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I Women on the Farm
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‘ THE OLD FAMILY TROUSERS.
Jfow dear .to my heart'are the pants .of
childhood
When fond recollection presents them to
▼lew. . .
The pants that I wore in the deep tangled
wildwood.
And likewise, the groves where the crab
apples grew.
The wide spreading seat with Its little
square patches.
The pockets that bulged with my lunch
eon for noon.
And likewise, with marbles and fish
worms and matches.
And kite strings and gum drops from
March until June.
The little patched trousers, the made over
trousers.
The high water trousers that fit me too
soon.
No pantaloons ever did nobler service
■ In filling the hearts of us youngsters
with joy.
They made the descent from Adolphus to
Jervis
Right down through a family of ten lit
tle boys.
Through no fault of mine known to me
or to others.
I'm the tenderest branch of our old fam
ily tree.
So having done service to nine older
" brothers
They came down to me slightly bagged
at the knee.
The little patched trousers, the often worn
’ . trousers. '
. The old family trousers that bagged at
. - the knee.
—Zeb Vance.
The Georgia Industrial Home for Des
titute Children celebrated Its third anni
versary on the 33d of February. It has
been organised and engineered by Rev.
W. S. Mumford since Its inception, and
now has over a hundred inmates.
The home depends entirely on the gen- I
eroalty of the people who appreciate such 1
philanthropic charity. It is non-sectarian
and stoops down to the most needy and
helpless. It should be well supported and
given a word of cheer at all times.
It is a work that cannot be too highly
praised because It reaches out and takes
Into a safe shelter the helpless white
children d/ our land and rescue them
from lives of vice and general degrada
tion.
A»y best wishes are tendered for the
success of this industrial home.
A Beautiful Life.
Lady Henry Somerset, of England, has
written a most Interesting character
sketch of Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith, the
authoress of "The Christian's Secret of a
Happy Life.'*
Mrs. Smith was born In Philadelphia;
is of Quaker descent; her father being a
well known merchant of that city. She
is the mother of several sens and daugh
ters—an elect lady In deed and in truth—
wherever she resides.
—ady Henry Somerset heard of Mrs.
Smith through her own sister, the
Duchess of Bedford, and sought her ac
quaintance. Mrs. Smith's fine face and
sweet tender words won her heart from
the start, as she relates.
Mrs. Smith and Miss Frances Willard
were great friends, and Lady Henry Som
erset says: Mrs. Smith brought two oth
er congenial friends together. Lady
Somerset tells of a bible reading that
Mrs. Smith gave, to which she listened
from the verse: •
•The Lord Is my rock and my fortress
and my deliverer—my God. my strength,
in whom I will trust; my buckler and the
horn of my salvation and my high tower."
She tells of Mrs. Smith's wonderful ex
position of, God's loving care of those
that trust in Him. which made an Indel
ible impression on her own mind, in con
nection with this text.
As I read Lady Somerset's paper pub
lished in Zion's Outlook. I called to mind
my own impressions of Mrs. Smith, when
1 saw her in Nashville, about fourteen
or fifteen years ago. She was then with
Miss Willard at a national W. C. T. U.
convention. She removed to England af
terwards. -
Mrs. Smith gave a bible reading at Mc-
Kendree church one evening which I was
privileged to hear as one of her audience.
Her exposition of the word "keep." I
shall never forget. The care of the heav
enly father for those who trust. His lov
ing kindness was worth a trip to Nash
ville to listen to.
She seemed to be able to explain the
fatherhood of God in the clearest way.
After the reading was over 1 heard a lady
say to her: "1 came thirty miles tnis
evening to look in your face. Your
•Christian s Secret of a Happy Life' has
been such a blessing to me. I felt con
strained to come and thank you.”
She was entertained at the Maxwell
house and so was I. When I reached the
hotel I waited at the ladies' entrance to
thank her for the pleasure she had given
me. With those searching eyes which
seemed to look one through, she looked in
my face a second, then she said: "You
are careful about many things. Seek that
good part, that implicit faith which will
take out of your mind these anxious cares,
for God is ever ready to give you perfect
rest in his love. God tells you to trust
everything in his care .and you know
you are unable to make it easier fbr
yourself. Why not give your life and all
it stands for unto his keeping? He can
give you perfect rest."
