The Lexington intelligencer. [volume], June 01, 1901, Image 3

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a by Trigg & Eaton,
ja a dress suit cue was
Q. Chambers,
out a box of candy was
nn & MoClellandi
joipa cake wss given by
I.
ior throw an nnibrella
redendall & Wilson.
vault a pair of aboea was
i. Wilson.
ng broad jump a hat was
nauer. .
i a typical one tor field
i vorybody present seem-
; various events. Every
2 without friction and
as in every way a suo-
l KM. BATTLE.
afternoon the annual
ok place at the academy
s Is an event looked
a much pleasure by our
day being a beautiful
owd gathered to witness
r event. The plan of
listed in an attack upon
y two companies of in
y consisted of the two
a loading cannon added
nee equipment of the
ir. It was stationed on
und to the north of the
; lings and was supported
,ny of infantry. The
- . M.
ly came nrst over me
;l from the ravine to the
battery and after a weak
i to renew the attack
rear.
rueo at the guns bandied
jd lired rapidly. The
pt up for some time with
! retreats and finally the
:ty retired leaving the
icssioo ot the field. For
lie of the small guns aud
of the cannon had much
4 and sound of real war.
1 soldiers who were
rked that it' reminded
ueu ol the old days whon
e loaded 'with balls in
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rand lUpidx, Mich. ; Ude Evans,
Lookwood, Missouri; Nicholas Carvan
Hall, Tarkio, Missouri; Oscar Henry
llolburg, Lincoln, Nebraska; Chester
Emmcrson Lewis, Sedalia, Misssoun;
Roy leon . Loewentbal, Evansville,
Indiana; James KUiott Lyons, Page
City, Missouri; Thomas Norton Me-
Clelland, Kansas City, Missouri;
piratious and pnssions ot a people can
never move them to other end than
their highest happiness and good.
The spirit of I hi age is commercial
entorpri and conquest, which will
work itself into foims ami institutions
of beauty and of eternal w.r:b to nnn.
Hy commerce is meant the vast lluar
cial and indosi rial Junderukings In
Charles Sidney Nichols, Marshall, which the scientific methods and mas.
Missouri; Maurice Wright ORouik, torul 'orce nu genius of men are etn
Topcka, Kansas; Byron Temple Payne, plojed. These may be regarded as
Lexington,' Missouri ; Franklin, Murrey . lne efforts to the higher life through
rhillips, Tawnee, Oklahoma ; Lacey ! tn' utilization of the forces and proper-
Francis Sampson, Sedalia, Missouri;
Teideman Karl Simmons, Ued Wing,
Minnesota; Karl Taggert Slier, Lex
ington, Missouri; William Allen Wil
liams, Greenville, Texas.
. The high grade medal was awarded
to. Maurice Wright O'Rourk, Charles
Sydney Nichols receiving second high,
est grade. ,
ties of physical nature operating to
produce more comfortable and ideal
conditions ot human existenoe. The
world today stands bewildered and ex
hilarated in feeling at (the spectacle of
human activities never before so highly
exerted and moving towards ends pure
ly utilitarian and materialistic Within
the past century, even within ibis
frftrmrnHAn phftnivoa nf Inrlnatrlnl
Special mention in the United States ... . A . . ,.
r . I method and ventures of commercial
enterprise have occured, the like of
j which were beyond the ken of prophet
; or the dream of poet in any ot the
ages past.
Simple and inexpensive mechanical
Army Register was given T. K. Siu .
mons, Oscar II. llolburg and L. F
Samson.
Commissions as second lieutenants
in the Missouri national guards were
presented to the members of the grad
uating class.
The class orator was Edward Robert
Carpenter, ot Grand Kapids, Michigan.
The validictorian was Frank M.
Phillips, of Pawnee, Okla. The class
historian was M. W. O'Rourk,
Topeka, Kansas.
The music of the morning was very
fine. Prof. Stark is a great favorite
with oit I-eningtnn audienoesfand he
was enthusiastically received by them
on this occasion. lie is a violinist ot
devices with which men formerly
worked, have given place to gigantic
industrial engines requiring fortunes to
own and from a coporals squad to an
army corps to operate them. The
. great forces of physical natnie.steam,
electricity and compressed air, which
the gods themselves cau scarcely bridle
and control, have been harnessed to the
machines and tamed to do the will of
man.
