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Show GOOD OLD TUNES. Songs That Were Sunt,- Whon Tlila Coun-iry Coun-iry U';n VoniiK. It is very interest in( to trace the origin of some of the good old tunes with which wo are familiar. There have boon many controversies us to their authorship. "Old Hundred" has been variously ascribed to Dr. Martin Luther, Dr. John Dow land and William 1 "ranch. Dr. Lowell Ma:-,on wrote pnte a treatise trea-tise on the old tune, saying emphatically emphatic-ally that it was written by Guillaum (William) Kranck ( 15-1:1.) Hut later i musical h istorians say it was composed com-posed by Louis ltourgeois, of France, in :.:.. The old tune. "Hod Save the King." or "America," so universally sung to "My Omntrv, 'Tts of Thee." was composed com-posed by Dr. John Hull (lfiiM-KWsi, music teacher to Queen Elizabeth, about icon. The tune of "Yankee Doodle" has had seven or eight treatises written lpou it in the last thirty years, asci ib-.ng ib-.ng it to various dates and origins, jvoii back to the Netherlands and the lays at Cromwell and the Charleses. Dr. Ceorge tirove, of London, Eng., investigated thoroughly the various musical libraries and the British museum muse-um in Knglnnd, finding no trace of it whatever. !ut "Yankee Doodle" has an origin and has a history- It was written by Dr. Richard Schnchbnrgh (whose commission com-mission dates 1T:'.7), in the Krone h and Indian war of 17", under Cen. Jeffrey Amherst, and was intended, as a "take olF" on the "rag. tag and bobtail" recruits re-cruits of the colonies that came into , the army. The first words; "Kathcr and I weDt down to camp," were in the Hoston Journal. ITijs, and the first record of the tune is in Arnold's "Two to One." - - its :: si i tii at "Yankee Doodle," al-I al-I tlinuirh writ. ton mycoii, ; is really American. The tune "Star Spangled Banner" is an adaptation of "Anacreon in Heaven," composed by Dr. Samuel Arnold. (I7S:i-lso:J) of England, 1770. "Hail Columbia." or the "President's March." was by Prof. Phylas, ot Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, 17b'.l. "Port uguc.sp ITymn," or "Adeste Fideles," is ascribed by English musicians mu-sicians to John Reading, who died in 17(5-1. But Herbert P. Main, of New-York, New-York, a musical antiquarian, says the tune cannot be found as in existence previous to 17110. lie says it was composed com-posed anil written by Alarcan ton io Simoe (I7ii:i-is:iu). He wrote under the assumed name of "Portogallo." I'ccoratocl French Woiofln. Among the persons upon whom the order of the Legion of Honor was conferred recently was lime. Koech-lin-Soluvart:' president of the French Women's union. At the present time about twenty women are entitled en-titled to wear the red ribbon. Most of these are Sisters of Mercy or women who have been decorated in times of war. For services in "civil life." in addition ad-dition to Mine. Kocchlin-Schwart. Rosa Bonheur. Mme. Furtado-1 Icine, and Mine. Marie Laurent, who founded found-ed the artist orphan asylum of Paris, have received the decoration, .- |