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produce works Of portraiture IN music Just
how he did this is not. to be sure. very clearly
explained. An interesting illustration OF his
ambition is cited in the of one of his pieces.
entitled lie Parnasse, PApotheDse de
CorelH-" There seven movements in this
bearing the following superscriptions: %
Corell, at the foot of Parnassus asks the
MUSES. to receive him among them 90 Corelli,
charmed by the good reception given him on
Paruassus. shows his joy thereat; he continues
with those accompanying him: 30 Corelli drinks
at the fountain of Hippocrene. his company
tnung: (4) Enthusiasm of CoreIH caused by
the waters of Hippocrene: 90 Corelli. after his
enthusiasm, falls asleep and his companions
play the following slumber music very softly;
60 The MUSES. awake Corelu and place him be-
side Apollo. and O Thanks of CorelH- Pro-
fessor NieckS cannot very enthusiastic over
the music written on these themes but he is the
historian first and the critic afterward and
there be question about the Importance
Of Couperin to his broad hypothesis 1t is. in
deed. surprising TO observe the testimony which
he draws from one composer after another in
favor of the antiquity OF programme music II
he cannot find such music in Handlers con-
certos. suites. fugues and overtures he finds it
quickly enough in the accomplishments to the
vocal parts OF the masters works. Bach
scarcely falls within his category, but he can
cite at least one bit of programme music by the
master. the Capriccio the departure of his
brother in which the superscriptions indicate
certain programme Gluck. looking rather odd
in Professor Nieckss galley. ultimately justi-
fes his presence there. Wagner said that in the
overture to "Iphigerie en- Aulide' the master
drew 1.-The principal thought OF the drama in
mighty lines. and with almost obvious dis
tinctness." and it is. of course, true that there
is much in "Orphee'' to place Gluck among the
great artists in tone painting.
Gluck himself had vague thoughts of the
theory of programme music. later to be worked
out with much ingenuity by men like Berlioz
and Liszt. II thought he says, in the preface
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Every one remembers the parenthesis IN the
title of that acknowledgements of feeling
rather than painting"-and Professor Niecks
quotes from one Of the sketchbOoks 4 remark
that is even more explicit as to the composers
point OF view. ''An painting in instrumental
music. if pushed too far he says. "is a fail
ure." But no one can listen to the Pastoral
Symphony and fail to perceive, even without
the superscriptions, that in this work Beethoven
wrote programme music. if ever programme mu-
sic written Professor Niecks enumerates
also. several other compositions no less indica-
tive of Beethoven'S great constructive relation
to the development of this phase Of art AS
the author goes on he traces so much pro
gramme music in the works of the composers
that. half amusedly. the reader begins 70 wonder
if any Of them ever wrote any other kind OF
music. Weber. Schubert and Spohr. Neyerbeer.
Mendelssohn and Schumann, all bring fish to the
professors net. and he continues TO have good
luck when he approaches Chopin and other COM
posers for the piano He tells. by the way, one
amusing anecdote. George Sand had a little
dog which was in the habit of turning round
and round in the endeavor TO catch its tail One
evening when it was thus engaged she said to
Chopin: If 1 had your talent I would compose a
pianoforte piece for this dog And Chopin At oncs
sat down TO the pianoforte and improvised the
charming waltz in D flat (Op 6A which has
obtained the name of 'VaIse du petit CHEN"
After sketching the traits OF Chopin Henselt
and Heller. Professor Niecks takes up the three
most important of his modern figures BerIioA
List and Wagner. His chapter on the first Of
these is valuable for its protest against that
charge of fornlessneSs which has SO often been
carelessly laid at the Frenchman's door Pro
fessor NieCks asserts that, a regards form.
Berlioz followed in the main the lines Of the
classics, that where he deviated from these lines
he still adhered to the principles that guided
those who laid them down. and that far from
being forTnless. he never failed in securing
clear structure, logical development and Internal
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02

