The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-05-24

Where still the lingering muses. roam
VIII chant the same refrain.
Ours is land unbound by creeds,
Here each mans honors are his deeds;
Our nations peers are men
Whose talents give them sovereignty,
Our nations aristocracy,
Are ye, Knights of the Pen.
But though with cheer you gather,
IT'S much that you should give
A sigh for those departed,
While Joasting those who live.
Some of osr best and brightest
Have passed from us for aye,
Have mingled with the many
Adown deaths dismal way.
Wen pay the grateful tribute
To those we'd fain recall
To Him who sought life's mystery,
To those who h I'd love for all;
And dearest, best Of poets,
Within each heart there lies
A chord Of tender sadness
Which to his name replies.
Though soon the tear will vanish,
Each vacant place be filled.
Our fond heart will not Danish
The truths that each instilled.
Dear southland long in mourning
For her beloved lost cause
Will gladly hail the dawning.
And in her sorrow pause.
Well take from her the willow
Aud crown with roses gay,
To literature forever
Well wed our land to-day.
In this, her star OF glory,
We've men who Il make her name
Lustrous in future story,
First on the page of fame.
Here in these halls assembled,
Our brightest and our best
IT'S yours, the Lone Star honor
And pride of the southwest.
But knights. who bear our banner,
Beware your fearful power
'Tis noble when used rightly.
Ye hold glorious dover.
Ambition Yields seeptre
IT'S power makes men mad.
TIL ignorance is banished
Your pride should make you sad.
@ uard It Jealous lest you find
Acknowledgement too great
Lest you should hold the gold god
Above the veal of state;
Self reverence, self knowledge, here
The greatest must begin
Y ct seek the God like attribute
It's self-sontrol must win.
At the conclusion of the reading of the
above, the convention showed Its apprecia
ton OF the admirable effort of the young
lady by hearty and prolongei applause,
Assistant Secretary Pilgrim, of the Con
zales Enquirer, moved vote Of thanks tc
Miss Painter, and that the poem be printed
as part of the proceedings, Carried unani
mously by rising vote.
THE ANNUAL GRAFTON
was then delivered by Professor T. J. Girar
dean, of the Houston Post, as follows;
Mr.. President, ladies and gentlemen of the Pr 8.
association Of Texas:
Twelve months have flown away on rapid
wing since we met together in the Bayou
Clty-a period not marked in the lives Of
many OF us by things new or strange; YET
I o some time of prosperity, to others Of
sorrow and trial to others OF the mixed
fate OF man, and to others still, who will
meet us no more associated thus-of death
But, as the old Roman once said; at il
the business OF women to grieve; of men &c
We will not unduly dwell
upon the past as we grasp each other,
hands and look into each others eyes. We
cherish the past; we rejoice in the present
as in a great possession and we project our
selves upon the future. Let me. then, try
to entertain and encourage you for a while
by endeavoring to magnify our office!
LAW CO. SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT.
! believe in what may be called the rev
dictionary or rlyclical theory of the history
of man. / believe that each age has il
special law OF development under which II
works and to which, as central idea, II
must conform. Each special civilization /.
but temporary as to its central ides-has
its rise. its meridian and its close. There
Is binding together OF the whole into one
grand cosnical unity, but each era has it,
distinctive idea, and when 1t kindles, II
comes 10 its full glow, its fading and then
its ashes. But that ashes ever breeds the
Phoenix OF life, each more beautiful and
soaring than the preceding. For instance
the typical feature of the Egyptian ciyiliza.
ton WAS priestcrafi; that OF the Assyrian
brute force; OF the Chinese, conservative
optimism: Of the Grecian, intellectually y;
OF the Roman, law under military sane
tions.
Wren the last illustration Of the ancient
was broken on its ruins there
arose, by degrees, a nondescript develop
ment Of man, OF an electric character, full
Of ants gOni.ms, yet moulded together bv
the dominant genius Of the Gothic blood,
and interfused finally by the benign and
majestic influences OF Christianity.
In its inception the features Of this new
civilization were necessarily obscure.
Feud, violence and rapine contended Wit b
a n ~. Al %
energy Of that character which now finds
ts clearest illustrations in the Teutonic,
he Anglo-Ssxon and the Anglo-American
people. The feudal system was the COM
promise produced and the chivalric code its
morning star, The crusades in q natural,
ret wonderful, manner depleted Europe Of
ts bad blood and afforded q vantage
.round to the rising Ofthe long oppressed
middle classes. Venice and Genoa took the
cad in that grand commercial race that
the world. The torDor OF
znoraDce was broken mp. lntercommuni-
.ation became possible, The hediterran-
an was once more covered by Italian sails.
md the produces Of the east and west were
,nce again exchanged. But under what
.ltered circumstances The mariners com
So was invented. We are accustomed
o make graf outcry over the
magnetic telegraph, but In comparison
With the mariner compass, More grhnd
invention was but . baeatelle. The P0rtu-
-uese sprangto the fore. DeGams doubled
be Care Of Good Hope, and shortly amer
he GROWING miracle Of human science and
discovery Of America-1az-
led The world. We can bave but q faint
5es Of the tumult Of meas minds 81 this
poch. Everything Nas In The throes Of
citation sud er-Iternsut. Galilleo and Co
lsrnicus starred the world By their ire
uendOus theories C0stsr invented bis
rpes and Gutenberg printed nis trsi
,,,t. the resloratinn Of letters began; men
ned 20 think and nct for themselves.
cbools were fiuDde1. universities en-
os-ed ard erest men rtioiced 10 teach the
.vsr youth Who fyred 20 the centre Of
ls-nifYy from AL r.arfs 81 Eurur-. sud On
Lied ne grenr river % prs. -. Luihtr
-uurht IN the ref1rmnti0r. the
- and bittE debates ems
rent thereon rguEnr TIE minds
- 81