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the social Illustrator Of the time. was nothing
if not artIcss and intimate. Guardi painted in
precisely the key to please that easy going
chatterng, pleasure-loving public. The pictures
he exposed for sale in the square of st. Mark
were vivid. truthful portraits OF the scenes the
Vcnetians loved best their own stately fdcades'
their cleaning domcs, their exquisite campanlh
In his canvases they saw the background OF
their lives and in them, too. they saw them
selves. not as personalities, but as members of
a happy crowd. He caught their carriage ana
their gestures. He knew their mood OF careless
saunteriug, and he put it into his work Incl
dcntalIy. he painted with a cleverness bordering
on genius
His fellow COuntrymen were not perslStehtiS
loyal to him In his old age he fell upon eEii
davs Perhaps his contemporaries did not at
a,v time realize how very distinguished were
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movement of Venetian life the note Of atm0s-
Ihcro, which is, after all, more eloquent than
almost any detail. 1t a brilliant peri, i.
cynical and even worse, bat with wonderfully
sparkling surface Fully to appreciate is
charm you must read the comedies Of GOldoni,
and the memoirs in which he and otAcrs. nota-
bIy his rival GoZzi, and that amazing advent
u~er, Casanova, have painted sort of per
rctUal carnival. Though the Old state ccrc-
monies survived 10 bring element of majesty
upon the scene, though the fate of the "Eu"eH-
taur' was still observed. The walk and de
rneanor of the Venetian had. above al things,
Hgltuess and grace The last of the old masters
then still active Tiepoio Guardi's brother
fn-la,; aad he for all his splendid hrayura, wss
essentially an artist Of charm rather than an
exelplar of the grand style. Pictro Longhi,
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his gifts; perhaps they valued his art less for
its own sake than the mirror of their social
pageant Canaletto, his master, somewhat
ovcrshadOwed him, and for 4 long time modern
criticism was slow to give him his deserts
l-attcrly, the tide has turned. French and
English collectors have paid more attention to
Guard, and in this country, toe, he Is better
known. He is Interestingly represented in the
Metropolitan Museum. and Mr.. George A
Hcarn owns some fine examples of his work
Mr Sirnoason. whose pleasant little essay in
the "Gazette" has provoked the foregoing re-
marks. has rendered good service to the rcpute
Of the master. 1t is to his pen that we owe the
only existing monograph on the subject in Eng
Iish the handsome folio published. with many
good Illustrations. some four or five years ago.
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the galleries mentioned above. is a manifest
in the vein Of Isabey and the like. rs may be
seen from The Halt" the picture By him which
is here reproduced, he goes for the picturesque
episode Of another time, for the charm Of men
at arms in costumes long since abaui. ned He
has a warm but restrained sense Of color and
a bold style. His work arrests attention the
more sharply in that it comes out OF modern
Holland. = u
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scene at the "Rdotto." place or pubic meet
Ing wherein the leaders OF fashion were "oHt
TO dance and gamble to their hearts content
The sterncr virtues of the Republic had fallen
into neglect The great ladies Of Venice and
tho dandics who paid court to them were alike
indifferent to the heroic past of their country
ard car-lnss of all thought for the future. They
were satisfied to dress well and to be amused
Gu:;rdi Was Of their best interpreters
though ha was. strictly sIc2ldng, q painter OF
tie IaG,Dns and the palaces and churches # the
c.ty rather than & painter of the figure
1t Was perhaps the very Typographical nature
OF his art. 50 to say. that made him the effec-
tive historian that he is for the modern student
q manners. Individual character not his
concern What he cared for was the broad
New-York tribune., 1909-01-03
FRANCISCO GUIRDI.
Venetian Master Of the Eighteenth
Century.
Century,.

IN the current number of the "Gaz'tte des
Beaux Arts" there is an essay by Mr. George
Simonson on the work Of Francesca Guard
ACCOMPANIED by a ''Masquerade' from the
brush Of that eighteenth century master when
is reproduced on this page. This souvenir OF
Guardi (at present preserved in the collection
of NJ Edouard Kann at Paris) is also q souve-
mir Of one Of those historical epochs on which
# is ALWAYS peculiarly tempting to linger. The
eighteenth century in Venice partook in all its
social aspects of just the gayety and elegance
which we observe in the painters study Of a
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GENIUS AND THE DESERT.

