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■ -i i i/ t Wi III THE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper In the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY --PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE THE RELIABILITY of Every Advertiser Who Usee the Columns of This Paper. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. * A Newspaper in All that the Word Implies and Devotdd to the Best Interest of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. f “OUR DUTY TO THE OLD SELF” THE MAGNIFICENT ADDRESS OF PROF. GORE. The Closing Exercises at Limestone College Wednesday Evening a Pro nounced Success. The crowning event at Limestone College was the exercises of Wednes day evening, when the graduating ex ercises proper took place. The audi torium was literally packed with the beauty and chivalry of the land, and the young ladies of the College never showed to better advantage and vied with each other in showing atten tion to their guests. The following was the program of the occasion: Prelude Corelli Miss Annie Willimon Invocation The Rev. A. M. Simms, D. D. Welcome Pretty Primrose .. Pinsutti Misses Sarratt, Baker, Lockwood and Huff Address: Our Duty to the Older Self Prof. James H. Gore, B. S., Ph. D. Hayk! Hark! the I^ark .... Schubert Misses Lockwood, Bak' r, Huff Farewell Words to the Giaduates The President of the College Impromptu .. . Schubert Miss Mary Alice Dew Presentation of Diplomas Presentation of Gold Medal to Miss Annie McLaurin, for the best his torical essay. Vale .. .. Barnaby-Brewer Misses Baker, Lockwood, Huff Benediction The following is the full text of Professor Gore’s address: It was with especial pleasure that I accepted the invitation to be present tonight. I feel as though I were per mitted to look upon a few more of my many intellectual grandchildren, for you have been students of my student and I suspect more than one fancy of my brain has been transmitted to yours and perhaps some of the jokes which met with encouraging smiles have been passed along to enliven your class room hour. Your accomplished president for four years sat before me and in his ea ger search for knowledge and thorough gras” of stated facts I found an in spiration. The relation of teacher and taught changed to that of colleagues and for several joyous years we daily discussed the affairs of life, and stood together in every fight for broad cul ture and deeper learning. Though following widely different lines of work we had this common interest so deep and so abiding tint time has fail ed to make it less nor has distance hazed its outline. I feel that in a measure I gave him to this community, for when your call came he sought mv advice and while anticipating my personal loss in his £oine , I realized your greater gain in his coming. 1 felt like Saul buckling on the armor of David as I gave the parting advice and paternal blessing. I have come to look upon bis strug gles and on every hand I see the word “Victorious.” I may, therefore, be pardoned if for a moment I rejoice as might an older man wb^ sees the labor of his son well applauded and rightly crowned. The life of the average person can he divided into two distinct parts though the boundary line is not clear ly defined nor does it come at a fixed age. They are periods of giving and receiving and the object involved in thf^ transefer is advice. During the the tim P spent in school and college one must submit to the counsel of others and later on repay the debt with interest in the shape of advice to those who are younger. In the matter of advic e it may be said by both parties to the transaction that it is “more blessed to give than to receive.” The students in leaving the college halls feels that lhp time is at hand when patient listening to the dictates of others and reluctant following of their suggestions can give way to dog matic statements and confident as surance of what is right and best. coming into this longed for con dition of graduate the student can pa raphrase the ejactulation of the re cent negro convert who In coming from the water in which he had been baptized into a disputatious church, exclaimed, ‘‘Now bless the Lord, I’se ready for a ’spute.” Your cry can be "Now I'm ready to advise.” However, there is just one moment more before you reach that lofty height and during that moment there can be spoken a few words having a warning note whose echo lies far ahead. In the years of college life you have learned grammar, the art of word se quence: you have studied rhetoric, the art of sentence sequence; and you have mastered logic the art of thought sequence. With these accomplish ments you find yourselves qualified to think aright, to put your ideas in graceful forms and please the ears of your hearers by correctness of speech. These attainments of the past are for the delectation of the present, hut have the greatest value in the promise that they will Illumine the future. Comfort has been sought in Tenny son's linea: “But who can forecast the years, ‘io find in loss a gain to match. Or reach a hand through time to catch The far-off interest of tears?” This comfort is postmortem—it sug gests the silent room and quivering lips. What we seek is the anti-nuptial promise of joyous days