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photographer knew it. his justification
had come.
Today Mr.. Macdonald is the ac-
knowledged photographer of men. Per
haps he could still make photographs
of women that would fatter them, that
would bring out their beauty and their
femininity. But he prefers to photo
graph men, to match his masculine ma
ture with that of his sitter and to make
that sitter give up TO the sensitive plate
in the camera the best and most char
acteristic side of himself.
Mr.. Macdonald, in the first days Of
his work as a photographer of men
counted his losses as the price of future
success. Today he has a strange col
umn of losses in his accounting books
that he counts as the price of present
freedom.
If you were to go into Mr.. MacDon-
AIDS studio and tell him that you, had
seen some small photographs he had
made of one of your friends, and that
you would like a few of the same size
of yourself, he would treat you with
all the consideration that he would
show to a prince of power ordering a
dozen prints at SI4o dozen.
He would seat you where the light
was what the light ought to be, and
then he would get acquainted with you
Quite involuntarily on your part this
acquaintance might be. On his, If
would be the result of long years of in
tense concentration on the mastery oi
men.
Perhaps while he was transferring
what he found behind the mask you
wear to the small plate inside his cam
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IOopyriEht, lsl4.l

CAY, honestl genius is something
- fierce, amt it? l guess the rea-
son the old Greek guys passed
out that story about poets having to
ride on Pegasus, the original aeroplane
horse, was because they had the tip
that the only way a poet would ever
come next to any horse sense at all
would be to ride on if.
If YOU go and get well-recommended
genius and hire him to do some steady
genius work for you, and lock him in
a room, and go off and leave him, you
never know how his genius is going to
break out. You may say, Get in there
and do a poem about three yards long
and three inches broad in the wide
parts" and when you come back cou-
pie of hours later you'll find Mr.. Genius
sitting on the floor and weeping because
he wasn't present when Jonah disem-
barked from the whale, and not line
of poem done. And then you take him
out and throw him down the elevator
shaft and he composes the whole poem
on the way down and dopes out an cpl
Iogue that would make cow tremble
with Joy as he lies at the bottom of the
shaft with his head in box of cotton
waste and one rib sticking out of him
like a handle. Can you beat it?
This fellow J. Smith, the Human
Hunger, as l call him, is one of these
genius guys. Some bust out one way
and some bust out another, but what
ever way they bust out it is pretty sure
to be a way that means no more work
till tomorrow. One genius will be work
ing along as steady as an eight-day clock
and all of a sudden a Whit from
cheese factory will sift in at the window
and remind Mr.. Genius of petunias or
peonies or pimento blossoms, and Mr.
Genius can't do any more work until he
has a bunch of petunias to twine in his
hair. And just as like as not the near
est petunias are seven miles and three
months away from where and when he
IS
Another genius will be hitting off the
work at about a mile a minute and a
June bug will whsck against the win
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cussed regular, or nothing doing in the
inventing line.
1t was some proposition. We had to
have a genuine ready-beaten egg or
move our wrist watches back to make
room for the handouts, and J. Smith
had to have tons of real iood or he
would eat the eggs faster than he could
dope. out a way to beat them without
breaking the shells, and we had bank
account that was so minus it looked like
the support the bush league mines get
when they are at the tail end and still
being licked 28 to o every day in the
week. We couldn't buy food for J.
Smith, and we had to keep him at work,
and the only way was to have strong,
ablebodied American sit beside him in
the laboratory and hand him out the line
of talk that the second mate on lum-
Der schooner is strong on when he has
been on a spree eight days and steps
on a rolling pin on the top step as he's
coming downstairs from a chop-suey
joint where a Chink waiter had just re-
fused him the right to eat birdnest soup.
Perky figured it was cheaper to hire
some leather-lung to swear at J. Smith
than to attempt to keep J. Smith even
half fed, so he went out and searched
the employment agencies and picked up
a fine, hearty user of rich language, ten
dollars a week and think of his own
rough words. He brought this fellow
Dorkins up to the Office and pointed to
the laboratory where J. Smith was
locked up and told Dorkins to go right
in and vent all the spite he could think
up. He told him he had meant to pay
twenty dollars a week, but that he had
discovered that J. Smith was loafng on
the job to such an extent that the ready
beaten egg wouldn't be invented for
seven months, and on that account he
could only pay Dorlins ten dollars. He
explained to Dorkins that it was all J..
Smiths fault, but that he didn't care
what he said to J. Smith about it. If
he wanted to tell J. Smith just what he
thought of him, he could do so.
Then Perky opened the laboratory
door and pushed Dorkins in. just had
a glimpse of J. Smith lying on the
