THE OMAHA M'XDAV KK: APRIL 10. 1010.
BEETHOVEN RELICS ON VIEW j
New Theater Also to Give a Play!
Based on His Life.
INTERESTING BITS OF HIS DOINGS ;
M ork of Krr ui'hmnn nml l.lirn In I
London hf Itvcrhubm irri- n.
eedotrs of ihe ( onri nrlor'i
Kerentrlrlf lea.
NKW YOBK. April !. R"in Fan. hois,
who wrote "llcdliiivpn,'' which hm -.
Diamatlo Blngi aphy" Is In have Its first
ptoductlun at the New 1 lifa April II.
! that with the manuscript of a play
under III arm lie was waiting In I In' ai?1e
chamber of one of the directors of a French
theater.
"While there," ho explains in h icitiiI
Interview, "I noted some dust-covei ed
volume, and takhiK mm hy chance, he
tame immediately absorbed In tin- bio
graphical notes of Meet hovcn hy hi
friends Wegeler and Ferdinand Ries. pub
lished In 182 by Dentu. So convinced was
I that In these want anecdotes there was
such dramatic mutcilul thnt I forgot h 1 1
about the play I had brought lo the theater,
and with the Volumo In my hand left the
loom convinced that 1 had discovered the
noiitio of ny next dramatic atti'inpt.
"I meditated over it a long time. I con
structed more than ten scenarios, and
finally selecting one loinmenred Ihe play
August 1, 1!, and working night and day,
on November 25 placed it on the desk ot
M Antolne, director of the Odcon. The
next day a, letter from Mm nnnounced lo
me its reception and acceptance."
Although the Beethoven drama received
such prompt attention, It was not produced
tiMI) two years afterward, having Its first
produotlon at the Odeou. 11 huh h( the
udeon that Sir Beerhohm Tree heard
"Beethoven," acquired the English rixhn
and afterward produced it at Ilia Majesty
theater In London.
"Beethoven," as given at His Majesty's
theater, was magnificently stuge'd, but the
management of tho New theater hopes to
attain an even higher point of historical
accuracy. Thin attention to verity has gone
even to the point of a reproduction of ono
of Beethoven's pianos, photographs of old
print being used as a working basis.
In the green room of the Nrtv thewter
Winthrop Ames shows some of the le
thoven relics which are being listed before
put on view, the remalner having already,
been seen In the foggy corridor In a double
low of glass topped tables.
This room, the most Interesting and beau
tiful of the New theater's allotment of
pace devoted to the public, was decorated
under the supervision of William K. Van
derbllt, who presented the five celling
painting by Baudry, the draperies of old
Hue velvet and the other furnishings. At
one end, raised by half a dozen steps and
a pedestal, la a marble buHt of Beethoven
the familiar Teuton featured. shock
headed one and on the other platform, the
lergth of the corridor between the or
chestra is placed during the Intermissions
BEETHOVEN'S PIANO.
MAN ATTHESPEAKER'S RIGHT
Asher C. Hinds, Who is Talked Of for
Cannon's Place.
TOM REED MADE HIM WHAT HE IS
Foremost Parliamentarian in Amer
ica, If ot the World, and (he
Helmsman of the Home of
It r present I Ives.
WASHINGTON, April 9. -In the Congres
sional directory Asher C. Hinds, who Is
bolng talked of as a possible successor to
Speaker Cannon. Is called the "clerk at
the speaker's table." This might mean
that he ran errand or carried Ice water
to Uncle Joe, or that be did odd Jobs
around the house. But It doesn't. As a
matter of fact, Mr. Hinds Is the parlia
mentary helmsman of the house.
Uncle Joe Cannon wouldn't think of tak
ing up for consideration a bill on which
there wa a possibility of Involved debate
unles Mr. Hinds was standing beside his
desk. Mr. Hinds is the pilot who has
guided many a legislative craft to a safe
lirbor of precedent.
