The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-12
THIS AND THAT.
Death of Emmett.

'TOther day up there IN heaven
Where tn war worn veterans
camp.
When tn news came he was comm
Bet there rang tn rhythmic tramp
OF tn many feet a-marchin'.
| An tn cheerin' of tn throng
OF brave men tibet died fer Dixie"
Greetin' him who writ tn song.
Bet TIL whisper Of his comm
| Quickened to a rebel yell;
Bet 1t stirred tn perfumed breezes
From the fields O. asphodel;
| Bet 1t walked tn sleep mem'ries
| OF old comrades where they slept,
I'll bet heavenly bands played Dixie"
An happy angels wept.
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Four years ago the working day In
all French factories was one of twelve
hours; a year later II was eleven hours.
| and then 1t came down to ten and a
half, but since April / 1t has been one
| of ten hours. The same wages are PAID
for ten hours as were paid when twelve
hours were worked.
| HH3
| On the 4th as tribute to the mem
ory of Nathaniel Hathorne. hundreds
of pilgrims came to Concord to
take part in the observance there of
| the centennial anniversary of the nov
elist's DEATH A bronze tablet, placed
on the path to the hill where Haw-
| thorne daily walked, near Wayside,
| the authors home, was unveiled by
Miss Beatrice Hawthorne, grand
daughter of the novelist. Colonel
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson. the his
torian,s presided.
HHH
The Rabbits of Lodz. In Southern
Russia, have revived an old Talmudic
law which requires every married
man, before going on the battle field.
to grant a conditional divorce to his
wife, so that. she may remarry after
the end of the war All the married
Jewish soldiers of Lodz have had to
grant such divorces before leaving for
the front. each one registering with
a rabbi his name address, age. height
and birthmarks, and the rabbi Will
keep a faithful record of the same I'M
til the soldier returns. If within the
reasonable time he does not return he
is reckoned among the lost and uniden-
titled dead and his wife obtains a
binding divorce from the rabbi and is
free to remarry, for in Russia Jews
and Jewesses do not need to call In
the aid of the civil courts. 1t seems
consfd0ate provision, but there will
have to be no Odyssey" for these Rus
sian soldiers.
When Mascagni was in London re-
Gently an organ-grinder one day came
and played under his window the in
termezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana.'
AS the man played he turned the han
die of his organ faster and faster until
| the air was more like q valse than an
| intermezzo. At last, Mascagni could
bear 1T no longer, and. rushing out of
the house. he gave the organ grinder
| a shilling. and said: Il have heard
that air at the opera, and 1 think that
you are playing it too fast. Let me
show you how it ought to be played"
The composer then played the intermez-
20 through In the proper time. and
went back to the house. A few days
afterward the organ-grinder returned
to the street and Mascagni was de-
lighted to hear the intermezzo played
in correct time. But he was not so
pleased when he looked out of the win
dow and saw on the organ a large
placard bearing the words, Pupil of
Signor Mascagni."
H9H
A writer says: TT is the fashion of
literary criticism to explain a man of
genius by his environment With
Hawthorne this method breaks down.
1t was not that his environment was
not interesting in itself; 1t was that
he was not greatly interested in 1t.
There was an interval between the
mind and his contemporaries. He
could not live in the present moment.
To him the soul was a fugitive, fly
ing from the past into the future. 1t
was futile flight. for in the future
the past stood waiting for 1t.
There is in Hawthorne a brooding
mysticism which is the same quality
which we attribute to the early in
habitants of Salem and Boston. But
we see these early Puritans through
his eyes. His imagination dominates
ours. 1t must be a question whether
Hawthornes genius was tinged with
Puritan or our conceptions of the Pur-
itan character are Hawthornesque,"
HHS
Among the superstitions of the Sem
eca tribe of Indians is a most beauti-
full one. When a young maiden dies,
they imprison a young bird until 1t first
begins to try it's powers of song, and
then loading 1t with caresses and mes
sages, they loose its bonds over her
grave, in the belief that it will not
fold its wings. nor close its eyes, until
it has flown to the spirit land and de-
livered it's precious burden of affection
to the loved and lost one.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox says:
However fond of his wife a man
may be, and however he admires her
moral character, he is better pleased
when she retains her attraction of
person. No matter if he seems to be
oblivious to her loss of beauty and
to be unaware of her neglected ward
robe. yet when he meets other women
who keep in touch with the customs of
the day in dress and manners. he men
tally compares his wife to her disad-
vantage. He forgets the cause and
remembers only the fact to her dis
paragement And when he puts her
aside for a more modern woman. many
of his acquaintances sympathize with
him, and say. We'll, 1t is no wonder;
she was SO old-fashioned and not at
all companionable for her husband. He
is such an up-to-date man."
&S&
What is now known as a coat of
arms" Is a design. generally placed
within shield-shaped figure, repre-
senting the emblems anciently painted
on the shield of a medieval knight The
design was originally embroidered on