Show WINNER WRITER OF SONGS PIPES LAST LAY Philadelphia North American Septimus Winner Inner the lie song f writer is 15 del dead at his home hom 1706 1701 North Sixth I street He was waa 76 y years ars old Septimus Winner Inner o or Se Sep Winner Inner i as he usually wrote hi his name mUne wrote and sold old more songs and al wrote rote more Instrumental music and adap adapted ed them to more kinds of oC Instruments than any other man In the world H He Heas i 85 one oCt of oC t the n writers who ho co composed fhe the stirring war time songs which were sung from one end of oC the Union to the other His Ills writings comprised books of music for Lor t twenty three different Instruments rind he made 2000 arrangements nt for the piano and violin Among his known best-known songs are Listen to the Mocking Bird and What hat Is Home Without a Mother He was s intensely patriotic and remarkably remarkably remark remark- abl ably loyal loal to his friends His espousIng espousing ing the cause of oC Gen McClellan it at at the time of his recall from Cram the Arm Army of the Potomac land landed d himIn a military prIson on the charge of t treason son Story of His Arrest I Th The troops Incensed a athe the recall of their hero helo were demanding Give us back our OUI Mack Winner Inner wrote a song around the refraIn wh hio ho entitled Give U Us Back Our Old Commander More than copies of the song gong were sold within a few ew days dais of or its issue and the soldiers rs of or the Arm Army of or the Potomac Potomac Potomac Poto Poto- mac sang It around the campfires and andon andon andon on the parade ground Secretary of oC War ar Stanton was highly incensed over the sons song declaring It treasonable to sing It It suppressed it I ln the arm army and anda a arrested Winner Inner I i Origin of Two Songs It 19 Is a remarkable fact fia that Winners Winner's two most fam famous us songS tongs Listen to the thc Mocking Mocking- MockingBird Bird BIrdS and What Is Home Without a a. Mother grew rew out of oC the same lame incident A mocking bird which was as owned b by a family living Jiving opposite to him sU suggested the mocking bird birdsong sons song which is still one of at the most popular airs A mother was In tho the habit of oC standing out on an adjoining porch as evening drew on holding her babe In her arms arm that she ml might ht hear the piping of the feathered songster Two or three years later Mr Winner saw the little one one standing alone at dusk on a cold da day and asked her what she was doing The Tho child replied that she was waiting for mamma mammato to come when the birdie ang 3 ng Mr Winner knew that the mother had died a week before He was so 50 affected that he picked the little girl up and carried her herto herto herto to hi his own house where he kept her until a servant called for tor her That night he wrote What Is Home Without Without With With- out a Mother He Ho Hoc c considered Dream ng of oC Love his best song The music was used for or the thc Sunday school school ay-school n hymn Shall IShall We e Gather at the River At Work to the Last Although in aft aJ r years ears he amassed a pet col competence nce Mr Winner got sot less than out of or the mocking bird song A Boston a million out o of it Mr hough he had announced an an- nou ced his retirement published last year a a. revised edition of oC his method for Cor th the piano L Last st week ho completed the final l corrections ns on the proof of-a of small book of poems some of them written fifty years yeats ago The title of ot the book Is Cogitations of a Crank |