The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-22

ly marked boundaries in any other di- rection. The Greeks called 1t the Land Iof the Scorched Faces. The knowledge lof this country possessed by the early Greeks was extremely slight and great ly corrupted by mythical additions.
 According to the Homeric poems, the Philippians were the remotest inhabi- tants of the world and received the gods themselves as familiar guests. From Herodotus down i've hear of a great many separate tribes that were called the Fish Eaters; Long Livers, Troglodytes and Cave Dwellersi
 The name Ethiopian has been applied both in ancient and modern times to peoples of different races who have oc- cupied the country to the, south of Egypt and to dwellers in the southwest part of Arabia, in much the same way that the name Englishman is used for any native of the British Isles wheth- CT he be of Germanic or Celtic descent. They were principally a reddish brown people but divided into number of dark skinned tribes indicative of affin- ity with the negro. The Greeks had a tradition that the Egyptians were in- debted to the Ethiopians for the first emblems of their civilization. They came, probably. from the Semitic race.
 Much has been said of Mercury, Apol- To and the Muses from whose ingenui- ty originally sprang music. It still re- mains a problem, although credit should be given to some one country for it's first cultivation. It would prove that in that country which first dis tinguished itself by it's superior excel lence in the other arts and sciences, where geometry was invented and ar chitecture exhibited in it's grandest and magnificent aspect, music must have attained it's first power to gratify the ear and sentiment According to some of the Greek philosophers the Egyp- tians were interested in the education of youth and believed that music should be practiced and cultivated in the assemblies of young people,
 It has already been said that this art was practiced in their temples In fact it was not permissible for painters or other initiatives artists to innovate or invent any forms different from what were used pertaining to music, painting and statuary or to make any altera- tion This would prove that pictures and statues made ten thousand years ago are in no particular ahy better or any worse than they are now They entered into it in the true spirit of leg islation and policy and though in oth- CT things the Egyptians might have permitted some changes from time to time, as far as music was concerned no change was permitted. They thought that 1t was the work of the Deity or some divine man; they even say today in Egypt, and have so considered for all time, that the music which has been so long preserved was composed by Isis as was poetry.
 The historian, Herodotus, who refers to the power of music in very glowing terms, tells us that the people who as- sembled to worship Diana embarked i'll great numbers on pilgrimage to Bubastis. They played music, sang and clapped their hands, and at. the same time hauled in the vessel at every city that lay in their passage while the women continued their music Tn the procession of Osiris. and Bacchus the Egyptian women carried the images, singing the praises of the god preceded by a flute, Among other memorable customs the Egyptians sang the song of Linus like that which was chanted by the Phoenicians and Cyprians and other nations who varied the name &C., cording to the languages they spoke.
 In speaking of the music of the He- brews, it will not be possible to speak with all the clearness and perspicaci- ty that would be desirable, Enveloped in almost impenetrable obscuritS, it defies elucidation and discourages re- search. Among the inventions att tributed by the Jewish lawgiver to the most remote race of men, the con- struction and performance of the mus teal instrument take very early sta- ton. Though the Scriptures do not mention the practice of music till more than 600 years after the flood (except- ing that Jubal, the sixth descendant from Cain, is called ''the father of all such as handle the harp and organ'). no one can reasonably doubt that long before the deluge it was in considera- ble if not high cultivation. Guided by the Hebrew chronology, we may say that more than seventeen hundred years before Christ we have the lyric cal effusions of Moses upon the es- cape of the people of Israel across the Red sea, in which Miriam, the prophecies, is represented as using S timbrel, followed by women with tim brels and dances. "Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea" (Exod vx, D And Miriam the prophecies, the sister of Aaron took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances"
 Without noticing every link of the chain of musical events furnished by Holy Writ, let US recall the circHm- stance of David having been called in to administer relief to Saul, afflicted with an evil spirit, by the soothing powers of his harp, q Sam. xvD; his being met when returning from his victory over Goliath by the women of all the cities of Israel, Fsinging and dancing with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music" q Sam xviii); the damsels playing with tim -brels in the procession before the ark (Psalm lxyiii 25); the sons and daugh- ters of Haman being the musical pu-