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CRANDESTJHINC IN LIFE.
SPUNDIO fSSAl RUB AT THE HIGH
SCHOOL COMIMNnWJIT fRIDAT
B) MISS IPUSf.lEACN.
The following is the prite essay
re*<J at the V\ alterboro Lligh School
comment 'ment hy Miss Louise Lsjach
of Oi- tenth gra-it 1 :
What is the grandest thing in life 0
start in th# career which opens to’
the grandest possibillities of an in-i
telligenrand immortal being.
Do you realize what a peeress*
pnveiege it is to be young?- Youth
. is admitted by ail to be the most
fas<*inating period of life, with its
I freshness, its enthusiasm ar.d confi
dence. frankly responding to every
act of kindness and opening the heart
; to every overture of love. “Youth
j is the time when we own the world
and the fullness thereof. Youth, like
b it «.<*lth? Men have *.ld them.! N*P«l«>n. MM the world »nd pro-
aeivet. for (fold. Ls it fame?' Men conquer it. Aoulh seee
havenpiidured the snowi and ice of mountlrrj and d«n« to dimb them;
the rmiar reKiona for fame. N„, atone walU. and dares to beat them
it is th** p'sw.'Sior. • f a noble ch-irac- down; chasms and dares to bridge
M>r them.” ' \outh here at the begtrung
The fo relation of civil purity, 1 of the twentieth century has all k»
the pr tgres. and civil,ration of the tor >' "" ) a " lan,is ,,)r <‘cmesne.
nations depend up r. individuai;char- though it may live in a cottage ora
o -u-r Charavtcr i 1 power in a much cabin. It has fonts birthright every
higher sense than knowledge is pow- '1'tcovery. every invention, every
{conquest since the world tiegan.
* No matter what ir ay be one’s call- j y " ulh -1<* whom Shakespeare wrote
mg in life, whether a polisher of for whom Newton and Edison solvrd
-ouis or a polisher, of boots, n.ir th<! n >y* tMi « ,>f ,h<- wo M ' an ' i f,,r
whal place in society, all have need I whom the twentieth century is pre-
of essentially the same character ; Paring to o|ien its golden gates of
LETTER FROM TH£ CAPITOL
OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
AGAIN fAVORS US WITH AN IN
TERESTING NEWS LETTER.
lilly u;e ''aint* cr.arMcier |
< harHt‘b*r, not abiuty, plecteij Wash-
■ngtonand Lincoln to the presidency.
Amsnwh ) na.< lost his character,
na.c also lost his influence for good.
t;har*>'ter id everything to a man.
Thai gone, there is no place for him
in tTie uqiver.se. “Cash or Character”
is the f )rm that the question takes
with rn my men in their accumula
tion of wealth. Riches never give
character, although there are not a
few men of wealth whose force of
promise.
But let me emphasize the fact that
character is above everything. It is
the only indestructible material in
destiny’s fierce crucible. Character
is itself a rank and an estate. Char
acter stands confident and trustful in
the presence of God himself, (ienius,
so often lauded, fails frequently of
its aim for want of character. In
summing up all let me borrow the
o
phrase of a gifted man of „our own
character is strong enough to with- “ nr,e ' , ...
"Live out truly your human life
stand the temptation of riches. I
Wealth often makes men indolent’,
proud, self-indulgent. Luxury injf
xidioudy eats away the noble traits
*>f character.
Honesty, to my mind, will be the
first requisite of character. And to
have it when a man or woman, one
must have it in youth. Honesty
as a human life; not as a supernat
ural life, for you are a man and not
an angel; not as a sensual life, for
you are a man and not a brute; not
as a wicked life, for you are a man
and not a demon; not as a frivolous
life, for you are a man and not an
insect. Live each day the true life
of a man today; not yesterday’s life
c<mu*s from a seed of earlv planting. , , „ ,
_ , , . tL on v. lest you become a visionary;
Mow many and how great are the . , . ,
but the life of happy yesterday and
confident tomorrow the life of today,
unwounded by the Parthion arrows
,of yesterday and undarkened by the
i possible cloudland of tomorrow.”
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excellencies of honesty, which go in
to the make-up of a true character.
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Generosity is another element of
rruo character, so rich and impor
tant that, every young person ought
to know its value. Honesty alone
ha» no heart in it. Generosity puts
a heart into it. helps it to feel, to
pity, to sympathize. Generosity,
tlieicf ire, iatheSjual of honesty in
the m tke-up of good character.
