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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-24
Find Kansa.n Dead in Bed.

Wichita Kan. Jan. 24.-With Z
year-old Leon Bowens arm around
him. George White. Peck, Kan, au-
tomobile dealer, was found dead in
bed here early today. Heart disease
was the cause of death. The lad al
ways slept with White when he came
to Xisi+
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-24
CHICAGO STORES To STOCK
WITH VsOMEA'S TROUSERS

Chicago. Jan. 24.-Now that it
has been shown that quite a num-
Der of Chicago women are wearing
trousers and overalIs to do their
homework in emulation of the wo-
men workers III England, two de-
partment stores declared today that
it would not be long until trousers
and overalls for women would be
placed in stock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-24
HI MYERS A HOLDOUT
Brooklyn Star Announces I'll" Will
Stand by Players Fraternity.

New York Jan. 24.-Hi Myers. the
Brooklyn outfielder. who by clouting
a home run. made possible the long
game between the Dodgers and Red
Sox in the last worlds series. will
stand by the Baseball Players frater-
nifty.
letter received Big The Brooklyn
club returned Mvers's contract and
brought the information.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-24
FIX NEWS PRINT PRICES
Members of L. S. Commission Will Go
to Canada for Conference

Washington, Jan. 24.-To confer
with Canadian officials regarding re-
ported action of the Canadian govern
ment in fixing news print paper prices
to publishers IS a SO increase over
last year. Commissioners Parry and
Harris of the federal commission will
&C to Ottawa. il was announced here
tOdaV-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-24

Piitsburg. Kan. Jan. 24.-The Pitts
burg Normal entered Kansas confer
ence basketball last night in a game
with the Hays Normal here. Hays
won A. to %. The teams meet again
tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-24
STILL HUNGER STRIKING
Woman Birth Control Propagandist
Now Days Without Food.

New York. Jan. 24-Mrs Ethel
Byrne, sentenced to thirty days on
Blackwell's island for distributing
birth control informa ton. started her
third day of hunger striking today.
B. G. Lewis. commissioner of cor
rection, declared that if Mrs. Byrne's
hunger strike becomes 50 serious as to
endanger her life she will be fed fore
iblY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-24
Veteran Merchant Dead.

Kansas City, Jan. 24-E. b. Will
liams, a merchandise broker, seventy
three years old, died at his home here
today after long illness. He was in
terested in the live stock commission
business both here and at Oklahoma
CITY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-24
Nebraska "Agsics" Win.

Denver. Jan. 24.-The stock judg-
ing team from the University of Ne
braslza won the annual students stock
judging contest at the Denver Live
Stock show, now in progress here, it
was announced today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-24

New York, Ian. 24.zJoseph H.
Choate. who is IS years old today. has
been sick for the last two weeks with
influenza, but his physicians do not
regard his illness as critical.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-24
s1.5.oo0 Fire at Reading. Pa

Reading, Pa. Jan. 24.-Fire today
in the heart of the business district
caused damage estimated at s175, 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-24

MOST of this freak legislation
comes from publicity hunting
politicians who use their bills fog front
page bait.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-24

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas,
" Fair tonight and Thurstiay:
somewhat colder tonight in the south
and extreme east; rising temperatures
Thursday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-24
SLIGHT DROP COMING

CONTINUED on Page TwoD
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-12-07

Seven OF the pupils Of Mrs. Banks
are studying the lives Of great musl-
clans. After studying tho life of
Boch, each wrote a story from mem.
DRY
The following, by Ruth Rosse,
was declared to be the best although
every one was good.
Johann Sebastian Boch was born
in Elsenoch, Germany, in 1895. Near
his home can be seen a castle called
the warthburg, 1t was here the min
strels OF Germany held their con-
tests.
"Johann's father was a musician,
as his family had been for many
years. His father and mother died
when he was ten years OF age. He
went to live with his brother His
brother did not want him to be a
musician. Musicians In that day
were not paid as much money as
they are now. He wanted Johann
TO be n clerk. banker or something
like that. so he could make more
money.
when Sebastian was old enough
he used to travel afoot, Just as the
mlnstrels did. His purpose OF going
was to hear fine organ players.
HE would sit up on moonlight
nights and copy big book that was
In the library. When he had every
thing copied. his brother found II
out and took II away from him.
"once while he was resting by the
roadside someone threw n herring to
him.
"He took his first position when
he was seventeen. He soon became
cantor Of the Thomas school. He
wrote songs for the church at LoIpslc-
Tho first time Doch married. he
married his cousin. While he was
away she died. He married and had
a family of twenty children. Two OF
tho children studied with their faith
or. They were william Friedman
Boch and Philip Emanuel Boch.
HE wrote q book called The
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-12-07

