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LOCAL TAX AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS...... BY DR. GEO. W. CLOWER of (i rantville, <5ti. Various objections are urged by many > taxing the j wo pie for the support of nblic schools. Home whose homes are npty of children, but whose pockets e full of money, claim that it is unfair id unjust lo tax his industry and ac- limitations to educate another man’s ild. lie forgets that hjs fortune is e result of n tux iie levied in his busi- ss dealings with the fathers of these ildren. it is sometimes called “luck,” irovidence.” “shrewdness,” but let it what it may, there is the fact that e man has money and no children— u other man has children and no nicy. ,Ma\ it not lie that tied lias ought these two face to face, that one ght be the complement of the other! ' it takes them both to make the full- mded mini. If all men had nothing t money it would make a sorry state, d very shortlived, If all men had •thing but children, it. Mould be a poor oiintry, indeed; but the latter's eondi- iion would have more hope in it for the future than the former. The man with a house full ol children is worth more, prospect i\el,\. ton nation than tin* man with a chest full of money, unless he is very liberal with it. Help the man who has the children. He needs your help, and the nation needs his children. I’ur** patriotism demands the tax for public schools. Some men claim that they lime educated their own children, and it is a hardship now to ask them to undertake the education of other peo ple’s children. These men forget they have grandchildren who would, in the end, share in the benefits of this tax. It is simply giving to his posterity, through the tax-gatherer, what other wise he would perhaps give to them through an administrator, and letting the grandchildren get some of the estate a few years sooner. Over that part of the inheritance the courts would have no contest, and the legatees no conten tions. It is the surest and most peace able way of distributing an estate, and every dollar of it becomes entailed and is wisely invested—not in stocks and bonds, which fluctuate and sometimes vanish, but in brain, and thought, and character, which will abide forever. It is a good way to meet your obligations to posterity. But another says, “Home who are not kin to me would share in if, and I am under no obligations to help them.” Are you right sure you do not owe them something! Who pro tects your home! Who plays the po liceman—the heir of millions or the son of poverty! Who holds back the enemy in time of war—the millionaire with his automobile, or the plowman with his children! Who patronizes your business! Who makes your investments profitable! What would your factories and mining industries be worth if it were not for these same poor men and women, who toil in the mines and labor in the mills and drive the shuttles in the looms! How much meat and bread could these machines bring you if the hands of the poor were paralyzed or should refuse to work! Is your peace of home, your property, your life worth anything! Its commercial value depends upon this very class that you hesitate to help ed ucate. Your prosperity depends upon the proper education of your neighbor’s children, livery community is bound together by a network of interlacing de pendencies that cannot be disregarded. The ties of blood, the bond of humanity, the fold of patriotism, the fellowship of Christianity, all tend to make our inter ests and welfare a matter of common concern. Mind measures the man, and men make the home, the village, the Htate. A community is ranked accord ing to the intelligence of its citizens. Its social standards are determined by the culture and refinement—that is, the education—of its people. Citizenship is dignified, society is elevated, and every secular enterprise is promoted. 1 now give a local application of these general principles. Orantville and Coweta county would be raised in the estimation of mankind if we had a local tax and good high schools made acces sible to ail the people for eight months in the year. The value of real estate would be greatly augmented, and there by the wealth of our tax payers would bo enlarged. Much a tax would make us richer instead of poorer. There would be a greater demand for homes. New citizens would move in and buy and settle and improve our property. Our sons w ould get a start to the best manhood and to positions of honor and profit and usefulness. To withhold ed ucational advantages is to doom them to an obscure life, to a useless existence, and unless wo provide an education for' our girls we simply condemn them to the tread-mill of drudgery and to the slaughter pen of passion and sensuality. We are urged on to the local tax and good schools by every consideration of kindness, of community pride, of patri otism, and of general good. Let us have the tax and good schools, and make Coweta the (pieon county of the Htate, and (irantville the brightest gem in her crown. UltA.NTVII.MS, Ua., April 16, 11)02. Atlanta & West Point Railroad Co. The Western Railway of Alabama. Direct Lines Between North, East. South and Southwest. U. S. Fast Mail Route. Through Palace Sleeping Cars. Dining Cars. Tourist Sleepers to California. READ DOWN SCHEDULE IN EFFECT APR. 23, 190S. 11 05|» 5 00a « ’.5a 10 05a 10 5)a 12 85p 11 '.'5a 12 HOp 12 57 p 2 OHp 2 I2p II OOp » 20p « 45a 10 52a 12 r»4i» No 84! No 86 No 38 D 26a 8 15p 1 25p 12 40h 12 16p 11 06p 4 OOp 5 00a 5 Hop A 55a ~ 14|-| T2p 7 Mb 1 HOp 2 27p 2 52p HHlp Sllpl 0 25p 12 H5p H 45p M 25p! H H7n 4 Hop W 02p H 12a 10 85i> 4 >7p ! H HOp A 20| 10 27p 0 HHp 7 05 p j 7 HOp 11 H5p 11 40n Lv Pensacola Ar Selma. Ar .Montgomery. . .. 