She was like a vision of angelic grace
and serenity, witfr her little fine lace cap
on her beautiful brown, wavy hair, and
the peace that passes all understanding
radiated from her sweet and beautiful
features.
Those who knew her home life told us
it was ideal in its real gomfort and Chris
tian repose.
She is a rarely gifted person and as I
read Lady Somerset's interesting account
of her life in England I could easily re
alise her influence over earnest seekers
after Christian truth who are hungering
for the rest that she preaches about so
Beautifully. Her "Christian's Secret of a
& Great Mistake
M * ny women are
WC X •‘down" on
washing
Wu if K i —7l ‘hey tried
VK/ • < j | *"** some, were
**»“* dissatisfied,
J *=7 • and claim
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1 ders are poor. This is wrong.
I PEARLINE is not like other
1 powders. Test it for washing.
1 Compare the soap paste made
■from PEARLINE with that
I made from any other soap
I powder or washing powder. 672
I ASK A FRIEND
Happy Life,” has carried comfort into
thousands of homes whose Inmates were
“weary and heavy laden."
Modern pulpits too often forget this
universal longing for the "rest." the
blessed rest she dwells upon so earnestly.
How I Would Like to Equip a Kitchen.
No carpenter, mason, plasterer, or even
farmer ever thinks of doing acceptable
work for himself or anybody else without
appropriate tools for doing his work.
Who can expect a cook to do first
class work in a kitchen with no conven
iences to make her work comfortable and
expeditious?
The pathway of the average housewife
is not generally strewn with roses. When
she is obliged to do, she will put up with
things that she is far from pleased with,
and the make-shifts sometimes cast a
gloomv shade over her daily treadmill
Ilfs, which ought to be remedied whenever
it is possible.
I have stood in a butcher's shop and
seen the clear, clean cutting of meat.
That memory came back to me in disgust
when I have sawed away on a ham or
shoulder of bacon with a dull knife, and
left ragged edges all abouL I’d have
sharp knives if my kitchen was well
equipped as I’d like to see it.
I am tired of cheap tin, and I'd use
granite or aluminum if I had the choosing
of utensils. I get out of sorts with the
skillets and frying pans that are black to
start with and stay blaek to the end. or
until the old stove is replaced with a new
one and a change occurs.
I'd have a range—and double boilers,
fruit cleaners, potato mashers, cream
churns, raisin seeders, sugar sifters, fruit
strainer, devices to make the butter come
quickly, and every other thing that would
make the work easy, when I had to be
"chief cook and bottle washer” in my
own kitchen, if I had matters arranged
as I would like them.
I know a farm that spent over two
hundred dollars last year in hardware to
make a very poor crop, and from what I
gather, about the business the house
mother cooked all the year, without more
than a dollar's worth of new kitchen ap
pliances. Os course tne farm must have
every improved thing that is talked about
and southern farmers have spent millions
in what is talked about as improved ma
chinery, with the most of the things rot
ting and rusting out in the barn yards,
after a year's trial, hardware men get
ting rich, farmers growing poor.
rd have brushes in my kitchen for
cleaning potatoes, for scouring tins, and
molding boards, a'model cooking table
covered with zinc, kitchen floor warm,
and I’d have a place for every brush, and
save my hands from soap and chaps, if I
could.
I'd have flour and meal blns, spice and
knife drawers, a place for the cut meat,
in shape for cooking, and then I would
not be chasing about as I now do, to get
meat at one place , lard at another, and,
meal at another. I’d have covered roast
ing pans, for fowls, for meat and for
bread raising, wi«e frying baskets, and
I’d have a sink in the kitchen that let
down the dish water into pipes and took
it clear away from the house without my
trotting about With a sloppy dish pan, and
with chickens, cats and little pigs mak
ing a mess about the slop buckets; as too
often happens, and as it is too often per
formed in farm homes.
Don't understand that my wishes and
my performances are running parallel
I wish they did. But I'd have every young
housekeeper remember that her privi
leges should be equal and commensurate
with the management of the general farm
business. I never expect to see my own
kitchen in the finely equipped style here
suggested, but if I was young again, I'd
try to have it so.
