davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06

STATUE OF INDIANA. Mass, and resi-
dent Of Cleveland, and though he was
educated in Paris and has already done
some remarkably fine work he is still
not quite so years old. The design
is grand from its very simplicity. A
heroic female figure holds aloft a torch
in one hand, in the other is a sword, and
on her head is the eagle. The general
pose suggests the highest ideal Of maj
esty and heroic action.
The history Of the Soldiers and Sailors
Memorial as it is called, is well known
on account Of the heated discussion ex-
cited by the inscriptions. The veterans
claimed that the original design was to
make it q memorial Of the heroes of the
war for the Union. When dates for the
Indian wars in the state and the Mexi-
can war were added, there was vigor-
GUS protest Nevertheless the design has
been beautifully carried out. On all i'm
mense base, embellished with historical
groups and artistic decorations, will rise,
when completed, shaft $50 feet high,
'1'f bqle G9stings e. S25Q Si5Q Q@saQe QqQ
tai at the terrace floor is So feet. Sixty
leet ABOVE IL IeCeueS 70 90 LeeG 1nCneS.
Here the pedestal is united with the
shaft, 25 feet in diameter. Ascending,
the shaft di1nillishes to 12 feet 6 inches
at the line beneath the capital, which is
90 feet 6 inches in diameter and is sup
ported by eagles feet high carved in
stone. A balustrade of stone projects
four feet above the platform or floor Of
the capital. This platform is reached by
an elevator and stairway from the inte-
rior of the shaft, and from it the sur
rounding landscapei is seen. On it stands
the turret, all iron frame Sfeet square and
10 feet high covered with copper. Upon
this bronze globe s feet in diameter
will be placed, and on this the statue
"Indiana,' 80 feet high, will stand.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06
THE PEOPLES SONGS,
WHO WRITES THEM AND HOW THEY
.. BECOME POPULAR,

Most Popular Ballads Have Very Brief
but Violent vogue-Patriotic and senti-
mental Airs Live Longer Than the Others.
Some Famous Song Writers.
The English-Irish author of the once
very famous song called "Lilibulero''
boasted that he had sung James II "out
OF his three Kingdoms and grave his
torians have conceded that there was
some foundation for the boast. And
this furnishes us with a most apt illus
tration of the immense power of a ring
ing popular song. ''Lilibulero" is a
wretchedly poor production. In truth,
'"Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" is wisdom com
pared with it. But there was something
in it which caught the popular ear, and
tens of thousands Of Englishmen grew
wild with enthusiasm as they marched
to the measure and sang or shouted the
refrain of ''Lilibulero! Lilibulero! Lii
bulerc! Bullen a la!"
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06
ETFIE 1SORAH CANNING,

appeal to the parties to unite. Then
came the ''Star Spangled Banner" and in
due time tbs poetry of the Mexican war
and the great civil war. And now we
have to consider two radically different
classes of popular poetry. First is the
class including Kaiser, Doan' You Want
to Buy a Dog?" "Sboo, Fly. Don't Bodder
Mew "Annie Rooney" 'McGinty,"
Maggie Murphy's Home," ''Dot Gre
clan Bend" Comrades" and thousand
more such. And it is a most interesting
fact that each of these is popular for
just about one year. First the song is
sung to crowded houses by some popular
comedian or soubrette till the untaught
public catches the air. Then it is .sall
the rage" It is sung and whistled and
hummed and "executed'' in all sorts of
ways for, say, six months. Then it is
taken up by the fashionables and played
in parlors or it is parodied for political
purposes, and thereafter it's decline is
rapid.
Thus rose, reigned and fell 80 Susan
nah,' "Lucy Long" Jim Crow" "Dan-
dy Jim of Caroline" and scores Of others.
"A PoPuAdA oo1Ato AAA CA4C CO!lCC1U AfI11S JuSU
now is ''My Sweetheart's the Man In the
Moon" The author is James Thornton,
who also wrote "I'm the Man That Wrote
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay'' and other tuneful
but idiotic airs just now popular. Of
course there is no moral or patriotic
sentiment in any of those, but there is
another class, combining all the fun and
fire and vivacity Of the soubrette's song
with some deep and abiding feeling, and
these songs live
Among these is ''Rock-a-by, Baby"
by Miss Efie Isorah Canning of Boston,
who composed it while swinging weary
child in hammock and wrought out
the music little by little while strum-
ming her baG3o. When she sang and
played it for her teacher on the banjo,
he was astonisLed and urged it's pub
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06