when fear mingles / with hope to make It cautious, and the far-away future has in dis tance its only query. You are about to wed with life—the larger life—a life with its gratitude to the past, its duties to the present and obligations to the future. A realiza tion of achievements points out the debt to the past and a conception of the relation the individual bears to th- community plainly shows the pre sent duty, but the obligation to the future is personal, It concerns one’s self and touches others only through th- expanded, the ennobled self. This I have chosen to call “Youth’s debt to the older self.” It is more than likely that the obli gation to which I refer would not satisfy the legal definition of debt, lacking, as it does, the essential evi dence of value received. In that re spent, however, it is quite similar to the debt of allegiance we owe to the State, a debt incurred in seeing over us a protecting arm, a debt that is usually discharged in a readiness to render aid in case of need. There is such a thing as debt in an ticipation. “Whatsoever a man sow- eth, that shall he rea ” was said by the Apostle to stimulate the wavering Gallatians and the botanist will as sure us that plant biography teaches us the same lesson. Knowing that thp harvest yet to come depends up on the sowing, it behooves the seek er after full garners to plant well and wisely. The planted seed of spring time owes a debt to the summer har vest. The facts acquired today become to morrow’s food for thought and the suc cesses achieved one day are the ret wards of opportunities seen and seiz ed on a day before. There is a period between ten aud thirty, speaking roughly, which should be dovoted to acquiring that facility of hand or mind that makes it possi- ble for the owner to attain to wealth or at least, to earn a living. In this period should be spun the warp and wool with which imagination may weave pleasing fancies. This is also the time for stringing the intricate wires of the mind along which the thoughts of later years are to flash and fo- the forming of channels that aie to conduct the slower reasoning from hypothesis to conclusion. In this period the mind should be like a sponge and every drop of infor mation seen should be absorbed. It may never he needed, but like the re volver that lies in the bureau drawer, the-e may come a time when its po- session will satisfy a burning want or afford a comlortable feeling of se curity. Within this time the reading should be varied and the curriculum so extended as to touch mauj topics and so widened that sympathy may Ite felt for all knowledge. The imagination paints for us our pretties): scene's and gives to their characters thp attributes of life. But being wholly a recreative faculty/ it can only assemble and rearrange the elements that once came under actual experience. You who wish to dis charge youAobligation to your older self—tile selfMnto which you will pass in the fullness of time—should rather a knowledge of many facts and store them away in memory’s vaults, so that the imagination in the later days mav have abundant material to throw into kaleidoscopic images, varied to fit the passing whim. Then too, the experiences of the earlier years are thp reminiscences of \he even-tide of life. There is unfortunately a rush on the part our young people to “begin life,” to start upon a career, to enter some profession. Too little consider ation is paid to the fact that few of ns give more than a third of each day to exacting professional or obligatory work. What is done with the six or more hours that remain after deduct ing time for repose? In these hours we seek entertainment in those dir^c- titms tor which earlier 1‘fe has givVi the preparation. The oerson whV knows but one thing finds congenial company only in a single clajjs and the likelihood of meeting one of that class during the leisure hours is slight at best. Occupying, as we do, three dimensional space, whose volume in creases with the cube of one dimen sion, it is safe to assume that the per son who has a two-fold interest would find eight times as many congenial companions as if but a single subject could fascinate. If men had been created void of speech, the single idea man would not rest upon society as an incubus. He could sit wrapt up in his one subject* muse upon his great knowledge and in his ignorance of the joys and pleas ures of others, gloat over his narrow possessions. But being blessed with the powers of communication he is a member of a community to which he must be a contributor as well as a re- cipitent from his fellows. To be all things to all men is a reproach when it applies to vacillating or conscience less character, but when it can be used in the sense that his sympathies are broad enough to feel in harmonv with each and every spirit, the reproach melts into praise and such a one is looked upon as enjoying the greater blessing of giving. Many a fond fathef' Uas watched his infant son and think he saw an em bryonic engineer in the way a sense less toy was grasped and then seek GAFFNEY, 8- C., FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1906. in*" to give that direction to his stu- to produce the maximum of results. perplexity is where to throw it. Ten dies from the multiplication