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A Sciiemc for Better Seliools.
Atlanta journal.
The county school commission-!
fers,men of intelligence and cliarac-
ter, at or.r Peabody institute, just
closed, emphasized two education
al wants, better schools and more
inoney. How to meet these wants
is the vital question. •
Pupils and parents will he in
spired to do, dare, and sacrifice
everything for educational train
ing, in the same degree that teach-
ers "combine.Keal/ knowledge and
skill. Show me pupils dying to
team and instructors dying to
teach, and I will show you a Way
of bringing them together.
The Peabody institute's held in
Georgia for some years past have
signally failed in point of mem
bers. If attendance be measured
by clpily averages, the true school
method, it has never risen above
fifty.
To bring these schools nearer
the people they were held in dif
ferent parts of the state at the
same time; but the results did not
encourage the experiment.
The causes of this slender at
tendance are evident. Successful
teachers are not always aware how
much room there may be for im
provement; and financial reasons
keep others at home.
What we need is to reach every
county in the state, to rouse zeal,
increase knowledge, and improve
methods.
The Peabody fund gives- Texas
$9,000 annually, which the state
backs with $18,000. This supports
'one hundred and twenty pupils
nine months, and sends the bene
fits of the Sanl Houston normal
into every county in the state, the
.students being appointed by com
petitive examination.
After much thought and con
sulting with practical -men, we
have come to the conclusion that a
similar plan would be best for us.
The Peabody agent lias annually
warned Us that the' $1,500 from
that fund can be obtained only on
condition of being duplicated by
the state. Suppose our legislature
do more, and give $3,000. This
.in all probability would be dupli
cated by the Peabody fund.
A normal school should be held
during the-summer vacation of the
regular schools. $2,000 will pay
the professors. Now, to. scatter
the benefits through the state, at
least one teacher should attend, as
la student from each • conn tv in
Georgia. These student-teachers
should be enabled to comb with
their expenses paid by the state.
The $4,000 will do this: and the
Student-teachers should be re
quired, in return for the opportu
nity offered them through public
expense, to return to-their respeht-
itfl counties and there organize
county normal schools, to be held
. at least twice a month during the
ten months of regular school work
free to the teachers of the county,
thus giving to all the children of
the state the benefit of the one
month spent at the state normal
school,■■try the teacher selected and
trained at the expense | of the
state.
In the'way suggested $3,000 of
state money expended annually
for a few years would be of inesti
mable value in advancing the edu
cational progi’ess of Georgia, and
it will do more good than any sim
ilar expenditure ever drawn from
our taxpayers.
* It is manifest that next to the
importance of selecting a good
fcorps of professors, will be that of
sending trie best pupils to this
school. Tlie county school com
missioner might recommend sever
al to the grand jury, and they se
lect. Whatever would enhance
the honor of the ^appointment de
serves attention.
Tlie ni'ari o'r woman selected
must not only be scholarly- and
progressive; they must also have
ambition, persistency and snap.
No wooden man or woman will do.
Of that material men make ma
chines, nbt teachers: Every ap
pointee should be competent to
rise, some day, to the highest
chairs in the state.
Hour adjacent
needed for the school, each well
furnished with desks 1 and black
boards, and seating- fifty pupils,
also an assembly room seating sev
eral hundred.
Our plan for the school is, tb
make it highly practicable, train
the pupils to do by doing, and
send them home prepared to open
normal schools and do model work
in every county.
Jeremy Taylor once advertised
to preach and show how tb make a
pair of shoes in five minutes. Af
ter the sermon he took a pair of
boots and cut their tops off. No
such ready-m ade teach efs as that
for Georgia!
As education makes the man, so
it makes the state. If we desire
to see our hills and valleys cover
ed with an industrious and thrifty
population, to hold our own with
our sister states, to sustain arid ex
alt, at heme and abroad, the high
reputation of Georgians, we must
educate.
H; H. S.
Atlanta Journal. -
Wl«o Wrote “Mary Had a Lottie
Lamb??’
The authorship of this poem
has been ascribed to various per
sons, and. many romantic stories
have been told regarding its com
position. To Mrs. Hale’s family
the Philadelphia Times is indebt
ed for tlie following account of the
circumstance which led. to its pro
duction.
In 1827 Dr. Lowell Mason was
iuduced-to lend his musical talents
to Boston, and while there gave
special attention to the training of
children in vocal music, being the
first person to introduce singing in
the public schools. In order to
make these singing classes attract
ing, Dr. Mason requested Mrs.
