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VOL. XXVI.
' The Kind of Books Your
i . Boys are Reading ?
;?SUME STARTLING DISCLOSURES,
Let Marietta Parents Provide Whole
'j some Literature for their Boys and
| Girls, as Well as Food.
To know how io read is important;
to know what to read and what not
to read is equally so. We are teach
ing the youth of this county to read.
Are we as teachers and parents also
cultivating a taste for the proper
kind of reading and removing from
them. that which is injarious? I
wonder if you, as a teacher, ever
inquire into and direct the reading
of your.pupils. I wonder if you, as
a parent, kmow what your -child
reads, if you cver read to him or
give him a book toread. Did you
ever give him an interesting book
for a present? 1f you do not know
what he reads ‘it is time you were
finding out. The investigation
might surprise you. Look among
your hcoks at home and see it you
have any suitable for a boy to read.
A man is morally bound to furnish
good reading for his children 1n pro
portion to his means. A man bas
no more right to let his children
devour every poisonous book than
he has to let them eat unwholiesome
food. '
To bring this matter practically
betore the parents of the Cobb, I
made a little investigation among
some two hundred children, large
and small, a short time ago. I had
them all to write me a letter telling
me something of the books they had
read since lest July and how they
~"ed them. On looking over the
tetters I found that fifteen pupils,
and some of them were fitteen years
of age, had never read a book ; some
who read nothing but newspapers;
many who read books of the very
best class ; and others that were
reading the very vilest five cent
novels.
A large majority had read one or
more of the following: Robinson
Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson,
Mrs. Aileott’s books, a few of Pan-!
sy’s books, ,/Little Lord Fontleroy,
Black Bea{ty, Sarah Crewe, Young
Marooners, some of Dickens, Hans
AndcrgOZs stories. A few of the
older o#es had read some o* Scott’s,
a few fiks of travel, and a very few
biogrsphies, and historical works,
'One young lady had read ten of the
Dughess novels. IHere is a good list
for a boy of twelve: ‘History of
T/nited States, Stories of Qur Coun
éy, Grandfather’s stories, stories of
/Heroic | Deeds, stories of Other
Lands, Tom Sawyer, and Two Little
Contederates.”” Compare that with
the following : “I have read a part
of Robinson Crusoe, and The Lite of
Rube Burrows, Peck’s Bad Boy,
Plucky Boys, Dead Wnod Dick,
Dasbaway Charlie, Jesse James’ ‘
Death Shot.” I wonder if this boy’s
father knows that he has read these
books. )
[lere is another: “Ilike Wild
West ecenes, and Edith and the
-Burglar. I made a fricnd of Edith
because she was so good to the Bur
glar.” Ir answer to the question
“Did you make any friendsin the
books. several said that they had
made friends with Peck’s Bad Boy,
because he was so swmartand funny.
One boy said he had lead over fifty
stories in the time mentioned.
No wonder those boys give trouble
at home and at school when they
‘make heroes ot such imps.
I found “Once a Week,” “New
York Weekly,” “Fireside Compans
ion,” “Log Cabin Series,” “Beadle’s
Dime and Pocket Series,” “Old Cap
(ollier” and other series of Detec
tive stories familiar names to many
boys. On inquiry, our news dealers
tell me that forty or more of these
weeklies are sold every week. One
Che Marietta Fonrnal,
little boy eight years old asked for
one this week. Somebody’s boy is
reading these stories—is it yours?
We are all hero worshipers, and
we instinctively and unconsciously
gshape our lives aiter our heroes and
heroines. What a calamity it is for
many of our boys to be makirg he~
roes ~ of pickpockets, train robbers
and murderers. w result cannot
be but pernicious. Taught to feel
an admiration for crime and its hero,
they are stirred to follow in his foot
steps. A father that wililet his
boy read Peck’s Bad Boy need not
be surprised at the lack of respect
in his son.
The danger I see in the reading
of many who do not read the detec
tive stories is this same lack of the
truly heroic. Silly stories, called
Sunday school books, are read by
the dozen, which leave no result but
a morbid sentimentallity. Such
reading is £8 wholesome to the mind
as sillabub to the body.