tables oneThe sluggard has been sent to the years later the problem is reversed has spoiled the making of a good; ant to learn a lesson of positive wis-1 and the anxiety is where will he be farmer or an able statesman. A proud mother has observed a mu sical genius in the baby daughter cry- i»" in a major key—when the minor chords are more common and long be fore the little hand could compass the needed octave or the voice avoid its breaking, music lessons and practiced scales were made to take the time better spent In healthful sport and wholesome reading. Both of these occurrences—far from rare—have their impulse in the cry for specialization—that narrow r - ing process that narows results— that selfish striving with self as a pin nacle, a pent-up Utica with contract ed powers. The alphabet is the first circle of humane knowledge. Around this and upon this w e build by slow and tedi ous processes, and the wise parent and skillful teacher will see to it that no layer will overlap the foundation nor will they permit a restricted base or a too early narrowing of the super structure. Many of us have seen the graceful shaft erected to honor Washington in the city of his name. It was run up to a goodly height and when it was desired to built it higher it was found that it would be unsafe to place great er weight upon the narrow base. On many occassions I w'atched the tedi ous underpinning—saw the workmen dig deep and narrow' channels run ning from the center of the monument to an equal distance beyond the base, saw them run the draws, as they were called, under all four sides at the same time, then pack these full and light, with crushed stone and cement. When these w'ere hardened into a solid mass, other draws were run in and filled, then others until all the earth for a depth of twenty feet was replaced by a cement foundation four times as broad as the original—a work requiring many months and costing thousands of dollars more than if a similar base had been pro vided in the first instance. After the broader and deeper foun dation w r as complete the shaft felt se cure as it thrust its way upward to the golden point that cans its summit five hundred and fifty feet away the buried base of common rubble. In education the principle of basic ■breadth and depth is as important as it is in engineering. If it be contract ed by a limited view of the directing forces, the knowledge that rests upon it will be hemed in by danger signals flashing "Thus far shall thou go and j no further,” and its Possessor, mov ing about in this little circle, hesitates to approach its boundaries conscious of its narrowness but ignorant of its real limitations. , If upon insufficient preparations a dom. The prudent can go to the ant thrown. If a woman, there is no and learn a negative lesson of equal such query—there is no doubt—half value. He would see, by analogy, the; of the world is at her feet and the folly of trying to pile a fact upon a | other half is standing for lack of single fact, fixing one principle above ’ kneeling space. another principle, planting one truth upon another in thp restless desire to We, boastful men, calling one an other lords of creation, find ourselves mount higher and higher. He could vanquished in the presence of a but- see that these facts, principles and j tonless button hole. )Ve claim that truths would roll down and down and : w’e are heads of households and com- not rest until their lines of gravity would fall well within the base—until each rested firmly uiwu more than one. He would realize that the more nolished each fact, the m< re rounded each principle, the greater would be the celerity of its downward flight to a sure foundation. But to return to our ant-hill. After wea- - cycles of endeavor, failure and success, the grains of sand take on the conical shape of quiescent matter and at the top there rests a single grain with its proud transporter—one grain, one carrier. The boy clinging tenaciously to the stool held In part nership with his sister said, ”If one of us would get down, 1 should have more room.” The lone ant with his lone burden that crowned the s immit saw his sisters roll down one by one— holding fast to the grain of sand that each essayed to place on top—rolling down crushed and mangled by the in- animated weight (hat in mute resis tance had been borne upward a mo ment before. It is a pathetic ending to a struggle between thoughtless in- stipet and blind sleepless gravity. Thp ant, standing above upon the dearly bought pinnacle, might well re gard his success with pride. He would be justified if in looking around and seeing no rival on an equal olane he should inwardly rejoice that he had no peer. He was high up in the esti mation of his own world and the height had been reached in a great measure by his own endeavor. It was his own uplift, and not being actuated bv any altruistic motives, he would most likely resent the intrusion of an other and rest in selfish enjoyment. We find in the intellectual world just such plodding spirits. They may show greater shrewdness in profiting by the attainments of others but the «ne great absorbing desire is to reach a height overlooking all others. The cross-section of their self-erected mountain is an ever smaller circle as it upward grows