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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-11
CHESTER, IND.

Preaching services at the Nj. E.
church here were well attended Sun
day night. $50. Mr.. and Mrs. Warren
Fudge, Mrs. Zelpha Hinshaw ard Miss
Helen Fudge of near Snow HILL took
Sunday dinner with Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
win Charles 49,. Mr.. and Mrs. George
Skinner and daughter Opal and Mr..
and Mrs. Chester Hill and twins, Eu-
gene and lmogene. spent Friday eve
ming with Luther Hinshaw and family.
...,. Charles Buroker and family Of
this place. and George Harper and
family of Richmond, motored to Gin
cinnati Saturday. -. Ernest Newman
OF near Whitewater, visited Fred
Pickett Sunday evening. ..M Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin Crawford of Richmond,
spent Wednesday night with the lat
ter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Michael
Kendall here. Crawford started to
New York Saturday evening and will
sail for France soon. He volunteered
his services as 4 Y. M. c. A. worker
-. Luther Hinshaw and family visit
ed friends near Williamsburg Sunday
THE Booster class will give a
market next Saturday morning at No
IL North Ninth street, Richmond.
Mr. and Mrs Michael Kendall spent
the Fourth with Mr.. and Mrs Edwin
Crawford in Richmond. ...A large
number of local persons attended the
Fourth of July celebration at Rich.
mond last Thursday Elmer Kendall
and family were Sunday guests of
Wilson Kendall and family. Mr..
and Mrs. Caleb Duke visited relatives
near Eaton, o, Sunday afternoon
Mrs. Clara Jonathan and children of
Chicago are visiting Richard Simms
and family. Garrett Hazelrigg Of
Kirklin, Ind, returned home Thursday
after two weeks visit with his sis
ter, Mrs Maggie Boerner and family.
-. Mr.. and Mrs. James Webster and
daughter Florence motored to Ogden.
Ind, and visited Will Webster and
family Sunday. 80. Rev. l.. F. Ulper
and Miss RoXie Shaffer attended a
picnic near Williamsburg on the
Fourth.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-11
TRIED RECIPES

indian Puddlng-One quart milk
one-half cup co:nmeal. one-half cup
molasses, one teaspoon salt, one tea,
spoon cinnamon, one cup cold milk
Heat milk. Stir meal in slowly until
II thickens. Take from stove. add mo-
lasses. salt and spice. Put mixture
into buttered earthern dish and add
cold milk. Bake two hours; serve
with milk or cream.
Rice Popovers-Two level cups cold
boiled rice. two level cups of -four
two teaspoons baking powder. two
tablespoons sugar, two eggs separated
two cups milk, one level teaspoon salt
Mash rice until smooth. Sift -four
baking powder, sugar and salt twice
Beat yolks Of eggs. add whites beaten
stiff and stir them into rice. Then
add milk and -four alternately and
beat till smooth. Fill gem pans two
thirds full and bake in hot oven about
fifteen minutes. Grease pans well.
Mock scaIIops-Take a steak from
the shoulder Of large cod and with
n sharp knife cut into squares the
shapes of scallcps. Wash and dry
these carefully, dip in beaten egg.
then in seasoned corn meal, and by
means of frying basket cook in deep,
hot fat to a rich brown. Drain on
browning paper before serving
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-11
OUT OF THE FRYING PAN

