Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-06-14

by the very nature of his surroundings dares
not pause to lift his eyes to the great open
world about him, every emotion, every feeling,
every conception of good is crushed out by
his breathless struggle for existance. Turning
to our country she paid it a beautiful tribute,
but pointed with prophetic finger to the
olution. She pointed out the OPPRESSION, the
tyranny, the forbearance ere the people arose
in their might to make the streets of Paris, run
red with blood. We have our sweat shops
where the groans of oyerworked, under fed
under paid thousands lean heavily upon the
hoe as they in all forgetfulnesS; OF Others, dig
of men. Then pointing to higher, purer life
she closed.
SUSIE j. MUSSON
delved into the remote corners of the past and
Her subject was, pyramids, not all Egyptian"
With a beautiful even voice she told of these
wonders of all the times and then turning to
our past held up men whose lives had been one
great and noble sacrifice to honor and principle
as monuments not Egyptian. From the past
she held up Raphael as a monument to the ele.
from his raw mass of savages an army that
| made his name his country's honor. Our own
nation, rocked in the cradle of adversely and fed
on the milk of justice, now stands as a monu-
ment to other countries of what the people may
do. Our soldiers now in foreign lands and the
heroes of Santiago and Ell Cano received her
has thrown the lustre of her presence to mark a
monument most dear. And as she spoke the
holy name of mother, the first the infant liisps;
then and there monument not Egyptian. Our
ancient poets too rear high their heads while
, world forgets all but these monuments, not
Egyptian on every side.
ALMA B. OELKE
delivered her Grafton Remember who you are"
with force and energy that showed that her
whole soul was in her piece. Looking in retro
spect at life the average person would like to
live it again believing they could improve upon
it. Character she said was the foundation of all
things. Then in hurried thought she reviewed
i foundations We're sunk beneath the EARTH The
pride of America the representation of CRATE
full people to the founders of our nation,- Bun
ker Hill monument has fifty feet beneath the
earth. Then turning to humanity she fixed her
| illustrations to their actions. With thought.
she told of the dropping Of pearls into the river
while the occupants tried in vain to catch them.
/ Three things she named as necessary to the COM
pletion of successful career-practlce, patience
and perseverance. These were Just as necessary
in the government as individuality. Our ances-
| tors welded our government on the anvil of sac
riiice to be defended by the noblest instructors
| of the race.
CLARENCE SHINGLEDECKER
opened his Grafton Our Country in a cool dig
nitied manner with glowing tribute to our
| early ancestors. With burning words he inferr-
ed sacrifice. suffering, endurance: People leav-
| Ing nome ana natlVe lanU GEAR because those
they loved lived there to share hardships in the
wilderness They were the founders of this
| the grandest government the sun shines upon.
But no government can exist without law. The
divine law of our land is personal liberty. With
out it we would sink into insigniticance, and be
lost in the malestrom into which so many have
gone before. People leave other countries but
once citizen of this country always one. No
one leaves it to find better. Turning from our
country he compared it with our sister republic
| Mexico Discovered first, conquered first she
should be the power to rule the western world.
But the despotism of ages has marked her for its
own She is not like our people. We have the
eloQuence of another, the aesthetic taste of an
other, the education of another and altogether
nation can equal it. As nation it has gone
through much, suffered much, born much, but
from all the debris it comes out purer, better.
MARY M. SMITH
was sick and not able to deliver her Grafton
Demand for Humanity.' Her superintendent,
strong and as well done as any. Her power tc
think as we'll trained, her intellect capable as
any in the class. Her inability to speak was
but the silent tokens of her subject. Humanity
reaches out to those who suffer, who wrong
ed, who need assistance. When her time should
have come wave of strong, human, tenderess
and sympathy fell upon the audience in loving
token of her indisposition. All would gladl!
have listened to her GRAFTON.
! TERESA STANTON
with bell like distinctness delivered her ORATOR
List to Natures Teachings Her bearing was
womanly, her diction pure. her pronunciation
and enunciation so clear and distinct that one
forgot themselves in the sound of the voice
With beautiful words she caught the feelings
of natures lessons and flung it upon the air t.
be caught by the waiting audience. Life she
said was like unto the four seasons WheI
merry spring comes tripping. laughing, dane
ing in, kissing bud and branch and flower, il
speaks, of infancy, pure roseate, happy The
pnknowing glides into into youth, buoyant
and the rumbling tossing cloud dark
threatening and potentous of coming evi
burst upon calm aud unprepared world
Every human life sees it. The cloudburst
spends its fury and is gone leaving the all
sweet and pure and fragrant with the aroma OF
flowers and grass. So human storms some
times pure, moral atmosphere. The summer
murges into autumn beautiful in golden light
then comes winter, chill and cold The green
of spring is lost in the white of winter, and the
golden curls of childhood soften into a crown
of silver, pure on its brow of conscious right.
EDNA WEBSTER
on. But One Tenth of a Second spoke freely
Trade is sharp and time is short. A
struggled to get the most in the shortest time
We have no time to idle on the wayside dpeam
lug fanciful dreams. The life today cannot be
listen. We should be too busy to read but the
best books. Heroes of real worth form our
ideals, and ideals high, noble and pure build W
the noblest being, We have no time to copy
but the best. Our lives more or less an imi
tation. Take the best. the purest, the loftiest
follow it and it will lead you skyward. He who
is master of himself is master of the world
With apt comparison she showed how Lou
Wallaces now famous Ben Hur, prepared him
self while even in the galleys, to better live
Patience, the beauty of success, taught him to
train the animals that gave him victory over his
= enemy. In closing she told how our future was