The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-04-03

the Spencer House where he was to stap. Rut Lafayette pa: !. aside, say ing; No, gentlemen, the soil of Amer lea is good enough for me to walk ons
 TaSSo was the pioneer of music in this section He not only taught Il at Cincinnati, but he composed many pieces that were famous in their day, such as The Arkansaw Traveller, & piece which Is more widely known, per. haps, than any other by him, but one 1 which he Is very anxious should not be he has been ill he received message from speculator in ArkanSaw, who wanted to know the exact place where Joe Anderson, the Arkansaw settler. l lived, that he might buy it
 The story-for there is quite as much in the dialogue as i'll the muslc--ls A true one, just as it happened to Tasse on one of his journeys through the then wild southwest, is that of a traveller, who found John Anderson in his cabin door i playing the first part of an air he had ] just picked up, and so absorbed that he refused hospitality from the rain, mak- i ing the most independent replies to the traveller requests, till the latter asked 1 for his fiddle and played the whole of i the air. whereupon John Andcr>on's dt- meanor changed to the most eiinsve i proficrs of hospitality to both man and horse To hear TasSo recite the story, accompanied hy his violin. to watch his kindling eye and listen te his infectious chuckle at the turning point, has de lighted tens of thousands and never fails to bring uproarious applause For ] d generation Ta>so has been one of the i pioneers of Cincinnati, and seldom missed attending their annual meeting ] in April, always with his violin amt always with "rhe ArkanSaw Traveller
 as goodby to his contribution to the very near now, but Tas>o has already attended for the last time
 Tasso has lived here ever since he came here from Louisville in lS21, though mostly his home has been across the river. and until very lately in n cottage near the beautiful lAtonia i Springs back ofC Covington As has been said 1asse was the pioneer of music in 1 the Ohio valley, and his name for fifty musical enterprise of note here ar in this section. though for twenty years the public has known hut little about hiul, because his age did not permit the for mcr activity He was the first of Amer ican yiolinists, and the greatest of them all Had lac cared To push himself for that end he would have hocomc as widely known as ole Bull, not alone in Ameri- ca, but in Europe a~ well He was u perfect master not only of the violin, but of every other instrument His musical compositions have been very many. but few comparatively hay" been ] published because he seemed to care sd li;tlc for the making of money, He has a great many stored away which his daughter hopes to publish in tim" as vindication of her fathers genIouS and fame For years he has not been able to see q notc- but he hnS pinycd ull the new airs of opera hy ear and kept fully apacc of modern progress and mo dcrn thought Although great grand father he k the most charming of com panions for young people whom he loves 1 dearly and k never so pleased as when he can be surrounded with a house full ! of young people, himself the m"rricst of the party The children l." knew wsll be the ~incorc-t mournors over TasS" $ grave.