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Three weeks ago the New York World
published a sketch of Mrs. Bryan on
the front page, with four ugly cuts,
among which was one of a pair of shoes
with the information under it that they
were Mrs. Bryan's. A friend asked
Mrs. Bryan about the World article.and
she smiled and replied that she thought
at.y one who knew her would kDow that
those were not her shoes, as she never
wore high, button, thick soled shoes like
those. Winter and summer, MrE.Bryan
wears low shoes because of a sensitive
ankle, which cannot bear the pressure
of a boot. Not that it matters. It il
lustrates, however, the unscrupulous
character of the World's policy. A per
sonage, masculine or feminine, is unable
to keep the picture of himself or any of
his personal and most private property
out of its pages. As in Mrs. Bryan's
case, if the permission is refused, the
photographers employed by the paper
take a picture of any old thing and label
it whatever the exhibitor requires.
The colored pictures by Outcault of
the celebrations in Hogun's alley are
truly funny, and because the Sunday
edition has more pictures for five cents
than any other publication in the
United States the Sunday issue has
probobly the largest sale of any paper
in the country. The people dearly love
pictures, aud with good reason, first
and most important of which is the
shortness of life. A good cartoon teaches
a great truth and teaches it impres
sively in one thousandth fraction of the
time that it would take tetter press
to announce, adduce and prove the
same thing. A good cartoon is like one
of Mr. Bryan's speeches: it assumes
certain things and the deductions are
unassailable.
McCutcheon, the cartoonist on the
Chicago Record, is at the present time
quoted and copied more than any other
artist east or west. The'Sunday edi
tions of newspapers print a reduced
summary of the beet cartoons of the
week in all parts of the United States.
The New York and San Francisco pa
pers for months past have had one of
McCutcheon's cartoons for the centre
and three or four from his pen sur
rounding. Uis wise fun is characterized
by point, originality and fairness. Noth
ing like the coaree and repulsive pic
tures labelled "Mark Hannah that
ought to disqualify a cartoonist from
further work, can be ascribed to the ar
tists of the new and respectable school.
Undoubtedly, Nast did a good work for
purity in politics, but it is a far cry
from the best caricature of the day to
Nast's work and in his day he was the
best and justly made more of a reputa
tion than those who havesucceeded and
surpassed him. The pictures of Mark
Hanna, just referred to. 6trocgly resem
ble Nast's pictures of Tweed, and owe
their vogue to the effect that Nast's
drawings accomplished rather than to
any merit of their own. Nast's Tweed
was a machine man with a check suit
on, in each check a dollar sign, puff,
flabby cheeks, and a small head, an al
dermanic stomach and a generally over
fed, pursey look. The man armed with
a weapon mightier than the sword is
pursuing Mark Hanna, with this Nasty
likeness that hurts the paper that per
mits more than the victim.
If modern journalism were fairly rep
resented by the best selling paper in
the country, viz, the New York World,
then is evolution a fallacy, but the peo
ple who buy the paper do not approve
of it Those who buy it look at the
pictures and throw it aside with dis
gust. Edwin Gould has made a rule that all
of the employes in his mutch factory at
Passaic must have their teeth examined
and, if necessary, tilled, lie employed a
dentist to examine their teeth free of
charge, and be found that eighty
mouths needed attention None of the
girls returned a certificate from the
dentiet that the teeth had been tilled, as
they Had been ordered to. Then Edwin
Gould issued another manifesto that
tbone employes should return him a
certificate of teeth filled on or before
September 14. The girls are in a state
of rebellion, having been foolishly
brought up to consider their teeth their
own. It appears that the phosphorous,
so plentiful in a match factory, is very
injurious to the teeth of the woikers,
and whero the tooth is decayed quickly
destroys it. In order to make the busi
ness inocuous to the employes it would
seem natural for Edwin Gould to em
ploy a dentist to repair the ravages his
phosphorous makes. He himself says it
would bo but a trifling sum for each
one. A "trifling sum" to a millionaire
is one thing and to a poor match girl,
whose whole salary id "a tritlng sum," it
is another. It never seems to have oc
cured to Edwin Gould that it is bis bus
iness and hiB duty to pay a dentist to
repair, so far as possible, the injuries to
the health of those engaged in a dan-
gerDUB occupation, of which he reaps
the profits. He has also probably not
reflected on the independent spirit that,
factory girl or cot, would ma':e her re
Bent an order to have her teeth exam
ined, and if decayed, compel her to
present to the overseer a certificate from
a dentist that they had been filled. If
Edwin Gould succeeds in his doubtless
well meant interference with the con
monest rights of individuals, the inde
pendence of the Atlantic coast has been
weakened since a hundred yeais or so
ago it refused to bo bossed by Edgland.
The illustrations to August Jaccaci's
Spanish travels, which he calls "On the
Trail of Don Quixote," are the most de
lightful of anything in current litera
ture. They are pen and ink sketches
by Vierge from his name, his
skill, his daintiness a Frenchman.
The September Scribner's con
tains the second installment of the
series. The vignette at the top of page
295, showing tall sedge grasses and wild
fowl rising from them looks like a relief,
although the light and shade is deli
cate enough.
The color of the t-ketches is a soft
grey, except in each case for one spot of
velvet blackness. The load on a donk
ey's back, spots on a dog, the belt and
head handkerchiefs of a pedestrian, the
head of a man in bed, are the spots of
blackness in the several illustrations.
Most artists make light the important
point of composition; Vierge grades his
fiom the deepest shadow. The effect
fascinates, though, sofai, the reason
for the variation is not apparent.