men 20 whom the creation of programme music
is commonly ascrbed. 1t must be noted too
that Professor Necks makes no pretence of set
ting forth matter of organic development His
purpose is rather to make n chronological survey
of musical history. and to indicate, as he pauses
upon each one OF It's salient figures. the extent
to which this or that individual illustrates his
conception OF programme music. The fact that
he finds practically all of the composers writer's
of such music directs immediate attention. Of
course. to the question of what his definition
may be.
Professor Niecks Is not content with a defni-
ton which would regard as programme music
only the music which initiates sounds. as. for
example. the song of birds and the music which
by analogy initiates effects of light, darkness.
color and ali kinds and degrees OF movement.
He would go further. maintaining that pro-
gramme music is music (which initiates not
only the outward. but also the inward; which
not only describes. but also expresses; which
has to do with emotions and thoughts as well
as with sense Impressions. with soul painting rs
well as with body painting" Obviously. to start
with conception like this is to start with every
hope of successfully claiming almost any COM
poser as an exponent of programme music. This
volume Is not. however. an affair of special
pleading. a work got up to prove case. With
bis descriptions and analyses. the author very
easily shows that his theory is not a fanciful
one. but that hundreds of composers have writ
ten music fairly to be called programme music
though few historians have thought of ticketing
it with the phrase He shows too that while, as
we have said. the genre has not been deliberately
developed it has by slow and half unconscious
processes been strengthened and widened in its
scope time has gone on
Naturally. the first period dealt with by the
author is characterized by body painting"
rather than soul painting" The vocal COM
positions OF the sixteenth century make great
play with the sounds of the instruments of war.
from flies and drums to cannon and muskets
There is indeed. EttlA to Professor Nieckss
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to "Alceste." that the overture ought to n,s-
pare the spectators for the action about 10 b.
represented. and to form. so to speak. its are-,-
ment; that the instrumental accompaniment,
should be regulated according to the interest an,
passion of the drama" There are words =,
Mozart's. too. which point to the gradual ems
gence OF an ideal in music concerned not onlx
with the pursuit OF beauty In mere patterns a,
tone. but with the expression OF ideas In uusic
unaided by words, yet equal In weight and vari-
ETY. to ideas expressed in language "T capno,
write poetry said Mozart in a letter 10 hi,
father II am not poet I cannot artf,TIv
group phrases 10 give light and shade T
am not painter. I cannot even express NV
thoughts and sentiments by signs and nan.o-
mime: I am not dancer. But I car. do 50 bx
tones: 1 am a musician" In Don Giovann5-
alone there are proofs enough OF his ability "a
write programme music in Professor Nieckz,x
sense or the term 1t is impossible not 10 feel
however. that the true test of the authors min
ciple is to be sought less in operatic than in
purely Instrumental music. and he is on safer
ground when he reaches Beethoven and IN.
Pastoral Symphony"
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purpose In the achievements OF Clement jan
nequin. Josquin Depres and Orlando Lasso- But
in the seventeenth century there are dawning
hints. IN the works of Monteverdi. of significant
Developments. and early in the authors narra-
tive we come to Jacob Froberger. who is cred
tied with composition describing what he
experienced between Paris and Calais, and from
Calais to England. from robbers on land and
sea, and how the English organist had abused
him, taken him by the to the door and
kicked him out" From this ingenious person
age Professor Niecks passes to the famous Six
Bible Sonatas of Johann Kuhnau. who was
Bach's predecessor as Thomas cantor at Leip-
zig. Each OF these representations OF Script
ural episodes was provided with verbal argu-
ment. and in them all Professor Niecks dis
Germs elaborate effort to make plain through
the ear matters which would ordinarily be as
surned to be beyond the power of music to ex-
press.
Appreciative attention is paid In this book 10
the French lutenists and clavecinists of the late
seventeenth century and earlier eighteenth
FRANCOIS Couperin not only essayed impressions
of nature in his compositions, but was wont to
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02
PROGRAMME MUSIC.
A Surrey of Its Development
Through -Four Centuries.

PROGRAMME MUSIC IN THE LAST FOUR
CENTURIES. A Contribution to the History Of
Musical Expression. BY Frederick NieCks, Mus.
d. Svo PIP. xi. 5iS. The H w. Gray Company.
Although great deal has been written about
programme music in recent years. the student
has long waited for just such a work the
subject as has been produced by the Reid
Professor of Music in the University of Edin-
burgh. This book assemblies at last all the evil
dence serving to show how composers have, in
the different historical epoChs embodied In their
writings certain elements distinguished from
those of what we call absolute music. The au-
thor does not demonstrate the persistence of
given genre through the centuries as an always
clearly defined thing. consciously fostered by
successive generations. but he establishes the
rise and growth of the idea in which he is inter
ested long before the appearance Of the modern
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02
THE DEAD SLAVE.

