Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-10-23

ed to settle it withlfarmers under whose tIlage was
paved the way for the choicest blessings Of ciyili.
zation.
With prophetic vision, these enterprising COM
panies peered into the future and seeing it's pro-
mise, lent their energies to the work of peopling
the land with men and women Of intelligence, res
~olution, courage, fortitude.
The success of their efforts and skill was phe-
nomenal and resulted in giving to the new settle
ments a race of hardy pioneers who loved liberty;
spurned unwhOlesome restraint; shirked no duty;
Stunned no lator; shrank from no danger; and
under whose touch the desert, awakened from the
solitude and sleep of ages. was occasioned to re-
ioice at the song of the p%Ioughman and to bourgeon
and blossom as the rose.
Its surface was dotted with settlers homes and
carpeted with green fields, through which, here
and there, streams of living water were persuaded
to flow.
army. they protected the country from the savage
drove him off, or subdued him and taught him
the art of a saner pursuit than going on the war
path.
The story of how they wrought and with what
success, reads like a chapter from the Arabian
Nights.
Remote places where the unbridled mustang
and the feet-footed, timid deer grazed in undis-
turbed security were in an incredibly short time
brought under cultivation and made to gladden. the
earth by generous harvests of golden grain.
Tho ro1>oI Jocork +hau c1otho1 with tho 1;fo
and color and beauty of cultivated crops and quick
ly caused it to sing for joy. like unto Deborah at
the close of Sisera's unhallowed career.
AS civilization advanced under the ~ceaseless
and ever swelling stream of emigration from the
East and the unparalleled up-building of the reg
ion, made possible through the solution of the trans
o~ortation problem and encouragement and mater
ial aid, by the railroads, the wild horse and the
buffalo rapidly disappeared.
The change was a mighty metamorphosis for
The better; for their places were occupied by de-
,cendants of the real kings of the equine and bovine
sngdoms: the Kentucky thoroughbred, the Short
,orn, the Hereford, the Polled- Angus, the Devon,
and the meek-eyed Jersey whence come the queens
If the dairy.
Nor is that all or even the best half to be told
If the magnificent and yet unitarian, TRANSITIONAL
lion to which the twentieth century is indebted to
he disposition and aptitude, the business courage
and enterprise; the thorough organization and eff
Hciency of railroads and their managers in the de-
velopment Of the regions they serve; for where.
before their advent, the wolf howled mourDfully
or gathered in packs to hunt the quarry, where
he coyote crouched to spring upon the unsuspect-
ing jack-rabbit or sneakingly stole away from more
resisting game; where the prairie dog had his vii
lage and in "happy-family" -contentment shared
his underground home with the owl and the dead
ly rattlesnake; where the Red Man, in whose veins
flowed the barbarian blood of unnumbered centur-
les, scalped the "pale-face," burned the humble
cabin and massacred the wife and children of his
victim, or. worse still, bound them with thongs and
led them captives to a fate more horril lie than
death at the stake, now stand %populous cities teem-
ing with life and industry, and glorious in their
architecture; in their widening limits and ever in
creasing spires; in temples to justice; in buildings
where buyers and sellers meets; in merchant
princes palaces; in palatial homes with modern
appointments, affording comforts, conveniences
and ~luxuries undreamed of by Solomon when, at
the heighth of his riches and fame, he entertained
Sheba's sumptuous queen whose heart swelled
with appreciation at the sight of the glories she
had seen and of the fame of which she I'D heard
!, And yet, in her amazement, she declared:
: Behold, the half was not told to me-"
q. Ito be Continued.)
y THE BLUES AND MOBOCRACY.