Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-09-30
FROM
MR.. HADD0N

| receive The Beacon. usually,
about once a month and / always
feel as if had had letter from
dear friend. like to read it through
ads. and everything and then for
long time think about the people
am glad I've known in Noxubee.
There are good people wherever one
goes, lovely peiple who keep opoto-
mism, confidence in others ard kind
illness Of heart thriving and develop
ing in others about them. NoXubee
has so many people Ike this. 1t is
a great old country. The people are
splendid but not as cooperative as
they should be to push right to the
front of the eighty counties Of her
State, Every man. woman, boy and
strength together to develope it to
too rear home. | want to tell you
it's highest POSSIBILITIES, I've never
seen a county with such great in
herent possibilities. such wonderful
pdtentialities--bdt this is talking
the house. want to tell you some
stories about this part of Brazil.
September is almbst here. the
month Of hazy skies days without
winds. leaves yellbw and scared
pastures and fields dry and brown.
Here it precedes spring and there
winter but the spme in bith zones.
Soon the rains begin here and then
the beautiful season Of the year be-
gins.
| can't resist making this a letter
to the -year-old children-not
children any more though but they
will become so again for the few
minutes it takes to read this. / hate
to realize that they are men and wo-
men today. Not because it makes
me feel old. but because there are
no others in the world just like they
were. So, if some older folks find
this too frivolous ! shall not take Of
tense is you 90 back to your book on
why Babylonia disentrgrated, or to
some wise Treatise on how to do
something without doing
Did you ever see monkey-pot? /
Well, | never did urtil | came to
Brazil and | suppose you will not see 1
one unless You come here and go out I
into real forest some morning early |
and then you will hear revolver
like poppings high up in TIE trees.
The SapueiA-at4ee ie more than Iaes-
feet high large anl straight of body 4
and with very small top. 1t bears
nuts about the size of a small foot
ball and these are filled with small
nuts about the size of a walnut.
When these small inner nuts are
ripe capsule like stopper pops out
from the bottom of the large nuts
and the small ones fall out. When
this part pops out with a loud re-
port the monkeys for a half mile or
more hurry to the tree and gather
up the fallen nuts Now, Only one
in many visitors to Brazil have the
pleasure of finding these nuts in the
forests. | am the only American of
The many | know who has gone out
FOR one and gotten it. The CONNER
,ial nut Of Brazil, called "butter nuts"
Para nuts" and by some "Nigger
.oes" are borne in large nuts like
.hese.
Did you ever hear a bell-bird
Really they should be called anvil
birds. They sing early in the morn
!, nc ,tyba,, -o,,rJg o,.,.r, O., fo,. apI
when all birds ard some people are
happy If you were to hear one out
n the forest and had never heen told
about them you would say at once it
vas some one striking an anvil with
an iron hammer and letting it bound
and rebound until it stops. 1t is a
thrilling loveable sound when heard
n the depths Of a dense dew-wet
Forest ! always stop and sit until
he happy mimic black smith flies
away. | always wait to hear him in
another tree perhaps a mile away.
Do you love. really love trees. and
lines and the smell Of the earth mold
lnder the leaves You needn't reply
% that for if you don't you are ro
blood relation to John Muir, John
Burroughs, Thompson Seton and
we'll, why 90 on-there are no people
ike that.
You know women and some girls
Used to wear aigrets in thier hats.
can't just can't understand that fe-
minnie desire to wear bird feathess.
suppose tho if other men would be-
rim decorating their hats with feath-
RS and plumes | also would go shop
ling for such hat about the sec ,
md day What ] want to tell you {
5 that during May and June | made
visit to the north of the state. As
We Went down the beautiful San !
francisco river by steamer thous- /,
rds. ten of thousands of the snow J
,hite herons would always be visible !
ar down the stream ahead of us.
Zach bird has about $1,50 worth of
igrets a year-that is the price
aid in that section. A pound of the
est ones sell there for about $3.50. ;
'hese people are so stupid. The
est market the world had for aig- :
cts was the U. S, A., but when the
.acev act was made law prohibit
ne the entrance of aigrets into the
ountry this country did not have
he common sense to pass an act
the killing of these her
rs. If these birds were taken alive.
he feathers plucked and the birds
the agrets could still be
old in the u, s, A. II