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THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER.
VOL. XXXIII.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 11, 1898.
NO. 18
H. C. ARNALL,
President.
J. A. HUNTER,
Vice-President.
H. C. FISHER,
General Manager.
W. J. DRISKILL,
Superintendent.
O'
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR
8.
|_J ERE WE ARE AGAIN, ASKING THE PATRONAGE
’ * of our home people, who have supported us so liberally and
used our fertilizers so extensively during the past ten years. From
2,500 tons in 1887 to 12,000 tons in 1897 is a long step, and yet this
is the record which the merit of our goods enables us to show.
We solicit your patronage again, because we furnish you the
highest grade fertilizer for less money (or less cotton, which is the
same thing,) than any other reliable guano company will or can do.
We manufacture the highest grade of goods sold for field crops in
ihe South. Only the best quality of Tennessee phosphate rock is
used in making our Acid Phosphates, and the very best and richest
blood tankage that can be bought enters into the manufacture of our
high-grade guanos. We do not use “fillers,” or coloring matter of
any ki*id, and every pound of fertilizer bearing our brand is guar
anteed to be just as represented. We have raised the guarantee of
several of our brands this season. We respectfully invite your at
tention to our own guaranteed analyses, and then to the analyses
made by the State Chemist from samples drawn after goods have
been shipped.
We are offering this season, for the first time, a very high-grade
Potash Acid, which we guarantee 13 per cent, available and . 4 per
cent, potash, under the brand of “13 AND 4” DISSOLVED
BONE AND POTASH.
You should investigate the merits of these goods.
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BRANDS:
AURORA AMMONIATED PHOSPHO.
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS FOR STATE OF GEORGIA
Georgia official analysis for 1894 and 1895
Georgia official analysis for 1895 and 1896
Georgia official analysis for 1896 and 1897
COWETA. HIGH-GRADE FERTILIZER.
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS FOR STATE OF GEORGIA
Georgia official analysis for 1894 and 1895
Georgia official analysis for 1895 and 1896
Georgia official analysis for 1896 and 1897
COWETA ANIMAL BONE.
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS FOR STATE F GEORGIA
Georgia official analysis for 1894 and 1895
Georgia official analysis for 1895 and 1896
Georgia official analysis for 1896 and 1897
VV. O. C, (A Pure Blood Guano.)
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS FOR STATE OF GEORGIA
Georgia official analysis tor 1894 and 1895
Georgia official analysis for 1895 ard 1895
Georgia official analysis for 1896 and 1897
A. A. P., (Acid, Ammonia and Potash.)
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS FOR STATE OF GEORGIA
> Georgia official analysis for 1894 and 1895.
Georgia official .analysis for 1895 and 1896
Georgia official analysis for 1896 and 1897
COWETA DISSOLVED BONE AND POTASH-
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS FOR STATE OF GEORGIA
Georgia official analysis for 1894 and 1895
Georgia official analysis for 1895 and 1896;
Georgia official analysis for 1896 and 1897
"13 X 4” DISSOLVED BONE AND POTASH.
Guaranteed analysis-for 1898
COWETA HIGH-GRADE ACID PHOSPHATE.
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS FOR STATE OF GEORGIA
Georgia official analysis for 1894 uuu 1895
Georgia official analysis for 1895 and 1896 ;
Georgia official analysis for 1896 and 1S97 j
! Ammoniated
j Phos. Acicf.
Ammonia.
Potash.
8 oo
2-. OO
1.50
10.67
2.50
2,40
n-35
2.21
2.77
11.46
2.24
2-59
10.00
2,00
2.00
10.07
2.87
2.84
10.65 1
2.80
. 2.59
11.23
2-59
2.29
10.00
2.00
2.00
11.60
2.65
3.80
11.76
2.45
2.61
11.78
2.46
2.69
10.00 ’
2.50
2.00
10.38
3-42
4.42
10.90
3-3«
2-33
I 1.60
3-4i
3-°7
9.00
1.00
1.50
12.13
1.83
2.03
12.22
1.74
1.61
.n-35
2.20
2.10
12.00
2.00
12.36
....
2-37
14.87
1.78
1 5-5°
2.60
■
13.00
4,00
1 5.00
15.22
1 7.08
16.23
We have the following representatives in Coweta county this year:
/NEWNAN—J. W. Bowers, J. S. Anderson,
Arnall & Farmer Mdse. Co , Hardaway &
Hunter, J. H. Russell. J. W. T Gibson.
i MORELAND—W. A. Brannon.
[TURIN—Fred Hunter.
SHARPSBURG—J. H. Wynn.
SENOIA—J. F. Arnall.
GRANTV1LLE—T. M. Zellars.
POWELVILLE—J. M. Coggin.
SARGENT—A. H A.rnall.
V W H E R E I CAME FROM.”
I like id hour men sing tlu* praise
Of lands \liul gave them hirth;
.Mhii’h unlive place should always be
The dearest spot on earth:
There never was a hero who
l'Ul not look hack through tears
And tender memories upon
The scenes of early years.
