The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-09-11
HE HAD TRIED 1T LONG AGO.
Manual Training In the School
Days of Bill Arp Proved
Failure.

or Days of Bill Arp Proved
H. Failure.
of
,o Manual training is no new thn
~ About sixty years ago we boys had
~ at the Manual Labor school in oI
- Gwlnnet. We had to work with q,
II hanos lhlee hours day. We worke
is win the hoe or the aX or plowcd cor
, ana colt or hauled wood or did som
:, KIND of farm work and the three hou
=, OF manual labor was intended to pa
Il Tor our board. But that was a mis-
- take. The boys didn't do one hour
Il faithful work they frolickcd. CAPTAIN
Garmany, the old hero of Shepherd
. plantation during the Creek, war, wa
i the overseer and he said he had rathe
ISht Indians than watch those bows
lie was good-heartcd, brave man, bu
ne couldn't manage hundred boy,
VINO hadn't been raised to work an,
whose fathers were rich and had me-
SfoeS to work their farms. Most OF
these boys had been wild at home and
had been sent to this school to be
, famed and reformed. Poor CAPTAIN
uaEmany. He pleaded with them and
TOOK the foremost row and showed
them how to hold the pow or split rails
or grind the AK, but when he was watch
ing and training one squad in one field
another squad in another field would
snp OIL AMI go in washing. The old
iashloned wagons had lynch pms to
hold the wheels on and sometimes the
boys would lose Il lynch pin on the wav
TO the woods and the wheel would
come OFF and they would 90 back to
the blacksmith shop to get another
pm and fool away the time until the
threc hours were out and hot load of
wood hauled.
captain GarmanY gave up in despair
before the year was out and they tried
another with no better success. asa
general rule rich mans son is NOT
going to work with his hands, We
mad very fine lot of boys fr m The
best families, such as the Gouldinus
and Holts, of Columbus; the Llntons,
OF Athens; the Aliens, of Clarkesville:
the Hendricks, Of Butts, and lot of
liarrlses and Hoyles and W Woifords and
Johnsons, but they eat more than thcv
earned and so the experiment proved |
failure al. the manual labor feature
had lnaugurated it and was president
OF the board, had to foot the bin of
$4,000 Tor its failure. Since that lay ,
1t has been set down as maxim that
thrcc hours of work of rich mans
son won't feed him. Bl these bows
dldnt turn out bad. Most of them
made good scholars and good citizens.
Thomas Allen became comptroller
general of :he State, Ned Goudnu
was colonel of the Ninth Georgia and
William II. Woirord bligadicr gen
elal, and DR.. jim Alexander and DR..
hendricks stand high in their proics.
sion, Glib Wright and Bill Wright and
Ramsay Alexander and James Maltbic
became Judges CT the circuit courts.
was Illuminating about good old Dr.
patterson, our principal--now fat he
was and how faithful and induIgent
and sometimes of hot sultry alter
no N, while we were bludc.iny along
through Caesars commentaries, he
would go fast asleep in his chair and
we woat't skip whole paragraph and
keep on reading and Skipping until his
Dook would fall on the floor and wake
him up. Then he would hunt all about
to find out where we were at, but he
never complained or made any sign of
suspicion. Remember our debating
society and how once month on
Friday evening we had TO take sides
and discuss some great question. About
a dozen of the older boys were engaged
in it and though | was the smallest, [
was right smart and my father helped
me and l held my own with the big
boys. l remember when the question
was who was the greatest man that
ever lived and each boy had to choose
different man and advocate his claims.
If two or more wanted the same man
DIR. Patterson had to settle it.
My father told me to choose Ben
Franklin and have never changed nv
opinion since, for | convinced myself
that he was the best all round mar
that history tells of. He was the
fifteenth of seventeen children, never
went to school after he was 10 years
old, was apprenticcd TO his brother,
who was printer; ran away from him
when he was II, hired to printer in
Philadelphia; next year was sent to
London to buy stock for new print
ing Office, hut the promised money was
was not sent, so he hired to another |
printer; after two years returned to
Philadelphia, invented q copper plate
press-the first in America |
Miss Deborah Read in 1880, when he |
was "a years old; founded The Penn
sylvania Gazette and rose to compe-
tencc and renown. Founded The |
Philadelphia library IN 1881; published |
Poor Richards almanac for twenty |
five years; in 1876 was chosen post.
muster of Philadelphia; in 1743 found
ed the University of Pennsylvania; III
l744 founded the American Philos-
optical Society and the Academy of
Sciences, investigated electricity and
took rank with the great discoyercrs
and was elected +. Il. S. of London
and Edinburgh. In 1863 was appoint
ed postmaster general of the colonies.
He was the defender OF all Jlonial in
terests; was sent to England TO have
The stamp act repealed; labored hard
to prevent war, but failed; came home
and signed the Declaration of Inde
pendence; was sentho France TO sc.
cure aid and recognition and succeed