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ATLANTA, UA.. SUNDAY. AUGUST 24. UH3.
E TROTS,
BUT CAN’T KEEP
Tame Trout Craves » S
Petting; Fed by Hand
Feels Insulted If Food Is Not Served l|
in Manner to Which He Is j (5.5
Accustomed.
Syncopated Tunes and Dances
Beyond Ken of Old World,
Says American Composer,
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Armand
Yccsey, composer and director of mu
sic at the Rltz-Oarlton, ha* returned
fresh from a-European trip with lots
of new music and some comments
upon the musical situation abroad
which may act as balm to the souls
of American composers, and a Joy
for those who are not musicians, but
like to hear the scream of the Amer
ican Eagle.
Mr. Veesey has not lived on this
side of the Atlantic long enough to
hare taken out final naturalization
papers, bat there is nobody on this
side of Weehawken who is more in
tensely and enthusiastically Ameri
can in a musical way. He says
American music and American rr»otlf»
have spread over all Europe, but the
music the natives over there don’t
know how to play.
Opera in Europe, mm Mr. Vecacy
has viewed it this summer, 1 s poor
as compared with what is given at
the Metropolitan Opera House, and
there Isn't anything now between
Jx>ndon and Vienna that has to do
with music or the stage which local
talent can’t beat hand** down.
“I have been In Paris, London, Ber
lin, Munich, and Vienna," said Mr.
Vecaey, "and everywhere 1 have found
American music the most popular.
Then the turkey trot one finds vll
over the Continent. Yet nowhere did
I hear the music played correctly,
although they try hard, and when it
came to fitting German or French
words to a typical trotting tune, the
effect was ludicrous.
Recognize the “Truthehn Tanz?”
• "Think of what the result was in
Berlin, when they turned 'When the
.Midnight Choo-Choo leaves for Ala-
bam' into German! Tn Germany they
rail the trot ‘Truthehn Tana,' and in
France it is the ‘Pas du Pindon.'
Who would recognize the original un
der such appellations?
"Then the French can not dance
the trot, nor can the Germans. Some-
now they can’t just find out the
i haracter of 1L Of course their bands
and orchestras can not get the time
right in the first place. Why. at
ESTES PARK, COLO., Aug 23.—
Sunbeam, the pet speckled trout in
the fish hatchery at Kate* Park, has
just recovered from an Indisposition
caused by stomach trouble or rheu
matism, and is again able to take its
place as the only pet trout in cap
tivity.
The fish, now* a 3-year-old and
about eleven inches long, is as good
an example of gentle, and loving
trouthood as it is possible to find
Fed from the hand from the time it
was hatched. It feels Insulted now un
less Its food is given to it in that
way.
It is very fond of being stroked
and petted, and will swim around and
rub itself against a person’s hand
whenever a chance is given it
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Stranger Is Son,
Gone for 20 Years
Father Turn* Wanderer Away, but
Mother Calls Him Back, and
Reunion *Follow».
GLASGOW, KT„ An* 23. Virgil
Huffman had been away from home
twenty years, seeking his fortune In
Alaska, and the father and mother,
Mr. and Mr*. James Huffman, wee
sitting In a room of their home near
here discussing him and wondering
If he would ever come back.
There was a knock at the door and
Mr. Huffman opened It to see a dusty
traveler, who said he was tired and
was seeking lodging for the night. Mr.
Huffman thought he could do noth
ing for him, but Mrs. Huffman ‘‘reck-
onod' 1 they could manage somehow.
Then they led him Into the hall, un
der the swinging lamp, and as the
light fell on his face the aged couple
recognised him as their son.
African Chieftain
Is Harvard Student
Begin* Stupendous Task of Reduc
ing His Own Language to
Written Form.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Ang. 23.—A
full-blooded African chieftain has Just
passed his entrance examinations at
Harvard with flying colors and. w’ill
enter the university next September
as & member of the class of 1917. He
is P. Gbe Wo!r>, and his people, 300,-
m 0 ^ il HP. , 000 strong, are the Kru* of Liberia, on
the Folies Bergere in Paris, I saw two l ^e Wf*st coast of Africa.
of the best French dancers giving They have no written language, so
what was supposed to be a most per
fect rendition of the trot, and 1 as
sure yo.u it was ridiculous. Tt was a
very poor imitation of the real thing.
“Yet, 1 was astonished 10 find that
all the new’ French music and most
of the new German operettas are
. kher In the American style, as near
ly as their composers could approach
It. or ha ve * American motifs. The
f tango seems to be breaking up the
trot over there, partly. 1 suppose,
i> cause thefr dancers can come near.
• r to dancing it than the purely
American steps. In Paris I saw a
. ouple trying the Texas Tommy, and
it wae a sight to cause a norse ’o
double up.
“Why can’t they nlay a turkey
'rot? For the ssme reason that no
body* except a Hungarian can play
Hungarian music. Almost every mu-
> ; cal country has something that Is
peculiarly its own—a r.tylo of music
that when played correctly is in-
fectloua.
American Style Hat Call.
