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CLOSE OF COMMNCriMPNT it is tho unldvrt'nw inl his, th-II!hIt tho los4s of his friold tho drk Irtek ground to ivery line of thl poetu. "Hehold, I drealn a dri llam of 41)n 1, And Ininglo Ia the woid with thwv. Thy voice iot he ra ii n 2 air: I hear. th l. w1i . 1:1o wal :, -u Tholl stal,dt0 inl 1 r, !l -10 And in the t' in Ihi-m : i By Whlich h( nietilt t<: 1!1 -;1 : Overy turn ther v.i i a t4-. J Lr f his lost, friend, an.l hi!ttl ly hw V i, "' Tis better to havq, love d anl h l. ''hall neVer1 to lave lIfv)'d t It sPoms th-it at O wr v th l, wheni Tyonyo wa c\p -iln 1h, return of 1l1-1bu- !.itm i A. nows of his d -th. This coincilewh-n1 tif c t n oxpectationt of v()()d i,- thf. -I j .,I . I' one1 of t ho most h itil . : n wholo collvectiln,c nta i t - m plost Eniglish, mnd l 1 !m I t A r leading to the AslWaraan uf a h>ve that -was to outlhia life. Listen to the n'e in whi1b ho describe how sneha -do- filh-, - to fat her, drik;li I i iw 1 l' hif his Sohdlr )oy to I Ir, pr- b for the sifet of her I i 1: 1 m1aiden, awiliting tho cominl f4 her swoothoart : "0 rathor. wh*--. ''in2 2. Who ;'t/- 20 Vil22 A shwt, tre half ti . llath stiW'd the, .fr- thw thee. 0 m1oit r, prayi) t; "I Thy sa i!(), \ \i I I v b I I His he:%vy o. o '111-wt!id 12 .' lrops in his vast and wa, sOmne whvn-' !n-, : ' 1 That sittn e t i. r A ul l t o :ind b l'imr chil, AMnt Por now heia In expl-clath And thinkile -I at sea; t .lIO - "r . i. &t2 She take- a riban ,Ir a;r Flo t V il 12U12 s 12. - It' It' ":2 - Ill.. ! F o hei si,-tu] l - tis .21r.I -\nd with th - I h And, havinj c.g t i . Once more, it) -t.: a 1 1 : Ani, even wht -; Hladfal ,an b - ford, O r- kill'd in falllin,_ fr-lll'jm jo , h11it tto I r sa l _.. v , 2 And what to mne ra 1 To h er, liripi ,tual I ;j,;_r ' And Unto he no 11.0 n' f W as anlytinlg -:in-' 2-v . than tho figulro Iof 1t ib. burial at Sea; tho bilh>w l arl tow th l . movbing i:ound; the at : a d2'a--~ w ih look reif 4.1t e petr, feel: i th The ogtohths d of hhi,S4''i,t fri1end is a beang bnt bac MI2tI21 14 111 bri..J, The chi, (htIf the hd of-! TWn ith he e Ather. ."41o32wl I hearth blf1) fiotr Ib- in nte Iseeul toe waith: tnhze wh)(1 . i i521 WAt a otra'dwme n from fart And lette1ri nto gin.a .. to sin :t tAnd,lth ark wihtel, an--d rlsing. Trtbeneath the clover so , Thateasin the ron--h(n to the rains)1, rase he e kneosin vham1iertl drain. Thein le of the gmriapn ero Giog "Ther if eiithhegh ran (les u ind itandiios ootenecis' in mino, seron)d Boswth ltnge anwtseils.n thae contra ta vewye bhe vat and fatd eing grav eplyoringwith tngeele and t shenllen and ietn Aanvsm in rard toI thi, (1oali raist aed tostonfeit, the doa aristofIn Mminoriam wor ownt ehrchask:"I itWnot, wahe ald "rater uc lifeizn and esutiv eeern). Butnthimg banswriOn poectrryat is atve bolwark ito hat b, begbmot etply roieaos 1',nliveryhlinwoad bentoimhnt of ithe paymof ashams, to cofsay tat heers thin ofstc b e as~ t Tenyon'all life tohald eigng tohautcofgothe plyo4e:s o a hteoy itl tiht speifiv:1lyN rIvligious du11tiels 1,11Ustic: n1) wn qc wf ilt; wit h ian im aiI re:h- -fa n upon t he huight; t i i .t i , 1it )11-It' i ai t li v s , I'.In t ifu i a< iiae t ii orat iv, wan< I lo Stars ' ul Il of illop Siug.ost iol I Id t I fin Ir v vyvs hat Ii fill II st ars. sI flaiciatting. Away back it !i a frI1i-nd of I l' n -son WrIOte g 1i) " i,' ( tI of plw(ry writtt I Hi I r .