The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1904-06-04

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The terrible calamity which befell
"a Yazoo City last week should be q
"a warning to other towns that water
" works, and good water works should
be maintained for use on Just such
occasions. A private corporation had
maintained the system in Yazoo City
n FOR number Of years and many were
II the complaints Of inefficient supply
a and pressure. The city was in the act
of installing system Of its own when
n the fire swept away the greater por-
II ton of the business district and a
Il great many dwellings. No town of
Il 800 or more inhabitants should be
N without good system of water works
and a regularly organized fire compa-
ny. Profit by the costly experience Of
N Yazoo City and provide these things
n while there is time and not be com
PEELED to stand by and watch millions
Of dollars go up in smoke without
d means to check it. The entire state
sympathises with the stricken city and
q much substantial sympathy has been
shown. Arrangements are already be-
q ing made to rebuild and that in a
much more substantial manner than
before. The people Of Yazoo City
will emerge from their fire bath brigh-
ter and more energetic than ever.
Without doubt the biggest propo-
sition which confronts the large plan
ters Of the state is that Of labor. The
enormous amount Of public works be-
lng carried on has taken large per
,ent Of the negro labor from the cot
ton feldsF and given employment in
towns and on the roads. They get
good wages in the first place, and with
the rising generation Of negroes it is
their desire to live in town where
large numbers of them congregate,
and it is a hard matter to keep them
on the farms. A solution of this
problem will no doubt be presented
soon and the writer is inclined to be-
lieve that it will come about through
the breaking up Of. the large farms
into small plots and working with
\ white labor from the more crowded
sections Of the North and West.
Then each farmer will own and till
his own land.
There is complaint coming from
some sections as to the effect Of the
Wells vagrAncy law which has been
in force now about one month. 1t
is claimed that the negroes are lsav-
ing the from which complaint comes
and that labor is hard to get. This
probably from the fact that large
number Of negroes and some whites
only small portion Of the time and
depend upon gambling and other ne
farlous practices to help along and
that the law is being enforced in their
cases and driving them from The
country. This makes scarcity Of
labor for odd jobs but does not effect
the regular workers. 1t is better that
such characters be out Of the State
and nothing is lost by their absence.
There are millions in the culture
OF ginseng if our people knew how to
get 1t out In some sections Of Ken
lucky the root is being cultivated with
the greatest success and In Mississippi
there are thousands Of acres that are
especially well adapted to it. Rev. w.
L. Crum Of Hickory Flat in Benton
county is planting little each year to
see Just what can be expected Of it..
In the section Of the state where Mr..
crum lives the plants grow wild and
lshunted for the root with fairsuccess
II 1t will grow wild and make mer-
y chantable roots, Mr.. Crum figures
shat If cultivated that much more
ought to be expected Of it. Interest
"a parties can get information from
Mr.. Crum concerning the great possi-
oilitles OF this new industry by ad-
dressing him with stamped envelop
for reply.
The Illinois Central railroad offers
70 import Italians to work the cotton
helds Of Mississippi. Several large
oelta farmers have been trying them
ana lind that they work well and are
little trouble. At the same time it is
change in conditions that our peo-
pie will be slow to accept. There is
nothing like the negro and the mule
to raise cotton.
4 one Biloxi oyster canning concern
has sold 10000 cases so far this sea-
SON. Figs are being canned now and
y tnen comes something else. Great is
our gulf coast and brighter still the
future.