VOL..VIEb .NO." 68. QBEBNSBORO. N. X? MONDAY, M AY 20, 1901. : ' Price Five Cents, : ' : " - . ". r " ' - - ' t .. - . . . . - - -,' SPECIAL NOTICES 11 advertisements under this hecl ft cent Per Une no advertiMm,1t inserted for less tban 15 cenU. XNTED A YOUNG MAN FAMILI ar with making sash, doors, blinds, capable to act as assistant foreman. Address, stating experience, enclos ing recomendations, Box 81, San ford N. C, IT'STHE INSIDE THAT'S THE IM portant side of a watch. Accurate works are to a watch what a heal thy, undyspeptic stomach is to a hu man being. We put your watch in' a healthy condition, and keep it so. ROSENBLATT & ELLINGTON. 3t WE HAVE ABOUT FORTY SAMPLE pair, odd pairs, and slightly - shop worn ladies' Oxford tXe& to sell at $1.25 the pair worth a good deal more money. Come and see them while we have a pair to fit you. THACKER & BROCKMANN. "WANTED" EXPERIENCED MAN wants office work in Greensboro. Ad dress P. 0. Box, 261, City. 5 9-t TASTE AND ABILITY MAKE OUR work the best. Theeconomy In our garments is their wearing qualities. HARRY POEZOLT, Merchant Tai lor. 67-lmo TURKISH BATHS MAY BE HAD every Saturday afternoon or even ing at 407 Lithia street. Price 50 rents. m23-tf DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK how much it cost you to use gas with out a torch and wax tapers from the consequences of hanging on Chande lier to light the gas or standing on your pluBh bottom chair? More damage may be done by lighting one chandelier, one time without these conveniences than It woulti. cost to buy a outfit for each and every room in the house. We have them at all prices, 15, 20 and 25 cents for torch and wax tapers. Stop and get one, aad thereby stop a nuisance in your house. GATE CITY SUPPLY CO., 217 South Elm Street. Phone 161. FOR SALE CHEAP MUN SON TYPE- writer, No. 3. New and unused. P. P. CLAXTON. 17 ' tf FOR SALE AT A BARGAI FOR cash, 9-room residence on Gorrel street Apply to A WEATHERLY, Agent. m9-2w BRICK FOR SALE THE A. & M. College has 30,000 fine hard brick for sale. Apply at Mechanical depart ment. M18-3t WANTED TO RENT TYPEWRITER in good condition. " Apply P. O. Box 278, City. ml8-3t Normal Announcements. Dr. Mclver made the following an nouncement' at the Normal yesterday morning: For Tuesday, Class Day Exercises at Ave o'clock in the after noon. Reading of, representative es says at eight thirty o'clock in the even ing. He requested the people wh j wanted to hear the essays to come on time, as the doors will be closed a short time after eight-thirty. An nouncement for Wednesday will be made through The Telegram tomor row. Accident on the Southern. The southbound local freight which Passes Grensboro about noon carries Passengers. This afternoon as it was standing on a siding near the furniture factory, waiting for the northbound passenger train to pass, a shifting en gine pushed several flat cars Into the shanty of the freight. Three passen gers were in the shanty at the time, but neither of them were hurt. Very little damage was done the car. The past isn't half as dead as some People would like it to be. n V . j- All lovers of good coffee at reason able price should read J. W. Scott & Co's. ad. STATE NORMAL COffilEKCEHENT DEG11IS WITH ALUMIIAE BA1IQUET ANMT7AL SERMON PREACHED BY EBV. H. E. BONOTHALEB. The Almnoe Banquet a Much Enjoyed Occasion Unique Tast Rer. Howard E. Rondthaler(s Sermon From the Text "And He Touched Her Hand." A Worthy Ambition. The Ninth Anual Commencement of the State Normal and Industrial CdI- ege was ' formally ushered in Satur day night with the annual Alumnae Banquet given in honor of the class at 1901. The tables in the dining J;all were beautifully decorated with flowers and vines, and at each plate found a souvenir, in the shape of a program for the evening, tied with the College colors, gold and white. The College orchestra furnished music, asd the occasion was a nost enjoyable one. The program Including the me nu is reprinted: "Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and pranks and wanton wiles. Nods and becks and wreathed smiles." "Let good digestion wait on appetite and health on both," Vegetable Bouillon" Bread Olives Radish- s I hope we shall drink down all un- kindness." Roasted chicken Giblet Sau .e Currant Jelly Curry of Rice Creamed Cauliflower Our old faithful friend, we are glad to see you." 1 Green Peas ' "How fresh; itd?reeir yrra are." Cucumber' and Tomato Salad Cheese Wafers "I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in it." Pineapple Ice Cake, welcome "Then farewell heat and frost." . '.if!