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Barnesville News-Gazette. VOLUME 35. S. M. MARSHBURN, The Largest and Only Exclusive Dry Goods House in Barnesville. Two stores, one hundred feet long, filled with NEW GOODS, at prices that startle competition. Long ex= perience in buying, and an untold secret in facilities, puts this house in the lead. The steady increase of their business, evidences the wisdom of the people, as they know where the BEST goods at the LOWEST prices are sold. Strong faith in the future prosperity of Barnesville, is evinced by the immense purchases they have made in Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Silks, Trimmings, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, Furnishing Goods, etc. , Dress Goods, Dress Goods is now a specialty at Marshburn’s, and nothing has been left out of the catalogue of novelties in Silks, Wool Goods, Madras cloths, Ginghams, printed Lawns, Muslins, Taltum, Persian Lawns, Linen Lawns, etc. Misses Mattie and Fatie Elliott will be found ready to serve their friends and the public generally in this line. You can get any pattern you wish at the low price of 10 and 15/ of McCall’s make—the best and safestto buy, Bazar pattern sheets given free, and subscription for magazines solicited at 60/ year Hats. No cranium too large or small to be fit out of this mammoth stock of HATS. The latest shapes in Felts, Straws and Caps are in and any taste can be suited. See their stock before you buy. Free to Customers. Asa matter of appreciation, of patronage given the Marshburn store, they will have any photograph enlarged in the best style of work, work done by artists that guarantee their work, when you have finished cash purchases to the amount of $15.00. Get you a ticket. Another and separate present, is a beautiful and hand-painted Pannel or Tray, after you have purchased SIO.OO. In both instances, the purchases must be cash. You are not required to buy all at once. Remember, that your purchases for one of the present does not include the other. We will greatly appreciate your patronage this year, either for cash or credit, and our corps of helpers, composed of £d Middlebrooks, Charley Butler, Misses Mattie and Fatie Elliott, will be glad to serve you. EDUCATION. HOW MUCH ? A good many centuries ago a famous English nobleman, when accused of knowing how to read and write, instead of pleading guilty to the “soft impeachment,” made an indignant denial, saying that he was a knight, not a “clerk.” We have traveled far in educational matters since that day, and any English or American gentleman of today would he ashamed to acknowledge that his education comprised only such el ementary branches as reading and writing. Yet, although men of civilized, or even semi-civilized nations, are agreed that education is a necessity, they differ widely as to how much education is bene ficial. In educational centers and uni versity towns, the question is— whether special work is helpful after a man has taken the regu lar A. B. and A. M. and Ph. D. courses. In college towns, it is whether a university course in ad dition to the regular college course gives any practical advantage. In towns and cities where the highest educational institution is the high school, it is argued that college training is of little value, and in some cases actually unfits a man for the duties of practical life. Mr. Schwab, the president of the United Steel Trust, a man who probably receives the highest sala ry paid by any business corpora tion in the world, holds the latter Watch Barnesville Keep Growing! A TIMELY ARTICLE. opinion, and is very outspoken in his condemnation of college train ing for business men. Mr. Schwab is also the man who, on a recent trip to Europe, set the world to talking about bis wreck less gambling at Monte Carlo. Most right-thinking people will agree that Mr. Schwab needs something more than bis common school education to make of him a high type of manhood. In communities where only the common schools supplied by the state are found, people are found who actually discuss whether it is desirable for a child to learn all the studies comprised in “the ele mentary-branches of an English education,” as interpreted by the state. The parents so frequently decide this question in the nega tive, and refuse to give their children an opportunity to learn even the “elementary branches,” that the tax payers of the state have the right to increase taxes in order to furnish educational ad vantages unless the state at the same time undertakes to force the parents to give the children the benefit of those advantages. This question is going to be answered at the ballot box very soon, or the school appropriation is going to be decreased very ma terially. Asa matter of simple justice, the legislature ought not to go on increasing the school fund, unless some effective step BARNESVILLE, GA>, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1902. is taken to see to it that the chil dren of the state, all of them, unless providentially hindered, get the benefit of it. The discussion thus far is to show that among some people there is great apathy in regard to education along all lines from the elementary schools through the university. If the sole aim of