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1 BROOKLYN, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1889. SIX PAGES. THREE VOL, 49. NO, ITT. WILL NOW REST, PRETTY PUPILS placed and whatever you do If so you deserve to succeed and you are sure of the success you deserve.

It should be the aim of education to perfect the mau rather than the instrument. It takes manly men to make manly mon. We teach by example more than by precept. As the teacher is, so is the school. As the teacher is treated so will the pupils be treated.

If the teachers are obliged to scramble for their positions and to get them by unworthy means, by "inflooenee." they will their pupils, unconsciously, but Just as surely, to Beek advancement in the same unworthy way. If the principal of a school is such only in name, hut is treated as a suborninate whose main business is to obey orders, he will treat his teachers as sub subordinates and tho teachers will treat their pupils as sub sub subordinates, and thus the products of our schools will be fit material for political henchmen, ready to obey the dictates of any boss. When it is agreed that the only worthy end and aim of education is to perfect tho mau, it is not difficult to settle such questions as How high shall education go What studios shall be taught? A teacher to educate well must be well edu nnlpfl. f.vnvv teaeber should bn thoroutrlv edu to Daniel Patrick O'Shea, for excellence in deportment, Christian doctrine, mathematics, English literature, composition, bookkeeping, history, typewriting and shorthand; sixth prize, gold modal, donor Rev. Father Mealia, to Thomas Augustine O'Connor, for excellence in deportment, Christian doctrine, elocution, penmanship, bookkeeping, composition, national philosophy, grammar, shorthand, history, parliamentary law, mathomatics and drawing.

Professor Von Ghelo awarded a gold medal to John A. Byan for proficiency in music, and llev. Brother Tatiau awarded a silver modal to William 31. Byruos for being next in merit in music. In the second part of the programmo the choir sang "Joy, Joy, Freedom To day," Thomas A.

O'Connor recited "Bide of Jenny McNeill, J. J. Mahon and 11. J. Cahill played a duet on tho violin and tho Seniors gave an Indian olub exhibition that was highly creditable to themselves and their instructor.

Walter F. Colgan recited "Tho Maniac" and was called back to bow his thanks in recognition of prolonged applause. The music class next appeared followed by a concert recitation and piano duot by W. J. O'Koefo and J.

AT. Maguire. A selection, "Furnished by W. Ferguson, C. Cummin, T.

O'Connor, W. Colgan and J. Bradley, and a grand chorus "Good Night," by the choir concluded tho exercises amid tho well dcRervcd plaudits of tho, audience. In the parquet stalls were tho Bight Befynrnnd John Loughlin; Bishop of the Diocese; James Woods, James Mitchell and J. F.

fjlealia, or tho Cathedral; Fathers J. G. Million, E. Mo Golrick, Thomas MaeCaffray, of New l' nrk; Brother Castoris, director of the Manhattan tysburg," after whiah the school sang "My Mountain Home." "Captain Smith" was the theme of a recital by Charles Brewster. Lillio Martin played a piano solo, Rosa Soifert rccitod "Marion's Dinner," and tho scholars sang "Hail Columbia." Then thero were recitations by Alico Danaucho and Delta French and a piano and violin duet by Miss Anderson and Martin Schlag.

Tho scholars sang and Lida Stewart played a piano solo. Dr. Powell then made a brief address and announced that whon school opened again Delta French, Ida Young, Kosa Soifort, Margaret Sullivan, Alico Danaucho, Emily Clark, Henry Clark. Henry Sprague, William Sullivan, William Ott, Albert Nichols, Walter Moore, Henry Midler, George McDevitt, George Mitchell, Henry Heath, Frederick Brintam, Charles Donaldson and Charles Brewster, having completed their studies in No. 63, would complete their course in Grammar School No.

01. Public Scliool iVo. 04. The Reformed Church on tho New Lots road was the scene yesterday afternoon of the cloning exercises of Public School No. 04.

on Berriman street, near Belmont avenue. On tlie platform sat President Hendrix and the Kev. Nicholas Pearse, pastor of the church. Tho exorcises wore brief and consisted of prayer by Dominie Pearse and the singing of a number of songs by tho scholars, lieniarks were made by President llendrix and Dr. Powell and then a gold medal was presented to Carrie Bell and one of silver to Eva McComber for having made tlie best records during the term just closed.

Public, School Wo. 7S. Surrounded by plants and ferns and the many glances of expectancy of their parents and friends the happy girl and boy graduates of Grammar No. 78 held their clming c'ihcs at the Strong Place Baptist Church list evening. A new feature was presented on the occasion, each htppy girl participant of one class being escorted to tho church by an equally happy boy participant from a corresponding cla is.

The exercises were conducted under the auspices of the local committee of the school. oonipriMng Albert C. Anbury, Tunis O. Bergen and Dr. John Harrigan.

The young graduates responded to tlio wishes of their friends with a promptness which showed good training, and they were favored with a shower of flowers which almost equaled a deluge. This programme was suoeoss fnlly interpreted: Chorus, graduating elms; esay "What a Girl Can Do," Ethel De Wolfe; piano solo, "Souvenir de Hilda Siaitdinge declamation, Fair Piny for Women," William Lombard; chorus, "Carpe Diem," school; declamation, "George Washington." Allen Harris; chorus, "Awake, My Trembling Lyre," school; recitation, "Lady Clare," Daisy Tayleure: chorus, "What Seraph Like Music." school; declamation, "The Power of a Youthful Example," William Thompson; vocal solo, "Farewell Marguerite," Katie Meister; essay, Father Time," Katie Forbes; nuno solo, "Poet and Peasant," Kaclicl Dawson; declamation, "Tlie Henry Shoen herr; chorus, "Truth," school; recitation, "The Knight's Toast," Sarah Bradloy; vocal duel, Wert Thon in the Canld Blast," Allen Harris, Harry Neenen. The presentation of semi annual certificates was followed by an address by Principal Seth T. Stewart, after which the distribution of diplomas entitling the graduates to admission to Hmh School was in order. Then came the chorus, "Departed Days," by the school, and the exorcises wei ended.

These aro tho graduates for February: Allen Harris, Kate P. Hilson, Agnos A. Jones, James W. Prondergast. Mary L.

Gleeson, Catherine Forbes, Henry Sehoenlierr, Catherine A. ClalTey, Joseph C. Shelly. Anna N. Nanry, Bella McBrido, Peter Brock.

Frank McCounell, Clifford McDonald, Segrid Smith, Ethel S. J. DeWolfe, Martha Motcalf. Clementina D. Witte, Mary E.

A. Collins, Harry Neeson, Katie Meister, Florence II. Nolan, Honors, M. Ko. ienquist, Hilda Standinger, Philip J.

Cunningham, K. Furey, Oscar Essig, Mollio Marks and Clarence TIemstrect. For June the number is thirty seven, a notable increase. The number has not been mo largo in any of the schools of which No. 78 is a concentration in years.

These are the successful scholars Jennie E. Pendlingtrm, William C. Lombard, Dorothea E. Davids, lbiehel S. William Thompson, Helen A.

Euggren, Thomas E. Mo Keguey, James M. Clarke, George A. Honk, James 11. Ward, Annie L.

Kecmui, Frank Argnelles, George Kcrnan, Thomas A. ltpan, Edgar Cheever, Sarah M. Bradley, Charles A. Meyer, Cecilia T. Terry, Helen T.

lliley, Clara L. Bloekley, Mainio O'Brien, May V. Willis, Bolton, Lila M. Stutt, Frank Holm, William Doyle, Anna M. Cu sack, Frederick S.

Campbell, Bertha E. Grier, William Patterson, Daisy E. Tayleure, Oscar Ficht, Lester A. Stevens, Charles Weber, Itobert McLean, Frank ltoeho and Hugh J. Donnelly.

Hichter; chorus, "We Lay Us Calmly Down," by tho school; recitation, "Only a Newsboy," by Misa Lena Karpeiistein; dialogue, "Tho California Uncle," by three girls and three boys: piano solo, "The Storm at Sea," admirably executed by Miss Louisa Franck; valodictory. by Miss Mamie Taft. The oxcrciBes closed with tho following pretty verses composed by Miss Joy and adapted to original music for the occasion: CLMH BONO. Hore where past and future meet, Stay we now our eager feet; Pause awhile before we part, Looking with a yearning heart From the pleasant life now o'er To the way that lies before, While with blooded hopes and fears Welcoming the coming years. Th rough tlie mystic golden gates Where the shadowy future waits.

Lie our paths, unknown, untried, But no longor side by side; Though the end we may not know, Bravely, trustfully we go Following where duty leads, Calling us to noblest deeds. Friends and comrades true and dear. Though we part forover hero, Hope uplifts her radiant hand, Pointing to a brighter laud, Where no change or shadows como Gathered in that glorious home, Labor ended may we dwell, Never more to say farewell. Next came the. of diplomas by tho chairman of the Local Committee.

Mr. John B. Thompson, to the members of the graduating class, as follows: Henry Bayer, llebecca 0. Bal high, George Bidwell, Cora Panlsir, liobert A. liriggs, Anna Cordes, Joseph F.

Calvert, Mary A. Carroll, Philip S. Carp 'liter, Eliza Cabbie, Adolph Feldblum, Louisa M. Franck, Fannie A. Fleming, A.

Fleckenstein. Louisa Fischer, John Hor ni, Bertha L. Hacker, George Hendricks, John Herold, Stewart Johnston, Lydia King, William Edward A. Keuling, Tessie Levy, Elsa F. J.

Lehniann, Benjamin Merklin, Sarah 14. Mnr phv, Jessie Paul, Ibiruunn Kings, George W. Itappold, Lorett.i M. Smith, Mary E. Taft, Henrietta J.

Thompson, Mary Wood and Celone Wert hoiincr. Mr. Parker P. Simmons, of the Board of Education, made a brief address to the graduating class, complimenting principal, teachers and scholars and the school, which ho recognized' as one of the bast in Brooklyn. Ho reminded tho pupils of gratitude due to the City of Brooklyn for the benefits derived from the publio schools.

Mr, Murphy also extolled School No. 18 as ono of tho best in the city, and passing to generalities praised our system of popular education, adding that the money which supported the public schools came in the form of taxes from the pockets of the parents. The children, for tho benelits they received from the public schools, were under no compliment to anybody else. Mr. John A.

Armstrong made a few remarks, in which he said that our system hail nothing in common at all with the eleemosynary institutions of Europe. In its original intent and contemplation our school system was the best in tho world the education of the people by tho people, and no graduate leaving a public school to go out into tho world had to thank monarch or millionaire for the equipment which he had received. Short addresses of a congratulatory natttro were also made by Dr. E. Dickeyand Mr.

Joseph C. Caoble. The gold medal for tho highest percentage of answers in the graduating class was awarded to Miss Eva M. Taft. Several handsome presents were received by the teachers from their pupils, Misa Craverend receiving a rocking chair and Mr.

Bush a finely arranged collection of desiccated moths and butterflies, the gift of Miss L. Franck. Presents of bouquets were numerous. Among the spectators on the platform wero Messrs. V.

and 11. Lehniann and William Grotzmacher, of St. John's Lutheran School, on Graham avenue. (irammar School The graduating exercises of Grammar School No. 3o wero held last evening in the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church.

The following is the programme presented: Sin dnp "As Miu.y FlowL r.s as Springtime ('la S.i! itatmy Winn l'liihips bull Sirunieol U. Kt, itio inn "Succphs" Ardlar H. ttruintitou l'iam, "Spring Illossems'' t.ovi. in L. Hampton Ho.hlnlio'.i "A Itumnncci" 11.

I.ulu llurtitiff Sinaina ij Morninu'' (Jla Composite "untoneial" Cimvlos Ctarlc U' i lh' UninM Merton Woismau Haint.iLion I tllil Man in tho'Moih'l 1111110 ,3. Illa ivelt l'inno Duet Phillies, llaMe R. W.nlr;r (lomnnsi; ion "Dn Win: Y.ai':. in" IS J. Kos.l'iUKin I'lle i I i rri iiffton ili for All" W.

