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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, MONDAY, MAY 18. 1898.

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TitK DEMOCRATIC OUTLOOK. The fasaft! apDearance of things political wlthiti the Democratic horizon in Indiana Indicates that something like a crisis is approaching on the money question. People may cry tariff, and politician* may endeavor to make that the iMue. .but politicians are not supreme. They do not make issues. Neither do par ties make issues; issues make parties, and when an issue becomes strong, no amount of subterfuge or management will put ft down or turn it away. So, in ths Indiana section of the Democratic parly, Pot the tariff, but the money question Is the one that is to the front. That its Settlement Is fraught with serious cortsequenoos to that section of the par y goes without saying, and that the silverites In the party and the PopulK: contingent put of H Just now feel encouraged Is to he admitted. When there is serious talk of cutting loose from the administration of a President, who has done more than any other one man to inspire ccuf.derce In the party, and who has led it to the only national victories it hat won in forty years, it must be admitted that those who propose ouch A thing are confident, whether with or without good reason, the sequel must show. We do aot believe that there is danger «f a Victory for the free-colnage theory either in our State or in the country. The Hepublican party in Indiana has spoken an this subject in language that can not be misunderstood, and there is little reason to doubt that sound money will win iff the national conventions of both parties. But for the Democratic party in Indiana the situation is serious. If the men who are trying to commit it to free silver and Populism shall succeed in their purpose nothing seems more likely now than a revolt. Serious-minded business men In the Democratic party can not afford, and we believe will hot attempt, to lend support to a campaign for ch<ap money. There WlU b«. perhaps. In every community Voters known as moss back Democrats Who will vote with the Republicans fgainst free silver. The money question la a business question, and will be dealt with as such by such people. There need be no mistake in this matter. It will be very easy, in the language pf Mr. Brunt, to whom Governor Matthews baa recently unbosomed himself, to “drive aU the gold men Into one fold." It may be an easy matter f *r tbo cheao-money (oik to run the conve. tion — though It, is well to remember that these men always Inake large claims — but It .will not be an easy matter for them te control the conictences of individual Democrats. If the Populists capture the Democratic organisation it will take no M drtving“ to get “all the gold men Into one fold.’' They will go Jreely of their own accord; and If, by the phrase, oar friends mean th^se who are ipposed 19 free silver, there will be pretty iearly enough of them to break the back if the Democratic party.

GO VKRNOR MA TTHE WS'S LA TEST. Jnllke Major McKinley, Governor Mathews is quite willing to express himself on !he financial question. If he were only as hank as he Is fluent, there would be tothtng more to ask of him. But, conrtruing hit language in the light of hta mat rfecord, U Is not difficult to see that to is in favor of the five and unlimited minage df silver at the id to 1 ratio. He loes not say so in Kis letter to Mr. John Brunt, but he does not '.n this uttersay anything inconsistent with a bethat dogma. The only principle to .. he declares his opposition Is that single gold standard, He doe'? not lat he is In favor of further than that he thinks that “if we wilt but offer the right kind of platform this year” the people "will respond heartily to our tppeal.” As the Governor has always been known as a free silver man, and as the men who are now pushing his campaign are free silver men. It is fair to presume that when ho talks about “the right klad of platform" he means a free Ivor platform,-®®®. J# The Qovarnor’a brief argument against ths single fold standard la not impressive. It is true,', as he says, that prices have been falling for yeara, but it Is not true that the wages of labor have been falling. The general tendency of wages has been in this country all the time. And the general rule everywhere. It is iOOd. where the single gold firmly established. It Is the «ry. Of course, wages te to time. They decline and advance in times of the one universally adt© the general downward tendency it. wages. AU statistics snow that the movement of waxes la upward. and free traders aUke adAnd It Is & fact which the have never baen able to with their theory of the apthing is that the penshould know* Just ndote for the preeiimportant question, f does not make hlmcould wish, from

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deny ht la effect, an affirmation. This case of Governor Matthews seems to be •ne of them.

