Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 103, 1 May 1922 — Page 15

SUNDAY TELLS STORY OF HIS CONVERSION WHILE BALL PLAYER "Now every man that can truthfully say, 'Say Bill, that sermon helped me,' Just stand up," Billy Sunday asked of the 4,500 men who listened to his "men only" sermon on "The Devirs Boomerang" Sunday

afternoon and practically four-fifths of the men stood. Calling for trail hitters, 96 men, from every class in Richmond, marched down the aisles, shook hands with Billy and signed cards pledging themselves to a better Christian life. "ujio jusi oeiore tnat 42 men stood in answer to the call for men who. aia not Delone to rh ohnm ht wanted to take their stand for Jesus innsi. It was a "Billy Sunday" audience that gathered, to hear the evangelist preach on the wages of sin that men paid, and to hear him tell of the fate of some of those other ball players who had been with the Chicago White Stockings in the old days. Tells of Conversion Describing hi3 Iconversion in Chicago 34 years ago," Sunday told of his first appearance at the ball field after the news had reached the papers. He told of entering with fear and trembling, and of his, first greeting of cheer from the gatekeeper, and of how the 'rest of them backed him. And then he told of the finish of the rest of the team, of the end of Mike Kelly, the catcher, "the nerviest man that ever lived." . " "Thirty four years ago we sat together on the curbstone on Clark street, drunk, and I said to them, 'Good bye boys,- I'm through. They died drunkards deaths, end I am still alive doing good. Now who did the right thing in life?" Sunday Slide Once during the sermon, telling of the attempt of the big catcher to end his life With a home mn. nnrt hp straight. Sunday flung himielf head-1 ' iujig imo a suae on tne piatrorm. , "He was trying to stretch a threebagger into a home run, and he slid for home," Billy Sunday cried, "but the umpire called 'Out!'" ' "That was the story of his life, he was 'out' and never reached home." Before the sermon Rev. R. W. Stoakes conducted a drive for pledges for the tabernacle. Holding in his hand the pledge cards of businesses in town which had pledged $100 for the tabernacle, he asked for matchers for them. Following the lead of Knollenberg's department store, which had given the first $100 pledge which Rev. Stoakes held In his hand. Will Romey, Ora Stegall. Tom Tarkleson, Lee Nusbaum, Richmond Lumber company, Chenoweth automobile company, Webb-Coleman company, all pledged $100, a total of $700. Other Subscriptions. Following the firm subscriptions, Walter Dalbey increased his personal subscription to $100, as did Folger Wilson. Ed Thompson. McClellan White and John Hansel and one man whose name could, not be heard on the platform, pledged $50 and Mr. R. A. Campbell plF-dgert $25. Mr'Sunday offered to give the fifth contribution of $50, and when the four additional pledges JFeT received from the audience, paid up his $50 on the. spot. . .Numerous .pledge of $10 and $5 which were made bring the total of pledges made during the afternoon to about $2,000. part of which was paid immediately in cash when the "dough pans" were passed around. The cash collection in the tabernacle was $893.18 and in the East Main street Friends meeting house, $88.52, making a total for the afternoon of $981.70. A ohork from the Reid Memorial Ladies' Missionary society of $25 also was announced, and a future contribution from the Ladies' Aid reported., 223 CONVERTS GAINED ON SATURDAY NIGHT Rev. W. A. Sunday's sermon on "Moral Lepers" brought 223 forward on Saturday night, the largest number since the campaign began. Hitting at the people who had demanded services in the different churches on Sunday morning, Mr. Sunday declared they were not behind the meetings. "I do not blame the ministers so much," he said, "when their deacons and elders come bellyaching around insisting on having services in their own churches, but it is not good for the campaign." Church members who refused to come forward on his invitation and renew their vows for Christ came in for a share of the general criticism. "I called for them when the Method ists were here, and they .did not come forward, and I called on the Baptists and the Christians, and the United Brethren, but they did not come forward." Results Wanted. "How can you expect these meetinga to reach others outside of the church when you do not lead the way by a renewal of your vows?" he demanded. "Let us have clean up week in our hearts," Mr. Sunday said during the sermon. "A woman has just sent me a card saying that this was clean-up week in the city, that is a good thing but why stop there let us make this a week to think of cleaning our hearts On tL 1 call for renewals of faith in Jesus, with members of the choir leading the way; the largest number of "trail hitters" of the campaign came forward, 223 having signed cards out of the approximate 300 that came forwaid to ehake Sunday's hand. The attendance was the smallest of the week, there not being over 3,000 persons in the whole tabrenacle. "Either you get under this financial obligation by next Sunday, of I am through," he declared at the tabernacle Saturday evening before preaching his sermon on "Moral Lepers." "From now on," he suddenly broke out, "either I run the campaign or I go. . I have given in before to save quarreling, but from now on I am going to decide whether or not there are to be any services in the churches.

