The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-02-06

accession of Albert, now edward IL
The good Queen Victoria dident have
much English blood in her 1ciM
The Georges were Germans by birth
or adoption. Three of them lived and
died in Hanover and the house of
Haaoyer ruled. England for 200 years.
Victoria's father and mother lived
there. She got heT husband there
and her son, the prince Of Wales, got
his wife there. If it had not been for
the Sail: law which forbade q woman
from reiguiDg over Hanover, sho
would probably have lived and died
there. Besides this preponderance of
German blood, she had a strain of
Italian blood in her veins and was
pleased to call herself Guelph. Her
English ancestors were hard lot
Indeed, the kings of England, cspec-
tally the Henrys, the Edwards and
Georges, we're disgrace to royalty.
They were cruel, hcartless, sclfish.and
depraved. They were worse than our
kidnapers Cor the hazipg cadets Of
West Point, for they put to death
their brothers and mothers 70 get
them out Of their way. Only two or
three kings have behaved with credit
to tho crown. But the queens have
illustrated woman's superior virtue
and kindlincss OF heart. Queen, Vic
toria is honorcd throughout the world
not for her force Of ruling power or
political sagacity or superior wisdom,
but for her womanly virtue, her ten
dcrncss, her gentle example, her Chris
tianity. Even Gladstone consulted
her, and if if she had had her way
there would have been no war on.thc
Bocrs. Neither would our govern
mcnt be trying to subjugate the Phil
ippines if a good woman had been
president. 1t is the men who get up
nearly all the dcvilmcnt in this world.
would rather risk our own Mrs. Lowe
as president than McKinlsy. Look
what teachers they make. Time was
when VIC claimed that woman could
not head an institution of learning
but there never were better presidents
OF female colleges than Mrs. Willard,
Mrs Baldwin and Miss Rutherford:
am almost in despair about the capa-
city of men to govern unruly boys.
We have but one college in the State
where this tomfooery called athletics
is under the ban. In fact, baseball
and footbali and golf and rowing Of
boats is the biggest part Of the curri-
culum in nearly nll the male colleges
OF the union. We fathers don t care
baublc whether our boys can kick
ball or not, and nobody else cares. 1t
is not education. Some Cherokee In
diaps came here from North Carolina
few years ago and played ball and
could beat these college boys out of
their boo!s and they dident go off and
get drunk as soon as the game was
oyer. The boys in our day played ball,
but they played it in the campus
ground and played it decently and no.
body was ever killed or hurt. Nova
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 big
time and then wind up with drunken
frolc and run over Tho police and
break the glass out Of tho Kimball
House doors and 60 back triumphant
and don't study any more for week
and the faculty wink at IL and call it
modern education. Our old-tashioned
town ball was safer and better game
than baseball and our shiny was
better than golf. We called it town
ball because we had boys who could
knock the ball out Of town, and we
called it shinny because the shins
were in danger when you crossed the
line, and that is where the saying
"ehlnny on your own SIDE came from
We had enough exercise at play timc
without. off to Atlanta and
wasting ten or fifteen dollars of the
old man money and leaving some boy
dead or badly wounded. Why, they
haven't got enough policemen in Now
York city to regulate or intimidate
the boys of Yale and Harvard when
they meet there to play game. And
The only excuse ever given by the
faculty is ooh, boys will be boys"
Now, it seems that the hazers have
apologized and promised to quit. That
is we'll enough, but it docscnt relieve
them from the public indignation a
reform L;lat comes from fear deserves
no credit. Those boys arc the same