Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 80, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1904 — Page 25

5 PART THHEE

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 1001.

KM BEATRICE, MUßDELL PLUMMER Indiana Sojraro, who Wll Srnff at the I'ropy-la.-um Tuesday Night.' who blink blindly in the daylight of fact and can se only in the dimness of fancy, la th:it the Charley French company has for years and years given to New Orleans as artful opra as we get in New York. Charley is not to blame for that nonsense, and. tht-rffore, is to be pitied for the abusive criticism which accompanies his advent in Broadway. I don't think that, like Itosenfeld. he Is responsible for the rUe of expectation and the brop of disappointment. He is being treated ;s if he were a confidence operator. The grade of hi production Is, for Illustration, a degree cr two be low that of the Castle-square companies' achievements in Knsrlish opera, and, of ' course, not comparable with what is done at the Metropolitan in German and Italian. Yet his is a numerous and competent organization, disastrously heralded here beyond all reason by folks who thought they were its , friends, but are proved to be its enemies. There has come to town a new example of a show well made to sell in New Y'ork at 10 cents to l.L but not at 50 cents to $2. It is an extravaganza named "A Pair of Pinks," on the familiar plan, shapeless and disorderly, but as full as its two hours and a half can hold of songs and dances, joki?s and pranks. No entertainment of that general kind this season has pleased mo more, but I confess to liking a great deal of the nonsense which wiser men are said to relish a little of now and then. Why, then, isn't it fit to be higher-priced? One reason is that its leading womtn are ugly beyond the limit which nature ought to permit itself to create. You know the talented Dan Daly, with his caricature of a face, but do you recall his sisters, Margaret and Lucy? Those three are Dalys of 'a kind in lack of good looks and plenty of comic prottciency. There used to be seven, counting in Lizzie Derious, who got the Daly name by marrying one of the three brothers. I once saw all of them assembled in a Bowery farce, which was so acrobatic that one of the young men got hurt fatally. Another died a few years later, in consequence, it was fcukl, of Injuries received on the stage. . Dan Daly rose separately into Broadway vogue, but has lost it through an obdurate refusal to dance any more or cut up clownish capers. But Margaret and Lucy are tili dancing like devils. Little Lucy is as boneless as she was twenty years ago. Larger Margaret has lost no supple agility. And a daughter of Lizzie Derious Daly, heiress to some of her mother's comeliness, has thf pantomimic knack of the Dalys. So there are three as wondrously quick, and limber creatures in "A Pair of Pinks" as the sex usually yielding more tissue than sinew has ever sent to the stage, with as many men to spin them on their toes like tops and whirl them in the air till their leet flicker above their swirling skirts. Hap Ward and Harry Yokes, creators of the Percy and Harold trademark for tramps, have their names printed big in the advertisements of "A Pair of Pinks," but they are not dominant in the show. The Dalys are of more account. So is a funny little Charles Howard as the type of Jew who, crushed to earth over and over again, will rise again just as many times. The' play Is the writing of Joseph C. Smith, whoso conceit of a model jail is worked out humorously. The convicts have to prove their guilt to qualify themselves for admission, and when lodged there they are treated like guests at a good hotel, with mals of the raresst viands and wints served in-their cells, electric signals to summon obs-rqulous menials and no disrespectful ruUs to hinder the utmost freedom of conduct. , "Don't wait for me." says a murderer under sentence of death, as he starts out In a striped evening costume; "1 have a - latch-key. And have me called at 6 sharp as I want an hour for breakfast before my electrocution at 7." The female chorus and ballet is large in number and weight. Its beauty would necessarily ba vast if it had any at all. But it wore several raki.hly artful changes of costumes. It was topjKd by a very remarkable uplifting of hair. The young ' women looked like entries in a competition for a prize to the one who built the highest pompadour and kept it balanced on her head throughout the exhibition. There was a novelty, too, at their lower ends, ilach stocklug bore its wearer's initials. Fit AX KLIN FYLES.