K1 (JtmiTjo.iti. 'Amt iti ii" Cii 11. Snow ngiiik Xs' iv Land" H. hoot iteeioitinu "Mo'idim: ttpiOlcl i lames u. And srson S'voetiwiia "se Kls.mo.

It. tllover, lira Ibael aim Kn hl itinn 'Tanath ism" K. Hasten So r.r "(iun 1 ll.v" Kstclli) V. Kaillltr for brevity's sake, he called John. John's pa re iits were poor, his father working in a stove foundry and his mother taking in washing.

Ho had several sinters, who, being only girls, were not sent to school at all, but kept at home to help about tho household drudgery. The speaker did not explain how John got into college, and the audience not appearing to be in a very inquiring mood, that npint waB passed over. Once there, the young man called for a good deal of ready caBh. There were a good many expenses his parents had not foreseen and not a few, the necessity of which they did not understand. Yet they cheerfully supplied his every want, oven at the expense of denying themselves, for they expected to feel more than repaid with his education finished to be the pride and staff of their declining yoars.

The speaker dwelt at length on the gay and cureless life of tho student in college, told how he waltzed through four of five years of Gorman, drank punch at class spreads, bet recklessly at the college races and gadded over the country backing up the base ball nine; he pictured the empty frivolities of the college commencement; he ridiculed the poor Latin in which, he said, college presidents address tho young men under their charge, and he did not omit to say that in all human probability John would have to spend the entire Summer, with his Latin dictionary at his elbow, in an effort to translate his diploma into English. Then came tho description of the meeting of John, Artinin Baccalaureate, with the family. The width of the you us man's striped trousers, the height of his shirt collar and the bend in his back as he walked were all pictured and and acted by the gifted speaker in a manner that created a profound impression. It was plain that the sympathy oftho.se in the room was by this time all on the. side of the old folks at home; ami, when to cap the climax the college bred young man began to answer his father's questions in Latin and Greek, and to put his mother to confusion by discussing learnedly to her of quaternions and parnllel opiue, Ions, the indignation of the audience wan simply awful in its suppressed intensity.

Having thus shown up the ordinary college student in his true colors, it remained for the chancellor of the people's university to set forth some ot the unique advantages of his institution for the liberal education ol the manses. First, all text books used in the peoples university are printed in plain, sensible English. Tho student is nut required to squander precious time digging out Greek roots oniv to lind at last that his taiiu has been woric than thrown away, that Greek is a language as dead as a door nail, that the Greeks themselves no longer speak Greek, and th any attempt to make use of the language in the transactions of everyday life would only subject him to ridicule and discomfiture. On the other baud, bv reading English translations of the old Greek writers the sublime yet simple poet, Homer, the subtle and vigorous historian. Thncydulet (here a dozen ov fifteen Greek authors were named and characterized, to the evident e.lilication of the audience) the student in the people's univeisitv becomes familiar with tho treasures of Creel; literature without perceptible effort and can feel himself becoming rapidly saturated with the nil pervasive spirit of Greek culture.

Secondly, all study is done right at free from the temptations of a wicked world and wi hout interruption of the daily employment. Parents ami grandparents, as well as young people, may become members of the univeisny by paving a trilling sum and enjoy all its advantages; and. more "than all in this busy world ot ours, the work can be caught up at odd minutes, so that it is accomplished without perceptible expense or ril'ort, and almost before he. is hmvsclt aware of the fact the student finds that hi; has completed the full course, and is ready to gradual e. The speaker closed with a glowing description of commencement at the people's university, where, in the temple of philosophy, amid throngs of admiring friends, the triumphant candidate for scholastic honors advances between double rows of white robed girls who strew in his path (lowers less fresh than their innocent, fresh laces, to receive his diploma, signed in English by the chancellor and sealed with the white seal ot the pe pie's university.

So this apostle ol popular education travels from Mew Jersey to California holding up John with Ins striped trousers an I high shirt collar and the Grecian bend his back as the typical college student with the oidinarv college training and inviting everyone that tliirsteth for the sweets of education at a tuppence a head to come to his frog pond and drink to the till. Can any one who is at all familiar with the kind of work done in our public schools and in the better sort of private academics, to say nothing of our higher institutions of learning, listen to the kind of performance wo have described without being stirred by mingled feelings of contempt and The iniquity of tho thing lies not so much in the smattering ot knowledge obtained in the live mmuto snatches of Anglic, zed Greek five minutes' worth of anv kind of knowledge is doubtless better than no knowledge at all it lies in the monstrous assurance that the got by re minute snatches of English is real Greek at all, or lhat any number of snatches in various languages and sciences and arts can possibly constitute a liberal education. Is it necessary for Die "popularization of learning" that a very feeble grasp of vulgar fractions be credited as a mastery of the science of mathematics, or that certain confused notions of the exploits of Alexander the Great and Aristotle and Noah and Jonali be regarded as sufficient to substantiate a claim to liberal culture The oration of the evening with the valedictory was delivered by Herman S. Buehrnch, who spoke as follows: "Stick to your aim; the mongrel's hold my There is a strong force of character, compounded of will, sense and patience, which, though existing, though known, thotigii felt, tor a long time lacked a suitable name, it was not heroism, for heroism, as Emerson says, reels and never reasons" not pluck, for pluck comes but in tits and starts; not spunk, for spunk can be aroii bv fear or shame. To suit, this una, itv a word was coined.

As is, frequently the ca.e, tiie ob. rvcr looked into the world of nature tor something lhat, ill a similar maimer, accomplished similar results. The wearing, eono ive action of sand, or grit, was noticed, the word adopted, and our language thereby strength cued by a new use of an old word, iius meaning is not sanctioned by classical authors, although it can now be found in the dictionary as a colloquialism. But the men who possessed this valuable quality were independent of authors and eoll iquialism. and coined a word, which, though inelegant, was singularly appropriate.

Short, clear, vigorous, there is in Us very sound, and a foreigner, ignorant of our language and hearing it lor the first time, is al once impressed with its In politics or in business, in medicine or in law, grit is an sential qualification. Amid the thick clouds of war, or in the council nails ol peace, it is absolutely necessary. History teaches us that the great changes and reforms oi nations have been brought about, not by a sudden outburst, but bv slow, steady, tireless, unceasing efforts in the same direction. Johnson's statement, "great works arc accomplished, not by strength, but by perseverance." has been demonstrated again and again. Lot us look at the ex ami le of one of the greatest of American generals, the immortal hero of Apponiatox General sist every temptation to mako a change: and it is for this reason that I havo already advised that you be so carefuTin taking tho first step.

If you are to succeed in any business you can do it only by mastering all its details. If you constantly change you cannot, in the nature of things, bo come tho master of anj" business, but will have a smattering of all those you undertake. You must concentrate your thoughts and energies in one direction and not dtffuso them in many. It has happened in my own experience and in that of others with whoso lives I am cognizant that such temptations to change have come, but I have seen in every such instance that it waH more advantageous to resist the temptation. Of course this rule may have exceptions, but they are rare.

Having then obtained a position in somo business that is suited to vour taste and ability, how can yon best master it? By beginning at tlie bottom and working your way through each successive position to tho top. Some can do this much quicker than others, and, with some, circumstances will favor more than with others. As an illustration, I may cite the instance of a teacher in one of our public schools, who was originally appointed to a high position. It did not take her long to ascertain that she was not fully fitted for tho place, though no complaint had been made of inefficiency. She, voluntarily, aBked to be.

transferred to the lowest class that she might work her way up through tho different grades. Her request was granted, and she has worked her way up and no longer feels doubts of her ability to successfully teach the higher class. If you attend faithfully to the interest of your employers, never shirking a duty or avoiding ah obligation, yon need not fear that your efforts will be unobserved. Your employer is always on the lookout for some one who will best servo him, and if yon serve him bettor and more faithfully than his other employes it will bo you who will bo advanced over their heads as opportunities arise. Do your work, not only punctually and faithfully, but with intelligence and method.

The world advances rapidly. New methods and new ideas constantly supplant tho old. The man who stands still is lost, for the moro trusting and enterprising rnsh past him and leave him in the roar. So, whatever your task may be, make a study of it. See if you cannot do it better, quicker, more economically than it has heretofore been done.

Be original and think for yourselves. Because otir predecessor has done the work in a certain way is no reason why you should so do it. Think out for yourself, if you can. a better way. If I had time I might, perhaps, suggest other thoughts, but I think I must content myself with those rules as among the more important for your guidance.

Before closing I may be permitted to make a few suggestions of a more general nature that may bo equally applicable to the girls and boys, liumeiu ber that every step of your life leads to another. Every step in the right direction leads to success and happiness, every stop in tho wrong direction leads to failure and unhappinoss. No one of us can know for what ho is being fitted. Each is following a separate road and undergoing a separate education. No two persons aro alike in every respect.

A time conies when a great crisis arises and then tho revelation to somo man that all the training of his lifo has been leading him up this supreme moment and that he, perhaps only he, in a whole nation is the man for this crisis. When our civil war broke out it was Abraham Lincoln whose life had fitted him to guide tho nation. It was Ulysses S. Grant who had been prepared to leail our armies to victory, and vet any one familiar with their earlier lives would havo believed them among tho most unlikely to till their places with tho pre eminent fitness which they manifested. 1 advise yon, therefore, always to look high.

Bo not satisfied in your own lives or in your own ambitious with anything but the best and the highest. Bnt nevor seek preferment by means that your conscience would condemn. Preparo yourself all the time for something higher and better, but never stoop to dishonesty or mean methods to attain it. Wliatevermay bo your future occupation you will find some timo to improve your minds and to receive pleasure and instruction from reading. No doubt times will come when yon will feel that you are overwhelmed with business and can spend no time in reading or studying books.

This, however, is a mistake. I do not believe there is one man or woman in a thousand who cannot obtain some time for reading or study if it be really desired. I have one acquaintance, a very aotive and busy man, who never retires, no matter how late the hour, no mutter how fully he may have been occupied, without spending a half hour in reading some book. I have another acquaintance who makes the same rule, and being differently situated spends a half hour in reading in the middle of each day. By systematically following this practice you will bo astonished how much you can accomplish in a year.

Wherever you may be I am sure you will never forget tho years you have spent in No. 11. You go out from the school with the congratulations of your teachers ami the best wishes of all connected with it. have reflected credit on the school while you were here and wo feel sure that you will bring still moro credit to it in your future lives. Public School A'o.

lf. The closing exercises at Grammar School No. corner of South Second and Jveap streets, of which Mr. Walter B. Gunnison is tho principal took place last evening, with the usual largo attendance of parents, relatives and friends which such occasions never fail to attract to this old and popular school.

Mr. John McNamee, chairman of the Local Committee, presided. The programme was short, but good. First came a chorus by the school, "Welcome Summer," and then a very creditable salutatory by Master Horatio H. Peden and a college song sung by the boys.

Next came perhaps the most original and ambitious effort, "Pictures From Evangeline," a kind of gloss on certain passages of the poem, written by Miss Alice Foster and read by Misa Cora Foster, not inferior to many a magazine artiyle of tho kind. This was succeeded by a recitation, by Master Frederick C. Edwards, of the scene in Evangeline of which Father Felician is the central figure. Tho reader, beside being in excellent voico, preserved faithfully tho music of the hexameters. Next camo a semi chorus, "Wandering in by boys and girls: after which Miss Josephine Bennett made tho valedictory address, and the exercises closed with a rattling college chorus by the boys.

Mr. McNamee rose and said that every one in Brooklyn to whom the interests of education were dear would regret that the city was about to lose one of its very best educators in Mr. George N. Carman, who was about to go West to tho City of St. Paul, whence he came.

