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Newspaper Page Text6 LENTEN GOSSIP. BOMS SUGGESTIONS AS TO HORSE BACK BIDING AND DANCING. Why She Loved Him—What Sort or a Cavalier You Bboutd Select—Playing Charlle'e Accompaniments—How the Girls Are Furnished With Music for Their Dancing. (Copyright.) Nxw York, March 2ft.—“l love him; not because he is handsome, not because be it neb, not because he is good; I love him be cause 1 can't fool him,’' said a roguish, blue eyed beauty to me the other day. " J ust Ist me tell you how clever Charlie is," she con tinued. “He was out of town for a fort night not lorg ago, and during his absence a friend (alleged) undertook to supplant him in my affection. This was too downright mean and deceitful for even a girl to take part in, so I led on our friend just enough to make sure that I was not mistaken as to his intention, and on Charlie's return told him all about it He was, of course, dreadfully indignant, aud from bie dictation I wrote the honorable gentleman a note In which regulation gloves were not used. After tba envelope was addressed and the letter put in it, Charlie stepped into the library to ask papa for a stamp. Now, just out of pure mischief, I took out that letter, substituted a blank sheet and sealed the epvelope. Did he stamp and mall itt Not be; be looked at tbe sealed envelope, then at me, tore it open, found out the fraud aud then, mind vou, knew enough not to get angry, but hissed me and said 1 was a dear little hum bug that would bear watching. ” I laughed when she told me this story, but just the same any ons of us would have felt as she did—grateful that our best boy was not a stupid. Do you ride horseback! If you don’t you'll be sorry soon—on the beautiful spring days that are near at hand. To bring the roses to one's cheeks there is noth ing that quite takes the place of a brisk canter, If you don't know how to ride learn, and If you commence right away and are not afraid you will yet be able to get from the lovely spring days the enjoyment that riding alone oau give. If you would be a real “thoroughbred,” you" must not only sit your bone well, butmust be able to saddle and bridle him, never mind how spirited he may be. A pretty picture I eaw last week was that of a young girl vet in her teens, holding her horse by the fore top with one haud and slipping the bits in bis mouth with the other. I, rather tim idly. I confess, stepped in the box-stall to help her, but her thoroughbred resented the intrusion so vigorously that 1 was glad to make a hasty retreat. The young lady laughingly explained that Paris had not been out for two or three days, and was feeling a little fresh; that her groom hud gone on an errand, and that be was the only one but herself who could saddle Paris. They understood each other per fectly, did these two types of the beautiful, and it was not long before Paris was properly saddled and bridled, and lu company with my hurse, 'daxie, was carry ing u two girls over the country roads, leaving the world and its cares in the dust behind us. After you have become a good eques trienne and learned to look well in the sad dle, which, by the way, danends quite as much upon what you wear as how you ride, you will cast your eyes around for a proper escort, and you are quite right to do so, for a woman in the saddle never looks quite oomplote without a gallant horseman on a prancing steed beside her. Now bo careful, girls, and don’t moke a mistake in your choice. Don’t take a man’s word for it that be rides well, for in this, like everything else that pertains to manly sports, he thinks that he is perfectiou—a thing of power and beauty to gaze upon. Don't select a man that rldos strictly by rule, with his feet always appearing just o far through the stirrups, his reins elevated at a certain hight, his crop always pointing in the same dlrec on, and sitting in a bolt up right position,i ooking straight ahead with a set gaze that the prettiest face iu the world wouldn’t "phase.” He is likely to corns to grief by rule, too. Don’t look at a man twice that ties his curb reins and leaves them dangling on his nag’s nsck. Don't choose a man that from fear of strain ing his back, or from some other equally absurd reason (for men have no right to have weak backs) can’t put you in the sad dle. I could go on writing don’ts to the end cf the chapter, but a word to the wise is sufficient. The cavalier of your choice should be the proud possessor of a fiery, bauged-tail horse. When In the saddle be should resemble a human being, and not the missing link all starched and fixed up for the occasion. Ho must boa fearless and tireless rider, and be able, should ocoasion offer