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r V t ? The Abbeville Press and Banner, | BY W. W. & W. R. BRADLEY. ABBEVILLE, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 5. 1905. ESTABLISHED 1844 jjj Education i There is No "New V is. Making Progress, as Man, is Sharing ir that, and Nothing M< j Address of Judge W. C ( ment Exercises of! f College, Ju More tban a score of ytars peg I bad tbe < bonor to deliver tbt Commencement address I before tbe Literary Societies aDd students of I En-klne College In ibat old ball which Is i now no more, bnt which, although It bad In t the march of events to give place to mis i more spacious and stately auditorium, lf> e fondly remembered by many of tbe sens of e Ersklne College and tbe daughters of tbe t Due West Female College Many a time I while my heme was in Abbeville did I at- [ tend tbe Commencement exercises oj these ; two college*, and many are the pleasant 1 V memoriesassociated with that old bulldlnp, t j ?asd, too, are those memories when I think s J ottbosedistinguished men wbr m I so often I / saw on tbe old rostrum. "Your father*, t I where aretbey?" Grier, Preasly, Bonner, * ( Lindsay, Patton, Boyce, Kennedy, and c I others whose names come thronging In our I memory, alas! "All, all are gone, tbe old familiar faceK" Bot bow beautiful and enduring la the m monument wbieb those men have built t< keep tbelr memory green?these twin col- t leges wbicb have made Due Weat famous, r .and wbicb like two perennial iountaina, l q sh continue to send forth tbe clear, lite giving I waters of learning and culture. Long may ? B tbese colleges live and flourish. Mydeepln-I/, H tereet in their wellare, and tbe many figures^ B of tbe past which they recall, made it impos- r ',u slble for me to decline tbe boDor of making j tbe Commencement address to-daj ,an honor n which was conferred on me with unusual ] grace and courtesy by tbe committee of JS young ladies and your learned President. r ?! The duty thuefcevolved on me I shall now endeavor to perform. I I THE SEW WOMAN. ^ America waa discovered by Christopher 1' Colombua In 1492. In the beginning oi tbe tiv?thu MBatsL ihe r (A1A tTUlUI J, , doctrinaire, dii-covered?Wcmsii. For tboa I c sand* of jears before Columbus, civilized 0 mankind bad known what Is now caned tbe <3 Old World,and it railed ibis Western HemIspbeie tbe New World. For tbouxanos of 8 years beiore last century mankind bad been f acquainted with a helpmate, wbo as c "Mother, daughter, wife, ? Btiewed with Iresb flowers tbe Narrow way ol life." 3 But It wss lelt tc the wiseacres of tbe ! nineteenth century to discover the New Wo- 1 man?a lemale with rights, with a sphere, 1 wltb a mission ; concerntug whom men and women write and talk ai iarg? ? about emancipation of woman ; subjection of woman; tbe higher education oi woman; woman'* ? r rights; woman's suffrage; and w? bear, too, * ol Woman's Congiest-eM. pnd Female Sui- v frage Conventions, and tbe like. And pam- t| phietsand paper and books thereon are a* )( plentiful as pinestrew and, alack ! as dry. 0 What is the outcome of all this discussion? H Has tbe New Woman been recognized ana g ei-tabllshed in ber proper p>ace? Unlike p tbe New World, there would seem to be still n not a little terra lncoenia about her. To tbe 0 majority of mankind she Is as little known c as Is tbe Dark Comment. Indeed, many doubt ber existence, her own sex, In most b instances, repudiating bet?many ridiculing ber as a mere woman of straw. e Her discoverers come forth as ber cbampl- ? ons and announce that she is man's equat in r all respects, and fitted to cope with him in R tbe battle of Jlle, and entitled to tree trade u with bim in ail tbe work, avocations, and u professions of life. d Her detractors meet tbem boldly aDd offer 8 to prove that sbe Is lentally man's inferior. r as sbe Is la physical strength; tbut bet j, bralD la by some ounces lighter than bin; v and tbat sbe "mast not compete with her e lord and tier master," became la the wlte n plan ol Providence, ? "It was not intended tbat sbe should be '' look log Beyond tor four walls, and her babies and & cooaing." 8 That one truism says It all," quotb one a doughty disbeliever lu the New Woman? y "tbat women are made and meant to be, not t men, bat mothers of men. A noble mother, a t Doble wife?are not tbe*e the designations in t wblcb we find ibe highest ideal of noble t womanhood? Woman was formed to be s man's belnaute, not bis rival; heart, not c bead; eustainer,not leader." i Ano at tbls point It Is customary to quote e from Milton Ms tine antithetical detcriptlou r of Adam and Eve: u "For oontemplatlon be, and valour formed , for softness she, and sweet attractive j / grace t f. He tor (iod only, Bbe for God in blm, His large lair Iront and eyes sublime declared , Absolute role." . And tben the poet tells bow Eve's very ' physique "Implied 1 Subjection, but required with gentle sway, i S& Anu by her yielded, by him best received, t ij Yielded will, coy submission, modest pride, t And sweet, reloctant, amorous delay.** < For it is usnal to regard Milton as a great | authority on woman, not only as a poet, but | aa a man, not only a* the author of Paradise \ Lost,but aB the mucb experienced husband | of three wives. , And ihuii the wordv war coes on, until i woman's tpbere Is made flat by ltequent handling and woman's rlgbis hid fair to be . act-ounitd by ber own sex as wroDgs. And till as a woman-doctor, woman-lawyer, wo- i mao-preacb r a rarlSBima avis. It would ( Mem tbat If a woman be a slave, as John Stuart Mill tried to prove, tbe dear creature bugs ber chains and will have none of your emancipation. She will bate nothing to ao with , tbieNew Woman. Then, why discuss hei? For truly, ber , time is not yet. When tbat time dees come, when woman IB willing and eager and determined to enter ibe le?rutd professions and compete wltb man Id til tbe callings of life, man's opposition will be lutlle. Where Is tbe man wbo has tbe power and skill 1 To stem tbe torrent of a woman's wllJ? For 11 sbe will, she will, you may depend on't .And If tbe won't,;she won'i; so tbete's an end on't." Aftar all, Is it not the simple truth tbat tber? Ls nO New Woman any more than there IsaVewSouib? Human nature la tbe name oowaslt always was, and woman's nature hut undergone no cbange. Tbe term Is a jnerecaich word. There is no New Man. and there Is no ?ew Woman. Mankind is making progress and woman as well as man is -1 4r> ?