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C ESTABLISHED 185. -- - - NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1901. _____ _TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR jUIlVIIoELuEIV 1e THE 45th ANNUAL 4 NEWBERR' Largest Graduating Class i tion-Rev. W. H. Hiller R. Tillman Deliver Ad Societies-Commence Medals, Prizes and The Board Pass "'he l1ev. W. II. -Iiler, of IProspcrity, dellvered the annual tiddress before the Alumtni A ssociation this year on Tues day morning. Rev. S. S. I;ahn, of Jacksonville, Fla., had been chosen, hut on account of the fire which destroyed his home some time ago, was prevented. Mr. Hiller was introduced by Mr. A. 0. Matthews, president of the asso elation, and after a few introductory remarks Mr. Hiller spoke as follows: ALUMNI ADDRESS. "The Sovereignty of Mind as Re lated to the higher Life." The greatest gift of divinity to hu manity Is the incarnation of a master spirit. The sovereign will rules in the affairs of men by proxy. Jehovah is represcated in the world by superior beings, as the archangels do his spe cial bidding In the unseen realm. The God-marked man is the atlas of the ages bearing a lost world back to its Maker. The truth-ladened voice of the proph ets, with over increasing force, is pene trating the chaos of ignorance and vice of earth making it rich in the hopo of a better and higher life. The orator, with soul aflame with divine flre, speaks from thoughts that breathe in words that burn, multi tudes hang upon his utterances, and men are made to feel, dctcrmine, act! The philosopher teaches, and the race sits as children at his feet. The hero spurns death and converts the simper Ing coward into a martyr. The poet touches his harp, and nations stand en tranced. These all, with a heavenly mission. Lights among the breakers on life's stormy sea! Sentinels stand ing between the then and the future! The mountain pocks of human history; the sure guides of mortal destiny. The sway of the monarch's scepter, the power of the king's command are fee ble things compared with . the soul power of these demigods, who reign supreme in the march of human pro gress. Thus then, how inexhaustable, the resources of this treasury of sixty ceuturical What a rich legacy is our Inheritance! What an age has dawned upon us! The supreme hour for ad vancement has struck. The materials are at hand with which to transform the world into a paradise of God! Touched by the spirit of the ago, the universal heart exclaims: "We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time; In an age, on ages telling, To be living is sublime." It Is interesting to notice some of the chief characteristics of great men by whIch we may explaIn theIr influence on civIlIzatIon. TIhey never dIe. They obliterate time and space. They be long to every and all ages. They can not deserve credit. They must be great. They do not intendl It. They are hum ble; they are simple. Indifferent alike to condition, circumstance, position, climate. They live in the present; In deed to them there Is no past, no fu ture. Each day is infInite. They "can crowd eternity into an hour, or stretch an hour to eternity." Though d welling In mortal form, thy live immortal in our very midst. Though thIs poor vision cannot see, yet we feel them, we think them. Their soul's estates make us Owners of the sphere, "Of the stary world, the solar year, Of Ceasar's hand and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart and Shakc speare's brain." Thcse great souls reveal the race at Its best. - Like flowers, love and music, .they appeal to what is noblest, purest and greatest in the soul. They are above all things true to themselves hence cannot be falso to their fellows. Indeed they are truth. Plato In his p)assion for the science -of being was representative of Oriental thought; in his love of lines, limita tions, defluitIons and explanations, he is all that is great In Occidental cul ture. This duality in him, makes him modern, complete. 1For 2,200 years the supreme master of thought. We appre eiate assimilatestruth in the concrete. This makes hero worshipers of us all. Truth in tho abstract is too far removed Sfrom the heart to warm it Into life and activity. Truth, there was in hoathen dom. It had dreams of divinity and Immortality; of responsibility to a su * perlor being and this fnith found ex pression and'exempliflcation in civic virtue. But it took 88 centuries to produce Socrates and Plato; men with *surer convictions on these questions of dternal interest. With callous abandon to fate: with serene cntn.. 0MMENCEMENT OF (COLLEGE. rn the History of the Institu and Senator Benjamin dresses, to Alumni and ment Day Exercises. Diplomas Awarded. es a