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.-, e--Cor;rc. , i :c-po!;tlcal man-mtt"ner. ; Democrat of New Er.j- : r. William Jennings Fry r in that bailiwick, and if niould be elected Presi -i . ,, iliiams would be to his ad- r:. ; n what Ben Butler was to ''s end Buchanan's; what the 4 c -.rpet-bag-ger? and contempt- :wa.Tof the South were to ,:'s. But Butler had a partner : flushing, though a Junior part vith perhaps a 40 per cent, lnter l the venture. Both belonged to Davis, and fetched and carried 'jn until 1861, when they dlscQV 1 V- o dross of which they were Cushing was In the Cabinet 1853 to 1857, but Butler.' mar d the bread and butter brigade "Is composed of recruits special acted by hlm.s The one complaint iae was that the party was a lit o big there was a lack;of pie. ' complaint has come up from ev- outhern State since the creation at mobilized appetite, yclept the blican party of the South. But as a delegate to the Democratic nil convention of 1884' -and t to bribe the South to bestow m the nomination for President ferlng a plank In the platform .ting ex-Confederate soldiers to I share of the pension approprla- We Fred Williams .got to be a i Democrat' "by regular stages 7 accident. He was reared In the jl of Charles Sumner, perhaps nost vicious, of vall the vicious ,!s known to " American political 'STcjlda. 'Jf the impossible could bcn achieved 'and Sumner's j tin J -ideals Ingrafted on our gov Wal policy, we would have .Had rse and more Intolerable polltl 'rjjeture than- the worst of the rs gave the Roman; Fortunate mnev's damphoolery was imprac- ana we escapea n, inougn we with the atrocity of Thad Ste- We got rid .of that simply be lt was' Infamy without disguise, i of the devil, openly acknowl , while Sumner's Idiocy was de I as a philanthropy and a fount, petual social and political bless- f I Republican National Conven--f J 8 8 4 nominated James G. for President ef the United Then George Fred Williams umped along with some other xcellent folk, including the Hon. k Henry Walker, of the town of ster. If Socratesv conviction leath Is progress Is Justified by ent we shall find out in another mpler life how It . came , that Cabot -Lodge - and 'Theodore irelt escaped ; mugwumpery In They were the fittest raw ma for mugwumpery in all the Itter than George William Cur- ' Henry Ward Beecher even, vmlraculous sometimes happens iitlcal matters, and thus Lodge reserved, for, the toga of 8um hd . Roosevelt for the chair of n. How !Aiscrutable are the ' of Destiny! ' . , rthur or velther Sherman, or Ms,- or Logan,, or- any one ' of of j other ' Republican leaders ;en nominated for President by nvantinn thot nrefarred Blaine fl. the chances are 1.000 to I eortra Fred Williams would emained a Reptlblican to this at Blaine was the author of tne ' n Letters." No high-minded buld have conceived them. It is la to further characterize them ost the Republican party the- ncv; Thev made the Mugwump n. They awakened the public' nee. Perhaps the country lost h the end.. In the White House u. Blaine would have given tne thm hand of fellowship and rhood, something ; no Republl-, I . - . . . . . . ........ AtA esiaeni Sine uncoia ever iv i for the reasonJJUey did not iOW. ' ::'V,Y Blaine was defeated, Cleveland President and George rea ised from mugwumpery to De- y. By;ls90 he was all rignt chosen to a Congress in which nocratlc party had the largest cal majority . any party ever any Congress. Independent of !ld South, including Delaware, vfrdftla. and Missouri, the j-atlc' membership exceeded the of the Republicans and Pop jmbined. The Democrats had ritv of the -New England dele- 0nd a majority of ; the- Mas- kts delegation,- J . ts all on account of Cleveland. ! ars earlier the country woke f morning following the Presi -election conscious of Its mls i 1890 that regert had grown orse. The Democratic victory ) the greatest of our history, Hwork yf restitution. But the fiad,e a fatal mistake in the or on of the Fifty-second Cph j Mills "was . the . logical caucus Vfor Speaker. He was defeat enemies of Cleveland ill I, Tammany, Gorman and nd3 of big appropriations to f, the Mississippi river, to tills was hostile. . It was none ge Fred WlUiams' fault. He Trs and again mugwumped on selection:, refusing to vote for it. Bryan played practical pol Ic, who had never been heard de his own neighborhood got j and means.' See. Islah, 1:3. ver offered for sale a single i E.:;!;rnmenk Crisp did not '"gla place left In stock when 1 ballot was-taken In the cau- ,;lowlng March that Congress, imingly Democratic with a I membership exceeding thlr ( now recollect, killed the last !Uland silver bills. . The pre- jnirresa,"' Republican . in both d enacted the Sherman b11 (, George Fred Williams, was 1bug whjp on that, memorable nd "fetched : and carried for i Cochran, the goldbug leader 'remendous struggle. Mr. Bry- herding with .Torn Watson, .