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INVARIABLY IX ADVANCE.
Different Views of the
World.
Ill LITT1.E ANNIE*. :
THE OlllUX
This world to me is bright and fair:
I never know a woo or care:
And never have a cross to bear.
I he sweetest things to said, .
me are
Rare blesshigs t:dt5j|<]\iiiy head.
i never know a fear or dread.
The sunbeams come and play with
me:
And flowers smile when me they see:
And 1 am happy all the day.
THE SCHOOL (URL.
Oh my! there goes that mean old
‘
hell—
Now, I must go to school.
AtiiX What school’s good for a can’t
tell.
With all its hateful rules.
It is parse this, analyze that:
Arnl grammar rules repeat—
Where are better tilings know, to be
at
Than HtHkying all the week.
And then there’s that old "Utile fo
TlireC “
And f fractions up-side-down:
Where lie good in them is, can't see
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Oh! I have an awful hard time—
’Tisstu y from moi n till night.
I believe folks are losing their minds
To think I in books delight.
Now, when I get. grown, you'll see,
That 1 will study none: ,
And I so happy limn will be
Oh! I must make haste and get
grown.
the dei i.k.
1 Ins w oi hi is Jdied with balls, , ,, . .
ties, and n les.
And , young ih;ii by the dozens too:
TJagets, love-tetters, sweet
andnotes,
An<l also ItirtStionH* (nv.
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Adncatioiial Development.
PREI’AKATOUY Sf'HOOES TJIKTlt KELA
T1VE IMl'OKTANl'E TO OUH
em.i.EOES.
BY SAM SCOTT.
That our preparatory schools, ( ' '.T
which is mesiut all institutions
fhr college.)
have not shared m our educational
endowment, is not wonderful, since
that endowment lms been so illscrim
mating as to confine itself lnainl.v to
denominational male colleges; but
that they have not shared in the eel
ucational interest so general and ;, e
five, is remarkable indeed. T heir
importance certainly <lo*?s not merit
such neglect. Our colleges may in
deed secure abler professors n nd set.
up higher standards of seholarslii p.
hut I believe tiny must long remain
hampered in their work and disap
pointed in their results, unless our
preparatory schools a re improved. schools
Let us examine how these
meet their relation to our colleges,
with a view to ascertain how far
this propositum may be true.
, AidiiEi. eou<*atiox.
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The fundamental principle of the
Amchcau college is that a liberal oA
i 3 sr r;
than to cultivate some and Icaveotb
| ers to wither. Tlieir curriculujus
proscribe, therefore, (l) Matbemat
j ies, (2)riiysieal and Natural Science, ;
I (3) Language, (4) Political and 1
Moral Science. t
! fkeshman college kkqcisitkk. for j
j The average requires,
i entrance to freshman class*, in mat lie- j
| maties. an iiAiinate aeipiaiutance J ,
with Algebra through, radicals to
second degree in .
t( , equations of the
m. I, text-books as Kay’s, Went- Latin, !
wwthX or Todlmnter’s, in
j 0U(1 mnfitb(> ah|e to and J
j (‘hero easily, and know enough of
lie grammar, to write well mo'JU 4 ; 1
JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
AUGUST 18, 1883.
| course, since at least twoyears of it
ave spent in Requiring elementary
j knowledge that should have been ac¬
quired in their preparatory course.
Not only, therefore, does the pres
ent situation of things call loudly for
the improvement of these preparato¬
ry schools, but the movement towards
special courses of study, gives to that
call an irremstableenergy. The do
m;)i „ of knowledge has'become so
vast that no man can hope, and no
sensible man will try, to possess the
n-holo. The principle underlying the
movement is that it is better to know
we ]| two or even one thing than many
indifferently, since only definite
| knowledge is of praetienl use. This
moV ement, then, directs every boy
• ou entering college to select that
i course bearing most directly on his
j ' c . 0U The teiuplated plan, it is icvoeation. evident, has its evils,
ag m ,)[ as its goods. In the first
i p] ace , it. is questionable whether a
! boy with the knowledge he has on go
| ing up to college at present, is cajia
| ble of dividing what he is by nature
i beat fitted for; and, granting this, it
fo still more questionable whether lie
knows what, studies are most eondu
; eivc to the end in view.
! the scecial veusus the liberal
; course.
Again the plan tends manifestly
towards making onesided, narrow
men, and is, therefore, indirect oppo
s i t ion to the liberal eurrieulums of
our colleges. These curviculums
they are striving hard to maintain,
and,-at the same time, to make the
charges rendered inevitable by the
movement towards the special. Our
colleges make the lilieral earrieuluni
compulsory in the freshman and
sophomore years, and then allow
SO me option'in the junior and senior,
the sciences versus the classic?,
This, however, has onlv precipitated
a M!lJ . between the sciences andelas
sies . A choice implies a rejection,
mid. not oi.i.v the science,bu< y Jifyder'
,. K ...•cu vw .4- trawHw
tv, jji’.rsuea still more select course,
and come out with all a specialist's
advantages without many of his dis- j
advantages. is by ideal,
This plan Germany no means have long
.England and real; of
since made it even now, some
our ow n preparatory schools can give j
tire requisite com se. The tact that ,
a bo;It w ould have to stay in the pro- ;
v/artdory school longer, is more of a
recommendation than objection; tor
then he would be either in his own
home or in a private family. Parents
shoirkl be slow to tear a way their
boys tender in years from home re
stroints and place them in the midst
of college liberties.
