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School-Houses.
Is this true of your Community?
BY M. B. DENNIS, EATONTON, GA.
The schools house is a shabbily
built board structure, one story
high. The overhead ceiling is not
more than nine feet from the
floor. There is one door in the
end of the house; there are six
small windows, three on either
side. There are no blinds and no
curtains. The desks are home
made, with perpendicular back
and seats, all the same size. There
is a dilapidated wcod stove, but
no wood box, the wood forthe fire
being piled on the floor about the
stove. The stove isred with rust
and dirt, never having been pol
ished and cleaned since it was
placed in position for use. The
floor of the house is covered with
red dirt and litter from the wood.
There are several broom-sedge
brooms in one corner of the room,
The occupied blackboardspace in
this school-house is just 18 square
feet. = The blackboard there, how
ever, is too high for the children
to use well and it is too small for
anything but a bulletin board.
There is no teacher's desk or
table. Thereis one chair, The
children’s hats and cloaks are
hung on nails around the room,
The wallsand windows are cover
ed with dust; never seem to have
been washed. All the children’s
books are soiled and look very
much like their surroundings.
There are no steps to this school
house. An inclined plane of dirt
answers that purpose. The yard
is very muddy during the winter
and the general appearance of the
place anything but attractive. |
There are two churches within
less than two miles of this school
house. Both these churches are
painted and present a good ap
pearance. One of the houses cost
SIO,OOO, the other cost §700; the
cost of each being materially de
creased by the work contributed
by the people interested in their
construction.
The school-house described
above is the only place where the
children of the parents who built
those two churches can obtain an
education, except the parents send
their children to school out of the
community.
Nore:—The above is an accu
rate description of educational
conditions in one Southern school
district. In the county in which
this district is situated there are
9o school districts, There are 25
districts out of the go of which the
above is substantially correct.—
Southern Education.
The above picture is one in
hundreds that can be pointed cut
in Georgia, and yet we hear some
people say that the schoel condi
tions of the State are good enough
and need no more money for im
provements.
If this was all we might feel en
couraged. Butitisa view only
of the outside. Get an expert
school man with him probe into
the natural workings and condi
tions of these schools and a reve
lation will be made both pitaible
and disgusting. 1
The work is not thorough and
pedagogical. There is no bith
and point to it. It is devoid of
definiteness and purpose. Prac
tical application of the work done
is not in it at all. Pupils are
found groping about in the dark
far, far beyond their capacity to
do good work. The internal will
be found to correspond exactly
with the outside, portrayed above.
In other words the outside is only
an index to the inside.
Wanted Superintendet’s Place.
I would like to make a trade with
the proprietor of a farm for the
superintendency of same. Had
about forty one year's experience;
can give references,
W. E. Dennis,
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GEORWIA-ALAGAMA by eiIiESS COLLEGE, Macon,Ga.
Iteins of Interest.
American sewing machines find
large sale in British India, all
other parts of Asia and in the is
lands of the Pacific.
American packing house pro
ducts aggregate $144,000,000
worth a year, 54 per cent of which
go to the United Kingdom.
The exact cost to the county of
Richland, S. C., in the trial of
James H. Tillman for the murder
of N. G. Gonzales was $2,444.34-
Dr. Ham, one of Gainesville's
prominent physicians and sur
geons, has purchased an automo
bile with which to visit his patients
so he will make quick time when
called,
The first cotton mill inthe south
was erected in 181 t on Upton
creek in Wilkes county, Georgia.
It was Bolton Mill, It was torn
down in 1845 but the old stone
masonry is still to be seen.
Advance reports indicate that
the returns of the recent census of
the Phillippines, when tabulated,
will show a population of 7,000,000
exclusive of the wild tribes of the
mouutains, which are estimated at
less than 1,000,000.
There has been started in Mal
den. Mass., a goat farm for the
production of goat's milk. The
promoters expect that there will
be a large demand for the milk,
especially for the dietary treat
ment of sick babies.
The investment in pleasure
yachts in America is about SSO
- and the annual cost of
their maintenence is about §6,000-
000 a season, When a steam
yacht is chartered the price usual
ly is $lO a month per yacht ton,
In sixty years the annual per
capita consumption of whisky has
gradually decreased from two and
a half gallons to one and a fourth
gallons. In forty years the con
sumption of beer has increased
from less than two to more than
seventeen gallons per capita.
Two negro theological students,
one from Cuthbert, Georgia, have
been admitted at the University
of Berlin. The sort of cultured
preaching that comes from places
like that would be just about as
intelligible to a negro audience
down here as German.
While a funeral procession was
on the way to the cemetery near
Charlotte, N. C., Monday the
horses drawing the hearse and car
riage became frightened at a pas
senger train on the Southern rail
road and ran away, killing four
persons and tearing the casket to
pieces. No blame whatever is at
tached to the railroad.
