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VOL. VIII. NO. 91.
GREENSBORO, N. C. WEDNESDAY. M
22, 1901.
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FLOOD AT BILTMORE.
Railway Bridges Washed Away
Cottages Flooded.
A special to the Charlotte Observer
from Asheville, under date of May 21,
says:
Duiing the past two days and
nights a hard rain has been almost in
cessantly falling in this section and
much damage has been done to crops,
mill, railroad and other property.Hun
areds of Asheville peole have visited
Biltmore today to see the damage done
by the floods in Vanderbilt's Ideal vil
lage. When the millionaire and his advis
ers planned the tow n a nearby creelc
which has never before been anything
ut a small stream, was never for a
moment taken into account. Today
this stream made a record, for Itself
that was both surprising and alarming.
One row of cottages built by Mr. Vah
derbilt was flooded and the people
forced to move their belongfrigstto the
upper floors and some of Ene beauti
fully paved'streetfe were covered with
rubbish. Small treaties at Biltmore" on
toth the main lineof the Southern Snd
on the Asheville ?Spartanburgr
road were Washedaway and ndHrains
wiu be operated n&ither iinebetore
late tomorrow. Acaif on the siajfetftck
loaded with stone was washed 3b ftet.
The electric plant here is badly dam
aged and the city tonight" is in dark-
LIFE AND DEATH
OF A WORLD.
AlillUAL ADDRESS AT NORMAL
DEL1TERED THIS MORNING BY DR.
HENRY LOUIS SMITH. ..
The Six Essays Read Last Night The
Class .Song Governor Ay cock Makes a
Short Speech and Presents the Consti
tutions The Annual Address Today One
of the Finest Efforts Ever Delivered in
the City Girls Will Go Home Tomorrow.
Notwithstanding the steady down
iour of rain last night a large 'num-
ber of people from the city attended.
the State Normal College witnessing',
the exercises of the evening.
As had been previously announced
ced, the program for the evening con-j
sisted of the reading of six representa-'
tive essays by six members of the grad-
v.ating class.
In the rear of the large auditorium
sat the students of the institution, on
seats raised tier after tier, their faces
wreathed in smiles, and reflecting
the brightness and joyousness which
pervaded the entire assemblage, des
pite the dampening effect of the weath
er outsid ?n the other portions of
the hall could be seen old students,
bowing to former acquaintances, and
fond parents come to see their daugh
ters graduate.
A few minutes before nine Presi
dent Mclver entered "the hall, accom
panied by Governor Charles B. Aycock,
and the Directors: -fit: the College. Their
entrance was the signal for a hearty
burst of applause-Hardly had the echos
of this greeting died away, when from
the opposite side of the auditorium
entered the fifteen young ladles who
compose the graduating class, and th y
received as hearty a welcome as did
the gentlemen.
Several selections were played by the
college orchestra, " assisted by Mf. A.
H. Alderman, cornet; Dr. J. H. Wheel
er, trombone; and Mr. Henry Mar
ley, trap drum; from the city. The
music was an enjoyable feature of the
evening.
A chorus, 5 "The Lawn Party," was
well rendered by the Glee Club, under
the direction of Prof. Brown.
The . exercises were formally begnn
by President Mclver, who in a fow
words introduced the President of :1ie
class, Miss Daisy Allen, of Franklin
county, to ithe audience, and who af
terwards introducedVin turn'ach of
the young ladles wh'd read"eSays. Be
fore assuming her duties Miss Alln
said she wished, in the name of the
class of 1901, to thank those in attend
ance for their presence, and as Dr. Mo
Iver would say It, "This you" own
college and you are at lipme here."
