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| THE COUNTRY HOMeI
Women on the Farm
Conducted By Mrs. IV. H. Felton.
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Th* South Carolina Senator*.
Th* late dispute in the senate between
th* tsro senators from South Carolina was
an unfortunate proceeding. no matter
from what standpoint a view may be
taken of the personal dlfUculty. For it
eras a personal difficulty and such af
fairs should always be kept outside legis
lative halls by reason of respect tor the
sovereign state which they are expected
to represent, especially in the upper house
of congress. But this personal difficulty
bodes no good to either, for one or the
other must get out of the way, and the
crowing cock will have so overstrained
himself that South Carolina will possibly
prefer a less aggressive man in personal
difficulties and a more polite man in na
tional legislation.
It was a sweet morsel to roll under the
tongues of northern and western Repub
licans. and it is always a pity to afford
sudh morsel to the opposition.
Under the circumstances Senator Mc-
T-anrin was manifestly nowise to thus
spring an open fight with his late Demo
cratic colleagues in the senate chamber.
If he preferred to remain outside the
caucus, he was at liberty to do so. but it
was poor tactics to air his political and
personal grievances before the senate.
Having remained outside the caucus he
shouldn’t have been complaining about it
in public tor obvious reasons. He let the
gap down to the bottom rail and there
was nothing left for Chairman Jones to
do but explain his position and make it
undesstood that Senator McLaurin had
himself declined to be a caucus member
when the chairman made the personal In
quiry of him.
Then the ••pitchfork" had Its inning!
Nothing could have happened which would
have suited Senator Tillman better so far
as public opinion in South Carolina is
concerned for he does not care a copper
cant what any other state or senator thinks
of him. It has been his contention for
months that his colleague was not in po
litical sympathy with his constituents. He
wanted signal proof that senator Mc-
Laurin was not willing to enter a Dem
ocratic caucus, and the proof was made
ready to his hand by the mistake of his
oofleague.
If Senator McLaurin had been an Inde
pendent Democrat his defense would have
had a different sound altogether, but no
state has profounder respect for party
precedents and customs than the Palmet
to State, and Senator McLaurin accepted
a commission from the Democrats of bls
state when he took the oath of office.
Inere is nothing to be done now, unless
he joins the Republicans, who may or
may not take care of him until his pres
ent term expires, for South Carolina will
not commission him again to the same
high office.
And that refusal will not mean that
Senator McLaurin la not a progressive
man in his thoughts and purposes. It is
possible be is tar better Equipped for leg
islative work than his colleague, but he
has transgressed the unwritten law which
demands that a politician shall not re
pudiate the authority which elevated him
to office and the senator cannot make
headway in South Carolina hr attempting
to stem both wind and tide at present.
If the president has some fat berth like
a paymaster or juageship to offer he will
do well to secure it. but as a rule Re
publicans are the quickest politicians In
the world to turn down a man who fights
his own party to secure an office by so
doing.
If Senator McLaurin had gone before
his state last summer and fought it out
on the stump, he might have won his
fight, but he lost the chance of a lifetime
when he failed to do it.
Having failed to carry the Issue before
the people of his state he should have
avoided rocks, quicksands and breakers
like he was a ship at sea. and especially
should be have played impassive and calm
dignity against ‘pitchfork” rashness.
If Senator Tillman had given the dare,
then the result might have been different,
but th* latter fared splendidly as to luck.
Senator McLaurin was in no fix to be giv
ing dares on the exclusive play grounds
of Democratic caucuses and usages, and
his headpiece may be all right on the
various Issues be champions, but his Judg
ment was at fault when he squared away
at the caucus and provoked a fight on the
known duty of Democrats to a
Democratic caucus in Washington. No
body say* that RepubUcan senators are
a bit more Independent of party dictation
than their opponents. If anything they
ar* less so. therefore ft was Quixotic to
ride *gain*t the political windmills adored
by both parties in the senate.
(What Killed the Public School Sygtem.
In an interesting article, furnished by
Mr. M. B. Dennis, th* following sen
tence occurs:
••Only recently a prominent citizen of
a middle Georgia county, in writing to a
gentleman of state and national reputa
tion. living in AGantsu bad occasion to
refer to matters relating tb the public
•ehool system. In the reply the Atlanta
gentleman spoke of the system substan
ttolly as dead and perhaps quite beyond
resurrection.’*
Mr. Dennis, with pardonable preoccupa
tion of mind, decides "that the gentleman
evidently referred to the shabby manner
of settling with the teachers and the cir
cumstantial indifference of the legislature
regarding the matter.”
Unless the writer of the reply here no
ticed. penned considerably more to his
eorresponuent about the state's indiffer
ence than Mr. Dennis copied, the "dead"
condition of the public school system was
hot germane to the conclusion reached by
Mr. Dennis. In bis published document,
from which the sentence that I copy is
taken.