Folk who know say that Mr. Hinds Is
th foremost parliamentarian In ihe United
State, If not in tho world. Not only is
ha familiar with the rules, precedents and
usages of the deliberative bodies of this
country, but he baa an intimate acquaint
ance with those of the leading foreign
nation. When anything comes up, as
sometime happen, for which there has
been no precedent In the lower branch of
the national legislature, he is generally
abl to find aome grounds upon which ti
base hi advice to the prcMing officer
from the parliamentary history of foreign
government.
Tho average visitor In the gallery of
the house would imagine, watching Mr.
Hind, that he was amusing himself by
listening to th debate progres on the
floor. He stand Juat to the rlRht of th
speaker' desk throughout t lie proceed
ings, keeping an alert watch on everything
that goes on in the ehainber. Usually be
fore the speaker ha grasped the meaning
of a motion or a point of order Mr. Hinds
ha comprehended It, dissected it, analysed
ll. decided the procedure and told the
peaker what to do.
Mr. Hind friends say that he hus aa
icelleat cbaaca of ieing elected to uc-
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HKBTHtJVEN, FROM TIIK
of the plas. while the rellca are on view,
Its repertoire limited tfuring this period to
the great composer's work.
"M. 1'auchols," says Mr. Ames, "has
only emphasized the well know n fact tlmt
ti uth' is stranger than fiction.' In looking
ubout for the 'relics.1 for the data explain
ing them and In the usiml zlRZiig tours
that one makes In working up an atmo
sphere of this kind. Mr. Van Ness liar
wood and others of the staff who have as
slxted me have found enough interesting
and dramatic material lo make several
plays, for Beethoven had all the peculiari
ties of the artlHtic temperament and was
led by It Into all sorts and kinds of emo
tional episodes and suffered from the con
sequences of these with all the Intensiay
that such a nature Is capable of. . The
gentler Goethe, whose friend he was, said
of Mm. you recollect, that ho wjs 'an en
tirely untamed person, this criticism being
ceed Representative Amos L. Aden of the
First Maine district. This may be true,
but Mr. Hinds would have a much better
show If ho could get away right now and
attend to his fences. The average member
of the house leaves Washington when he
sees fit and comes back when he get
ready. Particularly Is this true If there
Isn't much going on In the body and he
receive word from his district that some
body Is using the hammer. If the house
Is busy and It requires an excuse to get
away, he askes unanimous consent to be
excused for three weeks on account of Ill
ness In the family.
But Mr. Hinds can't leave. He Is in
valuable. Some members of the bouse hope
he won't be elected to congress, because
that would neccssltato a search for an
other parliamentarian. And that search,
they think, would be very difficult, indeed.
Some people call Mr. Hinds a natural
born parliamentarian. This Isn't so. There
Hie no such freaks. It was Thomas B.
Beed himself, one of the greatest parlia
mentarians and presiding officers of his
tory, who made Asher Hinds what he is.
He didn't teach Hinds what he knows.
He Just made Hinds study night and day
for years. Ones In the habit. Hinds kept
it up. lie Is conceded now to know more
about parliamentary procedure, rules and
precedents than any other man in this
country and yet he keeps on studying Just
the same night and day.
Ho can tell you how the Romans used
lo behave in their senate and bow the
members of the rump parliament conducted
themselves. He know the proceedings
of ihe continental nm?rcgs, and there is
hardly a situation, however trivial, that
can arise In the legislative proceeding of
today fur which he has not precedents in
his head and more in the standard work
on the subject of which be is the author.
Asher Hinds started out as a newspaper
iiu.li. He was burn at Benmn, Kennebec
county, Maine, In lS'iJ nnd thai makes hiin
47 His father was a farmer, but he wasn't
Inclined that way.
Back in 1SS3 he was graduaied from
Colby college and began his newspaper
work on the Portland Advertiser. Just to
be thorough he learned the mechanical part
of t lie biulness, from typesritlng to press
woik. But thiH didn't muko much of a
hit with him and lie was ulad lo quil to
take a straight reporter's Job. In the win.
ters of issi to lieo he was legislative cor
respondent at Augustus, the slat capital
of Maine, first for the Advertiser and the
for the Portland Dally press.
