Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 20 November 1896 — Page 17
J. P. WALTER & BRO.
DEALERS IN
Horsesand Mules
OF ALL CLASSES.
Jersey Milk Cows
(if the best .'amilies constantly on hand at wholesale and retail.
Crawfordsville, Ind.
Hjji iqp If/ 1^ sp
FUR ROBES.
At Prices Below All Competition.
Natural black, Robes
felt-lined Fur
RESTAURANT
-AMI)
Short Order House
Special inducements to Banquets and Parties.
L. J. McMulleri.
fcj Don't Forget the ——(If
Corner Jewelry Store
When needing anything in the lino of
Fine Watches, Jewelry, S Sterling Silver,
Cut Glass
Or anything found in a lirst. class Jewelry Store., We are headquarters for fine and complicated watch and jewelry repairing. Also, llttins the eye with glasses.
IC. L. ROST. I
Corner Main and Green Sts
O. U. PERRIN. A W E
Practices In Federal and State Courts. PATENTS A SPECIALTY. |®"Law Offices, Crawford Building.
Opp, Music Hall, Crawfordsville
Stoves and Hardware
We carry a full line of Cook Sioves and Ranges.
Also Gas, Coal and Wood Heaters in abundance.
Hardware, Implements, Tinware, Bi= cycles and Athletic Goods.
See our Line of fine Wool Sweaters, 75c to $8.00.
VORIS 6k COX.
Successors to Joe E. Fisher. 120-122 S. Washington St.
.8 3.00
Dyed black, felt-lined Fur Robes
Natural black, plusli-lined Fur Robes
4.00
5.00
Fancy, animal centers, plushlined 0.00
(ialoway Cow Robes 12.00
Come and see these Robes and save yourself money.
B. L.ORNBAUN
105 N. Washington St.
Music Hall
Tiino was, and that only a few years ago, when Hoosierdom was s\nonymous with all that was especially wild and woolly. Julian Hawthorne iu describing a journey West said fortunately he passed through Indiana during the night.
The ugly duckling has become a swan. She has furnished the chief executive of the laud the first novelist of the age: a leading poet of dialect and nature: a woman first at home and abroad as a newspaper correspondent. She has grown not only intellectually but also artistically. Her daughters have .sent forth canvases, statues and miniatures of which she may well be proud.
The A rl Iiitcrrh'tnyc savs: "In the West several women have shown unusual ability in sculpture, among whum should be named Frances Goodwin, of New Castle, Ind." Miss Goodwin commenced work in Indianapolis, then went to Chicago to pursue her studies iu the Art Institute," but with a view to being a painter, taking up modeling only as a recreation. Soon it proved so fascinating that she changed her choice of mediums.
Although much of Miss Goodwin's work has been in protraiture her abiliity to treat large subjects was shown in her colossal figure of "Education," which was exhibited at the Columbian Exposition afterward purchased by the women of Indiana and placed in the Capitol. Her work for the past year has been principally cn the bust of Vice-President Colfax. It is now almost completed in clay and will then be done in marble and placed in the Senate Chamber at Washington. She was represented at a recent exhibit of the "Chicago Society of Artists" by an excellent portrait bust of an old man.
Miss Goodwin is now located in the Tree Studio Building, Chicago. The best and most serious artists of that city are found in this building
MAKV B. GUUliH.
SUSAN MOKH1SON KKTC1IAM. Susan Morrison Ketcham was born and brought up in Indianapolis. Her earliest teacher and her latest, except in specialties, was her aunt, MissCatlierine Merrill. As a child Miss Ketcham was painstaking and possessed of a determination to accomplish wnatever she undertook. These characteristics, which she still possesses to a marked degree, have been the secret of her success as an artist. Among the life long friendships formed in school days was one with Constance Fenimore Woolson, afterwards the noted writer.
Miss Ketcham early manifested a talent for drawing but it- was only while traveling in Europe in search of health that she first turned her attention seriously to art. She had been invited, with the small home party, to visit Mrs. Hugh McCulloch, who lived at that time in a villa near Florence. In this artistic atmosphere naturally enough Miss Ketcham was asked what was her specialty. She 'answered: "If I have any it is music." The friend 6aid: "Music does not avail you now that you have so little strength whereas drawing and painting would be a rest." From that moment Miss Ketcham determined to 'devote herself to the study of art. Immediately she set about it with characteristic earnestness, engaging teachers and applying herself diligently the remainder of her long stay abroad.
