The Red Cloud chief., 1912-06-13

Owing TO the long continued rain
the exercises cf the Eighth Grade
Graduation was not "a we'll attended
a. had been anticipated. Less than
third Of the pupils we're able toattend.
A a result only . part Of the program
was carried out but this part was ex.
cellent IN every respect. Miss Ger
trude Coon, our efficient county super
intsndent, presented the diplomas to
those who weie present In most happy
and pleasing manner.
The lecture was delivered by Rev.
r. N. Tompkios who said in part:
1--WE are living In a world Of the
greatest force, power and the secret Of
q successful life Is In knowing how to
harness and use those forces. I stand
in a great factory at early morn and
oil It's machinery Is sombre and silent
about me, there seems to be no sign Of
the great activity that SO soon shall
be found there; I hear the tramp Of
many feet and soon see the army Of
toilsrs a. they take their places st the
looms and wait but still there IL no
motion OF the wheals. The crying
need OF the hour 10 for power. Istand
and look upon the scene before me and
recognize the fact that I am looking
upon the likeness Of many . human
life. Il has the equipment for great
usefulness but II lacks power.
soon can feel the floor begin to
throb beneath my feet aud the wheels
and looms begin to hum and about me
I 80 the rush Of . great industrial
.days toll.
,.UhoAeaAsioe0AAion hasboon VpouGht
By eDuuy1s. Se~lDUssaA toAso
power 10 ~ eagias Ae~ss. And ths
great secrst Of sdueatlon 10 70 aud the
key TO unlosse ~ -hiiAea power IN
our lives, for II is surely bound up 10
every lie.
II IL not ouly this that an education
should accomplish but Il should slso
Givs % % understanding Of the uss
OF the great forces Of the world In
which We live for We arc In the midst
Of . powerful dynamo Of nature In the
world Of which w ere = part. I do
not think We recognize the fact enough
that God hes placed the sun, moon
and stars. and oil the other forces Of
nature to DO the great engines Of pow.
er for man, and we but have to learn
their uses to make them the greatest
blessings to mankind. To illustrate, .
number OF years ago II became neces-
sary to move great quantity OF
freight from New York to Albany, aud
the mode OF conveyance was very
limited; some one with brain trained
to think suggested that the moon be,
called into service aud one Of its great
forces harnessed for the task, so they
loaded the tons Of freight on great
barges and when the moon which con.
trolls che tides OF the sea. rolled those
tides out into the river, raising the
waters In its mouth many feet aud
backing the waters clear back up to
Albany the barges we're fioated on
the tide and the task WAS accomplished.
The waters then receding to the sea
took the barges back with them for
another freight. Again In the city OF
Foo Chow, China there is q bridge
that has been the wonder Of eng ineers
for years. 1t Ia mite long and II is
built on great atone piers, the girders
being each one solid piece Of granite 4
feet square aud 20 fest long. How did
IL builders yet those blocks In place
with their limited machinery, or - we
suppose no machinery at slle That
Was the question for many years. Rut
finally BY much Investigation II was
found that some one conceived the
idea In the distant past age Of har.
Messing the tide, and 10 the stone grid.
ers we're AOated up the river on large
raft, anchored directly by the piers
which had been built aud when the
tides came In they blocked, the stones
up on temporary supports until The
tide allowed the RATS too settle away
from them and then. they blocked
them up again from the raft which
lifted them still higher when the tide
returned and SO by the process they
were finally lifted into place by the
power OF the moon. This power has
been there all through the ages but
some one must be found who would
have brain to unlock its secrets.
When the boy Watt, sat warming
himself by the fire aud noticed the
steam as It Missed from the spout of
the tea kettle, he began to set about
TO- discover the process by which II
could be harnessed for tha tase NJ man