The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-02-07
QUISEN WAS GERMAN BLOOD
Ball Arp Goes Into the History of
English Rulers Who Came from
HanOyer

NhBhSh NuleTS VINO Na1nc from
Hanover.
1t was Il long jump-354 years from
the death Of King Edward VI TO the
accession OF Albert, now Edward VII.
The good Queen Victoria didcnt have
much English blood in her veins. The
Georges were Germans by birth or
adoption. Three of them lived and
died III Hanover and the house of Ham
over ruled England for 200 years.
Victoria's father and mother lived
there. She got her husband there and
her son, the prince of Wales, got his
wife there. If it had not been for the
Salic law which forbade woman from
reigning over Hanover, she would pro-
badly have lived and died there. Be
sides this prcponderance of German
blood, she had a stain Of Italian blood
in her veins and was pleased to call
herself Il Guelph. Ter English an
cestors were Il hard lot. Indeed, the
kings of England, especially the Hen
rvs, the Edwards and Georges, were a
disgrace to royalty. They were cruel,
hcactless, selfish and depraved. They
were worse than our kidnapcrs or the
hazing cadets of West Point, for they
put to death their brothers and moth
ers TO get them out OF their way. OAly
two or three kings have behaved with
credit to the crown. But the queens
have illustrated woman's superior vir-
tue and kindiincss of heart.
Queen Victoria is hOnOrcd through
out the world--not for her force of
ruling power or political sagacity or
| Sl1nprinr uicI0p, h,,t Enr
virtue, her tenderness, her gentle cX-
ample, her Christianity. Even Glad
stone consulted her and if she had had
her way there would have been no war
| Oh the Bocrs. Neither would our GOV
ernmcnt be trying to subjugate the
Philippines if q good woman had been
president. 1t is the men who get up
| nearly all the dcvilment in this world.
l would rather risk our own Mrs. Lowe
as a president than Mckinley. Look
what teachers they make. Time was
when we claimed that Il woman could
not head an institution of learning,
but there never were better presidents
OF female colleges than Mrs. Willard,
Miss Baldwin and Miss Rutherford.
am almost in despair about the
capacity OF men TO govern uuruly boys.
We have but one college in the State
where this tomiOolcry called athletics
is under the ban. In fact, base. bail
and football and golf and rowing Of
boats is the biggest part of the curricr-
lum in nearly all the male colleges of
the union. We fathers don't care a
baublc whether our boys can kick Il
ball or not, and nobody else cares. 1t
Is not education. Some Cherokee In.
dams came here from North Carolina
few. years ago and played ball and
could beat these college boys out of
their boots and they dhdcnt 20 off and
get drunk as soon as the came was
over. The boys in our day played
ball, but they played ii in the campus
ground and played It dcccntlv and no.
body was ever killed or hurt. Nowu-
days the college boys banter the boys
of another college and they meet IN
! Atlanta and play the game and hire
some professionals and have Il big time,
and then wind up with a drunken
frolic and run over the police aud break
the glass cut Of the Kmbal house
doors and 90 back triumphant and
don't study any more for week and
education.
Our Old-iashionod town ball was a
safer and better game than baseball
and our shinny was better than golf.
We called it town ball because we had
boys who could knock the ball out of
town, and We called 1T shiny because
the shins were in danger when You
crossed the lmc, and that is where the
saying "shinny on your own side ,"
came from. We had enough exercise
at play time without running off to
Atlanta and wasting ten or fifteen dol
lars OF the old MANS money and lcav-
ing some boy dead or badly wounded.
Why, they haven't got enough police
men IN New York city to regulate or
intimidatc the boys of Yale and Uar-
ward when they meet there to play a
game. And the only excuse ever
given by the faculty is: "Oh, boys
will be boys" Now, it seem that the
hazcrs have apologizcd and promised
to Tuit. That is well enough, but it
docsent relieve them from the public
Indignation. "A reform that comes
from fear deserves no credit. Those
boys are the same brutcs they were be-
tore, and should not be recognized as
gentlemen anywhere outside Of bull
fight in Mexico.
| | was rumlnatin1 about those old
kings of England and how two of the
princes were smothcrcd in the tower
and Edward VI had three slepmolhcrs,
who treated him like a dog, and how
subduci he was all of his brief life, for
he died when sixteen years old after Il
boyish reign of seven years. And those
Georges were in Il continuous scandal,
for history says that George |, who
founded the house Of Hanover, was
fond of nothing save punch and
fat women, and Wellington says
Of George ~ that he was a
curious compound Of Inconsistencies.
The other two were no better, and
there were the IIcnrys, some Of whom
were worse than murdcrcrs. Since ,hc
reign of Alfred the Great, England has
had no queens such as Elizabeth and