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Ip THE BEETHOVEN'S FEST Celebration of the Society's Twenty-Kith Anniversary f M^NDEPENDENCE DAY JOINTLY. Vliitlog8lo{ioe SoclottoM Wolcomml try the Major and the Audlenco Hoar Eloquent AddreMe* bjr Metux Pollack, Campbell and Ullcrt?A Memorable Occasion. The celebration yesterday of the twenty-tilth annivoriary of the organization of tbo Beethoven Sinjrinir Society waa a floe success, and the addrcasea wore especially croditablo to the occa ion. Tho celebration and feat on the Stato Fair grounds waa preceded by a parade, in which tbe Beethoven, Druids' Maonnorchor and HarmonioMaonnorchor, of Allegheny, tho Bloom* field Liodortafel, of I'ittaburgh, tho Maonnorchor, of Martin's Ferry, and other locietioi took part, with Mooter's * " - ?>-! ?.? i .1 -r til.. R., Dana ana uxo jjruius uauu, u> a.ioft ; gheny. ilonry #Ploch wu chiof mar half with tho aidoi whoso natuos were printed yosternay. Tho Eintracht society, of Pittsburgh, did not arrivo until |&- aftor tho parade. The route already described was zono |v over promptly. Tho procoaa'ion was of I good size, and brilliant oppoarance, the Hags and banners boing unusually nurnF ' eroui and aotno of them strikingly i? . beautiful. Tho orators, city ollicinls J and distinguished guests occupied tho 8r'.' carriagos. Arrived at tho 8tato Fair grounds, a roomy epoakora' stand was found in tho sbado of the orchard. It was tastefully I decked with tho national colors, and on ?.<. it were n portrait of Itoothoven, banners and other decorationi. Conspicuous J among theso was a beautiful parian bust j of Beethoven on a fine pedestal of black marble, afterwards given to tho Hociety on behalf of tho ladies, and a p; lyro surrounded by a wreath, a gift from Mrs. ilartmnn. who also supplied all the guests with ueat boutonniercs. Tho mooting was dolayea somewhat I to await tho arrival of tho Eintracht IT aocioty. In tho meantimo Moister's band outertained tho aisomblago with I, music. Till: ELOQUENT \Dl>ItE^SEH Of Mr. Pollack, Mayor Caldwell and Uir. WilHum Ulfort. When tho mooting was called to or*? V dor, Moistor'a band played beautifully 'The Star-Spanglod Bantior," and thon 'V* tho chairman, Hon. Augustus Pollack, (; formally oponod tho oxcrcicos. Ho B- eaid: Appropriate to an occasion liko this, 5 on which this asaotnblagu will bo favorwith tli,i inLornHtiriL'nnd meritorious ? . hiatorv anil progress of iho Booihovon i Society by the eminent orators of tlio v;. day, I may bo permitted to divert your ? attention to the Gorman's lovn of liberty, of country, of homo and mitdic. Toj J day Gorman Americans oxtol in language and music our institutions of freedom and tbo dignity of Amorican :citizonahip, almost unconscious of tho > > eddies into which Amorican prosperity * baa drifted. They aro indobtod to tboir economic pre-education in tho fatherland for ttioir couaervatism, and to sontify-' raont and idealism in their native charnctor for the buoyancy which almost de?lies adversity, and if tboso traits are Dually absorbed by tho formation of tho race charactor of tho American poov :* pie tho responsibilities and intimacies of donsor population and ;.ts affection and devotion for the institutions of our country will be moat happily conserved. ' Celebrating to-day tho indopendonco of noarly sevonty millions of people, of a nation still youthful, concluding a century of stupendous dovolopment, in possession of unsurpassed natural re Hourcos and climate and the best government over dovised by man, our country has, after a period of uuparallelled national prosperity, through over oxortions of industrial aud Uuaucial onorgies of tho past, a generMtiou'a frugality, doaocration* and mutations of tho economic system of tho present, yieldod to a qullon ronrcsaiou of its normal activity. [Applause.] If in viow of past acbiovemonts and future possibility of our country, tho gloomy lessons taught by tho prevailing conditions are taken to heart by tho ^ people, then tho dawn of hotter days =?* ?ill nrnnUim it hrnndnr nniriotic con L coption ot American iastitutiona and BE. Amorican citizenship. It must proBp claim a higher respectability of public men ami'a moro tranquil reciprocity of B*' capital und labor aa the national sccuriU ty of enduring prosperity, good govornluont and peace, as it will also continue to proclaim the beautiful starry 11a? of our country tho symbol of liberty, juhtico and honor, und the emblem of |v rational civilization. Iudobtod to your pationt attention, pormit me the piouaure to exprcaa the liopo that tho dawn of bottor days may be aa oncouraging as the promised success of thiu celebration?and tho honor, ladiea and gentlotnon, to presout to you tho chief magistrate of tho city of , . Wheeling, who distinguishes this occasion by hiti prosqnee and tho graces of ( municipal hospitality. MAYOIt CAI.DWKI.L's ADDRESS OF WJ'LCOMU. Mayor Cnldwoll was recoived with applause. lie apoko as follows: mil Chairman-, memiier* ok tup. B?:utiiovkv Society ami our visitingUL'ESTS, i.AMKS AND GENTLP.M UN JtauouiH to be my duty und I assure you it is to mo a pleasant duty to i;ivo you a briof address. Fourth of July, independence day, tho day we celebrate, a day door "to every American, whether nativo, or by adoption?what can bo aaid on an occasion lilt" this that