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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-11-10
FARM WANTED

Large farm on which a man could make
living Send full description. including
size. quality Of soil. number Of acres in
cultivation. number of acres Of pasture or
meadow. fencing. roads. exact location.
Party wants to rent with privilege of buy
ing on terms.
have a number of houses in Wash
ington and Takoma Park that could be
exchanged for small farms. Send me
descriptions OF your farms il for exchange.
One party has half-acre lot in the town
Of TakOma Park. Md. unmortgaged, price
5000. will give as part payment on small
farm.
would be glad to send you my complete
list Of properties for sale or exchange.
J. S. FRASER.
Takoma Park. Md.
Phone-COl. 4368w
sep 8-3m
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-11-10
In the Circuit Court for Montgomery county,
as Court of Equity. No. 1911 Equity.

ORDERED this LIST day of November, A.
d. 1915. by the Circuit Court for Mont
gomery county, as a Court of Equity. that
the sale made by Bowie F. Waters, As
signee. to Charles A. Crock and reported in
the above entitled cause. be ratified and con-
firmed. unless cause to the contrary there
of be shown on or before the End day of
December next: Provided copy of this
order be inserted in some newspaper pub
lished in said Montgomery county, once in
each of three successive weeks before the
said End day of December, 1916.
The Report states the amount of the sale
to be $4,000.
PRESTON b. RAY, Clerk
Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
True cOpy-Test:
PRESTON B. RAY.
nov Std Clerk
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-11-10
MONEY TO LOAN

LNROM $500 10 5000 on improved real
u esthte 10 Montgomery county.
BOUIC q BOUIC,
en- 1871 Rockville Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-11-10

LNOR SALE.
T. A farm Of thirty acres. with
house, barn and other necessary outbuild-
ings, two miles north Of Clarksburg. on
Benefits Creek.
MRS IDA T.. LAWSON.
CiaTksbuFg, Md.
apr 2l-im' RED.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-28
left not one iot of those iniquities that
curse the land which the Lord thy
God gaVeth thee. N. Albright.
RACIAL HATE.-Robe

RACIAL HATE-Robert Morris,
Mead and Shea were good people and
the kind l praise, although one says
Morris was a Jew and another says
not. Hurrah for Morris, Shea and
Mead, for all that.
Lafayette was a Frenchman. War
at that time was necessity, but now
it is not.
When we quit condemning a whole
race on account of greed and wrong
doings of some we will come to the
right thing. lam not going to throw
down a good Hishman, a good Jew,
a good German, or any good man of
any race and breed injustice in my
self. l amt any too good at that
Frank Smith.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-28
SINGLE TAX AND

Perhaps it is because do
not understand sufficiently the two
Georges (Henry George and Geo.
WeIls) that 1 have to make the fol-
lowing remarks about single tax. AS
/ understand, single tax intends to
raise all taxes from a single source,
land, which should be taxed to the
limit, so as to make private owner
ship in land impossible.
Although do not own even lot
in a cemetery, yet those who do own
real estate, seems to me, have as
much right to their property as the
right conceded to owners of other
forms of wealth.
If you do not contest the right of
an individual to own a million dol
lars or its equivalent in raw material,
machinery and tools, if you concede
to him the right to demand from la
borers a price for the use of these
things, which were originally pro-
duced by the laborers, then how can
you contest his right to land for
which he paid with money that, &C
cording to you, belonged to him.
You say that the land increases in
value with the increase of population,
and therefore the increased value of
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-28