hcatlon. His advice was followed, and
| 100000 copies were sold in a short time.
| She is now studying music energetically
and hopes to do much better work Of
| far different order, and yet immensely
popular, is the song, Nearer, My God,
to Thee" by Albert J. Holden of Brook
lyn now, but a native of Boston. He COM
posed it especially for Emma A. Abbott
when she was soprano in the choir Of
DR.. Chapin's church, and it has gained
wonderful pre-eminence.
Another writer of popular songs is
Monroe H. Rosenfeld, and he has recent
ly given his experience in a letter from
which this is an extract:
Johnny, Get Your Gum is too absurd a
work to be regarded seriously, and think that
the song, with All Her Faults l Love Her
Still" should simply rank as an impulsve
freak wrote it merely to offer a gentle de-
Tense for woman-fair, frail, beautiful woman
not any one woman in particular, but the
dear sex in general, of whom have always
been quite fond. The song filed my expecta-
tons 1t made me more than ever u friend
with the fair ones and made some gold for my
publisher, and thus my object was attained
Undoubtedly Will S. Hayes Of Louis
vile has written more cf those higher
class popular songs than any other per-
son, among them "Evangeline, Dixie"
Wandering Refugee" 'sUnion For
ever" and many war songs, ssMollie
Darling" Driven From Home" s'Nora
O'Neill," "Write Me {, Letter From
Home" '"Take This Letter to My Moth
err and others too numerous to, mention.
He gives this account of himself and his
methods:
The in my name is for Shakespeare, but
never use tho full name. l was born in Louis
vile in July, 1887. Song and ballad writing
with me is a gift. write songs from heart to
the heart | believe the car to be the best crit
tcal Judge of good. homelilze, sweet songs and
music. Since my success song writing has been
and Is still pleasure, not matter of business
with me. have written and published more
successful songs than any man living and am
one of the few, If not the only man living, who
writes his own words and music. A man who
has no love for poetry has none for music, and
he must have q heart and soul for both if he ex-
poets to write sweet song that will be popu-
lar with the masses. Very few songs were ever
successful Where one person wrote the words
and another tho music. To be successful they
must be welded by sympathy in one common
song OF heartfelt sweetness and harmony, |
don't know how many songs lave written. |
never kept copies nor an account of them, but
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06
TREASURER MORGAN,

The treasurer is not only custodian of
all public moneys as such, whether pail
into the main box at Washington or the
nine subtreasuries but he is responsible
in somewhat complicated way for the
moneys placed in national banks as spe-
cial Unl1eti States repositories, and on
two or three occasions peculiarly deli
cats questiors have arisen as to his pow
ers and duties. He is also trustee for
bonds deposited to secure national bank
circulation and of Indian trust fund
bonds and is agent for paying the in
terest on the public debt, the salaries Of
members Of congress and for severa.
similar duties. Iii short, the office is ono
of far higher dignity and importance
than the salary of $4,000 would indicate
to the reader and has been filled by
many of the most eminent men in
American histor,-
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06

The Englis! have queer sort of COM
bination hearse and coach for mourners
that is very much used by the working
people in the large cities. It is called a
shel:bere, after the inventor, an English
undertaken, who patented it about 40
years ago, though the vehicle ON which
he obtained his letters was very different
from those now in use. The modern
vehicle is made to contain a full sized
coffin i'll the forward part and to carry
from 6 to 12 persons behind, though few
of the larger sizes are made, as the small
er ones are in greater demand. They are
fitted up like private carriages and lined
inside with morocco and are used with
either one or two horses. In the large
English manufacturing towns they are
used four or five times as often as hearses
The forward compartment of the orig
inal shelibere was made in a telescope
fashion, SO that after the coffin was re-
moved it could be shut up to one-fourth
of its full dimensions. This arrange
ment was soon abandoned, however, as
nothing desirable was gained by it, and
since then improvements i'll the shelibere
have kept pace with those on cofins,
headstones and other things funereal.
An attempt was made to introduce
similar funeral coach into the United
States some years ago, but it did not
seem to become popular, and few Of them
were ever manufactured. Those that
were made were only intended to obviate
the necessity for putting the cofins of
small children in the coach with the rela-
tives. A sort of shelibere is in use in
some of the large German cities, partic-
ularly in Leipsic, where they are often
seen.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06
aAhI. hI..,laApnnTAMT 0Er,cr

