Minister did more to strengthen the faith of the people in the Government credit than would have been probable bv the appoint 'jnent of any other man of tnat day. He "was a terror to all the hordes of jobbers and speculators and camp followers whose appe tites had been -whetted by a great war, and le enforced the strictest discipline through out our armies. Hen as stern to savacery in his enforce ment of military law. The wearied sentinel .who slejit at his post found no mercy in the leart of Stanton, and many times did Lin coln's humanity overrule his fiery Minister. He had profound, unfaltering faith in the "Union cause; and, above all, he had unfal tering faith in himself. He believed that he was in all things except in name Commander-in-Chief of the Armies and the Xavy of -thenation.and it was witli unconcealed reluc tance that he at times deferred to the au thority of the President. He was a great organizer in thcorv and harsh to the utmost in enforcing his theories upon military com manders. He at times conceived impossi ble things, and peremptorily ordered them executed, and woe to the man who was un fortunate enough to demonstrate that Stan ton was wrong. His Hatred or the 3IcKibtbn. Stanton's intense and irrepressible hatreds were his greatest infirmity and did much to deform his brilliant record as "War Minister. A pointed illustration of his bitter and un reasonable prejudices was given in the case ol Jere JIcKibben,whom he arbitrarily con fined in Old Capitol Prison without even the temblance of a pretext to excuse the act. The Constitution ot Pennsylvania had been 10 amended during the summer of 1S64 as to authorize soldiers to vote irt the field. !Fhe Legislature was railed in extra session to provide for holding elections in the army. It was in the heat of the Presiden tal contest and party bitterness was intensi fied to the uttermost. Despite the earnest sppeals of Governor Curtin'and all my per gonal importunities with prominent Legis lators of own party, an election law was y.asseu mat was ouviousiy iciuxiueu m iiio the minority no rights whatever in holding army elections. The Governor decided, as n matter of justice to the Democrats, to ap point several Democratic Commissioners, but it was with difficulty that any could be prevailed upon to accept He requested me to see several prominent Democrats and obtain their consent to re ceive his commission and act under it. As JIcKibben had three brotiiers in the Army of the Potomac, I supposed it would be pleasant tor him to make a visit there in an official way, and I suggested it to him. He promptly answered: "Why Stanton would put me in Old Capitol Prison befora I was there a day. He hates cur family for no other reason that I know of than that my father was one of his best friends in Pitts burg when he needed a friend." He finally consented to go, having first solemnly pledged me to protect him in case he got into any difficulty. Got Into l'rlson Very Quickly. McKibben and the other Commissioners from Philadelphia were furnished the elec tion papers and started down to the army, then quietly resting on the James river. On the second day alter he left 1 received a telegram from, him dated Washington, say ing: "Stanton has me in Old Capitol Prison; come at once." I hastened to Wash ington, having telegraphed to Lincoln to allow metoste liim between 11 and 12 o'clock that night, when I would arrive, I went direct to the "White House and told he President the exact truth. I explained the character of the law of our S ate: that I bad personally prevailed upon McKibben to go as a Commissioner to give a semblance ot decency to its execution; that be was not only guiltless of any oScnse, as he knew bow delicately he was situated, but that he was powerless to do anv wrong, and 1 insisted upon McKibben's immediate dis charge from prison. Lincoln knew of Stanton's hatred for the McJvibbeus, as he had been compelled to protect four of JIcKibben's brothers to give them the promotion they had earned by znest heroic conduct in battle, and he was much distressed at Stanton's act. He sent immediately to the "War Department to get the charge against McKibben, and it did not require five minutes ot examination to sat . isty him that it wa utterly groundless and a malicious wronc committed by Stanton. He said it was a "stupid blunder," and at ouce proposed to discbarge McKibben on Lis parole. TIio President TTas Cautions. I urged that be Bhould be discharged un conditionally, but Lincoln's caution pre vented that, lie baid: It seems hardly fair to discharge McKibben unconditionally without permitting Stantcn to give his ex planation," and he added, "You kno".v, Mc-Clure,- McKibben is safe, parole or no parole, so go and get him out ot prison." I saw that it would be useless to attempt to change Lincoln's purpose, but I asked him to fix an hour the next morning when I could meet Stanton in bis presence to have UcKibben discharged from his parole. He iixed 10 o'clock the next morning for the meeting and then wrote, in his own hand, the order for McKibben's discharge, which I hurriedly bore to Old Capitul Prison and bad him released. Promptly at 10 o'clock the next morning 7 went to the "White House to obtain Mc JCibben's discharge from bis parole. Lin coln was alone, but Stanton came in a few minutes later. He was pale with anger and his first expression was: "Well, McClure, what rebel are you here to get out of trouble this morning?" He evidently meant to square up Eome old accounts with xae over McKibben. I said to him and with some leeling: 'Tour arrest of McKibben was a cowardly act; vou knew McKibben was guiltless of any offense and you did it to gratify a brutal hatred." I told him also that I had prevailed upon McKibben, against bis judgment, to act as a State Com missioner to give a semblance of decency to what would evidently be a farcial "and fraudulent election in the army, and that if he had examined the complaint soberly lor one minute, he would have seen that it was utterly false. Xever IMscliarsred Trom His Parole. I told him that I had requested bis ap pearance there with the President to have McKibben discharged from his parole, and that I now asked liim to consent to it He turned Ironi me, walked hurriedly back and forth across the room several times before be answered, and then he came up to me jind in a voice tremulous with passion said: "I decline to discharge McKibben from his parole. You can make lormal application iorit if you choose, and I will consider and decide it." His manner was as offensive as it was possible for Stanton to make it, and I re sented it by saying: "1 don't tnou- what McKibben will do, but if I were Jere Mc Kibben, as sure as there is a God, I would crop your cars before I left Washington." Ho made no replyj' but suddenly whiiled tround on his heel and walked out of the room. Lincoln had said nothing. He was used to such ebullitions from Stanton, and after the Secretary had goue ho remarked in a jocular way: "Well, McClure, you didn't get on very far with Stanton, did you? but he'll come all right; let the matter rest"' Before. Icaiing the President's room I wrote out a formal application to Stanton for the discharge ot McKibben from his parole. Several davs afterward I received a huge official envelope inclosing a letter, all in Stanton's bold scrawl, saying