Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-06-01
* Local News *

reason, devotion, common sense
and duty welded to the heart. 1t
ia to know ones worth and destiny
in creation. If the faculties of a
man or a woman are to develope
and expand they must have the eye
of the multitude just as the rose
must have the eye of the ever shin
ing Sun.
Miss Bertha Gano sang sweet
Solo, Spring has Come" that was
well received by the audience.
Bertha Young delivered an ora
ton "And having eyes we see not"
Consciousness of what there is
about US is q rarity in mankind.
This is the power of the Soul to
know it's own existence and rela-
tions to it's surroundings. Man
had ought not to be a thinking ma
chine buta thinking soul. 1t is the
object of education to awaken de-
sire for knowledge and to create
the habit of careful and systematic
observation. We must not simply
look at things but look into them.
Emmerson says Every object of
nature serves for use, for beauty,
for language or for dicipline." The
power of insight must be drilled
and developed and trained in child
hood, with care and patience, else
the perceptive faculties will be
dwarfed and the habit of looking
deeper than the surface will never
be developed. We pass by the re.
alities about US :aad go to artists
recluse there to praise and enjoy
the imperfect representative of Gods
masterpiece and pronounce the M
great.
Grace Hensley, "Crownless
Queens Catherine the Second of
Russia, Queen Elizabeth and Queen
Victoria of England stand easily
first as the greatest women who
have ever held the scepter of gov
ernment. These three women were
queens in title and in character.
But birth alone cannot determine
greatness nor royal blood be the
only source of nobility. AS noble
women have been born outside
Kings palaces as within them
whose lives attest the right of wom-
an to half the world. Americas
Queens are among the worlds great
est women whose service to human
ity will ever serve as source of
inspiration for unselfiish sacrifice
and devotion to duty. The life of
Cornelia the mother of the patriots
is one of the most beautiful on His
tory's pages; and the life and char
George Washington the statesman,
great man that he was. Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Francis E. Willard
and Clara Barton are typical repre-
sentatives of Americas Crownless
Queens. Their lives will ever serve
as an inspiration for love of coun-
try; devotion to duty for courage
and character. Who is more of a
queen than mother. Her crown
is the crown of patience, love and
self sacrifice. The heroism of many
a women in her endeavor to keep
want from the door, to keep the
family respectfully clothed and fed
equal that of any of her patriotic
| brothers.
Edwin Delahoyde and Mrs. Witt
haur sang duet ooh that we Two
were Maying" which was much ap-
preciated.
Mertie Bruner, Beautiful Mem
cries." Memorials are marks of re-
mem brance. The memory of those
who have helped to preserve our ma
ton from it's foes is told in the stone
pillar that mark their resting place,
and for everyone of these national
tributes of gratitude there are hum
dreds, yea thousands of beautiful
memories either expressed in me-
MORALS of literature and art or re-
posing silently in memory's walls,
or upon the tablets of the heart to
refreshen and brighten the individ-
ual life. What beauty is given to
the English language by the poets
and others who have sung to mem
ory. What monument to the
memory of son is the Leland
Stanford University" The strains
of "Home Sweet Home" call up rec
objections and memories never to
be forgotten. Charity, Brotherly
Love, Justice, Fidelity, Memory has
summoned these four. 1t has
made them living, breathing, fruit
full, beautiful.
Gertie Bruner, Mysteries" Man
is continually confronted by the
unknown and the unknowable.
Great problems to be solved force
themselves upon us at every turn
and the Spirit of investigation
drives us to attempt their solution.
| lnere lS something peculiarly 1aS-
cinating in mystery. We are new
er satisfied. We are continually
asking why" This characteristic
of enquiry edged by the mysteries
about us has given US knowledge
in place of ignorance, light in place
of darkness. Civilization in place
of barbarism, Spiritual enlightment
in place of superstitious idolatry.
Man's relation to God is mystery
and man must work out his own
salvation. The bible itself is a
mystery. But finally all these mys-
teries will be solved when we put
off mortality and take on immor-
tality, for then we can see God as
he is.
The Chorus then rendered a
beautiful Selection "Come where
, the waters roam so tree"
Prof. Minis made the presentation
, of Diplomas and in the course of
his remarks called the attention ci
his hearers to the rank our High
, School holds in the colleges of ouI