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Good Schools in Good Weather.-
Southern Educational Notea.
Every county superintendent
and every member of a county or
district school board in the moun
tains and hill country of the
South should know of the work of
Supt. S. F. Venable, of Buncom
be county, North Carolina. In
this country, as in so many oth
ers, the public schools had for
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Cassava And The Pine Belt.
Macon Telegraph.
Origin of tbe Wedding-Ring.
The wedding-ring is the subject i
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A plant that produces a larger of quaint historical facts.and end- j
amount of starch to the acre than laps superstitions. It
any other vegetable or grain, and 1 bly chosen as the symbol of mar-
at less cost, is a valuable posses- ■ riage more for convenience than
ouch a plant is the cassava,anything else,
which is attracting much atten- 1 '
tion in southern Georgia. The ! of power, and to carry special
telegraph has urged its cultiva- 1 curative virtues with it. The old
It is supposed to
be a symbol of unbroken love and
tion from time to time for months
— i * * „«U4. v i. r i, i . , —r-- — —• good-luclc saying about it is,‘‘As
years been taught in the late fall past, knowing it to be peculiarly i your wedding-ring wears, vour
wVmn X 1 * 1C adapted to the sandy soil of the oares will wear away.” The an-
piney woods belt of southern '
Georgia,
- Harness, - Saddlery.
Full line Agricultural Implements.
BEST GOODS.
CLOSEST PBICES.
bad and the little children cannot
attend without exposure and dan
ger to health,. Two summers ago
Supt. Venable worked out a plan
for what he calls “duplicate grad
ed schools” and induced a num
ber of the districts to give it a
trial.
The children were classified in
eight grades,each grade represent
ing the work of a school year.
About the first of June the schools
were opened for children of the
first, second, third and fourth
grades, which included all the
children from 9ix to ten years old,
and the records show that the
average attendance daily of the
children of these four grades was
as large as the average daily at
tendance of all children of all
grades the year before. After four
months, children of the higher
grades were admitted. In. some
instances the first, second and
third grades were discontinued; in
others additional teachers were
employed and children of all
grades were taught the next four
months. In other cases smaller
schools were combined in central
schools.
So satisfactory were the results
that the majority of the schools
in this county have now adopted
the plan. The attendance of the
small children, on account of
good weather in the summer and
fall, has doubled and some of the
teachers reported last summer
that every child in their district
from six to ten year3 old was i n
school. The progress made by
the children was surprising to the
parents and children, and was
made possible because of the few
grades to be taught. These schools
will run from eight to nine
months this year. The plan is
economical, and has many ad
vantages which make it worthy of
caveful consideration.
Don’t Start Wrong.
Don’t start the summer with a
lingering cough or cold. We all
know what a “summer cold” is.
It’s the hardest kind to cure. Of
ten it “hangs on” through the en
tire season. Take it in hand
right now. A few doses of Ono
Minute Gough Cure will set you
right. Sure cifre for coughs,
colds, croup, grip, bronchitis, all
throat and lung troubles. Abso
lutely safe. Acts at once. Chil
dren like it. “One Minute Cough
Cure is the best cough medicine I
ever used,” says J. H. Bowles.
Groveton, N. H. “I never found
anything else that acted so safely
and quickly.” Holtzclaw’s Drug
store.
Engineering estimates that the
population of the United States
and its dependencies now exceeds
84.000. 000 inhabitants. The
Philippines contain more than
7.000. 000 inhabitants, Porto Rico
has 958,000, Hawaii 154,000, and
Alaska, 68,592. China stands
first in population, the British
Empire second, Russia third and
the United States fourth.
Alabama, Mississippi
and Florida.
In an article on the subject in
the Cosmopolitan, the interesting
fact is stated that in its original
home in tropical lands the skin
of the cassava root is po'isonou3—
a factor eliminated by exposure to
the air and by cooking—but that
when transplanted to the. West
Indies and Florida this trouble
some element entirely disappear
ed, showing that the true home of
the perfected plant is in the
southern pine belt mentioned
above.
According to Prof. H. E. Stock-
bridge of the United States Flori
da Experiment Station, the aver
age yield of cassava per acre is the
large one of eight tons of roots.
This cheap product not only pro
duces 72 per cent, of starch, but
is eaten greedily by cattle, sheep
and hogs. Results have showu
that feed of cassava and pea-vine
hay is superior to feed of sweet
potatoes aud bea-vine hay, shelled
corn and pea-vine hay, and is even
superior to feed of corn-meal and
pea-vine hay. Actual experiments
are said to have shown that cas
sava will produce beef “at a cost
of one and one-tenth cents per
pound, while pork may be brought
to the block, when fattened on
cassava, at a total cost of but one
cent per pound.”
In our pine belt oassava must
be propagated by the stalk, or
cane, as in the case of sugar cane,
and though it withstands drouth
well, it is sensitive to frost. It
thrives better if fertilized, but
moderate applications are suffi
cient. Experiments at the Florida
station showed best results from an
application of sixty-two and one-
half pounds of acid phosphate,
150 pounds of cotton seed meal,
and thirty-seven aud one-half
pounds of muriate of potash, per
acre.