Ate 42 Soft Boiled Eggs Kansas City Journal. Three and one-half dozen soft-boiled eggs were eaten by I?aac Brady, a commission merchant. Inside of an hour and a half at one of the restaurants in the city market yesterday, and at the conclusion of this feat Brady wanted to bet $3 that he could make away with another dozen. 'I ain't feeling verj- well this morning, still, I feel as if I could eat two dozen egg?," observed Brady to Fred Bescher. The egg-eating began when Bescher said: 'There is cents; that will buy two dozen eggs; If you eat them I'll pay the bill, and if you don't, you are to pay.". The bet was taken up by Ltrady and two dozen eggs were bought at a stall atid turned over to the restaurant keeper to be biled. The first installment consisted of nine cess and these disappeared with surprising speed. Nine more went as readily the same way. and the remaining six were promptly disposed of. Brady smacked his lips, looked despairingly on the dieap of empty shells before him and remarked: "They Just gave me an appetite. I wish I had a dozen more.' "Bet you can't eat a dozen," challenged the restaurant keeper. "It's a go. (let the doz.n ready," .was Brady acceptance. Twelve more eggs, toft-boiled, were set before him. and still the champion cg-eat-ct uhowed no iil effects. "A half-dozen more would not go amiss." he fruggeyted, and he was taken up. Those who were fixulng the bill became alarmed, ami with the view of winnm at least ono bet th twtors put a few drops of syrup of ipe ir int the eggs. Brady discovered 'the presence of th drug and made a wry fr. but that was till. He pitched Into the (;;s uTi 1 ;if- thorn without u murmur. I'll U t t" witli any man that I can eat anoih-T i)'-5 n." challenged Brady. No one could j found with the temerity to ri'k that sum. so Brady got clown from the n.J. aylrjK: "I tiKt to have something to drink to v.ai"h them down." He stepped across t he street into a saloon and "washed them down" with two bijc classes of beer.

Thomas Orchestra SsWeek Great CHicago Organization at German House. ..Reci'als by Beatrice Hubbell Plummer and Florence AtKins...Music Kotes

Hi: event of the mu.-ical tk in; Indianapolis, aside from the festival of grand opera at Baglish's. will be the concert at the Gtr-. man Hoiif-e on Thursday evening. T. to be given by the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, under th- direction of Frederick Siock. Sixty members of the famous Chi-N cr.t,o organization will come to Indianapolis and the concert will be, without question, the iin"st. orchestral entertainment of the local season. The soloist of th? evening will be Oliver Willard Pierce, who will play the Tschaikowsky concerto, in which he scored such a triumphant success recently in a recital at the German House. Hewill have th assitance of the full orchestra in rendering this magnificent composition. Frederick Stock has operated in conjunction with Theodore Thomas for a numUr of year.-. He conducts the solo numbers in all i rformances in Chicago, as he did here during the last appearance of the orchestra in Indianapolis. The Theodore Thomas Orchestra will not again be heard outside of Chicago, excepting at the May music festival in Cincinnati. In the near future Mr. Thomas must occupy the position of a musical Nestor and the heritages of his work and the burden of conducting this, magnificent orchestra must naturally fall upon the shoulders of Mr. Stock. The programme for the Indianapolis concert rs essentially virile, as well as new, and one that will atieal to the general public as well as to the trained musician. The Wagner and Weber numbers are the oldest on the programme The others are so new that they may be spoken of in terms of the present. HIgar, Greig, SaintSacns and Tschaikowsky are all composers of to-day. The programme in full will be the following: "HulJigungsmarsth" Wagner Concerto for Piar.ofoite. No. 1, B tlat minor. Opus -3 Tschaikowsky Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso. Allegro con splrito. Andante