Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-06-26

government, and how all these will affect
society aud political history through out
the civilized world.
MARTHA B. GRANT
recounted the sInventions and Dis
coveries OF the Past Century,. She re-
ferred to the steam GOAT, the railroad, the
telegraph and telephone, the monograph,
the Roentgen rays, the motor carriage,
the submarine boat, liquid air, wireless
ETHEL MAE ROWE
described the educational situation In
Cuba before the late war, and compared it
with the marvellous results that had been
accomplished since. She paid deserved
tribute to Alexis E. Frye, Maine man,
who became conspicuous as the manager
Of the 1900 Cuban school teachers who
visited this country two years ago.
LEoNIcE H. FOSTER
sketched In q most entertaining way
the occupations OF girls in colonial days,
and then contrasted both the girls and
the occupations with those of day.
cLARIcE @ HoDaKINs
discussed "Service as a Factor In Human
Development" in an able manner. She
characterized selfishness as savagery, and
only as the human race grows out of
selfishness into service does 1t advance.
As illustrations, in recent years, Of SER
vice in moral, mental and intellectual
development, Miss Hodgkins cited the
work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara
Barton, Thomas A. Edison and Charles
Dudley Warner.
BESSIE M. JOY
discussed the "Heroes of the New
Novels". She defined the typical hero Of
both ancient and modern times, and re-
ferred to development OF the novel DUR
ing the past century and half. Whether
in fact or in fiction, the reader Of the
modern novel demands that the hero,
aud the woman he loves, shall be true.
One group of heroes was illustrated by
Richard CarveI and Ralph Percy; another
by David Harum and Eben Holden, and
still another by Sentimental Tommy.
The other three class parasitic "His-
tory", by Charles w. Hurley, the "Pro-
phecy," by Frank M. Smith, and the
"vsledictory", by Harriet Rollins, are,
with the "Salutatory", printed in full on
page TOT this issue.
After another selection by the orches-i
ira, the address to the class was given by
DR.. George A. Phillips. He said:
My Dear Friends:
You have reached an important mile
stone In your life. Much more SO to you
| is the event than to anyone else. You
have reached the end OF road that the
twenty three of you have travelled to-
gether till now, and the journey Is over.
All the charms OF companionship and
struggle and travel together will change,
though trust 1t will not end-twenty-
three paths instead of one meet you, and
each must enter upon his or her own.
The splendid old well-worn one, every
tree and flower, every stream and meadow
beside which is familiar, has gone for
ever, and you turn to-day each into your
own intricate way. Hopefully and
cheerfully, manfulIy and womanly I
trust you will enter upon it. You have
been In training for 1t all these years.
As you each go out onto this new road
beginning so alike and reaching into SO
| many different chimes and onto SO many
different heights, rock-rtbbed hills and
desert air, forests Of snow and valleys of
| green, as you go out upon them, the word
or two by which l shall bid you good
speed will not be about your spiritual or
intellectual life SO much as born out OF
| my own experience and observation.
The first Of the four prescriptions give
| is to bid you cultivate in It's best sense
the humorous, the laughing side, IL you
| please, OF your character. You will see
strewn all along the way a thousand
things from which you may get deal OF
pleasure and many all honest laugh that
will bring cheer instead OF gloom. 1t is
l LII.
| who sees fun and pleasure instead OF
| gloom. | do not mean the biting wit that
Is vain and selfish, but the side of life
that Mark Twain and Warner and hum
dred others saw and knew; more evil Is
cast and thrown with laugh than with
| scod.
The second is even fuller OF that which
reflects upon you than the frst-the
| cultivation of which will broaden your
understanding and strengthen you-and
that Is justice to your rivals or to those
| whose opinions you hate or with which
| you disagree The ungenerous condemns
| tion of those who can not think as we or
others think has carried men, the church
| and the state into the maelstrom OF war
| all too often.
| II it be true that men who differ from
| their party or their church or public
opinion are untitled for positions OF trust,
| then Was hington and Lincoln and Martin
Luther were derelct, and Beecher and
| Whittier and Lowell should have been
hung. II to hold and promulgate beliefs
contrary to the unbeliefs OF the world
| render men unworthy of respect, then
| the memory of most great men whose
| lives have traversed the course of human
| history should be reviled, and the glad
subtle uplifting influence that floats
down to us from Calvary should be blot
ted from mems minds. When shall we
learn that the courage of conviction in
1 h, nj a N
the stepping stones in history?
My next prescription is that each and
all OF you shall value at its full, shall love
with deep reverence, this great nation OF
ours. You will know OF wrong and scan
dals in politics, you will see partizanship
beating down your regard and selfish
greed trampling on the honor OF the
great flag, but believe me, 1t is the ragged
edge of the ocean beating its shallow
depths on the shores, but beyond, far out
is the illimitable, unfathomable, majestic
and inspiring deep.
believe that by and by this country