-c.n, and that layout. That -irk nrKie the rn-mination and , of Grover Cleveland, the fol- -ummer end autumn, a cer- r:rty cf his X that grand -old rU-tLvJ ij 11 rr, t!,3 i?:.- '. :i cf ote's rigrhts apoHtle. nnTPr herman, from whom John C. Calhoun got some of his doctrines. I am not quite sure, but my impression is that young Andrew also escaped. But Williams was in the fix of John A. Logan. His bridges were burned. There was no road open to him by which he could get back to his former faith. He could not stand still, and so he wandered around and around, and the first thing you knew you found . . , j ,r - - - -- , . ico, mo buuio nine. him In' the Bryan canp and a regular K "'Afraid I wouldn't live'' 16 to 1-er. He is Bryan's representa- -xttPr refierUvc. nnAJ tive in New England, and it Is alto gether probable that he will be on the national ticket, with Bryan in 1908. George Fred has been making a speech, in which he delivered himself of this1 prophecy: "If President Roosevelt abjdes by his refusal to become a candidate, no 4 Republican, unless he be" more radical than the President, can prevent the election of William Jennings Bryan to the Presidency.". ' Then he goes on to say that in any eventt Bryan's principles will be vindi cated, and the. Democratic party lifted to the plane of'Bryainism. This means tht Roosevelt and LaFollette are the on men the Republicans have who can amuse Bryan; in an election, and, aa he opines that either of them can beat Mr. Bryan, it follows that either Is a better Bryanlte han- Bryan him self, In the opinion of Mrv Williams. I opine from this that George Fred has not yet mastered the profundities of the Hon. Bevertdge. ' Perhaps some of us may be able to do that when we get over yonder, where Socrates eald wlj are going, if Plato -or Bacon should only be kind enough to Interpret for US. ;r : -?. --- -r. ? " If Roosevelt is a Democrat. Cleve land is not a Democrat. If Roosevelt is a Democrat, Jackjson was not a uemocrat. aefferson was not a uem ocrat. If Roosevelt is a Democrat. Wright, Marcy Tilden, Thurman, Hen dricks, Douglas Breckinridge, Lamar Morrison, Beck, Carlisle, wimam u. Wilson, J. Proctor, Knott, Ben Hill, Alexander H. - Stephens, Clement L. Vallandlgham, Jeremiah S. Black, Thomas F. Bayard, Roger B. Taney, Levi Woodbury, Richard Olney, or any one of a thousand others, the cream of the old party, living or aeaa, never harbored a Democratic thought or was moved by a Democratic Impulse. Of all our Presidents, Roosevelt is least of a Democrat. Of all our pub 11c men, living or dead, Roosevelt has most contempt for the Democratic party and most aversion to Democrat' is principles.- He Is a paternalist and an imperialist. . He spurns tne aoc. trine of State's rights, the foundation stone and the cope stone of the Dem ocracy of Jefferson, of Jackson, and Of Tilden.. He has made and executed laws without the . authority of Con gress. He has negotiated ana pui in force treaties without consulting the Senate. He has nullified laws to re buke a community In Mississippi solely because It was a Democratic commun ity. He made the sun to stand still in order that Ire might force an odious official, on the people of Charleston, S. C., and did it for no other reason than that Charleston.was a Democrat 10 City. -. :'..' ' If Bryan and Roosevelt hold to the same ; political tenets, why' the devil don't' they get. Into the same political party, where they . belong, and leave real ..Democrats to hew, their own wood and draw their own water! Eet maka de monk seek! r.;: .t. "Dr. Iteredith removed to Ilanr.'.l .:! ly and ly e:;J was cur faii.I'.y i hy ? siclan the re, end saved my life several times. Cti'.l, he was a bood man and meant well. Let it "O. . "I , was always toid that I was a sickly and precarious and tiresome and uncertain child, and lived, mainly on allopatfttc medicines during , the first seven years of my lfe. I asked my mother about this in her old age she was In her eighty-eighth year and. said: : - "". r - . " 'I suppose that during all that time you were uneasy about me?' After a reflective pause ostensibly to think out the facts: . " 'No, afraid you would.' " HEROES OF 19ft0. Tills SAVED MARK TWAIN'S LIFE. .. Yet, Dr. Meredith Was a Good Man and Meant Well, Says Mr. Clemens. New York Sun. - . In ; the autobiography with which Mark Twain Is enlivening the North American Review tire public has Just been Introduced to - a hitherto un known benefactor. His name is or was Meredith, and he was a country doctor in the Missouri village of Flor Ida, where Mark Twain was a boy. According to- the autobiography medical attendance then cost next to ' Surry to thesResctie. ' . Salisbury Post 1 