The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-09-24

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| The sweetest pathos in the Bible is the
pleading of Judah for his little brother
Benjamin. 1t made Joseph weep and
it makes me weep every time 1 read it.
Our "Benjamin' hasn't got coat OF
many colors, but he has spotted cap
and red surcingle that he wears, and
I'm afraid the Ishmaelities will get him
some of these days.
The Agnes Scott is a new Institution
and has just gotten fair start. The
loved and lamented Tom Cobb named
his college at Athens for his daughter
Lucy, but Mr.. Scott has named this
one for his mother. He has already
spent $50, 900 on it, and keeps on speno-
ing. I predict that he will not stop as
long as be lives. Just let man get his
heart tied onto some great charity or
something for the good of humanity
and it seems to expand and absorb him,
and becomes bis life work. I believe
that wise providence designed this so
that great things might be done, and
he raises up men to do it. Alfred
Shorter begun his great work with $40
600. That is all he thought he could
spare. But after awhile he strained
himself to 0,000, and then to $4,000
$4,000 and he never stopped until he
died, and ne had given Sl25:OO0 to
found the Shorter college at Rome, and
it is there to-day as his monument.
The Agnes Scott is most happily To-
Gated. It Is just far enough from the
capital to get ali of its advantages and
patronage and none of its hindrances.
1t is in the heart of the chinquepin re-
gion-a region too poor to be sickly,
and where the timber grows only large
enough to be storm proof, and the hills
and the hollows are just high enough
and low enough for drainage aud good
roads. The institution is in beautiful
grove and elevated, the ground descend
ing gently from every side, and it is less
than five minutes walk from the depot,
where twelve passenger trains day go
and come from Atlanta, and dummy
line besides. The lighting, heating
and ventilation seem to be as perfect as
human ingenuity can make it, and the
protection against fire absolutely secure.
The rooms are all models of cornfolt
and are provided with the most sub
stantial furniture. Nothing has been
neglected that the pupils need for sheir
health and their pleasure. Bathrooms,
with hot and cold water, are on every
floor, and the entire outlook and inlook
are cheerful and refining. would like
to take Mrs. Arp there and let US be-
come inmates and stay, at least as long
as Jessie is there. -----s ?. r
With a corps of the best educators
that could be found in the South, this
institution has already taken high
stand among the female colleges of the
land. The time has come when 1T was
wanted, and it is there. Long may Mr..
Scott live to enlarge it and equip it for
its great work in educating and refining
our daughters until they shall become
as the polished corners of a temple.
May this institution loom up and be-
come a cynosure like the old granite
mountain that is in full view from its
turrets. That same old imperishable
mountain that used 10 be our trysting
place when Mrs. Arp and I were young
and lived near by. Sweet are its mem
ories. Once there was lofty tower upon
it's crest and remember ascending its
spiral stairs with my sweetheart by my
side and when we reached the pinnacle
We saw the feecy clouds below US and
as looked into her hazel eyes it seemed
to me that ! was little nearer heaven
than had ever been before. Delight
ful memories! Ambition was high then
and 80 was hope and expectation. The
world was very lovely and 1 was
thankful that I lived. But now the
mountains top seems bleek and cold
and cherries, and my experience is
that the safest retreat and the surest
happiness is found among the humble
flowers that blossom at its base.
BILL ARP.