has not already been said? Who can add additional glorioa to this day? Who can givo additional luater to tho name) of the men that gavo to ua the greatest atato paper that lliu world has over aeon? Tho anB\vor is, no one. Thon what can wo Jo? Why, wo can toll tho R a mo old, old story, that from ttio Fourth day of July nevontoon hundred and aovonty-six to tho prcaont Fourth has boon tho thomo of speakers in nil itio walka of life. At cvory school house, 011 every lull top and in every valley it has boon glorified and its praises have boon sung. Tho music of that tho old Contonnial Uoll sent out 011 that memorable day ono hundred and j eighteen yoara ar*o hag kept up ita echo, and you hear it coming ovor tho moun- | tains, down tho vallflya and ovor tho plains. Westward "hai takon its j ilight, until it has reached every ham-1 Jut throughout our land; on it noon | through tho mountain.", down tho groat 1 I'acilic alopoa, and still its ochooa are I not chocked, but out over tho groat j I'acilic its awcet aounda can bo hoard floating around tho islands of Hawaii, uud witu tli0^0 Hounds cau bo eeeu j i I ' ' old Glory, the fUn aad stripes. emblem of oar strength, liberty and protection f of bsmju ritfbta. LOWO MAT SOI WAVK." What could be more appropriate than to tee these great organitations usembled here, with the people, doing honor to oar national holiday, and I congratulate the Beethoven Society upon having this day at their birthday. It was certainly a happy thought and will always lend strength to yoar anniversaries. Speaking of Americans, whether native born or Araoriesna by adoptioo, | onr fathers, who gave ns the declara| tion of independenco, and later the conj stitutlon, which was tho out-grosrtn of | tho declaration, in that greatest of all I constitutions, were justly mindful of tho people who had and who would cast I their fortunes with us. and wo read that ! in tho first amendment to nor constitution, congress was prohibited from I interfering in any manner, with your roligioasfaith. Mahotnmedan,Christian and the Jew are equally protected in I their faith, and can worship under I their own vino and fig tree, and no ono to make thorn afraid, for | they aro undor tho protection of that flag, and wo road it in tho very first articles of tho constitution, showing that I these groat men, who framed this great papor, and through whose veins flowed tho best blood of Kngland, wero not unmindful of their obligation nod their dutioi to TUB OPPRESSED OF ALL NATI0X8. Honce thoy say that a poraon that has reachod tho age of twontv-flvo yoars, and boon a reiident of tho United Statos Savon yoars, can bo u member of Con gresa, and ho can bo a senator if ho has been a resident nino yoara and has attained tho ago of thirty years, and hi* children aro eligiblo to occupy the white honne. The wildcat visions of our fathera, who gave us this declaration, and tho wildcat hopos oi tho framora of our constitution, could not havo contomplatod , tfio inasniticont rosulta of their daring and their patriotism. Well may wo all ' rejoice and bo glnd in roviowing our country's history for tho last ono hundred years. A bonefleont Providenco has atnileiT j upon our ollorts in tho yoar* that have , pasaod. Clouds havo Homotirnoi overflhadowod tho son of our peaco and , prosperity, but thoso havo boon but , momentary and havo soon rollod by, , and to-dav wo can point with pride to , our nrogrcsa an u nation as beioir un- , paralleled in the history of tho world. Tho mayor snoko of tbo stimulus to | tho beat clasa of immigration by Anjori- j can liberty, and referred to the cosmopolitan character of the pioneer popu- J lation, of tho hardships and tho suffering , that was tho prico of froadom. Then, t continuing, ho said: "Wo who this day onjoy tho fruits of our ancestor*' labors, know but , littlo of their Buffering. Now ; thoy aro gono; thoy rent from tlioir ( labors, and thoir works do follow thom. Look at our DBCLABATIOK OP INDEPENDENCE which proclaiinod tho principlos ot lib* ' erty and human rights; in it thero was 1 tho matorial for a platform so broad j that all tho nations of the world could | concentrate for tho good of mankind, | and strong enough to resist any human ( powers that could bo brought against, , iL ; As I look over this audionco I see nil , nn/l nil A ninriiMl n*_ If PII tof 111 ' to their Creator, and owing nilegiuuce to , but ono ling, and that one our Star , Spangled lianuor. , And now, my friends, can wo do I091 ( than our (rroat country hn9 done for , over ono hundred yearn? Sbo ban sent , out invitations to ail nations to como, j and they have come by tho thousand# ! ovory yoar. Sho has received them and , they have liked tho place ao well that ( they have come to stay. Can wo not do the same with our visitors? Wo uro . needing moro population, for that moaus power, strength and wealth. , And now, to our visiting friends and thoso sociotios that have mot with us to- j day, to celobrato and porpetuato thoso , great ovonta, 011 behalf of tho city of , \V hooting, I oxtond to you a cordial grooting. Accopttho froodom of our city, and tho hospitalities that West Virgin- , ians know ho well how tooxtond,and this ! is especially true as to our GormanAmoricans. Wo trust that if you do go away, you will rotnoinbor this day with , ploasuro, and in