Show tremendous TRIFLES by ELMO SCOTT WATSON STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER TN N NAPLES ITALY in ISM 1698 john A philip sousa read a three day old copy of the paris edition of the new york herald in it was a brief dispatch saying that david blakely manager of dousas sousas famous band had dropped dead in his office that meant that the bandmaster wast must assume all the responsibility tor for the arrangements of his bis next american tour hastily cancelling cance lUng the plans that he and mrs sousa had made for a visit to sicily he booked passage on the first ship tor for A america eric As he paced the deck ot of the S 8 teutonic saddened by the news of Blak elys death and his mind filled with the burden of the task ahead an uncanny thing happened sousa became aware ot of the rhythmic beat ot of a playing band just an imaginary band that was making music in his bis mind throughout hout the voyage across the atlantic that invisible band kept on playing playing never tor for a moment was it silent and it always played the same tune I 1 he tried to think of other things but the theme of the melody echoed and re echoed in the back of his brain psychologists today might claim that this was compensation pensa tion the reaction of 0 a creative mind after a severe shock but whatever the reason for M it sousa made no attempt to set the tune on paper while he be was vit deboard ioard the steamer when he reached new york and found that mystical band still playing on and on he could resist it no longer he sat down and in a few minutes had recorded the all too camillar measures ot of that composition tn ta his spirited autobiography marching along sousa has written the tact fact that not a note of that tune has been changed from that day to this it waa the stars and stripes forever known all over the world today and the most beloved 0 of all the compositions 0 of the march king PIGS IS 15 PIGS pigs Is pigs and also trou brou 1 ble makers no less than twice did they seriously affect the diplomatic relations of nations and once they almost brought on a war in 1841 monsieur de saligny daligny was french ambassador to the republic of texas one day a pig belonging to an austin hotel keeper named bullock strayed into M de Sali gnys garden one of the ambassadors servants abused the pig whereupon bullock proceeded to horsewhip the servant de daligny saligny insulted bullock and bullock insulted de daligny saligny with the result that the ambassador demanded his passports and left the country diplomatic relations between france and texas became strained and it required an apology from president lamar of the lone star republic to restore peace more serious was the pig incident that troubled the peace between england and the united states a few years later on one of the tiny san juan islands in puget sound lived an A american m e r and an englishman one day t the h e briton shot one of the americans pigs and a furious quarrel resulted but they finally agreed to settle it in court but which court british or american despite the treaty of 1840 1846 boundary lines were none too clear especially on this little island so the dispute grew worse over the matter of jurisdiction civil officers were drawn into it then the military troops were mobilized and it looked like war by this time the pig was forgotten in a controversy involving citizenship boundary lines and international law eventually it was settled by arbitration with no less a person than the german emperor acting as arbiter in a dispute that started over a pig bigl I 1 HE SHOT AN ARROW HE capture of ano ne important spanish tish THE fortress of san lorenzo by sir clenry morgan morg an the famous english buccaneer was wag not due to his expert generalship as much as it was to a strange chain of circumstances over which he had no control in his command were a number of pirates who had fought well for the c cause ause one day luring during the siege of the fortress one cf these thesa men was pierced in the side by an arrow the cutthroat pulled it from his flesh ow ing to send it back to the spaniards na as fast a as 9 he could ile he t acad ad no bow but in hla his anger he used us the one weapon he had his musket wadding cotton around the end of the arrow he crammed it into the bari iel el of hla his gun took aim and fired the missile went sailing over the fortress forties wall and was lost from view it was waa merely rely a gesture of revenge no one I reamed of the consequences but the cotton was kindled by the lowder jowder which in turn set fire to the hatched roof of a building inside the artress or tress treas the spaniards were front frantl ally trying to get the dames dundei when the creeping fire reached nu ne powder magaz ines they exploded bursting purl part of the walls and morgan abbed lu in to capture the stronghold a western WWW DaDez upsilon |