Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
COMMENCEMENT.
Audubon High Shoot Graduates An
other Class. Interesting Exer-
cises. The Orations.

III anOlnef demonstration was needed 10 DE
given to prove that Audubon schools have a
warm place in our peoples affection that DEM
onstration was given Friday night Despite
the damp and dismal weather and sloppy roads
and slippery streets the opera house was crowd
ed to almost its full capacity when o'clock
came by the relatives and friends Of the gradu-
ating class and by our people most interested
in the schools and school work. When the
curtain rose on the stage there was presented
pretty scene. The graduating class occupied a
semicircular row Of seats toward the front Of
the stage, DIR. Brooks, Prof. Hooker, and high
! school teachers Miss Turner and Miss Bilharz
| being seated with them. Just back of them was
| seated about a dozen members of the high |
! school, The stage was most beautifully deco.
| rated the national colors being in abundant
| evidence Flags and flowers were everywhere,
making IL richness and charming beauty. Al
| ter Rev. Hinkhouse invoked the divine bless
ing Snow Tramp DER Moss and Fell" was sung
! By a chorus Of sixteen voices from among the
! graduates and the high school, led by Mrs. Car
michael. their music leader the past year. III
was done with fine effect, The first graduate to
speak was
4 MYRTLE A. BROWN
who chose for her subject "The opportunities
|
prompted her to say American women had
more to be proud of and thankful for than any
other women. 'lf the women of the first cen
fury of the New Worlds history could behold
the intellectual prominence the woman of today
has obtained, they would be surprised and per-
haps startled" Woman has attained to this
position by "grasping the opportunities that lie
, in her path" women's colleges and the open
= | ;nty nf M % oolleDps To women are the main
help she has received. College women are
known in every field of labor. Margaret Fuller,
r Mrs. Kingsley and Mrs Stowe were college wo-
men and they have helped make literary work
with women passion. Editorial and journal
istic work opens a large field to woman. The
ballot will be one of her achievements in the
near future. In professional lines woman has
met with much opposiaion, but she has at last
2 succeeded in entering almost every walk of
4 life Women physicians are becoming COM
mon and many are successful lawyers. THE
manner in which woman dignifeS every kind
n of work is a revelation. What man deems CON-
monplace or mental becomes noble under the
touch of her hand and enthusiastic efforts. y
''Woman has found that to live as she wishes
and to spend what she likes, she must have
money of her own, so she has started forth with
= the aim in life to earn her own way. Thus with
e her courage and opportunities she has over
Ii come many obstacles and will in the end over
- come them ALL" 'WOman can lead and she
can follow with great readiness; she has placed
r herself upon vantage ground she had never
) accepted in the worlds history, and she has
elevated and diversified the monotonous levels
q of business ways and walks" The Grafton con
J. tained fine sentiment well expressed.
MAURICE CARPENTER
=, followed. He makes good appearance as
: speaker His delivery, emphasis ana v0ic
. were excellent and the composition ana senti
ID ment of his production was in most point
is above criticism. He chose "Journalism'Ior III
subject and showed that he has true appre
citation of the exhaled character and the nobi
rs ity of the profession. The treatment wa
g. thoughtful, analytical and euloSstic Com
Of meucing with the statement that Journalist
is contemporaneous history, living history, ac'
vi ing history" he generalized entertainingly an
appropriately about its character, opportun
ties and influence. The history OF Journalist
II was sketched showing its progress from guart
IN ed censorship to free press, and from wea
n beginning to the commanding position 1t no.
occupies "The leading paper In New lor
City at the beginning of this century had les
circulation than any one OF the three enterpri
- ing papers now published in Audubon count!
But in 1897 single New York daily used J
TO printing its circulation 337.55S miles OF white p;
lie per three feet wide"
err The great influence of the paper was well pr
sented and its effect on the moral and inteliec
ual condition OF the people. the positioh
tie the editor who ''cah lay aside prejudice, rls
la above the narrow sphere OF partisanship" an
-" pursue his wolk following the bent OF his II
81 III tu,, fra1 1fbinl H.
We nv his environments OF prejudice or partiallty
be was exalted as the ideal one. lie showed II
nress had led in the worlds great reforms, du
ing the revolution during the anti-savery az
ce tatiou and in all great crises. 'Horace Creole
NO with his imprisoned philosophy and cogel
ha arguments did as much to prepare the way IL
human freedom as did al the oratory OF NeN
Gu England" In the present Cuban struggle jou
he nalsm is doing its usual great work. "Ainei
can Journalism with its more than TWEEN
thousand batteries, spreading out the light
Dr. intelligence and information among seyen'
ity millions of free people, aroused their patriot
a sympathy and as result the struggling al
crude. vet ambitious little republic is prepa
no ing for steady advancement in the pathway
OF social political and religious emancipation al
material prosperity"
"In the grand struggle for national superio
In ity that is to characterize the approachir
ed twentieth century, as in the past, so in the 4
si. ture, journalism is to lead the way" I'm Il
hearts of all civilized nations mssaiye stat
al has been erected and inscribed, journalism e
elk tightening the world"
cir WALTER G. HAYNES
spoke on Magnetism and current electricity
He spoke OF magnetism being one of the mai
wonders in nature. He told where it was mos
ay ly found, in certain metals. The positive al
)m negative magnets were illustrated. Electr
re- magnetism is formed by friction, electricity al
. chemical action. He Illustrated this subj
power as applied to electric telegraph connec
~ ing a small instrument with the electric wi
from the electric light ana showing how G
,r, click OF the telegraph instrument was caus
by the making and breaking of the current fro
id- positive to negative The working OF lit
te- electric bell was also shown, The illustratio
He were well given and were instructive and ent'
Ia. tanning.
After Mrs Carmichael entertained the aut
an ence with one OF her we'll rendered solos WI