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ESTABC NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, JUN2A WEEK, 1.0 A YEAR biUMMt'ILML THE 45th ANNUAL ( NEWBERR' Largest Graduating Class i tion-Rev. W. H. Hiller R. Tillman Deliver Ad Societies-Commence Medals, Prizes and The Board Pass The lRev. W. Ii. 1-1 ilor, of Prosperity, (ll1vered the annual address before the Alumni Assoeiation this year on Tues (lay morning. Rev. S. S. I"ah0n, of Jacksonville, ila., had been chosen, but on account of the lire which destroyed his home some time ago, was prevented. Mr. Hiller was introduced by Mr. A. 0. Matthews, president of the asso clation, and after a few introductory remarks Alr. Hiller spoke as follows: A1,UMNI AD)RESS. "The Sovereignty of Mind as Re lated to the I[igher Life." The greatest gift of divinity to hu inanity is the incarnation of a master spirit. The sovereign will rules in the affairs of men by proxy. .Jehovah is represented in the world by superior beings, as the archangels (10 his spe cial bidding in the unseen realm. The God-marked man is the atlas of the ages bearing a lost world back to its Maker. The truth-ladened voice of the propl ets, with over increasing force, is pene trating the chaos of ignorance and vice of earth making it rich in the hope of a better and higher life. The orator, with soul allame with divine fire, speaks from thoughts that breathe in words that burn, multi tudes hang upon his utterances, and men are made to feel, determine, act! The philosopher teaches, and the race sits as children at his feet. The hero spurns death and converts the simper ing coward into a martyr. The poet touches his harp, and nations stand en tranced. These all, with a heavenly mission. Lights among the breakers on life's stormy sea! Sentinels stand ing between the then and the future! The mountin peaks of human history; the sure guides of mortal destiny. The away of the monarch's scepter, the power of the king's command are fee ble things compared with. tho soul power of these demigods, who reign supreme In the march of human pro gress. Thus then, how Inexhaustable, the resources of this treasury of sixty centuriesi What a rich legacy is our inheritance! What an age has dawned upon us! The supreme hour for ad vancement has struck. The materials are at hand with which to transform the world into a paradise of God! Touched by the spirit of the age, the universal heart exclaims: "We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time; In an age, on ages telling, To be living is sublime." It is Interesting to notico some of the chief characteristics of great men by which we may explain their influence on civilization. They never die. They obliterate time and space. T1hey be long to every and all ages. They can not deserve credit. They must be great. They do not intend it. They are hum ble; they are simplle. Indifferent alike to condition, circumstance, 1pos1tion, climate. They live in the present; In deed to them there is no past, no fu ture. Each day is infinite. T1hey "can crowd eternity Into an hour, or stretch an hour to eternity." Though d welling In mortal form, thy live immortal In our very midst. Though this por. vision cannot see, yet we feel them, we think them. Their soul's estates make us Owners of the sphere, "01 the stary world, the solar' year, Of Ceasar's hand and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart and Shake speare's brain." These great souls reveal the race at its best. -Like flowers, love and music, they appeal to what Is noblest, purest and greatest In the soul. They are above all things true to themselves hence cannot be falso to their fellows. Indeed they are truth. Plato in his passIon for the science -of being was representative of Oriental thought; in his love of lines, limita tions, definitions and explanations, he is all that is great in Occidental cul ture. This duality in him, makes him modern, complete. For 2,200 years the supreme master of thought. We appre elate assimilatestruth in the concrete. This makes hero worshipers of us all. Truth in thci abstract Is too far removed from the heart to warm It Into life and aictivity. Truth, there was in heathen dom. It had dreams of divinity and immortality; of responsibility to a su perior-being and this faith found ex pression ands exemplification In civic virtuo. But It took 88 centuries to produce Socrates and Plato; men with surer convictions on these questions of eternal interest. With callous abandon to fate: with sern,.n cnom. NI tXt1UI,LS. JOMMENCEMENT OF ( COLLEGE. i the History of the Institu and Senator Benjamin dresses to Alumni and rnent Day Exercises. Diplomas Awarded. es a Resolution. plation of death, these with 5ophocles, duke