Resolution. plation of death, these with Sophocles, (u, of Athens, taulht the itomans how t (ie. llear the Itomian confes sions by 1lartius: "This admirable duke, Valerius, With his d isdain of fortune and of death, Captived himsolf, has captivated me, And though my arm has taken his body here, Ills soul has subjugated A1artius' soul; ly lomulus, he Is all soul, T think; lio bath no flesh, and spirit cannot be gyved; Then we have vanquished nothing; he is free, And Alaetios walks now in captivity.'' When paganism had brought forth its perfect fruit, th- fullness of time had corie. There had been conflict, sharp and grand among the elect of the Most Iigh, with error, ignorance, superstition and vice. Sinai had thun dered with voico more terrible than Delphi. The vice-gerents of high heaven in that most wonderful Theoc racy had failed to unveil truth in all of her pristine beauty. Moses made mis takes; Abraham erred; David griev ously sinned and grievously bore it. But out of the chaotic darikness, there flamed forth a light divine. The 40 centuries had not rolled on gathering strength in vain. The truth is incar nnte at last and walks among men. ''he center of light! The focus of the ages! the dream of human historyt wisdom from eternity revealed, daz zling the world with its brilliancy! the source of being disclosed! Nature touched as by magic and its hidden secrets brought to light! The choir invisible breaks forth in symphonies divine and hymn the praises of the matchless one. The wisdom of the ages gracefully al.proachcs and lays its richest trophier at the Nazarene's feet. The learning of the past is silent when He speaks. The storm at sea is hushed as a babe In its mother's arm, at the majestic command of His voice. The conscious waters see its Lord and blush. He teaches men not only how to die, but to live forever. Ho unlocks the secret chambers of the soul and sets the captived spirit free. But alas His fate! More criminal we than Antony. We who take part in His death and re ceive the benefit of His dying. Though far removed from master minds, yet there is correspondence be tween us and them. As all life responds to the vivifying influence of tibe sun's rays,so we from our inmost being to these master spirits. There Is no clear line of demarcation between us and r,hemn. As twilight impercep)tibly passes Into nighlt, so our lives into theirs. Corres p)ondence universal; action and reaction If we empty here, we must condemn there. An inevitable dualism bisects all life so that each thing is a half, and suggests another tihing to make it whole; as spirit, matter; man, woman, subjective, objective, in, out, upper, under, motion, rest., yea, nay. H-ore we finid nature most hopeful and econonmical. Lower life conspiring, we see In this correspondence between ge nius and mediocrity fhie redemption of the race. In the light of this truth coming from the Eternal One, thread ing human events with the golden chain of promise: There Is no great, no small, To the Soul that maketh all And when it cometh,,ali things are, And it cometh everywhere. There Is one mind common to all in dividual men. Every man is nn inlet to the same, and all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason, Is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befal len any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind, is a partytto all that Is, or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. The heaven born leader speaks in words burning with celestial fire, consuming the dross of human nature, ind the heart universal responds. Every groat reform; every advancement; every op p)och-making event in the world has been the result of the call of the master mind, answered by its obedient sub jects. When groat necessary truths are uttered by representative men, we arc astonished at our own stupidity. However, great the thought, there is room in every rational Soul to receive and assimilate it. Our capacity for suffering is immense. We endure the burdens of a wrecked world in silence for generational The storm gathers with the friction engendered by human milsoryl Then leaps from the soul of a divinity apnointed lader the nnlts of ., ~ ~ ~ ~ EII .. . . ....;J. i. g LII U ILitl 11Ut the heart of the burdened masses. The fountains of soul aro broken up and shaped into ia uniform m11ass with an irresist ille purpose. The outcome is inevitable. Mun is freed from the thral lon of cruelty and injustice. Men will llot make brick without straw always, nor bend their backs supinely to the rod of tho tyrant. A Moses shall arise, an Aaron shall come to lead them agiiist their foes to vic tory into a land flowing with milk and and honey. U nder the guidanco of such peerless elders, the