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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1901)
vy " 1 8 THE COURIER. of the American bar association in Den ver on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri day of this week. The American Savings Bank of 132 North Eleventh street, pays interest on deposits. Professor and Mrs. C. R. Richards have returned from a visit at Mrs. Rich ards' early home in Indiana. Mrs. . Benjamin Andrews is spend ing the month of August at Manitou, Colorado. Mrs. G. D. FoPmer and daughters Pansy and Fern are spending a week in Milford, Iowa. Mrs. F. N. Gibson will return next Tuesday from Colorado Springs, where she has spent several weeks. Mr. Clarence Johnson left last night for Ogden, Utah, where he will spend several weeks with his uncle, Judge J. B. Bagley. Mr. M. L. Scudder was in Lincoln this week, leaving Thursday night for Colorado Springs, accomparied by his bod, Mr. Harold Scudder. Miss Nellie Dean of Ashland is the guest of Miss Margaret Kyle. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Kimball have returned from Minnesota, where they spent several days. Miss Hitchcock, of Sandusky, Ohio, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. C.I.Jones. Miss Maude Kisser has returned from St. Paul and Minneapolis, where she visited for several weeks. Mrs. H.J. Winnett and Mrs. B. F. Sbepard returned Saturday from Den-, ver, where they visited for two weeks. Mrs. Frank E. Lahr and children, Mr. and Mrs. E. Hallett and son Scott pnd Miss Georgia Field are camping at Mil ford this week. Miss Blanche Garten and Miss Helen Welch are the guests of Miss Rather ine Woods at Schuyler. Phi Kappa Pei will occupy the house recently vacated by Professor Morgan Brooks, corner Sixteenth and K streets. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson returned Monday from a visit of two weeks at Manitou and Colorado Springs. Miss May Prentiss is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. "W. M. Leonard. Mias Agnes Casebeer and Miss Wilma Casebeer are home from an extended visit in Indiana. Superintendent E. Bignell and family and Miss Allen left on Saturday for a ten days' visit in Salt Lake City, Denver, Colorado Springs and other mountain resorts. The trip is made in Mr. Big nell's private car. Mrs. W. C. Phillips and Mrs. D. M. Butler have returned from a visit in Manitou. Miss Joy Webster returned Tuesday from a week's visit in Blair and. Fremont. Dr. Carr, surgeon. HI South 12tb. THE STATE FAIR Lincoln, September 2d to 7th. ws oh to e i HUMMER. The Exhibit Entries today are way ahead of Last Year. It's a good place to talk over Crop Possibilities; a Good Educator; a Place of Interest to every Visitor. We Want Visitors to Make Our Store Their Down-Town Headquarters, We want you to come in, get acquainted and look around our elegant store. Our place of business never looked prettier and brighter than now with its array of beautiful new FALL FABRICS, SUITS AND FURS. Our line of Dress Goods this season embraces all the choicest styles to be found on the market. Our Suits, Jackets and Pur Goods contain numbers that can be duplicated nowhere for the price. Every new thing in Gloves, Fancy Goods, China and Glassware will be found on our counters. Cotton and Wool Blankets, Hosiery and Underwear; lines replete with popular priced values. rr Lincoln's Most Pro gressive Dry Goods House The dose of Summer. At the approach of autumn the shad ows begin to lengthen and the flowers of summer give place to the aster and the golden rod; while the pawing of the song birds and the shrill chirp of the cricket remind us that the golden days of September are at hand. The band concerto, which have furnished enjoy ment to so many of our citizens during the desert-like season just passed, will also vanish with the summer. The capitol grounds will still be a favorite promenade for lover and lass, but the strains of music will not be heard. On Tuesday evening of next week will occur the last open-air concert of the season. The band, under, the able di rection of Profeseor Hagenow, is com posed of twenty-eight pieces, with leader and drum major, The instruments rep resented are 1 flute, 1 piccolo, 1 E flat clarinet, 7 B flat clarinets, 1 bass clari net, 2 French hornB, 2 concert horns, 2 E flat basses or tubas, 1 BB bass, 5 B flat cornets, 1 baritone or euphonium, 3 trombones, 1 snare drum and 1 bass drum. Four great classes or families of in struments are represented in brass bands; namely, reed, brass, wood-wind, and instruments of percussion. These instruments vary greatly in number and kind among the organizations of differ ent countries, also are widely different in the various bands of our own land. The modern concert band is an entire ly different organ from the military and brass bands of a few years ago. With a combination of instruments like Profes sor Hagenow's it is possible to render selections from the grand opera, de scriptive pieces and compositions origin ally limited to performance by stringed orchestras. The E Hat clarinet takes the part of first violin in the higher pas sages, while the B flat clarinets also cor respond to the first violin in boIo passages, carry the air in general, and are used in accompanying figures like arpeggios. The bass clarinet corresponds to the cello, while the French horns are used as in an orchestra, furnishing the gener al accompaniment in light music. The euphonium carries the air in high bass passages; the E flat basses or tubas are the same as in orchestras. The bass clarinet has a wonderfully round, full, majestic tone. The euphonium is simi lar to a tenor horn, but of larger con struction, and the quality of the lower tones is much richer and fuller. It is also known as the baritone, and resem bles that voice. The trombones corres pond to those of an orchestra, and are used in playing chords and counter mel odies in light music. The piccolo or small flute is an instru ment of high and penetrating quality, and can excellently portray the sighing of the wind, lightning, and the 6ounds supposed to come from the lower regions. It also suggests an exhilerated emotional or mental state, and is effective in mar tial music, ballets and tone pieces with sharply defined rhythm. The quality of its lower tones lacks lustre and force; the middle tones are sparkling and brill iant, while the upper tones are shriek ing, piercing and penetrating. In dance music the piccolo carries the melody in unison with the flute, sometimes an oc tave higher, and frequently is used in sub-melodies. As a solo instrument it is particularly adapted to tho songs f birds. Meyerbeer, Mozart, Beethoven and Marchner knew how to derivo ad vantage from the piccolo in tonal color ing and dramatic effects. The flute can be compared to the voices of women, and in addition to its brilliant qualities it is capable of espresyS ing passionate grief, loneliness and men tal exhaustion . The lower tones suggest deeply religious moods, and when playe I softly have a characteristically idea , elegiac effect. The middle tones a soft, mellow aod tender, while the upp r tones are bright and penetrating, ar i are used chiefly in stroQg passages. The clarinet has many sympathet c qualities. It possesses a religious cb.i acter, and also is used to imitate t'o reverberation of bells. The quality of ra lower register is serious, sad, mysterious ominous and dramatic; the middle reg -ter is seldom used but can effectivi y depict lightning flashes and coar e humor and pleasure. Following is the program for the co -cert next Tuesday evening: The Star-Spangled Banner. Grand March from -'Aida" Ver i. Overture, "Masaniello" Aub r. Waltz, "Birds' Voices" Vollste t. Selection from "The Serenade". 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