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THE ROCKE4LE BANNER
FORERUNNER OF REGULAR EDITH iO BE ISSUED MARCH 20, 1900.
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19 00 GREETS -----
Always rememoer the old reliable drug store of Dr. \Y. II. Lee
when in wan* of Pure drugs, Medicines, Paints, Books, etc * *
At this establishment you will always meet with fair 'urn! cour¬
teous treatment and find the best goods at the lowest-prices. A full
ine of the following goods always on hand.
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Stationery Bibles | j Cigars Combs find and Pipes, Brushes,
School Books. j Varnishes of all kinds,
Toilet and Laundry Soaps, i Lamps and Lamp Oils,
All kinds of Smoking Tobacco, * Window Glass and Putty.
A full line of Chewing Tobacco, i House and Furniture Paints,
Carriage and Wagon Faints,
Toilet and tancy article, Trusses, a large line of choice Perfum¬
ery, Spec,tames ar, all prices, fine pocket cnltery, Fish Hooks and
lines, Marbies. Ralls, Tops, and many other goods at prices that will
please all
Come ana see ul
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pring sewing and if
have not the easy
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be & lowing machine get you one of the
Blebrated White Ball leariiia
Or ■<
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TSie Wheeler & WilssnSo
We can save you money on either machine a nd
uarante perfect satisfaction, We keep on hand
■achine Oil & Oilers and various kinds of Machine
Jt!bM e3i les. Come and see the Machines no trouble to
3s®5 w them
WANT!
Mattings
f e have on our gallery floor quite a number of styles and grade of China and Japa?
®atti and also the extra heavy grain matting. We bought these mattings
weave
nelT r llle advance and show through
s iiipp ed ' and can makp makeyOUtne von tBo rieht ng.ib prices call let us you
best
hr §e >toc k °f House
Furnishings.
GOODE
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EDUCATE THE FARMER
I A LOGICAL AODKE'S BY St'ATK
SCHOOL COMMISSIONER
GLENN.
AGRICULTURE IS DIGNIFIED.
Country Hoys Must 1> T.'.ugltt at
Homo tiic Beauty ami Rowor
of the Fields.
la its last report to the governor the
Agricultural Department invited the
attention of hia excellency to the im
portance of introducing in our school?
nature studies, agricultural industrial
education, to the end that young men
who intend to become farmers might
rnjoy to soma extent the practical,
rpeoial training for their work which
5 ’ afforded those seeking the professions.
A short time after this School Com
missiouer G. B Gleuu delivered an
address before the Cotton States Asso¬
ciation of the Commissioners of Agri¬
culture in Atlanta. Believing this ad¬
dress should have the widest possible
iirculation, it is furnished to tins press
of the State for publication
COMMISSIONER GLENN’S ADBRESS.
Tha counlry boy leaves the farm
because ho has kv.rued at school that
other fields of human activity offer
| higher rev.aid l The country boy is
ahitioos to rise n 1 to move up and on
in -ho world. His teacher has fired his
heart with storms i.f what men in the
ivarnc-d professions have accomplished.
He is attracted by the laurels that men
have won in the pulpit, at the bar, on
rho hustings, on the battlefield, and on
trio deck ef a fighting ship. The course
of study that the luhoola have proscribed,
fer the boy tell him that to be great in
the eyes of the world he must preach ft
cat sermon, or \yri.a a great "poem, or
make a great oration, or lead a, grand
charge, cr com maud a fleet of warships
from a bridge of a flagship in a naval
battle. How to win conqaosts from the
soil of mother earth, how to make the
fields blossom and ripen into a fruitage
of golden harvests, has been np to this
time, no part of of the training of the
boys in our schools. The book learning
of the academics has led away front the
hard and exacting manual toil on the
farm. In case where the boy has had
no learning at all, we have had the
stolid picture of the man with the hoe,
“tho emptiness of ages in his face,"
"A thing that grieves not and. that
never hopes,
Stolid and scanned, a brother to the
ox. ”
Millet's picture and Markham’s poom
arraign with terrific emphasis the
wrong education, or the lack of ail edu¬
cation, that for ages past have bsen the
lot of the children on the farm. Not
until recent years has the world come
to recognize that agricultural pursuits
require as high form of development,
and as largo a degree of intellectual
power, as may ba required in any other
department of human endeavor.
if If ■ "felfi
mature m v
and children need mi —
t Babies n
f proper food, rarely ever medi
erne. If they do not thrive
| on their food something little is
j wrong. They need a
| help machinery to get working their properly. digestive |
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sOa LIVER OIL 1 ?"
