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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26
The Parable of the
Musical Education

Once upol n time there was a man
who had daughter. And he loved
Musick. And as the damsel grew, she
sang; and the singing gladdened his
heart and the heart OF her mother.
And they bought her piano, and
hired q tetcher. who came to the
house and gave her lessons at fity
cents an hour, And the lesson was
worth every cent of IL. For the dam
sol soon could play scales and exer-
cises, and between times would pick
out tunes with one finger, to the great
Joy Of her funer.
And whcr the time came that she
could take the hymn book and sit
down on Sunday afternoon, and play
the Sweet Rye and Bye without very
many mistakes. her father wiped his
eyes and thanked God for his daugh-
ter and for her musickal attain
ments. And there were evenings
when the young folk gathered. and she
seated herself at the plano and play
ed the suwa'1ee river and Seeing Mel
lie Home, and they all sang and were
glad.
Now there came an evil day when
one spake into the father, saying,
Thy daughter hath musickai abality.
Now, therefore, send her away that
she may study musick.
30 they ssnt her away to a con-
servatory; and they shut down the
cover of the piano. And on Sunday
afternoon her father said. IL Is lone
~, but when she returneth she will
play to Beat the Band.
And II came to pass that at the
end OF certain days she returned
with "a ,muslckal- education. And l
was among those present on the even
tng when they gave a welcome home
party, And the father said, tonight
we shall have musick.
But on that night none OF the other
girls dared plly. for they had not been
away 10 conservatory. And the
daughter would not play. for her
-heet musick had not arrived. Meth
er would she sing. for she said that
she was out Of practice. having re-
Gently xudied only theory and COM
position and fugue and counterpoint.
And 4 said unto her. 1t Is not an
sxcess OF musickal culture that all
eth thee. but the need OF chastise-
Inent. In the days when thou couldest
barely play the Sweet Bye and Bye
~ thatlit might be told from Yam
kee Doodle thy musickal talent was
eocd- f0f something. Thou vert
Joy unto.thy rather and a comfort to
thy mother; and thou couldest add
happiness to the life Of thy friends.
But nowsthon knowest just enough to
be useless.
And askei. knowest thou any Of
the s,sect old ballads. as the Last
Rose of sdnir'cr. or Coming Through
the RSef
And she said. yea; but they are
very old and simple.
And said so thou TO the plano.
snd play and ring. Thou hast given
this party frost, and chilled the
heart OF all present. Go thou back
and warm them up with something
that they love.
And abe d,d as I told her. And
the heart of all prerent was warm
Cd. And cer.aln OF the other girls
played.
Ard the ho'Ir waxel late. some Of
the young folls said: let us sing some
Of those good old-timers that we used
TO Ike. And she pla"sd for them.
80 her musickal education did not
quite spoil her after all. And when
she hath musickal education that is
much better. she will know better
the worth OF my lessen to her.
WILLIAM +. BARTON.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

T.. i. shropshire. manager Of tine
Texas Farm Bureau Federation, cot
ton division, writes from Dallas that
every thing indicates an enormous re-
duCtiOn in cotton acreage. Many
counties report from 80 to 40 per
cent increase i'm winter wheat acre
age. and Indications are that TcNas
will have the largest spring oats crop
oyer planted i'm that state.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

a lyttcr from a prominent banker
at Cicero, Texas. says that the small
cr farmer. who owns his own land
is going to plant in only a limited way
and that the farmer who has been
making his crops with hired labor
will! be unable TO operate for want Of
credit. The cotton crop in Dewitt
County was almost a complete failure
in 1919. This year the farmers have
been caught with much unsOld cotton
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

AT the present rate of consump-
tion e.. there will be an available
supply OF l2,451750 bales Of cotton
in the world on July 81, 1921, or
about 6,6ll,750 bales more than last
Hear'-The Market Reporter. L. s
Department of Agriculture.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

when the weathcrman says gees.
are not a sign of spring. he probably
Is thinking that the gossamer silk
stocking has all seasons for it's own
Philadelphia North American.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

