Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-12-24
"MISSISSIPPI."


(The sunsets royal couch of gold,
One open house of bounteous store,
Like Egypt's granary Of old,
Is Mississippi.
Here nature. with prolific zest,
Fills plenty's horn with lavish hand
From North to South from East to
West
A new and fairer Canaanland,
Is Mississippi.
Her corn.cribs, with their yellow yield
Are Golfers filed with shining gold,
The verdure OF each teaming field,
The green-backs which the people
hold,
In Mississippi.
In virgin forests lie concealed.
Far richer than Golconda's mines,
Mid snow of every cotton field,
A Klondike which a fortune shines,
In Mississippi.
In mineral springs, whose cooling
drink,
Bring healing in its sparkling foam,
We find within each crystal brink,
Our magic Carlsbad here at home,
In Mississippi.
Nor need we seek meath alien skies,
A balmy cline in foreign lands.
For, fair as Edenlields, there lies,
Our Riviera on the sands,
In Mississippi
Nor State. nor county, far or near,
A prOuder, purer past may claim,
Nor nobler names that We revere
Immortal-in the Hall Of Fame
or Mississippi
Here | first caught the sunlights ray,
Along the rivers sunny side,
Here let me spend my little day,
To work till falls the eyen.tide,
In Mississippi.
To lie at last in her great heart,
To sleep beneath her yerdant sod,
To heaven on soaring wings depart,
(This my prayer, Oh gracious God.)
From Mississippi.
Juliet Howe Harmon.
Aberdeen sent forty-three exhibits
to the fancy poultry show at Birming-
ham, Ala, some days since. They
were all fine birds, too. Aberdeen is
th, home of fine poultry. and great
success is attending the efforts Of
those engaged in the business of rails
ing fowls. There is something more
than pleasure in the business. too.
Yazoo City is happy at the prospects
of a 100000 hotel to be built at once.
Since the great fire there the city has
been short on accommodation for
travellers, and the new hotel noted
will relieve that difficulty, 1t will be
built upon the site Of the old Mag
nolia Inn, and will be modern in every
respect
Lee county, in the Northeastern por-
tion Of the State, has seven banking
institutions with deposits amounting
to something like half million dol
lars. The county is especially pros.
porous, as are all counties in the
State. Farmers are doing better and
taking on the general improvements
being experienced everywhere. Mer-
chants are branching out and building
better stores as well as keeping a
highergrade of goods. The prosper
ity of Lee county is not an exception,
but is in keeping with the general or
der of things in Mississippi these days.
Preparations are being made at
Holly Springs for the building of the
experiment station authorized by the
last legislature, and located at that
place. The contest for the site was
a lively one, several towns going in
to win, but Holly Springs finally
landed the plum. 1t will prove of
much benefit to that section, and is
well worth the time and money ex.
pended in securing it, The hill coun-
try adjacent to Holly Springs is pecu-
liarly adapted to the raising of vege-
tables and with little attention it
ductiye sections of the State. The
station will be put in active operation
next year.
The college community at Blue
Mountain has been raised by procla-
nation Of the governor from a village
to town 1t is the location of one
of the best female colleges in the
State, and a splendid male academy
is being established there, commodi
GUS brick buildings are now being
erected for the purpose, The country
surrounding the place Is being i'm
proved, and 1t may not be so many
years before the governor will be
called upon to make 1t a city.
Mathiston reports that ground has
been bought for hardwood lumber
mill, sash, door and blind factory
and large brick plant, besides other
evidences of hustle-and-get-there. The
town is advantageously located for a
large and busy place, and all that is
necessary to make it so is for the peo-
pie to continue to hustle The terri
tory adjacent would support city of
five thousand people or more il prop
erly developed and made TO produce
what it should. Good for Mathiston.
Announcement IS made from Colum-
bus that work has commenced on the
electric railway line for that city. The
principal streets will be traversed,
and all points of interest brought with.
in easy reach of citizens and visitors
alike. Columbus is to be congratu-
lated upon the acquisition of this mod
ern convenience. Several other towns
are arranging for electric lines, and
the next few years will see many of
them constructed in the State.
A farmer in Hohenlinden, Chicka-
saw county, off Of sixteen acres ol
land gathered fifty bushels of corn
and sixteen full-welght bales of cot
ton. The crop has been gathered,
land cleared and Is being broken for
a crop next year Why would any.
one desire to leave Mississippi Tor