Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-07-06

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H. CRAIG, Pastor.
Sunday School every sunday at $3.50
a. NV. T. RoUNTREE, supt.
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different lest some schools 90
without teachers; the other lin
Polk county, Fla.J spends two to
four days of eight to ten hours
each examining applicants, thirty
two per cent of whom fail to Sc.
cure any certificate at all, while of
all the applicants in the state
nearly forty per cent fail.
Do not hit the County Court;
the old colonial governor of Vir-
glnia bOasted that there was not
a free school or a newspaper in
Virginia and he hoped "there will
not be these hundred years." In
1900 God is openly thanked in
court that a bill for the establish.
ment of a County High School is
defeated. But there is nothing
more certainly written in the
book of fate than that Hardin
county will have q Comfy High
School or something better. The
logic of circumstances will compel
it. Sometimes we are ''penny
wise and pound foolish" Such is
the case when the opinion obtains
that it is cheaper to bury the dead,
imprison the living, pay the ex-
penses of courts, to establish and
maintain conditions essential to
good schools, good morals, aud
good society.
Do not hit the Sheriff II speak
from EXPERIENCED; the law provides
that he shall be the guardian of
peace and order, but with the
present state of public sentiment
this part of his official duties will
largely remain undscharged, and
would were you or anyone else
wearing his official robes.
Do not hit the other county of.
fcials; politics everywhere is a
dirty scramble for office, and the
aspirant who would deal the whis
ky interest square blow will fol.
low suit.
Do not hit the merchant; that
% cents worth of calico his Gus
toner bought for his wife's dress
is carried home in one pocket
balanced by 90 cents worth O1
whisky in the other pocket.
Do not hit the lawyer; q wise
man will not pull the foundation
from under his own edifice. Whis
ky furnishes criminals, and crimi
nails furnishes fees for lawyers
They and their families must live.
Do not hit the farmer; he /,
busy with his corn and his cotton
his hogs and his horses, and if hi
son or that of his neighbOr die
not come home drunk occasionally
times would become m0nOtOnOus
Moreover, the business of com
munity depends upon the amour
of money in circulation, Ever.
time the court meets and ever.
time the sheriff draws his salary
the farmers money goes into cir
culation.
Do not hit the dis!illery; that
your offspring given existence b.
your Auditory with the ballot box
Do not hit the young dram6rlnk
er; he is not expected. to breath
purer air than that which sui
rounds him. His physical bein
is formed of the food it eats, an
his moral being is formed likewis
The laws OF gravltatlon WORK I'M
formly. What on @ generation
sows another reaps.
DO not h it the sweetheart
seventeen of t h EN- in Ca
terville, Ga, agreed to marry dram
drinkers to reform them. A fe
; years later there were seventeo
| young grass widows in that tow
Do not hit the editor; be is O.
peeled to be moulded by publ
!. sentiment, not to mould it. II
furnishes just the kind of food til
public palate Graves. 1t does nj
: crave the kind contained in tn
Z article; so | shall re lieve the edi
or by assuming all the respons
bility myself. SO hit me, out b
:; me in the same spirit in which
# hit you-brotherly love and kin
d ness.
r II. p. WALKER,
s Auburndale, Fla.