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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Pierce Aul and Earnest Richards
of Joplin are spending the holidays
with their cousin, William Aul.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Miss Stella Orr, a school teacher
of Ottawa, Kas., is visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Polster.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Claud Johnson is en-
loving the visit of their niece from
Webb City.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Mr.. J. A. Stephens, the cobbler, re-
turned home Thursday night from a
visit in lola and Kansas City.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Robt. Smith and family and Goldie
Linbrand are moving to Cherokee,
Kas. 80
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

o. Clarence Shaffer has just return
ed from q three days stay in Kansas
WY. .-.,i.--5 O.. -.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Chas. Jones Of the Jones-Marshall
Co., was q Joplin visitor last night.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Mrs. Nc. C. Brooks and family Of
Kansas Ciy arc visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
o. w. Fail.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Miss Grace Perkins Is spending the
week end in Joplin rs a guest Of Mrs.
Harry Brown.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Attorney s. C. WescOtt of Galena,
was In Baxter, Friday on business.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Chas. Marshall and wife were cal
led to Joplin yesterday on account OF
the death of Mrs. MaTshall's father,
Mr.. J. +. West
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Earnest Shafer was a Joplin visit
or this morning.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

(From Saturdays Daily
Mr.. and Mrs. T. P. Lewis were in
Cherryvale Friday on business.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Chas Marshall re-
turned from Joplin last night.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Mr.. and Mrs. D. d. Muir are Wis
iting in Lincoln, Neb., with Mr.. Muir's
parents.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

George Goodwin took dinner with
Miss Ethel Scott yesterday in COlum-
bus.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

John Bottom and wife are visiting
in Galcna at tine Smuck home.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Mr.. and Mrs. p. M. Clark were ov-
or from Galena Thursday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Chas. Dixon and family are visit
ing relarises in arkansas City this
week. - -
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Mont oceanbeam, Of Pitcher, is in
Baker today on business.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Miss Jaunita Clark of Galena Is the
guest Of Miss Jaunita Hash for few
days.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Dardene Of
Miami, were in this city yesterday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Russell and Ralph Earls are visit
ing friends in Joplin this week.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Mr.. Hurley, a pioneer barber Of
Pitcher, was In Baxter this morning.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Mr.. ana Mrs. ]. W. Kaltcnbach
were Joplin visitors yesterday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

s. T. Coe, who lives on route 8 In
improving in health.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

h Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Plummer are
visiting relatives in Cherryvale, Kas
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Geo. Goodwin was in Columbus last
night.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

From Thursdays Daily
Leslie Meyerding visited his moth
er in Quapaw Wednesday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Roy Chubb, who has been Ill for
some time, is we'll again.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

DR.. B. F. Lazenby made a trip to
Columbus this evening.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

(Frcm Fridays Daily
"A. v. Smith, Jrc has gone to New
York City.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03

Misses Letha Hart and LOra
Bryant were Baxter visitors Thurs
day.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

the major part of their time to the
institution. Recently branch has
been organized in White Plains, and
another IN the Columbus Hill district,
in both of which places small classes
are fiourishing
The support of the school on the
new basis is now being organized.
To this end general committee of
200 is being formed, especially among
the churches, which are the chief So
cial centres of the colored population.
Various small committees are directly
concerned with details of maintenance.
such as the care of the building. One
club OF young people has pledged it
SEN to maintain two scholarships from
year to year The three annual con-
certs also aid in the support. The
last of these. for the present season,
will take place in Aeolian Hall on Nav
9th, the pupils of the school supply
ing the music
Let the social scientist tell how i'm
portant such local self government is
Tor all groups in the community. The
musician will rejoice that the rare
talent of the colored people in the arts
IS not being neglected.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
Settlement School
for Negro Music
Institution Now Being Supported Who'll
ly by Colored People-Fresh Feeling in
American Music
American Music

