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4 STOP THE TREMOLO. A Nuisance In Music Which Destroy* Good Singing. Can any one explain to me the secret of the popularity of the detestable mode of singing which is now practiced so ex* tensively in our city? I need scarcely add that I refer to what is commonly called the tremolo. It came into fashion about 40 years ago and is it not- time that that fashion should die a natural death? Mme. La Grange was the first Who introduced it here. She was much heralded, and therefore was believed to be a fine singer—to the extent that she drew fair audiences for a short time. But people soon wearied of her peculiar style and ceased going to hear her. She was passee when she came to this coun try, and it was said that it was to cover a broken down voice that she had re course to the now hackneyed vibrata. However, many deluded singers, consid ering that her style must be one of the good things which come to Ms from Eu rope, strove, but too successfully, to im itate it. When I was studying vocal music, great care was takeh to impress upon my mind the extreme importance and beauty of a firm, pure and steady tone, with its gradual crescendo and diminu endo. Ah, with what infinite pains I tried to produce my notes without a shadow of w T avering or change of qual ity t And now to think that the beauti ful sostenuto is considered of but small account by so many people who, I main tain, ought to know better! I have seen a roomful of people moved to tears by a pathetic song rendered by a well sus tained voice, and with distinct enuncia tion of the words. Yet who would ever dream of weeping over the most touch ing ballad in the world when sung in the miserable, shaky style now in vogue, which leaves the listener in doubt as to whether he is hearing sung C sharp or D, F sharp or G? Among the best of vocalists belonging to our city and its vicinity this tremolo is often adopted. For some reason so pranos and baritones use it most fre quently, and I may add ad nauseam. It is more than disagreeable on the stage and in the parlor. It is beyond endur ance when it obtrudes itself in the church service. No place or occasion is safe from its impertinent intrusion. I have heard a soprano of good standing profane the lofty strains of “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth” by her tremulous rendering, obnoxious as it was inappropriate.—Con New York Tribune. The Powder Making Family. A strange heritage was that bequeath ed to his children by Eleuthere Irenee Dr. Pont de Nemours, when, driven from France by the revolution, he came to the faraway state of Delaware, and with skill in chemistry, acquired under the great Lavoisier, set to work in 1802, making gunpowder for America and the civilized world, if a world can be called civilized that uses so much of it. Vast wealth he prepared for his descendants, the family fortunes today uniting into nearly $100,000,000. But along with the riches he left a dread responsibility that presses down relentlessly upon every son i.ud grandson. “Thou shalt not rest; thou shalt not fear,” is written on the brow of every Du Pont child, and read in the life of every Du Pont man. If ever a family was brave, it is the Du Fonts; if ever a family had need of bravery, it is they. The Du Pouts monopolize the gun powder business of America, controlling 28 of the 82 mills in this country. They do this by confiding to no one, not even to the archives of the patent office, their secret methods of composition, their spe cially devised machinery, and all the lore of gunpowder making that has come to them through generations. This in herited knowledge is the family treas ure, and to guard it inviolate the Du Fonts must be their own mechanics, chemists, superintendents and engineers, must spend hours every day in the mills, must live with the menace of sudden and frightful death always about them. McClure’s Magazine. NAPOLEON’S ORIENTAL DREAMS. He Longed to Follow In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great. Bonaparte was a child of the Mediter ranean. The light of its sparkling wa ters was ever in his eyes, and the fasci nation of its ancient civilizations was never absent from his dreams of glory. His proclamations ring with classic al lusions ; his festivals were adorned with classic ceremony. In infancy he had known of Genoa, the tyrant of