*%*?! and s^VHnppmpnI-? IBUBI1UB'" onjy that and noibiog more. Lrt us tbeD on ibis occasion eschew the threadbare theme and leave tbe last phase of tbe Impressible conflict to be nettled betweto Oiover Cleveland and the Federation Woman's Clubs, HIGUfcR EDUCATION OF WOMAN. 'But." eays some one, "have you noihlng to say In behalf of tbe higher educatloo or woman?" Assuredly I have. While declining to take part In tbe vain debate about the difference In tbe mental capacity of men and women?whether men be logical and women emotional?whether men be governed oy reason, woman guided by iDtuitlon?questions the discussion of which is as profitless as twisting ropes of sand?I gladly take my stand side by side with tbe advocates of the education of woman. For I believe that Heaven has been as bountiful in gifts to woman as to mac in all that pertains to the mind and the brain. And i rejoice to see Jlow marvelous has been tbe progress made jf Woman. Voman"?Mankind is and Woman, as Well i that Progress?Only 3 re. . Benet at CommenceDue West Female ne, 1905. during Ibe last buDdred years In opeDlDgup :o woman the avenues to knowledge, aod Id jreekirig down tbe barrier* to her higher education, wblcb the pride, the prejudice, and he ignorance of man bad for bo iODg mainlined. It Is not loo much to way ihat greater ifivnnre was made In Drovldlne for woman's iducatlon during the j'ast century than In all he previous eighteen centuries; and to these Jolted States must be given the foremost >l?ce In that march of progret-s. True, there have hetn highly educated, earned women In all ages. But while one )Pre. one there?as Aspasla. a Constantlna, i Queen Elizabeth, a Lady Jane Grey, an 51, db Cornaro, a Madam? Dacler, and otbei vomen In other lands held aloft tbe torch ot voman's education and bonded ft dowa from eniury to century, still was each of them As a star wben only one Is shining In the sky. THE ?LD CURRICULUM. BtlU for tbe woman ol high or of low degree he foil course of study was limited to the old, i arrow, well known curriculum?"to pray to }(x), to love man, to knit and to sew." There Is a Chinese proverb which says, For men to cultivate virtue Is knowledge; r>r women.to renounce knowledge Is virtue." .'his seemed to be the opinion of men li> ountrles nearer home than the Celestial kingdom. Lesslncsald: "Tbe wr man who thinks Is Ike the man who puts on rougf?ridiculous." Voltaire sala : "Ideas are like beards ; wcnen and vpunt! men have none." Wben Madame Dacler published ber transition ol Calllmachus, Queen Christina of >weaen mus reprovea ner : aocn a pretty lrl as you are, are jou not ashamed to be bo earned ? " You remember Dr. Samuel Johnson's re ark : "Sir, a woman preaching Is like a log's walking on "bin bind legs. It Is not lODe well, but you are BUiprlsed to And 11 lone at all " To the same effeot Broke the witty Dr. MaInn: "We like to bear a few words of sense rom a woman, as we do from a parrot, beause tliey are unexpected." Even tbe saintlyGforge Herbert cried, beware of a Latin-bred woman." ?ut wby multiply quotations of this kind ? 'bey are to be found plentiful as blackberries n the works of the poets and tbe poetasters, he wits, 8artlrlBta and essayists ol the cenurles. THE MARCH OF PROGRESS. How we have changed all that! It le tbe lory of the nineteen centnry that now a wo38ii may acquire tbe highest education without being derided an a bluestockingbatmen now believe that a woman maybe earned without being pedantic, clever wltbut being eccentric, a writer of books and yet fond wife and gentle mother. And we now ee ail over this broad laud, and In Qreat Irltaln and other countries, schools, acadealea, and colleges for the highest education f woman, where opportunity Is given her to ursue courses of study from which until the ist century she was almost universally de arred. It Is In behalfof that higher and completer ducatlon of woman that I stand here to dav peaking 'o the students of Due West Femai* lo.iege. Not ouiy do I desire that you bouid erjoy to the utmost the advantages ot collegiate curriculum, but I am bere to urge pon you the importance, nay, more, the uty of pursuing a post graduate course ot tudy alter you have left the college cla^6ooms and returned to your homes ; not, peYlaps, as varied arid exacting a course as thai rhicb for some of you Is today happily endd. but still such an one as shall occupy part f each day so nrofltably and pleasantly as to pare you the humiliation of having to coness, "1 have lost a day." BETWEEW COLLEGE AND MARRIAGE. Between the position of a young woman nd a young man who have Just been graduted there Is a great difference. When the oung men or the graduating claBs of Ertklne College receive their diplomas tbey go, one o the bar, another to the pulpit, another o the practice of medlcince, one to his arm. another to bis merchandise. No ooner t-hali they step outside tbe college ampos tban they will be confronted by lutles ot active life. This Is a compulnorj ducation law which tbey cannot evade but nustobey. They leave the college of booke iod study, only to matriculate at ODce In the so 1 lete ol woik and active llle. But tbe ?out>g women of the graduntlog class of a Vmnie College return to their homes, there o abide under tbe pareutal root-tree?how ong? And Just bere we are brc ugbt lace to face rltb a iact, a great fact, which will not be nit dnwn. and u hioh It werA icrnncr onrl I veak In us with mock modesty to put aside >r try to Ignort?the fact that marriage lathe lestlned lot of man and womuo. Exceptions eally prove the rule. Strong minded womeD md weak-minded men may discuss the ques.lon which for a while, lu magazine)ind newhi aptrs, obtruded itself so much urin public attention, "In Marriage a Fallire? But the re6t of the world, the men and :he women with warm beam and 30unu aeade, our young men and maidens?noi Just .o m?ke the experiment ana put the proposition to a crucial tet>t, but because "'tis their aature to," will go on (ailing in love?Heaven 3leB8 them!?and marrying and giving in marriage, as It was In the days of Noah and will be ax long as the moon enduretb. And this is well, ihlB Is right. Marriage U Bod's holy oidlnance. In the mortal lite of man and woman 1), Is by far the most serious, most momentous event?except not to marry. 