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VOL I. NO 99. VIENNA. GA., SATURDAY,.MAY 10. 1902. TWICE"A*WEEK $1.00 PER YEAR The Patrons and The School. L AST WEEK I attempted to show In some sort of a Way some of the duties of teachers. . In this it shall be my purpose to set forth, in connection with the many duties of teachers, * few duties involved upon parents as patrons of our country schools. In order to get the connecting link let us first review hastily the duties of the teacher. We say: (1) That the teacher should not under-estimate the value of his .work. (2) That he should strive to become thoroughly acquainted with hls'patrons. (8) That he should be willing, and not only willing but anxious, to explain his plans and methods of teaching to the pa:eM.. (4) That lie should, in order to get the patrons familiar with his work, encourage them to visit the school. (6) That he should truthfully repre sent the children to their parents. (8) That he should give his whole time to the school work. (7) That lie should be careful and conscientious in performing every known duty. (8) That he should not be satisfied with wlint he is, but should' avail him self of every opportunity to elevate his profession by elevating himself. Now, in order that the teacher may be successful in performing these and various other duties, it is necessary for the good Of the school and all concerned that the following duties o. the patrons nrd carefully and conscientiously per formed : (1) Patrons do not, as a rule, suffici ently recognise the importance of their schools. They nro too easily satisfied when the teacher Is hired, and likewise too liOsty inbccoining dissatisfied when things do not go well. They should be more careful at the beginning in order to reap the best results at the end. It is necessary to have an up-to-date teacher backed by up-to-date patrons in order to have an up-to-date school. We often hear people say, “My children are not leumlng a thing unless it be more meanness/’ Is this altogether the teacher’s fault? If it is, you na patrons, should not be so willing to employ those of us who are resting at ease as to what we are now. You are about to hire a teacher who has been spending about all he has made to better fit himself for hit work, Just before the contract is modo here comes a teacher who has not fitted himself at all and oilers to toke the school “for what the county will pay.’* Without one time'stopping to ask yourself what sort of material you are about to pur-, chase, you at once conclude to employ the ohaper teacher since, as you say, “Our children ore all small and this fellow will do as well as any we can get.’’ You forget that the youngest should receive the most careful. atten tion. Do yon think that, after you have been so hasty and unobserving in pro curing cheap property, you should be so quick to find fault? Is that the best way to recognize the importance of your school? (2) Patrons should not over-estimate their children’s knowledge. When “Jamie,” a boy about ten or twelve years of age, brings his new arithmetic home, say for Instance it is Bacon’s Four Year’s in Number, his father opens it and looks at thefint few pages and gives it bock to the boy saying, “I don’t see any use in making you fool away your time studying that easy thing, you ought to have known what is in there two years ago. I don't see any sense in it no how.” Do you know that you then planted seed that may never be uprooted? The child should be encouraged to go up by: degrees understanding thoroughly, ores nearly as possible, every step as he goes. Going through a course does not neces sarily mean understanding a course. (8) Patrons should reciprocate the efforts of the teacher to become ac quainted both with the teacher himself and bis plans and methods of teaching. It is true that, if our country schools ever amount to much more than they gre now, teachers will have to “wske- lv Mip,” and it is Just as true with the patrons. Of ten a month or two has passed before the teacher gets a chance to meet all of his patrons face to face. During this time many of them formed their opinion of their "new teacher,” and have expressed it freely before their children whether it be good or bad. . Would it not be better to go a few steps out of your way to see and know for yourself just how and what pour teacher is doing, and what manner of man he is before you express too freely your thoughts? (4) Patrons should possess a forgiving spirit. When the teacher has, as you think, made a mistake do not be too quick too fly off the handle, but try first to see his motive—his purpose. (6) Patrons, or parents, should see that their children are in school every da:y. When a child is too ill to go to sohool he ahonld bo treated as such and not be allowed to run about from place to place. Or perhaps sometimes the father is going to town, or, better still for this time of the year, he is going a fishing, and according to a promise mode two or three months before, “Jamie” says he must go, sohool or no school. Then perhaps the next day his father says it is necessary to keep “Jamie” at home to help moke up for lost time, then you say, “Well, the week is nearly gone and you wouldn’t learn much before Monday so you can wait’till then to go back.” So on And Says “Uncle George" Is the Right Han, and That He is as Clever After an To the Editor of the jSTews : As I am a citizen of