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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. ' gji 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. ’ . CGItSUZlPTlOH SU2ELY CUKES* To the Edxtok— Pleaso inform your read ers that I have a positive remedy for the above, named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I shall be'glad to send two bottles of my reme- dv fees to any of your readers who have con sumption if they will send me their express and post office address. Eespectfnlly, T- A. SLOCUM, M. G.,TS1 Pearl 5t.,NewYcrir. —Subscribe JOURNAL' now- - for the Home 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 • s'elfi 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. / - - . Worth Kn _ Mr. W. H. Lake City, severe Cold’ attendi tressing Cough