Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-08
WIDE RANCE
Of SUBJECTS
QUARTETTE OF YOUNG LADIES
AND A YOUNG MAN DELIv-
Erred CREATIONS,
FIFTH DAY OF HIGH
SCHOOL CLASS EXERCISES
Jeanne D'Arc, Wireless Telegraphy,
Home Of Milton, Mexico and the
Schools of Germany.

Misses Lille Webster. Nettie Garcia,
Florence Hammer and Mamie lyle and
Mr.. Marcus Hanley of the high school
graduating class delivered their ad-
Miss Webster talked of Jeanne Dare,
Marcus Hanley of wireless biography,
Miss Garcia of the home of Milton, Miss
Hammer Of the schools of Germany and
Miss Kyle of President Diaz and the
country of his building. OF Jeanne Dare
Miss Webster said:
In this age of practical minded men
and women it is difficult to understand
any system of development or any evo-
luton which might explain Jeanne
Dare. There is but one of her kline and
no more in all the astonished world. In
her day people We're more or less devout.
when faith was without a question, and
the routine of church ceremonies was
followed as a matter Of course. Among
all heroines she stands foremost in a rare
union of qualities; the soldiers courage,
the patriots devotion. the purity OF a
saint and the constancy of a martyr
were all in her, blended with n glori-
fed by the very truest w~omanpiness.
Jeanne was convinced that she must
be the savior of France and great uues-
tons and troubles surrounded her on all
sides. How could she cave home and pa
rents? But it was Gods will and she
must obey.
Jeanne, although the only woman in
the regiment, was always IN the iead.
| On Friday, May 6, she and about three
i thousand men crossed to an island, fought
! most desperately ana won the famous
battle of Orleans. All France glorified
at the thought of their faithful herolne'
and honors too great could not be De.
slowed upon her. The next important
campaign was what we might call her
fall. She lost a battle and was captur-
ed, Notwithstanding her hard efforts.
She was imprisoned. but nevertheless;
never lost her divine thoughts ana
WAYS. Her prison life lasted but a few
DAYS when she was sold and imprisoned
again and accused of being a Wltcn'
a hereto and idolatress and was con-
demned to be burned at the stake. Inc
rescue which she had longed ana prayed
for fastened her own ruin.
Seeing in her one among the many
actors in the drama of war and an actor
too. who was soon to be removed from
the scene, we cannot but marVel az nel
greatness, which did not CONSIST IN nel
military achievements alone, but IN ner
nure. true and ardent character, whlch
made her a pathetic victim to the cruel
ties of a superstitious age.
Marcus Hanley talked of wireless
Telegraphy:' ~
tons are engaging the attentlon ol SCI
entists throughout the world, ana among
the most important of these is the teie-
praph system of today. together with It's
possible improvements. The interest
manifested in this subject is not con-
fined alone to the world of science, but
among every one interested IN the prog
ress of civilization. The appliances for
transmitting messages. which are now
used all over the world, have served
their purpose very well, and for this
reason there has not been much thought
given to their improvement until re-
Gently. The loss of time in transmission
for long distances has been reduced to
a minimum. and now several messages
can be sent simultaneously over the same
wire with great rapidity. These two i'm
provements are no CUB of immense ad-
vantage to the modern telegraph. but
nevertheless there We're still some sci
entists who thought that the system had
not reached it's fullest development, n
that there was one other improvement
necessary in order to nave the best mode
of transmission with the smallest waste
of energy and capital. The improvement
referred to was to free It from it's SUBJ
lection to that wire of communication
without which it seemed impossible to
the electrical transmission. 1t has been
left to a young Anglo-Italian, Guglielmo
Marconi. to work out the most wonder
full possibilities of these electrical waves
and to invent the instruments by which
they might be transmitted. The appa-
ratus he used is very simple. consisting
OF two parts-a receiver and a "trans-
mitter.' The receiver is connected with
a diaphragm, so placed upon a high pole
as to easily intercept electrical wa ves
The transmitter is about the same as the
Morse key, and is operated in a similar
manner.
In an age of such wonderful nroores.
ana rapid advancement as we are now
living we may boldly state thai wireless
telegraphy will soon find a place among