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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-16

board by the quantity person could
throw up at the end Of month in re-
Spouse to an emetic.
Discipline should rest on freedom and
not on force, assuming right intentions
and appealing to reason and good will.
The teacher should know the parents and
the pupil in their homes.
The new curriculum and the new dis
cipline for elementary schools is at length
theoretically accepted. The difficulty Is
to get the teachers. The new curriculum
and the new spirit require the teacher in
both knowledge and character to be years
in advance of the pupil. A good teacher
with a poor course is better than poor
teacher with a good course.
AS It is today, the public school is vast
ly better than the elongated private kin
dergartens which cater to the children Of
the rich; and, unless imperative consid-
erations prevent, the public school is the
place where every American boy and girl
ought to be trained.
The American public high school is the
unique America contribution to education.
When emancipated from narrow college
domination in the substance, yet inspired
by college examinations in the quality Of
its courses, wisely adapted to the various
needs of its pupils. generously supported
by taxpayers, who believe the best teach
ing none TOO gOOu Tor Ineir cnl0ren, the
high schools are destined to play a lead
ing part in making America the land Of
intelligent workmen, loyal citizens and
happy people.
To send a young man to a private
boarding school for ten or twelve years,
away from the responsibilities and duties
of home, is to give him such a training
that will probably unfit him for a place
in any home.
State universities are the logical compile
ton Of a public school system. In pioneer
conditions of both east and west they
have done splendid service. They have
great future.
The besetting sin OF higher education
is the tendency to resort to devices which
get something out Of everybody. It is
easier to put grammar and philology into
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-16

curiosities to attract attention. Even ST.
Louis is threatened with an acute at
tack of Worlds Fair. And yet all this
time Atlanta remains silent. What can
be the matter? Is the inventive genius
of the country have their sensations and
of the great city slumbering or IS it
waiting like some Memphis wards used
to do on election nights. for all the other
returns TO come in so that she may give
the country something that will put ev-
erything yet reported in the shade? Miss
ing all this advertising is unusual with
Atlanta. We may expect something soon.
No one need be surprised If Atlanta dis
covers an artesian well which throws up
boiled fish and baked chicken. Or may be
Atlanta will amize the world by announc-
ing the fact that she has discovered one
of her confidential bookkeepers who has
functioned in high society for years with
out forging the name of a wealthy female
admirer or turning up as a defaulter. It
is up to Atlanta; the country is growing
impatient.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-16
|Unuritten Chapters in Georgia History.
BY GEORGE C. SMITH, WnevlIle, Georgia.

