Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1910-06-09
A One Syllable Eaiedictory Address

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nally to an Indiana school The In
teresiing thing about IL is that 1t is /
Que vita Me address. AS SO man,
| schools are al or near the point of clos
Ing, the address should have specia
Interest just a, present. 1t is as follows
This day we close for the year the
Elk Point Free Schools and now We
part with you--the girls and boys we
are no more to teach. say girls and
boys, for when three score and ten
years have come to you you will be
glad to have your friends say that
health and peace OF mind have kept
your heart warm; that you wear no
brow of gloom: and are not borne down
with age but still in heart are boys and
girls. When these years come, and |
Eope they will come to all. the tide OF
time will fall back and tell you o. your
school time days; when the fair, the
kind and the true fou d love but the
| false heart found no friends or tongues
To praise. These days bring rich gifts
to age and when you cease to think OF
them your fire has burnt low and your
| light has gone out. You have neen
taught here in the hope that the free
schools OF this place would help you to
make you OF use TO your friends aud to
The world; would give you faitn in all
that is good and true and lead you to
seek work; for this you must seek and
DO II you would have a good name,
wealth, home, charge to keep or a
trust to serve. Go forth with bold,
true heart to seek the work for you to
do. Keep In mind that the hours Of
work run through each day and that
Gods great law of life is: In the
sweat OF thy face shalt thou eat thy
bread
Now for you young men this truth
is told: Go where YOU will through the
world and you will find on the front
door of shops and mills, of stores and
banks, on ships, on farms, on roads, in
where laws are made that make some
men too rich and men OF worth and
work through all our land too poor.
where men by law are taught to plot
with sin to spurn the right, yhatcharge
ands cost and spoil may make sSuid
h'Qnirk's' law firms rich; where the law.
Is so, plead that the Judge must guess.
TO lind what's law, where8quacks must
fight DER sick mems pains and dead
mems bones; where types are set and
none TO min 4 the proofs; where priests
do preach and pray ana schools are
taught this sgn:
Brains will find work here.
Don t fear, step up aud ask for work
Brains will get it. Don't let Il
dare not wait on 1 would like the.
cat that loves fish but dare not wet her
feet. 1t it be SAID, What can you do?,
Will you learn a trade?' have none.
but can learn one and put brains in
it. When you go TO a place where
SURE to find it, il may be said to you
DO you see that plow: Can you hold
aud drive it deep?' That pillow in it's
| wise use gives all men food Do you
see that wheel and that crank and
those shafts and that press and do you
hear the rush and hiss of the steam
IN inh al.
hold and run them. Can you build and
drive the works and wheels which make
tba wealth OF the earth and cause il to
roll and to float too and fro from place
to place where it is best for man to use
iE Can you spin the thread and
weave it which makes ropes for kings
asd silks for the rich and vain and
dress for the poor and all that skill and
ait have wrought by loom and hand for
mans use? These things are all shot
/ through with threads of light-the
light OF mind, and art, and skill, which
shines each day more bright and dims
al the old by some new found light as
the years go. II you say tLat you do
not know how to do all this work but
will try to learn some of il and do il
we'll, then will be said to you: Can you
aid will you work? Will you speak
the truth and la all things strive to do
nd man wrong?' II you say yes, then
al the doors where mtn's good and
great work is done win swing for you
10 pc IS in to do your part and thus you
Will s.e now God rules in all his ways
in mans good work aud deeds. Some
may hope for fame, but If they DOUBT
that God rules, and have not trust and
faith, they well may fear the fate.
New books not old coins kee charge
o. fame. Look well to books, for
through them the worlds best though hts
and deeds now speak. To you, young
girls, | must say word not TO chide or
60 praise. You can plant the rose nich
shall bloom aud give its sweets to all
or you can grow the thorn which shall