Hut you and 1 too often meet
Men who profess to find
All ihinc> less splendid here than were
The things they left behind:
Their native lands had better laws
And hotter men, they say,
And oft they make ns "wonder why
They ever camu away !
I like to hear men sing the praise
Of Innds that gave litem birth;
Man's native place should evt r bo
The dearest stint on curt It;
ltut when a fellow has to seek
I lis bread some other where,
Let him transplant a little of
llis love of country t herd I
Some of Georgia’s Needs in Edu
cation.
BY PHOF, ,T. C. WOODWARD, SUPERIN
TENDENT NRWNAN I’UBUU SCHOOLS.
An intelligent treatment of this
subject requires a brief rovlew of the
State’s history in education; and
since tlio burden of thought in this
discussion will have to do almost en
tirely with public schools, little men
tion will be made of the history or
needs of college or university educa
tion. '
It is proper to state that tlio
thoughts expressed in this paper
were worked but nearly a year ago
and submit ted to some of the leading
teachers in Georgia, and the South,
and through their suggestions tlio nr-
tlelo is offered for publication.
The Constitution of 1777 required
that schools be erected in each county
at State cost. This was never en
forced.
The Constitution of 1781) left all
questions of education in tlio hands
of the Legislature.
Ill 1788, tlio State appropriated
t,000 acres of land for each courtly, to
bo used in establishing free schools.
A similar act ,wns passed in 1702 to
establish an academy in each-county.
Up to tlio year 1817 the academies
absorbed all State aid; but from this
year to 1811(1, State aid was shared by
the academics and common or “poor
schools,” alike.
in 1817, a fund of (250,000 was
created for schooling “the poor,’’ mid
in 1821 an equal amount was appro
priated for the academies. Only the
interest from Ihttse funds was avail
able for use.
To become beneficiaries of these
schools, parents had to tako a pau
per’s oath, thus really defeating the
sohenio. People will not willingly
create t homsel vos acaste, w ith poverty
as its insignia.
In 1880, 9850,000 tens sot aside ns a
fund for the establishment of common
schools, and in 1887 a law was enacted
to carry into effect this system In
1880. By this act academics and poor
schools’ were combined under tlio
name of “common schools,’’ but In
1840 the law was repealed and all
funds were to be called “the poor
school fund.” This was practically
the death-stroke to free education in
Georgia prior to our present system.
In 1840 the academies, 170 in num
ber, reported only 8,000 pupils,
while the school population wns 85,-
000. Only fifty-three of the ninety-
three counties in the Stato made ap
plication for any part of the “poor
school fund,” thus showing its fail
ure.
In 1858, $100,000 wns added to the
public school fund.
Although strenuous efforts were
made in 1885, ’45 and ’50 to establish
free schools in Georgia, all efforts
really failed.
The Constitution of 1808 provided
for a system of common schools, “lo
bo forever free to all the children of
the State,” and created the olllce of
State School Commissioner. This law
went into effect irregularly in 3871,
hut not until 1873 can we date an un
broken progress of one school sys
tem. The school fund has grown
from $174,107 in 1871 to $1,040,300
in 1808. The attendance upon school
lias grown from 49,578 to 389,057 be
tween these dates, and still we have
in the State about 200,000 children
who are out of school altogether.
Our public school year has grown
from three to six and a half months,
and the value of our public school
property amounts to $2,583,000.
The course of study is strictly ele
mentary and fails to provide any high
school or secondary training. This
fact is very significant, since it shows
almost an absolute lack of sympathet
ic appreciation of the great and cry
ing need of our people. The state
ment may seem dogmatic, hut it is
unalterably true. Being an agricultu
ral and industrial people, we shall
never develop the rich possibilities of
our natural resources until we have a
secondary education that shall make
biology, agricultural chemistry, prac
tical surveying, manual training and
the industrial and domestic arts a
very prominent feature of the curric
ulum, and this education must he so
ordered that our rural as well os urban
population may ho able to take ad
vantage of if.
Through what vicissitudes of for
tune lias the State been forced during
(l\is period of history? But one great
revolution, than which there could
have been none more radical, will be
mentioned.
til I860, a State of great wealth,
her people free from debt, their gran
aries well tilled, many splendid acad
emies and several strong colleges
dotting; her hills, many of her sons
and daughters in otir best American
universities and seminaries, her ao-
ciety refined and lettered, her civili
zation chivnlrlc and Christian, lior
homes hospitable and liur> greetings
over welcome to the stranger, the
very atmosphere sweet and happy—
(his is the Georgia, of the old South.
