Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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C0LLE RADATESj -FE TOU FORTH AND FAREWELL." (Continued from page two.) self-expression. Our continent seems to be a stage selected by God for the drama of farthest manhood. "In the character and purposes of its founders, in the plans and as pirations of its youth. no nation was ever so fortunate as ours. We had the right start, received the right im pulse in the beginning. The whole life of the American nation fills me with a sense of oneness, of continuity, of orderly and unsleeping growth, from that hour when the captains of Raleigh let fall the first English an chor in Pamlico Sound and in the pathos of lost colonies became im - mortal path-breakers. "We are yet far from perfect, and problems and troubles beset us. But we have a great working-chart to guide us. In the soil of the past we must sow the seeds of our future greatness, and in the true spirit of our race make our freedom 'slowly broaden down from precedent to pre cedent.' Today is reborn yesterday and the stirrings of an elder day are in its soul. Subtle tendencies of 'American youth will here persist /forever. "In the early days of American con struction, a little group of splendid lawyers gathered in a room in Phil adelphia and drafte-I &he declaration, a people's indictment of a king, hu manity's eternal bill of rights. Thir teen years later a similar band fram er the constitution, a people's great deed of trust, granting to government a guarded power from the source of all power. Thus they broadly based this nation upon the popular will an] the general welfare, ordained equal ity and opportunity, and set thE bounds of the three spheres of gov ernment. "The working plan they left us ir the constitution, our highest courl has declared, is in its meaning az changeless as the stars. By that chari we must hold our course unto th( end. Yet under it we shall know a ceaseless progress as in the past and still build an ever greater nation w construction, applying its di tons to the changing phases 01 erican life, must always be made Sdiverse yet equally virilb two streams of Teutonid bloot gely met and mingled anc ted by the blood of all the wenlj to the making of the car erican. The Puritan, hardened recution, contributed thai yof steadfastness and tha1 rament of -gloom that are fun ntal in our Germanic race. Th4 vier, born in the gayest mood o1 rrie England, brought to the Nem ord a disposition for happi?.ess d the chivalric ideal of the honoi tman and the worth of woman. LiIi e Magi, each came bearing a pie ens gift to the American to be. . children of the RocfC and the i4 of the River, stirred forth by enturous blood that streams Estant Viking sires, pushing tier ever westward, swarmed the wall of the Appalachians tover the dark and blood> nd to the Mississippi, spread over iries and deserts and over-leapec ~idding mountains, until the con quest of the continent was completE and their unwearied feet met the Pacific. "Today we have passed the lasi frontier. The day of cheap land, fit tc induce intelligent migration, is gone forrever. The activities of our timi are as intensive as those of the pion eers were extensive. Yet the herit age of their spirit is with us. We neec to apply it to the great task of thE making of men, the creation of citi zens. Without a realization that du ., ties are the condition of rights, with out the subordination of selfishness tc the common good, without heed tC the counsels of the spirit of humar brotherhood no people will long be free. "The vigorous pioneers, scattering -from ocean to ocean, made a homo geneous people, able to assimiliatE millions of immigrants into the ma jestic movement of American life Our land became the world's grea1 melting pot, and the public school transformed every kind of human ma terial into patriotic citizenship. Bu1 today that Immigration has vastly in creased in quantity and vastly de reased in quality until the South is ur only clean-blooded section. *The me his come to cry 'halt' to Eu rope's baffled and beaten millions and to set watch and ward at every gate way of the republic. The fathers did not hallow our soil with their blocd to make it a spawning-place for the mafia and the blackhand. "The children of the frontier re acted upon their old homes and a breath of nationalism blew in fr om the prairies. In the Sonth belief in the Confederate nature of the Union was entangled with unsought hurden of slaver:.. In the North opee A' ated the movement toward nationa ity. These were the days when Souti Carolina gave the world the brilliai statesmanship of Hayne and the ti tanic intellect of Calhoun. The chst of these convictions in battle enrich ed the world with heroism, taughi the American the glory of sacrifice foi principle, and transformed a confed eration of States into a mighty na "Nobly the