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Trains 87 and 88 Washington and Southwestern Limited. Pullman sleepers, compartment cars, observation and dining cars. Complete service New York and New Orleans 'Train 97 United States fast mail. Through day r.motion Atlanta and New Orleans. Write fur mans, schedules and information. F. M. THOMPSON, j. p. BILLUPS, T. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. G. P. A., Atlanta Ga. OHAS. A. WK’KKRSHAM, Pres, and Gen. Mgr., Atlanta, Gn To Publishers and Printers. AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFER! The Newnan News / For the remainder of the year 1906 light Months For 50c We have an entirely new process, on which patents are pend ing, whereby we can reface old Brass Column and Head Rules, 4 pt. and thicker and make them fully as good as new and without any unsightly knobs or feet on the bottom. PRICES. Refacing Column and Head Rules, regular lengths, 20cts each. “ L. S. “ and “ Rules, lengths 2in. and over 40ots. per lb. A sample of refaced Rule with full particulars, will be cheer fully sent on application. Philadelphia Printers’ Supply Co. MANUFACTURERS OF Type and High trade Printing Material, 39 N. NINTH 8T.. PHILADELPHIA, PA. This offer is made to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY d is limited to thirty days from date of this paper. am.ut nr.vrats OF WIND AND WAV! INUUbS' OF THfc StA OTTfc.ll. Il.il.ll4.ik la til,* V,-r> lll.'iir.tl.- of tT,t» St.inii Ita.-lf ... Tlir> t 'I'liii.iKti Surf mill I4o,<1.h In l-'r.iuill,' Ill.lfirUna, westward of ilit* A lent Ion dnuds, a ml Kndiuk, just 'treat Alaskiui peninsula. . ,vo main pulais whence ra tio hunting ilottllas for the son ounils, Formerly a single Bus- homier or packet boat woutil i way with a procession of u il hldarkns. Litter schooners, r forty of them. gathered the at some main fur post, stowed t tklu eaitpies In piles on the iu. carried the Aleuts lo the Hi mis This might he at Ailka, lie finest otter hunters lu the veil, or ou the south shore of a, or in Cook Inlet, where if the tide runs a mill race, or j Kiulink on the south count, veuty miles of bench bowlders waters nml little Isleis of sen ■ Ideal lielils for the sea ot sweeping tides and boom 1 keep up such a roar of I but tlic shy, wary otter, gle, does not easily get i 4 of human intruder, s out tlic scent of the man ' •urf outso.mds noise of the man ; , and no tires are lhflucd, be It liter or summer, unle*s tlic wind ts night from tin* southward, for the | i oiler always frequents the south I ires. Tile only provisions on the ear I ng selioolter are hams, ram-id butter j grease, some rye bread and dour; j • only clothing, what the Aleut hunt ; wear. No sooner lots the schooner sheen’d oil (he limiting grounds i mu the Aleu.s are over decks with the agility of per forming monkeys, the so.iooiier captain wishing each good lu« K. the eager iiuul ers leaping into their hidurka.s follow ing tile lead of n chief. The schooner then returns lo the home harbor, leav ing ilic humors ou islands ns bare as a planed board for two, three, four mouths It poll the Commander group otter limiters are now restricted lo the use of the net alone, but formerly the nature of the limiting was determined entirely by the weather. If n tide run w ith heavy surf and wind landward to conceal sound amt sight the hunters lined along shorts of the kelp beds and engaged In the limit known ns surf shooting. Their rifles would carry J.0U0 yards. Whoever saw the little round black head bob above tho surface of the water shot, and tin* surf wash car ried in the dead body. if the weather was dead calm, fog or clear, bands of twenty and thirty men deployed In u circle to spear their quar ry. This was tho spearing surround. Or if such a hurricane gale was churn ing tin* sea that gusty spray and sleet storm washed out every out line, sweep ing the kelp beds linked one minute, Inundating them with mountainous rollers that thundered up the rocks the next, the Aleut hunters risked life, scudded out on the luck of the raging storm, now ruling the rollers, now dip ping to tlic trough of the sea. now scooting with lightning paddle strokes light through tlic blasts of spray athwart wave wash and trough,straight for the kelp beds or rocky bowlders, where the sea otter must have been driven for refuge by the storm. This limiting i> the very incarnation of the storm spirit Itself, for the wilder the gale the more sen otter have come ashore, the less likely they will he to see or hear or smell the hunter. Caff or paddle in hand, the Aleut leaps from lock to rook or dashes among (lie tum bling beds of tossisl kelp. A quick blow of the bludgeon the otter never knows how death came. This is the club hunt. Hut where