Not many weeks ago the Musical
School Settlement for Colored Peo-
pie, the admirable institution at 6
West 131st Street where many col
ored children are being trained as
musicians, was threatened with ca
country has learned pretty thorough
ly by now, and the guarantors felt
that they could no longer undertake
TO maintain the obligations which had
kept the school alive through several
difficult years. In this juncturc the
colored people came forward and
agreed to assume the whole financial
responsibility. AS result there is
great jubiliation and not a little we'll
founded pride.
The school, quite apart from its
cultural influence among the colored
people, is most valuable property
to New York City. None will deny
that whatever other talents the negro
may or may not have, he is born
! musician. Bringing to America a
fresh feeling toward music, and re-
markable creative faculty, he is of the
very highest potential value to Ameri-
can art. What can be more reasonable
and more promising than to cultivate
this feeling aid this faculty? Those
who know the admirable work Of such
composers as VIII Marion Cooke, H.
T. Burleigh and ]. Rosamond johnson,
confidently expect still more notable
music from them and from those who
are to come after them.
The quiet work which has been done
for the past five years by Mr.. Rosa
mond johnson, director of the school
and by those who have supported it
will not irprobably figure as some
thing of Importance in the future his
tory of American music. For musicians
confidently look for fine things to come
/ out of 131st Street,
At present the school is in a dour-
ishing condition, as such schools 60
1t does, indeed, carry a burdensome
mortgage of $4,000 on the tnildne
which it occupies. But with this paid
off it would be self-supporting with
the income from it's lessons Cat most
moderate fee) and from its three an
nual public concerts. Some hundreds
of pupils are studying there; each week
In the month from January Is to Feb
ruary 16, of this year, something more
/ than a thousand individual lessons
were given. In the last year there
were 5000 paid lessons given, besides
240 contract lessons" for which pupils
paid in services at the school. Thirty
SIX scholarships are reserved for the
most talented pupils who cannot af-
ford to pay. Twelve teachers Civ.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
Schola Cunfoyu,,,
Closes Ninth Season

Inc ochola Cantorum. Kurt Schind-
Ter conductor, will close its ninth sea-
son with concert by its chorus of $50
voices Tuesday evening. April .. at
Carnegie Hall. The programme will
open with group or Russian folksongs
ana ballads, including "The Ballad of
the Volga": 'Down st. Peters Road
a song of the post drivers of Tycr. n, the
melody OF which Stravnsky used as
one of the main themes for the ballet
Petruchka"; "The Interrupted Stun
ber, or The Hapless Bride" belonging
to the class Of "Svadebnaja," or humor-
Gus wedding songs acted and sung by
the peasants; THE Ballad of the
kremlin,' song of the Siberian
prisons; "kalinka,' traditional mel
ody from the times of serfdom. and
-Dunya," Bessarabian song of the
Danube. Boris Saslavsky, the Russian
oarytone. VIII sing the barytonc solos
IN these numbers.
The women's chorus will sing
Slavonic Song Cycle, by Josef Suk.
followed by Finnish songs by the male
chorus. written by that countrys great
est composers. A "song of Exile" By
Slbellus, will be heard for the first
time outside of Finland
Inc concert Will close with the sing
ing by the entire chorus of a grcup O.,
1olksongs of America, including speci-
mems Of zuni Indians, Kentucky noun
tam and negro music. among the latter
beng a song from St. Helenas Island.
OH the coast of South Carolina, re-
Gently recorded by Natalie Curtis Bur
lin and which has never before been
sung on any concert stage In .his
group Harry Burleigh, two of whose
negro spirituals will be given, will
sing the solos.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
An Italian View
OF Horse Meat

The Cont and Mori report. before
mentioned, contains d very instructive
account OF experiments made with the
meat of horses, slaughtered under
varying conditions, with view to
using all sources of such supplies for
the army in times Of war. The results
OF those experiments should encourage
US to make immediate use Of horses
forced off our streets by humane
agents and those incuraby lame or
hopelessly injured. They add to the
hardships of impoverished owners, con-
tribute nothing in the way of labor,
occupy valuable space and consume
large rations Of corn, oats and fodder.
beyond what can be spared now by
the country.
An owner breads the destruction of
money to remove the body. If he at
tempts to work the horse he becomes
liable to fine and imprisonment, and
the burden will then likely fall upon
and break down the wife, perhaps a
mother, left with children to feed.
cbthe and house. How much more in
telligent and humane it would be to
slaughter such animals scientifically
and usefully"
Our resources are not inexhaustible
We stand aghast but uncomprehending
at reports Of our great animal food
shortage. We are the posterity Of an
era Of wasteful extravaganza, with all
its tendencies multiplied in ourselves.
Yet we scarcely realize to what pinch
past prodigality and wastefulness Of
our beef supply have brought us
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
Music Notes

