The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-05-10
NORMAL NEWS.

The committee on the Dickens enter
tainment has decided to charge % cents
admission to al who do not personals
characters. Mr.. Thanhauser, of the
board of regents, informs Us that Cover
nor Click and other members Of the
state executive board will favor us with
their presence on that occasion.
The time in Grafton class Friday
was spent in delivering the productions.
Briefly they were as follows: as the
Race TO the Swift 81 by Miss Addie Lii
lie, followed this line: To one seeking
to win in lIfe's Iacethis is an important
question. A man is like q vessel sailing
under sealed orders; he knows not to
what ports he must go, through what
straits, over what bars, against what
reefs. Some who make q most auspic.
ious start are ere long outstripped by
one whose start was unknown. Arnold,
than whom none of his contemporaries
made better start, sank into an infa-
nous grave. The acorn, once trodden
under the foot of man and shaded by
the violet, became the king of the forest,
strength and a protector.
Sherman Hoover, beng announced
with "Freemasonry' Is his subject,
said that the entire field had been so of.
ten swept by our orators that he was
much puzzled to choose subject. Wo-
mans education, currency, temperance,
the dignity of labor, and almost every
thing else, had been discussed, leaving
but little to be said. Notwithstanding
the claims of Masonic authority to an
tiquity, it could not date back of 1717.
Its corner stone is charity, yet it ex-
cludes old men in their dotage, young
men in their homage, and all women in
their helplessness-all who are not self
sustaining. This institution, which en-
graves charity over its doors, excludes
all who particularly need it. The time
must come when its false foundations
will crumble.
Miss Kirby, on Estimating Charac-
ter" said people are like some flowers,
from which, expecting disagreeable odor,
we get delightful perfume. Though
some have less faults than others, none
arc faultless. By what authority do
some people make standard to Judge
others by? The standard is too often
fixed after failure or success is made,
or by rank in society. 1t the poor boy
is arrested and sent to Jail, it served him
right, he is better In custody thaa out;
but the son of a wealthy man is at
once overwhelmed by christian char.
ity in like position, We Judge too
much from surroundings and not enough
from absolute right. The greatest man
the world ever knew-He who was di-
vine-was despised by his fellow men
But the straightest stick dipped in
water appears crooked, and the Whitest
object looks dark viewed through color
ed glass. Characters will look straight
and white if We can only see them
Alright.
Behind the Thought there is Mind"
by Miss Sale Higbee, was opened with
a general view of the relative position Of
mind to thought and the art ofp3iptlng.
Thought sho1ld nat in coming from a
mind imroverish It but be a foTsrunner
ofthe power behind 1t. We admire a
great orator not for his fine form, grace
full gestures, or flowing language but for
his grand thoughts. We need men of
broad, immeasurable minds, expansive,
fathomless, apparently boundless.
Minds far superior to the thoughts they
give US. We toll that we may live, and
live that we may think, aad our think
ing must draw ua higher.
1t il difficult to do such Orations JUS
tice in asynopsis, they ought to be heard
to be appreciated.
In the base ball contest yesterday the
Normsls beat the. "Preps," the score
standing A to 19 with an inning to spare.
TIE societies had their usual meetings
last night. In the Literati b. Kaufman
was chosen president; <. A. Simmer
well, vice president; Miss Eta David
son. secretary, and A. Wallace, choris-
| ter. p. Z. DAGoGUE.