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Show r Ills SONGS WILL LIVE. SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH WAS TYPICAL AMERICAN. f.tpr of ' America. TU of Tlief, Mho lately Tatted lo Hit Howard Hu Menu tifQsl til 'Ilia tame Hie 3, - r. . Si i Jr Life lo Brief. it O FAR as concerns his general fame, the late Dr Samuel F. Smith was comparable to the re ke 18 ty s- A - Single-- - Hamil- speech whose one deliverance great dwarfed everything else he ever did. Dr English, who wrote Ben Bolt, grumbles from time to time over the chant e that made him famous as the author of a casual song, hut It does not appear that Dr. Smith ever complained of the concentrated reputation that ramo to him as the author of America. "America was his great suttegi, hut Jt was the success of a er. dervtng person, who had the gift of song in a considerable degree, and who wrote some very good hymns, among them one, The morning light i? breaking," which every adult American who was the child of pious parents know s by heart. That hymn and 'America' Dr. Smith wrote while he was a theological student in Andover. All Ins life he was a copious writer and trnn-lato- r, and it 1b interesting to know that he was a remarkable linguist and master or student at least of not les3 than fifteen languages. After he graduated from the' seminary at Andover he became a Baptist minister, had a church i n- - V a t e r v i C7 M ot a n d was at the same time froiessor of foreign languages in ton, Jfi Pr s t 1 1 Watervdle college, now Coiby univer- sity. In 1812 he came to Newton, Mas-shusetts, as pastor of a church there, and for a time edited the Christian Rrgist r One of his distinctions was his me mbership of the famous Harvard clat.s of 1829, reduced now to three sur. vivlng members. It was as a 29 man that Holmes wrote of him in lines that have appeared in all of his at T j d. st ey ft ? 4 r r I to feaUft the Ho ICIght Bower of tho Speaker. Congressman Nelson Dingley, Jr., of Blaine, was born in Durham, Me., Feb. lo, 1S32. graduated from Dartmouth college in 1853 and was admitted to the bar the same year that he became editor of the Journal. From the first moment of his identity with the newspaper Mr. Dingley commanded public attention by the force and virility of his editorial utterances. In 18G2 he was elected a member of the state bouse of was ro elected In representatives-an- d lS62,18CfnSG5r iSeS and lS73, and served as speaker during the sessions of 1853 and 1S64. In 1864 he was elected governor of Maine and served d up ing that term and the next. At a epe-xi- al election in 1881 be w as elected to sat h;l Jkn-i- S a - . Sjl : .. i - ? - r th ed I. w .x il h, ' & fS' rm$s V! v-- ' . IT GEORGE L. RIVE3. ginla and minis ler to France- ,- He was educated at Columbia and at Cambridge university in England. He is a member of the New York law fern of Olin, Rives & Montgomery A Wry Old Deed. A very old deed was recorded at the registrar of deeds 'OfflceTU Nashua. N. H., the other morning. The deed was drawn March 11, 1792. It conveys a piece of land In the town of Weare for the sum of 159, from John Hodgdon to Cabel Peaslee. Through neglect, or for some other cause, the deed was never reeorded. Both parties were once prominent residents of that town. Arc All American. There does not appear lo be much of a scramble for public office in Tawas City, Mich., as one man there holds five at the present time. He Is village mar- shal, Btreet commissioner, truant offl- cer, night watchman amf lamplighter. Three of these offices pay him 100 a year each, and the other two 350 a year h. COST COUNT TAAFFE. 8,000,000. Th THE CROWN OF PORTUGAL OF. ' rr FERED FOR SALE. The Royal Troasory li Scsnl Jut Sow ad Uat lie RpIuUli4 at tho Co! of . tho , IUuu' UosiifoaTho Aewefest iAcaan. HE crown of Por0 tugal Is for sale, goslpja -- London, Dora where Carlos, the owner and wearer of the bauble, Is now visiting. The royal treasury is very scant. It seems, and tho king, who little relishes tho distresses ot h people, is willing to realize on this valuable piece ot portable property In order to supply the deficiency in tho revenues under existing conditions. It was stated when he left home that the crown was taken for the purpose of repair. But tho fact, haa leaked out that It was for the more prae-Itereason that It might be sold or pledged. The crown ot Portugal la the most valuable in Europe, or, for that matter, In the world. It consista of a solid gold band completely covered with precious stones, many of