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boats mum- : LksbvtkhuS «:h»hw;h. L, „ it Xia»mt, I’vrtor. UorviiH* F 1 ':' ;, atn amulay* at II I». III |l>- .y ioh «.l« ««-S J 1 I j„Mii,it6n.intit. Puollc weioiimi H.Vl’TWt CHUKCH. . t iiif'iird*. 1>. )»•• IVutor.—u«r m. V.v "t II o’sln-.k a. In. mid r r J .hi itli school at «:«»• in- l*ra v L Hverv Th.u *lay nvtinlntf «ta». tl/lUlIy iuvUed to attend *11 the** M. K.< HUKCH.JMH-TH. v <»nttn. Partt->r.—’•rwiujhlmf I at 11 il. M. P* ,M * if .’.‘fu 'Ve l»>^lay evening. Bill. 1,0,1 a w a. ill. All ,tre ounllally In l-atwi'l ill the tarvlce* »lg Nasih»e-M- s. R Brliaun. \ t \M & COMPANY. II}2jW®E ft-XSQM- FrIDoE, - GEORGIA. lit M ,j. ruin \HR1VKII FOR 4:OMPl’L> f KV koi«!ati,>k is«itoi»«n. , ,,;i]ipr lea,) recently lief ore the convention at Warm Jrs entitled “H«r the Time Come | 0 ,np: lsorv Education?” Mrs. mdertook to show that the Innl come for auoh education, Iso undertook to point out how jxpayers of Georgia were fleeced 1 year while their money fails to L the object intended. L- I don’t propose to criticise pelton, or ill any manner im- lu-r motives, for I know she has ests of Georgiyi and Georgians Lit, and her motives are above lion; still, according as I see it, Felton is wrong in several o f liiemcnts, and I contend that, ill as the system would lie bene |to a state or county ready for : time is not ripe for il in Geor- |s. Felton asserts that there is a population of 700,000 in Geor Inii that money is called for to |te this number. school population of Georgia, |inl numbers, is 700,000, but is not called for to educate Limber, hut 250,000 that do at- ;he sciiools of the state every writes that “somebody is kill- line on these taxpayers, and the is paid o..t like water on the Now, as a matter of fact, By is killing time on the taxpay- Inil there is a pupil standing 1 to get the 9ti^ent* per month Is paid out on him. Certainly It' could expect a teacher to in- , a child a whole (noutli for a uuoli less than this. |e average number of pupils in |auendaiiee throughout the state >193, and the number of teach- 19, making an average of neai- pupils to each teacher. These f'l'ils that actually go every day let the benefit of the taxpayers The average cost per pupil [■enlh paid by the state is 96 Therefore, each teacher gets average only about $28 per |h for teaching 30 pupils, and lus bauds f. 11. The teacher I manages 30 pupils iii the ordi- | s diools, such as the great rua- of the sciiools of the state ate, P s iutle chance to “kill” much Ion tlm downtrodden taxpayer, iity'eight dollars is what each |*er gets for teaching the 30 pu- do go to school to him ev- |‘ a y ■ Is not this pay meagre Is there any sinecure in ie amount of money appropriated jw School fund is based upon the y ,tir °f pupils tliat actually go to "Hot upon the number who I I he made to go—and the teauh- paid poorly enough at that, let’s see what would be the re-; I’f l l |e 700,000 children in Geor- 1 er - forced into the schools. At h"t '■he average daily attendance, heady seen, s 250,000, or about one-third of the school population, and each-teacher gets $28 for teach ing his 30 pupils. One of two things would have to happen if the 700,1)00 children were forced into the schools. Either we wo Id have to haw three teachers wh«re we now haw one, oi each teacher would be forced to tench 90 pupils every day and for $28 a month. B t he couldn’t possibly teach this tnmlier at any price; hence we’d have to have ll;e three leaclurs where we now have one. These teachers, ’Without extra- taxation, wo dd have to divide the-128 among themselves, so dial each one would get $9.33 per month for his services. We see, of co irse, that at these fig urea we’d have no teachers. Then the only thing we could do would be to go ahead and impose an extra tax of $3 where we m»w raise one. Sev enty four dollars to pay three teach ers where we uow pay one teacher $28! Not much “comfort” in this for the taxpayer. Again, to show that the above would be true, Mrs. Felton speaks of $1 ,600,000 demanded by the state to educate 700,000 children. As slated above, this $$,600,000 is not to edit cute the 700,000, but the 250,000 children. Let’s see what would be tlie state of affairs if it were applied to the 700,000 children. From this $1,600,000 take the $200,000 expended for county school commissioners’ salaries, members of boards of eduoaiiou, amounts paid for postage and printing and the pur chase of