Newspaper Page Text
- LOCAL ILABEET. COTTON MARKET Corrected Twice a Week. Corrected b. Nat Gist. d Middling .1454 . ... 2 Strict Middling. . 14%, I Middling .. .. ..141/4 fj .i HasA,)... o2 By Robt. McC. Holmes. Cor . ... to .75 Good Middling. . . 14% Meal..............9 Strict Middling. .14% Sugar.........5%to6% -Middling. .. .-14%1aon....134o65 Cotton seed 30 cents. VOLUM XLY. M EE . NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1910. Annual Comr Of New FIFTY FOURTH SESSION COMES TO A CLOSE MOST SUCCESSFUL IN HISTORI OF COLLEGE. Eloquent and Forceful Sermon by Dr Bauslin.-Small Attendance at Night on Account Weather. Notwithstanding the threateninE weather, the city opera house wa crowded Sunday mprning when thE fifty-fourth annual commencement o Newberry college began with the bac scalaureate sermon by Prof. David H Bauslin, D. D., of Springfield. Ohio - The audience included alumni and friends of the college from many ol the Southern States and other StateE throughout the Union. The city i4 -flled with commencement visitors :and the enthusiasm is greater that at any preceding commencement 0: the institution. This enthusiasm is the result of th( remarkable growth of the colleg4 4during the past few years, and of th4 success of the session which this in stitution brings to a close, whic] growth and success have been madi possible by the earnest and devote( work of the friends of education at f the institution. attractive program, includinj resses by distinguished speakers in oratory and declamation umni banquet and the graduat xercises, will be carried out dur e week. e graduating class this yeai ers twenty-four, of whom fou: young ladies. The commencemen reims will be brought to a closi e conferring of degrees and di as upon these graduates on Wed enorning. %raduating class is composei following: e of A. B.-Paul Jonas Bame ugustus Dennis, Cleburn, pting, Eva Gary Goggane Bates Houck, Alan Johnstone onzo Emanuel Lown, Herber s, Edwin Franklin Kaiser Rool Brent Schaeffer, Charley Jack healy, James William Shealy Henry Sligh, Marie Muriel Sum Arthur West, Henry B. Wessing Mary Vanessa Williams. *Degree of B. S.-James Albert Bur ton, Jr., Albert Christopher Garling ton, Ralph Reinhardt Rugheimer. Special Courses-Beaufort M. Scur ry, Leffie 0. Shealy, Oscar Clevelan< Shealy, Lallah Rook Simmons. IProf, DavPl H, Bauslin, D. D., o Spr-ingheid, OMa,3 who preached th< baccaulauerate sefiiiln Sunday morn ing, is of the Hamma ifivinity schoo of the general synod of the Evargeli zal Lutheran church, at Springfiell 'The subject of his discourse Wa 'Some factors in manhood liable to b< neglected," his text being taken fron the Epistle to Titus, 3:8: "Thes< ~ things I will that thou affirm con 'stantly."' The sermon was a masterl: presentation of a timely subject, an< was delivered in a manner whici held the undivided attention of th large audience. Dr. Bauslin spoke of some of th d?haracter'istics of the utilitarian ag -in which we are living. It is, he said a period of great mental activity, o tangled conflict of opinion, of nmue unsetftlement of men's ideas, of un certainty and confusion in people' thinking. Every domain is invade< by revolutionary doctrines, belief and unbeliefs. Man is confronted no so much with a theory or system o life as by a spirit of life. The domi nant secular spirit of the age is no ~conducive to the cultivation of th< higher utilities of life, and men ar constantly under the necessity of be ing called baclk to think upon some o the factors in sound living. An age such as ours, said th< speaker, makes it both easy and con venient to neglect. In the further development of hi: .subject Dr. Bauslin spoke of thre< factors in our modern life which ou: age characteristics renider us lab] to neglect. 1. The first of these factors whici man is liable to neglect, he said, ani riencement berry College. Program. Tuesday morning, 10 a. m.-Ad dress before Alumni association by Dr. Thomas H. Dreher, of the class of 1885, of St. Matthews, S. C. Business meeting of the associa tion immediately after the address. Tuesday evening, 8.15 p. m.-Ad dress before literary societies by Hon. Whitehead Kluttz, of Salisbury, N. C. 10 p. m.-Social session of the Alumni association with banquet ser ved at the Crotwell hotel, tendered by the local alumni to the visiting alumni. Wednesday morning, 10 a. m. Graduating exercises. Addresses by the following members of the grad uating class: Mr. H. B. Schaeffer-Salutatory. Mr. C. J. Shealy--The Student Awakening. Mr. P. J. Bame-The Mission of the Denominational College. Mr. W. B. Wessinger-The Crime of Technicalities. Mr. H. A. Lubs-The Debt We Owe the Modern Chemist. Mr. Alan Johnstone-Valedictory. Awarding of medals and diplomas. 