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ideal sjstem furnishing all advantages necessary toward good re- 

 sults with a tax rate of .0025. 



You may also object to this enormous sum of about .^20,000 to pro- 

 cure ground and erect a building. Say that only |4,000 could be 

 realized by selling our old buildings and grounds, it would reduce the 

 debt to 116,000. 



When 3'ou examine the past you will notice that we are building a 

 new school house every three Acara Thus having as we do in 

 this township thirteen buildings, it will bring one round once every 

 thirty-nine years. Examine this matter and you will find this truth. 



We could pay off on this new building at the rate of $1,000 a year, 

 thereby not increasing our building tax, the new building would be 

 paid in nineteen years. This could stand good thirty-nine years as 

 well as one of our present buildings does and we would not be 

 pressed with a building tax for twenty years. 



Philips Brooks has said: ^'If a man wants to be as good as his 

 father he must be better." That is if a son accomplished nothing 

 new, or in other words if he has no inventive genius outside of what 

 liis father had he remains on the same plane, and therefore has done 

 nothing for the uplifting of himself and mankind. The first settlers 

 provided a tuition school for their children — all they could do. 

 Later, the free school system was provided, furnishing schooling for 

 all children, both rich and poor. It is time that the present race will 

 also do something for the coming generation better than our fathers 

 provided for us, lest we and the children going to school to-day will 

 remain on the same plane, not to be raised higher. 



This plan to me seems a very good one, and if you think so. see 

 to it that not another school house is built separately, but save that 

 expense and if you have within yourself that fire, like patriotism, in 

 love for the coming generation, use it to this end. 



OPPOETUNITIES OF COUNTRY BOYS. 



BY CORA MAE UOFKMAN, Bedford County. 



There used to be a theory that the boy who happened to be born 

 on a farm was of all persons to be piHed. Fate had nothing in 

 store for him so the world thought, except to dig in the ground, 

 and stick to the hoe, his body became as crooked as a gnarled oak 

 in order to wring a living from Mother Earth. Since then the farmer 

 boys have proven that they can take their true places in life, and 

 not only take them, but hold fast to the possibilities which lie so 

 thickly about their pathways. 