ducing just as he wrote it. He says:
First l allow my Wagon to De sold
and one of my horse critters and the
mill irons and surveying instruments.
His wife is to be supported by son Dan
Eel as long as she remains in family
capacity. After that all was to be
divided" He had wagon, surveying
instruments, II cows, horses, 8 tesla
ments, 3 sermon books, 4 1-2 yards OF
gray cloth. One will notice the failure
to mention any articles of furniture.
Caleb Brasfield had in 1880 negroes,
head Of horse critters, 4S calves, 135
hogs, A sheep, 6,921 pounds tobacco.
The furniture Oh an average house
was very scarce. Stephen Parker had
2 puter basins, chest, iron pot and
hooks, / gilt trunk, 1 loom and gun,
1 table, / wooden wheel, pale and 2
piggins, churns, l churn, 1 tab, 1
linen wheel.
Duke Glenn had IS negroes.
Many whose estates are recorded had
a few negroes.
Francis Moreland. ancestor of Mrs.
d. w. Sheer and DR.. Moreland, of
Moreland Park. had II. Thomas Car
son. 3; Henry Trippe, O.; William Bur-
ford, 9; Edward Wade. 8; Joshua Hor-
ton, Acquilla Greer, 6; James
Weary. s; Thomas Watts. "a.
In 1871 Ephriam Vaughn had as an
estate some stockings. waistcoats,
farm tools, some jack knives, 30 gal
Ions rum, 5 pounds coffee, rs pounds
sugar
Sometimes the estates were pitifully
small. Jacob Woodall had fax wheel,
cotton wheel, / old musket, 1 bond
for e7.
Toward the end Of the century they
had been able to set up their stills
and Abram Burnett, who died in 1892,
left 100 gallon stln. 4 Bibles, tesla
ments, 2 volumes Watts hymns, l
Boston's fourfold state, 10 books on
divinity. 2 on laws. 3 on physic.
One estate is evidently that Of an old
bachelor, Levi Newton. 1t was 1 new
suit, gowns, petticoats, 2 jackets,
! red cloak. hat ana pair OF shoe
Buckles.
There was great abundance Of every
thing to eat and 1 found a bill for
boarding, schooling and clothing Polly
Mosely one year $52.4S. Boarding Polly
/ year $780, schooling 81, 8 yards ribbon
IS "a cents, necklace 81 1-2 cents.
This was before the beginning Of
the last century and before the cotton
industry began. With the first quarter
Of that century a great change came
over the people, and the days OF lavish
living and of fine equipages and hand
some homes was ushered in, but 1 did
not propose to tell of those days in
this article. 1 have been not a little
aroused and my historical conscience
sadly shocked at the evident unwill-
ingness' of some excellent people to
hear the plain truth about our humble
beginnings. No finer people ever lived
than the middle Georgians, but men
of abundant wealth would not he ant
to go into the frontier and live in a log
cabin, and the Iuxuries of modern life
could not well be found far from city
and market. SO the people lived
plainly and worked hard. but they had
good preachers and schools from the
beginning. and from this stock has
sprung the sturdiest people of Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi Arkansas and
Texas.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-16
10 suueeze on eread and Meat.

while the British authorities in Eng
land have taxed every loaf OF bread IN the
Trrited Kingdom 10 raise funds to carry
IN the war in South Africa against free
dom-loving people. the spectators. IN
America have raised the price OF meat IN
this country until Il Is entirely OUT OF me
reach OF the very poOr-in the United
States .
Mound for beef steak in Georgia, the meat
barous have just about placed the poor
reople OF the state where the laborers In
various European countries have been ior
6 long time.
In some European countries tnere are
homes where the taste OF meat Is un-
T1oU-n ~ both parents and children. A
number OF such countries have statistics
10 show that meat Is entirely out OF reach
OF the nl-paid laboring classes Iney
cannot use II at all.
II seems we are verging on 10 the same
state or condition. when meat has risen
in price until the poor are debarred from
a.
These reflections call to mind the condi-
ton OF Ireland fifty odd years ago. In
the words OF historian Of good repute;
The vast majority OF the working pop
.slatfon of Ireland were known TO depend
absolutely on the potato for subsistence.
In the northern province. where the pop
ulation were OF Scotch extraction, the oat-
meal. the brose OF their ancestors, still
supplied the staple OF their food; but In
the southern and western provinces
large proportion OF the peasantry actually
lived on the potato and the potato alone.
In those districts whole generations grew
m. lived. married and passed away with
out ever having tasted flesh meat. A fall
ure in the potato crop would be equivalent
10 famine Many laborers received little
or no money wages They lived on what
vas called the 'cottier tenant system. A
man worked for a land owner on condition
ef getting a little scrap OF land for him
self on which 10 grow potatoes TO be the
sole food Of himself and his family. The
news came in the autumn OF 1916 that the
long continuance OF sunless wet and cold
had imperilled. II not already destroyed.
the food OF a people"
Not a county in Ireland wholly escaped
this potato disease. and in the south and
west actual famine set in
Famine fever-a peculiar disease-began
TO show itself everywhere. A terrible dys-
entery set I'm as well, and in some districts
hundreds died daily from fever. dysen-
terry or sheer starvation The coroners de-
elared II had become impossible to keep on
holding inQuests-
Crimes and violence attended this fam
ine and destruction; bread riots took
place. and poor Ireland drank from full
cup OF woe to fits lowest dregs.
II was indelibly impressed on my mind
(for the tidings came 70 America when I
was smalD that human beings in Ire
land were dying OF literal starvation.
heard the dear ones in my own home talk
OF this sad distress as we sat down TO q
full meal
knew OF their efforts 10 get corn and
-four carried 70 the place where II was
70 be shipped across the Atlantic to poor
old starving Ireland. In my childhood's
imaginings I prayed for the ship TO go
quickly and carry this food that our own
people were contributing and I listened
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woMANKIND.

