Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-11-09

This paper was so full of good argn' Il
ments and practical information that =
we are constrained again to divide IL !.
with our readers. So much Is Delhg :,
said-and more should be said-reia' r
tive to the too common practice OF
sending the boys and girls Of MlssAs'
sippi out of the State ito finish thelr !
educations" that this expression from {
one SO familiar with the subject is ]
most opportune.
"And, by the way" said Prof Low
rey, "Iet me just here appeal to you'
ladies and gentlemen, as Mississippi
teachers and Mississippi patriots, 20
stand for the schools of your own
State. | asked prominent lawyer
Of one of our best towns, Were you
educated at the University of Mlssl5-
sipi? and he replid, No, was not
and | wish to the Lord | had been.
And then he went on to tell me now
he had gone to another State both
for his literary course and law
course, and had come back to fnd
himself stranger to all the rising
lawyers of the State, most OF whom
might have been his schoolmates had
the place for him to be educated been
more wisely selected.
1.-TWO young women went to pto
lie meeting where people were gath
cred from all over the State. Both
of these ladies had been reared IN
Mississippi and one had attended one
Of the Mississippi schools five years,
: while the other had been educated IN
: a most excellent school of another
State. At this great gathering the
+ two stood side by side. The girl edu'
l Gated in Mississippi greeted friend
S after friend in the passing throng,
Y while the girl educated elsewhere
i looked on in amazement for awhile,
). and then exclaimed: Don't you see
l. how am a stranger in my own State?
y NV father did me an injustice When
d he sent me away to be educated
D. And so it is. When we send our Mis-
r sissippi boys and girls to other
IT States to be educated we make three
IS fold mistake.
IS First. We deprive them Of the
1T broad home acquaintance which they
10 shall need for their future happiness
D. and success.
- Second. We cultivate in them th'
II. evil tendency to look abroad rathe
US than at home for their best things
to Third. We, perhaps, decrease am
he at least lose an opportunity to in
le, crease their loyalty to Mississippi
ng and our grand old State, in this he
)le new era of prosperity entering upo
oil the splendid possibilities of the tweI
to teth century, shall need the arden
Lgs loyalty of her evry son and sha
AN more need the ardent loyalty Of he
of daughters, who are to be the mother
nd in her homes and to shape the cha
of acters and ideas of her citizens "
uu. unborn. l plead not from seltis
on, standpoint; | need no increase Of
ted tronage. Blue Mountain College nj
be for the past two sessions been oiTer'
lor- more pupils than she could take al
had to turn away some for lack
de- room; but I plead against what |
owe to be an evil and what believe publ
ose school teachers can do more than OF
it, ers to correct.
try Alas. for the Mississippi boy
Girl who thinks our beloved old Sta
the has no school good enough"
ung
40 Through the kindness Of 60
on's friend in Pontotoc county, we
Of enabled to increase our list of vet
nate ans who fought side by side "
kim their sons during the war betwt
the States for the land so dear
them and us The men and soldl
iles' so distinguished are: Samuel /
IAN nam, living north of the town of T
II III totoc hale for his eighty years
LASS the father of the worthy superlnte
Mis' ent of education, d. c. NJ Bighi
are who in those troublous times
'arce wore the gray and was wounded "
uls' a Federal bullet; L. H, Robbins,
smed resides at Troy, and is very old G
quar- also has a son living In the cou
peil- who carried a musket for our Su
Ut Oh Southland. 1t is a genuine pleas
men 10 know that these fine old patri
from with their boys" have been spf
car so long to the land they love and
'ahg9 which they so gallantly fought.
b the
ie of During the week or two just
hited vious to this issue of our letter t
taken nave been enough tragic happening
,mely our beloved State to more than
mt is our prescribed space. There
shane been accidents, burglaries, riots
from murders to stain the pages that sh
rittle, be fair, and it may be that som
/; the our readers will think us careles
h and our recita1 of "Mississippi Mat
~. W. because we do not recount these
ner. feel however, a deep sense of re'
nd DO sibility in the conduct Oh lhese
Sam umns. which were for so long /
smith ure and pride to him whose per
) pot' now at rest. And as it was with
,e'lue 'oiued so shall it be with u.s. We shal
been deavor always to use these coll
ars by for the good of the State we love
through them with your help
operate for the advancement o
y es, public interests, the education o
or, as youth the protection of our he
hunt and the reyerent care Oh tne reu
3 same OF that great amy '"as 80 -,
you, on ,m W its ~ shado of ihe trees I,
at this ~
genus One of Tallahatchie's progr'
nd Nc planters has Just picked six
least, bales of fine cotton, from five
sbody's planted in Ozier-Sterns long
tie red seed This is fine achieve
a rev when we consider the bad yea
= Un nast' the fact that ordinary cotton
% ! make Joining fields only yielded
le rath- fourths OF bale to an acre,
/ upon staple is very strong and remal
court long. and Mr.. Wiltshire has
more for his pride in this new varl'
cotton.