El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-15

or woman, other things being equal
has every advantage in life over the
uneducated. Pig iron is worth 500 g
ton. Make it into horseshoes, it il
worth 800. Make it into kn ife blades
it will bring 5000. Make it nto watch
springs. it will bring $1,000. So great
is the difference in value between an
uneducated and an educated mind. Ii
is said Sir John Millet, the artist, with
three dollars bought yard of canvass,
some colors, brush. After many
mon tbs he painted ''The Angelus'' and
sold it for Sl05 600. That is the differ
ence between mind before and after
| the college and universities are
through with it. knowledge is power!
| by Engineer Roebling while he was
lying in bed blocks away in the city of
| Brooklyn. He gave orders by tele-
phone. He had not strength enough
to get Gut of bed but his mind WAS
equal to the physical work of 1000 men
for years. Knowledge is power. The
uneducated man lives in the cellar with
two windows as an outlook. The ed
ucated man lives in the third story of
Gods s"S''l glories ali 'Ass about ue h hian
L wish L could send every one of you
graduates, in Septem Der, to our State
University, or to some other good
school. Oh, the view of life you would
get. The ola Persian legend says,
there was once salve with which they
could snnoint the eyes so one could see
diamonds in the sand, gold in the
mountains, pearls in the ocean depths.
That is the eyesight an education
gives. How it adds to the happiness Of
life! Into many home have 1 gone
where sits mother, college gradu-
ate, where adversely has come, sorrow
has entered. But she looks out of her
soul windows, opened by her college
training, and gets comfort and enjoy
ment in great books, music, art,
science. Of course God can't make a
thousand dollar man or woman out of a
two cent boy or girl. But where you
see talent, parents, in your children
try to educate them, and d thousand
times will they call you blessed.
have To say this to you:-The more
you learn, unless you put God in, the
sadder will your education make you.
When you study the battleheids OF his
tory see how many have died in pain
and agony; when you see the sins, the
crimes OF the ages, you will grow mex
God, liftiug by them all, the race out
of confusion to higher and better
things. Young women and young men,
what an age il which to graduate!
Blessed are they who receive tbeir
diplomas today. No wonder men want
to live. Wonderful things are about to
happep. The powers are dividing up
ola China. England with her drum
beat Is carrying civilization to Africa |
and beloved America mas heard @ I'd |
rap the gavel on the throne and cry,
s. Forward, March," WhaS year has |
IS99-lS99 been. A year of wonderful |
victories, new names have been |
enrolled among the worlds |
Law, electricity.
steam doing the bidding of
God Almighty. ooh, 1 would like to
i've and DO something. See how the
other fellows are studying az prepar-
20 me few years ago. Up young wo-
% live an inactive life when such ire
neu dous Interests are at stake. L
POINT you, young women, to the lives
# holy women who sleep in every
cemetery around the globe. Hark!
'oung men. Hear the noble men who
lave passed beyond the fiood cry out
0 you tonight, do something to make
he wCrld sweeter and happier one
'efore the sunset gun sounds TO-, you"
Write these glorious words over your
learts tonight:
We live in deeds. not years; in thoughts
not breaths; Il
In feelings. not in figures on dial,
We should count time by heartthrobs.
He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest. acts the
best"