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Some Ideas on
School Work.
[By Prof. J. M. Davis]
THAT MATTER OF HOOKS FOR THE
CHILDREN
ls quite an important matter
and should not be neglected, as it
so often is. Many parents seem
to thiuk that about all a boy needs
to take to school with him is a
dinner-bucket and a whistle
What a mistake! A man might
as well send a hand to the field
and expect him to work without
tools, as to send a ch'ld to school
and expect him to accomplish any
thing without books.
Any man will readily agree that
this is so, yet there are many pa
rents who will not put themselves
to any trouble whatever to supply
their children with books. It
would be astonishing to know just
how many parents there are in
Montgomery county who have not
yet supplied their children with
books during the present term, as
long as the schools have been in
operation. This is a downright
shame and such should be legis
lated out of Georgia. This and
non-attendance is surely of enough
importance to attract and engage
the attention of our lawmakers.
THE HABITUAL DISTURBERS
Are becoming less numerous
each year. Occasionally, however,
the teacher, no matter how care
ful he may be to see that he faith
fully discharges every duty, and
no matter how successful he may j
be in the management of Ins ;
school, is met by one of the old -
fashioned type —a rule-or-ruin
kind of a fellow with a complaint j
a yard long. Listen at him at- j
tentively, boil his complaint down [
and you’ll generally find that
about all there is in his complaint
is a determination to lead in a
disturbance that will ultimately,
and that very quickly, oyerthrow
the school.
It is not always an easv matter
for the experienced teacher to be
master of the situation under such
circumstances and the young
teacher meeting with a few such
disturbances in the ranks of his
patrons often decides that teach
ing has no charms for him and
takes up some other line of work
less influenced by the baser ele
ment. Thus every year many give
up teaching and teachers are be
coming scarce. It is high time
that the better element in every
community unite their forces in a
holy determination to arouse a
wise sentiment to uphold the
teacher in the faithful discharge
of his duty, even in the face of ad
verse circumstances brought about
by these habitual disturbers who
infest almost every community.
IN PASSING YOUR SCHOOL HOUSE,
Do you ever stop and offer your
teacher any words of encourage
ment? Think for a moment and
see if you don’t think you could
m this way make the usual bur
dens of the teacher some consid
erably lighter. Perhaps a short
note expressing your appreciation
of the fact that he had aroused
considerable interest in their stud
ies among your children, or some
other matter of equal importance,
would serve the purpose to convey
a truth to your careworn teacher
that would not only make his bur
dens lighter, but would cause him
to be even a better teacher. Don’t
wait till he has left your commu
nity to speak a pleasant word
about him; he may never hear of
it. Say it now and let it have its
encouraging effect. Teachers are
human and need all the sympathy
and encouragement they can get.
THE SLOW PUPIL
18 often the cause of a great
deal of dissatisfaction to the pa
rents as well as to teachers. The
teacher usually is severely censur
ed for carelessness or indifference .
towards the child’s interest when-1
ever it happens that one does not
pass with the class to a higher
grade, no matter what difficulties
such child labored under.
If the cause every time a child
fails to pass was carefully located,
notwithstanding the fact that
there are many pupils who cannot
under any sort of lavorable cir
cumstances accomplish the same
amount of work in a given time
that many others can, lack of reg
ular and pupctual attendance on
the part of the child and indiffer
ence on the parents’ part, would,
in many cases, appear as the
of the child’s backwardness.
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the Atlanta Weekly Georgian at
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Pay up vour subscription and have
the Georgian sent you also.
GIRL DRESSED AS BOY
FOUND AT KENTCKY SCHOOL.
1
Moreland, Kv., Feb. 25—Miss
Goldie Oantrill, a pretty girl of 17.
was taken in charge by the school
authorities when they found she
had been attending school as
j “Sam Murphy, - ’ garbed m boy’s
i clothes.
She stood second in her class at
the time of her detection. The
young woman is an orphan and
makes her home with her aunt at
Salt Lick, Kv. Her family is
prominent m Eastern Kentucky
affairs. This is her third advent
in male attire. Some months ago
jshe earned her living for several
weeks as “news butcher’’ on
trams,
JOHN SWAIN KILLED
BY AN UNKNOWN.
Adrian, February 26. —John
Swain was killed last night bv an
unknown person near the home of
W. E. Moore.
Swain and his wife! had separat-’
i'd. Swain supposing a man by
the name of Hutcherson was m
company with her, went to j
Moore’s home searching for the
couple, and finding Hutcherson,
severely beat him, and as Hutch
erson ran, fired four shots at him.:
Swain then returned to the
house in search of his wife and
was shot down from out the dark
ness by an unknown person.