Agriculture the Firet Profession.
Agriculture was the first profession
adopted by mankind. There were no law
yers, doctors, manufacturers or trans
porters of goods when men begun farm
ing.
On the farmer's work all the rest of
them built. And the first farming was
stock raising. There was much grass and
the cattle multiplied amazingly. With
meat there came a call for bread stuffs.
Then the tiller of the soil appeared at
the front, but the early farmers were herd
ers and drove their flocks up and down,
hunting grass pastures and running water
for cattle, sheep, goats and swine.
The camel was the early beast of bur
den.' The camel was strong, subsisted on
grass and lived to a good old age.
The first clothing was made of skins
and flax and hemp.
Tradition has it that silk was made in
China a thousand or more years before
Christ. There was no cotton known until
about Homer’s time, and oats are first
mentioned about the time of Christ. We
are told that sugar‘and coffee first came
from Arabia, but coffee was not used as
a beverage until the sixteenth century,
even in that country.
When the first settlers arrived in Amer
ica they found that the Indians lived al
most entirely by fishing and hunting.
The squaws worked the corn patches and
the malse has always been known as In
dian corn since that time.
They found tobacco, a new plant to
them, on this continent Sweet potatoes
were also found in America. Wheat was
brought over here after Columbus discov
ered America. Arabia and Abyssinia were
the coffee districts of the country until
Brazil stepped in and largely absorbed the
markets. Spain was for several hundred
years the wool growing country of the
world. Now Australia has taken up the
lead and keeps it.
Farming on large plantations in the
south with slave labor was the largest
exhibit of farming known to the world
until the great west after the war went
upon prairie lands with machinery and
revolutionized grain growing on this con
tinent.
In my opinion the system of agriculture
in this country will change gradually. Lit
tle farms around towns and villages will
take the place of large and sparsely set
tled plantations. Then the children can go
to school .their elders will have church
privileges and the yihing and old will see
more of each other in recreation and Im
provement societies.
Farming is obliged to be and will con
tinue to be the greatest industry in this
world. Only the soil of the earth will
bring forth the meat and bread that the
nations of the world must have for sub
sistence. *
Let nobody feel inclined to look down
upon agriculture as a profession. It was
blessed of God and will continue to bless
mankind.
Appreciative Word* of the Semi-Week
ly Journal.
Dear Mrs. Felton—For a long time I
have been a close reader of The Atlanta
Journal .and I am especially attentive to
the "Country Home” page.
I particularly desire to express my grati
tude for the good I have received from
your department In The Journal. May God
bless you in the continuation of your suc
cessful work. MRS. F. T. 8.
MIDDLESBORO, Ky.
Mrs. W. H. Felton—l always read every
thing you write for The Journal and enjoy
the articles more than anything I read in
the paper. I do wish you great success
and happiness in your work.
MRS. J. F. P.
From a young lady at boarding school:
Dear Mrs.‘Felton—l do enjoy The Semi-
Weekly Journal so much. I read your page
with greatest pleasure. Let me thank you
for all the good you have done me.
Your Girl Friend.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1902,
WHERE THE SCHOOL MONEY GOES ’ "FURIOUS CRITICISMS’
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON. /
For several weeks nearly every issue of
the Journal has contained some article or
communication in which my name has
been called, and my motives discussed,
and my words garbled, in relation to vari
ous matters connected with our common
schools.
One would suppose I was personally con
nected In some way with the business, or
Intimately concerned In the conduct of
the mataimoth school system of Georgia,
from the furious criticisms which have
been hurled at me by certain parties, who
have used the writers to pull some chest
nuts out of a very hot fire.
I hasten to say I have no Individual or
prospective interest in a single dollar of
the school fund, after it reaches the treas
ury, and have not a single expectation
or intention of having any more to do
with the pecuniary feature of the business
hereafter than I have at present. I am
absolutely and emphatically disinterested
In this discussion and have not the slight
est objection to listening to the bark cf
"Tray, Blanche or Sweetheart,” that have
been set on my heels.
This barking -goes to show that some
body is listening to the discussion.
It means that the public is getting
awake to the Issues involved.
The people are beginning to think. Ar
rest of thought always precedes a reform.
