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Teaching By Use of the Pageant Spring Opening Sale OP THE Kew YorK Bargain House We have just received a tremendous line of up-to-date Spring Goodsand our buy er was fortunate to buy out a clean and up-to-date {fto’ck direct from the Manufactur_ e r for less than old prices. Goods have advanced in price but I am able to convince you of my bargains, which will sure please everybody. We will stick to our motto: “Your Moneys Worth or Your Money Back,” if desired. Our line of Easter Goods is complete, cheap and attractive. Special prices in a splendid line of nobby and new ideas in ladies wear. We don’t want to spend much money for advertising, but prefer giving you the value; therefore, we haven’t much space to quote prices and will ask you to come and be convinced. 75cto 1.00 Gowns A Ac Chemise AA ; Ladies Canvas Pumps worth $1.50, going at AQr onlv Ladies Shoes, white, tan and K k kt worth $1-69 Mens, 4.00 Shoes and Ox fords best quality at Childrens Shoes price will please. All our beautiful Dress Goods, Ginghams, Zephyrs, Lace Cloth, Lawns, Flaxons Basket Cloth, Crepes and Dimities are ready for your inspection at reasonable prices. Our Men and Boys’ Palm Beach Suits have just ar rived and we will put them on sale at small profit. Big stock Mens’ Trousers, fancy worsteds and serges, will be put on sale at cut price. Hundreds of articles will be marked in plain figures that we haven’t space to mention. Next to Brockett’s Meat Market Childrens Dresses A*1 c worth 85c, now 4 / C 1.50 Children Dresses Q'y ~ beautifully trimmed V / C 75c. Lad ies’ Waist o _ going now at «30C. 1.50 Fine Voile, etc. Oq^ during this sale O V C Our 75c to 1.00 Mid- AH n dy Blouses at 4 / L, Our 2 00 Children Middy Suits, during sale 3.00 Best quality *1 a n Skirts 1.4y 50c Ladies’ Draw-J 'J'*) c ers, during this sale $1.39 Sale on Now, Will Last 15 Days Be sure you are in the right place, * 1 will remind you again, don’t pay any attention to knockers of my business* but come direct to us for bargains and fair and honest dealings. New York Bargain House 223 WATER STREET BAINBRIDGE, GA. ••• Specials ••• Mline Beautiful Flowers. |fc choice io c ! Jj Stoneware Pitchers, (S' 2 * 15c Decorated salad bowls 'a u e 25c 4 - _ on| y 15c Vafej de of Hydrogen 0n * 10c Peroxide Cold Cream, the 25c size 1 Only Ivt Beautiful line Crepe Paper, all colors tZg* Only Childrens Mexican Sun Hats Value 25c \ A/t Only 10 and 12 qt. Tin Dish' Pans Value 25c 10c Only. «thousands of other articles too numerous toment’dn r«. 6 ai jf sei >ing at a great saving to the buyer who ap- 1 the v S VA LUES and is willing to spend his money ay best advantage to himself. Remember it pays to n w hen the difference is so great as you find it here. REMEMBER THE PUCE- Unley’s Ten Cent Store ainbrid ge. CALLAHAN BLOCK Georgia. Brooks County Raised ; Choice Seed PEANUTS $1.35 Per Beshel Money Order Must Accompany Orders John F. Townsend Quitman, Georgia. Palm Beach Suits cleaned and pressed according to directions. Dixie Steam Laundry. The next regular meeting of the Ladies Guild of the Episcopal Church will be held at the Rectory, Monday afternoon, April 10th, at 4:00 o’clock. Old Mol Horse feed can’t be beat. The best In the world. For sale by Ralph R. Belcher, Belcher Block. First class Shirt Waists. Laundry. work on Ladies The Dixie Steam School teachers of Georgia are learning how many very interesting things (here are about Georgia that lend themselves to effective pagean try, and how very useful this method can be made in impressing upon the minds of the childrn in school the historical grandeur, the natural re sources and the products of the in dustries of the state, not to mention other subjects of presentation. Those who attended the summer school of Georgia last year had an opportunity of witnessing how mater ials in Georgia can be turned to striking account in the field of page antry. This year this work will be presented even more elaborately by Miss Carolyn Cobb who initiated It last year. The illustration given herewith shows one of the views of a pageant illustrating the agricultural resources of Georgia. This year, Georgia history will be illustrated. TEACHING AGRICULTURE IN RURAL SCHOOLS People were slow in recognising 1 the importance of agriculture as a i school subject. When we stop to think hew great our dependence must always be on products' of the farm, and as our population increases, the necessity becomes still greater for scientillc agriculture to make the most from every acre used for any purpose, we must see that agriculture in our schools has come to stay and to be increasing in its demands. Teachers Needed. The sudden impetus given quite re cently to popular education in agri culture has found very tew teachers prepared and thousands unprepared to meet the situation. Laws have been passed requiring the teaching of agriculture as a common school sub ject, and teachers have been required (o take examinations in it, yet op portunities to prepare have been meager. Since the only way to reach the masses of the people with the newer agriculture Is through the medium of the public schools, teach ers must prepare and the people must Bupport the movement. This means teachers in high schools as well as in elementary schools. It means that more rural high schools must he de veloped, and more one-teacher schools must adapt to the new order. Government Aid. The United States Government gave the greatest stimulus lo agricul ture through various acts and appro priations establishing Agricultural Colleges. This government is now interested in extending the work to the public schools. The Smith-Lever