W€IRLP'<P , ONE of tho sweetest, k most elevating and & consoling gifts of H Leaven toman is K| music. Who has W not rejoiced at the In —ml children's voices! II // With music the young man woos '^ e ma 'den of his \\ J) choice. With song the bride or young wife expresses her longing for the .ab sent one. Our meetings in the house of God are accompanied by de votional songs. Sad and somber mu sic ascends in the house of mourn ing, and yet, what a relief this music is to sorrowing hearts! With the sound of drum and trumpet and tho clang of the cymbal the soldier plun ges into the smoke and carnage of bat tle, and even the trained horses dance and curvet in time with the music and strain at the reins which restrain ' them and learn the meaning of the \ different bugle calis. Love, anger, sor row, enthusiasm, pain—all the pas-t sions and emotions of the human soul® can be, and are, expressed in mu-i sic i « The progress which has be n made In the composition of music and in the building of musical instruments of every kind is enormous. The primi tive instruments of the ancients and their monotonous music, or the instru ments of barbarous or semi-civilized people and the intolerable noise which they call muti • cannot be compared ■with the exprn.- ive harmony of our music or with tli.• multitude of beau ful and powerful musical instruments and in the execution of musical pieces our age has doubtless advanced furth er than any preceding time. In com position, however, in th>; art of pro ducing musical pieces, the past cen tury undoubtedly had greater masters than thu ] resent. At the opening of the nineteenth century the musical leadership, which Italy had enjoyed for a considerable period, had passed to Germany, and In the twentieth century it appears as if Germany would ulso ioso this exalted position In Its turn, for in the field of art So nation can !ong hold the leadership. Perhaps the industrial and commercial development ol Ger many may be on-' of the causes why the I uiiii IT of it- great composers is decreasing; for tin ugh prosperity is no obstacle to the enjojmeni and cul tivation of art, yet it does not seem to forti a specially favorable soil for the growing masters of thl< noble art. \\ h n the nineteenth century dawned Hach, Hui ndel unit Mozart hud raised German uiusic to a pin nad • oi glory, : ncl Beethoven and fection as today Chamber music has Haydn were at the zenith of their splendid powers, while l„!t,/.t, Weber, Kreutier and Schubert had begun their Immortal cur* ITS. before Hee tbov n died, M< ridel-*ohn, Schumann and \V. niu r h.il been born. This was therefor* a golden nge ol music with an unexampled array of pi-crle >s ma ters and unequalled m.in.nl works. Comparing the present age with that glorious time, we uri- tompt lied to admit that today tie re arc no giant* in urn: icul coinpo-itlou lor the three greatest compo-e.-* of th • pn -i nt l-M --vard Grieg. Anton Uvoi ik and Itlch aid Strauss, tmly the lit -1 named a German, do not reach up to the stand ard of the heroic age. Hut though 'h< rear" today no Ger man composers of commanding ge nius, yet there h ts never been a time when their work - were MI highly en teen | and produced with such per reached the high, st «t:ig of develop ment in Oi t inanv in Kngland ai o musical education bin rein h<l u i :h degr, « uf perfec tion, but I .iiglainl never produi ■ d many coupe i■> and none of com inandltig gi tilu Itlchard Klgar has, bowi \er, sun ili I In meeting with so much approval hat in- i, being rock oin«i among th<- great eotupoier». The majority of ttrlttuti and Irish com posers, howi*Vi«r, are content to ful low In ihe ti ..' ph or G> mian iu«a tors: the later ones, though following their own Ideals, low lo Willi: abroad In the mantle of VVugiie. or lirahtiis. Fiance has for thii • mitiiriei oc ciipb d a prominent place on the mu hli al stags an ! her |/i < m uiustc i Itololdieu, Attbef, 111 I'M Vila 111 anU Chopin offer much that i Interesting am! vihiaMi Vi' it mn( in- mi mttted 'hat hern the ti nd l in y wa < mainly to write for th« opera and for the production ol 11, h» and frlvoli, I niuwic Of a more neiPm ml imble character are the n.odera mu.itcal dramatists Herlloa, Gounod and Mas senet, and it is with pleasure that the lover of music in its higher forms notes the development of a school un der the leadership of Caesar Frank which gives special study to the no bler forms of symphony and to cham ber music, and the dep and earnest compositions of Camllle, Saint-Saens, who has followed German models, are becoming more popular. Saint-Saens, though 71 years old, lately traveled In this country. 