She drew a vivid picture of that period
in the history of Noth Carolina when
for years the pathetic cry for education
went up from the girls, and how in re
sponse to that cry a man
arose, and with others, es
tablished the Normal College. "This
mar," said she, "is our beloved Presi
dent, Dr. Charts D. Mclver." In ca-
elusion Miss Allen said: "We offer our introducing Governor Aycock, Dr. Mc
hearts, hopes, and lives, In the great iver said; "We welcome him not only
work of saving the children of No i because he is Governor of the State,
Carolina from growing up in ignor
ance." The first esssay was entitled "It is
Daybreak Everywhere,' by MIss.Bt
tha Rubel Sugg, of Greene county. She
vividly portrayed two pictures, one of
the long ago, with Its tallow candles,
slow moving stagecoaches and the
strict observance of the Sabbath,
and the other a glimpse of the present
with its many advantages and improve
ments. '
The t second essay was by Miss Eu
nice idrkpatrick, of Mecklenburg coun
ty, and was entitled. "Some North
Carolina - Folk Lore," Two pretty le
gends were told,and several ot the stu-
perstitious fancies of the present day
commented upon In an entertaining
manna-.
-
a tvoi snn " was the thente
of thlfSav of; Miss Laura Satttor,
oi WaM county. Aiv Ideal of Duty&
Il&n wasresentid in the pets&
cf tfaye, chalrpu dAristian
GerS
Boer! j Lee r ; :
rrhe next essay was read by luiss Ma-
bel Haynes, of Wake county, "on the
subject "The Education of the Deaf
and Dumb in North Carolina." Miss
Haynes4 essay was a concise statement
of the work done by the State in be
half of her children afflicted speech
lessness and silence.
"The Scotch-Irish In North Caroli
na," was the subject or Miss Birdie
McKinney's essay. She spoke not only
of their love of education, but of their
qualities as liberty loving and liberty
defending people, shown In many of
the Southern campaigns during the
Revolutionary War.
The last essay was read.byMIsss Ida
Wharton, of Forsyth county. Her
subject was "The Country Doctor."
The trials and tribulations, as well as
the joys of this lover of his fellow be
ings, was wellportrayed, and a pretty
Picture was drawn of him as he goes
along the country r(aaS speaking a
kind word to thoge he mets and re
Wiving from every one a "God Bless
you."
-.v-At the close of, the essays the class
song was aUng. 'TnIg song was com-
posed by iIiss dances Winston, of
Franklin county. The singing was
very impressive, the voices of the
young ladies having no accompani
ment, and the last strains of the song
being repeated and allowed to die
away.
Class Song, "Class of 1901," by Miss
Frances Winston, of Franklin county.
Tune: "Home to Our Mountains."
Farewell dear college days,
Farewell forever;
Life calls the youthful heart on the
front.
No more we come to thee
Blest Alma Mater.
No more-we turn to thee as we are
wont,
Bless us, kind Mother,
Ere we depart.
Lpngls the Journey tho' fair the ay
j.ay me ueai lessuua
Learned at the altar stone
Turn winter wrath to the sweetness of
: May.
Fain would we linger here,
Wngerrjand leave thee not
Though' the tasks given us now arc
complete.
Can w' refuse the call '
Of our dear Mother State
A nd take our place again low at thy
feet?
Nay, for thou bidst us go
"Others now fill thy place,
Fields ripe to harvest nor wait but thy
hand,
Garner the precious grain,
live my. blind children light
Cease not till noonday shall flood all
the land."
So, Alma Mater, we
Co at they bidding
Scd yet rejoiced thy command to oley
Ever remember us
Thou who forgetest not,
Few tho in numbers we love thee for
ye,
Well we remember the
Athletic wars we fought,
Each hallowed spot with sweet fancies
we've strewn
Fountain and forest,
Bright sunny pathways
E'en the old College bell's resonant
tone.
Farewell, Alma Mater, farewell.
President Mclver then requested the
audience to join in singing "The Old
North State," which was done with a
will, after which he introduced Govern
or Aycock who delivered to the young
ladies of the graduating class, each a
copy of the constitution of North Car
olina and of the United States. In
but because he is a friend of education
in high and low places." His enconx
lims " Upon the Governor were loudly
applauded, and when Mr. Aycock ad
vanced to the front of the stage the au
piause was doubled. Governor Ay
cock said:
"Ladies and gentlemen, you are more
more than generous to me, but I have
been somewhat used to being kindly
received in North Carolina. I was in
New York recently, and two hundred
North Carolinians tried to sing "Tnc
Old North State," as you did just now,
1 ut thr-y-wttldn't do It. You can't sing
the songs of Zion in a strange land.