land belongs to the people. But so
does any other commodity rise in
value with the increase of a popular
demand for it. Then why not give
to the people the surplus value of
such commodity?
You will tell me that the land is a
gift of God, and therefore it should
belong to the people as a whole,
whose interests are the interests of
God, which is a beautiful idea. But
so is the power of man to create
wealth by labor also a gift of God.
Why, then, not turn over all the
wealth to the people in their unity,
which is the embodiment of God on
earth? Moreover, land is to a, GER
tain extent unclaimed property, for
the people cannot claim ownership
to an individuals land, since they
have not created it by their labor,
while the people can claim ownership
to all other forms of wealth, since
they alone have created it. By what
line of reasoning, then, can you say
that the public have a greater claim
to the land than to the products of
its own labor? Besides, the ultimate
benefits of single tax are very doubt
full.
1t is reasonable to expect that an
excessive tax on land will manipu-
late the real estate market so as to
freeze out the small holders and play
into the hands of the rich, who will
be enabled to occupy the best land,
for they will be the highest bidders
of taxes and rents to the government.
The government, to avoid playing
political favors, will be compelled to
offer its land to the highest bidders,
and the millionaires will gladly pay
to the government the highest rents
and taxes, for they will ultimately
get back from the laboring people all
they paid and good interest on their
money, too, since you concede to a
Tho IN O1ry,1 ,ooi11iO,,c Of dol
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quarters of Gen. D. n. Couch and Gen.
F.. A. Walker" There are so many in
terestiGg facts associated with this
house which the marker has not the
Spac" to tell that the Rambler enters
with pleasure upon the duty of telling
them.
Brightwood itself occupies a fiat hill
top. but in the southeast angle of
Georgia avenue and Shepherd road is
land that rises above the rest of
BrightWood and on top of this hill
lock is the house that was the head
quarters of Gen. Couch and Gen.
Walker. and which was used as a sig
nal station during the civil war. a
signal station which was part of the
system of the defenses of Washington.
distinguished air and attracts the at
tention of thousands of Washing
tonians, but probably not all of them
know its story. 1t is one of the fine
homes. whether of the new or the old,
in Washington and its environs.
1t is big frame house always wear
ing d coat of paint which seems fresh.
1t is four stories high, the topmost
story being within q manSard roof.
Across the front is a two-story COW
cred porch, deep and comfortable. In
the grounds are picturesque summer
houses, trellises and arbors for vines,
birdhouses. an old sundial, and a
heap of cannon balls of various sizes
that have been found in the nearby
fields, mementoes of one of the crises
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Mr.. Emery always referred with pride to the
fact that several of the best schoolhouses in
Washington. among them the Franklin. the
Seaton. the jefferson and the Sumner buildings.
We're erected during his mayoralty. His services
were sought school commissioner, and al
though compelled from press Of business to de-
cline what he would have felt most congenial
work. ii said by the then superintendent
that he had done more. by his appreciat ion and
activity. to advance the cause of educa ton than
had ever been accomplished by any person dur
ing The same length of time.
For long time Mr.. Emery lived at
No. 621 F street northwest, in a three
story and basement. brick house which
is still standing. In 1875 he acquired
the house No. POI I street northwest.
the western house of Minnesota row, a
row which the Rambler has previously
told the history of. The moving spirit
in the construction of this row of
famous houses was Henry Mower Rice,
the first senator from Minnesota.
The land on I street was purchased
by Senator Rice in 1851, and joining
with him in the construction of the
houses were Stephen A. Douglas. then
a senator from Illinois. and John C.
Breckenridge of kentucky, then Vice
President of the United States. In
1861 the government took possession
of the buildings for hospital purposes.
At one time the corner house was oc-
cupied by Stephen A. Douglas, the mid
die house by Senator Rice and the
house at the west end of the row by
Mr.. Breckenridge. The house in which
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Tschaikowski and Verdi. is strongly
