i VOL. VIII. NO. 91. GREENSBORO, N. C. WEDNESDAY. M 22, 1901. Price Five Cents. SPECIAL NTQTICES advertisements under this head 5 cents per line ; no advertisement inserted for less than 15 cento. rCR RENT 10-ROOM HOUSE ON corner of Morehead and Sprl-ig streets. City water and bathroom. Anply to J- A- GROOM IS, Greensboro, X. C. eodltf Tte YOUR FEET ON RUBBER door mat .'or satisfactory results this muddy weather. We have the right kind at the right ibices, also an ele gant li'.e cl rug lringes. J. N. T.KAK, 1R s- Street. IF IT IS YOUR WATCH THAT needs looking alter, let us do tie looking. We will put it in a heal thy condition at a moderate price. ROSENBLATT& ELLINGTON. 70R SALE A LOT OF SHAFTING, belts, pulleys, and hangers, sligh y used and in good condition. Address Pox 87, City. VE HAVE ABOUT FORTY SAMPLE pair, odd pairs, and slightly shop worn ladies' Oxford ties to sell at $1.25 the pair worth a good deal more money. Come and see thnm while we have a pair to fit you. THACKER & BROCKMANN. TASTE AND ABILITY MAKE OUR work the best. The economy in our garments is their wearing qualities. HARRY POEZOLT, Merchant Tai lor. 57-lmo TURKISH BATHS MAY BE HAD every Saturday afternoon or even ing at 407 Lithia street. Price- 50 cents. 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 plush bottom chair? More ' damage may be done by lighting one chandelier one time without these conveniences than it would 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, and 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. tf FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN FOR cash, 9-room residence on Gorrel street Apply to A WEATHERLY, Agent. m9-2w 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 I... . A WW "-"- A - --- 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 7 tiheir course anew The from the clouds, run In rivulets to the Dr. Smith then turned the attention )&ci$MiN& .forlBXNthe edtat 1 L 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 melt- 7 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 (Continued on fifth page): r - V v r "v 4 1 . At v. If f'" i -1 - jrv. ' - - i I