The taxpayers are asking themselves
where all this school money goes; and
while I might, like Jonah, be effectually
silenced when "swallowed by a wha“ I
certainly do not Intend to be "nibbled to
death by minnows,” that are pushed for
ward in this nibbling business, as before
stated.
If anybody questions the unrest that
prevails all over Georgia, in regard to the
vast expenditure of tax money raised for
common school education it would cer
tainly be a person who knows nothing
at all about the very poor results which
are subjects of daily criticism.
The expenditure, as copied from the
state commissioner’s report in the year
1900, which I hold in my hand as I write,
is as follows:
"Salary of county school commissioners
162,074.50.
“Salary of members boards of education
$10,827.41.
"Postage, printing and other incidentals
$16,282.97.
"Amount expended on school supplies
and buildings 171.628.67.
"Amount paid to teachers, >1,318.512.15."
The Peabody fund allowed to Georgia in
the year 1900 amounted to the neat little
sum of $7,686.86, and I presume that
The Agricultural and Mechanical College At Athens.
Colonel W. L. Peek has an article in
The Southern Cultivator of March 15th in
which he discusses the State College of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 'which is
run in connection with the university at
Athens, Ga.
His contention is that the land scrip
fund and the Morrill fund appropriated
by the congress of the United States
should be used for the establishment and
maintenance of agricultural schools, apart
from and away from the University of
Georgia at Athens.
Friends of the university claim that
these funds, together with all appropria
tions that can be obtained from the Geor
gia legislature, are actually needed to
maintain the university up to a reasonable
standard, and that farmers’ sons are
yearly getting the benefit of practically
free tuition, that thJ theory of agriculture
is fully taught in the university, and that
the teaching of practical application can
not be successfully taught.
Colonel Peek says: "Our friend who has
written to me says, 'I am familiar with
the university situation, and the universi
ty has no funds aside from the Morrill
fund, and to remove it the people have to
be taxed to replace it.’ ”
In reply to this Colonel Peek says:
“Let us examine Into the matter with
all fairness to the university and to the
farmers of Georgia, and see if my. friend’s
statement will bear the turning on of the
x-rays for Investigation of the Morrill
fund, and In so doing I want to sdy in the
beginning that I am a friend of the state
university and love and honor the many
great men it has sent forth to shape the
affairs of our state and nation. I am also
a friend to the farmers of my native
state and I am pleading for justice that
our sons may also become great and good
men, masters in agriculture and a bless
ing to themselves and to those who con
sume the fruits of our fields.
"Here are the facts and figures. In Mr,
O. B. Stevens’ new book of 1901, 'Georgia:
Historical and Industrial,’ we find besides
the various gifts for specific purposes and
the annual appropriations by the state,
that Dr. William Terrell bequeathed
$20,000 to the university in 1854 as a perpet
ual fund. In 1883 Governor Joseph E.
Brown gave it $50,000, and almost from its
birth our state has paid to it SB,OOO inter
est on SIOO,OOO of the state's bonds. This
SB,OOO is nearly as much as the income
from the endowment funds of Emory or
Mercer.
"The acts of our legislature are full of
appropriations year by year for the main
tenance of the university. If the reader
will examine the appropriation acts of
1900 and 1901, he will find that the last
legislature appropriated $145,900 to this in
stitution and its branches. Mr. O. B. Ste
vens says in his book on page 575 that the
above appropriation was for each fiscal
year of 1901 and 1902. The same legislature
reduced the appropriation of the common
school to SBOO,OOO annually.
Now, we come to the Morrill fund of
$25,000 a year, which my above quoted
friend says is the life of the University.
If my friend had not stopped his investi
gation soon he would have found that
away back of this, for thirty long years
the State University has been receiving
$16,954.30 a year. A sum total of $508,620,
including 1902, from the Land Scrip fund.
(See advance sheets United States Bureau
of Education, 1901, of Agricultural and
Mechanic Arts).
If the same reports are correct they
have had the use of the Morrill fund for
twelve years to the amount of $245,000
(see page 95, report of secretary of the
interior, fiscal year ending June 30. 1901).
Aside from the Land Scrip and Morrill
funds the facts show that our Stafe Uni
versity has been cared for by state appro
priation in that liberality due such an in
stitution, and it ought to flourish now
without a cent of the Land Scrip or Mor
rill fund.
