Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 43, 29 March 1908 — Page 3

rAGE TITREE. NATIVE GENIUS CAH NOT BE DOWNED WANE III GREAT WHITE PLAGUE HIS UNIQUE RECORD IN ART ATTRACTS EYES OF THE WORLD.

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This Is Illustrated in the Life Of Nathan Edwards of Economy.

HE FIGHTS ADVERSITY. TODAY THE MAN STANDS AS A UNIQUE FIGURE IN THE WORLD OF ART AS HE HAS FORCED HIS OWN SUCCESS IN LIFE. That adverse circumstances cannot keep down native genius, is the story told by the life of Kathaji Edwards, an Indiana artist whose work is now atIracting wide attention. Born in a log house near Economy, dreaming from' childhood of the time when he would become a great artist, he began to work at the carpenter trade, to get money to pay his expenses for a course in the art studio of Paris. In less than a year an accident made him . cripple for life and left him stranded In a little country settlement, never to he able to take that training in art that he so often dreamed of. With grim determination he set to work: conquered every difficulty and today he is a celebrated artist and the friend of the world's most famous painters and craftsmen. Me is rich too, where he 'once was poor, and his own art gallery contains some of the most uniq pieces of art to be seen any where. He is proud of his success and well he may be, for bis career in the art world, is as unique and impressive as the careers of Lincoln and Garfield among statesmen. Today tourists from all over America and Europe land at the little station of ; Economy, walk or drive over the mile Or so of undulating bills that separate j ihis home from the town and present themselves like good Mohammedans at this Mecca of artists. Every year there are at least two thousand who go to ee his quaint rare works and to listen to the jolly good stories that be tells. 'For despite his misfortune, he is an optimist of the most pronounced type and takes life as cheerfully as though it had always been sunshine to him. He shows his visitors through bis gallery which contains works in marble, wood carvings, bronze, pictures in colors and pen-and-ink sketches, and sends them away with some souvenir representative of his skill and achievements. The visitor when he leaves hardly knows whether he is more impressed by the man he has seen or the vorks of art which have greeted his eyes. An Artist Born. Nathan Hayward Edwards is an artist born. It comes from both sides of the house. Though his parents were poor, his mother was a designer and maker of net lace and his father was a cabinet maker. Among his mother's relatives there have been three famous artists, George Gray Barnard, the sculptor, who did the work on the Pennsylvania state house at Harrisburg, and two Barnard brothers who have a studio in New York. On his father's side the artistic trait has flowered conspicuously in the persons of George Edwards, who has a studio In Paris and John Edwards, the art critic of the London Times. Thes" men have made brilliant succc" i s, but it is doubtful if their work is as rich in ideas or as unique in character, showing as unspoiled or as free a genius as that of their more unfortunate relative who has never known master or browsed in the art fields of Kurope. A visitor will most often find Mr. Edwards seated at his desk, his telephone at his elbow, very much like a business man. He has an extensive rorrespondence and much of his time is taken in answering letters. He takes this method of finding out what is going on in the world, for his injuries are such that he cannot travel. Features Impressive. Mr. Edwards' features are impressive. They write themselves upon the mind and cannot be erased. He has large brown eyes which at times flash with an inspiration, and again are dreamy and faraway when he is lost In thought. Over his forehead fall a few stray locks of hair. He is generaldressed in his artist's jacket. After n short conversation he is proud to lead the way to his art treasures. And well he may be. for perhaps nowhere .else is to be found such a combination of carvings, sculptured pieces and paintings. His gallery consists of two rooms the walls of wlrtch he has fres- - i 1?? Theatorium ? 620 Main St. J. H. Broomhall, Mgr. ...Monday and Tuesday... The Mystery oi the Diamond Necklace

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NATHAN EDWARDS. This man, hampered from early boyhood, took his destinies in his own hands, and by toiling hard ami long, he has today reached a position which is enviable. Crippled when but a child, lie began to work along his chosen line and his works have attracted thousands of visitors to his home near Economy, Ind. The picture is a good likeness of Mr. Edwards and shows him sitting at his desk where he loves to tell his guests the story of his life and of his work.

