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The Herald and Advertiser
NEWNAN, FRIDAY. AUG.
ONE
DOLLAR
IN ADVANCB.
YEAR
A Real Country Life School.
Ewlnd Oallowny In C„lllr*r'it tVi*eltly.
Hack in l!*u2 a number of farninrn in
the vicinity of Coneoni village, in Knox
county, Tenn., K f 't tired of seeing their
children given training that started
them toward business or professional
careers in towns or cities, und made up
their minds to establish, if possible, a
school that would tit noys and girls for
life in their own community. Hook
learning was all right the more the i an< j keeps a line thoroughbred mare
better —but scholarship in literaturi
and the sciences was not enough. They
wanted their boys truined in practical
agriculture and horticulture, and their
daughters in rural domestic science.
They talked the matter over among
themselves, and when they got ready to
devise definite plans they culled in such
men as Charles W. Dabney, then presi
dent of tin 1 University of Tennessee
and now president of the University of
Cincinnati; fiilander I'. Clpxton, at
that time professor of education at the
University of Tennessee, now United
States Commissioner of Education; .1.
l). Eggleston, who afterward became
president of the Virginia Polytechnic
institute, and Wallace Uuttrick, execu
tive secretary of the General Educa
tion Hoard, New York City. When the
plans were agreed upon Mr. Eggleston
made a personal canvass of the district
and helped some of the local citizens
raise $5,1)00 by subscription, which
amount was doubled by a donation from
the General Education Hoard. The
University of Tennessee was interested
in I he success of the institution, lie-
cause iL wanted to be instrumental in
establishing a school that might serve
as a model for rural communities
throughout the South and be an object
lesson to students at the university who
intended to become teachers.
An incorporated district board of
trustees bought a farm of twelve acres
near the intersection of two pikes a
mile and a half from Concord, and built,
a wooden house of six rooms and an as
sembly hall. They converted the old
building which stood near by into a cot
tage for the principal, and erected a
good barn to be used by the school.
The institution, known as the Farrngut
School, was to be a combination prima
ry and higli school. The courses of
study provided for were similar to
those in the usual country school of
this size, with modifications to suit the
particular needs of the community.
The school was opened in February,
191)4, and its equipment was gradually
improved. Many people of tho commu
nity looked upon it as an experiment at
the start, but it wasn’t long before all
their doubts about its success were
changed to certainties.
Their loyalty was proved when, in
March, 1906, the building and all the
fixtures were destroyed by tire.
The destruction of the building made
the patrons more ambitious than ever.
They found temporary quarters for the
school, collected the insurance money,
which amounted to $H,r>uo, raised a sub
stantial sum by subscription, borrowed
$4,500 and erected a two-story brick
building with basement at n cost of
$12,000. A water system und other
modern equipments ran the total cost
up to $17,000.
Besides the usual class-rooms, there
are rooms for household economics and
manual training, and a large laboratory
for physics, chemistry, botany apd agri
culture. The home economics room is
equipped with u large range, three ta
llies, a modern kitchen cabinet, a dining
table, a tireless cooker, and all the nec
essary dishes and utensils. There is
also a sewing machine, and the room is
used by the girls’ sewing classes. The
manual-training room is the kind you
would find in an up-to-date city school.
The boys and girls have separate lunch
rooms, which also serve as play rooms
when the weather is bad.
The school lias a $3,009 water system
which is supplied from a spring by
means of a double-acting ram propelled
by the current of a creek. There are
two largo tanks in the attic of the
building and water is piped as far as
the principal’s residence and a public
drinking fountain and a watering
trough for horses on the pike. Each of
the main floors has two drinking foun
tains and there is one in each of the
lunch rooms. The laboratory and kitch
en are equipped with sinks and in the
basement there are modem shower
baths. Tanks connected with the fur
nace supply hot water the year round.
The building is drained by a sewer
yvhigb empties into the creek at a safe
distance.
Tho school recently leased eight acred
of land adjoining its own tract. The
school lot is divided into two equal
parts. The six acres about the build
ings nro used us playgrounds, the other
six for farm und garden demonstration
purposes. The rented ground is used
to grow the larger field products. Tho
school haH an up-to-date poultry yard
for
breeding purposes. A janitor and farm
laborer is hired by the year.
