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the artist has brought to bear upon them
exhaustive study. unrivaled knowledge
and imagination. For each painting elab-
crate studies are made leading up to
finished drawing in colored chalk This
is ruled off in squares and by that means
the design transferred by Brangwyn's
sistauts to the large canvas. II is then
that Brangwyn, with great deXterous
sweeps of the brush. lays his marvellous
color on in the manner which, since his
earliest DAYS as student, has excited the
wonder and admiration of all who know
his work.
BranRwyn, in versatility, probably has
no equal among living artists. and. al
though it is by his paintings in oil that
he will be chiefly known to posterity, his
etchings have attracted art lovers all over
the world II will be remembered that
ouE own Whistler, himself great etcher.
placed a limit on the size Of works done
in this medium. You could place a dozen
of what Whistler declared to be the maxi
mum Of size on one of Brangwyns larg
est etchings Rrangwyn believes that only
the subject and the method of presenta
ton should condition the size Of an etch-
ing. He finds it impossible to display to
the full the sweep and dash of his style,
his boldness and largeness Of design, the
quality of immensity and power which are
typical of his work on a plate that can
be covered by mans hand.
Experts and art lovers will argue
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decorations and book illustrations.
M|y Of his admirers in the past, while
recognizing this amazing versatility
the necessary demonstration of his
genius, have worried lest Brangwyn
burn up his vital force and crack in
his prime. There is happily no sign
of this up to the present, and ii is a II
to the good that of late the painter ap-
parently has decided that mural work
is to be his forte, and has concentrated
upon that phase of his work.
Here is a line or two of what was
written some years ago by n sympa
thetic critic of Brangwyn'S work. 1t
will give. better than the writer could
in any other way, an ilea of the strlk-
ing industry and power of the man:
After speaking of the few periods of
exhaustion noticeable in the collected
works of BrangWyn. the critic says:
Consider his work during the past
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at the temples it is touched with white
This is not strange in man of Bran
gwyns temperament, for he is man OF
moods He works only when the spirit
moves him and then at white heat. His
speed of execution is tremendous and he
frequently turns out an elaborate pant
ing at single sitting. or at most two or
three That, despite his dependence upon
mood, he does turn out SO much work 1s
due to the fact that he works in several
mediums and can turn to water color
when oil does not attract or to etchings
when neither oil nor water color suits his
stomach (Which is, probably, the home
of even a painters moods).
One immense sutdio at Hammersmith.
West London, is not sufficient for Brang
Wyn, part of his work is done in a
second at Barons Court, short walk
east Drop in at either of these studios
almost any time of day and you will find
men, under the direction of the painter.
at work on enormous canvasses partially
covered with the strong figures now ina
mediate1y recognized by art critics and
students all over the world as Brang
wyn's-figures that give satisfying
sense of power and strength. Any guess
your weight fora nickel man could judge
their weight to an ounce.
Here in these two studios are paintings
ordered from all over the world. In one,
some months ago. the writer saw in three
parts the decoration known as KING
John done by Brangwyn for the new
courthouse at Cleveland. Ohio. 1t was in
one that the writer saw the eight San
Francisco panels before they were packed
up and shipped to America-almost un-
belieVable In muggy London, bathed as
the figures were in sunlight such as
Rrtnswyn alone can paint.
Although Brangwyn paints at white
heat. it must not be supposed that he rigs
up a canvas. climbs a ladder and begins
splashing the paint about without most
minute preparation 1t must be evident
to all who have seen these paintings that
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that country since he left it. Shorter
said that he and his father left the old
plantation and came to the Arlington
camps just after emancipation. which is
very likely accurate and the Rambler
knows that soon after the outbreak of
the war hundreds and hundreds of the
slaves in that part of Maryland ran
away and took refuge under the pro-
lection of the Union camps. though
usually they sought the shelter of the
Union camps on the Anacostia high
lands instead of crossing to Virginia.
The Rambler asked Shorter if there
were any more of the old servants from
his part of Maryland who had settled
on the Arlington hills. and he pointed
out the nearest neighbor cabin and said
that there lived. until his death, few
years ago, Hanson Williams. who had
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important factor in the political good
fortune Of 1.-The old Sydney" Sydney
Mudd, member-elect from the same dis
trict, is their son. There were several
other children. Pliny. the eldest. is a
prosperous man in Kansas. where he
has lived now for something like thir-
ty-f1ve years. The next son. Walter,
after serving in the Rough Rider reg
iment in the Cuban campaign, was kill
ed in the British service in South Af
rica. and one of the treasured posses
sions in that old house was medal
sent to the mother and father of the
dead soldier by Queen Victoria. The
youngest son, Bob. is in government
employ in Washington There were
two girls younger than Ida, named
Cora and Nellie. They grew to woman
hood. but now sleep with their father
and mother in the little cemetery be-
hind St Johns Church, Surrattsville.
within few yards of the grave of
Mary Elandford of the farm across the
creek.
1t was very lonely old house. this
Griffin place, when the Rambler set up
his camera there bleak Sunday few
weeks ago.
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Looking for Ancestors.