Abilene. Texas. Dec. 3, 1917. or
fee Of Referee:
To the Creditors OF William La
fayctte Gross. OF Snyder, in the
County OF scurry and District afore-
said, bankrupt. Notice is hereby
given that on the srd day OF Dec.
A. D.. 1917. the said William La
fayettc Gross was duly. adiudged
bankrupt. and that the nrst meeting
OF his creditors will be held at my
office In the city OF Abilene. Taylor
County. Texas on the 18th day Of
December, A. D.. 1917 at 10 O'Clock
In the forenoon at which time the
said creditors may attend. prove
their claims, appoint trustee, e.
anime tho bankrupt and transact
such other business as may properly
come before said meeting.
X. X. LEGETT.
Referee In Bankruptcy
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-12-07

Twelve Little Freludes" for one of
his boys. Boch played before Freder-
lex the Great.
in front OF the wartburg there
Is statue Of Boch.
There was another man named
Handel who was about Boch's age
He was a German also. Handel wrote
Tho Messiah.
"Boch was blind the last years OF
his life.
HE was slxty-fiye years old when
he died In 1850.
HE could play the plano. violin
and other stringed lntruments."
RUTH RossER.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-12-07
Attention RornI Arch Mnsnns

There will be a stated conyocatlon
of Snyder Chapter. No. 2sG, Royal
Arch Masons at the Masonic Temple
Saturday night Work in the Mark
and Past Master degrees. All visit.
Ing companions welcome.
J. A. stayeley. II. p.
W. W. Gross. Secretary.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-12-07

Not because It is of ony special In
terest hero. but merely to state the
result OF the trial of Mrs. Desaules,
at Mineola. N. Y. for the murder OF
her husband, the statement is here
made that she was acquitted. The
big dailies have followed up the trial
for two weeks. The woman shot her
divorced husband because he refused
to let her take their little son away.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-12-07
LOVELY BLOUSES

LOVELY BLOUSES that make practical Gifts.
Dainty BlOuses of Crepe Geogette Crepe de chine
and Chiffon also lace combinations hand embroid-
cred, beaded or tailored, all new and in the popu-
lar colOrs Buy Early
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-12-07

Chilli Chilli Chllllll The best in
town at The Owl Confectionery. 1871
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-12-07

In the Matter OF William Lafayette
Gross, Bankrupt. No. 600 in Bank
ruptcy.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-12-07
HANpKERCHIEFS

One never can have too many of them. We have
them from the cheap little pain ones up to the fin
est full line OF mems initial handkerchiefs.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-12-07

PILLOWS FOR THE SOLDIERS
Pillows for the Solders--just what they will need
and appreciate the most We have just received a
new line to select from. These also make practi-
cal gifts for the friends at home.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-12-07

p. R. Cotton was here Monday
from his farm east Of Dunn.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-12-07
W0MEN'S SWEATERS

The very thought of these remind us that they
are gifts that can we'll be termed practical.
All Styles and ColOrs in a full run Of sizes
Priced up to sssO
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-12-07
GIFT GLOVES or for Personal

Wear. We advise buy now, because stocks will
sure be bIoken later on. We are showing them
from Sl.75 to $50
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-12-07

Suits are still marked down. We still have spe-
cial prices on all cur Suits and Dresses Why not
buy that new suit or dress for Christmas NOW?
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-12-07
MEMS BATH ROBES

Make excellent serviceable Christmas Gifts We
have themin a lot of Floral aud Conventional de-
signs many pretty styles to choose from,
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-12-07
TINKER TOYS for CHILDREN