by your horse becoming unmanageable, to lift you from your horse to his. If you are lucky enough to secure s :ch a cavalier and your horse does not become frightened and run away you are indeed to be pitied, for when Charlie, with sec eyes and blanched face, would have slipped his strong arm around your waist and transferred you from your dangerous position to one of safety iu front of him, you would have had the sensation of your life, and if he had his horse well under oontrol you might even have fainted, or pretended to (which does quite as well), and kisses sandwiched be tween words of love and anguish would have beau showered upon you In suoh a del uge that unless you were a very stony hearted little girl indeed you would have loved as you had never loved before. It was awful! dreadful! positively fright ful! those drawn-out wails as if made by the heart-strings of a spirit in distress, ac companied by a series of metallio, jag edged discords, Bhe was all to blame, too. Had she not I old Charlie that she read music “at sight” he would never have thought of brmging around his viollu and tnusic, and the family would have been spared this ear-rending ordeal. And poor Charlie! How sorry I felt for him. He played very well for an amateur, but au eagle might as well endeavor to shape its flight to that of tbe bat’s as Charlie to keep time with Maud’s erratic bars. Charlie is always polite, and when em barrassed becomes painfully so. Tbls gave the otherwise deplorable situation its funny side. He became nearly frautio, and with the perspiration of agony trickling down bis face, and, by the way, carrying most of bis collar down his ueck with it, gasped “l am so sorry; it is too bad, really; I am so oat of pro;ios, now let us start over •gain, aud I will try and do better,” he knowing a 1 the time that Maud at best ■was only striking one right note to every line. Now, you girls with music iu your souls, if you do not read music readily, very readily indeed, ask Charlie to give you your part, and praotlce it well before play ing it with him. "Musio hath charms, etc.,” but I’ll tell you right here that three discords for which you are responsible will to a man that loves musio change you from tbe sweet little girl that you really are to a “pie-iaoed Rocky mountain eagle.” Apropos of violiu playing, although it has been quite the rage fur the last few mouths for girls to learn this instrument, take 1 ar rie’s advice and don’t do so. Leave it alone; it is not femluine, and tbe day has come wheu you must be to mnine or uothtng. No divided skirts, no short hair, no horse talk. Their day is past, and we’ll let the.r memory rest In poaoe. The boys have always acknowledged that there’s nothing quite so nloe as nice girls, and they likewise agree that at least in this they can’t have too much of a f;ood thing, and that tbelr girl should be be real old-fashioned ge ulue article; a girl with all her lifie deceits and vanities— a combination of ail that’s good aud bad, but withal a woman. "One that sets a fellow thinking of kisses sod teudwr words rather than of tricycle* and dog shows,' ss one of the boys remarked the other day. One lit tie song to even • banjo aoeoaipaoitnent, if tffectual!/ rendered, will reap a greater harvest of Mg, manly hearts than a violins’ most awe-inspiring strains. Do yon pay the hand-organ gri der ? They ere gathering quarters galore just now. If you do not, you deserve a great big good mart. The girls the-e Lenten times bars to do their dancing on the sly. - Now it is not much fun to dance without music, even if Charlle’e arm does hold you Is * dose; so uearly every girl has her pet f organman come around and play in front of tha house twice a week, and you may be sure that Charlie happens to be there at those times. Bhe would have the grinder coma oftener than twice a week, but it might arouse suspicion. Girls tba; spend their pennies in this way say that It's “just lovely.” 1 suppose it it just wicked enough to make it altogether charming. But don’t forget that only tbe very tips of your toes must touch the carnet or the family will “be on,” aud then good-by orgau grinder, Charlie and all. Carrie Careless. A THING OF BBAUTY. How to Make Your Home "A Joy *. Forever.” ( Copyright.) New York, Moroh 2ft.