-t i it lhi bw, lit ih priree 1 r - li I ei t he .i \\ ht ia I conl ' i i fo for I wa t! f a Ih i I t Iin I ii ag, ! Not Im nwt f 1( . r : it, stici-lyv for t Il . iw . il't 4f -1- ryl. ll I 'w vI ;b .;;I I rfigh tury %v ( it (o ym t hi mninr Ir irn fr l hai' <ttLon h -hais iI i th i i t of lit 1im1 s. \\h. i I ho I bw r h as hlitl .ilva ll thalIt it wia i t iwf ry o T It, o , (m,w rw. t mm anly 4 ther, oml ib ' i. h ill i IN fro l nth gro i ilr Im i nto which il IF It lil t,.~ iI~ tii v 4-t l I i f i I . - I f; n , i h I t I Word lit- I I f: Nv li n w tt. Ie'. w r -nt I iI r, ht s e' , ma l irI Mor'niar uni' bo ('.jiu- s a il t fo th i Ar ,lI1( i to 't iv th m lwat -mb 'I t bi ihost words ol ii;i~~~ Ilhl I1 Ii Itre l Iior ' f I hI util ijnrib I hN i I g tf 1dsVI T h l ill- v 2' i is ot I: l! l i a c h: fig: tI n ar)., t f jI u, t, (hOtlit lit awit's i h irst in-. l - v .I1111 c' .:i .t o bw T ru ly. fih her 'is io1 of tl n Vit is vt th iinStl! iiteI: (hwl te rii reV :' I I "l It o ' Agnat , i i ng m er bih o reat nJ'lin 81r) thouh ti'nsuw o Goi I te d I n I hit s frhiI , xf 'tIld i his hAindu .e It rhisnut 11((tiil ittoo O nLI A 11( ' l l1 t ;tIIt th !agr hope.'I'II l vndinr ij- t riII Iratl iofo"u t th Is 1,s r If r.i >p r Il s r w he. if kn I ( 11r in t Lo torr, I. o t of sab . .\ta l mish wsv isphed; that w I b.( I: lith it' it t a hw r I has luoly riis-on. rn hne ;fr hr T at l true of thoght.rsirt ofThe ce>ury. The.reye as an t -1r-n.-f:ftth *ti-,a w,i] 1 (ill-, e arrdi with hich we enI o al aor flf, whenr to e-s: en r fiendu, boitin wrorbin th ar psed lt.re. .\d rreawhehaor thwvfra scne aors lyon nxpeal tgetoods t het got Abrbeyo tner" fovr hitate:ng tond exrein nwmor of shere givn uuned bioraphynof his Thk infinte go enose of oindvid ! acosv(ilonce, his faith in it plronl Ilal immortality. TminNlsol's strolgEst tirgiliiiotit for le flitliro lift'o 11441 I ts downi I l oil - the instinct of thm Sold, ats ho eries: "\IV own (i1t1n life -1dhub h-ach me this, That life Shal01 live fori,V.-r o 'Il] . 1:,e varth i.- il wkoesz al thet c :r, \IIII dus t ad asnos all that is " And thait is ol1y. antlitwr tway of saiNg Viit 1-:m1Wr8) sIaVS inl his (-4ssa y oil "liiminrtility," tt thi septic who deics imilmortility Imtist. conceivo the uniiverso to beth liko it nle(,t of boxt's, with nothinig inl tie lst box. In ohetlr.l. wor<ls, t horo is nto Iatioril intorpretation of it, no wor thy vind to it. Ill our conlt,iterat iin of t ht im mlas tkqr povim of the c'.nt11ry wve mulst, im a i Iral Iy Imevt tlh(% question s11 to how Te yson tirv.ated the iastor idoa of tIe cntury. Tho uaster. idi, is untoubtedlv tie theory of do v'elo)men(-It, or1 Ovollution. T'ier is [1o escIping the fact of evolution. Wo aro at pirt ()f it, whethor wve will or not. It huiti wroight, inl vevry riin of Natrv its results 8 re li spwveek, tnid in ih Il eos of ien, a1s w'll its inl tle rocks, th" trovs, andt(] thw tlibvs of aniliial life lading upl) to In inllidilig n1i---as it a1mmal. It 's r'eoginize(I inl the unfolding of nlil"iouis idolts, and is so permnvating" a fact inl tht life aind thought of the I10 that it muIIISt intrudo itself even into thlit purer I'r ielm of poetic I low did such it Imastor-mind view this sevining tmidency toward a pur11oly inatiihi interprnetation of the 