The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1906-05-02
Teachers Meeting at Cateechee.


helt at Catrc' hee Saturday was
dscld Il success, considering th
bad weather.. The attendance wa
Small, hut was made up b. the OH
thus;asn Of those present.
Ih" president, r. Il. UAllum, be
ing ahsont, Prof A. B. .Sta'vay
OF Central, presided The promi
nent feature Of the meeting wa
an address IT, :'i,f w. S. Morrison
. of Clemson College, on "Lo,a
History Of Pickens County," Prof
Morrison being presented by Vie,
President Prof. a. B. StaIvey. The
synopSs "f what he said is as fol.
lows: II" began with a quotation
from Pope:
"rhc bookful blockhcad, ignornnt,y rcad
With l0nds Of lcnrncd lumber in hi. bood ;,
These words tell what is the mat.
ter with much IF ouy teaching
OF history. aud axplnin why 80
msny Instructors and 50 many pu
p''s dislike t:e subject. We read
"lgn"r"ntly" We go on the "lnaAs
OF learned Iumhcr il our heads"
style Tie lumbar, too, is not wells
selected, well>ftted material. but
Is the kind of stuff found in tho
lumber room.
The great teacher dirocted his
disciples to begin at Jerusllom.
History teaching. like charity,
should begin at homo.
Today we are at Cateechee
PIckens county. Let Cateechee
and Pickens ba two topics of our
study.
Here, (holdWg up n copy of Dr..
}. Walter Daniel's "Cateechee Of
N"owee,') Is a hook that ought to
be Ii every school. room in this
county. Let the teacher read the
preface, tho poem and the notes,
Tel the meaning Of the names Mile
Greek, Six Mile, Twelve Mile.
Eighteen, Three and Twenty and
Ninety Six. The girl whose name
was Cateechee in Cherokee, Isa-
queena in ChccIaw, both meaning
the deer's head"
The book. "!Iuen chs Lyrics"
should be OH every teachers desk
in South Carolina. This poem,
'Cateechee," sh 'uld be familiar to
every child in upper Crrolina.
Tell tho story Of Fort Prime.
Gn"rgr, of Braddock's G,.f.st in
PennsYlvnnia, OF Gov. G!eun's
troaty in South Carolina, If dam
ger there and salty there, of long
trains Of c''varnd wagons running
down the foot Of the mountains. OF
I'e sturdy ScO!ch Irish rifle N pns
h md psalm BOOK in tho other
shooting Indians ana sin ling the
praise OF the L. I'd of Hosts, build
Ing log church, q whil, cnmo;np
out. Road Craddnck's Story OF
OId Fort london, which shows liCy
at old Fort Prince George and
gives the names Of the hostages
murdered within its walls. Teach
the story of Ninety Six, tho Star
Fort, OF Groen's siege, Rawden's
rescue and abandonment, and read
the poem that tells the fate of Door
Kato Fowler.
Famlllar;z' yourselves, follow.
tonchers, with this book, "The
Old Stone church," by DR.. r. N.
BracEett. Pat it in every school
library. Learn and teach every
fact in it relating to Andrew Pick.
ems, for whom the countyis named
Tell OF his, people. the Huguenots
OF France, their flight to Scotland,
moving to ireland, crossing the
Atlantic. sojourning III Pennsyl.
vanla and then coming to these
regions. Teach cf Pickens's ser.
vices IN war, fighting tho Indians
in the French and Indian War, the
Briton and Tory in the struggle
FOR American independence. In
terost yourself and thon your
scholars in the old soldiers life as
" Christian, and as all elder in the
Prcsby terian church, aud as him~
sell giving the seats and pulpit Of
inc Old Stone Meeting House, near
whose walls ho and his wife are
buried side by sido.