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a pardon, her power to abstain from food
being considered as gift from heaven and
a sign of her innocence.
Another very similar. case was that of
John Scott, who in 1881. having failed
in a law case, abstained, presumably by
way of protest, from all meat and drink
for thirty days The King having heard Of
this and being resolved to test the truth
of the report, ordered Scott to be locked
UP in a cell in Marlborough Castle with.
only small supply of bread and water.
After thirty-two days it was found that
the bread and water had not been touched,
and from the fact that Scott Immediately
on his release went out and harangued
the crowd that was awaiting his appear
ance he would not seem to have suffered
greatly as a result of his ordeal. Later
the same man, on being Nnrown into prison
for declaimipg against Henry's divorce
from Katherine, tasted for a period of fifty
days.
Among those cases in which it is diff
cult to believe that there has not been
some exaggeration may be mentioned that
of young lady Of Wigginton, Stafford
shire, Mary Vaughan by name, who, hay
ing been from birth Accustomed to only
small quantities of food, became famous
for the very meager amount on which she
was able to subsist.
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Famous Fasters Of History

Tt was said that her daily fare consisted
Of nothing more than piece of bread and
butter of the size of a fifty cent piece,
or, if it were meat, as much as pigeons
egg at most. She drank only water or
milk, or both mixed. and of these not
more than a spoonful a day. Yet she was
spoken of as a maiden of, fresh complexion
and healthy constitution, very religiously
disposed and therefore the less likely to
practice a deceit.
In confirmation of these remarkable
statements it was further mentioned that
any food in excess Of this or any other
liquids always made her sick.
Perhaps the most remarkable case of
fasting as also one of the most tragic was
that of the fasting girl" of South Wales
who, in 1869 was exhibited by her parents
as having eaten nothing for two years
This statement being open to doubt and
persistentIy maintained, certain zealots in
the cause of truth arranged that four
trained nurses should be in continuous at
tendance. This was done and after eight
days of fasting the unfortunate girl died.
The parents were tried and convicted on
a charge of raanslaughter; but we are not
aware that any action was taken either
against the<nurses or those who employed
them.
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The Compleat Agnostic

On election day he went with his ballot
into the booth and put his x alongside OF
all the candidates in the Democratic coll
umn; then he hoped over to the next
space and voted for all their Republican
opponents
"There is much" muttered this fair
minded voter, as he folded his ballot, "to
be said for both sides"
When he died and went UP to the Pearly
Gates this was the question they put to
: him:
Young man, now that your period of
probation on earth is done, tell us: Have
you behaved yourself or not?"
The candidate for heavenly honors
paused and pondered.
81 have" he replied, land haven't"
So in great quandary over the dis
position of this anomalous case they
stretched the complete agnostic like a
rubber band and left him suspended with
his feet in the flames and his head in the
clouds and his midriff midway between
heaven and hell.
Which considerable arrangement suits the
gent to a t.
"There is much" says he from the aery
where dwells his Uranium, ito be said for
both sides Were it not for the Internal
condition of my feet would scarcely APP
preciate the celestial condition Of my
headI"
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The Modern Monk.

First came the dog book-"M Mans Best
end'-published in 1920 Within
year Walls Etched Monthly had made its
innovation. The mechanical labor was
more than any one man could sustain.
second year saw this compressed and
deepened into Walls Etched Quarterly,
it's present form. Recently he has etched,
for private circulation only, a splendid
poem by one of the outstanding poets of
the country; she is very proud of being
the first human being to have a book pri-
vately etched for her. Not only have these
volumes and periodicals found inches in
every section of the country, but sub
scriptions and inquiries come in from Eng
land, the Continent and even further
lands Bernhardt Wall himself sketches,
etches, prints and binds the books; he
does everything but make the ink and the
paper. His apparent aim is to give
America the seven years etch.
His own theories of the art are strik
ing and delightful. His twinkling eyes
narrow, fasten to your face and look
through you to get unrealized visions of
artistic beauty 81 Think he will say, 81
think often of the old monks j.
their books, their missals, done entirely by
hand. Autographs. My own
work is hand work, every bit of if.
1t is the modern equivalent of their de-
voted service" II he is reincarnation of
a medieval monk it is of some jolly Friar
Tuck, with fingers apprenticed to beauty
and a heart sprung of the sun.
If you get him to talk further some of
these dreams, accomplished or partly ac-
complished, will bubble over SITS the
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BY CLEMENT WOOD.

