The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-07
ADDRESS TO GRADUATES
OF the Prairie View Normal School by Il.
|. Healing.
THE AVERAGE MAN AND HIS EDUCATION
tinguished Negro Editor, and
Itwns Elective.


an immense crowd OF visitors today at
Prairie View to witness the closing exer-
cises Of the normal. The programme was
immensely interesting. the feature OF the
day was the address Of Prof, Healing OF
Philadelphia and the short addresses by
Colonel Foster 'snd the members Of the
board Prot Healing spoke for two hours
and held the audience to the last
Colonel Foster in short address, ad-
vlsed the race as a whole to embrace the
industrial facilities Of the school and to
make practical men and women out of the
negro.
MIR Holland editor OF the Farm and
Ranch, Insisted that the negro must night
for position In the world by embracing
the proper possibilities offered, that the
best element in the South was fair to
/ the negro II the negro would be fair to
! himself.
| Major Cavitt recited his connection with
{ the school for the last seventeen years and
certainly proved that he deserved the
thanks Of Prairie View for his services,
Captain Relchardt, in few but we'll
selected remarks, closed the proceedings
by handing diplomas TO the graduates.
There was a grand free dinner for the
white and colored visitors on the grounds
The Houston and Texas Central had a
special baggage car side tracked and ready
to handle the southbound scholars and Wis
tors. Busy hands bsgan moving trunks
and other baggage and by early morning
Prairie View will be deserted
The address of Prof. H. 7. Healing edi-
tor of the African Methodist Episcopal Re-
view, Philadelphia was to the graduating
class. He was born at Austin; attended
Straight university at New Orleans. grad
uated from Taber college in 1881 and has
held important positions, having served
successfully as a professor in the Prairie
View State Normal school, as supervisor
I of colored schools for the city of Austin
| and as president of Paul college, Waco
D Though one OF the foremost men Of his
race, having no superior among them as
a lecturer and prose writer, he Is vel
modest and unassuming He has been
d prominently mentioned as a suitable man
to represent the colored race as education
d al commissioner at the Paris exposition.
y The address was on THE Average Mar
}, and His Education" and is given in full
few days ago, while walking down
beautiful Broad street, Philadelphia, saw
two men on bicycles One was sitting
a erect. with arms folded, and speeding a.
gracefully as a swallow, the other was
spectacle for men and gods, With grea
!. beads Of perspiration standing out upol
his face, eyes glazing. body curved forward
r and legs backward, he looked for all tn
world S. S. s advertisement And Their
he was. winding, wabbling. putting, viii
a fatal attraction for every object tina
e hove in view. Then on he staggered I'll
| outraged nature took his case in hand an,
sent him to the ground in one ungaipl
p. :prawl while the busy world rushed by AM
A left him in his sheepDness.
Now, what was the difference between
T these two men? Both were in possession
of good wheels. riding on a smooth
paved street. They had equal strength
+ and activity. and were both equally sub
iect to the law Of gravitation. There wa
V only one diference-one had made friend
y Of gravitation, had adjusted himself TO
- and therefore the same force that tor
70 menied and trpped the other, helped t
o send him flying on his way with all tn
feeling of eXhilaratiln that comes to
'' master Of circumstances.
- And herein lies the lesson that ever
one who succeeds must -adjustmeu
to. and control e. the laws and relation
+ that govern life as a physical and socif
thing. II is not simply a matter of know
a. ing The man who fell off knew as muc
m ab,ut the theory and laws of motion a
the one who staid on, ana he wanted
l. stay on just ae badly, but he couldn't, be
r. cause he lacked adjusting power, that WI
all
Il Again. you 20 into the bank OF trien
a, and say Let me sec II l can open yoi
W safe and he tells YOU 70 Try. You fur
and turn the knob, first his way and the
that Just as ycu have seen him DO, hl
Ha It Is no use tho safe remains locked
tn last he takes hold Of the knob and CIV
1t q few simple turns, apparently the san
on yields and swings open. NAat was u
difference? You knew tho knob h0d
en- be turned as well as he did and W
1v turned IL, but there was one thing you a
not do with all your iurnng-y3u ana n
make the turns in The order OF the con
bination to which the lock had been So
hence your failure. He knew the cor
bnatlon and worked In agreement WI
", It. That little fact made the dlneren
between failure and success When al
, person has learned the lesson of adjus
- ment IN any particular thing, he 70 ed
hu Gated in that thing, aud not tai the
ia This is why we seek an experienced mi
tn to do a careful Job, one who has learn
by practice all the relations and adiu'
: men,s belonging 10 IT, And, indeed, t
ny Or per definition OF "f6ol rs enc who az
ms cut OF relation TO his surroundings, Y
VIII sec from this definition that n
B. may know a great many things and 81
d. be fool Thus. King James was -
ist wlsest fool in Christendom, because
his great learning and It's constant m
OF application.
len The main difference between foollshnt
lei and insanity is that much % the hrst
leh natural and chronic while the other Is
IL cldental and acute, The reason the luna
let Is violent and dangerous and the dun
viii smiiing and mild u.s. l suppose, beea'
ca the one rebels against his condition, wh
III the other is content 70 carry q vac'
tho head. II It smrks above full stoma
se. Now man may be a fool without ~
ged an idiot; nc may be temporary 10
m thar is, with reference 10 some parilcn
time or thing l go into the water
youd my depth when I can not swim
am a fool IN the water and It soon q
~ covers the fact and browns me OAR
Green was a fool on wings though
rch doubt very shrewd Yankee on
err ground The air saw whom II hau 70 .
ex- with. and it answered fool according
his folly. A man who goes out IN
a. cold poorly clad IS a fool In relation 70
temperature, and 1t fastens pneuIn9nl "a
an consumption upon him aco1rdlnsly'
lnd sinks when placed In water II iaeks
Hall floating relation. You tell me tnat II
Of simply too heavy 10 float that us spe.
DR., gravity Is too great, but 1t IS not y
,dl- You take that same piece OF iron