coed himself. In Ihe first room the prevailing color is sage green, with a brown, buff and blue border. Below this is some fine ballister work. The second room is decorated in pink, pale blue and sage green with a rope moldJ for the border. Edwards' Motto. The first thing that attracts one's attention on entering the nailery, is a motto that might be given as the key to this artist's life. It reads, "God Has Diffused Beauty and It. is Man's Duty to Combine it." The motto is part of a large wood carving which represents the different seasons of the year. Another carving in wood standing as high as a man's head is entitled "The "Wood Nymph and the Elk." The nymph has just come out of the tree and has caught the elk by t lie horns. The lines in this carving are most gracefully wrought. The carving which Mr. Edwards regards as bis masterpiece, stands close beside this one. It was begun during the Spanish-American war and embodies the spirit of our conquering navy. 'Prominent in this large piece are carved the heads of Dewey. Sampson and Schley. In this same room are to be found the "Gypsy." and "Cupid" in marble. One. does not wonder so much at the wood carving, for that seems the commoner art, though jj, requires great, skill, but it is amazing to find thai this man who never-had a lesson from a sculptor has bfeen able to execute things in marble.-? ; "But there they stand, with as soft and deft a finish as could have been given them by an Italian sculptor. But the visitor has more wonder coming to him. for just above these pieces appears a large "Head of Caesar." cast in bronze. Mr. Edwards created this head from a long study of the character of the great warrior and from a description of the head which appears in the Louvre, the famous art gallery in Paris. He has also cast in bronze a head of Benjamin Harrison while he was senator from Indiana. Paintings Interesting. After viewing these the. visitor turns to the paintings in colors. The earliest which he painted is entitled "The First Christmas Morn." It is still in his possession, and shows the bills of Judea. tho shepherds, and the angels descending in a bar of light. Another is entitled "Eventide." another "The Return of Spring." and still another "The Old Home." These are the best paintings now in his possession, mrny of his works having been sold in the east, where they bring good prices. He has made a study of birds and flowers and much of his work consists of drawings of them in colors for plate work. In the second room of his gallery the most conspicuous pieces are large carved heads of McKinley. Mrs. McKinley. Lincoln, Blaine and Garfield. There are nymphs a plenty and even flowers carved in wood with so soft a finish that they do not appear to be wood at ail. His Start in Art. The visitor might spend days in this gallery and not exhaust its treasures, but by this time he is always anxious to hear the full life story of the mr-n who did these things and they wander back to the desk and telephone where Mr. Edwards always scats himself when he converses extensively. An incident which he is always pleased to tell, occurred years ago in the studio of a Richmond artist. When Mr. Edwards had recovered from his accident enough to move around he came to Richmond and applied nt the studio of Marcus Mote for lessons in painting. The old Quaker talked to him for some hours, measured his head and then said to him: "Go get pencils and brush and draw from nature: thee don't need a teacher." Mr. Edvards went hor.-.e and drew the first thing ho saw. which happened to be a heading if the "Dayton Daily News." He still has this sketch in his studio. Since that time he has drawn for some of the best papers in America and Europe. At different limes he was connected with the "Chicago Record-Herald." "Cincinnati D. WEST AND BENTON Vaudevilles Neatest Singers and Dancers. E. CHAS. HARRIS Character Comedian. F. THE FOUR FRANKS Farce Comedy Entitled, "A Mixed Affair." G. THE CAMERAGRAPH Latest Motion Pictures.

Enquirer." "Commercial Tribune," and "The London Standard." He has been offered positions as illustrator and cartoonist, but he would not accept because physically he cannot stand steady work. For awhile he drew for the I'nited States Patent office at a salary of ten dollars a day. The last thing which Mr. Edwards will show his visitor is the exterior view of his home. The cornice of this ho has carved most, beautifully. The view of the surrounding country is pleasing and the house itself is set among evergreens. It looks for all the worla like the "Wayside." the famous home of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