of Athena, taught, the IRomans how to (lie. Iclear the Roman confes sions by Martins: "This admirable duke, \'alerius, With his disdain of fortune and of death, Captived hiisulf, has captivated me, And though my arm has taken his body here, ii is soul has subjugated 1artius' soul; Ily .l,omulus, he is all soul, T think; lie bath no flesh, and spirit cannot be gyved; Then we have vanquished nothing; he is f ree, And Martins walks now in captivity." When paganism had brought forth its perfect fruit, tha fullness of time had come. There had been conflict, sharp and grand among the elect of the Most High, with error, ignorance, superstition and vice. Sinai had thun dered with voice more terrible than Delphi. The vice-gerents of high heaven in that most wonderful Theoc racy had failed to unveil truth in all of her pristine beauty. Moses made mis takes; Abraham erred; David griev ously sinned and grievously bore it. But out of the chaotic darkness, there llamed forth a light divine. The 40 centuries had not rolled on gathering strength in vain. The truth is incar nate at last and walks among men. The center of light! The focus of the ages! the dream of human historyt wisdom from eternity revealed, daz zling the world with its brilliancy! the source of being disclosed! Nature touched as by magic and its hidden secrets brought to light! The choir invisible breaks forth in symphonies divine and hymn the praises of the matchless one. The wisdom of the ages gracefully approaches and lays its richest trophies at the Nazarene's feet. The learning of the past is silent when He speaks. The storm at sea is hushed as a babe in its mother's arm, at the majestic command of His voice. The conscious waters sec its Lord and blush. He teaches men not only how to die, but to live forever. He unlocks the secret chambers of the soul and sets the captived spirit free. IBut alas His fate! More criminal we than Antony. We who take part in His death and re ceive the benefit of His dying. Though far removed from master minds, yet there is correspondence be tween us and them. As all life responds to the vivifying influence of the sun's rays,so we from our inmost being to these master spirits. There is no clear line of demarcation between us and t,hemn. As twilight impercept.ibly passes into night, so our lives Into theirs. CIorres p)ondcnce universal; ac tion and reaction If we empty hero, we must condemn there. An Inevitable dualism bisects all life so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as spirit, matter; man, woman, subjective, objective, in, out, upper, under, motion, rest., yea, nay. IHlre we find nature most hopcful and economical. Lower life conspiring, we see in this correspondence between ge nius and mediocrity thme redemption of the race. In the light of this truth coming from the Eternal One, thread ing human events with the golden chain of priomnise: There Is no great, no small, 'ro the Soul that maketh all And when it cometh,,all things are, And it cometh everywhere. There is one mind common to all in dividual men. Every man is an Inlet to the same, and all of the same. Hie that Is once admitted to the right of reasora, is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befal len any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind, is a party,to all that is, or caun be done, for this Is the only and sovereign agent. The heaven born leader speaks in words burning with celestial fire, consuming the dross of human nature, and the heart universal responds. Every great reform; every advancement; every ep poch-making event in the world has been the result of the call of the master mind, answered by its obedient sub jects. When great necessary truths are uttered by representative meni, we are astonished at our own stupidity. However, great the thought, there is room in every rational Soul to receive and assimilate it. Our capacity for suffering Is immense. We endure the burdens of a wrecked world in silence for generationsal The storm gat,hers with the friction engendered by human misery! Then leaps from the soul of a divinity appointed lader, the Bolts of .,ove, uescenclIg with rodlike fury into the heart of the burdened masses. The fountains or soul are broken up and shaped into ia uniform mass with an irresistible purpose. The outcomo is inevitable. Man is freed from the thral (101 of cruelty and injustice. Men will not make brick without straw always, nor bend their backs supinely to the rod of the tyrant. A Moses shall arise, an Aaron shall come to lend them aiinst theh- foes to vic tory into a land tlowing with milk and and honey. Under the guidance of such peerless chiors, the walls of the mightiest. strongholds of evil shall crurmble to duast, the