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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1891-05-20, Page 6r ren lifews4eaatrt 4lOtt i i 81r; ]t .Was a bili/Pegs rola- bee ole} -been Ver- e/ .t h v a>. 4 numbelr of lettere were read on.. bout. ares, and they were regular sohoolgiri. and ^ sch0ollioPe style, Wc`ll.p1odlai.l'a M.4311-1OOi,4$9ll, although the girl is 30 OKI the boy 60 years old. In one of the lettere Mr. Knox saki : "Ni matter What the difference in our ages is, I wish you to come to me as young, spry, ,girlie ► kittenish 1, k to .playful as if I wtab and ere younger." As Mr. Clinton read this Mr. Md1. burn smiled audibly and a lot of school girls who had Dome in Looked shocked, and some of them left court. Miss Livingstone's letters were all very affectionate, full of underscores, and she palled Knox her "widower, poor fellow." Knox told his story with dignity how he met Miss Livingstone and proposed ; gave her $130, which she never returned; how the woman begged him afterwards to drop all thoughts of marriage, telling him she had another beau; she said to wait a while, and rater h. waited a weak he drew out of the case. He was tired. He testified to having been married twice before his Livingstone episode, and the last time in May, 1890, several mon hs after Helen passed out of his life. A sad look passed over Miss Livingstone's face as she gazed on him she had lost and that another had won. Somebody else took the trip to Florida which she swore Knox had promised her. Knox said his correspondence was with a view to getting a wife and he subsequently got one. Ile really needed one to care for his house. "I,wanted to find if she was abome- body," said Knox. Mr. Milburn summed for defend- ant and spoke of boy and girl love as the kind that had existed between the litigants. Everybody looked at the "boy" and ' girl" and smiled. Mr. Milburn scored the fair plain- tiff for abandoning a faithful lover for a rich old man. Mr. Clinton urged the entire pro- priety of parties contemplating matrimony settling all financial arrangements in advance. The jury returned a verdict of $5,000 for the plaintiff after three hours' deliberation. On the first ballot several jurors wanted to give Miss Livingstone the full amount. She would have gotten more if she had wept a few tears ; but she was cold, cheerful and ap- parently happy all through. • A, CANADIAN AN EXAT1ONIST. ease j35k000 umlauE$. A young.lady of Sinleoe, Ont., Miss t Alellte I,ivtngstoue, brought suit last Week in a iiefraloo.lurt against Frank W, Knorr, c;f Pennsylvania, for 420,• QO(1; for breach of promise of marriage. IL seems be proposed to anuex her and then backed out. There was no septimept iu ber appeal for damages begauso the apnexation contract was net Carried out. The complaint specifically charges that Knox proposed marriage to Miss Livingston on ,January 4 or 5, 1889 ; thats,he accepted him, and has ever ait?ce .been ready to ratify the cere- mony with the present of her hand, which abe states she would prefer to donate than to receive damages for. Knox hails from Coudersport, Pa., where he is prominent in legal and political circles. The case was opened to the court immediete,y after the noon adjourn- ment. No difficulty was experienc eel in getting a jury, and after a few remarks Attorney Spencer Clinton opened the case. Miss Livingstone was immediately thereafter called to the stand. She is a rather good'.looking, stylish, ladylike woman, past her first youth, but not far -along in her second. She has a florid complexion and light hair, becomingly arranged. She wore a close -fitting fashionably made erase of dark material, trimned with black velvet, and a low bonnet of the latest spring style, tied under the chin. She wore tan mosquetaire gloves, and spoke with a slight Eng-, lish accept. She possesses a philoso- phical temperament and a sweet voice, well trained by much pructice in church choirs. She made a manifestly good im- pression upon everyone in the room, although she was almost too self.. possessed. The defendant sat beside his attorney, Frank D. Locke, and look•• ed uncomfortable. He has a white beard, bald head and sunken blue eyes. Manifestly Knox has aged since he wooed Miss Liviugetoue at the Tiff house in 1889. Miss Livingstone made a good wit- ness. "I cane to Buffalo from Simcoe to meet Mr. Knox," said she. "Letters had passed which had arranged the meeting. I got to the Tifft house, the meeting place, first. Mr. Knox's train was late, but presently 1 was told it had arrived. My brother-in- law, Mr. Jackson, was with me. Then Mr,. Knox rushed forward and greeted n1A, and we went to dinner. When he got through he came and pressed both my bands, and said he liked me, He spoke of my hands, my figure, my hair, my face, and said anyone could see I had been brought up a a lady. He at once said : 'Let us make this a business matter.' I did not like that idea. He then began to talk of making