The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-02-20
rkEeoCrrr AND ITS RESULTS.
Some Interesting Facts About Interesting
People In Their Youth.

IL Is Oiten said that precOci0uS intel
leets are doomed to future the reverse
OF what their early brilliancy presages.
Exactly how belief SO at varience with
fact has gained credence is not readily
explicable. The brightest stars that
have illumed the musical world are
those that have Displayed a meteoric
youth. MendelssOhu. prior to his sixth
birthday, had, by his powerful memory,
sensitive ear and delicate conception,
won for himself the admiration of critics
and large share of popular esteem.
Berger. Hemming and Zelter became
his precepters. His debut in Berlin at
the age OF nine was an unqualifi d arts
tic triumph and in the succ edi year
he created furore on his inaugural ap-
pearance before the Partisan public.
His music TO the Midsummer Nights
Dream, was written when he was
little beyond seventeen, and this, to-
| gether with the songs and oratories of
st. Paul and Elijah, constitute his heir
itage. Meyerbeer is another instance
of Juvenile promise faithfully fulfilled.
He made his initial appearance at the
age Of six, and by his nineth year had
attained international fame and was re-
garded as the best pianist, in musical
Berlin. In his fifth year little Giacomo
could extemporize with grace and play
at sight. His first operas, being built
on purely technical basis, met with no
popular favor. His success as a COM
poser was made posteriOr to his journey
to Italy, where he imbibed love for
the Italian method and henceforward
| initiated it.
Mozart sprang from a musical family.
Dulcet tenderness was the predominant
feature OF his mind and his heart seems
to have been the embodiment and in
carnation OF melody and pathos. Mozart
the elder was, in his generation, a VIC
linist of distinction. Mozart the Junior
at the tender age of four composed sew
eral tuneful minutes which have been
preserved in the music books OF his sis
ter Maria. His first public appearance
was in the university hall of his native
Salzburg during his fifth year. The
accounts of this performance dwell
rapturiOusly upon the beauties of his
playing. Although feted and lionized
by royalty his life was q pecuniary
struggle and oft wrought with penury
and want. After composing the re-
QUEEN he died at the premature age of
thirty-Six and was buried in a pauper's
grave. Nothing can succeed in sad
ness the career of this man and no
career could be am0re caustic common
tary upon the Wanted charity Of socie
ty.
Ludwig Won Beethoven was born at
Bonn in ITO. His father was musical
mediocrist of dissolute habits. Young
Ludwig was a prodigy, though the glor-
ious promise Of his future was blurred
by deafness in 1902, but he continued to
compose till his death in 1927 at Vienna
In 1915 statute was erected to him in
the Munsterplatz, but his "Fidelis" and
mount OF Olives" are more enduring
monument than piles of stone
Schumann. Haydn and Handel merit
conspicuous places in the category of
phenomena, Adele Gus der Ohe, Patti,
Oembrich, Salchi, Sontag and Gerster
were precociOus, but space prevents due
tribute to their genius.
The triumphs of little Hoffman are
still fresh in the minds Of news readers,
but whether the extraordinary promise
of this wonder will be substantiated re-
mains for time 10 determine.
Jeanne Douste at the age of five and
half was famed for her interpretation
of the masters and her piano skill.
Metastasio, the father of Italian opera,
extemp0rized poetry at ten, as did
Adam Oehlensclaeger, the laureate OF
the Scandinavia tongue.
Theodore Hook produced his we'll
nigh inimitable Soldiers Return" at
John Howard Payne edited
the Thespian Mirror with marked abil-
ity at thirteen, while John O'Keef in
his career as dramatist at
fifteen by writing most agreeable COM
edy. The statue Of John dare in the
of Versailles, schulptured by
the Princess Marie OF Orleans before
her twentieth year, proves her TO have
been marvel of high degree.
Landseer, the animal painter; Turner,
the portrayor of the London fog;
Stevens the creator of the Wellington
in st. Paul's, and Maria
Shurman, the artist, hnguist and
were noted prodigies.
Francis Bacon at eleven was speeula-
Ting on the laws Of the imagination; at
sixteen was criticising the Aristotilian
1eductive system and formulating his
Inductive philosophy. He was queens
counsel extraordinary at twenty-eight.
His essays, "Novum Organum" and the
Advancement of Learning testify
hat the rose made good the pledges Of
.he bud.
Grotious edited "Maricanus CapelIau
1T fourteen, thus displaying familiarity
with Pliny, Euclid, Strobs, and Aristotle;
began his diplomatic life at sixteen and
1t an early age was accepted as author
ty on international law. His definition
Of equity, that wherein the law by
reason of its universally is deficient"
s of itself an immortellant.
Passed. published a trectate on comic
sections at sixteen, at Sc Sentecn antici-
Dated Torricelli in hydraulics and at
was Napolen of the higher
Gibbon was Latin scholar at seven.
submit his history as evidence, nay,
Is proof, that his was not an sbortive
life.
John Barratier, a Frenchman, wrote
in Latin and translated He
Drew at the age of ten.
Dorothy Scholozer of Hanover was a
mineralogist and wal king
at line and doctor of philoso-
'hy of the University of Gottingen at
e7enteen.
Hamilton, Pitt, Raphael, Agassiz,
Cowley, Pope. Master Betty
md Buxton are entitled to considera-
ion in any column dedicated 70 pre-
o,ity.-Washington Star.
Secretary Window.
The sudden death of Secretary Win
om profoundly impressed the country;
md yet such death, immediate and
'ain.ess. Just as wise views Of q great
nd pressing public question had been
biy expressed, with touching tone of