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THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
ABOUT EDUCATION.
“Rnbe Snipe’s” Views on This
Important Subject.
AN INTERESTING LETTER
Glad He is Living in a Country Noted
For its Many Churches and
Schoolhonses.
I am glad 1 live in this age of
the world’s history. T am glad
that I live in this grand old etate
of Georgia—“the empire etate of
the south.” I am extremely glad
that our men in authority have
made euch strides in the direction
of education. Education is not
Christianity, but it is a step in
that direction. It is the founda
tion stone placed in the great tem
ple of civilization. Then you can
lay stone after stone of good mor-
als, sobriety, honesty, etc., and by
and by your building is nearing
completion. You then put the
finishing touch, “Christianity,”
which is the scrowl work, and
great glittering spires, which is the
human character complete, a beau
ty to behold.
But some will say, “All educa
ted people are not Christians.”
No, they are not, and I do not pre
tend to say that they are. But I
do say that more education and
better education will raise the
standard of Christianity and mor
ality in any country. I said in the
outset that I was glad that I lived
in this age of the world’s history,
I mean by this that I am glad for
the sake of the rising generation.
I sometimes wish that I had been
born at a later period, so that I
could have reaped the benefit of
those opportunities. But like
Simeon of old, I have lived to
see these great privileges come to
the millions of children in this
country, therefore, I must be con
tent with my portion of education,
While I am glad of the situation,
I am not satisfied with same.
There is considerable space left for
improvement.
The present system is a great
blessing to children who have
fathers aud mothers, but to those
precious little ones who only have
“daddies” aud “mammies,” it is
of no avail.
I believe in a compulsory edu
cation, and the thing will never be
complete until such a law is pass
ed. I believe that when men and
women haven’t manhood and wo
manhood enough to send their
children to school, the law Bhould
make them do it.
I say pass a law that will “go
out into the highways and hedges
and compel them to come.” I be
lieve that there are many dia
monds that have never been un
earthed. What we need is for our
law-makers to g« out with spades
and picks and unearth those pre
cious jewels. They will sparkle as
bright as the noonday sun if they
are o nly polished with literary and
moral training.
The day has already dawued
when it is no longer a question of
Property and Poverty that sepa
rate people in society, but the line
is being drawn betweeu education
and ignorance. But I repeat, we
will never fathom the depth or as
cend the height or soar the breadth
of this problem until there is a
law passed compelling people to
send their children to school.
But there would be serious objec
tions raised to such a move as this
because there are a great many
people in this country who would
say that they did not like to hav
their privileges takou away from
them. To such people I would say
that if they could send their chil
dren to school and would not do it
that they are not worthy of the
liberty they enjoy, and should be
forced to educate their children.
There are men in this country
(I am sorry to say it) that claim
that their children don’t pay for
raising them. What an immortal
fool 1 Such a man should be shot
with a cannon load of skunks and
then killed because he didn’t smell
sweet. •
What do your children owe
you for their existence in tTie
world ? Some people value their
children for what they are worth
to them, and you will always find
that estimate below that of their
horses and mules. I believe that
children should honor their pa
rents, but I could not blame the
children of the above named men
for raising their old “daddy” when
they get grown. They could pay
him then. And I believe that they
should do it.
The educational laws are incom
plete. There are children grow
ing up in ignorance right under the
shadow of our school buildings.
Why ? Because the laws are too
lenient. * The law says they can
send them if they want to or they
can stay at home, as their old dad
dies say “and pay fgr their rais
ing.”
I want to live to see the day
when those hidden treasures shall
be brought to view. I want to see
the day when children will be
placed above cattle, and character
above silver and gold.
France has a compulsory educa
tion law, and it works like a
charm; at any rate I have uever
seen au ignorantFreuchman in all
my life.
I have known men in the city of
Atlanta who did nothing but sit
around the stores, smoke their
pipes and read newspapers, and
their poor little ohildren at work
in the factories, and the old dog
spending their hard earnings ior
whisky aud tobacco.
Don’t tell me that our laws are
perfect as long as things are thus.