'
In the delirium of utter panic Roger
and Sally chung together Huddled In
the drivers seat of the ambulance. two
ENJOYS of mercy caught in mons
trous trap of destruction, they cover
ed with bent heads and nerves &C
culver under the descending blow
Seconds passed, and still the pre-
monitory whistle did not change into
the roar of the exploding shell. 1t was
Sally who first came alive she
jerked herself upright, staring about
like a person emerging from trance.
Roger reused. too, instantly alert.
"Its that damned carbureter,' he
sad through shut teeth, mot shell
at all! The Huns have stopped firing
-perhaps!" He leaped to the ground
; once more attacking the balky engine.
1t purred, rose on a sharp crescendo,
drowning out the eerie whistle of the
carbureter, and finally pulsated husk-
lily Roger flung himself aboard and
shot forward at its best speed.
With a clear half mile between
them and their blood-curdling adven-
ture at the shell hole. he slowed down,
drew a long breath and looked at
Sally, who was graphing with a nerve
strain that threatened hysteria.
Nearest to heaven ever expect to
! bel" TESTED Roger, hopping his fore
head and the swaziland of his cap
| He wanted to take Sally in his arms
again and beg her forgiveness for hav'
ing drawn her into danger, but took
] refuge in levity as much to keep her
from serious reaction as to soothe his
he
added, holding out his cigarette case
"You do it for me-" she laughed
shakily you haven't chocolate
cream about you, l suppose? I've
never had time to learn smoking"
NO but by love, I've got this!"
And Roger fished a package OF gum
from an obscure pocket.
So by the war-riven roadside Roger
puffed and Sally chewed back a sem
blance of calm. Each felt a bit self
conscious and excited. Each felt spir-
! itually closer to the other, borne for.
ward on a tide so vast and swift as
to obliterate the little landmarks of
convention. In Sally's mind was a
vague dread that Roger might venture
out of his f1ippant realm into sober
personalities, which was the thing
Roger lOnged TO DO, put was deferred
from by a sense of incongruity be-
tween tenderness and battlefields.
Both were glal for distraction of
nonchalant Tommy" cigarette in
hand, who came strolling along the
road, He stopped with friendly grin
at their machine.
"Y'aven't any fresh Tags, have you,
old dear?" he greeted pleasantly, lean
ing an elbow on the edge of their car,
with a lighted cigarette. Roger wheel
ed suddenly.
Careful with that light, Buddy he
cried, I've got a dozen hand gren-
AIDES right under your cigarette!"
The nerve strain through which
Roger had just passed gave his voice
an edge.
The Tommy smiled kindly.
ooh, sly, y wanuer get some nerve
into yer! Them Mills bombs don't
light up from a flag, y'know. Here,
lemme show YER"
Before Roger could stop him the
Tommy leaned into the car, saw
the familiar wooden crib in which the
Mills bombs lay and taking one in his
hand tossed it up and down like an
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nRC. NJ ORT ON

White Cake-Beat one-half cup OF
butter with one cup sugar to cream :;
add one-half cup sweet milk. three
quarter cup cornstaTch and heat it
good; then add scant cup OF -four
with one teaspoon baking powder and
one teaspoon flavoring Last of all,
fold in the whites of three eggs beaten
stiff. Makes two nice layers. Cover
with chocolate frostipg.
THE TABLE.
EscaIIcped Rice and Salmon-Wash
and cook in double boiler, one cup
rice and sailed water.
Open can of pink salmon and re-
move bones and skin. Use a layer Of
rice. then a layer of salmon, with plen-
ty of butter, until dish is full with rice
on top. Then pour on a cup or more
of milk and bake.
Take fork and stir mixture, to-
gether and use bread crumbs on top.
Meat Loaf-Take two parts of ham,
burg to one of sausage (pork) and
one cup of bread crumbs (soaked in
a little water if very dry one egg,
salt and pepper to taste, and chopped
onion or sage as you like, or both
Form into loaf and bake in medium
oven.
One pound hamburg and one-half
pound of sausage is about right for a
family of five or six.
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orange. Roger gritted his teeth, and
Sally was too paralyzed to scream
If the Tommy" was drunk, as his be
havior seemed to show, they had es
capped the shell crater in vain.
Nov us blokes pulls the clips out
of 'em!"
Pulling the clip out of a bomb
meant one thing only. Three seconds
after the Mills bomb loses its clip II
smashes to flinders anything within
a radius of ten fleetwood, metal
flesh Even as Roger shot out his
hand to seize the bomb in the soldiers
hand, Tommy" pulled the clip.
ITO be continued
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-11
Will Talk on Education
of Southern Negroes

Mrs Louisa NJ. Braxton. colored ed
ucator Of Macon. Ga. has been invited
by Rev ] S Hill, pastor OF Reid Me-
mortal church, TO present her work
at that church Thursday evening at
o'clock. A musical program will be
given by several Colored singers. The
public Is invited
Friday evening Mrs. Braxton will
give a talk in the auditorium Of the
high school on the Normal and Indus
trial Institute at Macon. A program
of vocal music will be given
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SAVING EVERY GRAIN.

