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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-10-18
YEoes CAUSE $4,000 FIRE
Use Dynamite at Adolf, Wis.,, to Blow
Open Pcstoffice Safe.

According to dispatches from Adolf,
0heboygan county, robbers, in at
tempting to dynamite the Adolf post
Office safe started fire.. which did
damage amounting to 100000 before
the flames were extinguished. The
robbers escaped.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-10-18
For Sale. On Easy Terms

1G0 acres of land miles south CT
Ladysmith, three miles. west of Con-
rath, being the. south east quarter
SEQ dissection three co Township
thirty. three (33) range six 60 wests
Small payment dewlf and long time
on balance. Address
-31* A. E. SHUMWAY,
zoe Court, St. Janesville, Wis.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-10-18

Talking abeHt-z1..The. Merry Travel
ers''
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-05-15

State Bureau of Vital Statistics,
has confessed shooting of Alvin
E. -Zollinger, advertising solicitor.
Zollinger may die.
Buda Pesth, Hungary.-Towns
of Balvanijee, Caralja and Mort
aimee RACED to ground by cy-
clone. Dozens killed.
We Just published this item of
news to show that Illinois, Kan
sas and Texas haven't got any
monopoly on cyclones.
Des Moines, Ia.-"Willian ].
Bryan is willing and anxious to
accept the Democratic nomina-
nomination if it be offered him in
the proper way."-From Iowa
Bryan league circular just sent
out.
Now what do you think is the
proper way for the Democrats to
ask Mr.. Bryan to accept a $4,000
year job?
Madison, Wis.-Nicolo Quar-
tucco pleaded guilty to murder of
Andrea Stasi May l, after quar-
rel. Is years.
Indianapolis. = Personal APP
peal by Congressman Victor Ber-
ger prevented Socialist national
convention sending telegram to
Taft and Gov. Johnson, of Cali
fornia, demanding protection for
Industrial Workers of World in
San Diego.
New Orleans.-Gap in levee at
Hymelia widened to 500 feet to-
day. Parishes of St. John, St.
Charles, LaFourche, Assumption
7 n 4
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-05-15

Texas Pacific r. R. with dyna-
mite where roadbed ran through
gap in levee. Despite foods,
railroad had refused to close gap.
Prominent citizens to be arrested.
Springfield, Ill.-By vote of %
to II, senate today passed com
promise Modern Woodmen of
World bill.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-05-15
Al. ]. Jennings.

How'd you like to have for
prosecuting attorney a former
bandit, outlaw, life termer and
leader of bad men? Supposing he
said he had reformed, would you
vote for him? Well, there are lots
of people in Oklahoma County,
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07

/ illustrates some excursions he has made
! abroad At the Macbeth Gallery Mr..
! Richard f. Miller brings forward six
/ teen of his more recent paintings.
whether indoors or in the open air he
. paints his subjects under play OF light
His color Is fresh and charming He
draws not only with adroitness, but with
breadth. and, in fact, the whole impress
sion he conveys is that of an artist VINO
sees life in a large. eXhilarating way ana
paints il with a kind Of happy fervor.
His work has been seen before in New
York. but never to such advantage as
on this occasion. For the first time his
Individuality makes its full effect. 1t has
character interest. and Is unmistakably
imbued with the right feeling for beauty.
The observer who takes note OF elements
OF progress in American painting should
Tot miss this exhibition
AT the Knoedler Gallery. where FL Greco
and Goya hold the centre OF the stage
lust now. there is also an exhibition OF
PAINTINGS by Mr.. Charles Hoftbauer.
The vast canvas Triumph OF Condot-
tiere" with which he won the PriN de
Salon. is an entirely creditable piece of
work Of a pedestrian sort. but his small
studies OF night scenes in New York are
more TO the point In these he paints
with an engg ging spontaneity and shows
himself to he a pleasing colorist his
impressions of the city are entertaining
in substance as well as clever in eXecu"
tion. Tha MacDowell Club has opened
another exhibition of American pictures
this lime Of works by women The eX-
hibltors are Irene Brown. Matilda
Browne. Sarah Henry. Alice Larkin'
Margaret Longstreth, Helen Mabie Ber-
rbo d Sanders. Beatrice Stevens and
Helen NJ. Trrner At the galleries at No.
10 East 52d street there is an exhibition
NJ old masters in aid Of the Dickens
Centenary Fund. H. L
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07

