The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-05-16

I Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles,
The reason firm, The temperate Will,
Endurance, foresight, strength and skill
A perfect woman, nooly planned,
To warn. to comfort and to command"
OF the other | have no fit description,
for poets have never sung her praises,
but her position in the estimation of
all right thinking men and women can
be pretty we'll set forth in the last line
of a piece Of doggerel brought home
from school the other day BY my little
six year old daughter, who took great
delight iu repeating it:
Il know a little girl
With a little curl
Hanging RICH down her forehead,
When she is good,
She is very, very good,
But when she is bad she is horrid."
These composite, uunatural, unsexed
women, striving to be like men, have
lost all the finer graces and charms,
which have always made men the
slaves Of the sex, and have gained
nothing in exchange except their "
morbid self. esteem. Such women are
simply horrid," and it will be the N
bition and care of all friends Of this
college that it shall never send forth
or harbor one of these ''horrid crea-
lures" Every true man acknowledges
the existence and pays due respect to
"womap's rights" Wordsworth gives
her the right to command aud all
men since Adam set us the example In
obedience, ever to do evil. have obeyed
when the behest was given by a true
woman in a womaDly way.
The young meu who will be trained
at Clemson, in the manner [ have IN
dicated will naturally look hither and
seek among the students who Will
flock to Rock Hill for their future help
meets. They are eve here now recon-
uoitering the ground. And after VIM
throp gets fully under way, think
that it ought to be the fixed policy of
the management Of the two colleges to
have frequent migratious to and fro,
for it will inspire and help the boys
to come here, and the girls will be
equally benefited by an occasional ex-
cursion to Clemson. The alliance is a
natural one and the two schools run
into each other, aud are just as much
bone of one bone, flesh Of one flesh as
though already married.
But [ must hasten to a conclusion
and leave to the distinguished orator
of the day a fuller and more eloquent
discussion of themes.
Before closing l want to give empha-
sis to one thought. I have already
pointed out the unanimity with which
men of all classes, conditions aud
ideas have joined hands in aiding to
erect this school. 1t is the one thing
and the only thing upon which the
men of South Carolina are at present
united. Only abiding, in passing, to
the division aud bitterness which ex-
lists among OUT people allow me to
express the hope that this point Of un-
ion may grow and spread: that the in
spirations Of this day may prove a
harbioger and help to hasten the res
t%oration of that harmony and friendly
feeling which once existed and which
must necessarily return before we can
have any great degree Of prosperity.
Our interests are one. our ancestry is
the same-let Us yield to the rule Of
justice and reason and the government
Of the majority, for we be brethren.
Why not dwell together as brethren
As in the days of old the ancient
Sabines were brought to peace with
the Romans by the women who had
been seized and born off capitves to
become the wives Of the latter ; so mag
the women of South Carolina become
our peacemakers.
Let them take hold Of the work in
earnest-go to all the campaign meet
iugs in full force to make their faith
ers, husbands and brothers behave
themselves !; aud at the end of the
summer We will have something bet
the than prohibition or the sub-treas-
ury:
ssPeace il all our hearts,