Time
was in memory of. some
' -
a century hence. . There is no looser
any distance on earth, do unscalable
heights, no impenetrable depths. What
of conquest is not already man's lies
prone and powerless in the pathway of
his victorious march. There never
was an age like this before, and no
period hence will ever outstartle the
marvels of this lime as lours has
done the ages past and gono. All
these things fill the soul of man with
a sense ot imperial force aud power,
infuse him with a spirit ot daring and
light his face. with the glory of battle
and conquest. Along the line of human
endeavor of this kind lie the wrecks of
ruined hopes, thwarted ambitions and
broken hearts. These are but the on
avoidable tragedies ot life but probably
fewer now than ever before. The
spirt of this age is leading us nearer
and close np to the pleasant fields of
fraternity and peace. The forces and
agencies ot these industrial and com
mercial changes are welding society
into-conditions ot equality and amity.
To handle the great engines and Insti
tutions of modern industrial life you can
not work alone but must combine with
others and lake upon yourself an al
lotted share of toil. You must be a
part of a system and system is integra
tion, mutual dependence, collectivism,
socialism, it it is allowed to give re
spectability to that wbicbjinvulgar es
timation passes as an epithet. It we
would utilize' the great forces and
powers of nature we must do
It by united action ot many
there is in the heart of man a
disposition to reduce to private owner
ship the forces and elements of nature
TITIVK D HILL.
etitivc drill at tbo
arsduy afternoon wa
ted one. There were
started In tbe contest
Williams, 11., McClel-
i, Goodwin, G., Drink,
n and Herbert. At the
rstjseries otexerciscs the
ired up and Goodwin and
re dropped out. The re
were then put through
trill and finally McClel
ss and Payne were drop
spirited contest was con
sume time betweet Wll
Brink and Ilorton until
, was declared the winner
i second. Mr. Williams
: a handsome sword as a
nis excellence in the drill
sted of the exercises in
, the setting up drill and
The cadets all did well
; much credit for the flue
ule In the drill. Major
Cadet Officers Hall and
ere ttio Judges. Cadet
nuns gave the commands
a contestants through the
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WENTWOHTH MILITARY- ACADEMY, LEXINGTON, MO.
marked talent and his performance j of us when tbo ouly comoination of
yesterday was greatly enjoyed by the , effort and of capital known (to the
audience. . average citizen was the partnership
Miss Lizzie Smith who ssng two
selections has a highly cultured voice
and one of ' the sweetest and most , would be insufficient to buy a modern
musical that has ever been beard in railway, or the genius and masterful
our citv and her ennuciation Is distinct. , force of Alexander or Caesar ineffectual
of a couple of bis neighbors at the
store. Now tbe wealth of Croesus
rTlNO KXHRCISKS.
j morning a large crowd
ihe New Grand opera house
he graduating exercises of
l'JOl.
;rnmnies of the exercises
ues ot tbo graduates- were
ntor.RAMMK. '
Selection,
E. J. Mark.
Invocation.
phes et Sylvanas Bemberg
ner Cbaminade
liss Liazie Smith.
Class
-dge Frank Poster.
"Answer - - Kobyn
f. Harry St. Clair.
-f Prizes and Diplomas.
. li RAUL-ATM.
Guy AckFey.Junlta, Nebras
ice Earl Brink, Omaha,
Edward Robert Carpenter,
She was warmly applauded at the con
clusion ot her songs.
Mr. Harry St. - Clair is one of ihe
favorite male voices among our Lex
ington musicians, lie. has a . sweet
clear smoth voice and Ins selection was
enthusiastically received.
Tbe event of greatest interest of the
morning was iho aquresa oi .i.uugu
Frank poster to tho graduating class.
JtlMiK IMMtTKIt'S AMJUKSS.
A synopsis of the address follows. ,
He spoke particularly of the Spirit
otthu age and. how. that spirit shapes
the thought and inspires the action ot
a people. This spirit made among the
greeks for art; tbe Romans for juris-
j , j. ..n..:
prudence ana me ior ruugiuua
morels. Upon the d';cadence of these
people it made for monkish asceticism
and conventional piety, and five cen
turies ago for religious freedom and
political liberty, As a result of these
inspired passions Greece produced her
forms of beauty, Rome her institu
tions ot municipal polity, Israel her
omniscient, omnipresent and just God,
the church with its code of austere but
necessary virtues, the Teuton and tbe
Anglo-Saxon with ibeir theories of
religious toleration and self-government
bave, lifted tho world from a
to organize and conduct a modern
syndicate or trust. .
