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THB COURIER. report In respect to the memory of Mrs. Wing, after appropriate resolutions were adopted. The senior class of the university gave an elaborate reception to Chancellor and Mrs. MacLean at the university school of music Wednesday evening. The seniors were there en masse and by nine o'clock some seventy-flve of them were strolling about the parlors engag ed in the gentle art of being amiable. The affair was notable in being the "umpteenth" reception tendered the chancellor and his wife. Mrs. John Dorgan gave a reception ' to her friend Mrs. Mulr on Friday af ternoon. The Pleasant Hour club will give a dancing party at the Lincoln hotel next Friday night. The Lincoln club will give its second dance and reception next Wednesday evening at the Lincoln hotel. The university boys are rejoicing over a victory of twenty-four to nothing over Doane. The red lantern swung from the tower of University hall Tues day night to announce the fact. The Beta Theta Pi give a dance at their chapter house tonight. It Is the first Beta party of the season and the boys will probably make it a gay affair. A Courier representative came across the following interesting private cir cular addressed by the Whltebreast Coal Co. to its patrons. The prices quot ed ought surely to attract a large busi ness: We want your trade for Domestic Coal and will do everything In our power to please you. The following are our prices, well screened and put In your bin: Scran ton or Lackawanna hard coal, $8.40; Elk Mountain Colorado hard coal. $8.40; Canon City lump, $7.65; Can on City nut, $6.65; Excelsior lump, $6.65; Excelsior nut, $6.15; Colo. Robinson lump, $7; Colo. Maitland lump, $7; Keb. Iowa lump. $4.60; Keb, Iowa nut, $4; Keb, Iowa Mine Run, $4.40; Rock Springs lump, $7.65; Rock Springs nut, $6.65; Hanna lump, $6.65; Hanna egg, $6.65; DuQuoin, 111., lump, $6; DuQuoIn, III., nut, $5.50; Smoky Hollow lump, $4.60; Smoky Hollow nut, $4; Smoky Hollow Mine Run, $4.40. We also handle all grades of Iowa, Missouri and Weir City District Steam coals, and our tel ephone is 234. Yours truly, WHITEBREAST COAL & LIME CO. JOHN T. DORGAN. MUSIGAfo thoughts Sunday Afternoon Music ale Beethoven's Marche Funenre differs widely from the celebrated marches of Haendel and Chopin. Haendel's has the splendor and pomp of death, the pride of ornate obsequies, with the tossing of sombre plumes, the tramp lings of black stately horses. Chopin's has the wailing of a nation over a lost chief, the keen agony of shrilling notes, the sick jarring of dulled cymbals. This of Beethoven Is calm, grand, awed, never pompous, sternly solemn. It tells of the "grandeur of the dooms we have imagined for the mighty dead," of the vasty hall of death, the dignity of life's great ending. We are tending to make death a thing either of silly ridicule or of sillier sentiment. Such music forbids both. It faces death as it Is, a mystery of Infinite hope and of infinite fear, a graduation into eternity, a crossing the bar Into the vibrating ocean of unmeasured space, a passing the grim gate through which we trem ble Into the unknown new, of splendor or of sleep. There Is no glad music of death. All through life, the churches hall it, from afar off. But when it looms imminent, the glad strains cease. The dirge rises, solemn peals of Dies Irae, or of De Profundls, majestic Re quiems. This music of Beethoven's like all. his graver music comes per haps the closest to triumph. Its gloom Is not morbid. It halls gravely the coming grandeurs. It paces, with the stern heart-beat rhythm of the A major symphony. Into the awaiting dark. This march is not a dirge. It says: "One has gone. Death has drawn this much nearer to me. I dread It, yet I triumph In the vastness of the thing that I fear." As Bliss Carman sings: ....to the least In every land Whose lives are dust before his breath. He lends for one white hour the grand Remorseless dignity of death." Tchalkowski's Andante was in strange contrast to Beethoven's Marche Fune bre. That had healthful gloom. This was morbid. It, too, seemed to tell of death, or rather, of the dead. Its mut ed strings muttered of thronging ghosts, all murmuring Innumerable, sighing, sobbing, the whole thin-voiced array of the walling dead. Beethoven's dead may move In gloom, but they move like the great march of the dead In Vedder's grand Illustration to Omar, calm, pen sive, reproachful nntions. Yet It moves, this phantom music. It Is not sentimen tal. It has the morbidness of a strong nature, the phantnstic Imaginative mor bidness of a Heine. Its swift little notes oMcssaiu .ioqououi ksohsaj .ioii) pp.C and pass Into the night. Miss Davis played Wlenlawskl's Ro mance with much feeling. The chief defeat was In fulness of tone owing. In great part, to the Instrument, which refused