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'IK -fl sft yT VJ 57 The Sioux County Journal. VOLUME VII. HARHISOX, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1895. NUMBER 30. III 3r id A A WOMAN, Bb wort a high hat to the play, And what did tb man behind say) Wall, not what be ought, If he'd aald what he thought; But be didn't he just went away. From the alow moving car, without fear, She got off with her face to the rear. All who aaw her revolve Made a aoletuo resolve Not to go and do like her this year. She made a small bet with a man On a most satisfactory plan. No matter which way It went, he bad to pay, Ho now she ban got a pew fan. She never had learned how to cook But ahe studied receipts from a book Her Erst lemon pie Delighted the eye. But the cruat of it cut like caoutchouc. She got to the theater lute, For ber pa and her iiih bail to wait While she stood at the glass For an hour, alas! To see if her hat was on straight. But we love her in spite of all this, For ahe sweetens our dull life with bliss. She is tender and true When troubles pursue, And our woes vanish all at her kiss. -Soroerville Journal. HENDERSON'S TUP. HK came In a crate by the even ing stage an ungainly St Ber nard puppy with legs long enough for a dog twice his size. A card on the top of bin wicker cage read: BILL HENDERSON, Keene Center, Adirondack!. The crowd on the store porch wait ing for the mail to be sorted looked at the newcomer over ami expressed their several opinions as to tils breed. Some ""calated lie had shepherd in him," and others " 'swan' he hadn't." "See that; bitow he liobs Hint head of hls'n," said Israel Lukens, an old hunt er, peering Into the crate. "Hello, thar, 'Ixng IgH,' hnow goes ithun yry, be ye?" Ami the puppy licked tho old man's band. "What ye got thar a lion?" shouted Alfred Haniner from the roitd on his way to the liimlier shanty. By this time the mall was sorted and the crowd shuffled Into the store. , kerosene lamp sent long shadows scur rying over the celling and diffused a mellow light hnlf way down the coun ter at the further end of which was Btrewn a tumbled assortment of linn- "DOG UKRR FOB A.OUR FOLKS?" trtnen'a shirts and some old pairs of children's boots, the remnant of the winter stock. Great drifts of blue to bacco smoke floated lazily toward the lamp and ascending were lost In the shadows. The puppy left alone on the porch heard the laughter and the voices of tht men Inside, and began to whine. Then realizing this only added to his loneli ness, he cocked bis bead and looked up at the stars and the great range sleeping clear out against them. He -could hear the roar of the river as It swung through the valley, and far Jown the road the baying of a town.l, Then came the Round of a wagon clat tering along, and the neit Instant Bill Henderson reined In his team and called out: "Dog here for aour folks?" The door was opened by the postmas ter, "Home of my woruern's relatives daown In Fort Tl," Henderson contin ued, "writ that they had one of them St Bernards and wanted we should take It I told my wife, tm I, we got enough baounda to feed without goln' Into no fancy breeds." Ten minutes later the puppy waa lift ed out of the crate and tumbled Into the wagon, and Henderson drove off. Aa they rattled down the road the cool air seemed to revive the puppy. It felt good to get out of the close crate, and though at first be cowered against tho dashboard be began gradually to fel more like himself. Now and then be would put up his foolish shaggy head and try to make friends with Hender son. But Henderson was surly, He regarded the puppy as more of an in cumbrance than anything else, guch friendly beginnings on the part of tho poppy were greeted with a kick that sent him shivering under the seat again, Henderson hadn't much heart even toward bit neighbors, and when It same to animal he bad less. Wbm Henderson reached his cabin Mandy, his "womern, came ftsK with a candle to see the new dog. suid the puppy was brought into th Itcben, where be walked about awkwardly and wag mauled by the children. After a scanty supper be was turned out among Uie bounds In the woodshed, where he lay shivering with cold and fear until Henderson's eldest boy came for blm In the morning and bitched him to a cart. If he was not harnessed to the cart by the eldest boy and lashed up and down the road in the broiling sun, he was dragged Into the cabin on wet days and mauled by the rest, of the children. One morning be growled. Henderson's "womern" said "sne knowed that dog was ugly as soon as she got ber two eyes on bltn," and that "POOR I.KKTI.K CUSS," HE SAID. "It was nolhln' short of Providence he hadn't bit some of the young tins." Henderson said he'd take him where ho wouldn't Ret back In a hurry, anil the next day the puppy was hitched under a peddler's wagon and departed amid the gibes of the Henderson chil dren and the snarling of the Hender son hounds, The peddler drove along in the blinding beat