The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-06-21

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and in this atmosphere [ know the
morals also have boon carefully
watched and guarded, what promise
havo you for usefulness in lifop Worry
gro"t. You arc bottor equipped than
those who do not havo college train
ing, There is no uso to deny that
knowledge is not great thing to
possess. knowledge is power.
knowledge Of the right kind is money,
is wealth. But knowledge alone docs
not give happiness. knowledge
alone, however great, is not the high
cst ambition that wc should follow.
Nero knowledge without common
sonse is tho-oh, is pitiful exhibi-
ton to havo man choclI FULL brim-
ming over with knowledge Of books
and things that no has road and &c.
quirod, and who hasn't sonse enough
to got ont of n shower Of rain. That
ID involved in this question of montul
training, tho cultivation Of the judg-
mont. do not know whether it can bo
cultivated or not. / believe that |
am almost right when 1 assert that
unloss man inhcrits common sonsc,
ho mover has it and cannot acquire
it. lo not want to give you any
tally (they say L sometimes deal III
IT'D bnt | will say this, that tho anccs.
tors Of most Of you, those phlegmatic
Dutcnmen who smoke their pipes and
drink thor bccr, have been noted as
far back as l have read anything
abont it, for their hard horse sonsr,
and L do not think that tho people of
Nowberry and tho surrounding
country who arc their kindred are
lacking in that essential to good
citizenship, progress, good govern
mont, patriotism. Tho Judgment
can bo strengthened, Just a little
weakly child can bo Taught to walk.
And tho human mind can be strength
onod in its most essential feature of
good Judgment, by timely admom-
ton.
Advice is thing so plentiful, uni
vorH"lly possessed by everybody,
wise, or otherwise, and roatly to be
offered at anytime, that trust you
will bear with mo while | offor few
chunks of it. And | am going to
talk to tho graduates principally,
They havo coased their college life
and arc commencing tho other lifo.
Commencement this is called, and
why? College has just closed for
tho year. 1t seems to bo rather Il
contradiction in terms unless you
take it to moan only tho graduating
class. Oh, how their hearts bent
and thrill whom they say, | am q
man. Lot mo say to you, young
man, you do not know what is ahead
of you. I sympathizo with you. I
havo boon nll along that road, and
looking back from my fifty three years
down tho vista Of struggle through
which havo passed, say it from
tho bottom Of my heart, to these
youths who pvt of thoir childish
things and pnt on tho toga of man.
hood and 80 forth tomorrow,
you arc TO be pitiod. Those Of
us who hnvo tho harness of life
on us and who have fought and
re9chod tho point whore wo aro
tonight, will understand mo and
know that what say is truo. You,
young men, who arc just entering on
your course with hearts flushed with
tho victory won in your collegiate
struggles, with your minds imbued
with high thoughts and noblo aspi-
rations, with tho feeling that tho
world is mino, is mine oyster which
with sword or with pen will open,
SEQ down that limo struggling mass
who havo to buckle to and work,
work, work, if they arc to accomplish
anything. They all work, and many
Of thom without compensation abovo
subsistence. And much of it to result
in failure, much Of it to bo as Sodom
apples, turning to ashes on their lips,
bocanse again stastistics come in to
provo that Of tho human race out Of
ono hundred, ton succeed. Ninety
strugglo along through the miro Of
mcdiocrity, somo Of them drop low
or into tho mire. But ton win the
prizos which wo struggle for in this
little battle Of life, ninety fall by tho
waysido or only 60 through with
comparative failure
But what arc the prizes worth
living for7 What are the bobbles
which we set up and die to got,
fighting like demonsY The ono
which ia the supreme prize, which
all mon want is money, wealth and
in this day of our country's history
wo witness condition in which
mammon worship is supreme. Tho
doctrine of old Huldibras, what is
tho worth of anything but the money
it will bring, is abroad IN the land,
pulsating every hamlet, invading
our peaceful Southland here, invit-
ing us to repudiate the principles of
our ancestors as far back rs we know
any thing about them.
But ] am not going into politics. I