semplice. Allegro con fuoco. Military March "Pomp and Circumstance" KIgar Suite "Peer Gynt" No. - 1. Opus 4'i "Morning," "Ase's Death," "Anitra's Dance," "In the Hail of the Mountain King" Grieg "Invitation to the Dance".... Weber-Berlioz Sypathetic Foem "Dance Macabre".... Salnt-Saens Overture "Tannhaeuser" Wagner .Mr. Plummer ut the Propy Ineum. Beatrice Hubbell Plummer, a soprano, who has been winning an enviable reputation on the concert platform, will be heard in recital at the Propylaeum Tuesday evening -under the auspices of the Central College of Music. Mrs. Plummer is an Indiana woman, although she is better known in other parts of the country than in her own State. She recently completed a very successful concert tour of the Pacific coast, where she was received with enthusiasm. Her voice is said to be of wide compass and exceptionally powerful. A well-known New York critic says that she sings with much expression and with artistic phrasing. She will be assisted Tuesday evening by Miss Carrie Hyatt, one of the best of Indianapolis pianists. The following programme will be rendered: Recitation and aria from "Carmen". ..Bizet (a) "The Madrigal" Chaminade (b "Obstination" Fontainelies (c "A Romance" Rubinstein id) "Ich Grolle Nicht" Schumann (e) "Ich Liebe Dich" Meyer-Helmund (f) "Lenz" Hildach (a) "The Swing." from "The Daisy Chain" ..." Lehmann (b) "If No One Ever. Marries Me," fnun . "The Daisy Chain" Lehmann (a) 'Thy Beaming Eyes" MacDowell (b) '"The Robins Sing in the Apple Tree" MacDowell (c) "The Sea" MacDowell (a) "Three Roses Red" Norris lb) "Not from the Whole Wide World" Rogers (c) "Sunshine" Carrie Jacobs Bond Song cycle, "The Wandering One" Caro Roma (1) "Absence," () "Doubt Not." (3) 'The Prayer," (4) "The Letter," (5) "ine Return." 311s AtkliiM Ilecltnl. One of the most talented of Indianapolis contraltos, Florence Callup Atkins, will appear in song recital at the Propylaeum next Friday evening, under the auspices of the First Baptist Church. She will be assisted by Miss Carrie Hyatt, the accomplished pianist, who will play her accompaniments, Miss Benaldine Smith, the violinist, and Edward E. Igelmann, 'cellist. Miss Atkins, who has a voice of remarkable sweetness, studied for three years in Chicago with that excellent voice trainer, Mrs. Anna Groff Bryant, and prepared during that time for a career as a concert and oratorio singer. She has already tilled a number of important concert engagements In Indiana, Illinois and Tennessee, and scored a great success last summer as the soloist at various Chautauqua concerts. Miss Atkins appeared in recital in Chicago during her stay in that city and won words of praise from the music critics of the Western metropolis. The musical editor of the Chicago Examiner said of one of her performances: "Her singing is artistic and she possesses rare personal beauty that adds charm to her song." She has been engaged for numerous recitals in different cities of the midWest during the spring and will spend the summer singing at Chautauqua concerts in the East. The programme for Miss Atkins's recital will be as follows: (a) "The Year's at the Spring" Beach (b) "Winter Night" Hollaender (a) "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice".... Saint-Saens From "Samson et Dalila." (b) "Habanera" Bizet From "Carmen." (c) "Nur Wer die Sehnsucht Kennt".... Tsehalkowski Violin Obligato, Miss Smith." (a) Sapphic Ode Brahms (b) Wohin Schubert (c) Frühlings Glaube Schubert (d) Old German Love Rhyme Meyer-Helmund (e) Widmung . Sohnmjtnn (a) Air for G. string Bach-Wilhelmi Violin with 'Cello Obligato. Miss Smith and Mr. Igelmann. (b) Berceuse Alard Miss Smith. (a) "The Lass with the Delicate Air" (Old English) lr. Arne (b) "We'd Better Bide Awce" (Old Scotch) Claribcl (c) "The Ould Plaid Shawl" (Old Irish) Haynes (d) "Bendemeer's Stream" (Old Irish) Gatty (e) "Sweet Genevieve" Tucker ta) "May Day" ....Walthew . , i . i -tS7 I.I r LOKENCE, GALLUP ATKINS Talented Indianapolis Contralto, in Ktcital at . .- tue rrorylaeura Friday Xisht.