1 is that of reality in our manhood and womanhood. 1 2. The second factor in our living I that man is liable in a time like this to neglect is what may be called the ; meditation life. :We live in a restless. busy and fervid epoch of haste, hur ry and worry. The pace of the times - is fast and not conducive to the cul - tivation of quiet and unostentatious meditation. Men think deeply that 'they may be more effective when they r are active. Men .go apart that they t may be renewed for conflict. They a reflect that they may be more effeq tive. 3. The thirdtfactor in life that a period such as this renders us liable I to neglect is the cultivation of a ro bust attitude toward the truth. Truth I is a comodity of such dignity and a gravity as not to be trifled with, or , even treated evasively. A man must think right. He can not be wrong in t the fundamentals of his belief and be right in the fundamentals of his character and conduct. Men want to know what good and trained men . think e n vital themes. The robust .ness of a man's intellectual convic tions, said the speaker, is not infre .quently an index of the genuineness .of his spiritual life. The graduating class marched to -the opera house In academic proces sion, capped .and gowned, and were given .reserved seats in the auditor ium./ Fine music was furnished by the Orpheus club, of Newberry, and a Sbeautiful solo was rendered by Mrs. Roy Z. Thomas. All the pastors of the city partici y pated in the services, the city church i es being dilosed for the occasion. 1 The services were conducted by SPresidentt .. Henry Harms, of the col -lege. T The adddress before the students ij Sunday evening Wii~ delivered by,the ' Rev. W. C. Schaeffer~ Jr., pastor of a the Lutheran Church of the Redeem er, of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Schaeffer is a graduate of the college in the class of 1901, and while he has only been in the ministry for a short time he is today recognized as one of the lead ing divnes in the Lutheran church of . the South. His subject Sunday night Swas "That Hiddon Secret and Inner iWorld of Thought," based upon Phil 3 lippians 4:8: "Whatsoever things are t true, whatsoever things are honest, t whatsoever things are just, whatso . ever things are pure, whatsoever tthings are lovely, whatsoever things Sare of good report; if there be any Svirtue, if there be any praise, think . on these things." f The~ inclement weather prevented man; from attending but in the face of the rain a good many were our to - hear Mr. Schaeffer's address. Music was furnished by the Orpheus club, and, besides the anthems a duet was sung by Misses Caro and Ruth Efird, of Lexington. Mr. Schaeffer handled his theme in a manner which showed deep study, tand his address was an eloquent pre I sentation of the truths which it con tahined. He said that thought is so subtle, so evasive, so elusive, we can't detect it or analyze it, for in the ver'' at tempt it changes its character and so escapes us. A man's mind is his kingdom. Every man carries locked up in his own breast a castle and a citadel whose secret recesses are knoWn to none save those to whom he willingly divulges them. This invisi ble power within is the .architect of all our fortunes, the arbiter of our destiny. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." The speaker said the real quarrel of Christianity with the spirit of our time is the surface application it is making to remedy the deep-seated ills of the race. Society will never be regenerated by working from with out inward; life is transformed from within outward. Neither culture nor genius nor training nor scholarship divorced from Christian ideals will ever be able to accomplish the last ing zplift achieved by the normal d-, velopment of the primal Christian graces and virtues. Mr. Schaeffer impressed upon the I young men the fact that in character lies the power of mastery, and that in this is the root, elemental and funda mental, of true education, but he said that the whole trend of our times contrasts sharply with this. The fore most development was along material lines and ever in the realm of the psychic the intellectual was seeking to crowd the field of learning. The world's greatest teacher, he said, names hope, faith and charity, aud pleads for a place for these in the burriculum we chose. In the pirme of its life, said Mr. Schaeffer, Athens sent fortli more great men in one