Li Hung Chang has been interviewed
many times since he left China. The
reporters find and leave him smiling
and graciouB, but at each attempt they
convey more information than thev
take away. Li seems to think newspapers
are educational institutions for the
purpose of assisting guileless Orientals
to foro. an idea of the true inwardness
of this country. Some people of Hiber
nian descent accuse Li of stupidity. A
man who is able to send away a reporter
who has been sharpened and annealed
by interviews with the wiliest and gam
iest of presidents since Washington's
time, under the impression that he has
been courteously treated and sure that
he has gathered information until he
comes to write it down, is a statesman
of rare ability, at least in the Occident.
The feminine reporters found him es
pecially gracious. The Dramatic Mirror
eays:
"The Twin Sisters Abbott, Bessie and
Jessie, returned home on Friday last by
the St. Louis, which also brought Li
Hung Cnang, the great Chinese states
man, and his suite. The pretty sisters
with the sweet voices made a complete
conquest of the old viceroy. Although
he was extremely dignified with the rest
of the passengers, Li Hung Chang un
bent when conversing with the Misses
Abbott, and was, as they enthusiastic
ally declared to a Mirror reporter on
Saturday, "just the dearest, sweetest
loveliest old man we have ever met."
A concert was given on board on
Wednesday evening to which Li was
invited. He sat in his big chair clad in
most gorgeous raiment and wearing his
three-eyed peacock feathers and his fa
mous yellow jacket. He did not appear
to take any interest in the proceedings
until the Abbotts appeared. He seemed
to be greatly pleased with their singing
and the following morning 6ent his sec
retary, Lord Li, with a message compli
menting them and asking them to call
upon him in his apartments. He greet
ed them very cordially and presented
etch of them with his photograph, dec
orated on each side with Chinese writ
ing in his own hand, telling of his
admiration for them. He then asked
them as a special favor to sing "Linger
Longer, Lucy," pronouncing the name
of the song in very clear English. The
Abbotts had several chats with Li af
terward, and were greatly charmed with
him. They alBO became fast friends
with Lu Fung Lc, the interpreter, and
several of the other distinguished mem
bers of the party. Two of the China
men wrote poems in the girls' albunie,
expressing in most extraordinary verse
the loftiest sentiments and wishes for
their happiness.
AltRICAN EXCHANGE NATIONAI BANK
LINCOLN, NEB.
I M.RAYMOND, A.J. SAWYER
President. Viceo President
S. H. BURNIIAM. D. G. WING
Casbier. Aaitnt Cashier
CAPITAL, $250,000 SURPLUS $25 000
Directors I. M. Raymond, S. H. nnrnham
C. G.Dawes. A. J. Sawyer, Lewis Gregory
N Z Snell, G M Lambertson. D G Wins, S W '
Bnrnam.
NOTICE.
First publication August 29.
William F. Onlev, defendant, will
take notice that on the 18th day of
April, 1896, Stull Bros., the plaintiffs
herein, filed their petition in the district
court of Lancaster county, Nebraska,
against said defendant, the object and
prayer of which are to foreclose a cer
tain mortgage executed by William F.
Onley (single) to George Thompson.and
by him duly sold and assigned to Stull
Bros., plaintiffs, upon lot eix(C), in block
eighteen (18), Mills' Second audition to
University Place, in Lancaster county,
Nebraska, to secure the payment of one
certain promiBory note, with interest
coupons attached, said note dated Sep
tember 1, 1892, for the sum of 8500, due
and payable one year from date thereof. m
Said note was not paid when the same '
became due, nor any part thereof, nor
has said note or any part thereof been
collected and paid; there is now due on
said notes, coupons and mortgage the
sum of $600, for which sum, with inter
est from September, 1, 1894, at 10 per
cent per annum, plaintiffs pray for a
decree that defendants be required to
pay the same, or that said premises may
be sold to satisfy the amount found due.
You are required to answer said peti
tion on or before Mondav, the 5th day
of October, 1896.
C. C. Flaxsburg,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Dated August 29, 1896.
Sept 19
NOTICE.
F. W. Marotz, Mary P. Marotz, Sallie
E. Hyatt, Hyatt, whose first name
is unknown, husband ot Sallie E. Hyatt,
Thomas W. Passmore, Lewis C. Pass
more, Orion C. Passmore and Howard
E. Passmore, defendants, will take no
tice that on the 12th day of August,
1896, Martha R. Meyers, plaintiff, herein
filed her petition in the district court of
Lancaster county, Nebraska, against
said defendants and others, the object
and prayer of which are to foreclose a
certain mortgage executed by the de
fendant Sallie E. Hyatt (by her then
name Sallie E. Passmore) and one Isaiah
D. Passmore, now deceased, to one W.
W. Holmes, and by him assigned to
Mary L. Runyon, and by her assigned
to the plaintiff, being upon theeast half
of the northeast quarter of section num
bered twenty-three, town nine, range
seven east, in Lancaster county, Ne
braska, to secure the payment of one
promissory nota dated March 8, 18S2, for
the sum of five hundred dollars, and
due and payable in five years from the
date thereof; that there is now due and
payable on said note and mortgage the
sum of 8500, with 8 per cent interest
from March 8, 1895, for which sum with
interest from that date plaintiff prays
for a decreejthat defendants he required
to pay the same or that 6aid premises
be sold to satisfy the amount found
due, and that the interest, right and
title of each defendant may be found in
the Baid premises and in any surplus
that may arise from the sale under any
decree in this care.
You are required to answer this peti
tion on or before the 21st day of Sep
tember, 1896.
MARTHA R. MEYERS,
Plaintiff.
Dated August 12, 1896.
Sep 12
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