Tom Reed was elected speaker of the
house in lsss, and In 1J0. after Mr. Hinds'
legislative work wa ovtr ha cam lo
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PICTUUE KY BINENBAL'.M
I made after an incident which took place
at Toplitz in 1812. Tills la referred to in a
letter contained among the relics written
j by one of his friends to his bloprrapher.
This in turn refers to another epistle which
Beethoven himself wrote to Beltlna von
Arnlm, In which lie says:
" "Yesterday on our way home we met the
whole imperial family; we saw them
crossing some way ofr, when (Joethe with
drew his arm from mine In order to stand
aside, and say what I would 1 could not
prevail on him to make another step in
advance. I pressed down my hat mure
firmly on my head, buttoned up my great
coat, and crossing mv hands behind me 1
made my way through Ihe thickest rmrtlon
of the crowd. Prlnres and courtiers formed
a lane for me; Archduke P.udolph took orf
his hat and the empress bowed to me first.
These great one of earth know me. To
my infinito amusement I saw the proces
sion defile, paSt Uoethe. who stood aside
with his hat off, bowing profoundly. I
afterward took him sharply to tak for
this; 1 gave hiin no quarter." .
"Many anecdotes of a like nature,"
continue.i Mr. Ames, "have been tound
and studied apparently by Mr. Kauchols
and he naturally assumes on the part of
the public a like knowledge, some of
which Is to bs desired by those who are
to like the Beethoven biography. Other
v isu tho eccentricities might seem exag
gerated fvr stage purposes.
"This Belhoven play and exhibit of
Beetliovenians really commemuratu the
eighty-seventh anniversary of his death on
the 26th of March, 1S27, when his friend
Huttenbrunner kept waich beside him.
Toward tho Iste afternoon an unusual
storm took place. There was a budden
squall of sno'.v aid In the mldsi ot this
flurty occurred lightning and a, frightful
peal of thunder. At the sjund -jf this the
apparently unconscious composer roused
himself, sat up In his bed and, raising bis
clenched fist as if In defiance, shook It at
the point of the compass from which the
sl ock came. , For almost half a minute he
maintained this position, then all at once
fell back on his pillow breathless, lifeless.
"Tho favorllo portrait of Beethoven,
which was by Kruell end ;a constantly re
piodi:ced In photographs, seems always to
me," continues the dliector of the New
U. rater, "to express so well tho umUrly
irr nobility of heart a-?d toul which were
Beethoven's pestession and which no tem
porary mood of irritation, no disappoint
ment in life or work, can eradicate to the
seeing eye. Beethoven's family was a poor
one, but the 'van in the name (Ludwig
Washington as clerk for Mr. Reed. In
reality he was an assistant to the speaker's
private secretary, Amos L. Allen, now
representing the First district of Maine,
successor in the house to Thomas B. Reed,
and whom Mr. Hinds, with the consent of
Allen, wants to succeed. Ho didn't drop
his newspaper work, but did a lot of cor
respondence from Washington for Maine
newspapers, and In the summer resumed
his Portland connection.
When the republican party went out of
power at the expiration of the fifty-first
congress on March 4, ISM, and Mr. Reed
ceased to be speaker, Mr. Hinds resumed
his newspaper work exclusively. But in
ISM. after the great republican victory of
that year, Mr. Reed offer. d him the job
of "clerk at the speaker's table."
This place was entirely different from the
one he had previously held, it demanded
an Intimate knowledge of parliamentary
law and of the rules and the precedents of
the house. Mr. Reed made it a condition
of the appointment that Hinds should in
form himself on the subject as thoroughly
as possible before the next meeting of con
gress In December.
How well he would do this even Mr. Reed
did not guess. Immediately Mr. Hinds be
gan to collect the precedents of the house,
writing them out, largely with his own
hand, in order that the reasoning might be
accuialely but concisely expressed In form
to be bound in scrap books. Thl neces
sarily Involved an exhaustive search of
hundreds and hundreds of volumes of de
bates, Journal and repftrts.
He carried on the work In the day and
evenings when the house: was not in ses
sion. Even during the sessions when the
nature of the pending business would per
mit, and during ree-esses of congress at
bis home In Woodford, or bis summer home
on ChebCMgue Island, be was busy. As
oon as completed a precedent was classi
fied In his scrap rx.ok so as to be available
in the dally business of the bouse.
