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two points. So in science, art. re ligion, there are some truths that mankind accepts without proof. There is no truth more true than that which asserts the general necessity of education, save the truth that asserts the necessity of education along the highest lines and ever with a lofty ideal in view. Centuries ago, Dyonysius uttered the dictum hat the safety of the state lies in the education of its youth. This truth has always claimed the attention of the greatest thinkers of the south. Go to Charlottesville, Virginia, make your way to the sum mit of Monticello. There in a quiet, secluded spot, stands a simple granite shaft, marking the resting place of the southland's greatest son. Read on it the epitaph of Thomas Jefferson, and read it in the light of history, his self chosen epitaph. He is named "The Author of the Declaration of Independence," "The Author of Relig ious Freedom," and there is another name given him. What is it? H was elected by the people to th high est office within the gift of any nation. Do you find that fact recorded on his monument? No, there with the record of his authorship of the great charter of our liberties, with his gift to our people of religious freedom is the record "Founder of the Uni versity of Virginia." What are some of the tendencies of this age and time? No student of history. no well informed observer of the things that are will dispute the statement that I am about to make. Realizing the responsibility I assume, but belie-ing it is necessary to send forth this message, I assert that there is a tendency abroad in the land that if carried to its logical end will destroy education of the highest order. Every age is marked by some one chief characteristic. Assyria and Egypt gave to the world all that is greatest and most collossal in archi tecture. The earliest forms of dem ocratic government, and finally the grandest period of ancient history, with its striving after truth, and the erection of an altar to "the unknown God," are seen in Greece and Rome. What are some of the tendencies of this day and time? Standing here tonight, what marks the age in which we live? The curtain of the twenti eth century has been raised. What gives color to the scene disclosed to our view? An unparelled industria.l devel.opment. Nature yields her stores. Why? That man may be enriched. Man seems but to will and nature yields up her treasures for his enrichment. No country, no nation, no people within a generation has produced a great mind in literature, 'science, or art. Idealism has been dethroned and materialism has been raised supreme. Every where we have seen commercialism seated on the throne. England has rejoiced in the might of destroying arnnually one hundred thousand Chinamen by her opium traffic. Our own great coun try drunk with the spirit of commer cialism plants the saloon in Manilla. Everything moves in a hurry. Ask each man whom you meet hurrying along the street, the object of his life. And in almost every case one phrase will declare the purpose of his life, he is seeking the dollar. Every wvhere is seen the tendency to commercialize God given talent-talent that is given for highest purposes. Take the case of a young man choosing a profession. If he selects the practice of medicine, and goes into it with the idea of mak ing money out of it, he is lowering his manhood and debasing one of the* noblest callings in which man may engage. But if he selects it for the opportunity it affords of usefulness, of helpfulness, his choice is honorable. That young man, who when all his skill fails to give strength to a wast ing body, can stand by the bedside of his patient and speak the word that will restore the faith of a wayward son, or comfort a sorrowing daugh ter, will stand before men a nobler man than he who has amassed wealth. That young man, who selects the law as his profession, and does all that he can, justly, honorably to further the just and lawful claims of his client, by all laudable means, is fulfilling a high calling, but that man, who has only one desire, the desire to win his cause, whether it be .iust and worthy or not, by all means, by per jury or subornation of perjury, any thing to win, for the sake of the emol prostitutes to basest uses a noble vocation. That teacher who puts a mercenary value on his work, has no conception of the meaning of life or of his relation to the children who are committed to his trust, and can never imbue them with lofty ideals, for he has never for himself seen the beck oning vision. Give him wealth, if wealth has been the end of his life and effort,what will be its effect upon his manhood? Wihat