The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-06-13

HIS lllue duu, III truth, master dTtlS1
of the world.
The Chronicle shows all the historical
personages from the time of the crea
ton to about the date Of it's publica
ton. Adam, for instance, is given con
siderable free advertising, as there is
no record that his heirs or estate ever
paid for the space allotted him, and
perhaps that is the reason we do not
find his career described in many OF
the more modern works of historical
or biographical nature. Adam is shown
in all his pristine glory in the garden
Of Eden, and he Is later shown to a
scof1ng world after Punishment there
from. The imaginative Durer has
sketched him afar off alone In a bar
rem field, working never ending fur
row with a crudely fashioned garden
implement. He is the original man
with the hoe. This Illustration is both
symbolic and portentous in that it
shows that the worlds first husband
for his misdeeds was compelled to go
to work
Strange as it may seem, the type
founders museum evidences that the
best printing of all time was done in
the early stages Of the art 1.-THE
golden age of printing" was that first
half century that marked the growth
of the typographical child into an ac-
tual, potential something-145O to 1900.
Those dates do not mean much to the
on ait Of fn7o Of IN,
QUESTION, of eye gouging, of ear clip
ping, of burning alive, of superstition
and intolerable bigotry and ignorance.
Yet between those dates the newly
fledged art of printing rose to and
fourished at a height, at degree of
excellence, from an artistic viewpoint,
that is unattained today. The libra
rian at the museum himself admits
that the finest specimen of typograph-
zeal work in the entire collection is
book done by Nicholas Jensen at Ven
ice, published in 1910. Jensen, in spite
Of his Scandinavian name, was d ma
tive of France, a pupil of Schoefer
who was partner of Gutenberg.
The book is a work on the subject of
divinity. Done in black and red, with
red and blue initials, which were put
in by hand, its original selling price
was an amount that would equal be-
tween 500 and $500 in American cur
rency today. One of the best selling
types throughout this country and
abroad during recent years has been
a reproduction OF types cut by Jensen
In 1910, and today the best selling
types are those that are notifications
of the best letters designed by the
printers during the first half century
of printing and during which time, it
should be remembered, printers were
types. Today all this is done by the
typefounders. In addition to making
their own types. the printers of Jen-
sens day had to make their own ink
and their own presses. The only thing
they could buy was paper. Moreover.
they invariably created their own
styles of type.
The reason that the printers of the
golden age' excelled in the making
of type, ETC., as shown by study Of the
collection now under consideration
was that they initiated or copied il
their. type the lettering Of the ori-iral
they received. and these
We're written a the period
when writing CT manuscript prerara-
ton had reached what is conceded to
be perfection.
The collection shows, as already ysar-
tally indicated. the close association
Of the Germans with the development
IF printing and includes copies of the |
first German newspaper issued in
America, the P!ilaGelphisch he Zeitung.
published by Benjamin Franklin in
1892.
A copy of the farthest north newspa-
per. the Arctic Eagle, published by |
Anthony Fiala Of the Zeigler expedi- |
ion when near the north pole. presents
IN advertisement of DIR Vaughn's |
Vegetable Vim Vigor, Bark Restorer
For Dumb Dogs"
The scene of the printing of the |
Christmas number of the Arctic Eagle |
~ dS LIE iltGIIUI VI olie VI lIG -lIGlle
punk rooms of the Zeigler expedition |
quarters at Camp Abruzzi rudolph is |
and, Franz Josef Land latitude 81 |
iegrees II minutes north, after the |
oss of the yacht America. The issu- |
ng of this newspaper is prophetic of |
he time when barefeoted Eskimo |
news butchers will leap from glacier I
o foe, foe to berg. crying: 'Wuxtry. |
Fuxtry! Whale blubber trust defes
sherman law! Price two fshhooks /
/ copy" |
This narrative has necessarily omit
ed consideration of hundreds Of in
eresting and, in fact, priceless exhib-
is in the library ard museum. which. |
.fter al. has an object in its formation
md maintenance not before touched
N, and that is. in the words of the
bile and indefatigable librarian him
elf. TO form collection and pre-
erve the data from which one dag
vii be written the history CT printing
throughout the world
His c!1ancs Spelled.