TT HE, RaE.blo. Is ia receipt of let
u ter from a Washington lady ask
ing information regarding the New
man and Alvey families of Prince
Georges county, Md She says: II
have been reading with much interest
your articles in The Sunday Star, and
as the account in today's pertains
mostly to my native county, Prince
Georges. l would ask you If in any OF
your rambles through that county you
have CHANGED across any member OF
the Newman family"
She is in search of facts relating to
Horatio Newman. who served in the
war of 1872 and who has been dead
about fifty years. She does not know
in what part of Prince Georges he
lived and owned land. or where he was
born where buried. There is n fam
lily tradition that his wife's name was
Eliza Alvey and that she was an adopt
ed daughter of member of the Ma
sruder family which lived near OXon
Hill.
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eight wears 19O2-19l0). 1t includes
nearly 200 etchings, most of them large
and scarcely one that is not good. the
eleyen uauels at the SINNERS Hail,
decorative work for two exhibitions IN
Venice, holiday sketches in various
places from Winchelsea to Montreuil-
-Mer. and from Messina to Cahors,
and more than half dozen fine pic
tures including much of his best work.
1t would be "A life work to many
painter. while to Brangwyn II has been
an exhilarating exercise, troubled from
time to time-but infrequentiy-oy
fatigue.
Undoubtedly Brangwyn owes large
mart of this virility to his early life AT
sea. The story of how this painter. as
a boy, sailed half around the world.
far east. slowed away in his brain the
romance and the picturesqueness, the
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disa ppointed in his mess of bones. re-
tired toward the little shack that stood
across the field. and there the Rambler
knocked on the rough boarding beside
the open door.
An old man. somewhat twisted with
rheumatism, hobbIed to the front. His
name is Robert Shorter. The Rambler
knew that in general way the neigh
horhood in which he found Shorter
was known as the "Convalescent
Camp" where, during the civil war,
men sufficiently recovered to be dis
charged from hospital, but not strong
enough to return to their regiments,
were encamped. SO, the Rambler asked
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and. passing over an abandoned road,
climbed the hill on which this house
stands. Nobody was at home-in fact,
the place seemed to be without ten
ant. 1t was the house of Walter P.
Griffin and his wife Eleanor. Both
were fine people. and in their old age
were loved by all the young people for
many miles around. The late Sydney E.
Mudd, long the representative in Con-
gress from the fifth Maryland district.
boarded there while teaching school in
the little country schoolhouse two or
three miles away. That was years be-
fore he became a figure in public life.
He married the eldest of the Griffin
girls. Ida. She was beautiful girl and
a lovable woman, who made hosts of
friends in Washington during her hus
bands service in Congress. and in
southern Maryland Mrs Mudd was an
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POSTER ALLIES AID
depict he Belgium