until finally it be comes a point—a fitting resting place for " shriveled soul. There, upon this great height we find a specialist—wild-eyed and long haired, who, not feeling the touch of others, turns his sympathies inward and is an egotist; knowing only of the struggles of his fellows and nothing of their successes feels the flush of victory and is heartless. He looks up- specialtv be erected in the feverish j on his achievement and pronounces haste to build quickly we have pre-1 the verdict first heard on the evening sented perhaps a graceful structure,! ' the sixth day: “It is good.” lifting ils cap stone beyond the view | of admiring beholders, but so insecure : that it trembles under its own weight land sways with every I last of c iM- i eism. The narrow foundation rests Ho boasts as did the genius of Babylon: “It is I who made the Eu phrates.” He regards his life spent, oerhaps, in ^seeking to exhaust the third declension and finds as his re j upon too few facts of eternal, immo-j ward the regret that he had been too ! vable truth, and they in the hurry to diffusive and should have confined j bear the towering shaft were not fitly ; himself to the dative case. He nar- I V ined together. To be secure, to be | rowed himself and exalted his opinion I enduring the fundamental elements of . of himself. He stomed his associ- j knowledge should intertwine, inter- stes, and his associates scorned lace and interlock. Upon such a base him. He was in the world there can he erected a veritable light but not of it, and when Death house against which the waves of removed him from his dizzy height superstition, calumny ami ignorance will dash only to he broken-into mist and foam whose every particle, catch ing up the ray* of light from above, will themselves, for an instant at there went forth a cry: “Behold! this <b'’• a mighty man has fallen!” Yo one would be so bold as to say that specialists are not performing a great service—but to be useful to I least, become sources of glory before fellows and tolerable to himself falling back into the sea of remorse- he must carry with him in his uplift less ignorance. Such a beacon is not | ?T „ )r e than a single topic: he must, in later life, when will power is of warning. It does nvt point out finally rest on a net work of corre- needed for other purposes, the shoals of prejudice ^uor reefs of oh- lated subjects. He must he familiar i thoughts can flow .along almost un- '•tinacy. It invites *to quite harbors j w jth the attainments of others and watched, and loose thinking will not where gtorm-tossed doubts can find an i appi-^cjating what the - have done j b e the penalty for youthful negli- anchorage or make fast to tree trunks a( hj his knowledge to their knowl- gence. munlties, but if man is the head, wo man is the neck that turns the head, and while she may be the conundrum that defies our guessing she is a con- nundrum that we will never give up. What can we advise those who are just passing into the dignity of the graduate world? Good resolutions have been formed. Some of these will he laid aside with the class books and diplomas. Many ask from ready teachers lists of hooks to he read the coming winter, and a few make prom ises to widen their acquaintance with the practical affairs of life. Have you read the life of Helen Keller? That talented daughter of the Southland, deprived by illness of bight and speech and hearing? She stands beside life’s shut gate, know ing that on the other side there is light, music and sweet companionship, but she says: “I try to make the light in other’s eyes my sun, the sic in other s ears my symphony, the smile on other’s lips my happiness.” She studied patiently and reveled in each newly acquired fact. Denied those impressions that are carried in by these senses of sight and hearing, much time is passed in reflection and the garnered thoughts iilumine her soul so that she can walk serene aud happy in the shadow cast by her de privation. For her, knowledge is not power—it is happiness, it is joy— iiooding the soul unseen with a sound- le"s * , dal wave of deepening thought. A college diploma is hers and ^to the achievements of college days she pays tnis tribute: “To have knowledge— broad, deep knowledge—is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s prog ress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not fee' in these pul sations a heavenward striving one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.” To each of us there w#l come days when the cherished vocations cannot attract and nights that long for wider pleasures. What preparation are we making for these? The training for life’s duties cannot suffice. It is not the working hour alone that lies be fore us and selfish ends should give way to larger loves and heavenly «har- ities. The man, who in the vigor of youth, made for himself only one path to the mountain heights can, as he grows older enjoy but a single view. Had h ft spent more time in making of roads and less in the coining of gold, his horizon would have been more ex tended. In the mystic mazes of the mind there are paths marked out by our own thoughts—thoughts guided by our wills. If the will relaxes its at tention the thought forsakes the di rect route if another path is easier, and the