The coroner’s inquest failed to
reveal anything definite as to the
guilty person.
DETERMINED TO BE HAPPY.
Now we are told that brooms
are going to $1 each. All right:
we’ll use vacum cleaners. And
| that beefsteak is going to -15 cents
a pound. All right; we’ll eat
pate defoie gras. And that but
ter is going to half a dollar. All
! right; we’ll eat. axle grease. And |
that clothes are to cost 20 per cent, i
more. All right; we’ll adopt an
cient Greek costume, a la Mal
colm Duncan, and utilize the stair
carpets that we have been wearing
out this winter. 'There is no way
of puttting the damper on real
optimism.—Savannah News.
VAST HORDES ATTEND
MOVING PICTURE SHOWS.
New York, Feb. 25. —More than
4,000,000 persons attend the mov
ing picture shows.every day in the
lDuted States, according to Prof.
Charles Sprague Smith, of Colum
bia university. “This total,” he
added, “is four times as great as
the number who go to all theatres
combined ”
Speaking before the congrega
tion of the Church of the Messiah
here last night. Professor Smith
declared that the moving picture
show is a great educational pow
er. Under an adequate censor
ship he says that it could be made
a force of moral and mental up
lift second to none.
A white man who will stoop so
low as to make his living by <le- j
fraudingan ignorant negro, should
spend his life on the chain-gang
The men who have canvassed the I
southern part of the state during !
the past year, selling mining stock l
to negroes, are notable examples.
No instance is known where they
offered any of the stock to white
men, but it, is said in some of the
South Georgia counties they have
obtained mortgages on negroes|
home amounting to thousands of
dollars. There are few sales j
known of in this county, probably !
owniig to the fact that few of our .
negroes are farmers. It is a pity
but what the United .States au
thorities, who have so vigorous!
m other directions, could lay their
hands on these men and make ex
am pies of them. Ex.
GREAT SUM TO BE SPENT
FOR MORSE’S PARDON.
New York, Feb. 28—Personal
\ friends of Charles VV. Morse, the
! convicted banker, are prepared to
spend more than $1,000,000 in
j working for his release from the
j Federal prison in Atlanta.
John E. Donahue of Rockland, 1
Maine, who has charge of the pe
tition for a pardon which will be
presented to President Taft, made
! this announcement on his return
from Washington today. The pe- j
j tition for pardon will, it is expect-'
ed, contain more than a million
names by the time it is submitted I
to the president.
TAFT NOT A WOMAN’S
SUFFRAGE MAN.
Washington,—With the strict
injunction that he was not to be
represented as favoring votes for
women, President Taft today ac
cepted an invitation to address
the opening session ,of the Nation
al Women’s Suffrage association
iin this city April 14.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1010.
‘State News Items.
1 Yidalia, Feb. 25 —A deal has
’! been closed whereby a party in
* Dublin becomes the owner of an
' option on the Yidalia telephone
' jevchange, good for 60 days. It is
* thought that the option which is
* for the $15,000 plant and good
will was secured m the interest of
the Southern Bell company,
“! though nothing definite is known
! and the name of the purchaser is
I withheld. Should the big com
-1 puny get hold of the exchange at
this point it is probable that they
will build tributary exchanges at
1 all the surrounding to\\*ns. They
are reached now by toll lines only,
one telephone being in most of
them.
•
Macon, Feb. 2o.—Miss Ruth
.Vliddlebrooks, aged 14, died at
Waldou, at the home of her par
ents yesterday afternoon at 5 o’
clock from blood poisoning, re
sulting from picking a fever I»1 is- .
ter on her lip with a common pin.
The funeral will occur m Wal
do n tliits afternoon.
— : —
Ellaville, Feb. 26. —Franklin
j Giles, of this county, was shot :
accidentally Friday and died from
the wound last night. He and J. |
!E. Willis had been shooting (ish j
at Usry’s mill, and when they,
picked up their guns where they
had been laid on the ground, Wil
lis’ gu.i went off and shot Giles
through the hip. He was a son
of L. A. Giles.
Columbus, February 25. —Will
Green, aged 20, died this morning
as the result of being stabbed over
the heart last night. Alf Patrick,
James Patrick and Ernest Stevens
are in jail charged with the crime,
all being with Green, it is said,
when the cutting occurred as a re
sult of an alleged dispute.