I say make a law that will put
the little children in the school
room and their old daddies in the
workshop or in the stockade, then
you will have the thing rightly ad
justed.
Another man will say that he
did not get an education aud his
children are no better than he is.
If I knew they would never be any
better than a man who speaks that
way, I would say that they should
have their headß chopped off be
fore they are any older.
But this is a progressive age of
the world’s history, and if a boy
does not make an improvement on
his father he is a complete failure.
And while people are progressing,
I want to see a law enacted that
will make a man send his children
to school; that will be progression.
Do you know that if God should
let down a week’s provisions to ev
ery family in Gwinnett county ev
ery Monday morning, some people
would go to their neighbors before
Thursday night to borrow some
thing to eat ? The same may be
applied to education. We have
great advantages in educational
training but there are quite a
number out, and they will stay
out until they are pushed in and
kept in by law T .
1 want it distinctly understood
that 1 have no war to make on
those who are uneducated, who
have been deprived of an opportu
nity. But lam driving at those
on whom the responsibility rests.
I had just as soou expect to find
a blossom on a fig tree as to ex
pect to see all the children edu
cated under the present system.
Rube Snipe,
THE NEWS-HERALD.
WINDER'S MYSTERY,
The current issue of the Winder
Democrat contains a good story
with a local end to it written by
Nick Rainey. In the spring of
f®92 a well dressed man by the
name of Dudley located there and
secured work. He was a highbred
gentleman and was w r ell liked by
his employers. Soon after his ar
rival another gentleman appeared
on the scene, and while they kept
their past history and former res
idence a mystery, they seemed to
understand each other, though
seemingly having nothing to do
with one another.
A year and a half after his ar
rival Dudley pulled out and did
not tell where he was going. Like
wise the other gentleman left,deep
mystery still shrouding them.
They were next beard of in Gaines
ville, whore the latter, whose ini
tials in the story are given as P.
H. G , shot and killed Dudley.
A Hall county jury found him
guilty of manslaughter and he was
sent up for life. The convicted
man pined away and died, and on
his deathbed confessed that Dud
ley made love to his sister, who
was the ideal of P. H. G ’s af
fections. and she died presumably
from a broken heart after being
jilted by her faithless lover.
The two men were schoolmates,
and Dudley was tall, handsome
and possessed a sweet tenor voice,
and his nice manners were calcu
lated to win the heart of any maid
en if he chose to ply court for her
hand. The dead girl’s brother
swore that Dudley should never
plight with another woman and he
shadowed him to prevent it. It
was announced that Dudley was
engaged to be married and then it
was that the seeker for vengeance
ended his life with a bullet.
Know What You Are Taking
When you take Grove’s Tasteless
Chill Tonic because the formula
is planly printed on every bottle,
showing that it is simply Iron and
Quinine in a tasteless form. No
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“Last winter I was confined to
my bed with a very bad cold on
the Jungs. Nothing gave me re
lief. Finally my wife bought a
bottle of One Minute Cough Cure
that effeeted a speedy cure. I can
not speak too highly of that excel
lent remedy.” Mr. T. K. House
man, Manatawaney, Pa. Bagwell
Drug Co,
When some meu talk we are re
minded of poor lead pencils; they
never come to the point.
Poison Oakgivf
Poison ivy Sip
are among the best known vS&jS''
of the many dangerous
wild plants and shrubs. wjUr
To touch or handle them
quickly produces swelling
and inflammation with in- Vs / j
tense itching and burning jf /
of the skin. The eruption
soon disappears, the suf
ferer hopes forever; but
almost as soon as the little blisters and
pustules appeared the poison had reached
the blood, and will break out at regular
intervals and each time in a more aggra
vated form. This poison will loiter in the
system for years, and every atom of it
must be forced out of the blood before you
can expect a perfect, permanent cure.
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Nature’s Poisons,
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worse. Don’t experiment longer with
salves, washes and soaps—they never cure.