He (hen introduced Mr. Carman, who said: My Friends, Fellow Citizens and Members of the "Graduating Class of School No. 1 Fourteen years ago there was a graduating class in a little town of which you may never have heard, Fen ton, in the Statu of Michigan. It was, however, a place very familiar to me, and I am reminded of the graduating class there then by this class hero to night. The motto which yourclass has adopted on tins occasion, "Carpe Diem," seize the present day, is the same which the class at Fenton adopted.

In that class I graduated. That was the first time I appeared on a stage as now. Since then I havo been constantly engaged in school work, but this is the only timo since then that I have again been on a stage. It seemed to me a very important occasion the first time, and it seems an important occasion now, too. April when I saw llev.

Dr. Storrs take from his pocket a quantity of manuscript and heard him read a prayer from it, I was surprised, knowing as I did that such a procedure was not according to the custom of his denomination: but my surprise was greater when Chiiuncey Depew, too, took out a manuscript and read hiB address. Then it occurred to mo that they did as described bocauso the occasion was a great one an opportunity that they might never have agatu and it would not do to mako any mistake. Your principal a few days ago sent mo a request that I should address yau on this occasion. Ilecogniziim its importance, and to guard against any mistake, I have followed the examplo of tho distinguished gentlemen just alluded to, and shall read from the manuscript I have prepared.

Here Mr. Carman road as follows: A rational method of education is possible only when its true aim is clearly aeon and agreed upon. Everv step may be intelligently taken and will lead in the right direction when the end or object aimed at is kept distinctly in view. There is puBt now great diversity of opinion as to what and how much should bo taught in the Dtiblie schools. There can bo no agreement until the object of education is agreed upon.

One way that occurs to me of determining or of helping us who are responsible to determine what is or what has been tho object aimed at in our education here in Brooklyn iB for us to experiment at this Commencement season on those who are the result of our work, to examine the finished products which we are about to turn out. An examination along this line may not be altogether unprofitable for thoso who have jnst been graduated and for us who are so largely responsible for their intellectual equipment. Suppose we proceed in this examination by asking each of these young graduates the question What has your scliool life done for you? What use are you going to make of your education 1 Now, I'm sure you'll, none of you, object to this examination, though you didn't expect it and thought examinations were over, possibly forever, for I'm going to try to answer tho questions for you and j'ou may mark me. I want you to judge whether I answer them correctly or not. I may judge you wrongfully, for I'll tell you in advance that in answering these questions I intend to put a very low estiinato on what your school life has done for you as compared with what it ought to have done, and I intend to put a very low estimate on tho use you'll probably make of it as compared with the use ou might make of the right kind of an education.

I think that most of you imagine your education is going to help your advancement in life, help you to get on in the world. It may. But what do you mean by advancement in life, by getting on in the world, by getting a position in life? I've been reading a book lately written by an Englishman, in which ho says in substance that advancement in life means becoming conspicuous in life; obtaining a position which shall be acknowledged by others to be respectable or honorable; not the mero making of money, but the being known to have made it; not the accomplishment of any great aim, but tho being seen to have accomplished it. Tho seaman does not commonly dosiro to bo mado captain because ho knows ho can manage the ship better than any other sailor on board. He wants to be mado captain that he may be called captain.

Are your notions of advancement in lifo worthy or unworthy, right or wrong 7 Which, do you think, is the more important to strive to fill worthily whatever position you find yourself in, assured that if you deserve something better you'll get it if you are needed in a moro responsible position you'll be asked to fill it, or to consider yourself above the, position you are filling and to'aise your energies in the effort to get something better I remember when every man who made a speech in tho country school folt it his duty to say that some boy in the room might become President of the United States. It might havo been belter if tho advisers of our youth had taken more pains to impress upon Young America tliat it is more important to do faithfully the work in hand than to bo ambitious for more exalted labors. We havo hoard something about Washington this year. We aro told that ho doubted his ability to direct the nation through tho difficulties that beBet it. He didn't display any anxiety to become President that he might he called President.

Sinco tho tune of Washington it is possible that some havo become presidents and othorB havo wanted to become presidents, not becauso they knew they could guide the ship of State better than any othor statesman on board, but because of the office and tho spoils of office. Has your education made you of bo much worth, bo valuable, that you foel you are good for something because of your education, beoause of your worth, your worthiness? Have you confidence in tho right, in your own Tightness, your righteousness? Has your school lifo made your conduct such, so accuBtomed you to pationt toil and steady, clear thought, that you have faith in yourself, faith in what is right, so that you feel you may trust your advancement in lifo, so far as the Btation you are to fill is concerned, to your own worthiness? Or must you outer the mau and reekleBB acramblo for place and position, the tide of whioh is bo strong in this great oenter of commoroial life and business activity that it seemB sometimes impossible to get Mace or position except by scramble. Has your school life fitted rou to nnrnmVtln fnr nnaltfll in life HaVO WO WnO are came tho brightest of the system, Abraham Lincoln, and his luster will nevor fade. We had many great ones in his time. Some died in victory, others in defeat, all for principle.

And so as wo come still nearer to the end others new and bright still kindle into view. A piano solo by Miss Jennie Lewis and a humorous reading by Charles Hearns preceded the reading of a composition, entitled "A Basket of Chips," by George W. Temple, which, to thoie who knew the roader, was almost as hnmorous aB the ono announced as such. "Fly Forth, my Song," by the school, was charmingly rendered. In tho quotations that were next presented by Ethel Dudley, Francis de la Hoyde, May Leonard and Pearl Tavernier if, where all wero bo excellent one could be better than the others, that ono was May Leonard, who repeated a morsel from Longfellow with sweet voico and plaintive style.

"Marguerite," sung by Miss Fannie Ferris, one of February's graduates, concluded the first portion of the programme. A humorous reading in Irish dialect, by Charles Miller, was, as far as applause, may be counted as a gauge of success, the effort of the evening. The school sang "Return, Soft, Gentle Evening," and Minnie Koch, Itobert Lea, Lulu Bates and Gordon Stallknecht gave some quotations. Miss Emma L. Kolb, graduate of 1H8H, recited "The Lost Child" with much swinging of arms and jumping about tho platform.

She was encored and responded with a rather indelicate story about cantor oil. Edward J. Noble declaimed Horatio Seymour's "Duty of the State to Higher Education." May O'Calla ghan and Maud Barker, two little girls not yet in the graduating class, played a duet on the piano in a maimer that devolves great credit on their instructor and themselves. "God Guard My Fatherland" and the anthem "Come with me" by the school preceded tho delivery of tho valedictory. Miss EmmaL.

Warner, the valedictorian, is the youngest girl in tho class. She is a charming little lady, lust 14 years old, and looked very pretty in a dress of some soft white material and long surah sash. Her composition was on "Traveling" and the valedictory address was as follows: Upon me rests the duty of saying goodby. To the scholars of No. 45, 1 suspect that you are glad to have us go so that you, in turn, may somo time be graduates; but before we leave, take this parting advice from one who knows: If you wish to succeed in the higher grades you must study hard in the lower ones; mind your decimal points anil remember, neuter verbs never take objects.

To our earlier teachers we say that to night, as we look back, we know that if you had not helped us in the simpler tasks, we would not havo been able to take up successfully the moro difficult ones. And as we say goodby wo also add: lou have our heartfelt thanks for all yon have done. To tho committee wo now say goodby, gratefully remembering how, through your assistance, education has been given ns as to many, and especially do we tender thanks to our chairman, who has shown so constant an interest our school and has so often given us pleasure by his presence and counsel. lr. Jelliffe We cannot find words to express our thankfulness and appreciation for your careful training and helping hand.

We thank you for vour kindly interest in all that concerned us, and in after years as we read "Evangeline" we sliall remember, with pleasure how the words took deeper meaning as you road with ns that beautiful poem; and it is with deep regret we say to you goodby. Our dear teacher, it has been, indeed, a pleasant term that wo havo spent with yon. feel as we leave you, that we are leaving a friend, and it would boa great pleasure if we could continue our studies with you, but wo will try, wherever we go, to be a credit to your teaching. We find it a hard task to say good by to you. And nqn; my classmates, the last words must be spoken before we part lo meet as Rohnolmatcs no more.

may meet again and keep up the old friendships, though never again as a class; but we can never forget one another nor the school in which we have spent so many pleasant hours; and when at other times, in other places we talk of the past, our memory will go back to this evening with its pleasure sadly tinged with the pain of parting. Classmates, farewell. Once again, to all. scholars and teachers, committee and friends, I say with grateful heart, good by. At the conclusion of the valodictory address tho graduate were ushered to the platform and sang in chorus the class song.

Mr. Bouck presented the diplomas and made a brief address, in which he took occasion to give himself and his col eagues, Messrs. Northup and Crecvey, considerable credit for tho good work done in the school. Messrs. Northup and Creovey followed in tho same mutual admiration strain.

Mr. Creovey considered Mr. Northup deserved a good deal of credit, and Mr. Northup admitted tho fact and said Mr. Bouck and Mr.

Creevey also deserved plenty of commendation. Nobody said a word about the deserts of the principal or teachers. Mr. Simis, of the Board of Education, was also present. Superintendent Maxwell came in lato and when asked to say a few words praised himself and the Bo of which he was superintendent for the hard light they had made in tho cause of education.

He grumbled at the Board of Estimate and said that the people would, ho expected, soon bring them to a realization of their needs. A bouquet of llowcr.s was presented to each of the speakers and many baskets wero received by the "sweet girl graduates." Book prizes were presented to Edward Noble and Emma E. Warner, from the class teacher, for being first in her class. The following are the names of those who received their diplomas: Francis Aloysius Do La Hoyde, Charles Vincent Hearns, liobert Edward Lea, Charles Jloll Edward Noble, Louis Eugene Phipps. Gordon StaFkncelit.

George William TV nple, Charles Cnllis Western, Lulu May Bates, Ethel Francos Dudley, Emma Josephine Green, Carrie Hamilton Horton, Ella Elizabeth King, Wilhelmina Gasena Koch, Mary Leonard, Jeanueite Mario Lewis, Martha lto Pauline Amanda Tavernier, Emma Louise Warner. S' lib lie. School o. It. The graduation exercises of Public School No.

11 were held yesterday morning in the school building on Washington avenue, near Greene. After an interesting programme, consisting of piano solos, duets, vocal and instruwental recitations and choruses by the school, the chairman of the Local Committee, Mr. Horace 15. Dresser, presented diplomas to the following graduates: Misses Cordelia J. Andrew Clara M.

Brown, Mabel Z. Buhner, Maude F. Chapin. Daisy A. Edwards, Grace L.

Fitzlmgh, Grace Fowler, Lucy II. Gcrow. Edna S. Hand, Mabel L. Haynes, Eva A.

Hnrbut, Annie Keeler, Annie A. Locke, Leon tine Lazarde, Frances B. Miles, Edith It. Meade, Norma H. Martin, Eugenia II.

Montignam, Marion Peters, Sarah F. Pilciier, Ida II. Phraner, Harriet E. Philips. Elizabeth M.

Kholes, Florence M. lt.mget, Florence A. Shand. Mabel Stopt'ord, Adele L. Sturdcvant, Maude B.

Stowell, Caroline J. Sloan, May F. Tib bals, Martha T. Valentino, Florence L. Vose, Edith M.

Wagnor, Messrs. Henry F. Adams, Joseph W. Beacham, Joseph L. S.

Barton, F. H. Boychartt, John B. Canileld, Harry P. Chard, William H.

Coolidge, Harrio T. Chapman, Luther L. Emerson, Benjamin F. Ellsworth, Leo Erdwurm, Arthur Downing, John Gordon, Joseph M. Herbert, Alfred A.

Hevbort, F. W. Heikamp, W. H. Harknoss, Walter Lambert, Arthur Lee, Arthur C.

Mills, Jacob Miller, Henry M. Nichols, Granville G. Penniman, Harry G. Sidfqrd, Charles T. Swenson, Louis A.

Tyler, W. A. Towner, Theodore Victor, Henry M. Wykes. In his address to the graduates Mr.

