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VOL. XXXL
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA„ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1902.
NO. 38.
Public Schools and Good Roads.
Athens Tribune.
In the gr^at movement that is
being m&de^throughout the coun
try for the advancement of rural
schools, the question of good
roads must not be. lost sight of.
These two movements must go
hand in hand if rural schools are
to brought up to the highest
standard of efficiency.
We may train teachers in nor
mal sohools and fib them in every
way for the work they are to per
form in the school room. We
may build good school houses and
equip them thoroughly with the
most modern equipment. We
may raise the curriculum of the
rural schools to a point where the
course of study will be much high
er and better than at present.
All these things may be done, and
yet the problem remains of how
to get the largest possible num
ber of children to attend the
schools.
This is a problem, too. There
are mnay drawbacks to a steady,
full attendance of scholars upon
rural schools, .but none that are
worse than bad roads. At times
tne roads are simply impassable
and the children do not go to
school. Their education is thus
retarded in a very serious manner.
With good roads throughout the
rural districts the attendance upon
the rural free schools would be
greatly increased. Several of the
counties. in Georgia are carefully
looking into this question; some
of them have already done much
towards providing the necessary
good roads; all of them should
take up the matter and give it se
rious consideration.
America’s Hay Crop.
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There is probably no crop that
varies more than hay, ranging
from 45,000,000 tons to 06,000,-
000 and the acreage varying from
40,000,000 to something over 50,-
000,000; and this crop pays the
farmer annually from $400,000,
000 to $500,000,000, according to
the price jmd quality of the hay.
It is the most profitable crop the
farmer can raise, and it is har
vested at less expense than any
other crop he can-put in his land.
He usually realizes at least $10,
000,000 more from hay than from
wheat, and often gets more out
of it than from corn, so that it
is readily seen that the hay crop
is of a great deal more impor
tance to everybody and every
thing depends on a favorable
start.
There are also direct reasons why
the condition of the hay crop is of
a great importance to grain spec
ulators. The failure of hay now
would make large drafts on the
coarse grain supply and would
mean higher coarse grain prices
while a very favorable hay prom
ise now aiid good results later
would alleviate in a very great ex
tent the shortage in corn this
summer and fall. The time was
when very little importance was
given this wonderful product, but
that has passed, and there is good
logic in the importance now at
tached to the hay situation at the
present time. It is not at all sur
prising that grain men are now
calculating on the prospects for a
second crop of hay this season,
neither is it surprising at the in
terest shown by the producer and
shipper of this valuable product
—Hay and Grain Reporter.
Fortune Favors a Texan,
“Having distressing pains in
head, back and stomach, and be
ing"without appetite, I began to
use Dr. King’s New Life Pills,’
writes W, P. Whitehead of Kenne-
dale, Tex.,and soon felt like a, new
man.” Infallible in stomach and
liver troubles.' * Only 25 cents at
Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
The Oldest Library in the world.
No archaeological material of
greater value and more impor
tance was ever brought to Ameri
ca than that of the library of day
tablets which recently arrived at
the University of Pennsylvania.
Ever since the discovery of Ashur-
banapal’s library at Nineveh,
more than twenty-five years ago,
scholars have known that Baby
lonia once contained many libra
ries, for in these the copies for
the Assyrian library were v made.
Twelve years ago Professor Hil-
precht,as he rode over the mounds
at Nippur, pointed out the place
which in his judgment should
contain the temple library. On
the recent campaign the same
large group of mounds south of
the temple, and in close proximi
ty to it, proved to contain the
temple library of Nippur. About
twenty-five feet beneath the sur
face w,as fouud a series oJ>rooms,
from which were taken over six
teen thousands cuneiform tab
lets. Only one-twentieth part of
the library has thus far been ex
cavated. Professor • Hilprecht es
timates that the library will yield,
when completely excavated, at
least one huudred and fifty thou
sand tablets. The very great im
portance attached to this discov
ery is that every tablet belongs to
the period prior to Abraham, for
the library had collapsed under
the ruthless acts of the invading
Elamite hordes, 2285 B. 0., which
was shortly before, or about the
time, the patriarch left Ur for the
Chaldees. Considering what slight
records we formerly possessed of
the period prior to Abraham—
only a few chapters in Genesis—
and that here is a library of many
thousand volumes belonging to
that early period, we can, in a
measure at least, begin to real
ize the importance of this find.—
September Woman’s Home Com
panion.!