ence upon his subsequent work One
day William Morris passed the young
student and struck by the facility
with which lie drew the most intricate
designs. asked the artist if he would
like to do some work for him At that
time Morris was "A considera bic force
in English art and BrangWyn went 10
work at his oxford street rooms en-
larpine the masters dra wings. II is to
this early schooling that many ascribe
Rranewyn's remarkable sense of de
sign. so noticeable a feature OF all his
work
when the Young painter had saved
40 shilIing-the equivalent of Sl0-he
decided to take his first sketching trip.
He selected picturesque Sandwich. then
the most charming of unspoiled fishing
villages and even today favorlte
sketchinc ground for English painters.
Brangwyn's 40 shilling did Nnot last
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long and overstaying his time he soon
found himself in debt to his host. the
captain of a sailing vessel. The salt.
however. was a sincere. if limited. lover
of art and Brangwyn found it easy to
make d deal whereby for the moment
he became sailor. paying his debts in
the form of several of his sketches.
Thus began his life afloat.
Voyage succeeded voyage. taking the
boy over much of one side Of the world.
The terms he made with his various
shippers were generous ones and the
painter found plenty of time TO prac-
tice his developing art. In 1855 his first
oil painting was accepted by the Royal
Academy when the boy was only eight
cen. Two years later we find him set
tied down in Cheslea and although he
had had couple of successful one man
exhibitions that attcracted attention.
he was discouraged by his inability To
make both ends meet. He was. indeed.
on the point of abandoning art and EN-
bracing the sea when a chelsea color
man came to the rescue with proposal
that he guarantee Branewyn an in-
come of $40 week for a period of two
wears. The boy accepted. shook the
old world dust of bohemian Chelsea
from his sandals and settled down to
hard work in Cornwall
-
It was little later in life that Brang
wyn. hesitatiug for a period. finally
forsook somber tones and emerged INFO
the vivid sunshine which has been so
characteristic of his best work and
without which a Brangwyn would hard
ly be recognized now. Indeed it is as
a painter of light with all its difficult
problems that Brangwyn is most dis
cussed today BY his light and his
color he stands or falls. and these two
he has tackled with courage dis
played by few painters.
In 1891 and again two years later the
French art world rose enthusia stically
to two typically Brangwyn paintings,
The Funeral at Sea" and The Buc-
cancers" exhibited at the Paris salon
This was the real beginning of his
reputation on the continent. which has
completely outdistanced his fame at
home In 1892 Brangwyns The Con
yict Ship" exhibited at the Chicago
in the United States; the year before
the Royal Academy in London skied
the same painters Assistance.
The painter has Dersevered despite
much home born criticism But though
critics may discuss and dogmatize.
Brangwyn's is the spirit of sane mod
ernity He is a painters painter. grap-
pliug with a mans grip the problems
troubling the rising generation OF
past, but certain that the present gen
Grafton, and each succeeding genera
tion, of painters has task and re-
sponsibility of its own. AS the writer
heard him say recently: The old ma g.
ters had their day: let the present gen.
GRAFTON have its day.
Copyright. 1918. by Curtis Brown
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erty, and from an aunt in Maryland she
obtained a number of interesting facts,
which are here presented:
Philip Roach was a native of Wicklow.
Ireland He came to New York very early
in the nineteenth century, or perhaps late
in the eighteenth century. When he came
tc Virginia he brought with him two
daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. and one
son, James Roach, who at that time was
four years old.
There is reason to believe that he
bought the property. which he called Pros
pect Hill, about 1890. He died there June
9, 1888, and was buried at Alexandria.
His son, James Roach, married Eliza
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M c GOODWIN. at an al fresco
GNo luncheon in Los Angeles rose
garden, was joking about the divorce
evil
Il know a man." he said. AN actor
man at thai. who was about to marry
for the seventh time-think of it His
bride, too, had already. despite her
youth, four husbands. Dreadful. eh:
Well. this engaging pair put al the
bottom of the handsomely engraved
wedding invitations they sent out
postscript. reading: p. S.-Be sure to
come This will be no amateur per-
formance' .
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ROBERT SHORTER THE "CONvALEsCENT CAMP"
ryand she Roach farm and all the place Georgia
fact doyrpN ife