est bronze samovars ever seen outside of a
museum The room is tlironged. after
moons and evenings, with leading poets,
bankers. actors, art connoisseurs, a visit
ing diplomat, a doctor whose name spans
the sea, titled Englishman, a sculptor.
- There is open house to the arts.
as well as to human beings, at the Walls.
The year 1898 brought the Spanish
American war Bernhardt Wall, who can
not resist being first in everything. was
the first man to enlist in the 202d New
York and did his tropical bit in Cuba,
sketching, sketching all the time. At the
wars end he came back to the States and
worked around in minor art fields, con-
uuering each one. At first it was posters.
For the next few years he was called ''the
postcard king; he has, perhaps, made
more designs for postcards than any liv-
ing man, having more than 5000 to his
credit But he was not satisfied. He had
never forgotten a printing press he made.
for himself as boy. Even the most artis-
tic postcards were ephemeral- day the
rage, forgotten tomorrow. Just eight
years ago he took up the charmingly
snobbish art of etching. For six years he
worked, mastering it's astringent technic.
Two years ago he saw the way, and took
it; and these two years have meant the
UNIQUE lowering of his genius as artist and
,1.cI,a,
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Death Rate Falls

TIN HE Department Of Commerce an
nounces that the compilations
made by the Bureau Of the
Census show that 100000 deaths oc-
CURED in 1921 within the death regis
tration area Of continental United
States, representing a death rate of
11.6 per 1000 population as compared
with 1871 in 1920. The rate for 192l is
the lowest rate recorded in any year
since The beginning Of the annual
compilations in 1900.
The death registration area Eek
elusive of the Territory of Hawaii) in
1921 comprised thirty-four States, the
District of Columbia, and sixteen cities
in nonregistration States, with total
estimated population on July ! of 49,
667.6O2 or 1922 per cent. of the esti-
mated population of the United States.
The death rate from cancer increased
from 1914 per 100, 900 in 1920 to Sc in
1921 Some of the other diseases for
which the rates increased are diph-
iberia, typhoid fever, appendicitis,
scarlet fever, diabetes and puerperal'
fever. The fatalities caused by auto
mobile accidents and injuries show an
increase from 10.4 per 100000 in 1920
to lis in 1921.
A marked decrease is shown in the
death rate from tuberculosis, which
was 99.4 in 1921 as compared with
114.2 in 1920; also in the death rate
from influenza and pneumonia Gall
forms). which was 1913 in 1921, against
2OS.S in 1920. The rates for measles.
bronchitis, nephritis, whooping cough,
heart disease and diarrhea and en-
teritis also declined.
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equidistantly between two equally tempting
feed bags.
"Have little oysters, sir? the waiter
would politely suggest
81 will and / won't 1t all depends on
what you mean BY oysters" Then he
would add II like to give all these dishes
proper. consideration. Come back in about
two hours, when shall have studied the
matter out"
Invariably the unbiased diner would
wind up by ordering everything on the
bill of fare.
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Etching Up From the Breadline

