The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-03
OF A PERSONAL NATURE.

The address delivered at Music Hall
last night by Mark Edgar, Mayor Con-
nelrs private secretary. was instructive
and exceedingly we'll delivered. Mr..
Edgar has the graces of natural ora
tor, a rare command of language and
the faculty of investing his subject
with an interest that commands the
attention of his audience. His subject
last night was Music" and the beauty
of the thought and language It con-
tained is shown by the following ex-
cerpt: "The spirit of harmony is and
always will remain one of the master
passions which lift men from the ordi-
nary moods Of life and influences them
to thoughts and deeds of the most SUBJ
lime conception and the loftiest hero
1sm. The influences which the spirit of
music exercises over the inclinations
and passions of men are as varied in
their results as the deeds themselves,
which the same spirit has melted. AS
the Grecian shepherd beguiled the
hours listening to the low strains Of his
Lutte and dreaming of perpetual youth
and love and idleness. 80, influenced by
the same spirit Of song and music,
rushed from their fastennesses in the
Black forest, shouting their thunder
GUS war songs which struck terror to
the hearts of the Roman legionaries
and inspired themselves to acts of the
greatest daring. This same muse of
song has been responsible for some 3f
the grandest achievements recorded in
history and for some Of the noblest ex-
pressions of sentiment and emotion. It
was under the spell of the national
airs Of France that the soldiers of
Bonaparte were stirred to attempt the
memorable passage of the Alps, and
no work, possibly, ever penned by the
hand of man has so often moved the
emotions as John Howard Payne's
Home, Sweet Home"
IT am looking for a man who Is worth
half a millio". dollars and doesn't know
IT," said d, Stive Michael Moran, of
Carbondale, as he halted Tribune re-
porter yesterday at the Dime bank.
"Who 1t is Is it? Oh, young fellow
who wanted to see the world and left
his home at Buchorest, Roumania, and
came to the land of the free and home
of the brave. His father was a Rou-
manian prince, and when his son left
home he served notice on him that he
was disowned. Princes are plentiful in
Roumania, but this one was remarka-
BILE In that he had money and many
broad acres of excellent land. Well,
anyhow, as my friend Bobby Gaylor
would say, the youth who was the
youngest Of family of three two boys
and a girl, came to this country and
has been known as Josef Justaine. His
education was limited and he soon sank
to the level Of a common day laborer.
He was employed on the construction
of the breaker at Richmondale and
afterward worked at Carbondale, Dur
yea and Ashland, Schuylkill county.
Astarted back to this region, but
to have disappeared as II the
ID swallowed him. Seven months
his brother was killed by a fall
his horse and his father died two
Is later, probably from grief Josef
aine is now Prince something
and the heir to at least half a
bn. He was traced to this country
then into the coal regions. Three
this ago an attache Of the Austrian
6hsulate In New York. who has the
search in charge. employed me to find
Joref, and since then have raked the