walls of the mightiest strongholds of evil shall crumble to inst, the sea of opposition shall roll back its waves, a divlt4e light retected from the skies shall direct the advance, darkness and confusion shall cover the rctreat., the giant,s of wrong shall d1isprrs e as miist before the ad vancing host. The progress of civil liberty among the English people is both interesting and instruct ive in this conlnection. For almost a t,housand years there was in the Inother country conflict with tyrany. Wrongs grievous, cried to high heaven for vengeance. Mean wh ilc popular government was gaining slow ly, but surely, foundations deep and broal By that peculiar English trait of never yielding a liberty once grant ed, they have advanced from abso lute, to constitutional monarchy. The final battle for freedom was won when Cromwell beheaded Charles and set up the people as Supreme power of the realm. Taxation without representation forged the American mind into (le termined opposition to English tyr any, scorning British concessions, de manded free government. The ex treme needs of the hour yield to the world that prince of mcen, "The father of his country." How this young nation followed this peerless chieftain with nightly blade to com plete victory! But there was lurking in the constitution of the new nation two ideas destined to deadly conflict. Federalism and Republicanism were to meet in fierce combat In the public arena. Again are we saved by a great mal. Hear the matchless eloquence of the hero of the moment; like a god in pain. Mighty words, grand purpose! The destiny of the nation flixed for all time. The nation is his monument. With broader views of life and duty; with a common spirit of brotherhood; with the national heart in sympathy with bleed ing humanity at our doors, the nation rose as one man to give oppression the greatest rebuke of modern times. The pearl of the Antilles is free. The world is taught a lesson in love never before known. How the circumstance has united the American peoplel What opportunities as a world power have thus been opened up to usl Old glory waving her folds of freedom to every clime; a potent factor in commanding the peace of the world! But let us consider that true great ness can only end in virtue; in individ ual character; and full of hope learn a lesson in character-building from the little mariner of the briny deep. "This is the ship of pearl, which poets feIgn Sails the unshadowed main, The venturous bark that flings On the sweet Bummer wind its purpled wvinags In gulfs enchanted, when the stroen sings And coral reefs lie bare, When the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its wvebs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! A nd every chambered cell, WVhere Its dim dreaming life was wvont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, Tts Irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year af ter year beheld tile slent toil TIhat spreadi( hiis lustrous coil; Still as the spiral grew, lie left the p)ast year's dwelling for th( new, Stole with soft step its shining arch way then, Bu111ltI p Its 1(do door, Stretched in is last found home, and knew the old no more. Child of the wvandering sea, Cast from hecr lap forlorn; From thy dead lips a clearer note is born, Than ever Trion blew from wvreathed horn! WIlile on mine car It rings, Then the deep caves of thought I hoeax a voice that sings: Build thee more stately mansions, C my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temp)le, nobler thlan the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at lengt.h art free, Leaving thine out-grown shell by life'c unresting sea! 'a s Other building makes life a hug4 calamity. The reformation of the 10th century set free the man from political and religious slavery. Broke down th<~ barriers between the man and th< masses. The past was obliterated. The illumination enthroned reason. Th< discovery of the 18th century was man Conscious of his power in society thi nobility and clergy as constituted au thority was d,stroyed The ea L1uuuu toe norones ofi anma;nn,y -v olutioi. Ilcaven with its saving faith was swept away! The reign of terror struck the tleath blow to absolute t.y ratnny. The middle class grasped the leadershilp. With this shift of powe'r and respontsili ty atnle a new ciiscov cry. The philosopliers of this class brought the awful conviction that nat ter is Gol! The ltistory of the I0th century Is but the recosd of the devel opmlent of this i<lea. The individual alive with the weight of his powers has exercised them. lie has ransacked the world of matter to explore and harness its utility! Ile has swept the heaveis with his eye of science to materialize its celestial treaiures! The marvelons advance of science and invention has enthroned materialism. Vhc'nce the ma terial uitiverse? 