tho futuro, when looking for a plnco to have a good time, you will Rive Whoeliog a favorablo consid orauon. l'ho mayor's addross was grooted with load and repeatod applause. MIL ULPKRT'S ADDRESS. I The Beothoven fcyinsinjr Society sang an appropriate chorue, after which itev. William Ulfort was preaeutod by Mr. ( Follack, who said: "It is my (ioliehtfal privilege to prosont a gentlotnan associated with tho elevation of Gorman-American progress and its bent influences, and as endeared to tho community by theroGnod rationalism of his mission as ho is distinguished by inspiring oloquonce, who will honor "this occasion by an address in tho languaco of tho fntliorland. tho country to which tho world is indobted for tho'immortal Beothoven. "Ladiea aud gontlomen, I havo tho ploasnro to introduce Iter. William Ulfort, of this city." Mr. Ulfort was roccived with applauso. ITo made an eloquent addross in (Jorman, devoting some time to a skotch of I the history of tho Beothoven society, and roferouccsof aploasant charactor to | its personol, wlion it was founded .a quarter of a century ago, and now. JIo was frequently interrupted by applause, aud enthused his henrors with it is references to tho Vntorland.as well as with his patriotic roinnrka on Amorica, its freedom and institutions, and the part Germans had taken in making tho .country what it is to-day. Mr. Ulfert gave in his address a history of tho origin and development of tho Beothoven singing society, tho main reason of its beginning being tho colebrntion of tho Fourth of July, 1-SCi). Aftor heavy and long strugglos it bocamo a factor in tho German world of this countrv, especially of this city, by honoring tho Gorman song, German custom and Gorman institutions, ononing tho path to liberal thoughts and doings. It participated in all tho sacngurfeats siuco 1870nnd demonstrates undor I what high obltgatious tho Gorman sing[ er ia in this country by koeping to tho I Gorman song. It is a sacred duty of culturo and civilization to fulfill, and | tho Beothoven kopt its promise?. Jte inemberH clung to their fatherland, but I thoy tried to use German intolligonco and industry, Gorman steadiness and tenacity for the bondit of thoir now home anil thoy succeeded. Twonty-fivo years arc pu'*od, coiniuenced in iionor, tlnishedin honor, and if tho star, whose ( litterins enlightened tlio path of the socioty till to-day, will bo tlio cuido of the futuro time," tlio members can colehrato their tlftioth annivoraary with the consciousness to havo lived not in vniu. At the conclusion of his address Itov. Mr. L'lfert conuratulatod tho coleh rati lis society on its aniversary, wishing to stand firm to tho Gorman sons:, to Gorman ideas, to German institutions, re* mcmborinc tho great, glorious fatherland, in order to hecomo nromotors of tho development of tho United states and cold* to the troe welfare of oar be- i loved country. With a hearty welcome < to all na44i9 xod visitors bo coacludod i hi* interesting address. < 1 Hit. CAftlPUBLf/tf ORATION I On Germs* Hmlc amt Hi Influence on | German iilitorf/ At the conclusion of Mr. Ulfert's ad- f dress, Mr. Pollack, with soui- highly J complimentary romarks, introduced , Mr. A. W. Campbell, who was heartily ] greoted by the audionco. Mr. Camp* i bell made a fino address, which was J keenly appreciated. It ia printed below , in fall: ? Next tn the sense of obligation under < which I foal to my Beethoven society frionds who have made iue on., of their guest* on this occasion, comus some- o thing liko a sense of surprise at finding i myself on their platform as one of the 1 e pea ken of the day. 1 realize that by a virtue of this position 1 am expected i not only to say something about tbu s groat master of music for whom thin u society is named, and whom it ia the * programme boro to-day to specially 1 honor, but, further, to add something v from my observations nnd readings and f goneral experience in regard to the a groat theme for which his name is a o synonym not only in his nativo land t but throughout tho world. fl It seemed to me whon I roccivcd this t invitation to be present horu iu this > capacity as 11 aomo misuute unu oitu ? made; as if loinc onu hotter attuned by n nature and bolter lilted by education ?J and practice, (as all this ocea- * lion ropresent*) would havo boon the C proper and indeod the ouly appropriate t sort of person to occupy my position t here to-day. a On former occasioua, wheu honored a by tho Germans of Wheoiing to appear <1 oil their platform? in the role of a ? Bpeaker. I had,comparatively apcaking, y no aonao of embarrassment in accepting i tho invitation, and undertaking to assiinllato myself with tho eapoeia] ob- C jects of the occasion, whatever they v might be, because there was nothing ^ technical or professional to be dibcutsed, ? but simply plain matters relating to tlie * proeent or past of their history, kucIi 3 as were open to ail the world and uu- i lerstood by all nations, and in all t languages, lint now 1 must confess 1 ' Teel a littlo as I did two years ago in r Liorinnny. i then cast about to see if I thoro was any way to learn tho Gorman 1 language in six easy lessons. 