Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-01-09
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informed person will undertake to dis
prove, that this city of New Orleans is
the musical city of America. Ifindno
one here not familiar with all the
French operas. Notably is this musl-
cal knowledge and culture feature
among the creoles. The cheap and
tawdry dramas OF the Jack Shepard
order, like 1.-The Lights OF London, ;"
.'Rominie Rye and so on, have only
the creole's contempt ; he never thinks
Of going to see such things but he is
wild over the opera. He is born
muslcian, and musician by culture as
by nature. This city that gave us
Gottschalk will yet give US composer
who may stop the importation Of
doubtful French composition of melo-
dy. And yet, with all their taste and
culture in this most oivilizlng and cul.
,ure IN this most civilizing and refining
of arts. they take off their hats before
this band of sixty Mexicans. and con-
cede them the palm and post of honor
here to-day.
And now, without moving any per-
son, and only few of the states, let
me call attention to one or two con-
spicuous facts before proceeding to tell
you of the simple inaugural cerrmo-
Lies. In the first place, there are few,
pieces of artillery, or old swords, or
any similar signs of mans former folly
or brutality /; but there are acres and
acres of plows and reapipg ma
chimes.
If anybody cares in this connection
to reflect a second, he can see that it
was the Avery pillow of Louisville, and
the Mccormick reaper OF Chicago,
which beat the South in the late great
battles not the cannon at all. A
man with the improved pillow and the
reaper of the North could do twenty
mems labor In the field; the other
nineteen could go to the war. But the
Southerner's pillow or reaper was
slave, and when he went to war
nineteen to fight one reaper-his slave
or reaper stood still. Don't forget
this fact. you who love your land and
cherish the integrity and the position
of the Union. 1t was not Grant at
Vicksburg, nor Hancock at Gettysburg
it was the reaper and the rlow that
fought and won the battles, in the
end
The state whlch has the richest and
the prettlest things here Is Massachu-
. sets.
The state with the largest space and
and exhibit is Texas. But to my
mind-and / hasten to set it down
with smiling heart-the state that
has the best, the most useful and earn
est exhibits here is California. No;
she has no gold to speak of now to ex-
hlbit. Her gold is in her grain, her
grapes, her fruit, wood and sweet
nuts. Think of all the Italian chest.
nuts and all the almonds coming from
California. Well; they will and right
soon, too.
Maryland is here, nth Delaware in
he1 lap, holding can OF preserved
peaches and both are gorgeous and
beautiful In banner and yellow bunting.
In fact, this whole scene here is splen-
did with banner. The center of the
Government building has a field O..
about ten acres Overhead devoted e. i.
tirely to American flags. This n .ay
seem in bad taste, Bptnot so. T. iese
fervid blue skies and this warm mid
winter, with all the gardens. and all the
walls, even the bitches, dash ID with
all kinds Of gay color. red roses ;, white
roses, and now and then an e. srly mag
nola opening out like a whit flag in
the light gree n tree.top. why you see
man is only following Natul e. afar off
too, even with the gayest., colors hi
can mass together.
| am living in III, hon of Geo. w
Gable, the novelist, while he is deliver
ing course of readings in the Nortt
along with Mark Twair; and ever,
morning my table is made beautiful b,
my black servants with flowers of al
kinds and coloTs gathered from tx
open garden. The red roses do no
: fear to be too red or too abundan
under these blue skies down by tn,
month of the great river; and til,
white roses have the saI ne sweet conf
dence in the fitness of things as Coz
"a al ,opeS {hem c,r Ut tb;s rnornen,
stand out on my pord /, and pull from
: among the friendly green orang'
boughs bushel Of G olden oranges o
the sweetest kind, AM the orange bios
SONS are bursting an d breathing tbei
fragrance all over m y porch from thes'
same boughs that a e borne down will
; the golden apples Hesperides. Ant
SO with al this cox II to begin with, yol
may easily see that when this city be
came one sea Of s'tar-spangled banner
! on the opening morning, we had {
gay scene indeed. A ong with man.
governors OF Southern states and some
eminent men of the North, among
whom l may mention DR.. Talmage
we were taken up the river, on grea
steamer, to the Fan grounds. TIL,
Mexican band played grandly anc
gayly as we steamed up the great river
between line of many thousand sea
. craft of all kinds, and all as richly dec
GRATED with flags as possible. Some
ships Of war from other countries free