One of the phenomena of this age is
our lack of concern with the small
affairs of life. We patronize the
wonderful Inventions us they are made,
bill only as playthings. Without com
ment or thought we witness' great
tragedies In human life, ' it takr a
revolution' in government, a cataclysm
of nature, ro arrest our attention for
more'than Ihe passing hour. Tbe
actor in the world's drama must make
a startling-climax it he would win
applause or hold attention. There
are so many big events crowding upon
each other in clbe succession that we
have no time for thought or sight of
tbe smaller affairs of existence .A'ast
continents have been recently discov
ered; their inhibtants subdued; hemi
spheres are coursed over with vehicles
of travel swifter than the winds ot
heaven; the land and the ocean
laid with communicating nerves
et human thought and speech;
the inner recesses ot opaque and lm
pene'rable objects exposed to view
with new made arrows of light. We
move across the seas expanse in pala
ces which outrival the luxurys of a
king's abode; we build habitations for
baser life and set it upon the pinnacle men upon the foundations of the
ot their high thought. j great deep, or lloat them among the
The spirit of the age finally makes clouds ot tbe air above; we preserve
for the happiness of tbe race. Tbe as- the speech of today for the bearing of
and this cannot be too strongly repre
hended or held too closely in check.
Ihe conception of these gigantic
schemes for the utilization of the
forces of physical nature is too larg
to be made to serve tbe purpose of
private gain alone. Tbe enterprises
and tbe engines themselves are on too
vast a scale to be obedient to the
desires of selfish, greed. The things
themselves in the scope and play of
action refuse to respond lo other than
the general good..
The force exercised through these
commercial and industrial engines an
enterprises is power power over men
ami power, niter mat oi i,od, is an
attribute of municipal goverment. He
who holds me in conditions ot bodily
necessity dependent upon his will, is
my iimster, and . there is no rightful
niMter -except the collective whole.
The powers exocised through the com
mercial instrumentalities of this age
are sovengu, and soverlgnty resides in
tho people alone.
It U therefore as impossible for tbe
great governing forces of this age
the telegraph, telephone, railway and
tbe hundred other like public means of
production and distribution to remain
private property, as it would be to
deBocialize the public institutions of
the combon school, the courts of law,
tbe country highway, tbe military and
constabulary forces, and thereby con
vert these necessary agencies of public
enlightenment, publ c justice, public
convenience and public protection into
instrumentalities of private profit.
A phenomena of this age is the trans
fer of the seal of powet and influence
from the country to the city. It was
only recently that tbe potent factor of
human existence was the rural home;
oow, it is the city mart ot commerce,
la the city ceoW all the institutions
and interests with which humanity is
it ally concerned, and all tbe agencies
of production and distribution hava
their dwelling there. From Ihe eities
are controlled all tbe great lines of
communication, and all the great high
ways of travel and transportation There
the temples of the worlds money
changer's are built, and there the
world's treasures are locked up and
let out. There policies ot state hava
their birth; the plans ot statecraft are
laid, and the influnces of political
action are set in motion. There is dv
longer, as there once was, dominating
force and moulding influence in the
country home. Every directing con
trolling agencv ot modern civihzatioa
springs out of urban lite and subjects
very creature of civilized kind to the
potency ot its will.
However, commercial and material
istic as is tbe spirit of the present age
It is a nobler spirit than that of any of
the ages past. There is in tbe world
today more that ministers to the
rational desires and elevates and en
larges tbe soul ot man that there ever
was before. Education todav is more
widely diffused, morals purer, religion
more rational, sentiment on all sub
jects more tolerant, houses warmer.
clothing better, labor lighter and more
effective, government freer, art more
beantifal. social intercourse more coa
constant and congenial, and witbal a
wider philanthropy and a more abun
dant charity. We live today a larger
life than ever before because the soul
has grown big opon the food ot those
great events which have taken tbe
form of vast commercial enterprise
and socialized industrial efforts. True
the animating spirit of many of the
promoters of these enterprises is sel
fish, brutal, tyranical? and, unchecked
it would speedily involve us in indus
trial serfdom; but the methods of
combination, organization and system
which it must adopt are the methods ot
social integration which will widea
and strengthen into the legalized stare
called collectivism,; Trusts and com
binatiotis are but, the . helwogeneoua
elenii)ut8 which will presently coalesee
into tbe perfect social state.
X'oung men of the graduating elass,
let me say that the spirit of this ago Is
commercial enterprise and achieve
ment; the spirit of this age is breadth
of vievT, vastness ot plan, strength and
power of action ; the spirit of this age
is combination, co.opeiation, and so
cialization of all the hetiogeueous,
waring, and discordant interests and
institutions of mankind; the spirit of
this age is that masterful, imperial
spirit which is generated out of the
world's great centers of population and
commercial activity.
In conclusion, let me say that the
person who sets himself in harmony
with the general spirit of the age, who
caiches its enthusiasm, and puts him
self under its vitalizing, energizing in
fluence is Hie one who with others of
like temper will mould the policy and
shape tbe destiny of the American
people and the world. So I welcome
the new invention, the new discovery,
the new labor saving device, the new
combination, the new great enterprise.
I know tbey cannot make tbe world
worse. . I believe they can and de
make tbe world better.- .
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