If th* public school system Is "dead be
yond the power of a resurrection" I sub
cult that the system itself, as conducted,
did th* killing, not the legislature. It
would seem to be a sad case of what
might be strictly termed. Involuntary sui
cide.
If a brusque comparison will be par
doned. It bad too much rope and hung its
own poor self, because it couldn't help it.
Certainly the legislature did not kill it.
unless it stuffed the weakly system until
It died of founder.
It to the manifest disproportion between
the huge amount, devoted to the payment
of teachers and the miserable failure as
to country schools, which has diahearten
•d the tax payer* and perhaps the legis
lature.
"Eight-ninths ot the children of school
age live in the country.” says State
School Commissioner G. R. Glenn.
Eight-ninths of the public schools are
then but little better than nothing at all.
’ If th* system Is "dead beyond the power
Suffering Women.
Dr. Tucker can cure
you of that awful
1 s-rl backache. smothering.
pains around the hesrt.
* <1 misplacement, nervous
fears, short breath, leu-
A corrhoea, bloating m
digestion and constipa-
Tucker, Broad afreet,
Atlanta. Ga.
of a resurrection,” it Is because eight
ninths of the load was too heavy, so
much so that the team stalled and the
load went over In the ditch.
In the year 1898 the legislature turned
over a million and a half dollars In clean
cash to run the public school system a
single year, and while the number of
teachers has Increased until there Is an
average above seventy In every one of
the 137 counties of Georgia, the system
seems to be perishl tig from inaction.
Whether the patient is In a chronic bad
state of health and cannot assimilate
food in great or any other quantity, or
whether the doctors are simply quacks,
and are dosing it with sour stump water,
under the name of a tonic I do not pre
sume to decide at this time. I rise to ask
but one question, namely: If It to dead was
It a case of inanition or of Involuntary
suicide?
The doctors tell us that necrosis to an
incurable aliment. The system has ap
parently been suffering and helpless at
the extremities for a long time, but it was
active and vigorous enough to ask for
33.000.000 for the coming year, around
headquarters In y Atlanta. It to true a
half dead tree will show signs of life In
the spring of the year when the sap rises,
but for a "dead” system, that to "beyond
the power of a resurrection," 83.000,000 was
a loud boast of sap, under the aircum
s vances.
The plain English of the whole business
may be set down in a few words. The
state has gone wild on providing teachers,
a superfluity of teachers, when the state
was not able to foot the bill. The state
will be obliged to come back to common
sense and common business methods, or
quit fooling with a system that coats too
much, anu amounts to such a little.
Mr* .Felton on the Schley Verdict.
There were several persons on trial be
fore the country as well as the Naval
Court of Inquiry; besides Admiral Schley.
One Mr. Maclay—who was drawing pay
In the Navy department, as a spittoon
washer—or coal heaver, or as engaged in
some other menial work, classed under
the head of "laborer”—on the pay-rolls;
was really employed to write a book to
be used as a text-book for students In
nay al schools and he deserved and has
earned attention.
Mr. Maclay wrote to please his employ
ers, as the most of persons would do,
whose bread and butter was involved, and
who could willingly masquerade under
the cognomen of "laborer”—when really
they are engaged in questionable service
with pen and paper—where the principals
were afraid or unwilling to be seen or
known—in print—as authors of calumny.
Mr. Maclay wrote up the battle of San
tiago—and Admiral Sampson endorsed the
book, when he read the scurvy allusions
made concerning Admiral Schley—by the
"laborer” Maclay—who dubbed the brave
sea-captain a "caitiff and a coward” in
the aforesaid text-book.
Caitiff in Webster's Unabridged means
a rascal—in its strongest sense it means
a victbus slave. Johnson says the word
means a mixture of misery and wicked
ness—otherwise a mean slave.
Mr. Maclay having used this epithet
along with "coward” and Admiral Samp
son having approved the book and con
sequently the approbious statement, Ad
miral Schley called for an investigation
of his Individual conduct as commander
of the famous squadron which destroyed
Cervera’s Spanish fleet and won the mag
nificent victory for the United States over
Spain.
Admiral Dewey and two other admirals
of the navy were selected to investigate
the charges and by reason of the evidence
and the ship's records, neither of Mac
lay's charges could be or were sustained
in the smallest particular by either of the
verdicts.
But Admiral Sampson, Admiral Schley's
enemy Crowningshield, and to some ex
tent. Secretary Long, were involved along
with their historian, Maclay. All of these
interested people were to be condemned
as calumniators, if a verdict of courage
and official capacity was returned by the
court, without qualifications.
As the matter now stands—connected
as were these gentlement with Maclay
and his so-called history—it becomes evi
dent that the court was packed with two
partisans who could be relied upon to be
smirch the naval commander on trial
even while he was necessarily cleared of
the "caitiff" and "coward" parts of the
Maclay indictment.