I do not say that womankind
Is vanity: nor am blind
To any virtue Of her sex
But this am certain of-she checks
Mans aspiration for the things
His loftiest ambition brings.
She strives 20 hold him back when ne
Inspired By that Divinity
Which shapes our ends. IS urged 20 take
The dangerous hazard for the sake
OF greater gain In wealth and name;
Nor does IL seem 20 her a shame
When he rejects those strong appeals
For her sweet sake: because she feels
That she. by some predestined plan'
Is truly Heavens best gift 20 man.
L'ENVOI.
And when he thinks OF her as his.
ne knows she's all she feels she Is.
WILLIAM ]. LAMPTON.
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fFrom The Chicago CHRONICLES

(From The Chicago Chronicle)
Education aims to train the pupil to do
three things-to earn a living. to support
the institutions of society and to enjoy
the products of art and civilization by the
cultivation of the mind and taste. This
three-fold standard requires of the ele-
mentary school. first of all, to preserve
the child in vigorous health, untouched by
needless nervousness over results and I'M
conscious of either digestion or stomach.
It calls for power of hand and eye to ap-
preciate and make beautiful objects. He
ought to be surrounded by an atmosphere
of ordered freedom. To have a room bad
ly ventilated and to hold before the child
vision of anxiety as to his rank on a
pasteboard card is to commit the worst
crime possible for the public school.
Reading should teach not only how to
read, but also the reading habit. Arith-
metic should be restricted to limits of
probable utility for the average person.
Geography should start with actual OBJ
servation of phenomena, and thus based,
would help the workman, the citizen, and
the man. History should grow out of
myth and biography into the story Of
national life, and should teach the way
liberties were won. Mere memory should
hold an incidental and subordinate place.
The power to tell a connected story and
to trace the sequence of cause and effect
should be the chief aim of recitation. 1t
is hard to see how one can live a happier
life or cast a wiser vote because OF a lot
Of disconnected names of kings and dates
packed away In the mind somewhere.
Science should be training in observation,
reasoning and aroused curiosity.
Promotion should be frequent and irreg-
ular, with encouragement and opportunity
to bright scholars to skip the lower
grades. No bright boy ought to be ex-
pected to go through all the lower grades,
giving a year to each. Examinations
should be a test of power instead Of mere
acquisition, and the chief stress on what
pupil can do rather than on what he
remembers 1t would be as sensible to
test boys mind by the number of things
remembered as 1t would to test months
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result of a fusion of blood. A fusion of
blood will accelerate the process, but a
fusion of spirit will be sufficient to ac-
complish the result of a new and Oct US
hope) a higher composite race.
AT any rate. the human race tends to
unity. The races will disappear and the
genus homo will be accomplished. But
the type Of the future will not be the
abolition of one or another race with race
characteristics. but rather their combina-
ton in a higher unity And the best quail
ties of thees toughest races will, in this
process of merging, become the most i'm
portant traits and characteristics of the
earth's future population"
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What's the Matter with Atlanta
N1emnhis Commercial-AppeaI