that the request for the discharge of Jere McKibben from his parole had been duly considered and "the application could not be granted consistently with tho interests of the public service." McKibben outlived Stanton, but died a prisoner on parole. lie Did Not Nnrge His Anger. After such a turbulent interview with Stanton it would naturally be supposed that our intercourse thereafter would lie severely strained, if not wholly interrupted, but I had occasion to call at the War Department w ithin a fe w w eeks, and never was greeted more cordially in my lile than I was by Stanton. He promptly granted what I wanted done, which was not a matter of much importance, and it was so cheerfully and generously assented to that I carefully thought of everything that I wanted from his department, all of which was done in a most gracious manner. I puzzled my brain to make sure I should not forget anything, .and it finally occurred to me that a friend X much desired to serve had lately appealed to me to aid in obtaining promotion for a young officer in the Quartermaster's Department whom I did not know personally. It seemed that this was the chance for the young officer. I sug gested to Stanton that Qnartermaster Blank was reputed to be a very faithful and efficient officer, and entitled to greater pro motion than he had received Stanton picked up his pen saying: "Itwill give me great pleasure, sir; what is his name?" I had to answer that I could not recall his name in full, but he took down the officer's rank and last name and assured me that he would be promptly promoted. I supposed that a change of mood would make him for getful of this promise; but the young quar termaster wore new epanlcttes within ten days, aud won distinction ns the chief of his department in large independent army movements in Virginia. I never had the pleasure of meeting the worthy officer who thus unexpectedly secured his promotion, and he is doubtless ignorant to this day of the peculiar way it w as accomplished. McClellan's Telegram to Stauton. Stanton's hatred for McClellan became a consuming passion before the close of the Peninsular campaign. When McClellan was before Yorktown, and complaining of his inadequate forces to march upon Rich mond, Stanton summed him up in the fol lowing expression: "If he (McClellan) had a million men he would sn ear the enemy had two millions, and then he would sit down in the mud and yell for three." McClellan so far forgot himself as to tele graph to Stanton after the retreat to the James river: "If I cave this army now, I will tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or "to any other person in Washing ton. You havedone your best to sacrifice this army." Any other President than Lincoln would have immediately removed McClellan of his command, and Stanton not only would have relieved him, but dismissed bim from the service. Lincoln exhibited no resent ment whatever from the ill-advised and in subordinate telccram from McClellan. On the contrary, he seemed inclined to continue McClellan "in command aud certainly ex hibited every desire to sust!"n ini t0 the utmost In a letter addressed to the Secre tary of State on the same day that McClel lau's telegram was received he eP055011 his purpose to call for additional troops, and said: "I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or I am con quered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me." A Secret Conference at West Point. This was one of the most perplexing sit uations in which Lincoln was ever placed. The defeated army would not, in itself, have been so serious had Lincoln been .able to turn to commanders in which he could im plicily confide. He had abundant resources and could supply all needed additional troops, but where could he turn for safe ad vice? He had lost faith in 3IcClellan to a vcrv large extent When he counseled with Stanton he encountered insuperable hatreds, and he finally, as was his custom, decided upon his own course of action, and hurried off to West Point to confer with General Scott His visit to West Point startled the country and quite as much startled the Cabinet, "as not a single member of it had any intimation of his intended journey. What transpired at the interview between Lincoln and Scott was never known to any, so far as I have been able to learn, and I believe that no one has pre tended to have had knowledge of it. It is" enough to know that Pope was sum moned to the command of a new army, called the Army of Virginia, embracing the commands of Fremont, Banks and McDow ell, and that Halleck was made General in Chief. The aggressive campaign of Lee, resulting in the second battle of Bull Hun and the utter defeat of Pope, brought the army back into the Washington intrench ments in a most demoralized condition. It was here that Lincoln and Stanton locked horns again on the question of the restora tion cf McClellan to command. Why T.IcClclIan Was Retained. Without consulting either the General in Chief or his War Minister, Lincoln assigned McClellan to the command of the defenses of Washington, and as the various com mands of Pope's broken and demoralized army came back into the intrenchments in utter confusion, they thereby came again under the command of McClellan. When it was discovered that McClellan was thus practically in command of the Army of the Potamac again, Stanton was aroused to tho fiercest hostility. He went so far as to prepare a remonstrance to the President in writing, against McClellan's continuance in the command of that army or ot any army of the Union. This remon strance was not only signed by Stanton but by Chase, Bntcs and Smith, with the con currence of Wells, who thought it indelicate for him to sign it After the paper had been prepared under Stanton's impetuous lead, some of the more considerate members of the Cabinet who had joined him took pause to reflect that Lincoln was in the habit of not only having his own way, but of having his own way of having his own way, and the protest was never presented. Lincoln knew McClellan's ereat crsanizinc powers, aud ho knew the army needed first of all a comman der who was capable of restoring it to discip line. To use his own expressive language about the emergency, he believed that "there is no one in the army who can com mand the fortifications and lick those troops of ours into shape one-half as well as he could." It was this conviction that made Lincoln foreet all of McClellan's failings and restore him to command, and Stanton was compelled to submit in sullen silence, cvar Tuought.of Ketinnj; Him. Notwithstanding the many and often ir ritating conflicts that Lincoln had with Stanton, there never was an hour during Stanton's term as War Minister that Lincoln thought of removing him. Indeed, I believe that at no period during the war after Stanton had entered the Cabinet, did Lincoln feci that anv other man could fill Stanton's place with equal usefulness to the country. He had the most unbounded faith in Stanton's loyalty and in his public and private integrity. He was in hearty svmpathy with Stanton's aggressive earnest ness for the prosecution oi the wnr, and at times hesitated, even to the extent of what he feared was individual injustice, to re strain Stanton's violent assaults upon others. Soon after the surrender of Lee, Stauton, severely broken in health by the