Lexington Leader. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1910 Page: 6 of 8
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NK of the sweetest,
most elevating iind
ClIlHOllDg gifts
beaven to man la
music. Who has
not rejoiced at the
singing of fresh
clilUirou'a voices!
With music the
young man woos
the maiden of his
choice. With song
the bride or young
wife expresses her
longing for the ab
meetings In the
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STATE CAPITOL
SITE IS CHOSEN |
iHiiccinM ArrcDTQ PUTNAM
commission accepts putnam
TRACT AT OKLAHOMA CITY HOSK of us who have been
_ . privileged to read The
„ r.,r, y 'I: Life of an Kinpress
LONG STRUliGLt AT END
The Tragedy of
Location Northwest of City Consisting
of 1.G00 Acres Selected for
Oklahoma's State House
Buildings
Oklahoma City. Okla. The perma-
nent $1,500,000 state capitol was lo-
cated Tuesday on the Putnam tract
northwest of the city, («ov. C. N. Has-
kell, in conference with the state cap-
itol commissioners, announcing the
definite selection after nearly three
months investigation and consultation
with the leading business men of the
state.
The
have charg
state house, appointed Tuesday, con
sists of the following men. Tate
llrady. of Tulsa; Judge J. B. A. Rob
ertson, of* Chandler, and Dr. Leo Ben-
nett, of Muskogee.
«**ju t one. Our
fcmuf of God lino (icconipanied by de-
gongs. Sad and somber iuu-
ith- asamdK in the house of mourn-
*vr. and yet, what a relief this music
bt In sorrowing hearts! With the
wumi of drum ami trumpet and the
dane of the cymbal the soldier plun-
**•« into fhe smoke and carnage of bat-
tle, and even tho trained horses dance
and turret in time with tho music
•ihS SBtraln at the reins which restrain
thrx<\ and learn the meaning of tho
AM* «rent bugle calls. Love, anger, sor
fin, OTthu.slastn. pnjn—all the pas-
■<0:1:1 aiitl emotions of the Uuman soul
Iw. and are, expressed In mil
Th«i progress wbieh has been made
*• the composition of music and in the
fcolMing of muaicai Instruments of
« <iry kind Is enormous. The prtml-
4iv«- Inntrumo is of the ancients and
•heir monotonous music, or the instru-
ent<! of barbarous or semi-civilized
«>ple ind the intolerable noise which
thc.y call music cannot be compared
■Wilh Ibe expressive harmony of our
or wMh the multitude of bi-au-
Ittl ijad powerful musical Instruments
**•1 iu the execution of musical pieces
Mnr age has doublhss advanced furth-
tluiri any preceding time. In coin-
tntiilkm, however, In the art of pro-
ducing musical pieces, the past cen-
*«cy undoubtedly had greater master,
ttaa the present.
At the opening of the nineteenth
«cniury the musical leadership, which
Italy had enjoyed for a considerable
period, bad passed to Germany, and in
the. twentieth century It appears as If
dramatists Ilerlio/., Gounod and Mas lean music Is more and more making
senet, ami it Is with pleasure that the 11 way lor itself. A good deal of this
lover of music In Its higher forms music, it is true, Is still composed of
notes the development of a school un- "Coon Songs" and "Kag Time" pieces,
der the leadership of Caesar Frank and very often, an Insult to an educat-
which gives special study to the no- ed musical ear. Rut good music Is al-
liler forms of -vmphony and to chain- so coming to the front. Ten years ago
ber music, and the dep and earnest It was not considered possible In Eu-
composltinns of Camllle, Salnt-Saens, rope that a musical composer could
who has followed German models, are lie born In America. American lnven-
becoining more popular. Saint-Saena, tlve genius, American machinery,
though Ti years old, lately traveled In American fanning methods, American
this country. commerce and trade—those were un-
Dut If France has In modern times deniable facts of respectable_propor-
furnished few important contribu-
can
laid down
the book without having re-
flected with sadness on the
mighty changes that age Is likely to
bring, especially to the once brilliant
and admired who in old age, alas!
appear faded, worn and well nigh for-
gotten.
Contrast the picture of the beautiful
Eugenie in the front of the book with
tho one on the last pages, and one
can* read with an approach to ac-
curacy the intervening events, stamp-
ing their impress on the altered coun
tenance and whole general appear-
ance.
