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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

Gov. Terrell and social party,
aboard private palace car, have gone
upon anther Worlds Fair junket.
Georgia lynchers will please be good
while the Governor and his friends
thus celebrate.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

The ruthless aud wanton murder of
negroes in some portions of Georgia
may yet result in the sending Of
Federal troops into the state. The
whites have only themselves to blame.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

Many voters in the United States
regard Roosevelt as a very dangerous
man, despite the assurances of the
Hon Joseph Cannon to the contrary.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

The Republicans of Colorado seem
to have the courage of their record
They have not only just renominated
Gov. Peabody, but their platform
points with pride to the forcibIe ex-
portation of strikers from the State.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

Over in St. Petersburg they are
still rejoicing in the fact that the
cruiser Lena got into San Francisco
without being sunk or captured by the
busy Japs.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

After amputating few inches OF his
name, King KarageorgeVichsky placed
the Servian crown upon his head very
comfortably. 1t now remains for the
bomb-throwers to jostIe his topknot.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

Kuropatkin is getting ready for
another running match. The Japs are
pressing the old high flyer but he well
knows what to do with his heels
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

Tax exemption of Amerious 'Infant
industries" may be all right, but it
would seem that charity, sometimes,
should begin nearer home.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

According to compiled offic al re
port in Washington there are in the
United States 81, 9O3 divorc d men
and ia, $50 divorced women.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

II Is reported that there is some life
IN the campaign out west. Mr.. Bryan
is busy out there, still fighting the
battles of the Democratic party.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

Herrlck heads the New York s. ate
ticket and will be elected governor.
Like Parker he is a member of the
state Judiciary; safe and sane.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

Higgins, the Republican candidate
for Governor in New York State, is
a country merchant, but is said to be
very wealthy Quite sufficient
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

The varnish and veneer given the
Statesboro affair will soon Danish II
from view The civil courts will do
nothing at all to the lynchers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

The soldiers who played war at
Manassas received $18O,OOO for ten
days. The japanese soldiers do not get
that much in three months.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

Freight Tariff the Granite Railroad Company
The Georgia ANTE Railroad Compng hereby placed Glass Dr.
Classified Railroads. Glass
Will hereafter allowed
than the said follows
Passenger: Glass B-Four cents mile
Freight: Glass Don Glasses A. B. E. G, NJ N
miles, the Standard Tariff with
added miles, Standard Tariff with thirty
miles, the
Glasses c. D. f. and P, Standard Tariff without
Ice Standard Tariff per
COMMODITY RATES,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

The Macon Telegraph thinks it is
settled that executive power cannot
reach derelict county officer. And
the Georgia mob is likewise immune.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

The Augusta Chronicle thinks that
if Tom Watson will put boil weeYil
plank in his platform he ought to do
some business in Texas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

The military at Huntsville is said
to have hid under the beds when the
mob attacked the jail. Too much bed
lam for them.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23
AMERICUs. GA. SEPT. %, 1904.

An Irish philosopher says that only
two men were created free and equal
and one Of them was a woman.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

Russians are much like the small
boy, who says: "That's all right:
I'll fix you. You wait until tomorrow )"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

The Titmss-RsCOrder Is the
Onicial Organ of the City of Americas,
Omcial Organ Of Sumter County
OnciaI Organ of Webster County
Onctal Organ of Railroad Commission o,
Georgia for the Sd Congressional Dlstricr
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23
THE TIMES-REC0RDER.
Daily and Weekly.

THE AMERICUs REooR DER, Established 1879
TEE AmFRICUs TIMES, Established 1890
Consolidated, April 1891
Incorporated January, 1894
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Departures.
Arrivals,


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From Florala, Dothan and Albany 80 SPIN
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intermediate points .............. IS pm
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*Daily. Except Sunday. sundaYony
Sleeping cars between Americas and At
lanta on train leaving Americas lO:25p, ~
and arriving Americas $40 a. m. Connecs
at Fort Valley with sleepers to and from
Savannah.
For further inform alton, apply to
S. A. PRUITT, Agent, AmeriCus, Ca
J, A.WESSuN Ticket Agent. Americas, ga
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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
r ALL w AY.
Schedules Effective, August I'd, 1904.