The second presentation of Handel s
messiah" in the plan for the "Mes-
siah" in the four quarters of New York.
free to the people, under the auspices
of the Messiah Committee Or George
f. kunZ, cbairman), and sung by the
New York Community Chorus and the
Community Chorus of the Oranges
Harry Barnhart, conductor), will take
place in the Brooklyn Academy of Mu-
sic Wednesday evening, April 10. The
orchestra will be the Senior Orchestra
of the Music School Settlement OF New
York arthur Farwell. conductor), with
added wind players. The solosts will
be Miss Dora Gibson, of London, So
prano; Reed Miller, tenor, and Miss
Nevada Van der Veer, contralto.
Raymond Burt, young American
pianist, will make his debut at Aeolian
Hall on Saturday evening, May A.
Thomas Wilfred will give a costume
concert Of folksongs to the lutte at
the Punch and Judy Theatre on the
afternoon of April 1S.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
Metropolitan Season
Nearing Its End
Verd7s "Requien" To Be Repeated
Tonight - "Madane Sans Gene" To-
morrow Evening for the Week

With tomorrow evenings perform
succ Of MADAME Sans-Gene" the
Metropolitan opera season will enter
It's last two weeks. The Sardou-
Giordano Napoleonic opera will. be
sung By Mines. Farrar, Curtis, Egener,
suarkes, Fornia and hatfield, and
Messrs. Martinelli, Amato, Althouse,
DO Segurola, Bada, Malatesta, Bloch,
Leonard, Reschiglian and dAngclo.
Mr. Papi will conduct.
The other operas of the week will
be as follows:
"Shanewis" and "Pagliacci" as a
double bill on Wednesday evening. The
American opera will be sung by Mines.
Braslau, sundelius, Howard, Tiffany
snd Arden. and Messrs. Althousc. Chal-
mers, Bada, Bloch, Audisio and Lau-
renti. "Pagliacci" will be sung by
Miss Muzio and Messrs. Martinelli,
Scott, laurent and Audisio. Mr..
Moranzoni will conduct both operas.
A special matinee Of "Madama But
teray" on Thursday afternoon, with
Mines. Farrar, Fornia and Egencr, and
Messrs. Althouse, Chalmers, Bada,
dAngelo and Audisio. Mr.. Papi will
conduct.
Marta" on Thursday evening, with
Mines. Barrientos and Perrin, and
Messrs. Caruso, Didur, Malatesta, Lau-
remit, Mr.. Bodanzky conducting.
"Marouf" on Friday evening, with
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

ness or characteristic accidents and
consuming daily eight times more
gram ration each than would sustain y
LUZ grown man. They are cutting deem
y INTO oats and cereal stocks for meals
ana breakfast foods, prices of which
are soaring above even the panic
periods of the biggest bull corners.
Our National Council Of Defence and
the National Food Commissioner should
consider this matter seriously and lose
no time about it. 1t is urgent. Action
should be pressed. We are feeling only
the first plnches that come when taut
resources stretch with the expanse of
war. Far from inexhaustible. our meat
stocks will have to be supplemented and
replenished soon.
Horses were probably the first ami
mails to be used systematically for
meat, and were taken into cap:ivitv
and domesticated in order to provide
the tribe with a supply Of meat on the
hoof to. accompany it in it's travels.
As matter of record, the use of horse
flesh as meat goes back indefinitely
Remnants of their bones, charred over
bro!ing fire, are still found in old
nlstorlc caves in Northern and Middle
Europe, indicating that horsefesh was
then a regular article of diet
We know that it was used extensive
" during the famines in Europe fol-
lowing Napoleon's wars and during the
sleges of fortified towns
1T IS current history that in 1S47,
during famine in the northern part
OF Europe. professor, Spinola, of the
Berlin Veterinary chool, and an
opsra singer named Blum got a horse
slaughter house started. 1t proved so
successful that eleven more were es-
tabllshed the following year and more
than 5000 horses butchered.
The garrison and populace of Metz
subsisted in 1871 chiefly on horse meat
French Know How
Good thc Horse Is
The French have reason to know what
horse meat is good for, and they have
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