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OLIVER WILLARD PIERCE The 1'iano Soloist at the Thomas Orchestra Concert. (b) "Beloved, It Is Morn" Aylward (c "A Rose Fable" Hawley (d) "Cradle Song" Vannah The Coming "PnraifnP Concert. The New York Symphony Orchestra, which is to make its appearance here in April, under the leadership of Mr. Walter Damrosch, is, perhaps, the best-known organization of its kind in this country, its fame not being confined to New York city cr the East, but extending through every section of the United States and Canada. Its members are composed of musicians of the highest standing, who are devoted exclusively to the playing of symphonic and other music of the highest class. The orchestra was founded by Walter Damrosch eleven years ago, and since that time has given, besides its regular scries of New York symphony concerts, hundreds of like concerts all over the country, also taking part in Mr. Damrosch's Wagnerian opera productions both in New York and on the road. During all these years Mr. Damrosch has drilled them to a point of perfection and made them an instrument on which he can play the whole scale of human emotions as crystallized into artistic forms by the great masters. Among the members of the orchestra are several solo musicians of world-wide reputation. Including Mr. David Mannes, llrFt violin and concertmcister; Leo Schulz, first 'cellist, and M. Charles Mole, the marvelous flutist. As a proof of the high standing of this orchestra In New York, it may be said that there is now a list of seventy-five men waiting for the first vacancy in the ranks of the orchestra. The affection existing between Mr. Damrosch and his men is muti'al and found abundant testimony at the closing symphony concert given in New York a few weeks ago, when the members of the orchestra presented their conductor with a huge silver laurel wreath of seventy-five leaves, each one bearing the name of a member of the orchestra. A great many members of the present orchestra have played with Mr. Damrosch for the whole eighteen years that he has been conducting, since his father's death, in lb!s3. Walter Damrosch Is the first great conductor in this country who may be said to have brought music of the higher class within the reach of the masses. He has boldly entered Into the domain usually occupied by the brass bands .and at Willow Grove in Philadelphia and at the Pittsburg exhibition for many successive seasons he has played to nightly audiences often reaching in numbers into the tens of thousands, playing music of the higher class at prices of admission which made it possible for every one, even the poorest, to enjoy it. Opera, orchestra and lecture engagements have for several years kept Mr. Damrosch so busy in the East that of late he has made no extended tours, but this year he not only plays through New England and the middle States, but will be heard in Canada and through the South, Southwest, West and Northwest, the present season extending into May or June, and the coming of this magnificent organization with its famcaj conductor to this city will undoubtedly give much pleasure and much enjoyment to hundreds and even thousands of music lovers. Golden Jubilee of the Maenuerclior. The Indianapolis Maeunerchor will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary with a three days' jubilee festival, beginning Thursday evening, June 23. The Maennerchor was organized June, 1S34, in a little back room on Washington street by seven j-ouug Germans who mLssea the many pleasures of the popular songs of their fatherland. To-day the Maennerchor has over 500 members, and stands foremost among the German singing societies of. the West. Its home on East Washington street, with its beautiful hall, is one of the finest clubhouses in the city. Edward Longerlch and Fred 1. Rush, two of the founders, are still members, the others being dead. Great preparations are being made to make the festival worthy of one of the best singing societies in the country. The active members of tho Musikverciu and the Liederkranz of this city, the Liederkranz of Louisville, the Maennerchor of Columbus, O., and the Liederkranz of Cincinnati, making a combined chorus of 3xi male and 150 female voices, will assist in the festival, besides several soloists. The Philharmonic Orchestra of Louisville, consisting of sixty performers, has been engaged. The chorus will be rendered under the direction of Professor Bellinger. The Maennerchor being a member of the North American Saengerbund. the executive ofiicers of the bund, with Professor Dciler, of New Orleans, as president, will also participate. The festival will begin with a reception at the Maennerchor hall on Thursday evening, June 23, to which only members and Invited guests will be admitted. A concert will be given ut Tomlinson Hall on Friday, evening. The hall is to be handsomely decorated for this occasion. All the singing societies, with the Philharmonic Orchestra, will participate. The combined societies will render several numbers. It will be a treat long to be remembered when all these voices, with years of training, join together in sons, assisted by the Philharmonic Orchestra. Saturday afternoon and evening a great forest festival at the German Park in Sugar Grove avenue will be given. At this festival a large stage will be built in the grove, where allegorical musical numbers will be presented. 