'll tinstwer is iinatter. V Ienc. inaan and wi itlber? 'l'he answer is matter. I)ead, senscless natter. I'trsistelt in the faith in Imat.ter, and the 20,h centnry will yieldt a world rev olution staiggcring to reasoi and moral instinet. .D>estroy belief in the over soul and you strike dead morality at sulelring humnanity's feet. Dlestroy conscience and the moral nature ard society i: chaos and ruin. There tun,L be reaction. 'l'he materials are at hand with which to regenerate the rac'. The new idea of brotherhood must grow into a powerful civilizing agent. The stewardship of wealth must realize its obligations to the masses and hush the cries of millions for bread. The uni versal conflict sharp and stern bet,ween organized capital and laho' must force the level of mutual interest. I'opuliar education miist prepare the soul. Lib eral culture must bring forth master spirits In hatrnony with the sovereign will. Then shall be made with the ruling middle class and the masses an everlasting peace. Then sliall the sovereign mind rule a kingdom of the higher life. '1'he alumni association met, iiimedi ately after the speech and the follow ing officers were elected: A. 0. Mat thews, president: A. J. Bowers, secre tary; W. K. Sligh, treasurer. P'rof. W. K. Sligh was chosen as speaker for the next annual address and J. W. Strickland, Esq., of Wal lialla as alternate. TIE LITEriARY Ai)itESS The address to the literary socio ties was delivore,4 Tuesday evening by Senator B. It. Tillman. We give herewith a full text of the address. Senator Tillman was introduced by Associate Justice Y. J. Pope as fol lows: MR. POPE's INTRODUcTION. Ladies and Gentlemen: I esteem it a privilege to appear boforo such an audience. This is a happy week to us all, the Commencement week of our college. You were delighted on Sunday when you heard the magnif icent baccalaureate sermon by Dr. Voigt, the pastor of St. Paul's, Wilmington. His lessons sank d0p into the hearts of hij hearors. And that night Dr. Watson pleased ev ery one with his Inagnificont sermon. Then on Monday night whou our young men in all the glory of intel lectuality stood up before an and ience almost as large as this and do livered speeches of which we were all proud. And then today whoa the alumni orator charmed all wh1o beard him. I say this is a gala week for Newborry. And ton ight we meet in order to hear the oration (101ivored before the literary societies of Newberry College. Trho gentle man they have selected as the orator is no stranger in South Carolina, nay, he is no stranger in America. He deserves all he has received and more. He is a true man and a pa triot. He loves his people and en deavors in every wvay lhe can to serve them. And it (delights me on this occasion to see this magnificent aud-. ionce of the friends of Newborry College come out to hear words ringing wvords--from this true son of his native State. I have said this much in regard to him. I will not say more. I prefer to lot him speak for himself as lhe has always hereto fore done. I have the honor, ladies and gentlemen, of presenting to you Ion this occasion Senator Benjamiin Ryan Tillman. sENATOR TI'LLMAN's ADREss. Mr. President, Ladies and Glen tlemon: I esteem it a high honor and I assure you it affords me pleas ure to greet so inany of those who represent the beauty and chivalry of Newberry, of Lexington and of Sa luda counties. I have appeared ini Newvborry bolero, several timos, and I have add'dssed audiences here larger than this. But these audiences were comp)osed1 exclusively men, and I have never before had the op. portunity to look in the faces of the fair daughters of this grand old county. And I assure you, ladies, young and old, that it is wah pecu liar gratification that I appear be fore you tonight. I have always shunned and tried to make excuses and uniformly declined to accept in vitations of this character. *I have -lbeenl invited by colleges, or to go to colleges, outside of South Carolinn doavored as far as .1 could to got away from n addiross of this kind for the reason that ithe wold literary carries with it a Im)eatm11g whicht involves a kind of spoclh or address that Iy training lit not litted mo for. My drill ias at Speaker ials loeI inl d01)ato on tho hustiigs whero thoro worn a1)als to pass ion, to patriot [im, to fool ig,it as much as to reason. To coot) beforo an tudienlco liko this involvts somthoting of inl obligation to iudilge in it lino of thought that is 11101o olovatiii g, loo rot fined, molure polished, moro intellectual11, possibly. And while I do not )rotond to say or to acknowledge tho accusation which has