Hoth boys and girls are taught vege
table gardening. The girls take great
pride in garden cultivation and in can
ning. Some of them havu won valua
ble prizes in the last, two or three years.
He Got the “Gi-Raff.”
A menagerie that had been exhibi
ting in a Missouri village was struck
by a cyclone and its livestock was
blown loose and flew away.
That same evening as the luckless
manager of the show was sitting in the
village store ruminating on the fcn-
tunes of life, a colored gentleman
linked his head in at the door.
“Did you all lose a giraffe?” he in
quired.
"Yes,” returned the owner; "1 sure
did. Have you found him?”
"Yiih, sah. I done found him.”
"Got him with you?”
”No, sah; I reckoned I better in
quire first, sah, before I fotched him
over. ”
“All right, you fetch him here and
I’ll give you a dollar for your trouble.”
"Yas, sah; but I reckon de trouble
am wuff mo’ dan a dollar. Dat ole gi-
raffe am right smart rambunctious. He
done tried to bite rile.”
“Wliat areyou talking about, nigger?
Giraffes don’t bite! They kick. But
you bring him along and I'll give you
$2.”
“All right, boss; 1 reckon you am mo’
familiar wid dat gi rafl'o dan i be, hut
he sure made signs like he would bite
me. ”
The darky departed, and about a
half hour later there was a sudden
commotion on the front porch of the
store, the door was thrust open, and in
came the colored man, pulling and
wild-eyed and pulling on a rope. At
the other end of the rope, Bquirming
and snarling, was nn enormous Nubian
lion—"the fiercest lion in captivity,”
according to the show bills.
“Dar, mistuh white man, ” exclaimed
the ,-captor, throwing down the rope
and pointing to the lion; “dar’s your
die giralfe, and I tell you he do bite!”
The Tax Act Will Remain.
Maron Telegraph.
The new tax Act, which was passed
for the purpose of equalizing the taxes
of the people and of bringing all taxa
ble property to the tax books, is going
to remain a law. Not only will it re
main on the statute books, but it is go
ing to be more popular next year than
jt was this.
It may be amended a little, so as to
improve it and so as not to cause in
justice to be done any class of tax
payers, but it will not he repealed.
Some of the tax-dodgera, or that
class of citizens who have not been
carrying their just portion of the bur
den, made much ado over the new law,
and it looked for awhile as if they
would cause trouble for the bill, as well
as its triends in the House. Much of
the kicking was not due to the bill, but
to the interpretation put upon it by
local assessors, who went farther than
the law prescribed.
The kick over taxing mortgages, as
well as the property which they cover,
thus imposing • a double tax upon
mortgaged properly, was not a provision
of the tax equalization bill. That was
an old law. It was the action of tho lo
cal equalizers who sought to enforce it
that caused the kick.
The best work of the now equaliza
tion law is in finding property that was
not returned at all, and in fixing values
between property owners so as to
make them equal. In some counties
adjoining land was given in by differ
ent owners at values so far apart as to
show that one owner was fixing the
value too low or the other too high. In
some cases values were lowered, though
in most cases it was found that values
were much less than the two-thirds
basis.
To show the results of the equalizing
law it may be stated that eighty coun
ties which showed a loss of $512,000 in
1912 make a gain of $32,199,000 in 1914.
Thu larger counties of the State have
not made their returns. It is believed
that they will push the total gain up to
$100,000,000, which is the greatest gain
the State has ever made in a single
year.
At that rate it ought to be easy for
the State to reduce the tax rate an
other year, and at the same time meet
all the State’s obligations.
Cat Had Right of Way.
Our 1 111 in l, Animnln.
When traffic was at its height on one
of Now York’s busiest thoroughfares
ecently und a long line of trucks on
either side, moving continuously, made
crossing dangerous for all foot travel
ers, a cut emerged from a produce store
with a kitten dangling from her mouth,
and essayed to cross the street. Each
time she started she had to turn back
because of a truck, and her efforts
quickly attracted a crowd.
Down from the corner came a police
man. He soon saw what was the mat
ter, and wtiile there was nothing in the
traffic regulations to cover the point, it
took him only a moment to decide what
to do.
Going into the street he raised his
hands in the way that truckmen have
learned means “Stop.” They stopped.
The eat, seeing her opportunity, took a
firmer hold on the nape of her progeny,
and then, holding it high to keep even
its curved tail out of the mud, she
slowly and deliberately picked her way
across und disappeared in a cellar.