Dooly coun ty, I but naturally take a deep in terest in her politics. I am sur prised that any mun should come out tor office in this county and promise to improve in the manage ment of the public affairs ot the county especially in the case of the Sheriff, If Dooly county has one man, more than another that it should be proud of, it is our present Sheriff— G. W. Sheppard, famil iarly and lovingly 'called “Uncle George.” He is a man with a heart as big as a barrel; a handshake that is as good as the etrains of Dixie to the ears of n confederate soldier. Dooly county needs just such a man—kind hearted, good and sincere, earnest and painstak ing, loved by all good citizens and COMMUNICATION. through the tbrm it goes. If the real I respected and feared by criminals, cause was known why many of the' rj ■. t u children are not any further advanced e 1 e it would be found to center in and around irregularity of attendance. (6) Lastly, patrons should give the teacher their sympathy always. Page says, “Let the parents;give their sym pathy and co-operation to the teachers of their children, .and the profession would soon be filled with devotedand talented men who would be willing to live and die in their work; and when from the last pillow, they would cast backs lingering look to the scene of their labors, the roses would amply conceal the thorns.” This and what was said last week has been done in and through love for the dear children of our county. Can we, aa teachers and patrons, afford to sit idly by and'see so many boys and girls eome up uneducated—unprepared to enter into the business affairs of life? Should we not preas forward both working oa one for the good of all? Tuons. ZION HILL CORRESPONDENCE. The following is what the Zion Hill correspondence to the Cordele Sentinel has to say about those questions ask the editor of the Progress by “Voter” last week which were answe^d incorrectly "Did you see those questions Mr Editor, fn the Vienna Progress, in tending to reflect on "Uncle George” Sheppnrd? Do you sup pose that they originated in the mind of that "great paper” because the Sheriff saw proper to change the legal advertisement to the Vienna News? The answers look that way, but the effect oi this un due advantage to injure a candidate is helping Sheppard out here. The account of that language ■ in the Progress at that time was quite different from the editor’s answers to these questions now. We see no reason for this unless the first account wos “before taking” and those answers were “after taking” the legal ads to the News for a season. ” I CAN GET YOU ONE THOUS AND DOLLARS or more to build you a home or business bouse t» be ptid back in zoo months at $5.50 per month and no more. See me, investigate our plan. Agents wanted everywhere. , .D, A. R. CRUM, Vienna, Go. same good and clever man between elections as he is just before them, He does not have one kind of a handshake then und and another when electioneering. Mr, Editor: Mr. Sheppard’s name is as becoming io him as any thing could possibly -be for lie has been a good shepherd to our county —tried and found true. Say Bud 1 when a man has a good home, it he is wise he don’t need to trade he . had better lfuve “well enough—when it is as good as it can be—alone,” and. I predict that when the primary is over and the votes ure counted that he will have a clean sweep, and will con- tinue to keep watch over the sheep that go astray for the next two years. I know for he hus had op position before and they were all good men too. Hurrah for "Uncle George!” Hurrah!! Observer. Foley's Honey and Tar cures colds, prevents pneumonic. A BIRTHDAY DINNER. Mr. O. M. Heard tendered large number of his friends abirth- d&y dinner in honor of his 29th. year, af the opera house Wednes day afternoon at a '.30. This has been a custom of Mr. Heard tor the past few years and those who were so fortunate us to have been present on former occasions knew what was in store for them. . When the hour bad arrived the audience con sisted of old and young und there were possibly 75 or too present. The refreshments consisted of ice cold beer, ginger ate, crackers, boiled ham, beef? chips and pickles, which were passed around through the crowd with pol.’e and atten tive waiters. Everything passed off nicely and everybody present bad a nice time. Mr. -Heard is one of Vienna’s most prominent and enterprising business men and has many fr.eods who wish to see him live to cele brate many more happy birthdays. Pinehurst, Go., May 6,1902. Editor News : In the issue of your valuable paper the 30th, ult., there appeared a long winded communication from Mr. O. B. Perry with a "P. B.” attached which reads thus: “My friend Pinehurst accuses Mr. Terrell of putting tax on fertilizers for us poor farmers to pay. I deny the charge, and you can’t prove It. Mr. Terrell didn’t have anythlng'to do with that, audit is not my business to enlighten you. I am a farmer and not a tramp, stove or coffee pot patcher. This ends my con troversy with you.” Mr. Editor, as the gentleman has declared off, we must of necessity trouble you with this communication. We regret somewhat to be compelled to refute some of this “enlighten” article with its P. S. In the first place, Mr. O. B. P. seems to have a peculiar neck of getting cross wise in his valuable (?) artioles. As a matter of fact, the Pinehurst scribe that this apostle desires to assign as a tramp, stove and