The United States government
has fifty buildings, mostly post
offices, under construction at
at present, with about three times
as many as that authorized, The
cost of the buildings now uncom
pleted will be almost as much as
the total annual expenditure of
the government fifty years ago,
when the office of supervising
architect was established.
In Vienna every man's home is
practically his prison from 10 o'-
clock at night until 6 in the morn
ing. The Austrian capital is a city
of flats, and at 10 o'clock each
night the entrance door of each
block is locked. Any one passing
in or out after that time must pay
the concierge a fine, the amount
of which is two pence from then
till midnight and four pence from
then till 6 in the morning,
A cablegram from Paris announ
ces that the short skirt for street
wear is not to be fashionable this
‘winter; which means, of course,
that long skirts are to be fashion
able, Manufacturers of and deal
ers in cloths will be pleased, since
it means so many more yards of
goods to be bought., Somebody
has said that ‘‘fashions are a mark
of civilization,” yet it is a peculiar
thing that we have never been
able to strike upon any fashion
that will last more than one sea
son, Change of fashion seems to
be the mark of civilization,
One Minute Congh cure, Cures.
Thes is what it was mede for,
THE MONTICELLO NEWS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1903.
Doesn’t Respect Old Age.
It's shameful when youth fails
to show proper respect for old age,
but just the contrary in the case
of Dr. King’s New Life Pills.
They cut off maladies no matter
how severe and irrespective of
old aga. ~Dyspesia. Jaupdice,
Fever, Constipation all yield to
this perfect Pill. 25¢, at C. D.
Jordan’s Drug Store.
} The area under banana cultiva
tion in Costa Rica continues to in
créase rapidly, over 2,500 acres of
new plantations having been made
during the year 19oaz. The ex
ports of bananas from Costa Rica
increased, to the United States a
lone, from 3,560 bunches in 1881
to no less than 4,174,199 bunches
in 1902. During the same year
230 steamers cleared from Limon
for the United States with cargoes
of this fruit. Many of the large
banana plantations in Costa Rica
are owned by Americans.
Charles Holmes, of Charlotte
ville, Vermont, is reputed to have
the largest apple orchard in the
world, It contains 4,5000 trees
and up to this time had never be
fore a full crop. But this fall there
is “‘something doing” in Mr. Hol
mes' apple orchard. Though this
is regarded as an off year for ap
ples in Vermont, a full crop ap
pears on the trees at Charlotte,
and it is estimated that they will
produce 5,000 barrels of, number
one apples. The crop has been
bought on the trees and netted the
owner $4,500., The apples are
mostly Rhode Island Greenings
and it will take fifty men nearly a
month to pick the entire crop.
Members of the medical profes
sion in New York are greatly in
terested in the case of a Patchogue
young man named Henry Price,
who has survived one of the worst
attacks of lockjaw that the local
physicians have ever treated.
The recovery of Price is attributed
to the use of anti-toxin, SIOO
worth having been forwarded from
Albany for the use of a local sur
geon, Mr. M. B. Davis, when the
case was reported about a week
ago. Price is now able to sit up
in bed and to move his mouth and
arme, and it is thought thatin a
short time he will completely re
cover. Dr. Davis contends that
this case is one of the most re
markable ever heard of, and he
has sent a history of it to various
prominent surgeons and medical
journals.
A Runaway Bicycle.
Terminated with an ugly cut on
the leg of J. B. Orner, Franklin
Grove, 111. It devoloped a stub
born ulcer unyielding to doctors
and remedies for four years.
Then Bucklen’s Arnica Salve
cured, It’s just as good for
Burns, Scalds, Skin Eruption and
Piles. 25¢, at C. D. Jordan's
Drug Store.
Shotograpks . . . .
i
- Any size up to an Bxlo ranging
in price from 25¢ to $5.00 per
dozen,
Buttons, Rims, Photo Jewelry,
etc.......... Pictures adjusted in
4*‘ Watches and Lockets, Copying
f Viewing, developing and finish
| ing for Amateurs... All executed
i in best styles and lowest living
* 4 ‘)&‘ prices.
P 16x20 Crayons, with frame,
P $2.98. Same in pastel and
E sepia at similar prices,
E 3 You are kindly solicited to call
3 and see my work and get my
b prices on the above before
Il placing your order elsewhere,,,
. | Respectfully,
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oo S B¢ Barnes,
Speaking of the funeral of a ne
gro farmer near Dawson in this
state, which was largely attended
by white men, the pall-bearers be
ing of that color, the New York
Sun remarks: *“William Hucka
by worked hard, was strictly hon
est, respectful in his manners, He
minded his own business. He
never meddled with politics, His
credit is said to have been as high
as that of any man in Terrell
county, and he acquired a compe
tency. He was respected and es
teemed by the whites. If negroes
would imitate the methods of Wm
‘Huckaby, work hard, save their
money, let politics alone, the ‘ne
gro question’ would be out of the
way.” This is what Southerners
have often said, but whenevex"
they have said it somebody in the
Sun's section has always become
excited and shouted back that un
til the color line is wholly obliter
ated there will be slaves in free
America. Thus imitation of the
methods of William Huckaby is
checked and offensive self-asser
tiveness is encouraged.
