The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-06-14

gia Nulla Retrorsum, the Class Mot
to-" Mr.. Smith also gave the vale
dictory for the class. As a reward of
merit Mr. Smith is given free tuition
in some prominent college.
CLASS PROPHEsY
As written and read by Miss
Emma People.
The world does move as has been
demonstrated by one of the speakers
this evening. The 10Th century was
one of invention, one of scientific ex-
periments along all lines Those who
live in the goth century reap the fruit
of the toll of generations before them.
And yet those, who were born in the
later years of the nineteen hundred,
receiving their education by the hard
toll that was then the fashion in the
schools, are the ones who have helped
to make the Goth century what it is,
and they appreciate most fully the
advantages it offers. America, always
foremost among the nations, presents
a spectacle far different in this year,
1914. from what it did 21 years ago.
It was in the days when the mothers
spent their lives in cooking, sewing
and housekeeping. which left them
small leisure for anything else. The
farmers titled the soil with no more
improved machinery than the binder
and riding-plow, their own hand labor
assisted only by horse power with an
occasional machine run by steam. In
these primitive days there stood on
the plains of the northwest, brick
school-house, the pride of a Mime
sofa village. In the High School,
which occupied the upper story, a
class of seven. obscure but ambitious
youths and maidens toiled in winters
cold and summers heat over their
Cicero, English History, and Physics.
June of '94 saw them triumphantly
appearing before a delighted audience
to deliver their graduating orations,
and to receive their long coveted
sheep-skins. I can see them even
now as they stood there on that fate
full night before the dazzling foot
lights. Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these"
Life seemed to each to have reached
it's climax. But not so has it turned
out. The class of "a could not look
forward and see what year, a month,
might bring forth In the succeeding
twenty years strange things happened.
The story is as thrilling as fairy tale
or trip with Jules Verne.
You remember STEELE Smith, he was
that small piece of humanity, scarcely
large enough to be seen with the
naked eye, but even then it was
thought that his future would be one
marked by success. Now he is known
through out America as the inventor
of the S. S. S. electric sewing machine,
in which the goods are placed, and the
turning on of an electric current
brings forth finished costume that
would have dazzled the eyes of:Worth.
He aspired to nothing higher along
the line of invention, but spent his
income in roaming around the world.
On these tours he devotes much at
tention to gathering up wild animals
for Cook and Whitby's circus. If
time would permit, we might recount
many thrilling adventures which he
has encountered in the wilds of Afri-
ca. Besides these the experiences of
Rider Haggard's heroes would dwin-
die to nothingness.
Among the 400 of New York City
Isabel Shanks, who will be remem-
bered as the quiet, dignified senior Of
the class of '94, reigns as the queen
of fashion. She is one of those local
celebrities, whose sayings and doings
are the exciting topics of converse
ton in the select circle in which she
moves. What she wears, when she
rides, whom she cuts direct, whom
she smiles upon, these are as care
fully noted as the weather signals