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Show s SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH UTAH BUDGET Star Spangled Banner once an old English club song, according to re '' failure. A conHeavily guarded and secretly of German more prisoners ten veyed on June 20, Lake arrived in Salt March-Th- e Presidents tune of America is Germanic Songand from the coast. In Weber county Nearly every town 'Weber county to the has reported the acreage planted that bureau farm , feet and the fanners around Its over the shores are getting desperate two situation. The strike of plumbers at Ogden has been settled, and a possible strike of all the building trades prevented. The plumbers secured 50 cents a day. George S. Roach, 45 an advance of i years of age, of Salt Lake, accidentally shot himself at Pueblo, Colo., while drawing a large revolver from the tonneau of his car, and died a moment later. Mrs. J. W. Sinley, 70 years of age, was run down and severely injured by an automobile at Magna, the accident occurring as she was crossing the 6treet and became confused. Charged with stealing two bicycles and taking a joy ride to Ogden, two brothers, Ben and Dan London, aged 18 and 17, respectively, were brought back to Salt Lake from Ogden. The next annual convention of the Pacific Coast Ophthalomological society will take place in Salt Lake, according to dispatches from Spokane, Wash. It will be about this time next year. Hubert P. Parker, aged 12 years, Parker of Clinton, met instant death when he slipped from the tongue of a hayrack, a forewheel passing over his head and left should- son of Thomas J ' er. Canned shark, more palatable than canned salmon and containing exceptional nourishment, in the dear future will appear on the shelves of Salt Lake meat markets and groceries, it is said. The body of the unidentified man found at Ogden has been identified by George J. Kelly, former state senator, T no time so much as upon .Independence day are the patriotic songs of this Country sung, and upon the coming Fourth of July, which finds the United States at war, the words and the tunes of the national songs will mean more to every American than ever before. Realizing that as time goes on, history, which may be probed for truth now, in another generation would be loo far removed from the links of living memory to certify accuracy, many men are giving time and effort to extracting the real historic facts from the maze of fiction surrounding the origin of many of this country national songs, which have become an Important part of her integral life. No man has given more time and more effort, nor sifted facts more thoroughly to get at the true history of our national songs, than has Mr. 0. G. T. Sonneck, chief of the division of music of the library of congress, and he has embodied these facts in reports published by the government in book form, which save them for all time. Unless he has traced a matter to the bedrock of certainty? a report with Mr. Sonneck is never complete, and a call at his office In the music division of the library found him with his latest published reports on the national songs on the bookcase at his side, and all heavily interleaved with penned and penciled annotations which bring evidence down to the very minute. Mr. 'JLfrt May 19. Utah between are subject to conscription as 'members of the National Guard of Utah, is a statement made in circulars being sent out from the office of the adjutant general of Utah. Brighams successful Chautauqua came to a close June 18. Promoters of the Chautauqua declare the event to be the most successful affair ever undertaken by the city, and several hundred persons signed up for another , Salt Lake valley may be made an ideal spot for persons suffering with hay fever, If the valley can be rid pt the Canadian thistle, common burdock and white top, according to an investigation under the direction of the Salt Lake farm bureau. Urging that more hogs be raised to help meet the present food shortage, Ur. Carroll, professor of animal husbandry at the Utah Agricultural college, also issues a note of warning to the increased production with the increased pork products. Cutworms of the ordinary variety find army cutworms are being exterminated in Weber county by means of a Mixture that is recommended by government agriculturists, the formula for making which has been disseminated uy the local farm bureau. C. D. Marsh, physiologist In poisonous plant investigation, stationed at Salina experiment station, has a bulletin regarding poisonous Plants in Utah that cause heavy losses t stock. Larkspur is blamed for 8erious stock losses and sheepmen and cattlemen are advised how .to prevent such losses by proper management, slug extra precautions early in the d Spring. v Thee, the year briefly told. 1831 Mr. William C. Woodbrldge returned from Europe, bringing a quantity of German muslo books, which he passed over to Lowell Mason. Mr. Mason, with whom I was on terms of friendship, one day