TDK SiLEiVT CANDIDATE While the Republican favorite was talking to the Methodists at Cleveland yesterday. General Grosvenor was making a fresh estimate of :he McKinley strength at Washington. The General has demonstrated rare ability as a mathematician, and this prophecy, which purports to l e his last, shows a total of <W2 votes for the Ohioan. But the most Important matter discussed In General Grosvenor’s open lettar Is as to the refusal of Major McKinley to declare himself on the money question. Grosvenor seems to have been worried by the past week’s discussion of the matter, and by the fact that there is considerable uneasiness, particularly at the East, over the attitude of McKinley. He seeks to defend McKinley from criticism on this score on the ground that it is an unwritten rule of political campaigns, which has seldom been violated, for candidates not to declare themselves before the conventions meet. It is not the candidate's business to make the platform, and It is unfair to ask him to state his position when it is likely to arouse antagonism and hazard nomination. He assumes that those who are eager to know Just where Major McKinley stands are altogether his enemies, and wish to draw him out only for the purpose of using his expressions to injure him. In short. Major McKinley will stand on the platform adopted at St. Louis — will “t%spond" to it. in General Grosvenor’s jjhrase — but he will not dictate what tb» platform will be. General Grosvenor admits here ju«t what many people and many newspapers are complaining of — that Major McKinley has no Integrity of opinion in this matter. He has, It appears from his record, been uncertain in the past of his own position, and he is unwilling to state his present feeling, lest It injure hi* chances of nomination, which are now excellent. Surely, if ever there was a time when- tradition might be ignored by a large man — a man of si-fflcient caliber to fill our high?st office — that time has come. The circumstances are unusual, and the condition of the country is one of expectancy and anxiety. It la unfortunate for his candidate that General Grosvenor should «eek to excuse his silence by this sort of plea. The Republican party stems Just now ta be bent on having McKinley nominated, it la weakness in a man thus apparently favored by destiny to give out the impression of timidity, which is a natural inference from Major McKinley’s silence. General Grosvenor’s excuse does not excuse him under all the circumstances. •

poble arch! tee lural design of abaft and pedestal and base as background. But, made of atone blending with the architectuxe. the group* will be little more than a lltilsh to the monument as it stands, as a cornice is a finish to a house. We shall have practically little, if any, more out bf the monument than we hav£ now. Its message will be the message of a piece of architecture. It Is finished now. all but a mere architectural detail, which the groups will amount to, and only amount to, if made of stone and made subordinate, as they will be, to the monument as a piece of architecture. The line of demarkation Is clear. We are to have here an expression of architecture or we are to have art speaking through sculpture, with a noble piece of architecture as a background.

