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EDUCATIONAL MEET NOTABLE Educators of National Prominence Deliver Addresses at Charleston Meeting. Gainesville, Ga.. Jan. 10—Dr. 11. .1. Pearce. P. 11. !>., president of Brenau College Uohservatory. has giv en out the following interview, rela tive to the recent Educational meeting at Charleston, S. C.: “The recent meeting of the Sou thern Educational Association at Charlotte, N. C.. was in some re spects the most notable that has ever been held. In attendance it was perhaps the largest, unless the Atlan ta meeting excepted. “In addition to most of the lead ers in educational activity throughout the south, the association was honor ed by the presence of two educators of national prominence, President Emeritus Charles W. Elliott, of Har vard, and President Harry Pratt Jud son, of Chicago. “President Judson delivered a very inspiring address, showing the rela tion of education to scientific progress, which was full of comfort for those of us who believe m the ultimate com plete triumph of man over the forces of nature. I was greatly impressed by Presi dent Elliott, who deserves the title of Nestor of American educators Elliott has a really remarkable per sonality. I was at first startled and i even shocked by the horrible birth mark which disfigures almost half of his face. But his wonderful poise and apparent self-mastery, together with his elegant diction and vivacious ideas, quickly overcame the feeling. “Elliott is also an optimist and the most striking feature of the ex tempore address, which I heard him ■ ' 'deTiver. was his defense of the Ameri- can business men against the charge of being money lovers, and his de claration that the really typical American man of wealth regards his money as a public trust. I did not hear the address which Dr. Elliott delivered on Thursday night, which was bis principal address. I am informed, however, that it was somewhat disappointing to his audi ence on account of the length of time consumed in a discussion of ne gro education. Southern people are greatly concerned about education in | Let An Argus Ad ,1 > Work For You kJ “The constant drop of water VW Wears away the hardest stone; 1 i The constant gnaw of Towser V Masticates the hardest bone; B ■ The constant, ardent lover, ■ , ■ Wins the blushing maid, B And the constant advertiser V* Is the one who wins the trade,” apw ar VW —*— '■ i U f THE DALTON ARGUS f V NO. NINE KING STREE" M I / I ! general and they are not careless about the education of netrroes. They have given the negro far more than bis proportionate share of the public money and they have been willing for the people of the north to pay out ! their millions for the negro colleges j while the white colleges have strug- Igled on in poverty. But they are not i ready to receive very enthusiastically l instruction from our northern friends •upon the problem of negro education. ' The average Southerner thinks he has i inside information on that subject himself. Among the Southern educators who had place on the program perhaps the most notable was Chancellor J. H. Kirkland, of Vanderbuilt Univer sity. His estimate of the financial necessities of a college was somewhat discouraging to men who are engag ed in college work, especially in the small colleges. Nothing less than a million dollars in bindings. equipment, and endowment will be adequate for the needs of an up-to-date college, according to Dr. Kirkland. The doc tor left our Georgia educators at least in a very hopeless frame of mind, as tie offered absolutely no suggestion as to how such a sum might be se cured, and I believe none of our Geor gia institutions can meet his require ments, and 1 fear, not by even half. Os course the real work of the as sociation is done in the department meetings, which are held each after noon and hi which small groups of educators discuss more or less inti mately the lines of work in which they are interested. My time of course, was spent in my own department of Child study, in which we had some very profitable discussions. »••»»******** |* SOCIETY AND PERSONAL. ♦ • ••••••«••*•• John W. Crawford is confined to his room on School street seriously ill with pneumonia fever. * • • J. D. Stroup is confined to his room threatened with fever. • • • Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Brown were in from Walnut Grove farm Monday. • • • Airs. Loveman and daughter, Mrs. L. 11. Crawford, will leave Wednes day for a three months stay with rel atives at Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. • • • Eastern Star Meeting. The Easterin Star will hold its reg ular meeting Tuesday night, Jan. 11, and will install officers. A full at tendance is requested. MRS. JENNIE L. NEWMAN. INTERESTING 1 Oil] NEWSPAPER GIVES CIVIL WAR NEWS Paper Was Published While Battles in and Around Dalton Were Being Fought by Johnston and Sherman in The Year of 1864. 1 “The enemy whipped back at every point at Dalton, and 84 officers cap tured,’’ is the chief news in a copy of the Atlanta Daily Intelli gencer of May 11. 1864, unearthed I Thursday by Hon. G. B. Holder, says , the Rome Tribune. Mr. Holder spent a part of the rainy day looking over the ■ ancient paper and contrasting <thos| times with these. It was published while the battles around Dalton between Sherman and Johnston werq being fought and while Rome itself was trembling each hour for fear destruc tion might be its lot at the hands of Sherman. The sheet is a queer one. In all its four pages there is hardly a word that does not refer to the great con flict then in progress. Even the ad vertisements bear the note of strife. Hardly a line of news is published about Atlanta itself, but all about what the armies are doing at the front. A glance at the schedule of prices charged by the paper would make a modern newspaper man wish those days were his, except for the depre ciated value of paper money in those days. The Intelligencer says it will not accept subsari pH ions or adver tisements for a longer period than three months “owing to prevailing conditions.’’ For three months sub scription to the daily, the price was sls, and for an advertisement meas uring one inch, the charge per month was S4O. PRODUCE MARKET. Butter, per pound 20 Eggs, per dozen 30 Hens 35 Fries 15 to 25 Apples SLOO Dried Apples 6 Birds 10 Rabbits 8 Squirrels 8 Wool. Washed .... 30 Unwashed 16 to IS TV.-toes. Irish Potatoes 75 THi: DAITT The only place where Rome breaks into the columns of that issue of the great Atlanta daily is an advertise ment in which a gentleman offers SSO reward for the return of a hog and three pigs that have “strayed off and are headed toward Rome.’’ One writer in the paper dares to interpret a portion of Scripture as prophecying that the South would conquer the North by September 1, 1864. A perusal of the advertising col umns of the issue demonstrates that even in those hard days quackery was not a lost art. One Dr. Ford, I advertised that he was conducting a sanitarium near Atlanta whore he “positively cured cancer.’’ A personal interview was published in the paper from a man who had just before inspected the Confederate prison at Andersonville. He found it in “pretty bad shape, but not so bad,’’ and the number of deaths among the yankee prisoners as about 18 per day. Colonel Parsons was in command at the time and was de scribed as doing everything possible to alleviate the suffering of his pris oners. W. J. Clark, of Calhoun, in this is sue, advertised for his negro slave “Sip’’ who had run away from him. He was willing to pay a reward of SIOO for his return. Jared I. Whittaker was the pub lisher of the paper at that time, and taken altogether it is a most inter esting sheet. IS THERE NO REMEDY FOR THE POOR GROCERYMAN ? There is a move on foot, starting up all over the country whereby the toiling merchant or groeeryman can be protected from losing so many ac counts that is so frequent the case in our own city of late years. They have called the merchants together in several towns to organize some kind of protection from which some kind of organization can be reached. We have an epidemic of this kind in all towns as well as Dalton or the ball would be started here. Parties giving their groeeryman the grand bounce do it honestly. They spend too much time waiting for a job to come after them, till their bill gets so big they are not able to pay it. and they will try a new firm and he bites till he swallows the hook and can't get Iqose without losing a sum and after he sues he has lost his goods and labor of delivering them, he drops his customer to taste of some other groceryman's stuff. That cus tomer is all right. He is honest and don't abuse the merchant for cutting him off; he says: “I can trade some where else. Although the merchant fails to give him a receipt in full of account to date and signing his name to it. In these progressive days and as much demand as there is for labor in this town, why should the poor groceryman or merchant that sets himself up to furnish or supply the consumer and make himself an honest living for his labor and invest ment. loose these bills. It is because his customer is honest and promises to pay this bill on Saturday night and fails to come around. Now is there no way whereby this problem could be solved and be some guide to prevent.a part or all of this kind ot living off of the working groeeryman. One thing we see that brings a part of it is pride on the part of the families that wear sl2 and SIS skirts, where others that pay their grocery bills wear from $.3 to $6 skirt. Boys if I get beat out of a hundred or two dollars don't you swollow the same dose, and see if you cannot get together and help one ano ther instead of trying to catch your neighbor's honest customer. It there is any remedy let’s hear from you. JOHN 11. BURNES. COTTON CROP OFE 3.000,000 Government Report Shows 9,646- 186 Bales for 1909 Against 12,465,298 in 1908. Washington. D. C., Jan. 10 —Gov- ernment reports show 9,646,285 bales of cotton, counting round bales as half bales, ginned from growth of 1909 to January 1, 1910. compared with 1*5.465.298 of crop of 1908; 9,- 951,505 for 1907 and 11.741.639 for 1906. HOOKWORM GATHERING WltL ATTRACT MAH Prominent Men From All Over the Country Will Attend Meeting in Atlanta January 18 and 19. Atlanta. Ga., Jan. 10 —Preparations have been practically completed for 'the hook worm conference which will take place in Atlanta January 18 and 19, under the auspices of the chamber of commerce, and to which the mayors, presidents of boards of trade, leading physicians ami other interested citizens of all principal ci ties and towns of the southern states have been cordially invited. Special railroad rates have been offered over all lines and the atten dance will be large. Many delegates will “kill two birds with one stone’’ and come prepared to attend the hook worm conference and the meeting of the anti-tuberculosis league, which meets about the same time. j President C. R. Porter, >f the State Mutual Life insurance company, of’ Rome, in speaking of the coming book worm conference, says: “We have been working in a quiet way for sometime on this matter. Os course it is not a question of philan throphy, but of business with us. We are deeply interested in any movement that will raise the standard of health and efficiency in the south, where our policy-holders reside. I think that for the protection of our policy-hold ers it is our duty to aid every propo sition that promises better health con ditions. We will be represented at the Atlanta conference through our medical department.” Dr. Charles W. Stiles, the