What oyr boys and girls need is
t 6 be brought in contact with the
true heroes and beroines of the
world, whether it be in the form of
novel, story, biography, or the hiss
tory. A race that has produced as
many great men and women’' as ours,
2 race that has produced a history
so rich in heroic deeds should see to
it that its youth honor aud emulate
the good and reject the spurious.
““Literature contain the keys that
unlock the aspirations of youth;
nothing else has this quickening
power. Homer’s “Iliad” could make
Alexander the Great subvert the
old despotisias of Asia and establish
in their place Greek art and secience
and free individuality.”
J. S. STEWART.
AUSTELL.
Mr: Walker, of Southern Bell
Telephone Co., spent last Friday in
our town getting up stock for a tele
phone line between Lithia Springs,
Austell and Atlanta. This will be
a great convenience to our many
summer boarders as well as to our
merchants.
Mr. C. L. Drennan has sold out
his grocery business here to C. J.
Shelverton & Co., and will go into
business in Atlanta.
- We are now withouta mayor since
the resignation of Mayor Drennan.
Sweet water creek was out of her
banks several days Jast week owing
to the receut heavy rains.
Ou account of a washout above
here we had no trains to Atlanta
over the Georgia Pacific road last
Thursday.
A number of young ladies met at
the residence of Rev. Mr. Jewell
last Thursday atternoon to arrange
tor a mus.cal entertainiaent and try
to organize a Literary Club. This
is a step in the right direction, as
every town suould have a literary
club for the improvement of its
young people in a way that nothing
else will do.
It seems that some of our boys
didn’t know the penalty of hollering
gchool butter, but they see now as
several of them were taken to the
puwp the other day and water was
freely applied. SIFTER.
ROSWELL,
All are rejoicing to see the clear
sky and the sunshine to dry the fields
so the farmers can sow oats and
make preparations for the new crop.
The new Council has elected the
public school board as follows: F. J.
Minhinnett, W. G. Blankinship, Dr.
T. G. Greeg, Dr. W. E Baker, Joel
A. Gunter and Reese Grogan. The
board selected Meéssrs. Baker and
Blankinship to select a teacher.
Numerous applications have bcen
filed trom different parties of the
State.
Mr. Judson W. Eldridge died in
Langley, S. C, on the 16th and his
remains were brought to Roswell
for interment, Dr. Baker and the
mosonic fraternity officiating in the
last sad rites.
On the same day the remains ot
Mr. P. Phillips, who died in Atlans
ta on the 17th, were brought here
and interred. [t is seldom Roswell
has two funerals on the same day and
same hour.
Elder A. J. Goss will soon re~
move his family back to Stone
Mountain, but he will still remain
pastcr of the Baptist Church herfi.
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MARIETTA, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 23, 1893.
BUILDING UP A TOWN
How It HaS—&tlld Can Be
Done.
THOUGHTS FOR MARIETTA PEOPLE,
Manufacturing ;;;_st—ries Bring Peo
ple, Trade and Wealth, and All
Are Benefitted.
When two people are to receive
benefits from any one undertaking,
both should assist in putting that
undertaking on the best possible
tooting so as to secure the greatest
possible result. This principle, if
carried out by a city and its prob
erty owners, will be found to be the
only basis on which to secure a “di
versity of industries. We have been
listening toolong to the cry that this
is the best point at which to start
such and such an industry says the
Macon Telegraph. 1t is a good
place but it is not the only good
place, and thers are'probably sever
al other places that are just as good.
The man who proposes to go into
business naturally selects the place
where the prospects cf support trom
his neighhors are brightest. If we
would benefit by industries let us
agsist them in every way. 'The
“Progressive Scuth” speakiang of the
building up of towns says:
“The citizens of towns who wish
to see their places increase in wealth
and population must bear in mind
that they will reap the principal
part of the benefit to be derived from
the establishment of manufacturing
industries. Let usrelate an inci
dent which illustrates this fact: A
number of yearsago an Kastern
town, which, owing to the destruec
tion of the whaling fishery, was al
most moribund a 3 a business place,
offered a plot of grourd free, assist
ance in erecting a building, a remis
sion of taxation for a number of
years to enadle a firm to éstablish a
shoe manutactory. At the ocutset
the firm employed only a few hands
—about twenty-five—but it prosper
ed and now employs over a thousand.