Just bring the children in and see how delight
ed they will be with these toys; snd your gift for
them will be solved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
An American Realist

for nature without which an artist is,
Of course, pretty nearly helpless.
There are two or three river scenes in
the show; there is landscape, mend
ing the Net" which reveals him as
caring for something more than the
gray light and arrested movement Of
the studio. He was interested in life
never was a painter more interested
and this virtue comes out superbly in
the heads in practically all his por-
traits. In the analysis of character,
and the grave, dignifed revelations OF
it, he was exceptionally strong. Now
and then, as in the elizabeth r. Cof-
fin" wherein the subtler attributes OF
portraiture are Joined TO distinguished
drawing, he makes you feel that he
might be capable of anything. But it is
only now and then, and at long inter-
walls. With a recognition Of that fact
we come swiftly. and rather discon-
certingly, upon his limitations. Mr..
Burroughs, who says so admirably the
best that is to be said about Eakins,
also gives US hint Of the worst in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18

Whistler said, lend to an lnfants in
her impossible farthingale the dis
tinction Of the Elgin Marbles, failed
deplorably when he attempted to paint
Christ on the Cross. And from the
same cause as Eakins-his magma
ton could not reach that far. The
test, as we have said, is terribly
severe. But with Eakins the failure
points, slssl TO a deficiency that tells
all along the line. You respect him
for his sincerity and strength. He
gives you no Joy, no exaltation, be-
cause he gives you no beauty. II his
work has the vitality of life it lacks
the vitality Of art. The fact is placed
Enthusiastically before US, but not
charged with the personal, imponder-
able qualities which alone make the
painted fact worth while. Beauty is
truth and truth is beauty, we have
been told. As Eakins would have IL,
truth may stand by itself, and, II not
exactly inimical to beauty, at all
events may rer n unconcerned with
its myriad mysterious sources.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18

feet Of any one Of half dozen old or
modern masters. But he would still
have been handicapped by his want of
artistic passion, Of enthusiasm for pure
beauty, Of imaginative fervor.
It is, after all, through imaginative
FIRE that an artistic talent must pass
TO lie tempered in taste, in subtlety.
in all that carries drawing, color and
design 10 a thrilling plane The
severest test faced by Eakins as we
see his art here illustrated is that
which he essayed to meet in "The
Crucifxion." II Is an old story that
the dead body in art can only justify
itself in proportion to its emergence
from the atmosphere Of the charnel
house. 1t must be more than a dead
body. A phenomenal exception, like
Holbein's famous Dead Christ" at
Rale, remains. when all Is said, a phe.
nomenal exception. Michael Angelo
was a realist, if ever there was one,
in his "Pieta" in st. Peters. but he
saved his stark truth by bathing it in
exquisite beauty. Eakins paints only
the dead body. Better men than he
nave fallen into the same error.
VelAsQueI himself who could, -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
foIlow,nv brief passage: HE was the

following DITCH passage e S
most consistent Of American realists,
and throughout the forty-fve years OF
his artistic career mis- point OF view re-
NAMED practically the same" That IS
eulogy only il we forget what Eakins's
point of view was in the first place,
and if we ignore the dangers of isola-
ton in any profession. Eakins began
with a realistic point of view which
completely excluded the operation Of
the Imagination. point of view insen-
sitive to taste, to beauty, and his con-
sistency. whatever It's fortifying powers
may have been, blinded him to all that
was happening in the art Of his time.
The conquest over problems of light,
achieved by the impressionists, left
him Indifferent The potentialties Of
tone. as they were exploited by Whis-
tier. for example. left him cold, and he
was as neglectful Of the qualities Of
surface illustrated in the art Of Alfred
Stevens. II would be easy TO retort
that he was occupied in realizing his
own talent-that an artist must be
himself. Yes, but what IL fate has left
out OF his makeup certain indispenss-
Bile elements7 We do not cite the mas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Over. 1000 Villages
Towns and Hamlets

