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Annual Alm Delivered by Prof. C. W. We ton, Texas, Before Alun berry College, Tue; A conmencement is always an oc casion of unusual interest. It is pe culiarly so to the young men and wo men who are about to begin the jour ney of life. Equally interesting is this occasion to their relatives and friends who have come together to insure to them a propitious start, to wish them a successful career, and to wave them a fond adieu. We all rejoice that we a7e present to observe the evidence of their bouyant hopes and feel the throb of their glad hearts, as, with happy confidence, they enter the great highway of achievement. To me it is not Inerely a pleasure but a great privilege to be with you on this occasion. "This is my own, my native land." The heart swells with a pride that is pardonable and the foot tre ds with a firmness that makes for confidence, when I reflect that I stand once more on the soil where lies the dust of my ancestors and visit again the scenes of my early life, "as fond recollection presents them to view." The man who has pitched his tent mear the tent of his father, and there has lived, loved, and labored, and there expects. at the close of life, to sleep in his ftal rest, can have little appre ciation of the feelings -of one who, af ier a long absence, comes home agair. to enjoy the hearty welcome and the warm handshake of the friends of his youth and the comrades of his college "ys. The memories of otaer timc and the absence of old familiar faces trowd thick and fast upon me as I stand here to deliver to you my mes sage and commune with you for one brief hour. My feelings are not un mixed nor are my emotions altogether joyous. On this platform some chairs are' empty, some faces missing. Amid all these changes, a feeling of sadness Oomes unbidden as I Tong "for the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is still;" for the touch of a hand that spoke for the heart;- for the sound of a voice that was but the echo of the soul; for the hand and the voice of John Eusebius Berly. Many eventful years have some and gone since his manly form was laid to rest in Old Lexington, but his unselfish 'life and his high purpose will always be an inspiration to the six that remain to labor and to wait. Ideals. Thirty-two years ago, on an imapro vised platform in the old court house, the class of '79 celebrated tte comn mencement day. We had finished our *ollege course and were ready, indeed eager, to receive our diplomas and 'be gin life's journey. As we stood on the shore and looked ahead of us across the great ocean, we could see no har bor in the distance. Whether the voy age was to be long or short, calm or stormy, successful or disappointing, no herald was there to proclaim, no prophet to foretell. Looking into your faces today, I recognize comparatively few who were then present to beam their smiles upon us and to shower us with their 'benedictions. The nren who had been our instructors and guides, who had by precept and exam'ple held up be fore us the ideals of life and to whom that day we were to bid a fond fare well; men, whom to know was a priv ilege, and to sit at whose feet was the opportunity of a lifetime; men who gave themselves in willing service to our development, ignoring the siren call to material greatness and choos ing rather to serve in the realms of the spiritual than lose themselves in the jungle' of selfish greed, have an swered at the roll-call on the other side, leaving behind them for us a glorious heritage. Deprived of the life of these men and the fruition of their labors, New berry would have sustained an irre parable loss. And I would that the iron tongue of the old college bell could be made to articulate; and that, when it rings out each morning its cal to the duties of the day, it might peal forth alternately the names of Smeltzer and Holland, as it summons the youth of Carolina to come and drink of the sweet waters and be fill ed .with the vigor of their guardian spirits. While we would keep forever green -he memory of these noble men, we must not allow to pass into oblivion :he trun worth, the acknowledged enus the unfaltering faithfulness, and the? matchless self-se'ricie of one 10..i s'oi hy N'wberry ~ o!!ege dur rnni Address ich, Class of '79, of Hous ni AssociAtion of New oday, June 6, 1911. with intellectual attainments tnat could command the call of greater schools, wit an aptness to teach that gave him high rank as an instructor, and with a sympathy for those who sought his aid in threading the laby rinth of the most bewitcing of the seiences that