1 hud ? road somewhere that thoro was, and 1 u was anxious to got hold of that sort of t liook. iiut I soon found that nil such a book* were what a Gorman would ex- r preaaively designate as "one grand * liumbug," and that thoro was no short J and easy way to learn tho language, e axcept, possibly, to take it in with a i littlo music and' n little beer. <J And so, my friends, when I received " your invitntlou to appoar hero to-day as " duo of your speakers, and began to re- v llect upon what tho acceptance xnight s imply, and that 1 might possibly be ox- v peeled to iknow at least a* much about v music as the average congressional ora- i> tor knows about the tarilU which, I 1 need not say, is next to nothing, 1 con- r fos8 that 1 lelt once more liko casting f' nbout lor a book or a teacher that would s te41 mo all about music and saenser- r iosts in a very few eusv lessons. Hut r [as I rellactod to myself on this einbar- t rasaing aubject) supposing even that I ? could lind such a teacher, might he not, r liter examining my spocial case, dis- t miss mo with tho discouraging remark ? unco mado by tho witty man of Dublin I to the serious mau ot' Glusgow, upon t tho subject of jokus, which was that be- 1' foro a joko can bo proporly and thor- I .mshly got into the mind of a Scotch- t man, a surgicnl operation must first bo " performed upon his skull. 1 fear that I this might have been the first preecrip- a Lion in my case, as rogarda thoaubjoct s Now I can concoive tbnt a man or n t ivoinnu born apou tho banks of tlio ^ Uliitie, or on sonio of tho many nthor jtrcams that softly flow through tin; ]j various beautiful valloys of the* father- o land (such as uro famous in German fi jong and story) or ovon tboao born in h tho wilder and poorer and eparaor por- t tions of Germany (in the lioart of tho li Black Forest if you please) might loarn ii x groat doal about music and song in a q very few oasy lessons, for they are so i; much the natural ondowmontn of thoso / who aro nativotoTeutonic soil; bo much c of an iiiHtinct, aait wore, that tlioy tuke u to it, one might truthfully say, as nat~ c urally as to mother's inilk; or, as tlioy a would say in Munich, as naturally an to r tho foam of the ilof-bcau, which is u [ flguro of spcccli, I am sure, that ox- u presses tho fdoa exactly to uvory truo o son and daughter of Bavaria, if there v aro any such present horo to-day; for c uven beyond the famo of tho music that a makes iho homes and gardons of tho 1 great art centra of South Germany ho i! melodious nijlit and day with sweet s sound*, ranks the faiuo and popularity n of their llof-brau. t 1 Bay that it is conceivablo, after one c has visited Germany and obsorved for i himself how universal is tho apprecia- 1: tion for musie among tho pooplo of all i daises throughout all tho provinces of that great empire, that it is a part of r their inheritance from a music loving i ancestry, for it scorns to ho true, as b writers upon blood peculiarities tell us, that the customs and habits of one v generation become tho instincts of tho s noxt. Thorefore, as compared with a s less musical people, the German dooa a indeed acquiro musical accomplish- \ inonts not only at an curly poriod of t life, hut seemingly without serious in- i tor/oreuco with his regular occupation, r whatever it may bo. He ho mechanic i or iiiurccnui, (iruiu-jaiuiuii mnu ui , tradesman, puasnnt or propriotor, Iio \ easily appreciates ami cultivates music, i I romonibcr how astonished I once was c to eou a Ciormati minister, quo high tip a in tho diplomatic fiorvico of tlio empire, t load Uia khobIs t'roin the dining room to f tho parlor and entertain them ut tho r piano with a dc?;reo of ekill that soetnod i romarkablo for one ot his vary practical n hoarinsand manner of lifo. lint ono p does not need to remain lone " tier- i many or to hso a great deal of it* people r beforo realizing that what I havo al- t ready roforrc'l to id true, namely, that:; t pen*o of music is, us it were, born into f the lifo of that land. t J list how far buck in Gorman history i this physiological or pyscliolosical pe- i culiarity of tho poople, which evor it is, extends, is more than I havo been nhlo j to ascertain with historical exactness, r but it Koos many centuries back. That 1 much iH certain. 1 Imve read that the ? two words sauon and aingon had onco i substantially tho same meaning in (ior* i many. To apeak was to sine ami to ' sine wan to speak. In other words eon- f vorsation was onco carriod on in a sine- \ insr touo. Whatever tho fact may bo it ? ?ii.. . a... .i.? , 1.1 limiuncilll^ 11 I1U UlUU UIU luuaiv.ii ? ?Ktincfc wns abroad in liormnny beforo tlio rnitlor development* of mu*ic as a scionco becatnu Konernl. Thero wua t:i uaio iit thcold itorman cafltlosalonstho Kliino nnd thoJJnnubo mid tlioir tribntario.i in the days whon tlio "Kobbor liftrone" terrorized tlio land nnd pnupori/.od tlio pooplo. .Such history howovor ns thero is of nong in tlio liomca of tlio poflAnntry in the days of tho dark and iniddlo aj:o9 in contained in what in known as tlio ic^ondfl of tlio Volkilicd. Tho Volksloidor wan a wonderful uncollected inndHof popular oonu'B that pnisod from ouu gcuoratiou to uuother, begin iia* perhaps as far back as the eighth jentury, sod thai lived Oct la manu* fcript, and of coarse not in print, but >0 tbe lips and in tho mefijories of tbs >eople, just as the folk-lore stories and laperstitions of all European peoples iave beeo kept alive for