the shore Is honeycombed with eaves and narrow Inlets of kelp fields there is a safer kind of hunting. Huge nets, now made of twine, formerly of sinew, with wooden floaters above. Iron sinkers be low, are spread athwart the kelp lielils. The tide sweeps in. washing the net flat. And the sen otter swims in with the tide. The tide sweeps out, washing the net up, hut the otters are enmeshed In a tangle that holds nock and feet. This Is perhaps the best kind of otter bunting, for the females and young can he thrown hack In the soil. For provisions the Aleut has brought very little from the ship, lie will de pend on the winds driving In a dead whale or on I lie flail of the shore or on the eggs of the sea birds that nest on these rocks millions upon millions, such myriads of birds they seem to crowd each other for foot room, and the noise of their wings is like a great wind. He himself is what any race of men would become in generations of such a life. Ills skin is more like bronze than leath er. Ills eliest is like a bellows, but his legs are 111 developed from the cramp ed posture of knees in the manhole. No landsman's still hunt affords the thrilling excitement of the otter hunt er's spearing surrounds. Fifteen or twenty-live little skin skiffs, with two or three men in each, paddle out under a chief elected by common consent. Whether fog or clear, the spearing is done only iu calm weather. The long line of bidurkas circles si lently over the silver sea. Not a word is spoken, not a paddle blade allowed to click against the hone gunwales of tin* skiff Double bladed paddles are frequently used, so shift of paddle is m;|de from side to side of the canoes ■pear throw secures the quarry. Perhaps forty men have risked their lives for n Nlugle pelt for which the trader ennnot pay more than .$40, for he must have his profit, and the skin must be dressed, mid the middlemen must have their profit, so that If it sells even for $1,100 In London, though the average Is nearer $150, the Aleut is lucky to receive $40 or $50. Day after day three months at a time, warm or cold, not daring to light (ires on the is land, the Aleut hunters go out to the spearing surround till Hie schooner re- lui'tis for them from the main post, and whether Ihe hunt is harder on man or beast may he judged from the fact that where the hunting battalions used to rally out in companies of thousands they today go out only iu twenties and fort les. True, tho sea otter lias decreased and is almost extinct in places; but then, where game laws protect it, as in the Commander islands, it Is on the in crease, and as for tlit? Aleut hunters, their thousands lie beneath tho sea.— Agnes (’. Laut in Outing. without u change of hands. The skin hldarkns tiiKo to the water as noise lessly as the glide of a duck. Yonder, where tile bowlders lie mile oil mile awash in the surf, kelp rafts—forests of seaweed—lift and fall with the rhythmic wash of the tide. Hither the otter hunters steer, silent as shadow’s. The circle widens, deploys, forms n cordon around the outermost rim of the kelp Helds. Suddenly a black object Is seen flout ing on the silver surface of the waters —a sea otter asleep. Quick its a flash the steersman lifts his paddle. Not a word is spoken, but so keen is the hear ing of tlic sleeping otter the drip of the lifted paddle has not splashed into the sea before the otter lias awakened, looked, dived like lightning to the bot tom ere one of the Aleut limiters cun hurl his spear. Silently, not a whisper, the steersman signals again. The hunters deploy in a circle half a mile broad around the place where the sea otter disappeared, for they know that in lift ceil or twenty minutes the animal must come up for breath, and it can not swim further than half a mile un der sen before it reappears. Suddenly somebody sees a round bin ok-red head poke above the water, perhaps close to the line of watchers. With a wild shout the nearest hldarkns dart forward. Whether the spear throw lias hit or missed the shout has done enough. The terrified otter dives before it lias breath. Over the second diving spot a hunter is stationed, and the circle narrows, for the otter must come up quicker tills time. It must have breath. Again and again the lit tle round rufous head peeps up. Again (lie shout greets it: Again the light ning dive! Sometimes only a bubble gurgling at the t >|> of the water guides the watchers. Presently the body is so full of gases from suppressed breath ing ii can no longer sink, and a quick The West Point Route. Extremely low rates to New Orleans, La., and return, account United Confederate Veterans Re union, April 25-27, 1906. One cent per mile in each direction, plus 25 cents, via Atlanta, Mont gomery and Mobile. Tickets on sale, April 22nd,23rd and 24th, 1906, from points beyond 500 miles ot New Orleans, and on April 23rd, 24th, 25th and 26th, 1906, from points within 500 miles of New Orleans. Tickets limited to return until April 30th, 1906, except that upon deposit of ticket and payment of fifty cents, an extension of limit to May 21 st, 1906, may be secured. For further information and sleeping car reservations, apply to Ticket Agent or write F. M. 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