Dresser said: It is incumbent on me, as chairman of the committee of this school, to address a few wordB of encouragement and advice to yon aB you go out from us. I havo always regarded tho time of graduation as a critical one in tho career of those about to be graduated. It is a time when, perhaps, a word from one more experienced than yourselves may be of the greatest value and have a direct and controlling influence on all your future lifo. I speak to you, then, this morning, with a feeling of great responsibility and the earnest desire that wisdom may be given me to advanoo Borne thought that may aid yon in tho life on which yon are now about to enter. I am met, at the outset, by the fact that I am to speak to a graduating class of girls and one of boys.

I realize that there is likely to bo a groat diversity in the manner of life of these two classes, and that the words I might speak to the one might not be as practically useful to the other as I might desire. With your permission, then, I will first address the girls and then the boys. In every such class us yours the natural abilities, the home influences and the future lot of the different members must greatly differ. Some of you will to day end your school life, while others will enterou now and higher studies. Some of you will enjoy homes of luxury, while others will doom it necessary to fit themselves for self support.

But whatever may be your condition or circumstances you may live noblo lives and mako yourselves of use to othors. Woman's work is far different from man's, but it is a mistake to suppose that because it is different it is less important. I do not bolieve that woman should desire to do man's work any more than a man should wish to do a woman's. Each has his or her own sphere. It is the mission of all of you to make home It may be the mission of some of yon to become teachers and thus lead many minds to higher attainments.

But how enn you best accomplish these results In the first place, surround yourselves with every refinement of whioh your circumstances will admit; cultivate your minds by reading and study. Open your hoarts to the troubles and sorrows of others which no one can so well alleviate as a woman. There have been most noble examples of woman's work which may act as incentives to you. Wherever in the world have been suffering and sorrow thoro have boon found the gentle hand and loving heart of woman. In tho hospital or on the battle field, in the prison or the abodo of poverty, it is woman who has ministered to tho stricken ones, has smoothed the pillow of the dying or brought relief to the wretched.

Florence Nightingale, watching over the sick and wounded, and Clara Barton, at the head of the Bed Cross Society, aro shining examples of what women can do. When rocently the dam burst and the waters spread over the valley, swallowing cities and towns and their inhabitants by the thousand, what trouble and anguish resulted. It was in such an hour aB this that a woman, Clara Barton, the president of tho ltod Cross Society, hastened to the scene of desolation to aid the destitute and to bring help to those who had suffered bv fire, flood and famine. Nor aro such noble efforts as these of benefit only to those to whom relief iB brought. Evoryone who engages in such self sacrificing, generous and noble actions will feel within herself the reward and the blessing.

You need not think that it is nocossary for you to be at the head of Bnch an order to do good, and that only such women as these of whom I speak, and others of whom you read, are of use in the world. There is many a gentle womau or frail girl who in a more contracted Bphere and out of sight of the world, ib modestly doing her duty just as faithfully. Do, then, what you can to bring sunshine and happiness not only into your own homes and familes, but into those of othors loss fortunate than yourselves. The boys who graduate to day will, sooner or later, enter into business. No doubt a number of you ivill do so at once; but I hope that every ono who can will continue his studies.

You are all young and should spend several years yet in study. Fortunately, in our Central School the city providos tho moans of so doing to the best advantage But either now or later each of you will be called on to choose a business. I am aware that the choice of the business a man is to follow, perhaps all his life, is largely a matter of chance. You will look for an opening and reiv likely will accept tho first place that is offered to you; and juBt at thiB point I think the great mistake of a lifetime is often mado. I should not advise you to acoept any position without careful nnnaidnrnt.lan.

It will be far better to watt Interment of. the Remains Captain Woglom. Burled in ETPireens hy the Side of. Hi Wife, from Whose Death He NoVer Ile covered Elixruuut Words of Dr. J.

D.l Wolls nt tho Funeral Sorvico. Impressive funeral services were held ovor tho remains of ex Police Captain Cornelius Woglom in the South Third Street Presbyterian Church, corner Driggs street, yesterday afternoon. When tho casket was borno into tho church, aftor o'clock, by tho pall bearers, representing the police of the Fifth Precinct and tho Exempt Firemen's Association of the Eastern Distriot, tho ediliee was well fillc.i with Ii'ielia tin flnnnn. i TIiiilertAker John H. Snyder had I connected and under hi'l direction the casket was placed at the head of 'the center aislo and near by two largo floral pll inmliMarintf the inscriptions "Our Father" and "Fifth Precinct Police," with several smaller I ones, rested.

Pastor J. D. Wells, 1). lh, anujveyj. tor UasKins, u.

oi. jianm Msy Bedford avenue and South ittn 'WOU on the platform and an appropruiM performed on the organ, in i i ti, i.lsln tlin two sons and th IieilU Ol VVJlvv daily liters of the deceased and tneir inui iliWs snt. whilo tho pall bearers, as follows, occUipied a pew near the pulpit: Pohco Fifth Precinct Harmer and ofiicers Htcharo Cleary, OCharlcs Quiun, Samuel Dredger, Forbes, Briiikerhovr nod Smith, exempt, firemen Engineoi Frank Kelly, VTohn B. Brown, Daniel Ketoham, 0, Yidcton. In oScicr pews wero sixty officers of the Bedford avenulVstation, under Captain Martin Short and SergeaWs Samuel Hardy, George W.

Bunco and Black, nil id a delegation of thirty inoi from the FirVomon's includ ing, beside the pall bcanV, Charles F. Petty, OX. U.lcrmnii lleardim. foloXcl McGllillllOSS, Mr ItoHcr. Mr.

lVtfsi' TNanjian, Jacob M.i Coroner FriuicisJ ifW rtttlwles WB Cheshire, James P. Kelly, Judge 11. W. Allon, of Flushing; William Taylor, Theodore E. Green, Hon.

Caleb L. Smith, C. W. Johnson, D. D.

Apple ton, William Denyse, Frederick A. Fox, JohnS. ex Alderman William Waters, Benjamin Baker, Detectives 'John C. Corcoran, George Campbell, Thomas Holland and Brady, Dr. J.

Watt Fleming, Dr. Vincent. Joseph Gardner, A. Jalin, Baron Martin Lynch, Joseph Hoisor, Thomas Kiely, William F. Madias.

Tho Police Department was represented by Commissioner James 1). Bell, Superintendent Patrick Campbell, Inspectors P. II. McLaughlin and Captains Martin Short, John Brennan, Georgo B. Kho les and Mclvelvoy and ox Commissioner Leech and ox Captains Enoch Jacobs, George Smith and Worth.

A quartet and soloist retidored the musical part of tlie services. Dr. Haskins read the burial sorvicrt and Do Wells mide an addrew. ether Things Wells said that if dying he would say to tho min isters who were to conduct servicos over hie ro niniiis that they should say nothing of lam but all of Him whoso name is the only one to save us. He knew that it would be the of Captain Wodoni that but little should be said of him.

Continuing the preacher said: "I became intimately acquainted with Captain Woglom after his wife's death, bereavement from which ho never fully recovered. If those mute lips in tho casket could now speak they would request mo lo TOiy little of him and 1 could say noth ing that his children and children's chil, dren do not know. If those eyes could look around and see the men by whom ho was surrounded he would be pleased, for they wore men whom in great part he had commanded; ho would be well pleased with how his moinory was being honored. The watchful press has chroni cled the chief events of his public life; how he I was a carpenter. Alderman of the Thirtoonth Ward, ami police captain.

The perils, and re sponsibilities of tho poution wero great, bhtMio discharged them ail. When this church was buiU in he would not let his mon risk their livesVl hy placing a lutll on the spire. Ho did it himsolf, and it is there to this day. So it is fitting that the services should bo ld in this house over hisi remains." The preacher next drew the usual les sons from death and told them to bo prepared atl all times, as none knew when the dread aor would come. At the of the address tho quartet saiigj "Nearer, My God, to Thou," and a soloist ren dered another hymn, after which Dr.

Wells made a closing prayer. The body exposed by Undertaker Snyder and all took a last look at the well kuo wTf face, i after which the lid was closed and the casket wnsj borne to the lu ur.se. The police escorted thei remains as far as Union avenue, and Broadway, the boundary line of the Fifth Precinct. Mont ol them entered carriages at that point and proceeded with the hearse to Evergreens Cemetery, where thq interment took place, beside his wife. ZEKEDATUA LODliE EXCURSION'.

Ilain Mars the J'arty'a Stay nt tlie Kluilt rxkill. About sixty of the members of Zerodatha Lodge No. F. and A. and their friends enjoyed an excursion up she Hudson, returning to Brooklyn Wednesday night.

The party embarked on the steamer City of Kingston Tuesday afternoon and reached Bondout at 10 P. M. They remained on the boat all night and yesterday morning went by train to the K. iaterakill House, in the Catskills. A rain, which descondod 4n sheets, precluded any amusement except what could bo found indoors.

Tho Now York State Press Assoeatioii was in convention at the hotel during tho stay of the ox i cursionisfs. Hore arc tho names of somo of those who participated ill tho jaunt: Mr. and Mrs. il. 11.

Van Kenren, Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Lenhart, Mr.

aud MrH. John P. Steele, Mr. and Mrs. George Hotinann, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Faas, Mr. and Frank Post, Sir. and Mrs. Charles M.

Gator, tho Misses Gator, Mr. John Berrio. Joseph E. Patterson, Mr. and Mrs.

Will iam F. Keck. Mr. Peter B. Sweeney, Frank Far don.

Miss Addio Gauley, Mr. and Mrs. Johnj Tattor, Mr. and Mrs. George rotifer, Mr.

audi Mrs. Henry Cordes, Mr. aud Mrs. John Johu 1 ston, Miss Johnston, Thomas Minnis, David Franker, Mr. and 3Irs.

James W. Brown, Mr. James Given, Andrew Wornor. Tho commit tool in chargo of arrangements wero P. Frederic.

Lenhart, chairman; Peter B. Sweeney, sed tary: H. B. Van Kourcn, master. HIS WITNESSES FAILED UI3I.

Young illrs. Stcinman Did Not TUreaten to Nark llor Husband For Life. Mrs. Carrie Steinman, a pretty young woman residing at G4 1 Kosciusko street, was on trial be foro Justice Kenna yesterday on her husband Hurry's chargo that she had throatoned to throw vitriol in his face. Tho couplo do not live together.

The offense alleged occurred on the evening of Juno 2 in front of tho Janes Methodist Episcopal Church, at the corner of lieid avenuo and Monroe street. At that time Steinman, in com pany with Carrie Mercedo, Addio Mercedo and" Lizzie Wiley, came out of the church and was met at tho entrance by Mrs. Steinman. A scene ensued which has already been detailed in thu Exoi.b. Steinman tried to provo by his thai ladv companions that his wifo had mado tho aT loged threat, but one and all testified that they had merely heard her say "I'vo a good mind to slap your face." Mrs.

Steinman was discharged. KAVY VAUD NOTES. The resignation of Commodore Schloy, ehiof of tho Bureau of Equipment and lloeruiting of tho Navy, is regarded with great surpriso by the officers at the Navy Yard. Tho commodore had several years loft of tho term for which lie ytjg appointed, and no motive can be assigns his action. Captain luting, who is neita 6T department of equipment and recruiting at tho; Navy Yard, said yesterday that he was at a loss to', know why Schley should go.

He could give no idea as to who his would be. About twenty cadets from tho Austrian ship, Saida visited the yard yesterday. Tlioy spent long time looking over tho handsomo Chicago. Among the naval ordors issued at Washington i yesterday wero tho following: Faymastor W.I N. Woodhull ordered to duty as assistant to the general storekeeper at tho Brooklyn Navy Yard July 1 Lieutenant William H.

Keedor detached from tho Galena July 1 and placed on waiting orders; Gunner John B. Granger detached from the Chicago and placed on sick leave. TIIK CENTltAL SIHULE TAX CLUB. The semi annual election of ofiicers of the Central Singlo Tax Club took place at 56 Livingston street Wednesday night. The following gentlemen were elected: President, George White; first vied president, Frank P.