FORGOT T Sunday did not have J handkerchief 'with which to wipe his face Saturday Y night, so he had to borrow one from back of the stage in order to wipe some of the excessive sweat from his face.

Sunday Wins Hearts of Little

Ones; 368 Capturing Juvenile Richmond with waring flags, and breaking vases, Billy Sunday Saturday afternoon brought a real lesson to the children that, judged by the exclamations that broke forth, will stay with them. leiang the story of the little boy 1 hat Played marbles when he should uave Deen on the way to Sunday school, Sunday had the children recite the ten commandments one at a time. "Did he break thart commandment?" Sunday would ask, holding a vase in his hands. -At the chorus nf v - yta.n' vr - .L.wo,uld Bmash the Tase. drPon tne piatrorm As he held un the first vn a ini white one, the children, not knowing what would happen, watched expectantly, and then gazed in astonishment while he broke it with his hammer. Children Surprised Too subdued by the lesson to speak, only a breathless "Oh" was to be heard, but as the commandments were said and the vases, more beautiful each time, were broken one by one the very picking up of a vase brought a chorus of exclamations of pain and wonder. At the end, Mr. Sunday lined up four whole vases on the front of his stand, the other six and all the most beautiful ones, lay broken to pieces on the floor. "Now how many commandments did he break?" demanded Mr. Sunday, and the children, as in one voice, answered "Six." But they did not

SIN, LIKE LEPROSY. GRADUALLY SPREADS UNTIL BEING BECOMES CORRUPT AND FOUL WITH CHRISTIANITY AS ITS ONLY CURE

... ... crmon -ine moral Leper," odiuraay nmnt Mr. Sunday traced In et.a. i . his style the cure of Naaman of leprosy and aaid: 1 have sometimes tried to imagine myself in Damascus on review day. and have seen a man riding, somewnat apart from his troops, upon a norse ncniy caparisoned with trap pings or silver and gold, and he himseir ciotned in garments of the finest texture, and yet with a face so sad and melancholy as to be repulsive and win your sympathy and cause the beholder to turn and look a second time. And a man unaccustomed to such scenes and events might 4ave been heard, as he stood on the curbstone, to have made a remark similar to this: "How unequally God seems to divide nis favors r There is a man that rides and the others walk; he is a friend of the King and the others are forgotten; he is clothed in the finest garments and they are almost naked and despised." Oh, If we only knew the secrets In the hearts and lives of a great many peopie we envy today we'd pity them from the depths of our souls. Years ago I was being driven through a beautiful suburb of Chicago by a man who wanted to selKme a lot and who was pointing out, heTe and there, how highly I could consider myself complimented if I felt myself aDie to purcnase a borne and live in that neighborhood or this one. Finally we went past a beautiful home, a palatial home, and he said to me: "That belongs to Mr. So and So and So." and named them, and he said to me, "They have been known to live for months in that home and never speak to one another, each their own equipage." Prefers One Happy v Little Home. 3 My thoughts hurried back to the little flat we called our home and -where we'd lived for twenty years and I'd paid rent enough to have bought the whole thing. There wasn't very much in it I could have loaded all the furniture in two furniture vans and I said: "Well. Lord, if 1 had to give a little 52 ? 'Vi - emu iuvo max goes wnn it and have the palatial home and troubled insomnit and tear-stained cheeks and the worry, why, I wouldn't.do it," and from that day to this I have had a new vision of things and have been more contented and satisfied than ever. "But he was a leper." That disease peculiar to the Orient, is exceedingly loathsome, and a3 I study its pathology I am not surprised that God used it as a type of sin. A man accustomed to understand the beginnings of the ravages of that disease might have said to one thus afflicted: "Do you see that spot! You'd better go show yourself to the priest for the cleansing, according to the Mosaic ceremonial law." "Oh." says the man thus addressed. "You are unduly excited and alarmed and agitated for my welfare. That's nothing but a water blister; nothin but a nimnle. a fester nn lar. th-Si;. the head of a pin." and af first the sores were few, then there were many. Leprosy Gradually Spreads. At first the hand, then the arm and then the body is covered and it lays hold with its slimy coils upon every nerve and vein and joint and marrow and cuticle and as the days go by the.j scums are large and then the sores, until the entire body becomes a mas3 of putrefaction ajnd corruption. So it Is with sin; and I am not surprised that God used it as a type of sin in its development and growth. So I say to the boy, be careful! Don't you go with that gang that sneers and mocks at the Lord and makes comments upon everybody that passes them on the street and condemns virtue. Why, I heard you swear just now, and take the name of God in vain. Why, I smell liquor on your breath, you are going down the line that will end" in ruin. Why do you laugh at a smutty story, that somebody told as though that was witty Instead of being devilish. He said: "I never expect to go down any further than that." I said to that girl, be careful, mv girl! Don't you go with that crowd of Godless young men. Don't choose those young men for vour cnmnan. ions. Don't you go down "there to ' mat Daiiroom. Three-fourths of all the girls in this country that hava been ruined by the excitement of their wassions down on the ballroom floor. I am interested in welfare; I've got to assault some popular institutions and I don't care three whoops this side of perdition what may be said

