The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-26
The Warsaw Gate City
Warsaw, ILL.,, Feb. 26, 1915.

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Mrs. Sarah Leffler died at her home
| in Warsaw on February %. after a
tedious illness which sshe bore with
surprising patience. Before marriage
she was Miss Sarah Mar6is and
was born near Pittsburgh, Pa, Jan.
10, 1S41. At the age of ten years she
came to Keokuk with her parents and
subsequently was united in marriage
to Andrew Leffler., Jan. 6, 1852, and
moved to Bentonspor, Ia, In the year
1887 they came to Illinois and settled
south of Warsaw on a farm until five
years ago when they moved to this
city, and purchased snug home in
south Warsaw where they have re-
sided ever since. Eight children were
born to them, William of Mallard, ILL.,,
Mrs. Gus Miller, Mrs. Frank Malth-
amer, Mrs Geo. Barber, Misses Bertha
and Ethel, all of Warsaw, Mrs. Geo.
Curtis Of Hamilton, and Mrs. John
Mathes Of Mallard These all survive
her, together with her husband, TWEEN
ty grandchildren and three great
grandchildren. She also leaves one
| sister, her senior by several years,
Mrs. Will Howell of Keokuk. Her fun
eral was held Wednesday, Feb. "a, at
2 p. M, from her late residence, Rev.
A. F. Cole of the M. +. church Off
ciating, Burial was in Oakland Gene
terry.
MISS Minnie Brueggeman left on
Monday for Chicago and from there
she will 60 to her home il West
Branch, Iowa She has been visiting
here for several weeks with her sis
ter Mrs. Robt. B. Hoffman
Children are now enjoying them
selves with the innocent and exhili-
| rating amusement of roller skating on
the cement sidewalks, but they should
not be rude AID forget that old peo-
pie and cripples are entitled to the
sidewalks and roller skaters are not.
| One of the most interesting meet
| ings was held last Sunday at Evan
gelical hall. Professor T. e. Cook had
kindly consented to address the meet
ing on the subject: "The Power OF
/, Music and Poetry in Religious and
National Life" The speaker said in
part: "The great moral and ethical
/ uplift that may be exerted by good
music and literature very often IS not
realized. The union of music and
poetry is very close. Great poetry
has called forth and found it's affin-
ity in music, and great music has
stimulated poetry. DR.. Holland beau
| tffully said: Music is thing of the
soul, a strange bird singing the songs
OF another shore The home Of music
is in heaven, for in the dawn OF Gre
alton, the morning stars sang togeth-
err and all the sons of God shouted
for joy That music. in some form,
began very early in history and that
| it played a great part among the
Israelites is evident from the Bible.
Instrumental music was long looked
upon as an evil in some churches,
but this prejudice is passing. All
great poets and musicians have been
men of great minds and strong per.
sonalities. Shakespeare, Schiller,
Goethe. Bryant and Longfellow. as
well as the German composers, Bach,
Mozart and Beethoven, are examples
of intellectual greatness and were Of
vital influence en- civilized life in gen.
eral The great oratorios: The Gre
alton by Hayden: The Messiah by
Handel and Elijah, by Mendelssohn,
are a power for good to uplift the
hearts into higher spiritual realms.
Martin Luther stirred Germany by
his famous reformation hymns: "A
Strong Fortress is Our God Hayden
called on his country, Austria, to raj
ly against Napoleon through that no.
bic Austrian national hymn. High
tribute is paid to the thrilling patriotic
song La Marsailles,' composed in
1892, by young French officer and
called by him the Song of the Army
of the Rhine But later on strong
and confederated Germany was to
take up the song of the Rhine In
their own stirring and rousing battle
song, dear to the heart Of every son
of the fatherland, Die Yacht am
Rhein.'
"In our own country. music has
played it's part in national develop
ment from the time when the colon.
ial soldiers assisted the British in
the conquest of Canada Well known
is the history of The Star Spangled
Banner, and how it was written by
Frances Scott Key, while virtually a
prisoner on board a British man Of
war. During our late civil war many
war songs were written to cheer the
boys in blue, When Julia Ward
Howe wrote The Battle Hymn Of the
Republic she sang song that
voiced the note Of universal freedom,
and the truth so simply and beautiful
ly sung, still goes marching on.
James Russell Lowell is unexcelled
in his clear-cut and heart-searching
poems. Perhaps no song has touched
so universal and tender a chord of
the human heart as John. Howard
Payne's Home Sweet Home, written
when he was a wanderer without a
home.
During the civil war. the armies
Of the north and south. led by their
bands, were singing this old song In
hearty accord. Music touches life at