Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-05-03
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
By KATE MARKHAM POWER.
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
By KATE MARKHAM POWER.
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trusts save and excepting his firm
trust (backed up by works., in the
kindness of the soil he tills and in the
sure fruits of his labor. 1t is such
trust as this that makes man as
healthy and wealthy and wise" as the
best of men need care to be.
While on the subject OF home and
farm products, by the way, we can
not refrain from again barking back
to our fayorite theme, poultry raising,
for our Mississippi women and girls
who have the space and who are with
in reach of a railroad station. 1t is a
most strange thing that so manyof our
women spend their days wishing for
more pin money wondering how it
could be made and grieying that they
haven't any show like other girls,
especially girls in town" Why, take
two Mississippi girls Of equal intelli-
gence, health, strength and energy. Let
one go to some business college and
then settle down to work as stenog-
rapher boollleeper or at some other
Office work in town, and let the other
spend half as much time, money,
thought and practice in the work Of
poultry raising and at the end Of three
years let the two girls get together and
compare notes on their experience and
their work. While | am not a bet
ting man" | believe can safely wager
ten to one that the girl who has spent
her money in comfortable provision
for her selected stock, and has given
much Of her time to the outdoor work
I (and those who know claim that it is a
delightful work and always interest
ing) of poultry raising will find that
she is many times richer in dollars, in
strength health-eyen in youth-and
that she has had much more time for
reading and for other pleasures and
diversions than has the girl whose
work lies within four walls, and how
ever interesting it may be at first, and
however blessed she may be in her en-
ployer-who must soon become
wearied with the monotony Of her
mental and physical labors.
Only yesterday l heard of a bright |
charming young girl who is thoroughly |
at home in the best literature of to-day |
and yesterday, who can lead a cotillion
with perfect grace, and whose accom-
plishments make her a very popular |
girl, who has put her pin money into |
an incubator from which she is taking |
little Plymouth Rock "biddies" by the |
hundred, to raise for market. This |
was good news at that particular mo-
ment as had just come in from two |
hours tranps through Chicken Roost |
Road in search of "brOilers' for an .
invalid, and had found Tin Jackson) |
but two chickens for sale-one about .
the size of a partridge, cost me Csc,
and the other, about ten days older,
was held for soc, and was sold later
for another invalid at Csc. Eggs
brought 35c. per dozen in Jackson until
the spring was we'll advanced, So there
is, after all, a little selfshness mixed
with our great desire for our girls to
try their skill along these lines. 1t will
help them and their friends also.
Vcksburg, Jackson and Meridian will
long hold the early May day of 1902 in
pleasant memory as the season brigh-
tened by the presence of many thou
sand guests, all gathered to pay the
tribute of their loyal Southern hearts
to one whom the South has crowned
with her affections, and who has, with
his own clean hands, pure heart and
brilliant mind carved his name at the
very height of Fame's column-the be-
loved Admiral, Winfield Scott Schley,
To prove his appreciation of the
South's enthusiastic support of his
cause and its generous affection for
him. the Admiral and his wife accepted
gladly an invitation from Memphis,
and for several days they have been
enjoying the hospitality Of the great
Tennessee city. 1t will be remembered
that the Mississippi Legislature, while
in session, invited the Great Man of
Santiago to visit the State and the
visits of this week are in response to
that official invitation. The distin-
guished guests, while in Jackson, en-
joyed the genuine Southern hospitality
of the Executive Mansion, charmingly
dispensed by Gov. Longino and his
wife, as gracious a chatelaine as
ever presided in this historic mansion.
Everything possible was done by the
cities which were honored by the pres
ence of the sailor-hero, and we hope
and believe that the memory Of this
little holiday time in the Sunny South
may serve to brighten many a coming
day in the life which all of us would
love to see stretch out to the greatest
possible limit of useful days.
Decoration Day" was observed with
utdulllul oOltHllllg ldoJ NtNh III many
Mississippi towns and old and young
gathered in Gods Acre" where our
fallen heroes sleep, and covered them
over with beautiful flowers" This Gus
tom should never be allowed to lose its
influence on the minds of the children,
for through it, and the attendant cere-
monies, the boys and girls of today
strengthen much of the loyalty and de-
votion to the Lost Cause that Is a
part of their being. As long as there
can be found mound meath which a
soldier lies, some child with Southern
blood In his veins will be found, too,
with his hands full of flowers to cover
the grave, his heart full of love for the
one who is Asleep and his strong
young voice vibrant with emotion as
he joins in the singing Of Dixie" God
bless the memories of these, our loved
and lost" and let "the children unto
the third and fourth generation" and
even beyond, be better and stronger
and happier because in their veins
runs this noble hero-blood!