centuries in tbo lame way. Tho breaking out of tho Crusades rave a wonderful impetus to song iu /ermany, as it did also to it in ail tho Christian nations that participated in hat movement for the rescno of the Holy bepulehre: a movement the like of rhich was never soon before and iu all >robability novcr will be again; one hat tired the imaginations and real of non, women and children, as no other iveut of history ever did. In tbo time f the Cruaodsra there rose tho Troubalours in franco and tbe Minnesingers n Germany. They gang of the Crusades md the Crusaders?of tho kings and ricces and uoblo knights who went to 'alestine to rescue the tomb of Christ md the holy city of Jerosalein from tl.o xiirlnt fnlinmr* of MofiaOied. TilftV ang also of the many royal and noble .nd lovely woiuen who wore the rives, mother*, sis tor j and sweetlenrts, of theio romantic warrior*, and rho had accompanied them to tlio oint of embarkation on the Adriatic ca, and had made them lilkeu banners if tho Cross, and had uuitod thoir riossings with thoso of tho bishops and ibboti on their sacred mission, and hen had remained behind to recruit et othor warriors for tho sacred cause, ,nd to give the world immortal eximplos of real, and of conotancv and levotion to tho absent ones. Thoso roro tho times of the Minnesingers of termany.of tho Troubadours in France, ho 1'r ova tori in Italy, the bards and larpers in tho British Isles, and the infers of all nations in tho eleventh nd twelfth centurio*. It was a wonlerful ora in tho history of tho world, nd to it wo may trace the lirst great :rowth and spread of song accompanied >y rudo instrumental music. After the orn of tho Minnoslngorfl in iormanj came that of tho moro adaucod and cultured Mcistiwingors. foil have all hoard of tho Richard VY'ngter'd Moistersincor of Nuremberg. It ras thoro tho humble yet the grout Jeistorsinger of the period lives. There , s perhaps not a more interesting chaper in tho wholo history of song m Gor- , nnuy tiinn uini ono which ruvums ? ?? iso of tlio Moistorsinzera, Tlmy appeared on tho scono just as light was ireafcing evorywhoro on tlio Kuropoau uind, and just as tho iuflueneo of tlio uiddle class in Germany was beginning u assert itself against tho heretofore ccopted idea that tbo little feuduliatic lotentates of that misgoverned latfd" " ruro o(l-Bhootfl of divinity, and had n livino right to tho lifo and services and < anting* of tho pooplo. And just liore may roinarlc that tho singing societies , f Germany havo gone rally, and in , tiodern times especially, boon under aoro or loss suspicion as tho adunco guard of liberal idoas. I proumo thoro are pooplo hero prosont /ho are nioro or loss familiar ! pith tho history of tho Liedortafel Sinirue Societies of tho troublosomo days of i>48, and can romoiubor how their as?ir:ifioiiH for German unity, as breathed orth, rather than expronsod, in thoir ongs, woro road betweon tho linos and egarded with L'reat aversion by tho lOtty rulors of tho then potty etatos of liootnpire. Tho history of tho flinging oeieties of that disturbed poriod in nodorn Germany in an important chaper in hor general history. Tho Moistorinzers ol tho Fourteenth century liayod their part iti nwakouing aspiraious in tho Gorman mind for a highor ifo, for more consideration as human loiogs, and tho modern sociotios havo o Homo extent continued this mission. 'Lot mo writo the songs of a nation and care not who makes thoir laws." said notod writor.and certainly tho singing ocietios of Germany havo played a part a educating the-pooplo of that country o inoro rational idoas as to tho true laturo of governmont. Thoro aro throe fcaluros of Gorman ifo that nro apt to impress themaelvos n a sojourner in that country. Tlio irst is that it is a land of peaceful yet iard and unremitting toil; tho next is hat it is a military land, and as such itrgoly given over to what is callod.miltnriim, and tho third is that it is a laud f music, ot song, of flowers and of dancng. This is, from tho standpoint of an imorican observer, a rather strango ombination. If wo could soo thoso feut;ros ono at a time, instead of in daily ombination, we would any that thoy ar'o t varianco with oach other almost to tho (ointof radical inconsistency. How.for nstanco, can acriculturo, eommerconnd aanufacturos lioariah under tho upliftd iron hand of constantly impending rar, with all its ruthloitt conscriptions if tlio young manhood of tho land, mid II its grinding oxactions upon middlo ifo and old ago? And yet tho two do lourisit together in Gormany. But trangor still, porhaps, to some people, ? tho third feature of thoir livo9, viz: ho existence, and not onlv tho oxist ? ?