Song the Joy of Life By WILLIAM L. TOMLINS, Director of the National School of Music. (■■■■■AONC is the infectious utterance of the jov of 'ife. I Primarily song is tfie joy of being, lleuce the I psalmist continually: "Sing ye;" "(), come, let I 11s sing;'' "1 will sing unto the Lord." I Song is associated with so much that is un vorthv of the name. All that we are in the habit 01 demanding or expecting of song is that it shall I be a correct performance of the music and that the tone quality of the voice shall be smooth and express sentiment. But the power of song does not inhere in all this. P>ack of this is the soul of the song seeking ex pression, which in its deepest meaning only the spirit of the singer can know and interpret. How easily are we captivated by the singing of the rhythm, flow ing melodies and sweet harmonies, and how they appeal to us anil be gile us into an amiable companionability. In lieu of better things these may be well, but we must recognize, however, that they are but short steps in the progress towards a larger and nobler companionship—the companionship of the spirit. To-day, the world needs especially the soul of the song, song life. Men have drifted apart, the spirit & song can draw them together again. Before the factory-age, in the day when man worked at home at his loom, his life of labor, his commercial life, and what we may call his heart life, were uot widely separated. W hen he became a master work man and had five or six men under him, home and workmen and work were still in close touch. But now we have great manufacturing estab lishments, trusts, with the man at the head and the man at he foot in finitely far apart. In these matter-of-fact days of machinery and ma chine workers, of widely-separated master and man. some vital power must be putin motion to help individuals to realization of the joy of liv ing each being craves and to strengthen the tie that binds man toman. The song life, the spirit of tffiisic, is such a vital power. Work with the rising generation, with children of the rich and children of the slums, confirms the belief that it should be as natural for a child to sing as it is for him to play. His joy of living, his sense of companionship, find natural utterance in simple song forms. His will "plays" in rhythm, his mind "plays" in melody, and his heart "plays" in harmony. Our work is to purify a child's nature so that his voice is as sincere as it is sweet; to ennoble him by contact with the highest in thought and feeling that brain and heart have produced; to have him know that his fellow is his brother and God his father, and then him a missionary to his home. This may seem a new use for music, but it is not. A life lived without music reminds of a plant that is given soil, air and water, but 110 sunshine. So many people to-day are stunted be cause ignorant of the power of music. I. J, y Standing Armies Murderers By COUNT LEO TOLSTOI. masses are so hypnotized that, though they see what Tis continually going 011 around them, they do not un derstand what it means. They sec the unceasing care kings, emperors and presidents bestow on disciplined armies, see the parades, reviews and maneuvers they hold, and of which they boast to one another, and the people eagerly crowd to see how their own brothers, dressed up in bright-colored, glittering clothes, are turned into machines to the sound of drums and trumpets, and who, obedient to the shouting of one man, all make the same movements; anil they do not understand the meaning of it all. If only every king, emperor and president would understand tha*. his work of organizing armies is not an honorable and important duty, as his flatterers persuade him it is, but a most abominable business, i.e., the preparing for and the managing of murder. If only every private individual understood that the payment of taxes which helps to equip soldiers, and above all, military service, are not immaterial but highly immoral actions, by which he not only permits murder, but takes part in it himself—then this power of the kings and emperors which arouses an indignation, and for which they now get killed, would of itself come to an end. The Cultured By PRESIDENT ELIOT, of Harvard University. cultured man is not to be a weak, critical, fastidious T creature, vain of a little exclusive information or of an uncommon knack in Latin verse or mathematical logic. HE IS TO BE A MAN OF QUICK PERCEP TIONS, BROAD SYMPATHIES AND WIDE AF .H'TOffTIL FI^IT IES, RESPONSIVE BUT INDEPENDENT, SsSfiilj SELF-RELIANT BUT DEFERENTIAL, LOVING TRUTH AND CANDOR, BUT ALSO MODERA TION AND PROPORTION; COURAGEOUS BUT GENTLE, NOT FINISHED BUT PERFECTING. All authorities agree that true culture is not exclusive, but the verv opposite; that it is not to be attained in solitude, but in society; and that the best atmosphere for culture is that of a school, university, acad emy, or church, where many pursue together the ideals of truth, (righteousness and love. Taking Care By DR. H. C. CARPENTER, Promiuent Chicago Physician. ■■■■■ ON'T play with the babv. Nothing could be more injurious to the