—All dwellings will very soon be in a state of confusion and renovation. Tbe annual spring house cleaning is oloee at hand, and carpets will be torn up, pictures taken down, walls re decorated and everything undergo a gen eral transformation. At such a time sug gestions as to tbe latest and prevailing styles for decorations will not coins amiss. Of course tbe swells make their own styles. They never copy any one else’*, no matter how magnificent it may be. Aud the decorations of walls, ceiling and floor are all of one period, be it one of the Louis, the renaiasmos or some other. Fabulous prices are paid for this sort of thing, run ning up from $2,500 to $2,500 for one room, as I was informed by a well-known decorator in this city. The library of a mansion in this city, owued by one of our millionaires, is deco rated exactly like the library of an old Ger man castle. The walls have a wainscoting of oak six feet high, which U black with age. Above the wainso itlng the walls are covered with Cordova leather in its natural buff color, studded with heavy bronze nails. The ceiling uas huge crossbeams of the same o*K Joe Jefferson’s drawing room Is paneled and oeiled in oak, with a bas-relief in plas ter of "Bottom aud the fairy Queen Titana. ” II s dining room walls are paneled in dif ferent colorod woods, aud the ceiling Is laid in square compartments in which are set Dutch tiles, each painted In a different flower or fruit. Another magnificent residence m this city has a drawing room with walls covered in brocaded silk of arioh maroon. Tbe frelze is In band-painted stencil work, done in leathery scrolls Interwoven with ribbon ef fects on a pale gold ground. The ceiling is la fresco work in a panel style, with mold ing in dull gray, and tbe panel renaissance scrolls of buff, oream and old goid. The border Is also composed of panels with the pale gold ground, but painted with delicate sprays of flowers. Anew stylo in deoorating walls is to have tiiom laid with panels of tiles. They are done in figures and designs of Louls’Xl V. aadXV.and also some of the Henris. The ground is flat and the design brought out in raised work. Tiles of a plain color makoan effective bordering. If tile border is in dark green tbe walls between are covered with heavy material of the same oolor.snchas jutevelour. It gives an exceedingly rich and striking effect. Au extremeiy handsome effect for a drawing room is given by a satin ooverlng, it is woven into a paper at tbe back so that it can be applied as ordinary wall paper. The groundwork is generally of rich creamy satin, and the flowers also iu satin, are raised high from the ground work. Handsome friezes adorn this and the celling is also in fresco work. Tbe frioze must always correspond with the ceiling before the wall ooverlng is at all considered. Stripes aro coming back. In tact, many of the styles that prerailed twenty-five years ago are once more In vogue. These stripes make beautiful effects. They come In rich, dark odors and are made up in satin or silk finish, some in moire. Tbe curtains are always of a ma terial to correspond exactly with the walls in both shade aud material. Stripes are most effective in the Newport and summer residences, where the woodwork is usually white and where they stand out strong iu bold relief. Materials for wall covering are very popular at present, especially silk. Very dainty effects can be secured in tbls way, aud although one can be ver v reckless in this dlreotion—paying from $3 to $lO per yard for material—it Is possible to get as good general effects on a very much lower expenditure. For 75 ceuts very good silks can be obtained. If the Inmates of the house be clever and ambitious, they can oover their own walls with materials at a very small expense. Home of tbe cretonnes oorne in rich, handsome col orings and produce very fine effects. Of course aha measurements must be taken with great care before the work can be commenced, but if that is done properly it is easy enough. All the tacking must ba covered with gimp, cord or molding. For light summer rooms it Is extremely pretty to cover the wall first with siiesla or cam brio of the desired shade, and over that draw cream or While madras or sheer mus lin. The old French style of oovering the walls in a series of shirred panels is being revived with festoon friezes. Of wall papers there Is such a great vari ety in both design and quality that it is difficult to particularize. Paper can be bought from 7 coots a roll up to very steep prices, and the styles must be selected with a view to tbq other decorations and furnish ings. But after tbe color has been decided upon a good rule to follow is to have the walls of a medium shade, the frieze two or three shades lighter aud tbo cetliug lighter still. All-over patterns are used to a great extent. In some cases the frieze is repeat ed on the celling for a border; but this should never be done unless the oeillng is sufficiently high to stand it. Sometimes the frieze Is pilt at the bottom of a dado, and simply a gold molding a; the top, whioh gives the effect of a woven hanging. Even