Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 174, 7 August 1908 — Page 2
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SU5-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1908.
AGE TWO.
ORIGIN OF BAGPIPES IT IS FOUND IN THE ANCIENT REED, OR SHEPHERD'S PIPE.
lm Karl? Timi There Were Mair , Different Kind of Bacplpe. In I'M Jm Europe-The Highland, Lowland . hi Irian Vavrietlea. According to the encyclopedia, the bagpipe is a wind instrument the fixed characteristic of which has always been two or more reed pipes attached to and sounded by & wind chest, or bag, which bag has In turn been supplied either by the lungs of tb performer or by a bellows. The original instrument was presumably the simple reed, or shepherd's pipe, which was well known to the Trojans, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. But the strain of blowing these ancient pipes waa so great that some genius conceived the idea of having a reserve supply of wind in a bag attached to the pipes, and hence the bagpipe. The first real Instrument is believed tc have been a skin of a goat or kid, with two pipes, through one of which the bag was Inflated, the other emitting the found. In early times the bagpipe was common In. Great Britain and abroad. At one time there were five different kinds known ou the continent, some inflated by the mouth and others by bellows, while In the British . isles three kinds were known the great highland bagpipe, the lowland bagpipe of Scotland (which closely resembled the Northumbrian) and the Irish bagpipe. In the great highland bagpipe, which originally bad but one drone, a valved tube leads from the mouth to an air tight bag, which has four other orifices, three large enough to contain the base of three fixed long tubes, termed drones, and another smaller, to which is fitted the chanter. The three are thrown on the shoulder, while the latter is held in the hands. All four pipes are filled with reeds, but of different kinds. ' The drones are tuned by means of sliders, or movable joints, and this tuning or preparation for playing, which generally occupies a few minutes of the piper's time before he begins the tune proper, Is heard with Impatience by those not accustomed to the instrument. Indeed, It gave rise to the saying, applied In Scotland to those who waste time over small matters, "You are longer in tuning your pipes than in playing your tune." The Scottish lowland bagpipe, like the Northumbrian pipe, was in two forms, one consisting of a smaller and milder toned edition of the highland Instrument and the other a miniature of this and having the same relation to it as the fife has to a German band. Its great drawlvu-k, from the point of view of the devotees of the highland bagpipe, is that it is unsuited to perform what they consider the perfection of pipe music the pibroch. These small pipes were, however, gentler than the highland, having the same tone, but less r;iorous. It was to the strains of such bagpipe that Chaucer tells us the com::y of pilgrims left London, and it is Fame iiist.runiont that is alluded to "Ucwnre ns the Lincolnshire bag- -' the Instrument in f'"!:i nn 1 Im supplied ' ' . it 1 f!:nvs. The drones F."' :i one stock and have keyn vrli'.- !i rv-? V.ye;l by the wrist of the ri.jht 1. Tie reeds are soft and the toiler very sweet and melodious, and there is a harmonious bass which ts very effective In the hands of a good player. The Irish instrument Is fast dying out. The bagpipe, though at one time fairly common, never obtained a firm hold In England. It lost favor and gradually deteriorated until it Is now practically extinct. The average Englishman neither appreciates nor understands It. A famous poet irreverently once compared its notes to "the shrill screech of a lame goose caught In corn," while another "heretic writer likens its sound to a "horrible, noisy, mad Irishman" or to the cries of -the "eternally tormented." To the Irish people It appeals more strongly. They still possess la a dogree the feeling of attachment to the bagpipe which is so general among Scotsmen. But It is undoubtedly more closely associated with Scotland, both in the highlands and lowlands, than with any other country, the particular instrument In use being the great highland bagpipe, which, as already explained, consists of three drones. Including the big drone, which was added about the beginning of the last century. It Is this type which has gradually superseded the lowland pipe. There is no doubt that the bagpipe was in use in Scotland from a very early period, and it Is in Scotland that it bas been brought to the highest degree of perfection. Its music distinctly connects it with Scotland, as is clear in the pibroch, the strathspey, the reel, the march andother popular melodies. There are proofs that the instrument was cultivated in Scotland certainly in the twelfth century and of its universal popularity as early as the fifteenth, century, while in the seventeenth century nearly every town lu the highlands and lowlands boasted of Its piper. London Globe. Traatlaar to Appearaaeea. "A photographer is really among the most trusting of men." "How do you make that out?" "Doesn't he always take reople at their face value ?" Baltimore American. A Relief. Mother Do you think it is a good hing to spank a cbiU? Doctor Well, It often relieves the parent of a bad fit ttf temper. Detroit Free Press. A mother's tears are the same la all languages. Sure. airs. Bunn So your servant ran off. Don't you think she'll regret it? Mrs. IT linn Yes. because my husband ran with her. Manchester (N. H.) Mirror '"it American. Only as we love can we work beautifully, harmoniously, courageously. Courage comes with love; It is love clone that makes tasks easy and fingers fly fast W. .T. 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Affairs of the Sporting World