great leader who has gone West regards
as the best likeness ever made Of her hus-
band. Then he win smile and pass over
1.-THE Laughter" a sunshiny recent vol
une; or 'sThe. Footprints Of Washington
Irving" by Virginia Lynch. just off the
press-the first of a Footprints series
which viii include Poe (done by Edwin
Markha1n), Walt Whitman, Sidney Lanier,
o. Henry and others.
One of his ambitions is to sketch the
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struggling etcher. And the struggler of
to-day is the master of tomorrow; it may
be most profitable, as wen as pleasant, to
the man or woman who adds print collec-
ing to his hobbies" When you realize
that one of Bernhardt Wall's etched boo.Ss,
containing from fifteen to thirty plates,
may be purchased for $40, the ordinary
price of a single print you begin to realize
how it is possible for Tony McCarty. the
policeman, and Pat Maschelli the boot
black, to own one.
A day in the life of Bernhardt Wall is
a busy stretch of activity in the dullest
season; around the holidays it is hec-
tic swivel. When the alarm clock rings
from the bronze samovar the artist crawls
out and contemplates the. hours before
him. what he might do inthem !. !.
what he must do. First. perhaps, two or
three etchings for the next quartsfly, or
the forthcoming book in the Footprints
series. Then an order of etched
book plates that must be struck off on the
press. Two of this print, dozen
of that. to be given as Christmas presents.
Four or five copies of this book to be
printed. Half a dozen to be
bound. Constant telephone inter
ruptions. accepting orders. declining invi-
tations. Friends dropping in the
entire day., to meet his unfailing good
ing care. There is dedication, usually
Midnight. :. The hours stretch on;
the work is never over. +. The alarm
clock rings again from the bronze samovar.
to send him to bed.
A typical etched quarterly gives the
sweep and delicate beauty Of his work.
The cover, '"The Acids" shows the etcher
at his work. Then comes the number plate,
the title page. - = each one etched,
pictures and lettering, with the same low
Flumor no matter the press of work. /,
A bank president, the laureate of Okla
homa, a tenor from the Metropolitan, a
Czecho-S lovakian dancer in for tea, to-
gether with several human beings. d.
Back to the etching, printing, binding.
to some distinguished friend of the arts.
The table of contents is a soft dream
of brown orange beauty. Then comes a
green gem-a little fairy, baton in hand.
teaching a chorus of Dummies to sing out
of their opened song books-a whimsical
delight. A stiff, stern page of sketches
from the Spanish-American war. ,.
Memories come of the Maine, of Dewey at
Manila, of the hot charge up San Juan
Hill, with the whitening gunfire to be met
and silenceds A poem, Riverside" shows
at it's base Grants Tomb the drowsy At
lantic fleet the Palisades browsing be-
hind it, A charming dog picture, JAG
quot; an appreciation of "Civic Virtue"
a fine etching of it, and striking head
of the sculptor Rag Picker, Greenwich
village; a sea scene from Gloucester;
poems by Marjorie Meelker, Edwin Mark
ham, William Griffith, interpreted by the
brain and fingers of the artist; Venetian
Vegetable Vender"; children upon see
saw: st. Patriek's Cathedral; General Diaz'
the Italian commander--and we are hardly
half way through! There are enough
prints of enduring worth here to hallow
the most artistic room in the house.
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Edwin Markham, from an etching Of Rernhardt wall.

and the arts. One year later he moved to
Houston, purchased a Prince Albert and
won wife. She was a charming art stu
dent who took the frock coated, sober
young man as a preacher at first. When
she learned that he was an artist she
could not let the artistic genius and the
frock coat go by; so she took him as a
husband. The aspiring couple started
housekeeping with the first installment
paid on the dining room set, a large deficit
at the bank and a billion dollars in
optimism.
The same household, thirty years older,
is now staked out midway of Broadway.
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was once man who despised
prejudice more than any vice or
peccadillo that ever existed.

@peccadillo that ever existed.
He was 4 complete agnostic.
He believed that there were two sides to
every question, and he stoutly stood up
for both of them.
If from the security of your hearthside
you asked him Hoao is the sceather to-dGy2
he would deliberately reply:
Its good +. and it's bad. 1t all
depends on what you mean by good
weather."
If you asked him whether or not it. was
raining he. would say:
ut Island it isn't! It all depends on
what you consider as rain"
When interrogated at the altar would
he take this woman to be his lawful wife?
habit so prevailed with him that he re-
sponded:
81 do. and I dont!"
He did, however; and later when ques-
toned by stranger if, he had a wife he
made this reply:
"I have, and 1 haven't. There is
lady living who married me, but she is at
present sunmering in Reno"
In a restaurant he was like the indeeisive
mule whose head had been interposed
Copyright. 1923. by The New York Herald,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-01
Hear a Song.

