The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1902-03-14

Inc been said Tor anu
mucn n ngislature just adjourned
lnst 'i feel constrained to te ,l,,sS our ad
We , ,evi what was Accomplished
dsn ' sreat State of ours through
this gl ID wisdom of our Governor
conDlIneeaa islature. Take it all In
! au was mighty good ID de cantained
Y ,0 Sue were strong ana con nua ,nl
% pure areat force, influence ana IN
p q = The writer may be par
llgence somewhat of leaning TO-
ned loi hsIl wherein "the grave and
y , ,uS seigniors" sat, inasmucn as 5
toe ,s Sar notes" And just here she
tsA ~ saw that the long days OF
slres " ,obor and the wearisome men
aa train we're made not only , pear
!, ss nat very pleasant by the kln l
ble pus and chivalrous consideration
lll Issso M Mississippi gentlemen who
1n ,shin the Senate. To relate mere
, S was done would be impossl.
'n Tvon to recount the matters OF
I ;mnortance suggested to them
"a. !. ir Wise Governor would be too
w. task. But this we do say
sa' &c : compliment it works both
y suggestion made by GOV.
~ Siro was carried out by the Legs
.,nsa except the purchase OF Beauvoir
@ soldiers home! Thus we see In
y treat esteem the peoples repre-
NATIVES hold their chief executive.
~ IL this confidence misplaced ever
slightly. Upright, honorable and
~ beyond his years, this man OF
L,asn hands and honest heart has not
sissnnoiuted the friends who expected
,nch of him in the high place to
Eh;ch he is called, as in the simple
RIip he has lived as private citizen.
IN n il our purpose, from week to week,
n refer to the work of the Legislature,
snd the item for this weeks notice
4 the Governors message relative to
M common schools. So we'll did he
ID this work, and so effective has
been the school work of late, that the
legislature appropriated for the two
Years 1902 and 1908, one million dol
ars more than was asked for.
The Governor, in addressing them,
aid;
The report of the State
of Education, recently
ssued, shows that seventy-four OF the
owns in Mississippi are organized into
eparate school districts, and it is graf
fying to report that they. as a rule,
ave commodious, handsome and suit
BILE buildings, and that during the
cholastic year ending 1900 the enroll
nent was approximately $4,000, and
or the year 1901 they enrolled in the
ggregate 35,736 pupils. The average
umber of days taught in said schools
uring the last scholastic year was
633, or more than eight scholastic
lonths. 1t further appears from the
uperintendents report that the total
mount of money collected for these
,hools for the last scholastic year
as $412,449S3, and l estimate the
lme amount for 1900. The
pproximate per capita of all the funds
'ceived was s11.55 on the total en-
,llment.
Here follow statistics as to the
Iates colleges and the university, but
the splendid appropriations for
ese institutions will receive special
'tice in another issue, we do not
int here.)
The approximate total enrolment in
e rural schools for the scholastic
ars 1900 and 1901 was 691, TAP, which
ould make per capita allowance out
their share of the $4,000. 900 appro-
lated by the Legislature for the said
70 years of $2.62 per annum. The
erage number of days taught in
ese schools was ninety, and there
IRE employed in them during the
ar 1890 approximately 1920 teach
;, and during the year 1901, 1906
acners. 1t will thus be seen that
average salary paid to these teach.
per annum out of the State com.
IN school appropriation for the two
ars was only about $119 each, OF
no per month for the school term
Tour and one-half months. 1t will
remembered, however, that some of
ese counties also derived assistance
'm the Chickasaw school fund, and
lers supplemented the State allow.
ce by county levies, and other
irces, thus increasing to some extent
general average paid to teachers
VIII appear from the State Super
endents report.
heartily approve the liberality
toward the States colleges
! separate school districts, and
~ In the success of these institu,
u.s. out | desire to enter a special
= IN behalf Of the country schools
story mas fully shown that the diff
non OF education among the masses
one OF the greatest sources of ma
Ia prosperity to any common.
aitn, and that where moral and in,
ectual advancement have kept pace
= tne progress Of the times, happi.
: mas been most generally dis
outed, and the higher wants of man
re adequately provided for. 1t is
per to mention in this connection
a