workbench biting the end of an egg,
and then l heard Dorlins say, why.
you great, big, lazy, untanned son of a
rawhide trunk youl" and Perky slammed
the door, but in about ten minutes, after
J. Smith had pounded wildly on the
door and yelled to us to let him out, we
heard the low, steady sound of Dorkin's
voice as if speaking cruel and improper
words, and the whir of the egg beater
J. Smith used when he was working
hard at the inventing game. 1t was
working all right. So was J. Smith.
Perky" l says, maybe this is all
right and maybe it will keep J. Smith
on the job, but can we afford it? Where
do we get the ten per we have to hand
out to Dorkins? He's high-class user
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dow and remind him of the sound
pebble made when he threw it down the
crater of Vesuvius, and Mr.. Genius can't
do another whack of work until he has
Travelled about 5000 miles and chucked
a quart and a half more pebbles down
poor, defenseless crater that never did
him any harm. Genius goes dipPy all
sorts Of ways, but J. Smiths always
struck in toward the stomach. When
this divine aflatus business really got
going in ]. Smith and he began to gene
like a real genius, hunger would come
down on him like a vacuum cleaner on
a pint of fuzz. The diviner his afflatus
got the more J. Smith had to eat, and
the more he affiliated the hungried he got
When J. Smith got a real inventive
streak he could start in at one end of
wholesale grocery and eat right through
to the other end of a sausage factory
and leave nothing but the. iron nails and
gristle.
Fine stuff for the guys that would set
out to write his biography about fifty
years from now, but tough on Perky,
who had J. Smith Gagged up in the spare
Office inventing the Perkins Ready
Beaten Egg. Take tip from Susie and
if you ever grab off genius to do an
inventing stunt for you don't get one
whose eccentrics run to foodishness, or,
if you do, don't set him inventing any
thing in the fancy egg line, with eggs
sitting on the top rung of the high
cost-of" ladder. Perky didn't dare take
his eyes off J. Smith twenty minutes at
a time for, if he did, he'd come back to
find all the near-perfected ready-beaten
eggs gone and J. Smith wailing and
gnashing his teeth because the work
bench wasn't edible and the tools weren't
made of pie dough. The only soft spot
J. Smith had for anything except food
was for a good, hearty, wholesouled
| line of hard talk like a taxi driver hands
to motorman about the time the cleo
trio street car bunts so far through the
taxi it pushes the driver off the seat.
And the worst of it was that Perky
couldn't pass out that kind of language
at all. Perky's education that way was
neglected.
Say, you know a concern that is short
of cash and has to get out an invention
quick or have the U. S. A mail detec-
tives pull it for bunch of crooks can't
loaf on the job, don't you? Here was
I-sending out bales of stock in the
Perkins Ready Beaten Egg Company to
the hungriest bunch of suckers that ever
swallowed a bait, and there was Perky
trying to hold off the secret service
men about steen more days, so we could
prove that the Ready Beaten Egg was a
real ovoid and not a hlmy vision dreamt
to dazzle the easy marks, and there was
J. Smith-just as good an inventor as
ever was, but so gee-ny-ussed up that he
had to be treated like hungry pup, or
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at mans face reveals. Ahd he looked
to New York City as the best place for
his justification. New York, like his
native Chicago, Scotland, that was the
birthplace of his parents, and Ireland
that gave birth to his grandfather, was
an incident of course, but it was the
opening wedge to the future. For in
New York men of affairs from all parts
of the country, from many parts of the
world, met and tarried.
So in spite of the fact that Mr.. Mac
Donald is a nomad, by nature and de-
sire, he settled down in New York City,
He opened a studio in the heart of the
downtown business section, down near
Liberty street. And there he waited
for his belief in the future to find JUS
tihcation.
1t was hard waiting for few years
Money was not what Mr.. Macdonald
was after. He was after the vindica-
ton of an idea, an ideal perhaps. And
while he was waiting for this he had to
put about $4,000 a year more in his
business than he took from it.
But justification came before very
long. He had spent some time in Al
bany, and there he had met many prom
inent men-politicians and statesmen
who made frequent trips to New York,
First one, then another of them, came
to him to be photographed. And the
photograph that he produced told them
things about themselves that they had
forgotten, or things that they did not
know.
One prominent man who was satis-
fed told another, and he told somebody
else, and before the ambitious young
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Perkins Patent Profanity Phonograph
fills long-felt want. Buy one and let it
do your swearing Canned Curses for
Strenuous Moments Get the Dorkins
record; words for every annoying oc-
casion.'
Say! maybe the Dorl1ins record would
sell right now. Most men can manage
still to say a few appropriate words
when the time comes, but think OF US
poor danes having to say Ginger !"
when the inside OF the gas range gets
afre and burns a three-dollar lamb
The Washington herald., 1914-07-26
By OSBORN MARSHALL.
Copyright, ls1l.)