turned them over to me, knowing that I was In the habit of reading German works, saying, Here, I cant read these, but they contain good music, which I should be glad to use. Turn over the leaves and If you find anything particularly good, give me a translation or Imitation of it, or write a wholly original song anything, so I can use it. Accordingly, one leisure afternoon, I was looking over the books and fell In with the' tune of "God Save the King," and at once took up my pen and wrote the piece In question. It was struck out at a sitting without the slightest Idea that it would eVer attain the popularity It has since enjoyed. The first time It was publicly sung was at a childrens celebration of American Independence at the Park Street church, Boston, I think, July 4, 1832. If I had anticipated the future of It. doubtless I wouM have taken more pains with It. Such as It Is, I am glad to have contributed this mite to the cause of American freedom. under the following circumstances:composed A gentleman had left Baltimore In a flag of truce for the purpose of getting released from the British fleet a friend of his who had been captured at Marlborough. He went as far as the mouth of the Patuxent and was not permitted to return lest the intended attack on Baltimore should be disclosed. He was therefore brought up the bay to the mouth of the Patapsco, where the flag vessel was kept under the guns of a frigate, and he was to witness the bombardment ofcompelled Fort McHenry, which the admiral had boasted that he could carry In a few hours and that the city must fall. He watched the flag of the fort through the whole day with an anxiety that can better be felt than described, until the night prevented him from seeing It. In the night he watched the bomb shells and at early dawn his eye was again greeted by the proudly waving flag of his country. The tune is that of "Anacreon of Heaven, originally an English club song, popular among the younger set of Baltimore at the time Key wrote the stanzas t Hail Columbia Is a pure product of American soil in, regard to both words and music, and was written in 1798 by Joseph Hopkins, a prominent jurist, who lived from 1770 to 1842. The poet himself explains the circumstances which led to the writing of v the words as follows: Mr. Sonneck had this to say regarding the use of an English tune to the words of America: The main objection raised against America has been the union of the words with that foreign air of cosmopolitan usage, God Save the King. Yet there is this difference, which If the should never be overlooked: Danes or the Prussians use God Save the King they have deliberately borrowed it from the British. Not so with us. God Save the King was, before 1776, as much our national anthem as that of the motherland. Being a British air, it belonged to the British colonists just as much as it did to the Britons at home. i "Hall Columbia" was written In the summer of 1798, when war with France was thought to be Inevitable. Congress was then In session In Philadelphia, debating upon that Important subject, and acts of hostility had actually taken place. The contest between England and France was raging, and the people of fpe United States were divided Into parties for one side or the other, some thinking that policy and duty required us to espouse the cause of republican France, as she was called, while others were for connecting themselves with England. . . . The theater was then open In our city. A young man belonging to It, whose talent was high as Yankee Doodle Is sometimes calla singer, was about to take a benefit. I had known him when he was at school. ed a national song incorrectly so, beOn this acquaintance he called on me one cause, with a practically now obsolete Saturday afternoon, his benefit being an- text, or texts, it is hardly ever sung, nounced for the following Monday. His prospects were very disheartening, but he but merely played as an Instrumental ' Av , What is said to have been but 20 cents worth of tobacco at the present retail price, cost $30 to three men who appeared in the juvenile court at Salt Lake and admitted that they had sold tobacco to minors. Thomas Fagan, proprietor of a billiard hall at Ogden, has a painful but not dangerous leg wound, and J. Sparr, aged 22, a locomotive fireman, is in the city jail a a result of a disturbance in the Fagan billiard hall. There Is no need of importing Chinese coolies until the idle Chinamen in Ogden are put to work, say local police. Eleven Chinese who were arrested last week on charges of vagrancy forfeited $10 each in police court. Able bodied men of 18 and 23 years of age , dmij THE YANKEES as that of his brother, William J. Kelly, a farmer, who was last seen alive season. The annexed song was is twice as large as last The Utah lake has already passed more than the compromise point by need The better your watch, the more It to an there Is that you should intrust when U experienced, reliable jeweler or adjustments