preparations for our marriage. Ile said harmony was complete. \Ve were both Scotch, both Presby terians, and he said I suited him in every way. He told me of his home, and said he kept three horses and two gardeners at his house in Pennsyl- vania. Heapoke of re carpentering the house and wanted me to help him. That was Jan. 4. We were to meet next day and further arrange our wedding. He told me of bis second marriage, and said he had carried it through just like this one. He said the next year we would go to the seashore and the following year to California. He said he would take me to some new place every year. He wanted me not to go home, but to wed right there at once. He told me he had $35,000 in railroad securities, money in bank, and in every way gave me to understand that beeves a rich man." Said Miss Livingston, continuing : "alle went to the theater to see a' pay called The Wife and the heroine's name was Helen. Mr. Knox said to me, pressing my side: 'That's a nice girl, but not as nice as my Helen.' Next morning he came to the Lay - cocks' at ten o'clock and remained until three in the afternoon. Mr. Knox took my hands afterwards and kissed them. I total him that I was not well and that we had been too precipitate; that I had not slept for thinking of it. I asked him to defer the wedding a few months and he wouldn't hear it, He said his heart was in the marriage and he could not wait. He drew me on bis knee and said he couldn't stand disappointment. IIe took an enyelope from his pocket and said 'there was $130 there for me to begin to buy things with. "I said to him . 'Mr. Knox, you've taken your first mortgage on me.' "hie said : 'I am going to make an American of you.' "I took tbe money and put it in my pocket." Mr. Milburn arose for cross.ex• amination against Helen, or "Nellie," as her lawyer called her. She avow. ed that she was engaged to be marri- ed when she came to Buffalo to meet Knox the first time. The imperilled swain was a Mr. Wallen, of Oil Springs, Ont. "Are you sure you promised to marry Mr. Knox the first time ?" asked Milburn impressively. "Yes, sir, I did," was the deliberate reply. ''And the other suitor ?'' Miss Livingstone said she had *Token that engagement on Sunday, January 6, • after meeting Knox. Wallen was poor, Knox was rich, and she had her eyes open to a good thing.. . "Thee was no affectio in this _"tiifi'x tirritt5gebar' eslktitil Lid lawyer. • ROCK ME TO SLEEP, MOTHER LULLABIES OF THE WORLD. HOW THE LITTLE ONES ARE SUNG TO SLEEP IN ALL LANGUAGES -- SIMILARITY OF THE CRADLE SONGS IN COUNTRIES FAR APART, That- song is cosmopolitan will, I think, be universally admitted, eays Laura Alexandrine Smith in the London Queen that some classes of it are wore so than others we cannot doubt, and amongst those which are acknowledged to be particularly so are the songs tt hich tuothere sing to lull their little ones to rest iu every land beneath the sun. Every country has its mothers and babies, and therefore every country has its cradle songs, and from the nurythinical lines with which the Chinese servant tries to woo the spirit of rest to her 'little yellow faced treasure to the poetical verse of the Italian mother rocking her bambino, there is a thread of eunuection that winds its tender way from ocean to ocean and from continent •to continent. To begin with a country lying at no great distance from our own, what can be prettier than the simple Scotch ditty of "He -ba laliloo," which we are told comes frotn the French "He bas 1 la le loop," but the bug- bear character of this sentence maltee the ggt;.ippture an extremely ilnpr•obable one, 13t•loo, ba•lio, toy wee thing, Oh, Botfly close thy blinkiu' e'e Thy daddy now is far awe, A sailor !addle o'er the sea. The following is of Gaelic ex- traction : Heigh -o, heugh-oh, what'll I do wi' ye, Black's the life that I lead wi' ye. Many o' ye, little to give ye, Haigh -o, hough- ), what'll I do wi' ye Our old familiar, Rye Baby Bunting, Thy father's gone a hunting. Gone to get a rabbit -skin To wrap his Baby Booting in ; and the Hibernian, Hush, baby dear, weep not while, And o'er thee shalt bright treaeuree smile, As did thy royal sires once own In the preen land of Conn and Owen, will bear comparison with the crooning verses of most countries. One or two aro particular:y melodi- ous; amongst these we must quote thio bright lyric which you will hear 111 every hamlet and every vil- liege of song -loving Brittany : Go to sleep you little darling, Go to sleep, dear little Piorrot ; 1'11 sing sweet and low, And rock to and fro, The crib of Pierrot, Whom we all love. Then there is the pretty Italian, Sloop. my baby, sleep my darling, While I hush then with my song ; Sleep until the new sun rises, Sleep in peace the whole night long. and the strangely threatening Dan- ish cradle song, which is the only specimen I have been able to find containing anything of that nature; but then it is only a jest : Sleep, sleep, little mouse 1 L,he. W aztar fathekeni na kit.,:�.a.