to warm to the player. Her bowing was excellent, giving a con nected smoothness, an even flow of tone. She caught sympathetically the sobbing pathos of the Polish music. She lacks, however, excellent as she is, in the most emotional mood In steady Interpretive power. In quiet passages, her calmness becomes Indif ferent. She should study the meaning of music to find that It may have mes sage without strenuous emotion, to dis tinguish between calm beauty and mere monotony. Mrs. Cotter's work was technically excellent. It lacked, how ever, what audiences demand In singers, richness and thrilling tone. Mr. Ap thorp says: "Take one of the most beau tiful and heart-moving melodies In ex istence; let It be sung with fairly-correct expression and finish of phrasing by a voice in no way distinguished by beauty of timber. In an average audi ence, the greater number of listeners will be little moved by It. But let It be sung by a voice of great richness, and especially of fine vibrating quality, and nearly the whole audience will be deep ly affected." It may be unjust, but It's true. Perhaps It Is most noticeable In such solos as "Fear Me Not, O Israel," where the grave simplicity cells espe cially for richness of rendering. The number from Schubert, the Al legro, was delicately vivacious, the theme almost "catchy" in Its sprlght llness. The wavering accompaniment, almost in moto per petuo. ran through it like rippling laughter. It was a pleasant relief from the darkness of the funeral march and the morbid shud dering of the Tchalkowskl Andante. The Mozart Gloria is music of true religious nature. It turns its back to failing and defeat, and revels in ecstat ic praise. Its opening of ascending notes soars strong. Its body Is praise, Its close repeats yet more triumphantly the ecstatic motive of its opening flight. It ranks in spirit with the Hallelujah Chorus, with all the great music of up lifting praise. It is a pity that the quartet cannot Include in its selections a little of Wag ner's music. Little of it, it is true, is written for quartet, and adaptations are not very satisfying. But Isolated as we are from orchesjras and opera compa nies, it would be pleasant to hear, even In translation for transciptlon Is but musical translation some of the works of this modern master. Mr. Hagenow is doing nobly in giving us so much of Bach. It speaks well of Lincoln au diences that they show appreciation of music so generally unappreciated. Wag ner's music, however, has been so strong an influence, that the educational mis sion of the Mustc Services can hardly be complete without some presentation of It. There are some vocal solos, from Tannhaeuser and Lohengrin, that might well be In order. Or would It not be pos sible to get transcriptions of some of the marches and best-known numbers? Ob jectionable as they are, they are better than nothing. If Russian literature were to be closed to us till we should learn Russian, most of us would wait a long day. And it is hard to wait for Wagner till we can afford a weekly or chestra. We can pardon even rather faulty transcription if it will but give us a glimpse of some grand original. thodoxy." He speaks of my "view" of made it. He has greatness also be- the doctrine or Christ s sacrifice as "narrow," although I said nothing whatever to Indicate my view or belief In regard to that doctrine. I referred to certain teaching connected with the sacrifice of the cross as being express ed or Interpreted by passages In the music of the "mass," and I wondered how protestants and Unltnrlan-Unlver-enlists could swullow It. The teaching referred to Is this: The "Muss" Is Intended to express and to emphasize by word and net a repeti tion of the sacrifice upon the cross, to describe the actual entrance of the real presence of Christ Into the elements of brend and wine offered, handled and breathed upon by the priest In the act of consecration, and thus, under the form of bread and wine, to offer Christ often to be adored by the worshippers. Hence I cannot help wondering, without ex pressing my own view, how those Christians who at the Reformation re sisted this teaching, even unto blood, as a "blasphemous fable and dangerous deceit." can receive It now Into their "Inner worshiping hearts" from Prof. Hagenow's fiddle strings, without un seating the rational faculty. But the "Mass" includes also the NI cene creed, which says: "I believe In Je sus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, cause he has genius, the genius of a poet. He shows It, he knows It, per haps he "dreams" about It. But does he drenm Into the mystery of that greatness ami call It worship? Must I call this view of his greatness a creed and extract from It "Its common fac tor" which Is only a vision of greatness nnd call It "a craving for God?" Ex cuse me. No music of any Master can