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Show j Tntcrmountain news. CHEYENNE, WYO. j Academy of the Holy Child Jesus, j (Special Correspondence.) On the evening of Tuesday, June 21, ' Miss Helen Duffy of Lincoln, Neb., gave an exquisite pianoforte recital at the H. C. J. academy, Cheyenne. Many friends of Miss Duffy were present and could not help but feel that she is a perfect artist. The address was delivered by Father Charles O'Connor, an eloquent young priest, whose poetical tribute to music was a fitting close to a classical entertainment. enter-tainment. Father O'Connor said: "It is too bad our good bishop could not be here this evening to perform a j grateful task which I, unworthy, am now to do. "I feel that I voice the sentiments ! which possess the many friends of Miss Duffy here present when I say that we enjoyed very, very much the exquisite entertainment to which she has just I treated us. "Since self-praise is no reeommenda--I tion and the habit thereof defect of j character that more than' any other i bores and estranges, we would feel i rather much beside ourselves if Miss : Duffy only told us what she can do: j how she can wed to the silent cord the soul of music, make that' soul weep and laugh and speak and impart to the sound the various inflections of the human voice, than which no ' other sound in nature is sweeter in melody or mere rich in variety. "But our good friend is too refined, too cultured and much a lady to tell what she can do; she simply does what she can. "We wish well to Miss Duffy and arc 1 pleased to learn of her signal gifts of mind and soul. But this evening's per-, per-, formance speaks for itself and tells that she can do much and well. I "Cold, calculating intellectuality, di- vorced from sentiment, is less estimable estima-ble than a musical soul. Did man possess pos-sess only mind and no heart, life would j be without poetry or charm, and be- ! come very much a second-rate article. "But every noble and generous sentiment senti-ment knocks in its own good time at fhe door of a musical soul. The sob that accompanies the salted tear is but i the musical expression of the heart's ' grief; and rolling laughter the over-; over-; flow of an exultant spirit. I "Music is the language of feeling, I indicative of a sentimental nature. It I is also the language of heaven in which I the angels celebrated the birth of the I little Bethlemite babe. Angelic choirs transport the souls of the blessed to ' heaven midst strains of music and vir- I gins clothed in milky robes sing a song.' none else can sing -as they follow the immaculate Iamb, whithersoever he go- . eth. "Love, then, the noble art as a drop of the sweetness of the Deity itself. Love it rightly and well as did Cecilia of old: and remember that it is a beautiful gift of God in a beautiful soul, given for his glory and your good. "Be it dear to you through life and respect your gift as part of those treasures you will take with you to ; Paradise. "Bright and whole-souled as you are, it is not necessary for me to "touch upon your obligations toward your good preceptor, who have spared no pains in he work for which you have leen en-rusted en-rusted to them. Justly do they feel proud of you tonight: your dear parent and friend feel croud also: anrt this Is j not, I trust, the last occasion when j you, too, will feel proud of yourself. . "Experience will teach you that years 1 spent under the shadow of this home of learning and piety must be reckoned I amongst the happiest of your life. s "Yet a while and you will bid a long, ' but not. I feel, last farewell to j'our Alma Mater. Your friends bid you ' farewell, still nourishing the hope that it will not be a final farewell." I Distribution Day. The distribution of premiums at the academy took place on the forenoon of June 23. The pianoforte selections by the r Misses Duffy, Keefe, Marks, Turkey and Martin were much enjoyed. The children gave some pretty recitations and the juvenile amateur band acquitted ac-quitted itself to the great delight of all present, who, indeed, felt on this as on other occasions that the academy of the Holy Cliild Jesus enjoys not only the advantage of being thoroughly up-to-date and situated in, perhaps, the prettiest and healthiest of our western cities but is as a bishop recently said the most progressive college in the western country. The young ladies went through a programme that for matter and execution exe-cution reflects the tatest credit on pupils and teachers alike. The premiums were distributed by Father Charles O'Connor, whose closing clos-ing remarks were: "At this moment the words academy and study sound distasteful. The sweetest I could utter, as expressing the objects most dear to you, are home and hol'days and for some, maybe, the St. Ixuis exposition. "If my company be not objectionable, objection-able, I am with you, not precisely on a trip to St. Louis, but in desire to make it. . "At this distribution of premiums I have eeen that you are Americans to the core, and how grand and noble is the American character. Your behaviour be-haviour makes me feel that after my own, I would be of no other country hut America. The American is modest in success, and is not jealous of, but rejoices at the success of others. "If benevolence towards you gives me a little grief that all have not been honored with a prize, the modesty of the lucky ones and the dignified deportment de-portment of the others under their little lit-tle disappointment gratifies so, that since universal success would have deprived de-prived me a foreigner practically of this beautiful illustration of American character, I scarcely regret the turn things have taken. "I do wonder if all are alive to the significance, the importance of carrying carry-ing off a prize tantamount to the importance im-portance of a character. "No one possessing a rpark of manhood, man-hood, but is fired with the ambition