HYPOPHOSPHITES COE> LIME <5 SODA
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i ; baby’s bottle three or tour f
'<! limes a day improvement. you will soon For see
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li ■LSI - children, from frnm half na to
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a teaspoonful, according to
IS fr i * al _: i|k
fl age, dissolved | in meir p mim, m
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. its great nounsn- . .
? -oon show
■V , g nnW4 power. , r If the mother’s
If jV* vj|k does not nourish _ tne
fi IToaby, . she n-e cmul
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show effect __
.. !t will an
at once both nnAn upon mnthpr mother
I a nd child.
50c. and |i.oo. ail druggists.
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York,
beauty and the profit and the power
that reside in the fields as they are to
be found nowhere else. We are late in
learning, but are nevertheless learning
at-last, that it is the business of the
school to train the children for the life
they are to lead after they have left the
school.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS ARE NUMEROUS.
In reoeut years every Stats in the
Union hasestablislied, somewhere with¬
in the coniines of the commonwealth, a
technical school of agriculture and
mechanic arts. This is well; but it
does not go far enough. We must put
into the public schools, the primary
schools for the masses, suoh elementary
branches of study as will be immedi¬
ately and directly helpful in the train¬
ing of our children for agricultural
pursuits. At least two-thirds of our
school population In the South must of
necessity spend their lives on the farm.
Nature studies, the elements of biology,
the elements of chemistry, how plants
grow, how soils are enriohed and ina,"
poverished, how lands may be terraoed,
and a thousand forms of elemental
instruction oau be taught in the schools
with infinitely greater results so far as
intellectual development goes, than hy
iha continued use of many branches of
study that have oome down to us by
tradition from the monks and the me*
nasteries of ages past.
The dead languages are good in thtlt
way and no intelligent man will speak
lightly of their educational value, bat
there are living languages in plants and
blades of grass, and soils and Btones,
and streams, and birds, and flowers,
that appeal with infinite delight sad
foster unmeasured growth la the beast
of a child. The great minds who have
done the most and tbs bsst for this
world, even in litsratars, la set sad in
ecienoe have come from the very beast
of nature, and "oatnrs never yet be¬
trayed the heart that loved her." The
Bard of Avon even, who tnned our
English tongue to higher and sweeter
notes than e’er before were beard, put
his ear close to the meadow land and
his heart to the hills of life, and his eye
upon the silent stars, while birds and
fitowers and blades of grass spoke to
him as he toiled and tilled the land of
his native shire.
WASHINGTON’S LAST YEARS.
His Happy Life With Ilia Wife at
Mount Vernon.
At the time of his retirement to
Mount Vernon, after the expiration of
his term as president, “the tall figure
of Washington was only slightly bent
and ho was still supposed to weigh up¬
ward of 200 pounds,” writes William
Perrine of “The Last Years of Wash¬
ington's Life” In The Ladies’ Home
Journal.
“Excepting Ills gray hair and his
false teeth and some trouble In hear¬
ing there was little of the usual ap¬
pearance of age in his muscular per¬
son, his gait and his strong, pock¬
marked face, He was affable and
merry with his best friends, but while
he had the true hospitality of a south¬
ern gentleman in inviting every vis¬
itor from a distance to his table or to a
bed over night, his politeness was gen¬
erally formal, Vet if he particularly
enjoyed the conversation of a guest ho
would pay him the compliment of lis¬
tening to him until after 9 o’clock, or
even of lighting him with the candle to
a bedroom for the night.
Mrs. Washington at this time* was a
healthy, pleasant and unostentatious
little woman, still showing traces of
good looks and with seldom any other
thought than of playing respectably
her role* of mistress of the house of a
country gentleman, of caring for the
negroes or of amusing herself with her
knitting. She lmd great pride In her
recipe for making ‘cherry bounce,’
and on a midsummer day she cut out
82 pairs of breeches for the men work¬
ing ou the farm. She had said that
she and the general felt like children
just released from school when he left
the presidency, and she told of her
satisfaction in settling down again to
the ‘duties of an old fashioned Vir¬
ginia housekeeper, steady as a clock,
busy as a bee and cheerful as a crick
ef ”
Tlie Bocoiuiem.