evident.
chestral scores unless otherwise noted
are displayed in such manner and so
fully supplemented with descriptive Ia
bells that a visitor fairly interested IN
music can hardly fail to comprehend
the scheme of arrangement. Under AS
You Like It one is greeted without
comment by Arne's familiar Blow,
Blow. Thou Winter Wind while under
A Midsummer Nights Dream bridal
couples will quite likely blush in the
presence of Mendelssohn's Wedding
March, even though they may have
been married to the same strains as
Elsa was in Iohengrin.'
Since it is not generally known that
Rouget de LIsle, the author and COM
poser of the 'Marsellaise.' took to
Shakespeare librettos in his declining
years. his Macbeth composed by An
DIRE Hippolite Chelard, performed in
Paris in 1927, and dedicated to the
King of Bavaria, has been exhibited
between Nerdi's Macbeth and Edgar
StillmanKelley's autograph score of
The Defeat of Macbeth, kindly loaned
for this occasion.
'Under "A Comedy of Errors it was
thought fitting to remark that not one
of the fifteen songs In Bishops opera
fact is amusing that in Ambrose
Thomas LIE Songe dune Mutt d. Etc
Shakespeare appears as one of the
characters, though otherwise there is
very little Shakespeare in the opus.
Measure for Measure could be rep
resented only by exhibiting the one
piece published during his lifetime
from Wagner's opera, Das Liebesver-
bot performed for the first and last
time al Magdeburg, on March %. 1886
Carnevals-Lied.'
Many believer in lagos 'Credo' as
preached SO eloquently by Verdi will
perhaps learn to his regret that it was
invented by the librettist Boito, and is
not found in Shakespeare's 'Othello.'
On the other hand. the original Will
low Song was taken bodily over
(albeit in an Italian version) into Ros-
sini's Othello.' 1t also seemed appro-
pirate to open Berliozs Beatrice and
Benedict at coloratura on(garde)-
IA, which will make the average sing
er gasp, and he will ever after re-
member that Berlioz's opera, with all
due respect for it's beauties. was based
upon Much Ado About Nothing.
These are merely a few random
comments upon the Shakespeare music
here shown, giving an idea as to the
plan of arrangement" said Mr.. Son.
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umphs through his overture. Nerdis
"Othello" stands by Itself, not only as
one of the greatest operas of the mod
ern Italian school. but, with its libretto
by the poetic Shakespearean, ArrigO
Boito, as the greatest opera from it's
great prototype.
In talk with Mr.. Sonneck regarding
the exhibit of Shakespeare music he
said: shakespeare music is, of
course, divided into two classes. the
music of the time of Shakespeare and
the music inspired by his works
operas, choral works, symphonies, etc
when / planned this exhibit it was
a question of what to do-whether we
should make general exhibit, repre-
senting at one and the same time every
type of the Shakespeare music. giving
only few types of each, or make two
exhibits. one following the other, the
first showing the work he inspired and
the second the music of his time. At
ter careful deliberation | decided that
it was more of tribute to Shakespeare
to show first, in the present exhibit,
what had been inspired by him and
follow it with a second exhibit show
ing the music of his time.
dramatic and symphonic music which
is on view at this time cannot any
where be duplicated, and it is the
largest representation of its kind ever
attempted. There is nothing striking
1y picturesque particularly interest
ing for the casual observer in the ex-
hibit, but for music lovers and for
students it should hold interest as well
as educational value. There are almost
hundred scores on view, and very
few works of Importance based upon
Shakespeare's plays have been omitted.
1.-The governing idea in the exhibit
has been to show operate and SYM
phonic scores that would cover as
many of Shakespeare's plays as pos
sible, and the list of ninety-four scores
shows that this plan could be carried
out. with the exception of .Alrs Well
That Ends Well Henry " Henry VI
Richard H.. 'Troilas and Cressida.' OPP
eras and orchestral works either have
not been based on these plays or are
not to be found in the Library of Con-
gress King Henry ", although not
on the list. is represented, since Boito
based his libretto for Verdi's 'Falstaf
both on Henry W and on The Merry
Wives of Windsor
"One difficulty was to select from our
Shakespeare music no more scores than
the four large double exhibition cases
would hold. Another difficulty was to
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%lXkh Che @atnbllezrI S. s.