HERE IS THE LAW.
Let us see how those acts read or what
their captions are, for all men of legisla
tive experience know the caption of any
act has to contain the purpose of the law.
Thus reads the caption of the Land Scrip
Act, approved July 2, 1862. "An Act, do
nating public lands to the several states
and territories which may provide colleg
es for the benefit of agricultural and the
mechanic arts.”
Under this act Georgia .received 30,000
acres of land for each senator and repre
sentative in congress, which gave our
state at that time 300,000 acres of land,
which was sold under the act and the an
nual proceeds net an Income to the state
of $16,954.30 annually. This is a perpetual
fund, /
WHAT WAS DONE WITH MONET.
In 1872 Governor Smith passed an order
transferring this fund to the trustees of
the university. At this act of the gov-
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amount does not include the $4,000 contrib
uted by the agent. Dr. Curry, to Normal
School at Athens, also to Milledgeville
and Dahlonega in 1900. There is no item
ized account of the use to which that Pea
body money is applied in this report for
1900. When I made inquiry I was inform
ed by a person who was once a teacher,
that it was largely used in employing
teachers, white and colored, for insti
tutes. I know nothing of my own knowl
edge as to its disbursement.
But these figures show the expense en
tailed on the state year before last, and
the school fund apportioned for 1901 was
as follows, taken from report of state
school commissioner dated October 1, 1901:
Direct levys 800,000
Poll tax 250,014
Half rental W. & A. R. R 210,006
Liquors 132,343
Fertilizer fees, net 16,592
Convict hire 81,297
Georgia Railroad stock, dividend.. 2,045
Show tax 4,636
Oil fees, net ... 8,193
Aggregatesl,sos,l27
Peabody funds 7,900
Now the readers of The Journal will un
derstand how the money flows in, and I
stand in my humble place to say, that I
heartily agree with the statement of some
of the candidates for state school com
missioner's position, th'is year, when they
point to these figures and say this money
has been extravagantly expehded, judg
ing by the results.
In the year 1900 the local systems, which
we understand to mean the town and city
schools were allowed only $198,964.73 of
this amount, less than $200,000, as the pro
rata for children who attended school un
der these local systems.
The rest of the fund went to common
country schools and the money went
really into the pockets of the persons who
are commissioners, boards of education,
in postage and incidentals (whatever that
may mean), and teachers, as copied in this
article. Postage and printing went up to
over $16,000 dollars, a large sum.
I notice in the state school commission
er's report some figures pertaining to
school books that are mysterious to me.
I hope somebody can tell us how the
school book business Is managed.
In table No. 6 of the report for 1900 there
is a list by counties of books bought prior
to July 1, 1899, and books bought after
July 1, 1899. The sum total foots up $235,-
399.29.
There is a good deal said about this
school book business and there is common
complaint about the frequent changes
ernor much adverse comment was made
as all men of close observation know that
classics and agriculture would not har
monize and the final result would be that
the State University would absorb the
whole thing to the detriment of the sons
and daughters of farmers, consequently
in 1887 when the Hatch Act was passed
giving each state and territory $15,000 an
nually for the support and maintenance
of an agricultural experiment station, the
governor was making preparations to or
ganize the station at Athens. To this a
strong disapproval of the masses went up
and In December; 1888, the .legislature
passed an act putting the location and
direction of the station under a board of
directors and they located It at Griffin.
Now the Morrill bill approved August
1, 1890, the caption of which reads as fol
lows:
AN APPROPRIATION.
“An Act to .apply a portion of the pro
ceeds of the public lands to the more com
plete endowment and support of the col
leges for the benefit of agriculture and
the mechanic arts, established under the
provisions of an Act of Congress, approved
July, second, eighteen hundred and sixty
two.”
This bill appropriated $15,000 the first
year and increased it SI,OOO a year until it
reached $25,000. Then to remain a perpetu
al fund of $25,000 a year, said money to be
applied only to Instruction in agriculture,
the mechanic arts, the English language
and the various branches of mathematical,
physical, natural and economic science,
with special reference to their applications
in the industries <bf life.