I came all the way from New YrK
In order?o be here tonight and see the
I commencement, for the first ttoecff
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I this great institution. wtc
then readio the young ladles a portion
of the ednstitution, of North Carolina;;
,whiich lafys that "the people have
ancti privilege of education, ;anf
i ut the State , to
mllntiilrcthat right." "Thecc
fctidttfc rights
you are Srdrn to uphold that sonstl-
tution. Another clause in that cona-
titution says that it is the duty of the
Legislature as soon as possible, to pro
vide education for idiots and inebriates,
classing the two together, the one be
cause he can't help it, and the other
because he can."
"I shall deliver no lecture to you on
the duty you owe. 1 wish I were as
sure of the , performance of my own,
and that of the men as I am of yours.
Young ladles, in behalf of North Caro
linia, and the State Normal and In
dustrial College, I prent to you the
constitution of North Carolina and the
United States. Tomorrow the Bible
will be presented to you, and with the
Bible and the constitution of North
Carolina: and the United States. you
have the necessary elements of good
citizenship both in this world and the
world to come."
At the conclusion of the presenta
tion, the audience joined in singing
AJUC1 IbA CLXAU U1SU1JOOCU.
This morning at 11 o'clock the grad
uating address was delivered by Dr.
Henry Louis Smith, president of Da:
idson College He was Introduced b
Dr. Mclver in a few well chosen words.
After his address the presentation of
Bibles took place. They were present
ed by Dr. S. B. Turrentine, pastor of
West Market church.
In making the address Dr. Smith
said:
"Members of the graduating class,
students of the Normal College, ladles
and gentlemen: I have left behind
me a crowd of conflicting duties that
I might have the pleasure of bringing
a message to these hundreds of eager
receptive minds. I congratulate the
president of your institution on -the
the successful year now closing. , tJfrsse
young women on the honorable history
and beneflcient work of their alma
mater, and the State of North Carolina
on her farseeing wisdom in founding
and liberally supporting her Normal
and Industrial College.
The suggestion of your president
that my address be a scientific one,
was in such accord, with my own tastes
and preferences, that I take pleasure
today, in deviating from the well trod
den path of Commencement address
es. From text books and examinat
tions, from the petty routine of our
daily lives, I wish to lift your minds
to . the grandeur of and beauty of na
ture's inflinite form and patience, and
the wide sweep of her changeless
laws. And so I have chosen a mighty
theme, The Life and Death "of Wdrra.H
My subject,, the life and deatVqra
world, brings us face to face with two
Infinities. Into the infinity of space
around us we must travel on the wings
of light, and see these worlds in pro
cess of formation, some in the fire
mist of formless infancy, some in full
maturity of life and vigor, others
hoary with the frost of age, or still
and desolate in the embrace of death
More awful still is it to stand in the
presence of Infinite Time; to look back
ward through countless cycles of re
volving centuries toward that far off
epoch when the morning stars sang
together, andean Almighty Hand form
ed our planet In the abyss of
space; or:, lifting the cer
tain that hangs between us and
the depths of an Illimitable future,
to see our world, now teeming with
its myriad forms of life, still speeding
onward in its mighty orbit, but a vast
sepulchre in midnight darkness, given
over to the silence of death, and frozen
in the grasp of eternal winter.
Before examining in detail the vari
ous stages of world growth, let me
call your attention to two or thrto
preliminary facts The first is that
constant change Is the universal law
of life., -Nowhererin the wide universe
does the- telescope? find a single atom
of matter tha&isasot in constant mo
tion. Our. bodies, our minds, our char
acters are changing every day. The
shifting, 'clouds,!' the whistling winds
thfestless sea'the running brook;
thj filing leaf , th disintegrating cliff r
alf lfear witness t the universality of
thSaw of change. 1
:he sejeond remarkablerfact IS that
mfct of these successive 'hanges,dccti
inj regular;, cycles; Sunfiine fonowj
raWita-y follows higptoi&er ffc
lomwlntdr, calms foiiW tond
iaSEi- :: -it-'
htoritpoies, :ima ,Tackt a
tin to
ralnIall
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tiheir course anew The
from the clouds, run In rivulets to the
Dr. Smith then turned the attention
)&ci$MiN& .forlBXNthe edtat
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of his audience to the sun, which daily
floods our little planet with his over-.
flowing light and heat, and for several
minutes discussed the characteristics
of a world In its first or gaseous stage.
