The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-24

a jack of all trades, and good, at none.
Most of you will grow. up to fill some
useful trade rather than to adorn the
learned professions. Let this not be a
source of acknowledgment to You. So
ciety needs successful farmers and
mechanics and artisans more than it
does successful lawyers, doctors and
statesmen. although 1t would be a sad
thing for society should what is known
as the learned professions be elimi-
mated. 1t is vastly better for you that
you should be a success as a farmer
or a mechanic, than that you should
become a poor lawyer or poor doctor.
Nor should the fact that you are to be-
come farmer or a mechanic preclude
you from storing your mind with
knowledge in varied branches of learn
ing. ts s-~
"Strive for Knowledge"
An educated mind never spoiled a
skilled hand On the contrary. a hand
naturally skilled is made more skilled
when directed by an educated mind.
Therefore, endeaYor to derive from
such knowledge as you may acquire
some practical good. Do not endeavor
to find an excuse for yourself when
your efforts result in failure. Rather
censure yourself that you did not dis
cover and remove before it was too
late those causes which combined to
produce failure. Learn Ito do things
rather than ito theorize. about them"
The dreamer is not the man who sue
ceeds.- The dreamer is not the man
who writes his name on the roll of
fame. The philosopher may impart to
you the doctrines which comfort and
console you in disappointment or de-
feat, but he cannot fortify you with
that courage, that stamina, and that
endurance requisite for your success.
The huge iron horse, which with bated
breath and dilated nostrils, rushes on
through the darkness of night, making
both night and darkness to vanish
with its coming. sprang not from a
philosophers dream, but from the hard,
common sense and applied knowledge
of Robert Stephenson. The electric ca
Bile, which winds it's sinuous path in
oceans, valleys and over her mountain
erests binding together as it does the
old world and the new, is the product
of mans material want, rather than of
his philosophic thought. Mareouis
genius, flashing as it does from Labra-
doris snow-capped submits to Alhion's
rugged cliffs thought waves, search
ing for a companion force, is no divine
inspiration, but is the product of nights
of toll and of days of struggle, pa
tiently working into harmony the de-
tails of natures laws. Be practical,
therefore, in everything. Be PAINS
taking in all things. Whatever you do,
do with your whole mind. Despise not
the details, for out of details the per-
feet body is fashioned. -
To true religion in your soul and
practical knowledge in your mind
must be added
"A high purpose in the heart"
Wealth an Old Honorable Goal.
Boys, one of the chief desires in your
each and every heart to-day is that
you may become rich man. Riches
are not to be despised. You will find
that every ideal which makes for the
good of man, every high purpose which
is cherished in the heart, is fostered by
the aid and assistance of money. l
hope that each and every one of you
may become a rich man, and many of
you doubtless will, but it is far better
that each and every one of you should
grow from poor boy to a poor man
than that any one of you should be-
come a rich man in the wrong way If
to become rich means that you are to
give up the true religion of which 1
have spoken-lose your own souls
then wealth will become your greatest
curse. The chief purpose of life is not
to make money. The making of money
should be only one of the main Incl
dents of life. If you let the craving
of gold beat. with it's full heat and
intensity into your heart, that crav-
ing will wther and dry up in your
heart all pure and holy sentiments. A
broad, white board, exposed for a suf-
ficient length of time in the heat of
the monday sun, will become warped
and twisted, and its beauty will be de-
stroyed; but if the rays Of the sun are
tempered on that board, the gentle
warmth will cause it to become strong
and firm and durable. Let your love
for money warm you, but not burn you.
"Aim at the stars
In your each and every effort have
a high purpose. Aim high. Aim at
the stars. Emulate the virtues of the
great men of whom you read. Let the
life of Washington stand ever bright
before you. Emulate those virtues
which herald him First in war, first
in peace and first in the hearts of his
countrymen." Choose you an ideal,
and live as near it as possible. Give
me boy with high ideal, and l will
give you, when he has arrived at man
hoods estate, an ideal man. l know
of no method so well calculated to in
spire you with high ideals as the
thoughtful study of history. History,
recounting as it does, the deeds of he-
roes who have surpassed or subdued
deepens your thought; and back OF
those heroes, impelling them onward,
you find principles as eternal as the
universe. Your heart burns with pa
triotism as you hold the bridge with
Horatious the dauntless courage OF
Leonidas makes you know that for the
native heath a patriot will and must
ever fight; Hannibal, winding his path
way over the treacherous' Alps tells
you that over mountains of difficulty,
in the valley below, lie paths of plenty;
Caesar, battling with the waves of the
Rubicon, teaches you not to be dis
mayed when adversely surrounds on
every side; a heroic Wallace, hanged
and ouartered in the Tower of Lon
don, was Scotland's declaration that
union with England must be upon
| terms of equality and fraternity-not
| upon terms of servile submission.
At NapoieOn's Grave.
Boys, stood once at the tomb of
the great Napoleon. The soft, mellow
light sifted down uron his resting
place as do the slanting sunbeams up
on a tranquil earth at the close Of a
stormy day. Reading there in letters
of gilt and gold his last appeal to
France-"Carry me back to the banks
of the Seine, among the people have
| loved so well'-you forget that he was
| the scourge of Europe; you forget the
| appalling miseries he inflicted upon
mankind;. you forget the orphans and
widows he made-the tears shed for
his glory. You stand awe-struck and
speechless before the. ashes of that
restless man Out of the fearful
evils of his life you see the good that
has come to humanity You see the