which are historic relics of Portugals former greatness. They were procured when the mines of the Indies and Brazil were at tho disposition of that valiant little Country. Among the jewels decorating the band are four enormous diamonds and four rare rubles. From tho band rise four heraldic oak leaves, each ot which it studdeiwltlLpreeioutonos. From the leaves issue four arches which come together In a point above tho crown. The arches are decorated with the conventional gold balls usual to crowns, but in this case the interstices are filled with, diamonds. Above the point of tho arches Is a Jeweled ball, and this Is surmounted by a Maltese cross. The crown weighs three pounds and five ounces buy. This circumstance calls attention to a country that has played a great part In history, but U now comparatively obscure. It la out of the way of the average tourist, and until within twenty-fiv- e years roads w era unknown There Tho entire area is only 368 miles Jong by 100 miles In width. It Is separated from Spain by social and political rather than by natural divisions. A few years ago Spain attempted to seize and annex it, since which time an Intense enmity has existed against her among the people of Portugal, The present ruler, whoso full title is King of Portugal and tho Algarves within and beyond the teas in Africa, Lord of Guinea and of tho al WHERE PURCELL LIVED. Was Glad. When he was twenty-eighe resumed his connection with tho theater. Drydcn was looking abouffor some composer to assist him In his plays, and he fixed upon PurcelL Ho wrote songs for Drydens abominable version of Shakespeares "Tempest. It was In 1687 that Purcell composed a quick-ste- p which no doubt contributed a good deal to the revolution of the Lord Wharton, the following year. Irish viceroy, seized upon this stirring march as the tune ot a ridiculous song called Llllibullero lnaultlng to th Irish people generally. That song, political and religious, spread through tho land as fast as a popular comic song does today. Though 1688 was a dark and troublous year, and James 11. fled from his throne, Purcell contributed the muslo to at least one play, The Fools at tho Queens theater. In Dorset Gardens. He was something of s musical Vicar ot Bray. He just as readily wrote odes for tho first of the Hanovers as for the la3t of the Stuarts. Besides, be bad no small eye to business, and at the coronation of William and Mary ho claimed as bis perquisite, the money received from sightseers to view tho admitted to the organ-lo- ft ceremony. Tho amount would certainly be several hundred pounds, and he declined to hand It over to the dean, and was in consequence threatened with dismissal. - Here Is aa entry in the old chapter: JlS April, 1689. Mr. Purr, to pay to Mr. cell, tho Needham such money as was received by him for places in the organ-lof- t, and In default thereof his place to be declared null and void, and that his stipend or Ealary bo detained In the treasurer's hands until further orders." For Purcell to be described as the organ-blowwas probably an Intentional Insult. How the quarrel ended I cannot ay, but Purcell did not cease to be "organist at the Abbey. His death took place two hundred years ago; hb was burled In Westminster Abbey beneath tho instrument that he loved so well, ahd the two anthems that be composed for Queen Marys funeral were sung at his own. Since then they have been sung at every- - choral funeral in Westminster Abbey and SL Paul's cathedral. To commemorate this great master of English music (a comprehensive account of whom appears In the Musical Magazine) ono of hla anthem hat been Included in The bp r vice every week at Westminster. There is to be a service on tbo anniversary of Purcell's death. Sod the music, u blch first Found voice ht niillsialtM Aaatrlaa (mImbu , Who la of Colt la Kilractloo. Count Taaffe, who Is suffering from serious Illness, is both - an Austrian statesman and an Irish peer. He la tho eleventh Viscount Taaffe in the peerage of Ireland, and Baron of Ballymote, but for the last five generations the. TaaffsA.feave lived- - ts Austria; - HI mother was Princess Amelia, daughter of the late Prince of Brezenbelm von Regenz. Count Taaffe is only sixty-tw- o years of ago.-- Hs married, when ho was tweaty-lhfe- e, the Cuuntcs Ezaky-vu- it Kereszthszegh, and succeeded to tbo family honors In 1875. After holding many high state offices, notably the governorship of the Tyrol and Vorsrt-berhe became prime minister ot Austria in 1879, and in that office, which ho held 111! 