The leader., 1901-09-18

The Grenada Sentinel wisely keeps
ever before its readers the advantage
and Importance of diversifying their
products-particularly is this urged In
trucking The State of Texas, from
its truck farms"-melons, vegetables
and fruits-shipped to Northern and
Eastern markets the past season enor-
nous quantities, which brought net
profit (since April is, 1901 Of more
than half a million dollars. Mississ-
ippi has already done much along
this line and because of 1t, there are
thousands Of families comfortably well
OF, who, but for this opportunity,
would have been shut out from the
pleasant things of life that money and
opportunity give. The Sentinel says
that a one-sided development of in
dustry Is sure to result in a one-sided
Iopulation-and that 1t is bad policy
10 put all ones eggs in the same
basket.
Mississippi, in common with her
sister States, has spent the week just
passed in grieving because of the
death Of our honored president. In
almost every city In the State, mass
meetings were ha!d to express the
peoples respect for William McKin-
ley, their sympath. for his loved ones
and their horror at the crime that has
shocked the world. From our chief
executive and other high officials.
Confederate Veterans, Daughters Of
the Confederacy, business, municipal,
religious and social organizations,
with hundreds of private individuals,
messages of sympathy and coincidence
hurried by wire and by mail
to add their weight to the
sweet burden of loving sympathy
which the nation has laid upon the
troubled, but brave and loyal heart
of his wife.
The Holly Springs papers say that
Judge Lowrey instructed the grand
jury there to find true bills against all
druggists who sell Peruna. A promi.
nent Mississippi physician, when asked
as to the ingredients of Peruna, re-
piled that it was nothing more nor less
than bad quality Of whisky. Another
so say the papers in North Mississ-
ippi-cited several instances in which
Kelley graduates had become drunk
ards again from taking Peruna as a
medicine. This being the case. Judge
Lowrey evidently understood his bust
ness when he charged that jury. In
Houston 1t Is against the law to sell
more than two bottles Of lemon ex-
tract to one person, as that. and GER
tain patent medicines, have caused
numerous "sprees" among the boys.
These lawmakers are in earnest.
The State institutions at Jackson
the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind In
stitutes-will open Oct. 2, by which
date all pupils should be present. All
information concerning these splendid
educational institutions, the terms Of
admission, regulations etc, will be
furnished upon application-for the
bind to DR.. Sims, care of Blind Insti-
tute, and for the deaf mutes to Prof
Dobyns, care Deaf and Dumb Insti.
tute. If our readers know of unfor.
tunate blind or deaf children whose
parents may not be familiar with the
State schools for them, they would do
real kindness to the child and to
the State, by writing to the superin-
tendent, giving name and address Of
the child and it's parents, or guar.
dian.
At a recent meeting Of the Peniten.
tiary Board of Control the boarding
department for convicts and employees
that has been maintained in Jackson
at the old prison, was abolished and
all the convicts were taken to Oakley.
Nothing will be left in Jackson but
the office, while the records are kept.
in charge of a clerk and an assistant,
and the capital city will still be head
quarters for the travelling sergeants
One of the important matters before
the board at this meeting was the
question of improving the States herd
1,100 head) of cattle by the purchas-
ing and introduction of a fine herd of
Herefords. Purchases of this sort
prove good investments for individu-
ais as we'll as States.
Speaking of diversified crops re-
minds us of the great time some farm
trs will have this thanksgiving. Those
who planted only cotton may have a
big time, but for those who planted
Irish potatoes and such crops" there
is no uncertainty about it. Their
thanksgiving will be feast, indeed,
because, with the profit from their
Irish potato crop they can buy all the
luxuries (dear to the heart of Epicu-
rus himself) and then have a pretty
respectable nest egg with which to be-
gin the winter.
Recently we published an item from
the Examiner, relative to a father and
son, still living in old Monroe, who
had fought side by side during the
war and who now go together to the
happy meetings oil the veterans on
the "old camp ground" The Yazoo
Sentinel adds to the Examiners the
names Of Col. L. Lake, of Oxford, who
Is "a, and as spry as a cricket, and
bis son, Mr.. c. A. Lake, both Of whom
are veterans, and 10th well known In
Mississippi.
Mrs. ]. McC. Kimbrough of Green.
wood, one of the most devoted of the
vast army Of loyal. Daughters of the
Confederacy that grace our Southern
land, has inaugurated a movement for
the presentation of loving cup to
the veterans by their Daughters" In
concluding her plea she begs the wo.
men of Mississippi to