Don't despise an humble beginning.
To master the violin it is necessary to
play second fiddle first.
How To Give Quinine To Children.
FHHRII.INK in the trade mark nnmc given to nn
improved Quinine. It is n Tasteless Syrup, pleas
ant to take mul does not disturb the stomach.
Children take it and never know it is Quinine.
Also especially adapted to adults who caunot
take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate nor
cause nervousness nor ringing in the head. Try
it the next time you need Quinine for any pur
pose. Ask for 2-ounce original package. The
uatue 1-TiDKlLlN l; is blown in bottle. 25 cents.
The Plural Vate.
Senator LaFollette, apropos of cer
tain frank confessions in “high fin
ance.” said to a reporter:
“Candid, at any rate, isn’t it? In
fact, it’s all so candid that it reminds
me of Uncle Wash White.
“Uncle Wash had been a servant in
the Carroll family for many years, and
so, when young Charlie Carroll ran for
Congress, he naturally expected the
old man to support him. Charlie was
a good deal disappointed, therefore,
when the day after his defeat he heard
that Wash had voted against him.
“He sent for the old man.
“ ‘Uncle Wash,’ he asked, ‘is it true
that you voted against me yesterday?
“ ‘Yas, Mars Charles; 1 done voted
de 'Publican ticket,' Uncle Wash ad
milted.
‘‘‘Well,’ said the defeated candidate,
’I like frankness, anyhow; so here’s a
dollar for your candor.’
“Uncle Wash pouched the dollar.
Then he scratched his head, chuckled,
and said:
“‘Mars’ Charles, if you’s tiuyin’
cundqr, you owes me fo’ dollahs mo’,
kase I voted agin ye five times.’ ”
Keep Your Liver Active During the
Summer Months—Foley's Cathar
tic Tablets for Sluggish Liv
er and Constipation.
It does heat all how quickly Foley’s
Cathartic Tablets liven your liver and
overcome constipation. Ney Oldham,
Wimberley, Texas, says: “Foley’s Ca
thartic Tablets are the best laxutive I
ever used. They take the place of cal
omel.” Wholesome, stirring and cleans
ing. No griping. A comfort to stout
persons. For sale by all dealers.
He was a long-suffering traveler on a
little single-track railroad, and he com
plained bitterly to one of the trainmen
about the lateness of the train and the
irregularity of the service. The em
ployee remonstrated in virtuous indig
nation. "I’ve been on this here line,
sir, ” he began, “upward of eight years,
and——”
“Have you, indeed?” interrupted the
traveler, sympathetically. “At what
station did you get on?”
Sow Wheat and Rye and Insure
Plenty of Feed.
After the middle of October it is
rather late for sowing oats, especially
in the northern half half of the cotton
belt. When sowed later than this they
are apt to make little fall growth and
he winter killed, but this does nut ap
ply with the same force to wheat and
rye, which may be sowed up to the
middle of November, It is true that
rye makes very poor hay, hut none of
the fall-sowed grains make better hay
than wheat if cut at the right time.
The rye cut and fed green will help out
the feed supply and the wheat cut be
fore the straw gets hard and dry makes
excellent hay, The reasons for these
observations are two-fold. Many have
failed to sow the oats they should, and
feed is going to be scarce and high-priced
next spring. Therefore, unless feed is
abundant with you, it will be good
business to sow some wheat to make
into hay next spring. Even if one has
enough other feed, there will probably
bo no better money crop next year than
an early hay crop from wheat, followed
by soy beans or cowpeas.
By all means fall crops should be put
in to insure ample feed for the early
part of next season. Corn and hay are
poor crops in the North, whence we ob
tain our purchased feeds, and that
means that the usual high prices of
feeds in the South will be still higher
next spring. The Southern farmer
with oats, vetch, crimson clover and
wheat should be able to reap a rich liar-
vest. Will he do it?
There is no question about markets.
Hays are always salahle at a good price
in the South in the spring.
The Goose Never Forgot.
H. A. Tage in “The Inner-Life of Animals.”
One day a lad saw a young gosling
struggling in the grasp of a huge rat.
It made a vigorous resistance, but by
the time the lad came to the rescue it
was so severely bitten that it must have
soon become its antagonist's victim.
