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26 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 10, 1901. r EDWARD JL, FERKTTES, RETIRED MUSICIAN, OP PORTLAND. wgMNi ; w jfc fPJEHPQMpGT'SigRIJiWITHpIJi - . ', S N fe??A Portland Resident Unearths a Santicle, Written 3B 't LJears -Agq. r-s w Edward A. Perkins, a retired musician of Portland, has made an Interesting discovery concerning the rgfandfatberrbf J. Eierpont Morgan, WiIIe'6klnsjBVrtvAoldTOaJbl'r: cently Mr. Perkins found the subjoined letter and hymn, -which were written In 1800 by John Plerpont, then a clerk In the" Treasury Department at Washington, D. C- Investigation-- showed that this same John Plerpont was the grandfather of J. .Plerpont Morgan, the noted financier. Mr. Perkins was living in "Washington in 18(58, when the Calvary Baptist Church was dedicated. He was then in charge of the choir that was to sing ,at the dedication, and had composed an anthem for the occasion. Having heard of the musical talent of one John Plerpont, thtn a clerk in the Treasury Department, Mr. Perkins called on him; and asked him to compose an anthem for the dedi cation. Some days later he received & communication, which Is reproduced on this page. .. Upon calling. Mr. Perkins was almost dumbfounded when Mr. Plerpont handed him an anthem, -which far surpassed anything that he had dreamed of. The original manuscript Is reproduced. The hymn was sung at the church dedication under Mr. Perkins' direction. A few months later tho church was burned, but through the financial aid of Amos M; Kendall, who had been Postmaster-General under President Jackson, the edlnc was rebuilt, and dedicated In 1807. fMr. Plerpont's hymn was used again at the second dedication.. John Plerpont was a Unitarian minister of the old school. Before the Civil War he held a pastorate In Boston, which he left in orderto nccept the office of chaplain in one.ofY,the -Massachusetts Volunteer regiments. He died In 1800. shortly after tho .first dedication.'-;Hb' grandson, J. Plerpont Morgan, is one of America's leading financiers, and it la Interesting'' to know thathere Is cueta great musical talent In the family. ,' . . Mr. Perkins, who has lived In Portland a number of year3, Is a retired musician. He baa studied under such' men as Dr. Lowell Mason and Dr. Thomas Hastings. ' He himself h3n . prepared a number of musjcal productions, Borne of which attracted more than passing at tention. He is the owner of what is perhara the oldest copy of Handel's "Messiah" in, this country. The name of hlo grandfather, "Edward Pennine, Hlllmorton, Bngtand, 1700." writ-, -ten on the fly leaf, Is as distinct as though -written yesterday. Amcng Mr. Terklns' fnoatc' treasured possessions Is a violoncello brought to the United. States in 1830 -by his. .father. 'It. was, "Made at the Sign of the Harp and."Hautboy, Piccadilly, Lcndetf,-, 1745." 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Gresharn to step here." said Follansbee. dippinp his pen in the mu cilage a$d attempting to blot the stub of the book -with the check he had just drawn, "Where is my list of engagements and memoranda?" he asked of the mild-eyed young man -who entered. "Br you destroyed it by mistake. I've made "up a. new one." and Gresham laid a typewritten sheet of paper on the desk, Follansbee bent over it. "H'm-m! Breakfast with Von Heilbron at 11. and it's now 10 mlnutea to 1!" "Colonel Baskam," announced the office boy. "Shall he come In, sir?" "By graolous! I had forgotten him. Ask him to wait five minutes and then show him In. Gresham, will you take a letter to xww, who the devil was I going to write to? "What have I on for this aftor nooa?" Gresham picked up the list and read; "Billings & Co. at 1:30; directors' meet ing, H. F. & D., 2 o'clock; safe deposit vaults with Saunders, half-past 8; .try on at tailor's" "Confound it!" "Din at the Schuylers', and meet Wcs. ley at U will the Danforth papers and plans." "And tomorrow I go to Rodney in the morning and to Philadelphia in the after noon!" "No. Rodney in- the afternoon and Phil adelphia in the morning." "Ah, yes; quite so, quite so." "And then "Wednesday, of course-you'll hardly need me, .will you, sir?'' queried Gresham. - "No, I think not. My dear Baskam., how do you do? Why didn't you come right in?" The caller looked somewhat amazed as he stepped Into the private office. Curtis Follansbee had the day before returned frpm a three months business inp io Nicaragua. Aiiaaie-agea, ne xouna himself the possessor of wealth and po-r lltlcal power. His schemes and deals fair ly outnumbered his dollars, and of the former ths Nicaraguan Company was the last but one. The "but one" was matslr mony. In his nervous yet thoughtful manner