The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-02

those heights divine of manhood glo-
riffed-to the level of the hills. And
though the present age is ever jealous
of its mead of praise for those who
are still in the race for honors, and
though we freely carve upon stone
slabs the appreciation which living
hearts are aching in their lifetime to
receive, still he is a hopeless cynic
and green-eyed pessimist indeed who
does not honestly believe that this is
erto unheard of opportunities for
noble, lofty living. Never were there
such problems of world and nation,
state and city, home and self to solve
''And the whole world joins in a
great and inartieulate cry for men
and women big enough and unselfsh
fenough to solve these problems, not
for self, but for the general and final
good. Let no one feel, and especially
no youth just taking the range and
measure OF life. that the age of heroic
chances is past. It is not times nor
seasons that confer nobility.
Nor is 1t circumstance or oppor-
tunity. Beneath many a ragged coat
the hero's heart is beating today. His
name is not heralded in black faced
type from newspaper to newspaper.
He may be unknown even to those
who think they know him best. It may
take circumstance or opportunity to
bring him to light But if ever this be
be the circumstances nor the fate that
made him hero: he was the hero all
the time, and circumstances but reveal
ed him to the world. If he was not OF
heroic soul no combination of happy
chances could make him other than the
mean-souled being that he was before.
A coward is q coward, and a prince
prince, however dressed, however
heralded.
This I beheld, or dreamed it in a
dream
There spread cloud of dust along the
And Underneath the cloud. or in it
A furious battle, and men yelled, and
swords
Shocked upon swords and shields. A
princes banner
wavered. then staggered backward,
hemmed by foes.
A craven thing along the battles edge,
And thought, Had I a sword of keener
steel
That blue blade that the kings son
bears-but this
Blunt thingf'-he snapped and flung 1t
from his hand.
And lowering crept away and left the
field.
Then came the kings son. wounded,
And weaponiess. and saw the broken
Hilt-bHried in the dry and trodden
And ran ana snatehed it. ana with
battle-shout
Lifted afresh. he hewed his enemy
And saved great cause that heroic
day"
Presentation of Diplomas.
Rev. F. E. Mallory, president Of
the Board of Education. presented
diplomas to the following graduates.
Harry Otis Abbott Mabel Fay Ruth
Adams, Marion Abigail Alt. Hannah
Violet Baker, William Bates Mabel
Claire ReeIer, Margaret Holmes Beer
BONN. Josephine Bell, Nellie Ann Belt
Alpharus Brown, Clara, Maude Brown,
Daisy Brown, Carrie Elizabeth Bush,
Matte Genevieve Bush, Margaret
Campbell Bessie Capland. Eva Marie
Carlson, Phillip Stafford Chamberlain.
jamie NJ Chiles Emily Coe, Corinne
Coston, Meta Curry, Nophflette Linn
Edmonds Grace E1mOre, Roy Parsons
Forbes, Bessie Blossom Faosdtcks Roy
Funnel, NJ. Grace Gleeson. Ethel
Bradbury Grant, Izora Graves, Arthur
DeWolfe Gray. Edna May Groves,
Lutte z. Hawkins, Isadel Read Heath
(Second Rank), Mabel A1thea Hollo-
way, Calvin Emerson Holman Edna
Pierson Hopkins, Mabel Irene Hug
gins. Wesley Herbert Janison. Francis
Hacker Jennings, Margaret Arabell
JetmOre, Edith Cecilia Johnson, Ches-
ter Holmes Jones. Jessie Babb Jones,
Rosella Kerr, Gertrude Kitchell, VIII
helmine Kathrfne LIGHT. Mona Mile
McCarty, Helen NJ. Mcfarland, Janet
Dow A1cMurtrie, William Mallory, R.
ColIander March, Holmes Meade, John
F'rancis Mitchell, Leo T. Mooney, Wina-
fred Hale Myers, Flossie Newland,
Carl Alfred NordIund. Leila Norman.
Clifford Nystrom, Edith Ogden, Leroy
S. S OFT, Grace Overmyer, Ethel Fay
owen. Lura Parr. Margaret Pearson,
ReuIah May Perkins, Hazel Everett
Reed (First Rank. Hale T. Richie,
John Arner Robertson Charles Junius
Robinson. Nettie May Robinson, Mary
Mabel Sheldon, s. Ruby D. Smell Lulu
Virginia SjolandeT, Nellie Sophia Skin
ner. Bessie Charlotte Smith. Eugene
G. Smytl Harry Charles Snyder, Re-
beeca. Mary Stanley. Mary Elizabeth
Sutherland. William Henry ThayeTa