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U A ITEAH 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 fan 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. HEARSTS SUNDAY $10.00 American Advertising Contest / Given Away!! Last Sunday only the trade-marks or distinguishing characteristics of the advertisers below were given. $10.00 in cash was offered to the person sending in to The American, in the fewest possible words, a description of the advertisers whose “slogan” appeared below. Thousands of these replies were received and the prize goes to Mrs. O. D. Gorman, Jr. y 79 W. 1 5th St., her answers appearing below: p . m 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 nviim at luce Wall-Paper Thirty years in the wall-paper business have made us profi cient* Ask our customers* Before you buy, try us* :: :: Better Be Safe than Sorry" 71 South Pryor Street BURNETT WALL PAPER CO. BURNETT ii Go Where the Crowds Go” AND You Jfritt be delighted Jfrith • the cool, comfortable Montgomery Theater. Ab- V soiutely the latest pictures, Anna Von Hoffman is now singing AT , The Montgomery The easy way to buy clother Your Credit* is Good at * "Truly Duffy's” The home of low prices, on the comer of Mitchell and Forsyth Sts. Attend our immense Clearing-Out Sale now going on ♦ * * * ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ \ DUFFY'S The kind of Ice Cream you really like* It’s pure, 1 clean and wholesome* Try it once* VELVET ICE CREAM CO. 2b E. North Avenue 27 years in the same stand. Shoes for the Entire Family Seeour Fall and Winter stock of Men's and Ladies’ models. Just from the Eastern PHONE IVY 6849 « MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED R. C. BLACK 35 Whitehall Street . .. . '•