Little Surry, until lasf ' month i,steady company of "de ate" now a component part of the- nrtn congres sional district; proposes to be heard from, sirs. Surry don't cut much ice in the way of population or demo cratic majorities but her! people never 2"iir ,7 V;,:r ;;;h parlson.with anythlng-that is now be ing done anywhere; that is at once professionally" correct, as musio is taught in the schools, and at the same time filled, with a spirit of power and achievement It Is musio not unworthy of the period of strenuous fearlessness. In the future it will, not unlikely, be nothings f otr the doctor worked by th4 year $26 for the whole family. , ' ,"I remtmber two of the doctors," says Twain, "Chownlng and Meredith. They not only tended the entire family for $25 a year, but furnished the med lcines themselves. Good measure.wtoo. Only the largest persons could hold a whole dose. Castor oil was the prin cipal beverage. The dose was - half a dlpparful. with' half a dlpperful of New Orleans molasses added to help it down and make It taste good, which it never did. - "The next standby was calomel; the next, ; .rhubarb, and : the . next, jalap. Then they bled the patient and put mustard piasters on him. It was a dreadful system, and yet the death rate was not heavy. ' .The calomel was nearly sure1 to salivate the patient aim cosi mm some oi nis leein. "There were ao dentists. When teeth became touched with decay or were otherwise ailing the doctor knew of out one thing to do; he fetched nis tongs and dragged them out If uie jaw remained it was not his fault - "Doctors were not called in cases or ordinary illness; the family grand mother attended to those. Every old woman was a doctor and. srathered, her own medicines In the woods and, knew now to compound doses that ' would stir the vioals of a-cast-lrort dog. ; "And then there- was the Indian doctor, a grave stvage, remnant of his tribe, deeply read in the mysteries of nature and the secret 'properties of herbSy and most .packwoodsmen had high faith in his powers and oonirt tell ow wonderful cures achieved by him. :-..;-k..vv-; " - In Mauritius, away 'off yonder in the solitudes of the Indian Ocean, there Is a person who answers to our Indian, doctor of the old time. He is a: negro, and has had no teaching as a doctor, yet there Is one disease which ne is master or and can cure, and the doctors can't. They send for him whn they have a case. :-. "It la a child's' disease of a stranr and deadly sort ana ths negro cures It with a herb medicine which tA makes himself from a prescription which has come down to him from Tils father and grandfather. lie will not let cny ons gee it' lie keeps th$ rrrt of Us crtron " f hi"-- ', , Statistics of a Crop of Which Country is Proud. The. crop of American heroes 'for 1906 was a bumper, one. Beginning with the Life Saving Service, a writer In .The World's Work gives some fig ures which stir one's faith in human nature to an agreeable thrill of ad miration. ' - :: : During the twelve months ending June SO, 1906, Sp5 vessels flew the sig nal of distress within sight- of Our coasts. That is one disaster for every . day 'of the year." -. Of 4,089 persons whose lives were thus Jeopardized, by shipwreck and. fire, in summer gales and winter blizzards, all but 27 were saved by the service. Furthermore, . 420 sm,aller craft were aided, contalnlngNB 55 per sons, only ten of whom were lost. Duing the year J 9 06. nine members of v the New York Fire Department were killed and 150 Injured. Fortun ately - not all the heroes, as . these figures do not cover the question. From the beginning of the operatlon of .the Carnegie Hero Fund, April 15, 1 9 0 4, to December S 1, . 1 9 0 6, its agents have investigated il, 424 cases .that. were reported to lU Eliminating 542 cases- In which the act was performed as a duty, 269 cases In which the act wasVperforme'd Jbefore 'the . fund be came operative and 550 cases that either were not within the scope of the fund or are -still under Investi gation, the agents have passed upon 3 cases of undoubted brilliant heor lsm In every one of these 63 cases the agent got the testimony of eye witnesses and sifted their evidence by means of the most rigorous tests. ? These cases -are distributed as follow: One each in Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan , South: Carolina and Virginia; two each In Connectlcue, Illinois, Indiana and Main! three each In Idaho and Massachusetts; five, each In New York" and -Wisconsin; eight each in New Jersey and Ohio; thirteen in-Pennsylfanla, two in ra.Hrt, ,pn& In Quebec and one in Saskatchewan. . 