sea of opposition shall roll hack its waves, a divitle light retlected from the skies shall direct the advance, dark ie ss and confusion shall cover the retreat., the giants of wrong shall dispers e as mist before the ad vancing host. The progress of civil liberty among the English pe ople is both Interesting and instructive in this con nection. iFor almost a thousand years there was in the mother country conllict with tyrany. Wrongs grievous, cried to high heaven for vengeance. Meanwhile popular government was gaining slow ly, but surely, foundations deep and broad. By that peculiar English trait of never yielding a liberty once grant ed, they have advanced from abso lute, to constitutional monarchy. The final battle for freedom was won when Cromwell beheaded Charles and set up the people as supreme power of the realm. Taxation without representatian forged the American mind into de termined opposition to English tyr any, scorning British concessions, de manded free government. The ex treme needs of the hour yield to the world that prince of men, "The father of his country." How this young nation followed this peerless chieftain with nightly blade to con plete victory! But there was lurking in the constitution of the new nation two ideas destined to deadly contlict. Federalism and Republicanism were to meet in fierce combat in the public arena. Again are we saved by a great man. Hear the matchless eloquence of the hero of the moment; like a god in pain. Mighty words, grand purpose! The destiny of the nation fixed for all time. The nation is his monument. With broader views of life and duty; with a common spirit of brotheriood; with the national heart in sympathy with bleed ing humanity at our doors, the nation rose as one man to give oppression the greatest rebuke of modern times. The pearl of the Antilles is free. The world is taught a lesson in love never before known. How the circumstance has united the American peoplel What opportunities as a world power have thus been opened up to us? Old glory waving her folds of freedom to every clime; a potent factor in commanding the peace of the world! But let us consider that true great ness can only end in virtue; in Individ ual character; and full of hope learn a lesson in character-building from the little mariner of the briny deep. "This is the ship of pearl, which poets fign Sails the unshadowed main, 'rho venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its pur'pled wings In gulfs enchanted, when the siren sings And conral reefs lie bare, When the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streamIng hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pear'l! And every chamnber'ed cell, Where Its dim dreaming life was wont to d well. As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Befor'e thce lies r'evealed, Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless cryp)t unsealed! Y'ear af ter year' heheld the silent toil That sp iread hi is lustr'ous coil; Still as the sp)irall grew, ie left, the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining ar'ch way then, Buiilt up Its ide door, Str'etecd in his last found home, and know the old no more. Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap forlor'n; From thy dead lips a clearer note is born, Than ever Trion blew from wrceathed horn! While oni mine ear It rings, Then the deep caves of thought I hoar a voice that sings: Bulk thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasouis roll! Leave thy low-vaulted p)ast! Let each new temple, nobler' than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length arnt free, Leaving thine out-grown shell by life's unresting sea! i Other building makes life a huge ealamity. Tihe reformation of the 16th century set free the man fr'om political and religious slavery. Broke down the barrier's bet,ween the man and the masses. The p)ast was obliterated. The illumination enthrorned reason. The dliscovery of the 18th century was man. Conscious of his power In society the nobility and clergy as constituted au thority was destroyed. The arth trembled in the throes of a mighty rev olut.ion. Iteaven with its saving faith was swept away! The reign of terror struck the cleath blow to absolute ty ranny. The tniddle class grasped the leadership. With this shift of power atu responsibility cale a new disc:ov cry. ''he philosophers of t.his elass brought the awful convietion that r )at ter is Gotl! The history of the !lith century is but the recosti of the devel optnent of this ilet. The indlividtual alive with the weight of his powers has exereised them. Ile has ransacked the world of matter to explore and harness its utility! iIe has swept the heavens with his eye of sciettee to materialize its celestial treasttres! The tiat-velous advance of science and invention has enthroned niatetinlism. \Vhience the ma terial uriiversl? ''ht, ans wer is tnat ter. Whtete Inan and wih ither? 