Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-05-17

everyone who would obtain them.
That which Is great, commanding
and lasting must be won by stubborn
energy, by patient industry, BY I'M
wsaried application and by zeal.
1t 10 a long race, not q pleasant
walk, and the prize is not q leaf or 1
banhle, but a chaplet or q crown.
We may add virtue to virtue,
strength to strength sid knowledge
TO knowledge, and yet fail, and soon
be lost and forgotten In that mighty
and souI-testing struggle in which
few come of conquerors and win an
enduring name. We must bid adIeu
to vice, to sloth, to batteries and
ease.
Man was made to labor. There II
dignity in toiI-in toll Of the hands q
well a. toll Of the head; in toll to pro.
vide for the bodily wants OF Rn indi-
viduai fife as wall as Ia toll to pro.
mote some enterprise Of wide
fame.
All labor that 10 honestis honorable,
Labor cleared the forests and de-
stroyed the abiding places Of the wild
beast, so that the blooming roses, the
waving grain, the lowing herds, rum
bling machinery and stately citief
now occupy the ground. Labor
drives the pillow, scatters the seeds,
reaps the harvest, grinds the corn
and converts 1t into bread, the STAFF Of
life. Labor allied with virtue, may
look up to heaven and blush, while all
worldly dignities prostituted to vice,
will leave their owner without q
corner Of the universe in which to
hide his shame.
The man and woman who are above
labor and dsspise the laborer show a
want of common sense and forget
that every article that is used is the
product Of more or less labor.
Our lives are made up of reflections
from our acts. Experience is the true
test, the true teacher. Lessons
learned from experience are not
often forgotten. No one who lives
ever so well is free. He is bound by
duty, by ambition, by necessity, by
popular opinion. The finest achieve
ments often bring the strongest limit
| ations.
There is before you another school.
What will be your record In that lie yet
to be determined. Ahead lie trials
and triumphs, pitfalls and failures.
Honors lie before you all in some line.
Will you earn them? Honors need
not all be melted out or published in
the pages of the press. Sometimes
the humblest act is the most heroic.
The conditions Of society are such
that there must be leaders few In
numbers and by far a larger number
We look 10 you as the future leaders
Of church, society and state.
now deliver to you q letter of in
PRODUCTION Endorsed by your professor
and his assistants and as earnest, In
dustrioua and honest body of teachers
as ever presided over any school.
We, your servants, the Board, shall
expect you to cultivate and practice
the virtues OF honesty, benevolence,
temperance and patriotism. Shall we
be disappointed?
The graduates who did not take
part in the regular programme, to-
gether with their theses, follow:
Joseph Lurton Oauthorn, The Mar
tyr Of the Nineteenth Century.
Cassius Marcsllus Clay, Wit and
Humor.
Frank o. Everett, The Father Of the
Declaration.
Olaudius Fowles, Monuments.
Chas. q. Head, "The Glory That
Was Greece, The Grandeur That Was
Rome.u
Fred B, Kent, A Type.
Joseph T. Potts, A Hilltop View.
Harry NJ. Wade, Uncrowned Heroes.
A. Gipson Woodward, National
Spirit.
sallie Blythe, "The Queen in the
Kitchen"
Ida Boomer, Education and High
Moral Culture.
Ethel Marie Bybee, The Beauty of
Truth.
Jessie Lee Davis, Jewels.
Bessie Hopkins, Man at Par Value.
Letah Johnson, Thought Rules the
World.
Mary Karnes, "Be Your Ain Sell"
Anna Kidd, No Steps Backward.
DECIDE Sallee, A Touch OF Nature.
Ella Showers, Three Years in the
NJ. Il. 8.
Mary White, Leaves.
The class honors were distributed
IS follows:
First class honor and distinction in
nine subjects, Ivadean Tucker.
Second class honor and distinction
in eight subjects, Virginia Price.
SPECIAL MENTION.
Distinction In eight subjects, Mary
Buckley.
Distinction in seven subjects, Ber-
nice Shea.
Distinction In six subjects, Louis L.
Barth.
Distinction in ave subjects, Anna
Kidd.
Distinction in four subjects, sallie
Blythe.
Distinction in three subjects, Frank
Everett, DECIDE sallee, Bessie Hop
kins, IDA Boomer, Mary KArnes.
Distinction in two subjects, Albert
Stewart, Letah johnson, Ethel Bybes,
Lee Davis, Ella Showers, Olaudius
Fowles.
Distinction in n subject, Joe Oau-
thorn, Mary White, Charles Head,
Gipson Woodward.
Excelsior Society, recitation medal
1898, DeeDe Sallao.