11111 %*0 * I eiro is a question for ill] of us as liudents ofNitturo. Lut us tirn into this wondierful mirror of the agff for an1swor, and thus loarn What wt numy think and go on to believe, whln "Mnill arl Iod to bilank aithoisml by tle iiit11eriailistic philosophy of tho timw. Wivi the multitudo wore doubt 1m1g, lir was at voice that was9 full of fithit I. Whlen tIIerialisim seemiled to he t' coliifiig religion-a roligion whicli tlie b1nt Carlylo calletd it ro ligiomi of dirt -this strong soul was utterinlg a it 1t that relnehd to tihe farltIlst ilmits of tho EiglisH speak ilg wold, putting inspiration into tho lieart: that were asking whither this iew doetrinio of Ovolution was to lead ti. Tennysou gives us his conlcopt tonl of Nature, as ho aisks: ".\re od awd Nat-ure then ti strife, That Nature lunds sucelh evil dretns? so var-ful of t yh e she seems, so carcnless of the single life hath i, considierintrg -vtrywliere h!tlir s'cr'et meannlg in her deeds, AndtlI id iig that of lift,y seeds Shit oft-en brings hut one to bear. * * * * * * * So careful of the type? llut no! i roin isear'ped clif and1(( iairried stone She. cies, 'A t hiousand t-ypes arie gone: I c'are for not .hinog; atll shall go. Th'lou miakest, th ineI appeal toi me: I brinig to Iifeo, I biring to dleath: T1hie sp)irit doCes btut meanI the breath: I kno noy mi)ore1.' Aind he, shall he, Mlao, her last work, who seemed so fair, Sueh splenid purpose5 in nis eyes, Who r'oll'd the psalim to wintr'y skies, Who built, him fanies of fruitless pr'ayer; Who1 truosted God wits love indeed, Andt love Creation's final law Thio' Nat,ure, i'ed in tooth and claw WVith' ravine, shriek'dl against his ereed Who, loved, who suttfer'd countless ills, WVho batt.led for the True, the Just, lie blown about, the (desert dust, Or seleId w ithin the ironi hills? in DaWte., Ja L. SPENCER, of Plat.tovtilo Wis., formerly of Co. 0, 87th WVIsconsin Inity., hus autYrod nmny years from tho result of a sunstroke. HO has foiund retiIet and dheires to toll bIa atory for the good of other veterans. HIe says: "At Petersburg I was sunstruck and carried off the field for dead. Later rheumatism of ny heart developed.as a result and physicans failed to bncfit me. In the sprig of '95 Ih be1 usLag Dr. Miles' Heart Cure and D. Miles' Nervine and ntow mny health is better than for 30 years before." DR. 4QILS' Heart Cure. Is sold bjy all dru glsta on Ituarant first bottle bonaeKte or money back. JIook on -her& arid norves sont free,. Dr. MIles MedIcal Comnany, Elahart End A disemd. Dh'a.!mns of the prino TI'int toar cal-h1 4thlf.r inl th- . ir lme, W i-re tu mIlAw n atcth'I with h tim.'' What a Imagniielt otfrt of robukw thatt is to idll till. Imv, Ito rial colte")ions () of life that prevaif I ill oi. tieio, and have povaihlt a result of at on sided st tily of Natu iire. o 1alist choso betwite evoll - tion, with (iod and faith I reniin to Is, or ovolition that is (sollcss, whos'ei log~ie:il onItComie is gr. igate rialism, , allirm ing t hat death til ls ll. Surely we cinnot ink any lon."er thl' uist, of pot-try. Youl, yMoun'. me14 , will Iot isk suchl ia (ul-st ioll-thiumighi Dr. Dry asdist does ask it. I ti is tho prIieier whomi TeIIsoIl himli slf dvscribws ats it ** " Sahat h-11tv.