The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-20

scend to the depths of the ocean, to
traverse the land in cars which whir1
along without horses: to cross the ocean
in ships, and it has also given new Sc
curties to the mariner.
The stage ran at the rate of three
and one-half miles per hour, and each
passenger was compelled to get out in
the mud to look after his own baggage.
Considering all these circumstances,
what could have been more important
than the invention of the locomotive
and railroad?
Probably the most important inven-
tions of this age and those which will
ever render memorable the century,
now SO near it's close, are the electric
telegraph, the telephone and gas light
ing, which improvd outdoor and other
illumina ton and electric lighting, an
other advance now threatening to su-
persede gas. AS electricity has come to
be an important factor in our daily af-
| fairs, almost every industry and art is
| dependent on it or Influenced by its ap-
| plcation
THAT steed called lightning, says the
! Fates,
Is owned in the United States.
Twas Franklin's hand that caught the
horse, .-.,.
Twas harnessed by Professor Morse"
| However, the inventions have not, by
any means, been the only important
events of the. wonderful century that
have aided the general welfare of man
| kind. Among others of Importance the
discovery Of gold may be mentioned.
Within the last few years Japan has
made unparalleled progress in civiliza-
| ton and the adoption of western man.
| ners and customs. The recent discovery
| of the x ray is a remarkable one and
has been used with the greatest sue
cess in nearly every instance.
We can feel grateful that we were
not born before the dawn of civiliza-
ton, as our forefathers were, but we
are still marching on ito ring out the
| old and ring in the new and it is al
most sure that those of the next gen.
GRAFTON looking back upon us, will dare
| to pity us, just as we have dared to pity
our forefathers. The march of hui
manity is onward and upward, and ii
this great work the republic rightly
leads the van.
Miss Elizabeth Rogers took Bee
thoven" for her subject and treated i
in the following words:
Nearly a century has elapsed since
the world was stirred by the power ant
genius of Beethoven, yet is there to
day one among the followers of tina
grand vocation, music, whose innermos
immortal name?
Born in Bonn in 1910, we find Bee
thoVen's earliest surroundings of
musical nature. His father, Johann vo1
Beethoven, was himself a musician o
no inferior order, but owing to his in
temperate habits he never rose to pc
sition higher than that of singer in tn
imperial chapel. 1t may be said tina
Beethoven inherited his loftiness O
character and keen sense of honor from
his grandfather, who was the directo
of the court band of 1853
One of the saddest occurrences in tn
truly sad life Of the great compose
was the fact that he was becomin
deaf. The symptoms occurring in 1901
gradually became worse, till Beethove
was forced to acknowledge the dreade
! truth. After this he ceased for a tim
to mingle with society and lived for hi
art alone. Often after wanderin
!. through the fields the entire day he II
: turned home at night and found solac
, In giving vent to his feeling through hi
a | pianoforte.
He ranks not so highly as performe
I as a composer. His forte lies in tn
= composition of sonatas which are j
= themselves marvels of beauty. Whe
e we think of Beethoven's method of con
= posing music, we cannot but apprecia.
his genius. His works are filled wit
= MS very soul, are utterances of h
. mind in its deepest anguish or mo-
: profound joy. Although they were, E
4 rule, improvised on the spur of n
7 moment. as it were, anywhere and e,
eryWhere, they We're with but few es
;. ceptions afterwards carefully studs
and reduced to their finest degree ,
perfection
= There are three styles in Beethoven
music: First, that style written as h
predecessors wrote. second that write
when his own genius became FREEDOM
: nant, and third, that of the magnif1cen
the sublime, almost unearthly stra
Whlch his deafness and otherwise So
e life may have influenced him in wri
ing.
The night of his death was a memo
Il able one. Only a few friends, amor
t them his sister-in-law and his deyot,
pupil, Anselm Huttenbrenner, we
; present when he died. Suddenly
;. heavy peal of thunder broke the still
ness, flash of lightning iluminat
! the room as if heralding the approac
= or death. Beethoven opened his ey
and, clenching his hands, gazed upwa1
. for some seconds with a fixed. threo
ehlng expression, then fell back, dea
On the day Of the funeral the gre
love which the people felt for "t]
9 musician from the Rhine" was SHOW
!. in the vast sorrowing number wi
I came to pay their last respects to Of
: to whom all the nobility of Europe h;
: paid homage, to one of the noblest a,
: grandest of men-Ludwig Won Be
= thoven.
Victor Hugo" furnished Miss An,
| 'Thjprn1nf,