1893, he displayed an extraordinary adroitness In managing the heterogeneous nationalities which compose tho Austrian and tho Hungarian states, holding to the cast-iro- n policy, but showing hlmselfLan Ideal opportunist, a master of compromise and ot tho art of' controlling conflicting Interests. Ills laughing remark, made in a sitting of the relchsrath in 1892, En somme et avant tout 11 Imports do vlvoter, might well servo as the epitaph of bts i ". ! Y a- - i g, COUNT TAAFFE. political career. When ho left tho office In 1S93 he received an unusually warm letter of thanks from the Emperor Francis Joseph, of whose youth he was the cherished friend and companion. Count Taaffe was a politician ot the school of Lord Melbourne, whoso famous, "Why cant you let It alonef he would hesrtlly haro echoed. , Hhlpplns Hhatlad L Ess. Eggs are now Imported Into England from Russia shelled, beaten up and pro- - t," ''A organ-blowe- VvV"; THE CROWN OF PORTUGAL. er HENRY PURCELL. About this time he wrote the famous anthem, They that go down to tho sea In ships. The organist of Westminster Abbey at that time was Dr. John Blow, a loving, appreciative man, who soon recognized the genius of his pupil. His appreciation went so far that he actually resigned his office that Purcell might be the organist of the majestic old pllo. Purcell So, at the ago of twenty-twtook the highest post an English musician could then occupy. It was inlC8Q-h- e became organist. and bo then severed bis connection with tho theater for some years at any rate. That year, however, saw tho production of the first F.ngUsh opera, Dido and Aeneas." Dramatic music at the time was in a deplorable state iu this country. Hitherto, English composers had done no more than write songs and choruses, not to dtr with the play, but to be Introduced at intervals la the performance as a change. Purcell never saw an opera in his life. Opera flourished in Italy, and was already creeping Into France. But in Purcell, England It was unknown. however, was under the Influence of Nicola Matteis, who came to this country In 1672, and was the means of settling Italian music In England. Through him Purcell gained acquaintance with the music of the Italian opera of that day. -- The power of the young composers genius can be grasped J from the facr that at the age of twenty-t! wo, without having ever witnessed an opera, he produced an opera himself, was perfect which in construction There was no dialogue. Every word In the libretto of "Dido and Aeneas was set In recitative, solo, duets. It was unique. Although in 1680 the opera was performed at Mr. Josias Priest's Boarding School at Chelsey,by young gentlewomen, there Is a story that it i was written seven years before. What ground there is for the story I know not; but It is the belief of many that the opera was first produced at Priest's o, each, which may explain why ho is perDINGLEY. mitted to bo such a pooh-bacongress to fill the the Forty-sevenOm Eifpptloa. vacancy caused by the resignation! Are there any exceptions Teacher William P. Frye, who had been adseat In the senate. Mr. to the rule that heat expands and cold vanced to to the contracts?" Dingley wras congress as a represent! tire at TumiurYegm. The Ice man leaves elected to a lot bigger twenty pound chunk since large, and was successively Fifty-first, It got colder' Indianapolis Journal. Fiftieth, the Forty-nintCONGRESSMAN v f"? p- - n, DINCLEY OF MAINE. 11 school in Leicester Fields, where he taught dancing, and that Purcell him- self sang the alto part. The opera was j ne or produced at a theater. Indeed, It did not appear In print until 1S40, when i the Musical Antiquarian aorlety pub- - ' ' lismqm: When he was twenty-fou- r he gave the world a collection of sonatas which are th earliest workk o the .kind we have 1h.RiigUjijJ.Aa a.wrVer la. the Ulus trait a London News. He married a Lib named Peter and lived in Great St. Anns Lafte. the house having long sime been pulled down. Subsequently lie lived in Bowling Alley, the house-still standing, and for two years before his death he resided in Marsham street but which 1 the housA cannot be discovered. He never lived In Dean's Yard. Lovers of Purcell who gaze at Purcell House In Dean's Yard are misdirecting their worship. Purcell, who also became the organist of the Chapel Royal, was as industrious as a young man could le. He was perpetually composing church music, to say nothing of his odes to the king and royal family. For the coronation of James II. he wrote his two lovely