the memory of Mr.. Emery by the di-
rectors of the American security and
Trust Company. the directors of the
National Savings and Trust Company,
the Bankers Association of the District
of Columbia, the trustees of the Amer
lean University, the Association of the
Oldest Inhabitants of the District of
Columbia, the Potomac Literary Club,
the Unity Club, the Ladies' Association
of the Metropolitan Methodist Episco-
pal Church, the Ladies' Home Mission
airy Society, the Young Womens Home
Missionary Society, the Womans For
eign Missionary Society and the Society
of the Emery Family in the United
States.
On the death of Mr. Emery The Even
ing Star published the following edi-
torial:
Matthew G. Emery's death today removes the
!ast OF the former mayors of Washington. and
ing the Washington of today with the Washing
ton of forty and more years ago. Mr.. Emerv's
long life was successful in many directions.
Prosperous in business, honored by his fellow
citizens with the gift of the highest municinal
office, leading figure in the later prosperity
of the District and active in religious and char
liable work. he filed the years with usefulness
His standing among the people of the canital
has been deservedly high. and in his later
few men were so honored for their achievements
and their character.
At the funeral of Mr.. Emery the hon
orary pallbearers were: The Commits
sioners of the District of Columbia, the
directors of the Second National Bank
w. w. Burdette, William f. Mat
tingly, George w. Pearson, A. A. Thorn
as. Simon Wolf, Z. e. Jackson, Charles
Schneider, Walter C. Clephane and
James B. Lambie: A. B. Duvall, H. D..
Lynch and Justice Thomas H. Ander-
son. representing the Metropolitan NJ.
f. Church; Crosby S. Noyes. Charles j..
Bell, Thomas r. Jones. John Joy Edison,
w E. Chandler. S. W. Woodward, f.
Southland Parker. Henry A. Willard,
George T. bearing and c. f. Norment.
In resolutions adopted by the official
board of the Metropolitan NJ. E. Church
reference was made Ito that heroic and
devoted board of trustees. who under
the. call of the denomination undertook
to build this church a memorial to
Methodism." That board was comprised
of L. S. Grant, S. P. Chase, John p.
Newman. NJ. q. Emery, Samuel Nor
ment, Samuel Fowler, F. A. Lutz, f.
Howard. T. L. Tulloch and D. A. Burr.
In the Metropolitan NJ. E Church is a
beautiful memorial tablet to Mr.. Emery.
1t is inscribed:
Matthew G. Emery
Born September IS 1918.
Died October Il, 1901.
President of the Board of Trustees
of the
Metropolitan NJ. f. Church
For Thirty-two Years.
Last Mayor
of the
City of Washington.
The memorial was unveiled with SOL
emn ceremonies Sunday afternoon,
April 90. 1902. The Rev. Frank NJ. Bris-
toll pastor, opened the exercises with
PRAYER: addresses were delivered by
Andrew Il. Duvall, +. II. Warner and
Henry 3. +. Macfarlapd; Miss Elizabeth
Whaley sang song and the memorial
was unveiled by Emery Cox. grand
son of Mr. Emery The committee
which had in charge the erection of the
tablet and the ceremony of unwilling
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RIGHTWOOD is place of many
civil war associations. In prep
\ aration for the forty-ninth en-
CanDInPut of the Grand Army
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ARBORS AND BIRDHOUSES.