SITTlG TRIOy!!q!!!!.s. CELLO; ss!AMo. aI.
Fred. v. Sittig. Teacher OF Plano. 1853 W. a0th o.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

The Rhapsodies of
Chas-Martir, LoeMer

Tho two "rhapsodies Tor oboe, viola
and piano" by Charles-Martin Loefler,
which will be played at this after
moons concert Of the Friends of Music
at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, are the kind
Of music which is prevented from
attaining frequent performance be-
cause of the unusual combination Of in
struments which they demand. Com
posers who write for such instruments
do so knowing that they will not often
figure on concert programmes, unless
some organization like the Friends of
Music "befriends" them.
Nevertheless, composers have poured
some Of their best musical ideas in the
unusual moulds. Brahms is a notable
example. The present "rhapsodies"
show Mr.. Locff1er's notable talent for
tone painting in the romantic vein at
its best. They are founded on two
poems of Maurice Rollinat, "LEtane"
and LA Cornemeuse." Both are writ
Ten in mood which Poe loved, mood
which offers a challenge to the imagi-
native composer.
The first, "Thc Pool" describes not
so much the pool itself as the neurotic
poets notion of it. 1t is "full of old
fish, long blind d-stricken." The sky
above "rumbles dull thunder" The
marshes beyond are lighted by goblins,
but this pool is "revealed only by the
croakngs Of consumptive frogs" "Cre-
pauds poitrinaires" is not what the
city editor would call good reporting"
but 1t is excellent dablcrie The ris-
ing moon sees in the pool her own
spectral face, her fiat nose, the strange
vacuity of teeth" She is "a deaths
mead lighted from within, about to
peer into dull mirror" Why the
viola and the oboe were chosen to
translate impressions like these is
readily to be guessed
The second rhapsody, "The Bagpipe.'
is of Il similar hilarious mood. The
poem may be quoted here in Philip
Hale's translation:
HIS bagplpe groaned in the woods
as the wind that belIeth; and never
has stag at bay, nor willow, nor oar.
wept as that voice wept.
Those sounds of flute and hautbov
seemed like the death rattle of wom-
an Oh! his bagpipe, near the cross
roads Of the crucihx
HE is dead. But under cold skies
as soon as night weaves her mesh.
down deep in my soul. there is the
nook oil old fears. I always hear his
paspipe groaning as of yorc"
There arc commentators of standing
VINO VIII unhesitatingly accord to Mr..
Aoeffier the first place among Ameri-
can composers. His Pagan Poem"
and lie willamette du Diable" are IA
Vofites In Boston, whore they have
been played more than once bv the
boston Symphony Orchestra. Even bet
ter, perhaps is "La Mort de Tintaeilcs "
after Macterlinck's play. Another work
Tor full orchestra is "La Bonne Chan
son. after Paul Verlainc.
ny. Loeifier is an Alsatian by birth
but has lived in this country since
1881. he was at one time second con-
cert master of the Boston orchestra
put Tor some years has worked quietly
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

that Of the cow-or to the buffalo
which he followed to it's death only
after Uncle Sam had no more horse for
his sustenance. And tuberculosis has
been the white mans as we'll as the
red mans plague in every period of
American history.
There is no logical excuse for not
making use Of our immense stock Of
horse reserve to replcnish our larder.
Great numbers of the foreign popu-
lation in our big cities have eaten
horse meat in their own countries,
where it helped them in thcir struggle
for better existence by atfording
them cheap, hygionic food
Let US recall that our soldiers in the
Civil War subsisted many weeks, and
even months, on horse flesh and main
tanned their strength and courage.
Let us not forget how brave Paris
lived during the siege for six months
on horse flesh as the chief diet.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

