Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-02-01
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS

NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
By KATE MARKHAM POWER.


In fact, the only supplies for which
the Senator will have to make cash
outlay are dry goods and -four. AS
Senator McGehee very wisely remarks,
the only way for a farmer to live in
comfort is to live at home and raise
all that is needed for his family's use.
If more of our men would follow the
example of this Franklin county SEN
ator we would have fewer pessimists,
the country would be better off, the
States credit would advance marvel
ously, and happy homes and contented
families would be the rule where dis
content now reigns in the hard strug-
gle to make ends meet.
Will our people never learn to let
firearms alone? 1t is time steps were
being taken for the enforcement of all
laws bearing on the matter Of carry
ing dangerous weapons. And If we
haven't laws enough we should enact
some more (this is good time for
such work.. There are very few
weeks that pass without recording
some serious accident from a pistol in
the hands of parties who didn't know
it was loaded" or who pointed it in
fun" Another recreation that has re-
Gently become popular is for invisible
parties to shoot (for fun at no given
object, with the result that the bullet
finds place in the body of some in
nocent passer-by. Only last week a
Vicksburg gentleman was severely in
jured by toy rifle, recklessly fired by
unseen parties. The bullet lodged in
the left lung and now large and de.
pendent family is suffering distress
and privation, while the hard-working
father fights death in hospital. These
things are outrageous and should be
stopped. 1t was Christmas night in
New Orleans that young lady stand
ing inside the window of a friends
home was shot (and died from the
wound) by one of party of gay young
men and women passing, who were
firing pistols instead of frecrackers.
The guilty party should have been
made to suffer in this instance and in
all others.
The State has been presented with
a valuable gift, and one which all loyal
citizens will greatly prize. This is
portrait of our first territorial govern
or, Hon. Winthrop Sargent. The
painting is life size and is a finely
executed copy (by a New York artist
of the original portrait of the distin-
guished Mississippian, which was
painted in 1906 by Gilbert Stewart.
We are indebted for this gift to Mrs.
W. Butler Duncan (torn SARGENT a
granddaughter of Winthrop Sargent.
The portrait in its massive frame, has
an honored place in the State Library.
This brings us to say-what we have
long had in our heart to earnestly
urge-that in our new Capitol there
should be, as there is in Virginia, a
portrait gallery, where the people may
see and study and honor the faces of
the great men who have made this
State what she is. OF course, it would
be impossible to secure all the por-
traits that we would wish to hang
there, and that would be entitled to
position there; but we could get a
large number, and it seems to the
writer that the sooner the plan is put
in motion the better it will be for the
State, for us and for all generations
that are to follow us.
The Senate and House took another
holiday last week and enjoyed an
other genuine pleasure trip. This
time they went over the much-talked-
of new road-the Gulf G Ship Island
to Gulfport, thence to various points
of interest along the coast. The Gulf
towns are making great fights these
days for top place on the ladder, and
each one of half dozen considers it.
self the one and only point suitable
for the location of the deep water har-
Dor. Their efforts to bring others to
their way of thinking are earnest and
laudable. Not only did several of the
cities on the coast-Gulfport, Pasca-
goula, and Beauvoir, home of Jeffer-
son Davis, and others-play hostess
to these august bodies, but the honors
were also shown them by some of the
vigorous young towns along the Gulf
& Ship Island road. That their visit
ors appreciated the trip and all that
was done for their pleasure was
proven by the fact that they left Jack
son Friday morning and did not re-
turn until Tuesday. However. the
trip was instructive as well as pleas
ant, so the public will doubtless be sat
isied
There was general disappointment
in political circles and among fire.
quenters of the legislative lobby when
the great (and doubtless sensationaI)
investigation was post
poned from Wednesday, the 22d, to
Thursday, the goth. A large number
of interested parties had gathered at
the Capital City for this special pur-
pose and their disappointment was
freely expressed when, for reasons ac-
knowledged good by the Legislature,
the whole matter was postponed for a
week and day
Another matter of Statewide inter-
est that is occupying the Senates at
tention this week is the proposed home
FOR Confederate veterans.
The town of Edwards has recently
been the special target of the fire
fend, having had thras ~ HTFithin
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