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The Ashburn Advance.
J. Benson Horne
Brfltor and Manager.
Offiaial Organ of Worth County,
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Entered at the pontoflioa at Ashburn,
Georgia, as mail matter of t Iks second
tdasa.
“Eternal poverty is the price
for runningacount rv newspaper,”
-ays Hie Bninbridgo Searchlight.
“Oi.n Noah,” says an exchange,
“set a beautiful example of lay¬
ing up something for a rainy
da v.”
Kx-Uovkrnou Northern has
beer, unanimously elected Bresi-
dent of the Southern Baptist Con¬
vention which recently convened
in Louisville.
Tin: Philadelphia Bulletin says
love and marriage have no re¬
gard for the rules of arithmetic.
First one is won by one and then
one and one are one.
A true philosopher fouee said:
“ l )on't go to law unless you ’ are
prepared to stay a long
Now, didn’t that fellow
M*nse like folks?
Tn k Moultrie Observer thinks
the general effectiveness of the
American soldier may be account¬
ed for by t ho fact that he uses
hot h t he sword and the pen.
An exchange says that the
woman who can look pretty
w hen she cries and romantic when
site sneezes, isyet to be found,all
< f which we duly believe.
Tm: Spanish war so far has
cost $160,000,000, $2.00 per
la. A good many American
/.mis are wondering just where
their two dollars worth,comes
Recently a woman recovered
in the Court of Appeals of Ken-
\ uckv, seven hundred dollars from
a man whom she alleged had
kissed her against her will.
Supreme Court of Georgia has not
as yet been called upon to deter-
mine the value of a kiss.
lx Wisconsin the legislature is
considering a “Bill to Prohibit
Women from Tight Lacing," We
have not seen a copy of the Bill;
don't know what tight, lacing is,
and we have never laced or oth-
erwise made ourselves tight; con¬
sequently we are not in position
to discuss the measure.
Ji tHiK McIntyre,
attorney in the famous Faynne
Moore-Bet Stralm case, in which
the charge was blackmail, is
ited with saying it is impossible
to convict pretty women. It is
suggested to try pretty women be-
fore a “jury of their peers” and
it is believed none of the guilty
w ill escape.
A REPLY 10 COL WHITi
The School and Ita Management is Ably
Defended by tho Writer.
Mr. Editor: —Please allow me
space to reply to that “Open Let¬
ter upon Ashburn’s Educational
Interest” in to-day’s issue of tho
Advance, over one li. B. White’s
signature.
With u < no axe to grind’, no
f riend to reward and no enemy to
criticise,” but called by the im¬
perative voice of duty to save his
torn and bleeding city from the
hands of the Philistines, he strode
forth like Sampson armed to do
and die. With a heart teeming
with love for the pulic weal,
which wo all know to be true by
the life he leads, he sieves his pen
with the resolution of a giant,
and in his omnipotent wisdom,
proceeds to pour out uncalled-for
advice, gratis, to the Board of
Education, lest they in their in-
nocency should make the fatal er¬
ror of electing to the principal-
ship of Ashburn High School, a
man with whom everyone is not
awfully well pleased.
He seemed to utterly ignore
that scriptural injunction: “Be¬
ware of the man of whom all
speak well.” He forgets that
there never was a man who did
| his duty in one place for three
P e » rs without displeasing some
on0, He forgets the “complaint
and dissatisfaction” at Christ and
I i is apostles doing their duty, but
thinks, instead, lie should pander
to the wish of a few who were
never really pleased with any¬
thing that was right; and by thus
pandering, it becomes his sacred
duty to open t he flood-gates of
I his mighty cranium and deluge
the unsuspecting Board with un¬
sought, unwholesome and unheed-
e( j ;u | v j (v>
lie forgets that these same
charges and others were brought
up one year ago and satisfuctori-
ly refuted, then. He forgets that
this same ciakingerewsaid a year
that he (Mr. Passmore) was
“unpopular” and that the school
would go down if he was.elected
principal. He forgets that in¬
stead of this prediction proving
true the enrollment for the pres¬
ent, year is the greatest in the
st ‘hoo! s history. lie forgets that
all charges now made were proved
talso one year ago. ’Tis an im-
position on the people of Ashburn
to think they have memories not
twelve months long. If the pres¬
ent principal is unpopular, why is
the school larger now than ever
before? Why has it been neces¬
sary to make so many new seats;
why has a new room been added;
why have the three rooms been
tilled to their utmost capacity;
why is the principal’s own room
the largest in the school? Is it.
because ho is unpopular? If un-
popularity puts children in school
and builds up the school he has
built here, then I say let’s oust
him at once and get a man whom
everyone will oppose,
If these pessimistic croakers
read the above questions without
having their eyes opened a little,
1 think David addresses them
directly in Psalm 92 :C :|“A brut¬
ish man knoweth not; neither
doth a fool understand this.”
If these charges have a sem¬
blance of truth, I cannot under¬
stand why the school has so pros¬
pered and grown. I have heard
of no flood of immigrants pour¬
ing into Ashburn; neither have I
heard that Ashburn people had
suddenly grown prolific and pro¬
duced a surplus of children at
home. I think the majority of
boarders in our town during the
past three years, have been old stu¬
dents of our principal who came
here for the purpose of again be¬
ing instructed by him.
It is a plain case of Reality vs.
Fancy. Reality shows that
never was man more strongly sup¬
ported both by patrons and Board
of Education. Fancy imagines
such vague and vile things as suit
its taste. Tho fact is, ninety per
cent, of the howlers are not pat¬
rons. But, like the Honorable
Ben, have no children they want
in any school. They are simply
disinterested parties, save for
that broad, deep and far-reaching
love they bear towards the public
weal—winch they have seldom
ever manifested.
Now, Ben, be honest a moment
if you can’t possibly do so any
longer. Don’t you think that if
you have anything to say to the
Board that is calculated to be¬
smirch the character of another,
you should do so privately and
not through the columns of a
newspaper; especially where it
only u seems” as you said in your
letter; especially where you can
not tread on solid ground, don’t
you think you should be careful
how you publish things that rob
man of his character—his greatest
heritage, his holiest possession,
liis most precious jewel? Ah!
Benjy, think on this awhile, and
I do hope with all my heart that
you may see the error of your
way and turn therefrom.
Your proposition relative to a
Public {school System seems very
good. What you said concerning
the new school building is also
good. No one thing lias done
more to bring about this educa¬
tional interest in Ashburn than
the school built up by its present
principal.
1 only object to the third para¬
graph of your letter, which ap¬
pears to me to be slanderous, icon¬
oclastic and misleading. I do not
charge you, Benjy, with having
originated all the gall your letter
contains. I think I know the
fount whereof you have been
drinking. ’Tis a fount whose
flow should be purer. Sadly it is
not. You have unwittingly al¬
lowed yourself to be made a cat’s
paw, a mere tool. This may now
seem a paradox, but soon the time
will give it proof.
Now, Bennie, if you have not
been used as a tool, but have done
as you have of your own accord
and continue to do so after read¬
ing this, I think Solomon un¬
doubtedly refers to you in Prov¬
erbs 10:23. “It is as sport to a
fool to do mischief; but a man of
understanding hath wisdom.”
Old boy, consider these things,
remembering that “It is a cow¬
ard that will not turnback, when
first he sees be is on the wrong
track.” Clifford IIay.
Ashburn, Ga., May 13, 1899.
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