infant's nervous system than to excite it with the cus tomary entertainments with which fond mothers and admir -555 ing friends bore the helpless victim. It is a common error pSif to imagine that because the child responds with a wonder- In look, a laugh, or even a shriek of apparent delight, it is be <9 1 ing amused. {Juite the contrary; it is not only being plagued |H | but is sustaining, in n«ie cases out of ten, an irreparable in -111 the catalogue of mother's errors may also be found -the unfortunate practice of exhibiting the baby. Such displays are not designed for the infant's good, but to satisfy the parents' pride, result ing often in an excitement which may impair the infant's digestion, or, worse, inflict the baby with a nervousness which may seriously affect its health in after life CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1903. ONLY TEN ESCAPED. Great Slaughter of Christians in Town of Mehomia. Arrorillns to lte|iorlM liicelved a' Solla, the Backbone ol' the Itevo liitlon In Macedonia In llroken Turku Uln 'lain Italtle* ftoth Milieu li«ie Heavily. Sofia, Bulgaria, Ocf. 3. —The Mace donian revolutionary headquarters assert that they have positive infor mation that the whole Christian pop ulation of the town of Mehomia, ( Ka/.log) province of Serves, was mas sacred September 2S with the excep tion of ten men who escaped with the news. Melioniia is an important town and the seat of the local government. The population was about equally di vided between Turks and Bulgarians. The latter numbered 3.200 persons. According to the fugitives, when the general rising was declared in the L'azlog district on Sunday the Turk ish troops in the I'irin mountains hurried to Mehomia and surround ed the town, rendering the escape of the Christians impossible. The Bul garian population were prepared to join in the rising, several insurgent agents being in the Bulgarian quarter of the town at the time. Desperate fighting occurred in the streets, bombs and dynamite being freely used. After lighting for five or six hours the Turks gained the upper band and proceeded to massacre every Bulgarian they encountered. According to advices received here yesterday the backbone of the revolu tion in Macedonia is broken, the Turkish troops tire gaining the upper band everywhere, several insurgent chiefs have been killed or wounded, others are abandoning tlie struggle and fleeing to the frontier, the revo lutionary bands are sustaining heavy losses and are seeking refuge in large numbers and the Turks occupy every important point along Ihe routes of retreat to the frontier. Five engagements are reported to have taken place in the vicinity of Kratovo, where 5,000 Turks were at tacked by revolutionary bands and, though many Turks were killed, the insurgents were completely routed. One of the leaders of the latter, Lieut. Tontcheff. committed suicide in order to avoid capture. Advices from the insurgent head quarters assert that 0.000 Turks were routed by 2.000 insurgents in the I'irin mountains after four days' fighting. The Turkish losses in this affair are said to have been the heaviest during the whole outbreak. The\ included three colonels and many officers of lower rank. FIVE KILLED. A I'aMfnScr Train I'lotvn 'l'llrolljlli a <»roii|> ol' People at Slut roll mill, I'a. Philadelphia, Oct. l. A merry party composed of about a dozen persons was run down by a passenger train last night at Sharon Hill, seven miles south of this city, on the Philadel phia, Baltimore k Washington rail road. killing live and injuring three others. The dead are: David Farran, sr., aged 00 years, of Sharon Hill. David Farran, jr., aged 12 years. .lane \Y. Brown, of Philadelphia. James Drown, aged 2"i years, of Philadelphia. Jane Clark, of Philadelphia. The injured are: Thomas Brown, aged IS years. Martha J. Farran, aged ::I years. Miss Clara Osgood, aged 40 years, of Sharon Hill. The accident occurred in front of the Sharon Hill station while the party was waiting for a train. There had been a family reunion at the Farran home and several members of the Farran family had accompan ied tlie guests to the station. The accommodation, for which the party was waiting, usually passes the sta tion on the "fourth track. This was known to some of the party, and when the train was heard coming in the distance, nearly every one passed over to the third or freight track. Before any one could give a warning the accommodation train came down the third track and plowed into the group. The engineer tried to stop his train before it struck the party, but he was unable to do so until if had. ran sev eral hundred feet past the station. A horrible scene met the eyes of the passengers on the train and the train crew. I'nder the wheels of the locomotive and on the tracks on both sides of the train were scattered the dead and injured. The dead were mangled and those that had not been killed were removed to a physician's office. Their injuries were of such a nature that it was decided to bring them to this city and they were placed oil the accommodation train and brought to a hospital in West