It really was a shame the way the Riders from Louisville massacred the curves and slants of Rube Marquard yesterday. And to think that he had been primed to win the opening fray. The Columbus champs found the "nothing doing" sign hung out at Toledo, and the Mud Hegs made tracks all over the back porch. The second division teams in the American Association are playing a pitiful game. It took thirteen innings and a break of luck for the White Sox to win from Boston yesterday. The Sox were declared the world's champions two years ago and occupy third place in the race today, but how they do it is past telling. It is time to begin to count Cleveland's list of games won. Yesterday's made the seventh straight. Local fans would like to see the Naps at the top. It is a splendid article of ball St. Louis is playing in the American and the aspirations of Detroit need not be too hopeful with the westerners hugging so closely. Think of it a delegation of local baseball enthusiasts going to Cambridge City Sunday to see a ball game. Did Cambridge ever come to Richmond and If well, remember the bunch that came last year and brought tack hammers with them? Harry Milan, who pitched for the local team last year in a few games, has been secured by the Atkins team of Indianapolis to pitch in the struggle for the city championship. Guhl, the former Bluffton pitcher. Is said to be slated for a trial by the Indianapolis A. A. team. Catcher Rundell was released by Ft. Wayne and signed by St. Paul. Gt. Paul takes everything that comes. We're waiting to hear more from the post season team that is to caper about on the Athletic p?.rk diamond. Wilbur Goode, of the Akron team of the O. P. league has been purchased by Cleveland. On the Kalamazoo track in the grand circuit meet yesterday Hedgewood Boy paced the fastest two-heat race of the season. Hamburg Belle gave the track a new record for trotters. Ordinary betting is not a crime in New York, has ruled Justice Gaynor of the supreme court, but to post bets PIANO EXPERIMENTS. Playlna; 'by Svreeplaa; the Striate With a Feather. Upeu wide your piauo so that the wires are exposed. Over the wires place sheets of music, and when you strike a tone you will find that it has a rattling sound. If now you play a tune in the same manner, with the sheets of music still lying ou the strings. It will sound as if the instrument were a banjo. Anyhow, it is a food imitation. Now remove the music sheets and press down geutly, but firmly, the keys belonging to any cord. Take the simple cord C, E, G. for example. The keys must be pressed down without sounding them and held down while some one geutly brushes the strings with a feather or a straw. The effect will be as if the cord were played far away and is heard by you as very soft tones. Change the cord, always pressing down the keys without sounding them, while the feather still sweeps the Strings lightly. In this way you may modulate or play a slow piece, and the effect will be very beautiful, indeed, as if heard from a great distance. The reasou of this is that ordinarily a damper rests against each string, but when the corresponding key is 6truck or pressed down the damper Is raised. In sweeping the strings with the feather, lightly, only the strings that are undampered sound, the others being held mute by the dampers, but If the touch of the feather is too heavy even the other strings may sound, so your care must be in maktng a light and delicate touch. Now press down a key gently and hold it. Strike very hard the octave above this key, but do not bold it after striking the tone. When the wire of the tone struck has been sufficiently dampered, so that it does not sound so loud, the pressed down key will be heard to "sing" clearly, even though it was not struck. This Is because every note struck is composed of several notes, being in reality a cord In Itself, and each note contained in that cord causes the corresponding note In the keyboard to vibrate, or "sing," in sympathy if held down in like manner. The other notes that will sound under these conditions will always be the fifth above the octave, the second octave and the third and fifth above that, and these tones that sound are called "overtones." For illustration. If C in the lower part of the piano be struck, any or all of the notes that follow will sound if their keys are first pressed and held down. Philadelphia Press. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. When you are all done but finishing, you are just half done. If you have time to boast about being worked to death, you have not much to do. Some people are so unfortunate that their troubles make people laugh Instead of cry. A man who underestimates himself may be tiresome, but he is not a circumstance to the man who brags. Teople may disdain a compliment, but they feel a tender little spot in them where it hit and refused to be dislodged. It is a theory growing in conviction that the man who says a mean thing about another isn't as mean as the man who carries it. The man who travels over the path behind you wisely looks at your footprints and sees where you could have avoided many a pltfalL Atchison Glob-
and take all comers as a bookmaker is a violation of the law.