hundred years than all the rest of the world could boast in five hundred. It. stands enthroned above all.cities, not only of antiquity but of the world,' as the illustrioui seat of larning, of art, 9f architec tutfe and philosophy. But these things have not within them the breath ol life, and after a few centuries the eyes of the world beheld only the glory that was Greece. Athens in hei palmiest days could not solve the su premest questions of human life, could not gratify the deepest longings of its noblest sons. It was when St Paul came to call to a citizenshiy that is in heaven and to preach the resurrection of the dead, and to pro claim one God who is the father. and creator of us all, that the longings of the human soul could be satisfied and those are the principles of endur ing greatness and the only permanent contribution to the life of Inankind. A city may be as fair as a dream, but if its citizenship is base anid degfa&d= ed, Ichabod is already written ov6t its gates and itS glory is departled. Institutions like our college must be safeguarded against that wholesale paganizing whilch is the tendency ol ui- day. The only civilization we need dare tO conserve is a Christian The declanmation contest of the sophomore class was held in Holland hall yesterday morning. The medal was awarded to Mr. Allen N. Keiffer, of Georgia. The committee to pass on the declamation was composed of Rev. W. B. Aull, Rev. J.- E. James and Mr. J. S. Wheeler, and the medal was presented by Mr. Aull. SENIOR CLASS SPEAKERS. Members Selected to Represent Class at Commencement and Their Subjects. At a meeting of the faculty on Sat urday mo'rtiing those who are to rep resent the senior class on commence ment day were selected. Of course the salutatorian ancf the- validictoriar were already selected by virtue of obtaining these two honors. The fol lowing will represent the' class on commencement day: Mr. H. B. Schaeffer-Sauatory. Mr. C. J. Sheal y-The Student Awakening. Mr. P. J. Bame-The Mission o1 the Denominational College. Mr. W. B. Wessinger-The Crimes of Technicalities. Mr. H. A. Lubs-The Debt We Owe the Modern Chemist. IMr. Alan Johnstone, Jr.-Valedic OMMENCEMENT 30 YEARS * AGO. * * - -* * By A. J. Bowers. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * It was a memorable occasion. Of all similar seasons which I have en joyed and survived'at Newberry it was in some respects for me the best, and now I must write about it, be cause my friend wants me to write for his commencement issue of The Herald and News in 1910. What a stretch of time it seems from June days in 1880! It reminds me of the mighty stride of Prof. Dan. Arrington across the recitation room when he .had finished with a flourish some dreadful problem in geometry or algebra and flung the chalk and book afar and with lowering brow and reproachful eye shamed the class into something akin to awe. He was a giant 'amongst us and a clean man. We loved to teaze him now and then, but it will take many more de cades than three to take away from us the dear memory of his honest faithfulness, his mastery of mathe matics in all its devious ways, his hearty laugh, his soldierly stature, and his rapid step, (with the little lady, his wife, clinging desperately to his arm). But he was not here in 1880; he had been gone' a year. And now he has passed over the river and resti Snder the shade of the trees. No bigtory of Newberry college will ever Be complete without the story of his self-sacrificing service. That was a beautiful day, my friend, when you and I listened with rapt wdnder and attention in old Luther, Chapel to the baccalaureate sermo4.t 6our class of seven by Rev. J. R. Riemensnyder, then pastor in Savannah, Ga. What a sea of faces turned to us on every side from thanCel to gal leries! How large with fair promise loomed the far horizon for us seven, Jones, the two Ramages, ' Kreps, Sheppard and you and me! We did not see the clouds, we would not see them,- though the young preacher warned us well, the clouds that lurked just out of sight, .no bigger than a man's hand, per haps, but full of chastening storms(' Monday night of that commence ment three of us, (or seven, I forget which it was) struggled for the ora tor's medal. Didn't you take it? Qr was it Burr James Ramage. As I did 1.iot take,it, I am excusable maybe for 1having lost my interest in it. Imagina tion plays strange havoc with mem o&y, and fancy supplies the past sometinies at a distance of 30 years. -But fond reddliedtida is all-gilded with the radiant light di a disinte'rest ed college friendship. Th@ fades of