Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-11-09

At this season, while Carrie Jacobs
bends name is being placed promi-
nently before the Salem public, a word
Of her early life and contributions to
the musical world, will be interesting
reading.
Before the passing of her husband,
who was a physician in the northern
lumber lands, Mrs, Bond ]journeyed
to Chicago with a few Of the songs
she had sung to him and her boy in
their forest home. Here she met that
gifted woman whose Amber Beads"
we love to cherish, and encouraged by
her went to the largest music house
in the city with the result that they
not only bought the songs she had
with her, but promised to buy any
others she would send.
Soon after, a great sorrow came to
her tree-embowered home and in an
instant the husband was taken away.
Crushed and h%eart-broken the wife
left so suddenly alone found her only
solace in trying to realize the ambi-
lions he had cherished for her and
began to write. Some one has said,
mo n can sing we'll till the heart
has been broken" There is much
truth in the thought which may be APP
piled to the song Of the heart as Of the
lip. The sorrow of her life had been
her inspiration, and from her own
heart she has sung to the heart of hui
manity and won It. Those early songs
made a place for themselves where
ever heard, Write to Me Often, Dear"
when Do l Want You Most" and
many other songs from her very heart
to the hearts Of those who listened.
The busy writer felt however the need
Of closer touch with the musical world
than she had ever had, to At her for
the work she saw more and more was
hers to do. She had been fond Of mu-
sic from childhood with one of those
phenomenal memories of which we oc-
casionally hear. When a little girl,
nine years of age, in her GAINESVILLE,
Wisconsin, home, she attended a con-
cert given by Blind Tom, where he ex-
hibited some of his wonderful feats OF
playing a composition after hearing 1t
once An old man rose in the audi
ence and said there Is a little girl
here who can do that" Immediately
the blind pianist played one Of his
own compositions which had never
been published. The child, although
her tiny hands could not reach the
octaves, with that exception, played it
as he had done, and has never forgot.
ten 1t. Still with all this inborn ge-
MUS, she was never given the OPP
p~ortunity to study as she wished to
and 50 she went abroad, everywhere
receiving the highest commentator
for her work. She began to realize
that she had other ability than that
Of a composer Of music and Of poetry.
Her ability to sing or to recite her
poems was almost a revelation to her
and yet as she wrote song after song
and published book after book of songs
or poems, the public became insistent
to hear her and she began TO give re-
citals, TO furnish an evenings enter
tainment, until her monologues have
become famous almost around the
world. Not all at once did this re-
ward come to the in~defatigable work.
err, for the path to fame is not rose.
strewn, nor does the laurel drop from
some fortuitous sky upon the brow"
There was a brave struggle for rec
ignition, and that from the best, for
nothing less cou'd satisfy this ambi-
tiOus soul.
From Berlin, David Frangeon Da-
yles wrote: 81 am fond Of Holets .
that's why / like your songs . .
There's work in the world for such as
you. Many thousands are awaiting
your message" From Nordica, David
Bispham, Genevra johnson Bishop