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■■MHUWg Agriculture in The Schools. Valdosta Times. The announcement is made that the elementary principles of agri culture are to be taught in some of the schools of Lowndes next year. This is one of the most ad vanced steps that has been taken in the system of education in the state, and Lowndes county is to be congratulated. The matter of giving more attention to farming in the schools of the state, and es pecially the rural Schools, appeal ed with a good deal of force to the Times a number of years ago and has frequently bean discussed in these columns., We have never been able to un derstand why children should be taught everything except the one thing that concerned them mo3t. They have been taught Latin and Greek, reading, ’riting and ’rith- metie, fitting them for careers in almost every Calling or profession except that of tilling the soil, Our educational system has really invited the children of the rural communities to turn their backs upon the farms and hunt voca tions in the crowded cities by ig noring the needs of the farm and giving attention only to business or professional lives. We believe that when agricul tural training becomes a part of our educational system —when the calling of the farmer is digni fied with other callings and pro fessions—there will be a revival of our agricultural policy that will increase the prosperity of the state and add new charms to life in the rural communities. When we consider what the farmers have done through their own efforts, with no help from the education al institutions of the state,we can only imagine the mighty things that maw be accomplished when every boy on the farms is taught from early childhood the elemen tary principles of the calling which he is to follow through life. The agricultural interests of Georgia are overwhelmingly pre dominant and the state must give more attention to agricultural training and encouragement. The work may be slow at first, but the influence which it will have upon the future will be written in a splendid story of agricultural progress and development, such as no section of our country has seen before. He Didn’t Know. A lawyer tells how a small boy once got the better of him in cross-examinations. Part of the questioning and replies therefor are as follows: “Have you any occupation?” “No.” “Don’t you do no work at all?” “No.” “Just loaf around home?” “That’s about all.” ‘ 1 What does your father do?” “Nothin’ much.” “Doesn’t he do anything to support the family?” “He does odd jobs once in a while when he can get them.” “As a matter of fact, isn’t your father a pretty worthless fellow, nearly always fighting, and a loaf er?” “I don’t know, sir; you’d bet ter ask him. He’s sitting over there on the jury,” ■ \.v~ v --.r' Griggs Doing Careful And Systemat ic Work. Claud M, Bennett, who has been in Atlanta for several days, has returned to Washington, D. C says the Atlanta Constitution.Mr! Bennett is mauager of the Con gressional Information Bureau, and a paitof his duties of infinite variety is to keep tab on things political. 6 “The democratic congressional campaign committee,” said he, “is doing very careful and system atic work. Chairman Griggs is displaying great energy nnd ' Ca pacity in directing the commit tee. When he was elected with practical unanimity to this re sponsible and difficult position the only fear was that being a southerner and used to managing Georgia campaigns, he would waste unnecessary energy on his own section and would not know how to successfully handle the doubtful districts of 'the north and west. He had an established reputation as a successful cam paigner, but he was not known as a manager. “But whatever fears existed on this score were quickly dispelled. Like a veteran Judge Griggs or ganized his forces and like a born commander he put them to work. He is wasting no ammunition where the game can be saved with out it. He is not yielding to the natural temptation to show off in Georgia where his own political fortunes are. “He has shown no sectionalism in his plans or their execution. His committee is eeaching out for the scalps of Grosvenor in Ohio; Hepburn in Iowa ;Dayton in West Virginia, and other republican leaders where there is a chance to get them. They are going sys- tematicallydhto all doubtful dis tricts. They are having republi can congressmen confronted with their records worked out in incon trovertible detail. They are show ing the country just why a demo cratic congress measures better up to the country than does^a repub lican congress, “This calculating work is al ready beginning to tell, aud the odds are all in favor of democrat ic control of the next house. While no positive legislation can be secured thereby a democratic house will greatly encourage the party throughout the country and make much easier the election of a democratic president in 1904.” Oil as Fuel. State school Commissioner Gleen in his report to the state legislature, will urge that all the country schools hn centralized. He wants weak country schools merged into strong ones and one school to take the place now of three, with a better corps of teach ers and better facilities. As this would be a hardship on the chil dren to walk, public wagons call for and take the children to school every day. He says this will be a great deal better aud cheaper for the state. It is now in vogue in many northern states aud is used advantageously.—Ex. Diamonds and other precious stones to the value of $16,500,000 have been imported into the Uni ted States since January 1 last and up to August 15. This is at about the rate of $80,000,000 worth of gems for the year. If, as the republican papers allege, the prosperity has been evenly di vided, we shall expect to see our farmers and their wives sparkling in diamonds by next Christmas. —Savannah News. _ ;— The largest tree in the world is said to have recently been discov ered in Africa in the region of the Upper Nianza. Its height is said to be half again that of the tall est tree in California, and its thickness double that of the larg est giant rosewood. The partic ulars are, however, suspiciously vague. Healthy Kidneys Mean Life, you want to restore your kidneys their former healthy state, take aith’s Sure Kidney Cure. 50 cents Cater’s Drugstore. Albert Juillerat and his wife,of New York, are seeking a divorce because he is seven inches shorter than she is, and when they walk out together their neighbors call after them “there go the long and short of it.” As. if realizing that this makes the husband the chief sufferer and wishing to strengthen her own claim to freedom, mad- ame further complains that mon- siur is “addicted to religion and drink.” Or so says the New York Sun, the proud boasts of which paper is that when you see it in Sun it’s so.