The field of procedure in the house la
wide and so varied that the task of col
lecting the precedent waa not completed
until IMS, making a period of thirteen
year for the work. When the "Hind
Precedents" were published they comprised
eight volumes of about 1.0M pases each.
The footnotes to the text alone number
many thousands. The work Is used by the
national bouse and senate and by state
legislature, and has been cited in the
courts, notably In some recent cases in
New York and Pennsylvania.
A new manual for the bouse baa also
been perfected by Mr. Hinds In th last
year. It is based on the law as established
by the precedent and constitute a text
book ollrvly different from the manual
rn.it BeciUoven) frequently dm cived peo
ple into believing that he w ns of noble
birth. This 'van' arose really from Ine fact
that his family ws I'utch. At one time in
contesting a case In court the question ef
the nobility or his family wai examined
or. the Issue. He pointed to his bed and
heart, saying, '.My noiilntv Is h'te and
llel c'
"The Beethoven relies etme from the
pilvite collections of J.ilxi Fox of t'atn
btld.re, Mass.; llenty K. Klehblel, (Justave
SehliMier and olhein, the anecdotal data,
verifications of manusri Ipts, etc.. from re
search In the libraries here In New York,
in Boston and in several Individual collec
tions In different cities.
"Among the Interesting and valuable of
these rell. s Is a whllo linen blouse worn
by Beethoven shoitly before his death.
Tho linen, slightly yellowed by time. Is
finely woe en, and there Is not a stitch
broken in the entire garment. The laundry
tug still attached speaks of the forgi'tful
noss of tho i-omposer'a mind, emphasized
by several anecdotes. ine of these la
illustrated In the reproduction of a palming
made by the Countess tJiukttu (Juicelerdi,
outside of whose window Beethoven used
often to stand, absothed in watching for
the shiul iw of the 'e here anile' on the
glass, or In the threies of composition,
ahxulutelv oblivious In Mm..
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' broken engagements.
"it is to tlii fickle coquette that Bee
thoven dedicated the 'Moonlight Sonata."
It was one of the many trugrdlca of the
composer's lf that the Countess Uiulclta
after having enjoyed his friendship should
prefer the society of a writer of ballet
I music, w ho incidentally borrow ed money
J1 of him.
I "Another absentmined anecdote illus
trated by a bit of puper covered w ith cbar
ciwl marks Is ured by one of his conlcm
porlcs, viz., Mr. Zoltteles, who says:
" 'Wo went one afternoon to the Alser
vorstadt and mounted to the second story
cT tho Schinatzpanlerhaiis. We rang; no
one answered. We lifted the latch. The
iloor was ijfn, the anteroom empty. We
knocked at the door of Beethoven's room;
no leply. We entered, but what a scene
presented Itself. The wall was hung with
huge sheets of paper covered with charcoal
marks and Beethoven was standing bafore
It Willi his back turned toward us, forget
ful of the engagement he had made, forget
ful of alt everything n the world In fact.
Oppressed by the excessive heat he had
divested himself of all but his shirt and
was busily employed writing notes on the
wall with a lead pencil, beating time and
striking chords on his strlngless piano.
We looked at each other In amazed per
plexity. 1 said to Atterbom: "Would you
as a poet like to take away the con
sciousness of having perhaps arrested the
loftiest fllaht of genius? You can at least
say 'I have seen Beethoven create.' Let
BEETHOVEN IN HIS SIXTEENTH YEAR
us leave. Unheard and unseen we de
parted.' "
The comments of the observers on the
Beethoven relics are not without interest
and instruction. A woman whose elaborate
coiffure out-Herods Herod, easts a single
soulful glance at the marble bust, portraits
ana prints, all showing Beethoven's gen
erous isupply of hair, then at the meagre
lock the most valuable article, commer
lally speaking, In .the collection-whose
card bears the inscription "Hair from
Beethoven's head, received from himself
by Anton Holm, April 25, lhliii," turns to a
companion and exclaims: "Ain't It a shame
such beautiful hair all gjne!"
