The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-05-10

1t would seem from recent pres:
reports that the old problem of trus
control Of everything now threatened
the cotton farms as we'll as the pro
| duct itself. English capitalists and
cotton spinners are reported to have
| bought thousands upon thousands ol
acres Of land in the south for the pur-
pose of raising cotton for their mills
The recent visit of representatives
of the English Cotton Spinners' AS
sociation to this section is said to
have been or the purpose of looking
the territory over and arranging to
acquire large bodies of land for the
production of cotton. While this may
not have been altogether true, it will
likely be a condition to. meet in the
near future. The Cotton Associa lion
IS looking after the interest of the
producer so well that the spinners will
make an effort to stil get the raw cot
ton at their own prices. They hope
to force the Southern cotton planter
to raise cheap cotton to keep their
mills running as in the past. Let us
hope that such a condition of affairs
will never again prevail down here.
An exchange truthfully says con-
cerning the raising Of sheep in Mis-
sissippi: "The sheep industry in
Mississippi is one that seems neglected
and yet it is 6ne of the best paying
investments. No farm or plantation,
especially in hill country, is com
plete without from twenty to thirty
or fifty head of sheep. They eat weeds
in the pasture that other stock refuse /;
corn and cotton stalks and weedy
hay they relish. They are the only
kind of live stock that will pay for
their feed and care and have the orig
inal flock clear in one year. Many
western farmers have been handling
sheep for the past five years and come
out ahead each year on their invest
ment. Statistics show, however, that
Mississippi raises more dogs than it
does Sheep
What Is said concerning the produc-
tion of dogs is evidently too true, but
that the sheep crop is increasing and
the dog crop decreasing is evident to
close observer The sheep industry
is gaining daily and the success of
those who have engaged in it will en-
courage others to do likewise. Raise
more sheep and weed OUT the dogs.
Speak well of the community in
which you live or hunt one that is
more congenial. If your town or
neighborhood is not what it should
be you are just as much to blame as
any other man. 1t is just what the
citizens make it. One of our bright
exchanges has the following to say
along this line and there is a great
deal of gospel truth in it too:
"We still have one or two men in
this community who stand around on
the street corners and from morning
until night complain about the town.
their neighbors, their taxes and the
weather. Such men are mighty com
mon clay and it is fortunate indeed
that we have so few of them. They
are Of no use to the community, their
families or their God. They seem to
live but no one can tell how or why.
Like mosquitoes ond flies, they are not
fatal but disagreeable to have about
1t is not necessary to publish their
names for they are too well known
already"
The following true utterance is
from Georgia paper:
"Does a town need a paper or a
paper a town? The making is not
one-sided affair. Each is necessary
to the other. A good paper cannot be
published in town which does not
support it unless it can get portion
of its support from outside territory,
but any community ear count on hav
ing its editor give the best paper that
the support is affords will permit.
His pride will guarantee bhis. A good
paper is the best possible advertise
ment for town. 1t is taken for
granted that it could not be good if
the people of its town were not pgo--
gressive. Thus it comes about that a
town that literally supports its paper
in turn is pushed forward by it. "
A friend has seen fit to remark
that: "The kickers on the farm are
not so hard to get along with as those
in the towns. On the arm there is
the kicking COW and our long-eared
friend, the mule; while in town there
is the old moss back who wants all of
|sthe privileges Of municipal living
without paying for them, and block
so far as he can every municipal i'm
provement. The cow may be sold for
beef and the mule traded for a shot
gun but nothing but a funeral will
get rid of the town kicksr.n
Augusta, Ga.-Former Deputy Uni
ted States Marshal C. w. Stalnaker
was shot three times with fatal re-