From The London Saturday Review
Mr. Hogarth. IN his book on the exploration
Of Arabia has pointed out the exceptional n
teIIeCtuaI ability of desert explorers as q class
that they are Of something more than ordinary
originality and genius. The names OF Doughty,
Burton PaIgrave. Burckhardt and bl-Ut occur
In confirmation; and the same holds good oi ne
Sahara which has been reconnCItret .y q oet.
of men not only of adventurous character b-l
Of unusual force Of mind and keen W--t.- ABOVE
the average 1t seems the desert possesses a
fascination for minds Of this original cast. an!
not a fugitive fascination either, for most Oh
them have returned to their work Of exploration
again and again, finding i seemingly --tr.iSS-i9
to resist the mysterious charm which these
wastes of sand and barren steppes exercise over
them 1t is strangeI What can be tlr secret
Of such q charm? What do they come OUT u
see?
The measure Of the deserts attraction is the
measure of the hold which routine and the cox
lective way of doing things have obtained On
human life All lovers OF the desert are rr1eS
against routine and the collective way II dong
things We do not mean rebels ONLY So i&F -
their work of exploration involves s'--t.lry e..
tion but rebels in temperament and II 81 ti7-'
habits Of thought
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evening. and on Tuesday morning the doors will
be thrown open to the public At the American
Art Galleries there has just been opened an
exhibition Of antique Chinese rugs belonging to
Yananaka & Co. The collection Of 1I6
picccs is TO be sold at auction the after
Moons of January and S On January 0, at
the same place. will be opened an exhibition Of
objects of art collected by the late Baron Speck
Won Sternburg, German Ambassador to the
United states The catalogue, which runs TO
nearly thousand numbers embraces porce-
Iains. bronzes, enamels, embroideries. rugs.
tapestries and furniture, much of this material
having been brought together by Baron Won
Sternbura; while residing in the Orient Among
the tapestries there Is one made in France in
the eighteenth century by order of a Chinese
F,rlueror This collection will be dispersed at
auction OF the afternoons of January 13, II. 10
and I6 At the Montross gallery there Is an
exhibition of new landscapes by Mr. Willard l.
Metcaf-
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This biographer is fervid. He would include
Guardi among the precursors of Impression
ism. The point would hardly bear pressing
Nevertheless it is undcniabIe that one Of this
Nouetian's great merits lies in the flood of
light and air which he poured into many of
his outdoor pictures. His ripping waters
gIcam. His skies soft and luminous. Far
more than CanaIctto-who seems. beside him.
snguarly hard and dry,-he gives you in the
fr.cst, most modern sense, i living impression
of his subject.
The salient event Of the week Will be the
opening at the metropolitan Museum of the
hibition of contemporary German art. which
has for some time been in preparation A for
mai reception will BE held in the new Fifth
avenue extension of the Museum tomorrow
New-York tribune., 1909-01-03

There may be seen Just now at the Krau-
shaar galleries number of paintings which
throw an interesting sideliGht on current Dutch
art The school of Israels, Mauve, Mesdag and
those other abundantly familiar types, has con-
fined itself to the faithful representation OF
life as it is seen IN the Holland of to-day. At
their hands neither the Dutch peasant nor the
Dutch landscape has taken on novel aspect
In so far as these painters have been subjective
at all, they have expressed their emotions IN
terms Of homely sentiment, Of simple pathos.
The Dutchman JUrres, whose work is visible at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-30
THE CORPORATION TAX.

Just about the alI-absorbing tonic
for discussion in the country TODAY ia
the proposition advanced by Presi-
dent Taft for the levying of a tax of
two per cent on the net income of cor
porations. 1t is being pretty general
~ assailed in financial centers, not so
much because of the size of the tax
that is to be levied, but because in
the levying of this tax certain meas
ure of control over the gigantic cor
porations of the nation will be given
to the federal government. A sam
pie of this criticism is found in the
current financial view issued by ]. S.
Bache & Co., the New York bankers
which says in part:
Perhaps the most potent argu-
ment against it from the point of
view of morals is that it is not quite
aboveboard in it's declared aims. 1t is
brought forward as an expedient to
raise revenue. But its real object is
to control corporations. 1t is unfor-
tunate that this political slant should
exist; but 1T is impossible to gainsay its
existence. If revenue were the OBJ
ject, the stamp tax, tried, effective.
direct and adequate would do every
thing in revenue production that is
sought after, and do it in an unobjec-
tlonable and undisguised manner.
AO lScl ODJSCI VI the corporation
tax is the control of powerful bust
ness combinations: it's revenue feat
ures are incidental, secondary, uncer-
tain, capable of much evasion; and
it's operations in this direction will
take some time to effect smoothly
Revenue to a large amount it will
unquestionably produce, but the un-
happy thing about increased govern
ment revenue is that it simply incites
to further governmental extrava-
gance. 1t bears no relation as far as
any action by congress thus far in
dictates, to tariff reduction, but rather
tends to higher rates, and a higher
living cost to the consumer"
A similar fall is taken out of the
measure by Henry Clews, the prom
inent New York banker and publicist
He also argues that if it is desirable
to place an excise tax on corporations
the most desirable form of taxation
would be to impose a stamp tax. Mr..
Clews argues that to compel corpor-
atoms, particularly the smaller ones.
to file sworn statements of their bust
ness to the government with the
chance of their contents leaking
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe. ]


