| Show PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT I 1 5 AN AMERICAN COMPOSER HONORED fine work and original has been done by ed ward macdowell and but for his sad mental and physical collapse still greater would have been ac con the newly formed mcdowell club of new york Is a tribute to the artist and to the man for macdowell s was a personality to at tract and hold it Is oftener appreciation is shown after a man is dead and gone but mr macdowell a form of illness means that for him all work is over his career as composer ended it is doubly sad n that the musician Is so tar as years are concerned just in his prime ed ward alexander mcdowell was born in 1861 in new york city he had two seasons of study abroad in pans three years and in germany frankfort on main two years for three years he taught at the darmstadt conservatory from darmstadt he changed to wiesbaden and next took up residence in boston on his return to america he became much in te rested fn the idea of a school of mus distinctly american letting hemsell loose from conservative old world influences his best musical worl was done here most of it i i the log studio on his farm in petersburg new hamp shire macdow 11 was as much poet as musician and to interpret nature had to live with natu e among the most admirable of his compositions are woodland sketches to the sea forest idylls his compositions m elude concertos concer tas sonatas symphonies songs and pianoforte pieces his in dian suite is constructed on themes taken from the music of the sioux in deans his worl is represent ath e of the modern romantic school in the united states mr macdowell was vry happy in h s married life his wife also a clan marian the dark da s of his pass ng are shielded by her de FEDERAL commissioner OF dr harr s successor elmer ellsworth brown is quite a young man 45 deais of age since 1898 dr brown has been at the head of the depart ment of the theory and practice of education at the university of california since h s graduation from the illinois state normal university in 1881 he has been much in te rested in educational matters both in this coun try and abroad dr brown has had verv careful training in the profession of teach ng and today it is a profession and has contributed no little to literature dealing w th the art of teaching upon graduation from the normal school he gathered practical experience in the public schools at belvidere illinois and later served as assistant state secretary of the Y M A in illinois then he studied for awhile at the un hersity of michi gan this study followed by work at the german universities he receded the degier 0 ph D from the university of halle wittenberg from 1890 91 mr brown served as principal of a high school at jackson michigan leaving this position to take that of as distant acting professor of the science and art of teaching at the university of california 1899 3 and the following year enjoying a full professorship in addition to various addresses and articles in reviews dr brown is author of the mak ng of our middle schools and origin of american state universities in the university of california studies he wrote notes on childre i s drawings prepared for the pans exposition one is a series of mon on education in the united states a paper entitled secondary aduca tion he was member of the international congress of arts and sciences at the st louis exposition last year became pres dent of the national council of education THE NEXT RULER OF SERVIA servia appears pretty tired of king peter and not very enthusiastic as a nation about king peters sons ahe country doubtless will not put them out of the way by assassination for it has learned the world does not approve of that method of change of monarchs the world still turning a cold shoulder to the 1 atle country tucked in there by austila hungary roumania bulgaria turkey and moaten gro peter s oldest son crown prince george i not a very pleasant youth he is reported as un fortunate possessor of a most ungovernable tern per if the stories be true it would seem he is not fit to attempt governing anybody until he learns considerably more about controlling him self in this day and age a prince may not with impunity hoot at his tuter when the tutor enters the school room to begin the day s work may not strike an officer with a whip s amply because the officer conveys a piece of unwelcome news and a youth of 18 so foolish as to try to batter down a locked iron gate with a bicycle is of a degree of tool ashness calling for general contempt the crown prince recently distressed father and governors by a show of fondness for the society of a gay actress and the affair went so far the gay actress was informed the air of belgrade certainly would impair her health it she were to remain she gracefully withdrew to V enna the pance pre followed but was finally brought back by lit Monte and serviano ians are really the same people and there is probability that the second son of the prince of montenegro may be asked to become of servia for various reasons prince mirko would not be a bad choice the two dynasties and dobrenovic Obre are united in this prince he might easily prove a candidate agreeable to both factions of the country his wife who is a strikingly beautiful woman belongs to the Obre novie family pance mirko is brother in law ot peter his sister now dead was wife of servia s present king COMMANDER IN CHIEF GERMAN NAVY the keisers kaisers s only surviving brother has been appointed commander in ch et of the german navy succeeding admiral edward von knorr prince henry of prussia is 1 far and wide as the allor pance and now stands at the head of the pavy of the german empire A jolly tar is the conventional phrase al sea faring men supposedly good fellows it ap pears prince henry of prussia is no excretion to the rule we all remember how often on his recent visit to america he was assured of being a good fellow a jolly good fellow in his own country the prince goes by this name is accounted pleas ant and jovial they say a sailor s life is apt to take the non sense out of a man and that both king haakon of norway and pance henry of prussia two royal sailors are demoi ratio and simple in their tastes would ghe indication that certain virtues lies in a sailor s training the german prince is said to have a great e for court life but that does not necessarily mean he is nothing of a court er or cipio mat on his visit here the prince won everybody by his charm of manner A gallant sailor prince henry rhe new coan ander is quite youthful 44 years old but with enough years to have had very considerable experience in the navy he was but i small boy when he began his apprenticeship and it is declared his advance has been through merit alone prince henry is a prime favorite with the kaiser and that he should hold this place is small wonder henry once saved his brother s life back in 1874 it was when the two were swimming in the havel near the so called marble palace SENATOR SPOONER WISCONSIN one beara more often does one hot of the western meu li congress con giess than of gentlemen from the effete easta it is bit part vaunting ism to make the statement but such Is the superficial impression it may be energy acco ints for the prominence it may be the gentlemen from the east are conservative however let us not go into this further let us take a alai ce at one man whose name ii well to the acie in congressional senator spooner senator spooner halls as we all know from wisconsin is a product of that genelous gene ious portion 0 our country more or less vaguely described by the term middle west john coit spooner was born in indiana when he was a youth of 16 his home was es at madison wisconsin he enjoyed the ad vintages of the state university situated in that town is a gr audate of the of wisconsin class of 64 but the stressful period of the civil war did not find mr spooner entirely absorbed in academic work he served as a private in company A fortieth wisconsin infantry volunteers and rose to captain and brevet major in the fiftieth wisconsin infantry mr spooner was admitted to the bar in 1867 occupied the position from 70 of assistant attorney general of wisconsin many years he arao law at hudson that state barly in the 70 s he was a member of the state assembly was elected to the united states senate in 1885 mr spooner was reelected to the senate in 1897 and has continued member of that august body his present term spires in 1909 |
