The Iola register., 1898-05-06
THE CLASS OF 'oS.
Fourteen Young People Graduate
With Honor from the High
School

the class of '9S to pay honor to the
industry and perseverance, which
eliminated in the exercises of last
evening. The class consisted of seven
girls and seven boys, Lulu Richeson
Ida Wieth, Myrtle Kelly, Dot
Wright, LAWN la Donica, Daisy Chas-
tain, Pearl Bostwick, Guy Swinney,
Edward Kinney, Millard Teats,
Chas. Klaumann, Claude Stewart,
Milo Pancoast and Chas. Smeltzer.
A bout s o'clock the members of the
class marched upon the platform and
were greeted with u burst ofapplause.
After prayer by Rev. Fraser, the
High School chorus sang "Hail, Home
of Liberty" Mr.. Nelson, on behalf
the school board, then introduced
Hon. A. c. Scott, the speaker of the
evening, held the closest attention of
the audience for an hour with a
thoug ghtful, scholarly and eloquent
address.
The address, while in no sense a
sermon, was based ON the words of
Mordecai to Esther, "Who knoweth
but thou art come into the kingdom
for such time as this ?" The CEN
trail idea was service, which the
| speaker declared to be "the greatest
thought in the world, the highest
happiness, and the chief end of life. +"
But in order to become most fit for
effective service to the world personal
strength and success must be achiev-
ed.
The speaker then went on to dis
cuss the elements that contribute to
success. First, the body must be
sound. 1.-THE good Greek day shows
signs of coming back in which physi-
cal excellence and sanity shall lie at
the bottom of all virtues. Any relig-
ion that crucfies the flesh is blasphe-
my. Any midnight oil propaganda
is an enemy to the race. Any man
who, short of inexorable necessity,
drives his jaded body forth in the
grim hours that lurk before the dawn
sins against his own life. Some
choice and master spirits of the world
have fought their way to the topmost
places among men through week
and puny frame-Pope, Nelson Aris-
totle, Charming, Suwarrow, Carlyle,
but the rule is that the effective, the
accomplishing men Of the world are
the men of vigorous fr anne and sound
digestion and steady nerve. They
bear the heavy burdens and they win
the great Prizes"
Next is to find ones work, to under
stand his own strength. Emerson
says the Growing fortune of man is
to be born with bias to some pursuit
that finds him in employment and
happiness. The speaker spoke of the
misfits in the world-"men every
where pitifully uncovering their
weakness to the world, because they
have chosen, or have been driven, to
live by their weakness instead of
their strength"-and held that in
most men there is some natural bent
or capacity that should be faithfully
sought and followed.
Next is to learn the Immense de-
light and inexorable necessity of Ia
bor." "What is in your life ?" You
do not know. You see little talent,
little knowledge, small faculty,
But call in work, the miracle maker,
and set him to burrowing, heaving,
straining, pushing, and then note
how the flabby talent begins to gath
er strength, how the walls of knowl-
edge rise and grow and spread, how
the power of achievement greatens
and the new and unsuspected forces
stir and wake up to life, how here,
and here, and here, your small hori-
zOn lifts and rolls back like a scroll.
Mr., Scott placed the sovereign talent
of laborn far above so-called genius,
and referring to Kepler, Darwin, Edi-
son and others he said: "Be not de-
ceived. No tongue of flame hung over
these :men. No revelation flashed
acrosstheir vision. They dug their rev.
elations out ofthe bowels of darkness.
They were down on their knees bury
ing their brows,' says Browning,
'burrowing and building broad on
the roots of things"
But when one has thus made the
most OF his own capacities, not there
by does he become a blessing to the
world, but thereby he fits himself to
be blessing to the world. "Domi-
mating all personal ambition, illum-
mating all personal ambition, glori'
flying all personal ambition, and fl
nally transmitting all personal ambi-
tion to finer metal, hangs and burns
the star of loftier purpose to throw
ones weight at last, in some manner,