school supplies.uud buildings and the extra thuusuifds Mrs. Felton puts on.to make rouud numbers, and we will have as actual salaries |taid teachers $1,300,000, or about $1.75 per year per scholar; so that each teacher for his year’s work would re ceive $52.50, which wouldn’t much more than pay for the trousers he’d r..b out ou tile rough pine benches. There Is still another feature. There are 150,000 white children in actual attendance upon the schouls today, and 100,000 colored—j ist two-thirds as many colored as whites. N iw, there are, in faut, just as many co >red children in Georgia as whites, tue school population being very ev enly divided; so that it forced to go in we’d have three colored children to three whites. These five children who go now—three whiteB and two blacks—would have to pay this extra colored pupil’s tuiticp, aud three fifths of It would have to come off the white child’s share, or three- twenty-fifths of the entire amount now given to the whiles would be taken away and given io the colored children. Hef-e wo ld again be a whole lot of solid “comfort” to the white taxpayer who iiears practically the expenses of the government. Thus We sue that there isn’t a great deal ot time being “killed” pu these taxpayers. There i* no money poured out like water on the sand, but every dollar goes where it was intended to go and docB the work—actual work —that a dollar aud a half or two dollars would do in other branches in life. The teacher works hard ami faithfully with his 30 pupils foi bis little $28. He eight to get $50. I have shown that there are 30 pu pils who do go to school every day to each leaoner, and that the average salary received is $28, and yet be is credited with “killing time ou the taxpayers.” He is also in danger of having thrust upon him either three limes the number of pupils or one- third pay, as poor as it already is. We have seen that his pay is, in all houesty and, fairness, meager enough. Every one will .agree in this, l'heu the only way to establish compulsory education is by extra taxation. To do this a tax just three times as great as it now ip will have to be imposed. Instead of $1,600,000 we will have to raise 4,800,000 to pay the teach ers at the present rate of compensa tion, The taxpayers wouldn’t And m cli comfort in this. Twice much money would have to lie expended in pew buddings, school supplies and textbooks. Sal aries of county school commissioners would hat-e to be raised, so Hint I there wo Id, indeed, lie danger to the ! tuxpaVer of living sold o-it of house j and home. Then the state could i hold you by the throat and von wonI<1 TZZ23 rjSSZ PLANT SYSTEM. Florida *nd Cuba. . Double Daily Passenger Service. -TC- Mont^omery, Troy, Ozark, Dothan, El hit, Bftinliritigo, Titoinasvill**, Valdosta, Wave loss, ‘ JACKSONVILLE T,Z ’H8M,;»n?'"^Le SAV '' NNA "' “HAWJSSTON, BRUNSWICK, ■3 FLORIDA POM’S. wiili the enormous expenditures the increased educational facilities would demand. • All tins is not because 1 am con stitutionally apposed to i-ompiilsoyy education, hut because it is just at present altogether impracticable. It is iraj facticable in a state or country where every white man, when he semis his three children to school, will have to send at the same time two colored ones. It is impractica ble in a stats or country where the average taxpayer has not been edu cated in the iitdeft that he is to bear his proportionate Share of the gov ernment expenses, and where be is disposed to complain at the low rate of taxation that prevails today. It is all a mistaken idea that tlm teacher is killing time. He is doing his part and doing it well for little pay. No money is being poured o ,t like water on'the sand. Every dol- ’■ir the teacher gets he earns, and more besides. ’The trouble is not that the state has nowhere to apply its money. It is applied and j idioiously so. The main trouble is the state hasn’t the ihoney to apply it where it is needed. When tliis obstacle is overcome, com pulsory education will be possible.