exacting duties he had performed, tendered his resig nation, believing that his great work was finished. Lincoln earnestly desired him to remain and lie did so. The assassination of Lincoln called him to even graver duties than had before confronted him. His bitter conflict with Johnson and his violent issue with Sherman stand out as exceptionally in teresting chapters in the history of the war. It was President Johnson's nttempted re moval of Stanton in violation of the tennre of office act that led to the President's im peachment, and Stanton persisted in" holding his Cabinet office until Johnson was ac quitted by the Senate, when he resigned and was succeeded by General Schofield on the 2d of June, 1868. After his retirement Stanton never ex hibited any great degree of either physical or mental vigor. I last saw him in Phila delphia in the fall of 18G8, where he came in answer to a special invitation from the Union League to deliver a political address in the Academy of Music in favor of Grant's election to the Presidency. I called on him at his hotel and found him very feeble, suffering greatly from asthmatic disorders, and in bis public address he was often strangely forgetful of facts and names, and had to be prompted by gentlemen on the stage. It may be said of Stanton that he sacrificed the vigor of his life to the ser vice of his country in the sorest trial of its history, and when President Grant nom inated' him as Justice of the Supreme Court on the 20th of December, 18G9, all knew that it was an empty honor, as he was both physically and mentally unequal to the new dutfes assigned, to him. Four days thereafter the inexorable messenger came, and Edwin M. Stanton joined the great majority across the dark river. A. K. McClttbe. FITS AU fits stooped free by Dr. Kline's Ores. Xerve Restorer. No llts after first day's use. Mar velous cures. Treatise and 83 00 trial DottU free to Fit cases. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch st, Fhlla., -'a. 6u THE MUSIC WORLD. "What May Be Expected of the Mozart Club To-Morrow Evening." TEACHERS AT CARNEGIE HALL. Furore Created in the Art World by Pader ewski, the Pianist. ODDS AUD ENDS OP KEWS GOBSIP This will be a cala week for musical Pittsburg. Starting with the "Messiah" concert to-morrow evening and continuing through the three days of day and night ses sions of the State Association, 1891's expir piring gasps will be literally surcharged with musical fervor. The Mozart Club was never in better shape to give tongue to the sublime mea sures of Handel's masterpiece. Conductor McCollnm will swing his baton to-morrow evening oyer a force that maybe confidently expected to represent Pittsburg's utmost present capabilities in the departments of chorus and orchestra. En passant, this is not extravagant prophecy, as regards the latter department. The soloists will be: Miss Hortense Pierse, of New Tork, Miss Adelaide Forsemnn, of Chicago, Mr. Fredrick V. Jamison, of New York, and Mr. Ivan Morawskl, of Boston. Everyone knows the "Messiah" and loves to hear it most of all at this fitting season. So with tho non-resident members of the State Association present as the club's Rucsts, there is every prospect of a large and appreciative audience at Old City nail. The social reception nfter the concert, ten dered by the Mozart Club to the association, promises to bo equally pleasant in its own way. It is creditable and most appropriate for our leading musical organization thus to extend a welcome to the musical guests of the community. The Advent of the Teachers. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, each with tlireo sessions of the Pennsylvania State Music Teachers' Association at Carne cic's Hall, Allegheny, will compass an amount of musical pabulum spoken, sung and played the counterpart of which has never been had in this community before. ivoryone mav go li lie wants to smiscno ing his dollar for an associate membership, paying $3 for a "patron's ticket" good for t a admissions to every session or buying a sincle admission to any one session lor half n dollar, The morng sessions will be wholly devoted to essays, discu-sion and business. Names and topics have already been fully set forth in tins department The only change to be not-d now is the unexpected detention of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who had consented to make the formal address of welcome on Tuesday morning. Mr. Carnegie sent a very nice letter of resrret, accompanied by a very nice check, in token ot his good will for tho cause. Mayor Gourloy has kindly under taken at this late date to extend a welcome to the visitors. The afternoons chiefly and the evenings wholly are devoted to musical perform ances. With very few excenstons Titts burs's foiemost artists and composers are well represented on tlio programmes, of which a full outline has been given. Anions the really eminent visitors who will bo heard, occur such names as Charles II. .larvis, Constantino Stern berg, Leopold Godowsky and Maurits Leef son, pianist; D. D. Wood and Albert W. Porst, organists: William Stoll, violin: R. Hennfcr. 'cello. All of these are men of na tional repntation and their performances may be confidently attended with pleasure and profit to a high degree. All in all, the meeting promises to exer cise a great influence upon musical life in Pittsburg and Allegheny, and, at the same time, to assure the permanent success of tho association, witu nil its untold potencies for the musical good of the entire Common wealth. iCot Always Up to Promise, Some good folk in the choir galleries have been heard to complain of the fact that tho newspapers do not now pay as much atten tion to their Christmas programmes as of yore. Whilo the former custom of printing com plete lists of these festival programmes was a proper recognition of the church choirs (a most valuable clement in our musical life and deserving of more recognition than is generally given), there is reason tobelievo that the custom fostered a tendency toward print, but which were boyond the capabili- ties oi tnc cnoirs to perioral mem adequate ly. Brilliant programmes and slipshod per formances too often v.ent together. Perhaps -itli less temptation to select glittering titles, there will bo r. stronger trend in the direction of worthy interpreta tion. Thopresent desuetude of thp custom referred to may be, thereioie, quite innoc uous. Without goir.K into details, it may be broadly said that this mornins: nearly every choir in the city will have its best loot for ward. Most of those that held services on Christmas Day will repeat tho same pro gramme to-day. and all the rest that pay any particular attention to tho musical sei vicewilldoso to-day- in a manner appro priate to this season of jov and praise. If von ever c:o to church for tho sake of tho music, this is a good day to try it. The Fame of I'aderewskl. Paderewski bids fair soon to have the whole country by the ears, having already made completo conquest of New York and Boston. He has become an object of inter est to tho great public, far outside the dis tinctively musical chcles; and within tlio.