The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-08

| rising sun as he gi1ds the mountain
| tops. richly coloring nature and boun-
teously dispensing warmth. life and
| beauty in his majestic sweep, spells to
| him glories matchlesS and royal.
| We become impressed when study
| ing some of his dramas that so marvel
| ously accurate was his familiarity with
every phase of life that we are apt TO
| say with Dowden: 1t is as if threads OF
| Silken splendOr were run together IN ITS
| texture with yarn of hempen home
| spun. and both these with lines OF deWy
| gosSamer and filamentS drawn from
! the moonbeams.'
1T has been claimed by many that
| Shakespeare, in writing his dramas.
| cared only for the effect they would
| produce, and living in an age the at
mosphere of which was surchargeu
| with an intellectual ozone, could not
help but echo the sentiment prevailing.
| But I claim that he was no trifler, no
| inventor, no mimic, and while he did
not assume the attitude of preacher
or exhorter and while sensibly appre-
ciating the humorous side of life, yet his
moral nature and his lofty ethics i'm
PEELED him to espouse the highest and
noblest types"
The speaker cullad numerous charac-
tiers from different Shakespearean
works, reading passages of dialogue
to illustrate the genius of the author in
depicting character and his marvellous
understanding of human nature, nature
itself and his insight into the future and,
continuing, said:
Taking all in all. Shakespeare will
remain through all time the truest type
of universal genius. for while born on
English soil he belongs to the whole
world He has done more ito stimulate
the intellect and to arouse an enthusi-
astic desire for the cultivation of the
finer sentiments than any other writer
before or after him. In the gigantic
storehouse of his mind are garnered in
plenteous profusion the most ripe and
precious grains of wisdom. He not only
understands men, but seems to probe
into the very receSSeS of their hidden
souls. His heroes, Hamlet, Othello, Fail
staff. Richard I'LL, Edward I. and Hen
ry VII1.-these individuals can almost
be felt and with a slight stretch of the
imagina ton you may almost feel their
breath as they pass you by in their per-
ordinations. His characters whisper to
him their most hidden secrets. When
they speak it is on a footing of the
greatest intimacy and their every ut
terance possesses a fascinating interest
and charm for us.
LAS to his women. it is beyond my
province in this address to do aught
more than to merely mention few, and
these by name only. They are so real,
so intensely true to life, that you can
see the purity of blood coursing their
veins. see the bewitching beauty of face
and form, hear the ripping laughter
falling with rhythmic cadence from
their coral lips and feel daylight be
come brighter and the stars shine with
greater luster as their piercing. dreamy
and scintllating eyes peep into your
eyes. And as each one passes by you
will feel that you are under a new
sky, breathing a different air. salubriat-
ing in new atmosphere. These women,
as they pass in professional array, you
may hear the lispng sound. see the
pouting lips, the radiant eye. the heav-
ing bosom, the soft and elastic tread, so
vivid. SO lifelike as to make you forget
the airiness of the phantom pageant
and feel an irresistible impulse to lose
yourself in that seductive throng. Wo-
men pure and stainless and immaculate
as the riven snow, sweet and beautiful
of face, form and soul; women marble
hearted and fint-breasted: women
standing on the highest peaks Eon the
mountain SUBMITS, sun-kissed and
redolescent with an aroma of chastity
and virgin purity; women fallen into
the abysmal chasm of perfidy and
shame. Their deformty of souls and
their Qelty-llSe peTIecIlDH, tnelT vices
and their virtue. their ideals and their
dreams are so apparent that you can
hear the intriguing whispers or the
softer sounds of melodious tones arising
from hearts attuned to celestial har-
mony. Nothing is hidden from our
searching eyes: their articles and their
natural endowments, thei artful
witchery and their heaven-born guile
lessness-all are most wildly intensified
in this magnificently beautiful piano.
ramic view.
The genius and versatility of Shake
speare can best be understood by those
who become familiar in it's entirety with
his tremendous work. They will then
discover not only the Vastness of his
intellect, the copousness of his knowl-
edge, the penetrativeness Of his genius,
but also the thorough cosmopolitanism
of his character. For, when he speaks
of Greece, Rome, Denmark. Troy, Alex
andra. England and Scotland. you will
feel that you are indeed transported to
the countries, ancient. medieval and
modern. Not only the name of the
quaint habits and the customs are vi
talized, but even the dialect Of each ma
ton and people has a freshness and
originality very difficult to affect or iml-
tate"