THE MONUMENT. ^ Architect Schmitz, if correctly reported, speaks some sound words about the monument. He properly condemns what has been called in moments of levity and in good-natured ridicule the crockery fountains. He drops & hint as to the gas-pipe lamp-posts (a hint that wc trust will suffice), He has a sensible word to say for the crowning figure. He would doubtless heartily agree, though ho has nqt been reported, in the suggestion to remove the four statues from the places which they now obstruct to the four parte of the circle that surrounds the monument, where they would occupy a place that would enhance instead of dtP 1- ® 01 * 10 G*® general aspect. Mr. Schmitz talks like a man of broad ideas and high Ideals, and doubtless is. His visit will be helpful to the monument regents. We are glad ugajn to testify, as we have testified in the past, to Qdr belief that no one Is more earnest in the wish or purpose to make a noble and beautiful work out of this great beginning than the board of monument regents. We note their desire to be as sincere and their endeavor as strenuous as any one’s can be. We believe that the hints which Mr. Schmitz has made will be acted on. Certainly, In the presence of a work so noble as this, there ought to be no room for mere personal pride or small personal consistency. WTthout particularizing, it Is apparent that there are one or two small things which Mr. Schmitz has mentioned which disfigtire the monument. They should be quietly removed. We do not, as we have said In the past, agree with Mr. Schmits’s ideas as to the material for making the side groups. We have given at length our reasons -for differing with him, and the reasons which make it intelligible that he takes the views that he does in favor of stone groups. An acute and observing geutiwnin says: “If the groups are made of stone, the architecture of the monument will dominate them. If they are made of bronze they will dominate the architecture. MK Schmit* is an architect. This explains the whole thing.” That is a terse and trenchant way of saying what we have sot out at length previously, that Mr. Schmitz Is an architect; and he Is a great one. This monument alone would give him standing as one of the greatest Being an architect, naturally, his Ideas, if not archttectufal. are dominated by the architectural Ideal. The principle Is set out In the old fable, which tells of consultation on the defense of the town. The mason recommended stone work, the carpenter recommended wood work; the tanner came forward with, “Gentlemen, there Is nothing like leather.” The abler a man is In his calling the more all-embracing are his Ideas as to its application andi importance. It is a tribute to Mr. Schmitz as an architect that he urges these groups | to be of stone. He does it, we are convinced, unconsciously because the matter presents itself to him as an architectural one. In the words above quoted, “groups of atone will be dominated by the architecture of the monument, groups of bronze will dominate the architecture.” Manifestly, an architect’s ideas are of the domination of architecture. He would not be a great architect, certainly not a true one, If U were not »o with him. But here we urge the monument regentd to pause; let them consider carefully before they limit ' the monument to an architectural expression alone. The decision Ifcs Ir these groups. Aside from other reasons which render stone groups lees desirable, it Is apparent that, made of atone, the groups will be subsidiary to the monument, and we should have a piece of architecture, solely. It will speak os a building speak*. But If we have bronzs groups, executed by a master hand, we shall have a sculptural expression. for she material alone will so accent the groups that they will spring into vlera a* the controlling motive and central expression of the whole work, and, executed by a roaster, they will speak with am elo* queaee that nothing can rival, wifab Um

The agricultural experiment station at Put-due is taking ah .merest in the passage of the ’’filled cheese” bill which is now pending in Congress. Dr. Plumb, ths chief of the station, is writing to dairyman and cheesemakers urging them to press upon our Representatives and Senators the importance of having such a law. The fraudulent cheese now made in such large quantities and not only sold extensively at home, but exported, js having the effect of killing the market for the American product. Canada has taken advantage of the greed and dishonesty of Amer.can cheese manufacturers, and a law of the Dominion prohibits the shipment of anything but pure cream chcsse. Th.s has operated to divert trade from us to Canadi. The shipment of eheeae f m New York .City to Great Br.tafn in 3879 amounted to about 2,775,829 box=*s, valued at about $15,654,000, but it is predicted that J-«e shipment for the current year will not exceed the value of $3,000,000. The passage of the^bill would g.ve protection to the domestic consumer and at the tame time restore cheesemak rg to it* former honest basis. Will the 9t. Louis convention be content to put a wobbly man on a firm platform? Chauneey Depew talked Around the world at the New York electrical expositlon, Saturday. This is not so very wonderful. Chauneey tells many a story that has been heard around the world.

The street car company posta in Its cars a notice forbidding passengers to get on or off the car wh.le It is n motion; but the street car conductors refuse to stop the car for men and when remonstrated with and their attention called to the company’s notice, reply that they "don’t stop the car for men.” Damage suits may teach this company that oeopie have some rights. . Major McKinley, doubtlesx, has no sympathy lor the convention at Detroit that would take the tariff out of pol.ties. According to Grosvenor’s figures the Ohio man 1st so far ahead that the marketable Southern delegate Will be quoted at very low rates. Cornelius Bliss declares that Platt’s attacks on McK.niey are outrageous. "The people of the United States aga.r.st a coterie at the Fifth-avenue Hotel,” *» the Way he characterizes the fight of the boss against McKinley. Mr. Bliss says that it would be ;mposs.-ble for the New York bosc to throw the State against McK.niey .1 he wanted to do it. Grosvenor's last bulletin reports favorable weather and harvest near at hand. Senator Jones’s zeal for scouring the passage of the Santa Monica harbor appropriation is expla.ned. He cwns 3u,O0O acres that overlook it* waters Senator .Tones is for free silver. Senator Jones also owns a silver mine. “G:t a plenty while you’re gittln’,” says Jones.

