Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12
GRAINS OF WISDOM.
AN ADDRESS TO GRADUATES IN
WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE.

AN ADDRESS TO GRADUATES II
WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE.
It Was Delivered by the President of tn,
Board of School Trustees of Fort yyavn,
and Is q Remarkable Production, Wei
Worthy of Preservation.
The strength which lies in words of on,
syllable has been often demonstrated. and
no doubt the simple directness of this ad.
dress delivered to a graduating class al
Fort Wayne impressed itself on the minds
OF the listeners with a force that made them
remember it. The president of the board
OF trustees was Nj. A. p. Edgerton, after
ward national civil service commissioner
ana his advice given II years ago is still
worth preserving. The greater part of it is
here quoted: Ea#
This day we close for the year the Fort
Wayne free schools, and we now part with
you, the girls and boys we are no more to
teach.
II say girls and boys, for when three
score and ten years have come to you YOU
Will be glad to have your friends say that
health and peace Of mind have kept your
hearts warm; that you wear no brow of
gloom; are not borne down with age. b,1t;
still in heart are girls and bows, When
these years come, aud l hope they will come
to all, the tide of time will roll back and
tell you of your school time days, when the
fair, the kind and the true found love. hut
the false heart found no friends, no tongues
to praise. These days bring rich gifts to
g e n when you shall cease to think of
them your fire has burned low, and your
light has gone out. You have been here
Taught IN the hope that the free schools of
Fort Wayne would help to make you of
use to your friends and to the world; would
give you faith in all thai is good and true
and lead you to seek work, for this Won
u seek and do if you would have a
good name, wealth. a home, a charge to
Keep or o trust to serve. Go forth with a
bold, true heart to seek the work for YOU
to do.
Keep in mind that the hours of work
run through each day, and that Gods great
law of life is, In the sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread
Nov for you, young men, the truth is
told.
60 where you will through the world.
and you will find on the front door of shops
and mills, OF stores and banks, and on
ships, on farms and roads, in deep mines
where men toll for wealth; where laws are
made That make some men too rich, and
men OF worth and work through all our
land too poor; where men by law are taught
to plot with sin, to spurn the right, that
charge and cost and spoil may make old
'Qu1rk's' law firms rich; where law is so
plead that the judge must guess to find
what's law; where quacks most fight DER
SICK mems pains and dead mems bones:
where types are set, and none to mind the
proofs; where priests do preach and pray,
and where schools are taught this sign,
Brains Will Find Work Here
Don't fear. Step upand ask for work.
Brains will get it. Don't let I dare not
wait on I would'-like the cat that loves
fish. but dares not wet her foot.
If it be said: What can you do? Will
you learn a trade?' say I nave none, but /
can learn one and put brains in it, When
you go to a place where brains should hunt
for work and will be sure to find it, it NAV
be said to you: DO you see that plow?NC Can
you hold and drive it deep?'' That pillow, in
its wise use, gives all men food.
DO you see that wheel and that crank
and those shafts and that press, and do
you hear the rush and. the hiss of the steam
which moves themP Can you make and
hold and run them? Can you build and
drive the works and wheels which make
The wealth of the earth and cause it to roll
and to float to and fro from place to place
where it is best for mar to use it?
Gar you spin the thread and weave it.
which makes robes for kings, and silks for
The rich n vain, and dress for the Door.
and all that skill and art have wrought by
loom and hand for mans use?
These things are all shot through with
threads of light-the light of mind and art
skill which shines each day more bright
dims all the old by some new found
as the years go on.
IF you say that you do not know how to
10 all this work, but you will try to learn
of it and to do it well. then will be said
20 you: Can you and will you work? And
will you speak the truth and in all things
strive to do no man wrong?' If you say
Yes then all the doors where mans good
md great work is done will swing for you
20 pass in to do your part. And thus you
will see how God rules in all his ways in
mans good works and deeds. Some may
nope for fame, but if they doubt that God
Jules, have not trust and faith, they we'll
nay fear their fate. New books, not old
coins. keep charge Of fame. Look we'll to
for through them the worlds best
and deeds now speak.
"Toyou, young girls, l must say a word,
lot to chide nor to praise. You can plant
;he rose which shall bloom and give its :
'weets to all, or you can grow t%hetthorn,
which shall pierce and tear the hearts of
hose who love you, hope for you, pray for
IOu.
1.-THE turn your minds now take will fix
7our life to come. If you are led in a just
way of pure thought and deed, you will be
'ure to find joy and peace and health in all
you do. You each hope, some day, to be q
good mans wife. It is well to be, this. but
AXE care that you be not a FOOLS drudge.
What should you bring to a good and
rue nan to make his and yours a home of
Joy and peacef lean tell you: Good health:
J mind rich in stores of Thoughts. a pure
heart, full of love and truth and trust in
God.
1T is not a curl, nor q bang, nor a smile,
nor O dress, nor art in a sigh or a tear,
hat can win the worth you need 10 bless
you, but it is the right sense to know the
way to a good mans heart; to know howto
true to your own self; to be at your W
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