Ben Johnson, president Of Louis
lana Bankers association, stated at
IA recent meeting of Louisiana farm
crs, bankers and merchants that
bankers are compelled to cut down
credits as matter Of sclf-preserVa-
ton and to save cotton growers them
selves from diSaSt r.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

Radlum Is being used to illuminate
doorknobs and keyholes. The tragic
part about the discovery is that II
comes too latc.--Scattle Post -Intclli-
gehcer.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

y plan has been advanced now to
make sugar from sweet potatoes. Now
all we need are the potatoes.-Park-
ersburg News.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

Gilbert X. Chesterton proposes that
W. abolish tn inevitable. Shucks,
haven't we prohibited t?-Louisviliek
Courier Journal
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

IT, task Of feeding Europe and
China reminds US that knighthood IL
ytill In aour,--paltIIaore sun.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

What drunks there are seem quiet
er under prohibition. May be be-
cause thy are still-born.-~ Toledo
BLADE.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

Kansas reports a cat thal lives on
bark 1t is no unusual thing 10 feed
tn" kitty with chips.--Baltimor
I,NonnG sun.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

The son of the President of Peru
r"opOses To travel from Callao 10 New
York in an airship a new type OF
Peruvian bark.-PrOyiCcnCe Journal
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

Most of the coal holsters work
nowadays outside the mine mouth.
Boston Herald.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

Whether the Germans pay or not,
they must be convinced by this time
that their war didn't Boston Tran
script,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26
Collection for Starving Children.

LditOr Daily Item:
Knowing that many Catholics read
your paper and that they would be
interested in what follows 1 take the
liberty Of sending it to you with the
request that you publish it if you see
fit.
The collection that was ordered by
the Catholic archbishOps and bishops
Of the United States at their annual
meeting last September for the suf-
fering children, orphans and widows
of the central empires of Europe was
taken up in all the Catholic parishes
of the diocese Of Charleston on Sunday
January 10th, with the following re-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

Well, il may yet be necessary to
marry Europe in order to reform her.
Sun.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

Amber Injuries no other good pie3
mcnt with which it may be mjxe1
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26

Socrates paid but little heed 10 the
Rcolding OF his wife Nantippc
The New York herald., 1921-07-17

such weight laid on the language spoken
by the play of the muscles"
The next essential which strikes the mod
ern beholder of Michelangelo is the striving
after the vast. in the double meaning of
the sublime and the colossal
But. as Brandes already has said, exterior
grandeur is not the decisive element with
Michelangelo of real Importance is the inner
greatness of his soul. Even while he was
votary of nature he was anything but
realist anything but a reproducer Of ac-
tualty, were the F1orentines before him.
ITO all that he produces" Brandes writes,
"he adds of his own self the stamp of his
unquestioned superiority The least Of his
sketches is authoritative, subjectively free.
lending to the plastic object his own mental
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led by his certain Instinct, MichelangeIo has
here solved q problem that his understand
ing scarcely could have grasped. since his
day was without the necessary mathemati-
cal knowledge to aid in this solution. The
secret of the effect produced by this unique
structure rests in the fact that II blends so
perfectly plastic beauty and the mechanical
Volumes could be written about Michel
aneeio's creations in marble; the wonderful
David. the Pieta Bacchus, the Moses, his
various Madonnas, Victory and all that mag
nificent statuary that enters into the compo-
siton OF the sacristy of Lorenzo, with the
figures of II Pensieroso and Giuliano and
the matchless treasures of Night, Day, Au-
rora and Evening,
"'The overpowering originality of Michel
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
Brandes at Nineteen.

