The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-02-27

feel pleased ana nonOred TO re
ce;vc letters every day from young
Girls and boys over the South asking
Tor information on some subject o.
for help in a school debate orr for
star, in com position-inA. star.
These young people are generally from
the country, where books are scarce
and their eagerness for knowledge and
mental improvement. ;s -e:y CRAFTY
mo wish that was three or -four
men so that I could respond to all
tbeir,letters and comply with their re.
quests. reply to as many as l can,
hut cannot take time to write com.
positions, even if it was right to do so.
One boy bcgs lne to write him a
speech, humorous speech, and winds
up by asking mo please TO write two,
so that he may take choice.
We see that some of the good ladies
Of the Atlanta Woman's Club are NOV
ing to supply the country schools with
snail Libraries Of good books and the
Southern railway has donated neat
book cases for them. This, Of course,
is lor Fulton County, but it is move
in Tie right direction and will, no
doubt. stimulate tho ladies Of other
towns to do the same thing. tits the
very best thing I have heard Of wo-
mans club doing. The desire for
books to read is almost universal
among the young people of the rural
districts, and they should be enoour-
aged. Books are cheaper than ever
before known, and cheap bookcases
can be had for few dollars each. L
am not at all intimate with Mr.. Car
negie, but if l was l 1uld whisper in
his phil-nthropic ear and suggest that
he turn his attention for while to the
towns aud villages and let the big
cities alone. Our Gainesville Wo,
man Club is struggling hard to keep
up their little library, but are not en-
couragcd by the men Of the town.
Their books are out all tho time, and
are read and rc-read by many of the
children whose fathers do not give IL
dollar to help maintain the library.
This may be thoughtlessness, aud so
have suggested that the ladies 20
around and sec who will sivc so cents
Or 70 cents, or even 10 cents month
to keep up the supply and pay their
room rent and incidental expenses.
OF course the character Of the books
must be thoroughly considered. Moth
Ing sectional or trashy or sensational;
but only those that ''poinl moral or
adorn a tale" Every public school
should have burning committee,
such as they have at Forsy tn, GA.
a bright boy from Alabama writes
that his name is John Jones, and wants
to know when and how he got it; says
his father and grandfather had the
same name, but they died without tell
ing where they got it. He says his
schoolmate is named Will Higgin-
botham and he, too, wants to know
where his name came from. admire
their eager curiosity, for our name is
our signboard and every boy ought to
know Who put it up and what it reads.
Of course it is too big thing to tel;
much about names in letter like this,
but [ must tell Jack and Bill about
theirs.
John is as old as the Christian era,
and means "Whom Jehovah loves" l
knew a man very we'll who lived near
Kome, and his four sons were named
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. and
his two daughters were named Mary
and Martha. Those good d-time
propie had great reverence for the Bi-
Ole and Blbie names. One of my
father customers was named Shad-
rack Began, and his three. sons were
shadrack, Meshaek and .Abednego.
Another customer, David A1lap, named
his son Absalom, and for wonder he
was good boy and made good man,
and his father, David, had no occa-
sion to say "Ob, Absalom, my son,
my sonl'
Well in course Of time the peopi in
creased and multiplied so that thrir
children had to have two names, ), as
TO distinguish them. and 80 Jonn'a
Son was called Johns on in English, OF
John Johns in Welsh. After awhile
1t became John Jonea. The Joneses
are all Of Welsh origin. The Welsh
were brave. religious people, and
fought the English for many centuries.
They never did snbmit until tber