Recent tests made at Jackson
ville by agents of the starch trust
showed that cassava starch at
four and one-half cents per pound
“exceeded in value by six to one,
for plain and fancy laundry pur
poses, the finest starch made from
wheat.” As the wheat starch
costs six cents a pound, this would
give the cassava product “an ad
vantage over the other of about
eight to one.” •
It is suggested that the “slab-
pile” now burning day and night
at all the sawmills in the pine
belt “would furnish costless fuel
supply to a fair-sized cassava
starch mill, thus eliminating one
of the prime factors of cost in
starch-making.” Undoubtedly the
future of cassava in the pine belt
is a bright one, for the climate
the soil, and every other advant
age combine with the plat.it itself
to invite the production at small
expense of a very valuable article
of commerce.
cients,“Pliny among the rest, be
lieved that a deiicate nerve ran di
rectly from the “ring-finger” to
the heart, and that the ring plac
ed on that finger was very closely
connected with the heart. In ear
ly Christian marriages the bride
groom put the ring Srst on the
bride’s thumb, then on the first
finger, then on the second, and,
last of all, on the third, saying as
he did: ‘‘In the name of the Fath-
and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost.” The thumb and
first two fingers represented the
Trinity, the' next finger was the
one the ring was left on, to. show
that, next to God, a woman’s du
ty was to her husbaud.—May La
dies’ Home Journal.
The children of to-day will be
our men and women of to-morrow.
Their opportunity for gaining
knowledge is fast fleeting. Once
it is gone, it will be gone forever.
They can’t wait. What we do
for them must be done quickly.
The hope of Virginia rests and
must rest upon the education of
her young people, says the Fred
ericksburg, Va., Free Lauce. Ed
ucation is the only means of ele
vating and broadening the indi
vidual. The constant elevating
of the individual through the pro-
sess of education is the only
means by which we can hope to
expand and elevate the business
and social interests of our state.
The day has passed when to sim
ply know something about the
three R’s” will suffice. The
world is moving rapidly. Times
are constantly changing ancf with
these changes come increasing
demands for knowledge. Neglect
the education of the young to-day
and we seriously handicap them
for the life to-morrow.—Southern
Education Notes.
Wo go on building mills, and
instead of placing our young men
in the best positions in them we
are compelled to send to northern
states for competent overseers, su
perintendents and designers. This
fact alone shows that industrial
education is the foundation of in
dustrial greatness.
A H0ME-MKE H0TOli.
HAVING LEASED THE
Mulberry St., MACON, GA.,
Nest to Academy of Music,
It is my purpose to conduct a hotel that
will be home-like and satisfying to all
guests. It is specially suitable for ladies
or others visiting Maooh for a day or
longer.
Whooping Cough.
A woman who has had experi
ence with this disease, tells how
to prevent any dangerous conse
quences from it. She says: Our
three children took whooping
cough last summer, our baby boy
being only three months old, and
owing to our giving them Cham
berlain’s Cough Remedy, they
lost none of their plumpness and
came out in much better health
than other children whose parents
did not use this remedy. Our old
est little girl would call lustily
for cough syrup between whoops
Jessie Pinkey Hall, Springville
Ala. This Remedy is for sale by
all dealers in Perry, Warren &
Lowe, Byron.
to
We Strive to Please.
George S. Riley.
The nut cracking industry
St. Louis gives employment
over 1,500 people. The nut crack
ors are driven.by electricty, each
nut, being feed individually into
til crusher, i After the shells are
cracked the nuts are winnowed by
an air, blast and the meat picked
from the crushed shells by hand.
Tbe Children Cannot Wait.
463-465 Third St,
Harness Repairs a speciality.
MACON, CFCRG
The Hope of the South.
It is no use to hide the fact, the
hope of the south lies in the white
boy who is determined to be use
ful and is willing to work hard
that ho may be, says the Tennes
see Mountain Herald. There are
many who are studying Latin and
Greek and fitting to be lawyers,
doctors and ministers, but there
is no great demand for them.
There is a never ending demand
for young men who can do some
thing and superintend common
labor while this labor does what
clear brains plan and oversee.
The day has passed when a man
with a diploma from some small
college can win his way carte
blanche. It has been found’that
there is culture in gardening as
well as in Greek, in a lathe as
well as in literature, in the hand
ling of a plow as well as in the
handling of a pen.
Want Others to Know.
“I have used DeWitt’s Little
Early Risers for constipation and
torpid liver and they are all right.
I am glad to indorse them for I
think when we find a good thing
we ought to let others know it, “
writes Alfred Heinze, Quincy, 111.
They never gripe or distress. Sure,
safe pills. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
At G-reatly
Reduced Prices.
Fifty new Upright Pianos will oiose out at
greatly reduced prices within the. next few
‘ike
weeks. Among them such celebrated makes
as
Stein way, Solimer & Co,, Krauich
& Bach, Sfcultz & Bauer, Bush
& Gests, Lester and Royal.
Call at once and Beoure one of these bargains
F. A. GUTTENGERGER & CO.,
452 Second st., Macon, Ga.
of
Thomas E. Watson is under
contract to write an up-to-date
history of the United States, and
is now engaged in getting the ma
terial together for the purpose of
entering upon the task early this
summer. The histpry is designed
for the use in the public schools
of the country as well as for gen
eral reading, and the style of Mr
Watson as an author is such as
to make it certain that the vol
ume will be eagerly welcomed.
This signature is on every box of tbo genuine
v Laxative Bromo-Quiaine Tablets
the iemedy^that j5urea_n_col<l in one doy
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