The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-05-24

| A four mile ride on street car brings
you there. There is no river near at
hand, no cedar forests, no stone quarrles'
no strawberry fields but there Is
beautiful inland town of $500 people,
few rich and more poor, and . surround
ing country that is gently rolling and
very fertile. There are lovely suburban
homes, 10000 bales of cotton to handle,
and the farmers raise their own corn aud
meat and hay. The Arkansas Methodist
College has recently been located there
another school for girls. Bishop Gallo
way closed the contract few days ago
and the buildings will be erected without
delay. There were many competing
points, but Searcy was chosen for sub
stantial reasons. We'll, the girls are
coming to the front all over the south.
Almost every court house town has
college for them. In our own State there
are two at Rome, two at LaGrange, two
at Athens, and one at Macon and At
lanta ard Augusta and Gainesville and
Dalton and Marietta and Coyington and
Madison ard Eatnnton, and | don't know
how many more.
There are over 600 girls at college in
three Georgia towns that have no col
leges for boys. What splendid pickings
for the young men Of these towns. They
can Just strut around and take their
choice. A family man who has a crop
of boys maturing ought to move to one
of these towns. but it is hard on the
girls to be go limited in their choice.
The fact is, every town ought to have a
college for each sex, so as TO give both a
fair charca. When I Was st college
there were about 300 Of us and only a
dozen pretty girls in the town, and so
they had the pickings, and they never
picked me nary time. One of them said
she conld always love me like sister,
but had sisters enough already. She
was q little Older than ! was, and 80
when got wei! Of my fall | asked her
if she couldn't be my aunt or my grand
mother just IS we'll.
In due time l went home and got me a
wife where lovers were scarcer and the
nickipcs no! so good Tor the girls.
When l ge. back to Searcy again |
expec! to find two or three hundred prst
ty girls prancing around in those bcaui-
:ul college grounds. Near by is the Gel.
chrated Sulphur Spring that is set like
gem III The park and surrounded with
shade and flowers and evergreens.
Searcy is a lovely town, and the drum.
mers love to spend their Sundays there,
for the people are social aud kind, and
the hotels just as nice IS they can be.
But Of all tho coming cities of this
region, Little Rock takes the highest
rank. OF course, it ought to, for it is
the capitsl and has the inside track.
Tie State government. and the United
States cxpends lots Ct money there.
With fine river loca!ipn-a delightful
climate and rich surrounding country,
there is nothing To rrevcn! it becoming a
very lsrge inland city. 1t has no boom
after the fashion of birmingham, but is
more like Atlanta in its sure and steady
growth. Thirteen years ago was there,
and Of course could sse the changes and
the progress much better than those who
come and 90, more frequently. 1t is
still the city of the roses and the climb
ers reach to the high tops # the Chin
neys and fall over in pink and crimson
and green, and seem to lament that there
is nothing higher, for them TO climb.
The good morals o. he city ale the
pride Of her people. You can't buy a
cigar on Sunday at the finest hotel in the
town. In ali my travels have never
found this restriction except at one other
place, and that ssS 1T Tyler, in Texas.
There j, no city ordinance to this effect.
|, is due to the high reverential 'spcct
that lie prnprictct- have for the Sab
bsti,. Wherever The Sabbath is respect
cd, ,hcrc you will hud happy and a
prosperous people. BILL ARP.