'Is It a solemn thing to marry," said the wise giandmother lo the young girl. "It's boI mnernot to," she replied. To young men and maidens, graduates of colleges, the dlflereDce with reference to marriage consists In this?that the young man must go to work to achieve a position In the world aDd secure a competency aa a proper preparation lor marriage ; while the college bred girl with maidenly modesty wait under the roof of lather and mother until he shall come, the choosing and the cbosen one, wbo is more than all the world to her. Is this interval of time between college and marriage, be it one, two, three, four or more years, to be unprofltably spent in maiden medliatlon? Tl in In ho ruiOfif-H In Idlonouu unH laeHn f> T~ it to bang beavy on your bands ? Or 1b It to be tilled with interesting studies and Improving occupation ? HOW TO Bl'KND THIS INTERVAL. How best to spend tbls Interval. I purpose now to give you some suggestions ; and If only one ol you sball In old age lookback on tbls hour and bless me lor wbat I said, great and sufficient sball be my reward. Tbe reflecting mind win agree wnn roe una conless that In the life ol a jouug womao ul liberal education the most Important l? the period between college and marriage. Then more than at any other time are habits to be formed upon which the worthiness and happiness and usefulness of life will depend. It is a trite saying, but true as It Is trite, that the mostand best that school and college can do for students is to teach them bow to teach themselves. I have already Indicated how a college bred man, be be doctor, lawyer, tlergyman, farmer or merchant, is at once coir, pelled fo go to school In the college of acilve life, and there be taught by constant contact with men and commerce with affairs ; thus keeping more or less alive and bright those Intellectual fires which without fuel will most surely go out in utter darkneBS. College bred women having no similar postgraduate course, I would urge you If you would keep alive tbe lamp of learning whloh now la in your hands brightly burning, to take with ynu oIMn your vessels with vour lamps?to maintain and prolong the habits of study which your college life h?B Implanted In >ou, to cultivate and perpetuate the student spirit, as you would a priceless boon. This can be done most easily, most pleasantly and with success bv keeping and strengthening the habit of reading "If," said Sir John Herschel, "I were pray for a taste which should stand me In stead under ^very variety of circumstances aDd be a source of happiness aud cheerfulness to me throuch life, and a shield against it? ills, howecer things might go amiss aud the world Irown upon me, It would be a taste for reading." THE HABIT OF READING. There was no society iu Loudon says Sir John Lubbock so agreeable that Maccauley would have preferred it at breakfast or at dinner "to the company of Sterne or Fleldine, Horace Walpole or Boswell." The love of reading which Gibbon declared he would not exchange for all the tressores o' India w?s, In faot, with Maccauley, says his blograpbi-r, "a main element of happiness in one or the happiest Uvea that It has ever fallen to the lot of the biographer to record." FORM THE HABIT IN EARLY LIFE. If you woul d taste and enjoy to the fall the pleasures of reading, the habit must be < formed in youth ; aud no period of a woman's p me 1H lu luio regaru, lu uo vuuipmcu tu iuc years wblcb come between school and marriage. All lovers of books ooDfess two thlogp of value to you to know and worthy to be had In remembrance, that the bablt of reading mu-t be formed Id the morning of life; and that the books which have been to them the greatest help and blessing were the books they read In early youth, between the ages offlfteen and tweDty-flve years. More especially Is this the case with women. It were a difficult task, one well nigh Impossible, for a woman 1o form the habit of reading after marriage. How Important, then, tbat yousbould resolve to begin ot once to read, read, read. Thereby will you learn more than schools or colleges can leach. Begin to read at oncf?vou will pay a Sibylline price for delay. Read dnlly and for some hours everyday,until the bnbltsball be so strong 6 and the pleasure so great you will sing for c very Joy of btart In ihe words of the old song? "Oh for a booke and a sbadle nooke Eytber In-a-doore or out, 8 With lb* greene leaves whispering over- ' bede, * Or the streete cryes all about Where I male reade; all at my ease l Both of the newe and olde; t For a Jollle goode booke whereon to looke ? Is better to me than gold." t If you wish to know the Influence on one's ? life of book# read It in early youth, think of Robert Burns, the young ploughman-lad, daily devNine the ' Collection of Songs." He fay* "That volume was my vade no ecu m. I nored over them during my work, or walklne to labor, song by song, verse by verse, . .. and I am convinced I owe to that practice most of ray critic-craft such as it Is." and, be might have added, much of his song-maklne craft. Remember, too, young Walter Scott, how his 'magrtnstlon was fired and his youthful mind filled with chivalrous and romantic Ideas by his constant reading of Percy's Rellques, But. I need not multiply Instances. The blogranbles of literary men aDd women abound In Illustrations of this. THE LOVE OF BOOKS. How can you best cultivate this love of g book", this habit of reading, this literary taste? By dally leading end commlttirg to memory extracts from the best books, either of prose or poetry. John Bright, the most mellifluent of modern orators, derived his wealth of imagery and purity of dlotlon lrom ? bis dally habit of learning by heart twentv or J linai nf thu