of success. The man without ambition is lost to God and to his fellows, and io such a one the Romans would give a dip in the Tiber. "Your own experience teaches that not the brightest intellects always take prizes, and to overcome 'periculum' so the Romans called an examination, is a test) of genius not to lay too much stress upon. But e.'ther w indicative of a gift more important, to my mind than genius in the strenuous battle of life the gift of ambition. - "In the material life as in the higher order of grace, not to advance' is to recede; and whom the success of equals and inferiors and his own significance signi-ficance does not quicken, who scoffs at,?si tha-enter seriously into the uphill. fight for existence, sucr' a one failure awaits in every walk of life, In things temporal , as in the higher callings of the spirit; and who. further, more, looks to earth and hearkens not to the aspirations of better nature, he, 1 1 j indeed, i fertile soil for the seeJ I every crime. ' I "Winning a prize reveals possession of another ingredient of character tne g:f t of perseverance not second to ambition in importance, and whicn makes nature's pets immortal ana leads the ordinary human being to tne threshold of greatness. ! "Since then education is in order to success in life and deals with every faculty of the human soul, habitual failure to reap those honors held out as a stimulus to youth, appeals to a prudent mentor as revealing a weakness weak-ness in a youth's character, that clamours for correction as loudly as God, society, man's nature and destiny clamour for each to do his best. "While, therefore, I congratulate from my inmost heart the young ladles to whom I have just handed the trophies of another year's war against j darkness of intellect waged upon the written page, I will give expression to S the hope that each one who may spend another year under the guardian shadow of this academy, will return ! fired with a firm resolve to reap honors I during the coming scholastic year. j ! "Ere long you will be scattered far and wide; but the overflowing mirth aDproa-hing holidays awaken within you must not drown the ever-to-be- ( leit consciousness that you owe it to your own name and this academy, to your parents and friends, to society and God, as your bounden duty, to behave at a'l times and places as Christian, Cat hoi io young ladies. "May your holidays be according to your wish and with God' blessing and a character without stain, may your course through life be an unbroken holiday until it closes in the eternal holiday of the blessed." 1 j BUTTE, MONT. ' The marriage of Fred Noble of the Caledonia street fire station, and Miss Mav Weber took place Saturday afternoon after-noon of l&st week. Rev. Father Callahan Calla-han performed the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Noble left later in the afternoon for Spokane on a wedding trip. f ' Mr. and Mrs. William Skyrrne of this city announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Bess Skyrrne, to Edwin Butcher, lieutenant United States army, stationed at Monterey, Cal. The wedding wed-ding day has not been set. but an early date is promised. Miss Skyrrne is one of the beautiful and popular girls of this city and has friends by the score. Lieutenant Butcher is a resident of Helena and has recently graduated from West Point academy. He will leave here early in September for his new post on the Pacific coast. i Mrs. J. T. Finlen and Mrs. C. Turner, Tur-ner, accompanied by their children, have gone to Salt Lake toVpend a couple cou-ple of weeks with relatives. f j Mrs. C. J. Kelley is spending a few days with her mother, Mrs. Peters, in Anaconda, i f ! Mrs. Margaret Dennis of Lincoln. Neb., is the guest of Mrs. Elizabeth McGuire, 118 West Silver street. f Miss Ella Driscoll is in Basin visiting Mr. and Mrs. Callahan and the baby. BOZEMAN, MONT. Mr. William Haley and Miss Elizabeth Eliza-beth Kopp were married on Tuesday afternoon, June 28, at 2 o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Kopp on West Lamne street. Only the members mem-bers of the two families were present at the ceremony, which was prformed by the Rev. Father O'Brien. Miss Ethel Eth-el Palmer was bridesmaid and Mr. Thomas Lake was .groomsman. The bride's three younger sisters, Misses Lena, Anna and HHtie Kopp, were the flower girls. Folowing the ceremony Mr. -and Mrs. Kopp, assited by their niece, Mrs. E. B. Hoflman, received nearly 200 guests. The young ladies of the D. D. club assisted at the refreshment refresh-ment table. A large company followed the couple to the evening train, upon which they left for Hunter's -Hot, Springs to spend a week or more. They will make their home in Bozeman. HELENA, MONT. A large number of visitors from Butte. Anaconda. Great Falls and Missoula Mis-soula were attracted here Saturday by the meeting of the local lodge of Knights of Columbus, at which about forty candidates- for initiation and degrees de-grees were introduced to the Inner workings of the order. j 'The . initiations were completed.1 la,t in the afternoon, and in the evening the party enjoyed;, a banquet at the Helena. During the hour a number of informal toasts were responded to, and ' the affari proved, exceedingly pleasant' to the visitors and the members of the local organization who participated. partici-pated. Among those who came in for the meeting were Judge John J. McHatton. C. E. Meagher and Doctor Turner of Butte, and J. P. Reagan, deputy county j attorney of Cascade county. j ANACONDA, MONT. I Miss Alice-Mahoney and mother, Mrs, Hannah Mahoney, left this week for a visit with friends in Virginia City, where they will spend a month. Before returning they will visit Brown's lake and other suburban places. , ' -A Jerry Sullivan has returned to the city and will do expert electrical work J here during the next few months. f- Mai Sheehan was in town during the week from the Smoky City. |