1 But if France has in modern times furnished few important contribu tions to musical literature, Italy has done stKl less, though this country produced an unbroken line of great ; co:.]posers from Monteverde in the sixteenth century to Verdi in thfe ! nineteenth. Of the newer Italian com posers, who for the most part wrote only superficial, extravagant and sen ' sual works, only Pietro Mascagnl achieved a genuine success with his beautiful and fiery "Cavallerla Kusti ' cana." Puccini also, the composer of * "Tosca" and "La lioheme," has gained the respect of the music-loving pub ' lie. The newest field of musical compo sition and virtuosity baa be< a opened ' by Scandinavian and Slavic compos t era and virtuo.il This field is, like ■ the now Siberian and Manchurian I wheat fields, producing Immense re > suits. l;oth the Scandinavians and " the Slavs have, gr< ally to their own . advantage, made the folk-song the 1 starting point of their compositions, a ■ full, bubbling, exbnustleaa spring 1 Of the Slav peoples two natlonall ' lies have of late clone great things in I music; the Russians and the Bohemi ans. linth have only In the nineteenth * century begun to wake a reputation t lor themselves. Since Glinka In 1810 > produced muslcnl treasures from the * Russian folk-song, musical taste has * d" veloped In Itus.da and Is now bear * lug abundant fruit. Ilur today even HUSISH rccognUeg, as does the whole world, that the great German master* will remain models for all time to all nations. In Bohemia the greatest repre sentative of the musical art and per haps nifo the gn litest of the later »m|M>ner> Is Anton Dvorak. In his music (hi- national element is even more prominent than In that of the itusslnni, but the iragl< ttielnneholy II which Is <1 oft-n so noticeable In ' 1 in music Is here replaced by live- ly. Ilery melodlei. The liolienilaiis '■ hav«- »|>*-« I tlly Ir< rtweed great violin '• ami piano players. Who does not know tie* nlanlst I'udert wski and the violin 1 l-t Kabellk ' What triumph' they " and other artiste among their coun '• tryinen reaped In America! So that I toduy wie-ii uii at list appears with a 1 Hnh»ml»n inline, this Is almost In li lt roll a tultlrli'iii Introduction and th'-ti 'I It Is WlinderfUl lO h« e, »Kiw . veil \llwr |< ails 1411 sp> II . nd • >eii pronounce >. the must wond*Tlul names. 1 The othei Kurui» an countries, n»i 1 land, Nxlum, Spain, I'oituml and d HftM-ce have full'll lar In Ibe row In 14 ii u. i itiuiili .il. Hwli.erl IH| has I hiodueed several rompoxers of met s it who produced especially some line ■' \l|t 111 led <11" fnllowliiK German mod' * els 1 America has not yet produced a vora il poser ot the Hint rauk, and yet Amer CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1910. lean music is more and more making a way for itself. A good deal of this music, It is true, if> still composed of "Coon Songs" and "liag Time" pieces, and very often an insult to an educat ed musical ear. Hut good music is al so coming to tho front. Ten years ago it was not considered possible in Eu rope that a musical composer could be born in America. American inven tive genius, American machinery, American farming methods, American commerce and trade —thoso were un deniable facts of respectable propor tions, but American music? The day of really great and distinctively American musical composition Is still in the future. American composers have attempted symphony and ora torio. but their works rest on dusty .•helves. As a matter of fact only ono American firm has undertaken to pub lish these works. The rendering of musical composi tions, however, in America also, Is on a very high plane. In instrumental music musicians of the Teutonic and Slavic races j.redominate, though there is no lack of American perform ers nlso. Instrumental music has reached such a high degree of perfec tion that the beginner, striving to reach the pinnacle of fame, finds al most Insuperable difficulties. Thus far American performers seem to be most successful in vocal music. The time whin Italian singers monopolized the field is past. German and Ameri can .'