Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-02-15

ed, her present educational work not
even thought about, and her manu-
factures only dreamed Of by few
enthusiasts, what may we not do to-
day, when all these hopes and dreams
have become i. living realities, and
when Mississippi deserves to rank
with the best of her sister States?
The great trouble is that the outside
world-in which we must find our
markets-does not know all these
things in which we take such pride,
and we must bestir ourselves to see
that they learn them. And that they
learn them in such a manner as will
make it impossible to forget them.
There is no better place for them to
learn than at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, and no surer way for us
to impress the lesson on them than
by having State exhibit behtting our
limltless possibilities.
Note-We heartily thank Mrs. M. A.
May of Elwood for kindly supplying
us with the catalogue from which we
CLEANED the above facts.-K. M. P.
A great deal of interest has been
aroused this session by the bill pro-
posing an increase in the salaries Of
the Governor and the Supreme Judges.
1t was ably argued that the Judges
should each have an annual salary
of $4,000, so as to enable them to
give all of their time and thought
to the cases before them, without be-
ing continually distracted by thoughts
concerning their expense accounts and
the fear that lends would not meet"
The opposition to an increase in the
Governors salary was very decided in
the Senate, but 1t was pretty generally
conceded that the State should pay it's
chief executive salary sufficient for
comfortable living expenses and avoid
the necessity of making the usual ap-
preparation for fuel, lights, servants,
etc. At first glance $4,000 per annum
looks like a good DEAL But living is
high in Jackson, very high, and the
Governor must live in a manner be-
fitting the dignity Of his position. HIS
family must make a good appearance,
his latchstring must hang outside and
his table" be always ready for the un-
expected - though always cordially
welcomed-guest. The old building
used for an executive mansion is an
expensive place to live in. 1t takes
almost as much coal to warm one of
the rooms as is needed to fire a loco
motive. And then the rooms are not
any too warm. To properly keep up
the yard alone would require every
hour of one mans time, with none to
spare for garden, cows or horses. The
servants must be. the best of their
kind, to properly accomplish the work
required of them. Whenever any man
or woman of unusual prominence
visits Jackson it is expected that the
Governor will entertain him or her.
And so we might lengthen the list in
definitely with hundreds of items
small in themselves, but running to
amount in the long run.
All of these things cost money, as is
proved by the fact that nine out of !
ten of our Governors have left the
very much poorer (finan-
cially) than they entered it, So we
very much wish that the salary could |
be $4,000 But the Senate made it
$4,000 with no additional appropria-
ton for servants, etc. and made the
Supreme Judges salary $4,000 also.
To the Librarian they gave an In ]
crease of nearly $500, bringing her sal
ary up to $500 year (and she most
certainly earns every dollar of it). |
The Attorney General was given an
assistant, at $4,000 a year (and he
needed one, and has needed one for a
long time)
We doubt if there has ever been a
better special edition" published in
The State than the souvenir edition
Of the Greenville Times, issued last
week in that Queen City" beside the
Father of Waters by the Times Pub
fishing Company. The edition is me
,hanically excellent, and the matter
yar sO carefulIv nrenarad end so skill