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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-29

feeding keeps the hens busy all day,
gives them good appetites. and sup
plies all the feed they will use. They
should eat about twice as much
grain or scratch feed as mash.
Send Cockerels to Market
The cockerels should be closely
culled now, as no matter how good
the stock, only comparatively small
per cent win be fit to retain as
breeders, but do not put the surplus
on the market without first putting
them in good condition.
The best method would be to crate
feed them, but at any rate they
should receive special feeding in close
confinement for two or three weeks
and then offered to special trade
at an advanced price. Better still, If
they have been caponized, that they
might be held over for the higher
prices that will prevail after the holt
day season.
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PLEASANT VALLEY.

Sunday school this Sunday at a
m. Divine service at 10. by Rev. J
w. Reinecke. G. E. Society at 7.3C
IN the evening.
Mrs. Elmer Kndig. of near Lttles-
town. Ii spending the week with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Hahn
Miss Carrie Yingling. of Hanover
and Miss Margaret Kane. of West
minister. spent few days Of last week
with relatives and friends in this
place.
Mrs. Christopher Zepp and daugh-
ter. Helen. of Hanover. have returned
home after spending a few days with
relatives In this place.
Miss Emma Bankard. Of Deep Run,
spent 4 few days with Mrs. Jonas
HeltibrIdle.
Mrs. A. L. Wagner and daughter
Catherine. are visiting her sister. Mrs
Lizzie Brothers, OF New Windsor.
Miss Edith Myers and Miss Mary
of Baltimore. spent few days with
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. c. YinglIng.
Mr.. ]. Roy Myers. who has return
ed from The hospital, Is improved and
Is able 10 be about again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sterling Nnsbaum, OF
near Taneytown, spent few days
with MS sister. Mrs. {. Tobias Wing
ling
Mr. aud Mrs. c. Tobias Yingllng aud
son spent Sunday with Ter parents.
Mr. and Mrs. David Nuabaum. Of near
TaneytoWn.
Miss Adeline Jenkins spent the
week With her grandparents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Franklin, of near Taylorsyille.
Miss Yelna Welk Is spending some
time with her friend. Miss Malya
Zepp. Of Hanover.
Mr. Earnest Helwig Is confined to
his bed With the grip.
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RIDGE COLLEGE.

After q pleasant vacation the stu
dents have returned 70 the college.
The Christmas spirit seems TO have
fingered In the hearts Of all and we
hope that 1t will not vanish as they
take up the daily routine of study.
Miss Parkhurst Is entertaining her
aunls from Ohio for short while.
The ministers and their wives from
the Pipe Creek and Sans Creek con-
gregaIions met at the college Jan.
uary 1st. for a New Years meeting.
Prof. Guyton has been called
away to attend the funeral of one OF
his aunts.
Miss Grace Williams has again TAX
en- up her work in the art studio.
Mr. Clyde BroadwaIer has been
forced to leave school. We regret
very much that he Is not able to be
with Us.
Prof Bowman and family spent the
Christmas holidays With Mrs. Bow
mans parents. at Timberyille, Va.
Miss Parkhurst recently visited
friends In Uniontown and Union
Bride.
Mr.. schue, who seldom leaves school
for any reason, spent his holidays In
Pennsylvania.
Miss Elizabeth Weybright enter
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CLERK ALL RUN DOWN
Restored To Health By vinol

shelbyville, Ind. am clerk in
hotel and was all run down, no energy,
my blood was poor and my face covered
with pimples. | got 30 weak ] had to
put up an awful fight to keep at work.
After taking many other remedies with
out benefit Vinol has relored my health
and strength. Roy 7. BIRD.
For ali rundown. weak, nervous
conditions Of men and women, nothing
equals Xinol, our delicious cod liver and
iron tonic without oil. Try II on our
guarantee.
SHAW DRUG COMPANY
Westminster. Nd.
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RARpZ.lnlycH.

