Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-05-04

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Decoration Day.
Friday, April 20. was the day set apar,
in Mississippi as fitting time for "ths
children and children's children OF the
Veterans of the c.-il war to cover, with
beautiful flowers, the spots where lie
in their long sleep the heroes who died
fos heir land.
AInd Nature had already spread her
carpet of emerald velvet to cover the
hallowed spots, aud it was only needful
TO carry fresh flowers to make beautiful
the heroes resting place. In every
town wherein there is blood bought
spot, sacred to our soldier boys
special exercises were held in honor OF
the men who wore the gray and in
memory of those who fell in the fore.
front of battle. The custom is one toe
beautiful to be allowed to fall into
neglect, and the privilege of the chill
dren is too precious ever to lose its sol.
emn sweetness.
To one looking across the wide
mound-marked space in Gods acre"
hidden beneath the flowers so gladly
borne through the long march by little
children, and so lovingly laid above
those quiet ones" by tender hands,
there came the thought that many
weary march would have seemed
shorter, many lonely night more full
of comfort, and hours of suffering
borne more easily, could these gallant
men have known that they would live
not only on historys brightest page but
in little children's hearts; that theirs
would be a tribute not of words alone
but OF tenderest, reverent thought, and
that, besides the monuments of stone
which rise to honor them, each year a
monument of fowers-the fairest and
sweetest that bloom-would be builded
by the hands of little children who had
learned from sire and grand sire to give
love and honor to the noble men whose
blood has sanetifed the sunny land
they loved
The Capital City will be full and al.
most running over this week with the
teachers of the State, assembled there
in their annual convention, This is a
splendid body Of the States best, and,
in a marked degree, most influential
men and women, and jackson is ALWAYS
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welcome. The various committees ap.
pointed by the committee on arrange.
ments, have everything in readiness
for the entertainment of their guests,
and a splendid meeting is anticipated
by all interested. Reasonable and good
board is to be had by all who wish it,
though most Of the visitors are guests
of relatives or friends at the Capital
City The Rrot eepsiou, Thursday even.
ing, has an interesting program, and
Friday and Saturday overflow with
good things. Inasmuch as the State
board of education has ordered that
Thursday, May ID, be a general holt
day, and has further requested those IN
authority to excuse their teachers from
duty long enough to enjoy the associa.
tions meeting, the attendance will
compare favorably with the largest yet
present on these instructive and pleas.
ant occasions.
There is another old-time crop that is
rapidly coming into prominence as a
better means of filling the farmers
purse than cotton, and this is sugar
cane, Our progressive planters all over
the State are giving the subject som,
attention, and where the attention
takes the practical form of proper
planting and careful cultivation, the
results are most encouraging The
Brandon News has recently had some
correspondence on this subject with
planters in Rankin county, and Senator
Price writes that, in addition to sup.
plying his own family and the families
of six tenants with molasses through.
out last year, he sold enough syrup off
of one acre planted in cane, to net him
three hundred dollars. From this crop
he laid away several thousand stalks
for planting Sugar cane ranks in the
tier of counties in this State running
straight across from Lauderdale to the
Mississippi river, and the cultivation
requires very little attention. Indeed,
if the farmer is in earnest, and gives
his work the proper thought and at
tention, he can take better care of his
family by raising ten acres of cane,
than by cultvating a good sized plan
tation in cotton. Besides an advo-
cate of the sweet crop argues, "the
molaSses crop requires, at most, little
more than six months labor, while
cotton takes every day of thirteen
months in every year"
The Northern markets have shown
high appreciation of a Mississippi vege-
table this year-the Long Beach radish.
1t is said by the commission merchants
to rank higher than any other radishes
shipped to Northern markets, 1t has
a delicious flavor, and the demand far
exceeds the supply. This little vege.
table is easy of cultivation lends itself
readily to the requirements of shipping
and has netted its growers excellent
incomes. Those who know claim that
along our Gulf coast the soil is spe-
cially adapted to radsh culture, but up
to date Long Beach wears the blue
ribbon for producing the finest and
most remunerative radiShes shipped to
the North.
Aberdeen is always talking steps in
the right direction" along the safe, sure
way of progress, Her recent action in
calling together and organizing the
raisers of poultry and pet stock under
the name of the mississippi Poultry
and Pet Stock Association" was sam
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