-e circles the analysis and discussion of his piaving is the nbsorbinc topic of the day. Even Dr. AVilliam Mason, the dean of American pianists, has been moved to write public letters defending the young pianist fiom the impntation of pl.iying Beethoven less adequately than some other composers. Ho s ivs: "To me Paderowski is as thor oughly sati:aclory an all around' player, so far as may bo judged from his New York programmes, as 1 nave ever ncard. As stated in the Courier letter he is an inspired plavei tanda more nearly m a plane with Liszt than anypianist since Tausijj, and cer tainly has a more sympathetic and oinotional touch than had Liszt. ' How Paderewski impresses people of less musical sensibilities may bo seen by tho following lively description from Arthur Biisbaue's New York lettertoTnE Dispatch:. A great loss to New York, fortunately temporary, is the departure of Paderewski, the Polish pianist, llo has left hcio in a b'.azo of glpry, with the two worlds that mu sicians care about the world of society and that of music anxiously waiting for his re turn. That pianist is certainly a mostic markable man. Women ravo about him, and, what is really strange, men take pains to sec him and like him in spito of his con quering hair and his profession. Ot his con certs, which have been more than success ful, he will give nnotner series on his return. In addition to all sorts of offers for concerts, endless dinners and lunches have been or ganized for him, from Washington square to Central Park. Just before he departed a congregation of his worshipers twice assembled for espe cially prolonged and devout enjoyment in Mr. Chase's studio. Last vear Carmcneita there displayed hersell; and it was curious 'to see, this year, that about the same set of people. sem"i-fahionable, semi-artistic, was aain in attendance, lint last year one found bright light, a comforting supper with much champagne, lively conversation and twice as many menus women, and this year one found a religious penumbra, a sabbati cal silence, a veiy rudimentary supper and three times as many women as men. This means that'last year the peoolc went for fun and that thU year they really went for the music or for the musician. The distinction is important. It Is very safe to say that this same audience would never have gathered, at $12 a ticket, to hear the same miisicperfoimedih exactly the same manner by a short, stout, elderly and bald musician. Especiallywouldltnot have gathered had the musician been bald, and probably not even bad it been Paderew skilnmself with"but brief and recumbent hair. Paderewski is a great man. He not only nudei stands music and tho rendering thereof, but himself and the possibilities thereof, and likewise the character of that thousand-headed goose called the public. A mediocre spirit would have hcen content with the lact that nature had made him unique among virtuosi when sho gave him hair of a pale yet lively orange hue. But PadereTiski wasnot content, and the widely flaring nimbus of leatheiy and flame-like locks with which ho snrroiinds his counten ance is the finest thing in the way of a make-up that New York lias seen in a genera tion. Of course only a musician could daie so splendidly. Imagination :ails to see a practical commercial path in which a man carrying such n halo would bo permitted to take the first humble step. But u musician may dare as no one else except a museum freak, and, like the freak, the more he dares th e greater his success. If h e wore his hair like a sane man, Paderewskl's great talent would still bo recognized by the real lovers of music; but it is not those who make a pianoforte player a popular success or'a soclal'lion. There were some real lovers of music at tho studio entertainments; but tliero were a great many young women who . only fancied they were, be cause of Paderewski's nimbus. It was runny to watch them as ho, played. To return to that admirable nimbus. We are already tiredof hcaringits wearer called the "human chrysanthemum," but has any one yet specified to which of the many va rieties of the plant he belongs? If not, be it promptlv affirmed, no is a Tsuki-no-kaa This is Japanese. It mean's moon's halo, and it designates, so says tho books, "a flower or an orange-red color." Paderewski isaTsukl-no-kasaof asub-varietysomewhat paler but no less brilliant than the "type." The Boston genius, by the way, who named thefino plajer Human Chrysanthemum, is equalled by tho New York woman who said he looks as Logo, in the Wagner Trilogy, ought to look. Thn interesting thing is that in spite of his nimbus Paderewski looks like a gentleman as well as a big man, and has eclipsed ail New Yoijc successes of recent years. Crotchets and Quavers. Waoitee's "Wilkuere" will bo produced at Turin during the presftnt season. Pn. PniLirp Spitta, the gieat Bach biographer aud professor at the Berlin Roval High School for Music, has been created a ,priy councilor by the German Emperor. A kew operatic work by Peter Eenoit. the director of tho Antwerp Conservatoire, entitled "Pacification." has Just been brought out with great success at the Flemish theater of that town. The directorship of tho Conservatorlum at Parma, held successively by Bottcsini and Franco Faccio, has now been definitely awarded to Giuseppo Gnllignani, choir master of tho cathedral in Milan. Mas. FAirirr Bloomfield-Zeislsr, one of America's best pianists, whom Pittsburg ought to have a chance to hear, will play at tho Brooklyn Philharmonic conceit next montn, under Arthur Nikisch's baton. The engagement of'Eugen D'Albert and Teresa Carreno to each other is almost as in teresting a bit of news as the lormer's en gagement to be here in May with the Boston Svmpliony Orchestra. iKiok out for the piauo prodigy of the future! At Calvary Episcopal Church this evening will be given another proof of. the religious liberality of tho rector. Rev. George Hodges, and of the musical cnterpi ise of the organist and choir master, Mr. tarl lietter, In the shiipo of a performance of Schubert's Mass in F, by" the efficient chorus and solo-quartet of that parish. Miss Makqaket A. CnoucH is suffering with an attack of tin oat tiouble and on the ad vice of her physician is compelled to cancel all conceit engagements for the present. Miss Crouch will, therefore, bo unable to ap pear at the Pennsylvania State Music Teachers' Association meeting on Wednes day evening. "Blind Tost," the weak-minded bnt won derfully gifted negro pianist, Is passing his closing days in an insane asylum. So reads a floating item. The superstitious ago that credited the tales of Paganini's league with the Evil One has passed away; but even in this skeptical day no one can call to mind "Blind Tom's" marvelous powers without conceding that in this instance, at all events, music was helped out by the "black art." Tun latest good story of Scottish prejudice against organs In churches comes to us through n correspondent north of the Bor den "A very decent old man was one of the opponents of instrumental music in the church he attended. One day lately some one asked him what he thought of tho or gan that had been introduced. 