Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-20


OF losing his head in more ways than one.
| In London l found d. X. n. Jones, wno
biushiDgly told me that me was among the
most noted after dinner speakers of the
| city, and that q few rights previous ne
| had eclipsed the Prince of Wales. with
! whom ne said he hob nDbbed on familiar
/ terms. | wonder If ne has eclipsed His
Royal Highness at baccarat, or any Of the
| other llttle innocent amusements for which
| the Prince is greatly noted.
| As soon as / again touched the American
| shore whom should | meet but Tommy
| Cummins. He said that he was then a
] had taken the place Of Ward McAllister
| as leader of New York's noble 800 or
| this had my doubts. when he asked me TO
| lend him a quarter TO pay his way across
| the bridge.
Wise was hard to find, but at last I'M
| earthed him in Lonelyville editing the Pro-
| hibition Bugle. He had been great trav-
! eler and he said ne was hand in glove with
| all the foreign swells. II must be so. for
column in his paper is headed MY Royal
| Chums." He wCuld. through his paper,
| familiarize American children with these
| titled people 30 that when Lonelyville
| girl marries into the nobility she will know
| Just what to call the Queen. He is still
| unmarried, but moGestly limited at a pos
sible change He also said that he and the
| car were great cronies, until one day the
| CZarina found them smoking Wheeling
| stogfes, when she Indignantly gave MIN
| the royal bounce.
| Jonah" Faris was still selling his I'M
| equaled mucilage. He told me that he
owned a glue factory in Alaska and that
| the reason he was on the road was because
| his statesmen were all sick through over
work. l believed him, but only till he got
| around the corner. l learned afterward
| built in-the air.
Then last but not least there was Mar
bles Write. He was Weary Willie" and
in charge of cop" when | saw him.
afaiy7 zd
| with him about himself. He told me some
| hard luck stories and then quoted Shakes
peare: Who steals my purse steals trash"
l took the hint, and for the sake Of days
that were gone put my trifie in his empty
| wallet.
Thus have in a dream talked with each
! member of my class. Is there any truth in
| these forecastings. caricatures though
| they be? In any event the Lfnsly boys of
| '96 go forth. hopeful, self-reliant, with a
| heart for any fate
| Mr.. Lawrence A. Reymann's Grafton
was upon College Men in Business"
| but he was excused because of lack OF
time for preparation.
The yaledictory, Labor and Des-
tiny" by Mr.. Chas. G. Dobbins, was
very thoughtful and interesting pro-
| duction. He said:
Labor conquers all things" Therefore
1 IL must, OF necessity, conquer htslluy
From the beginning men have believed in
| destiny, and yet ii is impossible for Such a
! thing to he. God is just, and we were born
| with free wills. for all men are created
equal in his sight, and those who reach the
! highest pinnacle of fame do so by their own
| labors and rot by destiny
| Let US take for example two generals,
one who has reached that position through
| destiny, and one who has attained the Of
flee 10y labor: who is there among you who
could not point out the better commander.
| for it is folly to say that the general by
| destiny appointed is better able to lead an
army to victory than ne who has thor
oughly mastered all tactics and arts Of
war. He who labors shall succeed. There
! is no destiny save that of death.
Labor is defined as an exertion made for
| the purpose of producing some useful re-
suit. Exertion without a purpose or for
| some evil purpose does not deserve the
name of labor. Such exertion is mere sport
or mischief. Labor, however, is not wholly
| Of the hand. but of the mind as well. In
| deed the labor Of the hand proceeds from
| an antecedent labor of the mind; the hand
| only does what the mind first conceives
| and wills.
termed himself. He thought he could not
| be killed before his time. Had he be-
| lieved thoroughly in destiny ne must nave
believed that he could do nothing but what
was ordained, ard ne could not lose bat
tie without it having been so decreed from
above; in which case he could have sat in
his tent and read poetry while his army
fought as best they could, for II would
have made little difference whether anyone
commanded or not And, indeed his army
need not have fought at ALL for L had been
ord-red by God that he should either win
or lose and nothing that anyone would Go
could prevent II.
God would never have made man that
he might die on the gallows and so 10
everlasting punishment for what he could
not help nor alter, though he labor with all
3 .NnN
one can imagine tlat a man might study
all his life, every hour Of the day from
morning till night without learning any
thing, If ne be appointed by destiny 70 he
a numbskull; and yet he who believes in
destiny must believe such to he the case.
No. my friends. believe me when / say with
Shakespeare that-"It is not In our stars
but in ourselves that we are underlings.'
Ard now. members of the Board of
Trustees, I wish to return to you the
thanks Of our graduating class for the in
terest you have taken in the school. You
have lahored TO give us all the advantages
that were within your reach You have
most freely given US your valuable time
and services. You have been making i'm
provements and supplying for our needs
additional apparatus. For all this
thank YOU and bid you now farewell. We
remember with regret and heartfelt sorrow
that one of he most useful, energetic and
panstaking trustees was called by the Gre
at0r to that undiscovered country from
whose bourne no traveller returns. | refer
to the Rev. DR.. Cooke. who was beloved
by all VINO knew him for his many virtues
as a Christian and a citizen.
To the faculty, we return thanks for the
kind treatment and valuable instructions
we have received from them; and we ask
that they forgive any shortcomings to
which many Of us plead guilty. We have
thCughtessly done many things contrary
10 the rules Of the school. for which we are
now exceedingly sorry. There is no glad
ness In this parting. but honest and sin
cere sorrow. Gentlemen of the faculty, the
class of '96 bids you farewell.
Ladies and gentlemen and undergradu-
ates Of the school, many of you think that
the student looks forward with pleasure
TO the period when he shall ne graduated
and 10 some extent that Is true, but you
do not know the pangs of sorrow the last
days of school brings. for the associations
formed In the school room and the attach
ments to teachers will soon he broken off,
The student leaves the school room. the
next best place to home for him. with a
heavy heart never to return 10 1t: but car
ries with him many recOllectiOns of the
good that has fallen 10 his lot. and remem-
bers with regret that the school days are
over, and ne must now face the cold world
and battle for a living.
Fellow classma tes nv ill-chOsen words
can but poorly express the grief which this
day brings TO us This is the last time we
shall he gathered together as a class We
, nave for years past shared each others
JOYS aLd troubles. but now we must part
ard all these ties be broken. Let us al
ways remember our class motto and let IL
be an incentive to bring forth our best ef-
forts. GLORY follows virtue" and it shall
he with us even the same as II has been
with others, for the men OF today were
tne boys # YESTERDAY. and the BOYS Of
to-day will be the men of tomorrow
Nnen We nave our reunion. be II in ten or
twenty years may We find that each mem
Der of the class has done his duty and has
become one Of the leading m IN Of this
great nation. or perhaps even Of the world
Ard low. my classmafas hid ~, q I