famous United States government expert, who discovered the American hook-worm, will be present and will deliver lect ures; members of the Rockefeller com mission, appointed by the Standard oil king, to superintend the spending of the $1,000,000 he subscribed for the eradication of the curse, will also be present and take prominent part in the discussion. The Alabama Medical association alone has named 140 delegates, most of whom will attend. That the event will be one of national interest is al ready assured, for representatives from, the medical boards of practical ly every southern state, as well as from ,the principal life insurance companies, will participate in the campaign which will be inaugerated here. $5.00 REWARD Will be paid for the return of a lost ladies’ ring, opal surrounded by bril liants. Leave at Argus office. A good time to stop talking is just before you have told all that yon know. One Way xo Appear Vcung. A wise young woman gi <>> a < he reason for having learned the v t . n writin : “T1 is form of « ; bee.-, used for bur a few VPa .. write to anybody they are very a->t com-ludA from my handwriting "Co have been out of school bur" a fev yeats. an-; accordingly I wili eousm ered a real young woman. "’t his does not count for so much a present, for I am only 23 years but i may count a great deal in g. 'tir.y, a start in the friendship of a later, i will no i of course lie about \ ' »" I vui „ ~ crj . v INN SHOWROOMS. They Were the Forerunners of tj,. Public Museums. The genesis of the public mu j seum was the “raree show” attach >ed to an inn. Such show- were j very common as early as the six i teenth century. From being resort of all classes the inn becaiffl ; the natural receptacle for everw thing fid world, out of the wav or curious, ranging from flint imple ments and Roman coins turned up by the plow to stuffed freaks of the animal kingdom. The public house museum is still with us. The Bell and Mackerel, in the Mile End road, contains a fine museum of 20,000 natural history specimens, original ly founded by the East London Entomological society. The Hole In the Hall, in Borough High street, possesses many strange freaks. At the Spaniards, Jack Straw’s Castle and the Vale of Health, all on or near Hampstead Heath, are preserved relics of high waymen and other local curiojk Only a few weeks ago the musei«l| of the Edinburgh Castle, near Rf-J gent’s park, containing valuable relics of Oliver Cromwell, Nelson and Stanley and three great auk’s eggs, was dispersed by auction. The first persons scientifically to exploit this taste were those bold travelers and indefatigable collect ors the Tradescants, father and son, who between the years 1620 and 1662 ran the first public mu seum and botanic garden at their residence in South Lambeth. Co pious references to their wonderful “closet of curiosities,” also known as the “Ark,” are found in the works of Izaak Walton, Evelyn, etc. The catalogue prepared by the curator, Elias Ashmole, in 1656 testifies to its containing a superb collection of coins and warlike in struments. Its great treasure, how ever, was a stuffed dodo from the Mauritius, a bird extinct now over 200 years. Os course there was some rubbish as well. The younger Tradescant was shrewd enough to exchange an alleged dragon's for that of a rare bird from Turkmj but he exhibited a feather from tlr / phenix’s wing, a piece of the stone of Diana's tomb and blood that rained in the Isle of Wight in 11771 When John Tradescant, Jr., di<-4itr 1662 long and bitter litigation en sued between the deceased’s widow and. Ashmole as to the right to in herit the collection. Eventually the court of chancery decided in Ash mole’s favor, and he carried off the Tradescantian museum to form the basis of the Ashmolean at Oxford, while Mrs. Tradescant was so cha grined at her defeat that she drowned herself in the pond of the botanic garden on April 3, 1678. — London Globe. Ons Part of Meeting. “Did you ever meet an old friend whom you didn’t meet?" was the enigma put up to a llailemite by a neighbor. The Harlemite never did. “I did this morning,’’ the neigh bor explained. “I was rushing downtown on a subway express. We passed a local, also under somewhat less speed. I wffij hanging to a strap, and as I into a car of the local that was oppo site my car I recognized a man 1 had known intimately, but had not seen for fifteen years. He recognized me at the same moment, and there was a mutual salute. Then my train forged ahead of the other, and he was lost to sight. “You see, 1 met him, yet I didn't meet him.”—New York Globe. Great Memories. Themistocles could call by name every citizen of Athens. Cyrus is said to have known the name of every soldier in his army. Lord Granville could repeat every word in the Greek Testament, and Lord Macaulay is said to have been able to repeat all of the “Paradise Lost.” Theodore Parker knew most of the dates in ancient and modern his tory, and one Thomas Cranwell is reputed to have committed to mem ory in three months the entire Bi ble. Ben Jonson was able to repeat all that he had ever written much besides, and the actor iSW upon a wager repeated in or ■ every word of a newspaper that n? had read over once. A Slight Mistake. St. John, who was very near sighted, once went to a civic ban quet and forgot his eyeglasses. He sat next to the Chevalier Pique assiette. The chevalier's hand was gracefully but negligently posed upon the cloth. A smile of antici patory satisfaction at the prospect of unlimited turtle soup illumined his classic features. Suddenly a yell of anguish startled the guests. What had happened? Only this — the myopic St. John had simply but effectually harpooned the lily white hand of the chevalier with his fork as he remarked in a firm but tone, “My bread, I think.” —1 naut. '* ; A