'The answer is matter. I)ead, senseless matter. I't rsistent, in the faith in tuatter, Mld the 20th century will yiell it world rev olution staggering to reason and moral instinet. .1 estroy belief in the over soul and you strike dead iorality at suffering huiiunity's feet. I)estroy conscience and tlhe inoral nature anil society i, chaos antd ruin. 'Tlhere tmust be reaction. The materials atre at hand with whicA to regenerate the rac-. The new idea of brotherhood must grow into aI powerful civilizti agent. The stewartdship of wealth t:ust realize its obligations to the masses and hush the cries of millions for bread. The uni versal conllict sharp and stern between organized capital and labor must force the level of tutual itterest. I'opular education must prepare the soul. Lib cral culture must bring forth toaster spirits In hii'tiony with the sovereign will. Then shall be made with the ruling middle class and the masses atn verlasting peace. Then shall the sovereign mitid rule a kingdom of the higher life. The alumni association met immedi ately after the speech and the follow ing officers were elected: A. 0. Alat thews, president: A. J. lowers, secrc tary: W. K. Sligh, treasurer. Prof. W. K. Sligh was chosen as speaker for the next annual address and J. W. Strickland, 1Eac., of Witl halla as alternate. - TiE LITERARY ADDiRESS The address to the literary socio ties was delivered Tuesday evening by Senator B. R. Tillman. We give herewith a full text of the address. Senator Tillman was introduced by Associate Justice Y. J. Pope as fol lows: Mt. PoPE'S INTRODUCTIoN. Ladies and Gentlemen: I ostoon it a privilege to appear before such an audience. This is a happy week to us all, the Conimencement week of our college. You were delighted on Sunday when you heard the magnif icent baccalaureate sornon by Dr. Voigt, tho pastor of St. Paul's, Wilmington. His lessons sank deep into the hearts of hia hearers. And that night Dr. Watson pleased ev ery one with his magnificent sormon. Then on Monday night when our young men in all the glory of intel lectuality stood up) before an aud ience almost as large as this and de livered speeches of which we were all proud. AnJ then today when the alumni orator charmed all who heard him. I say this is a gala week for Newberry. And tonight we meet in ordler to hear the oration delivered before the literary societies of Newberry College. The gentle man they have selected as the orator is no stranger in South Carolinia, nay, lhe is no stranger in America. He deserves all he has received and more, lie is a true man and a pa triot. He loves his people and eon. deavors ini every way lie can to serve them. And it delights me on this occasion to see this magnificent aud( ionce of the friends of Newberry College come out to hear words ringing words-f rem this true son of his native State. I have said this much in regard to hims. I will not say more. I prefer to let him speak for himself as he has always hereto. fore done. I have the honor, ladies and gentlemen, of presenting to you on this occasion Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman. SENATOR TrILLMAN's ADDR)1Ess. Mr. President, Ladies and Gen tlemen: I esteem it a high honor and I assure you it aftords me pleas ure to greet so in any of those who represent the beauty and chivalry of Newberry, of Lexington and of Sa luda counties. I have appeared in Newvberry before, several imos, and I have adldressed audiences here larger than this. Unt these audiences were composed exclusively men, and I have ntever before had the op portunity to look in the faces of the fair daughters of this grand old1 county. And I assure you, ladies, young and old, that it is with pecu liar gratification that I appear be fore you tonight. I have always shunned and tried to make excuses and uniformly declined to accept in vitations of this character. I have been invited by colleges, or to go to colleges, outsidle of South Carolina without oxcep tion, and I havo oil denvored as far as 1 could to got away from finl address of this kind for the rOLisol thatt tho wo c litorary carries With it at iolatiuig which involvos at kind of sploeech or adchress that my training has not, litted mo for. Aly drill ias a speaker has been in lobate on tho htustings whero thoro worn appeals to pasion, to patriotism, to fooling, as imucl as to reason. lo comilo beforn an 11ud(1ieel1o liko this involves sometlung of lin obligation to indulge in a lino of thought that is mlor0 olovat iig, moro rotined, 1111o polished, 11m0o lit i