and dust, and be fore he bad gone two miles the puppy had hard work to keep his chain slack. His feet began to bleed and be whined piteously. When the cart reached the valley, six miles distant, and stopped lu front of the postoHice, the puPI'V lay uncon scious ugnhist the hlud wheel, his eyes were closed and blood oozed from his nostrils. Home one unhitched the chain and dragged him a few feet away on the gruss under a tree. Two men passing stopped. "Guess he's (lend," said one. "Looks like he'd been ugly, anyhow," said the other, and they passed on. The shadows lengthened until only the great slides far up on "Giant Moun tain" were high enough to catch the rays of the red sun. A few lampH beamed at the windows down the sin gle street, and a gentle breeze rustled the leaves overlies. d. When the dew fell the puppy opened his eyes. It seemed to him that he was back once more In the crte at the store. He could see the stars glitter and hear the roar of the river. As the wind freshened and blew down the, valley be Htuggered on bin feet and tottered up the road, whining. For a moment he stopped In front of the store and stood In the glare of the lamps. Koine village curs snarled at him. Limping up the wooden steps, ho waited until a man opened the store door, then lie slunk In, bobbed his head and wagged IiIh bedraggled tall. "I'll bet ye the cigars that dog's mart." said a rough lumberman In a slouch bat. "I goll, Bill, you're right," replied his partner, nodding approvingly. 'This dog your'n, Ed?" he shouted sar castically to a big felllow In a blue shirt, as he opened the door, and the crowd roared to a man. "I'll tell ye what I'll do," said anoth er. "I give half a dollar for bis hide If anyone'll shoot him." A butcher's boy lounging against tho counter bet be could hit him "first crack." Just then the puppy settled slowly on his haunches, looked up at the butcher's boy and wagged bis tall. "Ixxik out don't ye come near me," said tbe butcher's boy. The next Instant a well-directed boot rolled the puppy Into the road. Ho staggered to his feet and stood gazing up at the crowd on the porch, his limbs trembling. Tbe storekeeper came eat with a box of cartridges and a Win chester. Throwing a shell Into the magazine he handed tbe rifle to the butcher's boy. There was a pause. "Git that hind sight One on him." It was the man In the slouch hat telling the butcher's boy. "Hyarl" came a stern voice out of the dusk, and the next Instant the old hunt er, . Israel Lukens, had tbe butcher's boy by the throat "You young skunk!" he thundered, wrenching the rifle away from tbe butcher's boy. "Thought ye'd be paow erful cuunln', didn't ye? I see tbat there puppy when be come daown to the Center. Thar ain't nothln tbe matter with that dog; he's been used awfully. Henderson's folks had him and thsm young ones liked to kill him." The old man loosened his vice like grip, and the butcher's boy slnnk Into the store One by one the crowd fol lowed sheepishly, while the puppy trembled against the old man's boot lex. When tbe latch clicked on th last men Israel took th puppy In hi arm. "Poor leetle cuss," b said a b car ried the puppy down tb toad t hi cabin. And so the puppy lived with Israel, and one August day tbe old hunter left his cabin at daylight with tbe dog. "Hadn't ye better git a couple of th boys to help ye, Israel, if you're ageln' to git aout them hemlock?" said J rushy, his wife, as he left "I presume likely I had," Said Israel, leaning on his ax at the gate. "Frank he's ought to went to Ae Center to day to get them shingles, and Pete cal ated he'd go flshiu'. No," he contin ued, "I guess I 11 make aout well enough alone, thar ain't so much but what I kin handle It." And shoulder ing bis ax he disappeared In the woods, talking to the dog. It was noon when Jerushy finished her washing mid sat shelling peas In the coolest corner of the summer kitch en. Outside In the tangled garden the bees tumbled lazily over the (lowers and the yellow Jackets crawled In and out among the bunches of dried herbs bung under the eaves of the rickety porch. Below from the valley, swim ming In the August heat, came the harsh droning of the mill, broken at Intervals by the delicate ping, as the log left the saw. "Thar!" she said to herself, starting up as the mill whistle blew. "I hain't more'n had my hands out the dish water and It's plumb iiixin," She felt something tugging at her skirts, and looking around saw the dog. "Wall, If that don't beat all," said the old lady, readjusting her steel spectacles. "What alls ye stop It, ye fool!" But the log kept tugging at her dress. "Got a mushrat, have ye?" said the old lady couxlngly. "Wall, I presume we'll have to go and see It 'for' you'll git your satisfy." At her willingness to follow the dog loosened his hold and ran ahead, bark ing Incessantly. The two crossed the road and fol lowed the trail leading to Israel's "lee tle piece," as the hunter called his lum ber cutting. When he reached the