Philadelphia. All ((nipt at Ihe Soo. Sault Ste. Marie. Mich.. Oct. I. Mounted infantry and detachments of the Canadian militia are patrolling the Canadian "Soo" at points where officers of the Consolidated Lake Su perior Co. feared trouble by possible acts of the large number of dis charged employes, but absolute quiet prevails in the city and throughout the region. About 800 men who had been detained in the woods at Wilde for several days arrived on the Algo nia Central railroad last night in charge of the soldiers sent there. The men received their pay cheeks, were given tickets for several meals, and departed without causing trouble. Mayor Indicted for Itlallcaoaiicp. Springfield, 111.. Oct. 1. Harry J. Devereaux. mayor of Springfield, was indicted yesterday by the grand .jury of Sangamon county on five counts charging malfeasance in office. Three of the counts charge that Devereaux. in violation of his duties, as mayot unlawfully and corruptly permitted gambling houses to be operated. The fourth count relates to permitting slot machines in saloons and in other places and the fifth count is in rela tion to permitting the* operation of a pool room. Mayor Devereaux w\ts elected last spring as a democrat. COURT TURNED THEM UOWN. Ml'iilin;; 1111 ill lnl«t« a r«- Di'iilnl nil III*! Jii lie 11 onto I'iweiit liilcrlerenco j Willi Picket*., New York, Oct. Vice Chancellor | Stevenson in Jersey City yesterday luitiili'il 11 own his decision in the eon-I test between the \V. & A. Fletcher | Machine Co.. of llobokt-n, and the striking machinists, who have been out for some months. W hen the men left their work Klysinn lodge, the local liody of ma chinists, picketed the work's. The ootupany applied for an order re straining' the men from seeking to force out the men still at work and prevail upon others j .-eking work to go elsewhere. The court ordered that neither the members of Klysian lodge, the International association nor friends of the strikers interfere with the company. To offset this the International as sociation applied to Vice Chancellor Stevenson for an injunction restrain ing the company front interfering with its pickets. The vice chancellor ruled that "the complainant, the \V. «£• \. Fletcher Co., is not entitled to any further pre liminary restraint than is now em bodied in the existing restraining or der." In regard to the International as-j sociation's plea to have the company i restrained from interfering with the | pickets, the vice chancellor said: "The court finds that no proper! esse has been presented for it pre- | liminary injunction." DUN'S REVIEW OF TRADE.* ■(eduction ol' Activity at I'urnaee* I* I lie I ufuvoru lilp Msii. New York. Oct. 3.- 11. (i. Dun's j Weekly Review of Trade says: Aside front the reduction in blast j furnace activity. manufacturing plants arc more fully engaged, and several encouraging reports are re-I ceived, particularly as to footwear. Wholesale and jobbing trade is well j maintained, many cities reporting a i larger volume than last year, and j business at Chicago is stimulated by the multitude attending the centen nial. Latest returns of foreign com merce at this port are favorable, ex- j ports increasing, while imports tie-| crease as compared with the saute | week last year. It is practically certain that a re-j duetion of pig Iron output will be j made, averaging about 20 per cent., j and lliis concerted action to prevent! accumulation of stocks has already had a sentimental effect on the mar- i ket. inquiries increasing in number . and extent of tonnage. Woolens are steady but quiet, and , worsteds are dull. Buying of wool is ' limited to immediate needs. No' diminution is reported in the activity; of shoe factories, especially as to ; heavy footwear. Failures this week in the United ; States number 2:.'(5, against 207 the ! corresponding week last year, and in j Canada 10, against 23 last year. WATER STEAL. S'iie American Sugar Itelinin:: Co. I* Altered to Have "Itinie" (lie City ol Krooklyn tor $525,QU0. New York. Oct. 3. —Following a ' long investigation by engineers of his department, Deputy Commissioner of j Water Supply Van Iderstine, of j Brooklyn, on Friday charged the j American Sugar Defining Co. with taking from the city mains through j unmetered pipes, without the knowl edge of the authorities, a vast quan- j tity of water during a period of six ; years. Commissioner Van Iderstine j has sent to the company a claim for j $325,000 for the water alleged to have | been thus taken and never paid for. I The water department officials say j the amount of water used by the re-1 fineries has been more than 2 per! cent, of the total Brooklyn supply and that it may be found that the! company really owes something like J $1,000,000. The largest fap of the refinery's , water supply is in a 20-inch main. J Where the pipe enters the building I there are two branches. One of I them, it is claimed, is entirely nn- ] metered. THE FLAG CAME DOWN. IVnimjlvanla Farmer* Forced a (iang of Italian* to Lower Their Hamier. Tamaqua, Pa., Oct. 3.