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THE RED CLOUD CHIEF. FRIDAY. MAY 29, 189(5. X i ' ti v Tk LsssssssssssssH W ho first beholds the light of day In spring's Bweot gentlo May, And wenrs nn EMERALD all her life, Shall be a lovod and happy wife, CLASS OF '90. 1 5 Years Practical Experience In Fitting Spectacles. Come in whon needing glaseea my stock is full and complete of all kinds. Will guarantee you a fit and eavo you money. Your Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repairing solicited. I guarantee all work, any defect In same made good FREE ofchaige. Difficult fine watch werk a Ld iiiiiii i Watch Examiner for D. A M.R.R. THOS. PENMAN. THE - ORLEANS -- COLLEGE Summer School Chautauqua. AMONG OUR FACULTY. Win. HAWLKY SMITH, Author of "Evolution of Dodd," and who assisted Bill Njo one sea- Ex-President Nebraska State Tcaoh- ears' Association. MRS. E. K. TUCKER, Tho great Primary and Kindergar ten Teacher. PROF. J. H. MILLER, Editor of the Northwestern Journal of Education. PROF. J. F. HOSIO, Diatriat President of tho Y. P. S. 0. 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The supposed beau tiful pioturo on nearer approach is soon to bo a daub; the apparent beau ttful gloB ia on I j mould; tho froth of tho cup covers only tho bitter dregs that lio boncalh and the awoet portion becomes norid era it paasos the lips. Suoh ia pleasure, yot we aeek it, pur no it, trusting thai it will (tire joy, happiness, contentment, tut alas, even in its maddest whirls there is a sting f regret, remorse, diieoatant, ono moment of doubtful, fleeting joj bringing with it years ef repentance and sorrow. In looking kaokward wo find that tho things which seemed to havo tho lokSt oharm are the only events whioh have mado aay impres sion upon us, and we do not rotate our pleasures but our labors, because they are tho realities. Have you not seen a child work by tho hour to got to somo desired suany spot and just as ho raaekss out to grasp the sunbeam, a cloud flit by and dostroy tho coveted goal? Thus it is in life; thus it is in pleasure. Have we not striven for years to obtain the pleasures of a oortin hour and then when it is almost attained, it is snatch- od away by some unseen power and all our labor has been in vain. Mahomet says, "Paradise is under tho shadow of swords." Whether this be truo or not, wo know that every thing worth attaining is surrounded by dangers and difficulties. Often things whioh should bo a pleasure to us are not, because wo aro wishing for something that we cannot obtain whioh probably when gotten would brine with it grief and sorrow, al though at present it resombles the most excellent things, whioh all havo a rainbow character. Nothing is moro hurtful to a youth than to havo his soul soddon with pleasure. Tho best qualities of his mind aro thus wasted, his appotite for tho highest kinds of plcasuro is des troyed, common enjoyments bcoomo tasteless, and when he comes to take up the work and duties of life, the ro suit is often only aversion and disgust. As a ohild turns from broken toys, so a youth turns from his withered pleas ures and ho will find that his very ea- pacity for enjoyment has been des troyed. A most pitiable sight is a man who has throes away his youth in folly. It is among sueh persons, whose youth has been sullied by pre mature enjoyment, that we f nd the prevalenoo of skepticism, sneering and egotism, which proves a soured nature. Tho happy goal of a well spent life ia reaohed only through dangers and difficulties which have oast their shadow over the whole journey. In life's morning we bogin the pleas ant excursion througtb fields refulgent with tho dews and fragrance of spring time's bcautious flowers. We pass on along tho pleasant banks, keeping stop to tho rippling musio of timo, where, near its source, it warbles as a littlo stream among the pebbles of its bed, As wo proocod, two ways appear, one called pleasure, tho other, duty, the former appoars pleasant nnd bright, tho latter, dull and nnd prosaic; in each, sha dowy forms appear beckon ing us to enter; our inclination tend toward tho first, our better self urges that wo tnko tho second. In our youthful inexperience wo do not know that tlio flower bordered way of tho former lends to tho desert of disan. poiulmcut, despair and woe; wo do not know that tho honoy dow on its flowers changes to tho bitterness of gall; that tho swcot songs of its birds ore long will becomo tho croak of tho vulturo, rcmorso gnawing at tbo void of our withered hopes and heart. Tho other path appears moro difficult; it is loss attractive; tho flowors that bloom by its sido have moro quiet oolors; tho songs of its birds are less thrilling; tho dew that sparkles on tho follago does not gliston'with suoh brilliancy nor has such sweetness of ...nA. l.H .1 .