After her return to America she was some time in the Art Institute at Chicago. While here she conceived the idea of having an art exhibit in Indianapolis and of forming an art association. Urged on and helped by the members of the institute Miss Ketcham was enabled to arrange this first art exhibit and those who visited the collects of pictures in the English Block will recall its peculiar excellence. From this beginning came the Indianapolis Art Association.
Her studio was opened and very successful yet Indianapolis could not afford her the instruction or privileges needed and she went to New York to study. Mr. B. R. Fitz was her teacher and critic until his death, and she has since enjoyed the friendship and been under the criticism of Mr. Chase and Mr. E. H. Bell. Miss Ketcham has twice been made Vice-President of the Art League and has a host of friends among its members.
Since living in New York it has been the custom of Miss Ketcham to arrange summer excursions to some attractive spot where the artists or amateurs who make up these parties may work out of doors and at the same time enjoy the pleasures of a vacation. The first of these excursions starting from Indianapolis went in 1885 to the Alleghanies of Pennsylvania and since then to various points at home and abroad. Many Indiana people have been members of these excursions and all speak with enthusiasm of this method of combining study and work with pleasure and travel.
MisB Ketcham is an exhibitor at most of the important exhibitions of the different clubs and societies of New York and is always represented at the annual exhibit held in Indian-
apolis. Amonp her best works are the portraits of her mother, her aunt, Mrs. .Julia Moores, and a small one of Mrs. Colonel Hough. An article referring to this portrait of her mother exhibited at the sixth annual exhibition of the New York Water Color Club says: "The pastel studies of ligures by Miss Ketcham, so relined in color, call to n.ind the sincere and simple portrait of her mother which holds its own so well among the notables of the Portrait Exhibition."
Although Miss Ketcliam's best work is in oil sue does not confine herself to this medium but is equally skillful in pastel and in water colors. Portrait painting is her chief and best work. She is a musician of no mean talent and has been an organist in her own city, tilling the position one summer of organist at fit. Luke's Hospital, New York.
Mist, Ketcham is a clever %vriter, contributions from her pen often appearing in the Indianapolis Sacs, iu Mr. Cable's paper, the Pen, in Mmtcrn and in tlie Outlook. Uer studio is in tlie Carnegie .Building, overlooking Central Park, where every Saturday afternoon the receives ami welcomes her friends uud is especially ^,-lad to see anyone f--,ra her Weste.u home in Indiana. Ai.u.'ic So.MiiP.vii.i.i
Indianapolis.
AKT Till', i'KOl'KKTY 01' TIIK l'l'lil.IC. Art is coining to be thought of not simply as a luxury to be enjoyed by the few but as really belougiug lu every one not only by right 01 inheritance but oy right oi kinship through tue impulse tuwara urt that lies in every breast.
The Centennial Exposition of ISTii opened tue way to much good art. it was a powerful factor in one cultivation ot taste with regard to general home surroundings—carpets, wall papers, schemes of color the house, etc. It gave us much also iu its art galleries to enjoy and to inspire.
But it remained for the Columbian Exposition ot ls'J3 to show us in the nuruiony of its ouildings ana grounds the great power of beauty eunauced by sculpture, painting ana architecture, ••quickening the laud from lake to ocean's roar." roiu that exposition everyone carried away a picture whose iniluence can haraly be measured—au iulluence that was stimulating and uplifting—an influence that led each to think. Can 1 in some way bring more beauty into my life and into the life of others?
The rich are giving of their wealth to beautify public places the National government is erecting statues in the nation's grounds and is calling for mural decorations of the highest character in its last public bunding, the Congressional library State and municipal governments are vieing with each other in art for the people art commissions are being formed to protect the people from inferior and de grading works of an, so-called.
The public library of Boston is one of the gieat examples of municipal provision of public art—that is, a provision by the 'people for the people. It not only furnishes on its shelves beautiful works for the study of the history of art but its exterior is a fine example of beauty of architectural proportion and spacing, its interior is rich with sculpture and with mural decoration while its court with its quiet basin, its colouades and restrained architectural ornament, its stately growing plants and peaceful green is a testimony to the rest and refreshment that lie in harmonious surroundings Thousands of visitors daily attest the sympathy of the people in this public presentation of art.
The movement for public school decoration—for studying harmony in the color of school room walls and for placing upon those walls line illustrations of the world's masterpieces, that they may constantly exert their influence on the children—speaks in no un certain tones as to the belief in the elevating power of art and in its fitness for all. And, linally, the growing recognition of art education as the most encouraging sign of all. Through art education is developed the power of idealization, that power which is the motive force of the production by man of all invention and discovery, of all solutions of great problems of mechanical and civil engineering, of ail fine conceptions in literature, of all art work. By art education every child will be led to the exercise of the best producing power that he possesses, good impulses will be quickened and fine achievements will be made possible, for art appeals to the creative faculty, the love for beauty and the desire for its noble expression.