thus mislead me. and I write because I would not have others misled by It. According to II. B. the worship that "has root deep In man's sympathies" may dance on a man's conscience to the music which makes him bow before the "consecrated host" held up by a cath olic priest and viewed as God. But the poor fellow who sings and understands the wenk. "Insipid" gospel hymn and cannot "see religion" In the blnnk dread of space." who cannot under stand the musical langunge of the great masters, there Is no sympathy for him and therefore no worship. There Is a God behind the door of the tabernacle on the high altar of the catholic, "be hind the sclmltared zeal of Mahomet;" but behind "the blind faith" of "ortho doxy" expressed In a simple gospel hymn there Is no God. save Intoler ance. X. "Queen Victoria,'' Ladies Favorite, Her Majesty's Perfume, is the latest, most delicate and refined otera Per- MUSIC IN THB CBURCH (communicated) Speaking of music In the church as related to worship, "H. B." writes In the spirit of a man who is glad that his "adversary has written a book." He takes advantage of a seeming oppor tunity given by a recent article of mine on that subject to "boost" Unltarianism and at the same time to disparage "or- r ivliom oil M nrra tirnpn mt 1 a !- 4fri us men and for our salvation came down '" At Iil'J'J Pharmacy, corner from heaven and was Incarnate by the Twelfth and O streets. Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man." Hence, I cannot help wondering how those Unlversallsts who deny the Virgin birth and the God head of Christ and pretty much every thing here stated, can set the "sympa thies" of their honest souls into har mony with what they regard as a He without annihilating "the prime In stinct," or without being guilty of Irre ligious sarcasm. But I do not believe that H. B. rep sents the real thoughts and feelings of Unlversallsts. He has not associated with them long enough to know them. The fact Is that the purpose of their Sunday afternoon musical services, as they are called, in this city. Is to sup ply an appropriate and edifying enter tainment for those who wish to make the best of the day. It Is a step towards solving the Sunday question, while of course It does not overlook the proba bility of attaching a few outsiders to that church, and at the same time serves as a good advertisement for the musicians. To all of which I have not the slightest objection. But to ask me to believe that It represents the Idea of worship, which obtains In the Unlversa 11st church, or the Unitarian church, is to me suggestive of an expansiveness inconsistent with all Ideas of truth. In a former article H. B. argued for the eternal fitness of things In the matter of worship. He praised the music of the Episcopal church as set to those portions of Its service, which constitute Its worship proper. He deprecated the Introduction of the Inferior music and sentiment of the "Gospel Hymn." And supposing that he was pleading for -ti-TTTC!T?V?C! VP i rrm consistency In the adaptation of music lUUiSoEjl O 1UAItAj1.l -Ci to words and sentiments used In pub lic worship. I endorsed all he said, but claimed further that In no church should music be used which by Itself and without words expresses senti ments, doctrines or truths that are outlawed by the consciences of the wor shippers. Perhaps If I had not been so Indis creet as to cite for illustration the ren dering of the "Mass" In the Unlversal Ist church no notice would have been taken of It. But this gave H. B. an opportunity to lug in the words "view" and "narrow," both pet words with men who refuse to be guided by "regulated" truth, preferring I suppose to be mis guided by un-regulated truth; a point of view from which I. for one. do not care to "see religion." My religion is the christian religion and the christian religion Is an actual grasp of the real truth of God. It Is that which binds man back to God. 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Taste of " Royal Ruby Fort Wine " aai you will know-why we call it "RoyaL" A glass held up to the light will show why tow reward ior tar if the relig- bottle of this wine found under fire yean of H. B. is Indexed by his ideas of old, or in any way adulterated. It ii worship It Is only a "view" a view of grand In sickness and convalescence, or "greatness." the greatness "of mount- where a strengthening cordial is required; aln. of sea. of star, of man's Imagining" recommended by druggists and phjaV of music. Into this greatness he clans. Be eure you get "Royal Ruby," "dreams" and calls It worship. He don't let dealers finpoec on you with rime himself has greatness because God thing "jut as good." Sold only In bottles; made him. as the mountain, or the sea. price, auarts $1, pints 60 eta, Bottlttjl? or the star has greatness because God Royal Wiae Co. 8old by