Most of those who say they do the
best they know how, don't.
The people who think more of dogs
than they do of their friends, discour-
age us.
There is no such thing as a con-
vincing argument, although every man
thinks he has one.
We confess that we like to see a
farmer come to town with two mule
colts following his team.
Swat the fly, but always leave one
family up in time for breakfast.
If you inherited health. take care of
it and don't blame your ancestors so
much for not leaving you a gold mine.
"She is puny,'' the neighbors say of
child whose father works by the day.
''She is fragile,'' is said of the child
of the man who employs him.
1t may shock your artistic tempera-
ment, but more Americans know the
batting averages of Pittsburg Hans
than know the operas the other Wag-
ner wrote.
Somehow we can never get over the
notion that when the price of an arti-
Gle is fifteen cents, the dealer is a
mean man unless he is willing to give
you two for a quarter.
Don't look at the president of any
of the banks, the heads of the whole
sale houses or big retail stores, or the
leading lawyers, to find out about the
latest styles in clothing. Hunt up the
boys who are on a salary of $3.50 per
week.
We confess to great admiration for
great respect for father" that is. her
husband. This fine type of woman
always tried to see that father" liked
his home, and found it comfortable.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.1
Sef-satisfied people have nothing
more to live for.
A Encouragement is one in which no
body gets angry.
AS weeping experts woman can put
it all over the men.
Many a good reputation has been
stabbed by pointed tongue.
Don't employ a shoddy workman
when you want a horse shod
Many a man squanders a dollars
worth of energy in an attempt to save
a nickel.
If you would keep your friends don't
let them permit you to indorse their
notes.
Some wives are wise enough to pre-
tend to believe everything their hus-
bands tell them.
They should be called hay widows in.
stead of grass, for there is certainly
nothing green about them.
A German scientist has succeeded in
photographing the breath. Now will
you night owls be good?
Almost every day a man is COM
PEELED to submit to some injustice that
he once declared he would never stand
for.
There are times when every woman
imagines she suffers in silence but at
such times there is something wrong
with her imagination.
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JAYHAWKER JOTS

Abilene Reflector. You left mighty
good town when you moved up in the
baseball column and deserted Abb
lene."
1t is the opinion of the Emporia
Gazette that the pink sporting section
of the Wichita Eagle is growing bet
ter and better because 1t contained re-
Gently an excellent article on the
American flag.
A ninth baby arrived the other day
in a Hiawatha home and the Oldest
daughter is credited with saying to
the father: "Of course, the little
stranger is welcome, but there are
lots of things we needed more"
1t is the opinion of the Clay Center
Times that if there was a man in
that city possessed of the energy of
one particular dog in the town he
would be president OF the United
States in ten years.
They must be as nifty in Leaven-
worth at lodging taxes as they are In
evading the prohibitory law. That
city claims population of 10000 and
yet the tax rolls show only 1880 tax
payers in the community.
In all it's wisdom, the Solomon Tri-
bune relates of a man in that town
who has two pounds of pads in his
shoulders and uses dye on his NOUS
tache and then he has the nerve to
find fault with the women for using
powder.
Among those who are always look
ing for something for nothing is an
lola contractor who asked the Regis
ter to make a complimentary mention
of a job he had just finished and
when the newspaper man asked him
to become a patron of the paper the
contractor rather confusedly explain
ed that his business did not need any
advertising.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
TFron the Phi

