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The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26

first on one foot, then on the other,
while he delicately Inc his Tyre, 81 to
speak, and waits for the piano man to
get up steam, and then gracefully
sways back and forth as he tortures his
unfortunate instrument into emitting
shrieks Of agony. but his opportunities
are limited, and unless he breaks a
string. thus gaining a chance to show
what a variety of sQueaks he can COM
pei the others to utter, he is at a dis
count. Even the cornet man is better
off than he, for the professional whose
interest and pleasure it Is to stuff wind
into an e flat cOrnet is able to distort
his face, roll up his forehead into laps
and assume an expression of intense
agony that never fails to excite the
sympathy of all behOlders. His rival
in this form of spectacular entertain
ment is the man with the big horn, who
makes faces, not from choice, but Of
necessity; for the labor Of filling so
enormous a receptacle with air and
keeping it full is so great as to draw
drops of perspiratiOn from even the
DalucSC anu uOSC pOfeleSS CIdLllulH. VI
all the list he poses least in a conscious
way, but most unconsciously. He has
not time to think Of posing, for If he
did his horn would get empty and sur
cease from it's labors. The man who
nightly thumps a drum on the street as
a means of grace, the blind man who
uses an accordion in his efforts to at
tract the attention Of the charitable and
induce them to pay him to stop, may
pose in a humble way. and frequently
do so, but the big horn blower has both
hands and his mouth full. and. though
in%nocently a spectacle, is, unconscious
ly, an object Of sympathetic regard,
He might pose if he could, but he can
not. He alone, Of the whole musical
fraternity, makes nc conscious effort tC
attract public attention. though he de
serves more than ever the drum major
for without Il big horn the largest or
chestra would be a thing unbalanced
and out of joint.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26

Doubling his big fist and shaking it in
the New Hampshire Senator's face, he
cried: II never owned a slave, but,
you - little s%coundrel, if you were
not such an insignificant little coward,
l would thrash you on this very spot!
| have a mind to pull you from your
chair and whip you as l would a dog"
You dare not hit me" Senator Chan
dler exclaimed, with a tremor in his
voice. Don't put a hand on me-" Be-
fore any of the Senators could interfere
Blackburn reached out and took Chan
dler by the ear. jerking him from the
chair as easily as though he had been a
1O-year-old boy. Using Chambers ear
as a sort of handle, he yanked the little
New Highlander about the room in the
toughest manner.
you dirty coward"' exclaimed tlIe
K%entuckian, as he finally released his
grip on Chambers ear, "if l had pulled
nv daughters ear in that way l would
expect her to resent it. | expected you
to fight, but you are a cowardly dog"
Senator Faulkner acted as peace
maker, and the combatants were kept
from further violence.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26

whether it's members are as old and
ugly as those of the grand opera chorus,
and what sort of person the prima don
na assoluta is, and what she has on,
and how it fits, and how many men are
in the male chorus, and how wide they
can open their mouths. Even a theater
crowd, in a place Of entertainment
where the music is merely subordinate
and incidental to the main attraction.
want to see the orchestra, gaze upon
the bald back of the leaders bald head,
watch the facial commissions of the
man whose business it is to pierce the
atmosphere with the upper notes of the
piccolo, and sympathiZe with the man
who extracts dying groans from the
double bass. So the posing business
seems to be quite satisfactory to both
artists and their audiences, and so long
as each party is content, it is not easy to
sec why any one else has a right to COM
plain.
OF musical folk, the most competent
| posers for effect are the artists of the
| lyric drama. Posing is their business,
and not infrequently they devote more
| attention to their attitudes than to their
music, as reckoning that any deficiency
in the latter will be condoned by the
audience on account of proficiency in
| the former. Whey have abundant facili-
ties for exercising all their gifts in this
| direction. and the only criticism that
can be justly made on their efforts is
that they fall into regulation attitudes,
which are in accordance with the tradi-
tons of the stage, and have been in use
so long that they have come to be con-
Sidered Indispensable to the proper rem,
dition of the part. Nobody, for in
stance, ver saw an actor play the
heavy villain without bending his legs
at a sharp angle and walking about or
the stage as though afflicted with
chronic anchylosis Of the knee joints
for crooked knee joints and heavy vii
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26

