, 1907-01-31
Judge Bloods Address.

last Friday. Col. Crawford, as
was his custom, read the C hildren
a story after which Judge Blood
was called on for an address and
spoke as follows:
"Prof. Miller and scholars.
II regret exceedingly that I was
not familiar with the custom
which seems to prevail here or I
would have followed the example
of my friend, Col. Crawford, and
read you a story, which doubtless
would have been more interesting
to you than anything 1 can say;
however, having been honored
by an invitation by Prof. Miller
to address you, I will do the best
l can to entertain you and
merit your attention for a few mo-
ments. And when we do the best
we can in the discharge of the du-
ties assigned us we are entitled to
our full Measure of credit.
at is customary for speakers to
select a subject upon which to
base their remarks, and speakers
of inconsiderable ability, like my
self, are apt to select a subject of
the broadcast pc ssible scope.
professor, will you kindly write
the word mind upon the black
board. Will any scholar volun-
teer to give us the definition of
that wordP No; we'll, 1 will read
you the definition as given by
Webster. The Intellectual or
intelligent power in man; the
power that conceives, judges. or
reasons 1t is for the purpose of
enrichlng and improving this
that we are all here. Mind is the
opposite of matter. Matter is
that which we can see, and touch
and understand. Mind we can
neither see, nor touch, nor under
stand. We can, however, in a
measure appreciate its marvellous
results. Time shortened; sound
reproduced; space conquered; dis
lance annihilated; force controlled;
oceans ferried; mountains tunneled
cities heated by steam and lighted
by electricity; wireless Biography
perfected, by the aid of which we
may almost send greetings to the
Gods. The mind enables us to
count the stars; weigh the planets;
tell the sweet influence of the Pile
ladies'; wrest from the rocks the
secret of their prehistoric story;
sing the cradle song of a newborn
world, or write the epitaph of a
dying moon. The mind enables
us to claim the roundless ladder
of the skies, and with eye I'M
blenched, brain cool and nerve
steady, climb kin-ship with Him
who sits upon the Throne reared in
the metropolis of the Universe.
From the difficulty you have in
solving the problems presented in
your textbooks, you may be able
to form some idea of the mental
effort required on the part of the
author to produce them. The As
Economical calculations of Con-
~fuscius, who lived some 500 years
before the beginning of the Christ
ian Era, were found in the ruins
of the Tower of Babel. Euclid,
the author of the elementry ge-
ometry, lived 300 years before the
Christian Era. The Ptolemies,
who founded the celebrated Alex
andrian Library and governed
Egypt 400 years prior to the
Christian Era, were eminent sci
e~ntists and promoters of the Fine
Arts. Thus you see we now have
the benefit OF the best mental eff
fort of the greatest minds for more
than 1000 years to assist us in the
acquisition of an education.
Gan we afford to be careless or
%neglectful of our opportunities
Can we afford to borrow from 9TH
ers that which we do not intend
to repay? Can we afford to cheat