Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-30
SACRAMENTO GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
Musical and Literary Exercises of the
Third Grade.

The third grade of the Sacramento Gram
mar School-M. Babcock, principal-gave
rhetorical and musical exercises Yesterday
afternoon, which were largely attended bv
parents and friends Of the pupils. The en-
tire schoo! met in general assembly, but
the exercises were confined to the pupils in
the third grade The following excellent
programme was veil rendered. and
reflected credit alike upon pupils and
teachers Greeting song, school The
Red Jacket Della Magann; instrumental
solo Luin Hebron; " Hunting a Mouse
Frank Laiferty The Well of st. Keyne,n
Maud Wilmington; 3" Beggar Girl Vocal
solo, Annie Hough; " The Psalm of
Life, class recitation, by Minnie Dietrich,
Nellie Mott, Minnie Gehring, Julia Weis-
man, Retta Kennedy, Lulu Hebron.
Frida Kuhn Edith Weiss; My Carpet"
Rosetta Eighmy; His Lesson Jennie
Herrick; Away, and Hail the Day"
(song), school The Old Man Goes to
Frisco" Laura Ivory; The Little Quaker
Sinner Wing Lyon; Rocked in the
Cradle of the Deep (solo), Geo. Waite
address 10 the school, Rev Mr.. Ollie
& Sleigh Ride" (song), school. Miss Lizzie
Griffin accompanied the musical numbers
on the piano.
Rev E. R. Ollie addressed the school.
taking for his subject =" Preparation for
the Work of Life" He said Many about
you would give all they possess. young peo-
pie, TO stand again az the threshold OF life.
with all its possibilities in their hands
but youth comes twice to none. God pity
us all, who vGinly the dreams of youth re-
call for of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these it might have
hfspt DOT, I . 81.
try depends upon the opinions and charac-
ter of its youth under twenty.
Yes, the future is yours Your
elders rule in the realms of gov
eminent, commerce, education, society
and the church. and it sometimes
seems to you that the places are all taken
But the buds of next spring need not be
jealous of the old leaves vet on the trees
They will get out of the way So the gem.
Grafton that now controls the world must
soon turn II over to you. and the scepter is
for the hand that can WELD it, In this
country and this age the heads rule that
have the crowns inside There never was
q land or time when such opportunities
were in reach of intelligence and industry.
The unframed, uneducated man or woman
Is to the educated what your left hand is to
your right. Will you be left or right hands
through life? The productive power of an
educated hand or brain is, everything else
being equal, five times that of one I'm
trained, and unskilled labor takes iron ore
and makes it into bar of pig
iron worth s.. Skilled labor muscle
plus brains, touches il once with the wand
OF intelligence. and it becomes steel. and
manufactured into needles, is quintupled
in value, 1t touches it again and it is
made into pen-knife blades, worth S., 2s5,
or watch springs, worth $2500O0 That is,
as 100000 is to 5, so is muscle plus brains
to mere muscle.
The address closed with several illustra-
tons, drawn from life, of the value of thor
ough preparation, and it was shown that
II is within the reach of all. Peter Cooper.
Tyndall, Lubbock, DR.. Kits, H. X. White,
John Wannamaker, Horace Greeley and
EIihu Burritt were cited as examples