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward welk. o.
Pleasant Valley. aIaat Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Albert starner.
Mrs. Horace Koontz. Of LittlestoYn
spent week with Mr. and Mrs. Wal
Ter Helwig, of Mahogany farm.
Miss Jennie Circle. Of Pinch Valley
spent New Years evening with Mrs.
jeremiah Koontz
Miss Hattie Brown spent week
Nth Miss Mamie Hnmpert, OF Arter'a
NIL.
Dir. Upton +. Myers spent a fes
days in Wilmington. Delaware.
Mr.. Joseph Myers spent a week n
Hanover. Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. HollIe Helwig and
two children. OF Hanover spent the
holidays with Mlas Helwlg's parents
Mr. and Mrs. jeremiah T. Koontz. and
family.
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MRS. CLAYTOH'S LETTER
II nnn-n Dawn Nerunna Wnman

10
Louisville, KY was nervous
wreck. and in a weak, rundown con-
dition when friend asked me to try
Vinol. I did so, and as \ result | have
gained in health and strength. ! think
VinoI il the best medicine in the world
for a nervous, weak, rundown system
and for elderly people Mrs. W. G.
CLAYTON. Louisville, Ky.
Vinol Is delicious cod liver and iron
tonic without oil, guaranteed to over.
come all rundown, weak. devitalized
conditions and for chronic coughs, colds
and bronchitis.
SHAW DRUG COMPANY
Westminster, NJ
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SIMPLIFY.

Miss Nary M. Shipley has returned
TO Westminster, to attend High
School after spending her vacation
with her mother. Mrs. Alice V. Ship
ley.
Mrs. Paul Zahn and two sons. Irwin
and Robert, are spending several days
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Elias
Beaver. near Warfeldsburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Schneider had as
their guest Sunday Mrs. Catherine
Carr. Of Bloom.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. C. zepp had as their
house guests from Thursday until
Sunday evening Miss Myrtle Zepp and
Miss Margaret Zepp, Of Carrollton,
also On Sunday Messrs. Herschel and
Lawrence Zepp, of CarroIIton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Bair entertain
ed Friday night Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
Polstar. Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Gibson,
Miss Marie Polster, Misses Melvie,
Reda and Dorothy Gibson. Mr.. Jessie
Close. Mr.. Nee, Mr.. Lucy and others.
Mrs Yirgie Zepp entertained Satur-
day night Mrs. Byron Wagner, Mrs.
Gladys Bair Mrs. Il. o. Wflhide. Miss
es Myrtle and Margaret Iepp, Mary
Shipley. Treva and Alverta Wagner,
Mr. Lester Polster, Sterling Slater
and others.
Mr. and Mrs. David G. Hook enter
tanned Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. William
Baker. of Bird Hill; Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Magin, of smaIlwood and
others.
Mrs. Alice " Shipley had as her
guests Sunday Messrs. and Mesdames
Luther zahn, Robert zahn. Leo Davis,
Mr.. Paul zahn, Masters Levi, Arthur
and Wesley Zahn, Misses Gladys and
Ethel Zahn and Master Rove Davis.
Those who visited Mrs. g. W.
Capies, who is on the sick list, Sun
day. we're Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Caples
and SONS. Ralph and Irwin. of Bloom;
Mr. Robert Caples and son. of Lewis
vile. and Mr.. @. Manro Owings, of
Warheldsburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Gibson had as
their guests Sunday Mr.. and Mrs.
John B. Wagner and family.
Mr. and Mrs. James Schneider had
as their guest Monday Miss Cledie
Williams. of Bird Hill.
We we're sorry to hear of the ILL
ness of Mrs. Mack Horton and sons.
Carroll and Ralph, near Fenby also
the illness of Mr.. Henry Miller. near
Bloom. and Mrs. Joseph shipley. of
here.
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tained several of her school friends at
. house party At her home last week.
Rev. Galen B. Hoyer. who has gone
around the world several times. de-
lIxered a most interesting lecture IN
the cottage chapel Wednesday after
noon. His subject vas Some things
Chinese" The entire student body
and friends enjoyed hearing OF the
peculiar customs and habits of the
Chinese people.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04

ried it into Spain, say others. Per-
haps, also, the violin was independ-
entity invented by some of the peoples
Of Europe. The Germans had fiddle
in the ninth century A. d. and there
are references TO the fiddle-bow in Ger
man writings of the twelfth and thir-
tecnth centuries. Volker, a hero in the
Nibelungenlied, fddles all night long
while on guard in front of the palace
of King Etzel (Attila), and when the
massacre of the Burgundians begins
PLAYS the maddest of his tunes about
the ears of the murderous Huns. The
ANGLO Saxon "fthele" is mentioned In
a manuscript Of the eleventh century
and pictured in carvings Of the twelfth.
The Welsh, always enterprising when
il comes to pushing claims for original
discoveries. believe their original fiddle
70 have been their cr1Cth, which instru-
mcnt got into English literature as the
"crowd." Spain had a violin in the
twelfth century. All these European
Instruments had bodies Of wood, with
sound holes OF various shapes in their
bellies. But they were cumbersome and
tho bows with which they were played
were clumsy contrivances. The pres
ent form of the violin was settled about
two hundred years ago, and since then
there has been no change in the struet-
ure Of the instrument. Now note the
difference between East and West: The
development of the violin was arrested
after il had been wrought to such per-
lection from every point of view. Sci
entific and artistic, that further i'm
provement bafied human ingenuity;
the Oriental fiddle in all its types is
to-day what it was two thousand years
sco-a relic of primitive civilization in
respect of form, material and capacity
for expression.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
Borodin and His Cats

