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MUSIC IN WALES.
AXolculy Is tlie Very Soul and &.eruel of
- . the Welsh Tsature
Every church and chapel in every
Welsh village and town, according to
" the Westminster Review, has its choir,
often numbering sixty,, seventy or a
hundred voices, and every choir has its
. musical prodigies, leaders of parts,
mayhap, who have never had a lesson
in music in their lives, or some uncouth
colliers or tip-girls, with voices which,
had they been trained and developed,
might have made of them Edward
Lloyds or Antoinette Sterlings. .Dis
trict after district has its "united
choral union," which will take up the
study of some work of the great mas
ters and deliver it at an annual con
cert or Christmas festival; not in the
pale, flickering, dispassionate style
which is so characteristic of some Eng
lish choirs, but with rugged fire and
intensity.
I have had the good fortune to hear
the greatest oratorios rendered under
the most brilliant conditions that tal
ent and culture could produce in this
the most talented and cultured of all
metropoles, but 1 have never heard the
majestic roll of the Hallelujah chorus
or the matchless melodies of the
. "Elijah" rendered with such soul and
verve and eloquence as by an obscure
'united choir," led by a workingman
in a mining village among the hills of
. Glamorganshire.
Rough, if you will; ruggedly vehe
ment and impetuous, but rough with
the roughness of unpolished genius,
impetuous with the impetuosity of
mountain torrents. The force of it,
the emotional fervor, the richness of
volume, the tone and timbre in it
these are things not to be forgotten.
The same qualities in a lesser degree
may be observed in the singing of any
small chapel choir inside the boundar
ies of Wales. You shall never hear
such singing as you may hear on quiet
Sunday evenings from some 'Welsh
hillside sanctuary by a choir of work
ing lads and lasses, conducted by
some rough-and-ready, unkempt, self
taught musician.
Music, then, we assert, is the very
soul and kernel of the "Welsh nature.
A musical ear is the national birth
right. Every Welsh preacher who
migrates to aa English church finds
the greatest difficulty in abstaining
from that weird, peculiar intonation
of his sermon which is known as the
hwyl, and which i:i often strange and
objectionable to English ears.
Another remarkable and subtle fact
which will be interesting to English
readers and at the same time signifi
cant of the sensitiveness of the Welsh
musical ear, is that it is positive dis
cord to many among the Welsh congre
gations if the minister, in ''giving out"
the first verse of the hymn, does not so
pitch the voice that it shall be in hai
mony with the key in which the tune
has preliminarily been played by the
instrumentalist.
SENATORIAL COURTESY.
How tbe Italian Ambassador Got Even
with tie French Ambassador.
Before the introduction of the tele
graph ambassadors at foreign courts
used to bo far more important person
ages than they now are, and great
rival grandeur existed among them.
On one occasion, says Cassell's Satur
day Journal, a new Italian minister
had arrived at the Spanish capital,
and went en suite to pay his respects
to the reigning sovereign. Arriving
at one of the reception-rooms to the
palace, he found it occupied by an imposing-looking
man surrounded by a
glittering throng. These he not un
naturally took to be the king and his
courtiers, and with profound obeisance
introduced himself. "
The supposed king received him with
gracious condescension till the doors
opened and an even more magnificent
train ushered in the real king and
showed to the discomfited Italian that
he had been kneeling before his hated
rival, the French ambassador, who
took no pains to conceal his satisfac
tion at the flattering mistake. But
his triumph was not to last, for in the
evening of the same day the king,
with the Italian as his partner, was
playing cards against the French min
ister and a third ambassador, when in
the course of the game the Italian
threw down a card, exclaiming: "That
is the king and it wins us the trick!"
His partner looked at it and said:
"Nol You only played the knave."
"O, I beg your majesty's pardon, so
I have!" and with a quick glance at
his French opponent he continued:
"and it is the second time to-day that
I have mistaken a knave for a king!"
Specimen Cases
S. T ifibrd, New Cassel, Wis., was
troublei. ith neuralgia and rheumatism,
his sto oh was disordered, hia liver
was afiv ed to an alarming degree, ap
petite fell away, and he-was terribly re
duced in flesh and strength. Three bot
tles of EVetric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, 111.,
had a running sore on his leg of eight
years' standing. Used three, bottles of
Electric Bitters and seven boxes of
Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and his leg is
sound an'? well. John Speaker, Cata
waba, O., nad five large fever sores on
his leg, doctors said be was incurable.
One bottle Electric Bitters and one bos'
Bucklen'a Arnica Salve cured him en
tirely. Sold by Snipes & Kinersly. '
Karl's Olover Boot, the new blood
purifier, inves freshness and clearness to
tin! i:- 'i -tion and cures constipation.
.. 50- ud $1.00. Sold by Snipes &
Iruggists.
ARTISTS IN THE NAVY.
How Jolly Jack Loves to Decorate
His Body.
Tattooing StlU Flourishes as a Profession,
Especially Among the Man-o'-Wars
Men It In Not Painful. Nor Is
It Very ReaatifuL.
