The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-12-18
BILL ARp'S CHAT.
Those College Boys, and the Capers they
Cut in New York.
atlanta Constitution.

l UOfo wv L plC SOIlSEC IVY OiA q aai Al
| New York-paiuting the town red, boot.
ing, bowling and yelling in the hotels and
in the streets like lot of escaped luna
| tics, running over the police and the peo.
| pie, and making everybody get out oi
their way. 1t must have been an awful
time, according to the newspapers, and
had a letter from friend who lives
there, and he says that nothing like il
was ever seen in psndemonium. AS a
Dutchman said to ME, "It was a wiot, a
WOW, wumpus" And it vas all because
they had beaten the Princeton boys at a
game of football. Good gracious, what q
glorious victory, what grand success,
what magnificent and heroic deed. They
actually beat the other fellows kicking q
| ball, and it took 800 drunks to complete
the victory. Last year there was shame.
| full riot at Harvard, and hotel burned
up. What is the matter with the north
ern boys and the northern colleges. We
don't have any such carousements down
south. l know there are none such il
Georgia. Our college boys don't have
time to run of 500 miles to kick ball.
| Our Oxford boys don't dare to go forty
miles to Atlanta unless it is with a spe-
cial premit to have their photographs ta-
ken as q class some Saturday morning.
and they have to go back on the evening
train. would like to persue DR.. Bnggs
countenance if the Athens boys were to
ask for a weeks recess to go somewhere
and kick ball. What kind of education
are these Yale boys getting maybe they
| have just joined the gymuastic depart
ment, and nothing else. After they have
gotten their diplomas I would like to ask
them few questions in mathematics. /
would like to know if forty boys can kick
an eight inch ball 200 yards in forty
minutes on basis Of ten drinks to the
boy, how many drinks will it take to ena.
bic fifty boys to kick seven-inch ball
300 yards in thirty minutes. If ball kick
ing is to be their business they ought to
know how to do that sum. Heaven help
US when these boys are to take our places.
The whole north seems to be tainted with
this same liberty of education-this 60 as
you please, do as you please and study
when you please sort of business. II the
old man is likely to die and leave a
100000 to the college his boys must be
under no restraint. Yale and Harvard
have got their millions of endowment
from their rich alumni and they want
more. saw it stated the other day that
Harvard had averaged $50, 1000 year in
bequeats for the last ten years. Maybe
some Of the boys are doing well and
making good use of their time, but I
wouldent risk boy of mine there.
wouldent risk boy or girl at any i1s!i-
tuition north of Philadelphia. They are
too free and too fast.
I believe in my heart that the South
will have to save this government from
wreck; and that duty will be upon her
before the end of the century. The NOR
ality and conservatism of the southern
people are right now the safeguards of the
nation. The bad men, the profigate and
the lawless will soon outnumber the good,
honest, law.-abiding people of the north.
I overheard good looking, finely dressed
New York youth say to Mr.. Hughes, on
the cars 81 don't like your town of At
lanta; mau has to walk 200 yards 10
get drink it's awfully tiresome. I live
on Third avenue in New York, and there
are over 800 irst.ciass saloons on that
avenue. When gentleman wants 3
drink there is saloon within fifty feet Of
him anywhere on the line"
"Where have you been, Jones ?" said I
to fellow citizen. Said he: II have
been down to the chronological institute
to have some work done for my mill, and
I tell you what is a fact, l got it done
better and quicker and cheaper than l
have done anywhere else Mine sss q
peculiar and a particular job, and rcquir-
ed skillful hands. Those boys did it, and
they did it go we'll had TO praise them
and thank them. Aud besides their skill
they are so gentlenanly and courteous in
their department., so ready to answer
questions and take heed to suggestions
that it has been a pleasure to me 10 visit
the institution. I wish tina! I had boy
to send there"
And then | thought about the girls iu.
dustrial school that we are building at
N1illedgeville, and how quickly it will be
filled when it is finished, and how, before
many years, those working girls will be
mating with those working boys. and
what an independent team it will make
in fighting The battle of life; what &
contrast to the ball kickers and the dudes
ond butterflies that nfest our cities and
do nothing but pay calls and receive
calls, and read novels in bed, and get up
to breakfast at 10 o'clock, and change
their appare! three or four times day. |
have but little patience with these college
girls who skim through and read CON-
position that somebody else wrote, and
carry home paiOtinr that the teacher
painted, and then begin to circulate and
visit their classmates, and when they are
not on the 60, their classmates are on the
come, and here they 60 and here they go,
and it all costs money, aud the old folks
get no good, and no help and no comfort
from either the coming or going, and
when it is too late they realize that send.
ing the daughter to fashionable college
was q sad mistake It has not made them
bad or strong minded, but they are just no
account, that's all. Isay it deliberately,
and from long observation, that if girl
is sent away from home to college, and
stays there two or three years: nine out Of
ten will be no account when they come
home. They may be good scholars, and
even smart in chemistry aud geometry
and astronomy. but her business in life is
not to use the blowpipe, nor measure the
earth, nor the stars When the college
is at home, and the grill st home and
helps her mother and does some house
work every day, college is good thing
for her, but work must be mixed with
study, or the girl or the boy will be no
account. Of course, the girl will come
home accomplished, and will know how
to stand up aud sit down and walk around
gracefully, and how to smile, and sing,
and recline and lauguish and all that. but
she is not going TO cut and fit and make
dress for little SILLY nor help Bob with
his arithmetic. Worse than all, some
sentimental society editor of a newspaper
will mention her as as the charming and
lovely Miss Euphronia, and that will al
most make fool of her. Mayhap she
will visit Atlanta or Macon or Augusta,
and the society editor will note her arri-
val and use adjectives upon her-elegant,
graceful, fawn-like, sylph like, exquisite