has been the fuss" originating In mis-
taken date in the preface to a catalogue.
The reader will recall how Mr.. Walter
Greaves, an old pupil of Whistler's, was
the hero OF an exhibition in London
last May, and how, for a time,
| there was some talk in the press
about his having antedated Whistler In
the invention Of certain artistic effect.
IL was perfectly plain that Greaves had
meant nothing disloyal to his old master,
and the steps promptly taken by Mar
chant & Co.. the managers Of the Gou-
Pill Gallery where the show was held,
to set the matter straight, left nothing
TO be desired by the most exacting ad-
mirers OF Whistler's genius. But Mr..
Joseph Penneli is a little more than ex-
acting and he forthwith sailed into
print, turning quite unimportant epi-
sode into a portentous controversy. The
whole affair is now preserved I'm print,
Marchant & Company having published
all the documents. with exposltory com
ments, in "A Reply to an Attack"
booklet Of fourscore pages.
Anything more pitifully absurd il
would be difficult to imagine. noun
tain Is made out Of m0lehill. An Oc-
currence scarce worthy to be remem-
bered at all is treated at endless length
with the gravity Of history. We can
hardly blame the gallery people for
wanting to put the facts on record.
What seems positively childish is that
they should have been goaded into TAX
ing SD much trouble. We have quoted
Mr.. Sickert once to-day, but We must
quote him again. In an article reprinted
in this pamphlet he speaks Of Mr.. Pen
nell as having appointed himself official
scold to the memory OF Whistler" The
phrase is not unjust. 1t seems q great
pity that. having collaborated in the
preparation of an excellent biography of
Whistler Mr. Pennell should not be con-
tent and let the affairs Of the master
alone. Nobody doubts his loyalty, but
IT is not unreasonable to observe that he
lacks Skill and judgment in controversy.
It is told of Whistler that he once made
too obvious an effort to attract atten-
tion with his wit. whereupon Degas,
who was present at the time gave him
a friendly rebuke, pointing out that II
he went on exerting himself in that
fashion people would think he had no
talent. II Mr.. Pennell does not abandon
his air Of being a kind OF protector of
ha usilI Of
people TO think that Whistler needs pro-
tection-and nobody ever needed It less.
Imagination boggles at what he him
self would have had to say about all
this pOsthumous "fussing." He liked TO
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07

the keyhole in the form Of the Cross OF
the Legion OF Honor. Yesterday after
noon there were only three on duty,
which meant that only one was able to
move about beneath the dome. while
another stood on guard beside the
bronze doors, and the third saw the ira
ditional rule, hats Off" was observed at
the door.
Noticing this, l asked about the full
number Of pensioners still left. They
number eleven all told, but eight Of them
are bedridden. They are all veterans OF
the campaigns in Italy, Mexico, and the
war of 1870. ! believe the last Crimean
veteran, who with two comrades conf
Quoted a modest but persistent cam
paign in favor Of the Entente Cordiale
they had a profound respect for the
name Of Queen Victoria, who had pre-
sented them with the Crimean medaD,
has died. I notice that the fewness OF
numbers has caused General Niox, the
director of the Invalides, to ask the Min
lister of War to consider the situation.
1t needs only an accident TO leave Ma
poleon's tomb without guard. The
matter. however, Is to be fully discussed.
The easiest solution would be 10 draft
81 picket from the nearest infantry bar
racks, but II is felt tht the tradition OF
having pensioner TO mount guard
should be kept up. For thissit would be
necessary TO admit new pensioners, but
so far there has been no agreement as
to how 20 establish the conditions Of ad-
mittance. Since the conscription re-
forms following the war OF 1870 the po-
siton of army pensioners has changed so
greatly that the problem is really diff
hcut one 70 solve.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
THE CLASSIC SPIRIT.