The charming woman in evening
dress, gay, courted, the cynosure of all
eyes permitted to behold her loveli-
ness, with drooping eyes and queenly
apltol commission which will mien shoulders thnt slope perfectly
of the building of the «nd possessed withal of regal aspect— ;
this picture, we say, bears but little
likeness to the pathetic one of later
years, with its sad features, stooping
shoulders and sable-clad figure.
Heading, the eventful story of the
life, one cannot but feel profound pity
State wide interest has been shown f0r this woman of so checkered a co-
in the appointment of the commission reer. Once at the head of a brilliant |
md the selection of the permanent court, admired, flattered, sought and
state home for the last six months, the followed, she reveled 'a the pomp ami ,
1 'interest growing more Intense during luxury, the homa^ R„d adulftUsu ot
the last eight weeks.
The governor issued a statement,
part of wlii'ii t.dlows ( ternal disturbance, \vreclje.il poeftiofl
1 o the People of O lanom 1 | an(j ummat0 expulsion from coUft clr
"Alter ten week, f>p careful' itives cles, the death of the emperor and
ligation and consideration of the loco-! downfall of all earthly prospects of
tion and provision for constructing SUCCESS or fame brought nnJ
you 1 slate capitol building under the abiding sense^of sorrow and defeat.
i.'f "ti,,, law enacted by you1 w,lh youth departed,"title gone and
,. 1 <.!.'« « . i . erectness of figure vanished, one of
on .11::i 11, l.'J", 1 desiiv to make you ■
her earlier friends, after meeting her,
the following report wrote in h|s dlary.
■ Von enacted this stai" < .mitol law t on,.- rt^n,zea the Countess de
with the understanding that r " i>erty p|erref0nds. With the help of her
had been tendered which would I'ro |ong ebony stick she walked over to
vide a fund of $1,500,000 for capitol n parapet overhanging the sea. Sho
building purposes, and although the leaned upon it and steadily gazed to-
law carried with it an appropriation ward a point k . . where tho con
of $000,000 of your tax monies which
might be advanced for the purpose ot
carrying out the capitol project, yet
you will remember that prior to the
election, in publishing tho sev ral
propositions made by the people of
Oklahoma City. I gave you my assur
the buoyant( vivacious throng. Then
carae terrible disaster that left
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anything adver-
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having what they a.slc (or, fefusicg ail
9ul) litutca or imitations.
—jaft-CTM—■ T.'ii
T\KF-
tours of Corsica could be discerned
Her mind apparently traveled back to
the origin and downfall of the family
with which fate had so strangely
linked her.
"As the cumbersome bafouche drove
away, I recalled the whole past—the
Tuileries, the Louvre, Notre Dame,
lirii, Iluii in no event v.oulti any Saint-Cloud, Compiegne. Fontaine-
Hons tn uiusiiai liter..lure, Italy has
done still less, though this country
produced in unbroken line of great
composers from Monteverde In the
sixteenth century to Verdi In tha
Oermany would also lose this exalted nineteenth. Of the newer Italian com-
forftkin In Its turn, for In tho field
©? *trt no nation can long hold the
Perhaps the industrial
au d commercial development of Ger-
■fiiaiiy may be one of the causes why
Ok- dumber of Its great composers Is
dtarrt a.*-ing; for though prosperity Is
« fllstacte to the enjoyment and cul-
<fvailkm < f art. yet It doe not seetn to
lorart n spocltilly favorable soil for tho
j^tmlng masters ^ f this noble art.
t When the nineteenth century
tiach,. Haendel and Mozart
had raised German music to a pin . the n
mac.y of glory, and Hecthoven and wheat
posers, who for the most part wrote
only superficial, extravagant and sen-
sual works, only Pietro Mascagnl
achieved a genuine success with his
beautiful and fiery "Cavalleria Hustl* . , , , .
cam. Puccini also, the composer of nil:sIc musicians of the Teutonic and
tlons, but American music? The day
<if really great and distinctively
American musical composition is still
in the future. American composers
have attempted symphony and ora-
torio, but their works rest on dusty
shelves. As a matter of fact only one
American firm has undertaken to pub-
lish these works.
The rendering of musical composi-
tions, however, In America also, is on
c, very high plane. In instrumental
"Tosca" and - La ttoheme," has gained
the respect of the music-loving pub-
lic.
