St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-29

live for himself, and no one truly lives
whose motive power is ambition. One
should study to make the most of him
self and bless the world. The fruits of
ambition have reached all the way
down through the ages, vitiating best
efforts and embittering lives. 1t de-
bases the motive, sullies the character
and ripens into moral corruption and
sin.
There was cornet solo by Geo. ID.
Sherman, with orchestral accountant
ment, and Mary H. Gage of North
Craftsbury, in an essay, submitted the
inquiry, "Wherefore Idle ?" Every
thing is created with a purpose, must
fill the sphere and do the work fol-
which it was intended, or mar the har-
mOny of the whole. Life is action, and
prolonged only by action. "Where-
fore, o idlers," she asked, edo YOU
dream your life away while others are
filling all the hours with honest work p
The fields, ripened for the harvest, are
open. They are many, and there is
room for all. Each may add his mite
to lessen the burden of his neighbor.
Edwin Fish of West Derby took fol
the subject of his Grafton the iniunc-
ton of the Sage of Chappaqua, go
West, Young Man" He considered
the advantages of the west over the
east as regards the occupation which Is
the foundation of all others farming
In the east it is done with great labor
and at a great loss of time, with poor
results, while in the west the work is
done with labor-saving machinery. He
answered the objections urged against
the west. The hurricane takes only 4
narrow strip of territory; the west has
its cultured and its depraved elements
in society, like the east while the hills
and dales of New England are matched
by the scenery on the banks of the
Mississippi, the "walled lake" the ca
mons of the Colorado, the "big trees,
and the wonders of the Yosemite.
"Fences" was the title of the essay
by Miss Kate S. Hartman of st. Johns
bury. Nature, busted with more i'm
pOrtant cares, had left the erection OF
fences to man, in which neither time
nor labor has been spared. Different
nations, and even different states, may
be known by their fences Among the
fences that should be pulled down are
those of ignorance and superstition
Poverty is disagreeable, but it is not
the worst fence that can be placed
liable things, beauty, genius, health
love and piety, are to be had for moth
ing. Among the fences that should be
erected are those of conscientiousness
fOrbearance, self-cOntrol, integrity
truth, and, strongest of all, faith.
Frank p. Bracket of st. Johnsbury
in an Grafton, discussed "The Fanatic
in History" There are two forces il
nature, conservative and refOrmative
Conservatism stands for permanent,
and stability and is opposed to change
Reformation is the active principle o
progress it is action and change. Or
der is the watchword of one, progress
of the other. The fanatic is the eX
ample of the active principle. Tn,
speaker defined the fanatic as "the re
former or philanthropist of eXcessiv,
enthusiasm, whether social, political o.
religious" He does not consider; h,
feels and acts. The thinker dies tn,
thought, never. The fanatic is only III
a EtatOr; he is no statesman. He ha,
power because he acts from conviction
and not from policy. 1t is Il nOticeabl,
fact that the fanatic of one decade i,
the philanthropist of the next or, il
the words of Wendell Phillips, ''Wha
is fanaticism to-day is the fashionabl,
creed of Tomorrow
There was medley selection by til,
orchestra, and "Pictures from Memory
were photographed by Miss Kate ID
lde of st. Johnsbury. The first pictur,
presented was the five original mem
beers of the class. Next came the form.
of the patriotic Junior boys; and mex
the Middlers with their sage dignity
Then were thrown upon the canvas
in panoramic order, scenes and Incl
dents in which members of the class
have figured, which were heartily ap
preciated by those conversant there
with or whose keenness enabled them
to detect the pleasant allusions to he
classmates and even to he who careC
not to make his good deeds known, bu
was content To see in secret and reward
openly
Miss Ida S. Pearl of Lyndonville haC
the Glass Essay, with valedictory rank
and took for her subject "The Art o
Omitting." The art of emitting is tn,
secret of much practical economy. II
is not the necessary things that mel
and women do that wear out nerve,
and patience. 1t is strange that the al.
ways-tired people do not study the art
of emitting. In nothing more than il
the choice of books and reading is Gull
ing necessary. The last and greatest
art is the "blotting from our minds the
shuddering memory of the base deed
the mean act, from the lives of Others
the sorrow and heartache caused by
thoughtlessness, the art of blotting
from our faces the cruel sneer, from
our lips the unkind remark But is il