Rimsky-Korsakoff's LES Annal...-
IN translation by Edward Biddle. are
appearing in THE New Music Review,
published in this city. The last chap
ter is devoted TO the impositions prac-
tised by his friends. pupils or poor
relatives on Borodin, the composer OF
Prince Igor" the novelty Of the last
Metropolitan season. Also 70 the Slip
shod housekeeping Of Borodin's wife.
Concerning the latter. Rimsky- Korsa-
koff has this 10 say:
at is TO be observed also that hi,
wife, Catherine Sergueievna. suffered
continually from asthma, did not sleep
through the night, and only arose at
midday. Borodin cared for her at
night, arose early. and thus did not
procure due proportion of sleep. The
entire domestic life Of the couple was
full of disorder: no fixed hour for din
ner and other meals. Arriving one
night after 10 o'clock, | found them
about 10 sit down 10 dinner. Without
taking into account the young chill
dren that they adopted successfully and
brought up, their lodgings continually
served as an asylum for numerous rela-
tives, poor or or their way somewhere.
who fell i'll and even lost their reason.
and Borodin cared for them, estab-
lished them in hospitals and visited
them. The four rooms composing his
apartment were often occupied by sew
Cral Of these visitors, some sleeping on
the diyans and others even on the floor
IL often happened that the master OF
the lodgings could not even touch the
piano. as some one was sleeping in the
adjoining room. The same disorder
prevailed at table: several cats that
IN Borodins harbored would get upon
the table. put their noses in the plates,
or jump upon the backs of the guests.
These felines luXuriated in the pro-
lection of Catherine Sergueievns. Their
biographies would be recounted. One
was called Fisherman, because he
succeeded perfectly in catching small
fish through holes in the ice of the
frozen rivers. Another, named 'Le-
long had a habit of Selling other
eats and bringing them 10 the Boro-
dins. who housed them. More than
once il has happened TO me 20 dine
with them and 10 see one of these eats
cross the table 20 my plate. would
I chase him OFF: then Catherine Ser
gueleyna would take M his defence
and recite his biography. Another
I placed itself on Borodn's neck and
heated MIN pitilessly. Come, sir, this
is too much this time Borodin would
say But the eat never stirred and
stretched itself comfortably or hi,
neck
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
Origin of the Violin
and the Fiddle-BOw
Opportunities for Study in the Metropolitan Art Museum
Object Lessons in Musical Evoution-Primitive
Forms of Bowed Instruments.
By II. F.. KREHBIEL.

,1JU convention of womens clubs brought together
women of many minds and mutitudinous interests Among
these the representatives OF musical clubs neither the
numerous nor the least Jealous in the pursuit of their aims
doubtful If any of the organizations of throughout the
@ the political ones not excepted have done much the
I clubs TO advance their aims Throughout the great West
roro indeed with broad territory cast of the Mississippi
p thew have only been the active agents in stimulating
study and practice music but have also been the mainsay
ineaut concortgvcrs In nearly all the cities and towns
listed bv pansts vonists and singers the arrangements for
c performances have been made through agents here "a
serable number OF them women and the local clubs Some
zeal and energy of these clubs has doubt been tteed
y the pursuit of nconsequental things and idireced c
M shown bv their programmes and indicated by the letters
% for help direction received by artists and critics in the
r centres especially New York and Boston, but much OF
work has been we'll applied and has made for the good OF the
art generally we'll as locally.
pity that of the Federated Clubs could
m have been held New York when the city, musical activities
we're at their height The opportunities to learn which our opera
and concert rooms would have offered week would have
m more profitable for doctrine Tor reproo for correction and
m instruction in artistic righteousness than all the talk which
m could listen 10 in month Whether the attention OF
musical delegates was directed the Crosby Brown collection
us instruments housed in the Metropolitan Museum OF Art
We do not know not those who failed to the collection be-
e they were not advised do missed opportunity Tor
study second only Importance to the concerts and operas when
could not be offered them. The collection not only large is
extremely comprehensive in its illustration OF the principles in
VOWED in construction OF musical instruments and OF their his
al DEVELOPMENT 1t is admirably arranged and intel
rin9ed instruments by Mr. A. J. Hipkns being excellent
for view OF one the Of the coectonone
the first nanoortes made by Csofo the Italian inventor OF
-.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04