Arrival and departure OF trains at Ameri
Gus, Ga.-Central of Georgia Railway Pas
sengcr Station. goth Meridian Time.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:

SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
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Address all letters and make remit
t8aces payable
THE TIMES-RECORDER
Americas, Ga
MARIE LOUISE MYRiCK,
EDITOR AND BUSINESS MANAGER.
Editorial Room Telephone 90
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-23

our GUARA NTEE.-Take large bottle OF
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-15

ably enhanced the subject matter of
her Grafton, the quality of which guar
anteed the speakers claim to be vale
dictoriaG of her class. Miss Smith
chose as her theme the development of
the Public High School deeming a re-
view of it's growth not inappropriate to
the occasion and her well chosen pc
RODS We're listened to with interested
attention.
1.-The Public High School course of
today" said the speaker, lis about
equal to the collegiate course of few
years ago. In the colleges of earlier
days liberal time was bestowed upon
the dead languages to the practical ex-
clusion of English, little was read of
history or the literature of our own ma
tions. The academy was the next step
towards the Public High School, the
first of which institutions was started
at Boston in 1921. In the Southern
States many disagreed as to the neces-
sity of the government providing a
liberal education and thought the sys-
tenn of district schools then in vogue
all sufficient. Yet in those same States
today 1900 Public High Schools now
flourish while the United States boasts
a total of 5000.
1.-THE High School makes good citi-
zens, good men and women for private
life who do much for the general de-
velopment. Many of the best editors
of the country and other prominent
mon have had only a High School edu-
cation. The study of English, our prin-
cipal means of thought and commune
cation, is preeminent in the High School
course with mathematics, the founda-
ton of all sciences while the business
department course needs no recon-
mendation.
''One thing should be particularly re-
membered of the teachers precepts,
that what we do for ourselves is best
whether in the solution of geometrical
or life problem. The class with true
attachment and regard for the head of
our institution, with true affection for
our teachers we bid to all a fond
aloha
In introducing the speaker of the
evening Professor Scott stated that he
had often wished to get in the position
where he could make public acknowl-
edgment of the debt owing Mr.. Castle
for the grounds. building, central, local
and grand possibilities of the High
School secured when Mr.. Castle was
president of the Board of Education
and by his tact, good sense and diplo-
macy secured the purchase at a
nominal figure. 'It was only fitting
concluded Mr.. Scott, that Mr. Castle
deliver the address to the graduating
Glass;
Mr.. Castle deprecated the idea that
he alone was responsible in securing
the High School premises. Others, in
Guiding Mr.. Atkinson and Professor
Alexander, had shared that honor and
joy of securing the school for the Ter
ritory. Before proceeding with his adj
dress Mr. Castle prefaced it with a
story of how he had stolen an attor-
ney's thunder by telling the jury the
same story that the attorney intended
much to the latter's confusion. Mr.
Malone had" said the speaker, "in a
measure, stolen his thunder by setting
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-15
MR.. CASTLES ADDRESS.