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND

Sign Pledge Cards , answer in the' same Joyous way In which they had answered the mien tions about the flags, In the first part 7 the sermon. - Holda Up Flags While the flags were being shown, and the names of the countries asked, every three colored flag was hailed as French, and some times Mr. Sunday had a little difficulty in getting the youngsters to give the right country. "Oh, you go home," he would say when some wild guess was made, and the children would laugh and squirm on their seats. There were nearly 500 children at the tabernacle, occupying the seats directly in front of the stage. On a call for those that would pledge themselves to live for Christ, the children all put up their hands, and 368 signed cards, pledging themselves, to that end. The adult attendance was 500. Greets Children After the service, Mr. Sunday greeted several hundred of the children on the , platform, and shook hands with them. Little Katherlne Balrd. 314 North Fifteenth street hunted out Mr. Sunday, and demanded: "Do you know what I am, going to do when I grow up?" "What is it," asked Sunday. "When I grow up I am going to learn to sing and then I shall hunt you up, and sing with you," she said. "But I am afraid that I will be in Heaven by that time," Sunday said, smiling down at the little girl and ruffling her hair. "Oh no yon won't", she said, "for I am going to sing with you." about me doing it. I am trvinz to protect you against the enemy of your BUUl. I say don't you allow those libertines to do it. Don't you laugh at that story with a double meaning when the boys torn it, to simply find out if they coma get an entry Into your mind and see if they could disarm your prejudice. Years ago, Henry Clay was a publisher, and I don't know of any better periodical publisher. He told that when he was in London he went to a theater to see an exhibition of animals and everybody was astounded by the marvelous power that the man had over them. They went through their various performances and there was one animal in the crowd that he never took his eyes from and It is one species of animal that has never been known to submit to man either through brutality or kindness that is the black panther. And the, most difficult horse of all upon earth to tame is the black stallion and the one snake that has never been tamed is the black cobra. The black horse has never submitted to the authority of a human hoinpWhite mice are trained. White mice will do wonderful performances. The macit panther has never been tamed by man, although it will go through performances. The trainer will never take his eye off the nanther Wo win turn his back upon the tiger, lion, hyena and never take his rvs avoir' from the black panther. They went through these various performances and it concluded when a boa con strictor was introduced and iey put a wire screen in front of ta staNs. Then the curtain arose and the weird strains of an Oriental band of music stole 'neath the underbrush and the snake came from the opposite side of the stage and the eyes of the man and the eyes of the snake met, and the serpent quailed. The man was master. It went through the various oerformancea iih then he stepped to the front of the stage and the huge reptile wriggled JnT drounVne man until man and! snaKe seemed blended into one and high above the head of the man, iniS - 'Kr.!'!? The tongue of , .. ocicui struck out and the mn.n throw his head. The audience burst forth and the man gave a call and thinking that an added part of the performance, they burst forth again until the vociferation rolled down the street like a simoon of the desert, when that horrified audience sat there and heard bone after bone of that man break until the monster had killed him. Small Habits Can -Be Crushed. At first it was small and then it aa large, at nrst it was -weak and then it was strong. So, with your habits. At first you may crush them. Oh! There are men and women that are held by the enslaving power of appetite in. bonds stronger iu"u oieei anu more enduring. There was a time wnen you could .v.. tuum nave Fpless to sav. mv liff i I vS n;"nd: people see it. All the panorama of the ages and all the spectacles painted and all the lurid colors of sin and of shame and of damnation may be flashed upon the canvas of their memory and yet they will bind their eyes and stop their ears and rush pellmell to hell. You can not describe or explain it upon any given note or suggestion or hypothesis other than a personal devil in the world, and it blinds the eyes of men and women lest they might see and be saved. Young woman, are you keeping company with a young man that is a moral leper? In God's name take my advice and quit instantly, stop where jou are: Husband, if you go back home, does your conscience lash you because, of guilt? And, young man when you stand at the marriage altar with a pure girl, if your character is reprobate and your life is debauched before God Almighty, I charge that you oftght , to be compelled to cry out"Unclean! Unclean! Unclean!" When Jesus died on the cross He paid the penalty for the sins of the human race. Now, listen! Adam and Eve were created, male and female. Ail tne human race are tlie offspring from Adam and Eve. So when Jesus came into the world he took our nature, hence the plan of redemption only extends to the human race. The devil3 were once bright, shining angels, but the devil is the leader and they were all once bright, shining an gels They rebelled against God and they