Didn’t Know It Was Loaded.
Valdosta, Ga., Nov. 2.—Mrs.
Tom Zant, of Lake Park, is cmzed‘
with grief over the killing of her
fourteen months old boy by a par—‘
lor rifle. The child died this
morning from the wound, though
the shot was fired Saturday.
The rifle had been about the‘
house ever since last Christmas,
and nobody seemed to know that
it was loaded. Mrs. Zant picked
it up, pointed it at the child and
pulled the trigger. The weapon
was discharged, the bullet passing
through the little one’s head and
lodging in the back of its head,
causing death today. The mother
of the child upbraids herself as be
ing its murderer,though the shoot
ing was accidental.
Take this Chance to go to Califor
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August Ist to 14th, inclusive, $47.50
round trip from St. Louis and $45.00
from Kansas City and St. Joseph. Con
sult nearest ticket agent about our
through tourist sleepers to California
and Seattle,
Cheap To Cool Colorado.
Every day we sell excursion tickets to
Colorado and Utah resorts at approxi
mately half rates, with return limits all
summer,
To Minnesota’s Beautiful Resorts.
Daily, round trip tickets to all Min
nesota resorts at a mere trifle over half
rates. With her 10,000 lakes Minnesota
offers a wealth of summer attractions.
Write fora lisit of Minnesota boarding
houses and hotels.
Homeseekers® Excursions.
The first and third Tuesdays of each
month at approximately half rates to
see the magnificent crops of the west
and northwest, and to help you secure a
home in that vapidly developing region.
Write us, describing your trip. 'T'HE
BURLINGTON LINES are the main
traveled roads through the west and
northwest.
J.N.MERRILL, L.W.WAKELEY,
Gen'l Southern Agt., Gen'l Pass'r Agt,
ATLANTA, GA, 6T, LOUIS, MO,
peWitt's Little Early Risers,
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WANTED Every man, woman and
9 child in the South to open
——— 3. Savings Account with this’
s company.
Deposits by mail may be made with
as much care and safety as at home.
Deposits of §I.OO and upward received and 3 per cent
interest compounded quarterly is allowed. When an ac
count reaches $3.00, a handsome home saving bank will
be loaned the depositor,
Write for full information and blanks to open an account,
Savannah Trust Company.
Capital stock §5000,000. Undivided profits $99,695.46.
Savannah Trust Building, Savannah, Georgia,
WM., W, MACKALL, GEO. J. BALDWIN, Wat, V, Davis,
President, Vice-President., Sec'y and Treas,
To the Planters of Jas
per County.
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Cotton seasonis again on and I am better
prepared than ever to handle your cotton.
Services equal to the best. Fire risk
Minimum. Interest rate liberal, shipping
facilities unexcelled. Centrally located.
Cotton Markets of the World accessible.
I want your business because | need it. Be
cause | can handle it as prompt and good
as any. Because | appreciate it and feel
honored every time a persondrops off a bale
ai my place.
Thanking my many friends for their lib=
eral patronage in the past and hoping to
merit a continuance of same I beg to remain.
Yours Very Respectiully, -
MONROE PHILLIPS, Prop.,
JASPER COUNTY WAREHOUSE.
TO THE
OF JASPER AND ADJOIN
ING COUNTIES.
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I am again at the Old Reliable Planters
Warehouse where | will be glad to handle
you cotton. I appreciate your past favors
and will continue to do so. Will furnish
Market Reports as usual, so bring your cot
ton to headquarters and go home happy.
Yours Truly,
W. R. POPE.
P.S. Liberal advances will be made on
cotton in Warehouse at a very low rate of
interest.
Our Boys and Girls are to
be commended for their
.
Wisdom.
It is very gratifying indeed, to note the increasing interest on
the part of our boys and girls in education—especially in busi
ness education; for there in nothing else in which they can invest
their money that will bring them such large and certain profits,
The general favorite in this state, particularly this section,
seems to be the Ga,—Ala, Bus, College at Macon, Ga,, which
is not surprising, for it certainly offers them unparalleled advane
tages, guaranteeing positions UNDER A $5,000 BANK DE
POSIT.
Ga.--Ala. Business College,
Macon, Ga.