MAKV DANA HICKS
Boston, Mass.
AMAI.IA KI SSNKK
Among all of her noted artists Indiana may be especially proud of one Amalia Kus9ner, America's most aele' brated miniature painter. Indeed her reputation is world wide—giving the entire America a proud claim upon her.
Amalia Kussner was born in the West. Much of her life was spent in Terre Haute, where her very talented family occupied a prominent place in both business and social circles. Three years ago the family move to Chicago
Amalia Kussner went to New York to seek fame and fortune, and she was soon rewarded. Such rare ability as she possesses could not long remain unnoticed. She is still a young girl— very young when one considers the po sition she occupies as to art to-day. She is below the average in height, slender and graceful, fler hair and eyes are dark—an ideal artist. As child, she was high spirited—with the artistic talent revealed in a hundred ways. She had that keen sensitive mind which understood and felt things at once. There was never an effort to learn, but confidence, complete belief in her own strength, carried her then, as it does now. She knows no fear— no weakening. Her heart is bold and strong as a warrior's. She is simple, unaffected, and generous. In a recent Ladles' Home Journal there was a very good portrait of Miss Kussner together with a number of her miniatures. Several miniatures also appeared in the November Cosmopolitan, 1804. The Chicago Journal, Saturday, Sept. 26 1890, contained a well deserved article. She has truly achieved the most notable success of any modern artist Her talent is self cultivated, she having little, if any, instructions. Each tiny brush stroke must be done by a microscope guiding the eye. Her col
oring is exquisite and the work is done on tiny bits of ivory. Both men and women sit for those precious bits of art. Ller marked success among the "four hundred" of New York soon attracted the British aristocracy.
From Chicago Journal: "Through the warm personal friendship of Mrs. Arthur Paget, of London, she received an introduction to the countess of Dudlej', who linally gave her an order for a picture. The miniature was no sooner painted than other patrician faces began to glow upon the line ivory under the young painter's deft fingers, and now she numbers among her patrons the beautiful women who stand near England's throne."
She is thoroughly original in her method. Her beautiful coloring and expression resembles the old Italian masters. From childhood up she has been surrounded by culture and art— those essentials so necessary to the germination and blossoming nf talent. Miss Kussner possesses in ail its perfection the rarest talent known to art.
MAKY I). DAVIS.
A IteminlRcmmo.
lours, idle tears. I know not what they mean, Pears from the depths of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eye In look in# ou the happy Autumn Melds And thiukiiiK of the days that are no more."
Tctinywm.
How sad and sweet :u-e the pictures of memory: for as the years of the weary pilgrimage of life advance more rapidly the goal of their destination so uillowed become the retrospects of youth! The idle dreams of childhood absorb tlie musings of declining age. and the shadowy pageant, reared by our untutored minds solicits for its original blendings of fancy the studv of 0111 golden maturity. The sweet "memorial visions of the living saint illuminate with kindly light, the path that leadshi in to the grave. Time may dull the piquancy of recollection, but it can never wholly erase "tlie bitter of the sweet." Beautifully sang Tunisia! leu's ifted bard: "When 1 remember all
The friends so linked together, I've seen si round me fall. Like leaves in wintrv weather feel like out.-
Who treads alone
Some tmoquet hall deserted, Whose lights have lied, Whose Kai lands (lead. And all but him departed!" Pray tell me what is the annual marriage of the Doge of Venice to the lovely Adriatic but a happy memory 'Of the far times when manv a subject land
I.ook'd to the winded lion's marble piles, here eniee sate iu state, throned on her hundred isles." With what tender memories do I recall the last day spent in uiy early home beyond the seas. It was Thanksgiving day of the year eighteen hundred and seventy. And as 1 to-night, four thousand miles from the scene, close my eyes in solitary reverie, memory wakens imagination and I become once more in fancy if not in reality, a child.
Toward sunset' 1 left the cottage of my mother to attend my last service at St. Enoder church: for on the morrow I must sail for a strange land. After crossing some meadows I reached the church yard, and wending my way between the crumbling tombsVt entered its stately edifice.
The late lamented Archbishop of Canterbury was reading the One Hundredth Psalm, and as his kindly voice died into silence among the fretted domes the congregation arose, and standing before the sacramental board, spread with the fruits of the land sany out with mighty uolume to tlie accompaniment of ail unseen organ:
"JIake a joyful noise unto the I.ord, all ye lands. serve the I.ord with gladness: come before His presence with sinsrintr.