Mines. Aida and Howard and Messrs
Dc Luca, Rothicr, de Segurola, Lau-
remit, Bada, Malatesta, Reiss, Bloch,
.Audisio and Leonard. Miss CALI and
MT. bonfiglio will lead the Oriental bal
let. Mr. Monteux will conduct.
"Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Le Goa
GOr' will be the Saturday matt
nee bill. "Cavaleria Rusticana" will
be sung by Mines. Easton, Perrin
and Mattfeld and Messrs. Lazaro
and Chalmers, Mr.. Moranzoni con-
Quoting. The Russian opera-p -panto-
mime viii be sung by Mines. Garrison,
Sundelius and Robson and Messrs.
Diaz, Didur, Ruysdael, Rcschiglian and
Audisio and mined by Misses CALI and
Smith and Messrs. Bolm. Bartik Hal,
and johnson. Mr.. Monteux will con.
duct.
lhals" will be the popular price
opera on Saturday evening. 1t will be
sung by Mines. Farrar, Howard, Egencr
and Sparkes and Messrs. Diaz, Amato
hothler and Reschiglian. Miss CALI
ana MIR. Bonfiglio will dance. Mr.. Mon
teux will conduct.
Verdi's Requiem Mass" will be re-
peated at to-night's concert. The SOLO
lists will be Mines. Marie Rappold and
sophie Braslau and Messrs. Morgan
hlngston and Jose Mardones. The en-
''fe chorus and chorus school will take
part. Giulio Setti will conduct.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
Whereluith Shall We Be Fed9

(By W. Horace Hoskins, Dean New
York State Veterinary College, New
York University
IN the free ranges of our native
~ prairies, where the grass is rich
and succulent and the air and
water pure, and the broad pastures
Of our great West more than two
million horses are to-day a waste prod
uct of the country. Young but de-
veloped, they could be safely and
proftably converted into meat for
human eating and sustenance. There
is an increasing scarcity of all other
kinds Of meat, the best Of it is not
more palatable, hygenic or nourishing
than horse meat, and all of it is more
costly.
Repugnance to eating horsehesl
where it exists is chiefly due to mis-
guided prejudice, inherent and tradi-
tional back TO ancient religious obser
vances, superstition and tribal custom.
But the laws of Noses" which pro
hibit the eating of swine because the
hog is an unclean animal, do not bar
the horse, which consumes only the
sweetest and cleanest Of foods, and in
its natural state has the most cleanly
habits. The meat is tasty, sound and
wholesome. In fact, the horse of all
animals is least susceptible to diseases
which affect mankind, such as tuber
calosis, for instance, prevalent among
cattle, swine and domestic fowls and
transmittable IN the eating.
There are excellent economic and
tygenc reasons in favor of making
use of the horse reserve in this coun
try now to conserve and increase our
meat SUPPLIES. The horses on our
ranges and in our pastures arc i'm
mediately available with scarcely any
iattening. The pastures and ranges
they are occupying could feed many
times their number of cattle and sheep
end still produce an abundance Of
crops, for the lack of which our own
people and those of our allies will
soon suffer positive hardships.
Eat Eight Times a
Man Rations
Then there are great numbers Of
horges that are disabled from lame
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
day Evening,


in his studio. In addition to the or
chestral works named above he has
composed a quintet in one movement
for three violins, viola and cello; an
octet for two violins, viola, cello,
double bass, two clarnets and harp;
a seXtet in one movement for two
vioins, two violas and two 'cellos,
entitled Gle Passeur d'Eau"; and much
vocal music, including "By the Waters
of Babylon" for woman's chorus, organ
harp, two flutes and cello; "For Him
Who Fell in Battlc,' chorus for eight
parts; "L'Arehet," ballad for mezzo-
soprano, woman's chorus. piano and
viola; "Quatre Poemes" for voice, viola
and piano. and many songs.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
French Know How
Good th.> Horse Is

The French have reason to know what
horse meat is good for, and they have