Part 16 (1/2)

The pirates were finally driven from the seas, their boats burned or captured, and their ca cruise as a youthful commander came to an end The honours which were his at a later day were such as co and experience, but from the day when the little midshi+pman stood on the deck of the _Essex_ beside Captain Porter as she sailed down the Delaware river, to the tilory of his title, the first admiral of America, his is the story of aattention to detail, a never ending effort for self-improvement, and a never relaxed adherence to duty

All honour to Midshi+put--the Admiral-to-be!

MOZART:

The Boy Musician

Johannes Chrysosteus Theophilus Mozart--what a burden to be put upon a baby's tiny shoulders!

If there is any truth underlying the belief that a name can in so Mozart, as born in Salzburg in 1756, careatness, for when he was only a day old he received the five-part naismundus

But as soon as he could choose for himself, the little son of Marianne and Leopold Mozart fro, to which he added Amadeus, by which combination he was always known, and the naenius

Almost before he could talk plainly the little felloed hiy, and when he was scarcely three years old he would steal into the roo a lesson on the harpsichord to Anna (or ”Nannerl,” as she was called), the sister five years older than hi would listen and watch with breathless attention

One day when the lesson was over, he begged his father to teach hilancing down into the child's serious face looking so intently into his:

”Wait, my little man, thou art but a baby yet Wait awhile, my Wolferl!”

and the disappointed little musician crept away, but as soon as Nannerl and his father had left the rooain, went to the harpsichord and standing on tiptoe, touched the keys with his chubby fingers stretched wide apart until he reached and played _a perfect chord_! Leopold Mozart was in another part of the house, but his sensitive ear caught the sound, and he rushed back to find his baby on tiptoe before the harpsichord, giving the first hint of his marvellous ability

At once the proud and excited father began to give him lessons, and always, too, fro perched on his father's knee, and listened with rapt absorption, and often when the lesson was over, he would repeat what she had played in exact i

Leopold Mozart, as himself a talented musician, saith pride almost beyond expression, that both of his children inherited his enius When the boy was only four, his father, to test his powers, tried to teach hi played after hi the notes correctly, butthe rhythm with accurate expression, and to learn and play each minuet the little fellow required only half an hour

When he was five years old, one day his father entered the sitting-roo over a table, writing so busily that he did not hear his father enter, or see that he was standing beside hi's chubby little hand held the pen aardly, but held it with firm detere sheet of paper on which he was scribbling a strange collection of hieroglyphics, with here and there a huge blot, testifying to his haste and inexperience in the use of ink

What was he trying to do? His father's curiosity finally overca?” The curly head was raised with an i a concerto for the harpsichord I have nearly finished the first part”

”Let me see it”

”No, please, I have not yet finished”

But even as he spoke, the eager father had taken up the paper and carried it over to where a friend stood, and they looked it over together, exchanging alances at the queer characters on it

Presently Leopold Mozart, after looking carefully at it, said:

”Why it really seems to be composed by rule! But it is so difficult that no one could ever play it”