The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-03-03
SUCCESSFUL SONG MAKING.
How Street Singer Has BIossomed
Into a Popular Composer.

wrote it; that Is, he wrote as much OF III
as he did of the others I have mentioned.
He is ballad singer with Thatcher,
Primrose and Vests Minstrels and his
income from royalties is between $500
and s400 week. No, he is not re-
markable musician. He understands
music and has nice voice. Hundreds
of better musicians fail as writers IF
songs. Howard is the son Of an Iowa
clergyman. Half dozen years ago Milt
Barlow, the minstrel, found the young
man travelling with liver pad peddler in
the west. Howard by his singing drew
the crowds and then gave way to his
partner who sold the pads. Barlow was
struck by the sweetness Of Howards
voice and hired him for twenty five dol
: lars week to sing in Barlow, Wilson,
Primrose & Vests Minstrel Company
His voice and his songs made him popu-
lar and he now receives 800 week sal
ary. The wayhis songsare composed would
astonish better musicians. Howard will
wiite the words of song and then with
three or four memke1s of the company
will proceed to hammer a suitable air
out of hotel pianos. They win work
hour after hour for days, correcting,
changing and culling out bar after bar
until they at last agree that an appropri-
ate air has been made. Then it is writ
ten out and tried in public. If atall sue
cessful Howard sends copy to his pub
Usher and it is put upon the market.
There is story n ong minstrels that
Howard paid another singer, Harry Tai
bot, twerty dollows for the words and
music of I'll Await My Love If so it
was a good piece of judgement on How
ards part, for he has made two or three
thousand dollars out of that song alone. !"
How Our Statesmen are Dressed.
Cleveland Leader.
Tom Reed dresses in dark tweed busi-
ness clothes.
Lyman, of Massachusetts, wears a
green scarf; Orlando B. Potter's gray
clothes would not sell for So to a second
hand clothes man, and the black ones of
Col Wolford, of Kentucky, are shiny
with age.
Charley o'Neal, of Philadelphia, is
natty in his dress, and his red neckties
are always new and his collars clean.
Both Carlisle and Randall wear little
inch-wide black neckties, and both are
generally dressed in black. Both stoop a
little, and neither is very careful as to
his appearance.
Judge Reagan OF Texas, wears black
diagonal Prince Albert coat and turn
over collar, and Perry Belmont's little
frame, every ounce of which can be fed
with its income of many thousands a
year, is clothed in closely buttoned black
broadcloth.
Gov. Long has good tailor, and his
wide blue seer-sucker trousers of last
year made him the envied of all the
Washington dudes; but bluff Oscar Tur-
ner, of Kentucky, often comes into the
house without vest, and buttons his
trousers with belt strap.
Dorsheimer clothes his six-foot form
and his 800 pounds in black diagonal.
Sam Cox always appears on the floor in
black, and Horr, of Michigan, has on a
suit of business cut and pepper and salt
material
Calamity Weller's clothes are as rough
and crazy as his brain, His Guiteau-like
face looks as though it needed razor,
and his hair always stands on end.
Phil Thompson, that little fellow with
the pleasant face and the mild air, dres
ses very neatly, and his clothes fit him
He has no look about him which will in
dicate his history as the killer of severa
men, and his manners are as gentle az
those of woman.
A The Black Scoolmaster Abroad.
A remarkable story about education il
the south, says an Atlanta letter to the
Chicago Inter- Ocean. was narrated t
me by a young fellow named Nicholson
who is only % years Of age. Said he:
Il have partner of just my age, VIII
helped me start a private grammar schoo
in the country near Edgefeld. S. G.
somewhat less than two years ago. W,
got each one Of twenty colored churche
in the county to pledge five cents a mem
ber once in three months toward the sup
port of a school. The deacons of eacl
church are financially responsible fo
this sum when the quarter rolls around
With this and some other help we hav
built a school house 40x7o feet in dimen
sfeas, with an addition 14x20 feet. a girls
domifoEg that accommodates sixty girls
and purchased tract of sixty acres o
land. We haSe~fye teachers and owe
400 pupils"
why are you here insteSc OF ,sRperin
tending the schools"
''Oh, my partner, Mathis, superintend
it this year, while study in the univel
sity. Last year he was here and l wa