How or where the custom originated,
it is hard to say, but it is certain that
about-nine-tenths of the seafaring men
of the world are tattooed on some parts
of their bodies. Among the uncivilized
of almost every clime this custom of
marking and defacing the body has
been quite common, and it is very
probable that the sailors, in their
cruises to foreign lands untraveled by
civilized people, picked up the custom.
In my experience among sailors, writes
Dion Williams in.. the Washington
Star, I have often noticed the many
queer devices tattooed all over the
bodies, or on some part of these hardy,
good-natured fellows that love "a life
on the ocean wave" better than the
dry land. '
It is probably among men-o'-war's
men that the custom is most near
ly universal, and there is scarcely
a ship in the navy but "has some blue
jacket aboard who is an artist with
the tattooing needle. It is said that
the Chinese are the most expert at this
queer, trade, and their designs are
often artistic that is, artistic in the
sense of the dragon and snake style of
art peculiar to Japan and China.
The outfit of a tattooing artist con
sists of a few needle points stuck in
the end of a fine stick, forming a sort
of steel comb, a few sticks of India
ink, generally black, blue and red, and
a few mixing cups, and always a book
of samples in which are crudely drawn
in chalk the flashing designs that the
artist is able to make. Seated on a
ditty box or the deck, the artist first
takes the arm or the place to be
tattooed and draws in ink the design
to be made. He then draws the skin
tightly and with the steel needle points
punctures the skin along the design,
first dipping the needle points into the
color "to be used. The operation is not
particularly painful, no more so than
sticking a sharp needle through the
skin, which, if anyone tries to do with
deliberation, he will find not particu
larly painful. The place tattooed then
becomes sore to an extent depending
upon the size of the design and the
place tattooed, but it generally com
pletely heals within ten days, and the
design in colors is indelibly incorpo
rated into the skin. There is no known
means of removing it after it is once
on, except to remove the skin tattooed,
which would, of course, leave a severe
scar.
On board a man-of-war in the early
morning after reveille the men aU
over the decks take off their clothing
and wash themselves, and it is then
that I have found the best opportunity
to. notice the.queer designs in tattooing
on back, breast, legs and arms. The
designs are rich in variety as well as
execution. Here, for instance, is a
grizzled old tar with mossy breast,
whose back is covered with a ship un
der full sail, with the men on her decks
ten times too big for proper propor
tions. Another has on his breast a
picture which his fond imagination
paints into the glorious fight in- Mobile
bay, with Farragut and the Hartford
in the foreground and cannon bellow
ing red clouds of fire all around. The
old jackey points with pride to it and
tells an . admiring crowd of young ap
prentice boys, who stand around, of
that glorious summer day when Farra
gut, ever dear to the navy as their
"Grand Old Admiral," said: "D n the
torpedoes," and led the squadron to
victory in the old Hartford. She was
then the pride of the navy, and now is
being rebuilt to be put in active serv
ice, according to an act of congress,
which provides for keeping the Hart
ford and Kearsarge in the service in
commemoration of their gallant record
in the civil wav.
Many bluejackets have a picture' of
the crucifixion, tattooed upon them,
though one whom I saw with it cover
ing the whole of his back' seemed little
fitted to bear so devout an ornament,
for when another sailor stepped on his
bare foot such, torrents of real sailor
profanity came from his mouth that
there could be littledoubt that he had
forgotten the day of repentance when
he had the cross tattooed on his back.
These large designs cause such a great
expanse of skin to become irritated
that they become quite painful if done
all at once, so they are generally done
in sections, sometimes so unskillfully
that the marks show, making a sort of
checkerboard picture. Some of the de
signs are very grotesque. I remember
one very well done, one of a monkey on
a man's leg, that always caused a smile
among those who saw it. . The blue
jackets often have pictures of their
sweethearts tattooed on their arms or
breast, and it makes little difference
if the sweetheart herself changes from
time to time, for the picture will look
as much like one as another, and the
wearer's imagination will do the rest.
How History Might Have Been Changed.
An interesting "incident" of the
career of the great .Napoleon has been
brought to light by Prof. Rambaud,
who has just been rewarded for his
"History of Russia" with the cross of
the Legion of Honor. Bohaparte, as is
well known, was at one time disgusted
with" the slowness of his promotion
and entertained serious thoughts of di
recting his talents into other channels.
Now M. Rambaud tells us that Na
poleon applied for service in the Rus
sian army, but that the petition which
he had addressed to Zaborowski was
rejected, as Catherine II. would not
admit foreign officers on the same
standing as that which they occupied
in their own country. Napoleon would
have had. to accept an inferior rank,
and this he refused to do.' If Prof.
Rambaud be correctly informed, and if
Bonaparte had taken service in Rus
sia, the whole course of the history of
the century would have been changed
and a whole vista of curious possibil
ities would have been opened.
About a year ago I took a violent at'
tack of la grippe. I coughed day and
night for about six weeks ; my wife then
suggested that . I try Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. At first I could see no
difference, but still kept trying it, and
soon found that it was what I needed.
If I j;ot no relief from one dose I took
another, and it was only a few days un
til I was free from the cough. I think
people in general ought to know the
valur of this remedy, and I take pleas
ure in acknowledging the benefit I have
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It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
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