The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-07-03

thank thee that live.
Or to say like Longfellow-
Lite is real--life is earnest,
l. :" ma the grave is not its goal"
, 1t Is easy to diagnose poets tenn.
permanent or II philosophers bv his
| "ii'ihSs--Some are gloomy aul some
are biSht and cheerful. | was ,,,mi.
,lallhg about these young men who
nave Just graduated at my alma mate,
ana The other home colleges, and won.
dcfln5 how many of them would prove
success IN life and twcntyy ears hence
cNclalm with the poet, "Oh, NV God
thank Thee that live" Fifty-four
years ago | was at Athens, in the class
Oh ~, ana OF the fOrty-two then LIVING
mere are now but balf dozen left
Many OF them lived and died and made
no signs. Some of them saw trouble
ana some made good citizens. rood
husbands and fathers; and lust so his-
tory repeats itself all along the genera
tions.
II grieved me that | could uot attend
the centennial aud commune with Tho
aAu,hhi ana rejoice with the young and
leei lonely with the Old. Then there
IS oId college and new college, and the
chapel and the campus and the two
nails that are still unchanged.
wonder how many boys have occupied
| lhe oId room that Briscoe and | lived
IN Tor two long years? ! saw il in The
picture and felt like il was still NV
room. The ailanthus trees (by n ms.
homcr called the tree of heuycm urcw
ci"sc to our windows and extended
hcir nauscatlng OdOrs TO the dOrmj-
TORY where we slept, and the bows all
a"ll@ the line complained, but thc
iacuiiy sand 1t would soon pass away.
ana inc trees We're imported from
'hlha, the Celestial Empire, and thev
were called the trees of heaven. So
enc dark night the boys Mot y got axes
an" @lrdled them and they died and
went to heaven in China, where thcv
came from.
lor some months | roomed i'm new
college, and so did our tutor. who was
cross and never smiled, for he was an
ola pachelor--pcace to his ashes. He
W""ldeht let me nor Chess Howard
pi"y on the ilutc alter study hours at
n,Sht' nor let Ben Moscly and Dick
FARMER play on the liddlc. Said il an
npyed him, and SO some of the bows
(n"t u got some old cannon balls from,
the armorv AMI away in the dead hour
"i night, when deep sleep fallcth upon
" man or tutor, they rolled six
""under along the lo:g hall 200 feet
'l%ht by his door, which was about
midway When it got to the other
'"d another boy slipped out and rolled
II back again, and this rolling aud rum
oi'h was sept up for II time until there
happened Just what they thought would
hhpp"h The tutor hai opened u crack
III ms door, and when he heard The
oaII coming for the fifth tine he s!inncd
OUT suddenly and stopped it wllh hi.
'"ot ;hn picked it up and took il in his
room.
That was jast what the boys (not y
wanted, fol they had another one IL
me lire getting hot. I'm due time tbnv
took II IN the shovel and sent II slo,,Iy
Ho"n 'he haIi way, and it stopped not
'"r from ms door. Quickly he stepped
"u' ana me hight from his room showed
nm the ball. He seized it with mis-
n@ht hand and straiyhtway dropped il
an" uScd some language that was un-
becoming, and rctrcatcd to his rNom.
me next day lis hand WAS tied n, in
i Whltc handkerchief, which wa, a
k!ld oi Iiag OF truce, for he was much
more consldcratc to us and seemed TO
IKE music. never pcrp"t.a,cd mach
mischief while in college, Tut | Sas an
apt scholar 10 look on ana cni,v all
The fun.
Chcss Howard was an cXpcr:, and
could play better than any BODY. cspc-
ci'lIy il not cannon ball. Chess came TO
see us some time ago and after while
asked me ana my wife to give them
some music And so she seated her
sell at the piano and took my flute
and asked what he would like. Ana
he said play ihat good old piece that we
"'ed TO call "Salllc Baxter" when we
"chI ScrchadlnS In Athens. So we
Played 1t, and before we were aware of
! ness had slipped his own ilutc out
W ms peckct and was footing along
y 'hlhd me. Sa!ic was our COLLEGE
>wccthcart bu. we Gnlcrt get her, for
Il olrd ilcw th'ic and she followed him
OH TO BhIllm"rc, and is livlDg there
yet but w"ncycr thought of suicide.
bni iorhcar 1t is sweet and t's
sad To recall the memories of ,I5. ,46
ana ~, aud would have felt lost and
lonely IN Athens. 1t was college then.
1t Is great university now, and many
hahScS nav" come over it, aud we old
veterans nave to keep up with the
. occssiOn whether we like the modern
mctNads or not. They have got inter
collegiate bascb Ill in the curriculum
now and reckon ii is to keep the bows
nom committing suicide. 1t divcrts
Iheir minds from the strain of triqono-
nelfN and calculus and comic sections.
P|oGrcSs is the order Of the day in col
'r3c5 as in everything else. One
!nndrcd aud fifty years ago old DE-.
phnson said to Boswell, "In ou: great
schools there is less ilogsing than for
| N ir.y Consequently, less is learned
| mere. SO what the boys get at one
c"i 'hcy lose at the other" Now
! there ia no logging anywhere. and the
teachers and professors are thankful if
| they escape it from The boys.
| BILL ARp.
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IN" average man Il csn'l need a soul
| 10 M *" IL woman 'Oyo him. oil ho