The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-05-12
BEACON'S BOAST.
A FINE CLASS BID FAREWELL TO THR
HIGH SCHOOL

A FINE CLASS BID FAREWELL To TIKI
HIGH SCHOOL.
The little city of Beacon has many
things to be proud of but none more
than her public schools and the gradu.
ates who go forth from their Alma
Mater to battle with the world. On
Friday evening at the high school
building occurred the annual gradual
ing exercises and fine class of five
young people bade farewell to books
and study. The program was as fol-
lows:
Overture Rival" Stella Jones
Invocation Rev. Harrison
Music, Welcome. Kind Friends" Class
Grafton, Allen Henry
Agriculture as Vocation"
Solo. Stella Jones
The Song That Reached My Heart"
Grafton, Myrtle Wilcox
American Citizenship"
Grafton, Random Thoughts" Stella Jones
Song, Come, Merry Birds of Spring." B Glass
Grafton, Mary Lewellyn
The Many and the Few"
Solo, Edith Williams
Don't go out Tonight. Dear Father"
Grafton. Harry Wilcox
strike While the Iron is Hot
Presentation OF Diplomas.
Quintette. Goodnight, Gentle Folks"
Just before the presentation of di-
Plomas, Principal j. B. Morris made
an excellent
ADDRESS TO TEE CLASS.
synopsis of which is here given:
Kind friends, we have greeted you
again at the close of this school with
songs and OratiOns. hope you have
passed ple9 SAINT and profitable even
ing and that your life ID 5ettered and
improved by it. My work has been
bothersome and difficult for the past
year. Many things l have overcome.
subdued, Outlived, and am here to night
to complete my work and to leave hon.
Orably.
To the class of '02.-you are about to
pass through the portals of this build
ing out into the many strifes of life, to
lttle with the many trials and diff
culties. Your yesterdays can never
r turn. The time that is lost is like
burnt paper that flutters in the wind
and is scattered in every direction and
can never be reproduced in its former
shape. So lost time can never be re-
nodded. How often we would call
back past time and do our work differ.
entity If we had the pOwerI how diff
ferently we would live if we could
make D new start How many less
drunkardS would have been if the
drunkard had known the effects of
HI. II I'd \
never have happened II the murderer
could have seen the future. An the
troubles of this life are caused by care
actor on the stage of life.
We are all endowed with the same
elementary principles, for, as Thomas
Jefferson says, "all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable
rights" but people differ in the great
strife of life. Some gain higher posi-
tions and others lower. What is the
reason one person goes up higher and
higher ia life and another goes down
lower and lower? William Writ said:
Difference of talent will not solve it,
because that difference is very often in
favor of the disappointed candidate.
You will see issuing from the walls of
the same college, nay sometimes from
the bosom of the same family, two
young men, of whom one will be ad-
mitted to be a genius OF high order, the
other scarcely above the point of me-
diOcrity; yet you will see the genius
sinking and perishing in poverty, OBJ
scurity aud wretchedness; while on the
other hand you will observe the medi-
ocre plodding his slow but sure way up
the hill OF life, gaining steadfast foot
ing at every step, an ornament to his
family, blessing TO his country"
There Is but one way to solve it and
that is the energy which one person
uses over another. You cannot sleep
and play and reach the top Of the lad
der. You cannot succeed in any calling,
profession or business without work.
There Is no excellence without great
labor" You have been given all the
chances for an education that this in
stitution affords. Now you are ready
TO battle for one of the many places that
this world offers. You viii find that
the world is not all sunshine, many
things will not suit you, opposition
will he presented on every hand, the
jealous will trod In your rear, and
troubles will be found everywhere.
The education In our public schools
should be to improve mankind, to make
moral, physical, intellectual beings.
Every person that graduates should be
a model man. Morality IL the last
great requisite for improving the mind
and helping the prosperity of an iDdl-
yidual. You are in the bloom of life
and step in the wrong direction would
forever ruin you. / would hate TO
hear of one of you falling from your
present sphere, Ever keep an upward
head; facessas world In It's vices; stand
back for no obstacle.
Probably / will never be placed In
the position as your instructor again.
This is my last recitation. Tomorrow
We will stand on the same level. Your
time OF being 0Dedient to me Is passed.
Ali that can hope is that Ayour lives
may gllda along as peaceful as the rIy-
eFa that water kha Wo06 fAn0ai