In estimates of this kind it is gener
ally considered that three inhabi
tants of the town may be counted
for every workman; consequently
three thousand persons may be con
sidered as connected with the facs
tory. Say that each one of these
three thousand persons spends 30l
cents a day for tood, clothing, etc.,
we see that the whole number spend
$6,300 a week, or 328,500 a year.
Who are the most benefited by this
expenditure—the owners of the fac«
tory of trades-people or the town
referred to? Would the tradess
people receive this nearly a third of
a million dollars if the tactory were
not in their town? They would
not, and it is not difficult to see that
the trades-people are the ones who
receive the largest share of the
benefit derived from the location of
the factory. ‘This is the true way
to look at any schemes for building
up towns.”
POWDER SPRINGS.
Mrs. M. P. Lane left for Holton last Sats
urday to be present at the margiage of her
brother Mr. Redding Howard 'Weduem
day evening to Miss Alice Redding.
Miss Dena Baggett, of Douglasville is
visiting relatives and friends in this place.
Miss May Scott who has been yisiting
her cousin, Miss Callaway of Lithia Springs
returned home last Wednesday.
The 4th annual masquerade and valens
tine ball given at the Peubody Hall Febru
ary l4th Lithia Springs, proved a brilliant
success.
Two ot our “butterfly dudes” paid Aus~
tell a flying visit Sunday afternoon.
Mr, Rob’t. L. Bennett, o? Atlanta, also
Mr. Bob Hardage visited our town Sunday.
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GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Culled and Condensed from
Our Exchanges.
MOTHER OF TWENTY-SIX CHILDREN,
A White Robin I(E--Making Clover
Seed Profitable--A Very Heavy
Fonr Year old Boy.
Elbert county is to hava a new
court house, to cost about $40,000.
Canton has a whistle factory,
owned and operated by Jay Rudasill.
There are more females than males
in Gilmer county by several Lun
dred.
Ex-Ordinary Thomas D. Gilham
of Oglethorpe county died Thursday.
Respass & Son of Atianta have
purchased the ‘“mica property,” near
Gainesville.
The recent sesion of the Georgia
Legisiature, fitty days, cost the State
$65,567.99.
Gas and gasoline lamps kave been
abandoned in Athens {or street light
ing and electric lights substituted.
ALBERT BLOUNT, negro, was lynch
ed in Chattanooga last week for
assaulting a respectable white laay,
at her home, in day time.
SEVEN car loads of Arkansas ne
groes passed through Atlanta Thurs- 1
day on their way to Brunswick and
thence to Africa. :
R. J. MILLER, an aged white man
was killed by an engine on the
Western and Atlantic Railroad near
Atlanta on the 15th inst.
A white robin was killed last
Monday near Madison. This is a
rare curiosity in the shape of a bird,
one that.is seldcin seen.
g Mr.”fi&"Kinne‘bréw,”a Floyd coun
ty farmer, is selling clover seed rais
ed on his place, and it brings him
from &8 to $lO a bushel.
The land known asthe Bob Wash
burn farm in Oconee county, con
taining 200 acres, has been sold to
J. L. Jarreil of Athens for $5,000.
The residence of B. O. Hill at
Greenville was burnt last Thursday.
The losses will foot up at least $2,-
000. The residence was insured for
$1,200. _
Sonny Boyd, a negro boy 12 years
old, attempted to wreck a train at
Atlanta Thursday by placing spikes
on the rails. He did it “for fun.”
He was arrested.
Superintendent A. I. Branham, ot
the Brunswick public schools, has
been clected school commissioner of
Giynn county for the term of three‘
years. |
Dr. R. B. Headen will remain
with the First Baptist church ini
Rome as its pastor. He had a call
to Birmingham at 2 salary of 2,400.