T\n ity is a very strong element in
a go->d character. Virtue in the
MeitMc of a commanding love of things
right, just, true, and pure, is per-
baps the divinest quality a human
tfoul may possess. Our youthful
period, then, in life, is, in many re
spect*. the most dangerous. If we 1
could realize the untold value of •
keeping pure! Then we could go in- ’ SKCUITY
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of childhood, how glorious would we p. m. to 7 p. m. Phone 3fi94.
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To The Pres* and Standard: —The •
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World’s Sunday Sch<x>l Convention
i* past. History will record it as one
of the greatest conventions of its
kind. Truly it was a wonder. But
I am g«n'ng to leave that to our
thy Coileton delegation to pen
See that you get the soul sti
facts. " •
Am going to tell you of my first
hodday Memorial Day in Washing-
ton. At ten o’clock among hundreds J
and hundreds of people we jammed
and squeezed on the fine steel steam-1
er “Charles Maealister,” all three!
decks being so crowded that there |
was barely sitting room on stools
Tfv-n with Hags !i>ing. music play- )
ing, singing, eating, etc., we took in
the sixteen miles of the most beau- |
tiful Potomac scenery, passing such ;
places as Parks, C. S. Arsenal, War
(xillege. Arlington, St. Elizabeth,
Insane Asylum, Alexandra-the first
capitol of Virginia, which also con
tains Christ Church, where Washing
ton worshipped -Ft. Foote, Ft Wash
ington, Ft Hunt, U. S. Fish Commis
sions and finally Mt. Vernon. Lemg
before you land you can take in its
magnificence. Its scenery is beyond
description. The rolling green hills,
trees, grasses and flowers of every
kind, with walks meandering here
and there. The tomb is even more
beautful than its picture, and such
rare and beautiful flowers placed
over their remains on this day.
From there we went even to the
barn, the stage coach, laundry,
kitchen with its huge hearth con
taining such queer pottery and a
brick oven; thence we went to the
mansion. The rooms were all open.
Washington’s chair in the library
looked as though he had recently got
ten up from it. The dining room,
the room in which Lafayette was en
tertained. the Ruier room, the Green
*ipom, W'a.shingt%,’s room and Mriw
Washington’s room especially are
attractive. The “old timey” bed
steads and counterpanes that our
grandmothers wove, are there. The
relic room, where we saw the wed
ding dress, ear rings, slippers, buck
les, guns. horns, etc., ?tc., made one
realize that history is no dream. The
flower gardens and vegetable gar
dens. still cultivated so successfuly,
were viewed.
As we were looking at the old bell,
it tolled for us to go back to the
ship. Then the stampede from the
four comers of the spacious grounds
came. This correspondent is going
again by cars and spend the whole
day and see and see.
Don’t think that the thousands are
turned loose there. Guards aie to
the right, front, left and back of you
and iron lattice doors built semi-cir
cular admit you into the rooms so
far and and no further. The low
walls with its %ueer paperings are
quite unlike our walls of todays
Arlington cemetery - the National
cemetery was next visited. Another
beauty. Think of Broxton township
made into a grass covered lawn with
beautiful trees, walks, drives, and
rivers here, there and everywhere
with myraids of graves laid out m
rows, each containing a flag, some
many, and a bunch of flowers, some
covered with the rarest kind, m every
design, shape, color that man can
conceive ox, and you will have some
idea of Arlington cemetery; especial
ly if you can put it on the Virginia
banks of the Potomac, overlooking
Washington. The numberless graves
have a simple marble slab. The rich
and great have such tombs and
monuments as man can devise.
The stand for the exercises were
covered in Old Glory and trailing
wistaria vines. Twenty-seven thous
and were counted there as visitors
on that day. Cars going and coming
every minute were crowded. In the
dty ahe markets and florists were an
avalanche of flowers, but by noon
they were all on the graves. The
flowers alone cost thousands of dol
lars.
This is getting too long, but must
teUvouabont two Oklahoma boys,
aged 6 and 9 years, who are creating
some notoriety here. These little
boys have ridden their ponies here
from Oklahoma enroute to meet
Roosevelt when he lands. Thrones
visit them at the hotel, so much so
that they begged the crowd to let
themakmejsaying that they were
just kids. Thqr have called on Presi
dent Taft at the White House, who
oked with them. They have tickets
dr expenses and' handle no money.
Folk are still looking for the com
et, but have heard of no tears being
away by its tail.
Wei *
still havg plenty of work, but
satisfied with position.
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