relieved work of its tedium and the daily task of its irk somen-ess. he did a service for our alma mater and for many of us that we should never forget. It is today one of my chi.f pleasurs to weave the garland of my affection, esteem and loving remembrance around the name of Daniel Arrington. To this trio of govu men tcnt true, I beg your indulgence, while yet an other name is added. In the rush and greed of this strenuous modern life, it is most refreshing and Inspir ing to find a soul that can riLe above the low level of sensuousness and avarice; and unmindful of temporal success and earthly fame, seeks and finds the walk in the higher spheres of the intellect and the spirit He gave himself and his talents to the service of Newberry college without material reward, standing always for the beautiful and the true, a delightful companion, a loyal friend, and a hum ble Christian. May the wild flowers that he loved so well ever grow and keep fragrant the spot in Rosemont, where rests the mortal body of Or lando Benedict Mayer. If Newberry college had lived only long -enough to give to us these four men, her exis tence had been fully justified; but when we reflect upon her assured per manence, who is confident sufficiently of his own powers that he would esti mate her worth to future generations? Let us indulge the hope today that, before many years shall have passed, two more halls will adorn the college campus, bearing the names of Arring 'ton and Mayer. Let them, with the two already there, stand upon the four corners of a sacred quadrangle where in none may enter who values self above service and prefers superstition and s,lavery to enlightenment and freedom. The causes that have given us Newberry college are those that al ways and alone make for the safe ad vancement of civilization and the true elevation of the race. When primitive man stood Eace to face with the strang'e but beautiful creation about him, the thrills that ran through 'his being must have early awakened in him the desire to know his environ ment and to surmise his destiny. In his circumspective and introspective moods there must have flashed across his puzzled brain gleams of the ideals that were to draw him ever onward and ever upward to the dizzy heights we now inhabit. -Nor is it strange that In his bewilderment, he should have given to these ideals "a local habita tion and a name." Being a child in experience, to him the abstract was inconceivable and only the concrete was a reality. When he would define his conception of hieroism, of physical courage, and of patriotic devotion to home and country, he embodied 'his ideals in an Achilles, a Diomede, and a Hector. When he would exemplify his children the qualities that make his notion of cunning he fashioned Ulysses. When he would teach one great, he told them the story of Hercules and his larbors. These are now but myths for the de light of the schoolboy; but when given their proper place, they become the first efforts of the spirit to shape the impulses of man's desire and search to learn the truth. Simultaneous]y, from another land there began to flow a stream of ideals which were to supersede all others; and become in modern times the source of all great power, the inspira tion of all great hopes, the instrument of all great achievement. The shep herd watching his flocks by night on the hills of Chaldea, and contemplat ing the vast universe above and around him, caught glimpses of what lay hidden, and set in motion a train of thought that finally brought forth, as it reached the peaks of human vis ion, the eloque:2t lines of the sweet est singer of Israel: "The heavens declare the glory of Ge And the firmanent sheweth his handy work. Day unto day uttereth speech IAnd night unto night showeth knowl1 T erdge."th gz h it tHe mam. mntea1. r:wn rov ( for political and military supremacy. iv Each made conquesltCs aid levi"d tri- fr bite. The patriotism of the Spartan U has never been surpassed, while the 1 p Athenian's love for his mother city g Isuffers not in com'parison. Sparta r( died at Thermopylae; Athens won at ei Marathon and Salamis; three battles p; fought to save Grecian civilization. h. As rival Sta: es working out their sev- P eral problems, they have histories E that are remarkably parallel. They ol 1reathed the same air, lived in the a: shadows of the same mountains, look- a: ed up 1a awe to the -ame sublime tl Olympus. ;nd bowed at the shi,i!les of a: 'he sam- oracles. And ye: if there si had never been such a city as Sparta w the worla would be none thi worse; bi b,t if :Le glorious legacy of Athens li were to be lost, we shoul