The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-12-03
ers. May our children all stand or fall

What contrast tn. those sentiments O.
Ingersoll were the old.fashioped, impreg
nable adnonitioDs of DR.. Strickler and
DR.. Chandler at the dedication of the Ag
nes Scott institute last week. What 8
feast OF reason-what comfort to the pa
rents who have daughters there. I am
thankful that I have lived to see that day
and hear those sentiments breathed cut
by noble, Christian man-greet-hearted
broad-minded educators, who are leading
our people in the only road to happiness
I am thankful that I have lived to see
this splendid memorial to good woman
"a mother in Israel who raised up her
childron in the fear of God, and taught
them to live and to fear Him and to keep
His commandments. We used to have
such women and their sons were heroes
and their daughters heroines in the time
of trouble. As DR.. Gambler said, I am
glad that I have lived to see one m&u
which in active life gave of his first earn.
iugs S111,00O to build and establish such
school as this for our daughters. Such
a grand success as the Agnes Scott has
never been known in Georgia-nor in the
South, for it has sprung up as by a magi-
clans wand or the rubbing of genii
lamp. One year ago it Vas not heard Of
and now it is complete with all its admi.
rable equip1lents-the best heated, the
best lighted, the best ventilated and the
best furnished building in the South, and
as an educational institute has no supe-
rior in the character and accomp plisbment
of the teachers. 1t is q home, happy
home for our daug ghters-as near per-
feet home as can be outside of the family
circle. Other institutions havo been la.
boring fer years for the patronage that
this one has now, and by another term
the Agnes Scott will overflow and have
to decline many applicants. There is no
effort here for show or fashionable polish.
A diploma from the Agnes Scott will
mean all it contains. I go there fre.
quently and live for time in its sunshine
and take note of the sweet companion.
ship of teachers and pupils and am proud
of its high standard of scholarship and
morality and purity of thought and
conduct. If I was young man and was
looking round for helpmate and help
meet, it would be credential enough, aud
but little risk, to WOO and to win and to
wed sweet girl graduate of the Agnes
Scott if I could. I'll bet that a young
man can't run away with one of them.
They will be hard to please and harder
to deceive, and when they marry it will
not be done in haste and repented of at
leisure. Dean Swift said that the reason
why there were so many unhappy mar
riages was because the "girls spent so
much time in making netts and 80 little
in making cages" They attach more
Importance to catching lover than
keeping a husband. That may be so,
but the men are worse. They cease to be
lovers soon after marriage, and the trou.
bic begins-the trouble that Mr.. Inger.
soil would try to remedy by divorce, but
try in vain. Every wife knows her duty
and 30 does every husband. Let them
perform it and be happy and make the
children happy. There is an old gander
at my house who for many days has stood
by his mate while she sets on her nest
She plucks the down from his breast and
covers her eggs. When she leaves them
for food he escorts her to the grass aud
escorts her back with a diguity and a
devotion that was impressive. My respect
for geese has greatly enlarged since I
made their more intimate acquaintance.
BILL ARP.