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SCHOOL TEACHER. . Written for the home joubxal. I have read in history of great, warriors and how marched on to victory; I have I read of the great-poets and how they painted the beautiful pic tures of nature; I have read of the great orators and how they proclaimed their eloquence;, I have read of the great' inventors and how they put together the great electric machines, that we can talk with people thousands of miles away; I have read of col onies and how they rose from des olated ruins to civilized nations. I stopped and thought what were the causes of this, and it. appeared to me those warriors, poets, ora tors, inventors and colonizers Were once little children going to school. That their minds and hearts were fashioned there, and their ambitions were inspired, and I said that the teacher was the man behind it all. Then if the world depends so much upon the teacher,, let him be ma/l.e only out of fit material of which lie must have native en dowments of mind and heart. Culture would not avail it, but can strengthen. Inborn qualities of sense, sympathy, and insight are a foundation; and academic scholarship can enrich but can not supply their lack. The ideal school teacher is but a man amongst men, sturdy, Up right, courageous ; and he • must be possessed of high conceptions and keen discernments of the ideal of life’s realities to promote human destinies. Then he ought to be generous and have manly principles. The teacher' must be a patriot and a lover of his country, cher ishing, the history of pride, fixing hopes in the future and promot ing her weal. When he looks over his little band of pupils with an eye that penetrates the future, he sees that boys and girls are to be come men and women in the des tinies of the Republic. He must then have a knowledge- far beyond; what ho intends to teach, to deal justly in the training and welfare of his pupils, that they might be better prepared to live and be happy in this land of liberty. He must be a scholar as well as an instructor, a lover of learning, enriched by academic culture, in quiry, capacity and ability. His power must be in learning the se cret to ispnire pupils in the ac quisition of knowledge, for when he fails to be an efficient student he ceases to be a scientific teach er. The scientific teacher is like the sculptor ; he sees out of the rough looking boy the great, man in the future,as^the sculptor views his stately statue out of a huge piece of marble. I havu watched tne world and found, that.it is b the expression of .thought and t. embodiment of ideas. In fact, the teacher ought to be a philosopher, that he may be os life.” Locke: “It is thought that makes what we read ours.’ and Carlyle: “The thinkCr is the worst enemy the devil ever had. Teaching is an art as well a9 science—^-then ; an ideal school master must; feu an artist. At least, he must be a man endowee with su'ch qualities as to work up on the child’s mind as the artist with, his paints and brushes can work upon his picture. On the other hand, he should rightly view things, for he is seeking to be taught from all things and e.v erywhere. Then he should be .con scious of his calling, and above all things he should be no cobbler marring God’s handiwork, and sending Human souls out into the world maimed and halt and blind. The material on which he works is the human soul; the ideal toward which he strives is its completest development; his pattern is the perfect man, Christ Jesus. He makes or mars his material for all time and eternity. The sculptor can take his chisel and make cor rections, but the teacher’s blun ders are wounds that are never ef faced,—-in fact it is death. The teacher*works Upon the human soul and the h uman mind. The ideal school-master is a Christian gentleman. He has a tenderconscieu.ee; his personali ties are sane and sound, healthful and wholesome, generous and jus t. His sympathies go out to every living being. Althouhh he will meet with difficulties, he must be ablp to overcome them; he is to bring human souls out of dark ness into sunlight and sunshine. • It will be said :. “Our hearts were filled With burning while he walked along with us.” Be care ful not to fall into the rut of egotism. . An intelligent being ex tends far beyond the