The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-09-14

for the existence of an idle man In
the Capital City. They can all get
work-and most of them good pay
always providing, Of course, they are
willing to work, and not afraid OF a
little hard work. Besides the demand
for skilled labor created by the great
amount of building, the installation OF
a sewerage system, and many other
improvements, there is a loud, long cry
for labor, by the Illinois Central road.
This is due (as, incidentally are the
good wages paid to the unusual
amount of work the road is doing on
its tracks, and in various other ways,
but despite the active efforts of their
recruiting agents, their liberal adver-
tisements and their unusual induce
ments, it is impossible to get men
enough to do the work. And, despite
all this. we can see no diminution in
the great army of able-bodied idle
negroes who subsist on the contents
of the "old tin bucket" which &C.
companies the cooks on their journeys
to and fro from our kitchens to the
little two-room shack they rent for the
accommodation of the Lord and Mas
ter" and their colonies of little picka-
ninnies.
The Yazoo City Herald, always fore
most in good works, made an offer a
few weeks ago to send the paper free
to all Confederate Veteran Pensioners
on the rolls in Yazoo county. This
kindness has proven a great joy to
some of the old heroes, who had been,
for years, cut off from all--save occa-
sional-knowledge of their friends and
county affairs. The following letter is
one of many received by the Herald,
and should incite other papers to a like
course. The cost Of a kindness is, so
often, ininitesimal, when compared
with the good it does to the sad hearts
around us:
Editor Herald:
Many, many thanks for your most
welcome paper. l am a poor old wo-
man, not able to take the paper, and
as | was raised in Yazoo City, l was
always anxious to read a home paper.
Also my husband, Ransom Sturdivant,
was a Confederate soldier for four
years. He has been dead fifteen
years. Again, many thanks.
Respectfully,
MARY A. STURDIvANT.
The Biloxi Herald is urging the
coast people to undertake, extensively,
the culture of figs, as there is immense
profit in it when marketed fresh, or
sold to the canneries. The writer
claims that the fig is practically in
d%igenous to the coast. 1t requires very
little cultivation, as al be seen from
the large crops of luscious fruit which
were gathered from the gnarled old
trees that had stood in every old fash
Toned garden 81 long that their plant
ing time had been forgotten by their
owners. These trees receiy ed absolute
ly no cultivation, yet bore heavily I'D
to 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 one-half the care and cultiva.
ton 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 dull season.
Several of the old soldiers whose
last days are among their best DAYS"
thanks to the kindness and care of the
Vicksburg Daughters of the C~onfeder-
acy, have fought the great battle.
finished the fight, and passed into the
peace of the better land, surrounded
by every comfort in the n which
loving hands provided for them at
the Vicksburg hospital. The last death
among them was Veteran John H.
Amaker, of Kinds county.
Hattiesburg has purchased a new
road machine and the Progress saws.
~
Judging by the way it tears I'M the
earth, 1t must be a pretty good ma
chine. The "woods-or rather the
towns and the roads through the
woods-ought to be full' of these ma
chimes, and then, after they have had
a fair chance at the hills and bollows
of "Old Mississippi" we might be able
to drive around to see the neighbors
with safety to life and limb.
Natchez has an artistic lad among
ner children, Of whose gifts she
should be proud. This is Robert n
Barton, aged IA years, who has taken
numerous prizes at fairs, exhibitions
etc., and who had four of his draw.
ings in a recent issue of the New York
Herald. 1t is said that some of his
work has been accepted by, and will
soon appear in, a leading Eastern
magazine. This gifted young artist
has been, for two years, a pupil in the
art department of Stanton College.
With the prohibition Victory in
Monroe county last waal a. -