-1 It . . mum, uuv menu caim aoiignis ncvor fado. Amongst its flowors lurks no deadly serpent to sting tho hapless wayfarer; tho read may bo at times rough but every step that is taken on largca tho vision, every obstacle that is overcomo gives its own quiet joy, every success that is nttninad carries with it its own reward, none of its promisos aro left unfulfilled, its gold never becomes dross, and af tor tho sun oi its day has sunk to rest, the wayfarer uuy lie down muidst tho vio lets that cover its sidoi and sleep tho drcamlHss sleep of health and peace, n r"ru"ro or rankling fears disturb his p..o. fitl slutnhtrs. How different is tho lot of him wto gives las lifo'c best efforts to the gratification of bin sonsual passion; what a narrow and dsapioablo thing is that man and that life whose hori zon bound; only the narrowness of self nnd selfish joys. What bittcrnciB is cevered by the deceptive froth of his first faiat enjoyment. "For pleasures aro like popplen spread, You eiczo the (lower, its bloom la shed; Or, like the snow-flake on the river, A moment white then gone forever; Or, like the borealia race, That flit ere you can point their placo; Or, like tho rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing timid tho etorui." Passing away, leaving a plaoo marked enly by glosm. Sueh is tho fate of him wke makes the vanities of earth his solo aspiration, nething lasting, aothing enduring, vanishing, passing away in gloom and sorrow, How different from ths fate of him inspired by seme noblo an lofty ideal, takes his stand among the true and good, ever pressing toward tho accom plishment of something high and nobis. What a glorieus sunset boauty has such a life I Its last gloam, as it sinks bolew the rim of this world, sending out glerious streamers of re fulgent liht, beckoning, beckoning and calling tho wanderer to that life which lies boyond, to that world whoso boautics fado not. Wayfarer on life's journey, so livo that whan thy time approaches to join tho innumorablo caravan, "Thou go not liko tho quarry elnve at night, Scourged to hia duugoon, but sustain ed nnd eoothed By an unfaltoring trust, approach thy gravo Liko ono who wraps tho drapery of hiB couch About him nnd lies down to pleasant dreams." Peahl E. Ludlow. 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Then the spirit of God breathed forth. Slowly the land appear ed and the mountains rose from their pestulential vapors and mists, until final ly they appeared above the fogs and Btorm clouds, shining clear and resplen dent in the beams of the glorious sun of heaven, and, as the mountain struggled upward into the clear sunshine, bo does the human bouI ever strive toward the light ot ite Almighty Creator. Humanity ia ever yearning for some thing higher, something nobler, purer, truer, Holland Bays: MMeaven Ii not reached at a single bound, nut vro build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted iklei. And we mount to the summit round by round." There is no royal road to success, liko the man who awoke ono morning and found himself famous. Each must toil long to surmount the many obstacles in bis way beforo roaching his goal. The ascont of the mountain is todious but tho view which moots the gazo as tho top is attainod repaye us for our toil. Each, seeking to obtain n summit must sturt in the foot hills und work his way slowly upward nnd onward, ovor Btrlving, over watchful of tho dangers that lio around und benoath him; care ful leet nt any moment tho hoedlcos Btop may full on an unsuro footing nnd bo precipitated into tho aliyea below; care fully picks his pnth from among tho treacherous surroundings. Ah ho udvan ces tho way becomos moro ruggod, moro dangerous. Often woariod nnd discour aged ho stops, rondy to abandon tho un dertaking, lie thinks of tho imrdBhips ho has endured and with straining oy'B and faltering purpose he looks at tho towering heights