The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-18
WORK OF THE STUDENTS
Young Graduates Express Some
Beautiful Sentiment.
A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS
All OF the Papers of the Senior and Nor
NAL Training Glasses Especially
Interesting and Well and
Ably Prepared.

senior and normal training classes of
the High school were especially inter-
esting. Before the senior class Mary
Elizabeth Dawson took up the subject,
History Repeats ITSELF and treated it
as follows:
History, as it is written, is little more
than record of the crimes, calamities
ana bloody carnage of mankind His
tory is, in truth, the growth. develop
ment and civilization of humanity. The
rise and fall of nations is the rise and
fall of man. What is true of large bodies
of men is true of the Individual
AS we read page after page of the
history of any nation and see how little
has been recorded except crimes and
| cruel wars, the mind sickens at the
thought OF mans inhumanity to man.
1.-THE history of the Jews, as they
wandered in the wilderness and fought
| inch by inch for the possession of the
promised land. was a picture repre-
senting the regeneration of the heart
of man and teaching how he must con-
quer enemies, subdue foes and possess
himself of all the good of the land
I'm the struggle of one nation with
another for supremacy, we see but a
picture of the real cause, which is the
wicked passion in the heart Of man; his
burning ambition for honor and fame
| Els desire for rule, his love of dominion
and his delight in victory are often but
! the eXultation Of his self-love and glory
| in his strength
From the study of history we learn
| to prophesy of the future SO surely does
| history repeat itself. We learn that
when our rulers become tyrants hatred
| and revenge will follow them and their
lives are in danger: when governments
become wholly corrupt their destruc
ton is certain
ut IS little wonder that after thou
sands Of years of bloody warfare, when
men trusted in the strength of weapons,
the size of their armies and the ami
NAL courage of men, that they should
stand in doubt and denial before the
great central figure of history. He
taught them that love was the great
est power in the universe. that truth
was stronger than armies, that love and
truth would conquer and subdue the
world. No wonder that they could not
believe thiS-it was such strange, I'M
heard-of doctrine. Though men still
doubt it's truth, the centuries are prov
ing it true.
with our armies that go to the Phil
lipine islands will go our enterprise,
wealth and progressive ideas, and to
younger and oppressed people, taxed to
desperation, light will go also, and an
enlightened educated, happy people will
be the result, and in their breasts will
glow the light of love and liberty
Thus forward march progress and
liberty.
Westward the course of empire
takes it's way'-the mighty Pacific can
not stop it. Onward to the Orient 1t
must go, and history repeats iself.'
Josie Mulville handled the Fall of
Troy" She said
"Troy. according to the earliest ira
ditions of the Greek people, represents
the country on both sides of the
Aegean, peopled by various races.
THE story of the Trojan war is very
beautifully portrayed by Homer in the
Iliad. He tells how Paris, the son of
Priam. king of the Trojans, fell in love
with Helen. wife of King Menelaus If
Sparta. Maddened and Infatuated by
the love of Helen, Paris, under preteXt
of friendship, visited the court of Men
claus and was received with great hon
or and given full privileges in the king
dom.
.Such confidence was reposed in his
integrity that Menelaus left Paris alone
with Helen while he sailed for Crete.
Paris took advantage of his absence to
corrupt the affection of Helen and she
consented to return with him to Troy.
Informed of the flight of Helen, Mer-
claus returned from Crete and dis
patched heralds to all the suitOrs ard
reminded them of their oath and re-
quested their attendance at his court
to devise, means for her restora ton.
THE war WaXed furiously for over
10 years. during which time men in
Vulnerable We're lost on both sides.
Among the most noted Grecian heroes
We're Agamemnon, Ajax, Tolamus and
Ulysses, noted for his foresight and
wisdom the entire world over. But
even among these great chiefs and
leaders shone one conspicuous above
the rest: this was Achilles, the most
noted hero of song and story.
AS we read with great interest for
the fate of Troy, with kindly feeling
toward Hector, whose part one takes |
against the blood thirsty Achilles, and
great as might have been the guilt of
Paris, we. have an earnest wish that |
Troy may be delivered from the be- |
siegers.
when the last assault began, de- |
struction followed fire and slaughter
swept over the doomed city.
1T is never pleasant sight to behold |
long and heroic resistance to adverse
destiny, receiving no higher reward |
than despair and perdition, hence it is
with profound sorrow that we contem-
plate the fall of Troy.
MANY are the horrors related of that |
terrible night by the poets. The Greek
soldiers fought as demons. Priam's
sturdy columns were moved down like
grass. Victory perched on the Greek
standards and Troy, opulent and
wealthy, in all its grandeur, magnii-
cence and glory had fallen.
When the gray lights of dawn APP
peared, unsightly heaps of ashes and
embers, intermingled with
calcined bones and piles of blackened
ruins, and lurid volumes of smoke roll
ng up to the skies, alone remained to
Indicate where Troy had been. A city
and a nation had passed out of exist
ance"
Mabel Wraiths topic was 1.-THE Red