The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-05-01
ILLUS rKArED JOURNALISM.
Wall From I'M Nys on Newspaper
Portraits.

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No man knownB now much the human
heart can endure and yet not bunat until
he has seen kis portrait published a few
times. Then he realize the wealth Of woe
that on soul may wreslle with, and yet not
become unhingcd and loosed from liz irail
tenement Of clay. Men 20 on, yea9 after
year.. gaining the esteem Of their follow
men by an upright course, only to lose 1t
all by forgetting Themselves at m unior.
tunate and weak moment, AID permitting
ther portraits to DO publiahed and their
shame proclaimed upon tho ho%usetops.
Some years ugo All alleged engraving was
made from n Of my photographs, but the
proof was gcnt 10 me In time, 10 that l
could by telegraph prevent ils publication.
In that portrait tho %wood.graver had
taken the liberty 10 ,tamper with the face,
and put in little improvements here and
there according to his own ideas Of beauty.
Among tho rest, l remember that he had
nnscrewed the lower Jaw and lot II down
about all inch, 80 TINT the face had the ex-
preston Of a vacant lot In the carly spring.
You pull any mans lower Jaw loose and
lay 1t on his heavily breast, and then turn
his eyes up toward tho g%tar.studded sky,
and he seems to lack forcO OF character,
somehow.
81 | wired tho house 10 "kill" that por.
trait, and bury 1t with tho epgrayer when
tho violets bloomed.
Then another engraver took his lilo and
his cold.chisel in his hand, and blocked
AL , snnaoJ avn 1Ja tho,,uht I nt,,bt hn
sensitive about my late front hair. So no
I put aome on IN the engraving without ad.
ditional charge. 1t looked like the bunch
Of grass that springs up around an old but.
falo bulls skull.'
! do not care TO wear improvised hair,
even In an engraving. am not proud. II
nature intended that my Scandinavian hair
should fall carly In the fight, l can can not
help 1t. | Gun not ask the engraver 10 help
mo out.
Later on, another engraver took-hold-oi
the matter.
lilo went at it hopefully and even hilari:
ously, singing anon rs 10 put his sheet.
iron shade over his eyes, and adjusted his
boiler.iron corset that he might be ready
In case l should come in on him while he
was at work.
lie mudea specially Of the Adams apple.
he made a portrait that wasn't 80 terrific
II he hadn' thrown in an intellectual waste
Of Adams apple that would inspire o giraffe
| with awe. :.
He fooled along with the engraving
until time to 80 to press, handed it III with
his resignation, got q copy OF the paper 30
rs to nuke sure he had done his horrible
work well, and her went to the interior OF
Africa to make a home.
For a long after the paper was published
my vile would not recognize me on the
street, and tho children were bathed in
tears. I suffered l. great deal mentally,
but resolved to live it down, and to aid ME
In this great undertaking q friend offered
10 publish q fine, life-like engraving, that
be certified to as accurate, and all the
former ones denounced az base infringe
ments.
l agreed 10 it, and he went at it.
Alter n great deal OF delay he sent me a
proof which bore u striking resemblance 10
me. | admitted to him that it favored me,
and VIC decided to let it 50 forth with my
name attached to it.
Gaily the press went on with It's low
rumble aud grumble, grinding out it's
thousands Of copies Of damp papers,
heraldlng to the English.speaking world
that the subscriber wore his brains open
to the Indictment weather, and pulled his
scalp down over his eye to be facetious.
The first copy Of the paper was a good
one, and the portrait loomed up like the
Turkish towel moustache of the young
man, but the nex revolution OF the press
disturbed an EN- quad or q loose canard or
something abouttne makeup Of the paper,
aud in the onward march Of the machine
the whole top OF my head was removed
and piled up over the of.eye like a study
in olivegreen and navy.blue after an
election fight.
Still, We are. getiinga better class Of en-
graveis than We had five years ago. It
seemed pretty harah to kill of tho bad
ones, but l am willing to make most any
sacrifice for the advancement of art,