31r. Harold to SIiir To-Day. Orville Harold, a, tenor soloist of Muncie, will sing at Christ Church Sunday. Mr. Harold is the young singer who won the first prize for singing the best tenor solo at the State Eistedfod recently hold at Anderson. Alexander Emestinoff. with whom Mr. Harold is studying, is exceedingly enthusi.istie over the probable future of this gifted young singer. The following-musical program, with the full vested choir of sixty voices, assisted by Meat A. Van Dyke, violinist, will be given at the evening service: Festival Magnificat" Brackett Benenic Ar.irr.a M a" Brackett Anthem, tenor solo and chorus, "Seek Ye the Lord" Roberts Quartet, (with violin obligato), "My Faith Looks t'p to Thee" Schneckcr

Musical otem. Adele llippins relates a new anecdote of Hans Voa Bulow in the Allgemeine Mu.ikZcitu:i. A lady said to him: "I have heaid that you once publicly played a piece which you had never studied or played, but had simply memorized with your eyes." The eminent pianist replied: "Many foolish things are related about me. but this story happens to be true. I had promised a ftiend to play one of his compositions at my next concert, but had not .been able to find time to play it over even once. I took the score a!on tn a trip, studied my part in the carriage, and in the evening played it at the concert. This kind of study, first with the head, then with the lingers. I recommend to every artist. Musicians should never travel without taking along a volume of music to peruse on the way." Signor Campanari. the popular baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Company, is to make a concert tour after the close of the 4

present opera season, through the middle West, with the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, which will occupy his time until the 1st of June, after which he goes to Italy, where a number of special operatic engagements have been arranged for him. In October next Campanari is to begin a transcontinental concert tour at the head of his own company, which will Include Mrs. Cutter Savage, soprano. Miss Dcrothy Hoyie, violinist, and Mr. Ward Stephens, pianist. Mr. Elliott Scheuck's grand opera "Tess,"

with a libretto based on Thomas Hardy's famous novel of "Tes of the D'Urbervilles," is promised a production late this season or early next by Henry W. Savage. It is siid that Mr. Savage regards the young composer's work worthy to rank with masterpieces by any of the modern grand opera composers. "Tess" will probably be one of the new opt ras ia next year's repertoire of the English Grand Opera Company, which will be at English's this week. Ysaye. the great violinist, will begin another American tour next November, the contract, having been closed by cable last week. The violinist is at present a guest 1 of the Prince oT Monaco at Monte Carlo. Two concerts w ill be give a in New York, and Ysaye will visit all the large cities of the United States. It will be his first appearance here since 1SDS. . One of the well-known members of Henry W. Savage's English Grand Opera orchestra is Lucia Morealle. the harpist. Signora Morealle is a sister of the "conductor. Eugene Morealle, formerly conductor of Mr. Savage's orchestra. She is an accomplished soloist as well as orchestra player. Some Little Stories About Little People Grandmother was Inspecting herself in a new frock which had just come home, and was not entirely satisfied with the result of the inspection. AJnveiille "That skirt sags a FuMldou Note, little in the ' back," she remarked aloud to herself. "I think I'll have Madame Snip make me a little bustle just a little bit of a bustle." "No, gran'ma," interposed small ten-year-old Edward, who was supposed to be studying his lessons in a near-by chair, "you don't need any bustle they're flat In the back, now." The average four-year-old girl is just at the dangerous age for absorbing all the household talk she hears, and, when occasion arises, she does not An Extra va- hesitate to give forth her Kant Man. own comments on such parental characteristics as she has taken note of. Economy, now and then, in the Simpson-Jones family, is a favorite theme on the part of the man of the house. Mr. Simpson-Jones dearly loves to spend money in large sums and for large matters, and then, in painful attacks of repentance and apparently impending poverty, he urgently insists on household economy in small matters. Mrs. Simpson-Jones, too, in the presence of, and