Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-06-03
"The homegrown. hand.spanked

THE homegrown hand-spanked. |
bare.footed, hard-fisted country boy"
remarks an exchange, makes bet |
ter fight in the battles Of life than the |
pampered, high-collared, creasedtrou' |
sered youth of our cities, whose |
clothes have always been brushed /
with whisk broom instead of shin
gle. Let the town boy out of job I
try II year on the farm. Flowing /
behind a mule will take the kinks out |
of his throat and the weakness out OF |
his lungs, and will give him an appe- !
tite. an honest living and sight Of |
heaven.
I'VE cant help loving the natural /
boy; one.galused and barefooted. |
wading the creek with a hat half |
brimless and patches on his pants. |
His eyes are always clear and they |
look straight to the front. The boy /
who enjoys these high privileges has |
no conception of how blest he is above /
his brother in town; but he will know
II some day when his maturer years |
will find their happiest reflection in /
these DAYS. that shed a glow out of |
the morning for all the after time. /
The city boy has no storehouse to 4
draw upon. and in that he is to be |
commserated."
A. NJ Gaillard of near Ripley recent
ly produced samples of wool u inches |
long, which was cut from sheep raised 1
in the hills around his home lie |
sheared "a pounds from this partic-
ular sheep and there were others that |
came close TO this mark. 1t Is an |
undenied fact that the raising OF sheep |
would be an especially profitable |
business If the miserable hound and |
cur dogs that inlest almost every
neighborhood could he gotten rid OF.
While it would require considerable |
courage on the part of the legislature
to do so, a law should be passed tax
ing dogs, so that the larger portion OF |
them could be gotten rid of. Sheep |
raising should be a largely increased |
business during the next few years.
Six hundred dollars was paid straw
berry pickers at Water Valley Satur-
day, May 49, One lady made $3.50 in
seven hours, and Others nearly SO
much. The small fruit business is
worth something to more than those =,
who raise il. IL must he gathered,
boxed and shipped furnishing employ
ment for n large number OF persons.
Raise more fruit and vegetables.
Lumberton is happy over the ilnd- /
ing of pure artesian water at depth |
of $50 feet II will prove great
blessing to the citizens of that pro-
gressive community and greatly help |
tho work Of building a city which Is
being pushed with much energy
Lumberton is growing fast and is en-
titled to all of the good things tbat
are going. May success continue to
crown the efforts of its good people.
A friend from Swan Lake calls the
attention Of the writer TO the fact that
Hannibal Bly,, Mississippi bred
horse. recently won a race at that
sristocratic track in New York, Bel
mont Park. Hannibal BLY, is a pro
duct of the Bungalow Farm, near Gulf
port, on the G., 4 S. |. railroad. TINS
is an unusually well equipped farm
for raising all kinds of blooded stock
and is profitable investment to the
owner. who lives in New Orleans.
While there are few farms In the !
State that make a specially Of b,ood- |
ed stock, there are entirely too Few,
and this is a branch that bids fair |
tn receive more attention in the fu-
ture,
Yazoo City has purchased street ma
chine and several hundred tons OF
gravel and will make an attempt to
have good streets in future, There is
no investment quite so good as money |
spent on streets and roads. Money |
could not possibly be spent in a bet |
ter cause.
The Mississippi Poultry and Pet |
Stock Association Will hold its regular
annual meeting at Aberdeen from the
26th to 30th of December, so as not
to conflict with dates for other meet |
ings of similar nature. This asso-
citation has become very strong and
a great deal of interest is being taken
by people from all over the State. as
well as other States A good work |
is being accomplished by giving a
stimulus to the poultry business, even
II the promoters do not reap hand |
some dividends,
West Pascagoula is doing great |
deal Of work in the way of furnishing |
creosoted piling for the Panama ca
nal Another large contract was SO
cured few days since, TIC canal will |
be worth millions of dollars to Missis-
sipp and Mississippans. The con.
tracts being let at present are only |
preliminary to what will come later,
Newton is strictly in the trucking |
business at present, the first ship
ments being made by the league |
formed last fall and winter, The crop |
is said to be good, and it is to be
hoped that the first effort made by |
that enterprising community will |
prove successful.
The Kinds County Gazette, Just |
finishing its sixty-first year Of useful |
ness, celebrated the occasion by get |
ting out splendid sixteen page edi- |
ton The Gazette is one of the old |
est IL not the Oldest paper in the
State, but is still as sprightly and |
youthful as any of them
The progressive citizens Of Wesson |
are presenting petitions TO the city |
council asking for the erection of
building suitable for the use of mu-
nicipal officers and other local organ
izations Wesson is partakng of the |
prevalent prosperity and such build !
ing is badly needed.
Parties who have been successful |
in raising crops, stock or in other |
ways, are especially urged TO send the |
writer a statement for publication. By |
this means this department can be |
made of great benefit to the whole |
people of the State. The experience !
of one man ia worth the theories of a !
dozen. Tell what was accomplished |
and how 1t was done. Make it as
brief as possible SO as not to lose the |
forco of the article 1t is to be hoped |
that quite a large number will take |
advantage of this invitation and add |
their mite to the movement for a
"Greater Mississippi"