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FOR THE LITTLE ONES. How Lazy Schoolboys Are Punished In Tibet. The queerest punishment for poor scholars is found in Tibet. A priest dressed in the most gorgeous robes of yellow silk, with his miter on bis head, will hear two boys recite. He questions them gravely. One recites pretty well. The other one has been lazy and not studied enough. Woe unto him! The master makes him get upon his hands and knees, a cloth is thrown on his back—he is now supposed to be a horse. The good boy gets upon his back. The horse is spurred and kicked and cuffed and galloped around the room until he is driven back to the teacher. The good boy then dis mounts and the questions begin anew. These little folks in Tibet have the queerest sort of manners as well as punishments. When one meets another, instead of greeting him with some words equivalent to our “good morning/’ the Tibetan young ster runs out his tongue in a fash ion which we would consider very rude. If he wishes to be overpolite he will uncover his head and scratch his right ear at the same instant. Simple Napkin Ring. A very pretty and useful article can be made from a branch of a tree. Take a branch from any kind of a tree and cut a piece off about two and one-half inches in diameter and the same in length. Through the center of this bore a hole nearly two inches in diameter all the way through the wood. Then smooth inside with penknife. The bark may be left on or taken off, just as you please. Then your ring is complete. Os course some may be finished very prettily by scraping off a little of the bark and painting flowers or other subjects on the wood. Good wood for making the napkin ring is dogwood. The Match Game. This is one of those comfortable games which are bound to win—“if you know the trick”—and the whole trick is that you must play first. There are two players. Twenty matches are set down. The game is for each in turn to take one, two or three matches, and the winner is he who leaves exactly one match for his opponent to take. This is the way to do it: Play first and leave your opponent seven teen matches. Next time leave him thirteen, then nine, then five. Whether he now takes one, two or three, you are able to leave him one and so win. Riddles. Little thing, little thing, smaller than a mouse, has more windows than a king’s house. A thimble. There was a man who rode through this town, Lord Briton was his name. His bridle and saddle was gilt with gold; three times in the riddle I told you his name. Was is his name. If the last six letters of the alpha bet went out for a walk when would they go ? After T. Little Miss Nancy with a red nose, the longer she lives the shorter she grows. A candle. Hidden Fish. Where is the paper Charley sent you? You had best urge only one troop to attack. The boys had a glorious time at the rink. We parted on the car platform. Here is the whip I kept while driv ing. Answers: Perch, Sturgeon, shad, carp, pike. Try to find them. One in each line. Bedtime. Mother says the baby birdies In their nests are sleepin’ sound. No good little boy or girlies Wide awake can now be found. cl A AI s. In my little “comfy” nightie, With my curls all tied up tight And my bedroom candle lighted, I have come to say “Good night.” —New York Tribune. A Curious Word. What word is it that contains five letters, yet by taking away two let ters you leave but one ? Answer.—Alone. To Divide School Fund. That was the Keynote of an Able Speech by Dr. Mark Johnston. Hon. Mark Johnston of Baldwin county, candidate for State School Com missioner, was in the city Saturday, election day, and addressed a good au dience in the court house in the after noon. It was his purpose to speak from a stand on the public square and dodgers were issued to that effect, but when the time came, a woman preacher was preaching there. She preceded him and he was not disposed to disturb divine worship in order to fill his engagement but announced to a few who desired to hear him anyhow, that he w T ould talk to them at the court house, and there he spoke for something over two hours, re ceiving the closest attention. He de plored the fact that he was deprived of the use of the public square where hun dreds, who did not would have heard him. Mr. Johnston was a pupil of Alex Stephens and was present at many of the conferences held by him and Bob Toombs while the drafting of our pres ent constitution was under discussion. Toombs -was opposed to taxing the white people for the education of the negroes and attempting to train them for positions they could not fill and ren der them unfit for the labor they could do well and successfully. Stephens’ reply was- that such a prob lem should cause no worry, for he ar gued that that the whole matter would be left in the hands of the* State School Commissioner, who could be depended upon to divide the school fund in pro portion to the taxes paid in by the two races and that