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■w-V" " ttnttttttta ,.|l>0KY M'HVIII. Kl»tX\\TtO.\ • the best schools will never • Ue the evil of illiteracy until an effective attendance law erv stale. To be effective the mist be compels >rv, with suffi- peiialty to cause it to lie obey- yiiis has been the experience of t otlier states and countries, n' may not expect a different here. The sooner we profit fj r example the better, present Austria, France, Eng- Scotland, Hungary, Italy, Nor- Sweden, Denmark, tlie Swiss L „, s , the German States, British ibia, New Zealand, Prince Ed- Island, Tasmania, Qtieens- South Australia, the nets of Canada, and , two of the United States compulsory attendance Jaws, i a few minor exceptions these require attendance six, seven, r |,t years, from twelve weeks to months annually. In ail the t in which such laws have bten ctd longer than twenty-five or v years the percentage ot illiter- ias been reduced to a minimum. ■ states and countries contain a lauon of more than two hundred fiity niillion people, the freest most progressive in this woild jre than eighty per-cent of all leople we call enlightened and rcssiye. Of the . twirty-two rlcan states having such a law two—Kentucky and West Vir- —me southern states. But t Inis been found good for all great states and countries will inhly not prove otherwise for us; it is noted with pleasure that leiitiuient in favor of such a law iveloping rapidly in all parts ot south. ie following seems to be a fair mary of the argument for com- ory scliool attendance: Universal education is essential le material, intellectual and mor- lfare ot the state. Illiteracy hurden and constant menace to iu morals and civil liberty, and ileus the very existence of the The state provides schools at io expense, collecting money for ' support by law, and by force leeNsury. It therefore has a right iforce attendance, that its money not tie wasted and that its tu ns may be protected. Individual welfare depends on general welfare. Having taken money of one man to ednoate the Iren of-another, the state must eet that man and. his'children the oppression and dangers ot ate neighbors ami fellow-citi Such a law cannot be a garden to was m the decades immediately-sue* those.who would educate their child- ceedmg the ravages of war. Building ren without it. As laws against materia) is abundant In every state, stealing are not burdensome to bon- and our uu*n have strong arm to tell est men, so a reasonably compulsory trees, prepare lumber' and make law cannot be burdensome to pa- brick. We sl.o .Id begin at once to rents who desire to deal honestly build decent and comfortable school a id justly with tlieif children, houses in every school district, and 5. riie experience of other states to equip them with the needful f..rn- and countries has demonstrated that iture and apparatus. These school such laws may be made effective, houses are the homes of our children and that they need not work any all the days they attend school, and hardship on individual citizens. j we should see to it that they are Teachers, school' officers, and all made worthy, leaders ot thought ill the south mustj The great problem ffeforo us is.to begin and continue to cultivate sen- j get a good ten mouth’s school in timent on this subject, until j st laws' every town, village and rural are on the statute books and are community, to comfortalilv house PLANT SYSTEM. Florida and Cuba. Double Daily Passenger Service. -TO- Montgomery, Troy, Ozark, Dothan, Elba, Baiobri<Jg«, Thomasvillt*, Valdosta, W'avcross, SAVANNAH, CHARLESTON, BRUNSWICK, JACKSONVILLE] properly enforced. THE (OlVIRV M HOOI.. these schools in permanent buildings properly equipped, and to put in them efficient teachers, scholarly, Of the seven million children 0 f j uultured, wel1 gained, and mature sbhool age in these states more than in hfe ttnd «l'»'acter. In every school six million live in sparsely settled : l * u ' rti m ” 81 be at least a small colleo- districts and in towns of less than t ’ 011 books suitable for the child- 2,000 inhabitants. Hence the rural j rtV8 rea,li "K> and the courses of school is of first importance and 8lufl y m " 8t b « 80 broadened as to receive first consideration. We can never be an educated people until we have good rural schools and the tlie country children attend them bring them into harmony with the best schools iu all the most progres si-ve countries of the world. With in reach of every boy