boyond. Tho under taking BeoniR too groat for hia coumgo and strength. About ready to give up in despair ho Booms to hoar revorbornting through tho mountain summit thoso words whioh guvo thn mountuin birth, "Come up hluhcr, come up hlfiher." With rouewed onorgy und purposo ho again begins tho task bo noarly abandon ed, but tho dnngere and difllcultieasoom to multiply. To tho right and to tho loft the avalanges thundor into tho abyss bolow. Yawning chasms aro to be crossed, tho ley path is full of unknown dangers, but onward ho goes faltering nmt uncortain, obodiont to tbo voice pf tho monitor within him, pointing to tho dizzy holghts until nt Inst, strongth and courugo holding out, ho gninea tho wishod for summit. With tho last wave of departing strongth ho turns his swim- ming eyes down o'er tho pnthn ho has climbod with such clangor and ililllcuiy ami stiincio trnnsllxed with womlor. Tho way which Bcemed so ruggod and awful, us ho glanced buck ovoritappoars one gradual iiBcont. All tho rough places aro lost Bight and ho wonders whut had becomo of ull tho dlfllculties which, at ono time, soomed almost in surmountabla. So it ia with the hu man soul striving toward perfection, daily, on its journey, troubles nnd hard' Bhips arleo but with tho couragn born of hope, presses on, eBoh day putting Boine toll behind; faltering, hoping, trusting, until nt last it stands at the end of its mortal career, and then looking back o'or tho journoy it oomoe, ull tho irrogu lurlties eeomod to bayo disappeared and he, hia end attainod, wondorn why he ovor faltered or became discouraged. In starting out on lifo'o weary journoy we roulizo wo will moot with our suo owhcu and revorsoa but wo ohould ul ways tlx u goal or sun that wilt loom bo foro us, beaconing uson to climb highor, for tho heights now attainod nro Binull in comparison to thoeo wo can reach it wo prosist in climbing steadily on, forget- ing our diffloultiesnnd romomborlng tho ono CBflontial thing, tho utmost round to which wo aspire. Dilllculties innumerable will meet on our journoy; Bhipwrooks on lifo'e torn- postuouB billows; storms nnd unfore seen iiccldente on our travels, but on ward without faltoring is tho watch word which will pass us through tho clouds to that sun of our life, the goal ot our lives, tho goul of our ambitions. Ab we start in lifo our desires tosuccood lead ub dovioun ways, forgetting ono, tho otbor, some of ub may unfortunately fall by the way Bide, but tbo thought of what can bo accompliehod will urge ub on to ranowod and more earnost exer tions. Again, on our way, if, perchance, we meet an unfortunate whose lot ia hard, oxtond to him a holplng hand, for you know not but that tho moat brilliant diamond ia atill in the rough and that the objeot of our courteey may become a Napoleon or a Cromwell. Assist the unfortunate who tries to succeed; you may not know the cause ot hia advoraity. When in auch jsu find your weary companion on the down ward road, call him back, show him the beaocn light, that glorioua sun ot life Your path will be smoother; and by each and auch act of kindness you will climb higher in the estimation ot your associ ates and become yourself a shining light to brighten the path of a weary traveler, Is genius tliBt which enables ua to roach the top and call success our own ? To a certain extent, but by no means does it wholly rest on gonius. There is, at the present day, too much said on this subject. Common eonse is bo pro saic; yot, as appoara from history, tho great onos know that Item, genius, was not u nupernatural thing, but simply faculties whioh tho lowost typo of Im munity shared with thorn, They knew what thoy possessed would not enublo thorn to accomplish whut they under took, unloss they steadily bout thoir en ergies to tho task. "It is porsovoranco and striving that gains honor." CicnhiB without dilllculty in of toner a curso than a blojsiug; its possessor do ponding on his natural gift fails hecuuso of indolence. He who has dilllculties to overcomo will, with his ojea directed upward, unmovod by tho many hindor uncos, miiUo n moro determined effort, nnd, forgetting thoso things which aro behind, strive to roaoh thoso things which aro before. OillluultiuB liko a block of granito to tho cllmbor of mountains is either a holp or a hindornnce, in proportion as we aro strong and rosoluto or weak nnd faltor