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to her fascination we can comprehend
the charm by which she is making her
way from obscurity to social success,
and to the throne of love. The diffi
culty of accomplishing this is apparent.
It is a far cry to Thackeray. Yet the
problem is the same. Two installments
of the story have appeared. When It
is tevlewed after It has appeared in
book form, the dritics must Inevitably
compare Madamolselle Breton with
Becky Sharp in Mrs. Ward's favor.
Emblem for the St. Louis Fair
The managers of the St. Louis fair,
which is to open in the spring of 1904,
offer a prize of 52.000, which they will
award -to the contributor of the most
striking and appropriate emblem of the
fair. The offer is given prominence
here In the hope that some Nebraska
artist or gifted advertiser may see it.
have an inspiration, draught it, send it
to St. Louis and win the prize, inci
dentally attracting the attention of the
nation to the originality and boldness
of the Nebraska Intellect
The emblem is to be used as a seal,
stamped on letter heads, and enlarged
for posters and placards of the expo
sition, the designs distinguished by a
device In the usual fashion of such ex
positions. They must be sent to Bud
worth and Son, 421 West Fifty-second
street, N. Y., between November first
and November fifth of the current
year.,
A preliminary examination will be
made at once by the committee and all
unavailable designs will be returned to
the designers at their expense. It is
hinted that the directory may buy oth
er designs than the one which wins the
competition.
The greatest freedom is allowed In
the treatment of the subject selected
by the designer, but It must be artis
tic, appropriate, effective and suscep
tible of employment In various modified
forms, and it must symbolize the
Louisiana Purchase, which secured for
the United States the control of the
Mississippi river.
The jurors are Frederick Dielman;
John La Farge, J. Q. A. Ward. Lorado
Taft. Charles F. McKlm, Wilson Eyre
and Professor Alcee Fortier.
Of the expositions which have been
held in recent years the designs sym
bolizing the Pan American held at
Buffalo were especially striking. The
one which was extensively used for
posters Is a map of the continents of
North and South America, with the
outlines formed by the flowing gar
ments of two female figures clasping
hands at the Isthmus. The poster de
sign Is an equlsitely colored picture of
Niagara Falls with the very beautiful
figure of a woman shimmering In the
water of the Falls. The water is her
waving hair and her opalescent eyes il
luminate things. No other recent ex
position has been represented by such
easily .remembered designs.
Simplicity and effectiveness, com
bined in artistic composition, is more
easily accomplished than the creation
of one design suitable for either a
medal, a letter-head or a seal. Con
vertible designs and articles have the
appearance, the undisguisable appear
ance, of a make-shift. The disguise or
a folding bed which looks like a piano
In the daytime Is not complete, and the
owners are always afraid that suspi
cion will be converted Into certainty,
and they dread the moment of discov
ery. The successful design must have
no appearance of convertibility. There
must be no unexplained knobs and
handles and no resounding hollowness
In response to an accidental tap (fig
uratively speaking).
Still the accomplishment is not Im
possible. There are beautiful women
who look as well in one costume as
another, and as fitting In all. As a
cook or second girl or horse-woman,
in ball dress or in nurse's costume, n
special kind of beautiful woman is
equally bewitching. Beauty of design,
absolute beauty can be expressed on
die or poster or seal, presupposing that
simplicity is Its note.
The competitors should not be con
fined to artists. Bret Harte once won
a prize from one of the transcontinen
tal railroads for the best emblematic
design. The state or region was rep
resented by'a bear as a type of wild
ness and a virgin frontier. Bret Harte
drew two parallel lines leading up to
the bear's mouth and gave him a
scared, horrified expression, the very
expression a bear would have if he
knew enough to assume it at the ap
proach et th most invincible exponent
of civilization. To be sure Bret Harte
was a man of ideas, but there are
thousands of such men in Nebraska.
When they go into a more densely
populated if not larger world they
win the prizes of energy and of daring
versatlllt;'.