-: lrriefl "Doubtless 3rOtr qoul4have made a bet ter berry, butdoubtless God.never did Coffee Peppermints "The daintiest last to make" the etid most sweet "Discourse, the'sweeter banquet of tLe mind." Toastmaster Margaret Peirce, '9t "I drink to the general Joy o the whole table." Our Alma Mater Elinor Watson, '00 "Should auld acquaintance be forgo; "And days of auld lang syne?" The literary Societies President Charles D. Mclver "Literary culture is mental horticulture, it joins beauty to utility." Being a schoolmarm Flora Patter son, '99 Delightful task! to rear the tender thought and teach the youn? idea how to shoot." The Ex-Schoolmarm Mrs. E. McK. Goodwin, '93 "Marriage and hanging go by destiny." Visions of the Future Prof. J. Y Joyner "I had a dream that was net all a dream." "Gude nicht and joy be wi' you a'. ' "Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore la bour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second .course,. Chief nourisher in life's feast." THE ANNUAL SERMON. Notwithstanding the threatening ap- pearance of the weather a large audi- ence assembled to hear the annual sor- mon yesterday morning, "by Rev. How ard E. Rondthaler. of Salem. The services were opened by jheentire stu dent "body of the institution singi'ig. "Invocation. "The opening prayer was made by Rev. L. W?Crawford, who af- terwards J read the . lessons, onebevr the; ninety-sixth ' Psalm, and the 'otter a portion of first chapter of Paul's let-; ter to the.Phillippians. " The choir, under the direction of Prof. Clarence R. Brown, sang two an thems, "Gloria" from Mozart's 1 2tb mass, and "As Pants the Htart for Cooling. Streams,", from Srohe's "Cru cifixion." The solo part of the latter was rendered by Miss Jessie Brown, of Newton. The singing was by some of the best voices of the Normal and, vas. much appreciated by those who heard it. President Charles D. Mclve- intro duced Rev. Mr. Rondthaler, who said: "The simpler the picture of our Lord Jesus Christ, the more does it appeal to our hearts. As a study in group; arid as a vivid display of the passions, Muncasky's "Christ Before Pilatn " may rivet our attention, but how much closer to our hearts is the winsome ap peal made by Raphael's Madonna, wUh its gentle tenderness and home like nearness? Hardly a simpler picture of the Master could be found than the que chosen in my text.Matthew 8: 15: "Ana he touched her hand." "It was in the quiet of the Sababth morn, in the town of Capernaum,Jesis. with his Disciples, had attended the morning service in the synagogue, ind upon its close He was informed of tit. sickness of one in a household in whi r. He was well known. He haste .tori thither. I can imagine that fisherman Peter's house was nigh by the spark ling waters of that beautiful Galilean lake. Witnln the humble confines of his home lay the sufferer. The Master en ters. 'And He touched her hand, anl she arose and ministered unto Hlm.1 What a portrayal of the divine power and human sympathy of our Lord di- vine in healing, human in touching. But He was ever doing thus; for 'Hs went about doing good.' 1 1 . was this sympathetic nearness; .to &edle-which distinguished J&Sxa and won'thena. - "There have been other great JfcadV ersj men wno nave essayed to ieno, their fellow men ,; to direct vast mover ments, to organize great undertaking, to lead multitudesbut none other hjfZ ever .dare4 to undertake so ; great a. work, that of 'drawing all men unt j Him,' in so simple and seemingly slow. even unspeakable, manner as by touch ing the individualone by one: It was His delight to come near enough to men to literally touch them. Men were units to the Master, not masses; indi viduals, not classes. "He touched poverty touched it in the truest way by making Hims!f poor. 'Though He was ricji, yet for our own sakes became He poor.' 