Enter inte Ills irates with thanksgiving, and Into His courts with praise: be thankful unto Him and blass Ills name."
And then as the last beams of the dying day fell in golden shadows through the gorgeous Norman windows, across the cnancel rail and marble eftigies. and blended with the mellow light of the wax candles on the altar, the sublime euphony of the "Gloria Patria" rolled into silence along the sacred corridors. Thus ended the short but impressive Thanksgiving service of the High Church of England.
I witnessed the last member of the congregation 'ade beneath the shadows of the coming night: the Bishop, parson and curates disappear through a small gate which led to the vice rage. I was alone in the church yard. In such a spot and such a time Urey conceived his Elegy, Heroey his .Meditations Among the Tombs. It is an hour that inspires the most profound thoughts. Thus musing on the ''solemn stillness," and listening to "the drowsy tiriklings lull the distant folds'' 1 with "weary steps and slow" unconsciously approached the tomb of my father. And there as the bats and owls (lew in and out the ivy-covered tower, and the full faced autumn moon aroseabove the distant hills I stood and wept—wept for the days that could return no more. 1 can go no further for in the attempt my "heart faints fanned by its heat." Suffice it to say that after a long time 1 slowly retreated from the spot, and from that night to this I have never returned.
MRS. J. G. STEVENS.
A Katr of tlio Day*.
One of the chief events of the Autumn season in Crawfordsville will be the "Fair of the Days," given by the Aid Society of the First M. E church, in the Joel Block, December 3 and -1. There will be 6ix booths, each representing a week day. In these booths will be for sale all articles sacred to each busy day of the week.
Christmas presents of all kinds, including dolls, lunch cloths, doylies, comforts, domestic and other aprons, handsome lace bed spread, dish washers and other things. In addition to the booths mentioned, will be an ice cream and beverage booth, also a "Corner Grocery," where cakes, pies, bread, salads, catsup, pickles, etc., will be for sale. Excellent dinners and suppers will be served for 15 cents. Admission without meals, 10 cents.
KHSV
rj The Best on Earth at the Price.
CHRISTMAS
Will soon Be Here
1 We want to call the attention of the people of Crawfords-
villo and county and say to them that we have not been ad-
vertising for some time, but wo are still in Crawfordsville
and at the same old stand, and you will hoar from us often,
now that the great election is over and people wili have time
2 to read the bargains that will bo offered by us. Christina
a will soon be hero and we are buying quite a stock of
Christmas Novelties
I ALBERT S. MILLER I
For Bicycles.
And in our CHINA DEPARTMIiNT we think we
have a good selection and will add quite a number of other
articles. In furniture we are securing new articles every day.
See our §2.00 Oak Ilocker, Cobbler scat. Nothing equals it in
Crawfordsville. ^c have bought a great many goods for
Christmas and we give, a special invitation to all to come and
see what we have. A splendid time to buy, when new articles
are coming in. We have already sold a great many articles
for Christmas. Yours, very respectfully,
Barnhill, Hornaday & Pickett.
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6 Stearns, "The Yellow a $ Fellow."
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Fenton,
Blue
Crown."
5 niLLER'S SPECIAL,
$
CHEAPEST STORE IN THE COUNTY
E. E. SCHLEPPY,
—DKAhKK IN—
New and Second= Hand Furniture and House Furnishings.
—A I.I, KINDS OF—
STOVES REPAIRED 11U N. Green St. Crawfordsville, Ind. Opposite City Hull.
BIG HOLIDAY SHOW
OF
Fine Novelty Dress Patterns, Hlbhons. Jewelry, Fascinators. Haby Moods, Hosiery. Ulankets
Underware. bine Fur
HUKS,
Handkerchiefs. Stamped J.inens. Embroidery Silk. Lack Curtains, itone Porllera, Chenilc Pe-tlers,
Tapestry Curtains, Fine
fi
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Dovetail
Buggies,,
KUKS.
Kid Gloves and Silk Mittens.
All New! The Cheapest Store!:
Ornbutm Block.
Millinery Goods
At Rcduccd Prices.1: -,, '.
Meehan & Snyder.
SHERMAN HOUSE.
TOiM E. NOLAN,
Proprietor-
•'A'vV-'Y ii '\P.\
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Harness,
Robes.
F. M. HUMPHREY & CO.
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Lumher, L«th, Sliinnlcw, Siinh, Doors, Bli iicl8«
BUILDERS' HARDWARE.
USE. CEMENT, PLASTER and PAIS]'.
At the old stand, aoo S. Washington St.
Ross Bros.
I
$
99
CENT STORE
FOR
Christmas Goods