that every musician and singer feels in
regard to all other persons, nc matter
of what class, rank or condition-the
feeling that one divinely endowed with
the gift of music should take prece-
dence of all others of the human race.
Nor does this feeling demand, as a pre-
vious condition, much of an epdow-
ment, for it may sometimes be observ-
ed among musical folk that the less
they know about music the more con-
ceited they are apt to be about their at
tainment in this direction, as the lead
ing soprano in a volunteer church choir
often gives herself more airs than Patti,
and the old darby who fiddles for all
the dances in q country neighborhood
not ~infreQuently regards his W mu-
steal attainments as more profound
than those of Paganini.
Leaving the quantity and quality Of
musical knowledge and skill out of the
question for the time being, however,
the attitudes struck by musical people
Of different lines furnish a curious and
exceedingly interesting subject Of
study, as going to show that the must
cal art Of the present day is felt and ac-
knowledged to be as much a matter Of
pose as Of melody or harmony. That
this statement is true is readily sus-
ceptible Of proof. No artist would be
willing to play or sing behind a screen
for an audience in front. 1t is possible
that, persuading himself under such cir
cumstances by a sort of legal fiction, he
was quite alone. the pianist might pour
forth his soul through his finger tips,
and give much better renditions of the
- works he sought TO interpret than he
would when consciously playing fol
effect, but be would not be willing tC
would be willing to go through theil
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26
Thomas COrWin.

Thomas Corwin was born in 1854.
In his prime, life in this country had a
local. bucolic, and primitive flavor,
which in politics was grOtesquely ex-
aggeratel. Clay was commended to
the people by the fact that he was the
'mill-boy of the slashes;" in the cam
paign of 1910 the Wings showed their
love Of the people and their sympathy
with simplicity of life in public men
by putting up %log-cabins and serving
out hard cider from them; Corwin, hay
ing had to find employment in early life
by driving a wagon-lOad Of provisions
for the army in the war of 1912, was,
later on, favorably known in politics as
"the Wagon-boy." The Ohio commun-
ity Of COrwin's boyhOOd was a COM
munity Of pioneers-their dwellings, Of
logs. The presiding justice first select
ed for the southwestern circuit of Ohio
| was not a lawyer, but qualified himself
for admission to the bar by practice in
his judicial capacity. The salary at
tached to the Office was seven hundred
and fifty dollars: at the bar the highest
| professional income was one thousand
dollars. The cOmmO dress was of
homespun or buckskin; a professional
] man wore black and shaved himself.
Corwin throughout his life vas Tom
COrwin. In 1898 one James Shields, q
Jacksonian, was nominated for Con
gress against Corwin. In order to dam
age him irretrievably a certificate was
published to the effect that prominent
men of his own party had declared,
among other things. that it was his hab.
it, on going to bed, to exchange his cam
brio shirt for q night shirt, and Corwin
| afterWard confessed that it was this
charge that gave him his first hope OF
an election, as he felt confident thai
| J%acksOnian Democrats would never
unite in support Of a man who was toe
good to sleep in the same shirt he wore
during the day. He ono confided t.
some young man, who asked wha'
course he ought to pursue to achieve
success in public life, b as solemn a:
an ass" But he did not guide his life
by this axiom. His declaration in thu
Senate that were he a Mexican hi
would offer his own cOuntrymen a wei
come with bloody hands to hospitabl'
graves has become an oratorical com
monplace. His translation Of the i'm
preston produced by the nomination
Of Polk for the Presidency. after tina
who is Safe?" is one Of those joke
which are sure of Il long life. In fac
he is remembered rather as a wit tina
as q statesman.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26

gloves on entering. do a little stage
business with the piano. No matter
where it is placed. it is always a little
too far n way Or the other, and the
services of the W. uniformed Mate
beles appertaining to the establishment
must be brought into reQuisitiOn to
make it right. while the pianist cheer
fully tackles the boSSing of the job.
OF course, they always push it too far.
and then pull it back too far, so that 4
good deal of careful manipulation is re-
Quired to place it exactly right; but the
| pianist does not object to working over
| time. the audience is always patient.
for they know perfectly we'll what to
expect, and that it is quite impossible
for the artist to play until his instru-
ment has been successfully established
over a certain crack in the floor, and
the Matebeles have nothing to say
about it, so everybody is satisfied. Con-
linement to the piano stool after the
manual and pedal performance has ac-
tually begun does lot limit, though it
hampers, the posing of the performer.
Before actually beginning the program
he may run Owe the keys, and then
give the stool a hitch as the stage sailor
does his pantaloons; during thoughtful.
tender passages he may lift his eyes
heavenward, as though gazing into in
finite vacuity, so that the women in the
audience may see how intense is his
inspiration, and during the Scherzo he
may sway back and forth, throw his
coat tails about and kick under the
piano as though driving out an imaSin.
airy canine which had taken refuge
there, and all these gyrations will be
regarded as the outward and visible
signs of an inward and musical genius
They are looked for by the audience
who have made up their minds to en-
dure them as placidly as possible
knowing that they are absolutely essen
tial to the proper rendition of a piano
composition, whether Nocturne by TIL
dreamy Chopin. Moonlight Sonata b.
the rugged Beethoven. or Rhapsodl'
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26
FIGHTING JOE" BLACKBURN.
The Kentucky Senator Has n RecOrt
in Fistic Encocnters.

