Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-10-12

eedle pillows ana couOh"o'
sten wondered why our people snoulu w
end TO far.off Washington LOT HI " " W
! the Eastern markets for pine pii' pi
ows," when we have SO great an al
brndance all about us, fresh from OF
he trees and fragrant with the paiins b;
,dors NJ the forest. The work OF gain ct
,ring pine needles and then eA'iao. ii
ny their oil for medicinal use laiIef F
which the needles are used for pillows t
etc ! is now one of the great INDUS k
,aes on the Pacific coast riVaiihs ~ /
extent and in profit the same "olA 40 /
done in the great Thuringian lores' t
of Germany 1T
u is but a short while ago that a
NOR German, finding himself on the
Pacific coast penniless, recognized WIN
delight the superiority OF the pine
needles lying about him over ehoS~
in which he had worked IN iai'oh
Tbrringia. Immediately he com'
nenced to collect them and TO eA'ra0t
tho o,, as he had learned to do aC
home and from this humble beginning
has grown one of the largest and mos'
remunerative industries on the co@e.'
Why cannot the same work be done IL
Mississippis grand pine forests oul9
,v this clean, light work could De easi-
" done by women and children WIN
GREAT benefit to mem from the open
air and the strengthening breath Oh
,bo mines" Even if the pay shoulu
not be great at first, the advantages
oyer factory work and life are so great
that they could afford to make a n''i0
less and still be the richer Tor 'heir
work.
1ieut.-Col Frank A. Montgomery
First Mississippi Cavalry. has just is-
sued In attractive form his "Reminls-
canoes of a Mississippian in Peace anu
: War" The book is from the press Vi
: the Robert Clarke Co., Cincinnati anu
q Is well gotten up. Col. Montgomery
neculiarly fitted for the Work-ol
t rather the pleasure-of writing REM
S niscences of the important event.
l. which have occurred in MISSISSIPPI
II during the past threescore years an
IT tan as he has been so prominent
u and so intimately identified with III
nolitical, military and social life OF III
State during that time. A Lieutenant
n colonel in the First Mississippi GAY
airy (Armstrong's brigade), men
her of the Legislature through man
of it's most important sessions
planter of large interests and gehtl
60 man of great social power, he saw Il
or from every side and helped with
at faltering hand to make as well as
Of write Mississippi history. Every 0
If war comrade, every gentleman OF L
sx- old school who is still left to hon
of his native State and as many OF I
eet Younger men as care to preserve the
facts concerning their State and
sry old-time history should procure the
ole "Reminiscences of that gallant ca
ven slryman, Col. Montgomery.
'-54
es- II is a fact, perhaps not very W
y known in Mississippi, that Biloxi 81
md, plies more than one-half OF the UNI
'eet States with oysters. This toothso
vail bivalye is now in prime condition,
ling is found in unlimited quantity
e. along the Mississippi coast. owing
scarcity of labor the canneries, desl
the splendid condition and quantit!
mr. the oyster, are in a bad fix, 1t De
}, impossible to make any sort OF sh
,pq with the labor at hand. Sew
hundred expert tBohemian) oy
dow fishermen have been employed for
an season at Biloxi, and will be ther
the week or ten days ready for la
and after which great advance in
4 be shipments may be expected. VI
lally these expert fishermen arrive pi
una soon the oyster interests everyw
'klns will be seriously affected ana
the limited States, or so much OF II
Top in the habit of using canned oyst'
lg to ~ houo 20 on IN half rations dr
on the coming season. 1t is strange
punei ", we should find it necessary to ser
Thus, we siio"i % .ooure sl,i,,ed
have lar lio1i - =. ovr own nao
outh- wheh 81 man. ,,,ho
ou.r dwellers along the coast-who
the high wages paid should be co
tent to do the work of these II
men.
routt
,tieth In comparing Georgia's pension
Mon. for the ensuing year ($S25,OOO)
wears our own ($150,000), the Wick
" are commercial al-Herald-which, by
many way, never lets slip chahce "
the dear old veterans-says tina
appropriations for the care 0
>, old the infrm and the indigen
- survivors ought not to be nigga
o.,a,,s they will only be required a few
"a "a longer. If there is no State IN
=. Soma counties might well be authorl
lumber supplement- o'a'e u'9''
equal amount" The CHI, we
speaks for the majority OF our
ERS. Surely the sons and daughters
soldiers are more than willing II
,ss and State should give literally fc
comfort of those whose best da
n-work in the far, sweet season OF
figure Syne." They have so short a
left on lifes battle-ground that
me, the sible should be done to max
), bou- short time happy time, brln
loving kindness.
Dresden ,,,
pretty Our oig adopted s's,s', ,,s ~ % =,
ndenia. Mississippi, because one more
man had been called from tn
ed with he loved and the life he so
to the bourne from whence !
ribbons eler returns" Lucas Clapp v
ade into of the leading men of Tennes
one whom the people of Menu
lighted to honor. He was born
for the Springs and educated at tn
its scat University. His father, Judt
woman's miah Clapp, at one time repl
this State In the Confederate 9
he right ana while his worthy son WI
e to the 10 the State of his adoption
sensible preciated the high honors
OF heat na, hin, hv the neople of TIE