nRIE MACDONALD, friend of
men.
This is not the way his sign
reads. 1t reads "Pirie Macdonald,
Photographer of Men" But to any one
who sees Mr.. Macdonald the most i'm
portant thing about him is that he is a
friend of the men he photographs.
There has been no romance in his
business life, Mr.. Macdonald says. But
in the next sentence he admits that he
thinks life long romance. Otherwise,
what is it worth, says he? The man
who has not romance in his life eats
and waits for death.
From childhood Mr.. Macdonald has
found the romance of his life in cam
era. He worked with one in boyhood as
only boy can work with priced pos
session and then, when he first mastered
the use of his first camera, he laid the
foundation for the success of his ma
turity. For Mr.. Macdonald has learned
to master men and women, as he learn
ed to master that first camera.
81 am a nomad," says Mr.. MacDon-
aid, when you ask him where he came
from. That he was born in Chicago,
that his parents were Scotch, and that
he had an Irish randfather-these are
but details in the life he has made for
himself.
That he haunted the studios of
photographers in boyhood, that at six
teen he finally got position in one, and
that ever since then-and that was about
thirty years ago-he has been working
steadily with one fixed purpose in mind
to master men-these are but more
details in his active life.
When he was young man, Mr.. Mac
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Real Romances of the Business World

Donald built up general photograph
ing business that would have satisfied
the ambitions of most ambitious young
photographers. He made a speciality OF
portrait photographs of young women.
They were the sort of photographs that
their husbands and their fathers and
their friends liked. They caught the
spirit and life of youth. They reflected
the life and enthusiasm that were in Mr.
Macdonald himself.
The photographs of men that Mr..
Macdonald made in those days were
good, but they lacked the quality that
makes his photographs of men what
they are today.
However, the men who went to have
their photographs taken were not dis
i satisfied. 1t was Mr.. Macdonald who
was dissatisfied. He wanted to master
men. And as he grew older he felt more
and more able to photograph men-less
and less able to bring out the qualities
that made the photographs of women a
success. His maturer mind grappled
with the problem of making photographs
of men that would live, that would sur
prise even the men themselves by show
ing the characteristics that lay behind
the mask they wore to the world.
So he decided to be a photographer
of men. Perhaps men were not so
ready then for the sort of photography
Mr.. Macdonald wanted to give them. A
few of them appreciated the work he
was striving to do. But the mass was
still satisfied with the stiff, conventional
photograph that was in vogue twenty
years ago.
Mr.. Macdonald looked to the future
to justify his belief that a photograph
should tell more than a easual glance
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respect the sex. You've got to can the
bad words when I'm around"
I've got them canned says Perky,
with a grin.
And if you were not a robber-baron-
captain OF commercialism, goaded on by
the curse of wealth's desire" l says,
you'd mash that cylinder. In about
FIVE years stuff like that will be as con-
traband as raw morphine Look here
Read this !"
l showed him a piece had cut out of
the paper, meaning to give it to Dorkins
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Dorkins record, wind up the phono-
graph, set it going. and then step outside
and shut the door and let the phono-
graph say its worst. And when a guy
steps on your dress and rips off six
inches of perfectly good lower edge.
"Oh, dearl" says the dame. Pretty
weak stuff Pretty weak stuff Why not
George, dear, can't say what think
but take this record home and play Il
on your phonograph." Dorkins would
hand him something he deserved, ths
awkward camel
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ing personalities. handling only one.
1t is passion for his work that made
it possible for the young photographer
starting out in new and untried field
to persevere in the face of discourage
ment until he reached the head of his
profession.
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when he left. 1t said: Profanity on
the Wane. Churchmen Tell Congrega-
ton Its End Near At Hand"
Finer says Perky Fortune in it
for Perky and partner. Cursing and
swearing forgotten art in few years.
Nobody remember how to. Then what
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"Stopr says. None Of that I'm
perfect lady, and if that machine starts
to swear at me I'll step on its cylinder.
I'm wise to your game. You've got
enough tough talk stored up there to
keep J. Smith at work for the next seven
weeks, but even phonograph ought to
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roast to cinders. "Ginger" is nothing
to say to a stove on such an OCCASION
II doesn't teil the stove what we think
of it. If Perky puts the DoyIrins record
on the market III buy one. II would
be some satisfaction to point the horn Of
a phonograph at such stove, put in the
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of a man and then registering that find
in a concrete photograph that has made
it possible for Mr.. Macdonald to stand
long hours OF the day and night in his
studio, sometimes handling twenty sit
tiers in day-sometimes, if he felt not
equal to the task of graphing with vary
The Washington herald., 1914-07-26

HRIE MACDONALD, friend of
q men.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-26

NAY, honestI genius is something
~ fierce, amt it? l guess the rea-
SON the old Greek guys passed
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-09-04
WORTH VISIT TO CALIFORNIA
Sight of Mount Shasta, in It's Glory
and Beauty, Well Repays Tourist
for Long Journey.