SUN - TELEGRAM, RICHMOND,

Shavings From the Tabernacle Sawdust Trafl

WHY HE'8 PRESBYTERIAN "Nell was a Presbyterian, that is why I am a Presbyterian." said Mr. Sunday at the Sunday afternoon sermon to men. STICKS TO PIANO Bob Matthews made a hit as a song writer at the Sunday evening performance, but when Ruth Rodeheaver tried to get him to go up. to the platform and acknowledge the applause, he refused and stuck to his piano seat. FAMOUS SERMON . Billy Sunday has only two sermons printed, his one on "Mother" and another on "The Second Coming of Christ" t He has promised this second famous sermon of his for Saturday night, May 6. SPECIAL SERVICE Whether or not Sunday afternoon is to be for men only, Mr. Sunday has not yet decided. But he will preach to everybody in the morning, and in the afternoon if he preaches for men only , Mrs. Sunday will come down and speak to women only at the same time. GOES TO WINONA The sermon for Tuesday afternoon will be "Does It Pay to Pray?" Mr. Supday has promised that he wil ltake the 5 o'clock train out of Winona Lake and have some one meet him at Anderson with a car, so that he can be sure to be at the tabernacle on time this Tuesday. , ROTARY GUEST Plana to have Mr. Sundav address the Rotary club at its weekly gathering on Tuesday, May 9, have been '"6 lurtuaj, itiaj a, nave uera made. Mr. Sunday is a member of the Rotary club of Des Moines, Iowa, The other night on th eplatform he was discussing South American rotary clubs with an out-of-town man who were hurled over the battlements of glory. Hell was prepared for tjre devil and his angels. God never made hell for man. God made heaven for man, but if a man is a fool and serves the devil, then he will go to hell and live with the devil. Naaman had tried all doctors, but his condition grew worse and worse. In one of his military expeditions he captured a little Jewish maiden. She was sort of a helper of Naaman's wife. Mrs. Naaman kept telling this little girl about her good husband who was a leper and this little girl said: "Wre've got a great God down in Israel that cures lepers of their leprosy." So the King wrote a letter to Joram for Naaman, and later he went to the palace of old Joram. He dared not enter for he was a leper. Oh! , If we'd shut our homes and our clubs, our lodges- against themr we could purify mankind and do something to make the world better that we live in. Tradition says that old Naaman killed Ahab, Joram's father. And so, he can not enter. That's the law. The door was shut. So he sends in the letter by a servant. Old Joram broke the seal. He let out a yell like a Comanche Indian. He hit the ceiling. He pulled his hair. He put on sackcloth and ashes and said: "It's a scheme of this military ruier. scneme: scheme: they are going to kill our men and take our women and girls captives to grace their seraglios and harems. So Elisha, the prophet, lived out in a little suburb of the town and he sent a note down to old Joram, the King, which said: "What is the matter with you? Why do you let that get on your nerve? Send him up to me. Goes to Elisha For Help And so he sends him. He gets up in front of the little hut. He dare not enter it. The door is closed. A leper couldn't enter a house, and so the servant enters. Elisha, the prophet, I can imagine, is seated at comes the servant, Oriental obeisance. a desk with a reed ppn writing.- In He bows with "Great and mighty Naaman. captain of the hosts of the King of Syria, awaits thee at the door. "You can tell him to dip seven times in the Jordan. Beat it! Beat it! Beat it," And so I can see them out there getting him ready for the bath, he wasnt used to that. He steps on a stone that is covered with slime and ne sups off and cuts his toe on a clam shell and says: "Oooh-oo-oo!" He walks into the. water and a stick floating down hits him and he jumps. He gets deeper into the water and says: ."Cold! Cold! Cold! Br-r! Br-r!" He gets up to his armpits and he holds his nose and ducks and shakes the water out of his ears. Now he comes up and he begins to examine himself to see him he feels. . Completeness, and when he went under the seventh time, I am told, his flesh became again as a little child. Why? Why, he did do what God told him. So Naaman is going back home, and the report- has reached ahead of nim. and I can see the old King and old Mrs. Naaman and all the little Naamans coming out to meet daddy, and he rides up and he leaps off and runs into her arms. So he said to Elisha before he left: "Can I have 'two mules' burden of earth?" So he wanted enough dirt to build an altar in the temple so he wouldn't forget God among the heathens and that gang. Wasn't that great? MANY WOMEN HEAR MRS. ASHER'S SERMON "The very coming of Jesus shows us that there was sin in the world," declared Mrs. William 'Asher, in th.e women's meeting held in the East Main Street Friend's church Sunday afternoon, which packed the church to capacity. "And Christ is the only power that can save us from sin," she said. "That is the only thing that God hates, and he will do for us everything if help ourselves." About 20 women came forward and expressed themselves as wanting to lead a better life, when Mrs. Asher gave the invitation. Miss Ruth Rodeheaver, sister of the Sunday party's choir leader, sang "Jesus," and Miss Harold played the piano. A show of hands indicated that fully two-thirds of the women were from outside Richmond. The church was packed, women standing around the walls and in the entrances,