in the absence of, Mr. Simpson-Jones, is wont to express her opinion of Mr. Simpson-Jones's rash expenditures and his theories concerning economy. The other morning little Alice SimpsonJones was unlawfully prowling about in the lower drawer of her father's chiffonier. She pulled out two unopened packs of playing cards, held them up to her mother and exclaimed in a shocked voice: "Mamma, Just look at that; papa's got two packs of cards when one would have done Just as well." Little Dick has been kept very busy all winter, and is now 'still engaged In earning his Easter money, by delivering bread, with his little red express Devotion wagon, for a capable young to Duty, suburban woman who supplies a whole neighborhood with excellent home-made loaves. Suddenly a precious old aunt of little Dick's family circle died of pneumonia, and the bread lady, on hearing the mournful news, prepared, in some dismay, to search for another delivery urchin as faithful and reliable as little Dick. On her way along the lane she met little Dick trudging toward her house, pulling the familiar little red and yellow express wagon behind him. "Why, Dicky," th" bread lady exclaimed, "is this you? I was Just going over to see if I could get Joey Thompson to take the bread around for a few days. I didn't suppose you could do it, on account of your Aunt Eliza, you know." "Joey Thompson can't have my job," said little Dick, with much indignation. "Course, Aunt Liza's dead, an' I think lots o' Aunt Liza, an' mother said I better not come, but I told mother you wouldn't have no other boy but me, an' the neighbors wouldn get no bread, an I couldn' let Aunt Liza's funeral interfere 'th my business, no how." Lady Dudley's Appeal In Behalf of the Irish The following letter has been addressed by Lady Dudley, wife of the lord lieutenant of Ireland, to the press of the country, and a copy has been received by the Journal: May I be permitted through the medium of your paper to appeal to the Irish people in America for a share of their charity on behalf of an undertaking which would. I think, recommend itself to them were they better acquainted with the necessity of it? I speak of the fund for the establishment of district nurses in the poorest parts of Ireland, which has been in existence for nearly a year. In many parts of Ireland, especially those known as the "congesteel districts," no provision is made for nursing the sick poor in their own homes. The population is purely agricultural and acutely poverty stricken, an J the boards of guardians in these districts cannot supply even the ordinary maternity nurses. The people assist one another, the poor supporting the destitute; but a rate in aid of the nursing fund cannot be levied In those districts, for that would merely be taxing the already overburdened population in one direction to benefit them in another. Moreover, as then are seldom any resident gentry or well-to-do inhabitants of the middle classes, it Is equally Impossible to obtain voluntary contributions from local sources. During the last year suflicicnt money ha3 been collected to establish and endow eight Jubilee nurses. Four of these have been at work some little time. Four more will be so shortly. But applications from districts equally poor and necessitous are coming in constantly, and, unh-ss the fund receives further assistance, the answer sent to such applications must le unfavorable. I can, perhaps, best bring tho real condition of affairs home to your readers by citing one typical case, that of Knocknalower, in a Western union which I hive recently visited. In this bleak moorland district of 70,0i 0 acres there i3 scarcely a dwelling of any kind except the wretched cabins of the 5.0i small landhold rs. and so utterly poverty stricken is the place that It is difficult to find a doctor who will remain, no less than ten appointed having resigned during the last live years. In this district the valuation is only lüs id, while the rates amount to "s V on houses and 2s 1M on lands. It will therefore be seen that it would not be practicable to provide a nurse at the expense of the rates. In many parts of the district the people have to journey a whole day across the boa to obtain medical relief. They have also had to be kept alive by special relief works on eight occasions in the last twenty years. I feel confident that the work of supplying properly qualified district nurses for places like this only requires to be brought more prominently to the notice of the Irish people in America to insure for it no Inconsiderable measure of support. - I shall be happy to furnish particulars of the scheme, with an account of work done, to any one who desires further Information. Annual subscriptions or donations mr.y be sent to me, or to the secretary, the Bank of Ireland, Dublin, mftrked. "Lady Dudley's Fund for District Nurses." Yours faithfully, RACHEL DUDLEY. Viceregal Ixlge, Dublin, March 4, l'jul.