brook the dog stopped, snuflin' to the right and left; suddenly he stopped and began to how), and Jerushy looking ;t the edge of some alders saw the print of Israel's shoe In the mud. Then the truth seemed to flash across ber mind. "Suthln' 's happened to Israel or that dog .wouldn't perform like tbat, I'll warrant ye," she said hurrying on. The dog barked shandy and plunged on through the woods, the old lady fol lowing as best she could, calling at In tervnls. "Israel, Israel, whar be ye? Be ye hurt?" Suddenly the dog stopped and lis tened, and Jerushy heard far up the mountain a faint balloo. Ten minutes later she found th old man buried under a fallen bemletfk, un hurt, but unable to move. As Jerushy stood by wringing her bands the dog tried to ferret beneath the pile of debris, tugging at Israel's coat. "Oh, Israel, be you a dyln'?' moaned Jerushy. "Dyln'? No," Israel replied. "I hain't hurt none ye see I mistrusted this here tree wan't agoln' to fall right. but 'fore I knowed It she come down top of me. If It wan't for that young spruce I presume likely lt'd killed me. And he come and told ye!" said the old man. "Wall, I swan!" When the neighbors came and hauled the old man out tbe dog's Joy knew no bounds. 'Thought he wasn't no good, did ye, friends?" said the old hunter, turning to the bystanders. "Ye hain't no bones broke, have ye, Israel?" asked a mild old man, one sheriff In the county. "It's a good thing the dog came daown and told yer woman, Israel, wasn't It?" drawled a tall, lanky fel low. "I'm tickled to see ye wan't hurt," said another as the procession filed down the mountain. But Israel did not answer; he was talking to the dog. Utlca Globe. All for $10. An Anglican vicar recently advertis ed for an organist who was to receive $10 a month, In return for which he was to "play three services Sunday and one Wednesday evening, when, also, the boys must have an hour's practice; Fri day he must conduct a full choir prac tice, first giving the boys half an boar by themselves, and attendance Is ex pected on the usual feast days Fur ther, no pupils may be taken to tb church organ, nor may that Instrument be used by the organist himself sav Sunday afternoons." "OH, ISRAEL, BE YOU A DYIN'?" TALMAGE'S SERMON. THE GREAT PREACHER TALKS ON UNHAPPY MARRIAGES. Lax Divorce Law Dae Primarily to Free Love Agitation, Mormonlim and Unhealthy Fiction-Hasty and Ill-Conaidered MaaeJies Too Plenty. A Family Skeleton. Vr. Dr. Talmage chose as the subject f his afternooD sermon In the New York Academy a'. Music Sunday a topic of na tional InUrest, viz., "Wholesale Divorce." The great audience repeatedly showed its appreciation of the sentiments expressed by the reverend speaker, and his sturdy blows In behalf of the protection of the household and sgainst the dissoluteness of modern society were received with marked appreciation. The text selected was Matthew xlx., 8, "What, therefore, God kath joined together let not man put asunder." That there are hundreds and thousands of infelicitous homes in America no one will doubt. If there-were only one skele ton In the closet, that might be locked up and abandoned, but In many a home there Is a skeleton In the hallway and a skeleton in all the apartments. "Unhappily married" are two words de scriptive of many a homestead. It needs no orthodox minister to prove to a badly matad pair that there is a hell. They are thers now. Sometimes a grand and gra cious woman will be thus incarcerated, and her life will be a crucifixion, as was the case with Mrs. Sigournpy, the great poetess and the great soul. Sometimes a consecrated man will tie united to a fury, as was John Wesley, or united to a vixen, as was John Milton. Sometimes, and generally, both parties are to blame, and Thomas Carlyle was an intolerable scold, and his wife smoked and swore, and Frotide, the historinu, pulled aside the curtain from the lifelong squabble at Craigenputtock and Five, t'lieyne How. Some say that for the alleviation of all these domestic disorders of which we hear easy divorce is a good prescription. God sometimes authorizes divorce as cer tainly as he authorizes marriage. I have just as much regard for one lawfully di vorced as I have for one lawfully married. But you know and I kn.w that wholesale divorce is one of our national scourges. I am not surprised at this when I think of the influences which have been abroad militating against the marriage relation. A Pernicious Doctrine. For many years the platforms of the country rang with talk about a free love millennium. There were meetings of this kind hld in the Cooper Institute, New York; Tremnnt Temple, Boston, and all over the land. Home of the women who tveie most prominent in that movement have since ben distinguished for great promiscuity of affection. Popular themes for such occasions were the tyranny of man, the oppression of the marriage rela- rton, women's rights and the atliuities. Prominent speakers were women with ihort curls and short