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Evolution signs the race nearly I'm
Centuries of modelling preceded Phi.
dias and Proxiteleo and the Egypt
;ans. Though the latter succeeded in
building the most impressive monu.
ments. they were overmastered by
their religion to such an extent that
their ideas of beauty have never been
accepted by the artists Of succeeding
ages. I mean the beauty of the human
form that the Greeks and even the
Romans expressed SO well.
1t is fiattering to the progress we
have made that we show signs of hav.
ing reached the sculptor age. John
Currie belongs to the Egyptian school
He makes grotesQue dogs and once he
image of a man. almost as huge a
those statues that sat for ages in the
Nile and responded with a musical
note when the suns rays touched
them. When his man was done he
looked too fresh for a prehistoric man,
so John buried him in the ground and
possessed his soul with patience for a
year. Then he dug a well on his place
between two sticks found imbedded
in the soil just over the head of his
gigantic offspring. Taking care to
have a witness by to repeat his ejacu-
lations about the hardness and virgin
character of the soil. Johns spade soon
struck something as hard as Portland.
Practice as to work it is difficult to be-
l;eve that he released the buried man
from the earth's long embrace, but
il is told that he dug out the colossus
himself
Here the Incredible ceases. He
named II a petrified man. but the white
folks Knocked at him. 1t was not until
he found a member of primitive and
unsophiscated race. an old colored man
with a c'uinous faith in white men that
sculptor John was able. at last. to live
by his wits. The old mans name was
Montgomery: he was a tanitor at the
high school. John told him that he
could make a fabulous sum exhibiting
the petrified man. that ethnologists
had been hunting for many years for
just such a proof that In those days
there were giants" that as the owner
Of the only survival OF a prehistoric
race tine name of Montgomery would
become celebrated all over the world
The janitoc gave the foxy inventor q
deed on his small farm. obtained the
specimen. and disappeared for a while
from Lincoln
With John Currie 20 represent the
artistic development OF Lincoln and
Bud Lindsey the standard Of political
sagacity, have we anything to be
ashamed OF?
A lady who has come to Lincoln
within a year or two says that the ar
tistic standards Of the people here are
too high. This charge is unusual and.
unless il have some commercial object.
unique. Art IL q word that all except
its high priests babble about with
meaningless and impertinent repeti-
ton. But II all the housekeepers of
Lincoln. or II just the members OF the
women's clubs of Lincoln should cover
the poor. dumb walls of their houses
with pictures cut from the illustrated
magazines and. papers. cover them as
this forerunner Of a new gospel has
covered hers. the men might be driven
to drink. Why ehould the lady Of the
house strike sn attitude in front of
a somewhat feeble and self-conscious
attempt at mural decoration and de-
ton to Il. and its relation to US? Such
course will inevitably damage do
nestle peace and make the neighbors
env ious. In q less civilized community