IND., MONDAY, MAY 1, 1922.

thf wneeL "They all over day sS larg8 cltles'" Sun" CONNESVILLF r.rtMiKin Connersville soon at the Tahomoi h IV ! bers of the Men's Bible class of the

cLuoaist cnurch of that place, accord- vloc' In lo D preserved more accuing to plans now made. rately than had the intention premedltated. AW CM P m I National Rtrtrlaa trt-a a sa n .fnkn

The British jack in th rnmsn nt

the Canadian and' Australian flags 1 e81 8pace in PaPer8- ut it Kd7r J" 1.Z -men are w: puzzled most of the youngsters anditne commonplace in the advertise-1 rcnce' '5rith a comfortable bricS

iney an called out England or Great ' ments r in the local notes that tells Britain, when every one of those flags of the real difference between "nowawas shown. i days" and those, that were. -

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS The Starr piano company -has placed a piano in Bob Matthews's room for his use whll ho in n tjv, mond while Homer Rodeheaver has a

JiUJT h?x", and a Sod suPP1 of.he then had at the office, tells the records, including some of his own.. ist0T of the scarcity of lawyers and of

SPECIAL MEETINGS ' ARRANGED FOR GIRLS BY SUNDAY WORKERS This week Is to be a busy one for the women of the Sunday party. Beginning with Tuesday Mrs Ah .111 , have a noon meeting at the Bartel cominy piant for girls; and that night at 7:30 o clock she will meet the student nurses of the Reid Memorial hospital. On Wednesday at noon Rha win nrnot tha h,i.i . . fL1!83 m?n luncheon at the Reid Memorial church from n o clock to 1 o'clock, depending on the noon hour of the girls, and at 2:30 in the afternoon at the same church meet the members of the Business Woman's Invitation committee. On Thursday the business women will meet again at the Reid Memorial church for a noontime lunch with Mrs. Asher, and at 6 o'clock she will meet the Council Girls at luncheon again at the Reid Memorial church. Friday Meeting On Friday Mrs. Asher and Mr. Rodeheaver will hold a noon meeting for ..in. auuy gins at tne Atlas Underwear company, in the meantime she will sing at the evening services. In the meantime Mfss TTinnov -nt be meeting the school children. Tues-1 nay aiiernoon at 4:15 she will meet with the girls of the high school at the Grace M. E. church. On Wednesday at 11 a. m. she will meet the girls In the higbchool auditorium. On Thursday she will meet the boys and girls of Garfield Junior High, Hibberd and FInley schools In the First Christian church at 4 o'clock p. ra Then on Saturday she will be interested in the Wayne County Sunday School convention to be held at the tabernacle. In the meantime sh wt,n Yini Bible study classes at 3:30 p. m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and will play the piano at every afternoon and evening service and will then lead some prayer meetings Tuesday and Friday mornings. SPECIAL DELEGATIONS CENTER OF INTEREST Special delegations to the tabernacle will be the center of interest at the night meetings during this week. On Tuesday night a delegation from Greenville, Ohio, of from 500 to 1,000 persons is expected by special train. They will have as companions that night the men from the Peivnsy shops and yards and the Victoria Bible class. On Wednesday night the Friends and the Lutherans will be out in full torce in an attempt to best the records) of the other churches in town, and on Thursday night there will be delegations from the Masons, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and a special delegation from Cincinnati. On Friday night the High school Is