RECREATION. 



xix 



A MUSICAL TRIUMPH. 



(Recent reports from somewhere in New 

 England state that caterpillars have been 

 killed by the playing of a brass band. Peo- 

 ple who have heard brass bands of the vil- 

 lage variety will have little difficulty in 

 crediting the reports.) 



"Music has charms to soothe the savage 

 breast," 

 At least so we have often heard it said ; 

 And yet for soothing savages out West 

 We always had a preference for lead ; 

 We had a notion, it must be confessed, 

 A savage is most soothing when he's 

 dead; 

 Which same is why we never tried to fill 



him 

 With harmony, but figured how to kill him. 



Yet this does not disprove the adage ; for 

 If we had tried on him a modern chorus 

 We might have saved the shedding of his 

 gore 

 And changed to wholesome dread the 

 hate he bore us. 

 He would have found our music worse 

 than war . 

 And to escape he would have fled before 

 us. 

 By taking thus an opera along 

 We might have had the country for a song. 



"Music has charms." 'Tis wonderful the 

 sway 

 That it has held o'er warriors, bards, and 

 sages. 

 Across the past wc hear it far away, 



Its sweet strains wafted down from dis- 

 tant ages. 

 Yet it has shown a greater power to-day 

 Than has been chronicled in history's 

 pages. 

 The erstwhile charmer now becomes a 



killer 

 And knocks the tar out of the caterpillar. 



The forest waltzed when Orpheus played 

 his lute ; 

 The devils, charmed, forgot their devil- 

 hood. 

 When Pan upon his pipes began to toot, 

 There fell a panic through the fearsome 

 wood. 

 Such skill had the Pied Piper with his flute 



That even tats the music understood. 

 Our players show a magic still more fetch- 

 ing. 

 The worms succumb unto its spell bewitch- 

 ing. 

 J. A. Edgerton in New York Times. 



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 of subscribers, is much better than I ex- 

 pected. C. W. Booth, Lowell, Mich. 



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