nnd girl there At present the average length of be a good high school w ell the annual term of these schools is , e< l"’PP ,id with ltbiarics and labora- Bomething less than one hundred j tone8 for ,eiUihin 8 eleraCiitory Oliera- days. The average number of days i8tr >’» P h y siu8 > physiology, and biol- of schooling for each child of school ( °%Y' these schools should provide age-is less than for^y. The aver- 00 " r8e8 of «"«ly of thrL ‘° or fol "‘ ages for the entire country are j •' ei " 8 luu month’s each. 1 hey fully 50 per cent more than these, 8 hould be the center ^of a larger edu- and those of the more favored sec tions more than 100 per cent better. In one southern state the average length of term of all tlie schools, in cluding city graded school', is less than seventy days; the average at tendance of children ot school age is less than twenty-five days. Only three hundred ami fifty days of schooling to prepare the children of a people for life and citizenship in a great democratic republic! This must c^t continue. For all these six million children there are probably not mrtre than four hundred good public high schools | or less than one for every fifteen thousand children. In a time when a good high school education is as necessary to the average man and woman on the farm, in the shop, in the home as was tlie ability to read and write a generation ago, this is nut sufficient. national life and culture m the com muuilies in which they are situated, —the colleges of the people A DEEP MVHTH.tV. Children have rights as well as nu, and the state must protect n iu their rights. Chief among - is tlie right to such education ill enable them t<> live useful happy lives and become nilelli- a self-supporting citizens. Tin ktance of this right anil the m- itv of its being recognized in S'- as competition becomes nutri '*> the use of machinery more mon, the demand for intelligent a greater, government more deni tie, religious liberty more per i and the obligation ot the iedi a! to himself, his family, his ‘try and the world more complex binding. Especially must h, bt led in those states in which ‘gin. of suffrage depeuds on e<l ienal qualification. S cb a law cannot interfere any right of parents; no pa- has a right to make a slave ol '■'ild or to rob it of the oppor- y of gaining aa elementary ed |,jn - Parents who would com - is crime against their children id be restrained and punished It is a mvsters wny women endure Backache, Headache, , Nervousness. Sleeplessness, Melaucholy, Fainting and Dizzy Spells, when thousands have proved that Electric Hitters will quickly cure such ' troubles. I suf fered for years with kidney troubles, writes Mrs. Phebe Uherley. of Pater- sou la.., "and a lame back pained me so 1 could not dress myself, but Electric Hitters win lly cured me. and, although 73 j ears old. I now am able to do all my house work.” It overcomes Consti pation. improves 'Appetite, gives per- fee ■ health. (July 50c at li, L. Hicks drug store. A OEOK4.IAS OIK* l\ NEW YORK. A special to tlie Savannah News from Boston s^ys: Charles H. North, until a few vears ago a power among Eastern Comparatively few of these rural J filianc j e r*, but of late forced to lie- schools have any libraries or any books except a few text books used by the children. Having been given the power to read, the children should be taught what to read and caused to cultivate the habit of read ing good books. But this cannot be done when the children have no ac cess to books either at' school or at home. Some of these schools are taught by most excellent teachers—men and women of good culture and noble purpose; but some of them arc taught by young men and women whose education was finish ed in the first and second year of a county academy, and still more by teachers who have never had any schooling except that furnished by liese same public schools. Most of these young men and women do not expect to teach any longer than may be necessary to make a few dollars to einfble them to get a start in some other business. Tiie average school .ife of these teachers is not more than three years of one hundred days each. In this day, when all the world recognizes the necessity of thorough scholarship and special pro fessional preparation tor' teach.ng, we should not be content to continue thus io play with our edacalional ln- ttrests and the welfare ot o..r cliild- Most of these schools are taught in cheap, uncomfortable houses, with no adequate