EATON. o., July Livery precau-
ton is being taken by Preble county
threshermen to avoid any unnecessary
waste of grain in their threshing oper-
alton. declares County Agricultural
Agent A. J. Swift. He says the thresh-
ermen are following as closely as pos
sible the timely suggestions offered
by the food administration.
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WILL GET UNIFORMS.

OXFORD, O., July 1.-THE organi-
sation of Home Guards in this vii
lage now numbers Is members. Yes
10 cost S1325 suit.
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In designating the banks of a river,
the terms right and left and used al
ways with reference to the position of
one who is facing in the direction OF
the rivers flow.
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1o5 STARS IN FLAG.

OXFORD, O., July 11.-Oxford
branch, American Red Cross, is having
a large service flag made, which will
be hung in the Red Cross rooms. 1t
will contain 105 stars in honor of the
young men Of the village and town
ship at present serving in the various
branches of the national service.
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DIRECTORS POSTPONE MEETING

The directors meeting of the Com
mercial Club has been postponed from
Friday until Monday noon. The
change has been made on account of
the merchants meeting Friday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-11

MISS DUId Il. I"oi'PS"f-
Miss Dora E. Thompson is chief
of the army nurse corps mobile hos.
pitals These hospitals are mounted
on motor trucks and trailers and are
manned" by nurses no will eat and
sleep on the road.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

savants whom Bonaparte sent into
Egypt in 1893. and he wrote the chap
ters on music in the monumental De
scription de l'Egyptc Rabaud is only
one of many composers who have
studied him. though he has done 80 to
better purpose than any of his prede-
cessors save, possibly Felicien David.
who makes fine use of the chant of the
Muezzin in his Desert - Cornelius
uses this music, or another transcript
ton of the call, in his Barber of Bag
dad" where it is the only bit of local
color introduced, but where it is also
most skilfully treated.
There are, no doubt. many other
quotations in Rabaud's score which es-
capped our recognition, and themes
which had their inspiration in melodies
noted down by Villoteau. There is a
suggestion of q traditional Egyptian
march in the militant theme which IN
PRODUCES the Sultan note examples ,
and accompanies him through the
scenes IN which he figures. This de-
vice of characterization is frequently
employed by Rabaud The cobbler is q
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had been the friend Of score of gem
erations before US, has gone with the
Forty Thieves into the cave of oblivion.
whose door will no more swing open
to our open, sesamel' We never saw
Marouf till Mr.. Gatti presented him
TO us, and never even heard of him
unless it was he who used to frequent
the German stage under the double
disguise of DER lustige Schuster."
Possibly, but the matter doesn't sig
Nifty; we have the Cairene cobbler now
and we hope for his continued ac-
quaintance for years to come.
The Barber of Bagdad"
But we remember and with much
grateful kindness, another fellow Of
infinite jest and excellent fancy, who
journeyed to our opera house from
Bagdad, though he came to us from
that centre of German culture (not
KultlDD, Weimar, fragrant with mem
cries Of Goethe, Schiller, Herder and
List. The Barber of Bagdad," by
Peter Cornelius, was feature of the
Metropolitan some twenty-eight years
ago. A long time, yet his embodiment
in the actually of Emil Fischer came
back to occupy memory and fancy
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they were the natural food of hearing,
as the pale blue, starless sky, with It's
farawav domes wreathed and crowned
with lights, seems the only picture that
ought to fill the vision. Here the scene
painter at the Metropolitan and the
c 'mposer work IN transporting syn
chronsm. What Juggling Of theirs is
it that made the music exhae from
every figure, animate and inanimate, in
the picture, from every crevice and
GRANNY in the walls, from every object
in the scene? Why did the very air
seem tremulous with sounds which even
a mind given to analysis did not care
to associate with the voices of lament
ing flutes and signing violns? The
miracle was wrought by the highest
modern skill we know, but that fact
had nothing IN it of allurement. 1t
was ingenious device produced by high
skill prompted by reflection we know.
but we surrendered to effect without
wish to know the cause
Operas Racial Element
The dialogue in "Marouf" is carried
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, of the muezzin's call to matin prayer,
which trace kinship with Cornelius's
setting of his own dramatic version of
the tailors story in 1.-The Thousand
Nights and One Night Rabaud's COM
position is saturated with the arguori
Gus colors and odors of the East. Cor
nclus's is German music. There Is no
effect IN which they meet, unless. as
we thought when hearing "Marouf" for
the first time. it IS that dry cackling
of wood-wind instruments in dssonant
chords which accom- panes Bostana, the
female pendant of the barber and
which Rnbaud uses to characterize the
virago who drives Marouf into good
fortuna. 1t is In analogous music that
Wagner published Beckmessers jaun-
diced vision Of the gallant young
knight in Die Meistersinger 1.-THE
Barber of Bagdad" antedates Wagner's
comedy, and we fancy t,&' Rabaud was
familiar with both OF the German
scores when he sat down to write his
fascinating opera.
Charming Score
Bot this is ar all but negligible feat
nre in the French opera and not one
Of it's charming traits The chief
fascination comes from the use of ORR
entail themes: perhaps not so much
from the id!oms themselves as from the
manner in which they are employed
We can imagine shat ears accustomed
to orly melody of the Occidental types
(fcr we have many types of melody in
the operas of the Metropoitan's list
which in point of time covers a century
of musical development) might become
weary of the dialogue in "Marouf"
for of set song there is nothing except
an air in the third act which does not
belong to the score and was interpolat-
ed by the composer to oblige Nine.
Alda), but it is an unlnqulsitive ear
and stagnapt fancy that will not be
arrested, lured and seduced by the
woven voices of the orchestra. Here
the idicm of the East is transmitted
into speech which belongs to the
world of exalted fancy-exalted yet al
together ingenious The score is won
dcrfully transparent. There is not an
Opaque measure in if, not one in which
instruments are multiplied or colors
mixed till the utterance becomes tur-
gid not one in which one voice in
validates another, not one in which
even the most exotic of tones and COM
binations does not seem native because
# its fitness to scene or situation.
There are throbbings of Arab drums
and the reedy tones Of oboes which
might bring up memories of the Streets
of Cairo in the big show in Chicago in
1898, if they were not refined and sub
limated by the atmosphere in which
they float, the atmosphere Of the land
of romance through which we walked
when we put our hands in the long ago
within the irresistible fingers of Shehe-
razade, where they still remain and
whence they will never be withdrawn.
Faint Standardization of golden toned
gongs float through the air, and he
ear, enslaved by the imagination, alb
serbs them, rot wonderingly, but as if
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A Rhapsody on 'Marouf"