Contiuing to the youth of theworld.
as shown by Jupiter, Dr. Smith said. -
'Our world has now reached the second
stage, with hot but solid crust, and a
molten interior except near the center.
The contest between fire and water.
which is to make its whole career, has
now begun. Its future oceans are all
in the firmanent, a vast sheet of en
circling clouds, precipitating them
selves in torrents of rain toward tae
red hot crust, but boiled atway by the
intense heat before reaching it."
The third stage, the maturity of a
world, as shown by our own earth, was
next discussed, with its cool crust and
hot interior, and its abundance of air
and water. The contest between the
Are and water is here about evenly,
balanced, the water leveling all the in
equalities and seeking the interior,
and the fire wrinkling the surface, and
driving back the percolating water.
The next stage was that of a plane
tary decay, the Old Age of A World,
as shown by the planet Mars. Tts
fiery interior is growing cold, with no
further wrinkling of the surface. The
air and water having leveled off the
surface are now working their way
Jnto the interior. The ocean is gone,
ad the air is too rare to support a
cloud. There is no rain and the sur
face is mainly a desert. He spoke at
length of its wonderful canals some of
theh rvef three thousrnl miles in
length and perfectly straight, its c -fhtite,
old sea beds atmosphere, sea
rons and meteorology.
; he last stage was that of planetary
"death, shown by our moon. This is
the last stage. There is no atmos
phere, no water, no life, no movement,
no sound, a-dead ball, frozen through
and through under the full glare of the
sun. It surface is rugged, the water
and atmosphere absorbed by the cool
ing crust, and our nearest neighbor
in the sky is but a stellar corpse. : In
conclusion Dr. Smith said: " ' ? - -
"And so the old conflict of fire and
water ends in the-destruction of hoth,
and not even a world is free from old
age, decay and4eath.
'?How awful is the breadth and depth
of -phis all-embracing, all-compelling
law of change! In what clear cluu
vacters have we seen it written -aerbss
the seemirtgly:;charjgeless heavens,, the
soalted eternal v hills, the ancient
afure1 of the unwrihkled sea ! Day is
1 driver giving place to night, the' s ,a
Sotts come -Und goi tides ebb .and fto .
the winds travel in their' ceaseless. Qlr
cults, the rivers tfii into the sea from
which they were : drawn, moiihtain
ranges, lift their mighty flanks above
the plains only to be ground to tne
earth again; sunshine and cloud, heat
and cold, storru "and calm follow one
another in; the" material world in end
less succession, while in the world of
humanity hope JIves away to des
pair, love changes to hate, health
yields to encroaching disease and youth
to the infirmities of age. Riches take
to themeselves wings, power crumbles
in the leader's grasp, fame is like a
wreath of summer cloud, death claims
the worker ere his task is well begun,
empires rise and fall, ancient dynas
ties crumble into ruin, races die and
disappear, civilizations wax old as
doth a government and are laid away::
while over all and around all and be
neath all, the old, gray, battle-scarred
rarth itself, with Its canopy of blue
mrl far-spread carpet Of green, with
it? rolling oceans, and granite floor.
and rock-ribbed hills; Mother, nurse,
and common sepulchre of us all, sym
bol of permanence and ype of eter-
m.tm mUa. 4sh.J-. IflrA. Vk yv flAAflAf SftVl 1 1 1 VVV
lilt J ,KJVS, llfkC LLXZL UC UJl ;U11U1 CU
or an nour, is dui uie piaytnrag oi piu-
less Time, and through illimitable ages
is rolling onward toward an inexorable
doom.
Romorseless Time, r:
Fierce spirit of the glass and scyth!: -
What: power
Can stay him in his silent course, or
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His Iron heart to pltyT
& "And so we. frail creatures of th
Uust, stand awed into reyerentsilence ,
faiths resistless eropirerofecay, thed
science, .with .telescopic vsS
the fathomlesi detiths of at
pg amohgtshnndred UniMda'
ror a single one exempt xrom- tae.xrfc
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