WKat Mormonism Is As Taught By Saints A CatecHism of tHe FaitK as TavigKt by Joseph SmitH, tHe Prophet

Kansas City Times. What is Mormonism? It is a faith promulgated by Joseph Smith, the prophet, based on the Bible and on supplementary revelations. Who was Joseph Smith? He was the fourth child in a family of nine children and was Kirn in Sharon. Vt., in I'noö. His parents were poor. When Joseph was 10 years old they moved to Palmyra, N. 'Y.. where his father opened a "cake and beer shop." The family was regarded as illiterate and "shiftless" in the neighborhood. Joseph, however, became familiar with the Bible and at the age of fifteen began "to see visions," as he told the incredulous -neighbors. At that time he had the reputation of bdng eccentric. What was the nature of his visions? His firyt came at a time of great religious j excitement when he thought he had the vision of the Apostle Paul. Threv years later, according to his story,' an angel named Moroni visited him and told him of a book, written upon golden plates, in which was a history of the former inhabitants of America, and "the fullness of the everlasting gospel." The place where the book was hidden was also revealed. It was on a hill near Palmyra. What happened when Smith went after the book? An unseen power prevented him from removing it. Moroni later assured him that he valued the golden plates more than the records upon them. Not until his love for gold had abated and he was willing to give his time to the translation were the plates to be delivered to him. It was not, Smith said, until Sept. 22, 1S27, that he got possession of the book. What was the book of Mormon like? Smith described It as a book of thin gold plates, eight inches long, seven wide and six thick. The plates were inscribed on both sides with hieroglyphics. The characters were "Reformed Egyptian." How did Smith translate the book? Fortunately, a pair of magic spectacles, which he called "Urim and Thummin," was with the book. With the aid of these he read it. Did any one beside 'Smith see the plates? At first Smith did his translating behind a curtain, dictating to Martin Harris and Oliver Cowdery. Later he showed some of the golden plates to eleven witnesses. What testimony did the witnesses leave? In the published "Book of Mormon" the following notice appears with the signatures of the witnesses appended: Be it known unto all nations, kindreds, tongues and people unto whom this work shall come, that Joseph Smith, Jun., the translator of this work, has shown unto us the plates of which hath been spoken, which have the appearance of gold; and as many of the leaves as the said Smith has translated, we did handle with our hands; and we also saw the engravings thereon, all of which has the appearance of ancient work and of curious workmanship. And thus we bear record with words of soberness, that the said Smith hath shown unto us, for we have seen and hefted, and know of a surety that the said Smith has got the plates of which we have spoken. And we give our names unto the world, to witness unto the world that which we have seen, and we lie not, God bearing witness of It. What has become of the witnesses? It is believed that all of them are dead. Eight of them were members of two families. What became of the plates? They vanished. Smith said. At any rate nobody has seen them since. , When was the Book of Mormon published? It was printed at Palmyra in 1S30 and the church was established in the same year. What is the full title of the Book of Mormon? On the title page appears: "The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon Upon Plates Taken From the Plates of Nephl." Below the title follows this paragraph: Whereof It is an .abridgement of .the record of the people of Ncphi, and also of the Lamanites, written to the Lamanltes, who are a remnant of the house of Israel; and also to Jew and gentile: written by way of commandment and also by the spirit of prophecy and of revelation. Written and sealed up, and hid up unto the Lord, that they might not be destroyed; to come forth by the gift and power of God unto the interpretation thereof; sealed by the- hand of