> ^i.. ni'C, UUV UIU UUit "I rui |IIUI?I?I.VU ?. nusic ami song anil ilowor* and daucing, mml in baud, us it wore, with all this uilitniism nud all this toil. Americans are very apt to nsgociato nusic and Bopj: and llowers and dunenu with eiluiniuancy. Wo think of tho o-enlled Latin nations, such us Italy, ip&iu, 1'ortuunl nnd Mexico, and tho trholo brood or Spanish-American tatos, and of their lovo of music and ong and dancing, nnd wo Hay that thoy >ro cllbmiiuto and decadent. Now, rhntover may bo true of thoao couuries, thoro nro no decadent accompani* nents to music and song aud other ocroationi and amusement* iu (JoriKiny. For tho prosent at least sho cau cat on hor rocord in the Frntico*Gurmnn var as au abundant refutation of that don. Sho can furthor rest quite Becuroly m her economic condition as an mnplo iuaranteo against decadanco in tho fuuro. Thoro iu too much toil in tho iolds and in tho whop", and too much 'tigged disciplino ill tho camps to pcrnit physical dogonomcy, and as long is education iu tho schools is compul* ory and universal no mental deelino is 11 "tho least dogroo likolv. Ileneo wo tre bound to regard Germany's lovo for niisie and song and (lowers as simply he accessories of a natural and heulth ul lifo, hor uloa Uointr that u mono aro lot intermingled with the hard and tern realities of existence then indeed a life simply an intolerable grind. b'lnco I recoivcd thin invitation to lio iresont at this eolebration 1 have boiomo somowhat interested in tlio lifo of lim who is, ho to hpeak, your patron mint, tlio great lioethovon, who is to imsic, as has boon said by high authorty, what bhakeapearo if to litorntwe. Litis is certainly an exalted position or any human beintr to occupy, and rhou we onumorate the inspiring array if ureat nainea that liko brilliants of the irat water enrich the musical diadem of ierinania, it is indeed a great doal to ay, for there aro many great masters vlioao namoH inupicnl associations aro >roitd to bear. Possibly tlio great af. liction of deafnoss tnat fell upon this nout romarkable man early in Mid career, and that shut out the loundu of the exquisite syinpholies and harmonic* that ho could lear only in tlm depths of bin ?onl K-lience lio evolved them, umy have joontho blessing in disguiao tliaj made lim iu the estimation of tlio world the trand Moisteraingcr of (iermanv. His jioerapber uupgoats tliia idea when ho says that "that ap within himself hla jrreat pool poured forth hymn after hymti, mighty and profound, revealing to aatonished mankind the immense troubles, the aspiration#, the hope*, as also the triumph! and slories of lore and srmpatny." This is not tho time nor place, nor am I tho person to enter into any detail* as to what he accomplished'for music. Someone Ins said that while Mozart was the Raphael of mnsic in Germany, Beethoven was it* Michael Angolo. I have already quoti-d the comparison to Shakespeare. To l>o compared to two such men, transcend* ant in thoir distinctive spheres, is a*t that need he inscribed in Beethoven's epitaph. Tho measure of his glory is thereby rnado full and coniplote. Whon ono goes back to tho history of music and noun in Germany and other countries and reads of the hutnblo efforts that were made by humble meu of patience and gonius to accomplish an advance in tho art amid so much that was crude and discourairini;, we realize how fortunate was the lot of tho modern masters, such as Beethoven, Mozart, i r- !?? U.K.U MundelaaoUn. and all tho Jong category of moderns, as compared with that of their far back predecessors. The latter could not cross the Jordan aud enter into the promised hind. Thov knew how to produce melody but they could not produce harmonies. Those wore not the days of notes and scales, or of grand pianos and organs. Tlio science of com hi nine aud aggregating the human voice into choirs and choruses, by means of part singing, was not understood. Even those who arrau.'cd the famous Gregorian chants did not understand part singing Such a thing thorefore us a chorus or an opera or an oratorio was unknown, and of course there nover was a saugerfest in Germany in those primitive duys. The tuodorn yastors iiave had the piano, the organ aud the orchestra to inspire und guide their talents, but tho Minnesingers bad only tlio rudest string instruments. To us at this late day it sooms an strange as the story of tlio soaled hook in Kgypt, that with such an ubuudance of tho raw material of music in the hosrts aud on tho lips of the peoplo, and with so many natural leaders who j seemed to be hearing a voice calling on them to broak tho chains that enthralled tho ombryo ecienco of music, that they could not transmuto thoir melody into harmonv, and all becauso they did ' not possess tbe musical characters that j would represent tho capacities of tho : human voice. Tho Healed book in ' Kgypt was speodily road ui soon as the ! famous Kosotta atono (which was the ; key to tho hiroogliphics) was found, and bo" Just ua soou us tho capacities of tiie ' voico could bo givon interpretation nrul ' expression by notes and scales thon it ' was that choruses and all the ovolutions ! of part singing, as tliey aro known to- ' day, wero started on their career of do- ' velopmenL ' TJioro ;? to a cortain extent a kind of ] parallel botwoou the political and social history of Gormauy aud the history of hor musical' dovelopmout. j 'l horo was for a period far back in hor : history an aspiration for unity and for constitutional govorniuent, and whi'.o unification was always coming it never name. In tho eternal order of thing*, , Bismarck and tho old omporor and Von ( Moltko had first to be born. Tho disciplino of lout; deferred liopos had lirat to bo undergone. And so, in the history of inusiu, when, back in tho seventeenth century, John Sabastian Bach appeared in tho world tho science of music was put on its prcsont splendid foundations, and from that time on has grown in perfection like the science of