n tlectual, possibly. And whilo I do not protond to say or to acknlowledgo th accusation which has bnt lhiado against, me it) bo trun, that, I amt lackinhg in that, knowlodgo of literal urn ami1 of histo ry which would enabhlo I' to pro. larn I rosolably decont address; it would involve on my part the writ iug out of such at ipleech, and tho ondoavor to comillit it to nemory, something I can not (o. To undor tako to get up before an audience of yoing 11e11 and young woloi, for t his: audienco is iostily Composed of young mon anld young women, and read at spooch, however polishod or eloqluont or philosophical, would milean1 that you would fool bored and tired hofore I got half through and you woull ho sorry that I over be gan it. 'Thorofore, ill ac(ce)tinlg tlis invitation- -and by the wly, this kind of invitatiois camoe 8o thick and fast that I became excodingly alarmed. Nowhrry's camo inl first and I accepted it first. 'Th1n0 (loml son and .E"arskinlo, and several otlhers, and thoro seemed to be i conspiracy along the routo of the Columbia and Greenvillo railroad to see whethor I did have any culture or not, atndl atl ready .I am hooked for another Hpoeclb Friday at Clemson. Itit I have had to do with education some. what ill South Carolina. I have al ways boon deoply concerned about the educational interests of the State, and havo always don all I could to help the (auislio of education. But I confoss that I have boon torn 1y perplexod in my own miind as to how I was going to make two spooch os without inly serious proIpatraitioil Oil two similar ca1iOnIls and not re pent, in part att least. I had enough unmminition and havo onough amlllini tion now ill the way of Iowdor land ball to load a (louble barrelled gun, but I declaro to you I have not boon able to formulate thlm into two car tridges. Thoreforo, 1 am here it your lercy, or rather you are at my mercy, thank God, and I will have to ask you to boar with 1110 while I givo you a fow 10a5 that have collie to inn as imattors of experience 111(1 observation in regard to education, life ill genieral, and all that kind of tiling. The arena in which I have boon working for tho last six years, the United States Sonate, is 0110 where thoro is so much talk, such a porpot untl flow of talk, that the voriost glutton Ol tpooch11 making who over lived or dlied woul becomo11 satted with such1 things. 1 used( to love to make1( speechos0 and when the condi. tions are of tho kinld with which .1 am familiar, whien 1 cani got out iln the open and1( fight, 80 to sp)eakl, I enjoy mlaking ai 81)e0ch occasionally now, but., ideclarie 1 do not like tile idon1 of proa'ching a1 sormlon. I have 110 subject tonlight. Therefore, .1 Ilave (ach1 one of youl to interprot and try to think out for himself whoun he gets hiomo, what top)ic I triedl to discuss. I am11 jus~t going to slosh around1, so to speaik. Th'Ie literary societies are to 1)0 con gratlated1, and1( the stuldents of New b)erry College are to be congratulatod, upon tihe flourishing condlition iln which that institutioni appe)ars to lbe. Your graiduating class thlis year is larger thani any you have ever 801nt fort h. Those young mnen aro going out into the world1 to begin life for themslves, a fteor careful preparation at t.he hands of this faculty. No doubt1) thoso young 1men1 and ladies, for I believe you have ladies ini thie class, feol wheni they get their dliplo 111as in the morninlg that they will have a precious certificatoeor evidlence of a certain curriculum Ihrough which they have patssed1, of a certain amount of prep)arationl for the battle of life, through which they have gone. Of what value '.s that diploma to them'? Ilow far hi s it succeeded, or how far has1 your p)repalration succeeded in prep)arin1g them to become usoful mon and women ? That doeends on tiroly On theml. Th'ieir teachers have (10ne their host-, arnd the fact that they have had the tenacity of pur pose to hold out to tihe end and to go through thle montial strain necessary to obtain these dIiplornas, indicates a rather high order of manhood. The statistics of education show that of those who enter college in thle fresh man year, [lot more than11 25 to 40) por cent. under tihe most favorable conditions, over 1hold out to the senior year. Trhiy drop by the wayside be cause there is a large per cent, of hunan brains that cnnnot ndergo oar', ospeciill inl OtIihouiat ics, to ob)tain tIho dliploma. Tihon tho atnxiot.y on the part of ilt young to onter ulpoi the arna of life is so groat, couipled with ne0cessitie0 iniilosod by I)overty itnd other adsoriu conlit ion, theso studints (ro)p by I le wayside, and ia griuaiiting elass of tlirt y out of lifty-four is a record that I Ii ave never heard < 