repairs, requires enyYou cannot afford to wear regulating. other cities, until It had become a pop- written by Jlev, Samuel F, Smith, who ular patriotic song throughout the lived until 1895, and has himself writcountry. ten luminously upon the subject. From In its original printed form It bore Boston he wrote to Admiral Preble the title, Defense of Fort McHenry, September 12, 1872: with the following introductory reThe origin of my hymn, "My Country, marks, written by Judge Nicholson: Tis of Is In search of Music Division chief in Library of pon New Federal gress-T- he resident of Utah, and for many years 20 of heart Provo resident, died June jn potatoes year. Diur DU PiiriniiiE ripnf The Brigham City public playgrounds to the kiddles jj, i,e officially opened 4. on July of the city held at Murray At a muss meeting Lake Salt chapter of branch of the Jie Red Cross society was organized. slxty-on- e years Nels B. Johnson, for ' WATCH REPAIRING REWMROM BOYD PARK rouNoeoioM MAKERS OF JEWELRY K50 MAIN STREET - SALT LAKE CITT BARGAINS IN USED CARS Oldimobilei, Guaranteed lint clau terms if wanted by funning condition-ea- sy right parties. Write for detailed list and description, Used Car Dept.. Randall-Dod- d Auto Co., Salt Lake City SO tplendld uied ciri-Bul- ck, to SHOO. CODE OF THE JUNIOR POLICE Organization of Young Boys In New York Is Given Instruction In Clvlo Duties and Good Conduct. The junior police of the city of New York Is an organization for boys be tween the ages of eleven and fifteen, who are regularly trained, drilled and Instructed In athletic sports, civic da ties and good conduct under competent and responsible supervision. In the Century Henry Rood describes Its It occurred first to a police origin. captain of the East side Sweeney of the Fifteenth precinct. The commissioner and several civilians got to gether with Sweeney, and the Idea was worked out. Today the Junior forced Is well organized, with Inspectors and captains and other young officers, and a growing membership that will reach 5,000 and over this spring. Uniforms are permitted, but are not insisted on ; every junior, however, is entitled to wear a special badge, which is never worn on the outside of coat or jacket, excepting at drills or other gatherings. Duties of the junior police include the use of clean and decent language at all times, in all places. The code continues thus: Never hitch on wagons or street cars; always cross the streets at the corners; do not build bonfires in the streets ; do not break windows or street lamps, or deface buildings or sidewalks with chalk ; do not smoke cigarettes or play craps ; see that garbage cans are kept covered, that garbage and ashes and waste paper are not mixed in cans; that cans are promptly removed from the sidewalk after being emptied ; that persons are requested to keep sidewalks and areaways in front of their buildings clean, and that they do no throw refuse in the street. CAMPa Complaint of the Stupid. It is only stupid people who complain and I went down to, camp, ,, Along with captain ponding f"' "'"There- we see, the men' and boys, As thick as Jisty pudding. - gATHER Ymtkvy And s track a crooked stabbing iron 'V & Upon The, itth end oat V, , T j dmifc mom' Mtml tie l " ;; ''And 60 And there we sea a' 'As .rfchasqnfre' Ahd'Whalthey wasted could beoss ? "' ' The :1aiseslthey eat every d iiSi there was And, Captain Washington tn iwnri -r- ii,iwilWi Sonneck permitted a recent caller to glean from these documental data regarding this countrys national songs and supplemented them with some additional verbal information. Almost everyone knows how the stirring words rushed from the heart and hand of Francis Scott Key off the early morning of September 14, 1814, when the English were bombarding Fort McFewer, perhaps, know that Henry. 'he jotted down the first rough draft of the song on the back of a letter as he sailed up the Patapsco on one of the enemys vessels that early morning, when he saw through the dawns early light that our flag was still there. He completed this draft upon the American boat which brought him to Baltimore that evening, and later that night, in his hotel in Baltimore, he made a clean copy of those Jottings, and this first fair copy of the words is still in existence and may yet be seen at the Walters gallery in Baltimore. On the morning after his arrival in Baltimore Key took his poem to his friend and relative, Judge Joseph Hopper Nicholson, for his critical opinion upon it. This was evidently favorable, for it was immediately printed and its first appearance in public was; in the form of a sheet, or broadside, which was distributed through the streets on (he day after it was written. Its first dated appearance was in the Baltimore Patriot of September 20, 1814. Next day it appeared In exactly the same form In the Baltimore American, and then, in single sheets and in newspapers, 't spread from Baltimore to that they are misunderstood. If they; were not stupid, they would know that