give to the exhibit measure of inter-
national and personal variety without
excluding any of the available signif-
1cant works, and a third so to space
the exhibit that an alpha arrange
ment by play could be adhered to with
out affecting its attractive appearance.
This accounts for the fact that such
scores as Reichardt's Macbeth scenes
had to be dropped because their irregu-
lar formal threatened to crowd out
other better known works.
This exhibit, in it's entirety, gives
a fair idea of the relative frequency
with which the individual plays of
Shakespeare have been utilized for
operate and symphonic purposes. and
even the casual visitor will not fail
to notice the absence of certain of the
famous composers, notably Beethoven
and Brahms, while the Shakespearean
tendencies of others, like Berlioz,
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High Spirits.

IT. ]. WOLCOTT of the Rockefeller
u o Foundation, back from the war
zone, said in New York:
ITS a wonderful thing to see the
courage-yes. even the gayety-that the
soldiers show under heart-breaking
difficulties
IAN English officer. after a thaw.
went wading one morning knee-deep
down a trench.
"Ah, Higgins, shaving. eh?' he said
to ruddy Tommy.
"'Yes, SIR the Tommy replied with a
grin, .and-if you don't mind. sir
you're standing in my shaving water
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to their original airs, as well as 10
many later compositions since that
tline' II rs also IrGe that ny iar IN.
most important shakespeare must Has
beeh inspired by ms fd'iLds St,
the 'hfee htuFIss since ms uea. nd
Inc piays nave oHErfu 80 many nra
SO .arled tn"hles th"t pei laps -.
music mas pten piousH' e tnIo
.hfooeh the lhiiuehcS "
'hah bF any other authoi'
X
T. ,x 1T +ho +orca,te,arv of the
~ -, ~ ,ha
poet. the DIVISION OF music VI
Library of Congress has placed on
,-icu, an exbihit of dramatic and
-, ,,a nm shake
symphonic -huSi' ''a9'u
spcare' which should be or great edu-
cative value and interest TO the stu
dent of music The chief of this di-
vision. O q. r. Sonneck has given the
nlauuInrs and placing of the exhibit
,nuch careful consideration, and the
result is the most complete and inter-
esiing showing of Shakespeare music
of this kind that has ever been made.
There has always been a close rcla-
tionship between poetry and music, and
Sbakcspeare's poetry has led /" music
from some of the greatest composers
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~ RIGHTWOOD is place of many
~ civil war associations. In prep
ID) aratfon for the forty-ninth en-
- campment of the Grand Army
of the Republic, which was held at
Washington September - to october
=, 1919. there was appointed a com
mittee to mark points of historic in
terest. OF that committee William z.
Van Wickle was chairman. William V.
Cox and Marcus benjamin vice chair
men. c. c. Nagruder. jr., historian; j.
Kennedy Stuart secretary and Clarence
Corson treasurer. There were various
subcommittee, and among these was
one ito examine and pass on points of
historic interest. and another ito To-
c. . and mark the sites selected"
As result of the labor of these
lbcommittees nineteen historic site
markers were erected at and near
Brightwood. For a large number of
persons the central point of interest
at Brightwood is Fort Stevens. and the
marker set there gave out this infor-
nation. Fort stevens. first called Fort
Massachusetts. but renamed after Gen.
Isaac l. Stevens, who fell at the battle
of Chantilly. In front of this fort the
Confederate troops under Gen Early
were defeated on July HIP, 1864
President Lincoln was on the parapet
with Gen. II. G. Wright. exposed to
the fire of the enemy This site was
marked by memorial bowlder in
1911"
other places marked by the commit
tee on historic sites were the old
Brightwood Hotel, site of the head
quarters of Gen. Alexander Med. Nc
Cook during the battle; ravine in
which the 9Th Corps formed before the
charge which forced the Confederates
to retire from before Washington, and
in which charge was either killed or
wounded the commanding officer of
every regiment taking part; Battle
Ground cemetery, where are buried the
remains of many of the soldiers killed
in defense of Washington; the site of
barracks and officers quarters used by
the Union troops during the Early cam
paign against Washington and as a
hospital during the battle: the site OF
the old tolIgate. the nearest point to
Washington reached by the Confeder-
ate troops: the camps of the 36th New
York Regiment. the 10th Massachusetts,
the It'll Massa chusetts, the headquar-
tiers of Gen. NJ. G. Meigs. the tree that
was used as a signal station by Con-
federate officers during the battle, a
house that was occupied by Confeder-
- soldiers and which was riddled by
.-tiilery and muSketry fire. and the
.=e of the old Carbery house, occupied
"a held bravely by the Confederates
I'll it was burned ny shells fired from
,-ert Stevens And in addition to these
Co. ices of historic interest around
FLEETWOOD were others that were
b. arked by the Grand Army encamp-
nj committee having jurisdiction of
such matters.
At Brigf1twood is one marker which is
le9t standing and that marker bears
this legend. Emery Place-This resi-
dence was used as a signal station dur
Ing the civil war and also as the head
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~ HAKESPEARE'S work evidences
~ the fact that he appreciated the
n art of music at its full value,
W and music occupies due pro-
portion of space in all his plays. He
wrote the words of many beautiful
songs, which, set TO music. embellsh-
ed many OF his dramas. His frequeH:
illusions TO the art reveal a knowI-
edge sufficient 10 prove that he was an
appreciatiye and critical lover of
music, although his enthusiasm MAJ
not have carried him 10 the degree it
did his Lorenzo, who. in the "Mer-
chant Of Venice cNciaims rapturously:
The mar that hsth music in himself,
Nor = not moved With concord Of sweet sounds
Is TT for trcasons. stratagsins aud sfoils:
lie motion. Of his spirit dull night,
And has afTe't tons dark ErebUs,
I."t such be trusted
While Shakespeare's songs were sung
in his own day, and have been sung
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tFrom portrait by Dunkarton

neck. ''The exhibit also goes to prove
how little Shakespeare was honored by
conductors during the past sea son.
whereas it would have been quite easy
to select enough interesting Shake
spearean music for at least three con-
certs"
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wAGNER's RoYIsH COMPOSITION, WHEN HE WAS
INITIATING BELLINI.

theme of many musicians, notably also
Gounod. whose opera is we'll known to-
day, and Tschaikowsky. the Russian
composer, who has won musical tri-
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Shakespeare. The Romeo and Juliet"
symphony of this composer also gives
the best musical Interpretation of the
romantic play which has supplied the