—About two | weeks ago a gang of foreign work- j men who have a eajnp near West j I'enti, a farming village, raised an j Italian Hag over their quarters. The farmers became indignant and de- j manded that the flag be lowered. The Italians refusing to comply, a com-1 mittec representing the farmers j came here and laid the matter before the police officials, stating that un less immediate action was taken they j would arm themselves and march on the camp. Chief of Police Halin went j to the camp and ordered the flag' low ered. which was done tinder protest. The Italian consul at Philadelphia yesterday wrote to Chief Halm asking | him for full information regarding! the matter. Halm hits replied stating: that he ordered the flag taken down | because he feared the farmers would j carry out their threat and tbat seri ous trouble would result. Sliatt'er wan CeiiNiired. Pittsburg, Oct. 3.—From semi-ofli- j cial sources it was learned Friday ; that the board investigating' the I charges against President T. .1, Sltaf- j fer, of the Amalgamated Association! of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, voted only to censure him for not attending the convention of sheet workers held j in this city. The other charges, it is said, were considered, and in the ! opinion of the members of the board the testimony presented did not war rant a conviction or even any serious' consideration. Woman Arr Mtcd tor ICm bezzleiiicnt. New York. Oct. 3. -Marie Layton I Johnson, aged 20 years, the wife of Albert M. Johnson, a dentist of Lareli mont, N. Y.. with an office in this city, was arrested lest night on it] warrant specifically charging het with the grand larceny of $2,000. The j total amount of her defalcations however, may, it is said, amount t< $50,000. The complainants are officer: of the United States Playing Card Co. with home offices in Cincinnati, anil t branch here. Mrs. Johnson, whose maiden name was Mario Layton. was j bookkeeper in the New York office. PREPARING FOR WAR German Soldiery Must Be Ready for Conflict in Moment. fc'ev* Ilcnd of Kniprror'a War Otlloe Will Reform All Iti-andic-a of Service anil fornicator to t'orre"! *ll Abuxca. Special interest attaches to the kais er's new minister of war, Gen. Von Ginem-Rothmaler, for the reason that, after Emperor William, it is he who will be responsible for Germany's military policy, should one of the several war clouds burst which are now hovering over Europe. Apart from the new min ister of war's own striking personality, the significant thing about his appoint ment is the fresh evidence it conveys of Emperor William's determination to surround himself with young blood. Gen. Karl Von Einem-Rothmaler Is the first man in the history of the Ger man army to reach the war ministry portfolio at 5 years of age. All his pred ecessors have been veteran solders, and the vast Teutonic army war ma chine has been run on gray-haired lines. During the last few years the kaiser has shown a decided tendency to rejuvenate every important administrative depart ment of his government by putting in comparatively young men —men of his approximate age—as heads. Thus he called the 45-year-old Baron Von Rheln baben to be minister of finance in the Prussian cabinet; then Gen. Budde, 48 years old, to be minister of railways and public works, and now 50-year-old Lieut. Gen. Von Einem to be minister of war. Germany's military organization for many years has left little to be desired from the standpoint of efficiency. Yet the prediction is made that the "young blood" which the kaiser has called into the executive service of the army will so manifest itself In the form of improve ments and betterments all along the line. Traditions are to give way to modern ideas wherever opportunity of fers. Gen. Von Einem received official per- GEN. VON EINEM-ROTHHALER. (Recently Called to War Office Portfolio by Emperor William.) mission to add "Von Rothmaler" to his surname in honor of his father-in-law, Gen. Von Rothmaler, a well-known in fantry commander, who died in 1880. The new war minister's career has been distinguished by a series of unparal leled, rapid promotion from one posi tion to another. He made uncommon progress in the cadet academies of both Bernsberg and Berlin —such notable progress, in fact, that, though not qual ified by age to be an officer when the war with France broke out in 1870, he was taken and made at once an en sign in the Second Hanoverian Uhlans. In his first campaign his gallantry gained him the iron cross, and since then he has gone steadily up the ladder. He married at 25 —much eai..ir in life than a German officer generally enters the married state. Gen. Von Einem attracted Emperor William's most earnest attention during last year's stormy reichstag session, when, as the spokesman of the war min ister, Gen. Von Gossler, he was called onto defend the government against the constant and vitriolic attacks by the so cial democrats. These implacable poli ticians are preparing to renew their at tacks in the coming reichstag with even greater bitterness. The government's desire to increase the army and the mil itary budget will be fought tooth and nail by the "reds," while