The Kentucky Senator Has n RecOrc
in Fistic Enco-nters.
The recent controversy between Sen
ators Blackburn. of Kentucky, dubbed
Fighting joe" and Logan Carlisle. son
of the Senator's hated rival. Secretary
Carlisle, led to rumors of a duel. Black
burn has long professed the duello, but
has never gone much further tina a
challenge toward the field of honor.
His ~''tistic' record, however, is a bad
one.
Blackburn is nearly three score years
of age, six feet tall, straight as a poplar.
and broad-shouldered. He goes about
on his feet as light as a dancing master,
| and gives n an impression of physical
alertness. of supple joint and ample
| thew. From his collar button down he
will overmatch any other Senator save,
perhaps, Allen, of Nebraska. Black
burn, when a little younger. was con-
sidered a fine type of physical man
light-haired. red-mustached, ~blue-eyed,
of Sanguine temperament, popular with
the masses, Il splendid stumper, with a
rich vein of humor and great powers
Of %invective. His gallantry as an officer
in the Confederate army won for him
the sobriuuet of "Fighting Joe" After
the wal he went to Congress, Il one
afternoon INDUCED in a debate with an
other Representative. y personal in
suit led to Il challenge from Blackburn,
which was readily accepted. Black
burns second was a noted ducllist,
union, v.n will coll Tom All arrange
ments were made, and in the early
morning Blackburn went quietly out tc
find his second and repair to the field
of honor. But the duel did not come
off. The second, as was his privilege
substituted himself for his principal
and thus explained the matter:
Joe, I'm not much good to anyone
and you are valuable to your country
Your country can't afford to lose YOU
and I don't NEAR it shall. What Eve
done is for the best"
In vain Blackburn protested. But III,
matter was in the hands of his second
and he couldn't alter it. When thu
enemy learned that tom. the dca(
shot" was to take Blackburn's place
on the field, there was n hasty conclu
sion that the affair, after all. was no
too serious to be pached up by peace
makers.
That is the nearest he ever came t,
a duel. though he and Gen. Burnside
came close to it in 1882. He had an EN-
brogliO with Judge Rucker. of Denver
in 1888, which threatened serious re
suits, but nothing came of it.
. In February, 1889, at a Senatorial
committee meeting. Senator Chandler
, of New Hampshire. called the KeI
[ .tuckian a "slave driver Tremblin
with anger, Blackburn arose and wall
ed straight to where Chandler sa'
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26

LiStZ.
The director of a musical OrganlZa-
ton, no matter Of what grade, has op-
portunities for posing somewhat supe-
rior to those OF the pianist and some
what inferior to those of the operate
hero, and is allowed liberties not per-
mitted to either of the others. 1t is I'M
derstood hat he is always to keep the
audience waiting for five minutes after
the last struggling fiddler has struggled
in, taken his seat and tuned his fiddle.
This is the directors privilege and he
avails himself of it to the uttermost.
He takes it for granted that the public
| will be sufficiently entertained by lis
tening to the o as given out by the
clarionet man, and Immediately sue
ceeded by scrapings and blowings in
every key that Bach discovered for the
well-tempered clavichord, so lac relies
on the rest of the orchestra to furnish
the fun for Il reasonable, sometimes an
unreasonable, time, then enters with a
strut as dignified as that Of a turkey
sobbler and as imposing as that of 4
peacock, hears with satisfaction the
thunder Of applause given by a tired
audience glad of any change, and with
deprecatory bow calmly appropriates
to himself the credit due the entire or
ganiZatiOn.
The drum major is commonly regard
ed as u caricature Of the orchestra di.
rector, but this is a mistake. He is an
institution of himself, the darling of the
street, the envy of the policeman, the
admiration of all beholding small boys
who feel that to be a drum major is
greater than to be a king. Every street
band is properly gagged by the drum
major, and the bigger this parsonage
the taller his mighty hat, the longer
his big-headed cane and the more trick:
he can do with it without letting it fal
the better the band. He is strictly or
namental, for his cane keeps no time
and after it's first p~remonitory jab into
the atmosphere as a signal for the bant
to turn itself loose on the public, nom
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26
MUSICIANS POSE
rTjTUOES ASSUMED BY DIV.
\OTEES OF THE DIVINE ART.
Eudinibins as a Part of the Bust.
Is-The Musical Director and the
IN MajOr-The Pianist And the
met Player.
An Art of Itself.