friends and familiar forms ddrlid iMis~ tily forth out of the dim vista of f1!! years. The voices long silent speak again, and we seem to hear once more the kindly tones we thought we had forgot Who is there of us even now but recalls the brusque wordse and ways of the Hon. Chris. Suber? He was a figure then in Newberry to be marked and reckoned with, and he took part in our commencement. When he awarded the essay medal for the best essay on "Jack Galstaff," he said, "T love Jack; I always loved a Jack," and brought down the house on Jack's lucky head. But no man's face and form and voice made so deep and fine a mark upon us as those of the master of manners and ceremonies on that Wednesday morning. Dr. Holland led our little company of graduates UP that rickety platform in the old court house and introduced us to that crowded court of Newberry's people. There was a young professor of Latin, Cromer by name, in those days who stood much beside the president and waited for him. There vwere few men to teach us then, but they taught as; none have taught us sined. They had to miake bricks without straw, so to speak, and sometimes they were scourged for not co'mplet ing the tale. That godly man, that modest gentleman, who led th6m all, had found the secret of' the- true life, and, divinely clothed with it today, looks down from on high and re joices in the wonderful answer to is dying: prayer. FLAGS OF COMPANY B. Sergeant W. G. Peterson Feels That the Survivors Have Been Ignor ed-Brief History of Flags. The following letter which. Mr. Peterson yesterday mailed to the Co lumbia State has been handed to The Herald and News with request for publication: To tWe Editor of the State: In the report from Newberry of the proceed ings in honor of the birthday of Jef ferson Davis published in your issue of June 3, the following paragraph occurs: "After these impressive services, Col. 0. L. Schumpert, in behalf of the family of L. M. Speers, deceased, pre sented the two battle flags of the Williams Guards, through Mrs. J. A. Burton, president, to the Drayton Rutherford chapter, U. D. C. These flags afterwards became the colors of Company B, Third regiment, Ker shaw's brigade, when the Williams Guards were mustered into that regi ment, and were sacredly 'preserved by Mr. Speers till his death, and are now transferred to the Drayton Ruth erford chapter to be finally placed in the relic room in the capitol in Columb(a." As one of the survivors of the com pany to which these flags were given I feel that this statement, which is not in accordance with the facts, should be corrected. The following letter, which I wrote to Mrs. R. D. Wright, a member of the U. D. C. camp at Newberry, and also former president of the U. D. C. of the State, gives the correct history of these flags up to that time. It was written for the purpose of securing the flags and placing them in the hands of their rightful owners to be disposed of as indicated: Newberry, S. O$ March 26, 1910. Mrs. R. D. -Wright, Newberry, S. C. Dear Mrs. Wright: On the 5th day of January, 1861, at Jalapa, S. C., the Williams Guards ' were organized. This company was known as Com pany B, Third regiment, S. C. V. A short time after organization Mrs James McCravy. presented the com. >any a flag. The company left New' berry on the 13th -day of April, 1861 and was in camp at the fair grounds in Columbia for some time. While in Columbia another flag was presented to the company by a lady: whose name I have forgotten; I think~ Mrs. Trezevanit. We were moved to Lightwood Knott Springs, about seven miles from Columbia and,. then changed from State to Confederate service. We left Lightwood Knot Springs for Vir ginia sometime In June. We soon found that we had no use for the comn 1any flags, so Captain S. N. Davidson sent the flags home to his sister, Mrs. Miiry 1. RLeeder, to keep until we re ilta? ?he si-rb'nder Mirs. Reeder moved to fedartifidi, S. C. nui-ing the eighties I gdt hI 5draspondsnde with Mrs. Reeder abdui the fiats. She finally turned them over to fif i trust for the company and I let ddi Thompson Conner, Sergt. A. J. Liv ingston and M. H. Gary know I had the flags. We decided to put the flags in the hands of the senior rank ing officer of* the company in trust for the survivors until the survivors decided what was to be done with them. I at once turned them over to Captain Connor in trust for the com pany. At Capt. Connor's death, Mrs. Con ner asked me what she was to do with the flags. I instructed her to turn themi over to Sergeant L. M. Speers in trust for the company. She turned