Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-05-28
BY Strife We Ris e,
Ray L. HELLER.

RAY L. HELLER,
Was the first Grafton and one of extraordi-
nary merit. The young orator was looking
his best and his excellent delivery attested to
perfect self-control. The theme as a sa-
lutatory was an appropriate one, travelling
along in the same trend as the many
thoughts assumed from the few words COM
posing the class motto: Through Trials to
Glory"
In this, as in the other orations, limited
space demands that we give but partial re-
sume with few extracts, showing few of
the many beautiful as we'll Gas PRACTICAL lie
thoughts submitted.
Beginning with, IA life that is worth liv-
ing is ceaseless battle, an intermina BILE
struggle for ascendency, progressive series,
whose beginning is finite but eLds only in
infinity," Ray led his hearers along the pro
verbal "step' from the cradle to the gra We.
and proved that life is attended with by
far more strife than smooth sailing. Am
bition, he maintained is the motor power
of the great stuggle ever attending mankind;
it is his greatest friend as well as deadliest
foe-even as John Lilly says:
Ambition hath one heel nailed in He'll,
Though she stretch her fingers to touch
the Heavens.
Neither is this struggle wholly with the
outside world, as indeed some of our great
est contests are with ourselves, and it is the
brighter laurel that crowns the brow of him
who conquers self, for he who scores this
victory, rises to heights unknown to one who
never errs, for he has no inclination to be
otherwise than his idea of right demands.
Many other and new thoughts advan ced
by the speaker were of nature that told OF
a mind with broad and tenable views.
The Hand that Rules the World.
LULU CooyER.
This wise and truthful saying was utiiiz-
ed by the fair speaker in demo nstrating the
hitherto comparatively latent, but now
rapidly increasing, power and influence of
womankind; of her judicious teaching
and training of great men, for most invar-
iably the acts calling the attention of the
world, can be ascribed to mothers infiu-
ence.
Taking recourse in history for corrobo.
ration of this, she cited the different teach
ings of mothers in general history, and the
lessons of the nursery instilled in the youth.
full mind and practiced in mature years 60
ing much to make up the characteristics OF
a nation. The Greek mother early taught
her children to thirst for military glory, and
the zeal of the mothers in this is exempli-
fed when one mother shouted for JOY at
news of her eight sons, slain in one battle.
The Spartan mothers mandate was: "Re-
turn with your SHIELD, or upon it." The Ro-
man mother was as patriotic.
Expatiating on the bravery of the an
cients--the Sabine women, Cornelia, and
that of their sons-our own country was
found to contain her quota of brave women,
and women whose influence is felt not only
in training the youthful mind, but directly
giving movem ent and direction to projects
encompassing the solution of most vital
questions, and also in performing, BETTING
ly, mans labor; Q. g. John A. Logan owed
much of his greatness to the interchangeable
labor of his wife as his private secretary, aud
her great ability in politics received the ad-
miration of the world during his candidacy
and election to the Senate.
The Wesleys, whose great works will
remain as monuments to "a mothers infiu.