Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-02-22


work up an interest IN an exhibit; TO |
get this exhibit together and to take
charge of same during the Louisiana |
Purchase Exposition. Now that the
sinews OF war have been supplied by
the State, this matter will doubtless be
taken up as soon as the Legislature ad-
journs, and the State will proceed to
get up an exhibit worthy of her splen
did achievements and of her boundless
possibilities.
Another subject Of unusual interest
was the Houses overwhelming ma
jority in favor of the passage of the
famous Cox antitrust bill. 1t also has
many friends in the Senate, where it is
being considered this week.
The Gardner depository bill (Which
provides that the State Treasurer shall
in case Of need make deposits Of State
funds in not more than two banks in
any town and in sums not exceeding
$4,000 to each bank went through
the Senate with friends to spare, and
it seems to have a goodly number in
the House. Should this bill become a
law there will be no more complaints
of a surplus oyerburdening the vaults
of the Treasury, and the State banks
will be materially assisted.
The insurance bill was occupying the
Senate at the close of the week. This
law makes radical changes in existing
laws and creates a special department
for insurance.
1t was voted to add another member
to the States official family by the
Senate, in the person of keeper of
the department of history AMI ar
chives. The salary to be paid was set
at $500, and the duties will be such
as the able and devoted directors Of
the State Historical Society shall des.
ignate. This fine organization, com
posed Of Mississippi's best and most
able men, have been gathering our
history up as a labor Of love for years,
but the work has now assumed such
proportions and the demands and re-
uuirements are so numerous and ex'
acting that the creation of this State
department was deemed wise. 1t is
hoped that the House will pass the bill
also.
Another matter that has held the in
terest of the State, as we'll as the peo-
pie Of Jackson, was the visit to jack
son of Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who spent
Friday and Saturday in Jackson as the
guest of the State Legislature. In the
library of the cid State House, which
had been the scene Of so many Of her
distinguished husbands triumphs, she
met and greeted hundreds of the old
men who had loved and served him,
with their children and chiliren's
children.
Much is being said by the Southern
press these days anent pecan culture.
Columns upon columns and page
after page is filled with arguments
demonstrating the wisdom Of pecan
planting as an easy, inexpensive
source of revenue. That is all very
well, and will doubtless be the cause
of many a hearty thanksgiving ten or
fifteen years from now, but We cannot
refrain from wishing that this pecan
culture craze had struck Mississippi
score Of years ago. Had it been 50,
and the generations before ours had
become infected, we Of the present
day could now be sitting at ease, en-
loving the fruits of the harvest But
there is mo use to cry over split
milk" or, to be exact, over pecans
that never were planted. We must dc
something better than that and urge
our men and women Of today to hesi
tate no longer about this matter, but
for the sake of coming generations tC
plant good pecan trees in the fence
corners Cor anywhere else), and lei
them grow. That is all they need
We have read a great deal lately abou
the vast superiority of South Caroline
and Texas peeans over any other
hence it gives us great pleasure t
tell our readers something about ;
Mississippi pecan tree-a sturdy OLE
monarch that has drawn its sustenancl
in part from the writer's own hom
garden for a score Of years. The crol
never fails. and this year must hav'
been at least six bushels. 1t ha
never had the slightest care given II
except such as Mother Nature gave II
and unless we are in error it cam
from a seed. The nuts are large, tul
and the meats are the richest we haT
ever tasted Only a few weeks ago
gentleman whose diet consists largel,
of peeans Che is a vegetarian), al,
who has travelled all over the worlc
buying the finest pecans the world VI
fords wherever they can be fou1t
and paying enormously for them, dt
clared these pecans that grew in
backyard in Jackson to be beyon
compare the finest he had ever tasted
He was then en- route to California
to spend a year in the enjoyment 9
the fresh fruits and nuts of that Statt
but he made every effort to secure
supply of these pecans to take wit
him. Jsut think what grand thin
il will be for the children of this ger
Grafton if we utilize the waste place
with this fine fruit and beautift
shade tree.
The friends of Circuit Judge Powe
sympathize with him in his great anl
iety because Of the illness of h
youngest daughter, little Miss Ann
Davis Powell, who has been i'll frol
typhoid fever for several weeks. tt
Judges enforced absence from h
courts must be a severe trial to so Co
scientious man and so honorable
, Judge But the public as well as Il
, Governor will grant him leave of a
sence from the court room, feelir
that to some other judge may be del
gated the duty of sitting on the benc
+, To none other save the mother, ho'
i. ever, may be surrendered the sad bl
blessed privilege of sitting beside Il
sick bed of this frail little daughte
who Is the very light Of her father
life, Indeed, most men will be gl5
to know that he is there and will fe
secure in the knowledge that ms
| who is so lnYal to the duties of b