Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1902, Page 31

Music and Arms at Bach’s Old Church EXTERIOR OF THE CHURCH N THESE modern days of the new world it is refreshing to feel that one of the most powerful of individuals living is strong in the belief that it is good for the soul of man to go regularly to church. It is insisted on by the kaiser of Germany that each man in his great army shall appear once a month at a kirche. In compliance, therefore, with this order the men usually go in body and special times are set apart for respective regiments, or parts l of regiments, when appropriate services are held for them in the most important churches of their stations. There is perhaps no one of these serv- ices more interesting than that which in the old Thomaskirche at world famous through its identi- R R R I s o a takes place Leipsie, OME of the Boston boys have formed an Edward Everett Hale base ball club. They wanted uni- forms and got up a raffle to raise “the price They asked Dr. Hala to take 50 cents’ worth of tickets. He wrote back: “I do not like to subscribe to what seems to me a lottery, but I inclose $5 for the uniforms. I am much pleased that you formed the club and that you gave it my name.’ Thomas Brackett Reed, who is happier now in the peaceful practice of law than he was as speaker cf the house, has a vast number of car oons dealing with himself but is particularly fond of one which he has hanging conspicuously in his library It was the first ever printed in which his face and figure were portrayed. It ap- pecared in Harper's Weekly some time in the '70s, when he was a young man. Of it he says: ‘““When that cartoon appeared I felt that I had ‘arrived,” not at the summit of political succcss, of course, but that I had at least reached the top of a foothill."” Prof. J. B. Smith, siate entomologist of New Jersey, has a fine grove of fruit trees in the grounds of his home in New Bruns- wick. With the view of preserving them from caterpillars he doused them with a new insecticide. The other morning early he saw some boys in one of his apple trees i and was horrified at the thought that the lads might be poisoned. He turned in a pclice ambulance call and then rushed into : the garden, half dre d as he was, catching the boys before they could get away. To his great relief, he found that they had not eaten any and was glad to let them scurry away just as the ambulance dashed up Someone was telling St. Clair McKelway of Brooklyn that certain men should be nominated for office because the people wanted them.” McKelway asked “How do you know the people want them?"’ and not getting a satisfactory answer, told this story: When Tilden was governor of New York and was looming up as a presidential candidate Henry Watterson visited him sev- eral times, and after each visit would wrle or say a great deal about the sage of Gram- mercy Park. One day Daniel Manning re- menstrated with the governor about talking $0 much to a newspaper man Mr. Tilden, that close and intimacy with Watterson some of our plans leaking out sald Governor Tilden eye, “maybe Henry I am afraid acquaintance result in “‘Danlel with a twinkle in his with yvour may I8 more intimate WHERE THE MOTETTA IS SUNG. fication with Johann-Sebastian Bach. This ancient church, a good example of early Gothic, is very spacious and of an austere, uncompromising character. It shelters at the 10 o'clock service held on the first Sunday of every month something over 2,000 men This means naturally that the galleries and seats are occupied wholly by belted and sworded defendants of the land. That a woman should go to this service is an almost unheard of event, unless per- haps an officer high enough in rank to pur- sue his own will should choose to let a sweetheart or even a sister share with him his chief seat in the synagogue. Only a short time ago, however, two American women, with no other backing than a sil- ver plece and a smile for a good-natured A GERMAN REGIMENT GOING TO SERVICE IN BACH'S OLD guard, were permitted to take seats in a In the history of music as well as arms secluded corner and remain throughout the Thomaskirche holde an important the impressive service. The filing of the place. It was here that for many years men in and out of the church, the system Johann-Sebastian Bach played the organ. and silence with which they sought their Here also he instituted the motetta, the places, were sights interesting to see, what seemed more overpowering than any but blending of voices in song without Imlru-, mental aid. And here still every Saturday other feature of the service was the at 1 o’clock the motetta Is rendered In heavy, harmonious noise made by the commemoration of the great composer. swords whenever this large body of men On these days about thirty of the finest arose from their seats. It was like the voices in Germany can be listened to with- roar of distant, disturbed thunder. The out entrance fee or demand of any sort many strgng voices raised in simple, tune- Among them all a young voice soare ful hymns and accompanied by wind in- higher than that of any other boy's In the struments created also an impression long Happily, not seen the camera under the arm of one of to be remembe.ed. the women. Further than panying pictures speak louder than words this world, excepting always the ‘“‘pope's angel” the guard had in Rome. Alway the Thomaskirche Is crowded with the simple folk of Leipsic the accom- and the outlying country, eager to hear the motetta. Housewives leave thelr du- People in the Limelight of Publicity me than I am with him.’ The pcliticians who heard Mr. McKelway's story looked thougkt ul for a time and then changed the subject. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bris tow stands six feet four inches in his stock- ings, but when seated shows little or no in- dication of his great stature. The other day a country postmaster called to pay his respects and found Mr. Bristow seated in a low office chair with his long legs stowed out of sight. The rural visitor, a little fellow, s'epped up to the desk with out- tched hand and Mr. Bristow proceeded to untangle himself. He is very deliberate in his movements and as he slowly raised stre LAWYERS AND REAL OF THAT TOWN ESTATE MEN Photo by M oF ain himself to his feet the ruralite dropped his “Goed Lord, hand and gasped: going to stop getting up?"” hit on an expedient to quiet the exuber is he never ance of Mark Twain's humor. He accord- Ingly borrowed the yacht's megaphone which he concealed under the table at hia The one man Mark Twain has stopped elbow. The next time the funny man ut- having fun with is Colonel A. G. Paine, re- tercd the familiar warwhoop *‘Louder’ the lates the New Yorker. Mark, Colonel colonel drew the megaphone from its hid- Paine, Thomas Brackett Reed and others Ing place and yelled his reply into it with were members of a merry party on board such force and effectiveness that the joker Henry H. Rogers' yacht not long since Wwas nearly knocked out of his chair and In the arrangement of seats at the tablc through the boat's side Mark threw up Mark Twain found himself opposite Colonel his hands and cried quits He promisead Paine It struck him as play deaf whenever the colonel was talking and to demand tion. Finally, of the cry, “Louder, louder, more trumy Nebh being etlike wearying of the repetition Colonel Palne ALBION WHO PLAYED BALL FOR Al blon he would not be funny again on the trip at funny to at least, Paine not the expense of Colonel enuncia- —_—— sions lately On several oc Conan Doyle THE H ENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY CHURCH. ties, merchants their affairs and children their play at the first stroke of the bell announcing the hour. Nowhere else in the world, perhaps, can prosalc-looking an audience be scen listening to such severely 80 classic music. Alongeide of the church is pointed out to the stranger an old, quaint house, In the fifth floor of which Bach made his home and conceive his almost d the greater number of superhuman compositions. His windows can be seen in the accompanying photograph Such, indeed, are few of the opportuni ties and sentiments that enter into the lives of the 1,500 American now studying music girls and in Leipsic men while walking in London, has been mistaken for Lord Kitchener, much to the author's embarrassment. Once he was nearly molb d by a yelling crowd of enthusiasts, who cheered madly for ‘“‘the ‘ero of south Hafrica.” By the way, It has seld -m fallen to the lot of man reach afucnce in literary career so early in life as has been the ¢ with Sir Conan. 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