Follansbee had decided to marry. He observed very bualnces-like methods in becoming engaged to Helen Atkinson. He wished to be married jrlth absolutely no fuss or frills. She was 2S, sensible, poor and plain-looking. He proposed to her by letter the -day before he left for Nica ragua; was accepted and forgot all about an engagement ring until he discovered a memorandum on the back of an en velope after fcfi had been away six weeks. He indited a telegram directing Helen not to write or expect letters, as he was eo busy so busy, in fact, that he neglected to send It. Wednesday evening, after having con summated an unexpected coup in forming a new company, Follansbee slapped his knee as he sat in the hotel corridor and exclaimed: "Why the devil dhl I let him go today? This is a- mess!" Hq 33ccd uj and down a moment, then, suddenly turning, almcet ran into Gresham. " "I wish an immediate explanation i" said Follansbee. "I supposed -you would." Thcire was a strange look- In Gresham's eyes. "Well, why did you neglect to remind me yesterday that this afternoon I was to marry Miss Atkinson?" Gresham paused and looked at his shoos. "Because I knew you were not to," "What d.o you men. sir?" "I married her myself." "What! I don't believe it!" Drawing from his pocket an evening paper, Gresham pointed to a marriage notice. Follansbee read it, muttered to himself, and blurted out; "Remind me. to discharge you that is we will arrange for a discontinuance ot your services In the morning." Whereupon he rushed out. Next day Gresham appeared at the ofr fico, but Fojlansbee - forgot to discharge him. "I can't let you have more than a weeU for your trip," was al he, said, r American Girls "Win, Chicago Chronicle, Out of the 40 female students wno were eligible for degrees at the University of Berlin, Germany, hls year, only three have earned them, and two out of the three were from, the United States. This is not the first time that American girl students have carried oft honors at Euro"-, pean seats, of learning, but the incident is especially noticeable because these. art the first women who were ever so honored by the University of Berlin. It is another and striking commentary upon the ability of our students abroad to compete with the best ta.lent that the native European schools can produce. It Is also a signal compliment to the courage and. persis't ency of American' girl students when they are pioneers In breaking down the preju dices of univcrslUeg ruled for centuries by caste and sex. serlroinatioa, Tombstones Going Out, ' Evolution of Modern Buriai-OroUnds Into Beautiful Park-Cemeteries. that tho monuments now-standing art to be leveled, but it means a good deal for Abefuture- of" cemetery parks that th public .13 reconciled to buying lots in which headstones may not rise above the gijtss." The economic side of a cemetery with out monuments Is considerable. A mil lion dollars will not go far In granite shafts and marble pillars, while in sim ply flat blocks of granite this cost for headstones would be at a minimum. Now adays the idea of a perpetual caretiklng goes with the sale of most cemetery lo'a. anit with the flat lawn surfaces and Hat stones over which a lawa-mowar will run easily, this coat of caretaking, too, should be. cut almost in half. Thit while the cemetery Is taking on the aspects of a park the park may as sume some of the characteristics of the cemetery is scarcely more than possible. In Chicago the north end of Lincoln Park approaohos this most nearly of any of them. But oven there this sculpture la so different to the tombstone style that the chilliness of stone and bronze is lo3t in greit measure. Of late, too, park statuary in Chlcogi has not been in reputo as It once wrs. Looking a gift statue in the mouth haa come to be good form In this city, and the fate of two or three Christopher Columbusea which have gravitated to garbage dumps In recent years hs had the effect of bearing the statue market. As It is, there ar several statues In Chi. cago parks toward which the .public feels that a decent Interment would be the best mark of appreciation, and so long as these ire left above ground their effect prom ises to be against any radical Increase in the statse colonics in the various parks. Chicago Tribune. onmamai That the cemeteries of the 'year 2000 A- D, shall be parks, with tho chances that the so-called parks of the' period shall lpok a good deal like cometeries, are possibilities not -at all out of keeping with evolutions of tho past. Ip the signs of the times, both possibilities 'may be re. garded with a good dqal of certainty, tho evolution of the park-cemetery, however, being more imminent and of a good dea more significance. Cemeteries of the