Besides, the Art association has fos
tered a love and knowledge of art. In
Omaha and Lincoln there are talented
and distlnguishd artists. At a recent
exhibition of the work of western art
ists in Chicago, a lovely landscape by
Miss Hayden, of the university school,
received especial mention and was
copied into several newspapers. Her
instruction to students of line and color
Is sound, and student exhibitions show
that it Is Inspiring. Eastern publish
ers are beginning to look towards the
west for virility In expression and
analysis. We are a new people, and
primitive folk are poets and story tetl
ers, and they are especially successful
in making signs and in graphic ex
pression. So that although the Ne
braska competitors will have eastern
rivals of deeper culture, they have the
advantage of living in a land of In
spiration. The Power of High-Priod Pews
"The dispersion of shares in the Eng
lish breweries among pious middle
class folk throughout the realm has ad
mittedly made the work of temperance
reform harder in England than it used
to be." And goodness knows It was
always hard enough in England. In
America the richest brewers who sell
more beer in a week than the saloon
keeper sells In his lifetime, are socially
taboo, excepting, perhaps from this
statement, the society of Milwaukee
and St. Louis and a few whiskey dis
tillers In Peoria. There may also be
other large and important centres of
American beer and whiskey manufac
ture that I have overlooked on account
of a lack of early culture. But gener
ally speaking the beer and whiskey
business Is considered nefarious In
America, and merchants dealing In
either are not socially distinguished.
The continental conscience is newly
awakened to the subject and necessity
of temperance and of temperance a'gl
tation. Consequently the emancipated
clergymen of Great Britain are preach
ing temperance vigorously.
But there are pulpits facing and
maintained by pew-holders whose oc
cupants get the money to pay their
parish dues from brewing companies
As the editor of the Boston Transcript,
from whom the first sentence is quot
ed, says: "It was far easier for the
clergymen of the North to preach "
against Southern slaveholdlng than it
is for Massachusetts clergymen today
to speak their minds freely on the eth
ical aspects of current political and so
cial reforms." No pew owner, however
wealthy, is offended when the sins of
distant neighbors are rebuked, sins
which will In no wise profit him to
commit. But it is very difficult for the
most unworldly pastor, who truly loves
his parishioners and Is beloved by
them, to preach against their darling
sin. It is easy for Lincoln pastors to
inveigh against the corruption of New
York city politics. It Is only lately
that one or two of the pastors have
had the courage to Investigate the cor
ruption and selfishness of the machine
in Lincoln and preach against it and
go to political meetings and take an
active part in them as men and good
citizens as well as preachers. If the
pewholders love the preacher they will
take a scolding from him and have se
rious thoughts of a reform which thev
will accomplish unless it shall cost
them too much. They must draw the
line against religion's intrusion on bus
iness somewhere. The busjness of the
preacher is to push the line further and
further into business and politics.
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EDWARD M. COFFIN.
Perseverence and untiring labor and study emancipated Edward M.
Coffin from the role of school teacher to eminence of president and gen
eral attorney of the Nebraska Mercantile Mutual Insurance company
and general attorney of the Farmers' Mutual insurance company. At the
age of twenty he was admitted to the bar and his advance to the fore
has been steady and sure.
Born in Otsego, Allegan county, Michigan, on August 20, 1839, he lo
cated In Valley county, Nebraska, In the ,fall of 1877. While still In
Michigan he graduated from the high school, following with a special
course In normal work. During the winter months when he was sixteen
and seventeen years of age he taught school. The summer months were
spent In hard toll on the farm of his father near the town of Otsego.
In 1876 he removed to Rochester, Minnesota, where, with County
Judge Fulkerson of Olmstead county, he became interested in law. In the
fall of 1S77 he removed to Valley county, Nebraska, where He again
taught school. During the years 1878 and 1879 he read law In the office
of Thomas Darnell at St. Paul and was admitted to the bar In 1879. After
Jhls he located in Ord. In 1881, at the age of twenty-two, he was elected
city attorney of Ord and county attorney of Valley county. Governor
Dawes appointed him district attorney of the Sixth judicial district in
1883. He was renamed for this office and served two terms. After
serving as judge of the Eleventh judicial district one term, he removed
to Lincoln In 1893 and undertook law and Insurance. He was made gen
eral attorney of the Farmers Mutual insurance company in 1896 and was
re-elected In 1898, when he was also made president and general attor
ney of the Nebraska Mercantile Mutual insurance company, two of the
strongest insurance companies In the union. Between them both they
have over 20.000 policy holders In Nebraska alone, while $50,000,000 worth
of Insurance Is In force to their credit. Every year they settle as many
as 1,000 losses.
In addition to his duties with these companies Mr. Coffin, with E.
J. Clements, has considerable law practice under the firm name of Cof
fin & Clements. Besides he is interested in a number of other business
enterprises. He Is a believer In fraternal orders and Is a member of
lodge No. 19, A. F. & A. M an Odd Fellow, a Royal Highlander, a mem
ber of the Sons and Daughters of Protection, influential among the Elks
and a member of the Union-Commercial club. He resides In a handsome
home at the corner of A and Nineteenth streets, which he built a few
years ago.
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