The original “boucauiers” were a
wild and picturesque gang. To the
M 'JSSS.
and they wore pantaloons of a coarse
linen, dyed and stiffened with the blood
of buHs and ljlgs and held up by a belt
of rawhide, stuck full of deadly knives.
Their apparel terminated with pigskin
b00ta aud no stockings, and they car
“
They were animated with a common
hatred of the Spaniard, which In thah
eyefi justified any attack upon his per
»on or property, and by a wild sort of
attachment to each other in their perll
oug lives wblch led t0 thelr being
known as the “Brethren of the Coast”
When the Spaniards drove them Into
J be career of marauders upon the
«a, the word buccaneer took a new
meaning, though they were also known
as freebooters. This was a mongrel
English word, “buiten" being Dutch
and “bueten” German for plunder. Of
this word tho French made “frtbne
ter,” with the s silent, and then soften
ed lt w .. fllibustier » W bicb the span
lards modified into filibuster©. So we
finally got the word back, with a new
meaning and a special application a*
“filibuster.”—“The West ludlM,” hr
Amos Kidder Flak*.
BUT
NEWSY.
of Interest
to the People.
Items Political, Personal, Social and
Otherwise.
Spring time.
Mocking birds singing.
Peach trees blooming.
April 15th is Easter Sunday.
Gardners getting ready to plant.
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Summers
visited in Atlanta last Tuesday.
Mr. Otis Adair spent Sunday in
Atlanta.
Mr. G. \V. Cain is at home for
several days.
Floyd Plunket spent last Sun¬
day in Atlanta.
Mr. C. E. Reagan was in Atlan¬
ta last Tuesday.
Look out for burglars—the land
is full of them.
Mr. Joseph Norman was up from
Augusta last Sunday.
Mr. - A. J. Ogletree of Cora, Ga.,
was in town last Monday.
Mr. Jessie Huson of Covington
was in the city last Monday.
Mrs. Walter Bell is visiting rel¬
atives in Harlem this week.
Court week is not long off. Boys
get up your fishing tackle.
Mr. Lovick Colemau of Atlanta
was iii the city Sunday last,
Mr. Benjamine Bostain of At¬
lanta was down last Sunday.
Mrs. H. Y. McCord has re bur¬
ned from a visit to Warreuton.
Mr. D. S. Butler has moved
into the Harper house on Mill St.
Mrs. I. G. Walker is visiting
her parents in Jackson this week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Summers
are now boarding at the Commer¬
cial.
Judge Gleaton lias made his an¬
nouncement to oppose Judge Cand¬
ler.
A full and varied line of fresh
garden seed at the Gailey Drug
Co.
Mr, Lawton Moon of Atlanta
visited his parents, Rev. and Mrs.
J. L. Moon last Sunday.
Miss Leila Penn has returned
home after a pleasant visit to rel¬
atives in Walton County.
A full and varieaGine of fresh
Garden Seed at the Gailey Drug
Co.
Miss Pearl Hicks of Atlanta was
the guest of friends here on Sun¬
day last.
Messrs Anthony Norton and
Fred Wallis were in Lithonia last
Sunday.
Mrs. G. A. Grey of Almon was
the guest of her sister Mrs. J. L.
Moon several days this week.
Miss Nannie Rose Thomas of
Oxford was the guest of Mrs. J. L.
Moon last Monday.
Rev. J. L. Moon preached an
able and impressive sermon at the
Methodist Church last Sunday,
Miss Stella Stewart has returned
to her home in Atlanta after a
pleasant visit to relatives in our
city.
Rev. Dr. Harmon of Atlanta
filled his regular appointment at
the Christian Church here last
Sunday.
The numerous friends of Mrs.
T. A. Elliott will be pained to
know that she is quite sick thiB
week.
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Brodnax of
Walnut Grove, Ga., were the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Brodnax
last Sunday.
Miss Daisy Lee, an attractive
young lady of Covington, after a
several days visit to her sister,
here, returned, to her home last