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—We received a nevv boy this week;
Melton Smith from Dublin, Ga.
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I The Destruction of Evil Habits I
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Evil habits arc the beginning of
wrong doing, and to destroy them
is to do away wit-li all that is wrong.
Bad habits are formed by idle
ness of mind and body and also by
carelessness. Some uncultured peo
ple fall into evil habits because of
ignorance, but the majority are
otherwise.
Evil habits are not formed in a
day. Nor by a few faint resolu
tions. Nor by accident. Not by
fits and starts are acquired, but by
steady, persistent effort. Above all
it is necessary that they should not
be acquired in youth. Like letters
cut in the bark of a tree, they grow
and widen with age.
Once acquired, they are destruc
tion in themselves, ior their pos
sessor has deprived himself of the
happiness of a true life. When
they arc once formed and acquired
as they generally are in Jile, they
will hang forever on the wheels of
enterprise, and in 'he end will as
sert their supremacy to the ruin
and shame of their victim.
The adults habits, opinions and
ideas are fixed; eternal truths may
be shot at him or thrust into him
but lie ‘‘bolds the same opinion
still,” but the child’s mind is
plastic. The impression it receives
it will retain, and if they are eco
nomically sound, it will grow into
an adult with altruistic principles
holding <lue prominence. So we
-Superintendent of Construction J.j start with the-child in the
W. Reynolds and his workmen are
doing some of the finest concrete work home, the child in the street, the
we ever saw. The concrete floors have* , . |d . „ school This is where
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Destruction of evil habits” must
—Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hodges of
cottage E. announces the birth of a son.
—Captain J. E. Smith of the State
Farm made a business trip to the in
stitution this week.
—Ed Martin who has long been the
baby of the institution was paroled to
his home in Columbia, S. C. this week.
—The boys who received boxes from
home last week are Will Howell, Mil
ler Painter, Wesley Miller, Harvey
Dixon, and Quincy O’steen.
—Mr. J.J. Nolon has been doing some
speedy plowing for the last week and
he has got about one hundred and
fifty acres in corn planted.
—Mr. W. L. Hodges has had bis squad
of boys at work stretching wire around
a hundred acre field pasture this week
it will be a great service to us and
especially the cows.
—Mr. E. B. Cochran who has been
experimenting on concrete flower pots
has a good many on hand now and
there are several different designs.
These will be used by the ladies on
the Farm.
—We received two new exchanges
this week “The Tech Quarterly,” Fall
River, Mass., and “The Red A White,”
Woodstock, 111., Each a High School
Magazine, published in the interest of
the school and doing full credit to it.
—Mr. and Mrs. O’steen of Douglas,
Ga., visited their son Quincy O’steen
at the Institution last Sunday and took
a look through the building. They paid
many compliments. Quincy O’steen and
Albert Jordan took a ride in the
car and on the way back they stopped
and got the mail.
been laid over the school room and
print shop, and they have begun to lay
the second floor which we hope will
be a success like the others.
begin.
Evil habits, such .ts the use ol
pl^^of'^^e^^rdXii'^acco, Intoxicating liquor., pro-
the Milledgeville printing offices were | fane language and evil company
in the same fix, we had to get yellow, pracliccd m ,j„i v j„ youth':
paper from them and print this issue! r J
on that. We also run out of ink but they I these lead a boy to crime, and be-
had a supply of the usual black tinge ; f , Bt , „, ink he is in a
so we never changed the style on 1
running black ink. It is too bad that • county or state institution and be
our anniversary edition smacks so' % i., v „
literally of yellow journalism, but we (comes within the hand o» the law.
cant help it this time. Hope the’There are many young boys to-day
toSEnXeJ? ° Ver bef ° re W<! haV6 > > hese institutions for this simple
reason.
The institution is the place of re
form or where the destroying of
evil habits begins. The reason these
houses of correction are of such
value is because of the discipline,
regularity and punctuality thereby
enforced.
All young boys should spend
their evening hours at home. They
should make them the agreeable
and profitable ones of their lives,
and when the various companions
would tempt them away, hear wis
dom speak : ‘‘cast not thy lot with
them, refrain your foot from their
path, walk thou in the path of
goodly men.” Never be idle. If
your hands cannot be usefully em
ployed, attend to cultivation of
your habits. Good company and
conversation are the sinews of
virtue.
In the individual conscience it
brings about a hard struggle to be
able to change one’s whole life by
the plans of others who have been
successful, but after it has taken
effect it fascinates even the reform
ed.
Men are very adaptable to dif
ferent surroundings, and when
placed among the people who have
an interest for their welfare, and
do all that is in their power to aid
them, they become reformed „nd
their evil habits are changed to
good ones.
It has been said “the fittest shall
survive;” this does not mean the
strongest person physically, but
the person who is strongest morally
and mentally, who survives the
struggle against all evil habits.
In order that we may eycr be
found in the foremost ranks ot the
fittest, let us continue to add to
our store of knowledge and to
cultivate a high standard of mor
ality. If we do this, evil habits,
like weeds in a well cultivated
cornfield, will soon die out for
want of room to grow —Lone
Star.
Can You Imagine A Time When The Future Citizen Will * Thin? of T he Past?-We Can >