"Hungary has its esardas, Austria
Its waltz, and America its syncopated
time. When each is clayed properly,
it is bound to move an assemblage
of people, and Just now the Ameri
can style has the call everywhere.
"At the Palais de Danse, in Ber
lin, I first h^ard a turkey trot tflayed
by a German orchestra. It was very
bad. I want to tell you that in
Europe this summer there Is no mu
sic, no opera, no Philharmonic con
cert, and no play that can compare
with what has been heard here in
New York this year.”
"In Paris,” went <m Mr Veesey,
with a trace of feeling, "when they
see an American trunk, they He in
wait to rob the owner, and go crazy
over the thought of loot. It is the
same in Berlin. «,
"1 must tell you that not anywhere
are women so generally chic in their
costumes nowadays as right here ! .n
New York.
“True, I did see many smartly
gowned women, but investigation
showed that most of them were
American*.”
that the only way he can communi
cate with his family Is through trad
ers on the coast, who send the mes
sage by word of mouth along the
trail. He has begun the stupendous
task of reducing hie language io
waiting.
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Goes to Cemetery
Instead of Ball Park
Fan Mistakes Funeral Hack for Om
nibus on Its Way to
Diamond.
MONTGOMERY, MO.. Aug S3—A
baseball rooter came here from a
distance to attend the St. Charles-
Montgomery game, and by mistake
he got Into a hack at the depot filled
with pallbearers going to a funeral.
As he had cTepe on his hat. the
bai'beareTS thought he had come aa
a mourner and he was taken to the
cemetery Instead of the ball park.
Finding himself In a funeral pro
cession, he woke up and escaped. He
got to the ball grounds Just In time
to see the homo team win.
‘Star Baths’ Latest
Complexion Remedy
Young Women Campers Take Night
ly ‘Plunge’ In Milky Way Beams
on Tower.
Rector Denounces
Paid Choir Singers
Clergyman Declare* There Is No
Worehip in Their Strange and
Unutterable Music.
BRIDGEPORT, COJTN., Aug. 28.—The
Rev. E. J. Craft, rector of Christ Epis
copal Church, caused a sensation while
addressing a meeting of the parishioners
of Calvary parish by telling them what
ie would do 1f he were entering upon a
new pastorate.
For one thing, he said, he did not be
lieve in paid singers for church choirs
“The service of the church was designed
for the people as a whole and not alone
for the choir.'’ he said. "These modern
choirs take the worship away from the
?>eople of the congregation and do all
the worshiping themselves. They sing
• n wfld and strange wavs and in unut
terable tongues the praises of tiod."
Veering of River
Threatens Farms
Every Laborer Available Is Rushed
to Head Off Flow of
Missouri.
NEW YORK. Aug. 23.—St^r baths
are the fad at the summer camp of
the Young Women’s Christian Asso
ciation in Blanvelt, N. Y. Miss Mar
ion Hopkins, the camp leader, te given
credit for the innovation. The baths
are taken on top of a hig»^ tower In
the center of the camp. It will ac
commodate a dozen bathers.
There is a long waiting list of young
women campers who are anxious to.
enjoy the reported benefits of immer
sion In starlight. Chief among these
is said to be the "star-shine complex
ion.”
Husband in Prison;
Wife Willed $20,000
Richmond Woman Given Share of
Estate After Helpmate Is Sen
tenced for Embezzlement.
RICHMOND. VA., Aug 23.—Mrs.
Maud Kent Rowley, whose husband.
William J. Rowley, formerly connect
ed with a hotel here, was recently
sentenced to serve two years in State
prison for embezzling $8,000 from the
Jefferson Hotel In this city while au
ditor there, inherits $20,000 from the
estate of her aunt. Mrs. Junius A.
Morris, of Richmond, who died Au
gust 3 at Atlantic City.
The value of the estate la placed at
$496,000.
Woman Works as
Circus Roustabout
FREEMONT. NEBU . Aug. 23 —Every j
laborer available is ’being sent by the |
Burlington Railroad to Folsom to fight
the Missouri River, which is again eat-
ir.g into the valuable farm lands of !
that section and threatening to out its
wav to the railroad tracks. Many car
loads of stone have been dumped into
fa be river.
The river suddenly began veering from
is channel a few days age Inside of
iwo days it had 6wampeu. 20 nor- .- of
land. Fear is now felt that the river
will eat its way back to the extensive
put In within the last year at a cost
of more than $600,000. i
Breaks Down While Handling Heavy
Tent Pole and Her Secret
Is Revealed.
LA CROB8E, WI8..,Aug 23.—Mrs.
Ada Bn.ughton. unable Ito support her :
two children and invu/ld husband on
wages imid a woman, Honned a man's
and labored besuf* farm hands In
Dakota wheat fields 3he broke down
under the strain and cume to La Crosse
to seek ligTer employment, becoming j
a circus roustabout. Lifting heavy
poles and canvas resulted in her com- •
p!ete breakdown Then she told her
s.ory to the police aid collapsed. She
wai taken uneonsco,u* to a hospital
Keiativ are on wa; from her
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