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Show i No Dying-Swan Song !f For Him, Says t!se m Hon. John P. Sousa i) I i Frorn time to time ihero have been M.f. predictions, predictions, and proph-eclea proph-eclea by all sorts of forecasters, that mm l-ic-ut . John Philip Sousa will, before Tjt long, emulate other musical and the ! I atricial celebrities and m;i a fare well tour.. This strangulated last resort re-sort which Oftoe worked well in alarm ing an over-anxious public into rushing; rush-ing; to "'last apperances" and dying-swan dying-swan gasps be departing greatnesses, exhausted its efficiency long ago. One need onlv recall the pitiful pleas made for the final appearance of Pat t i. the once incomparable in the last four of this country; and the harrowing recollection recol-lection of Janauschek. who, after a tragic stage fall, was unable to arise without assistance. Sousa. hale and hearty as he is. has declared that there will be no dying swan song for him! "My farewell tour or, to be exact, ray farewell appearance said he recently, re-cently, 'will be the last concert I give before I die' ,1 mean by that, that I shall some day give a concert, and before be-fore I can give one the succeeding day or so, I shall quit this world forever. for-ever. The newspaper men will say, John Philip Sousa made his farewell appearance in this city, because he died ere he could conduct another conceit" Yes, that is how I shall 1 make my farewell tour!" Lieut Sousa and .his world famous band come to the Tabernacle on December De-cember 1st. |