[F'rom the Philadelphia Record
It's the fellow who minds his p's and
as that sleeps on f1owery beds of e's.
The average girl doesn't know the
difference between being prudent and
being q prude.
One of the many things that are not
all they are cracked up to be is a
broken promise.
The man who throws bouquets at
himself sometimes discovers that thew
turn into boomerargs.
When woman realizes that red ia
not becoming to her she has a horror of
contracting scarlet fever.
A fellow may be a man of few words
simply because his wife has q
monopoly on the vocabulary.
Blobbs-"Bjones is always waiting
for something to turn up" Slobbs-
Yes, he's even looking for a girl with
a pug nose"
The~troub1e with the people who are
always prepared for the worst is thai
they are so disappointed If It doesn't
happen.
First Chicago Woman-"She doesn,.
know how to manage a husband" Sec
ond Chicago Woman-"Oh. give Ter
time. She'll learn. You know sh. has
only had three"
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business was Uncle Hampton's non
sense"
I'm that case" said young Sherman,
impetuously. I love you And he
drew her to him while the orchestra
on the front porch twink1ed and
strummed a love waltz from old Mad
rid.
Finally the Merryvflle Monitor"
printed this:
The engagement of Miss Edna
Murray to Mr.. Robert Lee Sherman
is announced. The Monitor which
considers itself partly to blame, ex-
tends congratulations. The loss of
the Van Twillenberg smart set and OF
the United Pickle Trust will be
Merryville's gain" = Copyrighted,
1903. by Associated Literary Press.)
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through bribery to rivals puts into the
law a most Objectionable form OF
government espionage.
Several of the newspapers in the
larger cities of the country look upon
the Taft plan in about the same
light in which it is viewed by the
bankers quoted. And among the
newspapers which are opposed to
this proposition are some of those
which have been the most urgent in
demanding an adequate supervision
and control of corporations by the
federal government. 1t would appear
that they were insincere in their pro-
testations in this respect in times past.
The admission is pretty general that
there should be federal control to a
certain extent over the corporations
in the country. Mr.. Taft seemingly
has hit on a plan to do this and nat
urally the corporations and their
particular allies are setting up howl.
The leaders in congress appear to be
favorable to the Taft proposal and the
corporation tax measure stands an
excellent chance of becoming a law
in short order.
1t may not work out we'll as its
friends think it will, but it is most
interesting to note that Mr.. Taft has
set the machinery in motion for the
government control of corporations
without much fuss or excitement and
without disturbing business in the
corporate world to any noticeable ex-
tent, while his predecessor in office,
Colonel Roosevelt, shouted himself
hoarse in frenzied fashion for seven
long years on this same subject and
retired from the presidency without
coming near the accomplishment of
this pet project of his.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-30
vAGABoNDAGE.

When the silver's on the sagebrush,
And the snow is off the crest
LAS Jim Riley might have told us,
n ned grown up farther West}s
Ihen You get your dusty saddle.
And you rope the big pack mule
ana you start to be student
III Old Mother Natures school.
when the foam is on the trout stream,
AND the green is on the hills.
linen you march the upper highways
10 song that never stills;
II the song of deeps and shadows,
And of brilliant, starlit nights
Its the song of vagabondage,
And OF campfires on the heights.
Denver Republican.
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the next legislature who will be favor
able to amendments to the prohibtory
law which will permit these clubs to
dispense liquor to their members.
There is but one thing to prevent the
success of any such scheme. 1t is
merely the fact that the great ma
jority of the voters of Kansas do not
belong to clubs that need to traffic in
liquors to maintain their life, and the
great majority of the voters of Kansas
believe in prohibitory law which will
be applicable to all classes of people,
whether they be club members, or not.
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Refreshing news comes from New
York in the advices that the granting
of a separation and alimony to the ex-
tent of $4,000 a year to Mrs. Howard
Gould is to be the end of this particu-
lar Gould case. Neither side proposes
to appeal to higher courts It's to be
hoped also that this is the last matri-
monial imbroglio of various of the
GouIds that will have to be aired in
the public prints for some time. The
people at large are tired of having to
listen to their troubles.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Real true friends are few and far
between.
Life without work is a most monot-
onous grind.
good plan is to be sure the other
fellow is wrong before you find fault
with him.
Prospective matrimony deserves
serious thoughts for no one ever yet
found 1t to be a joke.
X X n
It's easy to throw a shoe at mid
Notwithstanding cat but as to hitting
it-ah. that's a different proposition.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.1

From the New 7 DIX Press
Hardly anything would be more
foolish than for women to dress sem
sibly.
The fun a man has at a summer
resort is when his family are at some
other and think he is in town.
A man has to be conceited about
something if it's only about what kind
of razor it takes to shave his beard
because it's so strong.
The more friends a man has the
expect them to do for him what they
expect him to do for them.
Before her boy is out of his cradle
his mother gets suspicious of how
many women are plotting to marry
their daughters to- him when they are
all grown up.