the scandalous brutalities to private soldiers which have come to light during the last three months will give them still more effective ammunition when they begin to storm the government's citadel. The kaiser saw the handwriting on the wall, and when Gen. Von Gossler ten dered his resignation a few weeks ago Von Einem, the sturdy debater, became the inevitable choice for his successor. The new war minister, while known in the army as a strict disciplinarian, bears the reputation of being a most kindly, humane officer and gentleman, with special regard to the welfare of the enlisted maa. Many Germans look to him with hope as the most likely man in the army to bring about that com munity of spirit between officer and man —that mutual respect which is founded on something else than contempt or fear —which is the one thing lacking to make the kaiser's powerful legions the ideal soldier organization of the world. A Theory Worth TeMtlnu:. It is asserted by the Washington State Fish commission that fish can be frozen solid and thawed back to life, if not exposed to the sun or al lowed to get more than 12 to 14 de grees below the freezing point. Sal mon from the Pacific coast can there fore be frozen and transported to the Atlantic coast, and resuscitated to full life, under proper conditions. The re sults of this test will be that live sal mon, frozen in blocks of ice, may be shipped to the Atlantic coast market before long. LITTLE GORILLA BABY. Ivoko M un n<>a«lit for 3:1.0110 anil Will ll«? lt«-nrf«l In All llnprvli I.lke u Child. America's queerest baby, for whom J. K. Wilson, of Portland, Ore., paid $3,000, is a yomgster of the gorilla family, the only one of its tribe in the United States. He looks like a little old man, though he iu only eight months old, and is devoting his time to acquiring such infantile accom plishments as drinking milk from a cup and eating rice with a spoon. "Koko" is the name of the baby gorilla, and he has come all the way from the banks of the Cango river, in western Africa. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, who have an uncommon fondness for pets, will give their young protege the advantage of '*4.M iirßMr | ■/ sar 1 >; L ! KOKO AT HIS BEST (Yourg Gorilla WTIO Will Be Reared Like Human Child.) as much education as his intelligence ! can assimilate. Young Koko is being strictly brought up as to discipline and diet, eating at regular intervals. His favorite spot in the house is a big upholstered armchair in the par lor. From the trees of his tribe in the old world to a parlor in the new world is surely a transition to con fuse any creature, but Koko seems to be quite at his ease. The young stranger from Africa i» an interesting object to callers. He has an eiderdown "comforter," which with much solemnity he draws about him when he feels chilly. If too warm he carefully lays it aside. He is exceedingly fond of his mis tress and follows her everywhere. Although so new to the ways of civilization, Koko feeds himself with a spoon as handily as though the African jungle had been supplied with the same article. He sits at table with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, and comports himself in a reasonably genteel manner unless something occurs to make him angry. Then he flings his spoon away, throws himself upon his back on the floor, and kicks like a bad, bad child of human species. And like a bad child he is punished for his conduct. DUKE OF ROXBURGHE. VounK British Noklemnn \\ lin Will Marry Minn («oelet IN Itlch la l.uuded Estate*. The announcement of the engage ment of the Duke of Roxburghe tc Miss May Goelet, of New York, has set London society talking of other eligible dukes and men of title. The duke of Rpxburghe i 3 spoken of as probably the most desirable hus band in Great Britain, not only for his 70,000 acres of Scottish estates, but for tne fact that he is a great favorite with royalty. The queen has always shown him the greatest friendship, DUKE OF ROXBURGHE. (British Nobleman Who Will Marry MLss May Goelet, the Heiress.) and at her wis.i he is a frequent guest on board the royal yacht. Floors castle, Kelso, the border seat of the Roxburghe family, the present duke of which is to marry Miss May Goelet, was built by St. John Van burgh in rather plain style in 1718, but in 1849 was transformed by Play fair into one of the most magnificent mansions of the Tudor style through' out the country. The gardens and grounds are laid out beautifully. Queen Victoria was a frequent vis itor to Floors castle, which lies a mile to the westward of the ancient town of Kelso. In the grounds of the castle the spot is still pointed out where James 11. of Scotland was killed in 1460 by the bursting of a cannon when he was besieging P.ox- Durghe. The district swarms with ballad traditions. The old castle of Rox burghe was once a bulwark against England, and still towers as one of the most beautiful landscapes in the United Kingdom. But not a stone re mains of the ancient town of Rox burghe, which was a great place iu tha twelfth century. 3
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