Show PATHOS IN INA A SONG SON G One of the State late papers reproduce time words of that ol old song Bon Isom t Dolt Bolt with a sketch of the lire life of tin the c author Dr Thomas Dunn English h m who wrote the ballad over oyer yearn cnn ago from a suggestion In Gold Gol d Deserted Village There Is n a world of romance in i n those old songwriters as few of the them m that touch louch of oC sorrow which h hof mellows ones OliOS life Here Hore is a brief brI of which has como come to our no n tho Pa Payne ne a wanderer ova oo tIle the face faco of the tho earth null and heard hl Sweet Homo played on bat bal rem rei organs and sung and whistled on o othe the streets while Ito IO was penniless and without ul friends iii fn a foreign land Ile He died die uld d In Tunis and almost since his boy bo flood was wai ono one of the most homeless of men Francis Scott Koy Ko wrote time Banner Ramer while a prisoner ou IJ board Lord at the moment when time Brit Ish vessels were shelling Fort FOll Mc tc I 7 Hemy Henr front from whence Key had comein come comein in a rowboat under u flag of truce truCQ Samuel Woodworth the author of time the theOld Old Oaken Bucket led n a life Ufe of wandering and adventure of almost unbelievable romance Stephen Stophen Fad Fos Foster tC ter who wrote Old Folks Falls at Home and our first and best negro melodies WitS was carried from a wretched lodging in the to lo a hospital whore where he hedle dle died It gnus hus been said suid oi of him that he his songs upon the lips of strangers far more frequently than lie saw the face fuce of a friend The Ilie life stories of those In other countries who have written songs sones of the heart as rich In romance as the tho lites of Our own singers Take Tako Rob Robin lit in Adair as a an o example Who will not enjoy colo the tender tendel pathos or of this 1116 thise e love song time hotter holler for knowing that Robin was a real maim that hat the tho song was actually written from Crom a heart overflowing with louo ono for hum hIm b by Lad Lady Kep Keppol pol who Shad been banished from her ller hone homo because she loved loM the untitled Robins And so wo might continue through the tho whole fascinating field o of lifo or of those who have 1100 tito tho Yong ori that thal ha have yo moved Illions of souls foulK to lo a h mil and love Ion o of hums and olin tn |