-ingers, male and female have of late gained grout repute In this Held. Orchestral music likewise has reached a hiuh degree of perfection and Is lib erally patronized by all classes of the people, and as might be expected un der the circumstances, the building of musical Instruments of all kinds has here reached a stage of perfection ex cee«|i d nowhere CIM\ Hut In the Held of mimical composition, especially In popular song, thro Is still a wide and virgin Held awaiting cultivation and development. What w<» Americans need and wherein we dlff"r from continental European nations to our dlsadvantago Is tho toclal, school and congregation at cultivation of music. At social gathering* 1,1 young Americans you seldom hear good part singing in which all, or the majority, join Itring Ing a serenade with really good sing ing Is a rare thing. N'ot so In Kurope. Tlx re one can, of an evening, often hear good quartet Minting and will be surprised to learn that tho singers are workliigtm n. Our public schools and acaib ilite, also have not fostered vo cal music as they should have done, (Math ti INN An in this i, ii MI ulur iliiiittH ari< changing for tho hat ter When music shall bo appreciated and understood in the home, school and church, then may we hope to see composers mid gnat artists lu our midst, and v. h.-n we havo them they witl he valued. Rare Friends. People who really like you are rare. If you know anyone who re*||y llkue you, vou are a f>si| If you off. u | th in Atchison () to tie. Water has a way of drowning people who KO Into It without evercUtng the in-i • niry i iti o and pi 'U.tiuioti lu pre vuii accident. LONELIEST ENGLISH DUCHESS —-.a The loneliest and loveliest duchess In all Eng land is our own Consuela Vanaderbllt. Daughter of William K. Vanderbilt, she was only eighteen. J&jaby ' years old when in 1895 she married the Duke of Marlborough. Her splendid fortune was used in » part to pay the debts of the young duke and to wW rehabilitate his mansions and estates and for a time the union was a happy one. King Edward ' \ a was much impressed by the charm of the Amerl \ can elrl an<l her l' osltlon ,n British society was tj^j'f* assured. But the duke failed to appreciate the vj kindness of fortune in giving him so sweet and laccomplishedlaccomplished a wife and placing so many mil / \ lions at his disposal. Ho neglected the duchess y anJ the cou I ,le became estranged, though no m.—•. divorce followed. English society, backed by King Edward, gladly would have shown its sym pathy with the beautiful American and she might have queened It in the most exclusive circles, but, while making no complaint, her grace has pre ferred a life of semi-seclusion, devoting herself largely to philanthropy. Tall, graceful, with a refined beauty which would be noticeable in any gathering and with limitless wealth at her command —with all her natural and worldly endowments the duchess of Marlborough never gives the outside world the appearance of happiness. It may be part of her petite beauty that some faintly traceable expression of sadness should cling to her face; it may be that her face is but the index to her heart. Whichever the case, her grace never suggests to those who see her from time to time that she is happy. She is rarely known to smile. Wearing her $50,000 chinchilla cloak, she has sat through a Platonic lecture unmoved by the playful fancies of a favorite society lecturer; standing at the top of the giant stairs of Sunderland house, she has, in a Paquin gown of silk, received the guests of a charitable gathering—smilingly, it is true, but not in the happy way. The loneliest duchess in Ixindon one might call her —lonely, with all her friends, lonely In that great house of hers, with its fine pictures and tapes tries and wonderfully carved ceilings and innumerable powdered flunkies, lonely with all her diamonds and ropes of pearls and sables and chinchillas. HEADS MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY —————————l President Harry Burns Hutchins of the Uni versity of Michigan, ia sixty-four years of age. He was born in Lisbon, N. H., and prepared him /' self for college at the Conference seminary at Tilton and at the Vermont Conference seminary tjES*. S-) at Newbury. Ljj) 'He entered Wesleyan university at Mlddleton fSJ at the ago of nineteen, but on account of poor W / health was unable to complete the year. Later, \ however, he took up the studies of physiology /I and surgery at Vermont university. In 18G7 his parents having moved to Michigan, he entered Ann Arbor. Here he kept at the head of his °'ass, was its valedictorian and commencement £) , / '}'/ orator, and in 1871 graduated with honors and Jtir / | with the degree of bachelor of philosophy. After his graduation he went to Owosso and was placed in charge of the public schools there. The next year Professor Hutchins returned to the state university at Ann Arbor and was made instructor in rhetoric and history, being advanced to the position of assistant professor the following year. He continued in this capacity for over three years, when he entered the legal profession, and in partnership with his father-in law was in active practise for several years, when he again became con nected with the university as professor of law. He afterward went to Ithaca and organized a department of law in Cornell. Michigan got him back again in 1875, he was made dean of the department in which he had previ ously been instructor, and during the years when President Angell was absent as minister to Turkey he was the acting president of the university. For a dozen years he has been dean of the law department and has made a record as an advocate of more dignity in undergraduate life, keeping the scholastitc requirements in the department always- at the highest stand ards. The regents of the university feel that in President Hutchins they have a mail who combines both a high degree of scholarship and a genius for administration, qualities very necessary in this important position. PEARSONS WOULD DIE POOR "1 D. K. Pearsons, the Chicago philanthropist, w h° has given six million dollars to small col x" 'X leges, expects to give away the rest of his money / t ' , ' s y° nr a "d tw retire 'nto a sanitarium to await / 'fb/ , \( the cn, l of tt very long life. Dr. Pearsons is over WMm\\ V ninety years old and afflicted with rheumatism. will sell his home and spend the balance of his days in the sanitarium. He praises his own ' \ wisdom in disposing of his wealth before his A k i r death, and says he knows where It has gone and , ijw ' y'lßjkd;? has pi < vented any contest after he Is gone. v-c- *\'\ April 14, his next birthday anniversary, Dr. 4 (1 I Pearsons plana to make his last bequests to his ■ collegi . which will b.' the Inst of hi ; fortune. (m,ii He will then rest content waiting for the end. ' Hh Tr-.r " "A man Is his own best executor," said I»r. Pearsons, "and I intend to be mtue. I will sell my home and use the money to pay my debts." Dr. Pearsons always speaks of his conditional pledges as his "debts." "I will make no more presents until my next birthday," he said. "Then I will dispose of everything." All is In readiness at the Pearsons home for a new tenant. Thomas, the Pearsons butler and general factotum, has been packing things for sev eral weeks. "As sunn as the house is sold 1 shall goto the sanitarium," said he."and prepare for the tlnal distribution. For twenty-four years I havo lived In the old mansion. Twenty-one of the yeass I have been giving I have given something like $C,000,000 to twenty nine colleges and Institutions In twenty four states. My debts, yes, that Is what I call them. You see, I have prom ised llerea college 112 100,000 If $400,000 additional Is raised. "That 1b one debt 1 must meet April 11. Th»'ii there are other conditional d'-bts that 1 must meet. You know. I investigate every college or Institution I aid. an■ I us I am getting pretty well along in years I think I would rather get riil of everything right away. "When my house Is sold and my debts met I shall have been my own executor and shall lia\e closed the estate entirely. THE FOUNDER OF ESPERANTO" - 1 