Georgia avenue in the sos were George
w. White. who was Il dry-goodS mer-
chant on Pennsylvania avenue near 7th
street. a man named Sharretts, who was
clerk in the Post Office Department.
and who rode a saddle horse to and
from his office. and James Lewis. who
was in the insurance business with an
Office on the west side of Ith street
between p and T. streets.
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color and the charm of that glorious
land of sunshine, the land lndellbly
impressed upon the minds of all lovers
of the work of Joseph Conrad. by that
unrivaled tale, Youth is an engag-
ing one. Born in 1867 of an English
father and Welsh mother. in the Bel
gian town of Bruses. he was brought TO
London to live eight years later. HIS
father was an architect, but made what
money he earned by reproducing old
embroideries for altar cloths and vest
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Facts About the Roach House.

raw sund"ys % ;ns aS0 oa nosh ahs
which overlooks Washington from an
eminence on the road from the Aque-
duct bridge to Alexandria a few hun
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Taylor's Lane.
Roach farm. and all tf
were cut down.

ID EMINISCENCES of former owners
Nv of the land now included in the
grounds of the Soldiers Home recalled
to one of the Ramblers friends. Will
liam ]. Frizzell. various old settlers in
the neighborhood of the Whitney ave-
nue. or Park road gate of the Soldiers
Home. Mr.. Frizzelrs boyhood was
spent in that part of the District. He
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that his work is most hishiy rated.
r.ns I'm anu Sun M. ~ aI,s ~
pn,.ai Academy and fnds some offense
~ ;ts art rotions in the strong mas
a,,,ir;, ~ pr.ngyyn,a n,intinps
In tellinp what the writer knows of
prn,a,,,.n hs bad bet+er teIl what man
- -. ~ T.; ,nd ,ban teu Of his
,l,a, 80 s,r,gg,es as a how With his
az, nc ro,nantic rovinps that took him
- ,ha r,.nrld ~ s.iling vesee1s his
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A Cocoon Hunter.

T7HE Rambler encounters in the woods
and along the roads good many
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AS boy of thirteen. FRANK hFa"S
wyu began copying at South hehsihs
ton Museum. Advised by several men
who watched him work. his schooling
was good and had considerable lnhu-
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over this question of size as well as
over the question of line, also raised
by Whistler and boldly challenged by
Brangwyn. For the writer's purpose it
is enough to point out that Brangwyn's
etchings have had a vogue never be-
fore enjoyed by the work of another
etcher. Although he has turned out
scores of plates and continues to add
to them every year, the public never
seems to tire. Almost before they are
out of the press the Impressions are at
premium and many men make COM
Portable sums buying them for rise.
Although Brangwyn is still alive and
evidently has many years of his best
period still ahead of him. holders have
refused as high as $3l5 for single
prints of one of his etchings which
was published at $50. Others are held
at almost equal prices. and it is not
unusual for prints to jump 100 per
cent in value within few months OF
publication.
But Brangwyns versa tility does not
end with his work with oil, water color
and the etching tools. He has interest
ed himself as we'll in the designing OF
house furnishings. rugs. furniture and
draperies In color he has done work
so varied as poHers. pictures, mural
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a GREAT many persons have OBJ
IN served that the world is a small
,S\ place, and sometimes it has
} seer,ad tte Pa bler that life
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-24
Going Forth to Land Nomination.
(Grangeville Free Press.)

Y
Whether or not d. w. Davis OF
American Falls is the pre-primary Re-
publican choice of the Pocatello con-
ference recently, what took place in
that meeting worries him not and he is
going forth to land that nomination
as if had been handed his permit"
While in Moscow recently he en-
couragingly stated:
81 have not been making cam
paign in the north, but rather have
been comforting with Republican party
leaders and others to learn the sentl-
ment with regard to how my candi-
dacy would be treated. l have every
reason to be satisfied with what |
have observed and learned and feel
that in the open primary race that l
will not fare badly in the north. While
there is much press gossip about the
north uniting on single northern
man for the governorship, I find the
people of this part of the state very
friendly and not unwilling to con-
slider Idaho candidates as a whole.
Wherever, a county has, home can.
didate for Office, few persons could
expect the people of that county to
be lax in their loyalty to their own
friend and neighbor etc"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-24
AN IMPROVED CALENDAR.
Cambridge News. J