-�� . ?our mother feeds pigs in the sty, She'll come and slap you when you cry. -A„ spouse`` erose:off tllti hhyt}ti l ,of' the • 01114eee lalling vetee ;. ,here 'fe a aped mail fi4all, Snail,. Rome Out and b±4.(9411 .t)ut uti 'our horuo and then your head; Asa thy momma will give the mueten, Fox thou art doubly, dear to me. Of all the soft motherly ideas incorporated iu song there ere none worn so► a Ellen those of the- 11<ottea• tot, who bends over her baby sing- ing : Why dost thou weep, my child? tvhertfcredost thou weep? flush, darling, calm thee, Aud sleep, my uhitd, and sleep. In Spain you will hear little Jose or Isabellita rocked to the some- what doubtful sedative beginning: The m.ron shines bright, And the snake darts swift and light; I sea five baby bullouke And a calf young and white, Then crew Spain you might find yoursolf in Arabia, where a bucolic tone pervades the cradle song moat ly need : Sleep, my baby, elerp, 5 cepa slumber hale, wee. ly reat till moruink light, My little harmer bey so bright. R ,ck-a-by baby, on the tree -top, which is too familiar to need addi- tional quoting. The Detroit lullaby is : Haab, my baby, sleep my sweet ; Father's trying to sell hie wheat, Haeo, little baby, don't you cry, You'll be an Alderman by and by. Strongly characteristic of the land of the Vittinga is the Nor wegian maternal song : Row, row to Bal tuarock, How many fish are caught in the net? 03e for f .cher and one for mother, Oue for sister and one for brother. Iu Sweden puss is used as an iuduoenioiit to make the children sleep : Hush, Hush, baby mine ; Pussy climbs the big green pine! Mother turns the mill atone, Father to kill the pig bas gone. And this brings us to Germany, not only ono of the principal cradle lands of song, but the land par excellence • of cradle song. In north Germany they have this charming wiengenlied : Sleep, baby, sleep, Thy father guards the sheep, Thy mother shakes the dreamland tree And from it falls sweet dreams for thee ; Sleep, baby, sleep. And another says : Lullaby, sweet baby mine, Mother spins ber thread so fine, Father o'er the bridge has gone, Shoea to buy for Little John. A pathetic incident was.noted by a traveller in Iceland, Ho heard this sad verse sung to a tnotherless babe : Take rue, bear me, ebining moon, Bear me up to the skies : Mother mine, ebe's tatting there, Carding wool so fine. I think I have said enough to show how much similarity there is amongst these lullabies, both in Occident -and Orient. Always the same tender solicitude, the same almost plaintive flashes of merri- ment. The Eastern woman rock- ing her tawny infant in her copper - colored arms; the warr•hearted Southerner, with her rich, full accents, weaving song garlands for her olive -skinned bambino ; the fair-haired English woman croon- ing to her still fairer baby ; the gay -eyed, soft -tongued Irish mother singing her suantr•aighe, her lullaby, to little Mike or stnall Kitty—all appeal to the best aides of human nature, and lends us ears already attuned to these almost angelic melodies, to listen to the songs which make us feel day by day the truth of the line : One touch of Aat,re makes the whole •word kin, WESSEX FOLK. ABSENT-MINDEDNESS IN A PARISH CHOIR. I had quite forgotten the old choir, with their fiddles and bass= - viols," said the home -comer, mus ingly. "Are they still going on the same as of old 1" "Bless the tnan.1" said Christo- pher Twink, the master -thatcher; "why they've been done away with these twenty year. A young tee- totaler plays the organ in church now, and plays it very well ;though 'tis not quite such good music as in old tinges, because the organ is one of them that go with a winch, and the young teetotaler says he can't always throw the proper feeling into the tune without well-nigh working his arms off." "Why did they make the change, then 1" "Well, partly because of fashion, partly because the old nusiciaus got into a sort of scrape. A terri- ble scrape 'twee too—wasn't it, John 1 I shall never forget it— never 1 They Ioet their character as offtoe;s of the church as complete as if they'd never had any character at all." "That was very bad for thein." "Yee." The master -thatcher clear- ed his throat at the bottom, and then st the top, and went on : "It happened on Sunday after Christmas—the last Sunday ever they played in Longpuddle church gallery, as it turned out, though they didn't know it then. 