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Tho art department at the university
has a carefully selected collection of
photographs of modern French paint
ings. They are interesting in them
selves but more especially because they
are photographs of tho pictures we read
of and that the Btudios talk about.
When people go abroad they generally
bring back an assortment of pictures
they suppose they and others aro in
terested, in. frescoes in the Sistine
worth fighting for," to a time which he
calls "Tho good old days." There never
were any "good old days" after Adam
and Eve left the Garden of Eden and
began to live and love and hate and
and work. There were just as many
good men in the war of the rebellion,
even on the other side, as in the war of
tho revolution. More, because there
were more men. There were more bad
ones too by the same token but the
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Ever held in Lincoln
TheH. M. TEPMAN stock of Columbia, Mo
which was recently sold at sheriff's
sale was bought by SAMUELS
BROS for less than
chapel and in St. Mark's and pictures of good increases faster than tho bad
Dawnto and Beatrice. Very nice people a thousand years, which are but as a
to be sute and important historical oc day, this statement will not need proof
ca6ions liko the assumption and annun- but even at that date some discouraged
ciation or the immaculate conception, observer of men's wicked ways will point
But we have seen them all dozenB of to those days in ancient Lincoln "when
times. These are photographs from tho free institutions stood for a great prin
workofPuvis de Chavannes, Bonnat, cipal"etc There are bad men in office
Chaplin, Louis Dechamps, Bashkirtscff, here in Lincoln, men who cannot be re
J. W. Alexander, Whistler and many formed by the dignity of office or the re
others. Tho portrait by Whistler sponsibility of representing 55,000
of his mother, is said to be the best por- people. There are good men in office
trait ever painted. Whistler himself here too, men who represent justice,
deprecates any interest tatcen in it be- who sit in tho judge's seat and who can
cause it ib the portrait of his mother, neither be bribed nor intimidated. Wo
He says it is just a in black and are not all bad. We are all selfish, but
white and it is no one's concern to there are more honest than thieves,
whom the picture is r lated, that tho more law-respecting than law-breakers,
picture must please or ail as the rules more merciful than cruel. It is a good
of color and form are more or leps cor- thing to cry out against corruption but
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rectly followed. Which, of course, is
true, but when wo know tho picture is
the artist's mother, we are not so apt to
fail to see what was there before, name-
not to brand c community with the
crime of a few. George Washington
waB a patriot, Abraham Lincoln was
too, and the latter belongs in these de-
ly what all people worship in pictures of generate days. He was a clever poli
tho madonna. The copy of Manet's pic- tician, he pulled wires, and influenced
ture, which hangs in the Luxembourg, men in more ways than one, though he
of Olympia, a very ugly nude woman did nothing dishonorable. There was
on a divan attended by a negress carry- many a scholar in the south those days
ing a huge bouquet and watched by a whose heart burned within him when
big black cat, is an eerie thing and a he refircted on the disgrace of having
chilly. It is all in blacks and grays and such a man as Lincoln at tho head of
whites, It is as repulsive as Zola's the nation. There are just as many
story of Nana. It expresses the eatna heroes walking up and down the streets
kind of horror and causes the same of Lincoln today as ever trod the streets
Stock arrived in Lincoln January 3 and was put on sale Monday, Jan.
6th, 96, for Je6s than half price. Greatest cut in prices ever made in
Lincoln. Remember this stock was bought for nearly a song.
In order to close it out by tho 1st of February we will
make prices so low that it will make goods move very fast
SAMUEbS BROS
Cor. lOtn and P Streets, Lincoln Neb.
shudder. It was unfortunato that the
cataloguers of the pictures in the Lux
embourg in revising the catalogue got
things mixed and Olympia's number re
ferred to a title which read "Ma Mere,"
by Whistler. Everybody stops to look
at Olympia and some of them believe
anything of that Whistler. You lxnow
Du Maurier says "he has no reverence
for anybody, but this is going too far."
A copy of a portrait of Marie BaBhkirt
seff by herself, shows her a little Tartar.
The portarits of her, Been in the front
of her diary, look like those of any joung,
lady. This is a picture of the girl of the
diary. There are copies of many of the
of Rome or Boston. They themselves
do not know it nor ever will perhaps.
You do not know how strong the rope is
till it has been strained though it may
look like good 6bre. Wars bring out
the stuff men are made of, they develop
the heroic. Now there is Mr. (Jourtnay!
