The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-03-06

TO have experienced pleasure and re-
ceircd and education which can never
he forgot cl as long as life remains. 1t
Is ply that IL should ever be broken
up. IL would have been spendi |
nucleus FOR "A National Museum. but the
tates are against it and now it is to be
scattered TO the four winds.
The exhibition OF water colors ct the
National Academy of Design this year
is one OF extraordinary merit. No such
exhibition would have been possible ten
or fifteen years ago. The artists were
not in the country. and water colOring
was looked upon as very Indifferent
occupation, fit only for amateurs and
dudes. Uc have outgrown that, and
the visitor wandering about through tho
galleries of the National academy will
see pictures hanging on the walls which
challenge the highest admiration. An
encouraging feature of this years cX-
hibiiion is the great number of sales at
remuneratiye prices. Numbers of pic
lures are marked 500 and 81 eco, and
many of them have been sold at these
prices. 1t has been a great point of al
traction 10 amateur artists. and will
tavolaUly compare with the best water
color exhibitions of England.
Thomas Moran the artist has tried the
bold experiment of giving public eN-
hibilion of his own works, and if there
Is any artist on the. American continent
who could try such hazardous expert
ment with impunly, that man is 1hos.
Moran. lie is essentially a painter of
the grand and impressive in nature. lie
loves his work, and his canvasses are to
him like children. Mrs. Moran is an
ctcher of consummate ability, and in
entire sympathy with her husbands
work. The exhibition Is one of great
merit, and has special attraction for
all lovers OF whatever is noble and beau
tiful in art.
. The death Of Kenward Philip, the
Journalist, recalls one of the most start
ling aud interesting events in our ma
tional history--the fOrgeryo of the Morey
letter when General Garfield .and Gen
eral Hancock were rivals for the Presi-
dency. In court of law, to the salts
faction of n jury, he established his in
nocence of the actual crime: but there
was little doubt in the minds of those
who knew him well, that he was ad-
vised Of the scheme, and knew the
criminal at the time of its preparation.
Mr.. Philip was a man of excellent abili-
y. and if he had chosen to be so, might
have been one of New NcrR's most hon
ored journalists; but he chose the COM
pany of disreputable Bohemians who
appear to think that journalism is IL
cense TO libel, and that they have made
ample amends when they publish your
contradiction of lie which they them
selves have coined. The reason why
Mr.. Philip was marked for the offence
was his prominent connection with a
disrcputablo and libclous newspaper,
which to the honor of American Jour
nalism has since been stamped out of
existence. He was remarkably clever
in the use of his pen, and initiated peo-
pies signatures with the ability OF an
expert. When the forgery appeared
Mr.. Philip pronounced it genuine, and
proceeded to bolster it up with proofs
and even after the miserable scoundrel
who concocted and perpetrated the
crime had made confession of his infamv
and sold his associates for gold, Mr..
Phllp still professed to believe that the
.ignaure was genuine, though Garfield
with his dying lips denied it. During
The past ten years Mr.. Philn earned
large sums of money with his pen. and
he received $1,000 in settlement of his
libel suit against the Tribune; but at
the age of forty, when lie might have
been at the very zenith of his usefulness
and fame, he dies wreck and perhaps
l bankrupt, and the only thing to rescue
his name from oblivion will be its as
sociation with one OF the most bastard
!y crimes in American history.
BROADBRIM.