dress, and very long tongue, everlastingly at war with God be rause they were created women, while on the platform sat meek men with soft ac teut and cowed demeanor, apologetic for masculinity, and holding the parasols ivhile the termagant orators went on preaching the doctrine of free love. That campaign of about twenty years let more devils into the marriage relation than will be exorcised in the next fifty. Men and women went home from such meetings so permanently confused as to who were their wives and husbands that they never got out of their perplexity, md the criminal and civil courts tried to lisentangle the "Iliad" of woes, and this uc got alimony, and that one got a limit ed divorce, and this mother kept the chil dren on condition that the father could lometimes come and look at them, and these went into poorhouses, and those went into an Insane asylum, and those went Into dissolute public life, and all went to destruction. The mightiest war ever made against the marriage institu tion was that free love campaign, some times under one name and sometimes un der another. Brazen Polygamy. Another Influence that has warred upon tbe marriage relation has been polygamy in Utah. That was a stereotyped carica ture of the marriage relation and has poisoned the whole land. You might aa well think that you can have an arm In a state of mortification and yet the whole body not be sickened as to have these ter ritories poly gam Ized and yet the body of the nation not feel the putrefaction. Hear it, good men and women of America, that so long ago aa 18t)2 a law was paaaed by Congress forbidding polygamy iu the terri tories and in all the places where they had jurisdiction. Twenty-four years passed along and five administrations before the first brick was knocked from that for tress of libertinism. Every new President In his inaugural tickled that monster with the. straw of condemnation, and every Congress stulti fied Itself in proposing some plan that would not work. Polygamy stood more Intrenched, and more brazen, and more puissant, and more braggart, and more infernal. James Buchanan, a much-abused man of his day, did more for the ex tirpation of this villainy than most of the subsequent administrations. Mr. Buchan an sent out an army, and although it waa .-.Ited In its work, still he accomplished more than some of tbe administrations which did nothing but talk, talk, talk. At last, bat not until it had poisoned genera tions, polygamy has received its death blow. Polygamy in Utah warred against the marriage relation throughout the land. It was impossible to have such an awful sewer of Iniquity sending up it miasma, which was wsfted by the winds north, south, east and wast, without the whole land being affected by it, Another influence that has warred against the marriage relation in this coun try has been a pustulous literature, with Its millions of sheets every week choked with stories of domestic wrongs and in fidelities and massacres and outrages, un til it is a wonder to me tbat there are any decencies or any common sense left on the subject of marriage. One-half of the news stands of all our cities reeking with the tilth. "Now," say some, "we admit all these evils, and the only way to clear them out or correct them is by easy divorce." Well, before we yield to that cry let us find out how easy it is now. Wholesale Divorce. I have looked over the laws of all the States, and 1 find that, while in some States it is easier than in others, in every State it is easy. The .State of Illinois, through its Legislature, recites a long list of proper causes for divorce and then closes np by giving to the courts the right to make a decree of divorce in any case where they deem it expedient. After that you are not surprised at tbe announce ment that in one county of tbe State of Illinois, in one year, there were 833 di vorces. If you want to know how easy it is, you have only to look over the rec ords of the States. In the city of San Francisco 333 divorces in one year, and in twenty years in New England 110,000. Is that not easy enough? If the same ratio continue the ratio of multiplied divorce and multiplied causes of divorce we are not far from the time when our courts will have to set apart whole days for application, and all you will have to prove against a man will be that he left his newspaper in the middle of the floor, and all you will have to prove against a woman will be tbat her hus band's overcoat is buttonless. Causes of divorce doubled in a few yearsdoubled in France, doubled in England and dou bled in the United States. To show how very easy it is I have to tell you that in Western Reserve, Ohio, the proportion of divorces to marriages celebrated is 1 to 11, In Khode Island is 1 to 13, in Vermont 1 to 14. Is nut that easy enough? I want yon to notice that frequency of divorce always goes along with the dis soluteness of society. Home for 500 years had not one case of divorce. Those were her days of