have c) a: begin anew the developm-it ot our tl civilization. A nation has a spiritual - and intellectual life as well as a phy- p sical existence. Sparta saw thp ma- r terial side alone, and lived it exclu- nr sively; Athens saw and lived both, al ways and consistently giving the pref- t, erence to that whence ideals are born o: and whence the best fruitage comes. a: Rome, basing her permanence upon f( her belief in her foreordained destiny, rose to the proud eminence of mistress v of the world. Her instrument was the p: sword; her ideal, the valor of her 1e- ir gions. The rights of man were ignor ed, the principles of justice were trod- I g: den under foot, the blessings of liber- s ty were hers alone by fiat of Jove ti and decree of fate. She thought her- e( self. secure. And yet, at the moment tt of greatest confidence, her founda tions were already sinking and the i w vast structure was leaning to its fall. p1 1"When the crash came, the wreck was o so complete, the ruin so terrible, and ni the chaos so profound, that a thou- tj sand years rolled by before men. em- c( erged from the desolation, recovered1st as blest they could what remained s, of the fragments, a, J set up aneW the -m ideals of the race. ti But Rome had fulfilled her mission. m There was much of evil that had been Ic destroyed; there was much of good - that had survived. Upon her system qi of jurisprudence modern nations have i0 bulilt their codes and their constitu-.e tions. It is one of the most remark- pl able facts in history, that upon the mI foundations laid by three ancient na- TI tions the superstructu're of modern pl civilization ha.s been built. In the h words of a gifted writer: "As God . ha chose the Greeks to teach the world - a knowledge~ of beauty, and that they ~J might do .so more effectively, endowed'fC them with a marvellously developed d artistic sense, and as lie chose the c Romans to teach the world a knowl- - edge of administration, and to that t~ end endowed them with a genius ior w organization; so He chose the He- t brews to teach the world a knowledge. of Himself, and of man's rigirt rela- 1 0 ions to Him, and for that purpose I'a4 bestowed upo'n the race a genius for h. religion." Hebrews, Greeks, Roa-tet three instruments; thetheidas Law, Beauty, Love! The invention of printing, the re-' ai vival of learning, the protestant Re- i form-n ion, and tha c'scovery of~ America are four events that haven nol ' parallel in the 'history of the world. d~ After the long darkness of the Middle T Ages, they come to tell us of the ap proach of a brighter day. They come, I to break the chains that have bound fi men in the sl'avery of ignorance and D superstition and to give new life to their dying hopes. I The arctic traveller tells us that the . Escuimaux, after passing through the i 6 long night of his dreary winter, when c first he sees in the Southern sky the faint glimmer of light that heralds the'K coming day, climbs to the top of some ice-hill and there watches with glad heart for the first sight of the rising sun. So the philosopher, after pass-t ing through the long night that had qi benumbed Europe with the chill of in- ti tellectual death, began to climb once di more the hill of knowledge that he s too might catch the first glimmer of another sun-a sun that was to reveal c( anew the ideals of the race: friLnd- id ship and love, faith and duty, vever-t ece and l.har:a.11 The age in which we live is so wed- c~ ded to the pursuit of wealth and a~ power; we are so prone to value theH man by the amount of his material ti possessions; the demand is made so ti insistently upon the individual that, ai he achieve something in the business i world; the influences of Mammon have so completely permeated out na- ii tional and our social lite; materialism ~ has so vaunted her asserted triumph over our faith in man's spirit ar.d its ti immortality; and the great centres of arnghave Lecome so surcharged h w th th'e tenetsof agztitleism, hat e ri"ay te ipas 0:a:1 -ie cnse T .;zien r1form1 MOV(M0n modlern times. It made England ee, it made possible the American nion. it helped to make France a re iblic. it has made constitutional >vernment possible throughout Eu >pe. and in its far reaching infil ice has awakened the people of Ja in. Turkey. and even China. It need irdly be said that I refer.to English uritanism, the movemnt led by ampden. Milton and Cromwell. In ir modern life of sensu<is pleasure id heedless rush, in our fast living id faster dying, it is too frequently Le fashion to ridicule the so called fected piety of Barebones and the mpering meekness of Pym. But! hen all the