About fifty years ago traveller in the
southwest arrived late Saturday night
in a dusty hamlet. Inability to get any
conveyance away, compelled him to re-
main over Sunday. All of the popula-
ton congregated in the one place of
public resort, and curiosity put him
there with them. A travelling Hard
Shell Baptist" preacher had come to
town also. and he preached. Several
times during his talk he interjected
the unconnected sentence, Il thank the
Lawd that I haint got no edication!'
This statement, 50 amusing and sur
prising to us, was, after all, only giving
voice to a common sentiment.
Education was considered to be well
enough for those who had time and
money to devote to getting it, but it
was not part of the practical life of
the masses. Educated men were look
ed upon as proud and as feeling supe-
rior to most of the people. With what
college education then gave, they were
not unjustly regarded as more orna-
mental than useful. The college grad
uate who tried to do practical" things,
as practical was used in those days,
was laughed at.
In business, merchants and manufac-
turers We're looking for what they call
ed practical men. BY this they meant
persons who had been trained in doing
certain things, without regard to
whether they We're educated or not.
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| themselves in front of their audience
singing a part song of Lehnert's, the
| Nightingale and Rose" with marked
precision of time and tune.
| Miss Davida May Mccartney deliver
ed the salutatory in happy vein well
coming in the name of the graduating
class those present. Graduation" said
the fair speaker, lis to us an event of
momentous import. Closed to US are
the school days with all their period
of wise guidance from beloved teach
ers. Before us lies the stage of life
upon which each and every one of US
must make our mark in such fashion,
we hope as not to disappoint our eld-
ers. Some of US enter directly upon
business pursuits, others go to college
for still further guidance, all of US I'M
der the care of the Great Ruler of the
| teachers and our late fellow scholars,
in the name of our class, farewell
Miss Agnes Lyle, soprano; Mr.. Uye-
mura, tenor a graduate, and Mr..
Schmidt, basso, rendered to the pleas
ers," by Randegger. Mr.. Francis d.
Malone followed with a well balanced
and carefully thought out essay, GA
College Education for Business Man"
1.-The Creeks said the young essay
ist valued education for itself; they
had no sordid ideas about it's worth.
Nowadays education is acquired as an
asset College education is generally
granted to be a necessity in the sue
cessful adoption of profession though
whether it was needed for ordinary
business pursuits is matter of dis
pute.
"A man to succeed in business must
climb step by step and the young man
who has graduated from a High School
has sufficient education to allow him to
take a position from which he may
work up eventually to the top. The
college man waits some four years
longer, during which time the High
School boy has been learning the bust
ness and then dislikes to assume a
position beneath that occupied by a
man of inferior education.
The High School boy has however a
tendency to specialize and has not the
wider horizon of the college man nor
the latter's adaptability to take hold
of any department with some pre-
knowledge of it's requirements. The
broader studies of the college man too
enable him to refresh his mind with
other studies when his work pals upon
him.
Colleges, however, concluded the
speaker, ARE rapidly taking a more
generous view of such matters and
many as Chicago Vermont, Illinois,
Iowa, Wisconsin and others are teach
ing commercial courses as a part of
their regular curriculum. Electrical
concerns and insurance companies often
send men to college commandments to
select the brightest of the graduating
classes. If a man can take up a COL
lege education in the right spirit and
without becoming burden upon those
at home he will never regret the time
and money he has spent upon it,
Miss Agnes Lyle contributed Arditi's
valse IL Ardita," with much brilliance
of effect and pure quality of voice, the
selection being very agreeable fea-
ture of the evening and one greeted
with hearty applause.
The valedictorian, Miss OtteIyn
| Smith, proved a young lady of pre-
| possessing appearance and a particu-
larly pleasing delivery which consider
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-15

