River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-06-09
Normal JottingS.


Normal Jottings.
Miss Pardee has a class of 800 in
outdoor sketching.
Invitations are out for an evening
in honor Of the Seniors at the Peck
ham home Friday evening.
Ed. Scott, an elementary graduate
of this school, has been the guest of
school friends during the week.
Pres. Parker, Profs. Clark and Sims
delivered addresses to graduating
classes in other parts of the state last
week.
Miss Sadie Johnson of the kinder
garten entertains the kindergarten
teachers and a few other friends
Thursday evening.
The commencement exercises Of
the Senior class will be Thursday A.
NJ, June %. The Elementary class is
not to appear with orations as form
erly. We wonder if the name
'Phnnix" is the cause? The faculty
may have looked to the possibilities
of the "Phmnixes' soaring away on
commencement day.
The Semi-Centennial Anniversary
of Wisconsin Statehood was observed
Tuesday by exercises appropriate to
the occasion. Several of the students
spoke on the history of the state and
we may judge from their reports the
| Badger state stands pretty well to the
| front. The Grammar School sang the
Badger song which was much enjoyed,
The Field Day sports were carried
out last Saturday on the Normal
campus. 1t may have been the in
| tense heat which caused the lack of
interest and enthusiasm usually mani
| fest on such occasions, but whatever
| the cause the affair was quite disap-
pointing. The two schools came out
| about even so far as points are con-
cerned, if we credit the Normal with
points accruing to the contests that
| the High School failed to carry out,
otherwise the High School is ahead.
A little less confidence and consider
able more practice will not come
amiss to the Normalites who take
part in these contests. Rand won
the most points for the Normal.
The sermon on Sunday evening in
Trinity church was on the life and
work Of Gladstone. Mr.. Cuthburt
said, that, while England had lost her
most illustrious son, the loss was not
England's alone, but the loss of man
kind The world is undoubtedly bet
ter for the precept and example of
| his life, and his death is mourned by
| the civilized world. His name had
| come to be, in the minds of all civil
| lied nations, the living incarnation
| of right against might. and Of justice
| against oppression. He was also the
| most marvellous mental incarnation
the world has seen since the days of
Napoleon. Mr.. Cuthbert said the
last fifty years have produced many
strong men, but there are few that
will in the eyes of posterity outshine
all others-CayOur, Lincoln, Bis
marck, Gladstone. The late states
man undoubtedly eclipsed every one
of them, because he had in his person
a combination of the varied powers of
the human intellect rarely found in a
single individual. He was not only the
greatest orator, statesman and man.
cier of the age, but his was above all
things religious mind. The preacher
also spoke Of his labours which result
ed in the overthrow of the throne Of
King Ferdinand, his efforts which re-
suited in the independence of the
Hellenic population of the Ionian
islands, his intense sympathy with
the Bulgarians, and his burning in
dignatiOn at the Turkish atrocities.
Viewing his illustrious life, it IS not
surprising that Great Britain, and
the civilized world, placed tributes on
his grave. Happy the people and
blessed is the nation whose footsteps
are guided and whose morals are
moulded by such a man. Viewing,
impartially his exalted character, the
generous use he made of his sublime
gifts, the singular bravery and purity
of his life, and the bountiful harvest
and blessing that has followed his
sickle, it is not too much to say that
now his earthly mission has been
wrought out, and the lamp Of life will
give light no more, and "the laborer's
task is DONE" the verdict of the civil |
lied world will be, I'VE shall never |
look upon his like again" The last |
word he spoke was Amen" in re-
spouse to the reading of the Litany |
by his son.
''Amen So ends the Litany,
And Gladstone falls asleep.
Sleep on in peace, great soul, thy name
Within our hearts, deathess flame,
heritage, will keep"
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