Sarah J. Hale and other writers to
furnish him with verses suited to
the capacity of children, and of a
kind to interest them. In re
sponse to his request Mrs. Hale,
ever ready to lend a hand in any
good work, composed a series of
little poems for children, which
were set to music by Dr. Mason
and sung in the schools of Boston,
and afterward throughout the
country. Among them was the
world-famous “Mary’s Lamb,”
which was founded on an incident
of the writer’s own girlish expe
rience; A farmer’s' daughter, she
had In her New Hampshire home
her own little pet lamb, that fol
lowed her ivhstevsr she went.
Devotedly fond of animals, and
making pets or them from her ear
liest to her latest years,’ this busy
editor and mother of a family
turned aside from her ‘busy cares
to write these verses, which have
a sympathetic echo.in the. hearts
of childen all ’ over the country.
In 1S30 the poems thus composed
were published in book form un
der Mrs. Hale’s signature, with a
number of other songs and rhymes,
affectionately dedicated to all good
children in the United States.
There seems to be a cessation
of the complaint of the proteetion-
• ists that the prospect of tariff leg
islation by congress was the cause
of their suspension or the unprof
itableness of their bnsiness. In
stead of that we liow hear of the
starting of new manufacturing en
terprises, and have reports of the
great prosperity of some that con
tinue in active operations;
We have now before ns a report
that the Elgin Watch Company
have just declared a dividend of
40 per cent., and the Essex cotton
mill, of Newburyport, Mass., has
declared a dividend of 42£ per
cent, as its net earnings for the
past year. The Mills bill made
no exception in favor of cotton
goods, in its reduction of duties,
but cut them about 45 per cent.,
and still this mill is not reserving
its earnings to meet any appre
hended losses by tariff revision.
The Philadelphia Record of last
week says that the iron- trade in
Pennsylvania “now shows an im
proved tone,” and that it is not
auy fear of foreign competition
caused by tariff reduction
jkat concerns the iron men
of that state, but competition
from the south, and adds: “It is
certain, in the lolig run, that
Pennsylvania iron mills will have
to regulate their business to meet
southern prices. The mills that
cannot make cheap iron will have
to stop.”
That this is the.unvarnished
truth is plain to the perception of
any man who will consider the ad
mitted fact that pig iron can be
made in Alabama or Tennessee,
and perhaps in Georgia, at $6 per
ton less than in in Pennsylvania.
High protection is certainly not
wanted in these southern states,
but Pennsylvania iron men are in
terested in maintaining it, because
it helps to keep up the price and
to postpone the time when they
must either stop or remove- their
plants to the south.
There has never been any les
sening of the consumption of any
article because of the pendency of
the Mills bill. Is there a man in
Georgia who has denied himself or
his family aDy needed article in
the expectation that a reduction of
the tariff would lessen its price?
Is there a merchant in Georgia
who.has neglected to lay in his
customary supply of goods of any
kind on that account? We are
satisfied, that not one can be found.
And if there has been no lessening
of consumption and no diminution
of commercial orders; on account
of the apprehension of tariff legis
lation, how ridiculous is the pre
tense that any dullness of trade
can truthfully be ascribed to this
Cause?
General Mastsr Workman Pow-
derly was a witness before the
Ford investigating committee in
New York, and in reply to. a ques
tion of Congressman- Oates,
whether he agreed with Mr. Blaine
that trusts axe private concerns
which legislatures have no right
to control, said that the Knights
of Labor regarded trusts in the
same way that they regarded high
waymen. This doe's not look as if
Mr. Blaine, in declaring tlmfctrusts
were private concerns, with which
neither congress nor state legisla
tures had any right to- interfere,
was endorsed by the laboring
classes. . '
The "oldest person attending
school in this country is an In
dian, who was formerly chief of
the Grow nation, and who is being
instructed in the Indian school at
Carlisle,.Pa. He is called Crazy
Head, is more than 60 years bid,
and is known by other attendants
upon this school as a warrior of
note and a chief or ability. He is
learning tlie blacksmith’s trade,
and works half of the day and at
tends school the other hair.
The Hosib J ousxal serves all
A novel swindling scheme is
being practiced in New York by a
gang of sharpers. The modus op-
erandi is as follows: One enters an
office, and, assuming an air of semi
intoxication, says he met. a few
friends—hie—and whooped up
things a little. Can’t get home—
hie—wouldn’t the proprietor ad
vance a dollar or two on his watch-
chain? He is ashamed of his pre
dicament, but the loan is merely a
temporary one, which will be—
hie—lifted the following morning.