kactly why musical per- formers
|uld feel it their duty to atti tudinize
well as to play or sing is one of those
curious problems presented by the COM
Rlexity Of our civilization to which a
efinite answer is not easy to give. says
E St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Music.
cOrding to the most highly INSPIRED
poets, is a heavenly gift. appealing
rectly to the soul, while the striking
attitudes is an earthly acquisition,
lined through much practice II ap-
ealing to nothing in particular, unless
may be in an indirect way to the
bOcketbOoks Of the beholderf. 1t is
ute possible that at some ti4he in the
kistory of the divine art, men and wom-
II played and sang without posing
In such a way as to attract more attcn-
lion by their attitudes than by their
music. but that day. if it even existed,
jas long gone by, and music at present
as much a matter of pose b of tone,
nd appeals in many casey quite as
LtrOngly to the eye as to the ear. 1t is
ute possible that this fact may have
rown out of the conscious superiority
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26
Ancient Coffee Houses,

Burton. in his Anatomy of Meian-
choly.' 1921. speaks of Turkish coffee
houses. In 1852 Sir Henry Blount, who
wrote n book of travels in the Levant,
mentions Turkish coffee with praise.
Evelyn describes drinking it at college
in the ooms of a Levant friend, and
Antony Wood tells that in 1000 (ten
wears before the ~restOratiOn) a Levant
Hebrew opened a coffee house at OK
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26
Silver and Gold Coins.

Herodotus tells us that silver was
first coined as money in Argos about
Il. c. The same historian tells
us hat King Croesus of Lydia was
the first to coin gold and that $50 b.
e. he had gold coins issued with his
and superscription.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26

could enjoy the music without having
their attention called away by the per-
sonality OF the performers. No more
than the singers and players. however.
would the audience be satisfied with the
screen and curtain arrangement. for
the people who gather at a concert
want to see how the chorus looks, and
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26

demonstration has been arranged In
his honor, and especially that he may
allow the ylories of his uniform to
gladden. the eyes of his 1ellow-men.
Compared with the drum major, the
artist who comes before the public with
an Amati or Stradivarius under his
arm is a mere triler in the art of pos
ing, He does his best. it is true, stands
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26

"How are you getting along with the
bicycle?" asked Miss Cayenne. Better
than I expected" replied Willie Wish
ington. $50 you have at last attempted
to rideT" mo; 1 haven't gone quite
that FAR. But l don't believe I'm quite
as much afraid Of it as I used to be-
Washington Star.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26

performance behind 4 curtain, unseeing
and unseen, and yet, theoretically, this
ought to be the most satisfactory meth
cd of rendering a musical work. for, in
this case. the singers and players would
be u~ndisturbed by the sight of the sea
Of faces before them, and the aUdicace
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26

Of the players pay him the slightest at
tention. But for this fact lie cares moth
ing, as it is generally understood that
he OWES. in fee simple, not only the
band, but also the whole parade which
it precedes; that, in fact, the public
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-12-26
City Supported by krupp FOundrie.

The Krupp gun foundries at Essen,
near Dusseldorf, employ 27,155 per
sons, whose families amount to 6I,597
DerSOuS,
Arizona republican., 1896-04-05
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.

The following is the electoral vote of the states as based upon the apportion- mnnt aet of E'eh 1Sq1
Arizona republican., 1896-04-05
REPUBLICAN LEAGUE OFFICERS
 AND COMMITTEES.

