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Au echo of the State’s effort to give
every boy a chance in life
Published Every Saturday Afternoon
GEORGIA STATE REFORMATORY
JOSEPH E. LOWORN
Superintendent
Entered at the Milledgeville, Georgia
Post Office as Mail Matter of
the Second Class
Subscription: $1.00 In Advance
CHAS. A. STALLINGS. Foreman
FRANK A. WIND, Apprentice
JOHN D. INGRAM, Apprentice
HARRY WALLACE, Apprentice
HINTON E. BARFIELD, Appientice
ERNEST T. RANDALL, Office Boy
Saturday, January 16, 1915
OUR CREED
For every article under
the sun
There is an author, or
there is none.
If there be one, go and
find it;
if there be none f never
mind it.
Governor Blease must have resign
ed because he could not stand the
thought of having the people celebrate
his retirement to private life in con
nection with the birthdays of Robt. E.
Lee and Edgar Allen Poe.
QUESTIONS FOR NEXT WEEK
( i ) A newspaper pirugraph savs
“The Little Blue Hen” state .still
maintains a pillory and whipping
post for evil doers, in every kind of
county jail. What state does it
mean, anc how did it get its name
“Blue Hen”?
(2) If no candidate for president
and vice-president received a mo-
jorily of the votes in the electoral
college, how would they be elected?
(3) What is the national song
of the United States?
(Answers to last week’s questions)
(1) What Queen of history was
formally crowned and dedicated as
King?
(1) Queen Christina of Sweden ;
the only child of the great Gustavus
Adolphus, born in 1626. She suc
ceeded her father as sovereign up
on his death when only six years
old. She is described as beautiful
and brilliant, and was given the
literary course then only given to
men. By her own request she was
crowned king instead of queen,
and for several years she proved a
ruler of exceptional ability ; but her
adventurous nature could not long
endure the restraint on her personal
actions which her station as queen
made necessary, so she resigned the
throne in favor of her cousin Charles
reserving full authority over his
own household. She was now 28
years old ami travelled over Europe
to her own liking.
She alternated between conducting
religious services, and riding horse
back as a knight-errant. Finally
becoming tired of this wandering
life she sought the death of King
Charles as a means of regaining her
throne but in this she failed. • She
died at Rome in 1689. -
(2) Who wrote the poem begin
ning “Stont walls do not a prison
make. Nor iron bars a cage,”
which was printed in the Future
Citizen some time ago?
(2) The poem “To Althea from
Prison,” which contains the lines:
“Stone walls do not a^prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage.” was writ
ten by Richard Lovelace, a cava
lier pi.et of England.
This beautiful lyric was not pub
lished in the Future Citizen, but
only a short poem which referred
to it, and quoted the two lines a-
bove.
Lovelace was an Oxford scholar
and a leader of the Royalists. He
presented a petition to the house of
commons asking them to restore
the King to his rights. For this he
was sentenced to prison, and spent
several years behind the bars. Here
he produced his best lyric poems.
We have for some time noticed
that many of our bright exchanges
among the school publications have
a department devoted to exchanges
in which they say things about each
other. This a beautiful and saiu-
tory custom, and we like the spirit
of fellowship it develops and fosters.
We have long wanted to invade
this field and express our apprecia
tion in a more concrete and person
al way of the helpful, highclass pub
lications that come to our table;
but we hardly know where to begin.
With practically every publication
in Georgiu, and the educational
Journals published by the institu-
of almost every State in the Union
we will be undertaking no mean
task to even mention all.
We are emboldened to at least
pay a passing tribute to those of a
strictly educational nature, such
as are issued by the various schools
and other institutions. But we
have observed among some of these
a slight disposition to be hyper
critical, and speak of each other,
not only as they are, hut as they
are’nt but ought to be. This makes
us tackle the job with a good deal
of trepidation. So far, our illus
trious contemporaries have been
exceedingly kind to the Future
Citizen, and all seem to
“View us not with a critic’s eye,
But pass our imperfections by,”
and we hesitate to take the risk of
disturbing our peaceful tranquility,
because we would hate to see our.
beautiful hide stretched on a pole.
Anyhow, it kind o’ strikes us
that according to the rule of the
eternal fitness of things, these criti
cal folks who know exactly how a
newspaper should be run, and en
joy telling about it, have got no
business running a publication, All
such ought to be enjoying life liber
ty and the pursuit of happiness and
the evasive coin, in other walks of
life; so that '.ney may feel free to
give advice to all the editors of
our land and country, without let
or hindrance, and where none can
molest # or make them afraid, or,
words to that effect.
On second thought, we have de
cided to wait a little and see what
happens to some of the other angels,
before we rush in where fools fear
to tread.
Fault Is a thin* anybody can find, but some quicker than others on account of intimate familiarity
