| Show effrom the new vew york post THE MUSICAL CAREER OF THE LATE STEPHEN C FOSTER CF crosler OSlER osier on the tomb of donizetti in the cathedral at bergamo ia Is a modest inscription saying that thai the tire dead composer was a finder of many melodies the simple record too unpretending for the meris of the italian composer will be peculiarly applicable to the late stephen C foster the songwriter song writer who died on the instant in this city mr foster fester was born in pittsburg july 4 1826 the same game day on which thomas jefferson and john adams died uis his father was a well to do farmer farmers and laid out on hi hisiro perty a town which he be intended to call I 1 pro postern ie soon afterwards says mr air mcknight of the pittsburg evening chronicle in his hia interesting te biographical notice of the late bong song songwriter a the gallant captain lawren lawrence ce was killed fighting his bis ship the chesapeake and mr air foster poster patriotically changed the he name rame of his town to lawrenceville adopting as the motto on the corporation sear the dying words of lawrence dont give up the ine ship when seven years old young stephen foster showed enough musical precocity to learn unaided the flageolet and later he played other instrument instruments so though b like most composers he was never eminent as a performer like moore helas ha wab was fond of singing his big own aings flings and when he accod accompanied ailed himself on the piano or guitar there was a charming and plaint plaintive ve sadness in his voice which touched the hearts of his bis listeners his ilia meir melr dies are so sweet so eim elm simple pe a so 0 unpretending that few people supposed hait hat he bad studied music scientifically ly and wab was as familiar with the more classica classical 1 works of mozart beethoven and weber he also aiso was a man of considerable versatility in other branches he understood french and 6 german rein rhin painted in water colors was a good account ant and wrote all the words as well a as s tire tine tha the music of hig his songs these theae words were ill lil h style almost identical with his melodies sweet simple and no worse in rhyme or athin than the majority of popular lyrics george willis the ibe baltimore mu music SIC gic I 1 PU pub rub b hiaber published his first bonar song in 1842 etwas called open thy lattice love and arid was foya toya 61 4 j owed by old cuvele ui cleaned ned 2 and ohl ohi susanna 1 which were issued by peters of cincin then appeared the louisiana belle neily nelly wab was a lady camptown Camp town races b my old kentucky hole home home massas massals Mas sas says in the cold coli c cold coid old oid gro ground tind 1 nelly illy by oh boys carry me long bolig 2 old fold folka folks at home house and others with these foster established his reputation aa as a writer of neero nem minstrelsy and at the same time made considerable money his new I 1 york publishers firth virth pond co paying him over 15 ICO on ort old folks at home alone the mi in st at profitable piece of music ever published in irk this ibis city E B P christy paid foster etter for fo r the privilege of havir g ghiB bib ble name published on one edition of this song soni s during the past ten years yeara fosters com compesi uong hong were of a more sentimental and refined character lie he cropped the burlesque negro words and wrote arid and compos d ilich such Sorg ff 1 willie VV filie illie we have missed you ellen eilen bayne 1 maggie by my side come where my love lies dreaming dg little ella 2 jennie with the light brown hair hiir 1 willie my brave fari fare well my lit litie litle ae dear dearl ob comrade comrades fill no glass fur rne me old dog tray 3 adollie do y you gul gui love me summer breath mati yAli ah may the rid red rose live away come with thy sweet voice again 11 1 I see her still in my dreams 3 suffer r litt 6 e children chit dren to come unto me sha eha is an A gel I 1 1 I will be true to thee tilee andover and overa i hundred bundred hun tred ired others hla hia last composition a iolla song said to include one of his big most beautiful b metod melodies ies les will soon be publish ed by horace waters in this city his later works exhibit 1 greater grace and tender tinder tenderness nesb than his earlier ones and bad he be lived ined and taken pro proper per care of his hia health be ight have obtained the most eD enviable viable eminence as a musician aa As I 1 it is he be had the blesey ble sed heaven sent gift of I 1 abid bis his compositions if it not his name lare iare are known all au oer or the world russians i italians germans french and even egypt i 4 tana ano ant anc and chinese have beard and admired t those sweet brains which mane maae stephen C foster pre eminently the ballad writer of america we hope his pub isberg will make 0 i a collection if not of all ali of his big beet songs r 11 f and choruses and publish them in iri some en during form for their popularity will not die with the man whose genial imagination gave gayer them birth THE thi offensive religionist BiLiG saya sayel the country parson 1 A it must be adin admitted with great regret fai tb A fat att t I 1 people who make a considerable profess profession iori lorl 0 ot C religion have succeeded ID in making themselves more thoroughly disagreeable than almost any other hive made themselves you find people who claim not merely to be pious and chris chrls christian tian people bill to be very much more pious iou lou and christian than others P who are ire etl eti emey uncharitable re repulsive angi anTi sive stupid supid and t intensely nt ensely opinionated opinionate and self satisfied W we e know from a very high authority that a christian ought to be a an epistle in commendation of 0 the blessed faith he hold bold but it is beyond question that many pe pei pie who profess to be christians are tae aae 1 1 k e grim gilm borgona gorgona gor lona gona beads warning people off from frem having baving anything to do gitil christianity why should a aged clergyman walk about tha lie streets with a sullen and malignant mil ignant scowl always on his face which at the beeg beat would be a very ugly one why ab another walk with bis big nose in the air and hib hia eyes rolled up until they seem very likey likely to roll out and why should a third be dabbled over wilh a claircy perspiration and prolong all his ills tolela to twice the usual length lt it is indeed a most thing that people who evince a spirit in every respect resl resi act the contrary to that of or our blessed redeemer should fancy that they are christians of singular attainments tain ments and if it is more still that many young people should be scared seared into religion or unbelief by the wretched deu delu ion lon hat that these crea turfe turre wickedly caricaturing turing christianity are fairly deprete rep rese ting it I 1 have bees sees more deliberate malice more mo relying lyane and cheating more backbiting back biting and alande slandering rian alan dering ring denser stu and greater seif self sufficient among bad hearted and wrong beaded religionists than among any other human beings I 1 have known more malignity and arid slander conveyed in the he form of prayer than should have consigned hive have s an ordinary slanderer to the pillory I 1 i have kr krown own a person who made evening prayer a tucana of infuriating and stabbing the ser vents under the pretext of confessing their sins thou kno west lord how bod iby thy ser ber vanta have been occupied this day with these thesle words did the blasphemous mockery of prayer begin the sunday evening in a house bouse I 1 could easily indicate and then the man un der the pretext of addressing the almighty raked up tip themis doings of the servants hyi they byi being present pre smut of course in a fashion naich if be he had ventured on at any other time would probably have led some of them to assault him h in it is a remarkable fact that although r common sheep delight interrant inTer dant fields ous flocks are not anxious for green pastors why sympathy is like blind nals nans lafi because it ia 19 a fellow feeling for a fellow wa erta ture |
