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/' .' ' ' . ' "',<s * * . - ' ' '' . ARP AS A REVIEWER "A Glance at Current History" Proves Interesting. \ ? -? BE READS IT 10 HIS FAMILY. Colonel John Cusson's Book is i-rtc From Revenge or Malice, Says the U.arto\Y Sage. 5t is only a little book?a very little book?that the author has sen: to me, but a perusal of its pages has impressed me profoundly and has prove 1 a. real comfort in my old age. 1 ha.e read most ci it aloud to my wife and daughters and it lias comforted theai and establi-hed them more firmly iii the faith, if that were possible. This book is only tixS and contains 10) pages in large print?very large?so that the veterans might read it without glasses or a strain of the optic nerve. Its modest title is "A Glance at Current History." by Colonel John Cussons. of Glen Allen. Va. It is the work of a retired confederate veteran, who is known and loved by all Virginians and who was grand commander of the grand camp of Virginia confederate veterans and the intima;e friend of General Maury. Dr. Hunter Maguire. Fitzhugh Lee and Joseph E. Johnston. This book was written with nu selfish motive, neiher for profit or flame, nor with any desire of crimination. hut rather to heal the breach and at the same time preserve the truth of lii.-tory and hand it down to our children. There is not a line of mali.ee or revenge within its pages, but a hightoned. dignified, conservative appeal to his comrades to uphold the gover men: :nai is now a nauuu auu ai wie suur.r time* defend the south from any taint upon her honor. It is beautifully written in thoughts that breathe anc words that burn and no man, north or south, can question a stat iaaeni contained within it. I wish that I was a millionaire. I would place a <?py of this book in the home of every family in the south and in the hands of every young man, and I -would make It a little text-book of history in e\ery public school. There re only six chapters, each not more than ten minutes long, but there is iu>: a wasted sentence nor a paragraph too much. The last chapter is a defense of the American Indian, for the author was long a frontiersman and lived among them and mingled with them for -many years, and as General Maury said of him. 'He has more thoroughly .studied the Indian character than any man now living." The first chapter is devoted to a review of a 1'niiel States history recently written and published by Professor Goldwin Cmi tVi n-i T'n icVi n--n n whn was for years a professor of history in Cornell university and is now a doctor of cau? -on law in Toronto. Canada. This history is published both in Ix>ndon and , New York, and is amazingly popular both in England and the north. It is intensely venomous against the soufh, and especially against Virginia. Now listen lor a few moments at some of bis hi-torical utterances taken verbatim from his book. Listen and wonder that such a book could find patrons aavwheie: 'South Carolina got her start by combining buccaneertng with slave owning and making ber ports a shelter ' for pirates, and corsairs. such as Captain Kitid and Blackboard. "Georgia was the refuge of the pauper and bankrupt. Her first setGers were good for nothings who had failed in trade? shiftless and lazy s^t ?but later on some better elements came in?Highlanders. Moravians and persecuted Protestants of Salzburg. "The first settlers of Virginia we-e au unpromising lot?lackeys, beggars, broken down gentlemen and tapsters cm of a job. To this crew of vagabonds were afterwards added jai'birds. English convicts were offered their choice between the gallows and Virginia, and some were wise enough tn choose the gallows. Even their pjace of settlement?Jamestown?has long been a desolation. They were not such colonists as the Puritans. They made the Indians work for them, while the Puritans worked for tbe-msolves. Many of them were kidnaped from the streets of London ar.d nil were of depraved character. Afterwards came African slavery .the bane of Virginia and her ultimate ruin As were the people so were their leaders. A chief fomentor of the quarrel with "England was par-irk Hn' v. > ?> *) who had tried many ways of earning a am/1 !? >/? J > il A AJ%Jii? ai.u i:au ;rtir.vt ia uu. .1 rupt at twenty-three. he lounged in ldlemesg till he found he could live by his tongue. James Madison was a veil meaning man. but morally weak. Henry Clay was a dazzling, but artl'ul politician. John Randolph had natural ability, but lacked good sense and had no power of self control. He would enter the senate with his hunting whip in his hand and behave as if he were in his dog kennel.' He gives faint praise to Washington, and much more to Benedict Arnold, who. he says, "was one of the best of American generals and the most daring of them all. He was slighted and wronged by politicians and had despaired of the cause." Ben F.anklin and Samuel Adams were lacking in tlie ordinary t arf? >.