-ler of elld Saws Distili'd from Some woril-vailiver'd1 h(11m You havoe i een disculssing t lie great poets. We livo followed your C.IUrsO of stldy, 1iul know how your indiI os ha lvo bwon inI spi rited anld broadened under the transforming spell vliIl gvlnius always weaIves, for thoro is a literry contagion. Not only the ereek and Latin poiets have beeti your daily complilnionls, but (as we learn from your colh>go joirll) you aitvo dise"iasd Milton, anld Browniing, Shakespeare t al lTe li sonl, and so on through the whole range of literatuiro. Whatt subject can you proposo for discussion e. g. on which the myrind-indilod hard of Avon has not bien before you to say his Word inl masterly fashion? Shall wo inniaki a test ? Hore is the modern fad of inind cure or Christian Sciece with its ri diculous pretensions. Can it be pos sible that our poot has forecasted a robuko to such a foolish )liloSophly unknown to his day ? I was sur prised to find, the other day, an ex act a'count of this foolisliless, which is lift.o Christian and less sciontitic. In Mliehard Il, Act 1, Scono ill, Ie. says, as if he were tsking Mrs. 'd dy, or soum disciple of her school: "Who can hold a fire in his hand. BaY thinkinl- oil the frosty ("aucasls? Or cloy the liiungry edg( of app-ite, ity arnc imagrination of it feast? Or wallow l naked ini Decemliber Snow, Biy th inking on fanttstic summenrs heat?" The great poet always repays us Shialkespearo or Tonnyson. And the iastor-povn of the century may be road many fimes-must ho read again and again, in order to got. till tho wealth of beauty, strength, faith, suggestion and 110o which is com patct.ed into its always beautiful lines. The time fatils mue to analyze to the end this great pice of writing. If you will atliow a porson;d itllusioni, I may say that I have boon reading anud careful Ily studying these verses for manty yeatrs, arid amn indebted to them more than to any othier single English produtction for ouitsidoe reve lation. I have brought y'ou this word as imullso andi incentive to thought. Your st udenit day1s are not tilt oget her comp)leted. It is buit the commenlOlco monlt-heneoI the niamo. I shall he repaid for myi) visit here if I turn 0on0 mindo into more inti m'it acquit ance wvithl this master-poem of the contury. Readl it for the honuty of its sentiments ! Read it for its deep philosophy ! ERad it for the pure and nolOl truths which atre in it ! Road it for the rich figures scattered throughout its verses ! Read it for its matchloss Saxon English. Reaid it for the high famth it must beget! Read it as a eure for the doubt and pes simism of our timo ! Road it as an antidote to the miserablo misann thropy that must infest the soul of the materialist ! Read- it for the hope it inspires, as, looking beyond all material things arid all timo him - its, it closes by bidding us b)elieve in '"That God which ev'er lives and loves, One Goed, one law, one elcment;, And one far-oti d ivinoe event, To which the whlole creation n)oves CLAss DAY E~XEa1cisEs. On Wednesday morning the com.. mencement exercises proper were hold and seventeen young gent lemon and one young latdy of the gradu ating class receivedl their diplomats and degrees. Tihe following is tihe list of the gradluates: For the degree of A. B. -Jno. Ed win Barre, Lexington; John Edward Bloland, Little Mountamn; Benjamin Thomas Buzhardt, Newberry; Ernest Probst Copeland, Ehrhardt; Daniel Joseph Sidney Derrick, Leesvillo; Daniel Forrest Goggans, Newberry; Henry W. Fulmer, Hilton: John Ben jamhin Kilgore, Newberry; Andrew Pearson Sites, Spring Hill; Thomas Irwin Swyget, Peak; Ja6ob Reuben Unger, Mt. Willing; David Leroy Wedamian, Neivberry. lor the Ior"l f l S - 1 ,)am I~~~~qw-wi rus 1_i Iwo, .: sne w'h,e An - t I,,hn w .. I -1 11 ., -; .