Band; second vice president, William Jeft'cott; recording secretary, Goorge W. Thompson; corresponding secretary, J. W. H. Maclagan; financial secretary, Itobert 0.

TJteBs; treasurer, Georgo N. Olcott; chairman of Hou6 Committee, John Hickling; chairman of Lecture Committee, E. A. Curley; chairman of Library Committee, E. A.

MacClean; chairman of Agitation Committeo, J. T. O'Neill: chairman of Music" Committeo, W. A. Smith.

Tho club also passed a resolution offeriug its parlors for tho formation of an indepondent ballot reform association. TELEPHONE OYEMENT. A patent for telephone improvement! cently granted to Philo E. Hall, of Detl consists of a simple device by which the tel can be adjusted to any required height ient to tho person speaking, who can also ui either an erect or sitting posture at will. bo brought to any floor ly means of av through which the telephone is made wi Urns effecting a large saving of money tol occupying entire buildings.

In ofhco bujj ono instrument ia made to do service lor i vertical row of offieos. Another featij patent is a folding shelf, whioh anl double purpose or a rest iot tne arnw receiver and of a desk on which note conveniently airHneBsjureB ta peived. The doa Closing Their School Terms in Local Institutions. Interostinff Essays and Delightful Music Enjoyed by Parents and Friends Lists of the Graduates Some Seusibln Ad dresses. Last evening the commencement exercise of the Boys' Department of the Brooklyn Central School were held in the large ltn.ll of tlie building at the corner of Nostrund avenue ami Halsoy street.

The scene was similar to of the previous evening, and the assemblage wan every whit large. On the platform were Pre ident Hcndrix, Nelson J. Gates, Dr. John Griffin, J. It.

Thompson, William Ilarkness, D. W. Northup and H. 1'. Halsey.

all members of the Board of Education; Calvin Patterson, the principal of the school, and Professor A. G. McAllister, principal of the Hoys' Department. The exercises began promptly at 8 o'eloeli with an overture by the orchestra, ami then the presiding olliccr, Nelson J. Gates, announced W.

W. D. Cunningham, who delivered the salutatory and said: Some time ago I read a story of the days wh the sods condescended to visit (he earth ami to walk and ill; li ice men. It seems that Jupiter Upon one of iiis regular trips found himself at night, weary, footsore, hungry and shelterless. He approached a humble cottage where dwelt an honest poor man named Philemon, and Baucis, his worthy wife.

He asked for shelter, it was granted; for lodgings, they were promised: for food, and it was placed 'fore him. The best their lanh afforded was a in 'ager lo if of coarse rye bread and a little sour hom mude wine in the bottom of an earthen pitcher. Hoveling around the table, eager to please "heir guest, old Philemon and Baucis, his wife, saw strange things: the loaf, though often cur. never diminished, and tasted had become most delicious: the pitcher, often emptied, yet refilled and tin; thivor of the wine was strangely sweet. ndthcn the worthy couple perceived that they were entertaining a god.

aro to night your host, your Philemon. Following my simile I hear you nsk: "Where is your BincisV Alas, my friends, the time lias ill our history when this house is not large enough to hold us both, so we entertain alone. The best we have all we have place beloro you, hopiiiK, trusting that go I ike love and charity, which, as our friends, you entertain toward us and our efforts, may transform each ancient, threadbare statement to sparkling originality; each dreary, nervcics; platitude to a thought bubbling with ideas l.rrii and gentlemen, in the name of the classes I represent 1 bid you welcome. Then William Fitch Atkinson was introduced. He gave the following essay on "The United States Postal and his reading was listened to with deep interest: Many of our greatest blessings come to us so quietly and regularly that we ueitlier appreciate their value nor realize the wonderful means by which we receive them.

Such a blessing is our postal system, accomplisiiing, among other things, the safe and speedy delivery of over 1,000,000,000 the vi i of letters, the collection and aim nil expenditure of 000. 00(1, the oversight of 7,000 contractors for carrying the mails and toe safe transmission of those' mails over miles of post routes. What a contrast the railway Post Oilico or the vestibule train of to day, whirling along at almost lightning speed, presents to the pony, carrying the mail in a pair of saddlebags or even to the stage coach, lumbering over the tnrn Eike ami transporting a lean and apologetic bag, idden somewhere under th. feet of the passengers or among tin if numer ms bundles. It was less than one hundred and fifty years ago that Benjamin franklin startled the citizens of Philadelphia by the statement that be could run a weekly mail stage from that city to ijnstnn in six davs.

The mail is now carried between thoso two points in ten hours. The po money record kopt bv Benjamin Franklin during the eleven years tiiat he was at the head, covers no move paper than the transactions of two days now When Washington was President of the United StateH there were but 7.1 post othecs and 1,875 post miles of post route; in his little republic. To obtain an idea of the tremendous growth of the system we must miiltip.y the number of offices by 00 and the number of miles bv Of the many triumphs of the postal svstem the railway post oftico is the most wonderful as well as the most important. Although it has been in use but twenty iivo years it has made it elf indispensable. By means of it mail matter may be distributed during transit instead of at the terminal offices, which, in some cases, saves a delay of twenty four hours.

If a passenger, traveling from New York to Chicago on tlie l'a express, were allowed to enter the live forward ears of bis train he would behold a scene of acth it such as is seldom found ehewlicre. These live cars are devoted to the use of the railway post olHcc and in them the enormous mail between those two great business centers is distributed by a crew of nineteen men. Each station along the route furnishes it; quota to Dwell the amount, and at ea of these stations bags of mail must be thrown off. All the mail must be (irted and the letters placed in the proper pigeon holes. When we know that for t'no letters of New York State alone three hundred anil twenty live pigeon boles are required, we can easily realize that these clerks have no leisure.

In order to perform their work without delay these men must not only lie skillful sorters but must have el. ar heads, a quick retentive memories anil a thorough knowledge of the geography of the country. This knowledge is not acquired without careful, laborious effort. For weeks, perhaps for mouths, the man studies a list of the post villages of a certain until he can tell instantly just what to do with a letter or package. When he has thoroughly mastered tnis State he takes another.

Every appliance which may facilitate the work is supplied. The most ingenious of these is a shaped iron attached to the side of the ear. by means of which a bag of mail, suspended to a crane at some small station, may be caught up while the train rushes by at liftv miles an hour. For this same purpose different, appliances are used in other countries, but, as in so many other cases in which mechanical ingenuity is required, the American has again invented the most practical form, which has already been adopted in Australia and India, lint great as the progress of our country in rapidly moving, mails undoubtedly is, there seems to be plenty of room for improvement, especially hi forwarding letters and small packages. The method employed in Paris and other foreign cities, has been highly jcconni, ended to UB.

This svstem, called the Pnematie, uses small tubes, with feed and delivery stations. A letter or package is placed in one en I and sent, with marvelous swiftness, to its dcstiiiuJoii by the force of compressed air. We hear occasional rumors of penny postage, but it is stated that our present Postmaster General bus resolved upon the wiser course of improving the service before reducing the rate of postage. The system at the present time is not self supporting, and, its we now have the cheapest postal service in the world, it is at least doubtful whether it would he good policy to reduce the income until the annual deficit is a thing of the past. Much interest is just now manifested in an invention that promises to revolutionize the mail and light express service.

The model of the proposed si rncture has the appearance of a miniature el vated railroad. A light steel car, capable id' carrying about one thousand letters, is to be forced from New York to Boston with such amazing swiftness that it is estimated the distance will be traversed in about two hours. The disadvantage of the presont system is that much time is necessarily wasted in waiting for the mails to close. The electric system, however, proposes to send a car every five minutes, each carrying its quota of mail, which has been placed in the post box but a few moments before. The cost of construction would be the only great expense, since the cost of its main tenance would be very slight, 1 have heard a storv of a Southern negro who, along in the 0s, visited the North with his master, and while there rode upon the cam.

When he returned he endeavored to give his awe struck companions an idea of the speed of the train. He said: Yo' stan' here yo' look over there an' yo' see him comin' yo' turn rouir quick an' yo' see him goin' out oh sight." In it not possible that there is something of prophecy in this Btor and that even in our day we shall see letters or parcels sent just as quickly At the conclusion, the orchestra played "The Bridal Ruse" and then Eugene Carroll Brown read the following essay: If there are in the audience before mo to night any devotees of that school of philosophy which is inclined to lay much stress noon the influence of inherited tendencies and early environments in the shaping of individual character, they could ask for no more conspicuous illustration of this theory than that furnished by the career of the poet Milton. Sprung from a line of Puritan ancestors, the boy, even in childhood, showed evidence of tlie stern and lofty spirit ami of the devotion to music and poetry that formed such marked traits of his father's character. The systematic education which he received at home under private tutors, then at the famous St. Paul's school, and lastly at Christ's College, Cambridge, where ne remained seven years, the live years passed in the delightful contemplation of country scenery at llorton and the no less delightful communion with ihe master minds of the ancient literatures, and finally the long desired journey through Italy, where he received inspiration at the fountain head of the renaissance all these circumstances contrived to aroiise in Milton the aspirations, 'to develop in him the power to become a great and glorious poet, lint experiences of this character aione wouM never have made him a heroic poet It was Milton, sobered by twenty years of service in the cause of the Puritan Commonwealth: the survivor of friends departed, of cause that seemed lost: Milton, physically old and blind, but spiritually trio in oh a n't and glorified, who gave to English literature its greatest epic poem, to theology itself a new concept ion.

"God of the Nations" was the theme of a chorus by the graduates, and then C. Thurston Chase read an essay written by liobert MoOrcady Harris. This is an extract: If you should stop the first well dressed man you might meet and suddenly demand of him "Who was 'Tom Hood?" the probabilities are that, after he had recovered from his astonishment at your abruptness and your ignorance, he would nssure you that Tom Hood was, as everybody knows, an Knglish comic poet. And if, your ap. parent curiosity increasing with this information, vou should further inquire if he could re member the name of anything that Hood ever wrote, it is equally probable, that lie would reply: irtainly, can tie hong ot tlie tjinrt.

it one of the interesting paradoxes oi literary History that he whom everybody knows as the prince of English humorists should be remembered chiefly as the writer of one of the most pathetic poems in the English language. But the paradox is soon explained: Hood had a double character; or, as his friend l.iunb said jestingly, he carried two fuoes one tragic and the other comic. "His pen touched aliko the Hprings of laughter and the source, of tears." Perhaps it is this fact more than anything else that has given him in English literature the place occupied by Kichler in German, Dor Bmzigo" ho stands alone. Then Mr. B.

H. Mayland played a llute solo, n'ith variations, and then the graduates sang "The Chapel" and "Farewell." the subjectof an essay by George Everett Skidmore, who said, among other things: If you want to know what subject is uppermost in the minds of the thinking public, study tho American newspaper. The fact that so iuuch Bpacoin our newpapevs ami magazines is devoted to the discussion of school matters, proves that the American peoplo everywhere are interested in the subject of popular That we have, or at least, aro likely to have in this country a unique and peculiarly American system of education, must be evidint to anyone who has enjoyed an opportunity oi listening to the exhortations and promises of our latest school of jneatjpnai reionnors. cropping in reconwy at ti uu guveu uy wiu cjiau apoted? universfa "1IUIBlliii cated, liberally educated. A good education ib the teacher's stock in trade.

There is no substitute for it. A good school is one in whioh a good toacher. with a good education, is given a chance, untrammelled by the needless hindrances concocted by incompetent, self styled superiors, to teach her pupils, by example and precept, to develop all their God given possibilities. How high shall education go Brooklyn must havo facilities for higher education that will enable her to furnish a supply of liberally educated teachers for her own schools, or she must get along with poorly equipped teachers or go elsewhere for her teachers. But a good education alone is not enough to make good teachers.

