The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-12


only thrce-fourths Of our Rankin county
is under the operation of the stock law
Rankin county is infested with the tick
as much so as any other part Of the state.
Now, we would ask, why not have efforts
made to induce the remaining fourth to
bring itself within the pale of the same
lawl Rankin cannot obtain help from
the United States government, nor from
the state, to wipe out the tick cffectually
as some other counties have done, and
others are now undertaking to do, unless
the entire country has the stock law in
operation all over its territory. Are there
any progressive citizens living in the fourth
part to agitate the matter among their
neighbors? To succeed in accomplishing
anything sentiment in favor of the good
work must be engendered. Those good
people can be persuaded that the work
of Kidding their section of the trouble
some tick is commendable and profitable
is money in the pockets of those who have
cattle and who deal in them. There is
no individual expense about this eradi-
cation business. The United States, the
state of Mississippi, and the counties fur
nish the men TO do the work, and the
money to pay them for it. So, men, you
can't object on account of expense to your
individual self beyond having to pasture
or fence in your cattle. People who have
been fencing their stock heretofore, will
tell you they like it. You are not COM
PEELED to fence in your crops, which takes
more timber and carries more expense
than to fence good stock worth having.
We lave received a very interesting
communication from Judge Norrell, who
is at present attending as a lay. dele
gate, the general conference of the Meth
cdist church, at Ashville, the Land of
the sky" North Carolina This letter
will be interesting reading to his friends
here, SO we turn it over to our Brandon
News man and ask him to give it place.
1t is, as follows:
Ashville, N. c., May s, 1870
R. A. Whitfield, Esq,
Florence, Miss.
Dear Sir.
From ''the land of the sky" | write
this letter which must be short for several
reasons, the chief of which is lack of
time Monday morning last found me
leaving Jackson at o'clock for Ashville,
N. c., called here by the above title
''land of the sky" Truly it is a lovely
country; and if l had not seen SO much
mountain scenery of our country l might
rave over it also; but the wonderful and
awe-inspiring scenes Of the mighty over
towering mountains of the great west has
to a certain extent blunted the spirit of
wild enthusiasm one naturally would
have upon first impressions And yet,
the picturesqueness of the mountains and
streams and green valleys of this "land
of the sky" is something away from which
you cannot wholly withdraw your fasci-
mated sense of beauty without a feeling
that you have lost something. Every day
since | have been here, / have, with raw
ishing eyes, looked far away over the
mountains, now becoming green with veg
citation, where peak after peak are piled
upor each other, End wondered why our
people 60 over the wild and billowy sea
to far away Rome, perched upon her
"Seven hills" to find beauty; or to France
for sunny skies, or to Switzerland for
beautiful mountain scenery and the won
derful effects Of nature, when everywhere
and on all sides and at every point OF
the compass dame, nature has lavished
her wonderful beauties at our feet.
From Jackson we pass rapidly over the
usual country scene to Birmingham with
its great coal fields and mines, on to
Chattanooga at the foot of the wonderful
Lockout Mountain, and change cars for
Ashyille at $40 in the evening, and
reached Ashville at $50 the next morning
r. he 4
its tortuous' way along the beautiful
French Bread and Swananoa rivers.
These rivers, with their purling and
ripping surfaces yet lack the dash and
roar of the Yellowstone, or the mighty
sweep eff the wild Snake as it passes to
the west and into the great Columbia
rver and into the Pacific ocean. And yet
these streams are really beautiful as we'll
as the mountains through which they pass.
God has certainly laid his beautifying
hand upon this part Of the old north state,
as if He was preparing, her for some
particular great work. And so he was.
1t is said that case of the white plague
has never found lodging place here,
but all along the peariy streams factory
after factory rear their busy heads. Sta
IlStICS SNOW thar North ana oOutn 1arT0Il-
Eta spin more than half the cotton man
by the southern states, and that
North Carolina manufactures 60 per cent
Ut that moiety..
This mountain resort, with only about
1900 population, l undertake to say, can
show more and better paved streets than
any ether town of its size in America,
and its water is soft and pure. | went
with a party of six out to Biltmore today,
that magnificent estate and castle of one
of the Vanderbiluts, containing only about
forty thousand acres, while 90 miles
farther away he owns a park of one hun
dred thousand acres filled with wild ami
mails of many kinds.
The Biltmore place has miles and miles
of beautiful lroads with streams and
bridges and clover fields and hay barns
and immense fishing pools ard dairies
and more than hundred of the finest
Jersey milch cows in the country. | saw
the cows being MIXED and one of them
gave ~ gallons of milk aday.
AT his dairv tcday about forty of us