1t sings of beauty in the gutter,
ugliness in gold,
And half is truth and half is song. and
half is never told
Oh, dwell with wayside witchcraft and
COLLINS in a gale,
The unobtrdsive weariness of moons
worn pale.
Then airs, adrift in Already, are
rosaries of roads
To hang upon my beating heart and
free it of it's loads:
I count the moments to the moon, the
sorrows to the sea-
1 hear a song of the open road-and
it sings to the heart of mel.
C;s>ARLEs DIVINE.
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TN 1S9S-the panic year-a young
artist, twenty years old, shivered his
way one night through the winter
whipped streets of New York Ahead of
him he saw dark blur on the white
emptiness of an avenue AS he came
closer he recognized 1.-THE frozen tail Of
the old Eleschman breadline. He reached
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Truth.

Some go down to the sea in ships
And some in almost nothing at all;
But never do either make fruitless trips,
For some poor fish is certain to fall.
BLAINE G. BIGLER.
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art pupils: he had organized and become
the first president of the San Antonio Art
League, whose exhibition startled Texas;
he had become. part owner Of the San
Antonio Engraving Company. In less.
than another year he was art editor of the
Gulf Messenger, journal Of literature
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-01

greatest men of the world. Leading
Americans, renowned foreign visitors, one
by one he adds them to his collection;
ultimately they appear in the precious
quarterly More than thirty years. of
close observation form his backgrounds.
if he can only get in touch with Conan
Doyle we may expect etching from the
ectaplasmic of Napoleon, St. Francis,
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Never Forgets.

Flubb-Dobbs is a man with a Won
derful memory.
Dubb--I should say so. Why, he even
memories the serial number on every
bank note he loans you
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John Burroughs, from an etching by Bernhardt WALL

best in literature that 1 want-in living.
unpublished literature He will bring
out his exquisite Love Among the Ruins"
by Browning: his strong Interpretation of
Edwin Markham's Lincoln; his own
Zone Midnight With Roosevelt contain
ing the etching which he likes best. This
is head of the great cowboy President,
sketched in 1915 at a Plough Rider ban
nuet; it is picture which the wife of the
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of dozen that 1 have recently converted.
There will always be lovers of books, and
if these choice souls can once learn that
there are living etchers-worthy ones
whose present product can be purchased
for less than hundredth of what some
old master. costs it will be new world
opened to the book lover; and it may mean
life-artistic and physical life-to the
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-01
The Etching Game.

"The etching game" he viii tell you.
lis a peculiar. one. For five years etchings
are 'in'-the popular thing; then has al
ways followed in the past a drought twice
as long. There are not enough collectors
Of prints. and these few know chiefly the
works of Whistler, Brangwyn, and other
masters whose prices are out of the reach
of the average mans purse What I am
trying TO do is to make every book lover
a lover of etchings. I could name couple
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The studio is one of the most charming
rooms in New York city, built around an
old refectory table, early Jacobean, from
some vanished monastery. An exquisite
carved italian walnut chest lifts its ven
cradle height to the high ceiling; it is
thanked by two splendid Dutch panels,
early seventeenth century. There are
bronzes on all sides-dun flowers of
medieval Russia, including one of the En-
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it and sauntered broodingly along it's
murky length. He clutched his sketch
book more closely against his breast and
wondered how many nights it would be
before he was one among the hungry
many.
Hallway up the breadline he felt his arm
clutched. "Bernhardt Wall!"
why, Ed! What in the world"
Above the shabby overcoat the months
stubble on the cheeks of the young man
who had spoken first expanded into a
grin Broke. Hoboed over from Chi
cage. Gosh, it's chilly! What you doing?'
me? Oh, sketching. Trying
to sell my. drawings :"
Say, Wall, remember those old days in
Buffalo-the quartet and all? 1 thought
you would. Making any real
money!"
at sold some children's stuff. But that
moneys gone. ="
you know New York's too cold for a
white man. Let's beat it down to Balti-
more!"
Objections were soon overcome. The
two young friends found the freight yard
and started the journey. Philadelphia
Baltimore. There seemed
no reason to stop yet. The easy-going
South and the long westward swing along
the gulf. =. Somewhere in Louis
lana the man who had been in the bread
line dropped off; to-day he is a distin-
guished lawyer. practicing in Buffalo. The
young artist kept on until at last Texas
was reached. San Antonio All
the way down his sl1etching had continued.
He dropped off at the little town, stretched
his train cramped muscles and decided to
look around bit. Maybe he could find
a job. And keep on drawing
Cowboys, bronchos Indians
Paradise for an artist searching for the
color in life, to perpetuate in mans artis-
stayed.
San Antonio.
In 1922 the same artist, thirty years
older, is recognized as one of the great
contributors to the art of etching In the
history of that exquisite form of express
sion, that patrician medium, he is written
down as the first man to publish an all
etched book as the first man to publish an
etched quarterly; as the first man to pup
lish an, etched monthly. His etchings
and first states hang in the collections of
]. p. Morgan, of Henry Clay Frich, of
Henry E, Huntingdon, of Frederick w.
Vanderbilt; they share. with brewing COM
pany calendars and clippings from the
rotogravure sections, the dusty walls of
Tony Maschelli the corner bootblack; Pat
McCarty, the corner policeman; Mrs. Helen
Yarmolinski, the neighborhood cleaning
woman, They are on display in the New
ark Public Library, the Grosvenor Ii
brary at Buffalo, the Toronto Museum OF
Art and also in the district Tammany
Club, and the nearest branch OF the Inter
national Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
These thirty years have been thirty
years of work. Edison may regularly
sleep his four hours day; there are days,
even now, when Bernhardt Wall does not
get that much. His recipe for success is
simple: Work, grin. get there!
AT the end of the first year in San
Antonio the artist was on the UP grade.
He had built up clientele of elementery
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Alexander. Thutmosis H.. and even Of
Captain Noah, turning the wheel Of the
Ark toward Ararat.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-07-14
MOVEMENT ON BY
CHAMBER TOKEEP
EXPRESS SERVICE,