coffee pot patcher did not communicate the article referred to, and while he has done us the injus tice to declare the controversy at an end, we don’t feel quite disposed to lot it pass unnoticed. While his article was not of much value as for instruction in that connection, he has placed the “tramp, stove and coffee pot patcher” in a position that needs mentioning, From the tenor of the flow ot hlB lan guage no one, not even a tramp or stove patcher would ever supposed him to have been, as he styles himself, nothing but a farmer. While we can bear a great deal of newspaper slash, yet when it is 8 foot, which will be shown, that the communicant of said Terrell guano act was truly a farmer, it becomes oar duty to handle that part of his article that treats on us. As for the “corkscrew element” that appeared In the Sentinel a few issues ago the Pinehurst scribe is responsible, and as doubtless he (Mr. O. B. P;) ob tained his information from some of the “smart set” he doubtless drew on his imagination os usual, and after being informed ot our occupation, naturally ascribed the Terrell guano net to us— desiring to do us one and then end the controversy. Had Mr. 1’orry posed ns nothing but a farmer a few years ago, possibly the Experimental farm which would have proven to have been to him a valuable sugar-coated political piam, might have fallen on him, and such lamentations as we hear now that, “Pm nothing but a, farmer,” would have been but echoes of the past. But lo I this honest tiller of the soil now poses as a political beacon light, possibly similar, but not so effectual to that which illuminated the pathway of the great men of the east, (not east of Vienna) and by dili gent search and careful guidanco di rected them to tho true light of the world. But this conflagration, however, after an extended tour to Atlanta and other suburbs came and hovered over Cordole and found a terrible, one-eyed, blind tiger influence and then, after casting his political radience, equaled only by the great aurora borealis found a tramp, stove and coffee pot patcher at Pime- hurst. “The time la short,” he says, and he will call a halt and end the con troversy with us, and will endeavor to devote the remaining few days before the nomination to illuminating those that have made op their minds. Pos sibly he may induce even Mr. Terrell to support Mr. Guerry, if so, success to Mr. 0. B. P. Pardon me for requesting a little space in your valued columns, but ne cessity seems to bave demanded, which we deplore. ' “Stoyb Patohbb.” Buggies! Galore- Car Load Celebrated Anchor Buggies just received. Prices right—quality best. J. P. Hfeard & Sons, it savsd Hif Leg P A Danlorth, of Lagrange, Ga., atif- fere for six months with a (rlghilul run ning sore on hts leg; but writes that Bucklen’s Arnaca Salve wolly cured U in five days. For ulcers, wounds, piles, u’a the best salve in the world. 'Cure guar anteed. Vienna Dans Co. BATCH OF NEWS FROM UNADILLA The Dooly Count; Nodical Association Unndilla, Ga., May g,< 1902. The Dooly County Medical asso ciation convened here last Tuesday and were tendered a banquet at the Duncan hotel by Dr’s. McArthur and Wooten. Th&se meetings arc increasing in interest and the dis cussions of subjects pertaining to the science of medicine and surgery will prove beneficial to the mem bers. The next meeting will be held at Arabi on the first 'Tuesday * in July, when the physicians at that place will tender the members a banquet. Mrs. W. B. Nichols left Tueeduy for Americus, where she will spend several weeks the guest of Mrs. C. W. Lamar. A. E. Graves visited Cordele Thursday. Miss Mary Teter went up to Elko Thursday where she joined the Elko people in their annual picnic at Beech Haven, Miss Nellie Thorp spent Thurs day night out in the country with Mrs. D. W. Harvard, W. J. Oliver was elected by the’ Methodist Sunday school as a del egate to the State Sunday School association at Dublin, and he left Wednesday to attend. Our good Christian ladies are still keeping up their Tuesday afternoon prayer meetings. Mrs. L. A. Morgan of Atrericus is the guest of her father S. L. Speight this week. Miss Laura Kate Pute has re turned home from Vienna where she has been the guest of Misses Emmie'and Carolyn Roberts. Mrs/W. L. Hooks has been on the sic k list this week. Glad to learn that she is improving. Mrs./. Y. Nethcrton is able to be up again. , Miss Smithy Carroll is quite sick this week, Hope she will soon be out again. S. D. Thompson of near Pine hurst, spent a few hours here with his friends Frida f morning. Mrs. Jas. F. McArthur visited Macon this week shopping. Judge D L Henderson of Vienna passed through here Friday morn ing enroute to Henderson, with two of his children to spend some time with their grind-parents Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Kendrick. ' Misses Minnie and Evelyn Pea-, cock of Emericb, were in town Friday. Don’t give up and say there it no spec tacles which yon can see through just because you bn/e failed to get fitted Re member 1 am fining those kind every d«T. H. A. Youmans, Jeweler and Optician. Attention Candidates You are hereby notified to send hi (r turn over to me the amount assessed you by the Executive committee on or betorc Kay the 20th. Very Resp’t. • L, NOBLES, Vienna, GaMay 8th, 19c s. Don’t forget we have a nice liner 01 mens and boys Straw Kata. See them before buying elsewhere. J. P, Heard & Sons’.