future, showing only the green sweeps of parks, vistas of trees, and the dappled surfaces of pools, with no truces of sculptured stone chilling the park effect, already are promised to a new generation. At the National Asso ciation of Cemetery Superintendents in Pittsburg recently that, association had a glimpse qf the future burylng-grpund into which a person may look, ope dqp and feel none of the half-superstltlous re pugnance that is associated with a glimpse into the present-day cemetery. As a, matter of truth, the tombstone of the old, conservative type Is going out of fashion. . "There Is a reason for it," Baid the sup erintendent of one of the old cemeteries in this city. "It comes about through the necessity of making all space in the city cemetery available, With each bury ing lot cut to a minimum and a headstone at each of them, a cemetery that s filled become little more than a forest' of stono shafts. There are portions of the older cemeteries in Chicago tocjay which haye all tho stony effect q a city street At the.- ground level are grass and flow ers, but to the eye, looking across lots, there Is only a stretch of carved stone, with little green to relieve It. "This effect -not only Is not pleasing, but it is ugly and in bad taste. It Js expensive, too, costing a good deal more than it comes to In effect. How often, passing a cemetery gateway, with stone yards clustering outside of it, can you look Inside and get only the old stone yard Impression. As for any landscape effect inside such a cemetery, it can have none. The atone chills it into llfelesanes. "Tho tendency today Is to discourage monuments in graveyards. It is the mon, ument, more than anything else, that ha.s made the cemetery undesirable In a neighborhood. If every burying ground in Chicago were today stripped of its ghostly white shafts and made to conform to tho physical llnea of a park, more than half of a neighborhood's objections would be wiped out." At the Pittsburg convention It. was brought out that in many cemeteries in the. United States the mound effect In burial lots has been dispensed with. It has been found that the mound interferes with keeping the lawns smoothly cut, and In .doing away with this feature-the drop ping of the iombstone Idea has been made easier. In some of the meet pretentious of graveyards, this level effect In land scape gardening has given rise to some thing new in tombstones. A granite slab about two feet long, one foot wide and. six Inches thick is made to do duty as birth and death record. The lettering 1 is, cut into the polished surfaoe, and the etone laid, flat into a bed of concrete. It I is set so low that It does not Interfere witn tne rree running of a lawp mower, while its effect on the lawn is not notice able. Even the corner-stones are sunk to the grass, level. Graccland cemetery In Chicago has done a great deal in furtherance of the park effect In burying grounds. In virtually all of the newer portions of the cemetery the tombstone has been ruled against, the terms undor which lote aro sold specifying the heights of stoics. The Jlaplcwoad section of the cemetery la one of the newest additions, and in this plat It is expressly stipulated that no curbing shall he laid and that no head stones Bhall rise more than one inch above the graer line. There are no grav eled walks In this portion of the ceme tery, all being sodded and presenting a grassy effect once unknown. Yet this radical departure from the con ventional has been well received, and at the offices of the company It was ex- j pjumeu inai nve times as many lots were ?ow hs year aB were soia last year in the same plat. In this cemetery thl3 evolution toward park effects has been gradual. In the Bcllevue, section of the cemetery several years ago tho limit for headstones was. set at eight inches above the grass. In the Falrlawn section the limit later was fixed at four Inches, and the recent change to almost the ground level shows the trend of cemetery method?. Already In this cemetery there had been evidences that to get avay from the con ventional tombstone might be desirable. In Ridgeland section, whero lots are owned by some of the most prominent famUlta In Chicago, there are no chiseled monuments. In one of these lots la Bryan Lathrop's transplanted c-Ira, standing for the memory of his parents, and next to it is the. Henry D. Field lot, with only a granite bowlder and the name Field cut Into It. "Certainly there are Indications that the park Idea In ccrotcrlcs is coming." said Superintendent O. C. Simons, of Grace land ctitnetery. "It is not to be expected The Voice of the Grass. Here 1 conte creplns. creeplas everywhere: By the dufrty roadsMe. . On the ninny hillside. Close by the noisy breok,. In every thady noott. I ome ereeplnjf. creeping everywhere. Ifrc I e:n creeping, smiling eveijywlwre, All sound the nn door. Whtre sit tlw aged poor. Hrc where the children piny. In. the brljh.: and mry May. I oomc creeptae, creeping everywhere Here I come creeping, crecplns overyv'rtre? in the noisy oity B;reet, My rloaiant f&e you'll met. Cheating the lck at fseart Tilling- his busy part, Silently eretplnjr, creeping- everywhere. Hare I name creeping, creeping everywhere : Veu cannot wo me comlns. Nor hear wy low ewoet hwmmlns; For che starry nlrht. And the clad morning- light, I eeme. quietly creeping everywhere. Here I come jreepiajr. creeping everywkero.