Through the efforts Of the FL
Centre Chamber of Commerce it is
possible that the present express
service maintained by the Southern
Pacific Company between Los An
geles and Imperial Valley points,
which has proved so popular with
valley business men, may be con-
tinued indefinitely. The continu-
ance depends upon the volume of
business handled by the express
train and, Judging from present
conditions, it will be extended for
some time yet.
Should the express service become
a regular feature, the directors OF
the chamber were of the opinion at
last night 5 meeting of directors
that request should be made to the
government to have the mail car at
tsehed to the express train instead
of to the passenger train, as IL
present. This would enable valley
cities to get mail much earlier than
at present and would greatly facill-
tate IHe NOTh OF uISliAputloH.
withhold Approval
a coTmunicat tion was read at the
meeting from Charles P. Bayer, sec
retarv and treasurer of the South
ern California Commercial Secre-
taries Association, advising of 4
movement TO form a state chamber
of commerce.
Mr.. Bayer's letter stated that the
movement is fostered by parties NOT
al present connected with the cham
Der of commerce or commercial club
work in the state, and it is believed
that endorsement of the formation
of state body should be withheld
until the work is started by respon-
sible people who know the require
ments of the state and can best
serve the various commercial organ
iZations. The local chamber went
on record in favor of Mr.. Bayer s
Recommendation and will not en-
dorse the present movement for
state chamber.
Edward F. Toler master mechanic
of the Holton Interurban Railway,
was elected 10 membership in the
chamber.
Directors present were: II. w.
Brewer, Jr., j. S. Duff, j. R. Ford,
7. S. Jones, A. p. Nuffcr, c. w.
Runge, c. +. Scott, Charles Sones
and Percie Thacker.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-07-14
So. Cal. Dealers
in COnfere nee
At Los Angeles

Southern California motor car
dealers met at Los Angeles recent
lv in a two-dav conference. 1t was
the first of the four conventions
arranged by the National Automo-
bile Dealers Association for its Pa
cific coast members.
The conference with the motor
trade took place at the Elite Ca
terers Hall on Monday morning
Several hundred dealers, distribu-
tors, salesmen and service men
from all parts of Southern Califor-
mia were at the meeting.
They listened to talks on trade
topics by such well known national
figures as F. w. A. Vesper of st.
Louis, president of the St. Louis
Chamber of Commerce; Charles E.
Gambill, president of the Gambiil
Motor Car Co., Marmon and Hup-
mobile distributors of Chicago; j.
S. Kno of Cleveland automobile
sales specialist, and Percy L.
Chamberlain, nationally known
service expert and father of the
flat rate system of automobile re-
pairing.