DUONAROTTI very Noften sketches
Il children. But he neUer Sketches
that Which is trivial. Sometimes he
sketches the poor, once IN While a
beggar that he has seen ON the street.
But has poor are never seen NTH Inc
same sympathy as IN the case Of Rem
brandt, the only nOrtherner ahose
greatness as an artist can compare With
has.
During his entire life MichelanGeto
dissected the human body, member for
member, every bone, every muscle.
Departure from that Chich IS sound
and strong is not for him. He mever
dweus upon that ,Uhich IS repuIs've.
1t ,could be impossible for ham to
sketch one Who Uas deformed.
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N/E may criticise him as scurp-
tor, painter and architect for
good and sufficient reasons HIS dis
like for the commonplace, the easily
obtained, frequently made him gro
tesque in has grandeur. But With the
pen, the chalk or the pencil in has hand
he IS absolutely fapltless and sncOm-
parable. While has poems are
sometimes unsuccessful, withom hest
tatiOn ,ce can sag that there has neper
gone forth from his hand single
draWing in Which We can detect the
slightest WeokneSs or moments hesi-
tation, Everything bears witness to
mastery Over the form as weH as to
this colossal personality In those
sketches genius is the sole dictator.
Here, an contrast to has verse, we
look into has ianermost self. We feel
that the thing Which to Other artists
pas clear, light, peaceful, to him vas
rebelIious, dark, stormfM, the seething
of has inner life.
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ity of proud strength or deep terror or digni
fled elegance.
I'm this way we reach the third stage of
the fundamental in his character as man as
we'll as in art
"This art is pathetic Within it there is
an overhowing energy. Everything in it
is bound or unloosened passion. All this
lyric ends in drama"
To Georg Brandes, Michelangelo appears
as an entire world: "a life work like his is
unexplainabe without his interminable and
composite character as man, with it's ability
and weakness, and without his indescribably
many sided genius. He cannot be under
stood without the entire artistic and literary
development of italy in his time, without the
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histore and art Of Tuscany,
without humanism, without
Ghirlandajo, without Lorenzo
de Medici, without Bertoldo
and the garden of San Marco"
Here is a passage on the
dome of st. Peters:
"Michelangelo designed and
had the model of this dome
made in wood after he had
passed his eightieth year. He
never saw his plan executed.
This was the work Of Giacomo
della Porta. The majestic
curved line that is the de-
termining feature of this
greatest and highest dome in
the world Is entirely due the
m a at er UncOnsciOusly. but
The New York herald., 1921-07-17

1906. Before these he stood lost in the deep
est admiration They unloosened within him
the creative powers that went in the direc.
ton of mastership for the presentation of
the human form in all its might, or in its
wealth Of gripping contrast. or of life itself
as a hopeless but energetic fight; the tragica
exalted.
"Three essentials usually strike the mod
ern beholder who without preconception is
placed before the art and nature of Michel
angelo:
First, the nudity, and with him it is not
only the face but the entire naked body that
is expressive, even to a degree where the
single figure, in order to display its individ-
uality, is not placed in contrast with another
The New York herald., 1921-07-17

figure, but with itself. Michel
angelo always shows the hui
man form in movement, and
the secret of his treatment is
expressed by the word CON
traposta'-that is, the multi
plicity or the variation of the
underlying principle is trans
1erred to the symmetrical two
halves of the body. More than
the Greeks Michelangelo in
tensifies the departure from
symmetry in the position of
the members, in the turn of
the hips or the neck, in the in
tersecting of the arms by the
body surface. Never was nu-
dity so full of expression as
with him; never before him
The New York herald., 1921-07-17

is executed
a
fight
flexible backs and legs the outstc are express
left the
beautifully modelled nude but
shield which
has hit Hemes and one the
OF
like coonnde -FROM uEONu
RRANDESS THE SKETCH BY MICHELANGELO
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
New book equals his
work on Shakespeare
By JULIUS MoRITZEN.

TEARING his eightieth birthday Georg
. Brandes, the great world critic, has
written another book which, IL not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-02-20
All Target Titles
Must Be Approved
BY National Board

Trapshooters are determined that the
word championship" shall stand for
something = that sportsman. who
pulls wicked trigger when shooting
at clay targets and wins title shall
have all the honor and recognition to
which his performance entities him.
With that thought in mind the general
committee of the American Trapshoot-
ing Association has ruled that:
THE use of the word championship
in connection with any competition at
registered targets is prohibited, unless
special sanction is granted by the
American Trapshooting Associations"
This rule naturally will result in
drawing the line bit finer as to what
constitutes a titular event. However
the shotgun men will have chances
galore to win championships which
have been sanctioned by the governing
body of the clay target sport. AS a
matter Of fact there will be no less
than IVA official individual champion
ship titles at stake in the United
States, Canada and the Canal Zone in
1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-02-20
Dartmouth Five
Defeats Columbia
By Score of 2l-18