equipment, and with lit tie pretense’to beauty or sanitation. The south is no longer poor as it come a fruit peddler to support him self and family, died suddenly in tl e L street bath-house. North had never given up hope of winning back the 'millions which he once possessed, it being a habit after a hard dfty’s work with ins push-cart to pour over Iris books, which showed balances due him from various busi ness concerns amoiin'irg to hundreds of thousands of dollars which he never could collect. North was sixty-iiine'years old. He lost bis fortune hi an effort to fight t ie Bevf Trust. He was born in Thomas*ilie, Ga, but came north when a lad and learned the pack'iig lmsiries. He made a big fortune in tlie North Pecking and Provision Company, founded in 1889. He lived with bis wife and eight children ill a magnificent home on Prospect Hill, where they eiileitained royally. The Swifts of clucago v finally got control of much of the North Com pany stock, and North was eventu ally retired, having lost nearly his all. What remained disappeared in a Nova Scotia coal-mining venture. Then be became a peddler, in 1893 he was put in jail for debt, and none of Ins former *'riends came forward with bail. During his days of affiu ence he gave large stuns to i/harity. North went to the L street baths to day to get relief from the heat, and it is believed the cold water af fected lus heart’ Cotton future are like some other sorts of futures—mighty uiutriain on nil tlirougli trains, ami to.. NEW YORK, BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA, WASHINGTON, Kichmond and all Points Bast, i»> connection with 80PTHEM RAILWAY AID ATLANTIC COAST HIE. To St. Leuia, Cincinnati X*ovai«srillo, Ohioago, Kanaaa City, Siraingham, and all FLORIDA POINTS. Through Pullman Cars tTaihviU*, 27 *w Grlaa.no aad nil point* Wait and XTortHwaa. Leave Bainbridge going East—2:05 a. in., 12:30 p. m. 1 Leave Bainbridge going W ei t_a ; t)5 a. m„ 12:20 p. m. Connections at Savannah with Ocean Steamship Line and M. &M.T Co., for New York, Boston and Baltimore. lor further information, call on nearest Ticket Agent, or address BWWrenn, H L TODD. Push. I ratho Manager. Division Pass. Aueiit, •Savannah, (Ja.. Montgomery, Ala. GEORGIA PINE RAILWAY CO. Tbronateeska River Route.” Schedule effective June 24, 1900. MIRTH llOt'\ll. oxcwut. Suitiluy ho. 3. Daily except Suiidiiy. No. I. SmiUuy only. MOtli MnrtUlmi, ((Mintin 1 Tune ) No. It. Sunday only. .M»-4. 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H ‘23 p hi 8 3 8 3 4 Amei tens Kort Volley Muion Atlmitii Snvanimli t\ no p in 12 *24 p III ) I 20 II III 7 30 a ni 1 Mi p in 12 24 p HI 11 20 a in 7 M" n in 4—ttoorgia & Alalmnm. Tnil tin ft I for and from Trains 9—Ucjrgla IMn« Hallway. 21—Central of Ueorgla K’y, ‘4 *“ ,,J 1 e'»se connection at Arlington with Central ortieorgia in Albany. Macon, Atlnntn mill nil iiotntM Earn umlWest tln ivi I * :l, ami at make close connection at West Rnlnbrtdge w IIh lho I'lniit. SVatein ’ for and from Snvmiiiali. Montgouiery, nnd nil |xilnth Kii.t slid West then of. ’ ■ K. B. COLEMAN, General Hnperintenilent. ESTABLISHED 1881$. THE ST-A.Pt Shaving Saloon. West Broughton St., BainbridgcqGa Estaliliahed by a borne boy. First-class material and Dolite and at tentive Barbers. HENRY VAUGHN Practical Blacksmith and Weed- -workman. v Always ready to serve. Lowe»t, p-ioes for best work. •grShop on West street, near v old Townsend Warehouse. BAIN BRIDGE, GEORGIA. Will F Thornton. Proprietor. PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE 3 SAILINGS EACH WEEK -BETWEEN- Port Tampa and Havana* Via Key West. Plant Fy-teni trains run direct to shi( side connecting with Steamers leaving Port Tampa 0:00 P. M. Mondays. Tfiun*. days and Saturdays For any inhumation us to rates, ached ules, and reservations address B. tv. wrbkn. Pass. Traffic Manager. K. L. Toni). Savannah. Ga. Division Pass. Agt. Montgomery, Ala. X I.. TOWNSEND. «. r. WKSTMOKKI.XKII TOWNSEND He NBTflOKHAMl, Attorneys-at-La tv, Bain bridge, Geor ROB’ L. Z. BRIDGES* Practicing Physician, BRINSON. - - GEORGIA. . All calls promptly attended. . . Dressed and dried boards at Reid ifc Son’s, near depot. NOTICE. Get your work done at the o.d re liable stand of A. GUY, " Boot and ShoeMaker. On Water Street. THt SEW YORK WORLD, THRICE A-WEEK EDITION. The best paper at the lowest Pr ce 156 Papers A VKAK FOR ONE IKILL1K As ood as a daily at the pries of a Weekly. 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