The newest field of musical compo-
sition i!inl \irtuoslty ha b<'< u opened
by Scandinavian and Slavic compos-
ers and virtuo. i This field is, like
Iberian ami Manchurian
s, producing immense re-
fr-rtw :i as loday Chamber music has suits, Hoth the Scandinavians and
llajdo were at the zenith of their the Slavs have, greatly to their own
fi0)<'ii<lid powers, while Liszt, Weber, advantage, made tlit* folk-song the
.w.c and Schubert had begun starting point <jt' their compositions, a
4heir immortal careers. Before Hee- full, bubbling exhaustless spring
tftcvi fc died. M<*Tidelss( hri, Schumann of tie- Shv pt opb-s two nationali-
ties have of lat
music; the Russians and the Hohetni
ans. Hoth have only In the nineteenth
«7K* Wagner had been born. This was
ttw*r«*fure a golden age of music with
wn unexampled array of peerless mas
and unequalled musical works.
(VrMoruM? the present ago with that
Slavic races predominate, though
there Is no lack of American perfortn-
I't's also. Insfrumcntal music has
reached such a high degree of perfec-
tion that the beginner, striving to
roach the pinnacle of fame, finds al-
most Insuperable difficulties. Thus
far American performers seem to be
most successful in vocal music. Tho
time when Italian singers monopolized
the field Is past. German and Ameri-
can singers, male and female have of
late gained great repute In this field.
Orchestral music Ifkewlse has reached
a high degree of perfection and is lib-
erally patronized by all .classes of the
done great things in people, and as might be expected un-
der the circumstances, the building of
musical instruments of all kinds has
of that $1)00,0U0 appropriation be used
for the purpose oC purchasing lands
either for capitol grounds or to be
platted and sold into lots, and that not
exceeding $12,000 of that appropria
tiou would be drawn from the treasury
for salaries or expenses of the capitol
commission.
"I am now pleased to report to >ou
as follows
• • (A> Not one cent of the appropria
tion of six hundred thousand dollars
will need to be drawn or exp aided tot
any purpose.
"(H) As authorized by the state
capitol law, the commission and my-
self have been able to secure from the
puUiie ;-! :ri' '1 citizens of Oklahoma
i ity, in appreciation of your action on
the capitol question, such additions lu
ll origin:;! proposals as insure, iu
rny judgment, the following results
tn i suburban addition to Oklaho-
ma City, commencing within less than
one mile of the present city limits,
and Uich addition will cover six1 een
hundred acres of land and whereon
the < apltol building site is provided
t.I m the highest elevated point of
land in the entire vicinity of the city,
• ;!! i :.. ' ;• W I I If «>t I I"" P.oilli
part of Oklahoma City, that c
and geneial surroundings a
bleau, the Imperial Chaise, the Hun-
rireJ Guards, and, above all, the su-
preme power and the dazzling beauty
of tills woman—of all this nothing re-
mained!"
Early Vanity Without Profit.
And this melancholy chronicle is
but one that might be told of count-
less cases, not so prominent or wide-
ly known, but where ambition, pride
of place and brightly alluring pros-
pects have, by some sad irony of fate,
been dashed to the ground, leaving
disappointment, desolation and ruined
prospects to eat like a cruel canker
into heart awf soul.
The pensive eyes, with their mourn-
ful droop, giving one, as It were, a
heart-broken gaze, the heavily draped
figure., shrouded midst unrelieved falls
and folds of somber < rape, tell all too
plainly the story of a lonely and deso-
late old age
It is said she sits about in some of
the beautiful, picturesque gardens
brooding, silent and secluded, dream-
tMI ing, apparently, all by herself, on joys
on an 1 triumphs forever past.
' d There sit in lonely places today men
and women who have seen "each
1 y, earthly hope decay"; poor and weak
Iii and old. they y.t have laid hold pn
Hiiticns eternal riches, and despite the de-
unsur vastating trials and sorrows of life,
other locality in t
centun begun to make a reputation i^re reached a stage of perfection ex-
tor theruseh
Since Glinka in is to
Kkrrjou*' time, we are compelled to produced musical treasures from the
Mrfwilt that today there are no giants
hi iftiudcal composition, lor the three
*rr«*afe*t composers of the present. Ed-
Grieg, Anton Dvorak and Rich
mrci Strauss, only the last named a
fi*^rnan. do not reach up to the stand
•Wt! of the heroic age.