Before a reproduction of the celebrated
life mask, which accurately photographed,
shows the divisions where the plaster sec
tions have been put together, another ob
server exclaims at the great "rari" In the
composer's head and argues therefrom the
probability of "frightful headaches."
At the yellow leaves of his dairy, filled
with the recurrent comedies of tragedies,
according to the point of view, of the com
poser's daily life, groupj or housewives ex
change meaning looks and smiles.
One housewife points to the letter writ-
used in the last fifty years. This work
has had the formal approval of the house.
It Is not generally known that the dem
ocratic and republican leaders cf the house
and senate agreed that Mr. Hinds was en
tilled to rich reward for his work in pre
paring the "Precedents." He received fJO.dOO
for the work, which was the result of night
and day effort to perfect himself in the
duties of "clerk at the speaker's table."
Mr. Hinds never seeks the limelight. He
Is quiet and gentle, soft spoken and mod
est. One- could talk to him for a week and
never learn from Hinds himself that he
stood at the very top of his chosen profes
sion and possessed a wonderfully com
prehensive and absolutely unique fund of
information concerning the Intricacies of
parliamentary law.
The suggestion that Mr. Hinds would be
a good man to put In the speaker's chair
In the event of that office being made a
purely parliamentary one has brought Mr.
Hinds Into the public eye of late and ha
has not relished It. While It Is conceded
that tho day is not far distant when the
speakership will be diversted of all par
tisanship and made purely parliamentary,
member of the house seem to agree pretty
generally that if that time ever come no
better presiding officer can be found than
Mr. Hinds.
TERRORS OF COCAINE HABIT
One of Ihe Most Destructive of Known
Evils (ironing in ThU
Conn try.
Ordinary good citizens have little notion
of the progress which the cocaine habit I
making In thl country. It Is one ff the
most destructive drugs known to the world.
It has Its uses ai a local anesthetic and In
oma prescriptions, but it is a dangerous
aa it 1 serviceable. Not many year ago
a determined effort wa made to wipe out
the opium evil In this city, and It seemed
to have a good deal of effect. Apparently,
the opium den were closed, and tome good
people congratulated themselves upon the
ucces of tliulr crusade. It 1 much to b
regretted, but it .-em to be a fact that a
worse evil ha taken it place.
All seirts of atimulants have their uses at
times, but the abuse of them ha mad
thousand mourn. W know in these day
that the brain it the aeat of all intelligence,
and that H Is not an amorphous organ, but
la divided up Into many compartment, one
or aome of which may be Injured without
detriment to other. But cocaine I on of
those stimulant which seem to drtttroy
almost every function of th brain, aav
saaamiwf l h(umM"
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UKh.it -UVK;. IIEIJC8 IN THE FOYER.
ten by Beethoven t'i a woman who had ob
tained for him a housekeeper whose only
fault seems to have been the telling of a ;
lie. In it he saya: "Whoever tells a lie Is
not pure of he-art and such a person cannot
cook a clean soup." The housekeeper avers
that the composer Is quite right and that
as a declple of the New Thought cult ah
firmly believes that all Indigestion 1 directly
tractable to the wrong point of view toward
life held by the kitchen staff.
To the casual glance it Is rather diffl-
cult to distinguish the letters having re-
gard to the tradition that a genius must be
l a bad penman. Having once separated
them, however, these scraps and pieces of
musical notation are apparently of Intense
Interest to the orchestrally Inclined spec
; tators, who ejaculate In astonishment at
1 lh blank page with a note here and
! there, musical shorthand with scarcely an
elaboration of motif, with a measure at
the beginning of a page sometimes, and
another at the end. a void betwen. In
1 which the experienced composer reread his
composition, as from a hurried line a novel
; 1st might reconstruct a story thought out
In tho mind.