- S!re frcleorae thun tho newer in Summer's pleasant hours; T,ho gentle cow la glad, And tho merry bird not sad. To see we creeping, creeping everywhere. Here I eowe creepiag, creeping everywhere; "When you're numbtred with the dead In your still attd narrow bed. In the happy Spring I'll come And deck your feJient home. Creeping, silently creeping evwrywSer Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere: My humble song -of pralce Moat Joyfully I rake To him at whose command I beautify the land. Creeping, rilently creeping everywhere. Serah Huberts. i Childhood' Lost Beliefs. I once knew all the bird that eame And notttod In our orchard trees; For every flower I had a name My trlendB were woodehuuKM, toads and bcesi; I Knew what thrived in yonder glen; What plants would soothe a stone-bruised too Oh, I was very learned then- Iut that was very long ago. I knew the spot upon the'hlll Whero the cheukcrijerrles could bo found I knew tho rushoe near the mill Where pickerel lay that weighed a pound I I knew tho wood the very treo-r Where lived the poaching, saucy orow, And all the woods and crows knew me - liut that was very long ago. And pining for the Joys of youth, I tread the old familiar spot Only to learn this solemn truth: J have forgotten, am forgot. Tot there's this youngter at my kneo' Knows, all the things I usul to know. To think I onee was wlee as he! Uut that was vory long ago. I know 'tis folly to complain Ot whatsoe'er the fates doeroe. Yet wore not wishes all In vain I tell you what my wish would be: I'd wish to bo a boy again, Back wth the friends I used to know: For 1 was, oh! so happy .hen But that was very long ago. ' Eugene Field. "Hr-ntnu." Do white folks calls mo Rastus liut den dat ain't my name. An If dey will nickname me. Can't see whan I' so ter blame. I knows I isn't han'somc. An' my face is black as night; Ain't got no edtlyeatlon. Exeep' ter be polite. 1'so got a mighty stan' In WW de white folk3 obcr town: Dey likes ter hab me do der-eho'OJ An' ootterin' arqun'. Dey all say dat Fse bones'-.- But I eac't sea do reason why De chickens 'long de alleys Whah i trabbela rooit so high. I nebber stole a chicken la all my bo'n days; Nor 1 nebber mix wld niggahs Dat hab slch slnnln ways. But I tolls you dat it's mlghtr hare Foh me ter keep In line. An' let waterroMlona be. When dcy's rlpcnln' on de vine. But If de Lawd will he'p mc. I'll obserb do go'.den rule, An' do 'thout luxuries till Fall When do weather's gltttn' eool. An' de 'possum an sweet taters Are ripe n' in their prime. Den you better guess dls nlggah's Gwlne ter make up fer loo' time. Joseph W. Amis. Dear Mother-Heart: x Dear Mother-eyes That watched while other eyes wore closed in sleep. That o'er my sliding steps were wont to weep Are ye now looking from the starry skies With dearer splrlt-vlston. love more deep, Undlmmed by tears, while I my vigil Keep Dear Mother-eyes? Dear Mother-handa That tolled when other hands Inactive, were, That, clasping mine, constrained me oft to prayer For graae to run the way of God's com.- mands Aro ye nqw resting or In realms more fair Still And ye some sweet mode to minister Dear Mother-hands? Dear Mother-heart That felt the good where other found the ill. That loathed the sin. yet loved the sinner still. And charmed his soul to choose the better part. Farewell a moment's fleeting space until God reunite ua when it be his will Dear Mother-heart. John Henderson In Chambers's Journal. Cnrnlvnl In the North. Arm hi arm, their branches twined. Tall maples drink the mountain wind; Reach out with eagerness to seize Flagons of cool October breeze. Bravely decked, in yellow and red. Maries stand at the bright throng's head, And summon the firs to give their aid Ta make thin forest masquerade Summon even the solemn firs To Join the ranks pf roisterers! Sprueeland woodsmen, Plerro and Jean, Now with your cayes.t songs lead on! Join In the revel the trees make here, Fer woods will be sad for half a year; Riot a little Summer is spent. And all th "Winter tho wood keen Lentt Atlantic Monthly J,