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THE FUTURE CITIZEN page 3 THE QUESTION BOX We are undertaking some big things, because we have got our nerve with us. ' We invite our readers to drop into our Future Citi zen Question Box located in the school room,(either in person or by mail) Ary question which will lead to useful information, or stimu late healthy thought. For the present we shall not restrict the nat ure of the questions, but want f hem chiefly to relate in some way to the various textbook studies and the different department features of our work. Questions in natural phenomena will be used when they are located near enough to dhe earth to be practical—(and everything is prac tical that makes you think-don’t forget that.) But we havn’t time or space to take up astronomy and explore otlier worlds until we get through with this one. When the superintendent was a boy and lived in the country and walked four miles to a school in town, we organized a debating ,society in a country school house neat his home. Every Saturday night the boys met promptly and discussed the great questions that up to that time had puzzled the wise men of all ages. We had three staid citizens, who attended our debates regularly and were made a committee of judges to de cide the debates. This was kept up until they got to be somewhat like a professional juror. At the close of each debate we had a committee of young fellows who announced the next Saturday night’s debate. This was kept up until we made the discovery that our Judges were in the habit of getting together casu ally some time during tie week and after some heated discussion among themselves would ultimately agiee which side of the question contain ed the most merit, and »"hen the de bate was finished Saturday night their premature decision would be rendered accordingly. Now we boys felt that we had spilled our oratory in vain. We had shed copious, briney tears ot perspiration all to no purpose, and felt like we had to tote the smutty end of the chunk ; so we got together and did a little conspiring on our own account. We got the committee on “Questions for De- bate”-to suggest this one : Resolv ed that the Aurora Borealis invol ves greater natural Phenomena, than the Nebula Hypothesis.” This was the beginning of the end. The next Saturday one of our faithful Judges was stricken down without warning by a case of malignant tooth-ache while an other was called away to visit a sick relative. The third man was candid enough to send us word that he had looked up all those words in the dictionary, but failed to find any thing that would throw any light at all on which side was the strongest. So, he said, since he could not make up his mind fairly and impartially just which side ought to win the decision, he would give us all the benefit of the doubt and asked to be excused. The sad and sudden demise of our once healthy and booming de bating society, show's that we ought to fly pretty close to the ground till our wing feathers get grown. Two men Mr. East and Mr. West each owned an aeroplane which would fly more than a thousand miles an hour, They determined to fly around the world which would require only 24 liours. They left Milledgeville at 12 noon Monday. Mr. West sailing west while Mr. East went east. They got home at the same time, at noon Tues day and each told an almost in credible tale about how he spent the night on the way. How Many Nights (Periods of Darkness) Did.Each Spend on The Trip? Take that and wallow with it till next Saturday then look for the answer in the Future Citizen. We have received several copies of The Future Citizen, “A Paper with a Purpose. Printed by the Reformatory Boys Doing the Best They Can.” It is a bright, most attractive and creditable paper, published by the boys in the State Reformatory at Milledgeville, and it is our pleasure to wish for the Citizen abundant success. The paper can be had for $1.00 per year and each dollar spent in thus help ing these boys will be a dollurjwel! spent.—Monroe Advertiser. TRIALS, TROUBLES, AND TRIBULATIONS. (Continued from page one.) send a boy over to the other road to cut them off. When a boy came telling us that some one wanted to speak to Mr. Lovvorn over the phone. So he and one of the boys went up to answer it and was Mr. McCullough with the other wagon wanting to know where to find us. So Mr. Lovvorn caught the five o’clock train for home and the boy came back and said the wagon will meet us; for us to make a start. It was six miles to Haddocks. We went about two miles when we came to a grade about a mile long. We had to double uq our teams and pull one wagon up at a time. We lost about thirty minutes time there. It got dark on us and we lost our way and went the wrong road about a quater of a nvle. We tried to get Love to go back and ask again which road to take and he said he was afraid we would leave him, and that he didn’t remember where the house was. We soon spied a light in the woods and Scott made to it, and they said we was wrong to turn back and take the right hand road. We got to Haddock at ten o'clock P. M. We never did meet the other wagon We got Mr. Haddock to let us have some feed and a shelter for our mules. Then we rented a small house from him tor fifty cts. We made a fire and cooked sup per while Mr. Cochran ttied to get Mr. Lovvorn over the phone but never did get him. We ate supper then made our pallets on the floor and went to .-deep. Next morning we were called by Mr. Lovvorn ar.d he brought three boys with an extra team of mules and also a nice bosket of breakfast that Mrs. Lovvorn sent us. We told him that we hadn’t seen anything ot the other team and he said it got home about one o’clock that night. Weate breakfast ami got our teams changed and started for home we drove on slow and got home about ten o’clock A. M. We were all glad to get back home again We all ate dinner and told of our adventures.