Special Correspondence to The Tribune
HANOVER, N. H, Feb 19-Dart-
mouth maintained its place as cham
pionship contender in the Intercolle-
giate Basketball League here tonight
by defeating Columbia 21-18 in a
game that was close from the first
whistle to the last. The guarding OF
both teams was spectacular and most
of the shots from the field were long
ones. Free throws played prominent
part in the final score, Cullen having
the edge on Johnson, Of Columbia. The
Dartmouth man missed only one throw,
while johnson failed twice
Cullen played a spectacular game,
making II of Dartmouth's y points.
The New Workers. led during the first
few minutes Of play, but once Dart-
mouth rot into the lead she was never
headed. The Green led at half time
by II to 10. Both teams played the
whole game without substitutions.
The lineup:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-02-20
G0 e. 1fN2SHI R7CHE2 -
Full-Riggged Ship
Entered i'm Race
For Albert Trophy

BOSTON, Feb. 19.--Entry of the full
rugged ship Rhine, Clyde built clip
per that now flies the American flag, in
the transatlantic race for the King AL
bert Cup next summer is the subject Of
negotiations between the owners and
yachting interests here, it was learned
to-day.
The owners, most of them Boston
men, have agreed to sell the ship, and
syndicate of yachtsmen identified with
the Eastern and New York Yacht ciuba
is being formed to finance the project.
Plans have not matured, but those in .
terested said to-day they thought the 7
would go through
The Rhine, a 2,500-ton wind ammo
has a record fer speed. Built for IL !
coolie trade in 1886, she has made
many fast passages She made the
run between New York and Buenos
Ayres in thirty-niue days, and her logs
show notations of seventeen and
eighteen knot speed frequently In a
race across the Atlantic, those who
plan to sponsor the Rhine believe her
great spread of sail will jam her
through faster than any other sailing
vessel ffoat.
John B. Fallon, yachtsman of prom
inence in New England waters, who is
a part owner of the Rhine, said to-day
that if the project developed he will
be member of the syndicate and will
sail with the ship in the race.
The Rhine is now laid up at this port
with her main deck damaged by re-
cent FIRE. She registers 1850 tons net
is 201 feet over all and built of iron.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-02-20
Yale Swimmers
Have L asy Time
Defeating Columbia

Yale University's waterrnen easily
defeated Columbia in both the swim
ming meet and the water polo gamsS
contested last night at the local poo "A
The score IN the swimming meet was
AZ to II, and of the water polo match
IA to D Columbia could get only one
first place in the meet, Louis Balbsch.
the Olympic team diver, winning the
fancy diving contest with s4.9 points
Leeming Jel!iffe, of Yale, and for
merry of Poly Prep, eQualled the Co
lumbia pool record in winning the 100
yard race. His time, which was So 2-5
seconds, eoualled the best former ',,9r.
made by Hal Vollmer. Guernsey. -
Yale, defeated Mahar, the Blue and
Whites great plunger, by several sec
onds- Both men, plunged the length
Of the 75-foot tank. but Guernsey did
1t IN Faster time, The summaries:
5o-yard swim-Wou by Binnsy. "a.
third. Time. cas-.
IoO-yard swlm-won by JslIine. Ysi.
Thurston; Yale. second: Eberhardt, Coluni-
bia third. Time. o:5G 20
- 22o-yard switn--won by Marshall Yale
Townsend, Yale, second: Lowndes, Colurn
bia, third. 9itne 2:38 40
Fancy diving coRtest-won by L Be
bach Columbia. with 94.s points: Fergu-
son. yale, SIS points, second: Pollard
Yale. S9.5 points, thlrd.
Plunge for distance-Won By GUERNSEY
fa1e. with plunge OF IS feet. in 81 a.
seconds Maher. Columbia, rs feet in one
minnie. second; Pratt. Yale, so feet, third
eco foot relay-Won BY Yale (Falie2.
1ohs Banks and Gnsuss): Columbia
crystal. Rotschid. Eberhardt snd
Lowndes) second. Time. i:33 20
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-02-20