There is a bit of the Ninth Symphony
Jotted down In thl hurried manner, re
markable for what it does not reveal rather
than what it does. The Ninth Symphony
waa first performed In 1846 In Castle Gar
den by the New York Philharnjonlc so
ciety, which had been organized four year
previously. When it is remembered the
herculean efforts that Wagner was obliged
to make to get permission to perform It in
Dresden in this same year It speaks well
for the culture of "North America." as
Beethoven always called the United States. '
He wrote in one of the exhibited letters: 4
II it please God to restore my health,
which Is already Improved, I may yet
avail myself of the several propositions
made ine, not only from Europe, but even
North America, and thus my finances may
ngain prosper."
The reference to this country is relative
to tho offer made him by the Handel and
Haydn Society of Boston for an oratorio,
the text ot which was to be furnished by
them. This was one of the few offers
BeeJthoven hud from outside Austria for
musical caniposlllons. His work on the
ninth symphony prevented him from ac
cepting this comnili.sk n, although he in
tended to undertak) it. It Is also note
worthy that th best life of Beethoven
and that crowned by the German govern
ment was written by an American, Alex
ander W. Thayer of Massachusetts, a life
Imagination, which it distorts to an un
wholesome degree. The cocaine habit Is
worse than the opium habit, and Its effects
are quicker. It cannot be acquired without
destruction of mental faculties to a large
degree. It is insidious and deadly unless
speedily checked.
The police authorities are to be assisted
in every way in closing this terrible avenue
toward elf-destruotlon.
The druggist who sells cocaine to de
generates is an enemy of society, for no
one know what the victims of this drug
may do to Innocent person. The police
seem lo be doing the best they can and are
bringing offenders to Justice. Here la an in
stance where every good citizen should be
on the guard and report violations of the
law. Indeed, It looks as If the state would
have to take over tha entire sale of each
drugs. It isn't pleasant to contemplate, but
If we can stimulate making antitoxin for
diphtheria, we may do something toward
stopping the abuse of cocaine, whose
laudable us is only occasional. Philadel
phia Inquirer.
PHOTOS TAKENJJY FIRELIGHT
Dei Miilnti Man Perfects System
for Portraits In Ked
Tint.
"Firelight pictures" are the most recent
novelty In photography, and A. A. Bram
on, a De Molne photographer, Is Inventor-
of the process which produces them.
After more than a year's labor on the
idea, Mr. Bramson ha perfected the fin
ish, and a day or two ago he. received a
copyright of the Idea and announced hi
diacovery.
The photograph is taken in the usual
way, the subject being posed before a
fireplace reading a book, for instance. The
finish bring out crimson tins which re
semble almost perfectly the light thrown
out from a real fireplace.
The inventor say hi idea is a simple
one, and tho cost of producing th picture
1 the lame a for any picture. The finish
can be used on any photograph with sur
prising and pleasing effect. Mr. Bramson
lull on display a number of itudles which
have been deemed by critic to be beauti
ful. Mr. Bramion ay that h; obtained hit
Idea for tha firelight picture while wit
nessing a performance about a year ago
at one of the local vaudeville house. On
act contained a fireplace scene, in which
a man at and looked Into tha fir and
meditated with no light but that from the
fireplace playing upon hi feature. Dr
Molne Capital.
I work to which tiio author gladly sacrificed
b!s mean. Although .Mitten In English,
It was first publisher In German.
A very well known orchestra leader at
lached to one of the opera house Is ex
Iremely Interested In these musical score
ni.d tills some Interesting facts of the
composer' methods of leading.
"In conducting." repeat he, ' beelhoven
ruled and commanded his playirs as a
drover does hi herd, and as defness and
quickness of temper overtook him ho grew
more overbenrlng. exacting and extrava
gant. His whole body was used to indicate
ll.e effects ho desired. The performers
order him were obliged to avoid being led
sstray by the Impetuosity of the master,
who thought only of 1.1 own composition
und constantly labored to derlct the exact
expression required by the most violent
gestlculctlonu. Thus, when the passage
vas loud he often beat time downward
when hi hand should have been up. A
dlmuendo he was In the habit of marking
by contracting hi perron, making himself
smnller and smaller until when a planls
fclmo was reached he see-med to slink be
reath tl.o conductor's desk. As the sounds
A PASTORAL
MORE THAN IN RANCH DAYS
Sonth Ilakeita llomea:raeiers Have
Increased Nnmber of Horses,
Cattle and. Sheep.
