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The state has more cattle and hogs on farms, but fewer sheep, horses and mules, than last year. "The Kansas crop season 1| of! to a good start. “Minnesota has plenty of feed for livestock, and farmers now are busy planting land for the 1031 harvest. There is much complaint regarding taxes and farm prices. "North Dakota farmers intend a material reduction in acreage of crease increases in feed crops. Y: for one of the largest crops on record [HE LHAKLUFTHIUWN UUARUIAQ . .!‘.”-_‘.\Y W. 1931 . S‘ __ NEWS Y NOTES II AGI-WIIA GEORGE FRIDIBIO HANDIL no greet compani- and extraord- loarymmwubornfnilelleJnwor Saxony, on February 25rd, 1685, nearly 350 years ago. German though he wu, he so captured the spirit of England's music that his name for the last two centuries has been o household word in Britain. Anec- dotes of Handel and his associates abound. and at the risk of being dia- curslve at times the writer will en- deevor, by their men-u, tn give a sketch of the man and his work. When Handel first saw the light his father was sixty-three years old. He was a. surgeon, but came to the determination to make a lawyer.- of the child who Nature had designed for a compose , and the struggle be- tween uature and the father may be said to have commenced - at the cradle of the future author of the "Messiah." The mild articulated musical sounds almost as soon as he began to speak. to the dismay of the stern old doctor, who discovered in- stincts which, in his eyes, were of s0 low an order that, like those of the mountebanls, they were at only to amuse the world in its idle moments. He therefore opposed his son's inclinations by all possible means. and would not even send him to the public school. for there. amongst other things, theytaught the musical scale. He banished all musical ln- struments from the house, forbade the boy to sing. and ordered that he was not to be taken to any place o! amusement where music might be heard. All in vain! He might as well have forbidden v/ntcr t0 flow! Ry collusion ni . TElflllYB‘ young l-landcl found himself in possession of a spinco-the precursor of the piano-which was concealed in a garret; and thither the young mu- slciau, when‘ all the household was asleep, repaired to practice upon his beloved instrument. l-lis little fingers had to find their way in the dark, but by the time he was seven years ‘old he had become a competent perform- or. ‘The poor father ultimately discov- ered the mistake he had made. By a former marriage he had a son who had become valet to the Duke. of Saxe Welsenleldt. and on setting out to visit hlm, George. then eight years old, begged to be taken but we: refused. Quietly waiting till the coach started he began to follow on loot. The father saw him. stopped the coach and commenced to scold. but. the boy- "heard him as though he heard him not" and persisted till his request vras granted-n prognos- tlcotlon of the energy and determin- ation hewas destined to display in later life. When they arrived at the Ducal palace, the boy speedily be- came a. favorite with the court mu- slcians, and at last prevailed upon the organist of the Duke's chapel to allow him to try the organ, after service. when the vv rshlppers had gone. As luck had it, the Duke was still within earshot, and not recog- nizing the style of the organist, sent a messenger to make enquiries. ‘the trembling little artiste was brought before him, and the Duke soon learned his secret. He addressed the father and mpresented to him that twee a sort of crime to stifle such genius at its birth. The old doctor had not much to say to comment coming from such a quarter, and with much hesitation-far habit wu strong-agreed to allow his son to take lemons from Zachau, the org- anist. That worthy. after tnetrlwtin! the little fellow in general principles, became daily more amazed ethic marvellous progresea, end. at length confessed (a rare concmlon this, when one things oif the artistic tem- "Montsria farmers are considerably discouraged by the price situation. Their ability to meet obligations and xmnke needed purchases he: been re- duced. “surpluses in peaches and grapes again are feared infialifornla, but the fruit crop prospects there are re- ported from fair to good. "Washington. will have a uluol acreage of waist tun time." ‘ The Bureau noted “alight improve- ment" In the lgrtnjzrine situation, and based the reason for this lm- provement on the fact that there has been a oeereue in price: of commo- dltles bought bitumen. spring wheat. and corresponding ln- ' "The fruit outlook in Oolondo ' tpereoient) that his pupil knew mo" than himself, and advised that he should be amt to Serlln for further sturLv. Handel was new eleven: be- hold hiin at Berlin. when he polled for a prodigy; and at nineteen he visited the greet city 0f bubeok. where the poet of crnuut was o!