Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-15

maturity OF grain sown IN the ground.
He has TO wait.
Patience. why IL II feminine name?-
mus, not forget the eirls--I suppose
because woman has TO have patience more
than any other being with things in
general. and with us men In particular.
0aughter) or she ~ pre-eminently a
suffering creature. She represents the
passive side OF human being. inscparable
from II. Woman and love are peculiarly
inseparablc. and brilliant writer says
love "sufereth long. and Ia kind' very
IKE woman. She has TO walt to be asked
10 become a wife. bat the gentle patience
with which she entertains the proposition
is most admirable.
WAIT AND MURMCR NOT.
Patience: travellers on the rail have
learned that IL your train comes to
dead halt for hours, and when you are
most anxious TO proceed, II Is better never
TO ask a question nor leave your seat;
YOU will get on Just as soon. Immune
rnble worries we are subject to are won
drously soluble In the alembic Of patience.
The passive side Of character Is unspeak-
ally valuable Nerves are In the body.
but nerve H. in the soul. The mastery
inactivity is harder for the commander
and troops than the aggressive move
inent upon the enemy. Patience Is the
fort Of duty: cultivatcs In us huml''y. "a
almost all the power Of that great virtue.
punciuality.
Physical health IS TO be conserved in
order 70 patient work: and yet most mar
vclluus examples Of the nerve TO endure
and DO together are TO be found i'm in
tensely-Sufferng invalids. Alice Hendress
Of Norfolk. Va, drew two prizes for art
the competitors hundreds all over the
country. And how each time did she
draw the successful design? Lying on her
back. unable 10 raise her head, holding
uu the paper with one hand, ana the
ink from her pen trickling down the
other wrist. as she sketched the magic
figure The New York Herald had 10
send man to find out who the Won
drous artist was: and she was found on
her back, within few days OF her death:
Patience. the passive character needed
for those great. progressive movements
of tho worlds history in which earnest
men have laborod as hard and faithfully.
who died without the sight of results as
n the complete fulhlmcnt OF their rosiest
dreams had been within the near future
Of their lifetime. He that il truly wise
and great. lives both too early ana TOO
late" Pie slow-moving periods wear
away. Calico succeeds Copernicus at the
interval of a century. and the former $
well-known utterance. yet 1t moves
is as true Of the moral as of the physlcal
globe. the everlasting consolation OF the
patient toilcrs, who simply bean the neat
and burden Of the day with waiting
that never wears out.
THE PEABODY MEDALS.
I-pon the conclusion of the eloquent adj
dress Rev. Dr. W. W. Landrum, in the
absence of Rev. Dr. Fair, who was eN-
pected TO have done so. delivered the
Peabody medals to Mr. Writ WiiliamS
and Misses Grace Hill. Lucy Walsh, ana
Emily Davis. Mr.. Williams was awarded
the silver medal and the young iauleS
were given bronze medals
Before delivering the medals. Dr. Ian
drum said: "My young friends, | beg
on behalf OF vCur friends here TO oHfI
concentrations first of all 10 the School
Board. who have SO carefully looked altei
Your education. to you on receiving ihtst
magnificent medals. and TO the pupils VINO
read their carefully-prepared essays heI'
tonight. I, moreover wish To eNpresS
my thanks. after hearing Dr. Tudor :
maqniGceut address. that I am member
of the ministry of Richmond ] am re-
minded OF Napoleon. who, after the bat
III, of Austerlitz, ordered medals for his
soldiers. bearing on the diverse 'Austcr-
UtZ' and on the reverse i was thefc.
If | possessed the prerogntlve l would
have a number Of medals struck on, ana
/ would present one to ehch girl ana
hoy. VINO has successfully passed the eN-
aminations and Will be awarded diplomas
here tonight. 1t Is my pleasure to pre-
sent to you these medals. and for the
benefit OF the general public, 1t might bt
well TO state that they are awarded lOI
neatness and accuracy"
Continuing. Dr. Landrum spoke Of the
OPPORTUNITIES for becoming teachers whicf
lay before the pupils. and said that to his
mimi the most honorable or callng'
were those of physicians. ministers, am
teachers In closing, he urged the youne
students to remember throughout life th'
State Of Virginia and the city of Rich
mond the authorities of which had pro
Vided for them means of obtaining hiSl
intellectual culture
THE DIPLOMAS PRESENTED.
After more mus-~by the hand the grad
uating diplomas and certificates for th'
| post graduates, the photography ah'
tvpewriting. and the business classes wer'
delivered by Mayor j. Taylor Ellyson
lie said: ~ distinguished citizen whei
he entered the hall tonight and looSe'
| ON the. beauty OF the scene turned TO m'
| and said. This is the biggest thing II
| Richmond | suppose he wanted TO sa!
| that this ls truly "A great occasion. an
| one of which Richmond should be Jus'i'
! proud. 1t is a great epoch III the NV
| of the young people here Assembled ~
| Tudor when he read over TINS pro
| oramnne. said to me, You have the au
| vantage OF us; you are down TOT lou
| addresses He did not know that MI
| Thomas i'm his wisdom had arranged III"
he should deliver the address, ana mat
| should deliver the diplomas. "A lew year
| aeo q business department was auueu L
| our curriculum, and il has proved siea
| success. | hope TO see soon put III,
| a,.ora,ion the suggestion Of Hon. j. H. NJ
| C,,r,.,.- that we add manual labor de
,,,,,nent 10 our school. and l trust ina
liz, we meet again few years memo
,ys shall have presented to us graduate
| ,,oro This most necessary department o
orr school system
Tho exercises concluded about IL o'cioc
With the delivery of the diplomas.
High school HoDors.
The following is Il list OF the pupiis
tn High School who received "'s
hunors; r,n ca,
ua smith Hester Allen. Abby Gwath
mev. and Mabelle Welsh. vi,
! senior Il, I.-F'lorence Pepie' Nitsl
| Iackson. Nellie Spence. Ethel 'arito'
louise Turner, Florence Allen Mar
| Neale. Carrie Gray, STAFFORD farNei
! uelo, Goddin. Nora Clarke Milurs
Tyler. Lawrence Taliaferro. Mary Ro"ci
| and Elise Noting. "a prh
senior Il, Il.-Mabel Porter ana N"p
! Tyree. .u. x,,,i,,ocl
Intermediate A. I.-Estelle Whi'loch
unlda Singer Clara Crenshaw' Mann
aIorrissette. Mary Toone' Marian heiiel
! pattie McGehee, Russell shelton ann
rernevhough, John Hutchinson. Einin
uondy and Rena Carleton,
Intermediate A. I.-florenee VIII
and Emily Jones ,,o,., ,v.,
In,ermediate u, tGerman)-Helen Wei
rer Kertha Evans Julia Biekers' NH
ME Osterbind. Edna Gold. Imam has
land Clara Tompkins, Eta LoVe"s'e'i
| and Ada Chalkley. u,s,
intermediate y. F'reneh)--Lucy "a,si
Mamie Jennings. juliet Walker, Anc
Goodwin. corneiia Wilkinson, Lana 10
lara Etta King. and Herbert Mullen
intermediate u. Ill. business ciass)-
Wilson Reains. -, tY.,a
iunior a I.-Aiice Winefield' Heie
sonthall. Nellie Lucke. Lee McBain' he'
Gle briggs. Cora Hassel Annie Sshaa
h. L IA