In 1805, her wealth gone, tlie flower
of her manhood withered and mingled
with the dust of a thousand gory bat-
tlelields, all the way from Gettysburg
to tlio Gulf, from the Atlantic to the
Crept Father of Waters; iter grana
ries empty and her smokehouses un
stocked : her schools and colleges
closed, while tlio children in tattered
garments followed their mothers,
many now widowed, to Helds of toil;
her Nociul fabric torn and destroyed;
her homes once resplendent with cul
ture and resonant, with joy now de
spoiled and in mourning for the hus
band or son who Is still somehow
looked for, hut never to return; the
social problem of half a millon illiter
ate ex slaves now given full freedom
and citizenship; the obnoxious ear-
pet-lmg domogogue holding the reins
of government over an exhausted and
over-worked people—this Is the Geor
gia of 1805, as sho emerged from the
horrors of cruel warfare, in which she
lost till but her honor, which she has
transmitted a priceless heritage to her
sons and daughters.
Thirty-two yearn from thn dato
when this awful picture iiung before
the eyes of a people surrounded by
desolation and ruined institutions, we
find that the same industry, persist
ent but conservative determination,
wisdom and devotion to the best ends
of society and government, such as
characterized the old Georgia, are
still alive and achieving glorious at
tainments in all the powers that con
tribute to the greatness of a people.
Out of ashes and ruins have sprung a
school property worth more than $2,-
583,000; from a school population of
050,000 wo have gathered into our
schools about 400,000 children; from
paralyzed social and commercial con
ditions we have organized a common
school system, rural and urban, ex
pending more than $2,000,000 an
nually; almost single handed and
alone wo pro educating and Christian
izing a negro population almost as
large as our own at a cost of not less
than $500,000 per year; from a negro
ruco totally illiterate we have banish
ed more than half of this illiteracy.
With a history unsullied by any meas
ure of shams, with a future radiant
wilh hope and rich In splendid pros
pects—this is the Georgia of to-day.
This historic review goes to show
these facts:
1. Our people havo never been
reticent in matters of public educa
tion.
. 2. The demand of our people is for
common or public schools, and edu
cation for all classes.
3. Notwithstanding much opposi
tion from some sources, the public
school system is here to stay and
grow until it sntislles our needs.
4. The public school system in
Georgia to-day has serious weak
nesses and must undergo reforms. In
the interest of the rising generation
these should be rapidly made.
What are some of these weaknesses
and needed reforms? What are some
of Georgia’s educational problems?
I. SCHOOL FUNDS.
Bo far as the rural schools are con
cerned, Georgia relies almost entirely
upon a .State fund, and will have next
year six and one-half school months.
Throe lasting impediments are here
seen: First, the school term is too
short. Second, ^ he school fund is too
small Third, the fund being wholly
paid by the State, it removes the stim
ulus to local interest and support. Un
der our system of institutions, the peo
ple must feel an abiding interest in,
and be vitally connected with, their in
stitutions to give them closest thought
and hearty support. This can be
done only by making their participa
tion in the State fund dependent upon
a reasonable local tax for school pur
poses. “Where the treasure is, there
will the heart be, also.”
II. BUILDINGS.
i The avernge Georgia school-house
is a disgrace to our proud civilization
and tiie fair name of our mother
State. Our counties must be laid off
into school districts, and modern
school-houses oroctod in each. Two
races occupying the same territory
and forever to ho schooled separately.
In soiiio counties sparseneso of popu
lation, etc., hinder these steps, but
they must ho taken.
III. TBAiTIKRS AND SUPERVISION.
A fossil is destitute of life and in
capable of resuscitation. We have
some fossilized teachers and are mak
ing mere. Our normal school may
turn out competent and meritorious
teachers this year, bat the rapid ad-'
vanoo of educational thought makes i»
teachers’ usefulness dependent, upon
professional growth and deeper pliil-
osophioal insight. Teachers who dir
a fixed grade of work easily become
static. Examinations in the subjects
covered will not remove the defects,
hut may tend to ruechanicaiize the
activities of the teacher. Herein lies
the solution of this vital question:
The teachers must he kept at school,
in the higher and more liberal mean
ing of this term. Each county should
have as commissioner (better named
superintendent) of eduealion, not »
lawyer, doctor or preacher, but the
very best, most thoroughly trained
pedagogue available. He should be au
thorized to bring together IiIh touch
ers for study and professional research
and discussion once or twice every
month; put thorn upon a well-select
ed course of reading, and Hpetid olio
month each year In institute work.
Boards of education should supply
their corps of teachers with a profes
sional library and the beHt pedagogi
cal literature, Onr rural and village
schools should he in operation eight
school monthH per year. Think of
the wonderful progress one of our
counties thus organized and equipped
would make with such mon as Profe.
Branson, Pound, and Bond as supor-
intendeiHs. Object Ihhhoiih are before
us in the counties of Richmond, Bibb,
Chatham and Glynn, whore such mon
as Profs. Evans, Abbott, Ashmore
and Orr have charge under active
boards of education.
(TO MIC CONCLUDED next week.)
Wife (after returning from church)
—“Yon should have gone to church this
morning. We had a beautiful ser
mon.”
Husband—“I’ll bet you can’t re
peat the text.”
Wile—“Yes, I can. It was the
tenth verso of the sixteenth clupt 3
of Ezekiel—‘I girded thee about with
line linen, und I covered thee with
silk.’ ”
Husband—“Huh I It Is no wonder
you remember It.”
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