education and of life be to turn out machines for amassing money, then there may be some definite point beyond which education should stop. But if the ultimate and legitimate end of education he to produce the highest possible type of manhood and womanhood, then every child needs every pos sible educational advantage, and it is the plain and solemn duty of parents to do everything in their power to give these advantages to their children. Without stopping to discuss this proposition, which ought to be self evident, let us notice some conditions which exist among us. Barnesville justly claims to be one of the educational centers of Geor gia. It has now, and has had for years a secondary school second to none in the state, and superior to many of the so-called colleges in the thoroughness of its instruc tion and the breadth of its curri culum. It has the strongest and most experienced faculty of any secondary school in the state. It is well equipped in buildings and in apparatus. It looks after the physical culture of its students through its physical culture course for girls, and its thorough mili tary training for boys. The col leges to which Gordon Institute students go, sky that they get no students better prepared than ours. Nearly every citizen of Barnes- Shoes and Notions. It is a conceded fact that MARSHBURN handles the largest and best line of Men’s, Women and Children’s Shoes in Barnesville. Their STETSON SHOES in men’s, and FRIEDMAN SHOES in la dies, are the very best, in fit ami wear that can be obtained. Under the hfeod of Notions, the largest and most complete line of Hosiesy, Corsets, Embroidery, Laces, Handkerchiefs, Braids, Towels, Doilers, White Spreads, Ribbons, etc., can be found. Do not fail to try the ROYAL WORCESTER CORSET. Giothing a SPecialty. The Knnt-be-beat clothing is becoming the fad, and you will find in this room, which is devoted entirely to clothing of the best make that money can buy, a perfect fit. No stock in Barnesville and few in Ga. can equal this line. Ijyi .boys, youths and men’s department, Messrs. Ed Middlebrooks and Charley Butler have charge, . ; ■ ‘ . th : : £ - : lL, — l PROF. O. F. CLIPHANT, President Oordan Institute. viile will not only say that all these things are true, but will take great pleasure in saying ho. Barnesville people are loyal to Gordon Institute. Now comes the point of this whole article. The people of Barnesville and vicinity believe in education, but their estimate of how muck education is neces sary or desirable is on the de crease. If tftis condition of affairs had begun recently, there might be nothing alarming in it; but it has been going on steadily for sev eral years. The lower grades are liberally patronized, but in the four upper classes, —those which are most expensive to maintain, i and which count most for breadth and culture and character, —the local representation is much smaller than it should be. The fol lowing figures tell the story. Out of an enrolment 88 cadets in the four upper classes this term, 2i are from Pike county. No cadets in the grades are compiled in this estimate. By classes the relative mini hers are as follows: In Sen ior class 1 out of 10 are local, which is a higher average than usual. The term, “local,” includes not only students from Barnesville, but all from Pike county. In the Junior class, 2 out of 10 are local; in Sophomore class, 4 out of 24 Section 2. are local; in Freghtnan class, 7 out of 29 are local. Many irregu lar students are not included in this list by classes. This means that a majority of the local stu dents who enter Gordon Institute, do not get us far as Freshman class; and of those who do, the majority drop out before reaching Junior class. Why? In a few cases, because the boys, impati ent of restraint, are anxious to get out and try their fortunes in the world, and their parents weak ly yield to their importunities. Jn a far greater number of cases, because the parents begrudge the expense, and hurry their sons from school to become wage-earners. For what? That a few years hence, they may leave to their children an estate richer by a few thou sands, in exchange for which their sons must surrender their highest right,—the right to manhood. These children ask bread and they are given a stone. There are some cases, where ab solute necessity drives parents to take their children from school. Against these no word of criti cism should be uttered. It is their misfortune, not their fault. But the father, who willfully and intentionally deprives his child of the chance to prepare himself foa* life’s duties, and hopes to make amende in his will, is guilty of a crime against his own flesh and blood, for which he can never atone, either in this world or in the world to come. The curse of humanity is “the gold that gilds the straitened forehead of a fool.” The condemnation of this world is that there is light in he world, and men love darkness rather than light. Ignorance is God’s great est enemy and the devil’s dearest friend. “We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out,” but we may send as much by others as we will; and the surest method yet discovered of transmitting money to the bank of the New Jeanißslem is to investeit in the life of a little child. * NUMBER 10