The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-13

en- summer time. The scenes that he
looked upon were the influences and in
spirations that guided him as he wrote
There was, it is said, a steep hillside
where often men ventured and where
the blue bells held sway There was
placid river that flowed along with
golden tales and bits of stories, when
were heard from the open window and
told to us in chapters. There were the
old-tme English trees dropping over
to the dear earth--the lindens and the
quivering aspens and the elms. Tnefe
was the singing of the old-time En-
glish birds in the branches--the larks
and the robins and the whippoorwills.
There, moreover, were the old-tlme
English fowers--the blue anemone, the
harebell, the larkspur, and there was
the soft south wind telling many an
other tale. If such is earth, then what.
pray. is paradise?
zone day he laid down his pen. He
pushed away his papers. He looked
out upon the dear green earth for the
last time while he lived. He looked
up at the deep blue summer skies. but
wrote by them no more. He died.
'''And so the ships sail on
To their haven under the hill;
But OH for the touch of a vanished
hand,
For the sound of voice that is still.
And when the thought Of the dying
of Charles Dickens comes to you it
brings with it beautiful tender pas
sage about the dying of a child.
1.-The golden ripple on the wall
comes back again and nothing else
stirred in the room. The old. old fash
ion! The fashion that came in with
the first garments and will last I'M
changed until our race has run It's
course and the wide armament is roll
ed up like a scroll. The old, old fash
ion-death.
"'Oh. thank God. all who see it,
for that older fashion yet, of immor-
tally: and look upon US, angels OF
young children, with regards not quite
estranged when the swift river bears
us into the ocean.
Miss Knowlton pleased her hearers
with the rendition of these lines OF
| thought: !.
The peninsula of Italy has given
much to civilization. Events transpir-
ing within her borders have changed
| the whole trend of European develop
ment Principles of government, of art
| and of literature, wrought out with pa
| thence and suffering by her sons, have
become the basis upon which our sys-
| TENS have been built. Her history is
| full of interest to us. We thrill with
delight at the stories of Caesar and
/ Pompey, of Cato. of the Grachl, of
| GarlDaldl victor Emanuel. we are III
| terested in the laws and customs OF her
people; in the legends of their heroic
deeds: in the traditions of the early
Christian church, and the storm and
strife of the middle age.
Every nation has it's many writer's
and only few geniuses who are able to
| express the deepest feelings of human
! ity. Such men as these produced the
| classics which are destined to live for
all times. OF men of this class, Italy
| has given the world tWo-Nirgil ana
| Dante.
Virgil lived when Rome was in her
greatest glory and her literature lad
reached it's zenith. Nirgils works
were favorite study with his country
| men. Within 80 years after his death
| his best productions were admitted to
the honor they have since retained, OF
serving as a text book. The scholars
of his time We're severe in their crit
cism of his poems on the ground that
they contained new words, used old
ones with new meanings, and initiated
Homer too freely.
AS Virgil was the bright star of ME
age, SO was Dante the central figure OF
the 18th century.
Dante Alighiere has, by universe