Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-05-24

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CLONE Sweet Home" at the close Of the
evening. The opera is over, the curtain
goes up for the last time, the magnificent
voice is heard once more in the marvel
GUS strains OF wonderful song. The great
unused to weeping as the listeners are
again back amid the scenes of childhood
and early youth. The song dies away and
the last notes are like those of skylark
when she sinks into her nest at sunset.
The stiffness in the room is profound, it
seems like sacrilege to break the silence.
But in moment the thunders OF applause
shake the great hall to its foundation and
the thoughts OF ten thousand men and
women were lifted upon the wings OF
music and bonneville shall say where,
to what high and holy presence. Perhaps
to the gate Of heaven itself.
MISS MAY BECKER
Chose that subject which never COWS old,
the memory OF which has been the inspi-
ration Of the purest emotions,-Home.
"Home is genuine saxon word-a
word kindred to Saxon speech, but with
an import common to the race of man.
Perhaps there is no other word in any
language that clusters within it so many
stirring meanings, that calls up so many
pleasant or unpleasant memories. Pleas
ant if home is all that a homo ought to
be, unpleasant if it is mere stopping
place. Let us believe that
the majority of christian people carry
with them the gracious and pleasing
memories OF good and happy homes. Not
all OF these memories are of the guided
n1onA n&r al, a.
richly furnished, surrounded by all the
beauties that nature and art can bestow.
Some, perhaps the most of them, are Of
the log cabin, the fower-girt cottage, the
old-fashioned farm house. For the happy
home depends not on wealth.
Gin The Cotter's Saturday Night
Robert Burns gives pretty description
OF the humble home. To most people the
cotter's matched cottage would have but
few attractions, yet to him it was
A spot on earth supremely blest,
dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
"Home, -murmur but its name and
memories start round it that fill our hearts
with gladness, or dim our eyes with tears.
How often does the light OF such remem-
brances guide us in the path of duty, and
show us what is right.
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back mAe old home, drawing nourish-
ment from that ierliis 81, yet ncvnr ex-
hausting its fertility. Though the old
home be deserted; though the garden be
a wilderness of weeds, the house mass
Of ruin; though the sound OF loved voices
be heard in it's halls no mole though the
bright face and the winsome smile have
vanished from its rooms forever it's mem
DRY will still be cherished it's influence
be felt foi generations"
MISS Lulu JOsLYN
Had been assigned the difficult position
Of class poet, task always hard to per-
form. That she has poetic talent the
verses given show.
In the glow and the glory OF this memorable
Fight pupils complete their full courses of
| study,
And pass out to the world with a scholastic
Better serving than engines. than man-mast
| or cuddy,
Their ship on life's sea.
In the weeks that are gone, as our thoughts
were full turned
To these closing events of our loved school
day hours,
A strong and sweet sense Of our friendship,
warm burned
| For the dear olden days that can never be
ours
While time or eternity lasts.
The better to prepare me for this Herculean
task
sought me seclusion in romantic lea,
Where the Wishkah winds out from its Wild
wooded mask,
And the Uninterrupted Chehalis sweeps out
And cou rte the tn, muses. therein.
Awed and enraptured by the goddess of
thought,
Like Bellamy, in trance was spirited away,
Until twenty-five years in advance was
And saw that which tell you this pivotal
| day,
A vision of good for them all
May heavens richest blessings crown your
every fate,
AS thus, your seer, l leave you each with
fairest sailing,
Content, and even glad to know you yet
may rate
Yourselves each other s servants-and so in
love unfailing
bid you bonvOyage lifes fitful sea.
MISS CARRIE JONES
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