The most Impressive mountain IN
the world is Shasta in California. I'm.
like Pixies Peak and many other OF
the worlds great mountains, it is not
surrounded by number Of lesser
ones, and it's tremendous height-14,
440 feet-is appreciated by the eye.
1t is sublimely grand, and yet grace
fully beautiful Against the blue Of
California sky it's curved outlines seem
to sweep in the perfect segments of a
circle from the apex of the cone to the
horizon. Far up on it's base the dark
green of the timber-line is met by the
virgin whiteness of Shastas snow, and
then on, up and up, far past the sum.
mer clouds, points the alabaster pyra-
mid.
Shasta is an extinct volcano, and haa
two large glaciers. The Whitney
glacier is visible from the railroad 1t
looks like a narrow streak of snow,
but it is over a mile in width, ard is
scanned with great assures and crew.
asses.
At times natural banner Is I'M
furled from Shasta's Peak. This is
called the "snow banner OF Shasta"
1t only occurs VIXEN the gale attacks
the summit and blows the snow In
great gusts streaming against the
sky" as the railroad book has it.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-09-04
ECZEMA SPREAD OVER HANDS

101 S. Boots ST., Marion, Ind.-"First
the eczema started on my fingers, then
spread all over my hands. 1t broke
out in tiny blisters, then would get
dry and crack and swell so I could not
have my hands in warm water they
hurt me SO badly. I could not do all
my work. The itching and burning
were terrible. The more I scratched
my hands the worse it made them.
They were so bad / could not help
scratching them and would walk the
floor they annoyed me SO. 1 could not
sleep, lost many nights of rest on &C
count of the eczema My hands were
not fit to be seen and I kept them
wrapped up and wore mittens that l
made out of old linen.
II was about one year using RENE
dies, then I saw an advertisement in
the paper saying that Cuticura Soap
and Ointment were good. I wrote at
once for sample. Then bought one
cake of Cuticura Soap and one box
of Cuticura Ointment. Before the sec.
ond box of Cuticura Ointment was
gone my hands were we'll and have
remained well ever since" (Signed)
Mrs. G. w. Sharp, Mar q, 1914.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept L, Boston. ADV.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-09-04
SISTERS TRICK
But 1t All Came Out Right.

How a sister played trick that
brought rosy health to @ coffee fiend
is an interesting tale:
II was o coffee fiend-a trembling,
nervous, physical wreck, yet clinging
to the poison that stole away my
strength. l Knocked at Postum and
would have none Of it.
"One day my sister substituted a
cup Of piping hot Postum for my morn
Ing cup OF coffee but did not tell me
what it was. / noticed the richness
of it and remarked that the coffee
tasted fine but my sister did not tell
me l was drinking Postum for fear |
might not take any more.
."She kept the secret and kept Civ
Ing me Postum instead of coffee until
I grew stronger, more tireless, got a
better color in my sallow cheeks and
a clearness to my eyes, then she told
me of the health-giving, nerve
Strengthening life.saver she had given
me in place of my morning coffee.
From that time became disciple
of Postum and no words can do JUS,
tice in telling the good this cereal
drink did me. will not try to tell it,
for only after having used it can one
be convinced of its merits
Ten days trial shows Postum's pow
er to rebuild what coffee has destroy
ed.
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs.
Postum comes in two forms:
Regular Postum-must be we'll boil
ed. 15c and Csc packages.
Instant Postum-is soluble pow
der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly
In a cup of hot water and. with cream
and sugar, makes a delicious beverage
Instantly. soc and soc tins.
The cost per cup of both kinds il
about the same.
There's a Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocers
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-09-04
Took Her Too Literally.

A Bloomfield woman looked across
her lawn to where passers-by were
breaking off the poisoning twigs of
her favorite ounce tree.
1--WE might as we'll cut the tree
down as let it stand for people to de-
stroy," said she.
Half an hour later the tree lay on
the ground beside a little Ratchet,
while around behind the house the
small boy of the family was getting a
switching with one Of the branches.
This teaches us that we should be
sure of our audience before we en-
ploy hyperbole in our speech.-Newark
News.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-09-04
SYNOPSIS.

Eleanora de Toscana was singing In
Paris. which, perhaps. accounted for Ed
ward Courtlandts appearance there. Null
timillionaire, he wandered about where
fancy dictated. He might be in Paris one
the opera he goes to a cafe and is &C
costed by a pretty young woman. She
gives him the address Of Flora Desimone.
vocal rival of Toscana, and Flora gives
him the address of Eleanora. whom he Is
determined to see. Courtlandt enters
Eleanora's apartments. She orders him
out and shoots at him. The next day
appearance Of the prirna donna. Realizing
that he may be suspected of the abduc-
ton Of Eleanora Courtlandt arranges for
an aHbi