hpnt. nf Knfllsli rioetrv?Mil- 2 ton being his favorate poet. StTmeoDe asked jj Ruskln to what be owed bis rich vocabu- * lary of purest EDgllsh and his power as a r writer of prose?prose, which, as yon know, . has do equal la our language for toauty. " simplicity, limpid clearness and purity. He y said bis best teacher had heen the habit ? which bis mother bad compelled blm, against * his will, to form In early life, of committing P to memory and repe?tlDgr by heart every day r, some portion of the English Bible?a habit so strong that It never fell into disuse bo lone as he lived. ? READ THE OLD BOOKS. tl O But while forming this habit of readlne, are v you to read Indiscriminately? To read for , rradlng sake? To read any and all books " that may fall Into your hands? Nay, verily. As my lord ot Veruium ealtb, "Some books ? "are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and "some few to be chewed and digested." Let ,( us add, aDd a great number to be eschewed al? < together. There Is much force Id the saylog , of Alonzo of Aragon. "Old wood to bum! O'd wine to drtDk ! Old friends to trust! ? Old books to resd!" This, then, 1c my advice?read for the most part the old books, the standard works, the classics of our English language?the books which have stood the test, of the time and proved their title to immortality. Nor is their number small. From "baucer aDd Spencer, Sbak???peore >nd b Beo Johnson, to Teonyson aod Wordpwortb s ?nd Poe; trom Clarendon to Froude; from si Hume to Bancroft and Motley; from Bacon t! to Maccaulay ; from Fielding and Sterne, lo Scott and Thackeray and Hawthorne; tbpy t) stand a noble band of Immortals, poets, bis- ^ torlans, essayists, satirists and writers of E romance, the fqual of wbloh no other people 8 or tongue can boast of?a literature greater Id h volume and varl^y and grander In extent than Greece and Home ever dreamed or. u a THE BIBLE AS AN ENGLISH CLASSIC. t Fall not to include that! greatest of all our c English classics, our English Bible. Head It yoa will, of course for your spiritual good ; read It, I counsel you also lor Its literary beauty. Study the sweet melody, of Its simple Ajjglo Saxon, and be proud to know tbat as a literary work it is more beautiful In English tban In its Hebrew and Greek original. And should It be the fortune of any of you to become school teachers, then be sure to put the Bible in the bands of tbe school children and teach it to them dally, not alone for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for In- c structlon In righteousness, but also as being c the text book for tbe study of pure English. 8 Perbaps|tbe greatest literary blessing ever bestowed upon Scotlaod was the legal requirement. enforced lor centuries, thai dally in all ber tbrusand parish schools the teachers s should make the pupils repeat from memory r some portion of tbe Holy Scripture, and of tbe g Shorter Catechism, and ot the Psalms ol s David in metre. Would tbat tbe require- t ments as to the Bible were the law in South p Csroilna. s While I would not have you utter'y for- t swear the reading of new books, still In my ? bumble Judgment tbe course of reading which i I have suggested for the period In your lives I j am referring to sbouid aimost exclusively be e confined to the reading ol the works of stand- 1 ard authors. In this way most surely will t you acquire a pure taste for reading, and a J taste lor pure reading. In this way most ] eflectually will you be spared tbe evil effects of Indiscriminate, uesultory reading?a vice to be avoided In these day* ol cheep reprints and trashy magazines, when new books and periodicals with tempting titles fall thick and last all over the land like forest leaves In autumn. BEWARE OK IN DIt CRIMINATE READING. Ubiquitous and Innumerable as the swarms of Knglisb sparrows, bardly worth tbe price ol two spariows, tbal aie sold for a larlblDg, and, alBB, much more mischievous tban tbe sparrows, these cheap new books threaten to take poa-esslon of the whole country, to 1 monopolize the reading time 01 our people, and to drive out and silence ;tbe old authors, as the sparrows are driving at and silencing one's favorite native song birds. Ho that our < youth and maidens are too olten found read- t 1 dg the cheap and wasty trash, wben lor i tbelr examples In manners and refinement ] and modesty young ladles, like Palsy Miller, < are depicted with tbe fast and fiasby man- t ners of a kitchen maid. Young Virginian ( widows romp on haystacks with young gen- e tlemen like ten year old tomboys?charming i and accomplished girls discbarge themselves with a resounding kiss Into tbe arms of their { laggard lovers; and young ladles of tbe most i retined and aristocratic circles in New York 1 receive ti e lover'* burning klis from clerical t brothers-in-law with tbe mildly repelling t remark "You must drop that." i Vt.ii t ?... thn nr^oont rot>H I the old books.' Like old friends they are } more to be trusted. ? PLEASURE DERIVED FROM READING. j Perhaps the treatest benefits to be derived 1 by you from this reading habit, Is the acqulsl ' Hon ol a meannof happiness to youn>eir and 1 of pleasure to others wbich will be with you through life even unto old see Other attractions and mere accomplishments are more or less evanet-cent In their nature. A time .will come when the fingers that now draw sweet i music from the Ivory key board, will refuse < to move so nimbly ; a tlmewlll come when 3 the voice which now carols like a sky-lark I and thrlllB the listener with Its heavenly l melody, will have lost lta power; a time will t come when the face now so young, ?o fresh, so ] fair, bo beautiful, will have lost some of Its t . ' ,Y,?.. ittractlve benuty, and lines of sorrow an ^Bre will hive displaced the lavishing dim aleH. But tbe cultivated woman wbo be aeen a lover of bookB, though she may n longer play or s'ng or fascinate with beauty witching powtr, wi 1 still even In hoary ag 3nd In her reading a never fulling spirit ( jieasure ; and by the charm of her convert Ion she will still reign an acknowledge* lueen of society. I can In fancy see the touching picture ( he aged poK, Samuel Rogers, sitting