boon muado against mle to ho truo, (hat I am11 lacking ini that, knowlodgo of literatturo and of histo ry which would otiablo m11o to pro 1)aro it resoibly douet aIdross; it would inlvolvo onl my part. tho writ ing out of such a spoech, and the e11donvoor to commit it. to mem1ory', somotlhing I can not do. To under titko to get up before an audionco of uniig mn)n and youtg women, for this itudinico is mostly composod of young men and young womei, aund read a s1)ooch, howovor polished or eloqluont or philoso)hicitl, vouhl miean111 that you would fool bored and tired hoforo I. got half through and you would ho sorry that I over ho gan it. Therofore, in ect0)ting this inlvitation----and by tho way, this kind of invitations cauo 8) thick and fast that I became exceOodigly alarmed. Nowherry'.4 cam1o inl first and I acce)ted it first. 'Ihon Clem sol and Erskine, and sovoral others, and thoro seonmt'd to ho i coispirIcy along th routo of (to Columbia and Greellvillo railroad to see whether I. did have anly culture or not, and al ready; I amll booked for another speechl Friday at Clemson. But I have had to do with education somo what in South Carolina. I have al ways been deoply concerned about tho educational interests of t ho State, and havo always dono all I could to help the cause of education. But. I confoss that 1 have boon Horo ly perplexed in my own mind its to how 1 wits going to mako two l)ee-lt os without nlly sorious preparation on two similar occasions and not re peat, in part it least. I had lenough ammninition) and havo enough amimini tion now in the way of powdor and ball to load a doublo barrolled gun, but I declaro to you I have not boon able to formulate them into two car tridges. Thorofore, I aml hero at your mercy, Or rather you are at my mercy, thaik God, and I will have to ask you to boar with me while I give you a few iteits that have como to mo as matters of experience and obsorvation ill regard to education, life in general, and all that kind of thing. The arena ill which I have boon working for t.lo last six years, the United States Soniate, iH 0110 where there is so much talk, such a porl)et ual flow of talk, that the veriest glutton on spooch making who ever lived or died( would become satedi with such thtings. 1 used( to love to make speechcs and whbon thte condi lions are of tiho kind with wvhich I am familiar, whenoi I cani got out in the openf and( Iight, so to speak, I enjoy mallkinIg a speech occasionally now, but1 1 (declatro I do not like the idea of proaThing a sormton. I htave 110 subiject tonlighit. Thlorofore', 1 leave eachl one of you to interpret and try to thiitk out for hliumself when 110 gets home, what topic I tried to discuss. I am just going to 810o11 around, so to spoak. The literary socioties are to hoe con gratulated, andit the students of New boerry College are to ho COn gratulated, upon the flourishing condition ill which t,hat institution appears to bo0. Your graduatiing class thtis year is larger titan any you have ever sent forth. Tho)(so yountg m111n are going out into thle world to begin life for thomnsolvos, after careful p)reparation at the hands of this faculty. No doubt thoso young motn and ladies, for I b)ehovo) you htavo ladies in the class, feel when Itey get their dliplo. mtas in the miorinig thait they will have a precious cortificato or evidenco of a certain cuirriculum through wih ich they have passed(, of a certain amounit of p)rep)aration for the battle of life, through whtich they have gone. Of what value is thtat diploma to them? Howv far hii 5 it succoe(dod, or how far has your p)rep)aration suicooded in preparing thtem to become useful men and women'? TIhat dep)end(s en tirely on them. Thieir teachers havc donoe thteir best, and tile fact that they have hadl the tenacity of pur~ pose to 1)0ld out to the end1 antd to go through the mental st raini necessary to obtain these diplomnas, indicates ai rallier high order of manhood. Thet statistics of education show that o; those wvho enter college in tihe fresh man year, not more tharn 25 to 4( per cent. under the most favorabki conditions, ever hold out to the sonios year. They drop by the wayside be cause thoere is a large per cent. o human brains that connot undlnrg tho continuod strain usually nloces nary, ospeciaily ini 11a1tthemall1ttion, ti obt 1inl t1( i)ilomla. Tie11 t1h nlixi:f, on the pit of tho young to outei upon the .rena of lifo is so groat coule)d vitlh ntessities ilmlpsod ;) )ovorty andi other a verso condit ions thoso stmltH tilrof) by lho w idt and t graduating class of thirty ou of lifty-four is a record that I havl novr heard elquatlled iii SouLIti Caro linil, and I doubllt if it his ever bon eqlualled atnywhoro elso. I asked youl a