•• SCR APS. n For serenty-two days it has not rained at Madrid. The deepest British coal mine Is the Ashton Moss colliery, which goes down 3.150 feet. Agriculturists in the Isle of Man are just now grappling with the problem of tbe rook pest. Whooping cough in a fatal form has lately been distinctly increasing among London children. June bugs are a plague in central France. The government pays a cent a pound for them. If a well could be dug to a depth of forty-six miles, tbe air at the bottom would te as dense as quicksilver. Bride—Dear Alfred, we must postpone the wedding! Baron—I don’t know If we can—I must ask my creditors.—Fiiegende

Blatter.

Of the 18,106 persons arrested for various oflenscs tn Liverpool last year only 3i9 were well educated, a large propor-

tion being absolutely illiterate.

A patient in a hospital at Portland. Ore., Is puzzling the doctors by tak'ng a thirty-six-day nap. The patient is a woman. Her sleep is said not to be a coma, but an

ordinary breathing and resting sleep.

Janies ; Macline, who lived in the middle of the eighteenth century, was known as the Gentleman Highwayman. It was his affectation of manner and his extrava- § ance of dress, as well as his mode of ving, which earned him the nickname. The lines of no human hands are exactly alike. When a traveler in China de-

It is slgn-flcant that Aldrich and Manley have to confer before giving out their bulletin. Russia would adv!se Spain to fight the United States and would ad/ise England and France to take sides with her. I: .a a pietty scheme for Russia. A!ter all the nations were exhausted Russ a could slip in and carry off the spoils. Major McKinley, according to Grosvenor’s explanation, thinks that platforms are made simply to run on. Mr. Manley, "who has been conducting the Reed ^ampaign from Washington, has withdrawn to Augusta to remain until time for taking the field at St. Louis. Is thus a retreat, or is the Reed manager cnly going to his Maine home for fresh Inspiration? Grosvenor intimates that McKinley does not care ft fig for the platform. What he wants is the nominat.on.

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Vincent Ray, a Chippewa Indian, who died the other day in superior, Wis., left an estate of $7a,UO0. “Edwin. Wheeler has presented to the natural history department of the British Museum, 2,449 water color drawings from nature of various species of fungi to be found in Great Britain “The faithful men of Jever,” a place ceir the North sea coast of Germany, ac-

egga for his birthday. This I* the twenty futh successive year they have made the present. General Barker, the new governor of thof Bermudas, is a Lucknow hero. He has been in the army more than forty years; Was long associated with the direction of military' education, and has held a command in China and an acting governorship in Hong Kong. The Crown Prince of Sweden Intends to visit Lapland in August in order to see the total ecupse of the sun on the 9th of that month. A perfect view of the eclipse cxn be had from he mountain Juomotjakko, which has a hight of 4.80J feet above the level Of the sea, and is situated near the celebrated waterfall of Stora Sjofallets. Dr. Lapponi, the Pope's physician. In an Interview with a representative of the press at Rome, has given a categorical denial to the alarming statements published la regard to the Pope’s health. As evidence to the contrary. Dr. Lappohi mentioned that the Pope, on the occasion of the Feast of the Annunciation, celebrated mas* before about 100 persons, to twenty of whom his Holiness administered the holy communion. Mme. Cavalgnac, wife of the present Minister of War at Paris, has long complained of a bit of broken needle being in her hand. She went to the greatest surgeons, who probed In vain, and feared she must have been the victim of her imagination. A few days ago she was taken to the Bcoie Centrals, where Professor Chapuys applies the Roentgen system of photography. A negative of surprising clearnesa was obtained after an exposure of two minutes. The point of a needle came