\ great stumbling block i'm the path
OF the young artist trying TO make up
his mind about some new and much be-
lauded principle is his fear that he may
be asked by those who warn him
against it. 10 take up with some old and
tried formula. The best way in which to
scare a student into the arms Of the
widest Of innovators is 10 talk to him
too urgently about the classics He is
particularly afraid of the classics. He
thinks that contact with them is bound
TO blast and annihilate the unprece-
dented originality burning in his bosom.
However. II the young artist has any
perturbations. If he cannot do so. il may
be remarked in passing he should lose
no time in hurrying back to the farm
the Joys OF art are not for him. In the
right hands. which is 10 say. in those
which are modestly and generously re-
ceptive. there could not bc placed a
better book than The Classic Point of
View Charles Scribners sons. a col
lection Of six lectures on painting re-
Gently delivered by Mr.. Kenyon Cox at
the Art Institute Of Chicago. His theme
is not by any means. the classic
school" II is rather. an idea. the culti-
walton Of which Is compatible with
membership in almost any school Thus
he states It:
The Classic Spirit is the dsinteIested
search for perfection, II IS the love OF
CIearness and reasOnableness and self-cOn-
troll; II is above all. the love OF perma-
nencc ana Of continuity. 1t asks Of "A work
OF art, not that IL shall be novel or ef-
fective but that IL shall be fine and noble
It seeks not merely 10 express individuality
or emotion. but to express disciplined emo
ton and individuality restrained by law.
II strives for the essential rather than the
accidental, the eternal rather than the
momentary-lOves impersonality more than
personality, and feels more power In the
orderly succession Of the hours and the
seasons than I'm the violence Of earthquake
and OF storm. And II loves to steep itself
I'm tradition II would have each new work
connect itself in the mind Of him who sees
II with all the noble and lovely works OF
the past bringing them TO his memory
and making their beauty and charm "A part
of the beauty and charm OF the work be
fore him. II does not deny originality and
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
DOUBLE DUTCH"

Sooner or later, we suppose, the Ital-
ION ..Futurists," who have been making
tbeir little sensation in Paris and Lon
dor will he introduced 10 New York.
Meanwhile we have opportunity often
enough to see what is being done by
,ho artists who think there Is some
thing talismanlc about running counter
a. tradition. The latest chance Of this
.ort has been offered at the Photo-Se-
cession Gallery, where some sculptures
and drawings by NJ. Henri Matisse have
80, sbovvn. The actual merits of this
artis, are not at all difficult to discern.
He has that power Of expressiveness
.h,o,, 60 not i'm itself remarkable. The
,a.o Aueustus -Gaudens could with
fow scratches Of the pencil define a
azure with wonderful vividness' but 1t
-. ,,ocurred to him 10 plume himself
draStsman. Great line in black and
,,h,,o was not his province. His genius
mas ,,astic. purely. Many minor
ar,ts. can fling sketch upon paper
',,,h scarce any expenditure OF time or
aeort and still you can see perfectly
,,,aI wbat ne is driving at Thus, In the
drawings Of Matisse certain FACILITY IN
60 danotoment of form is at once per-
ceptlble. But suppose it is? How much
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07

