The leader., 1901-07-17
THE FIELD EDITOR TAXES
TRIP WITH HIS WIFE.

needs little recreation, while, per
haps, her husband needs reformation.
Her mind needs to be turned away
from the old dish rag, the cook pot,
the old COW, the chicken coops and
short rations and so forth. She may
not know all about the rules and regu-
lations of travelling on the railroad,
| but she knows a whole lot of other
things. She may not know the risk
she runs in being left by standing and
talking and kissing goodbye with
an old acquaintance Ia woman of
course1 after the conductor has hol-
Tered "all-aboard." She may not know
which coach to go into or which train
| to take and so on, and the impatient
husband should never air his superior
ity when he sees his wife's lack of in
formation along these lines, for if he
with the children and endured what
she has. he would long since have died
in the lunatic asylum and been num-
| bered with the pale nations under
ground.
Yes, on the Sd day of July we that
is. our wife's husband and She board
ed the north bound train for Virgins,
via Jackson and the G.. n $. |. Il. r.,
where we we're billed for 4th of July
speech, which we endeavored to de
liver at the picnic ground one mile
| east of the town. 1t was a grand af-
fair the picnic, of course,) and the
Virgins people and surrounding coun-
try spent a day pleasantly in the
woods. Accompanied by our better
half. on Friday evening we had pleas
ant drive of seven miles into the in
terror, eastward Out here is a fine
section of country called Big Level.
1t is or 10 miles square and is thickly
settled by prosperous farmers, none OF
whom are big rich; neither do any of
them appe ar to be dog poor They
raise no cotton, and would not know
what mortgage was if they were tc
find one in their pockets. 1t is in this
beautiful section of country that Miss
Addie Smith, one of Lincoln county's
charming bellies, is teaching private
school of more than sixty pupils. She
has an assistant and is moving things
lively along educational lines. We
are pleased to note that our Lincoln
county girls do well abroad; as well as
the boys. Miss Addie has bought
property in Virgins, and nd-well
her post office is Wisdom, Miss.
where THE LEADER will find her in the
future.
Saturday we that is, wife and hel
husband spent at Gulfport and gazed
upon the maddened waters of the
rolling sea. We contemplated sailing
across to Ship Island, but wife said
she was too far from the children tC
90 to sea in boat that had nothing tC
pull it but piece of domestic. The
wind was very high, the waters turbu
lent and the sail boats were lying IL
harbOr.
Gulfport will become a city some
day. She has plenty of room to build
She has all the way from the coast
clear up to Jackson. The government
and the G. Il S. |. Railroad Company
are co working for deep water. We
saw the dredge boat in the far off wa
ters drawing up the mud. 1t was here
that wife saw her first live crab. She
said he was not fit to eat for part OF
him was gone and he was trying tC
crawl the wrong way all the time. We
we're very much inclined to take a
bath in the salt water but wife said
she didn't think it safel?D. We were
informed that the waters would likely
be more quiet at night when it would
be good time to battle, but it was
rumored around that there were
sharks proving in these waters al
night and we knew that wife was sortel
cranky about such things, and We
didn't go in. We knew that nothing
but a whale could swallow us, but VIC
didn't care to have wife excited by ouI
being nibbled at by those sharks.
Sunday we had good day in Wig
gins. At II a. m. we had a fine au
dience and lectured the young people
on the subject of Habit, Courtshit
and Marriage" At night we talked
to an appreciatiye audience on the
subject of the objectionable sin, what
it is not, and what it is.
Accompanied by our brother Dams
wife, who is on an outing in Lincoln
county, we boarded the train for home
on Monday morning. At jackson We
turned the women folks homeward
over the l. G. while we skinned away
over the n. q J. Railroad down tC
Stampley Station, a short distance
from Natchez, and from thence back
to HARRISON, and from Harriston tC
RoXie and back to Hamburg, and from
thence home, with every shirt and col
lar in our grip looking as if the fire
man had worn them for some time, bu,
we now have them on the docks foI
repairs, while we amuse ourself 10y
writing and waiting for tomorrow tC
come, when we will hitch Jake 10 our
new buggy and start southwark, fol
we are tired of the cars, and looking
at people with grips in their hands.
J. \. 5.