The Anaconda standard., 1899-06-12
At THE STATE COLLEGE
Annual Exercises of the Arena
Literary Society.
OPERA HOUSE WAS FILLED
Beginning of the Commencement Week.
An Interesting Programme Was
Rendsred--A Man With
Loose Wheels.

ment week of the State College of Agri-
culture and Arts began last night with
the sixth annual exercises of the Arena
Literary society. The opera house was
filled with an appreciative audience
and the programme was an unusually
good one
AS the Arena is the only literary So
ciety in the college, and is by no means
the smallest part of the Institution. an
extract from the paper of Thomas
0. Caldwell, delivered last night, will
be of interest to many:
THE Arena Literary society was or
ganized on the 10th day of September,
1898, just two weeks after the opening
of our college There were Is charter
members, most of whom were taking
advanced work at the time. OF this
number there are only three who live
in Bozeman and will make Montana
their future home. One of these in
years to come will be leading lawyer
in the state; another will probably as
pire to the same position, and the third,
young lady, has prepared herself for
business career, and now holds a
good position.
Among those who have departed to
other places are two on the Atlantic
coast, both of whom will graduate this
June, one as a lawyer and the other as
minister. Then there is one in the
Philippines fighting for his country
and who was among the brave boys of
the 1st Montana when they raised old
Glory over the capital of those ISL
aAds.
Returning to the United states-on
the Pacific coast we find one Of these
charter members as doctor, another
as a merchant and a third as the prin-
cipal Of an academy for young ladies.
Five of these charter members have
married and settled down in life, either
for better or for worse, three of these
members being young ladies and two
young men.
members have scattered out to fill the
various callings in life from the preach
er to the soldier boy, you may form
a slight conception where the 81 men,
bers of the Arena at the present time
will be and how they will be passing
away their time when 'hn +welfth an
nual commencement of the college
takes place.
The Arena society will long be re-
membered by old students of the col
lege, which. as Mr.. Caldwell goes on
to state, has done a great deal towards
training the mind in many ways, and
those members of past years who have
lately graduated from Columbia col
lege, from Chicago, and from other
EdSleIH CUllGB6S, HOT 10 HeHliOU InOSe
who have been successful before the
supreme court of Montana, have not
begrudged the time they spent in the
Arenas forum.
Herman Waters read an interesting
essay on the future of the various
Arena members, which was very anus
ing. Mr.. Edsalrs oration. youths
Conquest" was very good, and the
smallest member of the society, Jerome
T,nalSa Hap1a ir1pH In ma OF "
Part two was campfire scene of
the Arena Volunteers in the Philip
pines and was representation of
camp life in those islands during the
present war. The boys sang tender
songs of home, and the scene was a
very graphic one, ending with an alarm
being sounded and the boys being
marched off the stage, fully armed, un-
der the command of Captain Provinse.
to fight the Filipinos. The following
was the programme of the evening:
PART 1.
Quartette-Rondo .............. Weber
Miss Stuve, Miss Quaw, Miss Carrie
Gardner. Miss Moore
Essay ..........T .Thos. Q. Caldwell
Oration-.Youth's Conquest ......
...... ........ Ernest S. Edsall
Serenade-Chaminade 49,. ..........
Barcarelle-Jensen ........ Miss Parkins
i1SooS 1ICi lhdH w alSiS
Valentine song from "Faust''-.....
...... ........ ........... Prof. Currier
Defamation ......... Jerome B. Locke
Valse Caprice-Tschaikow ........
.....Miss Hancock, Miss Grace Wylie
PART II.
Scene-Arena Volunteers in the Phil
ippines.
Finis.
An insane person named Henry Duff
fly was found by a man near the West
Gallatin river yesterday digging a big
hole. When asked what he was doing
he said he was going to bury those fell
lows that were drowned a bit ago. He
said that he was running some thick
stuff like mucilage through a pipe into
the river, and two men came along
and thought the mucilage was ice.
They put on their skates. said Duffy,
and prepared to have a little fun. He
tried to stop them. and told them they
would go through and prayed and
begged them to stay away, and wanted
them to go little further down the
river and take a swim. But they
wouldn't and went into the river and
got drowned, in spite of Duffy's fran
tic efforts to save them. Later on Duff
fly wandered into Belgrade and passed
the night there. Deputy Sheriff P S.
Johnston found him this morning load
ING up wagon with dirt and working
as if his life depended upon it. Sher-
iff Fransham brought him to town to-
day, and he will probably be sent to
Warm Springs in a day or two. He
had some letters from his mother in
Ironton, Pa, in which she tells him his
father is dying, and that she is the
only one who has not given up all
hopes of his Duffy's) death. He ap-
pears to be in fairly good circum-
stances hut as mad aS March
He knew County Attorney Stewart and
voted for him last fall, and has not felt
very well since, and the court house
hnYs say that WAS what cansaa n1ff1r