Things will not be as tliev should be till, in the words of Carlyle. the hodman is discharged or reduced to hod bearing and an architect is hired and on all hands is fitly encouraged; till communities and individuals discover, not without surprise, that fashioning the souls of a generation by knowledge can rank on a level with blowing their bodies to pieces with gunpowder; that with generals and field marshals lor killing, thero should be world honored dignitaries, and, were it possible, true God ordained priests for teaching." By what means or studios is the man perfected in distinction from the tool? By those brunches which iiro fundamental and which mako possible the comprehension of science, art and literature, by whatever knowledge broadens the intellectual horizon, by good literature, peflnoated by what is best in thought, richest in feeling and noblest in action. But after all it is not so much what we study, but how we study, ith whom we study, that is important. "Botany or Greek." said Emerson, in reply to his daughter, "it makes no difference, but it does make adiller once who your teacher is." The object of education is to make manly men and womanly women: good, upright, intelligent, righteous men and women. Boards of education and principals are responsible, but it is the teacher who teaches.

Let. the members of the Board treat us as they would wish to be treated if they were in our places. Let us principals treat our teachers aa we should like to be treated if we were in their places and may the teachers, clearly apprehending the object and significance of their work in fashioning the souls of a generation, treat their pumls as they would wish to bo treated if they were children. This is enlightened Christianity, implied to education. Let it displace tho system of bossism.

But you'll think I have forgotten that I am talking to bright and happy children who have just reached an important milestone in their careers, and who need and liavo reason to expect bright happy words of encouragement on an occasion like this. Mv only excuse, my dear young friends, for having taken so much time in trving'to show that you may not be very well fitted for tin: duties and responsibilities and dangers ol life is that I may lead you to feel the need of supplementing vour education, and that I may talto this opportunity of telling yon how it is possible for you to become better and happier and more useful than the most ambitions of vou has ever dared to dream or hope. Are you anxious to get into good society? lhat riht. I think tlie most legitimate aim the schools is to introduce you into good society, to accustom you to good society to the society ot true kings and queens, "the mighty minds ot old." to the society in which vou are permitted to listen, "not to the casual talk, but to the studied, chosen addresses of tho wisest of men." There is only one. way to get into this society, and that is to go to the silent sagus, who are ever about us, readv to instruct us and be taught by hem.

Wo. must go to them; they can't como down Irom their shelves to us. But if we will go to them with as much faith in what they can do tor us as some seem to have in that conglomerate mixture, called, too often falsely, good society, they; mil lit us for thcm. clvcs, they wiil make us tke themselves, they will "fashion our souls" and lay open to us their treasures. Their society is better than that of "the Four Hundred." If your education has cultivated in you a taste for what is best in literature, if you love good books, if you have learned to search them as for hidden treasure your lifo will be one long, true advancement.

The chorus, Bright Summer," was here sung by tho school. Mr. McNamee next distributed certificates to tho graduates, as follows: Class of 'HP John F. Albert, Emma K. Bauer, Howard F.

Bell, George W. Bell, Josephine Bennett, May E. Bennett, Margaret C. Brennan, El vina C. Brill, Benjamin F.

Brown, Clara L. Candidas, Harriet F. Cornell, Hurry H. Conklin, Charles B. Cunco, May A.

Daniels, Louisa L. Dimes, Nettie Donaldson, James F. Dougherty, Frederick C. Agnes M. Finncgan, Alice I.

Foster, Cora E. Foster, William Gautier, Carl W. Gittermau, George F. Guthrie, Cora M. Hagen, William H.

Hathaway, Mary F. Ihrig, Belle V. Irwin, George B. Kerr, William Z. Kimball, Mary A.

Lee, Maude A. Lippincott, David Lipsky, Emma L. Littlefield, Charles E. Lonsdale, Nellie T. Magnire, Nellie C.

Matthews, Nettie L. McNally, Matilda M. Meyers, Agnes' Menhardt, Ada I. Millard, Emma B. Moller, Jennie B.

O'Brien, Margaret V. dwell, David Peck, Horatio II. Peden. Joseph F. Pettit, Nellie G.

Purcoll, Wilbur F. Boss, Hom M. Itnethev, Jacob F. Rcherick, Matilda N. Sanders, Arthur B.

Slee, Charles Sloane, Marv E. Stanton, Anna M. Standinger, Bertha E. Stevenson, Carl Van Bosch, Benjamin F. Voelbel.

Daisie and Margaret Wood. Mr. John 0. Kelly said that four years ago tlie school turned out 'but eighteen graduates, and this year it turned out sixty one. Hin was a great advance and told well for the school and its management.

He. Mr. Kelly, ackwwledged that at one timo he was opposed to Air. oiai nison's appointment to the principalship. but his colleagues in advocating him showed then; superior wisdom.

Afterward when he recognized this fault he said to Mr. Gunnison, (ltd all I could to defeat you; now 1 will do all ean to help vou." Now it afforded him, the speaker, rreat pleasure to congratulate Mr. Gunnison and his efficient corps of teachers on their success in their noble work. In closing Mr. Kelly alluded to the remarks of Mr.

Carman and expressed the wish that the newspapers would place in possession of the people at large. Tho gold medal offered by Hon. A. Goetting, formerly of the Local Committee, was awarded to Miss Eva M. Blake; the gold medal presented by the lato Mr.

Van Bosch for the best answering in arithmetic was awarded to Master George B. Kerr. The gold medal for penmanship was awarded to Miss Louisa Snopper; Miss Nellie Matthews also received a gold medal. Master Frederick C. Edwards for superior answering generally roceived a Webster's Unabridged.

Among other presents was a gold headed cane to Mr. Fitzgibbon, teacher of tho boys' graduating class. The presentation was made by Hon. A. H.

Goetting, by whom he was originally appointed. A handsome chair was presented by Mr. Kelly to Miss Nash and a fountain pen to Principal Gunnison by the boys. Mr. Gunnison at tho close Baid that the school had nevor before turned out so many graduates as on this occasion, and among them wero threo graduating teachers.

Public School No. 25 The graduating exercises of School No. 25, Lafayotte, near Throop avenue, of which institution Mr. CharleB E. Tuthill is principal, took placo yesterday afternoon.

The programme was a very interesting one to the throngs of parents and friends of the pupils in attendance. It (fonsistod of the following numbers: Part I Violin solo, "Good Night; Farewell," George Davis; semi chorus, national hymn; essay, Strivo or Drift," Annetto B. Swan; recitation, "The Old Man at School," Macy I. Seymour; solo, "An Old Garden," Tirzah P. Hamlon; essay, "Tho Things That Count," Bessie 0.

Allen; duet," O'er the Hill," Marion G. Erikson, Annie B. Gausman. Distribution of semi annual rewards. Part LT Violin solo, "Serenade," Arthur Taylor; semi chorus, "Cradle' Song;" Seymour; recitation, "The Kitchen Clock," by Jessie Mills; essay, Bine Glasses," by Marguerite M.

Stockman; solo, Out in the Deep," by Tirzah P. Ham len; valedictory, "Among the Unforgotten," by Mabel Andrews. The programme ended with the class song, words by Macy I. Seymour, sung by the graduates. Then followed tho distribution of diplomas to these graduates: Frederic G.

Bennett, Seymour B. Bunker, Alfred Cochran, Celestino Cerrero, Jessie A. Corn stock, Adelaide D. Clifton.Alice E. Crook, M.

Ella DeBevoise, Horace B. Dobbie, Eliza F. Dorsch, Marion G. Erikson, Anna B. Gausmann, Maude C.

Gentleman, Grace A. Hill, Anna S. Hildreth, Mary L. Hiuman, George W. Jackson, May L.

McVoy, John A. Ehoiners, Maey I. Soymour, Annette B. Swan, Clara B. Tibbals, Alfred L.

Tuttle. Emma L. Vau Leer, Charles G. Wheeler, Gilbert A.Williams, Grace A. Wheeler andAddioB.Young.

Public School No. 27. The closing exercises of the Primary Department of Public School No. 27 wore held this morning in tho school building, on Nelson street, noar Hicks. Tho interesting programme was rendered more interesting by the dimiuutive size of the performers, some of whom were but little bigger than the bouquets that were presented to them in appreciation of their efforts.

The chorus, "Joy Bells," was remarkably well rendered and showed an amount of study and attention that devolved great credit upon both teachers and students Harrigan, Messrs. Tunis G. Bergen and John Flynn, or the Local Committee, and Principal Edward McFadden occupied seats on the raised platform that served as a.stage for the performers and testihod by their cordial applause to tho pleasuro they felt as each number was successfully interpreted and encored by the audience. The following is tho programme: Opening chorus, "The Stat Spangled Sohopl Becitstioii, "Welcome" Grade t.irls (William nusnell.M.Morsn, Dialojjuo'The Best Policy" JaJ 0ofloy, M. McCaiiKhey Ruoititfon, "Flo'a fatter" Bortlia Frnnko Oborns, "Killarnoy" 5 Calisthenics.

Vocal solo, "Rollicking Dofly Day" Mary Davis Dialogue, "Tho Morning 0.11" SiXb cSmpboll Recitation, "Ballad of the War" Robert Walson OhoniB, "The Baby and the Sixth Orado ilirln Rocitation. "Guilty or Not Gnilty" Mary Davia Ohorua. "Joy Bolls" School Dialogue, "The Crowning (Lucy O'Brien, Agnos Porter, of June" jMayWilson.Haiinah McNabb Dialogue, "Dolly's Mamma and the Doo (Jay Colloy tor" (Forona Ooffey Vocal Barrett ana Agnes Portor I.1 dos Batons School Chorus, "Funiooli, Funiculi" School Recitation, "My KiHie" AmoliafaAcn Vocal Solo, "Summer Lullaby" Mary Davis Swing School Tamboriuo Drill Recitation. "Orarrdma'B Emma MoCarthy Valedictory John Smillie Finale, "Stitch in Time" Sohool Public Scliool No. 63.

Closing exorcises were held yesterday afternoon in Publio Sohool No. 63, on HinBdaio near Glonmbre avenus, in the Twenty sixth Ward, The scholars onlltheir parents fijled the bnildjflg. Dr. J. K.

Powbl), of tho Local Academy; Brother James, director of La Sallo Institute: Brother Joseph, director of St. James' Commercial School, and Brother Chromin. St, Aiti' Neininury. The tenth annual scholastic year of St. Agnes' Seminary for young lad es was brought h) a close yesterday under tho most brilliant snd successful ausjiieos.

The exacting and varied programmo will convey an idea of the proficiency of the pupils, and the remarkable display in tlie exhibition room of the works of art, paintings in oil, pastel, drawings ahd embroidery of every description speak volumes for the ability and tuition of tho Sisters of St. Joseph. tira ul March (IrojtiuK. Vii. ji! chorus "Nuit" Kow.ilski Miss S.

Martin Mcvt rlu'cr lv ucUoi, I it'i'j; Honrs" Carnival oi Voni 'c l'otitn Mendia'it from "FrtUNt" Nolro l'atrojmo. I WiMlizit'rl "Attila" I ioui mis lo 7totly Miss Dit ick Polka Wolluiill. iiipt Vocal chorus 1 til i "I 'va lliavolo" Atil.fr Valilictor Mis! T. Staulctun Every number on the programmo was rendered in exceedingly clever style, tho musical portion being particularly (inc. The graduates, Misses Stapletoii, Dnrick and Martin, received each a diploma, medal and crown from Key.

J. H. Duffy, who presided. Academic honors were conferred as follows: First Academic Division Gold pencils, Miss Hiekey, for excellence; Miss Dowling, for extra marks. Second in merit, silver pencil, to Miss H.

Eitzpatric Gold pencil, for composition, to Miss T. Stapleton. Second in merit, Miss S. Martin. Second Academic Division Silver pencils to Miss E.

Martin and B. Tighe for application. Volume of poems for highest per cent, in written examination awardod Miss Anglim. Among the clergymen present wero Kev. J.