But Admiral Dewey was not a man who
could be molded to their liking, for his
opinion most certainly outweigh the ver
dict of both the other admirals, whose
verdict smells loudly of the unfortunate
atmosphere which environs naval affairs
in and about Washington City.
The vindication of Admiral Schley was
complete, from the offensive charges con
tained in Mtfclay’s book, but the verdict
ot Secretary Long's partisans is fatally
tainted with calumny and injustice.
Wherever Admiral Dewey's name 1s
known there will his eulogium on the
courage and capacity of Admiral Schley
be accepted as the proper verdict, and
wherever the carping criticisms of the
other two men are read there will be In
disputable evidence of the frailty of poor'
human nature under stress of envy and
jealousy.
Nevertheless, congress owes a duty to
Itself and the country to rescue the navy
department of the government from In
fluences which will destroy Its capacity
for usefulness unless a reform is effected.
The pestiferous agencies which dared to
secrete a defamer of character tn the de
artment that malice and envy might
sting the fame of a great sea captain to
his fatal Injury should have a thorough
ventilation in the congress of the United
States.
That a defamer could be found small
and low enough to appear In the disguise
of a laborer in the naval service, to do
this dirty work, should be exposed under
the glaring light of congressional inquiry.
And that flunkeys can be decorated with
shoulder straps and appointed on courts
of inquiry should be made so clearly
known to the taxpayers of this country
that no other such verdict may ever be
recorded to the mortification and disgrace
of the American people.
It seems that Maclay is either beneath
everybody’s notice or thoroughly under
stood to be the tool of his masters in his
omission from either verdict, but it is all
the more imperative that congress should
go to the root of the whole business and
extirpate from the pay roll* any other
"laborers” who draw pay for one service
and are really employed to do other and
dubious work for a laborer’s pay. Unless
there is a cleaning out of such vermin the
character of department service must fall
under heavy suspicion (if not odium), well
deserved and well located by Maclay's ap
pointment In the navy department as a la
borer.
The very Idea that a text-book for the
naval schools of the United States had
emanated from the scullery floor of Sec
retary Long’s principality is unpleasant
to think about, and It to preposterous to
have a "slander mill” engineered by poli
ticians and supported from the treasury
of the United States in this underhanded
manner to drag down the fame of great
naval commanders, whose exploits were
resented by the Jealousy of hto rivals and
whose reputation can be stabbed by a
hired assassin, disguised as a laborer, in
the army and navy building of the gov
ernment.
Admiral Dewey’s opinion of Admiral
Schley has in It the ring of honesty and
Justice, a Just tribute to a fellow worker
and a great naval commander, which he
was not afraid to express In the presence
of influences which were manifestly «u-
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER'S 3, 1901.
KN EE EWfiXEKS
It was the day before Christmas, and
Mrs. Rabbit was Just wondering how she
could buy something to put In each of
the stockings of all the little Rabbits and
also enough things at the market to fur
nish a large dinner for the family. She
sat at the table with a pencil and paper,
trying to count up Just how much every
thing would be, and to figure how she
would ever make the little money she had
do for all the things she had to buy. Just
then in came Mr. Rabbit wearing a new
fur coat and carrying a brand new cane.
"There, now! It’s just a perfect shame!”
said Mrs. Rabbit.
"Os course it is,” said Mr. Rabbit;
"here I came home after working hard all
day, expecting to find dinner all ready,
and what do I see? I find you figuring
out snore ways to spend money. I should
say it was a shame? Mrs. Rabbit said
she didn’t mean that at all. She meant
that it was a perfect shame that she could
not buy Christmas presents for all the
children and a big Christmas dinner, too,
while Mr. Rabbit could get newifur coats
and canes, as If he didn’t have any family
to look after. Then Mr. Rabbit said that
it was just like a woman, and that he
could make the money go far enough to
get everything necessary. Mrs. Rabbit
said that, in that case, she would just like
to see him do it, that was all; so he took
the money and off he went.
When he reached the market Mr. Rabi
bit found a lot of the other animals there
buying things for Christmas dinners.
They bought so much and such delicious
things that he was ashamed to buy the
very few things that he planned to get
while they were there. Mr. Bear, Mr.
Dog, Mr. Fox, Mr. Crow and the others
acted as if they wanted to, so Mr. Rabbit
sneaked off to the toy stores to get the
playthings for his children. Just as he
had bought almost as many presents as
he could afford in came Mr. Bear, Mr.
Fox, Mr. Dog and all the rest to buy play
things for their children. They began to
purchase right and left and buy the most
beautiful toys, while the things Mr. Rab
bit had bought looked very mean beside
them. Then Mr. Dog asked Mr. Rabbit
how he expected to ever make those few
toys go around among all of his children.
Mr. Rabbit was so ashamed that he did
not know what to do, but he said he was
not through buying yet, and then he went
ahead and spent for toys all the money
he should have saved to buy the Christ
mas dinner. At last he did not have a
cent left, but he had Just as many nice
presents for his children as the other ani
mals had for theirs.