-s ;."K vt , trails of gentlemen and as for Patrick j Henry, nothing hotter was to ho ex- i pected, for the character of an English gentleman is not to be formed in the backwoods." Concerning the civil war he says: "The slaveholders escaped military service and thrust the poor people under fire. Guards impres ed men in ; the streets and eons riots were sent to Lee's army in chains. At the taking of Fort Pillow the negroes we?e noiloH ti\ Intra and burned all Vf The j southern lady was bat v'ne heal of a ! harem. She was soft, elegant ami charming. but t'he civil war disclosed an element in her character of a different kind.'' , This is enough of t.hc scandaous and slanderous book and it is only popu: lar at the north because of its vili.i! cation of the south. He flatters New | England and the Puritans and gives : praise to Benedict Arnold, who was ; j born in Connecticut and more to old ' j John Brown than to Oeneral Lee. These are the kind of books that j ' northern children road and study and j I believe. How can that section ever be j j reconciled? And yet there are pe:pie * : at the south who condemn us for do- | fending the honor of our ancestors and j ] of it as "ex-confederate rot." lord I Macauley said: "A people who take , no pride in the achievements of their ancestors will achieve nothing f~>r their own children to be proud of." Some of our most gifted men are still toadying to please northern appetites, "licking the hand that strikes the blow." Cf all such a patriotic northern writer says beware of the "chronic reconciler." the man who im J proves every opportunity to haul out | 1 his faded olT. e branch and waive it in i i the eyes of the people. When any i man, north or south, talks in a mellow j j way of his love for his old enemy, | | watch him. He is getting ready to ask for something. Watch him. The.- ; ' is something pathetic in the picture c.f i the north and south clasped in each others arms and shedding a torrent of : hot tears down each others backs, but the aged mothers on either side ha.*.; ; not yet learned to love the foe with much violence. Nor dees the crippled | veteran love the adversary who rob: bed him of his glorious youth and left | him a feeble ruin* nor have the patriot soldiers on either side deserved I the cause for which they fought. But think of Virginia?the glorious j Old Dominion?the mother of states and statesmen. Her domain extended from Carolina to Canada and from the I Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. Born j upon her generous bosom was Wash! mgton Jefferson. Madison, Monroe, Lighthorse, Harry, Robert E. l ee. Joe T /vhnsfnn on/1 QtnnOM'Qll .Tflpkfinn. | 1j. dUililOlUii UllVi utvuv i?m*? v wv.... ! Who would not be proud to be a Vlr; ginian? Who can wonder at the pn| triotic pride of those two venerab'e sisters. Miss Judith and Mi 5s A n la j Thomas, of Southampton county, now j passed their eightieth year, the only : sisters of General Georr/? H. Thomas, and who, ev?r since 1 '(*>!. when he ac- i c-epted oillce under Lincoln, have uni- j , formly declared that they on<-e bad a brave and noble brother of that name and that he won renown in the war with Mexico when he was a majtr in j Colonel Robert* E I.ec's regiment, but | that he died in 1S61 and now thrty have no brother. Ever since Virginia ! seceded they have pathetically d?' clared their dear brother died in ihe spring of 1 SGI. Every Virginia offi er i of the old army, save George ;I Thoma?, promptly re igned and v lunteered to defend their state. These lonelv old maidens seem really to be ! lieve that their brother did die. The ; county of Southampton had presantol to Major Thomas on his return frcm Mexico a beautiful sword and after I our civil war he wrote to his sisters 1 and requested that the sword he sir t to him. They replipd that they could > not part with it, for it was the only ! memento of a very dnar brother who j died in 1SC1. They still live alotle and in poverty in the same old mansion in j which they were bron, but neither friend nor neighbor ever presumes to mention General Thomas in thHr presence. These venerable and venerated ladies are but a type of the o'd> Virginia aristocracy. Well, may they be proud of their state and their ancestry.?Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. P. S.?I do not know Colonel Cussons nor the price of his little bo-.k, nor have I any interest in advertising it, but I do wish that every veteran and every veteran's son had it. His address is Glen Allen. Va., and he is the publisher. 1 suppose that $1 will buy it postpaid. B. A. Metal* Need lte*t. It may sound strangely to hear per sons taiK aoout a ureu sreoi axie jr a fatigu-d iron rail." b;jt that sort 3f talk is heard along railways and in machine shops, and is considered rorrect. "The idea cf inanimate metal becoming weary!" may be your thought, but cxpcrts familiar with the ways of machinery say that work makes it tired, and that it needs rest, as you do. "What caused the axle to break?" asks the railway superintendent. "Fatigue of the metal." answers the inspector. Sinews of steel can tire as well as muscles of brawn, and metal ( that dees not have its rest will cease to do its work, end may cause great damage. At least so the engineers 1 say; and assert that without rest the affinity of the molecules of the metal for each other becomes weakened, un- i , til the breaking point is reached. |i THE STATE SUMMER SCHOOL. fnlormatlon for Teachers Who !!?: pect to Attend. Superintendent cf Ediication MoMchcn has juii ksueu some ink/rrr.aticn relative to the State sumotr sc/hcLl, to be held a?t ??pa:tar.burg, j which will prove esi>ecially interesting to all teachers who expect to attend. The attendance, fiom ail indications, piom-ises to be very large. Arrangements have been made with i the Solatlheastern Passenger Associa- J f';~n hv \vbir<h tirkpfs will be on sale . at the rate of one fare for the round trip. These tickets will be s*c>!d to the