The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-16

Mr.. A. W. Campbelps "reminiscences Of
Days Ehhtare Gone-Pleasant RecollcC-
tons of Other Occasions and Men.
spaidi Correspondence ofte l.tsatgaea.
BETHANY, W. Va, June 15.-As your
columns daily attest, the delightful
commencement season is once more
upon us, forthis is the rosy and leafy
month of June. This ia the time when
the American school hedglinss leave
their alma mater nests, poise on their
wings for single day and essay to fly
out into q cold and Common place world
on the romantic wings of their imagina-
ton. This sort OF thing is going on
here as elsewhere throughout the land,
and the programme is much the same
everywhere, consisting mainly OF music,
orat4ops, essays, flowers and diplomas.
Tbeschools have possessionot thenews
papers.
The boys and girls. have on their best
summer clothes and are otherwise pro-
perly adornedfor the occasion. Their
relatives and friends are also on hand to
smile on the young performers and lis
ten to their profound erudition. Some
of th6se devoted friends have come
good way and spent more or less
good money in order to be present.
They have come partly for the sake of
the trip, but mostly for the sake OF the
youngsters, and they have come also de-
termined to enjoy themselves and be
pleased with all that they sec and hear.
Allof which is Just as it should be.
PtE4suREs o. TIE EMANCIPATION
Who Is there 50 matter OF fact as not
to have apme sympathy with this
gushingperiod Of youth and romanco2
what matter if we older people "have
been there" ourselves and got over all
this soEtof hingiong agoH Have we
not also got over Santa Claus and
Mother Goose and paper caps and
swords aud red.top boots, and all that
amuses childhood, but, all the same, do
we not still find enjoyment in seeing
the rear column, the children and the
grandchildren, come marching along
through to some never ending and still
beginning experiences3 Are not all
the pleasures Of life looked at In their
evolutionary and transitoEy nature OF
the same delusive character? Do not
Is .sHopcs as vpiR. pursuit. as wild,
From the cradle to the grave man
lives in the pleasures OF the imagina-
tion-in the pleasures that arc to be-tor
"man never is but always to be blest."
THEIR OWN TINE.
suppose human nature comes as
near being blessed at the Commence.
ment season as at any other period OF
existence. 1t is the period Of long de-
ferred hopes, the truiting OF weary days
and nights. The boy or girl who is to
graduate Is then to step out into the
world 10 do something that is rs yet
vague in their minds, but something
that will give them real pleasure and
bring them position and Importance in
lie. This is the theory and the dream
OF every young, healthy and aspiring
person who has graduating day. They
have never taken 10 themselves the
inonition Of that verse in King Solo
mon, ''the thing that hath been Is that
which shall be, and there is nothing
new under the SUM- There will be
something new under the sun in their
individual cases. There will be no
father and mother, or grandfather, or
grandmother repetition or duplication
N their lives. They will be happier
and wiser than all these, and will have
an experience entirely different inns