When Mrs. Rabbit found he had spent
all of his money for toys and had not
bought anything for the Christmas dinner
she was as angry as she could possibly
be, and she told Mr. Rabbit that he had
to go right out and get something for the
Christmas dinner somehow, and that was
all there was about it. Mr. Rabbit took
his hat and went out, feeling very badly,
indeed, and trying to think of some way
worthy but at the same time powerful,
to affect the fortunes of other naval offi
cers. His verdict has the respect of the
country, because the country was famil
iar with the facts of the Santiago en
gagement and the testimony of brave men
before the court of inquiry. Admiral
Dewey discharged hto duty like the great
man he is known to be, and it is now
the duty of congress to rescue other brave
men from the toils and snares of envious
associates, who hide the assassins on the
basement floor of our government build
ings under the garb of scullions and wait
ing men, for the use of conspirators up
stairs. '
Nothing has been ever said or passed
upon that can rob Admiral Schley of his
well-earned victory at Santiago.
It stands out in such bold relief that
it is absolutely unassailable. It is such
clear-cut renown that the weapons of the
Sampson - Long - Crowninshield combine
failed to make a scratch on the gratitude
which the country voted him as soon as
the sea-fight was finished. He and Admi
ral Dewey stand out like twin-brothers,
far in front of all the naval commanders,
past or present in this country. Sanitago
and Manila stand together on the top of
the ladder unapproachable by reason of
magnitude and glory.
But, as before said, the great sea-cap
tain who won the honor of Santiago has
been set upon by gad-flies, gnats and
stinging wasps who were not content with
clutching the bulk of the prize money,
but sjho denied to him the merit of win
ning the victory for his country.
Congress should apply a- remedy that
will drive out the insects for the sake of
theipublic peace. *
What’s the Matter With the Turkeys?
A good friend asks me to write about
a scaly, scabby disease that is killing
turkeys down in her part of Georgia. She
says it settles on their legs and is evident
ly catching. The turkeys get lame and
disabled and some of them die from it.
Will not some reader give us the name
of the disease and the remedy?
This turkey raising is a serious domestic
problem. If you can And the nest and save
the eggs from the crows, then you may
take chances on the hatching.
After the shy little things come out of
the shell they will dart about under
leaves and bushes like they were scared
to death. If you turn the hen loose she
and they will rove "all over creation,”
and it is ten to one you will never see
the full number come up again. If she
races through the dew and wet grass with
the little things, they will surely disap
pear, and a hard storm of rain will make
a finish, if their fool mother keeps gal
loping about as mine do sometimes.
If I had as many dollars as I have taken
tramps around and about to keep up
with hateful, provoking turkey hens, I
could buy me a new piano, if not a pair
of carriage horses, because I have been
following this business in a small way for
a third of a century.
Every year I make new resolutions, and
every spring I find myself doing exactly
as those gallivanting turkey hens provoke
me to do—trotting after them. I should
guess, on a venture, that I could have
bought two turkeys at Christmas (if my
trouble and vexation with them could be
estimated) for every one I raise and get to
the table, but then some other people like
my turkeys, and last year they carried off
four nice hens just before Thanksgiving,
and I only found some scattered feathers
where they crossed over into the woods,
and you cannot wonder that the business
is vexatious, when they are stolen after
raising.
Four-legged dogs are plentiful and two
legged ones are very sly. Tb* four tur
keys went by the dog route, and I am
constantly dreading another raid, for,
having eaten one on Thanksgiving day, I
still have seven left for Christmas and to
start on tn the spring, according to cus
tom. My mind tells me that I will take
up as usual the vexatious business when
spring opens, If I am left here to begin it.
I shall certainly give up if diseases and
dogs consume the stock on hand, and I
guess that might be agreeable to my
tired feet, if I could only see It that way.
I am beginning to comprehend that tur
keys and old people are not suited to
each other, so far as watching, minding
and keeping off rogues are concerned.
They need young feet, lively stepping
and somebody to watch rogues. A near
neighbor had an experience a few days
ago. He has some white Holland turkeys,
of which he is very proud. One night
while the moon was up somebody caught
one and carried it off. The neighbor pur
sued with a pistol, and shortly the rogue
dropped the turkey, and he recovered the
poor, scared fowl by a mere chance.
Until a dog law is passed we must fight
a fight to keep dogs from poultry.
Raise your turkeys if you are young
enough to do all the sort of things here
mentioned.
»
in which he could get a dinner for hl*
family. He thought of the fine things
the other animals had bought, and that
only made him feel worse.