8. Duffy, J. J. Me.Uoor, J. York, J.

Durick, E. Fitz patrick, E. Fitzgerald, P. Donohoe, J. Bobier Geanbeaud aud Belford, beside the parents and friends of the graduates.

The following young ladies wero entitled to a testimonial for successful examination: Mary Hiekey, Ida Gilgar, Alicia lteilly, Mary Anulini, Mary Kelly, Hannah Fitzputriek, Slury Dowling, Lizzie Fitzgerald, Nellie McDonongh, Annie Hughes, Agnes Moran, Clara Kelly, Jennie Fey, E. Kelly, Margo Hiunvay, Bella Tighe, Nellie Sadie Annie Dully, Grace Martin, Minnie Lavm. Emma McDonald, Mulvauey, Atuiio Cololmn, May Mtilliu, Ellis, Sarah Drew Minnie Fell, Annie Helen Bums, Katto dally. Cahill, Ilarnicle, Mamie Morrison, Madeline Woods, Tessie Kieman, Lulu Harty, May Goss, Katie Hanuigan, Marguerite McMurray, Marietta Pouch, Lizzie Farroll, Isabel Kelly, Agnes Aitken, St. Petcr'n Academy.

The annual entertainment by tho pupils of St. Peter's Academy, assisted by the Sodality of the B. V. M. was held last evening.

The first part of the programme was devoted to songs, essays and recitations in which the following participated: A. F. Montane, S. W. Byrne, J.

F. Byrne, G. W. Decker, Georgio Hogan, and J. F.

Walters. A four act drama concluded the entertainment. Tho characters in the drama wore personated by P. D. Bvrno C.

A. Ileilly, J. W. Byrne, E. J.

Keating, P. F. Kelly, F. J. McLaughlin, J.

J. Mc Inernoy, G. W. Decker, F. P.

Mooney, M. J. Mc Incrney, It. A. White, A.

J. Lopez, J. A. Brady, T. F.

Maguire, J. E. Curran and It. V. Mooney.

rinsing Kxcrcises at St. Anthony's. The closing exercises of the Boys' Department of Kt. Anthony's School, Seventeenth Ward, were held last night in tho Parish Hall, on Leonard street. The hall was filled with the children and their parents.

An interesting programme which had been prepared for tho occasion was rendered. It consisted of vocal and instrumental music, recitations, dialogues, in which tho little ones took part. During the evening Mr. Francis B. La ngan delivered an address to the children.

The distribution of premiums concluded the exercises. St. Vincent lc Paul's Academy. The female pupils in St. Vincent de Paul's Academy, on North Sixth street, held closing exorcises last night in the building.

An interesting programme was cleverly interpreted to tho satisfaction of a largo audience. Kev. Martin Carroll, the pastor of tho church, was present, with his two assistants. The Sisters of St. Joseph havo chargo of the department.

St. Scliool. A musical, literary and dramatic entertainment was given in the Athcnouin last evening by the pupils of St. Charles' School. Among thoso who took part in the exercises were C.

II. Scully, M. J. Hart, F. C.

Gannon, F. Kinney, T. S. Geraty, L. L.

Fallon, M. F. Nolan, E. A. Wernig, T.

F. Fetter and J. J. Munro. FLATBUSH STKEETS AND SEWERS.

Tiie I.on? Inland 'i'riixt Company tlie Hoard's Financial AgenlK. Tho Board of Street and Sewer Commissioners of Flatbush have selected the Long Maud Loan and Trust Company as their financial agents uu der the act recently organizing them. The rjn pany will sell the $30,000 worth of bonds antllor ized by the act. Thero will be thirty bonds of $1,000 each; ten to run ton years, ten to run eleven years and ten to run twelve years, all from July 15, 1880, aud to bear interest at tho rate of iH Ior payable annually. Messrs.

Brown, Montgomery and Kyan havo been appointed a committee to confer with the owners of the Flat bush Plankroad Company and learn what terms tho Board can make with said company for the purchase of tho said road. MARIS GOT ANOTHER PLA.CE, Patrick Makin, aged j'ears, was employed iboui the hotel of Murray Datz, at Rockaway Beach, until yesterday, when he was discharged. Makin celebrated his dismissal by filling himself full of beer, after which ho returned to the hotel and threatened to wreck the building unless he was reinstated. He was locked up by the proprietors. Officer McSpirit, of the ltockaway Beach police force, was summoned, and, whilo attempting to eject the intruder, tho latter turned upon him and struck him a stinging blow in tho face.

The forco of the blow staggered tho officer, but he quickly recovered from the effects, and struck his assailant upon the head with his club. He then took him to the station house, where ho was locked up. FISIUHU FOB PKJKONS. Meyer Levisohn, aged 10 years, and three other lads of his age stood with a fish hook and twiuo on the roof of 104 Ludlow street, Now York, yesterday, and fished for pigeons belonging to George Schmidt. The pigeons wero in a cage, aud the hook caught in the wire, which attracted Smith's attontion.

He ran on tho roof and caught Levisohn. Tho three other lads jumpod on another roof and escaped. At the Essex Market Police Court Justice Tower hold Lovisohu for examination. INSPECTOR MCMlKiHUH AS AM OARSHAN. Police Inspector McLaughlin is justly proud of his skill as an oarsman.

Ho has challenged any member of the New York force, above the grade of sergeant, to row a raco for a gold pin or medal. A patrolman attached to one of the Harlem stations is anxious to capture tho inspector's prize aud laurels. MIX DOWN BY THE BOUYIA. Tho schooner Eva I. Smith was yesterday afternoon run down off of Fire Island by tho stoomcr Bolivia, of tho Anchor Line.

The latter vessol was returning from Mediterraean ports and had 207 passongors aboard. Captain Adams and tho schooner's crew of seven men were obliged to abandon their vessel. HICIIAEL BURSS HIST HIS IT ITCH. Miohaol Burns, of 173 Meeker avonuo, reported to the polico of tho Nineteenth Precinct last night that Bonie unknown person had entered his apart ments during his absonco and Btolon a silver watch which ho valued at $40. NUBSE JUDGE'S CONDITION.

Miss Alice Judge, the nurse at tho InBano Asylum, Flatbush, who through some mistako drank a largo quantity of carbolio acid, is still at that institution in a dangerous condition. AN ENGLISH I'RKACHRH AT THE TABERNACLE. Dr. Talmage will proatSh tho morning sermon in the Tabernaolo on Sunday. In the OYoning the pulpit will bo occupied.

try Bev. Mr. Senior, of Burrey Chapel, England. pbosp: HABRIEUS. It has been definitely arrangodlhat the Pro Ct Harriets willJKold their thKannaaVs aTAYastungtou rh, Third sw mlw A.r 7 lit'Cl1 at ion I 1 sv 1 lo 1 1" ro uru Sinning "1 liiii Tiled, 1'rionil.

Fare (Jims Chairman 0. A. liuttrick and Messrs. It. P.

llaloy and Edward llowo of the local committeo made brief addresses after their diplomas had be handed to the successful graduates. Tho church was crowded with the parents and friends of the inipils'of the school and every effort was received with applause. All the young lady and some oT the male graduates received handsome bouquets and baskets of flowers from their admirers. Thoso who received diplomas wero Messrs. James D.

Anderson, Louis E. Brown, James It. Coerol't, George. W. Elson, John I).

Evans, Joseph E. Hinds. Harry A. Meyer, Edward li. liieh, Charles B.

Snow, Sanford T. Tyler, liobert T. Walm ley Gilbert A. Ashmtin, Charles E. Clarke, AitiuirS.

Civighton, Charles 11. Ernst, Frank K. Fairchild, George Linton, Arthur .1. Plant, John E. Huston, lle.iry A.

ToMeman, John L. Waldio and Mi.rton Wei and tho Misses Fannie J. Bl.uwelt, Mildred Card, l'for ence Cowl, May Dobbs, Sara J. Fribley, Eleanor li. Clover, B.

Lulu Herring, Ella E. Hewlett, Grace L. Hinehman, Jennie C. Johnston. I.

0. Phillips, Mary H. Polhumtu, Louise Strembel, Anna G. M. Tyler, Ada Burton, Hntfie M.

Clark, Julia M. Detlefsen, Anna M. Foy, Helen C. Gladding, Lovicia E. Hampton, Louise M.

Ilei riugton, Eleanor HigSins. Mabel II. Jewell, Ellen A. G. Phillips.

nina L. Poihenms, Estelle V. liieliardsou, Minnie I.Tobitt and Mabel K. Weiler. School iVo.

15. Tho graduating exercises of Grammar School No. 45, on Lafayette avenue, near Classon, wero held last evening, in the Public School No. 4 building, on Ityerson street, near Myrtle avenue. Twenty pupils, ten boys and ten girls, graduated, making the second largest class that has ever graduated from No.

4f at one time. Mr. W. M. Jolliffe, the principal of the school, was presented with a very handsome set of shirt studs, collar buttons and sleeve links.

The class teacher received a beautiful pair of cut glass cologne bottles and the lady who acted as' volunteer accompanist was given an embroidered lace handkerchief. The exercises opened with a vocal chorus by the school and then "Mighty Jehovah" was sung. Mr. James B. Bouck, chairman of the Local Committee, who occupied the soat of honor on the platform, then called upon Mr.

Louis E. PhippB to deliver the salutatory, which, taking as his subject, he did as follows: Whether vour life will be successful or not iB a question to be answered by yourself alone. If you live honestly, economically, and work perse veringly, you will very likely be successful and prosperous man. The path to success in business is the path of common sense. The best success in a man's life in not that which it was by accident or by some streak of good luck, as you call it, ttv those who meet with it often turn out very unlucky in the end.

You have all heard that honesty is the best policy, and it is supported by the daily experience of life. Disappointment and difficulty may fall to your lot, but do not lot them atop your determination to succeed. I have read of Audilxm, the ornithologist, who had two hundred drawings of two thousand inhabitants of the air, the work of twenty years, destroyed by vermin; but although it took him three years to make it up again, he completed his work. Prosperity and success Iwith some will lill the heart with pride, but in a man of perseverance willonly increase his desire future usefulness. There are many who, in their eager desire to endwell, overlook the difficulties in the way, there are others who see nothing but diffi cut'ties in the way; these first rarely fail; the latter sometimes succeed.

In behalf of this class of 'H9 I welcome the parents and friends of our schoolmates. You have watched our course with more or less interest during the past year and we hope you will extend the same interest to our successors. We give hearty words of welcomo to tho mem bora of the Board of Education and thank them not only for their presenco hore this evening but for the kind and arduous efforts tiiey have always made in the welfare of tho scholars under their care. We are especially glad to welcome our own committee. We feel moro at home with yon; we havo seen yon in our classrooms and you have congratulated us on tho happy result of our labors during the term and we havo learned to appreciate your thoughtful ness and kindness.

Trusting that our efforts toward success to night may meet your approba tion, again we greet you an. A composition by Miss Carrio Horton on "A Visit to an Art Gallery" came next, followed by the chorus "My Nativo Land" by the school. Miss Emma J. Green's composition on tho "Centennial" followed and was deservedly applauded. Mr.

Charles 0. Weston sang a solo and Miss Mar tie Boss read perhaps the best essay presented. Sho took as her subject "Lights of the Century" and road as follows: As the close of tho century draws near it is interesting to look back over tho yoars and note what has been accomplished by mon who have made this century famous. We find them in all walks of life in science and art, in literature and religion. 'Their names aro written in bold prominence on the pages of our national history.

Our art galleries aro tilled with the forms of those with whoHe names we have become familiar at homo and abroad. It was past tho middlo of the Eighteenth Century that Bonjamin Franklin called the attontion of the English lloyal Society to tho fact that lightning was the same as electricity. After years of study and experiment electricity has been put to practical use, and it is safe to assort is to become the poworof the future. In 1835, Morse constructed an oloctric telegraph, but it was not until 1844 that a line was established between Baltimore and Washington. Through the energy of Cyrus W.