does history show? Let Rome speak. The effect is first manifested in the life of the individual and then of the state. Wealth gave Rome the curse of materialism, and at its height she fell under the sturdy bar barians of the north, a warning to the world. Rome fell when i8oo of her citizens owned all her property; Egypt fell when three per cent of her people controlled her wealth; Baby lon fell when two per cent, and Persia fell when one per cent of her people owned all property. I fear that the tendency of this day is to commercialize talent, to com mercialize education. There are some problems that we are facing that the highest type of education alone can solve; alone can prepare men to stand up and oppose wrong because it is wrong; that can enable them to stand in their man hood and say "I yield to this because it is right"-hostile to the wrong because it is wrong. loyal to the right, because it is right, and saying "My authority is the universal conscience." Another problem for which this is the only solvent. The higher form of education is the only instrumentality that can safeguard and perpetuate the peace and order of society. As a general principle it cannot be denied that the most intelligent people are the most orderly, the most lawabid ing. There is one thing that we see, not in other lands, not in other times, but in the present and in our own loved state, the reckless and wanton disre.ard of civil rights and above all of the sanctity of human life. Some times I ask have we turned our backs upon the immortal glory of our past? The true exponent of higher educa tion, in the sense that I have used that phrase, has a cause to fight for-the struggle to teach man that man is his neighbor-that it is as brave and more honorable to extend the hand of reconciliation than to use the dagget or bullet. Let the pulpit continue to& cry aloud. It has done much good. Let the press continue to sound the alarm. It has done much good. But let education go forward, making the home a lfome in which these princi ples are taught, from whicht the child goes forth with the Bible in one hand and the school book in the other. There is one other problem that this type of education alone can meet. There is more and more of a con gregating of our people in communi ties, and these must be cared for. They are one with us, our people. As good blood flows in- their wins as is found at many of our social functions. Their fathers and ours have stood side by side in every struggle, from the days of the revolution until now, battling for the right. It is ours to see that our people in our industrial ommunities are cared for along the lines indicated and with us be deliv-. ered from the thralldom of material ism and given the vision of a lofty ideal. There is another problem that must be settled by general education. There has never been a time when the conflict did not come between ne great corporate trusts and the people. The only weapon that can be 'success fully used to foster and defend origin al rights is brain. In closing I wish to say to the young men in this school, go forth with the highest type of education as your goal. When you have passed away your memorial may not be in stately monuments or costly domes, you may not rest beneath fretted and frescoed walls like those at West minister Abbey; and you young ladies may not send down through the ages your names in history, as Elizabeth or Victoria, nor may tey be honored by your country as France honors her Joan of Arc, who gave a crown and a kingdom to a king. or as Austria her Maria Theresa, or Russia her Catherine, but let higher education be your ideal, and your influence will ever increase like the waves from the dropped pebble, and will be felt through the cycles oi eternitv. At the conclusion of Mr. Smith's.i address Prof. Stuckey presented the diplomas to the four young lady grad uates. In doing so he said in part: Fifteen years ago the citizens of this town in appreciation of the vir tues of intelligence and prompted by wisdom and patriotism established the Newberry graded schools and by their munificence you have enjoyed the advantages of a high school edu cation. Your diligence and conduct for the past several years are the highest evidences of your apprecia tion of these opportunities, and as a result of your correct deportment and intellectual attainments are adjudged by the authorities of these schools en titled to receive these diplomas. Ere severing our conection as superinten dent and pupils allow me, responsive to the dictates of my feelings for your interest, to add these few words. Our honorable and eloquent speaker has truly told us that there is in history no fact more potent