The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-03

When finished the mill will have 10000 spindles, 300 looms and Is cards. and will use about 250O bales of cotton annually.
 The machinery for the mill has all been ordered.
 T. c. Thompson is president of the Silu- ria Cotton Mill company and Brevard D. Miller is secretary and treasurer. The directorate includes Robert Jemison. John V. Coe and W. H. Thompson, all of Birmingham.
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 Lord Kelvin.
 William Thompson, in the years gone by. would know his entrance into pro- fessional life tae hour for beginning his most arduous toil: today he stands in the forefront of British scientists, the great Lord Kelvin.
 A young man in the east realized, when his eyes said farewell to his Alma Mater, that the hardest work then began for him: today the world recognizes as the leading mathematician of America Simon Newcomb of Washington. Asaph Hall felt that with graduation the sternest ex- actions of study began: to him came the discovery of the moons of Mars, the de- corations of foreign courts. and fame in astronomy second to that of none on the American continent. A Virginia lad grad uated many years ago at West Point; graduation was with him the day of be- ginning for labor and thought and strug- gle; go tonight to the city of Richmond and see the monument built by loving hearts to his memory. Though the light nings stroke may shatter that granite shaft and time may leave not one stone to tell where it stood, forgotten forever will be chivalry and virtue and glory crowned leadership when the world for gets Robert E. Lee.
 As different as night from day is con- ceit from proper faith in oneself.
 The vanity that struts and apes the lordly in manner may deceive for a time; but in due season 1t meets the doom that the fool deserves. Inflexible purpose and devotion to study cause consciousness of knowledge; and to know is to trust your self. Know your subject; believe in your self then others will believe in you The calm T know of the man, who in reality knows, brings order out of con- fusion, changes darkness to light, reduces chaos to cosmos. Knowledge is power" not only over the forces of nature over the rage of wild animals, over the minds and hearts of men, but also, in your cases, over the attacks of dread disease. Faith in himself has brought to man the high est triumphs of life. Columbus believed in himself; the lonely ocean knew the ships of the pioneer; and lo another con- tinent loomed up against the western sky. Napoleon believed in himself; riot and war ragged in Paris; he trained his guns upon the house where sat the chamber of deputies, torn by dissension and mad with rage; the world rang with tales of his triumphs and fame, sleepless, watches, while time shall endure, over the tomb which nations pride built in the Hotel des Invalides for the great com mander Fulton had faith in himself and in his steamboat: today .he ocean is the highway of the worlds commerce. and the prows of thousands of steamships
  Faith in yourselves and in your profess sion, the faith that comes from deep knowlege, will change the vail of suf- fering to the smile of peace, the raying of delirium to words of gladness; will carry joy to homes, where paleness and panic fear have kept their sad vigil; and will bring you into true brotherhood with the great souls of your calling, whose mission Is today to the child of poverty and want tomorrow to the downy couch of wealth; whose watch-care Is ever the wards of a charity hospital today, to- morrow over the bed of a king of finance or nations chief.
 Story of Real Life.
 My last suggestion to you I will illus trate with a story from real life; sad tragic, yet inspiring story.
 One night some three years ago an old lady, one who had passed the eightietf milestone of life's journey, was sitting alone in her room when her clothing took fire When her family summoned by her call, came, 1t was to see the dear figure wrapped in flames from feet to head These were extinguished; the physician was called; he dressed the poor body, burned over three-fourths of the surface When he had performed this voice clear and unshaken, said: Doctor, duty, the aged saint, the elect lauY, Wltl you have done all that human skill can do now kneel down and ask God to help me-" And the physician, Christian as well as wise and skillful doctor, bowed before the Great Physician and humbly prayed that He who had healed the sick and raised the dead would, in tender pity, be staff and strength to her, who saw beyond the anguish of the hour the promiT7s that rest upon the word of the living Aiod.
 Gentlemen of the graduating class, I call upon you tonight to look upon the ex- ample of the noble physician of whom have spoken.
 With heart that sorrowed with you for his untlmely end, and yet with exultation that one so true, so gentle. so brave, SC knightly ''trod the ways of earth that he might show us the road to heaven, D I call upon you to look upon tho life and character of Dr. Elias Davis. the Cheyal Her Bayard of the medical profession of Alabama, the great surgeon and the emi- nent physician. who won the highest dls- tinctions of his noble science and the ap- pause of men. who nevertheless, like other stainless souls, found his brightest ] decoration to be faith ln the blessed Nazarene and in the impregnable rock oi sacred Scripture.
 l call upon you to see in nerves and slnews, In bones and arteries. in the won derful economy of the human frame, the handiwork of the Deity, call upon you ] to realize from the evolution of the heal ing art, from the developments of sei.