7. In 46 cases of rescue was ' from drowning. Of the Temarilng 17 cases' two were rescues, from electrocntlou, one from a fire the case of "one Eyed" Mike O'Brien of New York, who beat the firemen Into the burning tenement by crawling along a narrow coping three stories , above the pave ment and recued a sick .woman 'and her children), four from . mine dis asters, one from a rattlesnake bite, six from suffocation, two from trains and one from an, explosion. Not all" were successful In their attempts to rescue; and in some cases the rescued lost his own life in the effort ,v . i ; i ' . "! t Ai-e ' : ' - of C.. J- h. i . ..." i A::y i . 1. .1 Ij; ;m;.sre . : ' --r i ' -. ' I r; erkl Even ts V.xs Gorman Oi:; Who Wanted, to Sot John 1 UIIp Sousa's Marches to Music. - ' Correspondence of The Observer. Boston, April 5.- In a twilight of darkened , intellect and abandoned hopes, in a" New Hampshire village,; one of the three or four strongest of the younger school of merican musi cal' composers. Edward Macdowell, until lately a hard and devoted pro fessional worker, is rounding out the terra of a lifetime that has been un happily cut short as regards Its natur al term; and In loyal support, alike of his memory and of his present ma terial needs, devoted friends have or ganized a Macdo well society with the object alike of adding to : htsr'Utider income and of making his Works bet ter, known to the general public. So that he who in a fine personal way, with a charm that has rarely been surpassed by any composer, has made music to fit the romantic the mes of Lancelot .and Elaine,, of oth ers of the Arthurian legends and of the Gaelic Chuchullln is likely, to con trhye,. to come to his own In 'reputa tion and popular favor even though he has, unfortunately, ceased to foe productive. Hla considerable body ; of works 1 will :; Illustrate , In a manner most Intelligent Americans can under stand that we, as well as several present-day nations of Europe, have com posers who ' can write , things better, technically, than the stirring marches of the Irrepressible John Philip Sousa. regarding whose productions an emi nent German musician la said to have to set them to music.' t ',. '..'.; , v And as to several others "of the bril liant "tone composers" of our princi pal musio centres," there . has come about in the last two or thre. eyears a remarkable . popular awakening of interest ln ; their; lyrlcsv sonatas and symphonies. This winter, in" particular; the Americans have;, been , getting1 something like their; deserts, in' their. own country;., disproving the ..biting sneer of a German cynic to the effect that mankind never appreciates works of genius fresh,- like grapes, but al ways dead and dried, like ralsens. Its1 a badly selected symphony' program me nowadays In which some piece by one of our own musicians is n.ot' fea tured placed there not because the man is an American, but because mu sic is now 'being written toy several of -our composers that Is already rec ognized in, Europe as worthy of com- A"'v a!-'i ; r;l-Ui:'-iM"""X'' tiM'.h: . 1 I ::uf.!o, Be: ton, r.auence upon 7 ' : i . :. :A C r.:-f-rv..tory c: txrtl-j a rroes:-icnal a whole reneratian of fellows about Charlotte, Greensboro, and Raleisrh may think they know a thing or two about the game hut if ihv haven't rubbed shine and should ers with a Surrylte they are on a cold trail. This Is preliminary to tne intro duction of an Incident that has given the Winston oatrlots cold; feet this week: w record history as it is writ ten by; The Greensboro Reo6rd and which-deposes that "the yast Legisla ture put Surry county in the fifth dls- trlct Sunday morning a well-known Surry county politician, Mr. J. R. Lewellyn, dropped Into Greensboro, says The Record. He has scarcely hit the ground before a candidate grabbed him, put him in a buggy behind two spanking horses and from that - time on Mr. Leweuyn never nu tne ground. WhenTiealIghted-Trom the buggy It was , to board the. train for Winston. When this was told to Cy .Watson this morning, he remarked : 'And to my certain knowledge ne eiept wun ux ton last nlghf " . ' . -if there be a fifth district combine and If the .Interests of an, electorate shorn of representation demands as much we call 'upon Surry to come to 4the rescue and save the day, Surry knows how and we invoice tne tesu mnnv of our eood friend the Hon. Cyrus B. Watson, of Forsyths, to make out the case for us should a solitary (skeptic arise. . . .. Democracy That Is Genuine. Duplin County Journal. ' ' Says The Charlotte Observer: "The proposition that in its eariy - days the rpcfnt Legislature was a menace, stands. W-'ortunately, with the progress of time, the Booer senses or me represeiiuinvi.B of the people came to the majority, and irora me laws enaciea nu irrm " u in rome to North Carolina, But say, isn't It a commentary that the people of this State should have to contemplate with fear - and trembling - the poM'tHe enactments or legislators 'elected by themselves, and hold their breath until their own; Legislature "has adjourned?" without uestlonins its sincerity or voicing a doubt of Ita.xuture courage, we beg leave to express the hope that our ; influential and able contemporary will stick to this way of thinking, and when the next election rolls around help to make Impossible a repetition of rthis "roar ana iremuiinij. inuusinai .The News need not take the time "to beg leave to express any such hope." The Observer ir too well fixed In its ways.