The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-04

TO send your children to school and in
tend to keep them in the field when old
enough to do regular work, then it fol-
lows that you should have as good
schools and as long terms as possible
during this time. Let us illustrate: IF
child can go to school for five years
before his services are required on the
farm, he will get only twenty months
schooling in terms Of four months a
year, while he would get forty months
schooling with an eight month term. He
would not only get dougle the months
Of school without losing him from the
farm, but he would get better school
ing each month as one month OF long
term is much better than one month OF
short term. Then again, longer SER
vice each year but would procure a
better teacher.
Agricultural people should, more
than any other people, have a long
school term. If they educate their
children it must be when they are
young and during this time when they
are not Of material service on the
farm they should have just as much
and just as good a school as possible.
If the children Of Mississippi could
have the advantage of good schools for
full terms only for the three that they
are too young for regular farm work
they could get the foundations of a
good education, they could be pointed
to higher service to the State and to
| God.
The school is the states greatest in
stitution set aside and devoted to the
grand work of training her children,
and it matters not how superior their
natural endowments may be, the char
acter Of training which they receive
cannot be any better than are the
schools. It is in the common schools
that the basis Of this work must be
done, for the great number Of children
it cannot be done elsewhere. 1t is in
the plain school Of the people that a
child is revealed to himself and is
made conscious Of the power with
which God has endowed him; it is
there that he will learn the lesson of
human responsibility, and the obliga-
ton resting on him to use his powers
intelligently for his own good, for the
good society, and for the honor of
God For this reason the common
school is the richest jewel that glitters
in the diadem of a nations glory.
i Parents, let us consider the precious
children that God has loaned to us as
our talents, and when he comes again,
let us, not like the slothful servant Of
old, bring them to Him undeveloped,
but give them back to him all their
powers for good infinitely multiplied.
Some newspaper in the state has Of
fered as motto for the Cotton Plant
ers Association the saying Of Col. j.
Slack, 'lengthen your corn rows and
shorten the store account" This is q
very good motto and one that has been
adopted in part by large majority
of the farmers Of the state. There has
been shortening Of store accounts for
some time and the credit business has
been reduced to a minimum With the
adoption Of the first part, which is
now being put in force, better times
than ever are ahead for the good peo-
pie Of Mississippi. The prosperous
years just past are likely to be repeat
ed with a greater degree of prosperity.
Indianola is another town that he
achieved wonders during the past year
in rebuilding after series of destruc-
tive fires. After each confagaration
and the attendant large loss Of prop
erty the people nave begun rebuilding
before the ruins had ceased to smoke
and the prediction is, that in a short
time Indianola will be larger and much
better than ever before. Blessings fire.
quently come in disguise, and more es-
pecially when backed up by live and
progressive citizenship.
Captain Jones of the Gulf and Ship
Island road strenuously denies the
connection with the lumber syndicate
attributed to him by the newspapers.
He asserts that he nor his road has
any connection whatever with the
Goodyear syndicate or any other syn
dicate which may be attempting to
control the lumber output Of Missis-
sippi. The manner in which Capt.
Jones handles the subject carries con-
viction that he is in earnest about what
he-says. It should be source Of graf
ification to the friends Of Capt. Jones,
and they are legion, to know that he
is In no way connected with tho
scheme that is being put in operation.
Nothing would more seriously cripple
j the timber and lumber business Of the
state more than the successful termi-