The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-06-19
UNION SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT.
"Agaln the Silent Wheels OF Time Their
Annual Rounds Have Driven"

months have expired since the last COM
mencement in Hillsboro, and that at
least half dozen Of young people must
get out OF the way, saying, "Move on,
move on, you can't be students longer
here. 1 am here to remind you that the
platform must be cleared for other forms
and faces who desire to enter the wider
school OF life." The young people who
bowed to the demands of Father Time
and a pleased audience last Friday even.
ing in Army Hall were Misses Feekin
Walker, Hattie Mahan, Elva Foreman
and Katie Lemon, with Messrs. julius
Feibel and Fred Gamble.
The platform was tastefully decorated
with flowers and drapery, but the most
interesting and attractive contingent
that appeared on the stage were the
bright and hopeful faces Of the gradual.
ing class named above.
The introduction of the exercises of
the evening was an overture by the
orchestra, which was largely composed Of
home talent, Mr.. Frye, the we'll known
violinist, of Chillicothe, being the only
foreign artist who took part. The
music furnished by the orchestra, as we'll
as the songs sung by the pupils Of the
school, was we'll received. Miss Anna
Hoyt presided at the piano in very
satisfactory manner.
The first OF the graduates who stepped
before the audience was Miss Feekin
Walker with "The Chemistry of Society"
as her theme. Miss Walkers introduc.
ton related to the science of chemistry
and its laws Of affinity, gracefully gliding
from the science proper to its application
to the human family, closing with the
practical application if any compound is
to be valuable each ingredient must be
good, pure and true.
The next Miss who entertained the
audience was Miss Kate A. Lemon with
a "Plea for Old Shoes" Miss Katie,
after portraying the exquisite pleasure OF
breaking in new pair of shoes, drew
the conclusion that old shoes, like the
old wine mentioned in Scripture, was
much to be preferred after trying the
new. There was in this close of the ora.
ton touching of the sensibilities and
tender feeling of those who had treasured
up mouldy shoes that had formerly en-
cased tiny feet in saying that the value
OF such old shoes was not to be measured
by dollars and cents.
"Man and His Home" was next por-
trayed by Miss Elva ]. Foreman. This
subject was handled with a degree oil
directness and pathos from first to last
While much that was offered by Miss
Foreman might be called commonplace
and familiar, vet there was the interming.
ling OF those things which constitute real
life that gave true life to the thoughts ex.
pressed and touched responsive chord
in those who were listeners.
Fred X. Gamble next appeared behind
the footlights. He laid safety bicycles
and tricycles away in the garret for mice
and moths to consume, fguratively
speaking, in his vivid description Of the
automatic motor that was to accomplish
everything from displacing the railroad
train as means OF conveyance to taking
the place OF the nurse girl who does
duty by washing the baby's face. His
subject was, "Would Perpetual Motor
j be Desirable ?" and in discussing tha
subject he, no doubt. succeeded in con
} vincing himself, as well as many of the
audience, that if perpetual motion wal
} even attainable through his automatic
motor with extra pulleys and belts, tina
modern perpetual motion is not th'
greatest desideratum of the nineteenth
century.
Would Perpetual Motion be Desirable
was followed by the subject "Prisol
Literature" delivered by Miss Hattie
Mahan. The way in which Miss Mahal
handled her subject showed that tn
reading of different authors by thi
speaker had not been of cursory nature
but of a kind which had cleaned tn
fruit in such way as to present it in al
interesting way to those who constitute,
an audience.
A number Of eminent writers with tn
profitable thoughts recorded by then
while within prison walls were referre'
, to, closing with glowing tribute t.
John Buynan in Bedford jail, and 81
Paul, prisoner in Rome.
: The last oration OF the evening was b
Julius @. Feibel, the valedictorian of tn
: class. julius had chosen as the them
Of his Grafton Dangers OF Free Govern
ments," and that the subject had nc
! been sighted was evidenced by the mar
, ner in which history was brought In I
! prove the positions taken. At first til
: attention OF the audience was directe
y IN some Of the palpabl0 dangers ,