momeont agro hov much 1)reimratrion, or rather wha success WOld go with th owuor shi) of i di)lolla, and said it. do pontldtl On you. I low muuth do you kntow 1' 1 beliovo wo niotild ask, hiov 11u1CI don't. Vol kI OW, or how Inlueh is thoro you do no1 know. ily own oxpe0riolleo as at shuillnt taught, m< this, thaitt tho objoet of edut011ionl, the primary pillrpose of it. is to train the mind, to strongthen th reasonin power, to bring ibOut a Condition o1 m1ontial (lovelopmlenut tlitt will olnabho tho student to r-eason cloarly an,d t< dhiTorontilato botweenl truth atnd falso11 loo<, to discover for yours0lves viat is right. and what is wrong. Aside from theo usual1 amount of mat.homa ties or itithmtitc involved in tht ordinary ifiairs of lifo, aidoit(1 fron tho0 amo11n11t of knowloI;go of E'nglish necessary to read anud writo anl intol. ligont lotter, asido from at fow fun damotia facts ill s0i0 Ct) and p1hy11 ics, the aiverage man11 or' w1om1an who does not follow u1P th investigation further after they leave colloge, ill it year, or two or three or live years, you becomuo unable to e1.ptrato the collego graditat1)s from thoso wht nover wont to collogo it. aill. You iro not. ab)lo to dilf'orelltiato hotwoon th graduato a(d man who nVer went into a collego at all. 'ho lean11. ing, the book loarning, or that, paitrt of the curriculunl which has boon fol lowed and which hats not, boon uso<l afterwards, soon grows ruslty, oort hocuimes encrusted with forgot fulnoss, TIho boy losesH that that, ho does not continuo to Uso. But tho 1n ha1 l1ts boon trained, tho drill of tho reason ing p)owor hasH boon such 1ha1, thore is it growth, and tho young matn may continut to grow and expand if thore is at healthy ollfort along rattionall linlon to improve the undorot tlding. But I havo known collego gradlutetO wh< after they loft school felt that th woro finishod. It had booen hard and they had h1ad at desp)orato strugglo t< Winl thloir diplomas andt felt, that, the timo had como for fun an d frolic Sad to say, that, it is often tih caso. 'I'e majority drop back into the ordi nlry overy.(lily lifo an1d loso that. grail upon1 lhoso tools with which thoy havo boon furnished by their training. Thyo drop t.ho tools. As som wiSO 111 mi ini the piat declatred tht the child is the father to thl a1nl, so til Htudont is oiither till) father of th man11 who will malko hill mark ill the world or ho drops back among the children who have llove; boon studont:;. Wly, those yolnl; 111011 an(d womeoil iro juxt, preptrol to hotgini the stud(y of anything wh'liih thy haUve b)o0n stuldyinlg. say3 tis adisodxltly, and11 I say it fronl my1 ownl expienOIco. 1 Ita asl goo< a1 .i .atinl clar11 of my ago as yoi 0can 11ind ini tilt Staitt, and1( totday witi tile exception of a veory diml ouItlinlI of till I>rinlciplos of 1110 ilnguag(e amil a knowleodge of some14 0f the1( word. wich~i haIvo stuck, I could not con strue anl ordiinarly iLtini snlt.onct Anid you wvill loso y'our Liatin amil (G rock and MlI't.hemalticn, you w Il l lox, all that(1 you havio spont,1 theo year, to acquire, bu1t1 your )ducaltion wvil niot haivti 1)01n a1 failuroue ihtti p)rimalry puirposo of e)dution11 is t< tri1' the roasoinJlig ipoworx, to havw the mind1( grow from workinig, jux 1as thle mulesCI. The idlon wichO wishi to impress~ upon1 youl iall-thisx young mon whot aro gradtualting all thlose who have not, yet gradtluato< anid thoxe wvho aret in collego bu wh1o wvill nover be ill collegeo 18 tha lt) humanfl ind s11( a81 ve)ry wVond(orful mah(inelii and( that1 thll hmna 1 s1(1 on withl wichO it ix interlinked and11 inter 1lac0(, wiiCh i ill) sont-thiat thc twi must be0 cultivaited and11 grow togethec if we are to hlave tile highest devol 0)iopmot and t) haivo thait success il life whiichl it is thlt ambllitionl of over' righlt thinking young man or old ma1(1 or young womain or old womnan. W'o come into tilt worldi we knox not1 whence and1( withlout bcinIg con1 slitedt. WVo sojtourn here for a perio< moro or lessi brief, within the limnita 1.ion of at conituiry or thloreab)out, thi average much lesx thlan sovont; yearx, (and1 wo go out of it wit.houl bleig consutlitOd. Noblody asks ul when we aIro ready, nlobody inquire as8 to whether wo aIre fit to go, wheOthe wo haivo madoltl tile uxes of our live that are of greatest promise. And a I said, the intellctuanl growth an decvelopmenlt wichio d:ifferent into u1 from the brute, can1 not be followe withl aniy success1 unlesa thle morn facrlties shall1 al1so receiveo ultivi tion1. Now thnn wit.h 1110 meaiity tto youth which has boon cultIvated, and in this atlinosplero I know the I'loralr also have been carefully r watched and guarded, what promiso havo you for uso5rulnes8 in lifo ? Very great. You aro botter equi))od than thoso who dto not havo college train mng. There is no use to deny that kiowlodgo is not. ia great thing to possess. Kntowlodge is power. Knowledgooftho right kind is money, is woalth. But knowledge alone does not givo happiness. KnowledgO alone, howovor great, is not tho higl otit ambition that we should1 follow. Moro knowledge without common senso is tho--o1i, is I pitiful Oxhihi tion to h1avo a man chock full, brim miing over with kuowlodge of books and things that ho has road and no. fuir(d, and who ha11snl't sense enloligh to got out. of a shower of rain. That in inlvolved( inl this question of mnelital training, the cultivation of the ju(dg. mont. I (o not know whether it caln be Cultivated or not. I. believo that I amd almost right when I assort that, unlossi a 1111111 inherits Comm11Uo1 sonso, ho hover has it an(1 eanunot acquiro it. I do not want to givo you any taffy (t.hey say I sometims (1111 il it ) but I will say thisi, that the ancos tors of most of you, those phlognatic 1)utcmlnon who smoko their pipes and drink theoir boor, have boon notod as far black as I have road anything about it, for thir hard horso snseo, and 1 (10 not think that, tho pooll0 of Newborry and the surrounding country who are their kindred aro lacking in that esseltial to good citizelnship, progress, good governl 1nwnl, patriotismlt. The judgment can ho strengthoned, just a little weakly child can be Ianght to waltk. Aid the human mind can ho strongtht oIodl in its most essential feature of good judgmont., by timely admoni tion. Advice is a thing 8o plentiful, uni vorsally )oe0sld by everybody, wimo, or otherwiso, and ready to be oilerod at anytimo, that I trust you will boar with me while I offor a few chunks of it. And I am going to talk to the graduates principally, They have ceatod their college life and are coin111(51cing the other lifo. Conlnloncoenont this is called, and why ? College has just closed for the your. It iomeis to be rather a contradiction in terms unless you take it to moan only the graduating class. Oh, how their hearts l)oat an<i thilll wlhenl they say, I am i man. Let 1)0 say to you, young man, you do not, know what is ahead of you. I sympathize with you. T have bo0n all iilong that road, and looking back fromii my fifty three years (lown the vista of struggle through which I haevo pamwt,d,' I 11y it from tho bottom of iy heart, to those youlth who put oil their chiildish things 1111(1 m)1lt, on the toga of man hood and g,(o forth tomorrow, you are to he pitiod. Thoso of us who im(+ the harness of life (31n us and who have fought and ro'ched the point whore we are tonright., will understand me nd know thait what, I say is true. You, younig men01, who aro just ontering on Iyour couirse wVith hoarts flush1ed( with tihe victory won in your collegiate I strulgglos, with your miin1ds imbued with high thoughts and noble aspi 1 rations, with the feeling that the I world is mino11, is mine oyster wich 4 1 with swvord or with p)on wvill open, soo( dIownI that line ai struggling ma1ss5 who halve to b)ucklo to and1( work, I work, wvork, if theoy are to accomjphli I aniythiing. Tlhoy ll work, aund manny of thorn without, compensation aibove I a subsistence. And rmuch of it to result I in failure, much of it to be as Sodomn a) ples, turning to aRshs onl their lipsl, I hocanso again staatistics come in to prove thalt of th3 human race out of 1 01n0 hIundlred, ton succeed. Ninety struggle along through tbe mire of I mediocrity, somie of thorn drop lowv I or into the mire. Uut tell wVin then 1 pizos.0 which we strgglo for in this lit tle blattle of life, ninety fall by thle L wayside or only go through with 1 comparative failure. 1 But what are the prizes worth living for? Whiat are tile bobbles > whlich we set lip and die to get, elighting like demons? The one - which is the supreme prize, which all mon want is money, wealth and in thlis daIy of our country>s history w1 witnes a condlition in which mammon worshuip is supreme. The doctrine of old Hiuldibras, what is the wvorth of anything but the money 1 it will bring, is abroad in tile land, -pulsating every hamlet, invading I our poeaceful Soulthland hero, invit r' inIg us to repudiate the principles of t our ancestors as far back as we knowv I any thing about them. I Dut I am not going into p)olitics. I r said that the one thing which most set si out to do is to get money, that other. a wise they will be considered fail. 1i uros. - How much of this is true? a What is that iden worth ? Money is 1 'i good thing to have if it is properly ,1 used(. The warnt of money is a men strous inconvenient thing. But I say for tl-ose in this audience who f have not sunccoeded in getting money,