0juill(d in Houtli Caro fln, itian I loubt if it hits ever been ('jlallt' an)'whro 'lso. I isked ,Ov it tiinuntt ago ilow much proeparation, or rathe1r what succoss Woulti go with the o\yor. shi) of a diplolmt, an(l said it do j)tl(1o1 oil Volt. I low nich (do you know Y I hl iove we shlould aisk, how iitich dor't you know, or how iuull is tltoro yu it) not klow. ,lly own oxj)orinol as it ilutlit tautlit 11o this, that the ohjott of edui(at(ionl, the )rimritiuy purpose of it, is to triain the iniiid, to strengthen the reasonling power, to bring ibout a condition of meotnial developmentnt tiitt, will enable the student to roasotn cloarly anld to iiill'ornIiate bt woent Iru 111 falso. hood, to disover for yotrsolvos what is right. and what is wrong. Asido from the usual imoult of imat.hoaut tics or arithlmetic iiyolvod in th ordinary aifairs of life, isido from thoi amount, of knowle Ige of English necoessitry to road an(1 wrilo an intol ligent letter, asilo froit a few fun daimeint al facts inl scionco and )hysics, the avera"g~ an111 or woniittl who does not follow up the investiratloln further after thoy leavo colloge, in it yoar, or Iwo or three or Iiv yoars, you becono una11tbl0 to separato tho col logo grad uiates from thoso who never went to collog at all. Yul are not able to dill'oreit.itt0 hot wocn the graduito antd man who never wont into i collogo itt all. ''he learn ing, the hook learning, or that part of thocirricnluln which has boon fol. lowed and which has nol. hoon used afterwards, soon grows rusty, soon boconios encrustel with forgetfuilnoss. ''ho boy loses that that he does not conitinuo to use. But, tlho llild hits boon trained, the drill of the reason ing power has beon such that thre is it growth, and tlie young man may continuo to grow and expand If t here is it healthy olf'ort along rat ional lines to improve tht ilunderstanding. But I havo knowvin collego graduat3 who after they loft school felt that they woro linishod. It had boon hard andtcl they had had a dosporato struggle to win their diplomas itand olt that the time had como for fun and frolic. Sad to say, that, it is often the ciaso. ''ho ml ajority drop back into the ordi. niry every-day life and loso that grasp upon those tools wit.h which they havo bon furnished by their training. 'Ihey drop the tools. As somiie wiso man in the past declared that, (he child is the fither to the manl, so the student is iteir tilie faithor of tho mitn who will mako his mark in the world or Io drops back among the children who havo never boon students. Why, t heso young mni and womffen ure ijust p)repatred to begin (lie study of aniything wvhichi t hey have hoon study ing. I saty thiis advisedly3, in d I say) it. frorn miy own experience. I wits as good at Latin scholar of my age as you can find in thie Stat.e, and( todaly with the exception of a very dim outlinio of thie prinici pIs of thle language and it knlowledJge of some of the words which hatve stuck, .I could not, coni strue an1 ordlinairy l,atini sentonice. Andl( you will lose your Latin atndc (Grook and M~athemuaticsu, you will lose all tht you have spent, these years to acquire, but your education will not hauve boen a failure because (lie primar1iy purposo05 of odullcationi is to train the rasoning powers, to have the mind grow from working, just, as (lie muscles. TIhe idea whiichi I wish to impress upon you all--the young men who iaro gratduatinig and those wvho have not yet graduiated and those wvho are in college but, willI nover' be graduates, and those wvho will never lie in college- is thatt th human in d is a v'ery wonderful maclino and that thie human soul withl whlich it is interl inked and1( intor laced, which is its set--that thie two must 1)0 cult ivatod and grow together if we are to hiave the highest devel opmiuent ad to have that success in life which it is (lio ambition of overy right thinking young man or old man or young woman or old wvomnan. W\o come into the woirld we know not whlence antd without being coil sultetd. We liojouirn here for a period more or less brief, within thie limnita tion of a century or thereabouts, the average much less than seventy years, and we go out of it without beiiig consulted. Nobody asks us when we aro ready, nobody inquires as to whether we are fit to go, whether we havo matdo (lie uses of our lives that are of greatest promise. And as .I said, (lhe intellectual growth andl dlevelopment which differentiate us from the brute, can not be followed with any success unlesa the moral faculties shall ahio receive enltiva (ion. Now (lian with thli meaityn ci the youti which has boon cultivated, and in this atmosphere I know tho in1oratls itlso have been carefully watched and guarded, what promiso have you for usofulness in li fo 1 Very great. .ou are better o((1i1)i)o( than tlhoRO who do not havo collogo train mg. l'hero is no use to deiy that knowledlgo is not i great thing to 1)0. sss. K nowledglg is power. Knowledgoof t ho right kind is money, is woalt i. But kn(owlodge alono does iot givo ilnl)I)less. Knlowledgo alonte, however groat, is not the high oat ambition that w should follow. Mero knowledge without comnmon sense is t1ie---o1, is a pitiful oxhihi tion to havo a man chock full, brim ming over with kuowlo(go of books an(1 things that ho has road and at; <lnired1, and who haisnl't sen80 enough to get out of a ;howor of rain. 