O© O-
An Odd Industry.
In an interesting trade report a
foreign consul in eastern Rourna-
nia points out that the yield of
attar of roses this year is from 20
to 95 per cent less than in 1900.
He makes out a lamentable case
for those who grow roses to sup
ply the famous essence. Prices
have fallen to an extraordinary
degree in the foreign markets
“Reports have reached here,” he
says, “that some of..the so-called
better brands have been offered
abroad at about $180 per kilo (two
and one-half pounds) a price that
would not cover the first cost of
purchase on this side.” The main
cause for regret is that the rose
fields belong to peasant proprie
tors, who are also distillers of the
essence, and the ruin of the in
dustry means their undoing.' It
is suggested that strong influ
ence is telling against this trade.
The taste in perfumes in recent
years has undergone a revolution.
The rose is itself more cultivated
than ever, but the commercial
purposes of the queen of flowers
has fallen into the background.
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A Boy’s Wild Ride For Bile.
With family around expecting
diim to die, and a son riding for
life, 18 miles, to get Dr, King’s
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, W. H. Brown,
of Leesville, Ind., endured death’s
agonies from asthma, but this
wonderful medicine gave _ instamt
relief and soon cured him. He
writes :“I now sleep soundly every
night.” Like marvelons cures of
Consumption, Pneumouia, Bron
chitis, Coughs, Colds and Grip
prove its matchless meirt for all
Throat and Lung troubles.
anteed bottles 50c and $1.00.Tnal
bottles free at Holtzclaw’s drug
store.
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Ship me your Cotton.
C. B. WILLINGHAM, Cotton Factor,
^Esicon., Q-eoxg'ia,.
Candidates A Foot.
Spartor Ishraaolito.
. Politicians understand the bus-
ness of “taking time by the fore-
lock”in the littlu game of politics.
Here it is, more than two years
till the next presidential election,
and the candidates have already
begun to lay their Jlwires for the
nomination. For the Republican
leadership, Roosevelt is planning
and scheming, showing himself
around over the country, ..attitud
inizing, pawing the air and utter?
ing great swelling words. Among
the Democrats David B. Hill is at
work for the nomination with his
usual cunning. He has captured
the party machinery in his State,
and will no doubt go to the con
vention with a solid delegation.
He is sufficiently sharp aud unre
liable to be a great favorite with
Eastern Democrats.—Then, there
is Tom Johnson in Ohio. He has
captured the leadership in his
State, and will go to the conven
tion with its delegation as a neu-
cleus for a considerable following.
Bryan, the best and greatest man
in the party, seems to be out of
the race on his own motion.
The Ishmaelite would like to
support a Southern man—Bacon,
for instance. It is tired with
this everlasting subordination to
Yankeedom. Why should the
Democrats of the south pass by
better men of their own, to sup
port aliens? Let the Georgia del
egation to the national convention
cast the vote of the State for A.
O. Bacon.
But as between Hill, of New
York^and Johnson, jof Ohio, the
Isnmaelite would be for the lat
ter. He seems to have no Repub
lican fringes on his Democracy
You can actualy tell by looking
at his tracks in what direction he
is going—a fact which different
iates him very widely from Hill
and most other Yankee pol
cians. The fact that Bryan
friendly to Johnson’s candidacy
would go a long way towards re
conciling Southern Democrats to
his nomination. Bryan’s indo
ment carries more weight with
is
country.
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Emile Zola did not learn to
read till he was 8 years old and is
a self-educated man, his moth
er being indifferent as to
weather or not he attended
school.
W. A. DAVIS.
BEN. T. BAY.
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