Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-14
The C,ark.ville Reading Club.

the Reading Club at the Academy
on Tuesday evening, the I'd inst.
DR.. j.. F. Wright had promised
to tell the secret of Burns won
drous power over English speaking
people, and everybody loves to heal
the secret of a secret explained.
But for that night at least the DIR.
lSept his secret, for when this re-
porter left the "missing man" had
not put in an appearance.
In the absence of several ap-
pointed readers, music was made a
prominent feature of the evenings
entertainment. 1t was exception
ally good, both as to selection and
execution. We wish we had space
for special mention of the several
selections, but must be econIent with
presenting the programme in full.
Miss Nora Baker-Auld Lang
Syne and mocking bird variations.
Maid O. Dundee-Miss Fannie
! Fox.
Prof. Albitz-The Storm.
Mrs. Auchenleck-"W When the
Tide Comes In."
Miss Jennie Bailey prof. Emery
at the piano)-"When Those Low
ing lips"
Miss Catching Miss Tordt at the
piano)-"Judith.'
Miss Meta B. Vizer (Prof. Emery
at the piano)-"From the Alps the
Horn Resembling"
Mrs. J. S. Collins (Prof. Emery at
piano)-"O Fair Dove, O Sweet
Dove"
Mrs. Catching Miss Tordt at the
piano)-"Day is Done"
Instrumental Solo, Prof. Emery
La Gazelle.
Prof. Emery (by special request)
-"Medelsohn's Song Without
Words"
Prof. Albitz (by special request)-
"The Battle of Bull Run"
The music thus presented as a
whole, was interspersed with read
ing and discussions.
Prof. Collins told in a charming
way how nat made bachelor
benedict. 1t was rich experience
and lost nothing in the telling and to
those still the in slough of bachelor
dom we would say, buy a stove
pipe hat, go to the play, lose your
hat, stare stupidity about in SEEM
ing search until some fair girl in
pink ribbons finds it for you and
hands it over with smile that
makes you forswear celibacy for
ever.
"Idle and Dreaming" by Mr..
Clay Stacker was 2 sweet and peru
sive poem, full of those tender fam
cies which keep the heart warm
amid the turmoil of life, the sort of
poetry which brings the wanderer
on strange seas back TO his old
home assured of a warm welcome
from, at least. the guardian of his
gate, his faithful dog.
Miss Ella Ford charmed her adj
mirers with darius Green and his
Flying machine" Darius was an
aspiring yankee genius with bound
less belief in the possibilities of ma
chinery bestowing upon him the
power of flying. D@dalus and lea
us had tried it but they had wings
of wax and it was no wonder they
waxed soft. But he, Darius, was
cutter chap than these, and would
make him pair that would bare
him through the upper air. What
the Duke of Argyle had only only
dreamed on, he'd show it could be
done, and outfiy any Dutchman
under the sun. "The birds can fly
and why mayn't II" So he con-
structed a curious contrivance and
one day, a fourth o. July, when the
folks were ''not to hum," he pro-
ceeded to put it on, and then to fly,
but alas, Darius had no better ex-
perience than the woman that said
she believed she could fly, fly now,
and she essayed the task-with a
lofty tumble, but o, she explained
"I didn't get the right fiop." And
Darius, with mis- leathern wings
outspread, took his fiight-down,
down, until, with thump, he
lighted in the barn yard to the
great CONSERVATION of the calf, the
like of which he had never seen on
the earth below, nor in the heavens
above. "The moral of this Won
derful tale is PLAIN TO ALL"
The discussion on rack-rent
brought out some interesting facts
as to origin and history. 1t was
concluded with a quotation from
Burns "Two days" in which Caesar
the dog of high degree, depicts the
sad scene. "When our lord gets in
his rack-rents."
In conclusion, we were glad to
meet Mrs. Auchenleck, so fav'rably
known in this community, and, in
deed throughout the South, whose
fair daugters she has so long in
structed.
The singer and her subject bore
us back to the days of other years,
when other friends assembled at
the Academy, for many of whom
"The Tide has gone out"
Col. w. e. Cameron, the Ma
hone Governor of Virginia, entered
upon the duties of his Office on last
Monday.
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