bosld Vladame D. Arblay, remembered better e Vlargaret Fuller, some weeks before b leatb. He asked. "Do you remember thot lnes from Mrs. Barhautd's "Llfe'j which >nce repeated to you?" "Remember them ! be venerable lady replied. "I repeat them t tiyself every night before I go to ileep. Lli en. Life,we've been long together. Through pleasant and through Btorm weather, 'TIb h?rd to part when friends are dear; Perhaps 'twill costa sigh, a tear. Then, steal away: give little warning; Chose thine own time, Say not "Good Night," but in some brlghtc clime Bid me "Good Morning." Another picture is before my mind's eyeGladstone, tbe great statesman, orator an icbolar, when over eighty years of age, slttin >ut a long debAte in tbe House of Common md reading witn boy like interest an lellght the "Treasure Island" of Robei jonis Stevenson. How precious to him we lis love of reading?this ability to be ente nlnpd and amused by books even to extrem ild age. W 41 K ir\ 1ho hoKIt onH fho nlaoam >f reading, tbls Is my advice to you youn naldens. graduates and undergraduates, g< he bent books, the books tbat bave stood tb est of more than one generation, tbe ol tooks of tbe standard authors. Read tbet lay by day, commit to memory some obolc mssage of proBe or verse each day. The inrely you will aculre the hahit of readln ind a taste for pure reading. Thus also wl rou come to be the poss^sors of llterar aste, which li the finest and fairest fruit c ill education, without which education 1 Iry as dust, unfruitful and unlovely. WRITE, AS WELL AS READ BOOES. While I thus earnestly urge you to oherle l love of reeding and to strengthen tbe babl if reading, I would not forget tbat there ma >e some young graduates before me wh night'do honor to their college and mak liemselves famous by writing books. Ther s need for such In these Southern States. 1 las been a matter of surprise to strngers an ource of regret to Southerners that wbll bere Is growing In tbls great Republic of 1h .Vest In American literature which has trait ind characteristics tbat prove Its native els Atlantic origin, yet those traits and cbarai eristics are derived from New England fft nore than from the Southern States. T vbattblsls due It is difficult to tell. It cei alnly Is not dre to the lack of literary tast n tbeSoutb. For bere we meet with men c culture and women of literary refinement li lumbers certainly as large as anywhere els n this country. Strange contradiction, am ret oot inexplicable; for the admiration c etters Is a very different thing from the cu Ivat'on of letter*; a? different as the reapln >f the harvest time from the ploughing an< owing of tbe Spring, Southern society I ibaracterlzed by a love of letters as strong a - ?- u- * * ~ 4W? Q/>Aln?n ?< h 10 uw iuuuu iu mc oiiuinj ui ruuoi xioi CDgland or Old England, hut It is too often ovetbatreaps wbere Jt has not sowed ani athereth wbere It bas not strewed. SOUTHERN LITERATURE. I do not forget Poe, whose verse is regardei s the first fair flower of American poetry 1i he nlneteeth century; nor other Soutben oets. Tlmrod, Lanier, Ryan, Randall. No lol forgp' Southern writers of Action: Psk ilmms, Kennedy, Amelle, Rives, Harbei nd others. South Carolina may well b iroud of McCrady's History, a monument o earning and Industry and accuracy, and o Irs. Ra venei's charming Life of Eliza Plnek ej: and of Scberer's admirable books aboul apan. And Joel ( handler Harris ant 'homas Dixon and Woodrow Wilson an< oany other Southerners are doing honor ti he laud of their birth by their lltera:-j pork. But after all this and more Is said, It mus (111 vje confessed that the South has not doui er full share of work In the field of lltera nre. J. Gordon Coogler, the eccentric poe f Columbia, was not altogether In the wror( rhen he penned the quaint couplet; Alas for the South! Her books have growi fewer he never was much given to literature." Hpr bigb^et gen iub, ber greatest efforts bayi ended more toxctloo and public life than t< terary work. Fond of reading though sbi i, and eager to taste the Bweets of belles let jrs. phe Is for tbe most part contented to d< rith literature as she does wltb corn?to con time more than sbe produces, and to pa] thersjto produce It for ber. a literary renaissance. Sucb was Scotland before tbe renalssanc< rougbt about by tbe genius of Burns ant cott. Scotland and everything Scottmt Bemcd destined to be hurled In the grave o be hapless Stuarts. Her national character<tlc?, ber native language; ber very nami treated with extinction, by being mergec bmerged and lost In tbe union witt Ingland. Tbe Scottish language was re arded vulgar by Scottish writers of pro* nd verse; Scottish nobility, with few excep Ions, were absentees in London. But tbi earl of tbe Scottish people remained trui nd leal; and at tbe appointed time, out o he fullness of that heart and mouth speaki brough the young Ayrshire ploughman lear what he said. "I mind It well in early date When 1 was beardless, young and blate And first could thresh tbe barn E'en then a wish, 1 mind Its power, A wish that to my latest hour Hball strongly heave my breastThat I, for pulr auld Scotland's sake, Some useful plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least." With that patriotic desire In bis breasl lis poetlcgenlus was touched as with a 11 v oal Irom off the altar, and Robert Burns re tored Scotland to life and Immortality. presesve southern characteristics. Tbe South has never been In so bad a cas is tbe Scotland of that time war: but is sb >ot in danger of being bo merged Into tb ;reat body of this Union that her indlvldu illty Will be lost, and all tbat was and Is dii inctlvely Southern overshadowed and for [ottenT?a fate to be deplored by all patrloti Southerners. There Is much tbat is dlsllni ively Southern In the life of tbe Souther; states?all those ties of sympathy which com non alms and common dangers bouni tround them and formed them into a Soutt irn unity?an union which the furnace of our years war and tbe hammer of an adverts ate only wielded the closer and firmer. Tb Mason and Dixon Line may be like tb Squalor, an imaginary line; but, like tb K tKa XTnrlh