ing. Would Michael Angolo havo built St. Peters and bonutiilod tho walls of tho Vatican hud ho awaited inspiration whilo his work was in progress ? Would Raphael havo dazzlod tho oyos ot all Europo had ho nllowod hia brush to hos itato ? Would Ootho have writton the sixty volumos of his works or Milton havo oompletod his "Paradlso Lost" had thoy not of ton ant down to an unwilling task. Should misfortuno drivo us to despair? Groat things havo beon accomplished in epito of misfortune Bedford jail guvo the world "Pilgrims Progross," A lad l from a poor-house unlocked tho doors of intorior Atrica. Tho tail nro or a pub lishing company gavo us somo of Scott's best works. English history presents two ctriking and momoriablo event j which have nov or boon paralleled in any othor nation; nnd theso camo from persovornnco and listening to thut volco which has aided so many in loading a brilliant caree r, Tho drat is Milton. Whon advanced lu years, blind and in misfortune, he en tered upon tho composition ot nn opto which waa to dotormino his futuro glory and haxard the glory ot hie country in competition with the classic ages of an tiquity. Tho counterpart of this picture is Sir Walter Scott. With hia private affairs in ruin, he undortook, by intel lectual labor, to liquidate a dobtof 120, 000. Glory puro and unsullied was Milton'a aim. Honor nnd integrity were Scott's incentives. In six years Milton had realtaocl tho object of his hopoa in the completion ot "Paradlso Lost." Hia work was accomplished, hia triumph complote; he hold in his hand his pass port to immortality. In six yenra Scott had almost reached tho goul ot his nbltionn; he had roamed tho wido Held of romance nnd tho public had liberally rowurdod him. It soomed as it tho maxim, "Kortuno holps those who holp themselves," wnB bolng clearly exemplified, As tho world saw his suc cess they choorod him on but his exer tion was too much, ho had spont his life in tho Btrugglo and ho sank exhausted inhisoourso. Tho iron will was sub dued, and honor nnd integrity bowed their hoada in submission, to torminato in doath. "Peralttont effort ia tho prico ot lion orablo distinction." No man ought to be convinced by anything short ot as siduous and long continued labors issu ing in absolute failure, that ho Is not meant to do much for the glory of God and the honor of mankind. Lot ua throw aside tho doctrine that "Man ia the creature of circumstances" and adopt the higher and grander one, "Man ia the architect of hia own fortune" In. atead ot complaining of our taw talents and unfavorable circumstances, let ua make the moat ot what we do poeeeaa and alwaya etrive to rise to the highest types ot manhood and womanhood. Fear not obstacles. What aro your stumbling atonea f Poverty, ignorance, obscurity. If we will but listen to that voioe sayiag aaoncouragingly, calling so clear and distinct, "Come up highor, come up highor," we can surmount thorn all. Many well known to fame have con quered. Why not wo Llfo and ths world are full of conflict and he who wins wears the laurol, A word of friondly admonition to my classmntes, I think, is opportune. Let ub start out on life's journoy concentrat ing our onorgios on somo grand nnd noblo aim, if wo would succood, It ia not meant that tho talonts wo poBueos shall hencoforth lio dormant. Thiu ia commencement. Wo aro nt tho foot ot tho great mountain, just starting to tread the hard and rugged roud. Lot ua bo alive to tho noceesitica of life; raise tbo fallen, and show by our dnily lifonn oxamplo ot which wo may ouritolvcn lis proud; always endeavoring to nttuin the utmost round of tho groat laddor and lot us each in our hoart ovor Bay, "Coiiio up IiIrIic r, eoiim up higher. Ami from tlio ilri'Ki el earth's tlt-alrti Come up litter." jEAN.NinTK DlM.K.V. Celebrated RA REMEDY KNOX'S E For Hogs and Poultry. This is ono ot the Hnost hog nnd poul try cholora remodles ovor discovered, nnd wo choorfully guarantee u cure if UBod according to directions. Itumlrmtsof testimonials bear us witness nt lis curative qualities, fuw of which we publish heruwith: ltcd Cloud, Neb., April 21. isofl -To Whom It M.iv Concern) My chickens Mere ilylntr dully, until I itilinliilfltcreil J. A. Knox's Cholti.i Ivoia cily, since which time I have lost none. ADHACl.l.VB. Hed filmid, Neb., April 8. 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