— J. A. Beasley, in The Atlanta Journ al. ■ “ THotsAMis sfcivr i.rrro sxits. Every year a large number of poor sufferers whose lungs are spre ami rack ed with coughs tire urged to go to an other climate. But this is costly ana not alwavs Mire. Don’t lie an exile when Dr., King’s New Discovery for Consumption will cure you at home. It/x the most infallible remedy for Cmiglis. Colds, utid ull Th’.oat ami Lung diseases on earth The first, dose brings relief. Astounding cures result from peaeRtent u>e Trial bottles free at R. L. Hick’s. Pri -e IKK; and $1.00. Every bottle guar anteed. Through Fullmaa Cars SS.RJtJKS’Kl! NEW YORK, BALTIMORE, PHILADJClPHIA, WASHINGTON, Richmond and nil Points East, in connection with SOOTHERM UAILWAY AB ATLAWTIC COAST LIME, Ve 0%. Louia. Ciacinekti. LcuiaviUa, CHi.oa.go, Suisse Olty, Sirmingham. tfashvlU*, Krnyr Crlaaaa . end ell point a Wee* exxd XTor+Hwaa. Leave Baiubridge going Ea»t—2:05 a. m.. 12:00 p. ui. Leave Baiubridge going West -2:0f> a. ui., 12:20 p. m. ConneotHbiis at Savannah with Ocean Steamship Line and M. A M. T, Co., lot New York, Boston and Baltimore. For further information, call on nearest Ticket Agent, or address BWWrenu. R L TODD Pass. Traffic Manager Division Pass. 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S 8ft |> 111 4 NI p III :l .7 p ni 3 lift |) in 2 3* p hi 7 4ft p in 8 * SimthvIHe M«)iit$f<m.ory 18 no pm 8 10 p in li ftO p III 8 10 H III ! 84 p in 8 GO p III 4 00 p hi 7 8ft li m . 8 2ft p lit 3 8 8 8 4 Ainoi inm • Kni t Valley HI aeon Atlanta fcovrtnnuli I no p m 12 34 p III II 30 n in 7 ftO n in i no p iii 13 34 p III 11 So a m 7 sc a ni So. Daily ejioej.l sunc'uy I if a to I* SO )i in III :«> P ir. I no p it. II SS a in S SO a m 1’i ID pm IS Id p ill 11 in n ni II 27 a in II 17 a III UWft u ni in 2>| II m S—central of Ueorgi-t lpy, .Twins ft, <’• »"<1 * anil 4 make close connection at A ill n at on with (enln.l ot *4*i(i t rom AUmn v, Mucon, Atlaiita and all mthiu I’aui U ...riv u .. f 4 nir | ii of (tioigm 'lrainH ;«,• and make elorfe rftiimml T, 1 H L" ''*! halnlnlilac Villi till- I’lanl avstein nil nilllltH Khhi Mini Wnst. 1 ..f ^ *** lor aim irom S«vanliall, MontRoniery, ami all la'iiiVts kssi'aim wT-Vl.her'!!!. H. B. COLEMAN. Oeuerai Superintendent. Qdtnian Free Press: Judge Till man it) Greenville, O., wliich states tliat a small company has been or ganised iri that place with a view to experimenting in cane collate Southwest Georgia. The oinpany has |ti $10)0 in ti e Venture and will plant only twenty to twenty five acres at the start with the view of making an actual demon stration of the possible profits to be derived from this, branch of the in— eustry. The writer says that if the experiment is satisfactory, that his eompany is prepared to very ffirgely extend its operations hi this line and will go into the b: siness of cane growing and sugar refining on an extensive scale. In their experiments they will keep a minute and rigid account of every detail of lilt- bush ness, thus making valuable data for others who are interested in this mat ter. ( no.VT l.rVt TIIKM ot'FFKH Often children ate tortured with Itch- ing and burning eczema aud other ,kin dir-asee but Bucklen’h Arnica thilve heals the raw sores, expels inflammation, it-iives the skin without r scar. Clean, fragrant, cheap, there s no fa] ve on ea-'h a-> gord. Try it. Cure guaranteed. Only 25c at K. L. Hicks'. ESTABLISHED 1885. THE STAR Shaving Saloon. West Broughton St, Baiubridge,Ga Established hv « home bov. First-dawsgnateria) and oolite and at- (Unlive Burlier*. ■ Will F Thornton. PROPRIETOR. PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE 3 SAILINGS EACH WEEK BKTWEKN—- Pert Tampa and Havana- Vi» Key 'A’est. Plant Sy tem trains run direct to ship ride connecting with Steamers leaving Port Tampa 9;IKI P. M. M< nduys.Thurs days and Saturdays For any info marionaw torates. sehed pies, ani reservations address B. w; Wkbnn. Pass. Traffic Manager. K. L. Tof)I>. Savannah. Ga. Division Pas*. Agt. Montgomery. Ala. HENRV VAUGHN Practical Bhckemith and Wocd- worksian. Always ready to serve, Lowest p.-ices for best work. laTHhop on West street, near old Townsend Warehouse. BAIN BRIDGE, GEORGIA. NOTICE. Get your work done nt the o,d re liable stand of » a atrr, Boot ana ShoeMaker. , On Water Street. O. r. WKSTMONKLAKK FOOD CHtSOKP TO rulMllt. Putrefying fis)d in the in e-tines pro duce* effects like those of arsenic, la t Dr. liirg’r New Life Pills expel the pois ons from clogged bowels, gen'tly. ea-i y surely, curing Constipation. Biliousne-s, Sick Headache- Fever*, all Liver Kid. ney s.nl Howel troubles. Only £5e at K. L. Hicks’. T0U1SEMI & WF,$n<IRELA.\D, Attorn rr»-s t-La w, Bainbndge, Geor TUB’ L. Z. BRIDGES. Practicing Physician, B HINSON. - - GEORGIA . All call* promptly attended. . . Dressed and dried boards at Reid A Son’s, near depot. 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