- feted him, Finding. however, the lin- gulai- condition attached to the of- fice thatthesuooeeeorwoetcmefl? the “elderly ugly daughter" of the retiring organist. the ofler wu- not accepted, and, u the chronicle!’ lulv- ely uya, he returned home It be»? u he wont. Next we find him in Xtaly, but be left that land of song in 1100, with the intention of setting 1n Germany, and accordingly he come to Han- over. The nectar, afterwards George I. of England. In delightnd with him and oirmc him a sum, great in those days, equivalent to 81500 a year, for his servlcu la chlpclmeeter. This contented bin for a time; u some British nohleinen had pres- sed him to visit lmglend, he pelt! e visit to hie aged mother, now blind. called on his old master Zachau, and despite the umbrage of the Elector. set out for lnndon, where he arrived at the close or 1710. ' In Iiondon Handel let to work in contest, and his opera. “RMlaWW at once established his reputation. ‘nu cantata in the first not, “flora lpeel" was in a short time found on all the harmlchord: but his chief delight was to play at the house of ‘fliomla Brltton. Britten was l. 0011 merchant in a small wey at Clerkmwell QIUI. and earned his dolly breed by crying "Small Coal l" in the streets o! Lon- don. His stock in trade he carried in a sack on his shoulders. How hc came to play the viola de camba ls not known. but play it he did, and was so much of an artiste that he had gathered round him a large number of amateurs who per- iormed concerted pieces under his able leadership. He had rented a stable, and above it made a long narrow room; and it was in this strange chamber that the firat meet- ings in the nature of private eon- certe tnok place in England, and that regularly. ‘This itinerant coal-merchant en- tertained, above his stable, the mus- ical world of Umdon with wecklY \ncl gratuitous concerts from 107! to 1714- (lhe year of his death). ‘Iheliuchs es: of Queenbsbury, one of the most” celebrated o.‘ the court beauties,‘ was a very regular attendant. After further success in the Eng- lish capitol Handel returned to Ger- many at the close of 1711, but did not long remain. He seems to have regarded his absence as a. jultlfllble holiday. but this was not the opin- ion of his employer. the Elector, and when the latter came to London u George I, he showed his displeasure by forbidding Handel to appear at the court. Fortune again favored our composer, for the King, on bearing his “Water Music" it a fete at Lem- berth, was so pleased with that eel- ehi-ated composition that he took him liito favor again, and made him a grunt of $1,000 a. year. About this time llludel had pro- duced e new opera "Amldll" it the Reyhinket ‘Hunt-re, which mu und- er the management of Jamel Heid- egger, commonly referred to as the "evils Cotint" and reputed to be the ugliest men of his time. A story is told that lord Chesterfield (he of the polished ) wagered that it was impossible to discover a hum- an being more disgraced by ‘ , and a search we! instituted la the city until at length an eld woman was found in comparison with whom Heidegger was voted ‘Handsome!’ Just as Heidegger was Juming him- lelf on his new found beauty, Ghee- tisrflcld required that he should put on the old women's bonnet. Thus ut- tired the "Swill Oount" acquired an added ugllnou and Ohecterfleld won lhll bet. ' Heidegger had written the libretto of Amadlzi. Handel composed the music at Plcadllly, the house of the Earl of Burlington. ‘me King, on a visit to the composer and his patron, for from "town" tn live. 11m Earl wrplied that he was fmd of solitude and had selected a ISM where he felt sure no one would come and build beside him. What changes time has wrought! 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