The Home journal. (Perry, Houston County, GA.) 1901-1924, September 04, 1902, Image 5
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Agriculture in The Schools.
Valdosta Times.
The announcement is made that
the elementary principles of agri
culture are to be taught in some
of the schools of Lowndes next
year. This is one of the most ad
vanced steps that has been taken
in the system of education in the
state, and Lowndes county is to
be congratulated. The matter of
giving more attention to farming
in the schools of the state, and es
pecially the rural Schools, appeal
ed with a good deal of force to the
Times a number of years ago and
has frequently bean discussed in
these columns.,
We have never been able to un
derstand why children should be
taught everything except the one
thing that concerned them mo3t.
They have been taught Latin and
Greek, reading, ’riting and ’rith-
metie, fitting them for careers in
almost every Calling or profession
except that of tilling the soil,
Our educational system has really
invited the children of the rural
communities to turn their backs
upon the farms and hunt voca
tions in the crowded cities by ig
noring the needs of the farm and
giving attention only to business
or professional lives.
We believe that when agricul
tural training becomes a part of
our educational system —when
the calling of the farmer is digni
fied with other callings and pro
fessions—there will be a revival
of our agricultural policy that
will increase the prosperity of the
state and add new charms to life
in the rural communities. When
we consider what the farmers have
done through their own efforts,
with no help from the education
al institutions of the state,we can
only imagine the mighty things
that maw be accomplished when
every boy on the farms is taught
from early childhood the elemen
tary principles of the calling
which he is to follow through
life.
The agricultural interests of
Georgia are overwhelmingly pre
dominant and the state must give
more attention to agricultural
training and encouragement. The
work may be slow at first, but the
influence which it will have upon
the future will be written in a
splendid story of agricultural
progress and development, such
as no section of our country has
seen before.
He Didn’t Know.
A lawyer tells how a small boy
once got the better of him in
cross-examinations. Part of the
questioning and replies therefor
are as follows:
“Have you any occupation?”
“No.”
“Don’t you do no work at all?”
“No.”
“Just loaf around home?”
“That’s about all.”
‘ 1 What does your father do?”
“Nothin’ much.”
“Doesn’t he do anything to
support the family?”
“He does odd jobs once in a
while when he can get them.”
“As a matter of fact, isn’t your
father a pretty worthless fellow,
nearly always fighting, and a loaf
er?”
“I don’t know, sir; you’d bet
ter ask him. He’s sitting over
there on the jury,”
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Griggs Doing Careful And Systemat
ic Work.
Claud M, Bennett, who has been
in Atlanta for several days, has
returned to Washington, D. C
says the Atlanta Constitution.Mr!
Bennett is mauager of the Con
gressional Information Bureau,
and a paitof his duties of infinite
variety is to keep tab on things
political. 6
“The democratic congressional
campaign committee,” said he,
“is doing very careful and system
atic work. Chairman Griggs is
displaying great energy nnd ' Ca
pacity in directing the commit
tee. When he was elected with
practical unanimity to this re
sponsible and difficult position
the only fear was that being a
southerner and used to managing
Georgia campaigns, he would
waste unnecessary energy on his
own section and would not know
how to successfully handle the
doubtful districts of 'the north
and west. He had an established
reputation as a successful cam
paigner, but he was not known as
a manager.
“But whatever fears existed on
this score were quickly dispelled.
Like a veteran Judge Griggs or
ganized his forces and like a born
commander he put them to work.
He is wasting no ammunition
where the game can be saved with
out it. He is not yielding to the
natural temptation to show off in
Georgia where his own political
fortunes are.
“He has shown no sectionalism
in his plans or their execution.
His committee is eeaching out for
the scalps of Grosvenor in Ohio;
Hepburn in Iowa ;Dayton in West
Virginia, and other republican
leaders where there is a chance to
get them. They are going sys-
tematicallydhto all doubtful dis
tricts. They are having republi
can congressmen confronted with
their records worked out in incon
trovertible detail. They are show
ing the country just why a demo
cratic congress measures better up
to the country than does^a repub
lican congress,
“This calculating work is al
ready beginning to tell, aud the
odds are all in favor of democrat
ic control of the next house.
While no positive legislation can
be secured thereby a democratic
house will greatly encourage the
party throughout the country and
make much easier the election of
a democratic president in 1904.”
Oil as Fuel.
State school Commissioner
Gleen in his report to the state
legislature, will urge that all the
country schools hn centralized.