would have hated to have found him
! self enmeshcd in farce!
We can get some idea Of his probable
emotions I'm such circumstances from
| story told by the British artist Thad-
deus i'm his recently published "Recollec-
tions Of Court Painter" 1t seems that
Whistler was once descanting upon the
| work Of Velasquez and Thaddeus
yentured to remark that the Spanidrd
did not draw animals as faithfully as
he drew men. on being challenged u
cite an animal painter OF any dis'iHc-
tion he mentioned Landseer-with cleo
trical effect. The tale continues as fol-
| lows:
"Gentlemcn." cried Whistler. you nave
all heard what this eminent person mas
said. He has the audacity' the az auuS'i''
TO say that Landseer cheap
tea tray performer knew TO" W
paint animals! - h. t,st
Ue Intended saying much more. nut Just
then he gave an undulatory movement III
NV direction. and ]. obivious OF the enor-
mitv of the act drew him gently on to my
knee. Somehow or other ] had hazy ldea
AZ the time that. II | had not thus inter
cepted the downward movement, ne ll's"t
Nave sat on the floor
At first he seemed appeased by the pleas
ant support So Unexpectedly afforded. 10
| render his repose there still more comfort
| ahIe and sure. | placed my arm around ms
waist and. In order to soothe his rufiied
| feelings passed my fingers carcssingly
| through his raven hair and the priceless
| lock ,
With good will To all men, and toward him
In pnrticular. with only one desire, to make
| things pleasant all round.
He tore himself from my embrace as II
| yiper had stung him. Historically scream
in1 "Nenpesw "Menpesi' whilst | vaguely
Wondered at his sudden departure
| II seemed to me an unreasonable and In
comprehensive thing tor MIN TO 90. 100,
! Fishing toward the mirror in the room,
Summarized by his alarmed host, he gave one
| rid look i'm the glass, and collapsed into
tbe dIyan at It's foot with groan.
The White Lock had disappeared!
| Nv profane fingers had done the fell
,,orI had mixed up the white hairs with
| the black, ana wa" 'o" 'Ost IVY '''' -
All awf,l hush came over the room.
Presently Menpes approached me solemn
~. ~, nroeress. whilst the others clustered
| nro,,rnd nr The PROSTATE form of whistler,
| irving to comfort MN. ,,,
?MSS God. this is awful" said Menpes,
boarsely, as he sank into chair by my
sidei haei, never forgive it-never!Eand l shall
oo ,s"rvgpested another drink to my host, 10
! chaer him up, and. az we clinked glasses;
volunteered TO SGum ,SginaI pIsce N '"e '''''''
| har, m,aa w Wsn9gestion not being received with
narmth | expected, | felt aggrieved
and took my eaNEr, 4, lJs ,orohodjry
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
TIE FAMOUS BOOKSELLER OF
THE GALE DE LAS CARRETAS.
CFrom the portrait by GoyaJ

gives him aid also handicaps him. The
artist is notoriously the victim OF what
he likes" far more often than is the lay
man of the familiar anecdOte He can
not jump of his shadow nor can he free
himself from the tyranny Of that indl-
vidual point Of view which lifetime oi
la Dor has made as natural TO him A
breathing and seemingly as conclusive
in its force as any natural law. Thus
we find Mr. Cox alluding 10 the impress
sionists with patronage that Is a III
tie bewidering The movement" H.
) says. was scientific rather than artls-
tic and the pictures of it's strongest man.
Claud Monet. often seem like "A series
OF demonstrations rather than things Of
beauty created for human delight 1t is,
really. only i'm this country that the I'M
pressionistic formula has been seized
upon for it's capabilities Of beauty and
in the hands Of Hassam and others bent
to tho ends Of decoration" There we
have glaringly apparent. the vulner-
ability Of the artist as critic The
kind Of ar. that is antthetical TO
his own he rarely likes or under
stands Only some such veil as this
could have kept Mr.. Cox from
apprehending the things Of beauty cre-
ated for human delight" which MI count
less exquisite landscapes by Claud
Monet Surely no one In this country
or anywhere else has put such ravishing
1. t,-tn ,,aiptinUg Of nnuarC In
the open air as Monet has put into his
poetic series Of "Nymphaas. There
are other signs in this book that Mr..
Cox sometimes tends TO lapse from the
plane Of the classic spirit 10 that OF
the classic school," In his chapter on
THE Subject in Art he goes perilously
near 10 drawing up a class list, that
foible of the doctrinaire. He almost for
gets the eternal appositcness Of the say
ing which he approvingly quotes from
Saint -Gaudens in this very chapter:
You may do anything: it is the way
you do II that counts" But II We pause
upon these slips of the authors II Is only
in order To characterize them at their
true value and to warn the reader that
they do not affect the essential drift OF
tho lecturers argument There. as We
indicated at the outset. he gives golden
counsel. and In his advocacy Of the dis
Interested search for perfection" In de-
sign. In drawing in light and shade, in
color and in technique, he shows forth
the classic spirit" as a valid source OF
,r,or.es This Is a wholesome book
wholesome and kindling. Mr.. Cox has
never written to more practical pur-
pose
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07

