The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-09-29
FLORIDA SCHOOLS.

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FLORIDA SCHOOLS.
The wheels of free school education
have again commenced to turn in Flor
/ ida, and all over the State the great
work of teaching the youngsters and
equipping them for the battle of life
ahead is in progress. The future is full
Of progress for any people who believe
with all their hearts in education and
insist that every child in the community
shall have the opportunity to get it, for
it is education alone that differentiates
the civilized man from the savage and
makes progress possible along every le-
Ultimate line of human endeavor. The
surest badge Of inferiority, either in a
State or an individual is opposition to
education; and the best test of the
promise and progress of a people is
found in the number and character Of
their schools. Hail, all hail, the great
school system of Florida, full Of 1.-The
promise and the potency" Of higher
and better Ike for this and succeeding
generations of our people! And all
honor TO the army Of splendid men and
women who, with earnest purpose and
conscientious hearts, are giving them
selves to the work of instructing the
youth Of Florida and laying the founda-
ton for useful citizenship The teach
er's life is not spectacular, and his
emoluments never put him in the CAPT
talistic class, but when he loves his
work and brings to it the spirit and
methods Of true instruction, he yields to
none in usefulness TO the State. Su-
wannee Democrat.
The Dade City Star says jeff Davis,
of the Live Oak Crescent, knocked the
bottom out of that Groom gubenatorial
boom. Handkerchief jeff
Will Governor Broward now let the
Democratic Executive Committee Of his
own county have a say as to who shall
be Duvals Sheriff. We shall see what
we shall see.
We hold in our possession information
that will show up something startling
in relation to another Internal Improve
ment land sale, il we succeed in secur-
ing few more points, accompanied by
one or more afTidavits we are after.
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Hon. William Bloxham Pickett, Sher-
in Of DuSal county, died at his home in
Jacksonville Wednesday morning at
about o'clock after an illness of sew
eral weeks, Of abscess of the stomach.
He was most popular and useful citi-
zen, and numbered his friends, through
out Florida, by the thousands.
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An effort to have Sheriff Knight, Of
Tampa, removed from Office on the
charge Of drunkenness is the latest SEN
sation down South. OF course there will
be no trouble 10 find dozen or two to
succeed him. Governor Broward, how
ever. knows a thing or two about re-
moving sheriffs He learned It by ex-
per,ence, and no hasty action will be Ia
ken in the Knight case. Jacksonville
Metropolis.
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An article in Wednesdays Times
Union, headed Five Billion Feet Of
Lumber in One Pine Belt" in Taylor
and Lafayette counties, shows conclu-
siVely that the Internal Improvement
fund sold It's lands In these counties, as
we stated in our last issue. at figures ~
far below their value, and we will copy
the article in full in a future issue Of
this paper, so that our readers may know
aornathing NJ the lands' true value