existence of what is past. . Emerson had it in his mind when he said: “I care not what my daughter stuides,but I do care with whom she studies.” And again when he said: “What you are speaks so loud I cannot hear what you.say.” The ideal school 4 master is naturally nedo w- ed with sense, sympathy and in sight. He must be possessed with high prerogatives; ha must fie a patriot, to promote the wealpf the Republic, a scholar sifting history, tme, beautiful and good, grappling life’s problems. That he is a pedagogue, that he is an artist who builds wiser than he knows, that he is a Christian gen- man, not to be famous nor fori; tuate nor rich in duty rendered to his pupils, his. race, his country his God., Now, to be an ideal schoolmas ter is to be able to take a chile from its mother’s arms and deal be pr# To do this he mnst feel an interest in ’ .his pupils; he must work for their welfare.’ To say in conclusion, the ideal The Savannah Press very aptly : says: “The astounding thing to j business men is to see gray-haired and conservative bank presidents meet around the board and ad vance millions to save these reck less gamblers; put up honest mon ey to bolster fictitious values; come to the relief of a set of stock jobbers as if they wefe JOckson- ville sufferers, honest men bowed by providential visitation. Did anybody ever hear of the banks or clearing houses putting up an emergency fund for the farmers when the crops failed or the blight ensued? In times of industrrial depression when mill men are run ning behind and labor is deprived of its just reward do these bank ers organize for their relief? And" yet a wail from Wall street will put every financier upon his met tle and the money kings plunge their hands into their vaults up to their arm pits and pledge bags of gold to ‘ease the situation.’ ” of MACON, GA., Sail 3 staj fcrfi %£ & .2 He 4s A Wonder. All who see Mr. C. F. Collier, of Cherokee,' Iowa, as he is now, cheerful, erect, vigorous, without an ache, could hardly believe he is the same, who, a short time ago, had to sit in a chair, propped up by cushions, suffering intensely from an aching back, in agony if if he tried to stoop—all caused by chronic kidney trouble, that no medicine helped till he used Electric Bitters and was wholly cured by three bottles. Positively cures Backache, Nervousness, Loss of Appetite, all Kidney troubles. Only 50c at Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. MAKES ALL THE Tailor-Made Clothes Worn by the -XDress3T Men. * of Central and Southern Ga. Artistic and High-Grade Work. Fashionable and Seasonable Fabrics. Tailor, 360 Second St. MACON.GA. YOUR NAME AND ADDRES6 ON P05T*l\ CARD MAILED TO W.M.TAYLOR, Jachsom GA. AND I WILL. DRIVE AROUND AND LEAVE; you a Sample copy, of . ** 6EORGPA POULTRY 6®RALD DE VOTED TO POULTRY PlQEONS S.PET STOCK \AND TME BRIGNTEStAeST UP-TO-DATE ON-TIME POULTRY PAPER IN THE SOUTH Special Offer:—To all who pay us $1.50 strictly in advance for the . _ Home Journal we will send the Georgia Poultry Herald one year Free. THIRD AND POPLAR. THIRD AND POPLAR. versed in the principles of morali- or>/i • nna ^fho di3V0teS ty and nattire; one himself to juoraUnd intellectual sciences, one who is profoundly interested in the development of human: souls,, and one who can take the baser metals aud turn them into purer manhood. : He should be a lover of truth, who is not moved by excitement, but by principle. The ideal school-master ought to be a pedagogue who has com passed educational thought, who has contemplated the march of .educctional ideas and creed, who has rights of education. .. Plato says:. “Next.to creating a human soul, the greatest thing is to edu cate it ^properly. ’ ’ He then should be possessed of the thought in the thing, and have the thing wall fix ed in the mind. He should be a student of methods and have a knowledge of the history of ideas. The teacher shoul^not expeiaflgeojix perilously with human souls;’ Ke must not pitch his tent in the graveyard of dead methods. Hence it is a help^emto tJieJbset ers to be tlioughfcful. sfcude ** ell, tfieh, to'tram pu; ikers. ‘fgloughtis tincition of mind; $he great work Skin affections will readily dis- appear by using DeWitt’s Wi . Hazel Salve. Look out fdr ubnn- forfeitsi If you get DeWitt’s you will get good re ' quick