Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-07-08

Creep in our ears; soft stiffness and the night
become tho touches of sweet harmony"
@SHAKESlEARE.
There has been OF late positive as
sertions by the readers of news that |
Paderewski is soon to make another
tour of America, this time as a mana
gcrial boom. he is to be married.
They do not ven hint at the national
ity of the fortunate at whose
feet this nan will lay his genius and
his heart. SO in all probability it is
merely reporters gossip. But be it
true or false. it will create much
amaZement among those interested in
him. We have been %taught-by these
same reporters-to consider him proof
against woman's charms. Indeed it
has been many months since we look.
ed with regret into his sad face, and
felt sure he was thinking and still
grieving for that child-wife of his who
died eighteen years ago. And it seems
a cruel turn of fate that another
should enjoy with him the wealth and
homage his genius has won from all
the world. instead of the one who mar
ried him in his poverty and died. it is
said, from starvation.
Appropos of poverty. Paderewski
was a struggling music teacher and
composer long before any one discov.
cred his genius.
Ten years ago he was wont to play
in the beer gardens OF Berlin. where
one could hear him for twenty-five
ceuts. Now a music lover would be
willing to pay that many dollars for
the same privilege; but at that time his
playing was considered quite ordinary.
Genius. coupled with an indominable
will and incessant work, has made him
the king of pianists, until one feels,
when listening to him, that he i really,
as William Mason said of him, "a mu-
Stefan by the grace of God"
He is even now an %incessant worker,
at times practicing through an entire
night.
Like really most 6 ,eat men, he is
modest, gracious and generous heart
ed; cordial, and possessing an immense
amount of personal magnetism, of
which latter trait one is made con.
scious by his playing.
Witty, too, so his intimate friends
say. Madam Modjeska, WHO'S a coun
try-woman ofhis, and, an old aud dear
friend. declares she never knew a man
SO fnll of fun and humor.
One can scarcely reconcile this with
the melancholy face of the frail, ether
cal man, unless n remembers that
oft times the face speaks at variance
from that within us.
And it is not generally known that
to Madam Modjeska he gives the credit
OF his achievements. She was mis- ad-
wiser and encourager, and long before
the world knew " recognized his
gifts she had faith in them, and by
that faith gave him strength. 10 her
is due two-fold grntitude-for the gift
OF her own genius and that OF Padcr-
cwski.
TO France must he accorded the
honor of producing the first woman
whose musical compositions eau bear
. the test of critics. Cecil Chaminade is
still a very young woman, having just
. passed her twenty-sixth birthday. Her
i compositions are played and sang with
those of the old masters at the Colome
a concerts in Paris, at the Gerrandhaus
h in Leipsic, and at the London Phil.
9 harmonic concerts, as also in other
o musical cities of America.
I'll The growth Of art in the United
States has, since the centennial expo.
q sition of twenty-five years ago, been
'phenominal. That great local exposi,
y ton was the entering wedge, opening
d up the wonderful and untrodden path.
T" Of art in the new world.
d Supreme excellence in statesmsnshiI