—Ex. A Boy’s Wild Ride For Lite. Macon. Telegraph. In the midst oT the extensive and prolonged strike of the coal miners, and in view of the high prices of coal this winter, an arti cle contributed to the London Fi nancial News by Mr. 0. M. Hays, general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway, is of deep inter est. He discussed the Texas oil fields and the application of oil to traction purposes .1 Mr. Hays related that the Southern Pacific made considera ble progresz in the utilization of oil as fuel, having equipped in the neighborhood of 150 locomotives with the oil burners. Four bar rels ol oil are considered the equivalent of a ton of c.oal for steam-producing purposes. Goal costs the Southern Pacific about $6 per ton in California, and about $2 in Texas, and Mr. Hays made contracts for oil on the ba sis of 20 cents per barrel, so one may easily estimate the economies to be obtained by the substitu tion of oil for coal in locomotive service. The principal expense in connection therewith is the build ing of tanks for storage purposes. These were constructed at fuel station points, with a capacity of some 40,000 barrels. The appliance for burning oil can be placed on an engine at a total^ost of not exceeding $100 per engine. Mr. Hays remarks that perhaps the Grand Trunk is too remote from the oil fields of Texas to make practicable the substitution of petroleum for coal, although if Ontario oil fields were ever to reach a development of any magnitude it might well do so. The Grand Trunk buys its coal at the Detroit river for from $1.50 to $2 per ton, and the freight charges on Texas oil, add ed to the cost of the oil itself, would exceed present ■ cost for coal. There are some disadvantages in the use of oil in the effect of the extreme variations of temper ature on fire-box and boiler,which adds to the expense of their main tenance, but this is not of suffi cient importance to offset the ad vantage in the use of oil in places where the cost of fuel has reached any material figure. Results such as those indicated in the foregoing, coupled with the recent experiment conducted by the naval arm. of the United States government, are of espe cial significance in qhis period of high-priced coal. ■ ■■ — - SIGNIFIES THE BEST. is the best product of a New Roller Process Mill. It is made of the best wheat, for in dividual customers of the mill and for the trade. Ask your merchant for JERSEY CREAM FLOUR. or bring your wheat to With family around expecting him to die, and a son riding for life, 18 miles, to get Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, W. H. Brown, of Leesville, Ind., endured death’s agonies from asthma, but this wonderful medicine gave instant relief and soon cured him. He writes: “I now sleep soundly every night.” Like marvelons cures of Consumption, Pneumouia, Bron chitis, Coughs, Colds and Grip j, r|iIs matchless meirt for all Throat and Lung troubles. Guar anteed bottles 50c and $1.00.Trjal bottles free at Holtzclaw’s drug store. “I have stood by the bedside of hundreds of dying people,” said an old physician of Topeka, ac cording to the Kansas City Jour nal, “and I have yet to see a dy ing person shed a tear. No mat ter what the grief of the bystand ers may be, the stricken person will show no signs of overpowing emotion. I have seen a circle of agonized children around a dying mother—a mother who in heatth would have been touched to the quick by signs of grief in a child yet she responded as calmly and unemotional as though she had been made of stone. There is some strange and inexplicable phychological change which ac companies the act of dissolution. It is well known to all physicians that pain disappears as the end approaches. And nature stems to have’ arranged it so that mental peace shall also atfend our last lingering moments.” A gallant judge who sits on a bench in St. Louis held the other day that a woman may kiss any man that she wants to ldss, but a. man has no such privilege. But it is a safe proposition that if a strange woman were in the act of kissing the -judge when his wife came around the corner and caught her, his ’honor would speedily experience a change ef opinion.—Savannah News. There is a point i^ear the famous Stony Cave, in the'fcatskill ‘Moun tains, where ice may be found on any day in the year, This locality is loeally known as the Notch,and is walled in on all sides by steep mountains, Some of which are more than 8,000 feet high. Sound Kidneys—Perfect Health. The use of Smith’s Sure Kidney Cure will produce both. Try a bottle aup be convinced. 50 cents at Cater’s Drugstore. rEdCOTTSEIR’S ZNZXXjL. A. J. HpUSER, Pnor’it., EVA, GA. ^Vegetable Prepared! ••Tor As similating llpjBar..u ^dia ling llje Stomachs anil Bowels of Promotes Digestion,Cheerful ness and Rest.Contains neither Opium.Morphine nor Mineral. Hot Mar. cc tic. Mciiv ofOMtirSAMELPITCnER Seed' sltx.Scniut * 1'nthttU* Suits - stnmSivrl * lit CiiriMtiakAitia * HBnpStHd- Cfmfod .Wmw UirttrywH. ftaivn Aperfecl Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature oP H7.7 HEW ‘YORK. Sq.v ,A : i U.’-i if o' i'», I lv ■*>.; V> 1(1- ‘ j5 ftm s - c i jnj's. EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. ' For Infants and Children The Kind You Have THS OE.NTAUB COMPANY. NEW VOHK CITY. Weber, Brown, Russell and Thornhill Wagons cheaper than you ever bought them, before, to make room and re duce storage and insurance.' J. W. SHINHOLSER MACON, GA! special, piano sale AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES Have on hand the finest stock of new Pianos ever brought to this morket, such celebrated makes as Stein way, Weber, Sohmer & Co., Kranich & Rach, Ivers & Pond, Crown and others that we will sell for the next ten days ot greatly reduced prices to make room. Call or write at once and poenro one of these bargains. Pianos and Organs sold on ea yUerms. mm F. A. GUT TEN BERGER & CO* 152 Second St., Macon, GU. Mm