he South. There 1b an organic commuolt jf thought, feeling and life in these Souther States of which communities and States lea homogeneous have no understanding. Le jthers call it "sectionalism" and deride th 'solid South;" It is the part of true Southerner :o nourish and cherish ItaB they would thel very llie's blood. It will be a sad day for th South aud a bad day for the Union whe; ;hese Southern States eball be undlsttnguisb ibly merged In the United Statst; when, ibl ?reai Republic shall be as monotonous as Western prairie and the Inhabitants sbal present the sameness of clothespins In a ros CULTIVATE SOUTHERN LITEKATUKE. How can so undesirable a fate be avoided Jblefly by the genius and the pen or the me tnd all women of the South who will devot .hemselves to literary work, and write an publish books that shall be racy of the so! jftheHoutb. Will any of you graduates o undergraduates of the College enter this flel jf literary laboi? How better could yo ipend the time between College and Marriae .ban by engaging earnestly In this work? And what a fie'd lor Uteiary culture th iouth presents?a fairer or more fertile fleii sever tempted the fancy and the pen of man What I say to you now on this subject I sail :o the young men of Ersklue College mor ,han twenty years ago. But it Is to me n la irorlte theme, and one which I think can no 3e loo often urged upon the attention of th i'oung men and women ol the Sontberi states. Here the historian may find templing worb from the heroic days of the early settlement lown to tbe sudden rise and sad eclipse o he Confederacy? that short-lived natloi which Rose so white and fair And fell so pure of crimes. Here tbe biographer may oocupy his pei n depltohlng the lives of Illustrious South srners, whose names I need not mention foi ?ou have them in your memory bright at Deads of dew upon a gossamer thread. And lore the philosopher, the political eoonomlst he sociologist may busy themselves wltt problems of life and government more ab iorblng In Interest ana more dlffloalt of so . _ ? ii ,j lotion than were ever before offered to a peoi Pie18 SOUTHERN LIKE AND MANNBRS, O 'r Tbe life and manners of tbe South from tbe e early colonial times to l.be war of tbe i.onfea>f eracy?where can finer nubJ*ctR be found for i- tbe writers of romance and fiction? Tbe el thrlllog story of those oarly settlements has not yet b( ea adequately told; and yet within >f a few mtle? of this spot, things were done and e scenes enacted In tbe struggles between tbe in pale face and the red man? fight and massa. r ere, In blood and fire, as worthy to be re* le counted as tbe borrorRof Glenros. I The romance of tbe Revolution has not yet " been worthily written; and yet one tale well o told oflove and war In tbe brave days of old i- would do more to keep alive the patrlotlo fire and preserve tbe fame of your forefathers than a cycle of cen ennlal celebrations. And that ante-bellum Southern life, so ' beautiful, so patriarchal, with Its mingled statellnessand simplicity?who Is to preserve for you tbe tender g?ace of a day that Is dead? ?to paint for yon tbe ploture of the fine old Southern gentleman, one of tbe olden time, with bis courtesy and urbanity, living a life of simple elegance and warm hospitality. In his home among the woods and cornfields of tbe up-countrj. or In his baronial ball amid tbe - live oaks of the coast. And bv bis Ride. h!? d wife, the sweel-llpped Houthern gentleg woman, stately and beautiful and gracious, p, the mother of lovely daughter* and proud of d her sallant sons; notable In housekeeping, rt and beloved by her humble servants. Whai lB ploturesque and varied acoessorleo are prer. rented for the story of those days?the muae tera of mllltla, the barbecnee the osmpmeetings; the com-shncklngs and merry e makings of tb>? light-hearted negroes?scenes a worthy of the genius of Burns, the pen of ;t Scott and the pencil of Hogarth. e Not yat bns the tale of the Confederate war d been told; and it I swell that It Is so, for the n time Is not yet. We are still too near tbose e tragic scenes for literary perspective. The H fateful events are too recent and real to be g softened and subdued by the glamour of roll mance, or even to be faithfully recorded by y the peu of the historian. The generation who >f were the actorn therein must first pass away Is before tb? writer of history can calmly Judge of those momentous events, or the writers ol (lotion can portray with success the heroes and heroines oi'tbose days of Joy and sadness, . hope and despair, triumph and failure, P Thus far I have regarded the writers of pros*; _ 11 but what themes are here for the poetic y muse. Not for lack of material Is It tbat ? there Is no Scuthem drama, no Southern 6 epic, that tber<i Is a dearth of Southern son* ? net and song. For this Is not d "An age and clime e Barren otovery glorious theme." e * SOUTHERN SCENERY s And, full as Southern life Is of matter for r RODg mad story, Southern scenery furnishes a 0 fitting background and a worthy setting. ' What a land of loveliness this Is, with all " Its various enchantments of mountain and " river, hill and dale, field and forrest, rnsblng ? brook and babbling fountain, storm-emit ? peak and sea-beat shore?a land worthy as " "stern and wild" Caledonia to be called ! "meet nurse for the poetlo child." Are these I" groves, now vocal with song of mockingbird K and the red bird's silvern note, never to be 11 sung In tuneful numbers? Are tbe?e hll's 8 and fields nevef to be hoard of In touching 8 song and simple story? Are the sounds of * rural labor In this Southern land unworthy ? to be heard In verse?the piougbboy's whistle b and the milkmaid's song, the lnsty laborer's long-drawn tones as be hoes the cotton, or tbecane or tolls among the rice-fields? Does nobody kiss somebody when coming through 1 the cotton flelJ, and enloy favors "secret, 0 sweet and precious," and as worthy to be 3 sung as the delights of "Comin' Through the r Rye?" Is there here no trystlng-lree, no i, "talking oak." whose sap tingles In all bis", ] veins to see the Southern maiden listening to , e the old, old story? f I have gazed upon your monntains, beautlf ful as Ben Ledl and sublime as those bebeld from the Valley of Cbamounl. I have beard t the roar of your waterfalls, mightier far than 1 that wbiob comes down at .Lodor*. 