On this map there shown more than 1000 places
The State Of Illinois contains about the number of
square miles as shown this map, and in Illinois there
are less than 100 places OF 100 more inhabitants
In addition to 1000 towns. villages and hamletS.
this map gives all woods fOrtresses fortified towns
naval arsenals reoubts batteries, aircraft depots
wireless stations and railways The forests and woods
indicated in green giving the map attractive appear
ance, and adding strategica feature of Importance
The scale of the map is 10 miles 10 the inch II extends
west to Ashford Engand north to Antwerp, Belgium;
east to Frankfort Germany and south to Orleans France
It shows for comparison the battle line Of 1914 when the
Germans almost at the gates Of Paris The ground
gained By the Allies, therefore, may be plainly
II is without exception the satisfactory map OF the
Western which has been engraved II has been pre-
pared especially TO throw light movements they
occur II may be examined with ease, for the type is bold
and clean cut.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18

contains much. material which is Of
interest, from the technical point Of
view. The examples Of ehiaroseuro
on the walls, by UgO da Carpi, Andre
AMI and others, will repay study. But
Cor the present We would commend
the reader more particularly TO the
books in the cases, 20 the figures IN
he arbor adjoining the first page Of
he "Decameronc" of 1902, 70 the
pages whereat the copy Of the "HyP-
nerotomachia" (No. 7i) is opened, ana
o certain purely decorative pieces
ike the Venetian "Ca!endario" OF
l476. What 90 these mean, save joy
IN artistic invention, sheer rapture in
artistic grace and elegance. very
passion for what is fair and beauil-
full and uplifting TO the soul? II Is
imagination that here does its per
feet work. the imagination which
cannot touch fact without gloriously
TRANSPORTING it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
And Only Three
DAYS From Premiere

Still the author insisted, timid and
firm st the same time:
Certainly ] won't worry. Certainly.
But should like to have you, once be
fore the first night, only once, show me
your real quality. Only once; just
once. Think of it. We are only three
days from the premiere"
Don't worry" repeated Fanjard.
Then he went away.
At this moment the director passed
by. He asked with pleasant smile;
"well, how does It go? Are you sat
ished?"
"Satisfedl My dear man, my piece
is ruined-you understand, ruined.
Mile. Ravignan Is passable. The light
effects are a fzzle; Fanjard is bad,
bad bad"
The director tried to calm him. He
had heard many others talk that way,
and he knew that in the theatre, bet
ter than anywhere else, everything
somehow works out. Fanjard was an
artist. sure. conscientious. incapable Of
sighting his roles, let him play them
two hundred times. Obstinate? Yes.
Unequal at rehearsals? Possibly. But
exceeding all expectations when the
curtain went up.
The author, still skeptical, shook his
head
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
PaoIo at hs E.as..s.E ea.rl
L the Klelnberger Gallerie.)

tiers upon whom he turned his back as
types that he should have initiated. We
mention them merely as exemplifying
traits that he needed. In the renuncia-
ton Of those traits he helps US toward
a better understanding Of his precise
significance as painter. Consider the
matter Of taste. That would spell, as
suredly, certain delicacy, a certain
feeling, where color is concerned. Well,
as q colorist Eakins simply did not
exist His color is worse than prosaic;
it Is duly repellant. Perhaps the most
fragrant example is the big full length,
"The Concert Singer" where the banal-
ity of the greens and pinks, set forth
with callous resolution, is almost pa
thetically dsillusioning, but every
where we meet the same rebuff. The
red feather in the bonnet of "Margue-
rite in Skating Costume" gives US a mo-
ment's solace, and another is waited
forth from the penumbra in which the
little studio interior (No. ~ Is en-
veloped, but these are harbingers of a
dawn that never breaks. AS a colorist
Eakins never knew the magic of the
sun, the Transforming power Of light
He was a perfectly sound technician
who never sensed the full scope Of
technique. He could draw accurately.
sometimes powerfully, but never with
an atom of charm.
In the transcendently important
sphere of composition he moved about,
equally unaware Of his losses, as in
worlds not realized. Much of the ce-
lebrity which he won was based upon
his two ambitious hospital scenes,
"The Gross Clinic" and "The Agnew
Clinic" The great example Of Rem
brandt was there TO sanction his dar-
ing purpose, but somehow the massive
simplicity Of "The Anatomy Lesson"
woke in him no kindling response 20
the masters principle of design. Of
design, in the fine sense, his two huge
| canvases show no trace. Both are
leased with figures and heads, both are
"slices of life" instead Of being pict-
! ures. Painting a portrait, he occa-
, sionally placed the figure with un-
common good judgment. "The Think
err" offers an excellent case In point.
The moment he tackled a crowded
problem, the moment he dealt in Access
SORES, his weakness was betrayed. The
clutter OF musical instruments in "Mrs.
Frishmuth" is an instance, in no wise
to be excused from pictorial point Of
view by the hobby of the sitter. Re-
dundancies such as mark this canvas
and others like it, the Professor Ben
jamin II. Rand" for example, one
might conceive as yielding to a purely
scientific study Of design. Even with
his cool temperament Eakins might
have worked out a better ideal Of COM
position if he had chosen to sit at the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Modern American Art
And Primitive Italian
The Traits of the Late Thomas Eakns-Truth versus
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Picture Books,
Plain and Coored
BY Royal Cortissoz