'Man,' was tho reply, 'I'm feared I'm gaun to like ltj " Exchange. The Church Choral Society, of New York, conducted by Kichard Henry Warern, gave the first service of its fourth season at St. Bartholomew's Church a week or so ago. The choral numbers were Schubert's "Song of Miriam," a jubilate by Max Bruch and Saint-Saens' "The Heavens Declare." For the second service, to be held in Febru ary, Dvorak's Bequiem Mass has been chosen. On those occasions the chorus of 100 voices has the aid of an orchestra and em inent soloists. Is Vienna they are again discussing tho cause of Mozart's death. It is now thought that his disease was influenza, or "grip," as we call it nowadays. Dr. Guldner, in his letter to tho Chevalier Nenkoman (who died as recently as 1S53), described the malady as "an inflammatory fever," and added: "A gieat number of tho inhabitants of Vienna were at this timo laboring under the same complaint, and the number ot cases which terminated fatally, like that of Mozart, was great." The Cincinnati Times-Star says: "Annie Louise Caiy, who used to tell us in golden tones, mellow and rich almost beyond com parison that she had 'lost her Etirydice' through stumbling into an inferno, is now a good angel in 'ncll's Kitchen,' one of the five charitable centeis established in the slums of lie w lork by tho Diet Ivitchen Associa tion." Tho difference is not so gieat as it would seem. Tho former contralto now im parts Glueck to her fellow mortals through their mouths instead of their eais. Is addition to tho elaborate mazurka by Mr. Trank Saddler, of this city, already spoken of in these columns, a galop of his writing was incorporated into the Christmas ballet at the Eoyal Theater of JInnicli. This is said to bo the first appearance of an American's name, as composer, upon tho bills of that famous opera house. Though a small opening, it3 marked success may lead to larger things. Mr. Saddler's spirited de fense "of Mascagni, printed in this depart ment of Tite DisrATCn, is fast going the rounds of the musical press. Paderewski will appear in Chicago at the Thomas orchestral concerts January land 2. Apropos, tho Boston Home Journal says: "Paderewski, the pianist, who Is now tho lion of this city, is quite a youthful looking man and speaks several languages, but not English. In speaking with a Boston lady tho other day he toid her that before he plavs he holds his hands in hot water, and does most of his practicing between Hand 3 in the morning, not arising till noon." Such uncannv nocturnal practicing seems calculated to keep more1 than Paderewski's hands in hot water, unless ho can find a neighborhood of Jobs' to live in. Tms bit of news, from tho Chicago Indi cator, shows the wisdom of placing the World's Fair music in competent hands and raises hopes that America's progress in this ait will bo worthily set forth: "Theodore Thomas, musical director of the Exnosition. and George H. Wilson, tho Secrptary of the Bureau of Music,' have decided, with the concurrence ot the Committee on Ceremo nies, that nothing but original mnic shall he used when tire World's Fair huildingsaro dedicated October 12, 1S92 Mr. Thomas has for several months been planning a grand musical programme for that occasion, and in completing it will call to his assistanco tho most eminent American composers. Mr. Thomas piesented his plan to the sub-Committee on Ceremonies vesterday and it was, generally npproved. The music for tho commemorative odo has been nrranged for: but who n ill wnto the instrumental music for the opening, such as the marches, etc., has not been determined." Okce more it is declared, and this timo with better semblance of authority, that Anton Rubinstein has consented to make another concert tour in America. He has accepted, they say, an offer from Managers Abbey & Grau of J123.0C0 fnr 50 concerts, be ginning in Novemoor, 1S93. Of course, if ho does come, the magic name of Rubinstein will create a popular furore; though it cannot but make the judicious grievo to see the once gieatest pianist of the world exhibited through tho country after advancing age and years of quasi re tirement have much impaired his powers. It there be truth in themost reliable reports that have reached us of his occasional ap pearances in recent years, we Ameiioans will cheriohfRubinstein's memory more if he does not play for us again. His "own utter ances show him to bo aware of this himself, and mako it proper to require the strongest confirmation beiore giving credence to the reports Just cabled. Or prime interest and importance are tho Allegheny Musical Association's two con certs, January 6 and 6, at Cyolorama Hall (seated for 2,500 peisons) at which Mr. Walter Damrosch and his New York Symphony Orchestra will make their first appearance here. There is every prospect ofasuccess commensurate with "the onter piisc of the Allegheny oiganization and its financial backers. And the conceits will merit all the success they may attain, though the merit could bo made still stronor by soma changes in the orchestral pio grammes, as first published in this department last week. The selections are mostly such as Mr. Damrosch would naturally make for one of his "Young Peo ple's Popular Concerts." When a complete orchestra comes here at high prices and with a looal guarantee fund behind it, it should add something to our artistic experi ence. With the possible exception of the Tschaikowsky Theme and Variations" and a triflo for strings, there is not one piece on either programme that is a novelty, even to benighted Pittsburg. An absolute novelty might be dispensed with: two or three hear ings should be had of any first-class wo: k. But the "Tannhaeuser" overture and Liszt's "Les Preludes-' have been dinged in Pitts burg's ears by orchestras and brass bands time and time again. Is it too late to change them? - ENGLISH- CHRISTMAS. Observing the Day of the ffativity in the Tight Little Island. THE YULE-LOG AND THE TREE. Charms of the Home Circle Entertslnmenta OTer in Ireland. THE CUSTOMS IN BOMIE SCOTLAND tCORRESrOSDENCE OF THE DISPATCH.l London-, Dec 18. Ireland in the Christ mas holiday time is scenically perhaps in its least pleasing aspect. But nature's hand is a loving one, even in the Irish winter, and the blessed hold that Christmas time has taken upon the universal Christian world heart, blended with that marvelous com pensative power of utilizing the most trifling possibilities for human joy which the Irish nature possesses, permits and pro vides a quality of Christmas time cheer which is otten surprising to those whose lives arc measurably filled with bounteous ness and content. Of the Irish Christmastide itself there is little in the life and customs of the great and powerful, better than an echo of En glish Christmas cheer. At the country manor houses and castles there are the same feasting and alms giving as in England. In the cities throngs surge and crowd with ela tion and despair in their faces as with us. But nowhere else on the earth does Christ mas timo bring such shuddering, pallid, piteous poverty to stand, stare and hunger for the glories of home windows open, or the wonders of shop windows ablaze with what these desperately forsaken humans have never owned or known. Not Observed in the Sacred Sense. "While there is nndonbtedly an almost universal reverence for the more sacred side of the Christmastide and I truly know that at least the Irish peasantry have an innate Teverence for all that is sacred and good Christmas is not generally observed in its high and holy sense in Ireland. It is a time for much that is tender and worthy, but also one for deplorable excess. In decor ation the ivy and holly are everywhere seen and procurable, and a tiny sprig of mistle toe conspicuously appears in all