Much has been said about (lie effect ot
tlie agricultural settlement of the lands
west of the river upon tho live stock In
dustry, and the general verdict bos been
that outside the big reservation pastures
the homesteader baa practically destroyed
the range stock business.
Tho marketing of live stock in South
Dakota lias from year to year shown
marked growth, but the presumption has
been that the increase from the farms had
been sufficient to overcome the loss upon
lha ranges.
Tho only method of ascertaining the real
effect of the homestead movement on live
slock la through the assessment rolls. In
11HJ6 (ho homestead movement began and
the assessment rolls of that year showed
In the range counties Butte, Including the
present Harding and Perkin, Lyman, Pen
nington and Stanley 9,24i horses, 204, 6S6
cattle and 253,3Sl sheep. Three years of
homcsteading has followed, covering all of
these counties with settler until there is
only a modicum of vacant land remaining,
and the assessment of 1903 show for the
rame territory 72,690 horses, 211, "S5 cattle
and 210,'MS sheep, or a marked increase of
each sort of live stock.
A further analysis of the cattle returns
show an increase of young stock and of
milch cows and a decrease of othir cattle.
The figures show conclusively that tho
homesteader has not destroyed the live
stock Industry, but has increased it. As a
matter of fact, he has destroyed the pic
turesque old-time ranching business and
broken up the big blends Into little home
herds, for which he supplies stover and
shelter In caso of a hard winter, and he
ha placed the business upon a surer basis
than It ever before was.
While the homesteader ha given mi Im
pulse to geneial farming In the Tiausmls
sourl region and a good deal of general
cropping is duie, and will Increase with
ach ear, allll the section remains T hat
It always has been from the remotest
ages, a great natural pasture, buried In
sweet grasses, which nlfoid summer and
winter feed, sncwless in the average year,
end the wise homesteader take advantage
of hi na'ursl environment, itarti a herd
of cattle, horse or sheep and develops It
as rapidly as possible. Stock growing and
dairying are now and always will be tho
lines of least resistonce upon which the
western Dakota farmer will win sucee.
Pierre Letter in New York Herald.
nrred In loiidne.s he t,-fduary
j 1 1 up. if out of an shy-.. , nhf.n
I thn full firc Of thn Ulnld I ,, ..,,,-.,,
t.f.kn upon th f,r. r.il-lng ,m.,.f orl
lipte, hfl lookrd of e.antU' M.ture n,i
with botli lis arm- f....,i,i,B h..,it ,, ,,.
doli.llng n.otlon. ,( ,,, ,,,,,
so-,r to thn cbo d M i fmntidii be ,!
d-nly to.e bin arm. ....ait ..I at a sudd -n
f -rle irsve out a K -.' . .. ,t
A strait scrim of n u,., ,, wh , Uw
Illegible, notes ;hv mam- space., Is taul
by this musician t,, . p(,rtl()I1 of ,
"Krent.er Sonats." .m.I . rr,s.s c
Beethoven "one nlB,t h, V,. .,,, ,,1,,,
piano ace-ompenvlMR ., n ,,iH,,v ,,,
t.ge of King le..rK.. ! ., A,,v ,,,,
prince i.amed llrhlg. v uU , ventured
to chMiige a pnssaic.. I. I . n i,., ,r's t.,.
position. Those w b I, . .s ,... H rf,
peeled an outburst, bi.t ,.. ,i,,.,,. SIJ,!
the composer niched i.i. i , ;, trl -c w.et. r
after It was over. t.-,.cT ,,, ,'..
tiniiiiniiuns h.iii nriin-'l him t.i 'play
that way again, my d-a:- rei'nw.'
usually, cotitinu. t1
"Beethoven was in., i . .
other musicians. An i.drn e
elan, walked nil the wov u
Vienna to see him and v ,s
with the remark, 'what. ,
authority,
H'uons if
k inn-1-1
'eslau tj
"'"lv ci eetd
i bloekftl'nd
like you. and what do the l fl c,f
wiseacres who find fe n 1 1 uh m - werlis
know nbout them? You inv,. ,,, ttl
ergy, the bold wing er ti-.n esg-e, tn
able to follow mc."
