The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-05-02

men VINO lOOkeu upon ucalu ds VIC iloH
looks, whose ewes were as the eyes OF the
eagle, when from his mountain crag he
swoops upon his prey.
"And what of the South today? There
are financial troubles here and there, but
these are common to all lands; there are
vexing questions Of political admins
tration. but these come to every people,
and the unSeltish patriotism of the many
and the righteous will of the great people
will adjust these. 1t is a grand and in
spring thought to reflect upon what the
South was thirty years ago and what it is
today. Villages have become towns and
towns have become cities; mining wealth
has been discovered and developed; the
whistle of the locomotive engine awakeS
the echoes of mountain and valley, and
great railway systems exchange the COM
modities of the North and the West for
the products of the South; shipyards have
been constructed whence argosies of COM
merce have gone forth to ride the waves
of the ocean; everywhere thrift, industry
and vigor bring success to the present
and give prophecy of L future great in
material development. More and more
each year the public school system is cdC-
eating the young men for the RESPONSE
bilities of life, for broader conception of
the duties and privileges of strong citi-
zcnship, while academies and colleges are
giving generous culture and banding
together an, army of young men and
young women into high community of
intellectual aspiration and achievement,
are teaching the great lesson that all
studies, all pursuits that pertain to the
humanities, have bonds of sympathy and
ties of association, that the storicd past
and the living, pulsing present meet, and
in their blending show that the currents
of all intellectual activities, of the
thoughts of the ages, mingling in one
mighty stream, sweep on and on, past
empires that fall, past dynasties that fade
as fades the dew of the early morning,
rolling on as long as the life Of man shall
live on earth, as long as stars and blazing
consultations shall make resplendcnt the
heavens above us.
young men of South Carolina who
may be here today, you have goodly heri-
tage. The names of Revolutionary heroes,
of statesmen who stood for constitutional
liberty and human rights, of the soldiers
who have made your state synonym OF
courage, form a background of surprising
splendor. Would you know a story OF
heroism, of devotion to home and to free
dom that recalls the glory of Athens and
of Sparta? Go to the monuments in
South Carolina, and in the words craven
on stone read your heroic past. Out Of
the embers of that past it is your duty,
your privilege to kindle fires whose flames
shall mount higher yet, fires of patriotism,
of industry, of learning, of manhood.
Look around you, and then take counsel
of the splendid years that are gone; take
counsel of your own true hearts; give
evidence of manliness in loyal support of
education, of the material development of
our state; build more great factories and
thus give broader scope to the industrial
activities of the South thus give employ
ment to the poor, make the wide fields
bright with golden grain and CHEEKY with
the harvest song; find a magic
In the steamship, in the railway,
In the thoughts that shake mankind
prepare to take your places in the
forefront of those who advocate and who
will have pure, strong government; who
will choose for public office men who, in
the storm of undeServed cenSure, as well
as in the sunshine of popular approval,
will dare to do right. Remember that
upon your shoulders and near your hearts
will, in the years to come, lie the fair
name and the honor of the old Palmetto
State; that from among your numbers
and such as you must come the men who
| will, in this new century, frame and eN-
ecute the laws of our country and our
commonwealth; the physicians who must
bring healing to wasted bodies and stay
the march of plague and pestilence; who
must teach the world anew that all labor
| is honorable, that it is the man who gives
dignity to every occupation; who must in
the vast field of commercial activity keep
pure hearts and unsullied names; who
shall form the faculties Of schools and
colleges and lead the youth of our land
in paths of knowledge and in quest of
truth. The great future beckons you on
ward; opportunity, for season, waits
you touch today and you will touch more
and more with the passing years, chords
that will be vibrant through generations
vet unborn; shall not those chords quiyer
with the touch ola brave, true, and splen-
did manhood?
II see the South advancing to meet the
coming years, strong in natural resources
and material development, stronger still
in the brave men and the noble women,
who will use their powers and talents to
make greater their land and brighter and
| better their environment, and strongest
vet in the obedience of the great people
to the purposes and the word Of the
living God"
After DR.. Montague's address, Presi-
dent Mcmillan introduced DR.. j. A.
Scherer. of Charleston, pastor of apromi-
nent Lutheran church in that city, who
made a splendid address. We regret
that space will not permit US this week to
publish his speech, but we will print it in
full next week. After his address the
meeting adjourned, with the benediction
by Rev. E. W. Peoples.
Then came dinner, which as usual was
fine one, after which the balance of the
afternoon was spent in pleasant social
intercourse. Very good order was kept
throughout the day. The members of the
Association were determined to stop the
practice of shooting down in the swamp,
and very few shots were fired during the
day. Several arrests were made, and the
cases will be vigorously prosecuted, as
the Association is firm in its purpose to
put stop to this reprehensible habit of
thoughtless persons.
HOW'S This?
We offer one hundred dollars reward
| for any case of catarrh that cannot be
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