The Rome church didn’t want to
give him up and voted him the same
salary.
There is a little boy at Ty-Ty, in
Worth county, only four years old,
who is remarkable in size. He is
four feet three inches in height,
weighs ninety pounds, wearsa No. 7
hat and a G shoe. His parents are
very poor and will wbably put the
boy on exhibition.
Tuesday night, of last week, a
party of 410 emigrants passed
through Atlanta on their way to
Pine City, Ga., where they go to
purchase lands and to invest money.
The emigrants came over the Kast
Tennessee road and were from Ohio.
There is a woman living in Way
cross, Ga., who is the mother of
‘twenty-six children. She is now in
her ninety-six year of her age, and
has remarkable fine health. ler
mental faculties and vision are good,
and she has never been sick a day in
her lite. Twenty-one of. her chil
dren are living and are all married,
each ot them having large families.
The children and their mother are
all in confortable circumstances.
The rumber of this remarkable wo
man’s grandshildren is nearly two
hundred. She has tully a score of
great grandchildren.
Mr. C. G. 'Trammell, an old oiti
zen of Cartersville, father-in law of
Rew Walker Lewis, pastor of Trinity
church at Atlanta and brother*of
Hon. L. N. Trammell, died in Car
tersville Saturday. Mr. Trammell:
lived in Cartersville for a great many
years, and was highly respected and
beloved by the entire community.
A negro boy living on the farm of
Jonas Fuller, » few miles from Ros
well, accidentally shot himself in
the arm on last Saturday week,
while attegpting to kill a "hawk.
The enti’)load of shot passed
throngh his arm between the elbow
and shoulder, and he came near
bleeding to death before medical ats
tention could be obtained.
M¢s. James Wheeler met with a
painful mistortune at her home near
Roswell on last Sunday week. 1t
wag a drowsy day, and Mrs. Wheel
er feeling the effect of the weather,
threw out her arms, straightened her
torm, threw her head backward and
gaped, dislocatiug her jaw. :
11. IL. Davis and family at Canton‘
lett last Wednesday for Childress,i
Tex. Mr. Davis sold his brick mills
property to John A. Scott and
bought Mr. Scott’s half section of
improved farming lands in Texas.
GEORGE A. LINGO, ot Americus, is
in jail in Griffin charged with kills
ing a tramap named Smith, Sallie
Walker is jailed as accessory.
AARON RAPHAEL, nineteen years
old, committed suicide at the Kim
ball House in Atlanta last week.
The Americus Improvement Coms
pany has gone into the hands of a
receiver.
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LOCAL LEAFLETS.
Picked Up and Dotted Down for Jour
nal Readers.
Miss Lizzie Pilgrim is visitidg friends
and relatives in Gainseville.
Mr. Will Cox has gone to Brookhaven,
Miss, to put up a fine monuwment turned
out at the L.. 8. Cox marble yard.
Mr. and Mrs. John Keeffe, and daughter,
Hazel, of St. Louis, arrived in the city
last week, and are at Mr. J. A. Massey's.
Mr. Cornelius Keeffe and daughter,
Carrie, returned to their home in Gordon
county last Monday afternoon.
A hawk killed by Mr. L. A. Bishop, of
this county, the other day, measured 49
inches from tip to tip of wiags. Thisis
considered the largest hawk ever killed in
this section.
Mr* J. Spilman say he and Judge Gres~
bham, recently appointed Secretary of State
in Cleveland’'s cabinet, were school boys
together and he has had many a wrestle
with him. Judge Gresham seems to be on
top now.
THE opportunity is now offered for Ma
rietta to secure an elegant Library buildirg
free, if they will furnish a lot to build it on.
Miss Sarah Clark, has now in hand $2,000
to put in such a building, besides she will
donate 2,000 choice books.* A number of
Marietta gentlemen are interesting them<
selves to rzise $2,000 to buy a suitable and
convenient lot for this purpose, and have
secured subscriptions to the smount of
$750. It the lot is purchased and the new
building erected, it 1s proposed to merge
the Marietta Library with the 2000 volumes
that Miss Clark will donate Thisis an
important matter and puts the matter ina
shape where Marietta can secure a Library,
in building and books, equal to the best of
any city of like size in the South. We
have been requested to state if uny one
desires to contribute to the fund to buy this
lot, they can call on Dr. T 8. Stewart, Mr.