the cheaper papers are made iu imitation of fanrlos—moire, changeable aud grue graiu silks, velvets, satins, brocades and tapes tries. * Although it sounds a little somber, very good effects can be had from black wood work. The one thing to avoid is haviDg the color dull. Sufficient shellac must be applied to give it a luster, and then, with pale, tinted walls, the effect is extremely beautiful. A wall looks well, also, covered from skirting board to within about 3 feet of ceiling in plain oolor with richly col ored papers as a frieze. An original oeillng for a dining room is covered with finely woven matting, which is secured by narrow strips of bamboo placed at regular intervals. Very delicate papers may be had for up per rooms, In fine patterns of pale oolorings, intertwined with gold. Bridal chambers are broad fields, where the art of the dec orator may ooin# into very full play, blmply tbe wall covering for one now be lug furnished In this city will cost $5,000. There is almost as great a variety in floor ooverlng* as id walla Decorators make great efforts to do away with carpets for floors, a* so much finer artistto effects can be obtained with an inlaid floor and rugs. But, iu spite of this fact, oar pots continue to be greatly in demand. There is a charm about the feeling of a rich carpet os ibe foot sinks flown into it that oau be equaled by no floor, however polished, or uo rug, how ever antique and costly of texture. An other point iu favor of the carpet, also, is IU moderate oost, although this would weigh very little with tbe furnisher of a royal mansion. An extremely rioh Axmtn •ter oau bo had for $2 50 or lit per yard, and If the room fifty y*r>i* u> oofinr it the expense ssoulil be only $l5O. <if ooursu tbs Ajuuiustsrs that are woven with herder THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1892-TWELVE rAGES. I and all In one pieoe to fit tbe room exaotly, come as high as $2,000. The Wilton oarpeu are also very desira ble, and the moquettea. But the moat truly artistio effect* oan be obtained only by in laid floors and antique ruga Many of the floors built in tbe bouses at present are not of hard enough wood to stand a polish, in this case a handsome effect oan be secured by putting in a wood border, say of differ ent colors, which gives a beautiful result and then oovering the center with a rug. The Turkish idea of having The floor inlaid in marble is being introduced here. The effect is rather oola, to be sure, but rich rugs can remove this effect to a great extent. Mr. Strauss, formerly minister to Turkey, has both his Turkish and hit Greek room inlaid in this style. Rugs are most expensive luxuries. One can pay for one measuring only Bxll, $2,000 or $3,000, These are Ptrsian, generallv, and very antique, which brings the price up. Mrs. Stokes has acme in her house thst have only two counterparts in this coun try. The American Smyrna rugs are very much cheaper and very handsome offects can be produced with the best of them. Good subatantial rags can be made from Kensington art squares of ingram woven into a regular pattern and the euds fringed. A practical suggestion to keep rugs in plane is to sandpaper tbe floor underneath, but many people would hesitate before disfig uring it in this way. Most of tbe country bouses have polished floors, strewn with rugs. Many quaiut ef fects are noticeable in them—the rough cell ing, for instance, which rises straight to the roof, in the parlor ouly, with all the beams left unfinished and showing the en tire construction. The parlor of Miss Jane Keith's cottage In the Catskills is quite unique. A balcony runs around the room, connected by a small staircase oil either side of tbe rough, stone ohimuey. From the balcony, over the balustrade, eastern rugs hang at intervals. The floor is polished aud has a rag here and there. The walls are plain and deiioately tinted with a high walhsooting. A CAT THAT BAITS BIRDS. Killed by a Rabbit—Swallowed by a Trout. Northwood, N. Y., March 19.