'hat is involved in this qu4estion of Iontal training, the cultivation of the judg mlont. I do not know whether it can he cultivated er not. J. believe that I am11 almlost righ11t wheon I assOrt that unless a I 111111m hor1101its COmlllo 801nso, Io never hats it and canlnot ac<quire it. I do not wntilt to give you any tally (they say I sometimes doal Im it ) but I will say thiis, that the ances tors of most. of you, thoso phloginatic )utcimiion who amnoko their pipes and drink their boer, have b11 noted as far back 111 I hav road atything abont. it, for tlheir altrd horso sonse, and I. dto not think that t h1 po.1 of Newhorry it; d the surrounding country who ar thoir kindred are 1lcking in that ossenltial to good citizenuship, progress, good govern n'mt, paltriotisml. 'J'h jud(lgnont caln 1)0 stroligtheioc, just a little weakly child can bo fnught to walk. And t he hum1na11n1(1 m ind cahe strongthl one(1 in its 11osit essential featuro of good judgmlent, by timely idiomti tion. AIdvice is a thing so plentiful, uni versltlly po-Hesed by overybod.y, wiso, '1r otherwise, and ready to ho otiorod at anytime, that I trust you will hear with mo while 1 olffr a few chunks of it. And 1 am going to talk to the graduates principally, They have coased their college life and aro commeoncmg the other life. Coninoncomont this is calleod, and wiy ? College has jusit closed for the yoar. It s1ms to h rather it contradiction in terms u11nles -you take it to men only tho graduating class. Oh, how their hoarts boat and 01hrill when they say, 1 am1 a n1111. .Lont me say to you, young mnan, you dto not know what is ahead of you. I sympathize with you. T have hrun all along that road, and looking back fro;i my fifty th}reo years down the vistt of struggle through which I have l11: aed, I say it from the bottom of ily heart, to those youtha who )u1t off their childish things and plt. on the toga of mant hod inld go forth tomorrow, you are t' he pitied. Thoso of us who have the harness of life Oil US and who have fought and reached the point whoro wo are toight, will undeolrstanid imo anid kno1w thalt wVhatt I say is true. You, young 1110n, who are jus8t ontoring On your course with hearts flushed withl thlo victory won ini your collegiate struggles, wvithl your miinds imblued. with highl thoughts and noble aspi. rations, with the feelhng thlat the world. is minob, is mino oyster which I with Swvordl or with ponl will 01pen, soo) down that line a struggling mass81 wvho have to buckle to and work, wvork, wvork, if they atre to atccompllishi anything. Tlhey all wvork, atnd: many11 of them without compensation abo0vo a subsistence. A nd much of it to resul t in failuro, mullch of it to ho as Sodomi applos0, tuirning to ashies on their lips, bocanso again stas~tistics comoi in1 to prove that of the humlan race out of 0o10 hlundrod, toni sulcce(d. Ninety struggle along through the mire of meodiocrity, some of them drop low er into the mire. But ton win theo prizes which wo strggle for in this little hattie of life, ninety fall by thle waysido or only go through with comparative failure. But what are the prizes worth living for? WVhat are the bobbles wvhichi wo 5et up anid (lie to got, lighting like demons? The one whlichi is tihe supreme prize, which all men wvant is money, weoalth aInd in this (lay of our country's hlistory we witness a condition in which imammon worship is supreme. TIhe dloctrine of old Hluldibras, what is the wvorth of anything but the money it wvill bring, is abroad m the land, pulsating every hiamlot, invading our peaceful Southland heo, invit ing us to repudiate the principles of our ancestors as far back as we know any thing about them. Buit I am not going into politics. I said that the one tiling which most set out to do is to get money, that other. wise they will be considered fail nros. - Uow much of this is true? What is that idea worth ? Money is a good thing to have if it is properly used. The war.t of money is a men strouls inconvenient thing. But t say for those in this audience who have not suceeded in getting money,