Fewster made it very plain that heG
is in no sense hold-out, as had been
intimated in news dispatches from Bal
timore.
81 have not yet signed a contract"
said Fewster. "but will do so. am
not going to let the matter Of couple
OF hundred dollars stand between me
and the good will of my employers
The owners OF the Yankees certainly
treated me wonderfully we'll last year,
for | was little or no use to the club
all season. I do think ] should have
Just little more salary than is named
in the contract, but there will be no
quarrel over the difference of opinion"
Fewster, it will be remembered, was
hit in the head by a fast ball pitched
by Big JEFF Pfefer, of the Dodgers, in
an exhibition game at jacksonville,
SPARED of for several days and was
saved only by a very delicate opera
non on the brain after he had been
rushed TO Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore. His convalescence was
very slow and he did not get back into
the game until the very close of the
season.
Player Adds 10 Weight
This young player, who until his un-
fortunate accident seemed destined for
the pinnacle of his profession, is to.
all appearance fully recovered from the
injury. He has wintered we'll and is
some pounds heavier than when he re
ported to Higgins in Jacksonville, Fla,
q year ago.
81 haven't had the least trouble with
my head all winter" he said. 'Indeed,
the only time my head ever bothered,
me was that day at the Polo Grounds
when l was forced to retire from a
game. 1t may have been the sun, or,
may have got back into uniform toe
soon. Anyhow, my head was bothering
me bit O. nights at the time. think
the bone inside the skull hadn't knit
fully. could feel sort Of drawing
sensation there when would go to
he'd. But ever since the end of last
season my head has been as sound
as it ever was and now I'm willing to
stake it against anybody's fast one.
NO. ri not wear head guard. /
do not believe I'll ever be hit in the
head again. l cannot for the life of
me- understand how ever came to be
hit. must have been dreaming.
neeer did see the ball"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-02-20
Crane May Break Yale Record
BY Gaining Place ON 5 Teams

string nominee, but finally defeated
both his Yale teammate, Jonn Pollard
the intercollegiate champion for the
event, and the two Wesleyan entries. He
may yet prove Yale's leading fancy
diver of the season.
May Make Hockey Team
Crane is a clever gymnast and
hockey player and as likely as not NAV
turn up another season on one of these
teams. If he does he will have attained
membership on five of the teams which
compose Yale's annual sport schedules,
something no athlete in all Yale his
tory has done.
In 1879 Oliver Thompson, of Pitts
burgh, was member of Yale's crew,
football, track and baseball teams. In
1903 Tom Shevlin was on Yale's foot
ball, baseball, track and basketball
teams. while Dr. Albert Hayes Sharpe,
now the Yale athletic director, was a
member of Yale's baseball, football.
basketball and gymnastic teams in
1900.
Crane lives in Montclair n. j.. and
prepared for Yale at Andover Academy,
where he took part in half a dozen
branches of interscholastic sport, his
football, halfhack play and his base
ball leftheld game being especially
brilliant.
1t is expected that his injured knee
will allow him to play baseball the
coming spring, but he will never at
tempt football and basketball again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-02-20
Nav Play the Outfield

Fewster is going to, Shreveport pre-
pared TO make stern fight for reg
ular position. He is willing to try his
hardest at any position to which he
may be assigned. He would prefer
second base, but if Higgins sends him
20 the outheld (and Higgins thinks
nina one of the greatest outfield pros
uccts eyer), he will try to vindicate the
good opinion of his manager.
). y saw Frank Baker in Baltimore
yesterday" said Fewster. he never
looked finer in his life. believe he
viii be back with the Yankees this
year. That old bat of his certainly
would help some, for l know ne would
play as we'll as he ever did.
Can you imagine what Ruth would
10 with a couter like Baker coming
up behind him? They would't dare
hand Babe all those passes, And if
rival pitchers had to pitch to Babe like
they pitch to ordinary hitters he'd
clout about 800 and hit goodness only
knows how many home runs"