The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-06-08
OUT IN THE WORLD.
The o. III. ). Commencement. Thirty Grad
yates step upon LIES Stage.

yates step upon LIES Stage.
When the overture was given the oper,
house on Thursday evening was filled from
footlights to the doors Every seat, every
aisle was filled with fathers, mothers, broth
ers, sisters, and friends Of both the graduates
and the school. Every ticket of admission
to the lower floor had been taken on the
previous Saturday morning and those who
came expecting to gain admission were re
fused to the early crowded gallery. Had
the evening been less pleasant the house
must have become intolerable from the heat
The audience was one Of the best that has
ever entered the house, and the costumes Of
the ladies, many Of them created for the
occasion, were the subject of much remark
Before the footlights and the banks of cut
flowers and ferns upon either side, sat the
class of 'o9, as follows Anne Ophelia
Barnes, Harry Morgan Butler, Agnes Steele
Buffers, Eta Adaline Dunawsy, Anna Eliza.
beth Farrell, Thomas NJ. Buffers, Elizabeth
A. Bowers, Tillie Degen, Edmund Joseph
Feeuy, Viola Emma Greene, John Louis
Foley, Susie Higginbotham, Bertha Greene,
Michael L. Meagher, Edwin j. Hess, Frank
j. OMeara, Josephene NJ. Porter, Nellie
Peck, Joseph Morton Megafhn, George
Corwin Poundstone, Cora Ella Raley, Dora
ii. Stamate, Flora E. Stewart, Jason f. Rich.
ardson, Mary Refor, Grace Stout, Ida
Bertha Lucy Suehr, Ethel Lora Whipple,
Charles Fred White and Name Edna Wild.
mer. The young ladies were in pretty Co.'S
tunes of white and the young gentlemen in
the conventional black, presenting group
of young faces lighted up with happiness
and joy with which their audience was in
full accord.
The exercises opened with the Maria
Stuart Cavatina by Wilis's orchestra.
Miss Porter opened the literary exercises
-Salutatory-with tender poetic sentb
ment. She thanked and welcomed the
parents and friends of the graduates, the
principal and teachers of the school, and
the board of trustees, with a special men,
ton of the late president, w. j. Graham.
The principal had taught them the lessons of
life as well as those of the school room.
Their hearts were filled with pleasure at the
life before them and regret for the life they
were leaving. Many had dropped from their
ranks. Some had gone but for time, but
others had gone forever. Let their motto,
Vincet qm Prestat be indeed motto, that
they persevere and conquer.
Mr.. Leslie announced that Geo. Pound.
stone, next on the programme. had been ill,
and though present was unable to speak.
Chas. F. White spoke upon The Growth
of our Country" He took the ground of
several noted scien lists who claim that the
aboriginal settlement of the country was
made by emigrants from Asia. He followed
up the growth Of the country, especially the
great onward march of the business inter-
ests, the characteristics of the people as
nation, its push, energy and nerve. Who
but American business men could have tele-
graphed for materials for the re-building of
Chicago before its ashes were cold, who have
projected the great overland road or the
Niagara Falls bridge?
Miss Ethel Whipple, in developing her
subject, "Es Gelingt Mir" Ut succeeds for
me) outlined the gratitude of the German
for the gifts of Nature and Natures God.
The Teuton men were the first to place wo
men upon level with themselves. In the
Franco Prussian war of 1871, the German
succeeded because he was the guardian of
the hearthstone. AT Lucknow the English
held out because they were bound by the
strength that comes with Teutonic blood.
Michael L. Meagher's "Class History
was extremely entertaining and witty. He
began by saying that 10000, 900 years ago
the world was created 1890 ago Adam was
born, and in 1885, the present class paid
four years visit to the High School. The
grass was green and so were they. He re-
lated anecdotes Of school life and closed with
the remark that the wind would roar up the
air shaft of the o. H. s., but it would not
fan their cheeks, for the festive sheep had
yielded up his skin and they would become
the prey of the county school director.
Thomas NJ Buffers, in dilating upon the
Three Essentials" opened by quoting
Emersons " Hitch your wagon to STAR
Some men have one ideal, some another; but
be thorough, accurate and thoughtful, and
you will succeed. Had Butcher not ar
rived in time, Napoleon would have won. 1t
was a thoughtless man who threw the bomb
1t the Haymarket riot in Chicago. There is
a line of study which will lead to these
three essentials, and that is mathematics.
II you possess these you have what is more
to be desired than gold or silver, and if you
lack these you will have omitted that which
gold or silver can not replace.
Young men in History at the hands
Of Frank OMara, received fattering eulo