Father Ryan at the Tomb
of Lee.
Iir a letter to the New Orleans
Times Democrat, Fatheii A-J-Pvan.
the poet Driest of the South, who is
ne w in .Montreal, describes Ids emo
tions at the unveiling of the inomi
merit to General Robert h. Lee, in
Lexington. Va. He writes: “At
noon, or a little after, General Early,
wliYv presided in the absence of Gen
eraWoscph E. Johnson, called the
assemblage to order and introduced
the orator of the day, Major Daniel,
He rose amid deafening cheers—a
mun strikingly ImiHjsonte, with soul
111 hm lace, lie combilies in
‘rit-o and manner tne ponets oi iui
the wm / >ootb tors. an He f u , began ,lm .. Ins orationp ul ' 0,1 ?b’
-v
a si Ipie, yet striking way, bfj
{!’gV {?, \ deserintTon 'is strong
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THE KIMBALL W s
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[in; kimbali. house t;
ORIGIN OF THE fihe— s lie met a girl
GUESTS-THE LOSS——lMllPOting that
- cession.
Atlanta Correspondent Maeoi
Atlanta, August 13.-A
ej .^ everywhere have, a 1 read 'heard
of thc that reduced to*? cele
brated Kimball House to as’fies and
srDO jj j n , r avails, the safe escape of
ey inmate, the great loss of prop
* inconsolable grief of
cn an( j the as'a
Atlanta, who mourns even moth
er mourns over the loss of her first
b() ,. n I shall only give you, there
fore a passing sketch of the tire, an
estimate of loss, and notice such in
cidents as have not already ’ been giv
en to the public.
rff|J . FIKE>
The best .' information dates the
ql.TO i- f ,i between 4 and
' L Sunday morninw—thou-h 1
ha vc e . m l that the existence of the
jj,. e W . IS known even earlier. At 4:30
the a i arm was gj V en on the railroad
s}( j e ()f tlu , j 1()U ,|_ ’ , md q was thought
to ol . i{?iliate iu t I,« basement under
Adair’s real estate office. This,
ev(i) . jy of'’the scarcely true, as the first ef
torts fire department directed
to that point had no effect, and show
conclusively that the fire was fur
t j R1| . . in t j, c hotel. Inside a night
detected fire in the rear of
^ hotel, department, iu the neighborhood of the
and gave the
a W'veTe. u,„fML the ofliee. Then the hotel
1J at first inappreliensive of
any^unger- S<k>u, liowever, as it
a umler W H ' aml control tl,at tl | e whatever, H° tel was t cr ~ e ' hotel , " ,
no
men, under .the lead of Mr. .Scoviile,
went through tiie hotel and aroused
every guest.
LEAVING- THE BUILDING.
At every door, on every floor, these
men carried the alarm, knocking the
door in when necessary to a wane the
Imping. In a. short time every
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Look at This I
You caj| get fresh menl and flour
av *1. II. Aliiuifid A: Son s,
You' can get Ziegler shoes at J. If.
A “^^ <* dothe*
;lt J - H. Almaud * Son’s.
Yon can get anything cheap at J.
II. Almaud & Son's.
You can get.K-jee, tine and cheap
shoes at J. II. Almaud cfe Sou's.
You can get a nice straw hat fit J,
II. Almaud & Son's.
You can get a good ham at J. II.
j Almaud A Son's.
I You can deposit your mon.yy II. Almand in a
Buryler ~ proof 1 safe at J.
, .
^" ,S -
J on can get a. „ Koval , Si, , John , , sew
-
ing machine at J. II. Almand A Son’s.
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&W&SB rj; § isy. n< t
beWHSiyj® in;* him e h>ss of those
engaged in business in hold, cud of -
«* damaged by the lire, would swell
the figures far beyond my estimate,
'vox it be rebuilt?.
A leading question is will it he hotel re
built V I think it likely a largo
will be built at an early day, cither
on the old site or elsewhere in the
city. Such a hotel is in absolute de
mancl in Atlanta—a necessity, and
every week that work is delayed m
that direction will be a serious loss to
the city and a serious inconvenience
to t * ,e traveling public. Atlanta’s
push and the enterprise of her cani¬
talists will be put to the test,
insurance.
The owners of the hotel were in
sured between *8CUM«:*«nd
The exact amount is unknown. 'The
business men under the hotel and
those near by damaged lry the lire
were in most cases amply protected
by insurance. Mr. Scoviile carried
only $1,200 insurauce uu about $12,
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The New Discipline.
Mk. Editor: By the request of a
respectable kind body of men. Will you bo
so as to allow space in vour
paper for the publication of the fol¬
lowing synoptical report*.
The “Free Methodist Protestant
church” met in convention at Liberty
Ghapol, Rockdale county Ga., Aug.
4th, 1883, to ratify a hook of disci¬
pline prepared by a committee ap¬
pointed at the last annual conference
of said church.
After religious service the report
of the committee was c alled for, and
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