glory and virtue. Then the reign of vieaj began, and divorce be came epidemic. If you want to know how rapidly the empire went down, ask Gib bon. What we want in this country and in all lands is that divorce be made more and more and more difficult. Then people before they enter that relation will be persuaded that there will probably be no escape from it except through the door of the sepulcher. Then they will pause on the verge of that relation until they are fully satisfied that it is best, and that it is right, and that it is happiest. Then we shall have no more marriage in fun. Then men and women will not enter the rela tion with the idea it is only a trial trip, and if they do not like it they can get out at the first landing. Then this whole question will be taken out of the frivolous into the tremendous, and there will be no more joking about the blossoms in a bride's hair than about the cypress on a. coffin. - , Uniform Laws in All States. What we want is that, the Congress of the United States change the national constitution so that a law can be passed which shall he uniform all over the coun try, and what shall be right in one State shall be right in all States, and what is wrong in one State will be wrong in all tbe States. More difficult divorce will put an es toppel to a great extent upon marriage as a financial speculation. There are men who go into the relation just as they go into Wall street to purchase shares. The female to be invited into the partnership of wedlock Is utterly unattractive and in disposition a suppressed Vesuvius. Every body knows It, but this masculine candi date for matrimonial orders, through the commercial agency or through the county records, finds out how much estate Is to be inherited, and he calculates it. He thinks out how long it will be before the old man will die, and whether he can stand the refractory temper until he does die, and then he enters the relation, for he says, "If I cannot stand it, then through the divorce law I'll back out." That process Is going on all the time, and men enter the relation without any moral principle, without any affection, and it is as much a matter of stock speculation as anything that transpired yesterday in Union Pacific, Illinois Central or Dela ware and Lackawanna. Now, suppose a man understood, as he ought to understand, that if he goes into that relation there is no possibility of his getting out, or no probability, he would be more slow to put his neck in the yoke. He would Bay to himself, "Bather than a Caribbean whirlwind with a whole fleet of shipping in its arms, give me a zephyr off fields of sunshine and gardens of peace. Rigorous divorce law will also hinder women from the fatal mistake of marry ing men to reform them. If a young man by twenty-five years of age or thirty years of age has the habit of strong drink fixed on him, he is aa certainly bound for a drunkard's grave as that a train starting out from Grand Central depot st 8 o'clock to-morrow morning is bound for Albany. The train may not reach Albany, for It may be thrown off the track. The young man may not reach a drunkard's grave, for something may throw him off the iron track of evil habit, but the prob ability is that the train that starts to morrow morning at 8 o'clock for Albany will get there, and the probability is that the young man who has the habit of strong drink fixed on him before twenty five or thirty years of sge will arrive at a drunkard's grave. She knows he drinks, although he tries to hide It by chewing cloves. Everybody knows he drinks. Parents warn; neighbors and friends warn. She will marry him; she will re form him. Tbe Altar of HacrlBce. . If she is unsuccessful in the experiment, why, then the divorce law will emanci pate ber because habitual drunkenness is a cause for divorce in Indiana, Ken tucky, Florida, Connecticut and nearly all th States. So the poor thing goes to the altar of sacrifice. If yon will show me th poverty struck street In any city, I will show you the homes of the women who married men to reform them. In on) case out of 10,000 it may be a successful exjierinient. 1 never saw the successful experiment. But have a rigorous divorce) law. and tbat woman will say, "If I ant affianced to tbat man, it is for Ufa." A rigorous divorce law will also do much to hinder hasty and inconsiderat marriages. Under the impression that on can be easily released people enter the) relation without inquiry and without re flection. Romance and impulse rule th day. Perhaps the only ground for th marriage compact is that she likes his) looks, and he admires the graceful way she parses around the ice cream at th picnic! It is all they know about each) other. It is ail the preparation for life. A woman that could not make a loaf of, bread to save her life will swear to cherish; and obey. A Christian will marry a it aiheiht. and that always makes conjoined! wretchedness, for if a man does not be-, lieve there is a God he is neither to bq