'TCj-tvA Via4 1iaI Vi rvl Da fTnn tniWIa x ir.4VC0 uau uicii iiuivu, uic units their nests, In the deserts of Gallilee: Thy couch was the sod, Oh, Son of God, In the deserts of Gallilee.' -""Men have but lately awakened to Christ's way of studying poverty not by theorizing and speculating upon it, but by going down into it and Bharing it. The college settlement is net a new idea; it is but a part of Christ's way of knowing poverty by making orr- selves poor. "He touched laboir not by statistical computations, not at arm's length, rot as a problem, but during 18 years, of Iis lifs, by making wooden' plows, framing ox-yokes In a Nazarean car penter shop with tools no better tr the crude Implements of the present Gallilean carpenter. No wonder that la boring men became amongst His most devoted followers. "He touched child-life in His own experience, of course, and then notably when He sat with the little ones clus tering about him. Mothers brought their children to him that He mirht lay His hands upon them and pray for them. But He did more He took them up in his arms, laid His hands u on hem and blessed them, It was ho won der that when others in Jerusalem re ceived Him angrily in the morning of His entrance His boy friends cried In the temple, 'Hosana to the David.' Son bf : 'He touched sorrow not as a spec'a tor, but in His own, lonely sufferings "In to the woods my Master went. Clean forespent, forespenf: Into the -oods my Master ame, Forespent with love and shame. Bui the olives, they are not blind to bin;. The thorn tree had a mind to Him, Wh n into tne wods iie ca.ne.' "He touched disease, Until His hand was laid upon them, the blind went stumbling along, the dumb were en chained in silence tll their tongues w--e care? sec" by His hand, and it was His totich wihch unstop tb heavy ears. ' "It could only be after watch ins t o gentle German muses as they passed from cot to cot in :an Oriental lepe. 1 ospital, swathing and cleansing e Frrs of those pitiable pallet s that we could form any appreciative conception rf what it moartt for Chr,st to l..y His hand upon the lepers. They were ther things that He must netfs touh. and so it was in the course of ti o that His own hand was touching a bloody cross tree, and that at sunset of that sad day He was laid gently down upon the cold stone floor of the new made sepulchre. "How shall we ever come to realize fully that He is an unchanged Christ with whom we have to do, that it is T possible on a twentieth century Sab bath morning to experience the to ch of that same hand quieting some dis temper of our life and lifting us np into larger usefulness? He comes to us ;n new ways when we began to re alize the possibilities of touch which lie in real fellowship with the master; when we do not merely associate Him With the fields and hillsides, of Gallll'e, but place Him amongst the surroui d lings of today's life. A Pissot has ren dered a real service to mankind in painting that graphic series of scenes whf reinv Christ lives ; and moves anrongst the sui round! ngs of His ear thly life. T eannot but think, however, that another has caught the more help ful Idea of a present Christ 1 n near "fellowship with us in his portrayal of ottr Savior rvealing Himself to two amazed disciples as they sit at a mod ern table' in a worklngman's house, themeselvs dressed In plain working clothesu There is no halo about theBa- viors Mead, the; marks of toil are seefi plainly on al I and the Impression olr ' today is completed by the glimpse ob tained through a window of the grimy stack of a neighboring factory. "It Is the faith picture of our Savior, set in the background of our life, that makes Him a near and present one and that brings the real experience of His touch. And as we grow Into the knowl edge of this fact which His presence occasions. "First, a wholesome restraint. It is related of Florence Nightingale that. when she even as much as entered the hospital wards In the Crimean war and word was passed that her gentle presence was near at hand.men ceased their complaints and quieted their im precations by every reason of the re straining effect of her presence. But I mingled with this wholesome restraint is that more potent restraint of whh Paul speaks: 'For the love of Chri-t eonstraineth us Yon may have he trd of the maiden whose beautiful charac ter and gentle demeanor endeared her to all, and who constantly referred to those who inquired after the result of her life to a Uny locket ever suspened' about her neck. One- day it was opened, and there was found therein only thee words: "Whom, having not seen,I love.' But the touch of the master's hand goes father, for it is His desire that His way of dealing with us should be our way of dealing with others. 