Bisbee daily review., 1902-06-07


 wish them God speed upon their con- mencement Of a new life's work. There were fourteen in the graduating class, and they certainly made an excellent showing. Every one who took part did much credit. The audience num- bering at least a thousand people, was we'll repaid for being present
 The Copper Queen band played sev eral selections during the evening, an1 did excellent work. The Soldiers Dream and the medley were very much enjoyed.
 Miss Lille Perkins was the first of the class to take part, and rendered for her audience The Chimes of Nor mandy" in very artistic and pleasing manner, receiving a most hearty ap plause. Little May Hankins then gave a recitation.
 "A Sketch Of Cecil Rhodes" was the subject of particularly well written essay Dy Elsie Toles. She presented her subject in a very interesting man ner. and said m part:
 Cecil Rhodes was often called a great man, which he truly was, but seldom a good one.
 His greatness lay in the fact that he allowed nothing to stand in his path Obstacles never daunted him, and he was never restrained by scru- pies.
 His chief title to blame is the fact that it was through his agency that cruel and devastating war was precip the forces of progress and conserve tism In doing this his sole aim was to see a country full of wealth and re sources made a colony of Great Brit ain.
 He went to South Africa to regain his health which had been seriousv imperiled by overtTalning in a college crew at Oxford. The doctors, who be heved Rhodes had about six months longer to live, recommended South Africa, where he already had two brothers"
 Mary Studley's essay was entitled The Lay of Virginia" Miss Studlev spoke in a clear, forceful manner, and was thoroughly enjoyed by all She said in part:
 The lay of Virginia was sung in the Forum of Rome on the day when Lu- cius Sextius Sextinus Lateranus and Caius Lisinius Calvus Stolo were elected tribunes oi the commons the fifth time in the year of the city three hundred and eighty-two.
 "The thought of the lay is as fol lows: Good and true hearted men of the commons, come, sit in circle around me and listen carefully to my story, story ot what Rome mas borne and what it may bear again. It is not a Grecian fable of fountains running with wine, or of maids with snaky hair In this very forum, about noon before all the people. the bloody dee' was done Even now we may meet men who have witnessed the deed done 77 years ago; at the time wher the wicked ten were in power.
 "The worst of all the ten was Appiu: Claudius, and when you saw him walk ing along the forum, you might take him for King Tarquin himself, .' proud was he. Twelve axes waiten oI him, six marching on either side. Th' people sank from right to left whel they saw his lowering brow nd curlins mouth, which always seemed :t sneer"
 A chorus of twenty little girls wa very sweet.
 The recitation 'Lasca," by Myrtle Munson, was especially good. Sh quite caught the spirit of the poen, and presented it in a very charmiI; manner.
 "A Review of the Crisis" an essa. by Cnarlotta Jones, was in part as fol lows:
 At the death of Appleton Brice, hi wife was left nearly penniless on ac count of the great panic. Stephen, he con, an intelligent and ambitious bo, of twenty, knowing that somethini must be done to support his mother decided to leave Boston and go to St Louis to work for Judge Whipple, friend of his father.
 "On leaving the house where he an his mother were stopping in St. Louis the next morning, he beheld crow gathered in front of the court hous@ He saw that 1t was a slave auctior and the people seemed to be bid6:n