The United States Treasurer Gives Heavy
Bonds and Has Great Responsibilities.
Daniel Nash Morgan of Bridgeport,
Conn, has succeeded Enos FL. Nebeker
OF Covington, Ind, as treasurer Of the
United States, and his assistant is Con-
rad N. Jordan, who was once succeeded
as treasurer by the man whom Nebeker
succeeded. Verify, it is time of over
turning and returning, SO it is quite in
keeping that Conrad N. Jordan, ap-
pointed United States treasurer on April
%, 1885, should eight years later be
made assistant treasurer.
The new treasurer, Mr. Morgan, is
about so years old and is one Of the lead
ing citizens Of his state. He has been
mayor of Bridgeport three terms, has
served in the legislature and for ten or q
dozen years past has been president of {.
national bank. Ills present place is one
for which great experience is a needed
qualification, for SO far as mere money
obligation goes it is really the most re-
sponsible Office of the government,
Even the assistant treasurer, who is
scarcely more than lieutenant to his
chief, has to give bond for 100000.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06

they exceed 800, and the sales both in this and
foreign countries have exceeded $500 600 copies.
"Mollie Darling sold over 100000 copies
alone.
Septimus Winner, another very popu-
lar song writer, was born in Philadelphia
in 1927 and began his musical career IS
teacher Of instrumental music and in
preparing the well known instruction
books. He gives the following interest
ing account Of his most popular song:
About this time there was II street character
in Philadelphia known us Wlistling Dick, an
accomplishment in which he excclled, really
making some beautiful music, to which he
strummcd Indifferent accompaniment on
the guitar. One of his kpecialties was the i'm
itation OF ~ mocking Bird which suggested to
me the composition of ballad of that charac-
ter, and Listen to the Mocking Bird" was the
result. 1t was written to suit the small COM
pass Of Dicks whistle, to whom taught it, and
this whistling genius did much to start the song
on its successful career. The song won its
greatest popularity in the southern states,
where it was taken up by the colored people
and sung far and wide. There are numerous
young ladies in the United States today bear
ing tho name of "Hallie,' which was first used
In this ballad. AS the song was first published
in the year 1866, it will be seen that it is
nearly 40 years old.
He also wrote ''What Is Home With
out Mother?" GLOW Sweet Are the
Roses "Ill Sail the Seas Over" ''Ten
Little Injuns" and many others, and yet
for all his songs he has received less than
$4,000. Of the song writers very few
possess any knowledge Of musical nota-
ton; hence the writer often gets very
poor pay, but Will S. Hayes has never
got less than $100 for a song, and often
much more. Other song writers are
Harrison Millard, author of "Under the
Daisies,' and Thomas P. Westendorf,
author of "I'll Take You Home Again,
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06

Church and State streets, or hold up the
front walls of Treager's or Huebleins',
every blessed one Of eln nursing a pipe,
the shorter and stumpier the more the
chappie thinks he's in it.
It's really comical to observe the deah
boys in couples, trios and squads, pipe in
mouth, trousers rolled up, with the most
killing Piccadilly swagger, march along
like children from a nursery school. The
pipes bite their tongues, give them bron-
chitis, disgust everybody else, but they
are in the swim, and that's enough for
chappie, deah boy.-Cor Washington
Star
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06

