The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1902-02-28

ulrectlOn In ner en0rtS TO have a pub
lie library for her people. 1t Is in
tended that there shall be attractive
reading rooms which will be open to
the general public, but the members of
the association will be accorded spe-
cial privileges in the matter of taking
books home for perusal, etc. Every
town of average size in Mississippi
needs good public library-not the
average circulating" affair, made up
of the Dora Thorne," Duchess" and
Laura Jean Libbey'' brand of liter
Azure; nor should it be in the nature
OF close corporation, benefiting only
a few. To be really successful an as
ISOLATION of this sort must be gotten
UP "by the people" should be COM
posed "of the people, and should be
altogether and entirely "for the peo-
pie" Then it must be a success and
a benefit .
We congratulate Columbus and hope
it will not be many years before she
climbs as high along the mountain
side of literature (for the public) as
has the splendid City of Yazoo, whose
| library is far and away the oldest and
the finest public library in the State.
Mississippi women are coming to the
front along new lines every little
while. The latest departure was in
the little town of Cascilla, and is told
by the Charleston Herald. 1t seems
that the little town has for years been
! infested with blind tiger which ap-
peared CD each week just in time to
catch the stray funds of the Saturday
and Sunday crowd. The men of the
neighborhood declared themselves I'M
| able to, slaughter the demon, though
many bore frequent signs of having
| tracked him to his lair. At last two
good women, long weary of such do
ings in their town, bearded the crea-
ture in his den, and by the use of
! little diplomacy proved him Gin the
presence of witnesses) to be carrying
whisky on his person. Nor did they
| stop there; they confiscated the whisky
they could find and broke the bottles.
These women did not intend to pose
as embryo Carrie Nations" but were
driven by desperation to the point
recorded above.
The Senate, during last weeks SEES
sion, adopted the House revenue bin
with amendments and fixed the tax
levy at mills. The Noel primary cleo
tion bill was in turn adopted by the
House with few amendments. An
interesting bill was passed Friday in
! the Senate making of the old Capitol
grounds a Confederate monument
park. with an appropriation of SIC
to pay for enclosing same, etc. A
park commission was created, COM
posed of the Governor, Secretary of
State and Auditor.
Another subject that provoked wide
and most earnest discussion was the
very strong (and almost successfully
effort that was made to abolish CO.
education at the State University.
This intended change was vigorously
combatted by some and as vigorously
urged by others, but the friends of the
girls at last prevailed, and by her
them equal advantages with the boys,
for the present. The sentiment
against co-education seems on the in
crease among our people, however,
and We are constrained to suggest to
all of the gentler sex who aspire to
university sheepskin that they lose
no time. bu. HE them at once to Ok
ford's classic shades and grasp the
prize that il about 1--WE believe) to be
Withdrawn. Why this feeling should
prevail VS. DO not know. Co-education
is rev Q i6ct in the educational sys-
TENS oil most CT the States constitut-
ing this great aud free country of ours,
and it's SUCCESS would seem to admit
of no argument. Nor is our progress
i've republic alone in this forward
step: many of the old and some of the
most conservative countries have fall
en- into line until now a girl may
study side BY side with her brother
almost the wide world over.
The Hattiesburg Progress continues
to wage war on the muddy streets and
open bitches of that town, as well as
upon many other Objectionable things
by which that thriving town is handi-
capped. The Progress is right. Their
streets cannot be made passable by
the dumping in of any amount of raw