when few days ago We listened to
Rabaud's delightful opera. Again we
listened to the gable and the Gilber-
t'an patter of the prototype of all
loquacious. prying, intermeddling bar
bers. We heard him hurl his ter
rible name, Abu Hassan Ali Ebe Be
car. amid orchestral thunderings at
Noureddin's affrightcd servants Saw
them attack him, throw him on a
d'van; pouItice. plaster. rub. bandage,
phlebotomize and dose him to the
verge of death. because when called
on to shave their master he insisted
on casting his horoscope and chatter
ing half an hour about his own pau
city Of speech and the garruity of his
six brothers before he even honed his
razor. We saw the lovclorn endur-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Tom D0bson
II, Menaorom

To The Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR On Monday there died in M,
city Of pneumonia. following infuenz.
young man who in the last three
years had created for himself union.
position in the music life Of the plaza
Tom Dobson was simple, GENT.
soul, full of the Joy Of living, to whom
all the beautiful things in art, natur.
and life made strong appeal. In the
last three seasons be had been maxine
more and more place for himself AZ q
singer of songs. His methods vera
novel and his own. He had fac,to
musical talent. a prodigious memorv
and adequate piano technique 10 ha
able to accompany himself and SING
literally hundreds of songs, from tba
most TRIVIAL music hall type to the
finest Classical models. as we'll as the
ultra-mo dern school In most casas
one or two readings sufficed to COMM,
words and music to memory for evey
after Many of his programmes wen.
addressed to the young. to whom thsy
made an irresistible appeal. Beside.
he showed distinct talent for compo-
slt'on. and his friends believe that he
would have achieved a reputation an an
earnest writer of music. His untirnelv
going cannot but be a distinct loss to
the community. and will bring very
strong sense Of grief to an unusually
large and devoted circle of friends.
RUDOLPH SCHIRMER.
New York, Nov. 81.
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on not in set melodc formularies, but
in a species of unsteady heightened
and emotionally colored speech. 1t
ought to be ineligible to all, and
would be if it were sung in the YER
nacular. or to all knowers of French, if
the pronunciation and dicticn Of
all the persons concerned in the per
Torrance were what they ought to be.
The composer has done nothing to OBJ
scure it. In part it makes use of the
intervallic idioms of Oriental music
and is burdened with the remplissage
of ornament peculiar to Oriental song.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
BY H. f. Krehbiel