We let them be just for Il little while;
We cannot bear to put them yet away
The vacant high CHARIOT a little child,
The torn hat, but worn the other day,
Or the low footstool where our dear one's feet
Had rested, or the fathers easy chair,
That never more will hold the manly form
We let them stand: the room would look too
bare.
We gaze out in the waning, fading light;
The books and music mock us in the room;
Our hearts are with that new made grave in
the night,
All dark ,lnd shadow haunted in the gloom.
God pity those who wait in vain to hear
The sound of feet th;Lt nc'cr will tread again,
Or long to kiss white faces hid away
In their deep beds beneath the snow and rain.
The wind from out the harp of nature chants
a dirgc above them as it passes by;
The dead leaves, tears Of autumn, sadly fall
Upon our sleeping ones us still they lie.
Oh, ye who never DER dead loved ones wept,
Who ncer kissed cold hands and faces white
And held out empty arms and hearts to God,
Can never know the pain we feel tonight
San Francisco Examiner
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06

CHARLES 9. BoNNEY. given the world
fair warming that she expects before
many years to have the same cinch on
intellect and it's products that she now
has on pork
Few people have suspected it, but this
was the real object Of the strenuous ef-
forts to secure the Worlds fair, and this
has been the main idea underlying all
the herculenn efforts to get things in
shape at the White City. The incidental
wealth that may accrue will count as
nothing when weighed in the balance
with brains and will probably all be
spent for educational purposes. Why
else was the Worlds Congress auxiliary
to the exposition formed? Read here of
its aim and object in few words from
one OF its prospectuses: ,.--..
''To bring all the departments of hu-
man progress into harmonious relations
with each other in the exposition Of 1898:
to crown the whole glorious work by the
formation and adoption of better and
more comprehensive plans than have
hitherto been made to promote the prog
ress, prosperity, unity, peace and happi-
ness of the world, and to secure the ef-
fectual prosecution Of such plans by the
organization of series Of worldwide
fraternit1es through whose efforts and
influence the moral and intellectual
forces of mankind may be made donai-
nant throughout the world"
1t seems like the irony Of fate that a
New Yorker should be doing all this for
Chicago, but Mr.. Charles G. Bonney.
who originated and is in charge Of the
auxiliary and has formulated all it's
plans, halls from the metropolis and
does not work any the less on that ac-
count. He is a broad minded lawyer
and came very near being United States
supreme court judge in 1877, and he
probably cannot afford to narrow his
views by any question Of vicinage. At
any rate he has not, as the programme
he has arranged will show The con-
crosses are divided by months about as
follows:
May-Wo oman's Progress, Public Press,
Medicine and Surgery. June-Tenper-
ance, Moral and Social Reform, Com
merce and Finance July-Music, Lit
erature, Education. August Engineer
ing, Art Architecture, etc. ; Government,
Law Reform, Political Science. etc:
General Department, Science and Phi
losophy. September-Labor, Religion,
Missions, Church Societies, Sunday Rest.
October--Public Health, Agriculture.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06
Matching Fish Under Hens.

Chinese fishermen collect with care
from the margin and surface of water
all those gelatinous masses which con-
tain the spawn of fish, and after they
have found a sufficient quantity they
fill with it the shell Of fresh hens egg
which they have previously emptied
stop up the hole and put it under u sill,
ting fowl. At the expiration Of GER
tain number of days they break the shell
In water warmed by the sun. The
young fry are presently matched, and are
kept in pure, fresh water till they are
large enough to be throy4l iR to the pond.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06
TO RIDE WITH THE DEAD.
N English Funeral Carriage With IL III earse

An English Funeral Carriage With II ii earse
A Attachment.
"The old, old fashion, DEATH" as Dick
ems called it, is as prolific a cause of new
fashions as the whims and needs Of q
popular princess. Not only do 1.-THE trap
pings and the suits of woe" change their
shape, ornamentation and material, and
everything except their somber color,
but the coffins for tho dead have as fre-
quent and as radical changes Of style as
the garments of the living, and the very
hearse in which a fathers corpse is borne
to its last resting place will be too anti
ouated for use at the funeral of his son.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06
The Pipe Craze In the East.

Upper Broadway and Fifth avenue in
New York swarm with men whose at
tire indicates that they are in Ollie
Teale's "A 4.000.' These perambulating
fashion plates bite the amber tip of a
truly English short briarwood pipe with
tenacity worthy of the prince himself
It's English to smoke Il pipe in public
places and also on the street, and that
settles it. But it is in New Haven and
Cam bridge that the fever has broken out
like smallpox pustules Thin. concave
chestcd student chaupies st1l1pule a1nn"
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06
Nothing For Lanrtry.