As he was walking bast Mr. Crow’s
house Mr. Rabbit saw the little crows
Skating on a small pond behind the
house. Suddenly the ice broke and one of
them fell into the water. The rest all
shouted as loud as they could, and Mr.
and Mrs. Crow ran out of the back door
toward the pond just as fast as ever
they could run. Mr. Rabbit opened the
front door and went in the house to wait
until they came back, so he could see if
they wanted him to go for the doctor. He
saw a big basketful of things from the
market sitting on the table. The basket
was so full of nice things, and they all
looked so good that Mr. Rabbit felt worse
than ever. He thought of all his large
family at home with not a single thing
for their Christmas dinner, and he felt
so bad that he almost burst out crying.
"Let me see,” he said to himself. "I
think I remember something about Mr.
Crow’s great-grandfather stealing a cow
from my great-grandfather. Yes, I am
sure he did, or if he did not, he should
have, anyway. I think I will just take
this basket of things and call it square.”
He took the basket, ran out of doOrs,
across the road, and hid it in the bushes.
Then he went back and was Just going in
the front door when he saw Mr. and Mrs.
Crow coming in the back door bringing
little Jim Crow, whom they had pulled
out of the water.
“How are you, Mr. Crow?” said Mr.
Rabbit. “I hope, Mrs. Crow, that your
sweet little boy to none the worse for hav
ing fallen in the water?”
“Where to my basket of things? Oh,
where is all my beautiful Christmas din
ner?" cried Mr. Crow, for he saw the
basket was not where he had left it.
“Mr. Fox took it,’*’ said Mr. Rabbit.
“He ran in your front door just as you
and Mrs. Crow ran out of the back door
and then he came out again with the
basket and ran down the road.”
“Oh, the horrid thing!” exclaimed Mrs.
Crow.
"Whatever will we do for our Christmas
dinner?” cried Mr. Crow.
“Come with me, and perhaps we can
get it back,” said Mr. Rabbit. "We will
go to Mr. Dog's house and get him to
help us.”
"Just the thing!” said Mr. Crow, and so
they started off. Mr. Dog was perfectly
willing to help Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Crow,
and he went with them to Mr. Fox's
house. When Mr. Fox saw them coming
he was terribly frightened, for once he
had stolen a lot of Mr. Man’s chickens,
and he thought that Mr. Dog had come
about them; so he slipped out the back
door and ran away.
“There he goes! There he goes’” cried
Mr. Rabbit, and Mr. Crow and Mr. Dog
ran after him as hard as they could go.
Mr. Rabbit went In Mr. Fox's house, and
there on the dining-room table he saw the
basketful of things that Mr. Fox had
bought at the market.
‘lt seems to me,” said Mr. Rabbit, “that
I remember something about Mr. Fox’s
father-in-law’s great-uncle buying a piece
of land from my stepsister’s half-broth
er’s great-aunt, and never paying for it.
I think I will just ! take this basket of
things and call it sqpgre.”
He took the basket, and, running up the
road a little way, hid it in some bushes.
Then he ran back to’Mr. Dog's house as
fast as he could, and when in the kitchen
to warm his hands at the fire and wait
for Mr. Dog and Mr. Crow to come back
from chasing Mr. FoX.
Just as Mr. Rabbit got his hands warm
he saw a very large basketful of things
Mr. Dog had bought at the market on
the kitchen table. The things were finer
and better than those in the baskets of
either Mr. Fox of Mr. Crow, and the
more Mr. Rabbit looked at it the more he
thought he would like to have those
things.
“Let me see,” he said to himself, “I
believe I remember something about Mr.
Dog’s father chasing my father 27 miles
once and making him stay in a hole for
three days with nothing to eat. That was
perfectly scandalous, and Mr. Dog de
serves to go without anything to eat him
self, so he can see how it feels. I just
believe I will take this basket of things to
get square with Mr. Dog’s father.” He
took the basket and ran away up the road
and hid it in some bushes.
Mr. Rabbit put his hands in,hto pockets
and started up towards his house, swag
gering as though he owned the county,
for he now had more things for dinner
than any one of the other animals, and he
had not had to pay for any of them,
either. As he passed Judge Bear’s house
he saw the old judge go in with a basket
that was twice as large as even that of
Mr. Dog. It was full of the most expen-
Christmas Time on the Reservation.
By William R. Draper.
Little Jimmy Red Eagle and his broth
ers peeped from under their red blankets
long before daybreak oh Christmas morn
ing. They cast an eye about the tepee, but
not for stockings filled with presents, for
Jimmy and his brothers learned these
many years ago that Santa Clauses never
came to tepees. In the first place, there
is no chimney in the tepee, and, secondly,
there is'no fireplace. The teacher was re
sponsible for this, of course, this tale
which buzzed in their little brown ears
and made them sad. But the Red Eagle
boys and girls were not discouraged be
cause Santa had not come to their tepee,
and forthwith made arrangements to go
to him.