needle was In a knuckle Joint Seeondary Storage Rattery. A new secondary storage battery has betn patented for locomotion purposes, in wHch the liquid forming the electrolyte, while having free access to the plates, is contained In a suitable absorbent to prevent tbe free movement of such electrolyte. Thi* eorresoonds in second batterke to what is known as the dry battery in primary calls. JV'' \* Ho* Not Loot HU Prestige. Yonkers Statesman. Crimsonbeak-I sr* the horse has not lost hi* prestige entirely. Yeast—How so? “I read in the paper yesterday that they hung a man down in Texas for stealing h mustang, and only gave a fellow thirty days for ‘pinching' e bicycle.”

Thr Ntrawbee-ry Field. The strawberry virus Us in the min, Tti-.r myriad tend Hie twined in one; gartod like a curpet at riotiert dyes. The etmwberry field in sunehlne lies. Ksch tlmoroua berry, blushing red, Ha* folded the leaver above her head, ■The dark, green curtain* gemmed With dew; Bui each blunbful berry, peering through, Shows Hke a (lock of the underthread— The criniron woof of a downy cloth Where tbe elve* tnhy kneel and plight their troth. L. Run through the rustling vines, to show Each picker an even space to go. Leader* of twinkling cord divide The fleld-in lanes from side to aide; And here and there with patient care. Lifting the leafage everywhere. Rural maidens and mothers dot The velvet of the strawberry ptofe Fair and freckled, old and young. With baskets at their girdle* hanjf. Sea nib ng the plant* with ho rud* haste. Lest berries should hang unpicked.! and wast*— Of the pulpy, odor out, hidden queyt, First gift of the fruity months, and best. Crates of the laden baskets cool Under the trees at the meadow’s edge. Covered with grass and dripping aedge. And lily leaves from the shadad pool; Filled, and ready to be borne To market before the morrow morn. —E. C. Steam an.

The Newly-Wedded. Now tbe rite is duly done. Now the word 1* spoken, And the spell has made us on*, Which may ne’er be broken. Rest we, dearest, in our home,— Roam we o’er the heather. We shall rest and we shall roam. Shall we not? together. » From this hour the summer ros* Sweeter breathes to charm us; FSom this hour -the winter enow* Lighter fall to harm us; Fair or foul—on land or sea— Come the wind or weather. Best and worst, whate’er they b*, We shall share together. Death, who friend from friend can part. Brother tend from brother. Shall but link us. heart and hekrt. Closer to each other; We will call his anger play. Deem his dart a feather, YVhen we meet him on our way Hand in hand together. —W. M. Praed.

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in a magazine article just pubiiahed, Mr. Andrew Carnegie says: “We should be quite willing to abolish luxury, but to abolish poverty would be to destroy the only soli upon which mankind can aepvno to produce the virtues which alone enable our race to reach a still civilization than it now possesses.” Drayton, N. D., is boasting of thi promised success of a scheme Whereby the farmers of the State will build a road Worn the northeast corner of the State to connect with Duluth. Tim chief promoter ot the scheme has been a rough and uncouth farmer who personally went to New York and raised capital for the enterprise. The Lee family, of Virginia, has had no represent*live in the Federal army -for more than thirty-four years. The mtccession in this service is now to be renewed In the person of George Mason Lee, the nineteen-year-old son of General Fitzhugh Lee, the Confederate cavalry commander and consul-general to Ha-

vana.