1 have 1 tbrld my way tbrougb your mountain fast3 nesses, erauJer in their rugged beauty of 7 giddy cliff* and hlgh-polsed, toppling (crags than that In which Fltz-James's gallant grey t lay down and died. I have followed the a meanderlngs of yonr mountain streams, * beautiful and dear as that t I "Which daughter of three mighty lakes From Yennacbar In silver breaks." i ) With uncovered boad have I stood In your groves of moss-draped llve-oake, majestic In | tbelr beauty and beauteous In tbelr giant < strength as the Immemorial elms of Eng- ] land, solemn In tbelr grandeur as a catbe- ] : dral, and awful In their sombre sllentness as t a sacred grove of the Druids. But In all those " scenes there was something lacking?some- ( tbing which the human heart sought and ; ' found not?something wbicb gives to the . natural scenery of Scotland and Switzerland, ] the banks of the Tiber, a beauty and an In- ( terest not wholly tbelr own. Nature baB done as much for Southern scenery as for < s the Boenery of Europe ; but It remains for i the genius of man to do that for tbo South ( > which has been done for Europe ; to breathe l Into ber natural scenery some of bis own life - ?to touch it witb the fir? of bis Imagination, 9 to hallow It with human and Inspiring asao1 clatlans, to bathe it In ' "The light whlob never wai, on sea or land, 9 The conseoratlon, and the poet's dream." i Nothrwithstan will gener ;L. W e h c Filled with well please I bargains in all lines jj- well known 'firm, ] e A I The Summer S( 8 It 8 Is well advanced and it h e close out Summer Goods Q make room for Fall and W ID * which will soon be comir trade so far this month is ahe ? it was last June, and we wil Q g selves to the utmost to keep 'r ers alone are needed to e make the trade of this month e e we have ever had for the sar any previous year. We have e sary goods and guarantee to ? the right prices. 1 j We invite everybod in Abbeville County w i who approve our meth< of goods call at the sto i I the glamour of romance. ? What U there about the yellow river tbat flows by the walla of Rome to draw to its at oan*s pilgrims from all land*? Are the w "banks and braes o' bonnle Doou" bo lovely ei In themselves that travellers will cross the tt Atlantic to see them? Why Is Rob Roy's oave, a little bole on the side o f Ben Lamond, K ao object of deeper interest to Americans tt than their own stupendous Mamraouth Cave? 0> Are not the Mississippi and Mlssonrl river* re of America better than all the waters of Europe? And yet one tiny brook In the 8cot- ,, tlsn Border, the clear winding Yarrow, whlob J) the shepherd-laddie, If be does not wade V; through, clears at a bound, transcends In bn- ? man Interest even tbe Father of Waters. Wordsworth wrote three exquisite poems on that little stream, that Border burn, and to *t tbem I refer you, for the poet baa therein ex- tt plained this mystery. hi a southern renaissance. , fc But the time is surely ooming wben these iy 9outbern scenes shall nave their story, too, W and a voice that shall speak to tbe beart of man?when a Southern Burns shall arise and |a give an Immortality of song to tbe woods and hi streams, tbe birds and flowers, the honest fl, men and bonnie tussles of the Booth. It has a( been said tbat Sir Walter Scott discovered Scotland. Say, rather, be created a nev . Scotland. The wlsard of the North, be waved 51 his maglo band, and, lo! the Sootland of romance aroae. Tbe time Is sarely ooming n when a wizard ol the8outh shall appear, ana to casting hW spells over this lair land, shall e: create a new South, anotber, yet tbe same, tr Tbe time Is sarely oomlng when a daughter tt of Due West College wlJi siok ber praise aa sweetly as Gray sang of Eton : wben a South- at em maid will take the plaoe of Bonnie Annie Laurie, and men will And throughout all this v Southern land tongues in ber tree, sermons * in ber stones, books in ber ranning brooks, " and good in everything that is here. You will basteb tbe coming of tbat day by fe engaging earnestly In tbe cnitlvatlon of ol Southern literature. To what worthier par- ot pose could you devote tbe time between College and Marriage than tbe writing of a book or tbe making of a song about this Southern M land yoo love so well? Ther coming of tbe B man or tbe woman of genius la unheralded, unforeseen, unexpected as tbe ooming of a meteor. But as sarely as a meteor appears among tbe sura, so sorely doea tbe man or 01 woman of literary^enlos arise amoog a peo- T pie wbo have prepared themselves for tjieir Jl coming by a faithful and long oontlnued cul- H tlvation of literature, 01 A GOOD BOOK LIVES FOREVER. 0 Engage, then, Id tbe great work, not for the C purpose of maklog money by writing books, bat from a pnre love ol letters and a strong ? love ofoountry. Money yon may gain by It, bnt let tbat be a secondary consideration. L Tbe market valoe of a book baa no relation to Its intrinsic valne, else would "David Ha- O ram" be a greater work tban "PAradlse Lost," tbe ephemeral "Endymlon" of Disraeli wortb 01 more tban tha immortal "Endymlon" ot tc Keats, wblcb is a tbing of beaaty and Joy forever; end any short-lived popular rag- gi time song of more value tban "Home Sweet Aj Borne." Cultivate a native literature aa a 14 labor of love. Like Fletcber of Baltoun. tblnk It greater bonor to make tbe songs of your ei people tban to frame tbelr Jaws. Tbna will you lay np for yonr country the only treas- fa nres upon earth whlob neither motb nor ruat o| doth corrupt and wblcb no time can steal. T< And thus will you confer npon yonr beloved ni land greater bonor andglory tban It la in the power of warrior or statesman to bestow. A For the literature of a country Is lta only immortal part. OltlM u>ay perish, republics rr vanish, and kingdoms'pais away, but a good 1 book lives forever. Classic Greece ana Rome ? lie buried beneath tbernlnsof centuries, but on tbelr tomba burn brightly tbe twin lamps y of their literature; and their light