On the Indian reservations of the South
west Santa comes to the little red school
houses dotted here and there along the
trail. The teachers have arranged for his
visit there every Christmas, and that day
is spent under the roof of plenty—distrib
uting the presents that have been left
there by unseen persons. It is
a day of good cheer for these little
brown people, who do not know much
pleasure, anyway. The boys forget their
bashfulness, and mingle with the girls in
their anxiety to shovf their presents. At
noon the teachers set out a danty lunch,
such as is not known in tepee life, and
the little fellows and their sisters gorge
themselves. The afternoon is spent in en
tertainment, partly by the little fellows
and partly by the teachers and the older
girls. A neat program is arranged, and
songs, recitations and charades follow.
At eventide the little ones are carted home
in buggies, and there go to sleep and
dream of great things that are to come
into their lives.
The holidays are a continuous round of
pleasure to the reservation children of the
southwest, Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory. They play their rough games and
eat the candy and chew the gum. Their
principal play is going on the warpath.
That is for the boys, while the girls play
at Jumping the rope, making mud pies
and cooking. Indian girls of late years
have been elevated above their former po
sition of waiting on bucks, to lace making,
painting and studying and teaching mu
sic, until some of them are quite proficient
in this line. The little girls are not allow
ed to play with the boys on the same play
ground, although the teachers advocate
stve things, and Mr. Rabbit was sure that
they were better than Mr. Crow’s, Mr.
Fox's or Mr. Dog’s, for Judge Bear was
a wealthy old gentleman. “I remember
Judge Bear’s wanting to roast me in
honey once just because I played a little
trick on him,” said Mr. Rabbit to himself.
“I believe I will try and get that basket
just to get even with him.” He ran up
to the door in a great hurry, knocked and
went in at once without waiting for an
invitation.
“Oh, Judge Bear," he cried, "there is
an awful racket down the road. Mr. Dog
stole Mr. Crow's Christmas dinner, and
then he took Mr. Fox’s, too. He is taking
them home now, and he says he Is com
ing up here to steal yours in a minute.”
“He to, to he?” snorted Judge Bear.
"Well, we’ll see about that. I never did
like Mr. Dog, anyway, and since he bit
one of my cubs I have a very poor opin
ion of him. I will Just go right down to
his house and make him give Mr. Fox
and Mr. Crow back their Christmas din
ners." He put on his hat and started off
at once. Mr. Rabbit walked with him a
little way, then he said he thought he
would go home and fix a Christmas tree
for the children. Judge Bear went on
alone, and Mr. Rabbit started t*ack, but
instead of going straight home »ie went
into Judge Bear’s house and took the bas
ket, which was so heavy that he could
hardly carry it. He dragged it all the
way to his house, and told Mrs. Rabbit
that here were a few things he had Just
brought from the market.
"Land o’ Goshen! Mercy sakes alive!
My goodness, me!” cried Mrs. Rabbit.
"Children, just see what your daddy has
brought us. Isn't he the sweetest, loveli
est, goodest daddy-paddy in the world?”
The children said that certainly he was,
and Mr. Rabbit swelled so with pride that
his suspenders cracked like a wagon
wheel when it needs greasing.
Mr. Rabbit went out and brought back
the baskets he had taken from the houses
of Mr. Crow, Mr. Fox and Mr. Dog. He
told Mrs. Rabbit that he had been very
careful to get plenty of things because he
kneyv that people always ate a lot on
Christmas day, and she said that he had
enough almost for the whole neighbor
hood. Then Mr. Rabbit lay down to take
a nap, for he was very tired from carry
ing those four heavy baskets such a long
distance.
When Judge Bear reached Mr. Dog’s
house he found that there was no one
there, and so he started home again.
When he reached his house, of course, he
found his basket gone, and then he was
in a fearful state of mind. He thought
of course, that Mr. Dog had stolen it
while he himself was at Mr. Dog’s house,
and you should have seen the way he car
ried on! In the meantime Mr. Dog had
come back from chasing Mr. Fox, and he
found his basket gone. He smelled Mr.
Bear’s scent and found his tracks going
out of the front gate, and, of course, he
thought Judge Bear had stolen his basket
of things to get even with him for bit
ing that cub. Then he was in a fearful
state of mind, too.
While Mr. Rabbit was sound asleep on
the sofa Mrs. Rabbit put on her bonnet
and shawl and slipped out to have a talk
with some of the neighbors and tell them
what a fine lot of things Mr. Rabbit had
bought his family. She met Mrs. Crow,
Mrs. Fox, Mrs. Dog and Mrs. Bear, all at
different jtimes. of course, and they all
told how their Christmas dinners had
been stolen. After they had all told her
the same story and blamed each other for
it, Mrs. Rabbit did not believe one single
word of it, for they had all happened to
make the same kind of excuse for not
being able to have any Christmas dinner.
But she felt sorry for them, and, after
telling them all of the good dinner she
was to have the next day, she invited
them, one after another, to come to din
ner with all their families. Os course,
they were all very glad to come, for the
market was sold out, so they could not
get a single thing to eat any other way.
