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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1902)
if is V I I tf L fr I SOME PHILOSOPHY Wo wonder and we wcjndcr Whats ahead What well see and how well see It When were dead II Ita worth the while or worthless iTouI or fair And wo wonder how well know It When were there Wo ponder and we ponder Whats to come And of all the good about us We arc dumb When we all might be enjoying What Is here Wc aro guessing If the futures Full of fear The model who posed for that pic ture expired under the finishing touches of the painters brush No one ever imagined so realistic a death agony The trained eye of the artist saw more in the painting than any of the crowd that stood spellbound before it There was an indefatigable something about it which compelled a sensation Df reverential awe in the breast of Ihe average spectator but the art in stinct immediately detected the cause It represents a tragedy he said half aloud as he shifted his position to one more favorable for a further and more critical inspection It was the portrait of a beautiful woman in a semi reclining pose against a mass of faintly outlined cushions There was nothing in her shapely well rounded limbs to indi cate disease nothing In the surround ings to manifest the approach of death yet it was apparent even to a novice that the woman was dying Her left arm in the dark back ground was pressed close along her body while the right arm in the fore ground was flung out listlessly the hand clutched tight as if to nerve her self up to the consummation of some supreme act which her will was bent upon committing The lower limbs appeared cold in the pallor of death and one could al most see the dread shadows slowly creeping up toward the seat of life Masses of raven hair tumbling in dis order around her head were dank with perspiration and upon a clammy brow stood drops of sweat like clus ters of beads The lips of a half open mouth were colorless and cold and through the film gathering over her eyes shone the flickering brightness of a soul about to leave its mortal tenement The gaze of the eyes was on the line of vision and followed the spectator whichever way he turned with so pathetic a look of con centrated entreaty that more than one strong man turned away in de spairing helplessness and feminine eyes filled with tears of sympathy Overspreading her pallid death shadowed countenance was a smile of ineffable content as pure and joyous as that of a martyr who sees the heavens opening to receive her racked spirit and relieve her body from earth ly torture Turning mechanically to his cata logue the artist read The Death of Venus P Metcalf Can that be our little American Put Metcalf he queried aloud in his surprise Our little Put and no other whis pered a friend at his elbow who add ed What do you now think of American genius Paul I take off my hat to it replied Landelle suiting the action to the words but I see a fearful sacrifice in its awakening You have interpreted the painting correctly said Chavanne do you know the story How can I when I have been sketching in the land of the midnight sun for the past six months Julie Goomans was uie model who posed for that painting Paul began Chavanne You remember her Ah ejaculated Landelle I noticed something familiar in the Do you love her so very much per sisted the girl with dry lips face but the features were so glori fied that I could not realize its iden tity Shortly after you went away Julie would not pose for any of us the American was the only one you know He was particular about his models By and by he wouldnt have anybody but Julie No there was no attachment at least on his part He was engaged to a young lady in New York it seems though we did not know it at the time and he was cold We worry and wc worry Over fate When well answer that conundrum Soon or late Whats the good to guess If It be Smooth or rough Whats the use Well know the answer Soon enough We wonder and we wonder In the dark And we cant with all our guessing Raise a spark Let us then enjoy our living Ere we flit And the future let us make the Best of It Baltimore American THE DEATH OF VENUS By CHARLES H ROUINSON Copyright 1002 by Dally Story Publishing Co to every other woman He wanted to become famous for her sake to make a bold stroke with a new subject Yes I remember interrupted Landelle it was the death of Venus the title of this painting I will paint that subject or no oth er he kept saying Where will you get a model he was asked but he did not know he knew only one thing which was that he was going to rest his fame on that subject alone Every day for two months Julie posed for him but he got no farther along than when he began his Venus wouldnt die you know He was more mm w I VBJXmF i It 111 M llfAl Yfw k 11 1 W Kneeling before Julie rubbing her face than kind to his model who could not come up to his concept he sympa thized with her for her failure to re spond to his brush He was so kind and gentle ah yes that is where models make a mistake Late one afternoon Julie went home woebegone and throwing her self upon a couch began to sob hyster ically Her roommate drew the cause of the trouble out of her piecemeal From her we learned it but after ward Paul after the the sacrifice you have suspected It seems that the American that afternoon had thrown down his brush in despair Its no use child I can never paint my ideal with you for a model You are growing lovelier every day Instead of posing for the death of Venus you are a glorious model for the birth of love See for yourself But can you not put in the proper colors to represent death she asked with a timid look into his face but he was unconscious of her gaze Pshaw You do not comprehend child he replied The reality must be before the artist or exist in his mind Looking at you destroys the reality the concept No I must give it up and then give up all Does -failure mean much to you queried the girl Much echoed Metcalf it means everything I hold dear on earth It means the loss of her I love