fail this is be the most crowded season the art
Of 1t has begun early and with
show in evidence hand paintings and
their hundreds and vtabe flock auction sales
problem raised by the
ware future of the art marehad been solved and
the traffic old These gossip in
authoritative be believed all the time trucking into the
United Quantities of being spent art and would
well the foreign picture being Sold Any
prodgousy active only the
miscellaneous The first Of the latter that
Club prevails for another week at the Fine
withdrawal preparations will be begun at the same
Academy December 15 Mean
exhibitions hold the foregroundhat of works by
late Ean the Metropolitan Museum and that of early
Italian painting Kenberger galleries is fortunate chance
which brings differentiated episodes into the d at the
same time them makes for interesting
Elections.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18

The Eakins exhibition, welcome for
more than one reason, is especially
gratifying as another example of a now
we'll established policy at the museum
the formal recognition of American
art through processes not confined to
the purchase Of paintings and sculpt-
ures. The work go we'll begun with the
displays Of productions by Whistler
and Saint-Gaudens and continued with
the tributes TO Winslow Homer and
Chase Is plainly to be carried on with
loval appreciation of our school. And
the present exhibition Is, perhaps, the
more 70 be valued in that the occasion
for il does not Jump to the eye" The
eupeal Of Eakins is not By any means
comparable to that Of Whistler, say, or
Homer. But neither was that Of Chase.
What the museum has reckoned with
has been, simply, the solid achieve
ment of a representative painter, the
serious merits of an American who may
not have attained to the highest rank,
but was proficient and Characteristic
Mr.. Bryson Burroughs, in his intro
duction to the catalogue, has a re-
marx indicating with peculiar feiicity
those traits which lie upon the sur
face Of the paintings here. He speaks
OF Eakins's "manly and thoughtful
art" That is precisely what 1t is, an
art so honest and straightforward, so
full of a kind of clean-cut American
energy, so sincere and SO plainly de-
veloped with reflective care, that II
is impossible TO observe its manifes-
tations without an instructive re-
spouse to its sober purpose. Its genu-
ineness is particularly acceptable at
tbis time, when 50 many false short
cuts to artistic triumph are being ped
died about blythe victims Of short
cuts. Eakins travelled the well worn
nath. He was an old man when he
died last year. His pupilage dated
from the sos, when he studied in
Paris with Gerome and Bonnat. Just
when and how he came under the in
ausnce of Courbet's sturdy natural
lam we do not know. II may be that
he never consciously did so. Yet 1t
is Of Courbet rather than Of his Aca-
deroic instructors that we think IN
Tho nresence Of many OF his paint
;rgs. Certainly his formal training
filled TO turn him into coldly and
rigidlv accurate Academician. He de-
yeIoped. rather, into broad realist'
realist steadied, no doubt, by the
aduonitions Of Gerome, but lifted
into a freer world by the outlook
ub;.h We associate with Courbet-by
Tho outlook, and, little, by the
m.,bod For this clew let the reader
consult a portrait like the "Dr. Ho-
r.,io r Wood" and II he would see
bow far Eakins could push the sound
nr;rcinIe there enunciated let him
turn 10 the best canvas in the coliec-
ton. the elizabeth at the PIANO
which adds to Courbet's simple force
something of the grace and sentiment
Characteristic of Fantin Lstour' In
the bold. direct statement OF i"e'
Eakins disclosed sterling git.
He had n thorough going knowledge
of form and q good deal Of slow, dogged
skill in the notation Of IL. At the oack
Of his mind, too, there was that feeling