his is land, as strong in the splendid commer cial enterprises which stretched east ward through the Levant and beyond into the farther orient. In childhood he had fed his imagination on the histories of Alexander the Great and his conquest of oriental empires. In youth he had thought to find an open door for his am bition when all others seemed closed by taking service with England to share the renown of those who were building up her eastern empire. Disappointed in this, he turned with the same lack of success to Russia, already England’s ri val on the continent of Asia. It is perfectly comprehensible that throughout his early manhood his mind should have occasionally reverted to the same ideals. The conqueror of Italy and Austria might hope to realize them. Was he not master of the two great maritime commonwealths which had once shared all eastern trade between them? England’s intrusion upon the Mediterranean basin was a never ceasing irritation to all the Latin powers. Her commercial prosperity and her mastery of the seas aggravated the exasperation of France as threatening even her equali ty in their ancient rivalry. From the days of the first crusade all Frenchmen had felt that leadership in the recon struction of Asia belonged to them by virtue of preoccupation. Ardent repub licans, moreover, saw France’s mission incomplete in the liberalizing of the continent, and the department of marine under the directory stamped its paper with the motto, “Liberty of the Seas. ” Imaginative forces, the revolution ary system and the national ambition all combined to create übiquitous en thusiasm for the conquest of the Med iterranean. To this the temperament and training of Bonaparte were as the spark to the tinder. It was with willing ears that the directory heard his first suggestions about the Venetian isles and subsequently his plans for the capture of Malta, which ■was to be followed by a death blow to England’s supremacy in the seizure of Egypt and the dismem berment of Turkey.—W. M. Sloane’s “Life of Napoleon” in Century. A Tattooed Snake. The sailors of the gulf of Mexico and the equatorial regions of the Atlantic ocean amuse themselves and also turn an occasional honest penny by capturing both large and small snakes of the va riety known as the lemon boa and cov-' ering their bodies with tattooed letters and designs. One of these living manu scripts was recently exhibited at Egyp tian hall, London, which had the whole of the third chapter of Genesis and some pieces from Punch tattooed upon his back in indelible letters of various col ors. Thousands of these tattooed snakes are annually disposed of at Rio de Ja neiro. The buyers generally kill these snakes and either skin them or preserve the entire reptile in alcohol. Such speci mens are highly prized by both Euro pean and North American collectors of! curiosities.—St. Louis Republic. Skillful m Ever. Edward—lsn’t Dick going off in his writings? Forrest—l haven’t noticed it. Edward—lt seems to me he has lost that exquisite delicacy of touch he used to have. Forrest (ruefully)—By Jove! You wouldn’t think so if you had seen him work me for ten this morning.—New Rochelle Life. ATHENS EVENING NEWS JUNE 19.1895 Ift 1 fit At the CWt Ed ge Barber 111 Cig U1191V6 Shop on Jackson street. REED BROTHERS. Polite and courteous attention toall, —- imnn j, —- --nwi— bt— im—m—n—w—ii—— it— —i—wnwiww— — 1 -xwn— j For JBLorrt The Andrew J. Cobb house, corner of Milledge Ave. and Meig’s street. 6 Room house corner Church and Reese street $lO 00 » 10 *• •• on N. Pulaski street 12 00 6 “ “on Hickory st 800 4 “ “on River st, near Jackson 700 4 “ “on River st., near Thomas 750 6 “ “ No. 318 S. Lumpkin S. Lumpkin st 17 00 8 u “ No. 619 N. Jackson st 18 00 6 “ “ Thomas st., near Dougherty 10 00 4 “ “ corner Harris and Peabody sts 800 AUCTION SALE. •-On Wednesday, June sth I will sell at auction twelve Building Lots onthe North side of Baxter street, near Milledge avenue. Terms one* fifth cash, balance $5 per month, without interest, W. D. GRIFFETH, Real Estate Agent ■" Palmer & Hmnebrew,. ,t e ©PQgi/ Gapden BEST GOODS-LOWEST PRICES Sole Agents for Huvler’s Candy. r— — ' - ■■""' C. P- WILLCOX, JR STG.N<>GRAPIIIC CXXI’GRT, CLAYTON STREET Rfeervnees in Athens. Pittman’s StandardShortham' ‘aught. F. A. LIPSCOMB. Fire Insur<mee, Office * The Athens Savings Bank. H Your Job Pmtiing at the News.