mathomatic*. lie was tho gonius of whom Schuman said that music owes almost as great a dobt to him as any one of the great religions that has arison in tho history of mankind owes to its fouuder. This very imperfect skotch as to what tho world owos to Germany in tbo matter of music would bo still "moro imperfect if I wore to otnit tn refor to the name of tho great composer who mado tho poems o! Gootho laminar as household song to ovory castle and cottago in tho fatherland?tho groat Schubert, who, in his short caroor, achieved tho roputation of boing tho ereatost songwriter thut Gormany over produced. Ho gavo those diamonds of Gootho thoir rare sotting that inakos thom so attractive in his native land. Ho did for the poems of that great mastor what Martin Luther and his associutos did for tho church musicof Germanv, when they popularized tho singing of a high , order of composition among tho common people. Tho vorsns of Goetho and tho hymns of Luthor uro sung whorovor tbo German tonguo is spokon. Tho great musical festivals of Gcr- i mauy to-day romiud one not a littlo of tho history of tho groat fairs of the fain ouci iianeeaiic .uoaguo, m mu iuiuuiu ages, to which representatives of all nations journoyed in order to eco what German art had discovered nt homo and what Gorman commerce had brought from abroad. Hoproiontatives of all nationalities in thoso lattor days make it a point to witnoss the musical 1 festivals of Germany. When I was in tho city of Cologno, in tho month of August, lb'.?2, I foil in with Englishmnit who were on their way to Bayrouth, in j tho kingdom of Bavaria, South Gor- ! many, to bo present at a two weeks' 1 season of Wagnorian opora at that place, for which, if 1 recollect correctly, j they expected to pay as much us five , dollars per seat at oach oniertuinmont 1 of tho musical season. This seemed j liko an extravagant compliment to tho ( genius of Wagner, that people who ( had heard grout artists interpret his , music iu a great musical center liko , Loudon, should journoy all tho way to Bayrouth to hoar it interpreted Mieio ( aftor Wagner's own ideas, by artists on whom ho had laid tho bauds of musical j consecration during his life, or who had direct apostolic succession, so to speak, ] from tho'o whom ho had xjius Hot a>?rt a* interpreters of his compositions. Bayrouth is tho Mecca bf Wagnerian music in Germany, and there ttio pilgrims go to worship at tho shrlno of tho latest of tho great German master*. It is thus that music, liko "tho one touch of naturo" of which tho poet speak?, "inakos all the world ot kin, and bring* men of ovory nationality and : every latigungo together, as on tho day of Pentecost at .foru^dotn, to Imvo their natures touched with sacred lire. It matters little in what language curtain compositions are rendered, tho cllect is tho samo or. tho appreciative listener. Each one interprets for hiin- ' sol.', an in tho scanning of a groat painting or of a great land?cApo scene. All nf ii* havn mail thn utorv (if tlin uimrin,. of that louder Scotch soiij.', Anuio Laurie, by the allied troop* in tho Crimean war, tho night before thoy stormed tho Malukotl' ami Kodun fartilientioiiH. "Kuch heart," wo are told, "reeallod u dillorout uauio, hui all Ham: of Anuio Laurie." 10vary soldier of tho allied hoHt had his own interpretation, hit own ideal, bin own fond association, hut thosong of Anuio Laurie exproisod it all. Tho Amorican song of "Homo, Swoot Iiomo" had become ttio sonir of tho world; tho uong of all men and woinou who listen to it in any part of tho earth. It i?? indeed that one touch of nature ttiat makoH all tho world of kin. To every listener in every land it tells the name story of a homo of Homo kind, "ho it over bo humble," whore there woro food am! aocrert i?ioci?tvi? ? ? , of routh and lunooence. Tbis, my friend*, i* what mosio mean-, the power to awaken an J to a*sinnlate and associate with itself a train ot inoiiioriM, aud to s!i' tho imagination ami the whole human heart; and thin is why the uiolodlt;* of the Yolksleider song's lived for hundreds of year* dimply on the Uvea of tho people in Germany, and why many of t'leui r-tiil Jive in tho tnu*ic of the modem masters albeit tho composers *lw|> ia nameless graves. I fancy ttiat in this matter of appeal to tho imagination thore must bo a wondrolls appeal in thn words and music of tho famous son>j known as tho "Watch on the Khino." Certainly thoro umat have boen somotlung very inspiring in it to tho imagination of him who dosigned the grand Denkmal on theheights of tho Niedorwaid. Beforo he made hi? first sketch 1 luucy ho mutt hsvo absorbed Into his mi ml from tho ' n( Miflt national AOUtf the I UBfJii ntivu ? ..... .. plau of a threat commemorative monument that would fittingly represent to tho world tho Gorman idea of u watch on the Ithlne. lean iinagiuebim listening many times to tho words and music of that song, us sung ovorywiiero by soloiors mini cititous id iiormaay, bofonrhe cot tho grand embodiment of it fixed in his mind, that we soo realized to-day in that colossal llsuro of Germaniu, which, like another majestic Miuorva, seems to hold the h?miuies of tho ?uipiro in her keening. When 1 stood upon tho heights of tbo NeiJorwald and looked upon this Doukmul, and then down into tho tnajestio vulloy beneath, ami then over the grand