ndividuality-they are welcome in
eVitable. IL does not consider tradition as
immutable or set rigid bounds to invention.
But il desires that each new presentation
OF truth and beauty shall show us the old
truth and the old beauy. seen only from
a different angle and colored by a different
medium. II wishes to add link by link
to the chain OF tradition, but it does not
wish to break the chain.
In the development o. this valuable
idea Mr.. Cox inevitably, perhaps. pays
the penalty of his professional expert
ence. The artist who writes on art does
so successfully not because he is an
artist but in spite of his being one. The
technical experience that unquestionably
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
%%saS

them portraits save FIFE Women on
the Balcony" which ranks. nominally
at any rate, as subject picture. The
distinction would have bored Goya. All
his sitters were subjects" That is why
his work has such tremendous vitality.
1t interested him TO the point Of passion.
Style I'm art is of personality all com
pact. You can read a mans character
in the play Of his brush. Goya's histor?
is writ plain across the surfaces Of
these portraits Of his.
He was an eager. militant creature.
The period Of social decadence in which
he lived enraged but could not disgust
or depress him. He looked upon the
vicious court with a scorn he would not
pretend to disguise. but he painted IT
with delight and gratitude. For man
Of his moods and sardonic, inquiring
mind what could have been more well
come than such a mass of raw material
And besides the bad and the weak there
were so many figures in Goya's Spain
that were, on the surface, merely beaut-
full. Look at the maria Teresa, Prin-
cess Of the Peace" (No. -, and observe
the delicacy with which the painter
caresses an exquisite motive. Watch
him as he renders the elusive charm of
texture in the dresses Of THE Women
on the Balcony" or gives himself up 10
the sensuous grace Of THE Famous
Bookseller Of the Gale de las Carretas."
Beauty Of form and Of color, the magic
Of light. the dramatic significance Of
movement-these things find In him
truly "the devouring eye" and hand
itching 10 translate the thing seen into
terms of paint Goya is of his time, OF
course and his portraits are Spanish TO
the core His faculty for blending the
ease of everyday actually with GER
tain stiffness attributable 10 courtly
modes carries us straight back 10
eighteenth century Madrid. But In their
ruthless psychology and in their peculiar
technical briIliancy, which is wreaked
upon human nature as upon so much
"still life" these portraits might have
been painted yesterday There are two
reasons why the show ought 10 prove
successful AS a matter of sheer paint
ing Of the stuff that appeals to the
artist. II is packed with interest. Anj
in its richness of character, of historical,
human elements. the most injurious lay
man must find it stirring.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
DECLINE OF THE INvALIDEs.