In Mr. Hill’s write up of the A. and M.
college for Stevens’ book, Com
mercial and Industrial,” chapter 13, page
365 to 373, he falls to mention this Morrill
fund and so far as we have examined it Is
not mentioned within -the book. Mr. Hill
was too conscientious to name it another
Integral part of the State University.
Neither have we found out how it was
dropped into the University bag, but it is
there all the same and made another in
tegral part of the University or the
"tegral” part, “the t£il that wags the
dog.”
But in that write up Mr. Hill does say
that "The trustees have recently appro
priated $5,000 to the department of agricul
ture and it is expected that with this lib
eral expenditure there will be a rapid de
velopment and growth in this depart
ment.” To this we tip our hat. Possibly
MRS. M’FADYEN TALKS
OF CHILD LABOR QUESTION
Mrs. Irene Ashby Macfadyen, who has
been in the south for the purpose of en
listing public interest in child labor leg
islation, is in the city on her way to New
York, whence she sails shortly for South
Africa, via England.
She was interviewed on the sub
ject in which she has taken so great
an interest. She first became known in
the south last year as Miss Irene Ashby.
Since October, 1901, when she returned
from Europe on her wedding trip, she has
been busily engaged in working for the
movement under the auspices of the Cen
tral Committee of Alabama and Georgia,
the respective chairmen of which are Rev.
Edgar Gardner Murphy, of Montgomery,
and Judge Henry B. Tompkins.
Her husband, Alfred Macfadyen, who is
secretary to the prime minister of Cape
Colony, was compelled to return to his
post in December, and she is on her way
to rejoin him.
“I am not all discouraged,” she said,
"by the failure of the child labor bill to
pass either the Georgia or South Carolina
legislatures this winter. In the latter
state its failure by three votes was so
close as to be a promise for the future.
"I feel,” she continued, “now that the
matter has been taken up by such men
as compose the Central Committee of
Georgia and South Carolina that I am no
longer needed.
"I had a talk with Judge Thomas G.
Jones, of Montgomery, two days ago, and
he assured me that public sentiment in
that state is greatly In favor of the legal
protection of children from the greed of
parents and the corporations, and he be
lieved the bill would pass the next legisla
ture.
"Rev. C. B. Wilmer, of this city, tells
me that the committee is preparing for
an active campaign, and he asked me to
leave him all the facts that have come to
my knowledge. The farmers' clubs
throughout the state agree to co-operate
with the Central Committee, and it is cer
tain that organized labor will do the
same.
"1 was In Chicago a few weeks ago and
arranged with Miss Jane Addams. of Hull
house, for her to bring the subject before
the biennial conventloh of Women’s clubs
to be held in May at Los Angeles, Cal.,
as I am unable to go myself.
"The fact that the south is the last spot
in the civilized world to allow the ex-
that are made from one book to another
and those that complain in my hearing
say they must buy these new books con
stantly.
If one-half of the complaints, rumors,
dissatisfaction and direct assertions are
true, then the people would like to know
something definite about the book busi
ness.
!Who buys these books that are set down
in this table No. 6, and who sells them,
and who makes the profit? Turn on the
light.
As before said, I have no interest in the
matter save the interest of the tax-pay
ers. I know we are paying enormous tax
es for state and county purposes in the
county I live in and I know my neighbors
have no free school in their reach to pat
ronize. Either they must send to Carters
ville and pay for the privilege or go across
creeks and plantations which are unsafe
to young girls as we all know, to reach
a rural school for white children.
The fault may all lie in the system, but
the time has come to change the sys
tern if it works an injustice to the people
wno raise this money. The local systems
are much thought of but the poor schools
in the country are eating up the patience
as well as the money of the taxpayers.
I would humbly suggest that every
county should publish once a year the
names of all persons drawing school
money in that county with itemized
statement as to the number of scholars
and teachers employed, /he people should
see for themselves. The treasurer of Bar
tow county has to itemize his account
and the grand jury investigates. Now
this big outlay for schools demands care
ful attention.
Let the people have it.
A gentleman remarked In my hearing
a few days ago: “While folks are talk
ing so much about trusts, why don’t they
get after the school teaching trust?”