trusted with u dollar nor with your llfe-t long happiness. Having read much about love in a cottage, people brought up iu( ease will go and starve in a hovel. By thp wreck of 10,000 homes, by thq holocaust of 10,000 sacrificed men and women, by the hearthstone of the family which is the cornerstone of the State, and! in tbe name of that God who hath set up) the family institution, and who bath mad the breaking of the marital oath the moslj appalling of all perjuries, I implore th Congress of the United States to maka some righteous, uniform law for all thai States, and from ocean to ocean, on this) subject of marriage and divorce. Character the One Eaaentlal. Let me say to the hundreds of young) people in this house this afternoon, be fore you give your heart and hand in holy1 alliance use all caution. Inquire outsidsj as to habits, explore the diaposition, scru-4 tinize the taste, question the ancestry and' find out the ambitions. Do not take thai heroes and heroines of cheap novels for al model. Do not put your lifetime happi ness in the keeping of a man who has ai reputation for being a little loose In mor-j als or in the keeping of a woman who! dresses fast. Remember that, while good; looks are a kindly gift of God, wriuklest or accident may despoil them. Remember) that Byron was no more celebrated for his beauty than for his depravity. Re- member that Absalom's hair was Dot moi splendid than his habits were despicable. Hear it, hear it! The only foundation; for happy marriage that has ever been of ever will be is good character. Ask God whom you Bhall marry if youf marry at all. A union formed in praver will be a happy union, though s.cknesa pa If the cheek and poverty empty th bread tray, and death open the small graves, and all the path of life be strewn, with thorns from the marriage altar with its wedding march and orange blossoms clear on down to the last farewell at thatj gate where Isaac and Rebecca, Abraham) and Sarah, Adam and Eve parted. ' The Speck on the Horizon. ' ' And let me say to those of you who ar in happy married uuion avoid first quar rels; have no unexplained correspondence; with former admirer's; cultivate no sus picious; in a moment of bad temper do not rush out and tell the neighbors; do not let any of those gad-abouts of society unload in your house their baggage of gab and tittle tattle; do not stand on your rights; learn how to apologize; do not; be so proud, or so stubborn, or so devilish that you will Dot make up. Remember that the worst domestic misfortunes and most scandalous divorce cases started from little infelicities. The whole piled up train of ten rail cars telescoped and. smashed at the foot of an embankment' 100 feet down came to that catastrophe by getting two or three inches off the track. Some of the greatest domestic misfortunes" aud wide resounding divorce cases hav started from little misunderstandings that were allowed to go on and go on until home and respectability and religion and Immortal soul went down in the crash, crash ! In the "Farm Ballads" our American poet puts into the lips of a repentant hus band after a life of married perturbation these suggestive words: "And when she dies I wish that she would be laid by me, And lying together in silence perhaps w will agree. And if ever we meet in heaven I would not think it queer If we love each other better because w quarreled here." Fellow citizens as well as fellow Chris tians, let us have a divine rage against anything that wars on the marriage state. Blessed institution! Instead of two arm to fight the battle of life, four; instead of two eyes to scrutinise the path of life, four; instead of two shoulders to lift tho burden of life, four. Twice the energy, twice the courage, twice the holy ambi tion, twice the probability of worldly suc cess, twice the prospects of heaven. Into the matrimonial bower God fetches two souls. Outside that bower room for all contentions, and all bickerings, and all controversies, bat inside the bower ther is room for only one guest th angel of love. Let that angel stand at the floral doorway of this Edenic bower with drawii sword to hew down the worst fo of that bower easy divorce. And for every pari adlae lost may there be a paradise regain ed. And after we quit our bom her may we have a brighter horn In heaven, at th windows of which this moment are famil iar faces watching for our arrival and wondering why so long we tarry. The minuet Is of French origin and uncertain antiquity. The original form of the dance Is faithfully represented In tbe minuet In Mozart's Don Gio vanni. Minuets have been written by Handel, who often, finishes an overtnr to an opera or even oratorio with a minuet; by Bach, whose suite contain many exquisite minuets; by Haydn, who Introduced tbe movement Into thi symphony; by Mosart, who used It la both symphony and sonata,' and b Beethoven, who employed It In several of his beat compositions, by transfornM Ing It Into the scherao. i, f i f 5 V i