road that started so plainly from the hypothesis or concept Is lost in its manifold ramifications before th' conclusion is reached. It is of vital importance, therefore, that in the great mind fttdd of youth, unscar red as yet by misleading paths, direct lines be laid out; and along these the will with the strictest discipline should guide each thought until a deep pathway is beaten down. Then who#e roots reach wide "id deep into j the firm soil of enduring truth. Those of us to whom Is entrusted , the almost sacked duty of directing i the studies of the young—we who j have reached the vantage ground that enables us to giv*. advice, should la- edge; place his experience on top of I It is the duty of every one to be their experience. | well equipped for life’s work. It is The immediate applicability of a none the less the duty to make prep- new principle cannot b- its test of i arations for the enjoyment of life’s merit or value. Le Verrier saw leisure. The work-a-day world gives /Neptune in the perturbations of Uran- one the opportunity to struggle with us before it had been v een by the competition and battle for the su- bor and counsel afl who come under j oydoj.ean ey^ of the telescope. Men-1 premacy that has gratification of sej^* our influence to build wisely upon the deieef announced the existence of ish desires as its goal. The idle hour. new elements when the catalogue was' which invites the soul to renose is \‘ead. thought complete. The telephone was remorseful or pleasing, wasteful or \ The skillful builder is careful not a useless toy ui\til Bell made electric- profitable, according as the earlier itv the vibratory agent. Instances without number could be given show- broad foundation for which I lave lead. The skillful builder is careful not to\have one tier over-reach the one Le- loWv He will avoid the inverted pyra mid and for security as well as s >’ ni 'jing how practice paused for theory, metn* he will have tapering inward how the artisan’s hand was freed by rather than outward. a servant's brain. Passing from the simile to the j We are ready to honor science for thought in hand, I would urge that , sc j ence 8 ake and revere knowledge. flrmative answer is given to the ques- this contracting process he neither I w jthout thought of gain. We wel-1 tion, “Am I, in the social world, my rapid nor ultimately come to a geo- come the discovery of argon without brother’s keeper?" hours of life were spent in pushing a specialty to a noxious height or broadening the life of culture: accord ing as the purpose was to know all of one thing or somethin" of all things, or whether a negative or af- metrical point Have you ever watched an ant-hill in its formation? These industrious workmen, ignorant of eight-hour days and labor organizations, patiently and industriously bring to thp, upper surface the grains of sand one by one. The one thought seems to be to place each grain on the very top. but being room there for but a single one. the nuestioning its use and applaud the There will always he the geniuses endeavor to measure the earth ^ith a span or estimate the apnroach of a star by a spectroscopic line. to widen thp boundaries of knowl edge; talent divinely great to accom- lish the titanic tasks for which the Least of all would I deride a spec-, world stands waiting. They a^e like alist. for I myself am one In the em- the true poet who biyo and before this audience I would Chants as but the linnets sing not dare to denounce the cult for the And sings becaugp he must, president of your college has nassed I But their Impulsp to accomplish won- bevond the embryonic stage in fact he | der« did not come from the added ode others rool down to become a support /night be styled an intellectual mor- of Horace nor the extra year of Math- for another that failed to find a rest- mon, since he has been wooed and ematlos. Fires of genius cannot be in" place upon the summit. We may W on by map/ muses. smothered. Vesuvius-like, they burst applaud the ambition to place the self it is against the notion that every forth and, like the courseless lava, imposed burden where it promised to, atudent beyond the kindergarten ' may work destruction unless general contribute most to the end in view, should specialize that I am raising a culture has prepared the many chan- feeble protest. nels to conduct the discovery or in- It is idea for broad culture that I vention to thp waiting ocean of human earnestly make in this presence—! needs. culture for culture's sike; culture for The plea Is often made that certain Its owner’s sake; and culture for 'he studies must be pursued for discip- joy It brings to oth ?rs. linary purposes, and ofHmes we hear | At the close of the college course, the regretful remark that the years the student. If a man. thinks he has ( spent In college in this or that study the world In a sling and his only were wasted and the proof presented but we must sympathize with this Sisyphus of the insect world and wish that we might instruct the busy toiler that the greater part of his effoj .s could be saved if attention were first given to the foundation— to mak e that as broad as the desired height demanded, then each load could be placed with the minimum of labor 91.00 A YEAR. is the declaration that since then