The American Association will not put a team in St. Louis and there will be no invasion of major league territory next year according to President O'Brien, of the Association. Ray C. Ewry, the broad jumper, and C. M. Daniels, the swimmer, told of the mistreatment of American athletes at the London Olympic upon their return to New York. Daniels says the Americans were treated rotten as athletes and too fine socially. When the Yanks refused to partake at dinners and teas during the course of the events they were chided for not being sociable. He said: "As athletes we were treated 'rotten.' 'Rotten' does not even express the sentiments of the Americans. You. over here, can't half appreciate the difficulties we encountered. That Marathon was the worst athletic offense possible. The Italian was dragged to his feet and almost carried over the Mae. s "Of course the defeats in the endurance runs were a sore thing to the English, but their conduct was inexcusable. We had much better treatment in Athens. The British showed their disappointment and jealously at all times. I was in the grand stand when the Marathon runners were coming and the women on all sides were exclaiming: 'I hope it Isn't a Yankee. Anything but a Yankee.' "The English started the unpleasantness and kept it up. We were sorry that they did this, for England is the real home of sports and ought to set a higher standard. They are good winners, but bad losers. Augusta, Ga., Aug. 7. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, better known as "Ty" Cobb, the Heavy hitting ball player of the Detroit American League team, was married yesterday to Miss Charlotte Marion Lombard, daughter of one of Augusta's wealthiest citizens. Mr. and Mrs. Cobb will spend a few days visiting several Georgia towns, after which he will rejoin the Detroit team, his wife traveling with him. At the end of the season it is the intention of the couple to visit Europe. Phil Brock of Cleveland, O., and Packey McFarland of Chicago are fit and ready for their ten-round battle tonight at Los Angeles. The boys are to weigh in at 133 pounds at 3 o'clock. McFarland Is optomistic and says he will win by the knockout process. WHO WILL WIN? NATIONAL LEAGUE. Won Lost Pet Pittsburg 59 37 .615 New York 57 38 .600 Chicago 56 40 .583 Philadelphia 51 41 .554 Cincinnati 49 50 .495 Boston 42 54 .438 Brooklyn 34 58 .370 St. Louis 32 63 .337 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Won Lost Pet. Detroit 60 36 .625 St Louis 60 39 .606 Cleveland 54 43 .557 Chicago 54 44 .551 Philadelphia 45 49 .479 Boston 46 52 .469 Washington 37 58 .389 New York 32 65 .330 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Won Lost Pet. Louisville 67 45 .598 Indianapolis 65 49 .570 Toledo 62 47 ' .569 Columbus 63 50 .558 Minneapolis 56 55 .505 Kansas City 52 60 .464 Milwaukee 51 62 .451 St. Paul 31 79 .282 RESULTS YESTERDAY. National League. Cincinnati 5; New York .0. Philadelphia 7-5; Chicago 3-3-Pittsburg 9; Boston 1. St. Louis 2; Brooklyn 0. American League. St. Louis 3; New York 1. Chicago 2; Boston 1. Cleveland 6; Washington 1. Philadelphia-Detroit Rain. American Association. Louisville 8; Indianapolis 3. Toledo 18; Columbus 3. Kansas City 3; Milwaukee 2. GAMES TODAY. National League. Chicago at New York. Pittsburg at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Boston. Cincinnati at Brooklyn. American League. Boston at Chicago. New York at St. Louis. Washington at Cleveland Philadelphia at Detroit American Association. Louisville at Indianapolis. Kansas City at Milwaukee. Minneapolis at St. Paul. Columbus at Toledo. Superstitions of Stage Folk. A stock actor Is apt to have a prejudice against decorating or fixing up his dressing room. He is certain to get his notice shortly after he puts his pictures on the wall and otherwise snakes the place comfortable and homelike. Actors and managers both have a horror of the witch lines in "Macbeth." and they never will allow them to be spoken, as it means a fire In the playhouse before the twelvemonth is over. Sir Henry Irving was a firm believer in this superstitition, and he would never allow the fateful lines to be read when be was playing the tragedy. I know many players who fear" to have any one pass them on a stairway when they are entering a theater. There are many actors who make the sign of the cross before they make aaten trance. Chicago Tribua.
