Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-09
offices in the United States has increased

offices in the United States has increased
from about SO to nearly $4,000.
Our literature is as varied as the tastes
of the people. No subject escapes the
attention of our native scholars and au-
thors. Fiction, which has shown the
richest development during the present
century, occupies the place filled by the
drama during the Elizabethan period.
Both prose n poetry have been Guilt
waited to an extraordinary degree. WIN
clearer views of divine truth poetry has
gained in geniality and in power to reach
the spiritual part Of man.
SCHOOL AND THE woRLD"-1ZoRA
TEMPLETON.
The young people of today are the
men n women of tomorrow. yet how
few young people realize the respon-
sibility resting upon them and fit them
selves to fill the places which are daily
opened for them? 1t is too commonly
supposed that for the necessities of every
day a mediocre education is sufficient.
but the world has so far progressed that
a person now needs a good education to
combat successfully the affairs OF me.
Business men require that those In their
employ shall have a good education ana
be quick and accurate in their calcula-
tons. This is only right, for to any one
living at this time in a country where
free public schools are accessible to every
village. town and city, there seems to be
nc excuse left for not having a good edu-
cation.
Young people should remember that
the great men and women are grow
ing old and passing away every day
and this necessarily calls for some one
to take up their work. and 1t is not
the old or middle aged that are preferred,
but the young and energetic.
THE CZAR'S PEACE PROPOSALS.
ULRICA TRISBERGER.
When the chief of one of the greatest
powers in the world make a PROPOSE
ton for universal disarmament, this
proposition is worthy of our most earn
est consideration. The car of Russia
has suggested that all nations lay down
their arms and settle their disputes in
some other manner Some doubt the
earnestnesS of the cars Intentions, put
nevertheless the idea is a good one and
demands more han momentary notice.
The motives of the cars proposal may
be suspected with propriety. yet the
czar can do more for peace than any
p%otentate on earth. 1t is not surprising
that Russian statesmen. with the posi-
bilities of peaceful development so great,
hampered by no necessity for panderlng
to the clamOr of the moment, in order
to keep themselves in office. should have
determined that Russia would gain enor-
| mously in the race with other industrial
! nations by devoting her whole energies
to economic development. Hence the
| proposition Of the car that the world
lay aside its arms and give its people an
opportunity to devote themselves to in
dustrial pursuits ooks directly to the
future dominance Of Russia in the COM
merce and finance of the world.
GLADSTONE: A CHARACTER
| STTDY"-EMMET Z. THOMP-
SON.
William Ewart Gladstone was born
December %. 1909, in Liverpool, England.
of Scotch parents in good circumstances,
who We're able to give their children the
best of educational advantages. In con-
nection with the civil war in this
try Mr.. Gladstone took a position which
not only surprised but grieved his friends
in America. for in no country was he
held in higher esteem than in this. While
chancellor in 1862 he made a speech in
which he declared his belief that Jeffer-
son had already established the freedom
of the Confederate states. He supported
the bill for the increase of parliamentary
franchise in ga and deplored the unsatis-
factory condition of the | IRISH church,
that is, the Church Of England in Ireland,
which vas supported by Irish taxes but
ministered to only about of the
population. At the next election the uni
versity failed to return him., but he was
soon after elected a member for South
Lancashire, a manufacturing district.
DR.. Oscar j. Craig. who delivered the
address, congratulated the class, the
superintendent, the teachers of the high
school and the good people of Anaconda,
to whom is due the greatest credit fol
the generous uppor Of the public
schools. All ideas of education. said Mr.
Craig, depend on two questions: VIVA
is life and what is death? Life is but the
preparation for and death is but the en-
trance into a richer. fuller. sweeter state
Tha education which best fits one fol
this life is likewise best for the other.
hat education is best which fits us
for this life. Man is composed of differ.
ent elements-moral. physical, intellec-
tual. The education is best which trains
them all. Heretofore education wa.
largely given to the training of one O.
these, but of recent years attention has
been called to the necessity of training
them all.
1t requires time to gain an education
Many pupils find school years tediou!
and hope for their speedy ending. Blu
an education cannot be acquired in
short period. 1t takes time to grow
sturdy oak. likewise it takes time t,
grow a sturdy mind.
Education is generally divided int
three classes-the primary, the second
airy and the higher. 1t is the %secondar,
division which has just been passed b.
this graduating class. The diplomas
which the graduates receive admit then
to the Montana State university or an,
other institution of higher learning il
the state. The speaker advised the class
that if such a course is possible to atten,
a higher school.
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