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SOLID SOUTH. Published every Saturday by the SOLID SOUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY , i John Ti. Maddox. ) Proprietors. M.cures D. Irwix, f SUBSCRIPTION*: One year - $1 2-T. Six months 05. 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 . .......... . Tm 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. >x . ^ f i Solid t ^ ‘ -'&! ■> \ >; dSI.M I i I T TrnTT 11 H m. * L II 1 I II I Jmmm ■ wMmJLt VoL 1. 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. * " Ai. 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 At w oul , ^ , 1 ,, . Arocoodt-1 ( : (,ia * 1 s * * as ' . .. . } 1 =; ‘ . ... .’’’S SU11 °* y ; oun ;,u ’ ° l ; ( < 10 ht -H* ^aches the . sumin. An t ur [' lS ° 1 ’ Ins . oration . . he seeinvat »U> f , W u> h 1-, ,ut > tiU col ' see u ! . 1 h the t . t of h,s Sfcj.P* ?“ lns 1 ' ,n ^giaye „ 11 , re,nwr >».•'•> . <n* • XT.-* ' n THE KIMBALL W s ; [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 7 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. III EC* 9 ■fv &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, (J °° 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 »<-v. \V ■JL l j