Field, a sub marine oable was laid twenty two years later, and through tho many primary efforts of these two men alono the thoughts of nations can be ox changed as quickly as conversation. Our literary lights are many. They scintillate with different degrees of maguitude, but are a brilliant alaxy. Perhaps we may mention Washington Irving first. His cultivated stylo and pure tono have do lighted every roader.

His spirit of imagination loads us back to the days of the early Butoh settlers, and wo aro fascinated by his charming "Sketch Book." Cooper, Hawthorne, Holland, Bancroft and Emerson are a few of those whoso life work it has been to give to others their best thoughts and ideas. Our poets are dear to us. Wo speak tho names of T.nnfffallnw atl Whittior onlv with affection. probably because we are moro familiar with them man ynvu jjuKnu uuuuw naunu. xi historr.flf fflKonntry during the ending turv bnmnw trout me aoaraoars tnai ii Nil Hxerciwcu at Assumption Scliool.

Assumption Hall, on Jay street, was filled to re pletion last night by tho parents and friends of the older boys of the Assumption School, to witness their excellent interpretation of the following programme: Music, orchestra; song and chorus, "Tho Better By and Bj Commercial GnTdcs: recitation, "Kearney at tho Seven Pines," James Smith: song and chorus, "Tho Dog and Cat," tho Young Folks; recitation, "Tiny Tot," Willie Gillespie; song and chorus, "The Whip po' will," Third and Fourth Intermediate Grades; dialogue, Owen Worth," Andrew Peterson and Thomas Peterson: song and chorus, The Centenfiial," First and Second Intermediate Grades; dialogue, Our Flag." B. Mc Cleary, A. MeOann, F. Power; song and chorus, "The Day Wo Left Ireland," Commercial Grades; recitation, "Tho Flag of Erin," Eugene Larkin; vocal solo, "Little Babo Has Fallen Asleep," Walter Mnrnoll; violin solo, selected, John Brown; recitation, "Jemmy Butler's Adventure," P. Marion: music, orchestra; dumb bells, exorcises, posturos, intermediate grades; vocal solo, "Havo Courage Boy, Say No," John Doyle; violin class, "The Old Folks at Home," and other tunes; recitation, "Washington's Grave," John Carr; music, orchestra; military drill, Assumption School Cadets, Captain Philip Marron commanding; song and chorus, "The Irish Regiment," cadets; tableaux.

Tho patriotic drama, in one "Stand by the Flag." Cast of characters: Genius of General Washington, Eugene Larkin; Israel Gordon, an old Itevo lutionary soldier, Daniel Buckley; Harry Gordon, a chip of the old block, A. Mulholland: Arthur Gordon, Northern born with Southern principles, D. McLoughlin; Terence Kyan, man of all work, Philip Marron; Cupid, a negro slave, W. Marnell; music, orchestra. SI.

.1 amrs' Commercial Scliool. The parents aud friends of the pupils of St. James' Commercial School assembled in great force ycBtordnry afternoon in tlie Academy of Music, on Montagno street, to witness the thirty ninth commencement exercises of the school, St. James' was founded in 1825 and is the oldest Catholic school in the City of Brooklyn. Its specialties aro commercial branches, modern languagos, shorthand and typo writing.

Tho year just ended, according to tho announcement made by Brother Joseph, tho director, has been a most successful one. Thoro are 630 pupils and 11 teachers in the three departments. The Christian Brothers took charge thirty nine years ago, and since that timo each year's progress has shown an advance over its predecessor. The exercises opened with an overture composed for and dedicated to St. James' School.

A hymn by the choir followed. Mr. W. A. Ferguson recitod "Clarenco'B Droam" from Shakspearo and the young folks sang in chorus "Aerial Flights." Military tactics by St.

James' Cadet Corps camo next and was loudly applauded. The lads looked well in their uniforms of dark trousers, peaked caps and white blouses, with tho words St James in red letters across the breasts, and they drilled as well as they looked. Tho recitation. "Wounded Soldier," by W. C.

Mahon, was a creditable exhibition: the death scene, where the young soldier falls back dead, surrounded by his sorrowing comrades, was very strong and was deservedly applauded, while a chorus in the Hies sang a hymn to funereal time. Twelve young violinists interpreted a "Flower Song" to the apparent great enjoyment of the audience and then came a "Medley Unique" on two pianos, played by J. and F. McGrath, E. Dolan and W.

Maguire. Tho medley was lively aud consisted chiefly of portions of. "Bazzle Dazzle" sandwiched in between parts of "We've All Been There Before." When the applatiso cased and the, pianos wero rolled off the stage a green baize em tain at the back was rolled up and revealed fifteen typewriters seated at their machines and clicking away in most approved fashion. Brother Cas toris, director of tlie Manhattan Academy of New York, stood out in tho center aisle and read portions from a newspaper, which the students transferred in shorthand to blackboards and read off. One hundred and twenty of the outig er (scholars took possession of the stage and sang Balfe's "Patriot Brave," afWr Charles W.Cuiinion had recited "Asleep at the Switch." A xylophone solo by Signor Nussbaum and an address by the Iiev.

Father Woods concluded the first portion of tho programme. Father Woods took occasion to dilato on the good work douo and being done by St. James' School and congratulated tho graduates on the BUCceBsful examinations passed by them. He announced the nameB of the graduates as John Thomas O'Neil, William Alphonsus Ferguson, William John Cunningham, James Aloysius Bradley, Daniel Patrick O'Shoa and Thomas Auguatine O'Connor. The following prizea were then awarded by the donors: First prize, gold medal, donor liight Hev.

Bishop Loughlin, to John Thomas O'Neill, for excollence in deportment, Christian doctrine, bookkeeping, penmanship, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, mensuration, composition, history, English literature, natural philosophy, elocution, Latin and shorthand; second prize, gold modal, donor Mr. Hugh McLaughlin, to William Alphonsus Ferguson, for exoellenco in deportment, Christian doctrino, niatho matics, natural philosophy, English literature, composition, bookkeeping, Latin, shorthand, typewriting, elocution and penmanship; third prize, gold medal, donor Bev. Father Woods, rector St. James' Cathedral, to William John Cunningham, for excellence in deportment, Christian doctrine, mathematics, English literature bookkeeping, peumauship, history, grammar, elocution, natural philosophy, short hand, typewriting and Latin; fourth prize, goldi medal, donor Cominissiiiter Bell, to James Aloysius Bradley, for excollenoe in deportment, Christian doctrine, mathematics, historyEnglish literature, natural philosophy, bookkeeping, plioxthMidt wd.I.tmwiittog;:., fifth ttrizeV'sal Hvi TrVktrMti' MiuihalL LTvsses H. Grant, a man emloweil wnu mis mm leel'iil ift iiiiv; culm, alwavs imperturbable.

always determined, ibumted at nothing, alwavs the same. he did not pause with elation at his triumph, but pushed straight on. Defeated, he drew the scattered remains of his army about him and tried again. What was an obstacle to him Something that must bo overcome. What was a repulse? Something to bo offset.

What was a retreat A falling back to got a better position. Until at last the cry, Ilieh nioud is tak rang throughout the land, kindling eveiv heart and proclaiming to the whole world the result of steady, pertinacious American grit. Not onlv in the active campaigns of war is grit a valuable factor, but also in the no less exciting battles of life. Tlie merchant, the banker, the broker, if he succeeds, does so after a patient, persevering light against thousands of unexpected reverses. There is many a man in New York to day, worth a million or more, who has seen several times when, by a sudden blow, he was worth thousands less than nothing.

Here is the point where grit came in and, supplemented by hard work, put the man on his feet again. Many of you will promptly recall the name of a once famous Now York speculator who, utterly ruined, without one dollar in the world cried "Wall street has ruined mo, Wall street shall pay for if and it (ltd. No better example of clear grit is afforded in the history of the world than that exhibited by Sir Walter Scott, when at the age of i5, an ago, when most men are beginning to think ot rest, ho found himself through the failure of his publishers, a debtor to the enormous sum of $750,000. Such a load of debt would havo utterly crushed another man, but Scott Btood clear and undaunted in front of it. "Gentlemen," he Baid to his creditors, "time and I against any two.

Let me take this good ally into my company, and I believe I shall be able to pay you every farthing." He left his beautiful country house at Abbotsford; he gave up all his country pleasures; he surrendered all his property to his creditors: ho took a small Iiouho in Ednihitrgh, and, in the short space of live years, he had paid olf But the task was too terrible; he was struck down with paralysis. But oven this disaster did not daunt him. Again he rose to work, and again he had a paralvtic stroke. At last he was obliged to give up. Whenever the tongue of flame or the rush of water comes there are left homeless hundreds, men and women, tho savings of a lifetime gone: the prudent investment wrecked; tho strongest ties of love and friendship broken: all that has made life worth the living gouo.

In the history of the United States are awful examples of this: but have the people repined? At Portland, at Chicago, at Boston, at Seattle, at Johnstown. No? A sigh for the past then comes the straightening of the bent form, the compression of the lip, the firm shut teeth, the hopeful look of the eyo and again the hand stretches out to the plow, tho teeming brain plans new future. In a few years these people, with determined purpose and patient, persistent labor, will show tho world what can be done by true, genuine American grit. Tho valedictory followed and the orchestra then played a number of selections. President llendrix presented diplomas to the following graduates: Commercial Course Henry Christopher Brun ning, Augustus Clinkinbroomer, William W.

li. Cunningham, Albert Firth, Henry Sterling Gor ham, John A.tley Griffin, Itobert McCrcady Harris, Thomas Joseph Hart, Albert Edmund Ilartcorn, liobert Lincoln Graham, William Mc Alpine, William Arthur Nickel, Charles Alfred Pulcifer. Frederick Joseph Scharmann, W. P. Karl Schlatter, Alfred Joseph Schmidt, William Francis Scott, George Everett Skidmoro, Walter William Walsh and Wallace Embler Welch.

Language Course William Fitch Atkinson, Herman S. Bachrach, Eugene Carroll Brown, C. Thurston Chase, J. Tilden Cruser, Russell Engs Geyer, John Petrie Goodsir, John Christopher Judge, Eugene Wilson Skelton and William. Sullivan.

Grammar School IVo. 18. The closing exercises at Grammar School No. 1.8, on Maujer street, of which Mr. Edward Bush is the veteran principal, took place at 1 o'clock yesterday aftomoon, and were witnessed by a large assemblage of tho parentis and friends of the pupils.

The programme, in order no doubt to afford opportunities to as many of tho pupils as possible for exhibiting proofs of their proficiency, was a lengthy intellectual menu. The exorcises opened with a very well composed and spiritedly enunciated "Salutatory" by Master Philip Carpenter, after which came a piano solo, "In tho Valley," and tho air "Home, Swcot Home," by Miss Maude Gardiner; comic recitation, "Taking iho Elewator at Stewart's," admirably rendered by Mian Lidtlie Cabbie in tho character of an unsophisticated country girl; chorna, ''Like the Lark," by tho schools, recitation, "Pearl and the Strawberries," wit spirit and effect by Miss Lena Levy, a lit1 midget, Freedom aged 0 years; chorus, "Joy, Jo; To d7," by tho school; rooitat: Son, The New Ohurch Organ," by JIiSg mio Taft; gly sung duet "Auf ehau by Miss Lona Frank and Misa El hman; ro citation, "Swallowing a Fly." ely spoken by little Walter Howells; chofl The Star Spangled Banner," by the sch ecitation, "Flying Jim's Last Loap," by JbTa: in a manner, admirable for cor: and tho absence 'Mtiiiio on tha)Water," by resnonsime nad Bhai kd ourtihstrnPan 1U JUaiHlYAlB Y1UW BUU accordingly If so you and ought we to ui uu miii ana 8txmiari may uuiniinkuat wv to inn liniimiiiiilMlm a llitlaMonger, months, if necessary, and theBiitain' a. position for whioh yon are nn mm, ia rn vnnr ejihlh tiiKii. ui iuukh Deiieve you man db auapieu i.