Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
THE PECuLlARI1IES OF LIST
HOW HE MADE HIS SCHOLARS
REMEMBER TERMS.
His Amusin. Experiences With Wagner
and Bulow ANA How Their scant
store OF Furniture Was
Used For Fire.

''If YOU only heard List play, ana
didn't see him. you lost half the pleas
ureu so wonderful was his personal
, ity
4 Young Magyar tried TO play q
sonota of Beethoven before him one
day.
"piano. piano" cried List plano,
softly! Let Ii sing-let IL sing! Can't
YOU see piano written there cried he,
still more sharply, but the young pa
triot. only grew more nervous, and
played the harder.
AT last List took his hands from
the keys. saying, half-angrily half
laughngly:
40 YOU know, my young friend,
what the field sergeant does when
the recruits can not tell the difference
between right and left? He ties
bundle of straw on their right arms
and a bundle of hay on theii left, ana
then gives the command, Hay, straw!
We shall have TO try this plan with
YOU for piano and forte! Now, then,
give old Beethoven a chance. Hay!
hay! hay. well. Now, straw, straw!
plenty of straw-still more straw and
List laughed till the tears came.
"Straw, straw. nothing but straw.
Here is an anecdote of his early life
as related by List himself: Richard
Wagner Bulow. and l were all quite
Young when we lived together in Leip-
zig, and had a good time. That Is,
| hut IL
ready fermenting with his political
and philosophical ideas, and our pro-
sale circumstances offered little
ground for the idealists OF the future.
We called Bulow 'Kritikus,' and We
especially always feared his sharp
tongue a little. or course, all Of us
had little money, but Wagner put our
slender purse to great strains. He
could not bear money worries, and we
let him feel them as little as possible
"Once, after a long autumn. it be-
came cold suddenly, and Wagner with
his nerves suffered from the sudden
change in the temperature. He de-
manded a heated room at once. For
two whole days the debate ragged be-
tween him and Bulow as TO the inn
mediate purchase of wood with our re-
duced purse
IL was not asked, because Bulow
knew that | would yield, but he, as
treasurer. cOntended that it was ride
ulous TO buy wood in the month Of
September But | am freezing said
Wagner, in a rage. TO which the mex
orahe Bulow suggested that he go out
and get warm by running or warm
himself by his muse. Laughing at his
cheap. spiteful advice, Bulow and
went out.
but when we returned, after two
hours. we were thunderstruck TO find
/ Wagner in the room. heated to suffo
cation He sat at his writing table
deep in his work. His face was red
'Wherey began Bulow, but the
words stuck in his throat for a glance
around the room showed him how
Wagner had helped himself. Severa
chairs and our work tables lay on thu
floor. permanently crippled; Wagne
had cut off their legs and made tn,
fire with them. Bulow was speeches
with rage. But | stood at the doc
( and laughed till the tears came at Thu
ingenious way of helping oneself. Blu
[ low lamented that we would have t
replace the landlady's chairs ant
I tables, and that he could not sit dow
! or work.
! Wagner answered. spitefully:
have what | needed! Fellows Xix
you, who do nothing but go walking
need neither chairs nor tables. Ii yo
had given me the money right of
your valuable furniture would stiI
be in eXistence-you wished II SO
Firewood would have been cheaper
Next day l received a little money
and bought firewood and new chair
and tables Wagner picked out tn
best for himself and | said TO hin
laughingly: Say, you, listen! | al
going TO insure this new furnitur
against loss by fire Immediately. y
Boston Globe.