sophistry of ridicule has en spent in the vain attempt to be tte the Puritan's earnest purpose id all the stings of sarcasm have lost Leir venom, there remains this fact. 4the Puritan reformation has accom lished more for civilization and hu an freedom than any other move ent in recent times. That the result is due to the Pur .n's ideals let the testimony of one England's most learned historians id her most brilliant essayist be of red. "They ascribed every event to the ill of the Great Being, for whose >wer nothing was too vast, for whose spection nothing was too minute. . . The difference between the -eatest and the meanest of mankind emed to vanish, when compared to e boundless interval which separat the whole race from Him on whom, eir own eyes were constantly fixed. . . If they were unacquainted ith the works of philosophers and >ets, they were deeply read in the -acles of God. If their names were t found in the register of heralds, .ey felt assured that they were re orded in the Book of Life. If their eps were not accompanied by a lendid 'train of menials, legions of inistering angels had charge over em. Their palaces were homes not ade with hands: their diadems owns of glory, which should never ,de away! On the rich and the elo ient, on nobles and priests, they oked down with contempt: for they teemed themselves rich in a more ecious legacy and eloquent in a ore sublime language, nobles by the ght of an ea,rlier creation, and 'iests by the imposition of a mightier ind. . .. For his sake empir(e id risen and flourished and decayed. . He prostrated himself in the ist before his Maker; but he set his4 at on the neck of his king. In his ~votional retirement he prayed with nvulsions and groans and tears. . . But when he took his seat. in e council, or girt on his sword for ar:, these tempestuous workings of e soul had left no perceptible trace hind them. People who saw nothing the god-ly, but their uncout-h vis ~es and heard nothing from them it their groans . . . might laugh them. But those had littl'e reason laugh who encountered them in .e hall of debate or in the field of tttle.. . . They had their smiles id their tears, their raptures and eir sorrows. ,. . Enthusiasm had ade them stoics . . . and (had). ised them above the influence ofI i.nger and of corruption. ... dey went through the world' ingling with human beings, but hay g neither part nor lot in human in cmities; insensible to fatigue, to easure and to pain; not to be pierc [ by any weapon, not to be withstood r any banrier." Little wonder is it that men with ich ideals have so directed the! >urse,of hum'an events that their in-' ience will be felt to the ~remotest merations. Were we fired with the same idea'is id enamored of the same purpose, ould the scandals of political life, e lapses in moral conduct, the ini-1 iities of divorce, the shameless prac 3e of high finance, and the general acadence of the spirit of worship be patent and so rampant? The seventeenth and the eighteenth ntury was preeminently an age of eals. We have not yet reaped all of .e first harvest of its fruitage. "You ay repel an invading army, but you tn not check an invasion of ideas"' 'e the pregnant words of Victor ugo. When he uttered this great1 uth, he must have had in mind the emendous influence of Voltaire in ousing France to her might strug e for freedom. The English historian Green testi as to the fact that, although, when t ritten. the 'Utopia of Sir Thomas oore was reeived, even by the more oughtful, as a delightful fancy eant only to entertain. Englishmen~ U GOOD URPRICE YOU CAN'l From the fact that e gets a square deal or i actly what you are I WE SELL TRI that's the whole story. V and as little as possible, so Our Goc>cd Our Prices We therefore truthfully cl a BARGAIN TRADE F offer bears the same relatic that a Diamond does to ot' chief of all. Some dealer! gain" and trust to the nat Our Bargains Are Gei And best of all bargains ol prove to you that you can us than any'where else. 0. KLE THE FAIR-SQ CHARLOT T From Now Un Basebal Cash Must Ac< The OBSERV. 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Augusta, Ga. e election for the said puxrpose g,boveJ . named is hereby ordered to be 14 at the school house of said distrct conducted by the trustees of the di trict as managers, on the 6th day9o June, 19311, beginmnng at 8 o'clock a. ma., and closing at 4 P. mf., a reistra. tion certificate and poll tax receipt 7being necessary t.o vote in this elec3~ dtion. All voters favoring the tax WIIA 0,ivote "yes," against the tax "no." t, J. S. Wheeer,, eS. J. Derrick, rE. 0. Counts, leCounty Board of Eduicatlon. /