BY J. MARJORAM
Is II the wind that creeps so stealthy by,
Moaning between and between the prison oarS I!
Is it that unseen hands the bolts aSsall.
Where in the dark lie slaves that died in gaol!
Is if their souls that whrl where the bodies lie
Stirring the chains? Or the guards own scl1ni-
tars?
Soul in the dark set free by that severing Sob
Where float, unhappy thing? Where haroor
Having avowed thyself breath of the spirits
wing, .
In anguish famed. against the bars flutterins-
Why still alright? Quiet thee! Who would ROD
{ pitiful freedom such Ghost as Ihou!
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
BLIZZARD IN CHICAGO.
Several Bad Accidents Occur as Re-
suit Of Drifting Snow.

Chicago, Ill.-A binding snow
storm, which swept Chicago Tuesday
and Tuesday night, was responsible
for several accidents. Mrs. Sarah Hill,
aged 80, wandered away from her sons
home at 4613 Champlain avenue and at
a late hour had not been found. Mrs.
Hill went to the house of a neighbor
earlier in the day, but left there in
the height of the storm and is sup
posed to have lost her way in a neigh
borhood in which she has lived for 80
years.
Blinded by the driving snow, Abel
bert S. Mack, demonstration for an au-
tomobile company, drove a heavy tour
ing car into a street car in Evanston
Tuesday evening. The trolley car was
forced from the tracks, the automobile
demolished and Mack and DR.. M. E.
limerick, to whom he was showing the
car, were injured. Mack suffered sew
eral broken bones and his condition is
serious.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
FOLK A CANDIDATE
MISSOURI EXECUTIVE SAID TO
ASPIRE TO SEAT IN SENATE.
WILL SEE RACE TO the FINISH
Authorized Announcement
of Candidacy.

jefferson City, Mo.-Governor
Folk has made the positive state
ment that he is a candidate for the
United States senate to succeed w. ].
Stone. To w. H. O'Brien, an attorney
of st. Louis, he said: 81 am in the
race, and intend to stay"
This is the first positive declaration
the governor has made on this SUBJ
ject, although he has been considered
a candidate for some time.
In st. Louis 1t long has been regard
ed as settled that Gov. Folk would be
a candidate for the United States SEN
ate, but a positive admission that he
would enter the race never could be
obtained. Even to close personal
friends the governor would parry d.
rect questions as to whether he would
oppose Senator Stone.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
"RIueu Sunday In Gotham.

New York-New York, which can
usually be depended on to provide
something new and sensational, Sun
day treated it's millions of residents
and tens of thousands OF weekend
visitors to the novelty of a thorough.
ly blue" Sunday, the first and prob
ably the last in the history Of the
metropolis. Few had expected to live
to see the day. There have been
more or less dry" Sundays and Sun
days without baseball, but the memory
of the oldest inhabitant" failed to re-
call a Sabbath here when n was
compelled to choose between the
churches and the parks If he would
see or hear something to entertain
him.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
DEATH COMES TO MRS. TAFT.
Secretary Is Hurrying Home on
Steamer President Grant.

Millbury, Mass.-Mrs. Louise M.
Taft, mother Of Secretary of War VIII
liam H. Taft, who had been i'll since
last summer, died at 1920 o'clock
Sunday morning. For the past week
or more Mrs. Taft had been uncon-
scious and slowly growing weaker.
Early Saturday night it was seen
that a change for the worse had taken
place. Since last summer Mrs. Taft
had been staying at the home of her
sister in the old Torrey homestead,
in this town, where the venerable IN
valid spent her girlhood days.
C%ablegrams have been sent to Bo-
logna, Germany, informing Secretary
Taft of his mothers death. The Sec
rotary sailed Saturday for America.
His visit in Europe was cut short
by his mothers illness. He and his
wife are hurrying home on the Presi-
dent Grant.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
six DEAD IN fire
SIXTEEN OTHERS INJURED, PER.
HAPS FATALLY, AT HOME
STEAD, N. J.
THREE BODIES HAVE Been RECOVERED
Twelve Men Still Imprisoned, Of
Whom Three Are Known to Be
Dead-Fire Started Among
Piles Of Tar.