the homes of the more lavored classes, xiicn or poor, Catholic or Protestant, every family will possess a "Christmas block" of ash, which is the favorite, or of "bog deal," found in the Irish neat banks or bogs. This is to Ire land as the yule log to England, cud itburns brightly for the home coming of every heart the home may own. Passing Christmas at home is a sentiment and determination more impressive and un varying, save with the Irish nobility, than in any other land I know. And on Christ mas eve itself there cannot be found among the lonly classes a human soul not a lost one, that is not there or sometime there within the glow and warmth. With the humbler villagers everywhere, and always with the peasantry ot the south and west, the "Christmas mold," or huge, long can dle, weighing from one to two pounds, if its price needs be begged or stolen, is an in valuable requisite tor Christmas eve. It will simply irrevocably be had. Hospitality That Is Unbounded, The bog deal block is fired; the doors are flung wroe open for friend, mendicant or enemy to enter with cead mille failte (a thousand times welcome); the mammoth candle is lighted to burn out, but never be extinguished; and while there is constant going and coming, it is softly done, as if the Sativity were still a universal presence. There is always a circle of eager faces about the fireplace, where strange, weird, ever old and ever new tales, abounding in re ligious sentiment, are told, while the half lights dance lairyiiKe among ine Diacseueu, oentury-old thatch rafters above. To mid night mass nearly all reDair; then the "tea breakfast" is hid; those who have saved enough brew great bowls of punch; those who have not get along quite as well upon the stirring poteen, and as the day comes in Irish roystering with all its liberality be But Christmas time in Ireland is one of unspeakable loss to the bird family of tiny wrens. This tragedy of the wren should have a luminous place in literature. Half a million of Irish children with kippens and clubs are beating about the hedges for vic tims. Sacredly protected during every other day of the year, the wren is now sought with ferocious yelling of Come huntin' the wren, says Robin to Bob bin; Come huntin' the wren, says Richard to Robin; Come huntin' tho wren, says Jack Tilaone; Come huntin' the wren, says every one! The Custom of Hunting; the "Wren. The wren is hunted, for, according to the superstition, it must be found; its mangled little body-is beribboned and dangled in a rush-cageor hung Irom a holly branch; and with this strange hint to alms-giving sway ing aloft, hordes of youngsters shrieking We hunted the wren through frost and snow; Wo hunted the wren seven miles or more: Wo knocked him down and he could not And we brought him home In a holly treel crowd the streets in Irish Christmas days knock at homes and are given coin; and when the night comes hold such wakes over the dead wrens as only a master could paint or describe. The origin of this strange custom cannot be fonnd. It is lost even in the rare and fecund birth spot for so much that gives Ireland surpassing interest that wild, weird, whimsical, loveable phantasy called "Irish tradition," The genuine Christmas-tide which the people of England and America know, and which has ever been such a season of joy in all Catholic countries has scarcely been know in Scotland since the domination of the Presbyterian Church in 4the land o' cakes. The clergy have ever been inde fatigable in their efforts to stamp out any manner of celebration of the Nativity; and there was a time, happily long past, when ministers visited every house in their parishes to detect if possible any "super stitious" Christmas observance on the part of the people. Scarcely Observed at All in Scotland. Even to this day any sacred and rever ential observance of Christmas in Scotland is made by Episcopalian families and among the highlanders and islanders, who still re tain strong affinities w ith that ancient re ligion for whose re-establishment so manyof their ancestors lost their lives. In cities like Edinburgh. Glasgow, Perth and Aber deen, the day is observed by the whole people as a mere holiday; an occasion for license and enjoyment of the more boister ous kind; although of late years there i3 a marked tendency to eventually adopt some of tho immemorial customs ot the English Christmas. ' The Scotch as a people therefore gener ally observe the last day of the old and the first day of the new year with much festiv ity. Having no religious significance, this festivity until late years reached pretty closely to frantic merriment and license; and while the poetical literature of Scotland is as bare of Christmas references as that of England is rich and Bweet, it is full of quaint old rhymes upon New Year's time, customs and cheer. In many portions of Scotland, in defer ence to the march of modern ideas, and par ticlarlv significant of the gradual encroach- ,ment of English thought and leeling, these JNew Year s timeiestiviues nave Deeii trans ferred to Christmas time, but thev are the old Kew Year Scotch customs still, and all the real sentiment of the time appears to be that eroiving out of ancient Yule, or Iol 'which was the great annual gorging feast of the Scandinavians. TlioChlldrcn on Hogmanay Say. But Hogmanay is the great cbildrens and vnntbV dav of the holiday tieriod. In -many localities it is now the day before Christmas; Nobody has ever discovered what the word really means, but Hogmanay Day, whether the day before Christmas or New Ycar'E, is in Scotland that one day of the year in which all children, in fantastic dress, are permitted to sing, dance and beg from door to door, in the most boisterous manner imaginable, and no one'is so dar ing as to refuse them cakes, "sweets" or coin. . Perhaps this custom is observed with greatest vigor in the Hebrides, the High lands and in the Shetland Islands. In the latter, at Lerwick, the children and youths prepare for the day for weeks in advance. The most fantastic and outrageons costumes are invented. The elder ones taking part in the bacchanal are called "Guizers" and the lads and lasses "Peerie Guizers" or little disguised ones. They learn some fine carols, but most of their songs are of the veriest local doggerel. Attired in their weird cos tumes they proceed from house to house, snouting as they enter, Hormanay, Trollolay, Givo us your white bread. And none of your"grayI In Lerwick thev are accompanied by mu sical instruments, and agreeable music is often furnished. They are invariably offered refreshments; dancing and other amusements are indulged in, for there are always crowds awaiting them at each house; they are often given money at their depart ure. This is kept up through the entire night, varied bythe explosion of fire crack ers and rockets, and the dragging through the narrow old streets of the quaint Dutch built town of numberless blazing tar-barrels. In 3Irry Old England. Probably nowhere in all the world Is Christmas time more thoroughly observed and enjoyed tlian in England. In whatever else the English people are changing, of the peerlessness of this time and hour there can be no doubt. True, England can no longer boast of her roval Christmas masques cost ing often 250000 of our money; and the court Lord of Misrule is a personage of the past. But