State Teachers' Association and will be marker! good to return June 24. but by (k<;;i;isL; with the Superintendent they will be extended until after the summer school closer. Teachers should j inquire of the.ir local agents beforehand so as to be sure ?iia.t the agents ' have instructions. In addition tio these tickets the regular summer excursion 'tickets to Spartanburg or the mountains will bo on sale. The officers of Converse College offer their services to the teachers during the meeting of the summer school, and Will regreat it if tney are left ignorant of any opportunity to contribute to the comfort and pleasure of the visitors. The dormitories will accommodate three hundred teachers. There is a very pretty dining hall accommodating three hundred. Hot and cold tutbs are in each <Jormiltory. In the College buildings there are ' ten large recitation rooms; two very j pretty society halls, seating about elgihty each; one large gymnasium, j 110x38 feet, handsomely fitted up I with all convenient apparatus; go:d | appointments for laboratory work in j . rnhav./v ie "?,n QGaftT.lhlv hall. i with opera. chairs, seating comfortably eight hundred people; a large audllertum that will accommodate two thousand. There is a large art room, arfranged with eight divisions for private work, besides the large main work room, and all arranged with gcoi skylights and north lights. The buildings are well lighted with electricity; in each room there is a twenty-four-candle power electric lamp. The campus contains fifty-five acres, with good bicycle paths and tennis and basket ball courts. A good bowling alley is near the dormitory. Those expecting to play tennis should bring their rackets. Garret Springs, with fine chalybeate water, is only a half-mile walk from the college. The mail comes tt> the college by free deli-vcry ait 8:30 a. m., 2:30 p m. ar.-d 4:30 p. m., and will be put immediately into the college pcetoffice boxes for distribution On Sunday the ( mall will be brought to the College i at 10:30 a. m., and at 4 p. m. The mail j is carried tie the trains at the same : 4-:***a elc'iirorr TQ UiliC U.. UV.iivi J ? The Converse College Library will be r.t the service of the teachers. The hours will be from 9 to 2. and from 4 to 6. Arrangements have been nude so that the Wcfford College Library and 'he Kennedy Library in the city win be open to the teachers. Arrangements have been made to have the toxt-1 ooks and what stationery the -teachers will need on sale at the College. VL-riL'ius text-hooks and school supply companies have been Invited to | make exhtudts 6f the newest text- [ bcoks and srhrol supplies for the benefit of the teachers. A suitable place will be set aside for this purpose. The faculty will eon si .- t of Prof. R. Means Davis, history: James William iatterson, of the Chicago Art Institute. illustrative drawing; WillLm H. Brrnha-m. of Clark University. Massachusetts, history and practice of .earhing; Dr. J. I. McCain. Erskine College. English grammer; Wr.i. C. A. Ha mm el, Maryland Mate Norma' School, physics and manual trainingPa.tterscn Ward law, Sou'iih Carolina Collge, pedagogy: W. H. Hand. Chester Graded School, school supervision; St James Cur mings, Citadel academy, English -literature; ... G. Rembert, Wofford Gertie,ge. Latin and Greek: Miss Mamie Maefet.t. Winthrop College, kindergarten principles; Miss Sarah Withers, Chester schools, primary methods: J. V. Lewis, Clemson College, physical geography; Miss Sarah C. Thurston, nature Study; Marshall D. Earie. Furn;an,. mathematics; E. L. Hughes, Greenville school, practical geography; Frank Evans, Sp3.rtan.burg schools, Frye's geography: R. H. Poters. Converse Coileee. vocal music; Miss Sarah Chandler. Sparta nbarg schools, primary teaching illustrate:!; Dr. James H. Carlisle, special lectures. ? f Newsy Notes. Mayor Tom L. Johnson has order0-! fen investigation of the books -of the City Clerk of Cleveland. 0. J. Pierpont Morgan, with his son an 1 grandchildren, went from London t? Paris last week. A manganese iron ore field has been discovered twelve miles south of Little Grande, I'tah. In a freight collision at Cleveland, 0.. Brakeman William Thie3 wa3 killed and two men were fatally hurt. Michael J. Dady, the Brooklyn contractor, has been awarded a $"50,003 contract to dredge Cardenas harbor, & Sharps and Flats. Sillious?"It always takes two to make a quarrel." Cynieus?"I always thought a husband and wife were one." WIgg?'"Longbow is a hard rase.' Wags?"I should say he is. The oiuy time I ever saw him embarrassed was j onre when lie was caught telling the j truth." Pride is all right if you don't trip i over it. The band master isn't always a social leader. Lots of people borrow trouble by lending money. So. 18. I do not believe Tiso's Curo for Consumption bar, an equal for coughs and colds.?John F. Boyke, Trinity Springs. Ind., Feb. 15,1900. The obstreperous prisoner realizes that a policeman not only collars but cuffs. IL Mill Mill II ( BMBBBBBB When a cheerful, bravo anr denly plunged into that perfect a sad picture. It is usually this way: She has been feeling out of encing severe headache and b; and is exceedingly nervous. Sometimes sho is nearly < ness, and palpitation of the h( feeling is dreadfully wearing. Her husband sovs, "Now. < be all right after you have take But she does not get ail rig day, until all at once she reaii complaint is established. 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