The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-05-08
SCHOOL.

How sweet and fragrant IS the
atmosphere OF that community
which is kept in the odor of pur-
ity and intelligence, through the S
medium Of the Public School t
System Of America. c
The Heavens in their magniii- K
cence, the ocean in its subllmeIa
immensity, mountains standing "a
firm upon their granite founda- [
tions all, are less impressing \
than living in the radiance Of a p
successful school. I
One week ago this day, with j
sensitive eagerness, the children !
sang together in tremulous un- /
ldertone, Farewell" School is
out" The word never had such /
a meaning before, nor the sylla-
bles Of it 50 sweet a sound. It'll
lis another word for tenderness 4
and beauty. School is out Fl;
Farewell Boys" - Farewell
Girls" Goodbye. There is
something in their hearts which
.passes speech. There is some K
Thing in their looks, not of ven-I
lgeance or submission, but Of hard
necessity, which stiles BOTH
Iwhich.chokes all utteranee. 1t
lis courage absorbed in despair.
.IThey linger but for a moment.
,lTheir look is onward. They have
lost their faithful friend and
: teacher. Like the year that has
glided into the gold and russell OF
> slautumn, they reach the long
looked for end Of their journey
But. still sadness and sorrow
reign, the severance Of friend
: ship has come, the futureis over
Z east with disappointment, and
T hopes are shattered, and they
lIknow nothing of what is to be.
: Educational progress has been
stopped on its onward career;
, YOU might as well command the
I sun not to break through the
r rIfeecy cloud that herald its advent
in the horizon, or to shroud itself
lin gloom and darkness as it as
:; ;.cends the meridian, than 10 try
/ to give children such consolation
e and hope, which is scorned by
the genial heavens and generous
y earth. Not because illustrious
= men did not precede him, gath
I ering in considerations and clus-
0 ters, but because the name shines
: out through children's hearts in
all its Peerless grandeur = Mr..
\ Wellman, the educator OF oul
! children, never surpassed anc
u scarcely eoualled in cultivation,
r refinement and science, meas.
Z. ured by that aspiration which is
n central and permanent in the
spirit and life Of a successful
teacher and superintendent -anC
that the moral value which he
possesses.
You have seen the light come
y over the eastern hills in glory,
n driving the hazy darkness like
" mist before a sea-born gale, til
> leaf and tree, and blade of grass
L glittered in the myriad diamonds
! of the morning ray, and you
y thought it was grand. You hav,
q seen the light that leaped at mid
1t night athwart the storm swept
r sky, shivering over chaotic cloud:
4 mid bowling winds till cloud anC
= darkness and the shawdow
d haunted earth flashed into mid
n day splendor, and you knew tha
)r it was grand. But the grandes
4 thing next to the radiance thar
70 flows from the Almighty throne
- :. is the light of a noble and beau
! tiful life wrapping itself ia th'
le destinies and education of chill
m dren and finding his home in th'
IS bosom Of everlasting light.
q The children love him, the peo
pie respect him, not only for
'l himself. for his character. 70
his integrity, ability, judgmen
and iron will, but they love hin
most for the enemies he ha
made. AS the advocate Of edu
if cation and Of good Public School
10 and of good Public School teach
= ers, therefore of peace. of domes
= =, tic liberty and the lasting uniol
% of our Country, | conjure YOU t
e. guard the grand Public SchoC
Ill System of our Land, State an
ad Town. Guard it-when it sinks
70 there sinks with it. in ore ,om
. mon grave, the liberty OF tn
" subject and the security of ou
as Land. SPRUCE JoSHBl