The commitment trial was held
and the case referred to the grand
jury.
An old farmer who had read in
the papers that nine millions of
dollars worth of mules bad been
I
sold in Atlanta this season, said : |
“Well, ain’t we farmers the darn- j
dest set of fools in the world?
We buy mules at $250 a piece and
then buy western corn at $1.25 a (
bushel to make cotton. The corn j
and the niggers kill the mules and
then we buy more. Now, honest, 1
hadn’t we better change our plans,
get some gin horse sense and quit
acting the darn fool. —Montezuma
Record.
o Are You o
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9 Honest? Ej
0 With your land when for the U
U sake of saving a few dollars U
B you use a fertilizer whose R
U only recommendation is its U
H analysis. It requires no spe- R
U cial knowledge to mix mate- U
R rials to analyses. The value R
of a fertilizer lies in the ma- U
ft terials used, so as not to R
over feed the plant at one
U time and starve at another. U
U This is why Royster brands U
are so popular. Every in- y
gredient has its particular U
y work to do. Twenty-five y
years experience in making U
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'GEM found in
i STOMACH OF FOX.
Edward McGowan, a poultry
i brooder near Montville, N. .1., re
, | eently captured two foxes which
, had been robbing his coops for a
long time and also recovered from
the stomach of one of them an un
cut diamond valued at sol>o, lost ,
by his daughter two weeks ago. j
Mr. McGowan had tried for
, months to catch the thieves who
had been stealing his chickens,
but was unsuccessful until he set
a trap of his own invention in one
of the coops. It is supposed one
of the fowls picked the diamond
up when Miss McGowan lost it and
I was devoured by Sir Reynard.
For Sale—Brick Yard
Entire plant for sale, including |
I Engine, Boiler, Brick Machines I
and trackage, complete for opera- !
ition. Near Mt. Vernon on the S.
A. L. llv. Applv at/once to
MASON A- BEAM),
I 13-ts) Mt. Vernon, Ga.
Citation.
I Georgia— Montgomery ( ’minty.
The appraisers appointed upon the
| applies! ion of M rs. Susan Gillis.wid-
I ow of David 1). Gillis.for al2 months
support out of said estate, having
tiled their return, all persons are
hereby cited to show cause if any %
they have ni the next regular term ?
of the Court of Ordinary, to be held $
on the tirst Monday in March. «
why said application should not lie «
granted. This Beb, 7. 1010.
Alex McArthur. Ordinary, s;
Citation. y
Georgia Montgomery ('minty.
The appraisers appointed upon the i
(application of Carrie Brazier, widow i
of .loshua \V. Brazier, fur a twelve t
months support out of said estate, i;
ha ving filed i heir return, all persons l
are hereby cited to show cause if any v
lin y have at the next regular term
■ of Ihe Court, of Ordinary, to ho held
on the firs! Monday in March, next
why said application should not, he
granted. This Bell. 7. lulu. C
Alex McArthur, Ordinary.
Citation.
Georgia—Montgomery County. £
To all whom it may concern. J. 1! >■
I Geiger having made applieat ion in i
\ due lorni ni law to ho appointed per- £
j nianeiit adintnlstra.ror upon the rs- j:
1 fate of K. It. iviorrison, notice is here V
j by given that stiid application will >!
J lie heat'd til tic regular term of the >:
j court of Ordinary for said county, to $
! lie held on the (list Monday in Mar., >!
HHti. Witness my hand and ollieial i
signature, this Bob. 7th, 11*10. V
Alex McArthur, >:
<trdinary M. (<la. S
M. B. (JA LHOUN, |
Atty at taw,
Mt. Vernon, Georgia. |
Armour’s
F ertilizer s
Have four sources of ammonia. They
feed your crop through the entire grow
ing season.
I hey will be sold at every shipping
point in this county.
, Next week we will tell you in this
paper why they are the best goods to
be had.
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Armour Fertilizer Works
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
| Monuments, Tombstones !
f IRON FENCING j
We desire to inform the people of |
| this seel ion that wo have opened a 1
first-class marble business in Vida- |
I in. Wo are prepared to furnish |
| on short notiee anvthing in tlu* line |
i \ of Monuments, Tombstones, Orna- *j
mental Iron Fencing, ete.
Designs tho lntesl and most correct |
and tasty. Prices arc* right, and $
work will give* satisfaction.
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