The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-12-02
Or that ether hymn now changed to


And to the Fair my feet I'll shove.
Now, 7 don't believe in penning the
children up all day on Sunday with the
shorter catechism, but 1 do believe in
training them to have respect and rev.
erence for tie Lords day, and to 60 to
Sabbath-school and church and read
some in the Bible. The devil has good
chance to work on them all the week
days, and it is well to fortify against
him one day in seven and repair the
breaches. I look around me wherever
I go, and I find the best people are on
the side of the church and the Sabbath
and the preachers. May our children
all stand or fall with them.
Whata contrast to those sentiments
of IngersCll were the old-fashioned, I'M
pregnable admopitions of DR.. Strickler
and DR.. Chandler at the dedication Of
the Agnes Scott institute last week.
What feast of reason-what a COM
fort to the parents who have daughters
there. I am thankful that I have lived
to see that day and hear those senti-
ments breathed out by noble, Christian
men-great-hearted, broad-ninded ed
ucators, who are leading our people in
the only road to happiness. L am
thankful that I have lived to see this
splendid memorial to a good woman
a mother in Israel who raised up her
children in the fear of God, and taught
them to love and to fear him and 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
man who in active life gave of his first
earnings $1l1,000 to build and estab-
such school as this for our daughters.
Such a grand success as the Agnes
Scott las never been known in Geor-
gia-nor in the South, for it has sprung
up as by magician's wand or the rub
bing of genii lamp. One year ago it
it was not heard of, and now it is COM
plete with all its admirable equipments
the best heated, the best lighted, the
best ventilated and the best furnished
building in the South, and as an edu-
cational institute has no superior IN
the character and accomplishments of
the teachers. 1t is a home, a happy
home for our daughters-as near per-
feet home as can be outside of the FAM
ily circle. Other institutions have
been laboring for years for the patron
age that this one has now and by an
other term the Agnes Scott will over
flow and have to decline many appli-
cants. There is no effort here for show
or fashionable polish. A diploma from
the Agnes Scott will mean all it con-
tains. I go there frequently and live
for a time in its sunshine and take
note of the sweet companionshlp OF
teachers and pupils and am proud OF
its nigh standard Of scholarship and
morality and purity of thought and
conduct. If I was a young man and
was looking round for helpmate and
helpmeet, it would be credentiai
enough, and but little risk, to WOO and
to win and to wed sweet girl gradu-
ate of the Agnes Scott if could. III
bet that 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 rot be done
in haste and repented of at leisure.
Dean Swift said that "the reason why
there are so many unhappy marriages
was because the girls spent so mucn
tim4 in making nets and so little IN
making cages" They attach more i'm
portance to catching lover than keep
ing a husband. That may be so, but
the men are worse. They cease to be
lovers too soon after marriage, ard the
trouble begins-the trouble that MI
Ingersoll would try to remedy by d.
vorce, but try in vain. Every wife
knows her duty and so does every hus'
band. 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%hile she sits on her nest. She
plucks t6edown from his breast anc
covers her eggs: she leaves
them for food he escorts her to the
grass and escorts her back with dig
nity and a devotion that are impress
i've. My respect for geese has greatly
enlarged since I made their more IN
innate acquaintance. BILL ARP.