scope of country across tho noblo river, 1 was lilted with admiration at tbo whole scone, and I thought to myself that it is no wonder that German soldier*, an they tile by this monument, are moved to stop and take otf tiieir huts and give expression to thotr patriotic emotions by ringing cheers for Gormauin and tho beautiful KUinoluud over which site stands guard. iiut y.jt 1 recall auothor sight which is to be aeon from those same heights. Immediately across tho rivor, nestling in a little corner made by a tributary stream that otnpties into tiro Kliiuo at that point there is a littlo town known toull tho world simply as Bingeu on tho Ithinc. A soldier was burn and reared thoro who wont off into a far country of tho East, and entorod iuto a foreign sorvico as a "soldior of tho Leirion," and alter years of absonco and pxpoouro to tho hurdship of war ho iiriully laid down to dio beno-ith tho burning huu of Algiers in Africa. Thoro "was lack of wotnau's nursing and lourth of woman's tuaro," wo uro told, jnd so tito poor soldier of tho Legion as lie lay dying in that foreign land thought of tho homo that had oocoboon (lis at liiiitfou on tho lthino; aud as bis uiind wundorod down to the valley of tho shadow of death ho dictated to u L'ouirade at his side those voraes that liavo boon road and sung all over the world, and that to ovory German imiirrant iu America, or whorovor olso thoy may bo scattered abroad, have a moaning of homo and homo associations such ... ?l,n Wntcli Oil tllft Rllilm 1*1111 uot iiwaken. But, my friondc, timo would fail mo wero 1 to attempt to rocito to you tho asuo-jintions that cluster around the history of music aud eon# in Germany und in our own and uli other luuds. 1 speak of our own country in this connection, because, notwithstanding its nownose an<l its vory practical character, it is novortheloss bocoininir a laud whore music is com in# mora and moro into vogue as a popular recreation. Ouo of tho largost musical gatherings over seen' anywhere was held rocontly in Madison Squaro Gordons, Now York. It coutinued for days and was immeniely patronized. Thoro was chorusos numbering four and five thousand voices. What: a eight an orchestra of ouo hundrod aud lifty pieces, accompanying a chorusos of live thousand voicos, would havo booa to tho Volkslied singors and the Minnesingers of old. They woro tho pioneors of son* who died in tho wildorno<39, all unonscious of tho possibilities of tho future. But who can tell us now, even At this lato day, what are tho possibilities of musical development? One can hardly concoivo of such a thing as & marked advance in musical ocienco, but noithor yet can wo conceive of the world stauding still in music uuy moro thao in othor arts and sciences. Who knows, therefore, but what tho German Dlement in Auiorlcu may illustruto the progress of their blood iioro on a scale correspondent to thoir musical achievements in tho old world, aud who known but what this little city ol Wheeling, on the banks of tho Ohio, may duplicate tho history of the little ?! *? r.l lunn nn tlin nf (Iia Rhine, and givo birth to yet anottior. Beothoven who fihnll tnko up what that great master called tho unliuiehod work, ami carry it forward to tho idoal perfection which ho had in hid wind whua his great carcer terminated. A Phb'AHIKG FI3<VrURI3 Ofttio Colobrallun Which wan nut on tho Progruinmc*. After Mr. Campbell's addrosa, and weal and instrumental muaic, Mr. Pellack sprang a surpriao on tho uasomtriago. lie aroso und said: "It dovoivos on mo to concludo the inaugural ot tho jubileo with tho plea*ml duty of dedicating to the Uoothovoa Sociotv of Wheeling a bust of its grand t ho great ltaethovon, on behalf of tiie ladies of tlio society, nj a momento uf tiiia celebration, and as a manifestation ot iutoreat in its history and sympathy with its euecofisofl. teed not assure tho IV Miovon Socio./ . this assemblage ... tho cliurm mid inspiration of delicate attentions like this, or tho graces of the ladies' presence on all occasions, and yield to the pleasant conviction that this beautiful hustoi Boothovcn niul tiio devotion '>i tho fair donors will so inspire tho futureachievements of the lJoothoven Society an to gratefully vindicate tlio ostein ot thi? ladloa and of our citizond." To this graceful presentation Prosident Henry J'loch, oi tlio Society, responded hrielly, but happily, in Gorman. Tho npi'ot iieaboth aroused great enthusiasm. Alter two more musical selections, according to the programme printed iu t?r lay'a Intlm.usun'cku, tho meotiug udj >urnod and ail dovoted the ro* Ml .....1 ... fl... In.i n....... ?l,l ..1 <>t iiiiTMio lumu uunui-vuriuu amusements furniahod as tlicy profor* red. XitcrtB is inoro catarrh in thin ar.ctiou of tho country than all other Uieeanotf put together, ami until tho last low vi-ara was supposed to bo incurable. For a uroat many yoaradoctora pronounc-Mi it a local dioouso, and prescribed local romcllioH, anil bv constantly failing to euro with local treatment, pronouncod it incurable. bcionco luiH proven catarrh to ho a constitutional dUoaao and thoruforo roquirev coniititutionaltrontrnont. HaU'aCatarrli Cure, manufactured by V. .1. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, In tho only couwtUutional euro on tho market. 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