% JK«it though there are today no Ger-
ws,r vfiomposere of commanding ge-
nii^ yet there'has never been a time
vfar-ju their murks were so highly es-
;uut produced with such per-
the highest stag* of develop-
•r«'iiS hi German/
reeded nowhere else P.ut in the field
of musical composition, especially in
popular song, thre Is still a wide and
virgin field awaiting cultivation and
development.
What we Americans need and
wherein we differ from continental
remain European nations to our disadvantage
is the social, school and congregation-
al cultivation of music. At social
gatherings of young Americans you
seldom hear good part singing In \
is Anton Dvorak In his ^vhich all, or the majority, join Bring- j
national element is even Ir'K a serenade with really good slng-
Kussiau folk-song, musical taste has
developed In Russia and Is now bear-
ing abundant frutt.
Hut today even Kusisa recognizes,
as does th whole world, that the
great German masters will
models for all time to all nations.
In Bohemia the greatest repre-
sentative of the musical art—and per-
haps also the gri-atest of the later
composer
music th
t!«.?
ftngland also musical education
reached a.high degree of perfee
but Ktiglaml never produced
more prominent than In that of the 1* rare thing Not so In Europe.
Russians, but the tragic melancholy There one can, of an evening, often
which I.h so often so noticeable In hear good quartet singing and will be
Russian music Is here replaced by live- surprised to learn that the singers aro
ly, fiei > melodies Th* Bohemians worklngmen Our public schools and
ft.nri comp ters and none of com- have spe< Wily produced great violin -''eademles also have not fostered vo-
ir.. . i n lui Richard Elgar has, and piano pi lyers Who dot s not know • '' inualc as they should have done,
iKtttever, suceeded In meeting with so the pi.mi t Pader'ewski and the violin though It seems that in this partio-
w. approval that h is being reck 1st K ul ♦ 1 ' What triumph- they ulai thing- are changing *ur the bet
• i"d .mong lie- great composers The and < i «■ itrtists among their coun-
Mo)otity of British and Irish com- trymen reaped in America! So that
fjoters, however. < re content to fol- today when an artist appears vs 11h a
Aov. in the footsteps of German mas Bohemian name, this *is# almost in It
U^t \; the later ones, though following P( if a mitflcl-ait Introduction and then
1%.' own lil'itli, love to walk abroad It Is v. ond-Ttul to -ee. how even Amer-
Im tiic mantle of Wagner or Brahms. leans can spell and even pronounce
Franc** has for three centuries oc* the most wonderful names.
cttpfod a prominent place on the mu The other Kuropeau countries, Hoi
frim! fctage and ber great masters, and, Belgium, Spain. Portugal and
Ho^eWHeu, Auber, iierold, Adam and Greece have fallen far in the rear in
Ch*rp!n offer much that Is Interesting matters musical. Switzerland has
mirrj val'uable. Yet it must bo ad- produci d several composers of mer-
vrtftMl that here the tendency was it. who produced especially sonic fine
mmnl> (e write for the opera and for "Alpenlleder" following German mcd-
4f/f production of light and frivolous els
Of a mors serious and noble
i are tn« moUeru
state.
This land and the additional
fund hereinafter mentioned insur
people of ihe state
State capitol buildings costing one
million, live hundred thousand dollars,
"^Furniture, fixtures and ground im-
provement iu.ai, one hundred titty
tnor.suud dollars.
Salaries, expenses, and other im-
provement l'und. forty thousand dol-
lais.
Cost of removing., offices from
Guthrie, icu thousand dollars.
Total, oue million, seven hundred
tliousaud dollars.
'And. in addition to the sixteen
hundred a* res of land, said < itivens of
.Okluhoma City had provided an imme-
diate cash fund ot one hundred thous-
and dollars.
they are looking forward instead of
backward It is true that it is given
ish to but few to have so illustrious a
t he past to dwell upon as the ex-empress
of France can recall, but the grandeur
ot the past onlfe emphasizes for her
Tuffs Pills
fhe first dose often astonishes the Invalid.
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0001) DIGESTION,
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W. N. U.f Oklahoma City, No. 35-1910.
JUST A NATURAL MISTAKE
Gussie, In Fancy Costume, Astonishert
the Doorkeeper for a
Moment.