anthems, My Heart Is Inditing and "I r, SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITft. theres a nice youngster of excellent pith Fate tried to conceal film hjr" calling him Smith; To Investigate Unnrsven's Charges. But he shouted a song, for the brave George L. Rives, who Is one of the h eco m mli te etoln Yestl-gat- e and the free m e m be r ao the charges made by Lord Dunrav-eJus tread o fi fils medjT. My Country was born in 1849, and Is a grandson of Thee. It may perhaps be said that his great- of William C. Rives, senator from Ylr- ness was thrubt upon him, but It should be added that his merits were equal to bis fame, that his renown became him, and that he never found any trouble in living modestly up to his reputation. He was a Christian in all that the word implies. And OUT. ME Fifty-thir- d and Fifty, PURCELL'S 51 fourth congresses In tho Inst congrecs he was third In the minority on the committee on appropriations, third in HIS ANNIVERSARY BEINC CELEthe minority on coinage, Heights and BRATED IN ENGLAND. measures and first of tfc minority on tho joint commission to inquire into I ngtt.Kv ComI the of Uws organizing the ex- ItmllMtloai of h. and Anlhm Must. 1 poser of hurra In the Fifty-firecutive departments la tlio First of Opens Mrli.r Mr. speck-f'Ji'glof Heed which was congress, em.ed on tho comious. toe on ways and means. T IS just two bun ago dred years LORD MAYORESS. slnce Henry Pur- -j cell died In the1 Lady UillsFii, Wife of the Lord Mayor thiity-scvont- h yeur . of London Town. of bis age, and was Lady Wilken, the lord mayoress of buried beneath the London, is the daughter of Henry RidIn Westminorgan acley Dole, and Is a woman of varied ster Abbey. He complishments, of a warm and genhad more than a erous nature. Naturally of a gentle and of genius touch retiring disposition, she does not look Not only did he forward with unmixed pleasure to her forthcoming reign in the Mansion compose the most beautiful anthems House, which probably accounts for her that are sung in our cathedrals, but he determination to postpone the event ua- - composed a Te Drum worthy of Handel; and with him rest the honor of writing the first English opera. His work, remarkable for Its rich melody and strong individuality, we know and can appreciate. But of Purcell himself, the kind of man he was, the life ho lived In those troublous black times of the revolution, we know comparatively little. It is not even certain w hen or w here he w as born. The date of his birth was in lGIjj? or 1C39. It has for long been accepted that he was born in Little St. Anns Lane, Westminster, but Dr. Bridge, the organist of Westminster Abbey, has been inquiring Into the career of bis great predecessor, and finds thdre Is no mention of any Purcell In the Westminster rate-boo- k at the time, nor is there any record of Henry Purcells baptism. Whlls still a boy and in his early teens, THE LORD MAYORESS, Purcell wrote anthem which ara sung til after the Christmas holidays, until in our minsters. He has fond of the which time she will continue to occupy theater, and before probably he could the charming and perfectly appointed well read Macbeth, ho had written mu mansion In Gloucester Square, Hyde j sic tllustiative of passages In Shako-ParIt may be confidently stated, speares.tragedy. Before he was that when she does appear In teen he composed the music for three the official residence she will fulfill the plays, and he was in constant demand manifold and at times perplexing du- - by the managers of theaters. The mu- ties of lord mayoress of the city of sic to Shadwell's Libertine, written London with graciousners, as well as at this fime, is distinguished for its wkh a dignity becoming her husbands majesty and vigor. The curious thing great office and her own social and of- about the Libertine is that tbs libretficial obligations. The opportunities to for Mozarts opera Don Giovanni she will have In her new environment was founded on the same story. As a boy, Purcell must have escaped of relieving distress will at least bo among her pleasant memories when her to the theater on every possible occaterm of office expires. Lady Wilken is sion. He was no doubt something of a wild youth, and he has been accused inclined toward the school of gentlewomen, evincing no of being a roysterer and a lover of predilection toward the ways of the new ribald society. It Is difficult to believe woman. that even in those dissolute times following tho .restoration Purcell had A Klnralejr Revival. much leisure. His