The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-20

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Graduating Essay Read BY Miss Prichard Afford, at
the Close Of the Brandon Graded School,
It's mighty journey which the human imagination when
it transported from present. through the dimly-gted future
But imagining faculty been called upon to perform this
duty we send FORTH though fra and equpped its
With feelings of mingled pleasure draw aside the
mpenerabe curtain that has been adjusted the hand wise
creator to hide from view the events Of coming years And o
we behold mysterious land called fuuy We put on the xray
glasses Of the gypsy and eagerly before till the object Of
search has been accomplished pursuits and hap
penings OF each member of class determined.
In this curious uncertain land, find the mile posts of time
still planted along the way and now Thinks while looking
into the INTERIOR behold the marked twenty
hence and truly many decided changes have taken place.
There is peculiar something to that
all things just ahead of US to to far greater advantage
than those around Campbell expresses beautifully when
says:
TAT summers eve
When heavens aerial bow,
Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below,
Why to you mountains turns the missing eye
Whose sunlight, summit minges with the sky,
Why do those cliffs of shadoWy tint appear
More sweet than all the landscape smiling near7
It's distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountains In its azure hue
Thus, with delight we inger to survey the promised
joys of lifes unmeasured way,
Thus from afar, each dim discovered scene
More pleasing seems than all the past hath been.
And every form that fancy repair,
We look again looking find this truth affirmed for
only beauty and pleasure and classmates heehough happy
noWseem happier then. Of few shadows have been
cast along their but they've only served soften and to
sweeten their natures And now this date 1927 them
securely resting the sunny side of life.
You will be pleased to hear that Of the eight girls class
not one appears cross dsconsoate, old maid.
First Graham Burney, with her bright face and
for the silver threads that shine in her wavy locks and the dgn
he'd position she holds queen her ody palace and its MASTER
we lind IN her the same sweet Graham of 1907.
And lovely home surrounded by landscape beautiful
human eye behed floating before Ts far
from the rush of the noisy ciyar amidst the cool
and silence of the wood where the hand of God hath reared the
venerable columns. and the vdan roowhe traces
of mans pride exist In this home basking the love OF
an honest happy farmer FRIEND Emma Buchanan
Where is funoving Ruby Enochs7 Why, there she goes,
first direction then another takes quick eye
catch glimpse her she fits place place. seeking and
finding only sweets of e Sh too the shady side Of life
But cheerfuness has kept her heart and she much
admired tourist
Lookl Can't you that hrong people gathering the
first church southern Cities to hear of the most
noted missionary lecturers of the age1 She right from the field
of aon and she gracefully before her anxious audience
we recognize in her stately, dlgnfed Mary Berry.
But look agan there another brought peeptby
before the me- that the strains of music from the
touch classic performers of the merry
crowd quite audby reach This is grand stone
mansion uptodate of fourishng city, it
Washington ISL Chicago No. sten It IS our own Brandon On
the door plate this mansion in letters gilt find this
Judge somebody Within all the uxues of life. There's
great banquet being held here tonight and ere aed in the
ovees costumes of the day. three handsome marons re-
cevng the happy IT'S Mrs. Judge Somebody assisted by
her intimate friends We forget the elegance and gayey
Of the occasion watch their faces. Surely we have
these faces before. Well, | guess have for the
mistress of this lovely home is other than Att
wood Thornton and the fair ladies beside her Marie Dick
son and Merle Gayden.
But why all this making In honor of whom is this
great fete? Why, it's Harris Col The boy who brave
enough graduate with eight girls We pictured for him great things
see him there tall and handsome recognized by all present
Of the greatest authors Of the He longer dog
gere about the ninth grade girls of Brandon but es the whole
world with his gifted pen and laurel after laurel in the field Of
literature
Now there's other to find So look again and
face mowed theewe receiving of the joys
OF life But fearing reveal future lest you suspect the
secret ongngs of present. leave this part untold and gaze
through the mists of years, till another curtain
heavier and closer than the first This lies between the
land just described and the Great Beyond With fear and em
bling draw aside gently Our imagination faters and dares
not attempt draw this pcureas it has the restor this IS
Heaven The lenses glasses changed We no longer see
with the eye of the gypsy but with the eye Of faith We
behold class united and there where hope uon
May this last prophecy become happy realzation