Considerable Interest was manifested !u the x' sixth International congress of Ksperunto, tint / uulverssl language, which convened In Wnshlng /, tun i«Hontly and was In session a week. The fj _ • i delegates numbered s»«t, coming from 4o nations, , t ■ i#', 1 " 5-> and among them was |)r. 1,. L. SSaiuenhuf of I*4"t|*| Warsaw, Poland, the author of thu new language, v, whose portrait Is here presented. ' V some "112 the meeting* thu only language vtir,, poken wa . i: tieranto and the play "As You I.lke 112 fflA ,l W!,s > ,r< ''"ted I«I that tongue. ' ylv'jiu yJH i: i«rauto Is satii In l»' tusking considerable A* progre-i i In tile I'ulted Stales it ml has be<«n taken up In scientists, llimuir' . teachers, public iu.-n ' i/jt \ f] ' 112 M.inl.tn ll« i lature "<l a law permitting tb> stmly of Kkpersnto In the publle sehtail.» At lh«> eongret i In Washington the teaching of INpersnto In the publle schools of this eouiitry anl In eili«-r Isndt was itlscusnetl and ndvoeated. K l 'iuiit" 11 not Intended to su|ter*t"le auv other tongue, but Is meant to be supplementary to qfher Isngu i 4« . aiding tn promoting an lnti irh«ng<* Ml ileitis lit' l n euti the piXJ|>leS of dlßer-'lit e«>utitrle» where other forms ol t ,VKI S;I •' It are lacking. It Is elalmed tor It th u Its adoption »t>uld tend to btr-d u.iltiui lucre j' ti getlo r md to tl'i •>1 the doubt ami mistrust with *Mrh races now regard t«t.« mietbui Your Liver is Clogged up Thafa Why Yon'r* Tired—Out «r Sorts—Htr* No CARTER'S LITTLT^fI^tX. LIVER PILLS r". es^* 1 Ami *23£ jHßrXni* Oire /HH , ■ PILLS. * Ccvtipjt- W« ObhJl tonne**, Indigestion, aad Sick Headack*, SMALL PILL SMALL DOSE. SHALL FBICI Genuine mwtbeu Signaturo A BROAD HINT. Jim—l suppose you love togo sleigh ing because of the melody of the Jin gling sleigh bells. Jess —Yes, and they often lead up to the wedding bells. That's the best of It KEEP BABY'S SKIN CLEAR Few parents realize how many es timable lives have been embittered and social and business success pre vented by serious skin affections which so often result from the neglect of minor eruptions in Infancy and childhood. With but a little care and the use of the proper emollients, baby's skin and hair may be preserved, purl fled and beautified, minor eruptions prevented from bocoming chronic and torturing, disfiguring rashes, itchings. Irritations and chaflngs dispelled. To this end, nothing is so pure, eo sweet, so speedily effective as the con stant use of Cuticura Soap, assisted, when necessary, by Cuticura OintmenL Send to Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., sole proprietors, Boston, for their free 32-page Cuticura Book, telling all about the care and treatment of the skin. On Some Ministers. The worst o' these here shepherds is, my boy, that they reg'larly turns the heads of all the young ladles about here. Lord bless their little hearty they think it's all right, and don't know no better; but they're the wictims o' gammon, Samivel, they're the wictims o' gammon. Nothin' else, and wot aggragates mo, Samivel, is to seo 'em awastin' all their time and labor in making clothes for copper-col ored people as don't want "em and taking no notice of flesh-colored Chris tians as do. If I'd my way, Samivel, I'd just stick some o' these here lazy shepherds behind a heavy wheel-bar row, and run 'em up and down a 14- lnch plank all day. That 'ud shake the nonsense out of 'em. If anythln" vould. —Mr. Weller, Quoted by Charles Dickens. Mrs. Wlggln's Idea of London. During the recent visit of Mrs. Wig gin, the American author, la London, an interviewer called on her. With pencil poised, tho Interviewer asked: "And what do you think of London, Mrs. Wlßgin?" "You remind me," answered the au thor cheerfully, "of tho young lady who sat beside Dr. Gibbon at dinner. She turned to him after the soup. " "Do, dear I>r. Gibbon,' sho Raid, 'tell me about the declino and fall of the Kotnun empire.'" There Is In every man's heart, as la a dfsk, a secret drawer; the only thing Is to find tho spring aud opea It. — Anon. Right food is a basis For right living. "There's only one disease," Says an eminent writer — " Wrong living "And but one cure — "Right living." 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