thema over to Mr. Speers with full explanation about what was to be done with them. Mr. Speers did not know until that time what had be come of the flags. Mr. Speers and myself talked the matter over very frequently. The flags are now in the hands of Mrs. L. M. Speers, and after a full conferende of the survivors, we have concluded to turn the flags over to the Drayton Rutherford chapter of the U. D. C., to be placed in the Confederate museum in Columbia by our chapter of the U. D. C., or pre sented to the State U. D. C. to be de posited by them into the museum in Columbia. This is to be decided by the Drayton Rutherford chapter and T request that Mrs. J. A. Burton see Mrs. Speers and ge the flagts and we will formally turn them over to the U. D. C. Memorial day. Yours truly, W. G. Peterson, Sergt. Co. B., Third S. C. V. It will be seen that it was the pur pose of the few survivors to secure these flags and to present them through the U. D. C. chapter to the relic room in the capitol at Colum bia. Whether intentionally or not (and I am trying to believe that it was unintentional) the survivors were entirely ignored after the fags were secured by the memberg of the Drayton Rutherford chapter. As will be seen by my letter, it was the purpose of the survivors to pre sent these flags on Memorial day. They were not secured in time for that and the survivors of Company B had no notice that they had been se cured, and did not authorize the com mander or the adjutant of the James D. Nance camp to present them, as neither one of these officers was a member of the . company. Captain Gary was originally a member of the company, but very soon joined the cavalry and does not claim to be a survivor of our company. It will b'e seen, therefore, that the survivors of Company B, who are the rightful owners of the flags, were not only not consulted but did not even know that the flags had been secur ed from Mrs. -Speers or that they were to be presented to the Daugh ters on Davis' birthday, and there was no survivor of the company present. Personally, I feel very deeply griev ed at such treatment and I am con strained to write this correction, and to give the additional facts which I did not7 care to do. Upon the death of my comrade, L. - M. Speers, I. asked Mr. B. B. Davis, who had been working for him, toAeO Mrs. Speers and request her to tun the flags oV4r to, Mr. E. P. Bradle, who is the ranking officer of the com pany. Mrs. Sper declined to i6i saying that Mr. Speers had given the flags to his daughter. I then spoke to Mr. Hiram Speers and asked him if they would not turn the flags over to the survivors and explained that the flags were placed in the keeping of Mr. Speers in trust as the ranking officer of the company. He refused to do so' and was really insulting to me, but on account of the friendship between myself and my comrade, his father, I did not re sent the insult I then appealed to Mrs G. B. Crom er, who was the administrator of Mr. Speers, and he said that we were clearly entitled to the flags and thought there would be no trouble in securing them, but after consulting with Mrs. Speers, he informed me that the family declined to give them up, I then want to Mr. O. L. Schuidia pert, who is adjutant of the James. D. Nance camp, and who was also repre senting Mirs.. Speers, and explained the situation to him. He said-that.he thought that there would be no trou ble, that the survivors were entitled t8 the flags, but he failed to get them. I then wrote the letter above refers r'd t6, hoping that in this way we dould secui-6 our flags. In view of these facts, ! feel that it is an injustice t6 the survivors of the company and the rightful owners of the flags to have it stated that they were presented "in behalf of the family .of L. M. Speers, deceased," and I do feel very mu~.ch aggrieved that the Daughters, whether inten tional or unintentional, should have so entirely ignored the survivors of the company after 'the flags were se cured in the way in which they were. W. G. Peterson, Sergt. Co. B., Third S. C. V. Newberry, S. 0., June 6, 1910. The sermon to the Red Men onh Sunday afternoon by Rev. W. C. Kel ley was eloquent and forceful and gave some very strong reasons -ior closer fellowship and more exercise of the fraternal spirit. The sermon was in the opera house and was largely attended. The 3. L. Bowles Co. Sold two pianos Saturday. This Is a home house and The Herald and News is glad always to see its ad vertisers succeeding. This company is well known and reliable and is a place where people get the worth of their money.