Then, with a multitude of hies, he
declares his gratitude for the loan,
goes away with the money, and af
ter a day or two the accommo
dating business man discovers that
the chain is the cheapest of bogus
jewelry.
Mr. Barry, a talented New York
barrister, lias been the observed of
all observers at Fenwick Hall this
summer. His costumes have been
marvels of the tailor’s art. His
morning costumes are especially
striking;- Ho is a man of middle
age, but, attired in a blazer and
a flannel shirt, with a’ silk scarf,
around his waist, his years seem
to flee away as the fog before the
morning sun. His bathing costume
-is his especial pride. it makes
him look taller.than he really is,
and as he gambols in the waves
The total number of stars one
can see will depend very largely
upon the clearness of the atmos
phere and keenness of the eye.
There are in the whole-celestial
sphere about 6,000 stars visible to
the naked eye. Of these, howev
er, we can never see more than a
fraction at one time, because half
of the sphere is below; the' horizon.
If we could see a star in the hori
zon as easily as in. tlie zenith, a
half of the whole number, or 3,000,
would be visible on any clear
night. Bat the stars near the ho
rizon are seen through so. great a
thickness of atmosphere as greatly
to obscure their light, and only the
brightest ones can there be seen.
As a result of this obscuration, it
is not likely that more than 2,000
stars can be taken in at a single
view by any ordinary eye. About
2,000 other stars are so near the
South Pole that they never rise in
our latitudes. Hence, out of 6,000
supposed to be visible, only 4,000
ever come within the range of our
vision, nnless we make a journey
toward the equator.
As telescopic power is increas
ed, we still find stars of fainter
and fainter light. But the num
ber cannot go on forever increas
ing in the same ratio a3 with the
brighter magnitudes, because if it
did, the whole sky would be a
blaze of starlight. If telescopes
with powers far exceeding our
present ones, were made, they
would no doubt show new stars of
the twentieth; twenty-first, etc.,
magnitude. But it is highly prob
able that the number of such suc
cessive orders of stars of such
classes will long prevent the accu
mulation of statistics on, the ques
tion; but this much is certain, that
in the-regions of the sky, which
have been searchingly examined
by various telescopes of.successive
ly increasing apertures, the num
ber of new stars found is by no
means in proportion to the in
creased instrumental power. If
this is found to be true elsewhere,
the conclusion may be that, after
allj the stellar system can be ex
perimentally shown to be of finite
extent, and to contain a finite
number of stars. In the whole
sky an eye of average power will
see about 6,000 stars, as I have
just said. With a telescope this
number is greatly increased, and
the most powerful telescope of
modern times will show more than
60,000,000 stars. Of this number,
not one out of one hundred has
ever been catalogued at all.
In all,'314,826 stars, from the
first to nine and a half magni
tudes, are contained in the north
ern skies, or about 600,000 in both
hemispheres. All of these can be
seen with a three-inch objects
glass. *
Fashion
and society imposs many priva
tions upon the female sex, in the
way of dress. - First .it is ode
freak, and then another, arid from
the fact that many of them are
unhealthy in the , extreme, it is
small wonder that many of them
succumb, and that “female weak
nesses” are the too frequent re
sult. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre
scription is the only positiue cure
for these complaints in existence,
and thousands of women can, bear
testimony, to its'efficacy. “Favor
ite Prescription” is a legitimate
medicine, carefully compounded
by an experienced and skillful
physician, and adapted to woman’s
delicate organization. It is the
only medicine tor women. Sold by
druggists under a positive guaran
tee from the manufacturers, that
it will give satisfaction in every
case, or money will be refunded.
This guarantee has been - printed
on the bottle wrapper, and faith
fully carried out for. many years.
Hr. Pierce’s Pellets, or Anti-
bilions Granules, Laxative or Ca
thartic,- according to size of dose.
Purely vegetable.
Man that is born o' a cullud
he appears even- handsomer than 1 ’omau is of few clays and short o’
out in evening dress.! rations.
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You may have heard! the anec
dote of the old negro iii Newark}
N. J., who-went to hear the cele
brated i)r. Thornton preach. Up
on returning home his master
asked:
“Well, Sambo, hot? did you like
the minister?”
“I like him fuss-rate, mas’r: but
but I don’t think he’s very smart
ar ter All.’.’
“Why sd?” '
“Why, . bekase I could under
stand ebry word be said, and I
ain’t smart inlarnin, anyway.”