South is doing her par in rebuilding the nation that for eon science' sake she once sought to di vide. From the chastisement of wai and the discipline of defeat, out ol the wilderness of 40 years wandering in penury and privation, out of th( valley. of the shadow of an unhelpe% grapple with the darkest and mos' perilous problem ever faced by Z white race, emerges at last a trans figured South. There is sunrise aftel Appomattox, and Easter surely fol lows Calvary. "The lesson of the past has beei learned by heart. We know that th< utmost heroism in war or peace cai not take the place of the equipmen of an industrial civilization. Had w4 possessed that equipment the issue o the great conflict would have beei Southern victory. No longer will w send our sons to meet the morta guns of modern life armed like the'i fair-haired forefathers. "In this era of a mighty march o industry, whose quick-step the Sout] is catching, it is an absorbing and in spiring reflection that the elder Sout] cradled the industrial nation. Th early builders of the South learne the lesson, but the rank growth o slavery gradually choked industria life and doomed us to agriculture. "In 1620, the year of the landing o the Puritan, the Cavalier built an iroi smelter At Jamestown. . The elde South se.nt from Savannah the firs steamship that crossed the sea. Th South Carolina railway was the firs great 'American railway enterprise t be successfully completed. It ex tended from Charleston to Memphii and the dream of Hayne was a grea trunk line from Charleston to Cincin nati. "When the census of 1810 wa -made the manufactured products C -Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgi exceeded those of all New Englan and New York. When Daniel Boon anid John Sevier, the great pathand ers of the earliest west, crossed th Blue Ridge and broke into the fertil ~valleys of the Tenn-essee and Ohi they carried with them rifles made i: North Carolina. "Promise and prophecy, already I due process of fulfillment, are in a: Ithis eventful history. For all time establishes that there is nothing i Ieither the climate or citizenship c the South that is alien to industr: It is the logic of histry and here !dity that the splendid deyelopment c recent years is but a re-birth an that many of its captains are the son and grand-sons of the industrial cal: tains of the elder South. God grar that here on Southern soil, wher American Industry was born, it shal rise again to surpassing power. "The world's greatest fallow fiel of opportunity, its last real frontie1 Is the imperial region south of th Potomac and Ohio. With sever tenths of the forested area * 'hi eountry ;f with three-four ths r'f th world's cotton crop and an assure climatic monoply of it; with abund ant coal and iron and improvin transportation; with the profits c raw material trebled and more by th profits of their manufacture; with 5, 000,000 horsepower available in ou rivers and more than 500,000 harness ed and quickening distant factorie and cities with the thrill of electri energy; with an unsurpassed climat and a soil bringing forth in abund ance every product of the temperat a nd many of the tropic zone-this i Itruly God's country. I"In' cotton manufacturing Sout] Carolina is the second and Nort' Carolina Is the third of America: States. But our industrial future lie in a more divrersified industry. W have recently had proof of the erro of putting all our eggs in one baske1 Cotton fabrics from Newberry cloth the nakedness of the modern Adal by the ancient Euphrates, while Dur ham tobacco soothes the spirit of th child of Bhuddha as he sits under th Bo tree, no longer cross-legged o: the ground, but seated in a High Poin chair. Verily, we have the h'eathe: for our inheritance and the utter m'st parts of the earth for our pos session. "Americans all, a people of capa city and courage, untouched by wear iess or despair, hope beckons u onward like a star. We are grojwini better and happier with the years The utter damnation of graft is ou battle 'ry. We punish as crimes evil ignored by the civic conscience o even a decade ago. Our judiciary, ii unsullied ermine, is our proudes *possesson. holding even the balanc< maLo august the stoiy of America1 beginnings." ALUMNI BANQUET. Newberry College Was The Toas1 And The Alumni Heartily Re sponded. The banquet tendered the visitinj .!alumni by the local alumni of the colleg on Tues1ay vening was on1 of the most delightful and pleasai events of commencement week. Ai elegant course dinner was served b: the ladies of the A. R. P. church, an( one hundred and twenty-five plate: were spread. The college spirit wa, in evidence and the alumni who wer4 present left the banquet hall wit] even more of it than when they came Col. John F. Hobbs, of New York presided in a very happy manner an< called upon a number of those pres ent for short talks, and they all re sponded very happily