Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-01-30
WAS GERMAN BLOOD
English Rulers for Two H. ndred Years
Came from Hanover.
ARP GOES INTO TIE HISTORY
Barlow Philosopher Writes Of the
Death of Queen Victoria and the
Changes.

1t was long jump-354 years from
tho death of King Edward VI to the
accession OF Albert, now Edward VII.
The good Queen Victoria didn't have
have much English blood in her veins.
The Georges We're Germans by birth OF
adoption. Three OF them liveu and
died in Hanover and the house of Han
over ruled England fo- 200 years.
Nictoria's father and mother lived
there. She got her husband there ANA
her son, the Prime of Wales. got his
wife there. If it had not been for the
Sale law, which forbade womln
from reigning over Hanover, she
would probably have lived ami died
there Besides this prepondcrance OF
German blood, she had strain of
Italian olIol in her veins ana WIS
pleased to call herself Guelph Her
English ancestors wera n hard lot.
indeed. the kings of England. rsrrt-
laliy tho HenryS, the Edwards. and
Georges. We're disgrace to royalty.
They were cruel, heartlcss. selfish and
depraved. They were worse than our
kiuhappers or the ha2ing cadets at
west Point, for they put to death their
brothers and mothers to ge. them out
OF their way Only two or three kings
nave Dehaved with credit to the crown
But the queens have illustrated won-
az superior virtue and kindliness OF
heaTt. Queen Victoria Is h.uo,eI
throughout the world-not for her
iorce or ruling power or political So
gac.ty or superior wisdom, but TO. her
womanly virtue. her tenderness. her
gentle example. her Christianity. Ev u
Gladsscne consul cd her, and if she had
had her way there would have ocnn no
war on the Beers. Neither wCuld our
government be trying to subjugate th.
Philippines IL & :od woman had been
president. 1t is the men who get IN
nearly all the devilment in this ali
would rather risk our own MIS-. Iowa
as president than Mckinley. LOOK
What teachers they make. Time was
Wheh we claimed that woman coul |
not head an institution OF learning, bat
there never were better presidents Of
female colleges than Mrs. Willard
Mrs. baldwin ard Miss Rutherford. |
am almost in despair about the cana
ity @: nneo 10 govern unru'y boys. We
have but ore college IN the state where
this tomfoolery called athletics is IN
der the Ian. In fart baseball and fco -
bail and golf and rowing of boats is the
biggest part OF the curriculum in near
ly ali the male colleges of the union.
We fathers don't care n bauble VIII ther
our boys can kick ball or not. ana no .
body else cares. 1t is not education
Some Cherokee Indians came here
from North Carolina a few years ago
and played ball and could beat these
col
they Cident go off and get drunk IS
soon as the game was over. The boys
In our day played ball. but they play Il
1t decently and nobody w ever Kill d
or hurt. Nowadays the college bovs
banter the boys Of another college and
they meet in Atlanta and PLAY tn D
game and hire some professionals an |
have a big time and then WIND IN
with drunken frolic and run over the
police and break the glass out of the
Kimball house doors and go bacI;
triumphant and don't study any more
for week and the faculty wink at 4
and call 1t modern elucation. Or
old-fGshicned town ball wes safer
and better game than baseball and out
shiny was better than golf W.
called it town ball because we hal
boys who could knock the bail out Of
the shins were in DANCER when yol
crossed the line. and tn is whore .
saying. shiny on your own see
came from. We had enough cyercis
at play time without running off to
Atlanta and wosting ten o. fifteen CO.
lars of the old mans money and leaV-
Ing some boy dead or badly wounded
Why. they haven't got enough oI'cc-
men In New York city to regulate or
1ntimidate the boys o, Yale and EIa O..
ward when they meet there to play 4
game. And the cnly excuse ever e ve,i
by the faculty is: "Oh. boys Will be
boys" Now. it seems that the hqzers
have apoligized and promised 20 oui+.
That is well enough but il doesn't re-
lieve them from the blic indignat on
reform that comes from fear de
serves no credit. Those Rows are tie
sano brutes thcv were before and
should not be rccogri eel as gentlemen
anywhere outside Of a bull fight IN
Mey'co.
was ruminating about those old
kings or England ard ow two o. he
princes were smothered in the town-
and Edward VI bad three steonotbe @
who treated him Ike a dog and how
subtWed he w9S all his brief life for he
died when sixteen ye~rs old after =
boylsh reign Of seven yca-s. AMI
those Georges were in continual scan.
dal. for history says that George |. who
founded the house OF Hanover. W..
fond of rothirg ave punch an1 Fl
women, and Welling on ys OF Geo-g,
~ that he was cur.ous compound Of
Inconsistencies. The other two were
no better. and there were the Henry's