People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — ENEFELDER’S DISCOVERY. [ARTICLE]

ENEFELDER’S DISCOVERY.

the Great Value of Lithography In the World of Modern Art. The full significance of Senefelder’s great discovery, just 100 years ago, was not so much that a calcareous stone may be bitten by a weak solution of acid, so that the raised portion when greased (the surrounding parts being wet) may print in a press like a wood cut—though with a scraping, not a direct downward, pressure—but it consisted.in the demonstration, in the first places that prints from its surface may be reduplicated in vast numbers without visible deterioration, and in the second, and still more important, that each such print is practically an original. Nay, more than this. As M. H. P. Dillon reminds me in a panegyric on his favorite art, the greatest merit of this method of preserving and indefinitely multiplying a drawing lies in the escape of the artist from the traduttore traditore—from misrepresentations by engraver or by camera. Indeed, when the artist has made his design upon the stone itself, each '■impression from it is as mnoh the original as each and every photographic print taken from a negative is an original and not a copy of any other thing. Even when the artist has drawn npon transfer paper instead of oh the stone (proceeding for convenience sake, which, in the opinion of some purists, is held in a measure to invalidate th# name of lithography as applied to it, though not thereby reflecting in any degree on the beauty of the work itself), the impressions taken are still originals, inasmuch as theaotual work, the artist’s own lines and dots, have in due course been transferred bodily by mechanical pressure to the surface of the stone, and this, after it has been inked and printed from, renders each proof then taken of equal excellence. And the point of it all is this, that until the stone is inked and a print taken the artist’s work is not oomplete; so that every print does really become a genuine original. —M. H. Spielmaun in Scribner’s. Since confidence has been re" stored and McKinley prosperity s abroad in the land it looks so mighty “quare” to see farmers hauling their corn to the elevator for 18 centk per bushel. “Oodles and gobs” of goddy in the pot gentlemen republican farmers, dip in with your golden spoons and get your everlasting .« i milv k