—The usual orowd had gathered at the postoffice the other day, just after dinner, to wait for the mail, when the conversation turned on cats. Budd Davis, who lives over at Whoelertown, had had a hunting cat that he said could beat anything la Herkimer county catching game. Au almost incredi ble number of chipmunks, red squirrels aud birds had been brought lu by It, he said. It had, In faot, contrary to cat nature, killed more game than it oould possibly eat, aud, by leaving tbe carcasses about the wood shed and in the woodbox in tbe kitchen had made Itself of a nuisance to Mrs. Davis. “But the curusest thing about that cat Is the way it ketches snow birds, I never heerd of such a oat. You know how snow birds likes hay seed. The cat seems to ha’ caught on to it. The snow’s all tromped down in front the barn where the cows stand around, and it’s a great place for snowbirds, too, cause when the wind blows it rattles the seed out the timothy sticking out the winders over the barn door,” ‘ ‘But I should think the hay would get all covered with snow, so the seed couldn’t rattle,” objected a listener. “Navr, it don’t. The barn faces the south, and the eaves shed it off. As I was saying, the seed rattles down there, and the snow birds come In the biggest flocks I ever see. It was the softest snap for that cat—humph I Any other cat would have beeu tickled to death with such a snap. But not mina No, si reel She can’t wait for the wind to rattle down the seed, but has to go up on the hay and claw around there till she’s got the seed scattered over the ground. Then she gets around the corner and sits there like a man on a runway aud waits till the birds come. Now, that’s what I oall reasoning powers.” “That reminds me of Dan Magtnnis’ oat over at White Lake Corners,” said the drummer for a Utica grocery house who happened to be present. "You know Dan? Ever see hit cat? Big black-and white fel low—regular Jlmslicker. It’s dead now. Couple of woeks ago Dan’s boy caught a big buck rabbit. Ho was out with the dog, and the dog chased the rabbit into a brush heap. The boy skipped around on tbe other side, and the dog began to claw its way Into tbe hole, and out came the rabbit on the kid’s side, and he grabbed it by the nap of the nock and its bind legs and brought it iu. Made him sweat, though, it was so stroug. “Well, ho took it out to the barn and put it in the empty graiu bln. Say, that boy’s got sporting blood in him, he has. Ever see him? Ills name’s Dan, too. He put the rabbit in the grain bin, and then went aud got the cat and took it out there. Big Dau he saw him and went along to see the capers. He offered to bet a quarter the cat couldn’t catoh the rabbit in ten minutes, and the boy took him up, willing to back his own fighter, see? “So they put tbe oat in the further corner and turned it loose, and then Dan saw he’d lost his bet. That rabbit just turned round half facing the cat and gritted his teeth. They both said so or 1 wouldn’t have be lieved it. The eat began creeping up with its belly dragging on the floor until about three feet from the rabbit, when it gath ered itself together aud sprang at the rab bit—ker biff! yeow! What do yon think happened? I’ll tell you. The rabbit just ducked his head and tbe oat got hold of his shoulder instead of the back of bis uack, as ho had aimed to, and then the rabbit reached around bit the cat in tbe front leg, flopped over on its back, and, with one swoop of those hind legs,' kicked the innards all out of the cat and knooked it half way across the bin. As it lay there kicking, the rabbit got on his haunches again and began spitting out cat hairs and looking as uncon cerned as if he had been ohowiug birch buds instead.” The deep silence that followed this was broken after a little by Uncle Jimmie Keves. "I don’t remember to ha’ heerd of that ’ere afore,” he Bald, “nor any sloh doin’s, though, as I’ve said many a time, I don’t have no truok with huntin’, and couldn’t expeot to express any opinion. But you kuow there’s some mighty big trout up in Mad Tom’s hole, near my house. I guess some on ye has seen ’em as big as a handsaw there. I won’t pertead to say how big I’ve seen ’em, but speaking of oats reminds me of what happened one day last summer— no, let me see; it must ha’ been in May. Anyhow, we have a few cate at our house —some of you mUht ha’ noticed that we had when drivin'by—not many; I don’t guess we’ve more’n a dozen cow, but we had considerable many last soring. At I was remarking, that story about Dan Ma- Giunis’s cat reminds me of one of ’em. I went down to the edge of the hole one day, and what should I see next minute but one of our oat* about half way across the hole swimmin’ the best licks it knew how, with its head toward the fur shore, but before I oould pucker my mouth to say scat I see one o’them big trout oomiu.’ X jist held my breath while that trout scooted, and the next minute he grabbed the cat and down she went—yes, sir, swallowed her alive and kicking.” A sileuce more profound than before reigned Tor an interval, and then Post master Odit said; “Urn—ah—Jimmie, how big would you sav that trout was?” "Well, Ous, ’oourse I don’t know nothin’ about it, but ef I was to guesi I’d say it wasn’t less nor twenty-one inches long.” The postmaster looked around at the store oat stretched out at full length on the oou n tor. • 'Jimmie, was any of that cat sticking out of the trout’s mouth after the wax swal lowed r’ "No, sir, there wasn’t." "Not even the end of tbe tall?” ".New; nary a hair." "Mure?" "Martin. Bbe wav ons of s litter jist bormd that tuornln', an' 1 was drowulu' of em fer luok." The 1< of population to I rases by emigra tion I* a mere iritis, tbe total number ufsml giaoiv bin* ln*t then 54.000 a year, and It la esipuated lliai M per o* of Ui* number re turn to Hence witbJa ten years to remain permanently. FAMOUS HYMNS. MEN WHO COMPOSED THEM TELL HOW THE INSPIRATION CAME Sung All Over the World—“ Tel! Me the Old, Old Story” Was Written on tbe Toff of a Stage Coach, and "Safe in tiie Arms of Train. New York, March 2ft. — Everybody has beard That famous hymn, "Snail we gather at the rivorf” “I would rather be the au thor of that hymn t nan the preacher of all the sermons that wore ever delivered," said Dr. Dickinson of Richmond some years ago, addressing a great Sunday school mass meeting. Its author is Dr. Robert Lowry, and if all tbe hymns he has written, save that one, were blotted out forever, the name of Rob ert Lowry would live as the author of that melody. “I cannot recall just tbe clrcumstanoee under vhich ‘The Beautiful River’ was written,” said Dr. Lowry. "I have no method of composition. Sometimes the musio comes first aud words follow, fitted insensibly to tbo melody. I watch my moods and make note of anything that strikes me as being good. My brain is a sort of spinning machine, as musio is running through it all the time.” In appearanoo Dr. Robert Lowry is of medium hight, with full beard, dark, ex pressive eyes and long dark hair, combed carelessly back from a low, broad fore head. He is at present, and has been for a number of years, pastor of the Bark Ave nue Baptist churoh at Plainfield, N. J. He is a fine conversationalist, ever willing to give anecdotes from his past in connection with his work as a Sunday school writer. His hearing is slightly defective, and in talking with me he leaned slightly forward, with one hand behind his ear to concentrate the sound of his visitor’s voice. Though his impaired hearing affects him unpleas antly in other affairs of life he-finds it no impediment to his work as a composer. "I oould writs hymns if I were totally deaf,” he said, ‘ ‘for with musio running through my brain I have only to get it on paper.” "Weeping Will Not Save Me” is bis favorite of all. He regards it as the most evangelio hymn he ever has written. A few of the many of his most celebrated pro ductions are "The Mistakes of My Life,” "Savior, Thy Dying Love,” "We Are Marchimg to Zion," One More Day’s Work For Jesus," I Need Thee Every Hour,” “Where is My WaDdorlug Boy To-night ?" and hundreds more as familar and popular as these. Dr. I*owry lives in a beautiful home on Madison avenue, Biainflold, N. J.. and pos sesses one of the finest musical libraries in the country. The moet striking event in Dr. Lowry’s life in connection with hts song writing oc curred while he was in London some years ago. Of this pleasing incident he says: "It was during the Robert Raikes centen nial. I was in Louden, and hadgou6to a meeting in tbeOld Bailey to see gome of the most famous Sunday school workers in the world. They were present from Europe, Asia and America. I sat in a roar seat alone. After there had been a number of addresses delivered In various languages I was preparing to leave, when the chairman of the meeting annouuoed that tbe author of ‘Shall We Gather at the lUver’ was pres ent, and I was requested by name to come forward. Men applauded and women waved their handkerchiefs, aud the great audienoe rose as I went to the platform. It was a tribute to the hymn, but I felt, after it was over, that perhaps I had done some little good in the world, and I felt more than content to die when God called.” When Dr. Lowry was asked to add more to the story of bis life he answered; "I would rather not write about my self." f HOW DR. DOANE COMPOSES. The five authors Whose hymns have at tracted world-wide popularity are Robert Lowry, P. P. Bliss, W. H. Donne, James MoGranaban and Ira D. Sankey. How generally they are used in‘Civilized and un civilized countries Can be more easily understood wheu it is sta'ed that letters from the four corners of the globe have beeu received by some of them saying how their hymns have gone on and on in many languages, preaching to and comforting thousands upon thousands. Dr. W. H. Doaneas a writer of sacred musio has contributed some of the best Sun day school hymns now in me. His home is at Mount Auburn, Cincinnati, aud his life has been devotod to musio in its many Phaser. He is a scholarly gentleman and a most entertaining talker. An enthusiast in musio. he is orimful of many bright roool lections of his early work as a writer. I asked Dr. Doane wbioh of bis songs was best known. ’•That,” he answered, "would bo very difficult to say. ‘The Old, Old Story.’ ‘Safe in the Arms of Jesus,' ‘More Loye to Thee,’ ‘Tell It With Joy,’ ’Nearer tha Cross,' ‘Come, Great Deliverer’ and 'Though Your Sins Be As Scarlet’ have all beeu popular, and are very generally used througnout the world. A Urge number have been trans lated. Each song has au Interesting history, aud oftentimes has been inspired by or written under most peculiar circumstances. “It nos while on ray way to Now York to attend a Sunday school convention many years ago that the musio of ’Safe in the Arms of Jesus’ oume ringing through my brain, and, through the noise and rush of the railroad train, I jotted down the hymn which has proved one of my best efforts. “Often, under apparently the moat Inaus picious circumstances, melodies come to me which I had never dreamed of before,” con tinued Dr. Doane. “One of these was'The Old, Old Story.’ I was having a summer outing in New England, and it was while there, one hot June afternoon in the yesr 1806 or 1867—1 have forgotten the exact date—while 1 was riding on top of a stage coach going from the Glen to the Crawford houee in the White mountains, that the hymn was written. Perhaps It was the grandeur of th rugged landscape that gave me the inspiration in this case. A LETTER FROM DA DOANE. In regard to the byranology of the Sab bath school Dr. Doane writes to me as fol lows: "One only has to glance over tbe hymns formerly put into Sunday school singing books and compare them with those In the books made to-day, to see the marked improvement. I have labored long and diligently to improve the bymnology of tbe Sunday school, and I feel sure tbe tendency is for a higher, purer style. Of course thei e arc, and always will be, authors and book makers who have little idea of what a hymn should be, and whose efforts are more easily satisfied with a jingling rhyme than a solid, flood gospel or spiritual hymn that will tsolf teach a good sermon and leave an im pression on the mind and conscience.” m’granahan’s gospel songs. James McGranahan’s Gospel songs are not many in number, but they are full of spirit ual truth. He has a'fine character, and his life work has consisted in doing good. His home is at Kinsman, 0., and it is from there that he writes ounoerning his hymns. “ 'I will sing of my redeemer’ is, per haps, the most widely known of my Sunday school pieces, it being one of my earliest in that line. The late P. P. Bliss, whosj name lives on as the composer of so mauy of the sweetest of gospel bymn, wrote the words a short time before bis death. Tbe music was written soon after, in 1<77, and it came through reading tbe hymn, almost without my seeking. It has beeu translated and suuk in all lauds and tongue* where the adorable redeemer is known. "H oiio of my later hymns are 'Behold What Love,’ ’Hie Crowning Day,’ 'lf God Be For Us' and ‘Be Ye Also Ready.' "I think there has been sous progress mode—-wore of scripture truth aud lass of human sentiment, more wheat and lee chaff—out there it still use for tbs sieve and tbe fait” Tbe Rev. C. It HlaokaU m wait known, being counseled with tba Arnerieen BeptU. Publication Society. Tba hymn, 'Tri umph By and By, waa written by him, tbe musio by Prof. H. R. Palmer. Dr. Blackall writ e of this hjr nn; “It was written for an anniversary of the Heoond Baptist Sunday school, Chicago, of wbioh I was then superintendent, possi bly twenty or more yean ago. It has bean translated into many languages, including the Chinese, and holds its plaoe well to-day. My impression is that the anni versary named was just after the great Chioagofire, and it was designed to assure the final triumph no matter how great tbe difficulties under which one might be labor ing. There is no quesi ion that bymnology is far in advance of whit it was ten years ago. and there seemi a tendency to the higher mnsicnl forms, vat tbs schools are struggling against a flood of poor and thin music.” FAMOUS TH WORLD OVER. Perhaps the oldest hymn writer living Is Fanny Crosby. She has her home in New York and is now 65 veers old. She is said to have composed more Sunday school hymns than any other ten living writers. They number 3,000 or more. Her songs are full of pathos and appeal to tbe human heart touchingly, especially when it is known they are the inspirations of one who has been blind from her infancy; that her soul has overflowed with the sweetest and purest sentiment of Sabbath songs while this bright world of ours was lost to her forever. Her favorite hymn, "Pass Me Not, O