Bill will extend greatly the extension work already begun through club agencies, and farm and home econo mics demonstrators. The pendlhg bill in Congress, Smith-Hughes Bill, will go further and add new features. This bill, or one like it, will sooner or later pass into law. Communities ready to avail themselves will be the first lo receive aid. County boards, county superintendents, and local boards should not sleep over their op portunities. The teachers must be prepared, as a first step, and com- Mnunity sentiment must be stirred to put things in shape. The greatest help in all this will be prepared teach ers whose enthusiasm for the work will increase with their preparation. Institutes Not Sufficient. Only a smajl portion of our teach ers can come from our Agricultural College graduates. These are quick ly taken for various leading purposes. The great number of teachers al ready in active service, as well as prospective teachers, must he reach ed. The teachers’ institute can do only a very little in this. The most serviceable agency is the Summer school. Summer schools have rapid ly sprung up in every State until these have taken the place of the old institute which now takes its proper place as a teachers’ meeting with the 'Superintendent for directions in local work. New Courses for Rural Schools. Tlie coming session of the Georgia Summer School for teachers has plan ned in advance of any other school to offer valuable courses for rural teachers. These have In mind high school teachers, elementary teachers, even those in charge of one teacher schools. In the one-teacher school, the best agency to use is the boys’ and girls’ club. There is literature for this to be had from the United States Department of Agricutlure the State College of Agriculture, and other sources. This literature is mostly in the shape of bulletins, some of which are adapted for use in the schools, some are not. There are extension workers, agents of the State College in connection with the United States Government, who may be called upon to aid teachers. The teachers can organize the boys and the girls into clubs, Corn Clubs, Can ning Clubs, Home Economics Clubs, Pig Clubs, Poultry Clubs, and Four Crop Clubs. The beginning is simple and the work will gradually grow. The literature and plans are discuss ed at club meetings in school, and the work is done mainly at home under life conditions. Boys and girls are soon in the way of money mak ing as well as of scientific education, and new life is thus put into the monotony of the old school. A full course giving instructions to teachers all about (his club work will be given in the Summer School under the directions of State Managers Prof. J. Phil Campbell, Miss Mary Creswell, and other leading extension workers. There will be a course in Home Economics for Hural Schools, considering conditions where there is little or no equipment. Then for the further education of teachers in the fundamentals of ag riculture so they may become prott- cient in this work, may broaden it where schools consolidate, and may become teachers of Agriculture in high school positions, courses are of fered in General High School Agri culture, Floriculture and Gardening, Soils and Fertility, Field Crops, Ani mal Husbandry, and Farm Mechanic^. These courses will be given by Prof essors in the College of Agriculture which insures their prime quality. These make a rich feast spread for the rural teachers, and even the city teachers need to partake freely. The Summer School wants to gather in many teachers from every county and town In Georgia so that these may go back to form centers of radiation. The teachers should be interested in getting to these courses, and, above all, the superintendents and board' should be interested in sending teach ers. This is one way to get agricul ture in schools. GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT What^the^Summer'school Means for the Advancement of High Schools. The teachers in the high schools of Georgia generally receive higher .sala ries than teachers in the lower schools, and the terms are lodger than the terms in most of the rural schools. These high school teachers should become the leaders of educa tional reforms and activities. They should patroulzd more freely the Hum mer Schools, tile chief agencies to put them in touch with modern move ments. There is a great and Increas ing demand to re-order education so that it may minister more directly to the life needs of the children. This calls for the vocational trend in new subjects, and a remodeling of our older subjects. The following wi|l give some idea of the courses offered and the tulent secured to reach the high schools through their teachers in the Georgia Summer Schoel. 1 English. Miss Elvira U. Cabell, A. B. (Chi cago), the head of the English depart ment of the Chicago Normal College and a teacher of superior reputation has been secured to give a course in High School Literature, and a course in the Teaching of Composition. These are two most important subjects of ten not well presented because of difficulties. MIsb Cabell will be a great help to all English teachers who come to the Summer School. English Grammar will be given b> Dr. S. V. Sanford, adthor of the State adopted text. Professor Steed of Mercer University will give courses tn Shakespeare and in the Novel. He will also give a series of interpreta tions, lecture readings, of great mas terpieces, leading to a genuine Insight and literary appreciation essential to inspiration in the teacher of litera ture. Dr. Sanford will give a compan ion series on Tendencies of American Fiction, and Dr. Park one on'Literary Criticism.