New York-Six men were burned
to death and sixteen others were
seriously, If not fatally, hurt, Thurs.
day in a disastrous fire which penned
them in the bore of the new Penn
~sylvania tunnel which runs between
Homestead, N. J.. and West Hoboken.
At last accounts the bodies Of three
of the dead men had been taken from
the mouth of the tunnel shaft at
Homestead. Five more of the work
men, still alive, had been lifted to the
surface and were all hurried to the
North Hudson hospital at Union Hill.
1t is know that there were 20 men
at work within the tunnel bore when
the fire started among piles Of tar be-
ing used to mix with stones for the
foundation of the roadbed of the tun-
mel. Twelve of these, three of whom
are known to be dead, were still with
in the tube at a late hour.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
SWEDEN'S SORROW
KING OSCAR II. PASSED QUIETLY
AWAY AT 9:1o SUNDAY
WAS FRIEND TO HIS PEOPLE
The Whole Country ls Bowed Down In
Grief for Man Who Was More
Than the Ruler Of His
Subjects.

Stockholm, Sweden-Oscar H., king
of Sweden, died at 9:10 o'clock Sun
day morning. The death of the ven
cradle monarch occurred in the royal
apartment of the palace, where, sur
rounded by the members of his fam,
lily, including the aged Queen Sophia
and the Crown Prince Oscar Gustave
and high ministers of state, the in
evitable end had been awaited, while
outside the palace great crowds stood
with bowed heads and fearful eyes
long after the announcement came Of
the death of their well-loved SOW
ereign. The whole country Is bowed
with grief, for King Oscar was some.
thing more than a ruler of his people
and had endeared himself to them as
an intimate and personal friend. When
the flag on the palace was dipped to
half-mast there was a moan of an
guish from the assembled multitude
and many of them cried Our dear old
king is dead"
Passed Quietly Away.
The following official bulletin was
posted after the kings death:
1.-THE strength of the king continued
to decrease throughout the night and
the state of Inconsistencies became
more marked. His majesty passed
quietly away at $40 a. m"
The death certificate was worded as
follows:
I'VE declare upon oath that His
Majesty, King Oscar H.. expired peace.
fully at $40 o'clock Sunday morning
in the castle at Stockholm, at the age
of IS years Q months II days, as the
result of Qualification of the cerebral
and cardiac blood vessels. (Signed.)
Berg, Edgren, Flensburg.'
The succession to the throne Of
Sweden nov passes to Oscar Gustave
Adolphe, Duke of Verland, the Oldest
Sol of the late king. =,
At a meeting of the council of state
Sunday afternoon the new king took
the oath of allegiance under the title
of Gustave ", and adopted the motro,
with the people for the fatherland."
The princes then took the oath Of
allegiance and the new monarch &C.
repted the homage of the state Of.
ficials.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
PURSUED BY PossEMEN AFTER
SATURDAYS RAID AND SHOT
RESISTING ARREST.
voLLEY FIRED Al OFFICERS
War Of determination ls Being Waged
BY Determined Tobacco Growers
Soldiers Guard Lexington
For Trace Of F%ugitives.

Lexington, Ky.-Actual warfare
has broken out in the deter
mined efforts of officers and citizens
to exterminate the band Of wanton
night riders which are terrorizing the
entire community.
The first open clash came Monday
morning, when two members Of the
gang which fired and terrorized the
city of H~opkinsville Saturday were
killed in an encounter with officers
and possemen.
The battle was short and decisive.
Several members Of the gang were
surrounded, it is said, and to the com
mand to surrender returned a volley
of shots. The possemen returned the
fire and two of the gang were killed.
The others escaped on their horses.
Saturdays raid at Hopkinsville was
the boldest and most destructive OF
any ever made by the night riders.
After ~overpowering members Of the
police and fire departments, the raid
ers fired several tobacco warehouses
and other buildings, shot and perhaps
MORALLY wounded a brakeman, who
was endeavoring to move a string of
loaded freight car out of the fire
zone, and publicly whipped an asso-
citation tobacco buyer. The loss to
property at Hopkinsville was owe
100000.
The death of, the two night riders
Monday morning evidences that no
further trifing will be tolerated by
either officers or citizens. The least
resistance to arrest is the signal for
open hostilities, pistol and rifle play
and the death of the desperadoes.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
ENGINEER DEAD IN HIS CAB.
He Had Complained Of Pains In Head
and Heart While Making His Run.

Appletown, Pa.-With it's engi.
neer, Calvin Frederick, dead in
in it's cab, a Lehigh Valley fast freight
rushed past danger signals and
crashed Monday morning into the
caboose of another freight in the Ma.
honing yard. Frederick vas protected
by the wreckage in such a way that
he could have crawled out had he
been alive when the collision hap.
pened. His body was not even bruised,
and his hand was still on the throttle,
though he was terribly scalded. His
fireman and brakeman were badly
hurt.
The engineer complained in Jersey
City when taking out his train, and
again in Easton and here, that he
was suffering from sharp pains in the
head and heart. He was to have mar.
ried Christmas week.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
Kansas CITY Bank Closed.