He wants weak country schools
merged into strong ones and one
school to take the place now of
three, with a better corps of teach
ers and better facilities. As this
would be a hardship on the chil
dren to walk, public wagons call
for and take the children to school
every day. He says this will be a
great deal better aud cheaper for
the state. It is now in vogue in
many northern states aud is used
advantageously.—Ex.
Diamonds and other precious
stones to the value of $16,500,000
have been imported into the Uni
ted States since January 1 last
and up to August 15. This is at
about the rate of $80,000,000
worth of gems for the year. If,
as the republican papers allege,
the prosperity has been evenly di
vided, we shall expect to see our
farmers and their wives sparkling
in diamonds by next Christmas.
—Savannah News.
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The largest tree in the world is
said to have recently been discov
ered in Africa in the region of the
Upper Nianza. Its height is said
to be half again that of the tall
est tree in California, and its
thickness double that of the larg
est giant rosewood. The partic
ulars are, however, suspiciously
vague.
Healthy Kidneys Mean Life,
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their former healthy state, take
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Albert Juillerat and his wife,of
New York, are seeking a divorce
because he is seven inches shorter
than she is, and when they walk
out together their neighbors call
after them “there go the long and
short of it.” As. if realizing that
this makes the husband the chief
sufferer and wishing to strengthen
her own claim to freedom, mad-
ame further complains that mon-
siur is “addicted to religion and
drink.” Or so says the New York
Sun, the proud boasts of which
paper is that when you see it in
Sun it’s so.—Ex.
A Boy’s Wild Ride For Lite.
Macon. Telegraph.
In the midst oT the extensive
and prolonged strike of the coal
miners, and in view of the high
prices of coal this winter, an arti
cle contributed to the London Fi
nancial News by Mr. 0. M. Hays,
general manager of the Grand
Trunk Railway, is of deep inter
est. He discussed the Texas oil
fields and the application of oil
to traction purposes .1
Mr. Hays related that the
Southern Pacific made considera
ble progresz in the utilization of
oil as fuel, having equipped in the
neighborhood of 150 locomotives
with the oil burners. Four bar
rels ol oil are considered the
equivalent of a ton of c.oal for
steam-producing purposes. Goal
costs the Southern Pacific about
$6 per ton in California, and
about $2 in Texas, and Mr. Hays
made contracts for oil on the ba
sis of 20 cents per barrel, so one
may easily estimate the economies
to be obtained by the substitu
tion of oil for coal in locomotive
service. The principal expense in
connection therewith is the build
ing of tanks for storage purposes.
These were constructed at fuel
station points, with a capacity of
some 40,000 barrels.
The appliance for burning oil
can be placed on an engine at a
total^ost of not exceeding $100
per engine. Mr. Hays remarks
that perhaps the Grand Trunk is
too remote from the oil fields of
Texas to make practicable the
substitution of petroleum for
coal, although if Ontario oil fields
were ever to reach a development
of any magnitude it might well
do so. The Grand Trunk buys its
coal at the Detroit river for from
$1.50 to $2 per ton, and the
freight charges on Texas oil, add
ed to the cost of the oil itself,
would exceed present ■ cost for
coal.
There are some disadvantages
in the use of oil in the effect of
the extreme variations of temper
ature on fire-box and boiler,which
adds to the expense of their main
tenance, but this is not of suffi
cient importance to offset the ad
vantage in the use of oil in places
where the cost of fuel has reached
any material figure.
Results such as those indicated
in the foregoing, coupled with the
recent experiment conducted by
the naval arm. of the United
States government, are of espe
cial significance in qhis period of
high-priced coal.
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“I have stood by the bedside of
hundreds of dying people,” said
an old physician of Topeka, ac
cording to the Kansas City Jour
nal, “and I have yet to see a dy
ing person shed a tear. No mat
ter what the grief of the bystand
ers may be, the stricken person
will show no signs of overpowing
emotion. I have seen a circle of
agonized children around a dying
mother—a mother who in heatth
would have been touched to the
quick by signs of grief in a child
yet she responded as calmly
and unemotional as though she
had been made of stone. There
is some strange and inexplicable
phychological change which ac
companies the act of dissolution.
It is well known to all physicians
that pain disappears as the end
approaches. And nature stems to
have’ arranged it so that mental
peace shall also atfend our last
lingering moments.”
A gallant judge who sits on a
bench in St. Louis held the other
day that a woman may kiss any
man that she wants to ldss, but a.
man has no such privilege. But
it is a safe proposition that if a
strange woman were in the act of
kissing the -judge when his wife
came around the corner and
caught her, his ’honor would
speedily experience a change ef
opinion.—Savannah News.
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is walled in on all sides by steep
mountains, Some of which are
more than 8,000 feet high.
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