Still another cause of the awaken
| ed interest was the demand Of
women for education and recog-
milton as the equal of men in all
! things. They wanted to vote and
recognized, perhaps more wisely than
the men, that an intelligent democracy
/ must have education. They also de-.
manded co-education, and the sharp.
ness of that controversy has not yet
wholly abated. What has however BEEN
! accomplished is shown by the results.
In nearly all of the higher schools west
| of the Atlantic tier of states il is now
permitted, and the young women do.
not have to apologize for their presence
either. Instead of that the young men
are compelled to do some very hard
work to hold their own and they do nor
always do that, if the school statistics
of the United States are to be trusted
The echoes of this controversy have
not yet died away. The advocates of
co-education have not gained all thew
wanted, but it all has quickened inter-
est in the subject
The great strides which have baen
made on the lines of industrial ed11ca-
tioE, have had large share in forcing
attention to this vital topic When the
schools taught languages, ancient his
tory and similar branches only. the
laooring man gave little heed to them.
as not being in his line But when
MS son could be taught to build a
mouse, weld iron, shoe a horse handle
the piow, the school suddenly assumed
personal interest and entered at once
INTO MS life. 1t became a force which
was useful to him. He could realize
and appreciate its possibilities 1t gave
MIN a new standing ground, vastly
Wldened the scope of his earning pow
er, enabled his children to rank with
the children of those in more favored
positions
With attention directed to all that
education might do. working men add
ed an immense number to the ranks OF
those to whom education presented new
attractions. The demand for Industrial
ana technical schools has increased so
that it nearly exceeds the supply The
variety in training has grown so that
today the student can somewhere get
instruction in nearly every walk OF
life. In 1900 1 witnessed the comforting
OF degrees on graduation al Harvard
University. There were several grades
or kinds of classical degrees lawyers,
doctors dentists, veterfnaries. forest
civil engineers and others IN science
and art.
The increase in the lines Of COM
merce Of the world has also vastly
added to interest in education. Com
petition has compelled better work
Better work has made it necessary
that the workman should not only
know his tools but the tools OF the
man who is trying to UnderseH him
Working over a village forge, or in me
factory or machine shop does not give
this knowledge It must be obtaineG
by observation and comparison. IhlS
means visits to other countries. me
cheapest and best way TO get hls
knowledge is to bring together the re-
suits of the observation Of others. This
means schools and it means teachers
Of higher grade and capacity VINO
ought TO be better paid than their pre-
decessors of fifty years ago. Shall
add-and who ought not to be taxed TO
Continued on page b
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! They were on the lookout for geniuses
1t was of very little Importance wheth-
| er a man knew anything about the
! facts Of history, or the composition OF
colors, or the rules of higher mathema-
ties, if he could add a column of figures
correctly and rapidly, or put yarns into
| looms in the right combinations.
| The preacher who could read Latin
! Greek, Hebrew and perhaps some other
tongue; who had some critical powers
and was able to put scripture in every
day language, was looked upon coldly.
Education was not regarded as of so
much Importance, as a call from the
Lord. He might in fact mistake bad
case of indigestion for the call" and
preach loudly and earnestly, but if he
convinced his listeners that he was
Called education was regarded as
standing in the way, rather than as
a help. So the preacher away off in
the southwest did not want his hearers
to mistake the sources of his eIoquence.
They We're from the Lord, not educa-
ton.
If boy had mastered the three Rs,
and could read, write and cypher, he
had enough. Less than that was suf-
ficient for the girls. That a man was
a college graduate did not assist him
materially in beginning the struggle
for existence, to get a position in any
business life. 1t is not even certain
that it gave him a marked advantage
with the village school committee in
securing a place to teach in the winter
school The common schools as well
as higher grades, and even the colleges
reflected the popular views of educa-
-;
tainments.
This was before the Civil War in the
United States. Most of the States had
laws on education which were thought
to be sufficient to prevent general
ignorance. But in practice, the MAORI
ty of the population was content with
the merest rudiments. It was all a part
of the youth of the nation; with age
and democratic institutions a change
was sure to come.
1t came with startling abruptness.
At the close of the war, the nation
was confronted with the problem of
what to do with five millions of freed
negroes-all densely ignorant At the
same time there was an immense in
crease in immigration from Europe
on democratic theories all of these
ment; yet nothing was more patent
than the fact, that almost to a man.
they were not fit to be trusted with
the ballot. This necessarily gave a
tremendous impetus TO popular inter-
est in education. Something had to be
done to teach these people what it
meant to vote. or ruin threatened our
institutions. By the laws the stranger
could obtain naturalization in a very
short time and then. ignorant as he
still remained, the ballot was placed
in his hands and he was told to go
and vote! The same was true of the
negro; as soon as the war was over he
was enfranchised. The fitness of either
voter is illustrated by the story of the
Irishman who, walking out Of court
with his naturalization papers in his
hands, was asked how he intended TO
vote. After a moments hesitation he
asked: Have you got my government
IN this counthry?" On being assured
that there was one, he replied: Thin
Dim goin to vote agin the govern
ment!"