The next day, just as dinner was ready,
and all of the little Rabbits were stand
ing In a row, first on one foot and then
on the other, looking at the table, Mr.
Rabbit saw judge Bear, Mrs. Bear and
the cubs coming up the hill. He was
frightened very badly, but when he saw
Mr. Fox, Mrs. Fox and three of the little
Foxes coming too he almost flew out of
his skin, and when Mr. and Mrs. Crow
appeared he was almost frightened insane.
But they all came up and wished him
merry Christmas, and, although they
looked at each other very angrily out of
the corners of their eyes, their manners
were too good for them to accuse each
other of stealing out in company like
that. So they all sat down to dinner to
gether, and had a fine time, and as soon
as he had got over his fright, Mr. Rabbit
told such funny stories that they all
laughed and Joked like the best of friends.
Mrs. Bear, Mrs. Fox, Mrs. Dog and Mrs.
Crow said afterward that they were very
glad the Christmas dinners were stolen,
for they had such a fine time at Mr. Rab
bit’s home, and, besides, they were saved
the trouble of cooking all the morning.
Mr. Rabbit enjoyed himself as much as
any of the rest, but his fright taught him
a good lesson, and I have never heard of
a rabbit stealing a basket from that day
to this.
their association in the classes and school
room, so as to wear off any bashful ten
dencies that are inborn in the Indian lad.
It has not been until within the last four
of five years that Kiowa, Comanche,
Apache, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Wichita,
Tonkawa, Ponca or Osage child knew the
slightest thing of a holiday, the birth of
Christ, or even that there was such a per
son as Christ. But when the reservation
schools opened, all of these things were
taught, much against the desire of the old
Indians, who did not care to have their
offspring reared in the path of the pale
face, whom they so despised. The mothers
used to move their tepees close to the res
ervation schools, and every night they
would try to worm out of the child every
thing the teacher had taught her during
the day. Progress w’ith the red children
was thus delayed, until an order against
the women coming near their children du
ring the school season was issued and en
forced. The little girls are quick to
learn, and the boys are apt and witty.
William Waldorf Astor is to be invited to
accept the mayoralty of Maidenhead for the
coronation year. The retiring mayor is, W. H.
Grenfell, M. P., whose place at TaploW court
ad loin* Mr. Astor*«.
If The
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it would urge
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Z PEAKLINE!
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yourself,and’
ieven me. Get something that
tDCuheJ your clothes, instead
of wearing and tearing them.
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directions on package, and
you won’t need me much.”6s4
Pea.rline Selves 1
Educational Field |
Conducted By /fora. .M. B. Dermis ||
The Addition of Physiology
and Hygiene Impracticable
in Common School Course,
For years, at each recurring session of
the Georgia legislature, have unsuccessful
attempts been made to add to the present
curriculum of the public schools one or
two extra studies.
We do not impugn the motives of the
authors of such measures. We doubt not
they meant well; but we would suggest
that before such measures are Introduced
and insisted upon the true condition of af
fairs should be Investigated and the prac
ticability of the step be thoroughly con
sidered. An impartial investigation, pros
ecuted under the light ot an intelligent
acquaintance with the true state of things
and leading up to even a partial knowl
edge of the real needs of our common
school system, would, under no circum
stances, we think, fail to reveal the im
practicability of making any additions to
the existing course of study without first
making such changes in the system as
will suit the new conditions. It is at least
charitable to assume that all such meas
ures are usually introduced by parties
who really desire to help t**e cause, but
for want of information relating to the
working details of the system their ef
forts are nothing more than products of
misdirected zeal.
Such additions as have from time to
time been urged, had they been enacted,
would not have affected the city schools.
These schools are so well supplied with
instructors that no teacher has more than
otie or two grades to handle. An additional
study or so would require but little more
time and energy. In other words, the time
of the city teaeher is not so much occu
pied but that an additional study can be
easily introduced without upsetting the
good work of the schooL
Not so with the country teacher. His
time is already crowded to the injury of
the children as well as to hto reputation.
Let’s look into this matter a little and
while we investigate lend us your atten
tion, and we will attempt to reveal some
things that vitally concern you and your
children.
While, of course, the numerical size of
the school plays Its part in determining
the amount of work to be done by the
teacher, it is not as important a factor as
the number Os grades. A school with fifty
pupils and only four grades can receive
Just twice the amount of daily class in
struction' from one teacher as a school
with thirty'pupils but eight grades. Now
if class instruction and class trills are
worth anything, and no one can say nay
then it is very important that the number
of grades to be allotted each teacher be
limited. In the country schools with only
one teacher this thing is utterly ignored,
and teachers with from six to eight grades
are allowed to plod along day after day
doing nothing more than simply hearing
lessons recited, and yet good work is ex
pected of the.m
Good work, good results, are just as
impossible here as would be in the case
of a corn crop or a cotton crop half
worked, or of a mercantile or banking
business half attended to. No teacher,
however learned and well prepared, can
do himself or his pupils justice In such
a school. And yet they are annually em
ployed and placed in charge and expected
to accomplish as much as if conditions
were entirely different. And the worst
of it is, under the present system there
is no remedy.
