The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-14

castles, IN laying plans and connecting |
schemes, wasting your energies like with |
cred leaves before the wind. Let there be |
more OF concentration and less Of endless
changings and visionary scattering shots.
Select one bird in the flock, a single one, |
and bring it down. Choose one object and |
push on. Take care OF IL and let the bal. |
ance OF the world take care OF other things |
Lille Is too short to be ever stopping to con- |
suit your neighbors, your cousins and your |
aunts. Don't wait to strike when the iron |
Is hot, but make 1t hot by striking, l tell |
you that
THE FORCE OF A srRoSa WILL.
Is greater than the power stored in Mag.
ara, and as resistless as a whirlwind in the |
Indies. IL is this. more than intellect by
ten TO one, that leads us to the gates OF
conquest
There may be some of You who may not
crave to have your names enrolled ON the
page ofpublicity. To these l must say
that at the domestic hesrthstone, where
love Is the current coin of courtesy and
where in the immeasurable depths OF the
affections in their flow, truth fidelity and
sentences mount guard, and In their sun.
ny disposition sit and sing the whole day
long, are to be found heroes with abilities
as grand and hearts as fervent and courage
as great rs ever was known on tented field
or in scientific salons. Their virtues may
not be emblazoned to the world and abell-
ed for 1t as "superhne," but they are the
double-distilled essences of all that
constitutes the true, the beauti-
full, the good and the valuable. and by the
force OF consistent example they make the
leave behind them a perpetual beQuest of
beauty. You can therefore be genuine
benefactors and make your modest deeds
shine like showers of stars in the festival of
nature. For in
THE SHADY aECEssEs OF HOME
is the only fountain where we may hope
In this pilgrimage 80 full Of siroccos and of
rough staccato movements, to find the wa
tens come unmixed with the bitterest ingre-
dients. There, and there alone. in the art
gallery of love in Its purple bloom, is the
sunny smile that plays about the alabaster
brow of unconscious innocence, u sweeter
statuary than ever sculptor carved the mel
litluous music that seems strained through
summer sunbeams as II issues from child
hoods ruby lips, the golden chances of
mother, sister, wife and daughter, maxine
for us a paradise OF purity AMI peace, ard
converting the prose OF life into its smooth
est poetry.
And now in conclusion. have shown to
you some splendid inheritances which may
be yours, but II those inheritances are
splendid. your responsibilities are CORE.
spondingly momentOus. For besides what
have said you may achieve tor your per
sona selves by well-directed aims, you will
soon have committed to you the
Il DUTIKs OF CITIZENS
in their majority, not only in general
way. the shaping Of the future destinies of
/ the race. and the moulding Of the civiliza-
r tion of the age, but the direction of these
, governments, national, state and munich
| nal Wi hay N
. the proper impulse and been disciplined
4 under the rules of rigid rectitude.
0 The state will soon demand Of you, your
. quota of aid, be this humble or prominent.
v And 1t is a state grand in everything else
g as II is in its y6,0O0 square miles, five times
!. the area of New York. 1t is state among
/ the youngest in Union of thirty eight
n aud yet with her $500 900 population, rank.
Ing seventh in the list, and to rank perhaps
|. the third, when the next census shall be
taken in about q half dozen years from
J. now. A state prolific beyond compare in
/, all the resources which minister to human
II wants, locked In the bountoous bosoms O.
i the mountains, the teeming prairie,
I and the blooming valleys. A state glisten
@ Ing with historic renOwn and entOmbinl
G the hallowed ashes OF some OF the pures
n patriots as ever slept the sleep on The
u couch OF everlasting rest, or rcposed on tn,
record OF priliiaht exploits IN the drama o
strugg'e LOT independence, or IN Legislative
y halis. state even now unsurpassed iol
. ner mental anu moral, as well as materia
Il ure to
d BE EQUAL To THE EMERGENCY,
i with the examples behind you and the
prospects before you.
II Anu now, mr. president ana the Faculty
b OF MARVIN oollege, congratulateyou upoI
" Tue progress ana the status OF THIS magniii
i cent institution, You have well meritet
h the success that has attended your labors
= your sSlii, your aiiigence, your answering
o devotion toward th0se entrusted TO you
y care. Whatever these young gentlemen shal
IS atain IN the future, they must and will
cheerfully concede to you their profound
est obligations; and they must ever lool
If back to this their Alma Mater, the
g CHERISHED MECCA OF THEIR MEMORIES,