planning to be present, and on Saturday there will be a big delegation representing the Sunday schools of Wayne county, which are In annual session that day. Wednesday afternoon the delegates who are in attendance upon the convention of the Richmond district of the M. E. church will attend the sermon in a body. It is expected that a large number of the visiting men will stay over for the evening sermon as well. ANNOUNCE TUESDAY PRAYER MEETINGS The following neighborhood prayer meetings are to be held Tuesday morning from 10 to 10:20 o'clock in connection with the Billy Sunday campaign. : District 2 Section C, Mrs. Rosa M. Keplinger. 631 South 8th street, leader, Mrs. Frank Ewing. District 3 Section A, Mrs. Miller, 125 South 9th street. Miss Hazel Craig, Sec. B, Mrs. Alonzo Davenport, HI? South A street, Mrs. Margaret Benney; Sec. C, Mrs. -William J. Blackmore, 1415 South 8th street, Mrs. McClellan White; Sec, G. Cora Peters, 527 South 13th street, Mrs. E. Timberlake. District 4 Sec. F, John K. Deem. 206 North 13th street. A. W. Tschaen: Sec. G, Mrs. Hutchins. 223 North 13th! street, Mrs. R. WT. Leazer; Sec. H, Mr Ammeram. 401 North 19th street. District 5 Sec. A. Mrs. Rhvn K21 North 17th street, Mrs. Cora W. Wright; Se C. Mrs. Morrison, 2115 V North E. street; Sec. F, Mrs. Alfred Underbill, 120 North 20th street; Sec. H, Mrs. Bess Weaver, 227 North 17th street. District 6 Sec. D, Mrs. A. E. Schuh 105 South 21st street, Mrs. Smith District 9 Sec. J, Mrs. Knight, 400 Kinsey street, Mrs. Whitesell. District 10 Sec. D and E, Mrs. A. C. Allen, 403 National road west, Mrs Cora King. VICTORIA CLASS TO VISIT TABERNACLE The Victoria Sunday school class of the Grace M. E. church, of which Mrs; A. H. Backus is teacher, will be at-the tabernacle Tuesday night in a body, and will occupy specially reserved seats.

CUSTOMS, THOUGHT OF

THROUGH STORIES, ADS IN NEWSPAPERS

Newspapers are mirrors nf ti Aav However unconsciously the reporter or editor may write, the "local color" that marks the different hntwn &enerations and communities will an events are "news" and occunv the Thus an advertisement -in the May 25, 1825, number of the Western Emporium published at Centerville by John Scott, to the effect that the editor was ready to fill out deeds, leases, ! releases, bonds, etc., upon forms which me rougn ana ready was In which legal matters, which arenow carried i through so carefully, were attended to.i More than that, it is an indication of the variety of accomplishments that? me early editor had to call his before he could make a living at his precarious Job. Underground Railroad. . The presence of the "underground railroad" and'' its many branches is suggested in the advertisement that appeared in the Lawrenceburg Indiana Palladium for May 13, 1825. A $50 reward was offered lor the return on one Jim, a runaway negro, belonging to John Shackelford, Sr., of Elizabethtown, Ky. He is described as about 35, badly marked from smallpox, and as having a slight difficulty with his speech. When last seen the "ad" stated he was in the company of George Smith, a black man who lived on the waters of the White river. In Richmond and Centerville papers of the' same time, numbers of "Took Up' 'advertisements were found, in which horses which had been found on the public highways were kept for possible owners. The horses were valued at from $5 to J 12.50 in comparison with the $50 .reward which had been offered for the negro. In the following "ad" of Samuel Fleming is a description of the condition of the country near Richmond. It