Macbeth’s duel with had serious consequences at a penormance at Chatham, England, recently. Gordon Craig, Ellen Terry’s son, who was acting Macbeth, broke his sword and gave MacDuff a bad cut on the hanu. The curtain was ruflg down, when a rope broke, and the curtain hit a scene shifter on the head, knocking him senseless. Aquedpcts constituted the greatest engineering feats performed by the nations of antiquity. The remains of many of these works are still extant One, and perhaps not the least remarkable, described by Herodotus In terms of admiration as having been constructed In the tefith ceiytury, S. C., waz discovered only a few y* fcr.s since in the Island of Samoa. A Jovial old lady of Lagny, near Paris, named Mlette, recently received a lirgi legacy. She ran through it rapidly, ami, after providing for a first-class funeral, killed herself with charcoal. She had hired the -town band to lead the funeral procession, playing lively music, stopping at intervals for people to dance, and striking up its gayest air when the coffin was lowered Into the grave. Humboldt describes a remarkable tunnel in the Andes, known as the Desague Real, which was driven through a mountain by a Flemish engineer in 1603. This Work Was tour miles long, eleven _fe«t in Width find fourteen feet high. It was designed to carry off the threatening waters Of a deep mountain lake, and was executed with pickax and spade in one year by the incessant labor of 15,000 Indians. The lecturer inquired dramatically: “Can any one in $his room tell me of a perfect man?” There was a dead silence. “Has any one,” he continued, "heard of a perfect woman?” Then u patient-looking little woman In a black dress rose up at the back of the auditorium and answered: “There was one. I’ve often heard of her, but she's dead now. She was my iiusband’s first wife.”--San Francisco Times. In an article in th* Yale Medloal Journal, Dr. Edwin A. Down combats the popular impression that insanity is increasing. He says that the increase for the last twenty years,. shown by the official records, is comparatively trifling, and is more than accounted for by the change in conditions which has resulted in sending to Insane asylums many persons who were previously kept in alms-houses or in private families, and not reckoned la making up the record of the insane. An engineer ow the B. & M. railroad iu Colorado, while making his daily run. noticed repeatedly something in one of the railroad cuts near Rockford that glistened like gold. At first h* paid but Bttle attention to it, thinking it was Iron pyrites, but, his curiosity having been aroused he had a friend get some of the rock that he might have it tested. To his great surprise the returns showed the rock to be very rich in gold. He immediately had hi* friend local* It for both, and they are now taking out some nice ore. J. E. Dain ha* tn view the unearthing of a mammoth meteor on his gold claim* at South Pass, YVyo., within a few weeks. Last year when Mr. Gain was working his mining property he went out with his gun one morning and found where a mighty meteor had torn up the earth for two hundred or three honored feet, mowing the brush in its way as a mower would cut grass. The heat was too great for him to approach the Spot at the time, but he was determined then to remove from its earthly repose the luminous phenomenon of the celestial space. The following story l* told of the courtship of Mr. Disraeli, afterward Lord Beaconsfield, and Mrs. Wyndham Lewis: Mrs. Dewirf was living near Cardiff, when through the window she saw Mr. Disraeli approaching, and ordered the servant to say she was not at home. When the servant descended to the hall, Mr. Disraeli was hanging his light overcoat on a peg. “Mrs. Lewis, sir, is not at home.” said the flurried maid. ‘‘I did not ask tor Mrs. Lewis.” was the calm, statesmanlike reply. “But I don't know when she will b* back,” urged the maid. “Neither do I,” philosophically replied he; “but I am going to wait till she does come back; so make me some tea.’’ He did w*It, he got hit tea, and he married the widow.

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AT THE ART EXHIBIT.