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Stop, Nicholas Puddingcome, the leader with the first fiddle ; there was Timothy Thomas, the bass -viol man; John Biles, the tenor fiddler ; Dan'1 Horuhead, with the strpent; Robert Dowdle, with the clarionet; and Mr. Nicks, with the oboe—all sound and powerful musicians, and strong -winded men—they that blpwed. For that reason they -were very touch in demand Christmas week for little reels and danciug parties; for they could turn a jig or a hornpipe out of hand as well as ever they could turn out a psalm, and perhaps bettor, not to speak ir- reverent. In short, one half-hour they could be playing a Christmas carol in the squire's hall to the ladies and gentlemen, and drinking tay and coffee with 'em as modest as saints ; and the next, at The Tinker's Arnie, blazing away like wild horses with the 'Dashing White Sergeant' to nine couples of dancers and more, and swallowing rum and cider hot as flame. "Well, this Christmas they'd been out to one rattling randy after another every night, and had got next to no sleep at all. Then came the Sunday after Christmas, their fatal day. 'Twas so mortal cold that year that they could hardly sit 'in the gallery ; for though the congregation down in the body of the church had a stove to keep off the frost, -the players in the gallery had nothing at all. So Nicholas said at morning service, when 'twee freezing an inch an hour, 'Please the Lord I won't stand this numbing weather no longer ; this afternoon we'll have something in our ineides to make us warm, if it cost a king's ransom.' "So he brought a gallon of hot brandy and beer, ready mixed, to church with him in the afternoon-, and by keeping the jar well wrap- ped up in Timothy Thomas's bass - viol bag it kept drink ably warm till they wanted it, which was just a thimbleful in the absolution, and another in the creed, and tbe re- mainder at the beginning of the sermon. When they'd had the last pull they felt quite comfortable and warm, and as the sermon went on—most unfortunately for 'eta it was a long one that afternoon— they fell asleep, every man jack of 'erre ; and there they :slept on as sound as rock, "'Twae a very dark afternoon, and by the end of the sermon all you could see of the inside of the church were the parson's two candles alongside of him in the pulpit, and his face behind 'em. The sermon being ended at last, the parson gave out the evening hymn. But no choir set about sounding up the tune, and the people began to turn their heads to learn the reason why, and then Levi Limpet, a boy who sat in the gallery, nudged Timothy and Nicholas, and said, 'Begin ! begin !' "'lley 1 what 1' says Nicholas, starting up ; and the church being so dark and his head so muddled he thought he was at the party they had played at all the night before, and away he went., bow and fiddle, at 'The devil among the Tailors,' the favorite jig of our neighborhood at that time. The rest of the band, being in the same state of mind and nothing doubting, followed their loader with all their strength, accor- ding to custom. They poured out that their tune till the lower bass notes of 'The Devil among the Tailors' made the cobwebs in the roof shiver like ghosts 1 then Nicholas seeing nobody move, shouted out as he scraped (in his usual commanding way at dances when the fold didn't know the figures), 'Top couples cross hands, and when I make the fiddle squeak at the end, every man kiss his partner under tho mistletoe.' The boy Levi was so frightened that he bolted down the gallery stairs and out homeward like light- ning. The parson's hair fairly stood on end when he hoard the Wilettfifeelg E trif tg$'ihs bll\3FA' and thinking the choir had gone stop 1 What's this 1' But they didu't hear 'n for the noise of their own playing, and the more he called the louder they played. "Then the folks cane out of their pews, wondering down to the ground, and saying : 'What do they mean by such wickedness) We shall be consumed like Sodom and Gomorrah 1' • "Then the squire came out of hie pow lined wi' green baize, where lots of lords and ladies visiting at the house were worshipping along with him, and went and stood in front of the gallery, and shook his fist in tho musicians' faces, saying, 'What ! In this reverent edifice ! What 1' "And at last they beard 'n through their playing, and stopped. " 'Never such an Insulting, dis- graeeful thing—never 1' says the hquire, who couldn't rule his pas- sion. "'Dreyer 1' says the parson, who had come down and stood beside him, "'Not if the angels of heaven,' says the squire (he was a wickedish man, the squire vas, -though now for once he happened to be on the Lord's side)—`not if the angels of heaven come down,' he says, 'shall one t.f you villanous players ever sound a note in this churoh again, for the insult to me, and my family, and my visitors, and God Almighty, that you've a perpetrated this after- noon !' "Then the unfortunate church band came to their senses, and re- ulembeied where they were; and 'twee a sight to see Nicholas Pud- diugcowe and Timothy Thomas and John Biles creep down the gallery stairs with their fiddles under their arms, and poor Dau'l Horuhead with his serpent, and Robert Dowdle with his clarionet, all look- ing as little as ninepins ; and out they went. The parson might have forgi'ed 'ern when he learnt the truth o't, but the squire would not. 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