Another scrap, this lime bel..rcu.g ,
tlie Third Symphony, kr.own as tin. ' Hrro
Kymphony," il ori-inHlly dedicate.! -r,
Napoleon t tho limn when Beetlioven be
lieved lht Ihe Little Coip.inil was t i ,n
the liberator of France, iwthoieu wrotn
Napoleon' name at the head of the manu
script and was on the point of sending It
to Tarls when Napoleon ibvlnrod hmuelf
- J emperor. In a sudden rsao I'ectlioveii tor
up the title page ai.d trampled H tinilr his
feet, saying. "This tnnn will become, a
tyrant and will trample all human ligli!
under foot." The Napoleon hatred is show ri
by tho blurred bit Of tho "Appassionato
Sonata" carried from the dinner party in
a rage where Beelhoven had mt and
quarreled with some of Napoleon's repre
sentatives In Gernmny, quartered fnr the
lime on Prince l.lelinow sky. It was put
In a bag and rained on during the night s
Journey to the nearest ptst town.'
There Is still another bit of musical liter
ature, rescued from tho kitchen of a lodir
Inav. house where It had been used by the
cook to wrap up eonie comestible, tnoky
and stained. There Is a facsimile of thn
will which none has been able to decipher
entirely, the key to the piano played by
Beethoven during his childhood at Bonn,
the almanac with original notes, and an in
teresting photograph of the daughter of
Beethoven's nephew, Karl, which bean a
striking resemblance to the composer him
self. SYMPATHY .
Dogs of High Degree
(Continued from Page One.)
las learned to obey his master's com
mands in reference to the cookie; he has
learned to act accordingly in the case of
game. These devises come under the y
tem of training for young dogs, and mut
not be confused with tha dog' "experi
ence." f
"Experience" In the hunting dog Is a
valuable asset. This quality is acquired
after the preliminary yard training. In
acquiring "experlenee" the dog learns to
know the haunts of game. This is done
In the open field. Usually this form of
education Is taken up when the dog Is
about 9 months old. His actual experience
lasts a lifetime, for, like a mere man, the
dog le.miM as he grows older. A dog of 4
years has usually had enough "experience"
in hunting to make him a valuable asset
lo the sportsman. Tho more birds the d.S
comes in contact with at an early age the
sooner ha acquires "bird sense." Ho learns
to hunt, like his master, asainst tho wind,
for the canine knows Instinctively that the
scent of the bird Is carried on the breese.
The muster who trains his own dog
learns its little pt culiarlties und eccentrici
ties. Dogs have pen .nallties, little dis
tinguishing habits, Ihe sain as human
beings. By fully "knowing" his dog the
hunter has an advantage in making use
of the little valuable asset In tho dog.
He leiarns Id love the dog. end the faith
ful canine; In turn, tho dog learns to love
and obey lis master.
Thero never was a hunter but what took
pride In his guns, in his equipment, M his
fishing tackla or in his dogs. It is a fa
miliar scene to hio a man cleaning Ills
rifle or Ills shotgun month and months
be fore the season Is "open." He swabs
out the barrel, burnishes Us bright sur
laces, cleuns and oils the locks and bright
ens the stock. Mis li un i in sT boot he keeps,
cl.-au and well oiled lo prewnt them from
leaking. He pays high prices for bis equip
ment, too, as a general rule. There are
guns and fishing rod) and hunting coats
valued at hundreds of dollars. Similarly
the hunler takes prle in his dog. Ths
hunter wants a good looking dog, one that
has rare b'-auty nml grace, and he also
wants one that can hunt. Beauty and
hunting ability, then, are the qualities
ought by the hunter in th d..g. He lakes
pride In the animal, guards him well, feeds
him well and keeps him in the best of
condition. The hunter realises the satisfac
tion n having a good dog, one In which t
he can trust and treat as bis companion
In his little Jaunts over thn bills In the
field and among th thickets.
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