The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1905-05-13

our home manufacturers and one that
is attracting attention abroad A
large concern is now arranging to
place a plant of considerable size in
Jackson for the purpose of distribute
ing to the Mississippi territory on &C
count If the rates put in force and
the protection offered by the RAILROAD
Commission. So long as the article
is manufactured in Mississippi, or the
distribution is made from point in
this State, the commission Is in po-
sition to do excellent service and is
doing it. OF course, shipments origi
mating from outside the State. or on
rebilling privileges from points in the
State, with the original outside, the
commission is powerless. The pro-
lection of our home industries by the
commission should be appreciated
and proper credit given
After long drawn out fight by
the travelling men of the State and
the jackson Board of Trade, the Rail
road Commission has ordered union
station commensurate with the needs
of the city constructed. This will be
good news to large number of peo-
pie from every section of the State
who have business in Jackson and
have had to contend with the mad
equate facilities afforded.
The Cotton Association has received
unlocked for aid in reducing the acre
age in a very unfavorable spring and
there is now no doubt that the reduc-
ton will be even larger than at first
anticipated. The price has stiffened
some during the past few days on this
account and is due to go higher if a
reduction will make it do SO.
The weather has been very unfavor-
able for planting the cotton crop and
it is safe to estimate that the acreage
will be even more greatly reduced
than at first contemplated. Very lit
tie cotton has been planted and
considerable amount of the contem-
Plated acreage will be put in corn and
other products. Trucking has also
suffered and the berry crop which was
just being taken off is damaged to a
considerable extent:
The great number of educational
institutions throughout the State are
announcing the closing dates of their
/ session, which has been pronounced
the most successful since the war.
Mississippi ranks second to none
along the line of common education,
although lacking in some of the pro-
| fessional lines We are proud of our
public schools and there are very few
| indeed who begrudge the money spent
in maintaining them.
Some two months since the writer
called especial attention to the fact
that Mississippi stood very much in
need of a medical college, where the
young men could receive training for
this profession. Since that time, the
State Medical Association has held its
/ annual meeting and this matter was
an important part of the proceedings
The proposition was not only en-
dorsed, but unanimous vote revealed
/ the fact that the association favored
the establishment of such. college,
4 and the legislature was memorialized
to appropriate 100000 for the pur-
pose of building charity hospital
which is one of the necessary adjuncts
| to such an institution. The hospital
as recommended is an absolute neces
sity, at present those desiring atten-
ton being sent to Louisiana and Ten
nessee. 1t is not right for this burden
| to be shifted to our sister States. Mis-
sissippi should be too proud to accept
such courtesies, even if they were
granted unbegrudgingly which they
are not at all times. Build the hos
pital and then establish the college
Five hundred and sixty-one young men
from Mississippi were educated in
medicine in other States last year.
The prosperity of Mississippi is at
tracing hordes of adventures and
confidence men to the State, as has
| been the case everywhere when pay
/ dirt" has been struck They come in
every imaginable disguise and the
man who misses them all is fortunate
| indeed. Articles of household neces
sity are peddled at enormous prices
/ fake nostrums are sold to ignorant
people at fabu Gus prices, bogus his
torical and biographical works sold to
those with an abnormally developed
bump of vanity at prices that would
make a sane man shudder A safe
plan is to buy what is necessary from
home people with whom you are &C,
auainted, and let the others severely
alone.
! The Atlanta Constitution has the
following to say of the wonderful
progress being made by Mississippi;
More miles of railroad have been
/ built in Mississippi during the past
year than in any other State. The
towns and cities of that State have
shown the most remarkable increase
in population and her agricultural in
terests have prospered corresponding
lE.
Mississippi has led the other States
of the South in educational expendi
lures for many years. = Much
of this money has been invested in in
dustrial and agricultural training
through the medium of several -four
/ ishing colleges and numerous agrieHl
/ tural experimental stations These
have prepared the young men of that
commonwealth for the work of devel-
oping the wonderful latent resources
| of that section -
i
Work Of construction has begun on
an extension of the NJ & 0's branch
to Vardaman, to point ten miles
west. which will be called Calhoun
City Only a short time will be re
quired to push this extension through
when it is believed that another ex-
tension will be made and an eventual
/ junction with the Ittabena branch Of
fected These lines will open up d
fertile section Of country.
A gentleman living near McComb
City planted one-eighth acre in Eng
lish peas and realized over $50 from
that small piece Of ground Others in
the community. stimulated by his sue
cess, will plant some truck next year
The pioneers who break the ground
for improved methods and diyersifca
tion are the ones to whom the greater
credit is due.