MempnIs OOIIIIIIeI CIaI- zAPP-aI'
Now. all this is going on. Galveston,
Tex. claims that real genuine lava. over
one hundred proof. has come through the
air to It from Martinique. Louisiana has
discovered a mud gusher that is throwing
out as warm an article as may be found
anywhere; in the bed of a dry creek in
Pennsylvania a small volcano has burst
out and is throwing up hot mud and
rocks, at a furious rate; volcano in Qua
tamala has managed to kill one hundred
thousand people; a three-legged hen has
been discovered in Hoboken; Paris is luxu-
rating in the Humbert swindle. the most
stupendous and successful rascality of the
age; California boasts a twin pumpkin of
we'll defined opposite sexes; other parts
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GentIe.
Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
Waiter-How would you like to have
your steak. sir?
Meek Customer (who has been waiting
twenty minutes)-Very much, indeed,
thank you, If it isn't too Tnuch trouble.
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In ink on one side Of the sheet.
Write direct 20 Mrs ". H Fell
ton, Editor Home Department Semi
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No inquiries answered by mall
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III CIQGE 10 AG4AAA-
mately advertise
the true merit and
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properties OF Sir
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Vital Restorative,
the English Re-
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proposes to send
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and WITHOUT
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he does not know how he is being de-
ceived. His testimony cannot, therefore,
be worth as much as that of the officers
in the field who have to face the grim
reality, and who meet with the opinions Of
the Filipinos expressed in forcible man
ner."
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Millions Of People

in the past sixty years all over the world
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made by Perry Davis an unfailing remedy
for coughs. colds, bronchitis. Try It when you
have those cold chills in your back. It. is a
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Vim, vigor, Vitality I!

10000 Prescriptions for Sir John Hampton's
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One thousand and forty million gallons
OF beer brewed yearly in the United King
dom equals the total amount brewed by
America, France and Austria.
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broth.
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WHAT DR.. TARUs FoREsEEs.

r. PAUL CARUS. president OF the
Folklore Association, in a recent
lecture on Chinese literature, said
IL that the Chinese, the Hebrews and
the Saxons are the three toughest
The Forrest City times., 1902-05-02
Work For The Prize.

Tine Village improvement Comm t. tee are desi.ouS that the children in town should take advantage of the of fer made few weeks since in these columns. It is repeated here in order that it may be fully understood. It is not confined 10 the children attending the Institute, but all may take part, and We will be glad if they do so.
 A prize will be given the boy or girl over ten who raises the best chrysan- thomum.
 A second prize to the child under ten who raises the best plant of any of tue easily grown varieties, geranuim, petu- nia, etc. No aid must be given ex. cepting advice as to soil and culture
 Will not the boys and girls in each block in town form them selves into a club to keep that block neat?
 Strive to have your block the neatest in town, and see what the spirit of friendly emulation will do for us.
The Forrest City times., 1902-05-02
A 1UL.E.
Original Composition by Tommie.) ]
 Boston Post