than this-that every nation that has impressed it self on humanity has been the repre sentative of some special idea, which idea or ideal has been the embodiment of their national life and effort, an end, a goal towards which the jour ney ever tended. The Anglo-Saxon is no exception to this fact. Civil liberty, spiritual chris tianity and reverence for woman are their cardianl principles and the great pillar upon which they have con structed their civilization and attained the highest achievements. Thus by association, connection and inheritance you are in posession of the noblest sentiments known to womankind. Providence requires not of the vine fruit which it is unable to bear, and thus while exalted ideals are before you you are surrounded with oppor tunities commensurate thereto. Vic tories of tomorrow come only through thorough preparation of to day. May you grasp the opportuni ties of each day with alacrity and zeal. Let it be the object of your constant thought and labor, your anxious con cern to preserve our best traditions, to develop your faculties and become more and more powers for refinement and culture, and be ever the exponents of those primal virtues that have "eve-r blessed mankind-be ever an embodiment of strong educated chris tian womanhood that we m-v on be holding you truly say the grandest pillar of the Anglo-Saxon civilization is reverence for woman. Mr-s. C. Durga, of Bethel, Vt., has received $20,oo0 by the will of Alfred Burte of Liverpool, England, almost a total stranger. A few years ago, while Mr. Burte was visiting in Bethel, Mrs. Durga did some writing for him and would take no pay. She had not heard from him since. For 'i SCut Gloss, Bowls ~ iver Warn Knives and Forks, Vases, Chafing Dis Th GILDER, Advertised Letters. Letters remaining in the postoffice or the week ending June 3, 1905: B-Johnnie Browile. Pinkney Booz r. C-Ellawease Cannon. D-Ellawease Douglas. --Harry C. Farley. H-J. B. Hill (2). J-Harriett Jackson. Emma E. enkins. \--Sloan Maffett, Andy Matthews. S-E. Shealy. T-Sue Taylor, Sudie Turner. W-Dr. A. D. Williams, Jr. Running an amateur garden is easy compared to being chairman of a ocal charity. Southern Railway Excursions. The Southern railway will sell round trip tickets to the following points for special occasions: Niagara Falls, N. Y., Ancient Ara bic Order of Mystic Shriners, Im proved Council, June 20-23 , 1905. Rate: one fare, plus *rx.oo for - round trip, from all points. Tcronto, Ont., Account of Inter national Sunday School association. June 20-27, 19o5. Rate on certificate plan. Hot Springs, Va., Annual conven tion; of the Southern Hardware Job bers associtaion and American Hard ware Manufacturing association, June 6-9, 1905. Rate: one first class fare, plus 25 cents for round trip from all points. Calhoun, S. C., South Carolina State Summer School, June 21, July 19, i9o5. Rate: one first class fare, Grand SIaU 0] Muslins, Colored Law Organdie: Wh' LADIES' HATS I SATURDAY A June 3d an( MOSELE' me Weu Tumblers, Olyv poons, Servers of All Kinds, Wai es, Clocks, at e Right Drug Sto WEEKS & H plus 25 cents. for round trip from a! points in South Carolina. Athenic. Ga.. Summer School, June 27 to July 28, i9o5. Rate: one first lass fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Knoxville. Tenn., Summer School, June 20 to July 28, 1905. Rate: one fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Nashville. Tenn.. Peabody Summer School and Vantderbilt Bibical In stitute. June 14 to August 9, 1905. Rate: one fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Asheville, N. C., Annual Confer ence Y. M. C. A., June 9-25. Rate: ne fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Asheville, N. C., Conference of Young People's Missionary associa tion. June 25 to July 2, 1905. Rate: one fare plus 25 cents for. round trip. Denver, Col., Account International Epworth League convention. Rate very low, and will be given on appli ation. Asbury Park, N. J., Account of Na tional Educational association, July 3-7. Rate very low and will be given on application. Baltimore, Md., Account of the United Society of Christian Endeavor Inter-national convention, July 5-io, I905. Rate: one fi:st class fare, plus $i.oo for round trip. Buffalo. N. Y., Annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of B. P. 0. Elks, July 11-15. 1905. Rate: one first class - plus Si.oo for round trip. 'he Southern railway can oer many other attractive rates. For full information consult any ticket agent. or R. W1. Hunt, D. P. A., Charleston, S. C. ghter Sole -is, Voiles, s, Laces, ite Dress Goods, ND FLOWERS, ND MONDAY, i 5th, 1905. r BROS. Zkings! e Dishes, etc.~ ters, PItchers, etc. re. DE TER.