- If it has "fears and tremblings" hn its own narty Is In power and making laws Its condition would fee one of "serious mental ... nmiish" with 8t. Vitus' Dance and genuine convulsions were The News crowd in. power. -WUila somewhat hofstile to a rryanized Democ- racy, pepullMlo racioiiMm t " eivy t I f ve-i---.t- "n ' ' .. ' i t 1 l I Jl eanuiJates of the arduous but fasci nating career of professional musi cianship. His compositional works are already numerou3 enough to prompt wonder how. In the midst of the busy activities of teaching, with incessant rehearsals of the Conservatory Or chestra to which ths director gives Just such time and attention as the conductor of a great symphony or ganization gives to his organization, he has- been able to be so prolific. But these are days when the profes sional musician Is able to crowd much labor Into the working day.. Among Mr. Chadwlck's productions are thirty or more important works, some of them dating baok to days of schooling in Germany when he wrote the popular "Rip Van Wrinkle" over ture, first - publicly -performed at a "Prufung," or trying-out concert, at Leipsic in 1879. The teaching whloh has been a part of his professional activities throughout has been a mat ter of conviction rather than of ne cessttyw for Mr. Chadwiclc believes that th competent musician should all the time be imparting his knowl edge to others, for the sake of the ad vancement of the profession. His ideas of. the equipment necessary for train ing In . orchestra, chorus and opera have been, followed carefully at the New England Conservatory with the result that ;no European conserva tory Is so well ; provided for In these respects. In November, 1904, the Bos ton Symphony Orchestra for 'the first time In Its history gave up an entire evening tp the production of original works by an American composer. This composer was, of course, George Whitfield Chadwlck. - A younger composer, and perhaps the most prominent this winter of the group whom Mr; Chadwlck's life-long affectiQp fbr his old-time teacher-in Munich, Rhelnberger, sent to that famous, master, is Frederick S.. Con verse, whose production of "The Pipe of Desire," a romantic - opera, at Jor dan Hall, of the New. England Conser vatory of M uslc, in the -sprlngof 1906, was a prelude to the present season of general recognition. The opera it self, of which the subtle yet tuneful overture has made a particular Im pression upon the musical world, was originally produced with great effec tiveness by students of the New Eng land Conservatory, of whose board of trustees Mr. Converse is a member and where he has from time to time taught It is the fourth work of Its kind to be staged In the united States by an American, the only others no one or wmcn was permanently euc cessful toeing W. H. Fry's "Leonora;" George R.Bristow's "Rip Van Wrin kle" and Walter Damrosch's "The Scarlet Letter." A man of wealth and thorough educationhe was graduat ed from 'Harvard in 1893 with hon orsMr. Converse Is an Indefatigable worker, and has : met with extraor dinary success considering the difficul ties of composing works in this coun try. Everything of any .Importance which he has written has been per formed, In some cases over and over again, so that all the American world which attends concerts has become pretty well informed as to what man ner of composer Mr. Converse la. His popularity continues to grow apace, and the future may witness the Writ ing of -even more remarkable things. -' Mr.'MacdoweU's- life work appears, unfortunately, to be done. From the time when" he returned with already something of a reputation to the Unit ed States in the eighties, arid settled in Boston because In that city the con ditions for composing music were more favorable than in any other, and through the later years in which he held a professorship at Columbia University, New York, he gave forth .... " a IITJ..1I. 'TJV1 a nODie wermca ui . uyio. , uoiuo and "Woodland Sketches," and, above remarked recently that he likes them so well he Is actually, tempted to try alL of works based upon the Celtic legends which have entitled him to a place m the whole world's estimation among the most eminent composers of the late nineteenth century, All three of these men are fond of romantic themes, which they treat It L-rnjeJ 2 w ere c t t f to s.