B. R. Legg, Dr. P. R. Cortelyou, Dr.
Homer Reynolds or Capt. R. W. Boone.
Either of these gentlemen will be glad to
receive cuntributions. They have cons
tributed liberally themselves and hope that
the citizens will avail themselves of this
opportunity to secure a first class Library.
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and Colds, that it cured his wife who was
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of “La Grippe,” when various other remes
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A RICH GOLD MINE.
On Mr. J. B. Kemp’s Farm
Near Lost Mountain.
T 0 BE WORKED BY CAPITALISTS,
‘l‘our Shafts Sun; ;I—Plenty of Gold
Found. Bought by a Syndicate,who
Will Put in New Machinery,
One of the richest gold mines dis
covered in Georgia has been located
on the farm of Mr. J. B. Kemp, near
Lost Mountain, in this county. Mr.
T. 3. McDaniel writes us that the
mine was first discovered before the
war. The land was then owned by
Mr. Solomon Kemp. He bought a
negro, named Ish, who was a miner,
and he found this gold min® and
worked it until his master died, pay
ing him seventy-five cents a day for
his time. The land was sold and
bought by Mr. J. B. Kemp and he
would not let any one work it until
now.
On the 6th of February, Mr. D.
C. King, Mr.J. J. Petty and Mr.
W. Leßarron, of Chicago, 111., and
Mr. T. 8. McDaniel, of Dale, Ala.,
arrived on the farm and proceeded
to sink four shafts. To their grati
fication they found plenty of gold,
the shining particles could be seen
plainly. They entered into negotia
tiong for the mine, and gave Mr.
Kemp $2,500 for ninety-four acres of
land. They returned to their homes
to buy suitable machinery, and will
be back in ten days to go to work.
‘Mr. McDaniel says they will want
forty or fifty hands to work for them
at one dollar per day. They propose
to add to the wealth of the county
by developing this mine, which has
80 long remained adle. ;
’ WEDDING BELLS.
A Marietta Lady Woed,;Won aud Wed
ded in Texas.
Waxanacuig, Texas, Feb. 16, 1893,
No social event of recent years has cre
ated such wide spread interest as the mar
riage of Mrs. Ella Anderson, of Marietta,
Ga., to Mr. Ed Williams, of this ecity, which
was solemnized at 8 o'clock last Wednes~
day nightat the First Presbyterian church.
Promptly at the appointed hour, while the
sweet strains of a popular wedding march,
rendered by Mr. and Mrs. H. A. McMillan,
signaled their approach, the happy pair
marched down the aisle, preceeded by Mr.
James 0. Hammett, brother of the bride,
and Mr. Robert McCombs, who were fols
lowed by Mr. Frank Williams, brother of
the groom, and Mr. Lee Quaite, acd halt
ing in front of the chancel were made
busband and wife in a beautiful and ims
pressive ceremony by Dr. C. McPherson.
The bride is a sister of Mrs. Lee W. Wheless,
of this city, and is a lady of rare accoms
plishment, endowed with all the attributes
of noble womauhood. She wore a beautis
ful traveling costume of blue grey. The
groom is a prominent and sac'iesstul mer
chant of this' city and the son of the late
John G. Williams, one ct the early residents
of Waxahachie, and one of the wealthiest
and most prominent citizens of this county.
The son inheriting the father's sterling
virtures and vast interests left to his charge,
is well fitted to be the custodian of the jew
el he has just wooed and wed The bridal
presents wer; numerous, and beaatiful
testimonials of the very high esteem in
which they are held.
Immediately after the ceremony they
left for the city of Mexico and other places
of interest in the land of the Aztecs. W.
THE money i 3 being raised to
build another cotton factory at Dal
ton, and 870,000 has already been
subscribed. The proposed capital
is $lOO,OOO. .
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