The Golden Age of National Songs By FREDERIC J. HASKIN

WASHINGTON, D. C, May 1.-, Abundant evidence that a practically lost art had its golden age in America is available in the collection of colonial music exhibited at the Library of Congress. The declining art is the writing of patriotic and national songs. We have song writers to extol in light vein the flapper, Broadway, prohibition, and other modern topics. But the serious, poet laureate type that scents from afar an event of historic importance and produces an ode in time for the occasion is lacking. So also Is the composer to set the lyric to appropriate music. Occasionally, as at the burial of the unknown soldier, poetic talent flames up in a blaze of sonnets, odes, and blank verse. But most historic events proceed unaccompanied by poetic. and musical compositions especially written for them. It was otherwise in the early days of the republic. Every second piece of music in the Library of Congress exhibit preserved from colonial America is patriotic, political or national in character. There must have been a large set of unofficial poets laureate busily scribling in the attics of Bos ton, New York and Philadelphia, for do event or importance from the Inauguration of Jefferson to the death of Alexander Hamilton went unsung. The lyrics produced were set to music by equaly industrious composers and these topical songs were sung at the occasion for which they were written, or sung on the stage, or, sometimes, they were used only as popular songs. They took the fllace, in a way, of the current events reels at the modem moving picture show. One of the most interesting of the historic pieces exhibited by the Music division of the Library of Congress is a cony of "Hail, Columbia." . The music of this famous song first appeared under the title, "The President's March," and the Music division displays a copy which was printed in "The Gentleman's Amusement" in 1794. Hopkinson Writes Classic The stirring march became "Hail, wS? Hopkinson, A note accompanying the first edition of the song says that the words wery written for the use of Hopkinson's friend. Gilbert Fox, an . actor, who wished to sing a patriotic song to the well known ftXr. Before the vogue of "The President's March," Philadelphia, New York, and Boston nodded their heads and tapped their feet in time to the now forgotten "Federal March." This composition, according to the cover of an old copy, was performed "in the grand procession in Philadelphia, the fourth of July, 1788." It was written for this Independence Day anniversary because a great parade was being held in honor of the ratification of the Federal Constitution by ten of the states. The composer of this march. Alexander Reinagle, was honored by having George Washington attend nnn nf his benefit concerts. Washington tells m his diary of attendln the concert. and it thought that this prominent musician of Philadelphia was'eneaeed oy waanmgton to teach Nellie Custis, . . - - o a , to play the harpsichord. One of the pieces that Nellie Custis' played and sang for the General in the drawing room at Mt. Vernon Is in the Music division exhibit. George Washington is mentioned frequently in the exhibit. Since he was the most prominent man of the time, Washington's opinions on music were quoted and remembered. The comic opera, "The Poor Soldier," a copy of which is in the exhibit, is Interesting today chiefly because it was performed a number of times "at the President's desire when he visited the theater." The deduction drawn is that "The Poor Soldier" must have been a particular favorite of Washington. One exhibit, a book of handwritten compositions, is open to a page entitled diary fashipn, "Fancy Menuit Dance before Gen. Washington, 1792 " The composer of this dance tune was Pierre Landrin Duport, who is said to have been the acredited dancing master of society In Boston, New York