\ ar"'t r , ;i,%a J h , w,N. whwrr%; .1 onws Crtlsh., 0!wyv, ('hirb t; 'hIrntC(i 'Fill-iviln Wv\nes, N,.\V borry. i, alwa\ " i n. >r r le,s in t14 , LI..-A fi-I I t ho TVMo tu%I " 'Ol1 : kv i 11ip ttrist of thie iouItls :l twnrding of 11 w d . Th., <logreeIs w -re. anl Te r PizO fo. tho bist m of I I bet y I vb\ a membIern) f I tI e I n mlas to l i w vilr. 111 o E l '. t'o eland t oh r s . (' ti anult tnMo ap a n'sher t titot in of this nm.d. was m l by ' v. J.o A. A orehead, o f I : IIo leson4. liInI ' I, r1 1!fI ion was ntk o nal o'.I f 1. P. Wor(s, of Nowhwrry. Tho hi',tory inwdill annua11tly award1ed to that 14n1rof th" SioW lass stalliigl t h ost. examii-It.ion in hisory Wall a<Ii'ded by tho fac(! tilt. to I r. C. 0. Oln y, of Char1-Is tonl. Tho historY aisSiged by theo ftcIulty1 tsl y'0ar Wias G ren'S Sihorte' lIstory of E lanIlid. Thell sophomorv Greevk im-tdal wats awart-dl to Jino. K. Atll, of Now orly, wan Was pretetiJ by lI ZV. I. M. Kmard, of Colnbit. Hlon orablo mI-nitionl was in:ado of W. o. Smmuor, of Nowbvrry, who wa,,Is closti behindt inl thet raco. Th10 f*4rS.lmnll prizo, WobAvr., ill tIitional dictionary VW wVO by Mrx . . 1M.ircht, of laiip, with honiorllo mo;ie l Gilhwrt P ). Voig,t, Wihlt iington, N. I hi s prizo was presented by Dr. It. C. Hollanld. The sonior prparatory priz), Web Strsner irnational dictionary, was awaidod to Elmn r t 3 It albill-in3 of Nowt)orry. Presontation by Hon. R. It. Woelh. Rov. l. h11. Harms having Com plo d g it co a ' f Stildy inl snild ItIld political Scioncev, tho de,grvo of fimastiei of arts was onfernul upgo With Ihv rception at, the collfge ald onl ti heamipis W"rinisday night ti l oelli -el it.t c. f r .t)o wits brought to at Ci and ho many friens of t gon it t oli to their ro-ipvctfiv o n many pleasait res , t ho [ew days spent hiro with frindy vn ac (ICRAND wllr iSIrItIiON. As Forty-Ct st,gr sh Frii to Eewnr Wo1 elX ieve at tho mofstn ofectiv advertiesigngsw and isen to gemita pleors ofrour1tl gosentonh nomes of thpeople ThoofoE, weO CrO.nd -100a eahnd vr marrio id lady. i fth UntdSatswow ieso. Thory wosnotin the pay.lThe gt to o absoo oucncne Msaounhemenftnd ppr Eacldy wil thend hcr gnamalony as tiu it ooi raual)bLa giled to persns w o dot sk or t them sols. e lyo hoice ofr of pfttl,l -10c5 dsins, adil nsaend illtr alo stromwhic he selectons. mayibh QArKearle sVALnY MFli.nCO.n mucha ands Harii tso St.,irago. fonng cnes6l( l o h othery womacnft of phegncty Auh itito of aot Ga,sas Mther's frir ad ae ndv kThosv ntne wh ero no aoIt lit waindr ow odctheer got ralng Awlthout it.t ay robe child. birthof Ark. rtes:orsVfor liya yungt r wie I was rseve laer gris 24to30gureadsave Afer muchn menter'd cariesd wt it Sterefor born inte as dorugs. kn"nr. aloy areapt~ tolo It tis o be rubb e,to.the aboe to softe arie to beoar te s,ran. This "OmeDAns morning Isinssandal fh othe disomfrts'of regn ncy --ing-the SornunfhntsanndBChildren CAM C P.om.otFs iiestion,Cheerful tess and -st.co ntins neither Opionm,Morphine nor ineral. NOTNAIICOric. 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