and gave ex pression of their love to their alml mater and a determination to do evei more in the future than they had i the past to keep alive the colleg spirit. One thing, however, that was no ticeable was the absence from thi meeting of the older members of th 1 alumni association. The effort is go ing to be to have a great re union at Newberry during the nex commencement and to bring togethe a greater number of those wh.o wen out from the college in the early day of the institution. After the close of the banquet a: adjourned meeting of the associatio: f: was held and the matter of raisin 1; money to pay off the balance due : the gymnasium hall, erected by th alumni, was taken up. Including wha had been pledged at the morning an business session of the associatioi t something over $800 was pledged. t ;THERE'S NO RISK. . If This Medicine Does Not Benefi You Pay Nothing. - A physician who made 4 specialt of stomach troubles, particular] dyspepsia, after years of study pei f fected the formula from which Rexa SDyspepsia Tablets are made. SOur experience with Rexall Dyi WHICH FARI This farmer telephoned and THE MODERN, prgressive farmer no longer drives tomarket without first - the prevailing prices. unnecessary trips-save and equipment. By co - tern the farmer can talk points. Under the Bell - at low cost. s For information and nearest Bell telephone r Farmers* IJne D 8SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE B SOUTH PRYOR STREEI MONEY LONG TIME, - RELIABLE REPRES) I he Jackson Loan ]Ft. Worth, Texas, ai popsia Tablets leads us io believe them to be the greatest remedy known for the relief of acute indiges tion and chronic dyspepsia. Their ingredients are soothing rnd healing to the inflamed membr,.nes of the stomach. They are ri.h in pepsin, i one of the greatest - digestive aids known to medicine. The relief they afford is almost immediate. Their use with persistency and regularity for a short tine brini,gs about a cessa tion of the pains caused by stomach, disorders. Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets will in I sure healthy appetite, aid digestion and promote nutrition. As evidence of our sincere faith in Rexall Dyspep sia Tablets, we ask you to try them at our risk. If they do not give you entire satisfaction, we will return you the money you paid us for them,! without question or formality. They come in three sizes, prices 25 cents, 50 cents and $1.00. Remember you can obtain them only at our store, L The Rexall Store. Gilder & Weeks. N UNNALLY'S Candies are the standard of ex cellence-in purity and supreme good ness. None are so ' dainty, so alto gether delicious. are shipped to us by express almost daily to doubly in sure you the added charm of absolute factory freshness. It's good to know there's "None like i Nunnally's" Gilder & Weeks, bIER ARE YOU? Trmhis homei *to distant plan service can be secured booklet write to ianager or to partment AND TELEGRAPH CO. LOANE~D LESTATE. I EASY PAYMENTS, ENTATIVES WANTED. and Trust Company.: d Jackson, Mississippi. LUMBER L,ONGEST HERE is sent out first. And you can be sure it has been~ here long enough to be thoroughly dried and sea soned. Ever had any experience I with green lumber? If not, don't c hanker after it. Take the experi- r ence of others and use only the seasoned kind,' the only lumber we sell. a I HEN E CLIMAX INSEC' Sprinkle a little in down mites-1Oc, CLIMAX DISI Mix one gill wil Kerosene and sprir and Coops for N Get it at The Store and. mal happ GILDER & Newberry Comp WEEDERS CULTI1 COTTO? HORSE WHEEL I GRAIN C SCREEN SCREEN DC WINDI CREAM Fl Newberry I Comp . F. Baxter & Son Praet ical Embalmers hones - Day 117-Night 90 Saved Fi-om Awful Death. ow an appalling calamity in his mily was prevented is told by A. .McDonald, of Fayetteville, N. C., t.F. D. No. 8. "My sister had con mption," he writes, "she was very fl n and pale, had no appetite and med to grow weaker every day, .sall remedies failed, till Dr. King's w Discovery was tried, and so mpletely cured her, that she has Lt been troubled with a cough since. sthe best medicine I ever saw or - eard of." For coughs? colds, Ia :rppe, asthma, croup, hemorrhage- T 1bronchial troubles, it hr.s no ba q1al. 50c., 81.00. Trial bottle free. si: [ELPS F POWDER. nests to keep 15c., 25c. NFECTANT. h1 one gallon ilde the house lites and Lice. Right Drug ke the Hen. Hardware any . HARROWS ATOR-q I HQES HOES~ HOES ES.. .. RADLES' WIRE PORS AND * OWS IEEZ'ERS Bar'dwareI any rYPEWRITER LOOK for the QUALITY. sist upon the standard of excellence set and main tained in the ROYAL. Remember, you can PAY ore but you cannot buy ore. INVESTIGATE, DO r NOW. 3. WILSON GIBBES, South Carolina Agent, Columbia, S. C. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver blets will brace up the nerves, nish sick headache, prevent de ondency and invigorate the whole stem. Sold by WV. E. Pelham & Son.