-y. ;.iy tuo comranlr - dents, I suppOi3, were unler; ous. My wit and humor did 'not interest them, ed them tmperturable. i. 1:1 f.u ;'y sori-evUentiy I characteriz For anything I would say had no effect on their drowllng discussion' of great men and their achievements. ' , "He is a genius, that Is the only explanation," Jack Pickett raised from the bottom of his diaphragm. In speaking of some noted charac ter. - In reply my other friends, whose name I withhold, but will call him Ben for convenience, spoke very y' and authoritatively; Genius i3 an epithet universally used, but means very little to the ordinary mind. Who is a genius, and who Js not is vague and uncertain. It. has lost its distinctive characteriz ing force. But the scholar knows that a man who gradually rises into public favor is never called a genius; it is the man who gets tip like a sky rocket, which is usually (brought about by some extraordinary clroum stance, not by himself.'. "How about your uncle?" queried Pickett.. . ;. .' . "Pardon me," resumed Ben -t want to make myself plain before! telling you about : my uncle; The only way to know whether a man is a real genius or not is to know what the man was before the cir cumstance raised htm in the public eye. When you know this circum stance, you have 'the key which un locks the safe where lies the sequel the pure or impure gold." "well, your uncle is known only as a genius. - Does he merit the epi thet?" interrupted Pickett. "I never like to talk about my uncle," Ben replley. "Thet story of his life is too sad. The world does not know It. But I feel that I owe t to his memory, to myself, and to tne people to make It, known. "He painted many scenes, but the public- would not buy, them. They were rejected as fast as he would of fer Ithem. ' Apparently tllsregardless oi tnis fact, however, . he kept on painting. It was a passion. Even on his death bed when he asked me to Dnng all his work to bjm, he express ea his desire to paint more, and " 'These are all yours to keep, ex cept three. These three,' picking mem out, "you will learn what to do with them. In these is my life. looked at the Pictures minutelv. LWhat there was In these three that maae them superior, to the otters I could not see;; how his life remhined In them I did not understand they were only a very , small part of his work. How should I learn to dispose tle,t on..' J " 'Oh ru! I them. Tlut ;: married. IIivi one?' "As her son ! ctomrmentlr. almost went I - ; whole soul tee:.: never saw a wo: " 'God bless hi i i me,' she said, 'an I i in these pictures. ; known how to hav What will you take tures?" "I told her I surr had meant for me to her, as he 'told me I how to dispose of them. " 'O, no, she eontiniu not begin to do that. I v my appreciation in some going to give a thousan them. I ought to have L from him, but he'll know.' . "I gladly took the th lars, and got my hat to 1 my old uncle more than the young man asked m -not leaVe more pictures, i lng he had, he asked r them over the following- glad was I to do so, and t to take almost nothin - I needed nreney very ba I did not know what a pi VWell, what did the you with tnem?" asked Pickett "There's the point," h 6 "This young man, his f educated him In the best art In Germany, Italy a On hla return to America. a critic He was recogr, of the best 'Any favora" above - his" signature v. brought any man favorably public eye. It certainly d: And It Is needless to say the critic much money. "Now, I've told you t stance, you have seen his You can be your own J whether he merits the cy ius, or not" . I bade .my companions a little wiser as to whatthe ; sldered a genius, but still i what constituted a real ? I did not know ; what "r was. - ; ; . San Francisco Chronicle. They have a funny way street cars in the City c according to J. H. Hand lor Just returned from a. pic or tnem excited my curiosity IndeMlof that country. - He pai l tnere wttsTTJi something strange. known as the American music of the with classic simplicity and restraint Rooseveltian 'age of an era when men ceased being afraid to attempt to do really ambitions things. . Three Americans who have come es pecially to stand out as representatives of the things American -musicianship can do, have been particularly in hon or of late. One of these. Is George W. Chadwlck, who was lately called to Ottawa to serve as Judge In a musical competition fora trophy given by His Excellency Earle Grey forthe- best effort i by an amateur 'r organization. Musical societies from every part of the iWnlnlon wr represented at. this event Akaln, only the other day ptory that was published recently to tne Mr. Chadwlck was oaHedtoCinclnnatf Nffect that ceflaiaTatassaehwetts physi- to conduct a performance Of his own works ; by 'Frams van , der : Stucken'S well-trained orchestra.; Dinners and receptions proved that the musician Is srreatlv in honor ' in at least ona city of his own country .The Boston Symphony Orchestra 'has also in its tours of the present season been fea turing Mr. Chadwlck's "Sinnfonletta" and other .works. So that Mr. Chad wlck has become distinctly a central feature in American music. A second math honored comDoser Is Frederick, S. Converse, whose "Mys tic Trumpeter," -based upon Walt Whitman's poem, has been well heard in several cities; whose "Festival of Pan," After abundant recognition abroad as well as at home, has Just ibeen very successfully rendered by the New.York Symphony Orchestra under Walter Damrosch, and whose romant ic opera, "The Pipe of Desire," was V GEORGE W. CHADWICK. , V Composer ' of Symphonic Works and Operas, and Director of , America's Oldest and Largest-Musical School, performed for the first time in Boston about a year ago. The third Is, of course, jMrMacdowell, Just mention ed, to whom on tecent programmes a great deal of personal attention has been directed, well merited, without doubt, by his haunting tone poems that seem to make an answer to the poet's query: - "Who minds now, Keltic tales of yore, Dark Druid rhymes that-thrall, Dlre's' $0113: and wizard' lore """" Of Great CuehulHn's fall?" ' ' ' ' ' ,...' ...... ... . qualities which the two who. are still teaching endeavor to Impress upon their pupils. The freshness and ; orlg allty of their music, and, its' freedom from crudeness and queerness are proof positive that the time has come when American music needs no apolo gy and when advanced musio study Is possible In this country. ; s.fvy . ' - Soul-Weighing Storjjterttdrili Fako. Yorkvllle, S. C, Enulrer. The Charlotte Observer takes occasion to explaln'that it does not believe that clans had scientifically demonstrated that the sour has weight. The Observer says that along with otfifcr papers,' It printed the story simply because of a certain in terest thst attaches to It by-reason of the- startling assertions It contains. It then goes on to quote Scripture to show that even If science should make preten sions along . this line, the Scriptures would repudiate such pretensions. The case, If thinks, Is covered by the fol lowing from Corinthians II. 13-14. "Which thin! also we speak, not In .the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; . comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But thi natural man recetveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are fooli Ishness unto Him; neither can he know them, because . they are spiritually disf crned" We are Inclined to agree with Ihe Observer throughout There ! no question of the startling Interest oi the story printed, and it Is quite possi ble that the whole thing Is a fake. In cluding the names that were quoted to give credence to the story. But even If It Is a fact that the body loses weight at the moment of death to the extent of from an ounce' to- an onuco and n half, it Is quite probable that the phe nomenon must be accounted for In some Other way than by attributing the dlffdr ence to a sudden departure of the soul. Toor Place" for rartlily Heaven. Kansas City Journal. Another earthly "bo&von" has met the Common fate of mundane thtnurs and the "ancrdls" have gathered together the pitiful remnants of their lares and pe nates and returned to rational living. Alt these grotesque religious movement have a pathetic side that enlists sym pathy for missrulded seal In striving to establish a eelentlal raradlp en thts terrcfrlnl fot'vf'tooi, hut th's Inpt mov riitnt naehod the very arm of &Uurd Itv In attempting to locate the bPRttfle: eiyr.''?"!' Ifl thiv .fciata of Tpt-i FUHh I'm f T'nt" ! rmory ' ;, -1 "What was it?" asked Pickett :As if he never heard him he pull ed o roll from his pocket, unrolled It and began: "These are not the originals. I had them copied , from the three. They will give you a faint idea of them though." I took the first one In my hand. It was a simple, familiar subject A little boy and little girl were playing beneath a large ' hickory tree, that stood In the front yard of a small log house.' Sunny curls clustered around the little arlrl's earn and nerlr. Joy beamed In her bright blue eyes, a smile parted her Hns a sh ninreA little acorn cupa on an elevated table or green moss; while the little boy, with tousled hair and glowing cheeks, aat on a stool, happy In his leisure and eminence. Far over the moun tain could be Been-the early morning Aun, which was tinging tho green buds above their heads. I reluctantly handed this one back and took the second one. The same old tree, appeared, but different peo ple under It and beside a. different house. The leaves of the old hickory were full grown, forming a shade