Oh, when shall the school officials of the
land be brought to appreciate the damage
that is being wrought by such methods
and a change demanded in the system?
A bill introduced during the past session
and passed, perhaps, by both branches of
the legislature, proposes to add physiolo
gy and hygiene to the common school
course, which must be taught with refer
ence to the effects of alcohol and nico
tine upon the human system. This is an
important study and should be taught in
the schools. We can understand how
much good can be accomplished by allot
ing it a place In the curriculum and be
stowing upon it proper attention. We see,
too, how much good might be accom
plished in adding nature study, bookkeep
ing, first principles in philosophy, manual
training and such like to the course of
study if they could receive th* necessary
attention. •
It is not a question of fitness touching
the character of the subject as to wheth
er it should be added to the present
course of study or not, but one of prac
ticability. It matters not what may be
the nature of the study, how important
ar.d desirable as a text book, it should
never be added to the curriculum until a
place is made for it, until such changes
are made in the system as will make its
use practicable. The present course of
study consists of authography, reading,
writing, arithmetic, geography, grammar,
and history. These are the seven bran-
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The Journal,
JHlanta, Ga.
ches that are required at present to be
taught by law. In an ordinary stoed
school these seven branches of study
cover seven or eight grades, thirty-five or
forty dally recltationa
In answer to a number of letters sent
out last year to the country teachers of
Pennsylvania, by Hon. John Hamilton,
secretary of agriculture of that common
wealth, making inquiry as to the number
of dally classes heard, 491 replie* were re
ceived representing 61 counties. "Os this
number,” he reported, "fifty-two teacher*
heard 30 classes; nine, 81; twenty-two, 32;
six, 33; eleven, 34; ten, 35; two, 36; two,
37; two, 38; two, 40; one, 45—a summarT
of the figures showing that one hund***-
and nineteen teachers of the 461 reporting
have daily an average of 32 classes, and
the general average for the whole 491 be
ing 27 classes per day. The average num
ber of scholars in these schools to 33.”
We have been apprised of eight rural
schools in a middle Georgia county—and
they are, we feel sure, not below th*
average—which are presided over by
nine teachers. The average number ot
pupils to each teacher is 27, the average
number of grades is 7, and the averag*
number of daily recitations heard by each
teacher is nearly 36.
In commenting on the condition tn th*
state of Pennsylvania as above quoted,
the honorable secretary of that state very
pertinently remarks that "no teacher can
do justice to himself or to his scholar*
under such conditions. No teacher, no
matter how learned or skilled, can under
the present system, properly Instruct
these pupils in the time at his disposal.
And yet in the country districts, through- ~
out Pennsylvania teachers are compelled,
year after year to attempt this impos
sible task.”
From this showing—and it to not exag
gerated—it will be seen that the Georgia
teacher has more to do than the Penn
sylvania teacher by eight daily recita
tions. What makes the difference we
know not, unless it is the result of a dif
ference in classification on in number of
branches taught. The comment of Mr..
Hamilton is timely, as is knwn by all
acquainted with this kind of work. Now,
if it to impossible to do proper work—that
sort of work that is necessary to accom
plish reasonably good results—in Pennsyl
vania under her conditions, how much
more impossible to it in Georgia under
her less favorable conditions?
The conditions and results as found in
the Georgia school* relate to only seven
branches now taught in the public
schools, as enumerated above. Add only
one more branch, be it Physiology and
Hygiene or whatnot, and two or three
more daily recitations—if not more—must
necessarily be added, and the impossible
rendered more impossible.
In the language of Pennsylvania’* sec
retary of agriculture, “It to impossible,
physically impossible. Th* system must
first be changed.” •
Under such conditions the results of the
work done in the rural schools must, of
course, be meagre. It would simply
amount to a miracle were it otherwise.
And yet, because of present results,
which are the natural offspring of the ex
isting system for which the legislature
alone is responsible, the school officials of
the state and the niggardly paid teachers
are abused and held up to ridicule and
charged with neglect and incompetency.
And what hurts us more than all els* is
the Inexplicable silence and meekness
which has characterized said officials and
teachers under these unreasonable and
grave charges. It to to be hoped the gov
ernor will veto the bill adding physiology
and hygiene to the common school coure*
of study, if for no other reason solely be
cause the present number of branches as
Axed by the law cannot be properly
taught under the system now in force.
M. B. DENNIS.
Theodore Schroeder, of Salt Lake City, had
until recently the finest collection ot Mormon
literature in existence. This collection was pre
sented recently to the Wisconsin Historical As
sociation.
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