education might not prove baneful to the negro as a laborer and cause him to become dissatisfied with doing the things he was fitted to do. Thus the matter was left, Stephens carrying his point, but the result was not as Stephens predicted it would be, Toombs foresaw and foretold what would happen, what has happened. Johnston’s speech showed that he was thoroughly familiar with the edu cational system and situation. He has represented his county in the State Leg islature and his district in the State Senate and is an ardent supporter of the public school system. The principal feature of his speech, the one that will be of interest to every man, woman and child and cause all voters to take a lively stand at the polls, was the forceful manner in which he advocated a divis ion of the school fund between the whites and blacks in proportion to the taxes paid by these two races; that such a division was just and that neither could rightfully complain if such a di vision should be made. He said that the legislative committee on education in 1902 unanimously instructed the State School Commissioner that such a division of the school fund was consti tutional and could be effected without any special act of the legislature and asked that the commissioner put in ef fect this just division without further delay. This committee was not acting on their own knowledge alone but on the advice of able counsel as well. The State School Commissioner took no no tice of their recommendations. In fur ther support of his contention he men tioned two cases where a division of the school fund was made according to the taxes paid in by the whites and blacks— one from Augusta and the other from Eatonton. The Augusta case was car ried to the courts by one ofthe best law yers in the State, Major J. B. Cum mings. the negroes employing him to fight for them through all the courts until he won a victory for the old way of dividing the fund without regard to which race paid the greater portion of the taxes. Major Cumming made a powerful fight but lost his case in all the courts, carrying the case to the su preme court of Georgia and then the supreme court of the United States, losing it in all of them. The supreme court of the United States in a unanimous decision went so far as to say in the body of the decision it handed down to forever settle the question: “That a State has the unde niable jurisdiction over all persons and things within its territorial limits, as any foreign nation.’’ If any one wishes to read the decisions of the State and United States supreme courts they are referred to Georgia Reports 103, begin ning with page 641, or United States Supreme Court reports 175, page 528, or twentieth U. S. Supreme Court Re porter, page 197. These cases were from city schools, but the same principle in law applies to purely State schools. A prominent local lawyer was asked about this feature of his speech, and re plied promptly. “To be sure it can be divided; it’s a donation. State funds are given to the University at Athens and the Indus trial Female School at Milledgeville, but none to Brenau College or other similar educational institutions. I have not looked into the matter, it may re quire a special act. however.’’ Similar cases, argued Mr. Johnston, had been carried to the U. S. Supreme Court from Indiana, New York and II- I linois and similar decisions have been rendered in each case. Another strong point made during his remarks was that though Georgia was taxed higher for school purposes than any other State in the South, 98 cents THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE. MA Y 10. 1906. per capita, Tennessee with 91 cents per capita heads the list for furnishing illiteracy, and Georgia practically at the bottom of the list being ahead of Lou isiana and South Carolina only. Lou isian’s per capita tax, however, is only 57 cents against our 98 cents. He said that had the State School Commissioner carried out the recom mendations of the committee as to this division $3,000,000, in round numbers, during the succeeding four years would have been added to the white school fund. He argued that illiteracy among the white children was increasing to an alarming extent, that there were now 170,000 white children of school age who had never faced a teacher. He said that white teachers were the hardest worked, most carelessly licensed, and poorest paid people in the world. He also urged that the State school fund be divided as soon as it was in hand, placed in various local banks to which teachers all over the State had to go for temporary accommodations, and not placed in a lump in one bank. He argued that this would be no in justice to the negroes, as tremendously large sums of money were given to dif ferent negro educational institutions in the various southern states annually, and the white people of Georgia had best look after the education of her white children. Best for Women and Children. On account of its mild action and pleasant taste Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup is especially recommended for women and children. It does not nau seate or gripe like pills and ordinary cathartics. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup aids digestion and stimulates the liver and bowels without irritating them. Remember the name Orino and refuse substitutes. Dr. J. B. George. — ■ ■ In the way of the Wind. Sunday a small storm visited the city and left foot prints here and there. Ime of the prettiest trees in the center of the public square was blown down. This tree w T as one of a number about which so much has been written—it even played some part in the the county elec tion. It had a network of sentiment woven around about it. It had recalled our school reader that had in it “Wood man, spare that tree,” but, after all, we can’t think that Providence had taken any sides in this local controversy—the tree just seemed to be in the way of the wind. Postmaster Robbed. G. W. Fonts, Postmaster at Riverton, la., nearly lost his life and was robbed of all comfort, according to his letter, which says: “For 20 years I had chronic liver complaint, which led to such a severe case of jaundice that even my finger nails turned yellow; when my doctor prescribed Electric Bitters; which cured me and have kept me well for eleven years.” Sure cure for Biliousness, Neuralgia, Weakness and all Stomach, Liver, Kidney and Bladder derangements. A wonderful Tonic. For sale at M. C. Brown’s and Dr. J. B. Georges’ Drug Stores. Price, 50 cents, Gainesville, Ga. Chattahoochee Church Dedicated. Chattahoochee Baptist church, near Flowery Branch, has been completed and is a distinct credit to the commu nity. It is one of the few new churches that was finished in every particular without going into debt. The dedica tion sermon was preached by Rev. J. L. R. Barrett to a large congregation of people. It is Dangerous to Neglect a Cold. How often do we hear it remarked: “It’s only a cold,” and a few days later learn that the man is on his back with pneumonia. This is of such common occurrence that a cold, however slight, should not be disregarded. Chamber lain’s Cough Remedy counteracts any tendency of a cold to result in pneumo nia, and has gained its great popularity and extensive sale by its prompt cures of this most common ailment. It always cures and is pleasant to take. For sale by M. C. Brown, Gainesville, Ga. Seemed a Long Time. Jim was 10 years of age and of an ad venturous spirit. Instead of going to school, he started out to join a band of buccaneers, leaving a letter of farewell for his mother. He had gone far afield when he was caught in the rain. Grow ing miserable and hungry, the young adventurer then gave up his idea of a piratical career and came home very late at night. He met with a chilling reception. The clock ticked, bis fath er’s newspaper crackled, and his sister did not look up from her book. Even his mother did not seem to care whether he had returned or not. The cat, how ever, not being in the conspiracy of si lence, came and rubbed against his leg. Jim stooped and petted it, and then in a desperate attempt to open up the con versation ,he remarked plaintively: “Is this the same old cat you had when I went away?” Atlanta Firm 3uys Hartley Stock. The Hartley bankrupt stock of goods ■was purchased at trustee’s sale last Saturday by W. A. Ward, of the firm of Dougherty, Ward & Little of At lanta. The price paid was 75 cents on the dollar, which was a fair price for it. THREEFACTS For Sick Women To Consider First.—That almost every operation In our hospitals performed upon women becomes necessary through neglect of such symptoms as backache, irregular and painful periods, displacements of the female organs, pain in the side, burning sensation in the bearing-down pains, nervousness, diz ziness and sleeplessness. Second. —The medicine that holds the record for the largest number of absolute cures of female ills is Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It regulates, strengthens and cures diseases of the female organism as nothing else can. For thirty years it has been helping women to be strong, curing backache, nervousness, kidney troubles, inflam mation of the female organs, weak ness and displacements, regulating the periods perfectly and overcoming their pains. It has also proved itself invaluable in preparing women for childbirth and the change of life. Third. —The- great volume of unso licited and grateful testimonials on file at the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn, Mass., many of which are from time to time published by permission, give ab solute evidence of the value of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Mrs. Pinkham’s advice. Mrs. Pinkham’s Standing Invitation to Women.— Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pink ham, at Lynn, Mass. All letters are received, opened, read and answered by women only. From symptoms given, your trouble may be located and the quickest and surest way of recovery advised. Mrs. Pinkham is daughter in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham and for twenty-five years under her direction and since her decease she has been ad vising sick women free of charge. Out of the vast volume of experience in treat ing female ills Mrs. Pinkham probably has the very knowledge that will help your case. Surely, any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she doesnot take advantage of this generous offer of assistance. Makes or Mars It- A beautiful picture, painting, or portrait may be displayed to the best advantage by having the right sort of frame around it. The same piece of art may be irreparably marred by an unsuitable or an un tast; f'-ame. We have studied the art of fram ing for years. We have made selec tions of a fine stock of Moulding of various patterns for various styles of pictures. We are sure that we can give you the right frame for your picture. We desire to call your attention again to the fact that we have spec ial facilities for enlarging portraits —in any style—the best work that can be done, work that will give you satisfaction, and you will be proud to hang upon your walls. Let us make you prices. WHITE’S PHOTO STUDIO, No. 40 S. Main St., Gainesville, Georgia. JgjgTKRYPTOK READING ANDv W^~Sm\ DISTANfF GLASSES (WITHOUT LINES) For sale by J. D. JENNINGS. Tax Notice—Last Round. I expect to be at the places mentioned belnw, at the time specified, for rhe purpose of re> eiv ing State anti county tax returns for the yeai 1906: Tadmore, May I4th—lo a ra, W. R. Hancock’s, May 14th—noon. Sandy Flat, May 14th—4 p. ni, Gillsville, town. May 14tU—night. Glade, May 15th—9a. m. Rev. Noah Martin’s, May 15th—noon. Bellton, May 15tb—4 p. m. Lula, May 15th—5 p in. James Pitman’s. May 15th—night. Polksville, May 16th—9 a. in. John Erviu’s, May 16th—noon. S. H. Gailey’s,- May 16th—4 p. in. Hulsey’s, May 16th—night. Quillian's. May 17th—8 a. m. • Martin’s, May 17th—noon. Big Hickory, May 17th—4 p. in. Henry Bryant’s, May 17th—night. Bark Camp. May 18th—9 a. m. Fork, May 18th—4 p. m. Whelchel’s. May 19th—10 a. nt. Gainesville, June Ist to 20th. Note.—All property held on the 31st day of March, 1906, must he returned for taxation at its true market value. M. McNEAL, R. T. R., Hall county, Ga. □RIND Laxative Fruit Syrup Pleasant to take The new laxative. Does not gripe or pauseate. Cures stomach and liver troubles and chronic con stipation by restoring the natural action ofthe stom ach, liver and bowels. Dr. J. B. George. JEWELL’S Standard Fertilizers. ADVANTAGES: Materials bought pure; mixed by expert mixer; absolutely no “filler;” uses home products. Instead of tankage, Cotton Seed Meal, despite high price, used as the ammoniate. The State Chemist says: “I regard cot= ton seed meal as one of the best fertilizers in the world; as an ammoniate it has tew equals and no superiors.” Editor Merriam of the Southern Ruralist says: “For cotton and corn there is nothing better than cotton seed meal as an ammoniate in fer= tilizer.” Muriate of Potash used in Jewell’s Fertilizers analyzes 54.14 per cent; Nitrate of Soda is the best; and Kainit, 16 per cent Acid Phosphate. Special orders for special soils or special crops filled care= fully. We Sell Fertilizer Materials. Every grade of Fertilizer required made for your land and crops. E. H. Jewell, Gainesville, . ■ Georgia. For Anything Electrical, See us. We are prepared to wire houses for Lights, Bells, Etc. Do any repair work which you may need. First class work guaranteed. We carry a nice line of Electric Smoothing Irons, Electric Cooking Disks, Electric Fixtures, Electric Bells, Batteries, Glass Shades, Metal Shades, Lamps, HYLO Lamps, Etc. LET US DO IT FOR YOU NOW. Ernest Boone, Gainesville, - . Georgia. Phone 241. Can supply you with Coal and Ice. Your Patronage Solicited. W. H. Towery Coal and Ice Co. Telephone 207. an S ers °f Defective Plumbing. Defective plumbing permits the entrance into the house m 1 ° f sewer gas bearing germs ot I - I'at' tem readily succumbs. ‘g; *kL J Scwcr g2S is not nec essarily generated in the ® M PT : sewer, but is frequently created in the plumb- P ing system within the home and enters the |L] $ ZD 'Vv i apartments through defective fixtures. K $ I If in doubt, consult us regarding the piping rj an d replacing defective fixtures with Porcelain Enameled Ware I lk\\ ~ acknowledged as the best sanitary equipment. ijwZ Eranciisco. GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA. Phone 142. Old Eagle office building. Bicycles. East Washington Street, Opera House Building. All kinds of Bicycles and Bicycle Supplies. Everything new Everything complete. Repair Work of every description done accurately and on short no tice, such as Guns, Pistols, Locks, and Umbrellas. I make new keys. Large lot new Coaster-brake Bicycles bought. XV ill sell for cash or on easy terms. C. W. THOMAS.