Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-09-14
IteSpeCILuliy ..
MARY A. STURDIyANT.

The Biloxi Herald Is urging lhe
coast people to undertake, extensively
the culture of figs, as there is immense
nrofit in it when marketed fresh, or
sold to the canneries. The writer
claims that the fig is practically IN
digenous to the coast. 1t requires very
little cultivation, as can be seen from
the large crops of luscious fruit which
were gathered from the gnarled ola
trees that had stood in every old fash
ioped garden so long that their plant
ing time had been forgotten by their
owners. These trees received absolute
ly no cultivation, yet bore heavily up
10 the freeze Of several years ago,
which was so disastrous. The young
trees that sprung up from these old
roots are all beginning to bear now,
and with onehalf the care and cultlYa'
tion that is given other fruits and
berries in Mississippi, we believe, like
the Herald, that the fig would prove an
easy purse fattener for our people The
canneries on the coast are only too
eager to buy the figs on the trees, at
a good price and gather and can them
thus affording employment to many
during the early duh season.
Several of the old soldiers whose
last days are among their best days,
thanks to the kindness and care of th'
Vicksburg Daughters of the Confeder
acy. have fought the great battle
finished the fight, and passed into tn
peace of the better land, surrounde'
by every comfort in the annex, whicl
loving hands provided for them a
the Vicksburg hospital. The last deaf
, among them was Veteran John +
, Amaker, of Kinds county.
Hattiesburg has purchased ne'
road machine and the Progress say
Judging by the way it tears up tn
earth, it must be pretty good mi
chine The "woods-or rather tn
towns and the roads through tf
n woods-ought to be fur of these M
chimes and then, after they have ha
fair chance at the hills and hollow
:. of "Old Mississippi" we might be alb
e to drive around to see the neighbo
$ with safety to life and limb.
! Natchez has an artistic lad amor
p. her children, of whose gifts 81
q should be proud. This is Robert
o Barton, aged IA years, who has TAXI
s numerous prizes at fairs, exhibition
Is etc, and who had four of his dra
IL ings in a recent issue of the New Yo
lie Herald. 1t is said that some of /
a work has been accepted by, and W
is soon appear in, leading Easte
II magazine. This gifted young art
IL has been, for two years, a pupil in t
art department of Stanton College.
With the prohibition victory
Monroe county last week, the VIII
:. ribbons now proudly wave their VIII
banner from the Tennessee line
~ East Mississippi. straight on DO
IN over every county until the coast
IN reached. Indeed, there is only {
IS, county left in the State of Mississil
(Madson) exclusive of the river a
coast counties over which the VIII
ribbon does not float, and the elect
es which Is just at hand may wipe
m this exception. The enormous ..
fe trade" of the Aberdeen saloons
er course passes away with the com
OF the white ribbon army into
beautiful city of Aberdeen.
.o- Old Fort Massachusetts,, at S
mt Island, which has been for mi
Id wears one of the Gulf Coasts Isl
ce, places" and points of real inter
ne has been sold by the Federal govt
,ut ment, and the work of demolish
this historic fort is now in progress
One Of the most original of the nj
rd, remarkable titles under which re
ted ious societies Of the "colored broth
da- seem to thrive, is one whose meml
.eF' applied to the Secretary OF State
ing week for a charter The Fire
tized Holiness Church Of God"