How many opera stories are there still
locked UP in the arabian Nights"
tales? We DO not know; we cannot
guess. Only Allah (extoled be his
namely knows. The thesaurus has been
opened scores of times, hundreds of
times, probably. but the uncut gems
still lie heaps upon heaps There have
been English. French, German and
Italian operate Aladdtns. even a
Swedish, but they have long ago gone
into the limbo of things forgotten a
bohemian ALI Baba lived once on the
lyric stage and had namesakes who
were begotten by composers whose
names and some Of whose music have Il
familiar sound Bottesiui. Cherubin,
Lacocq; but our boyhood friend. who
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

Nights" stories is hagrantly proclaimed
in the final punishment of the onlv far
seeing parsonage of the play.
We smile while seeing the vizier
punished; yet it was he who saw
through the false pretence of the ras-
cally cobbler who is rewarded for his
domestic truancy with a wife beautiful
as the moon and immeasureable treas
ure, while the servant of the Sultan
who sought to save his master goes ia
the bastinado. Kismet. what will
happen, will happen" No harm 1t is
all OF the very essence of the ARABIAN
Nights Scheherazade distilled it in her
recital to her lord the King; Rabaud
has given it to us again out of his
alembic, Bismillahi
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is plainly Cairene folksong, shorn
Of some of its redundancy of ornament,
which Nlloteau preserved for us. The
song of the muezzin, which calls the
faithful to prayer (see elsewhere). as
we hear 1t first from two solo voices
IN the second scene Of the second act
and which is woven through the later
contrapuntal ensemble, is another quo.
iation from that learned musical
Psychologist. Vi!loteau was one of the
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SUNDAY

Carnegie Hall, s p. m, concert by the
philharmonic Society:
Symphony No s. In minor. Op. g..
Tschaikowsky
Intermission
Aria. Romeo and Juliet" for soprano
and orchestra belilnl
Hulda Lashanska
rone poem. 1.-THE Swan Of Tuonela" .Sibelus
Symphonic poem. "Voltava'' .Smetana
Aria "pleurez mes yeux. from Ls
Hulda Lashanska
ono poem 'verdun'' ....- vsllers-Stanford
Aeolan Hall, 3 p. NJ. concert by the
Symphony Society;
symphony. New World" ........... Dvorak
Best Of Lads" from "Ths Impresssrio.
Mozart
Lucy Gates
Entracte and passe-pied From la Ba-
RsrcaroIle Ssint-Saens
Hymn to the Sun. from "Le Coz DOR
Rimsky Korsakoff
Lucy Gates
Fantasy on two Angevin tunes. .Lekeu
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TUESDAY

Aeolian Hall, SIS p. m., concert by
the Lett Quartette:
Quartette No /. in G major Koechel.
Quartette in f fiat major. OPP "A Beethoven
Quartette in major Op % .Tschaikowsky
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

But the characteristic racial element
IS found chiefly in the orchestral
stream upon which the dialogue floats.
There are few exceptions to the rule.
MARQUIS first song, beginning:
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shameless liar and impostor. Why do
all the characters in the play who know
him give him their sympathy? Why
does he bewail himself and his neigh
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THE CAIRENE COBBLER CHARMS IN OPER
'ton Symphony Orchestra:

by Boston Symphony Orchestra:
o1pl,ers oympnonY .............. Moza,.
s.Tsan oynlpnoi'y Borodrs
Overture to "Euryanthe" ........, ' wasas
Brooklyn Academy Of Music, 3D.
Concert by Symphony Society:
symphony No. 2................Ro ,.a.-
Andantinc Observation-Disclosures. DaIaalnae
From quartette FOR strings -Ssy
Symphonic Espagnoe for violin ard nv
Toscha Seidel s0
Three Old Belgian (Flemish) FoIksongs
Arthur De Gress