NATURE'S WORD SYMBOLS. Brant lea of I.nm and Sen Cannot Be Told In Words. Colors, sights and sounds of nature peut in words shrivel and lose their vitality. Odors of the forest, breezes from the sea, delicate aromas of the dawn, exhalations from dew laden fields, entrancing pure breath of infancyhow can we find among dumb, inexpressive human words any fair equivalent, any just translation of fucb rare effects and sensations in the world of nature as these? How shall we interpret myriad shades of one color lu the few words at our command? How shall we put the feeling and the ecstasy of nature into the formula of mental apprehension and Into the terms of literary expression? It is as hopeless a task as if one stood as interpreter beside some charming poet of alien tongue and could catch only here and there a word and could render that word only by some uncouth paraphrase or by some term of remote or unaccepted meaning. What charm, what coherence even, could we find in such inadequate transference to another sphere of what was so beautiful in its own? So to say that the .sea is blue does indeed give a certain impression of one eolor rather than another and in a crude way suggests a general tint to our mental vision. But how opaque and dead is the one word "blue" when held up as the reflecting mirror to our minds of that world of translucent sapphire glory let down from heaven upon earth, air aud ocean that suffusion of azure from cerulean reservoirs which drenches nature on rare midsummer days! We have seen such flooding molten turquoise light like gems liquefied and poured over seacoast, mountain and plain when It has seemed as if the chalices of the angels of the ether and the sun kept pouring down new tide of graded sky tones on the glorified landscape. We have seen rock and flower, cloud and tree, hill and valley, swim and seem to float in every gradation of the great monotone of color around us, while bar after bar of indigo, violet, blue, lay far upon the sea. reiterating in a thousand changing shades that end of the rainbow gamut of color in the endless enchantments of its tremulously slidiug. blending, ever overlapping, infinitely shaded scale. Oh. again, take the word silence ns the image of that great, full breathing, resonant stilifccss of the forest far from the dwelling of men. IIiw fiat and unresponsive and eeholess is the word symbol when hung up as the silvery sounding board of what nature calls her stillness. The term silence is but a dumb interpreter of the serene, soundless, on going life in the deep woods. In that silence there Is speech of thousand tongues, inaudible and voiceless, complex and intricate, as the f.exured interweaving of leafy branches overhead or the gray and gold green tints that sift down upon the ragged roots and lichened rocks that roughen her forest aisles. Christian Work. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. A man isn't beaten as long as he isn't discouraged. Most family skeletons refuse to stay In the closet. Be sure that you have an aim in life before pulling the trigger. Never no my worrying today that you can just as well postpone until tomorrow. When a man gets a chance to dispose of his troubles he always heaps up the measure. Yes. j ou may draw the salary, but your wife earns half the money; don't forget That. Of course it's all right to le born a leader, but the man in the rear has a better opportunity to get away. Many a city chap laughs when he hears of a farmer buying a gold brick. Then he goes to the race track and bands over his money to the bookmakers. Chicago News. . t If yon are troubled with sick headache, constipation, indigrestioo, offensive breath or any disease arising from stomach trouble. get a 50c or 51 bottle of Dr. Caldwe'J's Syrup Pepsin. It U positively pnaracteed to cure you. Sva..nxe: Ofod housewives prefer Gold Medal

Mortality Statistics Compiled By the Census Bureau Show This. .

