The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1902-01-10

AS everybody Is interested in the
appropriation bills which come before
each Legislature, and ais everybody
should be Interested in%the A. il M.
College. we give Id detail the amounts
asked for by this splendid school for
our boys. In considering the textile
schools cost, its immediate need. ESQ
as to have our own boys ready to take
charge Of the various departments in
the cotton mills now BUILDING and pro
jected) and its great value to a. State
that would be manufacturing cen
ter, must be considered also. The sup
! portgfund asked for for the extstwo
years is $101,344.82, and the textile
school deficit is SIG, 320.14 (thiss was
borrowed by the board of trustees.)
There is a deficit of $4,000 in the col
lege and student labor accounts. An
appropriation Of $159,330 is asked for
new buildings, improvements, etc, as
follows: New chapel, S25.000;; new
dormitory, $4,000; new mechanical
building, $4,000; scientific building,
$25, 900; additional equipment for tex
tile school, $4,000; infirmary, $4,000;
three experiment stations, yearly, $15,-
600; new barns. $4,000; permanent i'm
provements in mechanical department,
$4,000; quarters for working boys,
$4,000; house for director Of textile
school. $1,000; bachelor quarters,
$4,000; gymnasium, $4,000; improved
breeds Of cattle and mares, $1,000; y.
M G. A., $1OO; equipment of English
veterinary and preparatory depart.
ments $1,150; equipment agricultural,
horticultural and biological depart
ments, $3.50; printing equipment,
$1,000 Of the amount requested to
make up the textile school deficit,
President Hardy says; THE Legisla
ture appropriated $4O,OO0 for the tex
tile school and dormitorya the board
instructed that $4,000 should be put
into the new dormitory, s1O,00Osshould
be set aside for the equipment. and
$4,000 should 60 into the building.
BY authority of the board of trustees,
the building was afterwards completed
at. a cost Of $32, 464.69. This excess, to-
gether with what has been paid for
salaries and labor, for which no pro-
vision was made, and for boilers, steam
main heating system, waterworks and
Eequipmentsfor fire protection, and esti-
mated expenses to run up to January
| /, 1902, make the Indebtedness Of this
$26,32014. The board
deemed it wise to borrow the money
to complete the work rather than to
have. the enterprise fail for lack of
equipment and support"
Death is unwelcome at any time, In
any place, and his coming always
brings bitter grief TO many hearts and
homes. But when the Dark Angel
comes not. alone, but seemingly in
flights, and hovers close about an erst-
/, while happy home, the agony of its
presence cannot be told. in words. Only
few weeks ago the Columbus papers
chronicled the death of the aged
mother of Senator Meek, at his Column
bus home. Scarce had the earth been
placed above the faithful mother heart
! when it was opened again to receive
the body of her son, Col. Meek, man
who has been greatly loved and hon.
ored in Mississippi. Only one might OF
darkness and lonely. grief divided the
devoted wife from the husband OF her
youth, and then senator Meeks wife
Joined him in the other world. In less
than a week after her parents death
Miss Meek, daughter of Col. and
Mrs. Meek and granddaughter OF the
aged lady, passed from the scenes OF
earth to Join her loved ones. So far
as we can learn, pneumonia was the
dread disease that proved SO fatal to
this delightful home circle in Column
bus.
A.similar instance occurred in Yazoo
city when Miss Rebecca Purvis died on
the 2sth and her mother on the S1st
of December. In this instance 1t was
thought that the shock of the daugh-
ter,s death was more than the feeble
strength of the aged lady could bear.
A number of State papers are won
dering what is to be done with the
great surplus now lying idle in the
vaults of the State treasury. What
better use could be made of goodly
mart of it than in adding to the facili-
| ties Of the States educational, humane
and benevolent instftuticns-in build
ing n home for veterans. in putting