The age-herald., 1900-12-21
SKETCHES FROM
 EVERYDAY LIFE

Everybody. I supposed" said man who has an old-fashioned leaning towards exact ness, had heard of the Kreutzer Sonata; many have read it, but doubt If any body in Birmingham has ever heard 1t as written by Beethoven. Very few people in the Uni ted States have heard it for that matter, for the piece is so difficult that few can play 1t. It is only recenly that Thomas has arranged it for his orchestra, and it has been played by him, once or twice in Chica- go. In the near future it will be heard in Birmingham, and wishing to refresh my memory about the novel. I went to several bookstores to buy copy. At the first place l went I asked the clerk if he had the kreutzer Sonata. The what?' he asked. 'The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoi,' I replied.
 Whats Tolstoi?' he said Tolstoi, l ex- plained to him in whitening sarcasm was a man who wrote books, and that the Kreut- zer Sonata was one of them. He did not have it and I failed to find it at any of the bookstores in town. At one place, a popu- lar newsstand the proprietor told me that there was great demand for the book when it first came out. It was considered a pretty warm number so much so that the gov ernment interdicted its transmission through the mail, though this injunction was dissolved, so to speak, later on. He said that while this rule of the postoffice was in force, that one hundred and fifty copies of the book which he had ordered were seized in the postoffice. never got one of them,' he said, and have no idea where they went As the book was creat- ink quite furore at the time, 1 sometimes suspect that the postoffice people had an op- portunity of reading it at my expense. If the piece is to be played here. as you say, I will order several copies, for there is cer- tain to be demand for them. Many people will want to read the book before hearing the music. Whenever stories that have been dramatized are played llere it invariably creates a demand for the books
 "There is a decided difference in tempera- ment between people at the north and at the south," said a citizen who at one time drew pay from the government This is not original discovery of mne but 1 was impressed with the fact when I connected with the government during the Spanish war. The southern people, con- trary to what is generally considered a southern temperament are staid and appar- entity unemotional, while the cold climate of the north instead of producing a deep and silent temperament has created a character that for it's volatile and enthusiastic emo- tion is almost Frenchy Possibly the stol- idity of a southern crowd is emotion too deep for words but I doubt it. The Dewey craze is a good illustration of northern emotional efferveseence. It was so pro- nOnnpp6 haf ha rnrd 11aet scribes it. All this happened after the war but during the war everytime there was a parade in a northern city or a regiment marched off for the front the streets were lined with cheering and frantic citizens When a regiment marched away from a southern city there were small crowds who lined the sidewalk and silently looked on I'dare say there never was a southern regiment during-not the late, but the latest war-whose departure caused frantic demonstration. My duties kept at a southern city where the government had established a winter camp where there were about 10000 men, Most of them were from northern states. Everybody was glad to have them the merchants were do- ing a fiourishing business, the women were charmed with the brass buttons and after welcoming them individually the pub lie wanted to see them collectively. So the general in command arranged a grand review, and the corps was marched through the streets. The event had been advertised in the surrounding towns and the streets were crowded. The parade, however, did not evoke the slightest enthusiasm. Regi- ment after regiment marched by in fine array with bands playing and colors flying but not a bit of excitement was manifest ed. A few people here and there applaud ed, but in the vast silence 1t sounded as hollow as a laugh in a tomb When the men got back to camp they were furious Accustomed as they were to the enthusi- asm of northern crowds they thought the whole affair was a pre-arranged frost and they considered that they had been insulted. It took a long time to convince them that no offense was meant and that the southern crowd was a silent one"
 Newspapers sometimes tell the truth" said a merchant yesterday while reading the Age-Herald. "I see in the market re- ports a telegram from Cincinnati which purports to give the tone of the stock mar kets, and which is so true that it could be run daily without change The telegram reads as follows: Cincinnati, O., December 19.-Hogs steady; cattle slow; sheep dull; lambs weak "