Moroni, and hid up unto the Lord, to come forth in due time by way of gentile; the interpretation thereof by the gift of God. What does the bock purport to -be? It says that it gives the history of the occupation of the American .continent. Brierty the story Is that after the destruction of Babel and the confusion of tongues, America was settlel by one of the peoples. Afterwards, in the sixth century. B. C. Lehi and his sous went to South America and from them were descended the Indians. It is related, too, that after the resurrection, Christ went to America and preached to the people. At the final destruction of the civilized people, after bloody wars, God commanded the prophet Mormon to record the events and hide the record. . The Book of Mormon is not a doctrinal work. It is chiefly a narrative. Whence do the Mormons derive their doctrines? From the Bible and from a series of "divine revelations" made to the head of the church and published in a volume called "Doctrine and Convenants." What Is the Mormons' creed? They believe in the Trinity, in punishment for sin and In salvation through Chri?t by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel. What are the ordinances? Faith in Christ, repentence. baptism for the remission of sins and laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost. Tho Mormons believe further in the divine organization of the Mormon Church, in the Bible as the word of God in the Book of Mormon as the further word of God, in the restoration of the ten tribes of Israel, in the building of Zion on the American continent and in the second coming of Christ. When was polygamy introduced? The belief generally accepted Is that Smith claimed to have a revelation sanctioning polygamy in 1S31; that this was withheld from most of the saints for a time, but that it was at once revealed to a favored few by whom it was practiced: and that Smith himself had plural wives. These statements are denied by Smith's son. Joseph Smith, of Limoni, la., head of the seceding branch of the church, who asserts that his father did not believe In polygamy. The doctrine was first publicly proclaimed by Brigham Young in Kj2. It was suspended by "revelation" to President Woodruff in lfO. The church divided after the death of Prophet Smith and the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has never sanctioned polygamy. How many members have the two branches of the Mormon Church? The Utah branch Is credited with CHO.oao and the reorganized branch with 4(). The Mormons at Independence, Mo, belong to the reorganized branch. Who Invented the Alphabet f Harper's Magazine for March. The two nations credited with this wonderful achievement are the Phoenicians and the Persians. But it is not usually conceded that the two are entitled ,to anything like equal credit. The Persians, probably in the time of Cyrus the Great, used certain characters of the Babylonian script for the construction of an alphabet; but at this time the Phoenician aiphabet had undoubtedly been in use for some centuries, and it is more than probable that the Persian Ixsrrowed his idea of an alphabet from a Phoenician source. And that, of course, makes all the difference. Grante 1 the idea of an alphabet, it re-quires no great reach of constructive genius to supply a set of alphabetical characters; though even here, it may be added parenthetically, a study of the development of alphabets will show that mankind has all along had a characteristic propensity to copy rather than to Invent. Regarding the Persian alphabet maker, then, as an copyist rather than a true inventor, it remains to turn attention to the Phoenician source, whence, as is commonly believed, the original alphabet which became "the mother of all existing alphabets" came Into being. It must be iidmitted at the outset that evidence 'for the Phoenician origin of this alphalet Is traditional rather than demonstrative. The Phoenicians were the great traders of antiquity; undoubtedly they were largely responsible for the transmission of the alphabet from one part of the world to another, once it had been invented.

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