at" noon-day, for a young woman, cloth ed in white with a veil over her face, and a bouquet of roses In her hand. She was leaning on the arm of, a young man dressed In black. Delib eration marked their faces as they looked toward the new plank house that occupied the place of the former one of logs. '. . ;; : ! As. I returned this one, ' he reach ed me the third. A magnificent mansion, the same old hickory, bare, except a few ' brown nuts, but oh, the couple; -hot? changed! ; An old man, bald, except a few gray lacks, was stooping from his chair cracking hickory nuts on a large flint; while the woman,, equally; as gray," with crushed nuts In her lap, . was slow ly picking out the seeds with a knit ting needle, and smlllnsr down at, the old man.1 On their faces the evening eun from the western . horl2on was throwing a mellow light v lng. to distinguish fhem from other pictures. Though soon after his, death I found out that they do. I received a letter from a lady asking me; to bring them to her. - X - took them, in spite of the fact I bad to walk a distance of 50 miles to do 60. -t "-."v" t: ; ;;., - j - ;. "On my arrival I noticed the same mansion and tree - the last painting 'portrays. An old 'lady mdi , young man were sitting on the broad ve randa. - It was the wme pleasing, smiling woman. Very soon she was telling me strrles of my uncle's boy hood; how he used to taeso her; how he used to try to make love to her, and : how she refused ; him because he was such a freak, .and ' uncouth fellow, ,:;'''. -'.;. -;.:.:.;: "'Ohf she said, 'he would every few days come . around my , father's home.; Father always: said he was crazy. 1 rememoer when I was mar ried, he would have' us v stand out there under, that . tree and let . him paint us, as he said. There again before John, "my husband, died, af ter we had sold our gold mine, and David" there was In Paris, one even ing when r we were eating hickory nuts, he stood there for more than an hour with a paper and brush. We never said anything to htm, and I never saw .him after that.' 1 Whila sho waj dhusi talkin?. I had, already handods .the.plctur- 3 , to COXDUCTORS LOOT. IX How tho Street Car Com; Tab on Him. her son, who was examining t eagerly'; end when she storr . eked: ; lar attention to the-strf- vice In the southern reput "I went into the office c trie car lines of the City c said Mr. Handlon. "In t room was one of these two lain cuspidors, ; chained to in, the floor' and padlockf the necessity of such . r when I Inspected the car 't "As a car' leaves the bar calleu the 'caredor, or like that, tares a receipt conductor for everything i Any parts missing when comes back into the barn ged to the conductor. I ; low docked for a mlssins from a curtain. The cor thj shift before him had with It Another condu unscrewed a brass handla to sell somewhere. The c losing. 2,500 . electric globe f conductors sell them and r as broken. . Now all glo' are - etched with acid, ar. returned to prove breakag .'"They have no such t: cash register on a street c Ico. "Jhe fare Is six cents Each conductor carries a from " which he tears a i and hands it to a pas.-n sort of receipt for his far courage , the public, to ask coupons, they are good ; tickets at the monthly drav $2,5000 is distributed in most of the passengers s tickets. "An inspector Jumps the elonally and makes the r show their coupons. The has to produce enough i correspond with the number gone from his. booklet j.'The conductors, howevt way of telling the peons, with a lottery ticket, four c "OuV, and then they pocke cents.. They have tflso u terfeit . tickets and poc fares. ' "Mexican conductors ar cents an hour (Mexica What they get that th does not is another matt ."The motermen are pa1 an hour -th first and secor eents.an hour the third y an hour the fourth year : an hour from the fifth 3 conductor, however, u any more than 10 cent, cause his Job Is full cf The reason the mot . much more pay is t t about half his tim in -time there is an aeciJert man'.is arrested and j.tU;-..-casft-ls"' Bettled.. .but: the never has to pay a ny da r Arrests HasharMl and pe Duluth News. Tribune. Mrs. James Dunlop see the other day eharjrins: h r r assault, Biadq tho nrrt then when her irate hjoi. guUty In. .-Municipal C.-;if tlno and. took htm hot - "Well, .this is rea!;v ; affair In the way of v that has so far been 1 r ficlal attention," Mil .: "When 1 imposed th ; costs I was . not n w a r ; was going -to foot ti:e 1 . : I have found. out that s . -the costs." Mf. and Mrs. Dunl -n r. ' ' avenue and have a ty.t-.r-, He is a laborer r- v is a good huslan I. he went eway on - " ; show - up at ho"- 1 Ills wli-a t:;r:;; . ' j and he sJar'-.'d . T,r t) t . 1 V 1 V i- w. 'M 'If . t'-0 V ' I : r-1 Irl r
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