The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-18

The local bar, we understand,
have agreed on D. w. Houston,
Esq.,, of Aberdeen, to sit on the
trial of those cases in which
Judge Robins will be engaged as
an attorney during the term of
our. Circuit Court which convenes
next week. Mr.. Houston has
recently occupied a seat on the
supreme bench during the alb
sence of Chief Justice Whitfield,
where he made a most enviable
record. Mr.. Houston is a Mis-
sissippian to the core and loyal in
every respect to her best inter-
ests. In a recent speech at the
A. & M. College he attracted the
widest attention and received
many expressions of apprecia-
ton both at home and abroad.
The Tines Democrat of New Or
leans in referring to his address
said:
"A few years ago the Univer-
sity of Mississippi was celebrat-
ing the semi-centennial Of its
Foundation. Now it is the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College
at Starkville that has just finish
ed celebrating it's quarter-cen-
tennial. The occasion was nat
urally one of great interest not
only to the alumni but othe peo-
pie of the state. And it was rem
dered all the more interesting by
reason of the able speech deliv-
cred by Hon. D. w. Houston of
the Aberdeen bar, as representa-
live of the alumni of the institu-
ton.
Making due allowance for the
Yartiality of a man for his al ma
mater, his references to the his
tory of the College certainly show
t has been doing a great work in
Mississippi. The agricultural
department is gradually familiar
izing the farmers with the prin-
:iples of scientific agriculture, by
means not only of the young men
rained there who go back to in
8truct their fathers, but also of
the system of county Institutes,
whereby members of the faculty
come in direct contact with till
ers of the soil. Then there is the
textile school, the latest import
ant addition, that promises to
train native Mississippia,-s to
take charge of the cotton manu-
facturers that must eventually
make that and other Southern
states doubly prosperous. All
the other departments are also
bringing forth gratifying fruits
Il return for the fostering care
the state has bestowed on the
institution. Surely at the end
Of the twenty-fifth year of its
existence, those who are in
charge can look back over the
long record and say, without fiat
terry of those who have gone be-
fore, or undue estimate of their
own achievement, that the work
aas been we'll done.
MI. Houston's address, how
ever, took a somewhat broader
ange than the mere history and
.uture of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College, he dwelt
With patriotic fondness on the
part Mississippi has already
| played in the affairs of the Union
and the part he hoped she still
might play. Mississippians were
the first to free married women
from the common law. The first,
ov abolishing imprisonment for
iebt, to strike the shackles from
unfortunate debtors that have
zen riveted upon them by cruel
md inhuman creditors. The first
% shake off the detestable and
lastardly carpet-bag rule. The
irst to establish a separate
school for the higher education
f the sex. The first, BY the
Constitution Of 1890, to go far IN
she settling Of the great, over
,hadow;ng question Of the centu-
,.ies Il the.Suuth." from this
Sc turned to the great ISSUES that
confront the people Of the Re-