The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-05-20

enjoyment. The part assumed by each is
selected, and each give different interpre-
tation. The higher the culture the more
select the enjoyment, and also the more
refined the pleasures the better will a
people become. The steps toward improve
ment and higher pleasures are gradual.
Handeps grand musical creations were not
appreciated foryears. The introduction of
chivalry into Europe infused humanity
into war and substituted courtesy for rude
ness. Rome was greatly bettered when
Constantine prohibited the gladiatorial
sports and the more humane stage plays
were given to the public. Contact with re-
fined society leads the mind to more elevat-
ed thought and higher plane of enjoyment.
10 many persons severe mental discipline,
the search after new truths and the bet
ter establishing of old ones, affords keen
enjoyment, while others find it in relieving
suffering and in doing good. We often
make mistake in believing that circum-
stance gives the Joy which we give to cir
cumstance. Though in the efforts to &C.
cure enjoyment there are many differences
of Interpretation by each class and indi-
vidual, yet one law regulates the happiness
of all-the condition of the mind.
Positive and Negative Men-lllton K. Mel
son.
Positive men may be known by their
self-reliance, determination and success
Whatever they undertake, whether it be
for good or evil, they push to final issue,
never faltering. To the quickening i'm
pulses of positiveness society owes much of
its vigor, and the world its greatest enter
prises and grandest reforms. Cyrus Field
and Martin Luther are shining examples
of this class of men. The negative man is
without mind or purpose of his own; he is
unstable as water; he yields to the wishes
of others as the blade of grass yields to
every passing breeze. He is often untrue
because ever undecided. He is CIPHER
of no value when standing alone, and waits
to be placed in relation to some one else
Negativeness comes from flaw in the or
ganism, defectin the nature, weakness in
the character.
Prof. D. l.. Kiehle, of the State Normal
Board and Principal elect of this school,
was introduced by Prof: Moore and deliv-
cred an able address, of which the following
is the substance:
The Amrican government presumes that
there is a law of social harmony in obedi-
ence to which the fullest liberty and the
highest incentives to worthy life are &C.
cured. 1t denies that if some shall be ex-
allied others must be put down, that if some
be rich it must be in proportion to the pow
erty of the defauded; that if some have all
liberty, the rest shall have none. 1t holds
that genuine liberty to some is the pledge
to liberty universal; that prosperity for
one should be the blessing of all.
To give expression to and enforce this
law of social harmony is the province of
the State. Not to serve any single interest,
nor to support any class, but rather to de-
termine the relations under which every
member may enjoy the fullest liberty to be
and do all that he may; to learn, and think,
and believe according to his greatest abili-
ty to observe and understand. The State
has natural right to perpetuate and perfect
itself. To say otherwise would be to claim
it has no right to foresee and provide
against those evils that threaten its exist
ence; that it may defend, but not defend
itself; that it may exert power, but not re-
ceive nourishment. Intelligence and vir-
tue prevailing the entire mass of society
being essential to a free government, the
State has no guaranty Of either permanence
or improvement except in providing for
the education of all it's citizens. Hence a
system of popular education is necessity.
If this be the province of the State, we
claim most justly Of every man, native born
and foreign, that he be loyal to our Amer
lean civilization-not to king, to aristocra-
cy, or any one man, class or interest, but to
the rights and liberties of all, and hence
to himself as part of the whole. 1t fol-
lows as surely, also, that he must be loyal
to our system Of education, that he promote
the intelligence of the masses, that the ig-
norant may become wiser and thatthe poor
may be guarded against the encroachmentp
of wealth and power. The man who loves
his country will only ask for change that
better may follow. But he who will close
the door of the common school because his
own purse, party or sect may find in it an
advantage, has forgotten his obligation to
the free government that has tostered him,
and for citizen so recreant to his trust we
must find some less honorable title than
American citizen and lover of liberty.
He was glad to speak at this time to the
class and gave it for watchword, "Patri-
otism, Intelligence and Virtue" He
closed with tribute to the services of Prof.
Moore.
Miss Tuttle then stepped upon the plat
form and in behalf of the teachers and pu-
pills Of the school presented Prof. Moore
with an elegant writing desk furnished
complete. The Prof. briefly returned his
thanks for the testimonial, the presentation
of which was complete surprise to him.
A duet, "Home, Sweet Home" on the
piano and flute, by Prof. Rhys and Mr.. J.
Vandersluis, was followed by a brief recess,
after which was trio by DR.. VanMaanen,
piano, Prof. Rhys violin, and Mr.. Wander
sluis flute, and chorus "Chiming BELLS" by
the school. The graduates then resumed
the reading of
Castles in Spain-Jessie Mayer.
The greatest charm of these castles is
that they are peculiarly adanted to the