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TIMES MIRRORED Is in the issue of the Public Ledger for uct is, 1824. a paper published in Richmond before even the Palladium. The "ad reads: , - "A Great Bargain I wish to sell my farm, situated four miles east of Rich mond on the state road leading t Ea ton, containing 230 acres of first class e jland, about 95 acres of which are on--jM M dwelling and other conveniences.' Price of Land Another advertisement In the Eamepaper gave the date for a sale of farm land on the Wabash river- ntar- thtr Flint river, which was not to sell for' less than $1 an acre. Some indication of the industries of j "4m "r" bu1 nei ! fotav ubUc Lea8ei:' .,."" ', ; ; . , au aaver-, e?'5f"ierJ MorrisQ 'or beech l" tiZ cb, 4he wa Prepared to. ,PV,;50 trVa mrchndi!f n; ieAthTI;,.0-h2-.?,n Thom" B" .KfnR IT" "A,6 ,0 "uulicea nai 1" ?" $20! tor merly owned by Je3se Clark and nn. erated by Warner M. Leds, was to be conducted under their joint ownership. Amusements were a part of the pioney'a life, as witness the Fourth of July celebration recorded in the' Western Emporium for July 17, 1824. A procession formed at the courthouse at 11 a, m. and marched to tho grounds where the speeches -were to be made. Rev. Daniel Kraley opened with prayer, followed by a reading of the Declaration of Independence bv Lot Bloomfield, esq.,.ani an oration by Cyrus Finch, Esq., and another prayer by Rev. Levi White. . The procession then marched back to the center of town and partook o? a dinner prepared by Major Doughty. The dinner program was a succession of toasts, each of which was drunk jand, from all that the editor seemed" to remember of the banquet, drunk deep. . . . A complete reprint of -the speech of Cyrus Finch, Esq, was made, however, to compensate for the lack of information about what was said in response to the toasts.- : :" :..- Philadelphia, Richmond and Georgetown. There is evidence that Mrs. Washington shared her husband's fame as a patron of music. Another page of Duport's music book bears the heading, "Fancy, Menuit with Figure -Dance by two young, ladies in the presence of Mrs. Washington in 1792. Philadelphia." - ... Mrs. Washington, like her husband, had songs indited to her. One , pa-. menu, ana yet amusing, specimen of the Revolutionary period is entitled "Lady Washington.". It begins with flamboyant rhetoric, "Saw. you my hero? Saw you. my hero, George?" According to the song, Mrs. Washington' goes on to say that she has been out looking for her hero. he . has "inquired of every swain" only to be told that the missing General was in the van of the battle. The song ends with a dramatic line in which Ladv Washington implores the swains to return "my hero George." The concepton of this' emotional song was certainly lofty enough and sincere. But it is a littS difficult for us to picture the dignified Mrs Washington going about the countryside to inquire of the . swains T thov have seen George. Whether this sim ple ditty was ever performed before Mrs. Washington or what. h-nir have thought of it is, unfortunately not recorded. One of the oldest looking manuscripts in the exhibit is "A collection of the best psalm tune3 engraved bv Paul Revere and sold by him and Josiah Flag, Boston," 1764." The preface of the little old volume' closes with the quaint remark: "It is hoped, it will not diminish the Value of this Book in the Estimation of any. but may in some Degree recommend it even to those who have no particular Relish for the Musick, that however we are obliged to the other Side of the Atlantick chiefly for our Tunes the Paper on which they are printed is the Manufacture of our own Country." , In spite of the intensely patriotic character of the early music of th republic, almost all the bom TKaTcor! were foreign born. The first native Hopkinson, i3 represented in the - hibit by one of his manuscript song books and a letter written by him to Thomas Jefferson. It was the son of this Francis Hopkinson who wrote the words of "Hail Columbia." -Composer a Statesman, Too . This first American composer wa one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and his portrait hangs today In Declaration Chamber of Independence Hall, Phiadephia. It shows a man with a mild, idealistic face, hodlng a quill pen. Much of the music of the colonial composers has passed into historic collections and much into oblivion The march written for Jefferson's inauguration and the national song commemorating the Louisiana Purchase are forgotten. But a. few of those exalted outbursts of patriotism are still depended upon to inspire patriotic emotion today. - The words to "The Star Spangled Banner," writ, ten during the War of 1812, place this famous song in a later - period than that covered by a colonial . music col- - .uur. uuwhvpf wn j known and widely. used long - before ivu. auo i line. nnwAvor ttraa iue meiooy had been first called Anacreon in Heaven." and a song called "Adams and Liberty" had been sung to it before Francis Scott Keywrote his set of verses. . ;., "Hail, Columbia," both words and music, survived this colonial era. , and is now an American classic "America" came later, but its tune of "God . Save the King." borrowed from England, was a prominent feature of a number of popular songs in -colonial America. . . . ...... L, T Our most Inspiring national - songs are souvenirs of this golden age of patriotic music. Today, composers, and poets seem to have lost the knack of producing national 6ongs. There is more demand for songs about home mother, and the girl,, and the law jof supply and demand works just surely now av it did Jn-1780. But some Americans believe c that the Great American anthem is not among these colonial pieces, that it Is still to be written in another golden -age ef patriotic song.-! . -