The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-04-12
NEWER TOO OLD TO LEARN. ,,
THERE Is SOMETHING IN BLO0D.
iSill Arp Adds to His Store ot Nuuyvl
edge Daily-Hc Tells the Children
What Will Interest Ihcru

Bill Arp Adds to His Store or I>uowI.
edge Daily-Hc Tells the Children
What viii Interest Ihcm
Store away knowicdge get vII Won
can. There Is comfort in it. Goldsmith
| says Of the village schoolmas,cr aud
his pupils
And still still they Eazed and still the wond,r
That one small head could carry all IL
knew
| remember how u5Dd to wonder
how our Professor Charles MeCuy
learned all that he knew a5ocl mu,hr.
MATES and astronomy. Some wears
ago heard Professor Proctor who WA,
then the greatest living astronomer.
lecture for three nights at Lake Weir
chatauqua in Florida, and he Tilted mo
up to the seventh heaven, as il were,
ana L had to strain my mind TO soar
with him amongst tho star, bat H.,
magniied the creation aud the unir.r>..
and the Creator in such way tI.tL
have not forgotten it and my rev react.
and awe and love for the Supreme H..
ing has been greatly Increased.
was ruminatlng abult this because
have received iGttG" from II iaa"uuG
friend who thinks [ should haze lUl8 =
little more about leap yCar auu Uow
the Julian calendar got hchinu tuGe
ten days IN ,5S2 gears and Pope Grcg.
ory's astronomer, Clavius, made Is new
one called the Grcgorian calendar.
And how it says that ali years wHOsC
date uumber is divisiblc by fOur " .Ju-
out a remainder are leap years uulo.s
they arc century years, These are not
leap years unless they are divisiblc
by 400 without - remainder. There.
fore, the year 20OO will be leap year.
But even this allowance will not exactly
even up the march Of tir1c and we will
lose another day in ) 52l years. Sir
john llcrschpl corrected this by max.
ing every l0uOth year y leap year and
this would keep old Father Time all
right for Is 600 years sed---wc will
not figure beyond that.
Another respected friend writes an
interesting letter about Hugh lawson
" oitC. once ~ candidate Tor the prrsi-
DENTAL nomination., and stays although
nc WAS reared and lived and died in
tennessee he WAS born in lrcdcil COun-
". North CArO ina. His mother was a
Lawson, daughter Of Hugh Lawson,
ana from thai Lawson auC stry more
disting hCd people have sprung than
from any othcr we read of. Among
their descendants are the Whites, Of
Tennessee Mrs. StOncwall Jackson.
Mrs. General w. T.. Sherman. Mrs.
G:n"raI ~. i. llill, Mrs. Adl"i Ewing
stevenson, the EwinPS Of Ohio and
Tennessee General twell, General
Henderson, OF Virginia; the LawsOns,
OF Georgia, and Governor Jared Irwin,
OF & .Orgia. All Of these we're iincal
descendants. Just think Of it . What
Il divergence OF fatc and fame and for.
tune that made Of one blood Mrs.
Stonewall Jackson and Mrs. a. +. Ilill.
Mrs General Sherman rs Is Ewing
and Mrs. Storcwall jackson was Nor
risOu. The writer says he has /. COPY
OF Hugh LawsOn's will that was exuuut.
ed in 1866, and that his grave is ia An
old churchyard between Salisbury and
Char! !Utte and the hcudot0nc still
shows the initials, ''H. i..n Verify,
verify, there Is something in the blood
that transmits character TO several
generations.
But the trouble is that this ancestral
blood b .cOmeS crossed and rcurUssed so
often that it is apt to lose its virtue
and becomes cOnta,niua:e with the
blood Of some vicious nDcGsturs. This
could only be prevented by what is
called " in and in brccdiDg," as marry
ing cousins or second cUusins, but the
doctors say that produces phye ical de-
so"H'"1J IL ','0 Oh spring anu 80 "hat
can mar 40 put try 10 elevate himself
ana hoI nank on MS ancestors. Colonel
@ @h,nppG'i w .'tacc was hooie man anG
iiinuo 95 'l'e oW ~ i"lilc al 'ortu"e' ana nc
he took Il notion that maybe hc was Is
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