royal and noble gluttony, guz ling and licentiousness have given place to Christian tenderness and almost regal opu lence in help to humankind. "Whatever may be the shortcomings in general of the English nobility they should be credited with splendid munificence at this time of the year. The whole area of their dependencies is blessed and brightened during the .Christmas holiday season. It began away Dack in Elizabeth's reign. In 1289 there was 6Uch a crush at the royal masque that an order was issued to the gen tlemen of Suffolk and Norfolk, directing them to leave London before Christmas and give their attention to keeping Christmas in their respective residence. It is an inviolable social rule ot the nobility to this day. "Wherever English gentlemen's or noblemen's families may be during all the rest of the year, they are at their country seats and castles at Christmas. The manor house Eends its folks and servants to that one; or the gentlemen from a dozen congre gate at another. "With the gentlemen. shooting, coursing or athletic games, and with the ladies gracious calls upon tenants or each other, with mostbrilliant intercourse and always a devout attendance at the little parish churches, rule the sweet and genial day. Goln to Church In Stats. Great state marks this going and coming over the crisp country roads. At the cas tles it is the same, save that the retinues are greater, the feasts more tremendous, and more respect is paid to proprieties and form. But it may truly be said that there is not a dependent, a tenant or tradesman, and not a human being suiienng from sick ness or poverty discoverable" in the neigh borhood of these people of quality, who is not generously remembered, practically aided and tenderly succored by this class at Christmas time. Politically we may abuse its members at will; but this custom makes a better Christmas for them and the world than any olden Yuletide ol wassail and de bauchery that ever was known. Many of the old English Christmas cus toms are truly disappearing, and good rid dance to them. But there is not one sweet and good old fhing or custom whiclr has not been retained. Boast beef, plum pudding, Christmas pics and buns, snapdragons with the mistletoo and hollv, are all cherished with olden zest and zeal. Even the boar's head, decorated withrosemary or prickly holly is still brought in at thousands of English Christmas boards. The mummers, are nearly gone, and only linger, a feeble reminder of their former paganisms, in re mote districts of Devonshire and Cornwall. The Christmas Tree of Germany. The Yule-log maybe to-day found in more English'homes than in the Tudor Christinas times, and no home is so poor in England that the glowing Christmarce we have all borrowed from Germany i?iy not be found within it. The Christmas bells of England chime truer and sweeter than ever. I have sometimes wondered if one could find a spot on English soil where their tuneful voices could not be heard. Much has been writ ten of English carols in the vein of their having disappeared. So they have, those of inexpressible grossness and ribaldry that were common from the fourteenth century to the eighteenth. But in their place, from Penrith in old Cumberlaud to Penzance in Cornwall, there may now be heard through out all England, from Christmas eve to Christmas morn, such sweet and tender words as these of "In the East" a Gray Light," "Hark, the Herald," "Hark, What News," "Hail, Smiling Morn 1" attuned to noble song. The Christmas of England, and for that matter of all Britain, and our own Christ mas are blended into one. Protestant and Catholic, puritan and prude, are getting upon common ground in adapting and pre serving all that is best in Christmas in all lands. Church and home sanctuaries glow with radiance less and less dimmed by rank ling wars of creeds; while Christian hu manity gathers closer with its Btrong and tender clasp the poor and the desolate at every recurring and blessed festival of the birth of our Lord. Edgar L. "Wakeh aw. HUHTING WITH EAGLES. The Strage Use to Which an Indian Boy Pats His Feathered Pet. Boston Dally Globe. An Indian boy belonging to the Sioux tribe at Pine Kidge Agency, has a pair of pets which are not only strange and interest ing, but are useful as well. These are two large bald eagles. The young Indians here are fond of hunting, but are not allowed to own or carry guns, and the result is they are compelled to use the bow and arrow, which tbey use with great expertness. The boy shot an old eagle and wounded it. It flew to its nest, and he followed until he saw where the home of the bird was. He then killed the wounded bird, and waited until its mate appeared, and also killed it. Climbing to the nest, he found two young ones, which he took home with him and be gan a course of training'which has resulted in his having the birds so fully under con trol that they come and go at his command. He takes them out. and when he sights any quarry he turns his eagles loose, afterfasten iug their beaks so that they cannot eat the animal, and the birds immediately give Bhase and bring down the prey. The eagles are now about a year and a half old, and are large and strong enough to bring down a fawn. The boy is the most successful hunter of the tribe, and never. goes out without bringing home some game, Irom a rabbit to a deer. The ofiicars at this place want the eagles and have offered the boy what probably appeared to him to be fabulous sums for them, but he steadily re fuses all oners. A Dark Secret. St. Joseph Dally News. 3 The man who pays the fnneral expenses of his poor relation may bear a spotless reputation and yet have grave charges made against him. And He Mnkes Music, Too. St. Joseph Daily News. Xbe man who runs partisan country paper and prints it on a band press may not be an Italian, but he owns a hand-organ all right enough, v MW ADVErTffinrjnni THT1 Is the lever that gives us such Increased business. We never allow a cus tomer to be dissatisfied with our garments or treatment. It is our purpose and aim to please everyone who trades with us. - And our Merchant Tailor Misfit Garments speak for themselves. YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO fUJaCHASl First-Class Clothing -JVT- MISFIT PARLORS FOR LESS MONEY Than the ready-made clothing dealers charge for their cheap made rtuft You are all invited to attend this GENUINE BARGAIN FEAST! YOUR CHOICE oat of 115 Merchant Tailor-made Overcoats for $8 75, originally made for from $18 to $30. YOUR CHOICE out of 89 Overcoats for $2, originally made for from $20 to $45. YOUR CHOICE out of 73 Overcoats for $5, originally made for from S45 to 70. The Suits that we are now selling for $9 50 were made to order for 20 to $30. ' The Suits that we are now selling for $12 were made to order for 30 to $40. The Suits that we are now selling for $16 were made to order for $40 to $50. The Suits that we are now selling for $22 50 were made to order for S50 to $7- The finest stock, of Pants In the city for $2 50, 3, 3 50, $4, $$ and. $ 6. OPPOSITE CITY HALL HOE-CAKE IN EUROPE. Uncle Sam's Efforts, to Teach, the Old World That Corn Is Good. AH EXTENSIVE AND NOVEL PLAN. Germany Has Already learned to Kate Bread of ileal and Kye. MORE MONET FOR AMERICAN FARMERS rWT.ITTZS FOE TH3 DISPATCTI.l Suggestions for sending shiploads of corn to feed the