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BOc a A FAMOUS SONG WRITER. Foster Was Called the Edfir Alias Poe of Maaie. Stephen Collins Foster, the most popular of American song writers and composers, has been called the Edgar Allan Poe of music. Like Poe, he was a genius. He came of Virginia parentage, received a good education and died in New York Jan. 13, 1864, in the height of his fame, a penniless wanderer. He was born in Pittsburg July 4, 1326. He learned easily, and after receiving private lessons in music and drawing taught himself to play on the flageolet, guitar and banjo. He also devoted several years to the voice and piano. Then he turned his attention to composing songs and dialect ballads and dialect songs. At the age of seventeen, while employed in Louisville, Ky., he published the serenade "Open Thy Lattice, Love," which was instantly successful. Theu followed "Uncle Ned," "O Susannah," which were sung by a minstrel troupe, and Stephen Foster became famous far and wide." Marrying, in 1844, Jennie McDowell, he came to New York, where in rapid succession he supplied his publishers with songs which became famous "Old Kentucky Home," "Massa's In De Cold. Cold Ground," "Old Dog Tray," "Willie, We Have Missed You" and "Sweet Eilen P.ayne." But the song that is best known in many lands is "The Suwanee River," for which Christie's minstrels gave him at the beginning $50. In addition he received royalties on its saie of over half a million copies and the honor of knowing that eminent singers like Jenny Lind sang it to applauding thousands. His last song, a negro melody, "Old Black Joe," is still a favorite. A fourth of his 150 songs were in negro dialect, among which were "Nellie Bly," "Nell Was a Lady" and "Nancy Tile" THE ELYSEE PALACE. Checkered Career of the White Hoaae of France. The Elysee palace, situated in the Hue Faubourg Saint-Honore, is a cross between a country hotise and a hotel. It has had a checkered career since its erection in 1718 and has harbored some queer characters. Louis V. presented it to Mme. de Pompadour. Who knows how many lettres de cachet went out of the gates to imprison those who lampooned her? Under Louis XVI. it was called the Elysee Bourbon. During the revolution it became national property, was put up for sale, found no purchaser and was turned into a government printing office. During the directoire there were gay doings In the fine old rooms, and the merveilleuses and incroyables danced aad gambled from sunset to sunrise. The rooms were let to a syndicate who made a large fortune out of the speculationSince then the palace has been occupied by Mnrat, Napoleon 1., Louis Bonaparte and Queen Hortense. Alexaadir L f .Bus&ja and jth.e. Tuc de
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pair Bern. After the revolution of '1B30 it remained unoccupied until Louis Napoleon made it his residence while he was president of the republic. Nearly all the subsequent presidents of the present republic have added to it. The large glass awning seen from the Faubourg, called by the scoffers "the monkey palace," was the work of Carnot. His also is the large ballroom. The left wing was built by Louis Napoleon, and Grevy added a room overlooking the garden. None of the presidents seem to fancy its state bedroom, nor do they write at the Louis XVI. table, ornamented with brass work chiseled by Gouttlere. They have one and all preferred to furnish small rooms away from tbe solemn state apartments and use an ordinary desk such as we find in any office. Boston Transcript. Lincoln the Lawyer. It is conceded by all his contemporaries that Lincoln was the bet all around jury lawyer of his day la Illinois. Undoubtedly his knowledge of human nature played an Important part In his success. He possessed another quality, however, which is almost if not quite as essential in jury work, and , that is clearness and simplicity of statement. His logical mind marshaled facts In such orderly sequence and he interpreted them In such simple language that a child could follow him through the most complicated cause, and his mere recital of the issues had the force of argument. Frederick Trevor Hill in Century. An Explorer's Stratagem. Sir Harry Johnston, the famous ex plorer, once escaped from a very tight corner in Africa by a queer stratagem. A score or two of murderous natives had surrounded his tent. Into which, before rushing it, they sent an envoy. The envoy was told the smallpox wa in the camp, and a wretched Albino was sent out as the awful example. In fire minutes the scared tribesmen had vanished. As Sir Harry well knew, they feared the "white disease" more than all the inventions of Maxim. Hi Works. "A man is Lnown by his works," declared the irrepressible reformer, who was addressing a large and enthusiastic audience. "Yours must be a gas works!" shouted a rude, uncultured person who occupied a back seat. Ob) Iced to Move. "What, you are not going to move aain?" said Mr. Jones to his brother. "I thought you liked your little flat." "j?o we did when we moved in, but my wife has gained ten pounds, and we need more room." Good nature Is the very air of a good mind, tbe sign of a large and generous soul and tbe peculiar soil in which virtue prospers. Goodman. Lititia : Gold Medal Flour makes tha whitest bread, Ptltll.
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