The leader., 1905-03-18
BIZ H. E. BLAKEsLEE. Jaekson.

cen new buildings in Senatobia, the
larger portion of which were resi-
dences. II looks as if Senatobia was
experiencing a considerable wave of
prosperity, although not so very much
is being said about it.
In harmony with the writer's fre
Quent admonitions to be optimistic on
all occasions, is the following from
publication called Physical Cul,
ture,' and devoted to elevating the
race:
Hang these words on your bed.
post or tack them into your brain:
From now on am going to change
my entire life and my style Of think
ing. will endeaySr in the hereafter
to be generous in my views toward
others, broad-minded, large-spirited
and kind, thinking well Of everybody,
mean to nobody, and overlooking the
little faults, believing that there are
other qualities in the man that over
whelms the deficiency. There is so
much bad in the best of us, and so
much good in the worst of us, that we
should be charitable to the rest of us.
/ shall see the bright side of every.
thing. shall talk like an optimist,
laugh like an optimist, move about
like an optimist, conscious of the fact
that shall radiate sunshine and make
everyone around me happy"
Greenville will keep clean, if pos.
sible, and in pursuance of this deter
mination the second steam laundry is
under construction. That splendid
delta city will make an aggressive
campaign this year for factories, and
hopes to eclipse the excellent record
OF last year.
Dewey, one of the new towns on
the NJ, j. & K. G. railway. and located
in Chickasaw county, is beginning to
show great growth, even before the
track of the new road was laid.
Great progress is reported in build
ing residences and stores. The eau
cassian, by G. A. Robertson, has be.
gun publication, and proposes to let
the world know of Dewey. All de.
nominations are preparing to build
churches, and school buildings, will
be erected at once. It is in good
section of country, and will, no doubt,
ere long be one of the best business
points on the NJ, J. & K. c.
The Columbus Progressive Union,
an industrial organization that brought
to the city something like $7OO,O
worth of factories last year, is to be
revived and an effort made to do
equally as much during the present
year. Columbus made an excellent
record last year and is becoming one
of the most prominent manufacturing
cities Of the State. There is still plenty
of work for an active industrial or
ganization to do, and the city should
not let the Progressive Union die by
any means.
West Point is happy in the contem.
plation of two new railroads. One is
the Pensacola road for which several
charters have been granted, and more
than one turned down, and the other
is an extension of the Illinois Central
from that point to the coal fields OF
Alabama. Either of them would prove
valuable acquisition to that progress.
sive city on the prairies of East
Mississippi It is to be hoped that
both will be built.
Buy your goods from home mer-
chants and patronize home people
every opportunity. They are the ones
who will help you in adversity and be
nrlo OF
department store pays no taxes or in
any way helps to support Mississippi
or her institutions.
Royal Danish consul, T. Soigaard, Of
New Orleans, is interesting himself
in the matter of immigrants from the
Scandinavian countries into the South.
ern States, and in a recent letter to the
Louisiana State Board of Immigra.
tion, has the following suggestions to
make relative to the introduction of
the Danish plan of fruit and yege-
table growing in this section:
Now that immigrants from North,
ern Europe are beginning to settle in
the Southern States, this consulate is
receiving an increased number of in
quiries as to whether certain fruit
trees or vegetables, which are. very
profitable in Scandinavian countries,
can be cultivated in the United States.
AS it is well nigh impossible to an
swer such questions satisfactorily
and as this consulate, on the other
hand would not do anything to turn
such valuable class of immigrants
away from the South, the idea has
suggested itself to me that your de
partment might possibly, without any
disadvantage to itself, step in and
render good services in matters which
have lately been the object of interest
here.
I'll you, at one of your experiment
stations, had employed graduate OF
the Royal Danish Agricultural Col
lege at Copenhagen, who would be
competent to place the advantages OF
the South comprehensiveiy before
prospective immigrants and others,
there is no doubt that he would be
able to do a good share Of what
progressive public men of the South
are now striving to accomplish
think that such a man should have
the opportunity to experiment with
fruit tress and vegetables from the
Scandinavian countries. and to see
which would be adapted to culture III
the Southern States. Such expert.
ments would not interfere with his
other duties in the A. and M. College
experiment station, but, on the other
hand. | take it for granted that II
would be considered an advantage to
such a station to have the best trees
and vegetables introduced from coun
tries where horticultural industry has
reached such high degree Of de
velopment, and to have this done By
well trained and competent person
who could be able also to fill q place
in the general work Of an experiment
station
The Louisiana Board Of Immigra,
tion has taken the matter up and viii
act upon Mr.. SOigaard'a suggestion
An effort will be made to comply with
the proposition to employ a man from
the Danish college and to prepare
matter IN the Scandinavian language
for distribution.
The ScandinaVians are the best
r1aer f,f 5ff1s4ff grants that are pnr.s4san !