The fact that the annual music tes-
tival Of the Litchfeld County Choral
Union is to be held in Norfolk, Conn,
this week gives timely interest to the
story Of one of the compositions writ
ten for these festivals. 1t has been
remarked heretofore in connection
with these. annual occurrences that
their plan contemplates the engage
ment Of a composer, either native or
foreign, 20 write a work of large
dimensions, which is produced under
his direction, for which he IS re-
muncrated. Dut which remains his
property. Coleridge-Taylor had visited
the United States in 1904 on the in
vitation of the Colerdge- Taylor Choral
Society, Of Washington. lie came again
in 1906. and on this visit went on a
concert tour with Mr.. Harry +. Bur
leigh and received an invitation from
Mr.. Carl Stocked to give concert in
Norfolk. In October, 1909, Mr.. Stceckel,
being in England, invited him to con-
duct his "Hiawatha" music at the Nor
folk festival Of 1910, and it was on
this visit that he conceived the plan
of composing his violin concerto. In a
biography Of the composer, written by
w. c. Berwick Sayers and published
in London a few months ago, the
origin Of the concerto is told in the
words of Mr.. Stocked. Mr.. Taylor
had written his "Bamboula" for the
festival. an orchestral work for which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04

snakeskin or wood, It's string or strings
Of twisted horsehair or gut, and its bow
of bamboo or ash. with its tuft of
horsehair held by knot at the point
and hitched to ring by short leather
strap at the heel. With fingers against
the inside Of the leather strap, the
player regulates the tension of the
horsehair and produces effects in his
playing
This companion of the kemdnGeh is
the rebab. which in our photograph ap-
pears in the hands OF a musician from
Cairo. This old gentleman is an
dldtee, which term, strictly speaking.
means a player upon an instrument of
music; but In the plural, oIateeueh.
the word is used generically for singers
as well as instrumentalists. Musicians
are not much respected in Mahometan
countries. The study Of the art is
considered unworthy Of a man and was
condemned by the Prophet. Lane says
that the GlqteeHeh are of very dissolute
habits and are regarded as scarcely less
disreputable characters than the public
dancers They are, however, hired at
most grand entertainments to amuse
the company, and on these occasions
are usually supplied with brandy or
other spirituous liquors, which they
sometimes drink till they can neither
sing nor play. The instrument used to
accompany their singing is a rude kind
Of viol, called Observation-Disclosures.
or Singers viol,' if it has two strings,
and reb0b-esh-shoer, or poets viol,"
if it has only one. II is about thirty-two
inches long, has frame Of wood with
parchment belly and an open back
like the American banjo. The foot on
which it rests is rod of iron, like the
rest Of the violoncello, of which in a
way it may be said to be a progenitor.
This is also the case with the keenan,
Qeh. The string is of horsehair and
the bow is also like that Of the
kemdn0eh
The rebGb is always used by the pub
lie story tellers, or reciters CT TO
mances, who ply their profession in
front of the coffee shops in Cairo 20
attract custom. When Lane was in
Egypt there were about fifty of these
romancers in Cairo who did nothing
else than recite the story of Aboo Zeyd,
romance said TO have been founded
on events which happened in the mid
die Of the third century OF the Flight
and supposed to have been written not
long afterward. 1t fills ten or more
small quartos in print and is half-nar-
rative prose and half dramatic poetry
The shaer (poet) recites from memory,
chanting the poetry. preluding on the
rebab, and filing the pauses between
the stanzas with short interludes.
Lane gives the following illustration
Of the beginning Of a chant;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
REFRIGERATION AND THE NORFOLK FESTIVALS