From the Paris Correspondent of the
Standard.
The Invalides. where are found the
ton1b of Napoleon and the Military Mu-
scum. which contains an even more I'M I'M
than the Malmaison, is threatened with
rnTorms The menace is no small mat
,ar in this case, for the Invalides Is one
oT the few institutions in Paris where
the formality OF the old regime is OBJ
rived as much in the spirit as in the
doed rhe reverential spirit in the
Erench character, so often denied by
rursorv observers is always found on
tba faces of the crowd that gathers ev-
erv sunday to peer over the balustrade
AT the red granite sarcophagus OF the
a.n,neror. But. alas! there are fewer and
fnwer OF the old pensioners To interest
tho crowd with the great "Legende de
Napoleon" or to take visitors down the
steps to see the great bronze doors with
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
81 Greco and Goya-MatiSSe-A
WhiStIerian Farce.

,,,sre is a touch of humor about the
,i,tioo of PAINTINGS by FL Greco and
o which has been opened at the
s,,r Call, lies for the benefit Of the
,.ouso of woman's suffrage. l.. Spain IL
sar avwber- in ta- wor - to-day, the status
o"' .ha co. is s--l tinged with medieval
and il seems little droll chat not
-. :panish 81 but Spanish types as
0",..olons as Goya's Duchess of Alba
"a his "Women on the Balcony" to
-, nothing Of that appalling I'D witch
:. had so often to portray. Queen Maria
..ro should have been chosen 20 plead
for the cause aforesaid. ut the point
is not one TO be !Sbored' The essential
sppeal is made in this show not by
sead and gone ladies but by Ling art.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07

detach himself from the ruck. II is, OF
course. The painter Of some personal
force who succeeds in doing this. Mr..
w. Elmer Schofield, for example, has
been well advised To make an exhibition
Of his own Mt the Katz Gallery. His art
is sincere, there is kind Of sturdy en-
crgy behind It, and his winter scenes
have the outstanding merit OF a pro-
found raciness. None Of our landscape
painters is more eloquent than he In the
Interpretation of the purely American
scene. In the present exhibition he also
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
CALENDAR OF EXHIBITIONS
Current Displays Of Paintings, Objects
of Art and Prints.

Brcoklyn Institute. Landscapes and ma.
rnes by F. J.
Waugh, "; "; 4; A!,Of Cot
ending April q.
City Paintings by ".
Gedney Bunce;
ending April 30
Ccttier Galleries. Early English mas.
ters; ending April
30
Enrich Galleries. French portraits.
Folsom Galleries. es......Paintings by Leon
Dabo, ending April
Gorham Company Original bronzes by
r G. r. Roth: end
ing April o.
Hahlo Galleries. ......m. Prints by old and
modern masters.
Katz Galleries. Paintings by Elmer
schoheld; opening
Kennedy Gallery. Prints by Rem
brandt. Ddrer. Van
Leyden. Meryon.
Whistler. IIaden
and Cameron.
Keppel Gallery........ Etchings by Zorn :
ending April %.
knoedler Gale ries. 800. Paintings by Charles
Hofbauer a d
Dearth. ending. re-
spectively, April IL
and Is. and a loan
exhibition OF paint
ings by ri Greco
Goya ending April
20 Admission SOC.
Eraushaar Gallery. Paintings by Henri
lie Sidaner and
Frank Brangwyn;
ending April la
Macbeth Gallery y....... Paintings by Richard
T.. Miller; ending
April ~.
National Academy Of
ending April II.
National Arts Club. Emerson McMillin
collection of paint
ings, embroideries
and textiles.
New York Public Lii.
......JapdneSe pIlnts iIoiu,
Charles wart
Smith. ending May
!. and book-piates
and engravings by
the late Charles W
Sherborn, ending
April 90.
New York School OF
Applied Design for
Women. Loan exhibition OF
paintings by the
late George 1nness;
ending May 6. Ad-
mission soc. Sun
days free.
NevarkPublicLibrary. Modern German ap-
piled arts; ending
April %.
Icrv v.',..'...............Th Three paintings by
Gainsborough.
snedecor Gallery......Pa Paintings by Fletcn-
er C. Ransom; end
ing April II.
CInb ,',..,'........ Paintings BY VI. 3.
Prendergast; end
ing April p.