This was told to the doctor, who
declared that he considered it one
of the finest compliments he had
ever received. And he then told
his friends how he had come to
adopt a simple method of speech
in his preaching.
One day he heard two laboring
men in a store conversing .upon
the. subject of a sermon which be
had;delivered on the previous Sab
bath. They had-no doubt it was
good. “But,” said one of them,
“you and I Tom, havn’t got learn
ing .enougli to see through the doc
tor’s preaebih-. Them big words
always, knock me.”!
Th9 doctor went home deeply
impressed with what he had heard.
Upon the.table, in his study, lay a
half written sermon, in which he
intended to give a brief history of
of the progress of Christianity.
He had written of the sweeping
down upon Rome of the -Pagan
hordes of tlm North, conquerors of
Roman habits and Roman- ideas.
The last clause he had was written
as follows:
“And through this concatena
tion of events the introgression of
Christianity into Northern Europe
was brought about. .
It seemed very simple and plain
to-bim, but how might it seem to
others? He called his gardener
—an industrious, honest, up
right and really intelligent man
—to his study.
“Thomas,” said he, “can’t you
tell me what a ‘concatenation of
events’ is?”
“Really, sir,” stammered the
poor man, scratching his bead, “I
don’t exxactly know; but I should
think it must be something pretty
bad!”
The doctor next summoned his
house servant.
“Mary, can you tell me. what ‘in
trogression’ means?”
“Mercy, sir,” cried the pert and
ready tongued domestic, “how
should I know? You never told
me to fix anything that way.”
The doctor, dismissed Mary} and
and then returned to his manu
script, from which he erased all
ambiguous words and phrases,
substituting language simple and
effective, and easily comprehended
by the common understanding;
And from that he carefully pur
sued this sensible course the re
sult of which was, that he had fi
nally come to preach so that even
poor Sambo could listen and un
derstand.
thai
Forsyth Advertiser. j - Exchange.
There are liviving to-day thous-1 The man who invented
ands of persons who attribute j stiff, adhesive, sticky, deceitful
their short comings in life’s ae- : share called fly paper, was a reck-
A certain Kansas college profes
sor, who enjoys a joke on himself
just as heartily as he does on any
body else, once upon a time deliv
ered a. lecture in a Kansas city.
As is the custom oh such occasions,
the principal choir in the place
furnished music. Before the de
livery of the lecture the choir me
lodiously enquired, “What shall
the harvest be?” aDd after listen
ing to the lecture came forward
and mournfully sang. “Nothing
but leaves.”—Topeka Capital.
The salmofi fishermen on the
Penobscot bay devote their spare
time to hunting seals, the latter
being very destructive to the sal
mon. One than reports that he
•has killled over 400 seals thus far
this season. ’ .
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complishm’snts to their refusal or
failure to grasp opportunities that
passsed within their reach. This
failure to fill up the full measure
of duty begins with many early in
life.
Boys hnd girls, blind to the
grave responsibilities that lie bur
ied in their future, fail bften to
improve 'the golden moments of
youth, whereby their maturer
years find them not fully and well
equipped for the rugged battles of
life. Failing to store their minds
with useful knowledge while op
portunity offers, they enter upon
the duties and assume the respon
sibilities of adult age without a
proper chart and compass to guide
them. And when the cares of life
begin to bear heavily upon them;
’fcis then they look back with re
gret to the opportunities they per
mitted to pass unimproved.
So many a young man standing
on the line that divides youth and
manhood and posing between
doubt and hesitancy, fails to grasp
the opportunity that would if ap
propriated in a proper spirit lead
him right onward to success.
Right here oftentimes steps in
the barrier that stems the progress
of some:. An opening for work
pi esents itself ; that is, an opportu
nity to do something crosses
their pathway, but because that
something is not just what they
prefer or because it is attended
with such conditions as are not ex
actly in harmony with their wishes,
they permit the opportunity to
pass without taking hold upon it
and stand idly by waiting for just
the opportunity that they have pic
tured in their fancy. Ndw, yonng
man, if you are of this- class, per
mit us to say to you in the kindest
spirit that yon are - making a mis
take; you are losing your hold up
on a certainty for an uncertainty,
you are turning aloose the bird in
the hand, not for two, but for ah
uncertain “one” in tbs bush.
Therefore, if yon are out of em
ployment, (Jon’t let the opportuni
ty for work pass you, but grasp,
improve and pursue it .with vigor,
and you will soon reach the point
where you will not be forced to seek
employment, bat employment, and
profitable, employment will seek
you. The young man who per-
snes this coarse and persists in it
will remove obstacles and will
reach the goal of success.