Original Composition by Tommie.)
 tBoston Post)
 "A mule iZ something wet bag , iZe iegz and wun tale, and whenever yu sea ennythlng anserring that deskrlp- sh1n yu will no that it iz a mule mule awiso has , earz but thay are so biz that perSun wud aWlmoast think wun wud be enuf The reezen mule'z eaIz IS so long iz bekoZ it alwayz streatcheZ them llssening foar trubbull awl the time mulei looks sumthing like hoarse, but wud not want the hoarse to find owt that sed so a mule lookz az II IS wuz az gentel as q lamm but it deeeaves ilz looks grate cal mule haz loWd yoys and iZ good singur put moast peepul wud rather heer most enny uther kind of a musick when a mule slngz it sownds offul sad it awlso sownds az if the mule Wuz suffering grate pane oaf choking tudeth but it iZ not the moast dangeruS thing about T mule iz itz hind feat over wich it dug not seam tn have cnny control foar this reezun It Is not safe tn walk past a mule unless Yu doant care wot hanpen2 tu yu oaf unless you are tiard uf life It yu WA < behind mule thukfag Chat It iZ asleep Yu will find if " ever wake up that the mule wuzZent sleap at awl you cant trust mule Vary far oar in uther wurds the farther away the mule iZ when yu trust it the bettgr it will be foar yufe helth and the longer vu will liv but null iZ u2sd faar uther thingZ bes.d2e kikking it E uzed to ride and drive and pull d mule will stop when yu say wO and sHmtimze it will stop if yu dUant say wo wun time thay wuz il mule stopt in frunt of our hoWse it WIZ halling a lode of kole the man who wuZ driving the mule diddent halt to tell 1t tu stop eather the moar he tried tu get it tu go the moar it remained stopt it stood still in wun phase foar about hOurZ withowt being hiched oar ennythlng then when il did start 1t went so suddint that it pu!d the waggin owt from under the driver and went down the streat like sin haven't hurd whether it haz stopt vet oar not gess the man who oaned that mule wiohez it had stade stopt when it wuz stopt a mule will etc bay oar korn oar both ii will awso etc grass and straw and oatz and uther things tu nu- merous to menshun when yu go tu fead nale it iZ bettar to hand itZ lead tu 1t or long handled shuvvel bekoz yu kan never tell wot mule will du until after t haz don it and then yu may be in such kondishup that yu uC&4E EaFe. tommie'n
The Forrest City times., 1902-05-02

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The Forrest City times., 1902-05-02

F'or sale bg ! + Sanders.
The Forrest City times., 1902-05-02
Turk ey Hunting 1.


 Taking advantage of the few remain ing days in which to hunt the festive turkey gobbler, wagon load of nthL- siaStic sportsmen left Monday for the famous Turkey Hill, in the bottoms, about twelve miles from the city. The party consisted of $. r. Mcdaniel, Arthur Mcdaniel. NJ. N. Gaines and EJ Landvoigt the latter more as an invited guest than otherwise. It might 5s of interest to the uninitiated to make aa inventory of what is necessary to hunt turkeys. Tent, bedding. cooking utensils, Pefuna, grub of every deserip- tiOn, guns, ammunition, mosquito bars and turkey callers. The two latter ar. ticles were more than necessary on this occasion. To say mosquit0s iH ihe bottoms were numerous, is to put il lightly, and the couple of nights and days spent on Turkey lii will be pleasant events in the dreams of the turkey hunters. It was simply impoS- sible for any living thing to rest in the woods, hence tie poor success of the party. The most important article in the outfit is the turkey caller, and we had. 'em too-the patent the home made box, turkey bones, cane joints. coffee mills, in fact any thing that would make boise ike unto pig under the gate or the praying of d donkey. Every member of the party were experts iD their uses, and all were indebted to Mr. Gaines for fine mutations of the great American game bird. Lying on his back Witiphi3 head elevated with il chunk of wood, he gave limitations of the 1lrd leaving the roost, calling the yolDg, travelling through the corn field, gobbling of the old and young, and a great many sounds that probably a turkey never heard. As an entertainer on he turk y caller Gaines was better success tan as hunter, T Ehe discor- dant notes produced by the turkey call CTS was probably the main cause Of empty game bags, excepting $. r. Mcdaniel, whose limitations were so pronounced ,hat two big gobble1s were counted to his score.
 Turkey iIill is rnisnomer, for there are fever birds on that bill than else where ia the bottom, but as Gaines says, the wood5 are splendid for them. bat our patty would have preferred more turkeys and less woods-and less mosquitoes too
 The party returned Wednesday, all pleased Wita their ex .esience. Ye col respondent. however, sees nothing in 1t. for he worked faithfully with his double back action turkey call and made the owls eagiou3 with his aooting, all in yain. for marry Q gobble vas elicited, an! the last day was the most pleasant for he spent it und d strong bar-mosquito bar-and It agu. ed home q saddec Budwe iser man.
 Nobody bagea1 |; bird but Price McDanlel. and pouder man could not be found in .he county. nor a worse bitten nan, either. Well 20 again.