The News has been publishing an
article about a new calendar once a
year for a number of years, and will
probably keep on publishing it until
the calendar is adopted or the editor
is dead. Please read this over and
think about it:
A few years ago when Thomas A.
Edison said We would soon be able
to sit in our parlors and hear the FIN
est opera music or witness a first
class theatrical performance. the
knowing ones grinned and said at
can't be done" Yet it has been done.
When we say the world will some day
be using the calendar described below,
we do not feel that we are oresuming
a great deal.
Our improved calendar consists OF
II months of % DAYS and one month
of % days. By making this 10Th day
a holiday with a name all its own the
calendar manufacturer would go out
of business because we wouldn't need
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-24
FORD PARTY FUSsING.
(Blackfoot Republican,

(Blackfoot Republican,
The Ford peace party, all worlds
opponents of get together and set
aside differences" is reported to be
fussing at sea- When they got the
presidents message and found he was
in favor of preparedness" however
faint, they got into great discussion
over it and most of them wanted to
make war on President Wilson by
adopting resolutions condemning his
message in that respect Others,
while agreeing with them in degree,
considered that it would be unpatrio-
tic to condemn the president and
threatened to leave the party as soon
as they got to land if the resolution
was adopted.
All This is very significant in view
Of their insistence upon opposing
forces compromising their differences
when great kingdoms are at stake and
under constant menace if they should
compromise. 1t is the more signifc-
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-24
The State Press Comment

them. If January l came on Mon
day this year it would come on Mon
day next year and the next and all
the time. Every Monday would be
either the LIST. 9th, 18th or I'D. Then
too, Easter Sunday, instead of COM
ing sometimes in March and other
times in April, would always come on
the same date, and the Fourth of July
would not have to be celebrated on
the third or fifth occasionally because
the fourth fell on Sunday. Societies
which meet on or before the full
moon of each month could fix a meet
ing date without reference to the
moon, because the lunar month
would so nearly conform to the cal
endar month that there would be
trouble in fixing date that would
always be moonlight. Interest tables.
weekly and monthly wage scales, and
in fact so many things would be sim
plifed by this calendar that we be-
lieve if the American people could
be induced to think seriously on this
subject they would demand that this
change be made
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-24
PARTY GOVERNMENT.
Idaho Falls Register.l

(Idaho Falls Register.)
1t is good and wise decision that
the political parties have made, to de-
eide some of the important questions
now before congress, independently of
all political party considerations. This
goes to illustrate the fact that there
is true patriotism in parties, which
when called upon, can rise above the
usual tactics of the political game.
The truth is that as matter of
fact, party government, even in those
countries which have real parties, fails
in times of great emergencies; and
the endeavor is usually made to as
Sociate leaders of all political ele-
ments in united support and guidance
of governmental action, as may be
observed at the present time in Eng
land, France, and, in fact, all other
European countries. With us here in
| America there are now no real politi-
cal parties as there are in Europe.
Our two so-named great political par
| ties do not differ enough in essential
principles or in program of action to
be distinguished one from the other.
Most of the leaders of one party
might just as we'll be the leaders of
| the other in so far as their actual con-
victions are concerned. Most of them
belong to one party or he other pure
ly as a matter of accident, through the
same kind of accidental circumstances
| that might have caused some of them
TO attend a church of one demonina-
| ton and some Of them belong to
! rival congregation. And it must be
said that these two great political par
ties have much to answer for as the
chief enemies of all good government
in our municipalities and our states,
and it is further not at all reasonable
to say that their methods and their
intense party rivalry are the chief OBJ
stacle to good government in the line
of international affairs
So it is indeed gratifying to see
our representatives rise above mere
political questions and to reach ont
for while at least into broader lines
of true patriotic craftsmanship. Which
goes to show, after all, that country
is above all political party considera-
tons.