my promised wife who expects me to suc ceed The woman you love your prom ised wife repeated Julie in a trem bling voice and paling lips scarce comprehending Certainly my Charlotte She lives in New York City and we are to be married as soon as I shall have fnished this picture I have prom ised to complete it and she is wait ing for me to keep my word Do you love her so very much persisted the girl with dry lips Child I would die for her sake A love weaker than that is nothing Then you will be very unhappy should you fail she said gently My whole life will be blighted answered Metcalf Well then you shall be happy said the girl with a bright smile and choking back a sob in her throat You shall paint the death of Venus from the reality Nay do not look so doubtful I have a plan I am inter ested in your success for am I not the model I never told you I was an actress Yes indeed I have studied many parts Now my plan is this I will come to morrow prepared to enact the role of a dying Venus but you will have to paint very fast my friend You will promise me that for it will be a terrible strain upon me you un derstand During that night Julies compan ion awoke to find the girl kneeling by the window gazing up at the bright stars She was praying This also we learned afterward Paul always afterward you notice Her accents were broken but this much was heard Dear God forgive me for what I mean to do It is for his sake and for the sake of her across the water She loves him and he is all hers -while I he said tnat a love not worth dying for was nothing dear God forgive me The next morning Julie was calm and smiling She made light of he trouble ofthe nig jjforeand hr roommate thought slie had forgotten the cause of it This was the reason why we were not told Paul Wejl Julie posed and Metcalf painted fast for the painting was completed as you see it about three in the afternoon At that hour there was a commotion in the Americans studio and frantic calls for help We rushed in and there was the Ameri can kneeling before Julie rubbing ner face and trying to revive her from an apparent faint We all thought at first that fatigue had overcome her but I laid my hand upon her forehead and it was so cold I suspected worse A quick examination and I arose with the remark This is a case for the police mon sieur And so it turned out to be Julie had opened an artery in her left arm carefully concealing it in the heavy drapery and while the artist was painting her acting she was slowly dying Metcalf was so ab sorbed in painting her changing ex pressions that he was not awaro of anything extraordinary until he laid down his brush and danced for joy before the completed picture An American millionaire paid him half a million francs for the painting agreeing to leave it on exhibition at the Salon for a reasonable time and Put left immediately for the United States to marry his betrothed THE DEAR OLD SLAVES But Few of the Old Style Faithful Negroes Now Left in Virginia That is a very touching story which comes from Radford concerning ex Gov Tylers old servant Lewis Armis stead When notified that he was free he went about his business as though nothing had happened He was at home as a slave and he did not propose to leave because he was free He was a member of the fam ily and remained a member until death removed him to his home up yonder He was devoted to Marse Jimmie and his wife and children and they in turn were devoted to him In his strentgh he served them faith fully and affectionately and in his declining years they took care of him and made his life sweet We said in Sundays paper that there was never such humane slav ery as negro slavery in the South and here is a beautiful illustration There was very little slavery about it It was a family service that the slaves rendered and they received for their service not only food and raiment and shelter but protection and the kind est attention in health and sickness There are few of the dear old slaves left and it grieves us as we see them pass away Gov Tylers Lewis was a type of the old Virginia negro gentleman It was a noble type the old Virginia negro gentleman was every inch a man He had a strong physique he had a stout heart his impulses were generous his disposi tion was amiable his manners were perfect God bless his memory We only wish that the type were pre served in the new generation of negroes Richmond Va Times REVERSED ORDER OF THINGS Sons Pants Are Confiscated to Fit the Father State Senator Bernard F Martin was reminded by the story of The Man in the Street last Sunday about the boy of twelve with pants marked sixteen of the following I had a constituent Wiegand by name a little thin wisp of mankind who was the father of four big girls and one small boy Wiegands in come was small and to make ends meet the fathers trousers had to be cut down to fit his boy This work the lads sisters didalthough they did not relish the task When the boy grew so tall as to have reached the long trousers stage the event was celebrated by the purchase of a brand new pair with money the lad had earned After awhile the boy bought another pair for himself At this pe riod his sisters noticed the fathers only trousers were shabby so they confiscated the boys first long Ieggec pair and gave them to Wiegand senior When the old man appeared in them one of the girls said to the others Aint it nice We wont have tc do any altering for awhile for Bennys pants will now fit papa New York Times The Stream of Life O stream descending to the sea Thy mossy banks between The flowrets blow the grasses grow The leafy trees are green In garden plots the children play The llelds the laborers till And houses stand on either hand And thou descendest still O life descending into death Our waking eyes behold Parent and friend thy lapse attend Companions young and old Strong purposes our minds possess Our hearts affections fill We toil and earn we seek and learn And thou descendest still O end to which our currents tend Inevitable 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