Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-02-20
ARP HELPS YOUNG
Barlow Man Receives Numerous Re.
quests.
THEY SEEK AFTER KNOWLEDGE
The Philosopher Takes the Place
of Books For Many of The
Students.

feel pleased and honored to re-
celve etters every day from young
g'rls ana Doys over The south asking
1or information on some subject or for
neip III school debate or for start
III Il compoSition-just start. These
young People are generally from the
county, where books are scarce and
thSr eagerness for knowledge and
inertia Improvement is very crafty
ing. ! wish that | was three or four
men 50 that | could respond to all
their etters and comply with their
requests. Il reply to as many as | can.
but l cannot take time 10 write COM
positions, even II it was right to do so.
One 10Y begs me to write him a
humorous speech, and winds up by
asking me to please write two. so tha.
he ma 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 s'iall libraries Of good books and
she southern Railway has donated
peat look cases for them. This. OF
course is for Fulton county, but il Is
a move in the right direction. and will
no doubt stimulate the ladies' OF other
towns 10 do the same thing. 1t is the
very hest thing have heard OF a
womans club doing. The desire for
oooks y read is almost universal
among The people of the rural districts.
and they should be encouraged. Books
are cfraper than ever before known,
ana cleap books can be had for
few dollars each. | am not at all
snumae with Mr.. Carnegie. but if I
was l would whisper in his philan-
thropit ear and suggest that he turn
his attention for awhile to the towns
and villages and let the big ciFies
alone. Our Gainesville Woman's
Club Il struggling hard TO keep up
their little library, but are not encour.
aged b. the men of the town. Their
books ire out all OF the time. and are
read aud re-read by many of the chill
dren whose fathers do not give a dol
lar to ielp maintain the library. This
may be thoughtlessness, and so I have
suggge'ted that the ladies go around
and Sc, who will give SO cents or %
cents, II even 10 cents month to
keep us the supply and pay their rent
and iniidental expenses. OF course
the character OF the books must be
thoroughly considered. Nothing sec
tional Or trashy or sensational: but
only II ose that point n moral or
adorn tale Every public school
should have a burning commit
tee, such as they have at Forsyth Ga.
"A bright boy from Alabama writes
Chat his name is John Jones. and
wants 70 know when and how he got
1t; saws his father and grandfather
bad thu same name, but they died
without telling where they got It. He
COLI fNfNl
Higginpotham and he, too, wants TO
know where his name came from.
admire their eager curiosity, for cur
nnme is our sign board and every boy
ought "a, know who put it up and what
IL read.s- OF course IL is too big a
thing To tell much about names in a
but l must tell Jack
heirs
as the Christian era
I'M Jehovah loves" I
well who lived near
i sons were named
Ike and John. and
n ere named Mary
al lUse good oId-time peo-
Slea o. at reverence for the Bible
ind b names. One OF my fathers
sustt me S was named Shadrach Bo-
san, ami his three sons were Shadrack.
feshacj and Abednego. Another
crIsforls David Allan, named his son
Absalo i and for a wonder he was a
sood ard made good man, and
b & Z 7r, David. had no occasion to
Absalom, my son. my SON"
lrse OF time the people
multiplied so that theiI
have two names, so az
them, and so Johns son
ohnson in English or
Welsh. After awhile II
7es. The Joneses are
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people, and fought
my centuries. They
I'll they were prom
should rule over
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S son happened
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their future
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who had
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