The youth continued his care over it
until it recovered from its injuries,
dressing its wounds every day. During
his attendance on it a friendship sprang
up between them, and the gosling-
might he seen limping after him every
where. The boy departed for school,
and on his return home at holiday time
was joyfully recognized by the goose,
which showed its joy as plainly as a
dog, and attached itself to him as be
fore.
He became a man and the gosling a
goose, but neither of them outlived
their regard for each other other. The
grateful bird deserted her feathered
companions as soon as her friend visit
ed his home and followed him as be
fore, and when the young man was
seized with illness the poor bird became
restless and pining as though she knew
something was wrong. Guided by some
wonderful instinct she made her way
to his room, a corner of which she had
occupied during the time he had tended
her wounds in his boyhood, and when
she heard his voice she crept under the
bed and established herself there.
The Case of L, L. Cantelou.
The case of L. L. Cantelou, Claredon,
Texas, is similar to that of many
others who have used Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
He says, “After trying a doctor for
several months, and using different
kinds of medicine for my wife who had
been troubled with severe bowel com
plaint for several months, 1 bought a
25c. bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After
using the second bottle she was entire
ly cured.” For sale by all dealers.
“re-
See
wait
The Sunday-school teacher was talk
ing to her pupils on patience. She ex
plained her topic carefully, and, as an
aid to understanding, she gave each pu
pil a card bearing the picture of a boy
fishing.
“Even pleasure,” she said,
quires the exercise of patience,
the boy fishing; he must sit and
and wait. He must be patient.”
Having treated the subject very fully
she began with the simplest, most prac
tical question:
"And now can any little boy tell me
what we need most when we go fish
ing?”
The answer was quickly shouted with
one voice:
“Bait!”
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days
Your druggist will refund money if PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching,
Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days.
The first application gives Ease and Rest. 50c.
Warren Grice Asks
You to Continue Him
As Attorney General
Warren Grice
To the People of Georgia:
I have been serving as
Attorney General since
April 15th, filling an unex
pired term. In order,
faithfully, to discharge my
ollicial duties I have been
unable to make a personal
canvasa of the State. I
prefer to remain at my post
rather than to seek to fur
ther my political interests
by making a hand-shaking
tour of the State, to the
neglect of my duties in this
office.
Since leaving Mercer Uni
versity 20 years ago, I have been engaged in the active
practice of law. I ask your support on my record as
a lawyer, and on my record as Attorney General.
The duties of this office are unusually important.
The Attorney General not only has to represent the
State in all murder cases before the Supreme Court,
but he is also charged with the care and responsibility
of guarding the interests of the State, in various tax
cases before the United States courts, and in winding
up insolvent banks and insurance companies. The duties
formerly devolving upon a spec'al attorney for the
Western & Atlantic Railroad are now by law added
to this office, and upon your Attorney General devolves
the protection of the State’s interest in this great prop
erty. Almost daily he is called upon to render opinions
on important questions of State to the Governor and
other State House officers. From this you see the im
portance of this office, with the duties of which I have
now become thoroughly familiar. If, upon investiga
tion of my record, you believe me worthy and qualified
to discharge these duties, I will gratefully appreciate
your endorsement at the polls.
WARREN GRICE.
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Telephone to Glazier
T “T WISH you would get a glazier to come
| up and set that pane of glass the chil
dren broke yesterday. The house is as
r cold as a barn,” said the surburban house-
i wife, as her husband was about to go to
business.
“Haven’t time this morning,” replied her hus
band. “Just look in the Telephone Directory—
you 11 find several there. Give the order to ths
one who says he will send a man right up.”
"ft Its the man with the telephone who gets the
hurry orders every time.
When you telephone—smile
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VOTE FOR SLATON
FOR THE SHORT TERM SENATOSSHIP
AND YOU CHOOSE THE WINNER
N. B. It’s the field against Slaton. He Is the only
candidate running in every county. A vote
for him counts for him; against him it may
count for any one of his opponents whose
only hope is to deadlock the Convention.
JOHN M. SLATON STATE
ALFRED C. NEWELL, Chairman
N.B. Slaton is the winner because he stands for
the things the people want. Parcels post
is one of them. Pviiral credits another.
Also because he is the best trained and
best equipped for Senatorial service.
CAkMF^AXGIV COMMITTEE
J• A. MORROW, Secretary
I Aiivt rttstmentj
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