I wondered what they contained l but when I learned that on the whole 1 line of the Mobile and Ohio railroad, more than six hundred and forty miles
 there were practically no saloons, l con- cluded that those jugs or their contents
 would be spread out pretty thin before
 that train reached St. Louis, and the
 number of trunks contained in them
 would not be very large It was cer-
 tainly very pleasant to travel thirty-hVe
 hundred miles, mostly by train, and mol
 meet single person, black or white
 who was visibly under the influence ol
 intoxicating drinks, and to visit seVera
 excellent hotels that had no sort or .
 whiskey annex as a promoter Of tenn
 perance" among it's guests.
 When officers of the army make the
 humiliating confession that military
 discipline cannot be maintained at theil
 respective posts except by hiring th'
 boys to be good with glass of beer ol
 something stronger furnished in the
 canteens, it is quite time that they b'
 promoted out of the army and giv'
 place to men with different views o their own responsibilities as to thos' over whom they have absolute author ty. I'