Gen tle Savior," was written in 1869. " Rescue the Perishing." a year later, and these were followed by “Savior, More Than Life to Me," and “Jesus, Keep Me Near tbe Cross.” Stephen Collins Foster was not a hymn writer, but he is the typical American ballad writer. Although a northerner, his songs of tbe south are among tbe most beautiful and original that have ever been written. Although the brain that con ceived and the hand that wrote the melo dies, “The Old Folks at Home," "Massa’s in de Cold, Cold Ground," “My Old Kentucky Home,” have long since crumbled to dust their work is fouud in thousands of Ameri can and European homes; Mr. Foster was born in Pittsburg July 4, 1821), and died in New York, January 13, 1862, at the early age of 37. He was tbe composer of "Old Dog Tray,” "Come Where My Lore Lies Dreaming," “Gentle Annie,” “Willie, We Have Missed You," all of whioh, and many others, were born under Pittsburg’s canopy of smoka and amid her roar and bustle. Morrison Foster of Pittsburg seDds me an luteresting Incident of bow his brother Stephen came to give the name “Suwauee River” to that sweetest of all his melodies; * ’lt was in the spring or summer of 1851 that my brother came Into my otfloe on Water street, PDtsburg, and said tome: •What is a good name of a river in tbe south to put in a song, a word of two sylla bles and of uphouious sound?’ I suggested •Yazoo.' “ ‘O,’ said he, ‘that is old and has been used before.’ “ ’ How would Peedee do! said L He replied quickly, ‘That would never answer at all.’ "I then took down the atlas from the top of my desk and said, 'Let us look a little through the map of the United States.’ My eye fell upon the little river ‘Suwauee’ in Florida and I pointed it out to him. “ ‘That’s it, that’s it,’ he exclaimed, and he immediately filled up the blank in his manuscript with the word ‘Suwanee.’ “The ‘Old Folks at Home’ was completed, and E. P. Christy (from whom my brother had a standing order) paid him SSOO for the privilege of singing it before publication.’ “sweet bt and bt.” The great and steady popularity of "Sweet By and By” it moet noteworthy. Hopeful and sweet io its sentiment and associated with a tune easily learned and which, onoe known, is ever remembered, this hymn is known the wide world over. It is heard on land and sea and sung by all classes and conditions of people. The name of its author, S. Fllmore Bennett, and that of the composer of the “taking" tnusio whioh ac companies it, J. P. Webster, probably never will be forgotten. "Sweet By aud By” was composed In 1863 at Elkhorn, Wis., then Mr. Webster's home. He and Mr. Bennett were intimate friends and partners iu publishing enterprises. Both words aud music were produced, it is said, in less than half an hour. The occasion of its production was a fit of mental depression experienced b v Mr. Webster which his friend sought to relieve by aoo iposition that has solaced myriads in the like condition. Mr. Webster’s sympathies and invention were exoited by the effort, aud his response was the music which so delightfully harmonizes with the sense of the hymn. Mr. Bennett lives at Riohmnnd, Ind., where he practices medicine. He Is a man muoh respected and beloved, a student and facile writer. His career has been a tri umph over difficulties whioh began in bis childhood. It was in June, 1836, that he first saw light, at Eden, Erie county, New York. His parents made their home at Lake Zurich, 111., when he was 5 years old. By the cultivation of the little leisure saved from toil on the farm young Benuett laid a foundation of liberal learning whioh en abled him to spend a year at the University of Michigan. Ho taught school and wrote for the newspapers before the war, in whioh ho isw considerable service. Subsequently he kept a drug store and prepared for the professional labors in which he has been en gaged since 1871. Mr. Benuett is a good specimen of the man whose attainments and dignified usefulness are the result of hard toll and straggle in the cultivation of superior natural abilities. He Waa Ragged, But From tne New York Herald. One of the steamship California’s pass engers who were transferred from Hoffman Island to the landing dopot yesterday was a ragged decrepit old man. He gave his name as Willis Hertzog, age 66, oiaimed to boa citizen of this country and begged piteously for a ticket to Chicago as he de clared he had no money. On learning that if he was penuiless he would be sent ?>ack he hauled out a dirty wallet from beneath his ragged shirt and it was found to contain 15,000 marks and two drafts for 8,000 marks eaoh, in all about $7,000 in United States currency. 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