Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-05
0U|NTETTE Of
. GIRL SPEAKERS
DELIVER BRIGHT ESSAYS ON
TOPICS, VARIED AND IN
TERESTING.
THE SECOND DAY OF
HIGH SCHOOL ORATlONS.
Auditorium Filled With Friends Of the
Graduates-Synopsis Of Their
Pleasing Efforts.

Pleasing Efforts.
Misses Anna Almquist, Helen Connell,
Theresa Fitchett, Genevieve Davis n
Sarah Rosenstein, sweet girl graduates
that are to be, of the high school aired
their learning before a large audience at
the Auditorium this afternoon. Like
their predecessors of yesterday they
handled the topics assigned to them in a
manner creditable to themselves and to
their instructors. Literature as a Pro-
fessiOn," was the subject of Miss Aim
Quist's talk. She said:
What should be a mans or women's
reason for taking literature as a vOca-
ton? What sort Of success ought they to
desire? What sort of ambition should
possess them? These are natural ques-
tons, now that there are so many read
ers, all asking for something new, now
that SO many writer's are speeding their
pens over SO many acres of foolscap.
Ii 1T were possible to see, in one compre-
hensive view all the people who dabble in
something which, for the want Of a bet
ter word we must call literature, we
should see people of all kinds, represent
Ing in their original callings every posi-
BILE occupation and in their lives every de-
gree of failure. There would be scholars
of the highest order. Others may be
found looking at the fortune that they
think is sure to be theirs whenever their
surprising ability shall have come to be
acknowledged by the public. The fate and
sufferings of such men as Johnson, Gold
smith, Butler, Campbell, Dryden and 9TH
ers are not readily forgotten.
Mr.. Carlyle has said, ''That literature
as a trade is neither safe nor advisable
and we do not think 1t often proves much
better when taken as a last resourse."
The professional calling in literature is
an exceptional one, and even at the best
you will find trials and troubles which
you least expect and to which no other
profession is exposed. It is true there
Is no other profession SO bright and pleas
ant, SO full of genial friendship, touching
sympathies and radiant with the glories
OF success, but there is also no business
SO doubtful and full of risks, so open to
despair as the profession of literature.
Literature as a profession is not an easy
one as the crowd Of somewhat educated
people hin nor is the reward so rich
When 1T is attained. It's garlands are
usually fading, but if they are immortal
they are not won without the dust and
heat. H. ...f.
.Ihe Home of the Passion Play was
the subject of the very entertaining ora
ton delivered by Miss Helen ConneIl, h
said: ~
Isolated from the rest of the world by
a lofty barrier of ounta ranges and
nldden t'ar away in one of the picturesque
valleys OF the Tyrol. lies the little Bay
arlan village now known throughout the
world as the "Home of the Passion
Play"
Thither.- through motives of curiosity
or interest about two undred thousand
pilgrims during the summer of 1900 will
make their way. What is the cause of
this marvellous nflux of travellers? No
magnificent cathedral, no picturesque
ruin or even medieval castle, for none
of these does the little town possess; the
sole attraction there is the performance
OF the world renowned Passion Play"
Oberammergau, like all Tyrolean viii
lagos, is built without apparent plan. The
a little stone houses are scattered here
and there n everywhere. No two
houses in a line, no two streets at right
angles. The religious intensity of the in
habltants is at once evident; the outer
walls of their homes have highly colored
frescoes, representing biblical or sacred
medieval legends.
The great and spacious auditorium
where the Passion Play is so worthily
presented is entirely uncovered, actors
are exposed alike to sun and rain, and
there are many instances when plays
have been acted in a violent storm of
rain, the audience sitting drenched dur
ing the whole performance. How incom-
parable the effect is in sunny weather.
heightened by this background of noun
tain and sky, vistas of mountain and
meadow and the ano of heaven over
head.
When birds fly over they cast shadows
of their wings on the front of Pilates
n Caiapha's homes as naturally as did
Judean sparroWs two thousands years
. ago, while great banks Of white clouds
gather and rest overhead, dissolve and
float away. This visible presence Of che
sky seems to witness to the INVISIBLE
presence beyond IT, for many souls there
are that feel closer to the world of spir-
tua existence while surrounded by this
beautiful and natural village and by its
generous, humble and happy inhabitants
Miss Tnesera Fitchett in her grafton,
1.-The Dark Continent" aid
Some years ago Victor Hugo aid that
in the twentieth century Africa would be
the cynosure of every eye, and more re-
Gently Lord Salisbury, apropos of the
European stir .tion, made the remark
that foreign politics meant African poll
tics. Each statement is an index to the
immense u of that crowded and
great continent in which twilight is now
succeeding the dark night of ignorance
RIGA is very slow because circumstances
are. and rave been, against her develop
ment. Henc it Is that today we know
comparatively little of the land of mys-
terry and wonders. Her variety and pro-
fusion of animal life are without rival
and nearly one-fifth of her surface Is &C.
cupied by rich ~savannas n one-half by
valuable forests and tillable fields. The
African output of gold and diamonds Is
unparalleled in the history of the world
Great Britain, Germany and rance are
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