there is absolutely no such thing as being understood, and, therefore that there is nothing whatsoever to be gained by complaining about it. Wise people who want to be under-stood do not spend their time complainj ing, but in perfecting some means oij expressing themselves by which they may reveal to the world about them some slight remnant, at least, of theiij souls, or their minds, or their Ideas, on their discoveries, or their eccentric ties, or whatever it is they want tc make known. When you complain about not being understood, the only thing you makq clear is that you are a complalner. Puck. rirnni'iiiiiniiirnimrinni that If he could get a patriotic song piece. Though no longer a national adapted to "The Presidents March he song, it Is still a national air and secdid not doubt of a full house; that the poets of the theatrical corps had been ond only to Dixie in patriotic poputrying to accomplish It, but had not suc- larity. For 150 years Yankee Doodle ceeded. I told him that I would try what has appealed to our people, and the I could do for him. He came the next no tune shows of passing into sign such It as and Is, the song, afternoon, Only One said was ready for him. Such la the history of the song, which has endured infinitely beyond the expectation of the author. The song met with immediate success and was repeated again and again, being named New Federal Song, and no entertainment of the day was considered complete without it. To run down the history of the music of Hall Columbia, written originally as the Presidents March, Mr, Sonneck found a much more difficult task than giving the plain narrative of the applied words. Wading through an Immense amount of historical data and some controversy upon the subject, he has brought out facts which he would only put forth after the most careful process of sifting and deduction. Until recently, he said, the musical origin of Hall Columbia was as obscure as Its literary history was clear. But, weighing all the evidence In ,the case, he carefully sets down the fact that the Presidents March, which supplied the music for Hail Columbia, was composed by Philip Phlle, a resident of Philadelphia, of perhaps German or Swiss origin, and musician and instructor of note. (His name is usually spelled Incorrectly; the above Is the correct spelling.) America, the national Jiymn, tains no mysterious history. con- It was oblivion. Many words have been spent In discussing the origin of the title of this song, and at least sixteen separate and distinct derivations of the words have been seriously set before the public. The earliest dated reference to the tune appears ,in the first American ballad opera, The Disappointment, Philadelphia, 1767. It was played In America as early as 1768, for in the Journal of Transactions in Boston, September 28, 1768, we read: The fleet was brought to anchor near Castle William; that evening there was throwing of skyrockets, and those passing in boats observed great rejoicing and that the Yankee Doodle song was the capital piece in the band of music. The earliest appearance in print of Yankee Doodle in Europe has been traced to James Alrds A Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign published in Glasgow about Airs, 1780, Mr. Sonneck asserts that Yankee Doodle did not appear in print in America until Benjamin Carrs Federal Overture, a medley of patriotic songs, including Yankee Doodle, and composed in 1794, was published, by B. Adapted for the pianoforte, in New York, January, 1795. Carr, Since then some interesting and now rare renderings of the piece have been issued. Weakness. About the paved inner court of thai Kremlin In Moscow rise other churches cathedrals and palaces, to right amj left None of them can compare with the Church of St. Basil fpr oddity, but many are beautiful in more convent tional fashion, famous among theltj kind. In this court, too, Is the famous Tower of Ivan, holding up Its load of monster bells. After its churches the Kremlin Is celebrated for its hugai cannon and bells. The great bell ol Moscow Is 68 feet in circumference and! weighs 200 tons. The largest of thai cannon has a bore of 8 feet, thus ouW of Herr Krupp doing the by about 100 per cent. The only weak-- t ness of the Russian monster is the fact that it will not shoot. Exchange. How War of 1812 Was Declared. An act declaring war between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the dependencies thereof and the United States of America was approved by the president at 3 p. m. June 18, 1812. The act was drawn up by William Pinkney, then attorney general of the United States. It passed the house June 4, 1812, 79 in favor, 49 against, and passed the senate June 17, 1812, yeas, 19 ; noes, 13. Waste of Time. , A little fellow, age four, was repeating a prayer after his mother, ending with God bless papa, mamma, grandma, brother and sister, and everybody." said he, if we had said !Mamma, everybody at the start it wouldnt Lave taken up so much of God time. , |