Kansas City, Mo.-The National
Bank of Commerce of Kansas City,
one of the largest in the west,
with deposits of $16,0 900, 900, closed its
doors Thursday and was taken in
charge by a national bank examiner
upon an order of the comptroller Of
the currency. Later two small outly-
ing banks in which the bank was in
t~erested-the Stockyards Bank of
Commerce and the Union Avenue
Bank of Commensurate closed.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
400 ARE KILLED
BY EXPLOSION
BODIES ARE BEING TAKEN OUT
BY FIVE RESCUING
PARTIES.
CAUSE OF HORROR UNKNOWN
Is Probably Attended by Greater Loss
of Life Than Any Previous Dis
aster In History Of Bituminous
Coal Mining In America.


Monogah, w. Va.-That not fewer
than 400 miners were killed by
an explosion Of black damp, in mines
Nos. 6 and s of the Consolidated Coal
Company, of Baltimore, at this place
Friday is now conceded by those who
take the most hopeful and most con
sentative view of the disaster.
OF these victims six dead bodies had
been taken from mine No. 6 at mid.
night and 65 others were piled up in
the entry awaiting completion of facil.
tiles for bringing them to the surface.
From mine No. 8, at the same hour,
fourteen bodies had been removed and
a number of others are ready to be
brought out as soon as arrangements
can be completed.
Five Rescuins Parties Working.
Five rescuing parties, with ten men
to each party, are working like tro-
jams at different parts of the two
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
START WAR,
Moslems Arrest Priest, Pig Is Hung
in M~osque,,and Battle Follows.

Vienna-Fifty persons have been
killed and twice as many wound
ed, according to reports from Djakova,
Albania, in a fight between the Cath
Ollie and Moslem population Of the
town.
The Moslems are said to have be-
gun the trouble by making a prisoner
of the Catholic priest. The latter was
rescued by the Christians after a fierce
fight, and, as an insult to the Moslems,
a pig was hung in the Mosque. The
Moslems replied by attacking the Cath
olics as soon as they could rally their
forces, and all day long the battle
ragged in the streets.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
Meat Prices Leap Upward.

Chicago, Ill.-Despite the fact
that large shipments of live stock are
said to have been brought to Chicago
by the live stock show, wholesale meat
prices took another jump, the packers
giving reduced shipments as the ex-
cuse. Pork jumped from l to 3 cents
on all lines, and beef from three-quar-
ters of l cent to 2 cents.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
Dirt Flies on Isthmus.

Washington, D. Cool. Goethals,
chief engineer of the Panama canal,
cabled the canal officers in this city
that all records weer again broken
for the month of November in the
matter of excavation on the isthmus.
The total amount Of earth removed
during that month was 1,S38,4S6 cubic
yards, as against 3S9,407 cubic yards
in November, 1906.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
Murdered for Love-.

lola, Kas.-W. H. Croviston, res.
taurant man. is in jail here,
held on the charge of murder follow
ing his confession that he killed his
partner, William Stewart, in order that
he might marry Stewards wife. Mrs.
Stewart is also under arrest on the
charge of completely in the crime, but
denies all knowledge Of it.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
Senate Passes "Jim Crow" ain

Guthrie. Okla.-The Jim Grow bill
passed the senate Friday afternoon by
a vote Of SO ayes, 8 hayes, 4 absentees
and one excused. The bill viii become
directive In sixty days after being
signed by the governor.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
Van Dyke Masterpiece Stolen.

Courtrai, Belgium.-One of Van
Dykes great masterpieces. THE
Erection Of the Cross" has been stolen
from the church of Notre Dame. The
thieves carefully cut off the anvas
from the frame and carried 1t away.
They are believed to have been ex-
perts, as special %watchinen employed
in guarding the treasures Of the
church observed nothing.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-13
Bible Sold for $1,225.

New York-The Milton family
Bible, printed in London in 1888,
and with the autograph of Poet John
Milton, dated Feb. "a, 1854. on a slip
of paper pasted on the inside cover,
brought $1,225 at the auction sale of
the collection of William H. Buckler of
Baltimore, now secretary of the Amer.
lean legation in Madrid. E. H. Rich
mond, a dealer, was the purchaser.