Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-09
Six Pupils Graduate From the
High School.
VERY INTERESTING ESSAYS
Each one Was a Credit to the Public
Schools and to the Teachers
The Subjects.

The Margaret theater was a blaze of
glory last night upon the commencement
exercises of the Anaconda high school.
Messrs. futile, Welcome, MacCallum,
Twohy and DR.. Stephens. the trustees Of
the district; President O.. j. Craig of the
Montana State university of Missoula;
Prof. NJ. A. Stapleton, superintendent of
schools; Principal r. H. Kilroy and
Misses. Livingstone, Mathes and Suther-
land, teachers of the high school. and
Miss Helena Gleeson, county superln-
tendent of schools, occupied seats on the
stage.
Splendid music was furnished by the
Margaret theater orchestra. c. A. Tut
tie, president of the school board, pre-
sided. Not a vacant seat remained in
the house. The graduates We're: Misses
Mary E. Howard, Laura L. Smith, Myr-
tie NJ. Templeton, Izora Templeton and
Ulrica T. Trisberger and Mr.. Emmett E.
Thompson, who delivered essays in part
as follows:
FAMOUS HISTORIES AND H1sTO-
RIANS"-MARY +. HOWARD.
1t rarely happens that in one man there
is at once the genius of the artist, the
discrimination of the impartial and judi
cious reasoner and the application Of the
accurate and painstaking investigator
of fundamental fact. When this does
happen we have a great historian. When
the artistic faculty predominates We have
a great painter Of scenes and porlrayer
of character like Carlyle. When the crit
ical faculty predominates we have an i'm
partial historian like Hallam.
The most famous and most interesting
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caulay's is FrOude's. 1t is a more recent
work and deals from the fall of Wolsley
to the defeat Of the Spanish armada His
style is the clearest and easiest of all re-
cent English writer's. but his tendency to
pervert fact and his partisan view of af-
fairs are a constant offense.
Leaving English history and taking up
that of the United States. the nam of
George Bancroft stands pr%e-eminent. His
History of the United States" treats of
events from the discovery of America to
the close of the revolutionary war. 1t is
by far the most carefully prepared his
tory of the colonial and evolutionary
periods yet published. But America has
produced very few historians compared
with some of the other nations. We are
a new nation and hav not made much
history, in fact very little when compared
with Italy, whose history can be traced
over a period of 2.700 years, or England.
which has been making history for nearly
1900 years.
'THE SAMOAN QUESTION"-LAURA
L. SMITH.
Samoa. a group of thirteen islands in
the South Pacific, is from 400 to 800 miles
northeast Of the FIJI islands. Hawaii.
Upolu and Tutuila are the only ones that
are large enough to be of any import
ance, and these three comprise less thar
1900 square miles. Upolu. the next to
the largest of these. has. on it's northern
coast. the bay and harbor of Apia. the
largest and most important town in the
islands. Tutuila has also a good harbor.
Page Page, which almost cuts the
island in two, and is of great importance
because it is the safest in either the North
or South Pacific ocean. In these islands
in the spring are disastrous hurricanes.
and the United States largely owes its
navy to the fact that one of these de-
stroyed its protecting Warships in 1899
A large number of American, German
n English capitalists ave obtained ex-
tensive possessions of land in Samoa. and
they do a trading business with other
countries. Although the British empire
supplies Samoa with more han so pc,
cent of her imports, Germany receives a
large share of her exports. which chiefly
comprise, cotton, coffee and copra. or CO.
cOanut. The inhabitants of Samoa are
y" WY ~ tAiV IicS
pleasure-loving people in the world. They
make up songs for every occasion and
even when they are visiting or at work
their brains are busy at composing
rhymes. Sometimes children are trained
to sing these songs and cloruses. and
their performances are often quite cred
table. The Samoans are fond of all out
door sports and Of public oratory. and
when they get tired of staying at home
they form a large party and go from vii
1age to village exchanging gossip.
"A CENTURY'S PROGRESS"-MYR-
TIE TEMPLETON.
A century is rapidly drawing to g
close: a hundred years of progress are
almost completed, a period in which tn
world has changed as never before. Let
us see In what this change consists. AZ
we compare the conditions of today with
those of any past period. who can doub1
the fact of human progress? The worlt
has grown into a liberty, a happiness an(
an intelligence unknown at any previous
time.
One of the most conspicuous example:
OF the growth of our republic is pre-,
scented by the postal service. Durin.
the last 125 years the number of post.