The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-30


ton and lincoln, but this has given place
to q pang of sorrow when they have
thought of the three martyred presidents.
who can forget that day when the blow
first fell or the days that followed when
messages carried either hope or despair?
Who can picture the sorrow that one
blow carried TO every home? True, the
Americans rallied from he shock with
a determination to protect the lives OF
their presidents.
In 1876 the public life Of Mckinley be-
gan with his election to congress. The
loyal Ohio people also honored him with
two terms in the executive chair OF their
state. IN congress. though he always
stood for the interests of his constitu-
ents In particular, he was not forgeLfui
of the interests of the whole country.
At last the people recognized his good
qualities and made him president.
His life was the embodiment Of Chris
tianity In the last days cf his career
his unselhshness was supreme, causing
him TO offer an excuse for even the hand
that had been raised against him.
At the conclusion Of Miss Halls oration
Dean 8Iinick recited a selection. entitled
My Captain" The audience then sang
Lead. Kindly Light Miss Nina Wight
man then recited the selection, entitled
John Brown, which begins with the
lines:
States are not great except as men
make them.
Men are not great except as they do
and dare
Miss Lulu Richmond then sang Ihe
Star-Spangled Banner in q beautiful
manner and the school joined in the
chorus.
Marc Clamp delivered humorous ad-
IL
Shakespeare said that all the world
a stage. but Shakespeare lived many
years ago and was too slow for kansas.
Part Of the world is a stage, but there
must be an audience, and believe that
Kansas is a stage and that the rest Nof
the United States is the audience. Hi
nois and Ohio are in the parquet ana New
York and Pennsylvania are IN the PIT.
The first scene which is acted on the stage
is one In which a band of Missourians
come to Kansas and entertained the au-
dience. The next scene is laid IN the civil
war and IL is a bloody one. l haven
time TO tell all about the scenes which
have been acted upon this stage, but must
mention one in which the chief actor
wore whiskers and came from West VIZ
GINA He looked like a sage and talked
like an Usage. The last scene was en-
titled The Woman From Texas With
Hatchet, or a Forenoon In Ten Bar
Rooms
"Of course I must mention about the
stage settings There are the hot winds
that came from Texas, and the billiards
like we arc having now, that came from
Dakota, and the grasshoppers that came
from Montana
"One reason the people call US eranks
is because we are in the front rank. If
we were content TO linger along with the
W0ll0
hear any more about Kansas than you do
about other states.
At the exercises held in the Dodge Ave
nue. Methodist church yesterday after
noon the following program was rem
dered:
song-"Battle Hymn of the Republic
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SchoolS
Reading .............----...M Miss Ruby Slote
Song-"Cotton Fields ........-....-..-..
............ Mccormick Seventh Grade
Lincoins Gettysburg Address.
........................R Ralph Wentworth
Song Kansas Bright Star -..-..-.-...
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Franklin School
Quotation ............Fr Franklin Sixth Grade
Recitation ............Miss Mayme Nessly
Song-~Old Glory 49,. Mccormick School
Rehabilitation Brown .......--.....
Observation-Disclosures Albert Stubs
Instrumental Duet ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Earl Kruger and Clarence Collins
Salute to the Flag -........--.........
...,................F Franklin Fifth Grade
Song-'America' ....--.......--...-.S School
Address ...-................Ro dolph Hatfield
Song Nearer My God. to Thee.
At the exercises given by the eighth
grade of the Kellogg school, John Mar
tin. q member of the board Of education,
told of the organization of the public
schools Of Wichita. The first school board
was elected thirty-one years ago, he said,
and was one of those chosen at the polls
The first teacher was Miss Jessie Hun
ter, who is now Mrs. James II. Black.
Rev. f. \ Lynch addressed the pupils
of the fourth ffth and sixth grades OF
the Webster schools