PATRONESS, OBSERVER. CRITIC, ETC. (Continued.) “Lots of good stuff here,” said Rattle, gazing around the room excitedly and waving his hand. “Jolly well pleased that I came. I didn’t think it was worth while." Rattle Is a good fellow, but he doesn’t know his own mind for two minutes at a time, and Is just as likely to pick out a poor thing to praise as a good one. although he has had chance enough to know better. “Now. look at that,” said he. striking an attitude before Herbert Denman’s large picture, ‘The Voice of Spring,' “that’s something like; big, quiet, good color scheme, decorative, good piece of work, but I don’t like the lower part of the figure—not brought out enough.” "Yea; I like it myself,” said Baoig. “It’s one of the few big things they’ve got here; that shews the direction things are taking in the Blast. It's got good stuff in It. Rut I like things up-to-date, and this is not quite the. thing yet. You've got to havs plenty of purple, and back It up with pure color—red, blue, yellow, till It—zips. I like hurrah, and you' can't make a thing hurrah without the pure Color, and plenty of purple, to bring It all together. Purple’s the thing; all the big guns are using It.” “O get out!” said Rattle; “you are a rank Impressionist. Plenty of good things were painted before they got to using purple in everything.” “Well, that’s all right," said Bang, “but we’re living In the end of the century, and purple’s our color; that’s the flag to march under anyhow.” “There isn’t half enough of It in this show’ to suit me, though there is more than I ever saw before. I tell you, you ought to see one of the klg shows that are up to date; the color would make your eyes hang out.” Rattle and Bang moved on, and their places were taken by Miss Lorgnette and her aunt. "How lovely and cool she looks,” said the former, "as she sits there on the stone bench, with her lyre and the lovely pink blossoms and the w!d# ideal landscape behind her. It’s beautiful!” "Nonsense!” said the aunt. “It’s as flat as a wall, and looks as If It had been all brushed together. The Idea of a decent young woman sitting out ta the open air half-naked, and In the spring, too! I say it’s nonsense, aoirt none but an artist would think of such a thing.” “Well, it’s of no use to argue with you,” said Lorgnette, “but you never did understand true art, and you don’t In the least grasp the situation. You are too literal, Auntie. It’s & decorative Idea. Don’t you see?” • “Decorative idea or not, I see that the young woman is only half-dressed, and Is going to catch cold. I don’t believe ih nude art anyhow.” "You’re right, madam,” said her friend, Old Fogy, as he Joined them, “in the hands of thise new painters art Is going to smash. They pay no more attention to the tradition* than if they had never existed. I like a thing to look round and finished and come toward you. but these new painters fill a palette with color and rub it over a purple canvas and call It a picture. They didn’t paint tjiat Way In our day, madam.” Auntie looked pleased at these cutting remarks about the new school, but the insinuation ta regard to age caused her conntenance to take a sudden change, and she became interested in a small picture of some cats hanging near. “Now. there you have it," remarked the Critic to the Patroness and to the Observer, as he adjusted his glasses. “I’m rather glad wc came to this particular picture first, for we’ve had a chance to hear wha: some people think of It, with their thoughts regarding modern art thrown In. “It’s a good thing in itself; not great, perhaps, but. on thr whole, perhaps, as pleasing a picture to me as any in the collection, not only because I enjoy it, but because I see in it the greatest tendency among our younger painters in America, the tendency to become more and more decorative with each year. That is the Strongest factor at work among us at the present moment in the way of art. To be decorative Is something richer new to me, but, considering its newness, the appreciation it is receiving all over the country Is somewhat surprising, and it shows that this Is very likely the way that aft in its real meaning and uses will be brought heme to the people. Give the artist a fair field, and a chance to reach the people from a side where they have few or no prejudices, their work will tell In a new way, and, besides, If I am not wholly mistaken, it will demonstrate the fact that thebe Is a latent feeling for art in the people, hitherto unsuspected. “This picture of Denman’s is a very good example of several qualities that go to make a good decoration You will notice that it la fiat, and that although Its general appearance Is light—much lighter than most of the pictures around It—it I* yet very full of pleasant color tones, and In no place reaches the pitch of pure white. Now, If you will consider that this Is to hang on a wall, perhaps become part of the wall, you will understand why it is painted as it Is. "Or, better still, notice some of the other large pictures in the room and See how they fall out—come away from the wall—till they become positively obtrusive. as If they wanted—were bound—to attract attention. Do you see what I mean? Well, Denman’s picture does not do that, but keeps it place where it was hung, even here, where everything about it, almost, Is at war with it. If It keeps its place ta this wilderness of other pictures, imagine how it would tell under happier circumstances with appropriate surroundings. Yes, It has many of the qualities of true decoration, and I am delighted to see it here. “The saim might be said of Bell's smaller picture at the other end of the room, though the two men are not at all alike, either In their work or nature. You trill notice In Beil’s Gathering Flowers that the tendency is toward light, delicacy of color and a certain rhythmic htrmony of motion In the figures and the play of light and color that is satisfying in a certain way, that no amount of force In projection or strength in realism could give. It, too, has a true decorative ring.” “Yes. but look at the figures; who ever saw two girls take -the absurd position* that those do?—and the picture dossa^t look finished,” said the Patroness. “I stcond the motion,” put in the OM Fogy, wha, overhearing the discourse of the Critic, hung about the outskirts of the group. The Critic settled his glasses a little firmer on the bridge of his nose, which was his way of bracing himself for the fray. “There, my dear madam, is where you show your prejudice and the result of early training. You, too, are teased with

