Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-06-06

human race. benediction and sign of
royalty and not degradation. Cultivate
the intellect and then labor will bring suc-
cess. ssWhere there is {, will there is always
away" if you have labored long without
success press on until you win; Light comes
after chaos; success is for him who dare
win it, She cited the case of Geo. Cam
ming of England, who rose by diligent
labor from poor boy to be prime minister
of England. The reason why. some men
rise above others who are equally 1ntelli-
gent is because they labor more faithfully.
There is a growing evil among young
people to despise manual labor, and to
seek to enter the professions, which are
already crowded. This should, not be SO;
honest labor of any kind is not dishonora-
BILE. Riches are power if used rightly, but
if YOU cannot gain riches in an honest man
ner remain poor. 'sBe noble in every
thought and in every deed" Influence may
give you high position but onlyrby ability
and Willingness to labor can you retain it.
The next speaker, Lee Roy Abbott, took
for his subject ssThe Progress of Electric
ity.'' He spoke of the advantages which
the people of later periods Will have over
those of this generation because of the
great Improvements and inventions made
by the people of this century, the great in
ventions being chiefly due to electricity
and men of genius. Hardly week now
passes without our hearing of some new
use made of electricity, and the time is not
far distant when this will largely take the
place of;thelab Dor of man. Electricity has not
been studied with the idea to make practi
cal use of it except during the last century,
but it already furnishes us light, heat and
power, and by means of the telephone, tel
egraph and cable we can converse with
people hundreds of miles away. He spoke
of the velocity of electricity, being many
thousand times faster than the rate at
which the nerves convey impressions to
the brain. He mentioned the X-ray, which
is proving to be of great benefit especially
in surgery. 1t is being used for power,
electric street cars taking the place of the
horse cars at home and abroad It's power
of magnetism of attraction has been of
much benefit to man and has enabled him
to make many important inventions and
given him the use Of the compass. He paid
a high tribute to the genius of Thomas A.
Edison.
ssOut of the Life of School into the
School of Life,'' was the subject taken by,
Ethel M. O'Rourke. She said in part: We
begin the life of school in our early child
hood days and strive to reach the highest
point possible. We are placed here to
build up characters for ourselves, and we
have place which no one else can fill,
lives can be made almost anything we
wish. Our happiest days are during the
life of school. From all noble lives we
should gather material for the creation of
our ideal life, and then struggle to realize
this ideal. Seek to find the very best ex-
amples and then follow them closely. The
life of school at first seems to be mere play
but later as we advance we find that we
must use more energy to overcome the OBJ
stacles which confront US. The life of
school prepares us for the school of life,
and if we do our best success is sure to
crown our efforts. Judge not person by
his many talents but rather by the noble
actions he puts those talents to. Nearly
every person has some ideal in life and the
highest ideal is perfect manhood and
womanhood. In the school of life as well
as in the life of school we should be care
full in the choice of our companions and
and strict in our behavior, for habits
formed in early youth will follow US
through life. $500 rs,
Roy 2. Skinner took for his theme "Our
Duty Towards Cuba" The Cubans are
fighting for their liberty as were the Amer
r77E 49,
'.Give me liberty or give me DEATH" apply
well to the Cubans at this time. They are
fighting against unjust taxation and cruel
ty, and after years of hard fighting they
are now to win. He described the island
and gave part of it's history and told of
its products. Its history appears to be one
long series of rebellions, and the people of
the island have been ground down to pay
the cost of these wars. They have had no
public schools and the industries of the
island have been hampered. The Cubans
have had no security of person or proper
ty, and no freedom of the press or of
speech. The speaker described the condi-
ton of the island at the time of the break
ing out of the present war and showed
how the republic was formed, gave the
names of the officials, etc. A feeling of
sympathy was manifested towards the
Cubans by the people of this
and many attempts were made to
aid them, and when at last the battleship
Maine was destroyed in Havana harbor,
public opinion forced the President to act,
and now it will be but question of time
when the Spanish forces are swept from
the island and the Cubans are left to gov
ern themselves.
The valedictorian of the class, Roy o.
Buchanan, spoke on 1.-THE influence of
literature" He defined literature as the re-
Election and the repropuction of a people.
BY reading we form ideas of the customs