New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-12
SIS MUSE SINGS
COURT FREE TUNE
Michigan Poetess Dashes
OF Verses While Hall
Trial Goes On.

Yesterday ia the Federal Court he
meath the awed aud almost unbelieying
eyes ~ few privileged onlookers. a
real live lyric was dashed IN by Mrs.
Annie Mccullough Meilenry. or Lum.
Mich. Herself witness Ia tho gov
ernment's case against John 1. New
comber. known as John L. Hall the
poeless hlithety dubbed her instsn-
ganeous efusion. "Oh. What a Haul"
Tie, mot m at oon,entioa
lthnusn 40 Is.t 90 osufso. daa matter
% ~as 600 tnoif nfst mlsntlou
IL lhs start
Jud.e Foa..r ~as in the eh.if
And hs heafGened With ,ea .ais
10 tnsir "au 'i iesp iespais
Prom Zoe heat
Not only does this show what heats
Pegasus can accomplish when properly
joekeyed. but it tells the tale OF the al
ternoon's session. and proves that the
songstsrs are keeping up their spirits.
Beneath the bludgeonings OF law their
hearts are torn and bruised. but not
bowed. Except through tho happy me-
dium Of verse, they have not wept nor
cried aloud. Joymlly they hutter their
manuscripts IN the courtroom, OF, after
a modest pretence OF having forgotten.
ind that after all they can quote their
verses. This proves that you can't kill
a poet 50, what's the use!
On the whole. yesterday was the
throbbiest day Of the trial. Among the
witnesses was ffteen-year-old Ruth W.
Nanderllp, OF Knoxville, Ohio, a sec
and cousin Of Frank A. Vanderlip, the
banker. of this city. The little, brown
eyed song writer looking even younger
than sixteen next May" in her short
blue Norfolk suit and her blue corduroy
tam, composedly told OF having sent
Charles T. Hall a song called Lorna
Doone," set 20 the music of s35:
In , quaint LITTLE valley Of old England
Lived a sweet and dainty u're maid;
We'd wander meath the moon. l and pretty Iona
Fer Of ny love she never WAS Srnd.
Comes the chorus:
I can hear her 30 the VALLEY sws.tly sing
can see her ual'llg 'n.a'h the golden moon
Dsy and night long 70 mel her. tendery 10 greet
NJ prstty. lt,,e. d.rk-sy-d Lnrs Doons.
Sweetest of the girls know.
as the lovely maid, Echo" ungal-
lantlv declared George B. Thornton. a
negro student at Tuskegee, proving re
sincerity of his belief by adding, she.
a phantom Of delight" He was careful
TO say that his verses were written IN
"A time.
The youngest song writer was fifteen
and the oldest sixty-fve, and in between
were wrists of all ages, shades and
previous conditions of poettude. Mrs.
Georgia Hixson, Of Dayton, Ohio. a
great-niece of Nathaniel Hawthorne. had
the distinction of being the oldest OF
the songsters. Encouraged by the fact
that a number of her songs, such as II
Will Be True" Loves Snare" "Wher-
ever We Wander" and Can You See
a Man in the Moon?" had been popu-
lar and had brought in fairly large roy
alties. Mrs. Hixson sent Charles 7. Hall
the information that "You Can't Buy
a Woman with Gold"
II uonan don't love you. don't think you buy
Her heart with a handful % gold
Vor goid she alll barter her body away.
Hui her hear, will never he sold.
she'll eel YOU her hand. she'll obey your command,
For eold your slave she become
pt, hidden away IN her heart love Will stay.
You can't buy a woman with gold.
Mrs. Hixson received 81 cents in