Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-05-19

State, and from almost every super
visor's district. 1t was a body that any
city might have esteemed it an honor
to have had within its confines. They
were the people who are striving to
disseminate knowledge and prepare our
youth for the battles of life. Engaged
in great work, that while it may not
be especially remunerative in dollars and
cents, has a reward that money cannot
buy for those who are faithful to the
trust. 1t was body of intelligent men
and women that are supplying the
foundation upon which we are to build
Greater Mississippi" and eventually
come into the possession of that which
is rghtlully ours.
These annual gatherings are of ines
timabe benefit in a number of wavs.
The country school marin forgets for
the time the worry and cares that come
with her work. They meet and greet
each other upon a common footing and
establish u traterna feeling that only
personal association will bring about. Ex-
pcricnces are exchanged and suggestion
offered and discussed, thereby giving to
all result that might otherwise re-
quirc years of study and toll to bring
about. Prominent educators from other
States are invited to meet with them
and tell Of what is being done in their
commonwcalths, and the means used to
accomplish stated end. 1t is an en-
cycIopacdiN of information concerning
the public schools and the work to be
done by the teachers, opened for the
benefit of all who attend.
The example set by our worthy teach.
crs is fit for emulation by those con
ccrncd in other lines of work. Organi,
mtion is the most powerful factor in the
accomplishment of any task, aud it is
passing strange that more do not avail
themselves of the opportunity to form
associations with regular meeting times
and thereby help themselves by helping
others. The writer hopes to see all in
tcrcsts of our great State get together
in common movement for the general
good, and feels sure that in few more
years the man who does not belong to
an organization which respects his ayo-
cation, will be an exception rather than
a rule
President WaltcE Clarke of the Cot
ton Association, while in Washington at
tending a meeting of the National Con
ycntin Of the Cotton Planters and
Swmcrs, is credited with the following
straight irom-the shoulder remarks con.
ccruiug bucket shops and curb spccula-
tors in cotton:
'lh' blnc of the cotton planter, as
well "a, the spinner, is the so-callcd cot
ton broker or middle man. All over the
South there are little brokerage con
Germs which are nothing more or less
than bucket shops, and the profits they
reap are immense | firmly believe that
these middle men cost the South $780,
o)O.Oo0 a year. They cost the State of
Mississippi last year a million dollars or
more was told by leading planter,
merchant and broker of Nazoo City that
the cost of this business to that commu
nifty in the last six months alone, was
at least 100000. 1t is great wrong
TO the cotton planter and the spinner
that the price of the staple should be
fixed by the manipulation of gamblers.
The idea of a planter buying cotton
when by so doing, he is buying against
himself is ridiculous. but that is what
is done every day. In nearly every
town in the South there are what the
brokers term cotton exchanges but in
reality they are bucket shops. They
bear mo resemblance whatever to a great
cotton exchange such as is maintained
IN Memphis and Il few other Southern
cities"
The West Point Leader has recently
lsucd an excellent edition that gives
vast amount of information concerning
West Point and Clay County. Every
matter that would interest good people
seeking homes in that section has been
handled in a brief and convincing man
ner, The showing made should be a
source of qualification to the good pcd-
pie of that rich prairie section. The
benefits to accrue WILL no doubt, he cx-
cccdugly satisfactory. The prairie sec
non Of our State Is rich and hcalthlul,
and fast coming into high state of cul-
u'9tlon. The land produces splcndidly
OIL the staple crops and satisfactory re-
suits have been attained in the fruit,
trucking, hay and other crops. Within
few years it is plainly evident that
TINS part of the state will be one of the
richest and most prosperous sections IN
the whole South
l The first county from which anything
llEe a definite estimate of the increase
i III property valuations from the assess
4 nent under way is that of Perry. AS
4 SCISSOR Nlckinnon stated TO a reporter
that the assessment in that county will
approximate $l6,000,000 against $1,000
VoO at the last period. While there has
oeen healthy increase along all lines,
the greatest come from the pine land
4 holdings in the county. This land is
Oelng put in at from $50 to $50 per acre
thls year, against 81 to SIS before. SO
II begins to seem that the holders OF
our timber wealth are going to pay their
#pFoportion of the taxes necessary to
srun the State government and bring
about the development that is making
II more valuable year by year.
A Detroit newspaper recently offered
cash price for the best short essay
ION why | am Proud of Mississippi" 1t
was won by Master Ed Alexander of
Marsholl County. The next two prizes
HalSo went to Percy Laws and Manilue
#ilall of the same county. This goes to
snow that Marshall County has a num-
zper OF boys who are proud of Mississippi |
aGd are not backward in putting it in
#UlacK and white. 1t is gratifying to
Know that the young people of the State
~ enough interested to enter contest |
wnere the many things to be proud OF
~ to be enumerated.
n a recent report from the U. 5. De-
0rtment of Agriculture on ginseng
rowing will not stimulate this indus
~ IN many sections of the country. In
ormatlon is given that those in States
'aere the herb does not grow wild had
gVter let it alone This would not APP |
~ " to Mississippi, however, ginseng be-
y native growth in large portion
the State. There is money in it for
ae man who knows how 10 get it out
w mas the capital TO carry the crop
maturity, something like eight or ten
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