His fighting energy would be useful in
a real war. He dissipates it now in
scrimmages of various kinds, against
churches mostly, where all the strain
comes on his throat. What a different
man he would be it he could ride up
and down on a spiriteu war horse .flour
ish a sword and cry "Down with tho
English." Then newspapers would be
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Have all the latest flavors
for cotillions. New location.
Funke Opera House block.
curiouB imaginings of Puvis de Cha- full of stories of Lieutenant Colonel
vannes, the present idol of the French Courtnaj's heroism, instead of the dis-
paople, or rainer oi r rencn ariisis. grcceiui aitusions inai occasionally ap-
There are two portraits by J. W. Alex
ander, who seems to me a better artist
than Sargent, though he cannot be
compared with him his stylo is so- un
like. He has the delicacy of Whistler
with something more satisfying and fin
ished in the quality of his work. Mr.
Alexander, who is a young American,'
showed Ave or six portraits in last year's
exhibit in Chicago at the art institute,
where they were much admired. His
technique is worth a comment. He
paints on canvas of very coar6o weave
and he lays on his color very thin, rare
ly mixing two colors on his palette. To
this method is partly due the simplicity
of his effects and tho Sower-freshness of
his colors. He is a painter's painter.
While his pictures hung in the gallery
in Chicago they were surrounded by a
group of young art students excitedly
discussing his effects and his -method of
producing them. These are only a few
of the photographs which are all large
and clear and repay a few hours exam
ination. In last week's Courier Mr. New
branch referred to a time "America was
pear in the current and local newspap
ers referring to the man who would
fight.
Miss Elizabeth Irwin sends tho fol
ing statement of the Charity concert to
tho editor of Tho Courier:
I am sorry we are so late in sending
you the exact receipts and expenses of
the Charity concert. Many persons
were 6low in reporting to us, some be
cause they were sick and could not do
so earlier. The entire receipts from the
concert are 8526.10, the expenses were
62.70. not receipts aro 8463.30. We re
ceived many generous donations, chief
among which have been the kind offices
of The Courier and your own personal
influence. 1 or both we are grateful. If
concert was tho most successful enter
prise for charity ever conducted in Lin
coln. The receipts are so large because
Dr. Tyndale and his assistants kept
down the expenses to 863.70. Compare
tho net returns with those of theOmaha
circus which, so far as attendance and
excellence is concerned, was a great suc
cess also But Omaha charity received
ocly about 8300. They held the circus
two nights and tho entire receipts from
the two nights were about St.OOO. The
woman who managed tho programs for
the concert vas an indefatigable worker
and tho advertizing on the programs
Nebraska-Norwegian prairie story ever
written. Her hero is a seven foot Nor
wegian, Canute Canuteson, who had
lived in hi: split-log hut ten years when
the story begins. Canute was lonesome
and drank whiskey at first and carved
de lions laughing and men working or
praying with demons on their backs.
He did both, whiskey drinking and
carving to keep from going crazy in the
awful loneliness of the Divide. Whiskey
soon lost its effect and ho took to alco
hol. "Alcohol is perfectly consistent in
its effect upon man. Drunkenness is
merely an exaggeration. A foolish man
more than paid for them. Dr. Tyn- becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious;
dale organized and arranged tho con a coarse man, vulgar. Canute was none
cert and selected his assistants. His of these, but he was morose and gloomy,
assistants are able women and the doc- and liquor took him through all tho hells
tor and they deserve tho universal praise of Dante. As he lay on his giant'u bed
it be not too late we would like to ex, bestowed on tbem for accomplishing the all the horrors of this world and every
press our inantcs 10 an ine principal nv- success oi a uecaue. other were laid bare to his chilled senses
Nrthaprint-ne lt0' " He was a man who knew no joy, a man
Union and to MncfnoshanTtne1 The holiday number of the Overland who toiled in silence and bitterness.
P. Curtice Music company, as well as to Monthly publishes a story, with illus- The skull and tho serpeiit were always
the musicians who so generously gave trations, by Miss Willa Cather. The before him, the symbols of eternal fu-
ttfnnTncu Norwegians occupy the farms in the vi- tileness and of eternal hate." Canute
expectations in this winter of our hard cinity of Red Cjoud almost exclusively, finally falls in love with the daughter of
times. Yours very respectfully. Miss Cather has observed them for a family that moves into the next
ELIZABETH W. IRWIN. years in her characteristic way, that is, "eighty," His wooing consists in going
This money is to be handed over to the without appearing to. I think this to her father, Ole Jansen's house, and
Charity 'Organization society. This latest story, "On the Divide," tho best drinking alcohol with him. Ihe' girl
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