'I have given you an example.' In all this mat ter of dealing with mankind there of ten arise serious questions. Thus says one: " 'What sljall I do to be just? What shall I do? for the gain Of the world or its 'sadness? Teach me, O Seer8,thati trat. Chart me the difficult main Leading out of my, sorrow and mad ness: . ; Preach me the purifying pain.' t Shall I wrench from my fuige the? ring . To cast to the tramp at my door? Shall I tear off each luminous thing To drop in the palm of the poor? What shall I do to be just? Teach me, O ye in the light, -x vVhom the Door and the rict. nittrn trust r My heart is aflame to be right,' Another answers: 'What shall you do to be just? How shall you. work for the gain Of the world in its sadness? Seek hot the seers, but distrust Guides who with creeds would enchain Seek yet rather the prophet whine kindness Breaks up the kingdom of pain.' Yes take from your flngerthe ring, But not for the tramp at the door; Turn its gold into coin that will briu Relief to the pain of the. poor. , Care if this will be just; Think best of him who was light, Whom the poor and the rich alike trust So that you know you are right.' "It is for the King's Son ,anl Daughters to adopt the King's met'i c ds. This is by far the harder way, ana probably because it is the Chrfst--li1wj way, is not the world's method. Oui Savior's example can never be effect ively followed by mere resolutions, en actments, petitions, memories, con ventions, conferences, the study ot problinis and questions, nor through theses nor essays, nor even througn anything that strives to work with men as masses and classes. It Is alone through actual, personal touch that the human part of the salvation of this world Is to be wrought ouc Heart must kindle heart, shoulder must meet shoulder, hand must clasp, hand, eye must search eye; before one life can warm another into Larg, iisefhl ness. That education whicii actually makes us beneficial to manklhd tl!at which renders us hearthtihgry to be helpful In Christ's way to othersY ' ' And now, young ladies, whom will you touch? The conspicuously heroic fields are reserved tor but tfie tew. The first thing with which most Of us come into contact is our home. lUeTew pic- .urs at the World's Fair gained the Interest which was.attached to 'Break ingithe Hoine Ties." "I havettought4)f . a possible counterpart thereto! 'Re- Making the Home Ties, plhaps tfi re turn of youth or maiden, enriched with the instruction and experience of col lege life, to the old home. ' ' In the parents' faces I see a commingling of pride and hopeful expectations that this one, for whom, perhaps real sacri fice has been made, may show forth a life sweetened and cultured-into larg er sympathy and helpfulness,! see upon the younger faces of the., household an expression, half timid, of an instinctive questioning whether the returned fbne will be loving and lovable as before "It Is just here in your home life that you can begin to succeed or begin to fail. Do not await the fancied com ing of some supposedly heroic or ro mantic field of lifework, but begin at once to show what you are and .what you've gained in a sympathetic life lied in the nearest surroundings which present themeselve3. But re member that weherever you touch, to be of lasting value, it must have in it the power which comes only by person al acceptance of Christ as your Savior. "There ti e those who move gracious ly through the world by reason of re finement, education and cultivation, and their touch tempers and refines, but in the end it is ever found lack ing in those permanent elments of which Paul speaks when says 'Christ in us the hope of glory, so that 'I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth In me. I commend to you this as a worthy ambition. A life so touched with Christ that it becomes to others an image, beautiful and inspiring, of the Christ- life." , The. dark ages must be the ages of . - " - " . I elderly spinsters. , 4; 1 .4f re'L' - .:'.v;; .' mm 'if. V 4 - t 4 - - , V i V '4H j- v ' ' v - V 1 . I- . V 1 - A 4 ji - : : .