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louisville High-School.

Successful Graduating Exercises of the Craw-
louisville High-School.
Special to the Indianapolis journal
CRAwFoRDsyILLE, May 27.-The eighth COM
mencement exercises of the high-school took
place at the Music Hall this evening The class
this year is composed entirely of young ladies'
The exercises were opened with prayer by hev
S. b. Town of the Methodist Church. and the
benediction was pronounced by Rev. E. b.
Thomson, of Center Church. The exercises We're
! interspersed with excellent music. The address
to the class was delivered by Hon. John
W. Holcombe State Superintendent, and the
diplomas presented by Z. III Dunn, the school
superintendent
Miss Nina B. Gerard was the first on the pro.
gramme, and the subject of her essay was
Master Motives" At the threshold Of each life,
said Miss Gerard, stand hope and fear, faith and
doubt. love and hate, JOY and sorrow, ambition
and Incidence, seeking followers A choice must
be made. The first leads to fame and happiness
the latter TO sorrow and misery. Love is the
master motive. Great achievements come from
intense love for a subject, backed by ambition
to succeed. Agassiz, Darwin. Humboldt Audu-
bon and Golfer have counted that severest trial
glorious employment that gave them a new
species of animal, fish, bird or flower Life
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true to its best convictions it will be crowded
with glorious achievements for humanity. The
greatest resolution in a human life is that; which
changes its master motives IT our lives are
controlled by love, sustained by hope, fortified
by faith, permeated by honesty and gorined by
the highest types of ambition, they will bless
humanity and be of lasting good to the race.
Miss Ora l.. Kennedy's subject was, How
Other Peoples Live" Circumstances, said Miss
Kennedy, have combined to divide the inhab
nf <1a ip+n and fCf1 naf
tons, each having IFS own peculiar laws,
religions and customs, and manners of its
people. short description of English life was
given, beginning with the laboring Glass; from
that to the gentry, and concluding with the
nobility. A sketch of German home life was
next. The Germans and English were given as
representatives of the temperate climate; Eski-
maux as the type of the polar world. The essay
concluded with a description of life along the
Amazon, the Eden of the tropical world .
The next essay, intellect Enthroned,' was
read by Miss Mary B. Grubb. Intellect En-
throned" commenced at the very dawn of the
intellectual development when the human mind
was obscured by the fogs and msts of early
morning which the beams of rising knowledge
gradually dispelled. But ere it reached the
MONDAY of it's existence threatening cloud
gathered dark about the horizon casting the
long, lingering shadow of the Dark Ages" over
the earth, and it seemed that learning might ex
pect nothing short of utter destruction. But
the darkest night may be succeeded by a glorious
day So the Ozark Ages were followed by the
present intellectual life Its light is advancing
to a zenith power we know not how great but
the glory of all ages
1.-THE Causes of LawIessness," was the subject
Of the essay by Miss Anna E. Krout After the
introduction the writer gave four causes, consid-
cred the principal ones. They were ignorance,
vice, avarice and envy. She stated the outgrowth
of these to be strikes murders, mobs ETC., and
in conclusion, that if home training a general
education of the masses, and proper amusements
and religious training be more carefully attended
to, there would be higher state of civilization
and consequently check to lawlessness.
The last essay of the evening was read by Miss
Alice Hays subject, STRANDS of Empire" The
writer first alluded to the variety of peoples
which one meets in streetscene in San Fran
cisco, and compared this to our eastern cities.
Then followed q description of the strands which
form the three-fold cord of our Republic. The
Puritans Holanders and Huguenots were
spoken of AS to their character and the causes of
their emigration The trials of the HRguenots
were depicted in description of the massacre
on st. Bartholomews night The essay closed
by calling attention to the fact that the strands
were now woven together SO closely that 'our
citizens are not now Puritaps, or Hollanders, or
Huguenots, but Americans"
After the exercises a banquet was held at the
residence of D. W. Gerard