no use has been found for any fact so laboriously acquired. In both assertions there are lurk ing fallacies or assumption of power to properly align topics by name rather than the manner of presenta tion. Thus my own subject—mathe matics—has long been considered of value for its mental discipline. True it is, it can conduct an investigation or demonstration from accepted truths to ultimate conclusions; it can start with axioms, visibly tnip In the concrete and pass in stately measure without a stumble to conceptions that exist only in the abstract. As a science, mathematics is immune from locomotor ataxia, but it is not suffi cient to put down x look y’s and say therefore, thinking that in so doing "reat advance is made in the acquisi tion of mental strength. Mind growth, just as great and equally sure, can come from noting the colors on a butterfly’s wipg or tracing the convolutions of the shell of a snail. It mav take on its greatest incre ment while following Virgil’s gods and men moving through the scenes of passion and strife, and pity and love, or while palpitating with the thunder of the Old Tetsament as you catch “a glimpse of that perfection in which spirit and form dwell in im mortal harmony, truth and beauty bearing a new growth on the ancient stem of time.” Any study pursued systematically and with zest is disciplinary. No study regarded as a drudge and learn ed while longing to spend the time on other subjects can rank high for its training value. In the world of economics a promi nent place is given to the word “util ities,” and our popular mazazines hear this term on many pages. It has become the fashion to parade all that is plainly useful and deride every thing to which some omniscient being attached the label, '’Useless.” The age is utilitarian, and some there are who would wish to transmute into en ergy the mother’s kiss and the lover’s sigh. They would like to run a cot ton Kin with the labor wasted at church sociables and county fairs. Much time and investigation has been expended in the effort to deter mine the values of food taken into the human system and tables are giv en to show the efficiency of each sort and kind. But it is found that, so dif ferent are the powers of assimilation, that each individual would find it nec essary to submit to experimentation to learn his peculiar masterj over food, and changing day by day, as every one does, his table would be come encyclopaedic in size. He would know the articles of his bill of fare in caloric and nitrogen content and decline this or that favorite dish lie- cause he had satisfied the tabular de mands though he had not satisfied his appetite. Imagine the feelings of the good housewife when, to please her spouse, she prepared some tasty morsel and had as her reward the scientific assur ance that in consideration of the fact that the day’ 8 temperature, as pre dicted, would be 89 degrees, it would impair his efficiency if he partook ot food containing more than 13.3 calo ries per pound. Fortunately the young ladies will throw such tables to the wind when ice cream s :r!a is men tioned. If it is i mpossible, and it would be I tiresome if possible, to determine the j efficiency of food in preparing for one’s various occupations, how futile it is to attempt to say that in the I mysterious processes of the brain one ' study develops while another re- j lards; that one topic trains the rea son and another the v.-ill! All-around exercise trains the ath lete. Diversity of food stimulates di- ! gestion and gives vitality. Broad cul- j ture and study of many things will in sure mental vigor and alertness will make warmer hearts and more respon sive souls, and filling the life of its possessor tits him or her to round out a life which touches other lives and gladdens them in thp touching. Even looked mi from the baser util itarian side, it is my flr.n conviction that a man with a knowledge of the calculus will be a uetter coa: mer chant. for liis success depends upon the ability to prejudge the future de mands from present conditions. I believe that the woman who know# Horace can make the better cake— even though it be du e to the rythmic beating accompanying the lines. “Macenas aetavis edite regibus’. On one of the Islands of the Medit- eranean there was for many vears a dreaded malady that little by little depr'ved Its victim of eight, and leav ing him with other faculties in'act, doomed him to grope in continuing night. A mother, seeing this insidious disease attacking her only son was in despair and realizing that his years of sight had been so few, knew that the galleries of the mind were not Ailed with pictures on which his soul could feast in its coming darkness. Fo she thought it gracious to give him one picture of such effulgent beauty that it would remain forever with him to illumine the endless night. Be fore the vision was entirely gone she led him into the sunlight and directed his gaze to the orb of dav. His rays penetrated with difficulty the descend ing curtain over the lad's eyes and formed on the retina a lu ninouf. gold en ball. Unconscious of the motives of the thoughtful mother, he became impatient and turned away. “I^x'k again,” said she, and time after time (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE.) • 1