The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1895-02-27

reaches certain stage, they Imagine
their mind to be Pierian spring from
which one has but to drink to become
as wise as Solomon. Well present the
subject in a different light, through a
chemical process as before. They i'm
agine themselves the negative from
which we first picture, such as we might
style a la Rembrandt, finished up on
American Aristo paper, highly polished,
you know, and thinking the people gen.
orally are in total ignorance in regard
to the solutions and manipulations a
position has to go through to become q
thing Of beauty, that the artistic hand
Of the artist obliterates freckles add
smoother up wrinkles, etc, they. bank
on the part that they pretend 20 play,
their much cheek a safeguard against
detection and they'll reap applause from
the listening senator-alas scarcely are
their backs turned till their audience,
considering the source, and, perhaps
being mind-readers, and being as well
or perhaps better acquainted with the
artist, shower their applause on the one
whose name ever accompanies his work.
In Wilson's Photographers, we find
these beautiful lines. "Man is made by
God after his own image" All the
other arts initiate man in their creations.
Poetry sings of his loves and passions !;
music mimics his songs OF praise, and
repeats his woeful walls; the painter
never tires of delineating his figures of
representing his life, or depicting his
beauties sculpture immortalizes him !;
the architect constructs his grand crt-
atoms in form after the human figure !;
and dancing moulds his graces into the
poetry OF motion, thus creating and COM
plotting ring of faithful delineators of
human splendors, all bound by the prin-
ciples of art. They express for human
ity It's ideas they render its sentiments
they initiate it in all its phases, for the
enjoyment of its members"
What about the class above mention
ed Mr.. Wilson ? Is there any room for
poetry in such lives? Are they fit sub
jects for the sculptures art to exhaust its
pomp OF woe upon. They would have
the people believe that they control the
light and after the negative has been
developed, washed, fixed and dried, if
they didn't lend a hand at retouching,
the work would be rejected and the
artist meet his doom.
The class of whom write, the incau-
tious manner in which they conduct
themselves i'll BELTS them for the pleas
ant walks of life, and like the owl, they
seldom venture from home till the sun
has hid ITSELF below the Western hori-
zon Then with eyes glazing, they vent
ure forth to air themselves. But they
occasionally become more bold and vent
ure into the synagogues, and take the
uppermost seats thereof, and for pre-
tence make long prayers, and commune
with the saints touching the hottest of
things. VANITY of vanities, sayeth the
preacher, vanity of vanities; all is van
ity."-Ecclesiastes, /: 2.
"Let another man praise thee, and
not thine own lips" And again; "a
stone is heavy, and the sand weighty +;
but FOOLS wrath is heavier than them
both. Proverbs, %: 2, 3.
What is fame when one has to strug-
gle through the intricate by-paths OF de-
ception to reach it? What is fame
when one has to pilfer it from a neigh
Dor? And finally what is fame when
the culprit comes home and learns that
the one whom he was endeavoring to
rob has been informed in regard to the
boosted possessions and inform the pub
lie that the would be thief is only in po-
session Of little "fool's-gold," OF no in
trinsic value; that in trying to rob "Dem-
ocracy" he had gotten into the wrong
treasury and stolen the nonintrinsic
metal that the Populist' have been rails
ing such howl about, and being OF an
Universe" turn of mind, 80 common in
the Populist fold, he thought he'd struck
a bonanza.
Oh "the" ambition vanished Ger
with zeal, the blind conductor of the
will" Do'st thou not know vain man
that the Sirocco scribe has friends all
over the county? And when thou art
airing myself and Boosting OF thy aid (2)
to said scribe thou art making laugh
ing-stock OF myself? That it is as hard
for thee to make people believe that
thou (?) art helping(P) the aforesaid
scribe "6x up" (?) his letters as it is for
an elephant to go through rifle barrel ?
That thy avarice will yet cause volcano
to explode and shower its molten lava
around thy inflated head, and thou wilt
melt down and sink into oblivion and
her languid wings will flutter and fan
thine ashes "clean" off the face of the
earth, and thy ungodly spirit will sink
into the pits where "the worm dieth
not, and the fire is not quenched2
Think, for one moment, "Mr. wilkins
Micawber," for heavens sake think
Think, / say
He spent the night near a neighboring
village, and thinking himself clear out
OF range OF Sirocco, boosted OF being a
"particeps criminis" In fixing up" the