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WE AND OUR NEIGHBORS
This has been a remarkable season
for cottton wash dress goods styles
have been exceptionally attractive,
prices unprecedentedly low and busi
ness proportionately large. Thus for
we have had the most satisfactory
trade on this class of fabrics In the
history of our business. Our assort
ment of the most popular lines is
still in good shape, among them
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Evolution signs the race nearly fin
ished when sculptors begin to appear.
Centuries of modeling preceded Phi
dias and Proxiteleo and the Egypt
ians. Though the latter succeeded in
building the most impressive monu
ments, they were overmastered by
their religion to such an extent that
their ideas of beauty have never been
accepted by the artists of succeeding
age?. I mean the beauty of the human
form that the Greeks and even the
Romans expressed so well.
It is flattering to the progress we
have made that we show signs of hav
ing reached the sculptor age. John
Currle belongs to the Egyptian school.
He makes grotesque dogs and once he
cast Portland cement into a gigantic
image of a man. almost as huge as
those statues that sat for ages In the
Nile and responded with a musical
note when the sun's rays touched
them. When his man was done he
looked too fresh for a pre-hlstoric man,
so John buried him in the ground and
possessed his soul with patience for a
year. Then he, dug a well on his place
between two sticks found imbedded
in the soil Just over the head of his
gigantic offspring. Taking care to
have a witness by to repeat his ejacu
lations about the, hardness and virgin
character of the soli. John's spade soon
struck something as hard as Portland.
In view of the statesman artist's
practice as to work it is difficult to be
lieve that he released the buried man
from the earth's long embrace, but
it is told that he dug out the colossus
himself.
Here the incredible ceases. He
named it a petrified man. but the white
folks mocked at him. It was not until
he found a member of a. primitive and
unsophlscated race, an old colored man
with a cuinous faith in white men that
sculptor John was able, at last, to live
by his wits. The old man's name was
Montgomery: he was a janitor at the
high school. John told him that he
could make a fabulous sum exhibiting
the petrified man, that ethnologists
had been hunting for many years for
just such a proof that "In those days
there were giants;" that as the owner
of the only survival of a. prehistoric
race the name of Montgomery would
become celebrated all over the world.
The janitcc gave the foxy Inventor a
deed on his small farm, obtained the
specimen, and disappeared for a while
from Lincoln.
With John Currie to represent the
artistic development of Lincoln and
Bud Lindsey the standard of political
sagacity, have we anything to be
ashamed of?
A lady who has come to Lincoln
within a year or two says that the ar
tistic standards of the people here are
too high. This charge is unusual and,
unless it have some commercial object,
unique. Art Is a word that all except
its high priests babble about with
meaningless and Impertinent repeti
tion. But If all the housekeepers of
Lincoln, or if just the members of the
women's clubs of Lincoln should cover
the poor, dumb walls of their houses
with pictures cut from the Illustrated
magazines and. papers, cover them as
this forerunner of a new gospel has
coveredLhers. the men might be driven
to drinkr. Why should the lady of the
house strike an attitude In front of
a somewhat feeble and self-conscious
attempt at mural decoration and de
claim on the mission of art, our rela
tion to it, and its relation to us? Such
a course will inevitably damage do
mestic peace and make the neighbors
envious. In a less civilized community
than ours, missionaries who preach a
better religion than the natives possess
ace frequently spitted, not because the
natives are fond of missionary, but be
cause they are not so versatile or trav
elled as he is and lack a better argu
ment to the superiority of their own
deity. I have always thought a suc
cessful missionary must be encased in
a thicker epidermis than the ordinary
man grows. In the first place, because
savages are epicures and know the
tough from the tender, and in the sec
ond place, a man with a delicately
poised sense of human rights hesitates
to Inform several million people that
they are wrong; that their forefathers
are not where they suppose them to
be, and that if they continue to wor
ship the God of their fathers, In many
countries commanded by the govern
ment. the themselves will not be in
the places, after leaving this world,
that their descendants, suppose them
to be. In this way, natives are fre
quently Induced to give up an inferior
religion for a better, much to thelc
own advantage, to be sure, but requir
ing supernatural self-assurance in the
messenger who brings the tidings.
Lincoln is not an art centre, yet the
support that the Haydon Art club has
received since its organization shows
that we are interested in the subject.
It has given four v five exhibitions
of the best work of American artists
which have been well patronized in
spite of the hard times. It has pur
chased a number of etchings, which
hang in a gallery at the university,
and during the winter the club studies
certain subjects pertaining to engrav
ing and the various methods of mak
ing a picture, as well as architecture
and sculpture. Potentially it possesses
a worthy and inspiring collection of
pictures in a gallery of Its own. Miss
Sarah Wool Moore, who organized the
club, laid the foundation broad as
the requirements and generosity of a
.vestern city will. In time, demand.
Miss Moore worked for several years
to get enough people interested in the
movement so that its members should
represent every class that makes a
city full. She accomplished her pur
pose after much self-sacrificing and
quiet labor. She Is now In Florida,
where, unless she has changed, she
is still, with humility doing two or
three times her share of work. The
charter members of the club remember
her work with gratitude and hope for
the future.
The Crete Chautauqua began on the
first, though today the fourth Js
really the beginning of the festivities.
All the cottages are taken and more
tents have been ordered than In any
previous year. The Calvert cottage Is
occupied by Mrs. Calvert, Mrs. Hardy,
Mrs. Garten, and Dr. Sabin, Mr. Welch
and family occupy their cottage and
share a part of it with Mrs. W. C.
Griffith, Mrs. J. W. Winger and Mrs.
Agnes Sewell. The Pierce cottage Is
occupied by the senior T. W. C. A. of
Lincoln. The lawyers' building is
filled b ytwenty-flve or thirty mem
bers of the T. W. C. A. of Lincoln.
Miss Gertrude Smith and others occu
py the Y. M. C. A. building. The Jubi
lee singers are in the G. A. R. build
ing. Wing Allen and party of
Omaha people are in the
Hardy cottage. The Brltt cot
tage is occupied by Mrs. A. B. Clark
and party. Walter Davis and Mrs.
Davis, J. S. Harpham and Mrs. Harp
ham, J. L. Parsons and Mrs. Parsons
are In the Eldredge cottage. The first
floco of the press building is rented by
Mrs. Richardson and party from
Eagle. Neb Mrs. H. M. Bushnell and
friends are on the second floor.
Exerclees Is a heavy word and sug
gests self-improvement and Instruc
tion especially obnoxious in hot weath
er. I am glad to state that some of
the exercises are. not Improving at all,
only cooling and diverting. A child
caji understand them and the middle
aged are quite as interested. Even the
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