and positive cure f Holtzclaw’s drugstore. truthfulness of his profession,and for his love for his people and country. Let him, leave no cause tin won, no laurels withered; but leave a loftier sentiment, a hap pier, nbbler, and grander country. And at last to see , the better day has' come; he might ^‘draw the drapery of his couch about him, and lie down to pleasant dreams to think fif his pupils who liave gone ou£~ to make the world better. J. D. Renfroe, Havana, Ga. '* a ° ** . i ■< JJ How’s This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for aby case of Catarrh that cannotjbe cared by Hall’s Ca tarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co, Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have feno’wn F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, d beiiieve him perfectly honora- basiness transactio financially able to carry on obligations made by tbeir fir West & Teuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo* O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in- system. Price 75c.I per bUpe. gtold by all druggists. Testi Hall’s Family Pills are the best. her oats” since she “struk ile.” WINE OF CARDUI has; brought permanent relief to a mir-d lion suffering women who were on their way to premathre graves. Itfrs. MitcheiF was fast declining in. health, when Wine of Cardui performed a ‘’wonderful eure” -in-Ser case. She suffered with the ago-’ niesof falling of .the womb, lpucorrfacea and profuse menstruatioH. The weekly ‘appearance of. tkeTriehses for two'mdhths. j sapped her vitality until she wasa-phys- 1 lca, l w £®ck. Her nervous system gave l ,.Then ran* the tual of Wine .of | Cardui and the cure. 'MtfiVuiv. 1 1 When you come to Macon call at my repository and see the most complete line of Vehicles ever shown in Macon, including every size in FARM WAGOKS from one to aix-hor.-e. In pleasure vehicles everything from a Road CarT at $ 17.50 to the most handsome Rubber-Tired Victoria at $750 00. Airs'. Mitchell’s experience ougbtto commend \Vinftof Cardui to suffering women in words of burmng.elodcfence. is within the reach of all.'' Women Who try it are relieved^. .Ask your druggist for a $1 bottle of Wine of Cardui, and' do not take a substitute if tendered you; j Mrs. Willie Mitchell, r-kvi'h OoN. G;; j ‘Wine of Cardui and Thed ford’s Black- f Draught have performeda.uiirqouloTiscnre; ■ in my case. I had been a crest sufferer' With' falling of the womb.and letieorrhnui; and my menses came-every week for two months and were very painful. Mr hus band induced me to, try Wine of Crndni and Bl«ck-Draught, and riow the leucnr- i rhoea has disappeared, and i ain restored t', perfect health.” In cases requiring special directions, address, giving' 6 sympronis. J^Tlie Ij,dies’ Ad visory Department.” Tlie Chattanooga MedicJne Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. i In Automobiles: We, 7Alse Not .Only the Cheapest, but Also the Mcst Reliable Whiskey Hoiise iii ; Ueorgia. Our line of business is largely one of confi dence and therefore you want to deal with peo- pe who will not make misrepresentations. We guarantee everything wie sell just as represent ed, or will cheerfully refund your money. Tor $3.25 we will deliver koub r ull quak :s of our famous 4< Locomobiles ,? for. two and four passengers; “Auto- rettes” for one passenger. Our Locomobiles are guaran teed to run from ten to fifteen miles per hour on country roads,regardless of hills or sand,at a cost of 1 cent per mile. When you need anything on wheels write or call. THIRD AND POPLAR. SHINHOtSER’S. THIRD AND POPLAR. Agt. I am better prepared than ever to supply your wants in Anywhere in in plain box: mone^ dBnofsatEfactcJ . „ »d thing we offer is a pure Sour Mash—the Daniel Booxb—at Whiskey, best in Georgia, only $2.00 per gallon^ ‘ | south selling a eraon Rye at *1}( or a fun quart, or $3^0 per gallon. ETerything else jusfr as-cheap.* we hare goods from $1.25 per gallon up. Complete stock of everything. Sena us a tnal order. No charge for jogs. — SAM & SD. IfXICHSELBACM. Wholesale liquor Dealers & Distillers* Agents. 451 Cherry Street, Macos, Ga. , j WIUIWV) wunvrji WOODENWARE, FARMINGIMPLEMEOTS, i?e. I buy goods for spot cash, and therefore I sell as low as anybody in Macon. 308 THIRD STREET. NEAR POSTOFFICE. m BBH&hHhHhhbH