Is seen in lands Alexander never reached and tbelr _ genial Influence felt where Rome's eagles C never flew. J Communities are lost and empires die, And things of holy nse unhallowed lie, Tbey perlsb, but tbe intellect can raise. From airy words alone, a pile tbat ne'e:: decays, "j Winthrop College ^ Scholarship and Extrance n Examination. ? the examination for the award l\ -L of vacant scholarships in Wlntbrop College and for the admission of new student* /-i will be beld at tbe County Court House on V Friday, July 7lb, at 9 A. M. Applicants must ot be less tban fifteen years of age, Wben < ncholarshtps are vacated after July 7, they 11 will be awarded to tbose making tbe highest average at this examination provided they meet tbe oondltlons governing tbe award. Applicants for scholarships should write to President Johnson before tbe examination for _ scholarship application blanks. Scholarships are worth 8100 and free tuition, rbe next session will open September 20,1905. b< For further Information and catalogue ad- ti dress Pres. D. B.Johnson, Rock Hill. S. c. See that fine line of stationery at Speed's ce Drug Store. . Rich cut glass and fancy obina at Dargan fc store in great prolusion. If you are needing a 16 wedding present this Is tbe place. [ding the hot ally find, the . WH id buyers who are eage: j of goods that are now tfow is the time to get Bason White > desired to X- Now is in orucr iu inter Goods White Goods ig in. Our had an enorm jad of what our sales of E li exert our- thing wonderfi it so. Buy- ... , 3 this season he nable us to . . , . . broideries, and the heaviest ne month of continues, and the neces- ever. The re sell them at The prices are are cheap and \v to nnmA to Sfift ns. J ? " ?* ho will attest the mer dsof doing business. L res of L. W. White and w. WE L. W. White's Locals. The Bale of embroideries still goes on at the ore of L. W. Wblte. Within the past week e have received an entirely new struck of nbrolderleaandare offering better v:'ues tan ever. L. W. Wblte baa bought already tbls tea- . m, lour different stocks of embroideries and ie demand for them oontlnuas as brisk as rer. Don't lall to see tbe bargains be Is otrlng In tbls line. If you want fine laces, goto the store ofL, r. White to get tbem. He baa a great many iautlful styles and dainty designs. He bar so a large assortment of cheap laces. Also I-over-laces at all prices. L. W. Wblte haa a very large and desirable if ook of colored lawna and mnsllns. Now Is ie time to bny these goods as prlcea have . ' ]& 3en reduced on several lines. Wblte goods have never been more beaatl" il nor cheaper than they are this season. ou will find all yon want In tbls lineal rblte's. One Is reminded by tbe extreme heat of tbe st few days that It Is absolutely neeessary to tve a parasol or snn umbrella. Yon will ad extraordinarily good values In tbls line I tbe store of L. W. White. 8an umbrellaii 25, 50, and 75 cents. 81.00, .88 and 81.50 at White's. Call and see tbem. L. W. WMte has Just received an entirely ew lot - adles' traveling trunks. Tbe fiat , , S3 ip Ir r . with tbe roller tray suits the ladles tactly. Any lady going off on a Summer lp and needing a travelling traok, can get ie very thing she wante at White's. Yon can buy a nice baggy lap robe at the ore of L. W. White. Mason's Glass Frnlt Jars are now In season. ou can buy pints, quarts and half gallons at rblte's. L. W. White is receiving Fresh Floor every w days. If you want a barrel of something -a loe, you can get It from blm. Floor la leaper than It jas been. eabonrd Offers Following; Very Low Bates. Tuscaloosa, Ala.-Sommer School for teachra. June 10 to July 28. .> ?$3 Athens, Qa.?Summer School for teachers. 11162710 July 28. Rich mond. Va.?Farmers National Congress aptember 12 to 22. Toronto, Can.?International Sunday School ooventlon. June 20 to 27, 1905. Asbury Park. N. J.?National Educational onvention, July 8 to 7,1905. Baltimore, Md.?United Society of Christian ndeaver. Jnly & to 10,1905. Buffalo. N. Y.?Annual Meeting Grand odse, B. P. O. E. July 11 to 15, 1905. Norfolk, Va.?Annual Meeting Whole Bala rocers Association. June 19 to 21, 1906. Niagra Falls, N.Y.?Ancient Arabic Order [ Mist 1c SchrlneKmperlal Council. June 20 ) 23, 1905. Denver, Col.?International Epworth Leaie Convention. July 5 to 9,1905.and Annual :% leetlng Fraternal Order of Eagles. August . to 24th. ' Portland, Oregon.?Lewis and Clark Contln >tai uxpoHiuoD. June l to Oct., 10, iaot>. We specially Invite your attention to the' ct tbat all of tbe above mentioned rate* are sen to tbe public, also tbat onr Summer QnrlBt rateR are now on to all point* with fill limit October SI, 1905. For detailed Iniormatlon apply to any gentol tbe Seaboard Air Line By., cfr Fred Gelssler, W. E. Christian, '.P.A.Atlanta.Ga.A.G.P.A.AtlantGa. E. SHEHEE. , D. A. DEWEY. iHEHEE & DEWEY. Donsorial. Parlors, |j XTE HAVE BOUGHT OUT THE 8PLEN' * dldly equipped Barber Shop In the ew Hotel Building, and are prepared to rve onr customers witb every comfort and inventeuce known to tbe modern tonsorlal t. We bave alio elegantly furnished bath mrfmon fa t."-*! jM uick and satls m ictory service la gaaranted to all who will eall on us SHEHEE & DEWEY. Oar Coca Cola Is better this year than ever store. Oar sales are 60 gal. ahead of this me last year. Mllford's Drug Store. For fine flavoring extracts go to Mllford'a rag Store. He mazes tbem himself. The finest oandyjou ever saw for only 10 i ' ints a pound at Dargan's. Smoke Speed's Clnoo Cigars and keep a >od taste In yoar mouth for Easter Its only n days off. Glassware at Dargan's In abundance. * v&SI ml weather you stores of i. ^ T p-r* i-i .11 n i r to secure the many \ | being offered by this cheap goods. Goods. the favored time for selling and Embroideries. We have I ous sale of White Goods, while Embroideries have been someiil. Four different times already ive we ordered a stock of Emvftt thk rtamanH fnr +hf>m s+ill they are selling as freely as ason of this is not far to seek. i right, everybody can see they I it is no trouble to sell them. There are thousands its of our goods and ,et everybody in need L supply their wants. IITE. _