I do know that Georgia has many ex
cellent teachers. I intend to »glve them
dud credit always, but It looks like there
is a well organized effort to make posi
tions of profit, whether the state has any
common schools or not. Stop the taxa
tion or give the people the right sort of
schools.
DO YOU SUFFER WITH PILES?
Do they protrude?
Do they bleed?
Do they pain you?
Do you have mucous or’bloody dis
charges?
I can cure you. I also cure varicocele
and stricture. Advice free. Dr. Tucker,
16 1-2 N. Broad street, Atlanta, Ga. •••
this “liberal" donation is the wonderful
harmonizer of the "nineteen ages” and
“snore coming” who are now writing home
such good news and glad tidings of the
winter course in agriculture.
Now, is the money arising from these
two acts being strictly applied to the pur
pose and intent of the law? If so, the ef
forts of "Uncle Sam” to educate his sons
of toil is futile, a failure, a farce, and we
will prove It by the reports of the presi
dent of the A. and M. at Athens, of the
years IS9B and 1899 on page 1739, advance
sheets United States bureau of education.
President White reported sixteeen stu
dents studying agriculture. In President
White's report of 1899 and 1900, page 2058,
advance sheet United States bureau of
education, we find that at Athens there
are seventeen students of agriculture and
at the colored college, located at Savan
nah, there is not one who thinks of tick
ling God’s green earth for a living.
If our state wduld see her University
again as she was in the days of Toombs,
Cobb and Hill, she must render unto
the farmers the money that belongs to the
farmers.
No man with a mind legally unbiased
can rdad the Land Scrip act, the Morrill
bill, without coming to the conclusion at
once that these funds have been misap
plied. That the general government In its
wisdom saw the necessity for educating
the farmer In the science of agriculture
and mechanic arts and appropriated this
money by these acts for that purpose and
no other.
• •••••
Now, give back our Land Scrip fund,
$16,954.30 a year; give us our Morrill bill
fund, $25,000 a year; give us the Hatch
act ftmd, $15,000 a year; give us the in
spection fees, which for the past three
years averaged $25,000, and we will have
an experiment station and an A. and M.
college in south Georgia, in middle Geor
gia, in north Georgia and educate one
thousand girls and boys annuallly without
one cent of expense to the state.
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it cannot be long before this blot on fair
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In reply to a question Mrs. Macfadyen
stated there are over 120,000 white chil
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textile mills cf the south, and It would be
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of these are under 12.
A child labor bill has just been passed
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the employment of children under 14 in
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Mrs. Macfadyen was in Louisville at the
end of February and spoke on invitation
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She was also at Frankfort, Ky., and
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the children working In tobacco factories
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a very strong interest. She thinks that
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While in Frankfort, Ky., she saw at
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in the hemp mlLs and two hours later
little negro girls on their way to school.
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backed by some of the fairest men of the
south," she said, "and I am confident that
they will not permit any one class of the
community coached by outsiders who wish
to make money out of the southern chil
dren, to prevent the enactment of a just
law of protection for these helpless little
one. It hardly does credit to the intelli
gence of the mill owners or their at
torneys to represent such men as Judge
Tompkins, Hon. Hoke Smith, Bishop
Nelson, *sishop Candler and Governor
Candler, who are publicly supporting the
measure, as labor 'agitators.”
Mrs. Macfadyen will stop for a few
hours In Columbia, S. C., to put the sup
porters of the measure there into commu
nication with the central committees of
Georgia and Alabama.
"We intend to form a cordon around
the south,” she said, "and sweep this
wrong away."
Traveling Libraries
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Literary Digest.
A system of circulating libraries that
promises much for the educational devel
opment of the south has recently been
organized in Georgia under the name of
the “Andrew Carnegde Free Traveling Li
braries.” The plan has secured not only
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co-operation of a great southern railway,
the Seaboard Air-Liner which gives free
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Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia, Florida
and Alabama. Mrs. Eugene B. Heard, who
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"These libraries are intended princi
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and we have recently added A number
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required effort necessary to secure them
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I The late President McKinley took a per
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isolated communities of the south, and it
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Says Mrs. Heard:
“The libraries will be prize libraries of
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Improvement in the surroundings of their
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ings. ornamenting the grounds, planting
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The 'William McKinley Memorial Libra
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