The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-06-14
ALL SWEET GIRL GRADUATES
Ths Boys Are Sadly Missing on
Graduating Day for aziis
Year.
MiESes Hiatt, jackson ard SeitZ
Will Be Missing Next
Year.

An.adst labyrinth of naturalfow-
ers, end before an immense audience,
three "sweet girl graduates'' 'ofIthe
Redwood Falls high school were put
out upon the cruel world last Friday
night. The young ladies, Misses Ber-
tina NJ. Hiatt, Marie B. Jaeksan and
Pearl "A. ,Seitz, showed excellent train.
ing in delivery and each received
hearty encores. The hall was crowd
ed to overfowing, of course. The
stage was buried in flowers of all sorts,
and or the stage, beside the graduates,
sat the teachers of the public schools,
and the Revs. L. L. Hanscom and
John Sinclair. In the rear, or balcony,
was perohed the band, and from that
point, the boys dispersed music at in
tervals. After their opening selection
Rey. John Sinclair pronounced the in
vocation. Miss Seitz gracefully tripped
to the front of the stage without a
prompt and delivered the salutatory
of the class in Mell-chosen words. Miss
Seitz was attired in q neat cream Hen
rietta, with lace trimmings, and
number of white roses graced the cor
sage. The gown was deoollette. Next
came Miss Bertha Hiatt with an ora
ton on Words" Miss HATS voice
was plain and distinct and was easily
heard all over the house. Her gown
was of Nuns yelling, and the eorsage
was ornamented with a huge bouquet
of red roses. The Grafton is as follows:
Few things are more wonderful than the
origin, structure and significance of words.
Hazlitt, fond as he was of paradox, said that
words are the only things that live forever
Temples. palaces and monuments have per-
ished and left not even trace of their ext
stence. Accidents have caused the destruc-
ton of the finest masterpieces of art. Cid
ed statues, whose lips seem to move, and
whose limbs seemed to pulsate beneath their
flowing robes have been shivered into dust.
How often
when mellowing years their full perfection
And each bold figure just begins to live.
The treacherous colors the fair art betrays
And all the bright creation fades away
Not so with words Language. though en-
trusted to perishable ink, which few drops
of water or moth may destroys indestruc-
tible, and when the body of a great poet or
thinker has turned to dust he continues to
rule men by his very spirit, living, breath
ing and speaking in his works. For rs or 80
centuries the winged words of old Homer
have maintained their fight across the CULTS
of time. in which empires have suffered ship
wreck, but they are still full of the life blood
of immortal youth. Words fifty spoken
says Solomon, are like apples of gold in pic
lures of silver Look at Webster or a
Calhoun, when his mighty eloquence is in
full operation. How his words tell upon his
adversary. battering down the intrench-
ments of sophistry like shot from heavy
ordinance. Words are harmless things when
TERED up in a dictionary with no mind to
select and send them on their mission sub
lime. But let them receive the vitalizing
touch of genius and how they leap with life.
Scholars says Sir Thomas Browne, 'are
men of peace. They carry no. arms but
their tongues are sharper than razors. Their
pens cut still deeper and carry report loud
er than thunder. Better to stand the shock
of cannon than the fury of merciless pen.
The crushing force lies not only in the nicely
and skill with which the words are chosen,
but also in the granite like strength of the
writer's thought. If any other words can be
used than those which writer does use he
is bungling rhetorician and skins only the
surface of his theme 1t has been said that
If one word of any passage of Shakespeare
shall escape your memory, you may hunt
through the 10000 words in the language,
and not one will tit the place but the one the
poet put there. In Homer there are hidden
meanings, depths of thought, words which
are key notes awakening the spirits melodies
and entrusting all the links that bind the
soul of harmony. Milton electrifies the
mind through verbal conductors. No sooner
are his words pronounced than their force
is felt. o Change the structure of one sentence
and the whole effect is destroyed, and he
who would then cOnjure with it will find no
force in the depths of its hidden meaning.
The difference in the use of words by writ
ers is as great as that in the use of money by
the rich and poor. Some succeed by the sue
cessful management of the scientific vocab-
ulary; others by carving the most delicate
figures of speech from the heart of the oak.
Emerson says of words that IF you cut them
they will bleed" q They impart such feeling
and pour out such a charm that they have
an effect upon the soul like pleasures which
intoxicate our understanding. The magic of
Tennyson is due to the fitting of aptest words
| to things, subtle, penetrating words that
| touch the quick of truth; cunning words that
have spell in them; old words, bright
| through the rubbish of some hundred years.
Their weird, poetic style displays an indes-
| cribable witchery which effects the magma
| ton as if one had eaten of the insane root
that takes the reason prisoner. I'm the hands
of great sculptor, marble and bronze be-
comes as soft and elastic as living flesh. and
not unlike this is the dominion which
great writer's possess over language. Their
words are full of meaning which sometimes
requires much thought to discover all their
hidden beauties and much more knowledge
to give their etymology and definition. We