The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-03


we're Germans by birth or adoption.
Three of them lived and died in Han
over and the house of Hanover ruled
England for 200 years. Victorla's father
and mother lived there She got her hus-
band there and her son, the prince of
Wales, got his wife there. If it had not
been for the Salic law which forbade
a woman from reigning over Hanover,
she would probably have lived and died
there Besides this preponderance of
German blood, she had strain of Italian
blood in her veins and was pleased to
can herself Guelph. Her English an
cestors were a hard lot. Indeed. the
kings of England, especially the Henrys,
the Edwards and Georges, were dis
grace to royalty. They were cruel, heart
less selfish and depraved. They were
worse than our kidnappers or the hazing
cadets of West Point, for they put to
death their brothers and mothers to get
them out of their way. Only two or
three kings have behaved with credit to
the crown. But the queens have illus
trated voman's superior virtue and kind
Iiness of heart Queen Victoria is honored
throughout the world-nOt for her force
Of ruling power or political sagacity or
superior wisdom, but for her womanly
virtue, her tenderness, her gentle exam
pie, her Christianity. Even Gladstone
consulted her and if she had had her
way there would have been no war on
the Beers. Neither would our govern
ment be trying TO subjugate the Philip
L. -
dent 1t is the men who get up nearly
all The devilment in this world. ! would
rather risk our own Mrs. Lowe as a
president than Mckinley. Look what
teachers they make. Time was when
We 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 capacity of men to govern unruly
boys. We have but one college in the
state where this tomfoolery called athlet-
les is under the ban. In fact, baseball
and football and golf and rowing of boats
Is he biggest part OF the curriculum in
nearly all the male colleges of the union
We fathers don't care a bauble whether
oar boys can Kick ball or not. and no.
body else cares. II is not education
Some Cherokee Indians came here from
North Carolina few years ago and play
ed ball and could beat these college boys
ont Of their boots and they didn't go Oft
and gel drunk as seen as the game was
over The boys in our day played ball. but
they played ii IN the campus ground and
played it decently and nobody was ever
killed or hurt. Nowadays the college boys
banter the boys of another college and
they meet in Atlanta and play the game
and hire some professionals and have a
big time and then wind up with drunk
en- frolic and run over the police and
break the glass out Of the Kmball house
doors and go back triumphant and don't
study any more for a week and the facul-
ty wink at it and call 1t modern education.
Our old fashioned town ball was safer
ana better game than baseball AID our
Skinny was Letter than golf. We called it
town ball because we had boys who could
knock the ball out CT town, and We called
il shiny because the Sims were in dan
ger when you crossed the line, and that
Is where the saying shiny on your own
side came from. We had enough exercise
at play time without running off to At
lanta and wasting ten or fifteen dollars
OF The cid mans money and leaving some
haven't got enough policemen in New
York city to regulate or intimidate the
boys of Yale and Harvard when they meet
there to play a game. And the only eX-
cuse ever given by the faculty is "Oh,
boys will be boys" Now, it seems that
the hszers have apocgized and promised
TO quit That is we'll enough but it doesn't
relieve them from the public indignation.
a rnfot.Yn III AZ c0rnaS from fnar deserves
no credit Those boys are the same brutes
they were before. aud should not be rec
oerized as gentlemen anywhere outside
of bull fight in Mexico
| was Illuminating about those old kings
OF England and how two Of the princes
were smothered in tho tower and Edward
VI had three stepmothers, who treated
him like a dog, and how subdued he was
all OF his brief life, for he died when
sixteen years old after a boyish reign of
seven years. And those Georges were in
q continuous scandal, for history says that
George l, who founded the house of Han
over. was fcnd of nothing save punch and
fat womt n, ana Wellington says of George
~ chat he was q curious compound of
Inconsistencies. The other two were no
better, and there were the. Henrys, some
CT whom were worse than murderers.
Since the reign OF Alfred the Great,
England has had no king who will COM
pare with her queens such as Elizabeth
and Victoria. ! am for the women, l
am. in every vocation.
This reminds ME that | have received
a letter from an Ohio man who wants a
wife. Maybe some idiotic woman would
like 10 answer It. Il reads as follows YER
batim ct literatim:
Palmyra, O.--Mr. Bill Arp. Gorgy:
Pleas write in your paper TO the Best
OF your knolage the hystry OF the moon
from Bibul staBpoint. Has 1t got lite
OF its own and if not whar do it ger its
lite? Does this earth revolv tord the sun
or not? Is the sun stashenery or not?
What cfekt do the moon have on ana
meIs? What efekt on hogs at Butcherin
time about fryE meat and maxim gravy I?
Does the meat inkreas in the fryin pan
If butchered at full neon?
mir. Arp, I'm widower and want you
TO find me a good woman for a matt. DO
the moon fekt potatoes and maxim lie
soap. and when forks git married should
they marry in the newe moon or the old
moon to live happy? Don't the Bihul say
the moon IS TO be sign to God and man.
and IL you know OF good woman down