Mr.. Krehbicl had supplied aim with
the theme.
after supper" says Mr.. Stocked in
a letter to the bographer, my wife
went into the library and Coleridge-
Taylor and I went into another room to
have a smoke. She began playing on
the piano. and suddenly Coleridge-T ay-
Tor dropped his cigarette, jumped to his
feet and said, What is that lovely mel
ody" It was an African slave song
called Keep Ne from Sinking Down,
Good Lord which has never been in
the books, as it was taken from the
lips of a slave directly after the war
by teacher who went South and who
gave it to my late father-in-law, Rob
bins Battell. Coleridge-Taylor went
into the library and asked my wife to
play it again, which she did, singing
the melody at the same time. He then
said: DO let me take it down. will
use it sometime
For several days some Of the BAN
boula' rhapsody had been running in
my head, and the thought came TO me
that perhaps Coleridge Taylor might be
induced to write violin concerto, us
ing this African melody in the adagio
movements. | proposed the matter to
him then and there. lie said that he
was delighted with the idea and would
undertake it. lie was, Of course. TO
take his own time and TO receive an
honorarium therefor. In due season
the manuscript of the violin concerto
reached me- took it at once to Nine.
Maud Powell, as the work was dedi-
Gated to her and she was to give the
first rendition. My original sugges
tion to Coleridge- Taylor was that the
concerto should be founded on three
African melodies characteristic OF our
so-called Southern negro airs. When
we went over the concerto we found
that the second movement was based
on an African melody, but not on Keep
Ne from Sinking Down. which Cole
ridge Taylor had found that he could
not use, and he had substituted Many
Thousands Gone for this movement. In
the third movement he has used Yam
kee Doodle quite frequently, which, of
course, is not strictly an African mel
ody. We agreed that the second move
ment was a beautiful piece of music,
but both the first and third movements
seemed to us rather sketchy and un-
satisfactory.
while | was considering what to
write about this work to Coleridge-
Taylor | received a letter from him re-
questing me to throw it into the fire
and saying that he had written an en-
tirely new and original work, all the
melodies being his own, and that it was
a hundred times better than his first
composition. | returned the first com
position TO him at once, as 1t seemed
q pity TO lose the second movement;
and few weeks later the score Of the
second concerto arrived. 1t was tried
and found highly satisfactory. Its
first rendition was at the Norfolk fes-
tival of 1912, being played by Nine. NJ.
NJ. Powell, under the dictatorship of
Arthur Mees. After the first concerto
arrived which we did not use and
which did not contain the air Keep
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
Verdi's Requiem at the
Polo Grounds.

The Polo Grounds this afternoon will
be the scene of an open air presenta-
ton of Yerd's Requiem Mass" To
gain greater intimacy between audi
ence and performers the huge stage
necessary to accommodate the vast
ensemble has been so constructed as
to form 4 continuation Of the shorter
wing of Brush stadium, which extends
into the centrefeld and virtually
closes the gap between the two
fanges. A monster sounding board
has been placed back of the stage,
upon which the chorus is placed in
tiers, and a marquee overhead to aid
in projecting the sound.
The sacrifice of the bleachers 10
insure a more effective presentation
Of the Verdi mass entails the abandon
ment Of 10000 seats. The "beacherite"
admission fee, however, has not been
suspended for that reason. Those who,
in watching the Giants circle the bases
had paid so cents for the privilege, may
enjoy the Requiem this afternoon al
no increase of cost. Six thousand
seats at the old bleacher price of 80
cents are 10 be had in the grandstand.
In case of overflow" crowds, a sec
ton Of the bleachers, directly abutting
on the south wing Of the stadium, vii!
be thrown open.
The performance Of the Manzoni
Requiem" will consume about two
hours. Louis Koemmenich will direct
the performance. Lucille Laurence,
Giovanni Zenatelo, Maria Gay and
Leon Rothier are the solo artists.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04

Union Hill is to be the scene next
month of series of concerts, under
the auspices of the international Music
Festival League, Inc. The concerts will
be held on three successive evenings,
the first being devoted to German COM
positions, under the leadership of Will
lam Loeffenberg; the second to Italian
music, with f. A. Bcasley directing
and the third night will be American
night, given over entirely to domestic
works, sung and played by the COM
biEed choruses and orchestras of the
German and Italian nights. This
patriotic performance will be under the
leadership of Dr. Archer Leslie Hood,
one Of the incorporators of the Inter-
national Music Festival League.
The Union Hill concerts are one OF
a number of similar performances that
are to be given under the inspiration
of the international Music Festival
League throughout the country, to
CuIUlndte Win IL "eeh VI lHNci haN'N''"'
music in this city. at which it is ex-
pected, according to the league, that
at least 10000 voices will be heard.
The league states that its efforts have
a threefold object, to promote the love
of music in general, 10 foster COM
munity singing in particular, and to
use music as a means of welding to-
gether the various national elements
that constitute the American people.