famine sufferers in Russia seem likely to be carried out. Word has been conveyed to the Government at "Washing ton from St. Petersburg that aid in such a form would be very gratefully received. Coincidently with the shipping of thegrain, an agent of the Department ot Agriculture will visit various parts of the Czar's do minions and set up kitchens for the purpose of showing the people how this sort of food ought to be prep ired for human consump tion. Thus utility will be combired with charity, and Uncle Sam will later on reap an advantaee by securing through the intro duction of this cereal a new market for his most important crop. For it must be re membered that maize as an article of diet is unknown in Northern Europe. "When ves sels laden with it were sent from this conn try to Ireland a few years ago to feed the famishing there the nutritious freight wa3 at first well-nigh rejected because it was considered only fit for horsefodder. During the last few months a special agent of the Department of Agriculture has been in Berlin, trying to teach the Ger mans to eat corn. Having set up small kitchens in different parts of the capital, he has distributed corn bread, corn flap jacks, corn dodgers, and other preparations of the grain, among the people, serving them hot and either free of charge or at a nominal price, lie lias succeeded in inter esting the Government in the subject to such an extent that corn, mixed with rye, has been recommended officially for the ra tions of the army. Owin-rtofhe fact that the Czar has prohibited the exportation of rye from Kussia, on account of the threat ened famine, Germany's main supply of that cereal has been cut on. -it is proposed, therefore, in place of rye bread, the soldiers shall be supplied with bread made half of rve and halt ot corn, xnus mere is reason to believe that this great European nation will have acquired a taste for the American vegetable beiore long, snd so become a reg ular purchaser of it from the United States. It is Already on the Jlnrket. Alreadv a merchant named "Wilzynski has opened a great store on one of the principal streets of "Berlin, for selling by wholesale and retail bread made of corn and rye. Inasmuch as his product is offered for 40 per cent less than rye bread can be bought for, it has .very prospect of obtain ing popularity. When ten loaves of the new food can be got for the price of six loaves of the old, the inducement from the point of view of the toiling masses is very great. It is anticipated that before long the bakers all over Germany will be baking bread of corn and rye. Anther firm in Ber lin is about to go into the manufacture and sale of cornnieal mush, put up in packages 1 pounds each, or to be sold in cardbord dishes. An international exhibition, to be opened at Leipsic, February 4, will be largely devoted to cooking "and domestic economy generally. An agent of the United States Department of Agriculture will probably be- sent ihere to make a show of corn and the methods of preparing it. As for the project of sending shiploads of corn to Russia, Secretary Busk is quoted willow SDED- V A Perfect Fit Guaranteed. de27 ,as sayins it is like throwing bread upon the waters with a string tied to it Bnt he adds that the time has come for American ex porters to actively take up the business of introducing the new cereal abroad, follow ing up the initiative of the Government. A Billion Dollars forOnr Farm-rs. Incidentally, the increased demand would be of great benefit to the farmers of this country. It is reckoned by Secretary Rusk that an advance of 5 cents a bushel for corn during the next decade would add 51,003, 000,000 to the value of this crop during that period. While American wheat meets with competition from Russia, India and the Argentine Republic, no country in the world can compete with our corn as to qual ity or price. The soil and climate of tho United States produce a superior growth of the grain, the cold winters hardening it and the warm summers bringing it to perfec tion. First rate railway facilities and a comparatively short ocean voyage afford to the domestic product a great advantage over corn from the Argentine and Indix Long trips over seas through the heat of the tropics cause tho grain to "'sweat" and deteriorate. An inferior grade of corn grown in Italy is consumed to a considerable extent in that country. From Southeastern Europe comes the corn of the Dannbe, a small variety, which is preferred for chicken feed to tho American, owing to the size of the grain. In Ireland corn in the form of mush, called "stirabout," has been slowly coming into favor, and is largely used when the potato crop tails. The tuber is preferred in times of plenty, although corn is cheaper and more nourishing. Ireland to-day takes more corn as human food than any other country in Europe. But recently a member of the Poorhouse Board at Glasgow pro posed to substitute maize for costlier food in that institution. The mere suggestion brought a storm abont his ears, because of his inhumanity in thrusting upon defence less paupers a food which was only fit for pigs. American canned goods of all other kinds are largely sold in Europe, but canned corn is almost never seen there. If a de mand for it could be created, it would mean hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly to the proprietors and workers of our can neries. . Agents of the Department of Agri Culture have been exhibiting the cereal in this form also. A Grocory Store Propaganda. In addition to showing corn and its differ ent uses at exhibitions and other public gatherings throughout Europe, it is sug gested that the adoption of a grocery store propaganda would aid materially in intro ducing the food. Under this plan a few feet ot space might be hired in one or more large grocery eestablishments in each city or town, where a small gas stove and an ex nert baker would prepare corn bread, cakes. eta, before the people, distributing litera ture and samples free to customers. A few weeks' effort of that kind would make tho district thoroughly acquainted with the food, every man woman and child beinj afforded an opportunity to test the product without troubleor exp'ense. To give away anything, especially food, is a rare proceed ing in Europe, and the unusual spectacle would doubtless be widely appreciated. Leading grocers in many big cities of Europe have already expressed approval or the idea, and there is apparently no obstacle to the immediate opening of a campaign on the lines indicated. In Great Britain, and on the Continent also, traveling cooking schools, maintained by philanthropic effort, go from town to town, instructing the people by means of lectures, literature and experimental cook ing jn the proper preparation of food. Arrangements are to be made for having at least one dish prepared from corn included in the exhibition of each such school, th teachers being given preliminary instruc tions in the methods of preparing the grain. Circulars, including recipes, with informa tion as to where the meal can be obtained, may be handed around at the meetings. There is room n Europe for the con- sumption of several hundred million r bushels annually of American corn, much of it as food for human beings who do not now get enough to eat. Rese Bache. i
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