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the desire to see things ‘brought out.* As to the absurd action of the figures, which means that you think them impossible, begging your pardon, may I ask you how do you know? How many titties have you seen young girls gathering flowers, or studied them with a view to painting them? I see you hare not studied them at all, and you must confess that unless you can prove your assertion, the word impossible doesn't apply. % * . “Beside*, the picture must be looked at as a whole. The painter looked At those, figures as merely part of the picture scheme; Le wasn't painting a figure siudy, but a vague, misty dream of a spring meadow, and whether the figures were girls or cows, he was bound to keep them In place. To bring them out ta relief, you can easily conceive, -Would have destroyed the most impartsnt element «if the work its motive, the artists call it. You have a standard, unacknowledged, may be. and you are offended when a picture doesn’t fit it. Taat is not fair, for if a painter has nothing individual to say, what is he for? An art'st of the rea! breed must b? true to himself, regardless of what you or I may think of him. “Now, here is a picture (“An Impromptu Affair”) by Mr. James. It is finished and brought out certainly strong enough to satisfy any lover of detail. Why. you might even look at it with a magnifying glass and see how the clothes Were sewed; that, you know. Is the tast of merit with some people. The picture is dramatic, too, and tells a story, literature in art, and all that” The Critic paused, while the Patroness nodded approval, and the Old Fogy got on tip-toe to admire. ”1 see you like It.” said he. “Well, we will not quarrel over tastes.” “Don’t you?*’ asked the Patroness, lifting her eyebrows, and the Old Fogy turned In surprise. The Critic’s shoulders went up and the entile about his mouth had a touch of vexation in it. “The old order changeth,” he said. “The story-teller in paint is giving way to the real painter who has something to say for himself and -says It as an artist should, without trenching upon the territory of his brother of the pen. Yonder across the room you see a Blashfield, painted back in the seventies, while he was still a student in Paris, probably one of his first efforts at picture-making. It is thoroughly conventional and academic. If you could see a Blashfield now, or if you remember his decorations at the World’* Fair, you Fill realize what a far cry it Is from the tendencies of twenty years ago to the tendencies of to-day. Yes. the old order changes. Indeed, and for the better. “Take the landscape, for example, and mark the chanfe? that has taken place ta the last feW years. There is a Bierstadt, top line, west end of the room. It looks like a school girl’s copy of a chromo.” "What!” gasped the Patroness ta a kind of horror, and the Old Fogy, overcome at the way in which a great name of his own generation was being treated, dropped Into a chair, quite speechless. W. FORSYTH. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

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