The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-10-12
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! MISSISSIPPI MATTEpS
I NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT IvENrs
5 By KATE MARKHAM POWER.


In reading and hearing of the won
derful relief given in insomnia and
pulmonary troubles by the s Of pine
needle pillows and couches, We have
often wondered why our people should
send to far-off Washington for fir, or
| to the Eastern markets for pine pill
lows" when we have SO great an
abundance all about us, fresh from
the trees and fragrant with the balray
| odors of the forest. The work of gath
ering pine needles n the extract
ing their oil for medicinal use CATER
which the needles are used for pillows.
etc. is now one of the great indus
tries on the Pacific coast, rivaling in
extent and in profit the same work as
done in the great Thuringian forest
Of Germany.
II is but a short while ago that a
poor German, finding himself on the
Pacific coast penniless, recognized with
delight the superiority Of the pine
needles lying about him over those
in which he had worked in far-off
Thuringia. Immediately he COM
menced to collect them and to extract
the oil. as he had learned to do at
home. and from this humble beginning
has grown one of the largest and most
remunerative industries on the coast.
Why cannot the same work be done in
Mississippi's grand pine forests? Sure
ly this clean, light work could be east
" done by women and children with
great benefit to them from the open
air and the strengthening breath of
the pines" Even If the pay should
not be great at first, the advantages
over factory work and life are so great
that they could afford to make a little
less and still be the richer for their
work.
Lieut.-Col. Frank A. Montgomery,
First Mississippi Cavalry, has just is
sued in attractive form his "Reminis-
cences OF a Mississippian in Peace and
War" The book is from the press OF
the Robert Clarke Co., Cincinnati, and
is we'll gotten up. Col. Montgomery :
peculiarly fitted for the work-or
!, rather. the pleasure-of writing remi-
: niscences of the important events
which have occurred in Mississippi
, during the past threescore a ant
ten, as he has been so prominently
; and so intimately identified with the
political, military and social life of the
| State during that time. A lieutenant
colonel in the First Mississippi Cav
= airy (Armstrong's brigade), a mem
: Der OF the Legislature through man,
t of it's most important sessions. +,
!. planter of large interests and a gentle
man of great social power. he saw lif'
from every side and helped with NJ
t faltering hand to make as we'll as u
write Mississippi history. Every oil
e war comrade, every gentleman of tn
old school who is still left to homo
his native State and as many of tn
I younger men as care to preserve thes
facts concerning their State and it
g old-time history should procure thes
"Reminiscences of hat gallant cav
alryman, Col. Montgomery.
1t is a fact, perhaps not very vel
" known in Mississippi, that Biloxi sup
v plies more than one-half of the Unite
States with oysters. This toothsom
It bivalve is now in prime condition, an
is found in unlimited quantity a
along the Mississippi coast. Owing t
"a scarcity of labor the canneries, despit
s the splendid condition and quantity .
the oyster, are in a bad fix, it bein
h impossible to make any sort of show
ing with the labor at hand. Severe
hundred expert (Bohcmian) oyste
S. fishermen have been employed for thi
season at Biloxi, and will be there |
lie a week or ten days ready for laboi
)e after which a great advance in tn
Is shipments may be expected. Unles
he these expert fishermen arrive prett
h. soon the oyster interests everywher
D. will be seriously affected and th
United States, or so much of it as
le In the habit of using canned oysters
ls will have to so on half rations durin
ot the coming season. 1t is strange tn;
IS we should find it necessary to send S
n. far from home 10 secure skilled labc
when Sd many of our own people
jewellers along the coast-who nee
If the high wages paid should be comp,
ID tent to do the work of these fshe.
men.
In comparing Georgia's pension fun
y for the ensuing year ($S25, 000) wit
- u W (s150,000), the Vicksbul
Commercial-Herald-which, by IL
way, never lets slip a chance to he
the dear old veterans-says that o,
u appropriations for the care of Il
= old, the infrm and the INDECENT WI
survivors ought not to be niggardly-
they will only be required a few yea,
longer. II there is no State increa,
counties might well be authorized
10 supplement State distributions by d
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