SUICIDES ON THE INCREASE. INTERESTING FIGURES ARE GIVEN AS TO THE DEADLINESS OF THE VARIOUS FORMS OF CONTAGION. Mortality statistics compiled by the Census Bureau, according to a report recently issued by the government, show a decrease in tho ueath rate among those afflicted with tuberculosis and meningitis and an increase in the mortality from cancer diseases, typhoid fever, whooping cough and violence. The report covers all mortality statistics in the l-" registration states and the District of Columbia, and in 77 cities in non-registration states for the years 1!Mi. n.nd I'.i'h;. The causes of death, with their rates, for 10n'., ranked according to the number of deaths for each loo,r.;n. arc as follows: Tuberculosis of lungs !."!. 1 Pneumonia, (including bronchopneumonia 1 40.0 Heart disease VUKl Diarrhea and enteritis 1J''.'. Violence l'Jo.. Blight's disease and nephritis.... '.Ht.s Apoplexy 71.S Cancer 7.s Premature birth ."4.s Old age Congenital debility Typhoid fever 1 Bronchitis :;.; Diphtheria and croup t.;i Meningitis ii.""i.t! While a part of the decrease in the number of deaths from tuberculosis shown in 1!nm;, as against !!.". is due to the inclusion among the registration states of several with a low mortality rate from this disease, there was also noticeable a noteworthy decrease in the old registration area. Of the total number of deaths :;;..: were shown to be males and I'D..'!"! females, the age of greatest mortality among males ranging from - to 2! and among females from to 2o to '24 years. South Dakota and Michigan showed the lowest mortality among the states, while Colorado and California had the highest. Neither of the latter states showed an increase in the disease among the-native population. New York had the highest mortality rat among he cities, that rate being in l!Mw as compared with ."hit. in 1!HC. Cancer was the cause of 'J!M"' deaths in 10n;. of which 11. Mm; were males and 17.s."it females. The age of greatest mortality from this disease is between the ages of and til. California showed the highest deathrate and New Jersey the lowest, while Boston led all the lai-Re cities. Practically all of the increase in the mortality from typhoid fever comes with the inclusion of new registration states. This rate was L'S in 1!MC. and 3'2 in liXi. Pennsylvania and Colorado showed the highest death rate from typhoid. while Massachusetts and Rhode Island had the lowest. Pittsburg and Allegheny. Pa.. lead the registration cities in mortality from typhoid. The death rate from meningitis fell from P. 1.5 in 1903 to 1:5.6 in lt0t. this fact being accounted for by the absence of an epidemic in 1906 which was prevalent in 1903. On the other hand, whooping cough, whiclj was extremely fatal among colored children, increased from 10.7 in 1905 to 15.4 in 1906, the highest rate, with the exception of 1903. since 1900. The report says that up to the present, time no especial attention has been paid by sanitary authorities to this disease, which is declared to be infinitely more virulent than scarlet fever or measles. The total number of deaths in the entire registration area for 1906 from all forms of violence was 49.552. corresponding to a death rate of 120.9 per 100.000 of estimated population. This rate greatly exceeded that of 1905 (lll.Oi, or that of any recent year. Of The total number of deaths from this cause, 2S.6S2 were of males and .10.S70 were of females. The classification of these deaths are simply returned as resulting from "carbolic acid," "pistol shot," etc. The death rate from suicide apparently showed a large increase for each year of the period from 1902 to 1905 and a decrease for 1906. The number of suicides in 1906. reutrned as suicides, was 5.S53, of which 4,321 were of males and 1,332 of females. The largest number of male suicides for any five-year-age period were of the age period 35 to 39, and the largest number of female suicides were of the age period 25 to 29. Deaths from accidental traumatisms numbered 20.S42. and the rate was oO.OS per 10.000 of population the corresponding rate for 1903 was 42.1. Deaths from steam railroad accidents and injuries for the registration area numbered 7.090, and 1S3 were due to automobile accidents. Misfortune. It's an old French saying that "misfortunes are in morals what bitters are in medicine. Each is at first disagreeable, but as the blttc-rs act as corroborant to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.". A Genius. Uttle Willie Say. pa. what is a genius? Pa A genius, my son, is a man who as a boy the neighbors said -would never amount to anything. Chicagt News. The haughty are always the victims f their own rash conclusions. LeSage.

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The Printer- Devil. Why is the printer's errt'.ud boy called the "printer's devil V" According to Moxcn, writing at the end of the seventeenth century. because "these Boys in a Printing House commonly black and Dawb themselves whence the Workmen do Jocosely call them Devils, and sometimes Spirits, and sometimes Flies." It is related, however, that Aldo Manuzio. the great Venetian printer of the fifteenth century, had a black slave boy, who was popularly supposed to have come from below. Accordingly he published a no tice: ' I, Aldo Mnnuzio, printer to the doge, have this day made public exposure of the printer's devil. All who think he is not flesh aud blood may come and pinen him." Dean Swift on AntroloKy. Dean Swift predicted the death upon a particular date of Partridge, the chief of the astrological almanac makers, and followed it with the announcement of his demise on that very date. Poor rartridgo protested in vain that he was still alive, for the brilliant author of "Gulliver's Travels" assured him by the logic of bis own pretended science that he must actually have ceased to exist. Master (engaging vnleV Are ro,i married V Valet No. your excellency: these scratches on my face came froo a cat. Kolce.

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