Officers-C. M. Frazier, president Pierce Evans, vice-president; Wade H. Rulings, second vice-president; T. A. Jobs, secretary; T. w. Hine, treasurer.
 Board of directors-Pierce Evans, chairman; Thos. D. Molloy, secretary J. M. Ford, treasurer; A. J. Sampson, J. B. Early, J. A. Kilroy, Jerry Millay, I. N. Bell, Robert Hudson, c. W. Grouse, c. M. Sturges, D. M. Purman, Wm. Freeze, Lincoln Fowler, Chas. w. Pugh, N. A. Morford T. J. Wolfey, F. A. Hartwell, M. H. Calderwood L. J. Wood, c. M. Frazier.
 Political meetings-Thomas Fitch, M. H. McCord, Jos. H. Kibbey.
 Correspondence-T. J. Wolfey, J. B.. Early, J. A. Kilroy.
 Primaries-Pierce Evans, D. M Purman, c. M. Frazier, T. J. Wolfey, w. H. Stillwell, Lincoln Fowler, I. N. Bell.
 Reception-Jerry Millay, W. A. Han cock, c. W. Johnstone, c. w. Grouse, R. A. Lewis, J. D. Monihon, H. Good man.
 Printing-N. A. Morford, c. w. Pugh, c. M. Sturges.
 VNdIuT dllLdllUu- w. SlOuoO, d. A. Cant, Wm. Webster, Robert Black, Geo. A. Mintz.
 Order of business A. Hartwell, J. M. Damron, H. Goodman, c. H. Knapp. A. E. Hinton.
 Celebration and transportation Scott Helm, c. Eschman, c. J. Dyer, W. s. Pickrell, G. H. Honshell. Ira P. Smith.
 Executive-Jos H. Kibbey, G. H. Honshell, Frank B. Moss, H. B. Kemp, M. E. Collins, A. J. Sampson.
 Organization-Webster Street, l.. H. Goodrich, J. B. Early, H. B. St. Claire, Jerry Millay.
 Registration-L. J. Wood, F. A. Hartwell, A. J. Porterie, Robert Hud- son, Wm. Widmer, T. A. Jobs, Wm. Buck, F. Prothero.
 Finance-J. M. Ford, Wm Christy, Geo. Hoadley, T. W. Hine, Lincoln Fowler.
 Programme-C. M. Frazier, c. W. Pugh, J. A. Kilroy, c. w. Grouse, L. B. Hayes. Enrolment of membership-M H. Calderwood, T. H. Molloy, L. J. Wood, | W. H. Ward, M. A. Heissman. Political education-A. J. Sampson. l Thos. Armstrong, Jr., H. C.. Magne, W. H. Rulings, Walter Bennett.
Arizona republican., 1896-04-05
THE HABIT OF NAlL-BITING.
It Is Mark of Degeneration of the Nery-
 ous System.

It Is Mark of Degeneration of the Nerv-
 ous System.
 There has just been issued from the Paris pressa brochure which is creating large amount of interest in French medical circles, both on account of it's originality and the experimental re- suits which it ernbodies. It is from the pen of Dr. Edgar Berillon, so well known in the surgical world by reason of his prominent connection with the dead Charcot in the latters hypnotic experiments, and at present Secretarie General de la Societe dHypnologie ct de Psychologie of Paris and medical in spector of the state lunatic asylums. The work is scientific treatise on onv- cophagie, or fngernail biting, and con tains the results of a series of observa- tons in the public and private schools of France, and extending through a period Of more than seven years. At the congress of the French Association for the Advancement of Sciences. held at Nancy in 1886, Berillon first an- nounced his observations on the habit ot naIi-biting, and since that ti,ae has been in almost continuous experiment.
 In his thoroughly scientific treatment of what the world has never before con- sldered worthy of prolonged or special study Berillon has arrived at results really remarkable. His experiments lead him to pronounce the habit far more widespread and pernicious than others promptly treated, and force him to conclude that, ii not disease itself. 1t is an unfailing mark of incipient de- generation of the nervous system. which, unrecognized, may be productive of the most evil results,
Arizona republican., 1896-04-05
A Rare Event,

Silver weddings are not uncommon, but silver betrothal falls to the lot of few. A case of that kind is reported from Berlin. The engaged couple first pledged their troth in December. 1869 The young lady's aunt, however, threatened to ''cut her off with shil- ling" if she dared to get married. Con sequently, the loving couple had to forego their most ardent wish, viz: the prospect of speedy marriage. Still, they remained true to their pledge dur ing this interminable courtship. Not long ago the obdurate aunt departed this life, but by desire of the intended husband the wedding was postponed to enable the couple to celebrate the twenty-ffth anniversary of their be- trothal.
Arizona republican., 1896-04-05

Total 444; necessary for choice 223.