The prompt seizure and proper
improvement of each opportunity
is the leverage by which gt-man
works out self-elevation. Hence
we should never permit our path
way to become strown with lost
opportunities.
The story, runs that kissing was
introduced into England by Row-
ena, the daughter of Hengist, . the
Saxon. At a banquet that tfae
given by the British monarch in
honor of . his allies the princess,
after pressing the brimming beak
er to her lips, sainted and aston
ished jand delighted Yorfigern
with a little kiss, after the manner
of her own ^people.’
Work and play are necessary to
each other, brit they should not be
mixed.
A man does barm to others by
bis actions, to himself by his
thought.
JOS PiSi.V'S'IHO.
Have your commercial station
ery and other job printing for the
fall biisiuess done new, when-;.it
can lie done at short notice. The
.Home Jouenal Job Office is "fully
prepared to meet the . demands, of - H>noiirer
the trade. Call and see speci
mens of work, and get oar prices.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
He that is ignoble in smi
cannot act nobly in great
deeds.
less fiend as the following sad ac
cident will demonstrate to all un
prejudiced minds; - ...
A fow nights ago, after. tH& f&fl-
ily had retired, Judge Hardaway,
was seated., at his table writing}
some letters. On the Hoot near
him was a sheet of fly paper with
the danger side up. He was deep
ly absorbed in his correspondence^
when Thomas, the family cat, who
had been over to a neighbors, to
interview Maria, strolled leisurely
into the room and sat down on the
fly paper. Thomas’ person .was
doubtless somewhat heated from
exercise,and when he arose up th,e
treacherous fly-paper eaide, witti
him and stuck to him with a broth
erly tenacity that foretold trouble..
It had taken mortgage on Thomas
from his heels to the point of .his
tail. One glance to the rear con ?
vinced him of the necessity of
prompt action. He started across
the floor, and the paper went also.
Then he ran out of the dqor and
up and down the porch, and yelledj
for Maria. And then he rushed
back into the room, with ; his eyed
bulged out and his hair turned
back'tbe wrong^way, and ^jumped
over a table, and ran Under . file
bed, and came out again in a hora
ry, and knocked over a chair and
tried to climb up the wall. Then
he made two jumps for the dppr|
with that villianoue paper stili
holding his. tail straight up to
wards the sky, in a most indecent
and undignified manner,' and
dashed out through the or*»
chard toward Frank Donning-
ton’s with a tale of distress at
both ends. . . .
He came home next day very
sad and exhausted, and with a
wild-eye look of supernatural sa
gacity and suspicion on his couri^
tenance. He walks clear around
every piece of paper he sees ahef
won’t sit down on any thing. The
fly-paper was found plastered over
a crack in the,fence,where ThonD
as hadigone through in an. agony
Iii
of haste: It retained scattered
patches of blood and bide, and ,a
fork of far with the handle point
ing upward, and only lacked mo
tion to be a good picture of Thom
as when getting away from danger!
But Mr. Hardaway gives it 0 his
opinion that the fly-paper is spoil
ed and Thomas’ intellect a gloomy
rain.
Had luck is simply a man with
his hands in his pockets, a pipe in
his mouth, looking on tb see hoW
it is coming out... Good luck is. a
man of pluck, with his sleeves
rolled up and working td mak’i
home out right!
The second church bell broughi
to ; this continent still rings at . the
First Congregational Church ah
Hartford, Conn. The first church,
bell brought to this country rang
in Virginia.
mm
We niay teach rules of
conduct, and explain clearly
reasons and foundations, but
less we can stimulate .the
sense or a child or a man to yoli
tavy exercise, we cannot hope
form or reform character.'
You should forgive many tiling
in others, but
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Of. ^Gi'fsH’sTEETKiHA (Teething Powders).
Allays Irritation, AidsDirertion, Herniates the i ease,
Bowels, Strengthens the C.iild, makes Teethin? 1 iE „ vo _,l
Easy and Costs only 25 Cents. Teethina cures 1 SO glaUCl d TO
Eruptions and Sores, and nothin? equals It for 1 Tr}T,r-'c W.Ti
the Summer troubles of Children Sfonijaae. H Hmg S -t\ eW
is safe and sun. Try It and you-will never be / ' , “
vlthout TEETKIKA as ion? as there are child-
tea ia the House, Ask your Druggist.
Hot.xzcr.Aiv & CSir,r:r::T, Perry, Ga.
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_ Mr. W. H.
Lake City,
severe Cold’ attendi
tressing Cough