NEW YORK, April pa morning
paper says it is now absolutely certain
that the late Mr.. George Alexander
Baird, known to the sporting world us
Squire" Abingdon, did not bequeath
any money to Mrs. Langtry.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06
4 !teIllorse.

upon my couch one summer morn lay
Lazily reading, and with Hamlet might
Have cried, Words, worts" and flung the
book away
But my boy came and to my face pressed tight
His own sweet cheek, pretending with delight
He would read too. And |, too cross for play
Pushed him aside-said he was in my way
And dared, alas! to send him from my sight
Poor child! y fate cannot understand
HAS snatched thee from me. | since un-
manned
When memory recalls the scene and place,
Thy tear and thy Erieved look. All! would
give
My books, my knowledge -all---couldst thou
but live,
And could feel thy sweet breath on my face.
Il. w LatiIner.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06

''There are three powers-,heaven,
earth and man. There are three lights
the sun, moon and stars. There arc
three bonds-between prince and minis
ter, justice; between father and son,
affection; between man and wife, con-
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06

y
!, fin es t martial
memorials in the
( world. It stands
/ in Circle park,
In diana poll s,
! near the new and
beautiful state
house, and on its
summit, 800 feet
in the air, will be
poised the mag
niicent bronze
Indiana" re
Gently cast at
Chicago and pro-
nounced by ar
tistic experts a
creation without
equal in its line
in America. ~
The artist of
this fair creation
is George T.
Brewster, a ma
two of Kingston,
h1nrc prI ,,,,
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06

edly be hers and
is not attempting
to make them Sc
cretly. Her citi-
zens give LIBERAL
ly Of their wealth
to endow educa-
tt nal institu-
tions and pur-
chase for them
equipments that
8 h all ur pass
those Of similar
institutions any
where, and the
Windy Citv NAV
be said to have
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06

Inefe Is NO Death.
There is no death! The stars go down
To rise upon some earthly shore,
And bright in heavens ieweled crown
They shine forcvermore.
There is no dcath The dust we tread
Shall change beneath the ST MINER shove
10 golden grain, or mellow fruit,
Or rainbow tinted flowers.
The granite rocks disorganize
To feed the hungry moss they bear;
The forest leaves drink daily life
From out the vewless air.
There is no death! The leaves may fall
The flowers may fade and pass away
They only wait, through wintry hours,
The coming of the May.
There is no death! An angel form
Walks DER the earth with silent tread;
He bears our best loved things away.
And then we call them dead"
He leaves our hearts all dcsolatc-
he plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers;
Transplanted into bliss they now
Adorn immortal bowers.
The birdlikc voice whose joyous tones
Made glad this scene of sin and strife
Sings now in everlasting song
Amid the tree of life
And where he sees smile too bright
Or hearts too pure for taint and vice
Ho bears it to that world of light
TO dwell in paradise. a
Born into thut undying life,
They leave us but to come again;
With Joy we welcome them-the same,
Except in sin and pain.
And ever near us, though unseen,
The dear immortal spirits tread,
For all the boun,lless universe
Is life--thcre is no dead.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-05-06
In Town.

They had no parting in the wood"
No meetings in the hawthorn lanes"
'Fesde the sea" they never stood
Nor watched the sunset after rain"
Their pathway was the busy street;
Their trysting place the office stair;
Yet well know joy more complete
Did never visit mortal pair.
And why should rustic love alone
BE decked with all poetic art?
These dull gray city walks have known
The beating Of IL nations heart.
The weary workers come and go;
The secret of each soul is dumb:
Yet still at times Il radiant glow .u"..o
Across their wayworn lives may come.
And these, my happy lovers, knew w.
Hard toll, small wage, and scanty faro;
The skies they SAW were never blue,
But love made glatlness everywhere.
His step upon the Office flour
Was sweet to her RS thrush's song;
Her face that passed the open door
For him made sunshine oil day long.
London Figaro.