The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-01
HIGH SCHOOL EXERCISES
The Formal Commencement at
the Opera House Tomorrow.
SIXTY-FOUR DIPLOMAS
'Shylock' by Robert Kyle-"The Funny
Folk of America" by Gertrude Mich
ols-"The Future of Cuba"
by William Ogle.

Tomorrow afternoon, in the Grand
| opera house, the closing exercises of
the High school graduate will be held
| President Mueller of the boa a of edu-
cation will deliver an address and pre-
sent the diplomas to the ca graduates
| There will be three essays by gradu-
ates. To-day will close he exe~, .ses
which have been in progress for three
weeks in the High School Auditor UNI.
Yesterdays very interesting essays
were as follows:
"Shy1ock"-Robert Kyle.
Among the grand and noble ch1rac-
| tiers that Shakespeare has dalinaated,
we find the avaricious and revengcful
shylock, as Macaulay justly observes.
The primary characteristic of Shylock
is revengefulness, but closer Insight
| diSc1oSeS a thousand other Gda' ties
| whose mutual play and varying intel n
| sity go to compose a complex heirg
| that Shakespeare has drawn in the ter
rible Jew.
In the character of Shylock there is
not the tragic grandeur of Richard Ill.
but there is great force of mind: lie
| is not of that brilliant, dashing nature,
| but of that slow, deep, shrewd that is
hard to judge. Notice his solil1uuy
which is as follows:
How like fawning publican he looks.
/ | hate him for he is a Christian,
| He hates our sacred nation, and he
| rails,
| Even there where merchants most do
| congregate,
On me, my bargains, and my wel-won
thrift,
Which he calls interest. Cursed be my
| tribe,
| If I forgive him.
Shylock has brewed over the accu-
INFLATED injuries heaped upon his peo-
pie by the Christians until he looks
| upon the Christian world with scorn
and hatred and seeks revenge from
| them. When he appears in this scene
and recites this to us:
"Signor Antonio, many time and oft
| In the Rialto you have rated me
| About my moneys and my usances:
You call me disbelever, cutthroat, dog,
And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,
| And all for use of that which is mine
own.
Well. then, it now appears you need
my help,
Go to- then; you come to me and you
| say
'shylock. we would have moneys; you
| say so;
What should I say to you? Should I
not say,
Hath a, dog money? Is it possible
A cur can lend three thousand du-
cats?' or
Shall 1 bend low and in a bondman's
With bated breath and whispering
humbleness, say this:
Fair sir, you spit upon me on Wednes-
day last;
You spurned me such day; another
time
You called me dog: and for these cour-
tesies
I'll lend you this much money!
We pity him and think him hard
dealt with but this is masterpiece of
shrewdness and logic; Shylock has in
mind the conditions of the bond that
he is to propose to Antonio, and know
ing of it's queerness and likely being
afraid that he will not accept them,
must prepare his victim to receive him.
This will afford the one opportunity of
his life to obtain revenge.
Shylock goes on in this manner until
we see him in the court scene, where
Portia lifts him to a great height and
then let's him fall and we see the poor,
weak Shylock as before the signing of
the bond, when he says:
81 pray you, give me leave to go from
hence;
I am not well; send the deed after me,
And I will sign it,
"The Funny Folk of America" Gertrude
Nichols.
One Of our funny folk has said, EFF
a man kant laff there il sum mistake
made in putting him together, and if
he won't laff, he wants as mulch keep
ing away from as bear trap when it
| is sot," and he has also given the good
n ri
kan git, but don't laff unless yu feel
| like it, for there amt nothing in this
world more harty than a good, honest
la, nor nothing more hollow than ii
hairless one" We Americans are Ger
| tainly given many chances for good
| harty laffs," as our funny folk have
| contributed largely to our litera ture
| from its birth, and have won for them
| selves the admiration of the world
| And Americans themselves never fail
| to appreciate the humorous side of life
as our more serious neighbors across
the water sometimes fail to do. 1t has
| been said that a Scotchman could not
get a joke into his head without a sur
gical operation An old Scotchman
| hearing this, remarked: and is it
| really considered possible by any one
to put anything into the head in that
manner"
Our humor is certainly sparkling and
spontaneous, probably the most strik-
ing examples being found throughout
the works of Artemus Ward, which
abound in sharp flashes of wit and
humor, warm and embracing as the
sunshine" Where can we find more
wit in short space than is to be
found in Wards lecture on the Nor
mons, in which he speaks of their re-
ligion as singular, but their wives as
| plural, and remarks that Brigham
| Young is IAN indulgent parent and
| numerous husband: he has married 200
wives; he loves not wisely, but two
| hundred well. Two hundred souls with
| but single thought, two hundred
hearts that beat as one" Most of
the young girls of Utah marry
Young
The next best thing to seeing a for
eign country oneself is to see it through
| Mark Twain's eyes. He tells how he
climbed Mount Blanc, making the as
cent for three francS-thr0uph tee-