productiveness was reWhat may be called a Kingsley wonderful. Music for tho theaters and vival appears to be now In progress. anthems lor the cathedrals he comis an demand at the posed with marvelous There increasing rapidity. His libraries for the canon's books; his (From the portrait by Godfrey Kneller.) brothers romances are out In a new individuality was marked, and when edition and gaining on this side of the be was years of age he proeighteen Atlantic some of the recognition they duced the fine music for have always had on the other; his niece the masque exceedingly In Shadwells mutilation of is penetrating the wilds of Africa to Timon of Athens. secure specimens for the British Mu- Shakespeares hazand seum, incidentally doing very ardous explpring, while his daughter is soon to lecture to us. It Is In the veins A l of the niece that hereditary signs of i" ' Charles Kingsleys spirit of adventure are to be fpund, for this young womans th'l daring desire to explore the Cameroons amazed the authorities. Ffty-&eeon- -- v V l VONi. - 4 ' V , THE PURCELL (In Westminster TABLET. Abbey.) in the old Abbey will be echoed again In all its majesty and gratfd simplicity. Nloccriiy la Min. The only conclusive evidence of, a mans sincerity ig that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift ot his daily life and practice, It I plain that the truth, whatever It may be. has taken possession of him. James Russell Lowell, navigation and commorco ot Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia and the Indies, ewes his succession to the wholesale poisoning which tarried off so many members of the royal house of Braganza some year ago. ThMe' Tnysterious dcahs Save never been fully cleared up' n'Ithe explanation given ot them In Lisbon formica strangT story. Pedro V. of Portugal was married to Staphanlo, sister of the hereditary Prince of Hohen-zoller- n, who was conducted to Lisbon by her brother Leopold. Within a few months sho was taken 111 suddenly and died In less than a week. Soon after-wa- rJ two brothers or the king were similarly attacked, one .of whom hied. The king was the uevt victim." After that the cook was murdered in tho kitchen; anotherof the kings household was aubsoqucntly attacked !) the malady which had carried off himself and of the royal wife, ahd three prince house suffered but recovered, and finally It was concluded that Ihw had drainage ofthe palace caused the trouble. Some time afterward, however, an old scientist traveling in the east arrived in Lisbon, and, learning the clrcumstnnces, declared the victims were poisoned by a vegetable poison known only to himself and one other perron, a lady who had been his pupil in chemistry. The description of the other person IdentifletT her as the Countess Lionora, daughter of a duke with whom the king was deeply in love before he married, who ardently loved him In return and sought that means ot revenge against the queen and the royal family, which had prevented the marriage that the young peopleesired to served in hermetically sealed tins, from which they are drawn off through a tap. Eggs in this condition are principally used by bakers and the for the system are free- dom from damage In transport and g qualities. The tin or drum is packed In straw In a wooden case, and bolds the contents ot 1,000 to 1,500 eggs, the white and yolks being mixed together, poured Into the drum, and the aperture closed with a bung and sealed. Great care is said to bo necessary in selecting the eggs to be preserved, as one bad one will spoil the whole cask or drum. London Economist. advant-agesclalm- ed , long-keepin- lL 111 too r Behind I'rlaoa liar. Jabez Spencer Balfour has been sentenced to a prison at last. 'He has the British public of fuily and his sensational flight and capture are well known. His powerful reiaUvesTniend to get him pardoned, . 000 i? 5 S contract A WITry la tha Sooth Sea. Slavery is not permitted by Germany, but there is a traffic In human beings by which black people sell themselves for three years In Germanys Smth Sea Islands. It Is called the "labor trade," and la the lifes blood, not only of the great German company, byt of all the planter of FIJI, Queensland, New Cale- donia, German New tramea, the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides. JABEZ SrENCER BALFOUR. be seen how successful they will be. and.lt remains to Held by th Enemy. ,FIU Wll'am- He does. It happen jou stayed all summer In New York? - Dusty Rhodes The blameJ thing surrounded by water. N. Y, WorlL 1 X. X |