Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-06

Helen Pfouts' oration:
How kindly heaven sometimes shows
itself in bestowing upon a single indi-
vidual all the graces and rare gifts which
1t is want to distribute among SO many
i'll a long space of time, nay be clearly
seen in Raphael Sanzio, who, by nature,
was endowed with countless gifts of
beauty, genius, the sunniest and sweet
est of dispositions, purity and nobleness
o. character, and a nameless charm
Unbino, on Good Friday of the year
14S3, Raphael's early life was happy
enough to suggest the peaceful, domestic
bliss SO constantly expressed IN MS many
"Holy Families"
His first frescoes adorn the Church OF
Saint Savero. and represent the savior
seated between angels and saints, with
the form of God, the Father. and the
dove of the Holy Spirit lowering above.
But as yet his genius appeared to ADAPT
itself more naturally to easel pictures
particularly to groups OF the Madonna
and Child. He painted during his lfe-
time MadonnaS enough TO form . sal-
!ery by themselves.
1t seems impossible to realize that
the vast amount of painting lone by
! Raphael should nave been
by any one man, however glfted, III the
short space of 81 years; but Raphael was
devoted to his work and had unwearled
lnOuSJrN. II IoNSo USouNy AoA
sake n it's creation afforded him cease.
less delight. The numerous bands OF
pupils who formed his daily retlnue
loved him with an ardent affection, MS
friends were cheered by his presence as
Iby sunshine, and his very rivals were
,precipitated by his amiability.
On Good Friday. April 6. 1920. he
passed away. All Rome spoke of moth
ing but Raphael's death. The grief was
universal. for everyone loved him, and
even the pope wept bitterly. According
to Raphaers will, the sculptor, Loren
zetto, executed a marble statue o. tne
! Madonna, with the simple inscriptions:
Mature, while Raphael lived, must fear
defeat,
He died, she. too, prepared her death to
meet"
| He said: OF all the questions which are
today engaging the attention of scient-
lists and inventors, there is probably none
of greater or more fa~r-reachdng import
ance than the successful preparation OF
liqEid air.
ed by some to Galliete, by others to the
Russian chemists Wrobliskur and Olzen-
ski, at Cracow, who liquified air in the
! year eighteen hundred n eighty three.
Following Gailliets experiment DIR. Carl
Linde found that by continuous ompres
sion of air in the inner vessel. expansion
could be made continuous. BY reason of
expanded air around the inner vessel
great would be the fall OF temperature
| therein. The next man who did anything
in the production of this liquid was Chas.
Tmpler of New York City who reduced
the fresh air of his laboratory to the clear
LIQUID that boils ice, freezes alcohol and
and eggs, and also burns steel like paper.
The last two men who have experimental
J with liquid air are Ostergen and Burger
who nave reduced the cost from twenty
to five or six cents per gallon, but they
can only produce fifteen hundred gallons
! of it a day which is not sufficient for the
vast demands set forth by the people.
This liquid has been used by them to
age liquors, refine oils, chiefly sugar, pu-
rify water, cure tobacco and to produce
oxygen at a very low price.
Whenever we consider the wonderful
things that this liquid already a do and
the conclusion Is forced upon us that the
other great powers, steam and electri-
city, have a strong and lusty rival. Its
future is much more brilliant than was
that of the other two after an equal num-
Der of years of research.
Who then is competent to predict what
future awaits this new and powerful
force? Rome was not built in a day." nor
was it's future greatness foreseen by it's
founders.
american Literature" was Miss Anna
Kennelly's topic:
Almost every Yankee town has repre-
sentatives who reflect in prose Or verse
the impulses and tendencies of the time,
but. with the exception of Russia, hardly
any great country has produced fewer
works less likely to become classical.
This is, of course. due to the fact that
the country is yet new, and people are
still too deeply intent on worldly aims
for the upbringing of great poets. OF all
our singers, Longfellow came nearest to
living for his art alone. nut even he was
far past middle age before he COM
menced to give all his time to litera-
ture.
America has been endowed. however,
with many clever men of letters. whose
Yankee shrewdness has enabled them to
do many kinds of work and to touch
nothing that they have not adorned.
Among these the names of Bryant, Poe,
Emerson and Holmes are at once sug-
gested to us. Historical writings are sell
dom found early in the national life of
a country, and the first attempts are
rarely successful; yet America has pro-
duced three MISUNDERSTANDING, Prescott
and Motley whose names are not
eclipsed by those of Gibbon, Hume and
Macawley.
Among our clever men of letters the
most brilliant have excelled as journal