Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-05-03
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EvHNrs.
By KATE MARKHAM POWER.

uduS, 6JC.i WHOSE COWS, IN SraJlLuQe
for careful attention, yield ample sup
i plies of milk from which the table gets
its excellent cream and butter; whose
fruit trees are now proudly display
ing their burdens of young green
globes, whose melons will soon open
their crimson hearts to comfort the
family and friends in sultry summer
days, whose poultry, thanks to care
and attention, are almost worth their
weight in "coin of the realm"-that
man can snap his fingers at the beef
trusts and sugar trusts and butter
trusts and egg trusts and all the other
trusts save and excepting his firm
trust (backed up by works., in the
kindness Of the soil he tills and in the
sure fruits of his labor. 1t is such
trust as this that makes a man as
healthy and wealthy and wise" as the
best of men need care to be.
While on the subject OF home and
farm products, by the way, we can
not refrain from again barking back
to our faVorite theme, poultry raising,
for our Mississippi women and girls
who have the space and who are with
in reach Of a railroad station. 1t is a
most strange thing that so many of our
women spend their days wishing for
more pin money, wondering how it
could be made and grieving that they
haven't any show like other girls,
especially girls in town." Why, take
two Mississippi girls of equal intelli-
gence, health, strength and energy. Let
one go to some business college and
then settle down to work as stenog-
rapher, bookkeeper or at some other
office work in town, and let the other
spend half as much time, money,
thought and practice in the work of
poultry raising and at the end of three
years let the two girls get together and
compare notes on their experience and
their work. While l am not bet
ting man." believe l can safely wager
ten to one that the girl who has spent
her money in comfortable provision
for her selected stock, and has given
much of her time to the outdoor work
(and those who know claim that it is a
delightful work and always interest
ing) of poultry raising will find that
she is many times richer in dollars, in
strength, health-even in youth-and
that she has had much more time for
reading and for other pleasures and
diversions than has the girl whose
work lies within four walls, and how
ever interesting it may be at first, and
however blessed she may be in her en-
ployer-who must soon become
wearied with the monotony of her
mental and physical lsbors.
Only yesterday l heard of bright,
charming young girl who is thoroughly
at home in the best literature of to-day
and yesterday, who can lead cotillion
with perfect grace, and whose accom-
plishments make her q very popular
girl, who has put her pin money into
an incubator from which she is taking
little Plymouth Rock "biddies" by the
hundred, to raise for market. This
was good news at that particular mo-
ment, as had just come in from two
hours tramps through Chicken Roost
Road" in search of "broilers" for an
invalid, and had found lin Jackson)
but two chickens for sale-one about
the size Of partridge, cost me 25c.,
and the other, about ten days older,
was held for 5Oc., and was sold later
for another invalid at Csc. Eggs
brought 35c. per dozen iu Jackson until
the spring was well advanced. So there
is, after all, little selfishness mixed
with our great desire for our girls to
try their skill along these lines. 1t will
help them and their friends Also
Vicksburg, Jackson and Meridian will
long hold the early May day of 1902 in
pleasant memory as the season brigh-
tened~by the presence of many thou
sand guests, all gathered to pay the
tribute of their loyal Southern hearts
to one whom the South has crowned
with her affections, and who has, with
his own clean hands, pure heart and
brilliant mind carved his name at the
very height OF Fames column-the be-
loved Admiral, Winfield Scott Schley.
To prove his appreciation of the
South's enthusiastic support of his
cause and its generous affection for
him, the Admiral and his wife accepted
gladly an invitation from Memphis,
and for several days they have been
enjoying the hospitality of the great
Tennessee city. 1t will be remembered
that the Mississippi Legislature, while
in session, invited the Great Man of
Santiago to visit the State and the
visits of this week are in response to
that official invitation. The distin-
guished guests, while in Jackson, en-
joyed the genuine Southern hospitality |
of the Executive Mansion, charmingly |
dispensed by Gov. Longino and his
wife, as gracious chatelaine as
ever presided in this historic mansion.
Everything possible was done by the
cities which were honored by the pres
snce Of the sailor-hero, and we hope :
and believe that the memory of this
little holiday time in the Sunny South |
may serve to brighten many a coming
day in the life which all of us would
love to see stretch out to the greatest
possible limit of useful days.
II, as the Brookh aven Leader pre-
diets, Aberdeen exchanges her saloons
Tor : $16O,OOO cotton factory, 1t will be
; great and glorious thing for the
beautiful city of northeast Mississippi.