Mr. S. M. Marshall, bookkeeper of the Atlanta
(Ga.) Gas I„ight Co., was poisoned with Poison
Oak. He took Sulphur, Arsenic and various
other drugs, and applied externally numerous
lotions and salves with no benefit. At times the
swelting and inflammation was bo severe he was
almost blind. For eight years the poison would
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improved after taking one bottle of S. S. S , and
a few bottles cleared his blood of the poison, and
all evidences of the disease disappeared.
People are often poisoned without
knowing when or how. Explain your case
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cheerfully give such information and ad
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we will send at the same time an interest
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OPINION OF UNCLE NED.
You may take your bottom dollar,
Put it down as a bet,
Dat dar’s plenty of rashins
In de county of Gwinnett.
Dar’s hogs in de hog-pen,
Plenty cows in de lot,
Lots ob bread in de oben
An’ collards in de pot.
Dey hab a lot ob ’taters,
Irish, Spanish an’ yaller yams,
De smokehouse filled wid meat,
Wid shoulders, sides an’ hams.
Dah’s wheat up in de wheat-house,
An’ corn dah in de crib,
Wid homemade sausage all stuffed up
An’ all dem ’licious ribs!
If it is dry one half de yeah,
De other half ’tis wet,
Why, dem folks will make a libbin
In de laud ob old Gwinnett,
Her people am always wide awake,
Dev am awful enterprlsin’,
You need not ’temp to keep ’em down
Because dey am always risin’.
I hope dey’ll stop dat ’sputin’
’Bout which county am de best,
If you will gib me old Gwinnett
Why, you can hab de rest.
You ’members dat expodition
Dat old Atlauty had ?
Other counties wus de chillun
An’ old Gwinnett wus de dad.
j She hab won a reputation
Dat shall last trough all her life,
She am wearin’ de blue ribbon,
So I hope dey’ll stop de strife.
’Possums grow sich ’normous size
You’d clar dat dey wus hogs,
An’ watermelons in de patch—
You’d swar dat dey wus logs.
Dem am bragin’on old Jackson,
Dat’s whar I used to lib,
De hogs up in dat county
Don’t nebber hab a rib,
An’ watermelons grow so small
Dey want bigger dan your fist.
I wou’t lib in dat county,
So I hope you won’t insist,
Dar, too, is Walton county,
She is striviu’ now to “set.”
She cannot catch dis county—
I mean dls old Gwinnett.
If you want to know de county seat,
Sah Lawrenceville am de town,
An’ dem editors bof lubs ’possum
AVid ’taters baked aroun’.
I have seen a lot ob counties,
A lot ob folks I’ve met,
But de biggest hearted people
Am found in old Gwinnett.
—J. D. Whalby.
If troubled by a weak digestion,
loss of appetite or constipation,
try a few doses of Chamberlain’s
Stomach and Liver Tablets. Every
box warranted. For sale by Bag
well Drug Co.
Clarksville News: And now
the politicians are figuring on sell
ing the state road. Not satisfied
with taxing every thing to the
limit, they now hope to finger the
proceeds from the sale of the best
property the state ever owned or
ever will own. Oh, if we could
only swap these politicians off for
yaller dogs and then tax the dogs.
Thiß would be a grand old state to
live in to be sure.
Consumption
is destruction of lung by a
growing germ, precisely as
moldy cheese is destruction
of cheese hy a growing germ.
If you kill the germ, you
stop the consumption. You
can or can’t, according to
when you begin.
Take Scott’s Emulsion of
Cod Liver Oil: take a little
at first.
The genuine has
this picture on it,
take no other.
It acts as a
food; it is the
easi es t food.
Seems not to be
food; makes you
hungry; eating
is comfortable.
Yougrow strong
er. Take more;
not too much; enough is as
much as you like and agrees
with you. Satisfy hunger
with usual food; whatever
you like and agrees with you.
When you are strong
again, have recovered your
strength—the germs are
dead ; you have killed them.
If you have not tried it, send
for free sample, its agreeable
taste will surprise you.
SCOTT & BOWNE,
_ Chemists,
409 Pearl St., New York.
50c. and $1.00; all druggists.
APRIL 4, 1901.