Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-02

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South Mississippi needs thousands of
farmers to buy small tracts Of cut
over pine lands and cultivate them
properly. More than million peo-
pie could find sustenance in that sec
ton alone from horticultural pursuits.
The land Is especially adapted to the
business and with a small amount of
care and judicious handling produces
the finest crops in great abundance.
Instead of allowing the land to wash
into gulleys and get beyond repara-
tion, good people should be induced
to come there and make their homes.
Good white families can be easily
found who would be delighted with
the opportunity if they had accurate
and defnate information as to what
the country offered. A proposition
to furnish such information through
a department to be created by the
legislature is pending. What its fate
win be is hard to determine at this
time. The progressive citizens are
asking for it, but there is an element
in the legislative bodies that opposes
the measure. Let us hope that they
are in a hopeless minority.
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The Importance of patronizing home
industries and home institutions is
being brought to front more forci-
bly, than ever. One exchange has this
to say: "Patronizing home industries
is spending money with people who
are busy developing your own town.
Isn't it better for you to spend your
money with people who are engaged
in building up your town in which
You have a vital interest, than those
who are working for town in which
You have no vital interest?0 The
question asked is easily answered. Of
course you should patronize those
who are building up the section in
wh.ca on have the most interest.
Another says: Patronize home indus
tries. 1t means larger circulation of
local money and will help you as well
as your town whose interests are your
interests" " This also is a wholesome
truth. The department stores of Chi
cago and other northern cities do not
pay taxes in Mississippi, they do not
help 10 care for the unfortunate deaf,
dumb, blind, insane and orphans. They
do not respond to the calls for charity.
A dollar spent with them is gone for
ever So spend your money with home
people and share in the benefits that
follow.
Capitalists of Magnolia have a plan
on foot to establish large plant for
the manufacture Of ice and the caring
of products in cold storage. There is
need for cold storage plants in Miss
issippi, there being too few of them.
At present our products are shipped
away and stored awaiting favorable
market, while the matter should be at
tended to right here. 1t is time that
we quit paying tribute to our enter
prising neighbors of other states and
began to take care of ourselves. Too
long have we depended upon other
people to do for us what we should
have been doing for ourselves, and of
course allowing them to reap the pro-
fits therefrom. The opportune NOM
ent has arrived and the proper thing
to do is to take hold and become in
dependent. Get share Of the profits
from our boundless resources if not
all. We have the money and brains
to handle our own business proftably
A Boston firm offered a prize of
$3.50 for the best definition of what
constitutes success, and the following
from the pen of A. j. Stanley, Lin
coin, Neb., won the prize:
''FIe has achieved success who has
lived well, laughed often and loved
much; who has gained the respect of
intelligent men and the love of little
children; who has filed his niche and
accomplished his task; who has left
the world better than he found it,
whether by an improved poppy, a per-
feet poem or a rescued soul; who has
never lacked appreciation of the
earth s beauty or failed to express it !;
who has always looked for the best in
others and given the best he had;
whose life was an inspiration; whose
memory benediction. "
Northern capitalists will locate an
immense brick factory at Greenwood,
buying out a local concern and in
stalling entirely new and modern ma
chinery. The growth of Greenwood
calls for increased facilities for the
manufacture of building material and
is concern will no doubt meet with
e greatest measure of success.
When it is considered that less than
40 per cent Of the land in Mississippi
is bringing arevenue to its owner, can
there be any wonder that there is diff
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