Gussle was knockkneid, angular
and round shouldered. He had a ter
rible squint, and a mouth like a steam
roller. All the same, he reckoned on
making something of a hit at the
fancy dress ball, and his costume was
as elegant as Ills figure was unlovely
With fast-beating heart he stepped
Jauntily from his automobile outside
the town hall, where the ball was bt>
ing held. The hall porter stepped back
ward at tho unsightly apparition.
; Great Christopher Columbus! h
gtwped as be regarded Gussie.
"No, no, my good man!" chirped
Gussie, as he tripped through the por
tab "C'hawles the First, my dear fel
low Chawles the First!"—London An
swers.
In the Suburb.
"What beautiful public building !>
that?"
' That Isn't a public building It'
old man Savitt's summer cottage
"And whose neat little cottage !
that over there witb the tower on It?
Tho little one-story frame affair."
"That isn't a cottage. It's tho First
Kyis-copal church."—Life.
Deduction In a Street Car.
The Heavyweight—Pardon uie. did
the n"let and the dearth of b"r Waning ] gt6p on your foot, sir?
days. Coogan-—If yez didn't, begorry, then
The Need of All (i,e roof must hov fell on It.—Puck.
After aR, rioii or poor, liieit or low. ————————.—
we all stand tn unmistakable need of
the light of a glowing eastern gate" Right food is a basis
as age tells its unmistakable story on
face and hair and stooping frame.
Every lengthened life holds its own
tragedies. They may have been of a
simple natur , yet hard enough ihev
have generally been for the ones who
have had to hear them. But. let every
mournful yesterday point to a glad to-
morrow, for by the grace of God all
past defeats may point to coming vic-
tories This is no Idle speculation, for f00(] js supplied by
we have the promise of the scriptures —®—
that for the believer tn Christ our
light afflictions, which are (compara-
( tivelyt but lor a moment, work for us
a far more exceeding and eternal
mg upou Governor Haskell to inUo weight of glory, while e look not at
v i coal mines in Oklahoma in the things that Hre seen, or that have
Poj nght living.
" 1 here's only one disease,"
Says an eminent writer—
" Wrong living
"And but one cure —
"Right living."
Wjnt State to Operate Mines
' tm kasha, okla The staie conven-
tion ol the Oklahoma federation
( Oetore if a resolution
Grape=N ts
When music shall he Appreciated
unrt understood In the home, school
and chilli h, then rx^ay we hope to see
eo mposers and great artists in our
midst, and when we have thorn they
ill be valued.
Rare Friends. ®
People who really like you nr« rare.
If you know anyone who really llkea
>ou, you are a f<x)l If you offend
th^m. Atchison Qlobe.
ihor.i nutil the
and open
l>e I wee ti i
been seen, hut at the precious an.l
beautiful things that are eternal.
U«:
Water has a way of drowning people
ho go Into it without exercising the
Arm i ioa has not yet produced a com- necessary care and precaution to pre-
uslc.il i)ct *r of^h« flrat rank, and yet Aiiimi- accldem
It contains the vital
Body and branf-building
The Daily Companionship Elements of wheat and harley-
R00MV«lt Off on we,ten Tour . " " "7" ",'7 ""'h"'! M°St imP0rtant °f wh'Ch U
angels of God meet us, 1 he path of 't-i n . ni 1
M w York, N V In • ear .--i •< i:i1iy ,|utv is often dlfllcult, but It is never otassium r nosphate,
dial ter. d for tile purpose. O.l 1 l"1'- [.altogether lonely, for angels walk be- Grown in the gr ain
side us and Christ Is our constant j — .
companion; It may b sleep, but its ror rebuilding tissues
rocky heights command fair and wide Broken down by daily use.
prospects; it Is the way of the cross, I ■ ' J
but It Is thereby the war "f light. We t Folks w ho use Cirape-Nuts
,eed not go halting along th- way or t- (his-thev ferl it
I (lod's i ommanduients; for he will so j " ' ^
fill our hearts that we may run up i "There's a Reason"
With joy the shining way Rea(] "The Road to Wellville."
I Found in package!
u'it 1 s left Ii i
tour tho west The trip will
over'a period of eighteen days i
carry thr lortnei president as f
as Cheyenne, Wyo.
Flagrran Falls Under Train
Hvaru, okla. Flagman John Clark
of the Sinta I'e fell under a moving
I train Sunday night and his leg was
lul ofl between the ankle and knee.
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