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the Chinese airmail the same design ha sued in two rew de light brown and $5.( The Great Wall w; century B.C. by an sonorous name of C) who is commonly kn« at that early date | suffered under the r auding Tartars, and . lock them out fore rampart along Chin boundary. For this man in the empire service,. including 300 xmwnnomww“momnono»“mmg The Eighth Wonder of the Worl 1 criminals and prisoners of war. and The famous Seven Wonders of the|ever high government officials who Ancient World, with the exception of | proved to be short in their accounts. the Egyptiar Pyramids, have long since| â€" Constructed of earth and stones with crumbled into dust; but the Great Wall| an outer covering of bricks, the Great of China, although battered by time| Wall varies from 18 to 30 feet in height, and in poor repair, still winds its imâ€"| and has a passage along the top wide pressive way for nearly 1500 miles from| enough to admit four horsemen riding the shores of the Yellow Sea to the/ abreast. Watchâ€"towers were built at desolate mountain ranges of Inner intervals of 100 vyvards, and here signal Mongolia. Astronomers say that this| fires were lighted upon the discovery enduring monument of Chira‘s ancient) of an aproaching foe. The wall often greatness is the only work ever conâ€"| doubles back upon itself for miles, and structed by man that would be visible its incredible windings are quaintly exâ€" to the human eye from the moon. A.plained by an old legend. It is said picture of the Great Wall appears on [ that the builders were guided in layâ€" 0400900 00 000 0098 600006080006 4o4 e THURSDAY, NOVEMBER #1TH i1927 CANADIAN GENERAL ELEC T R CC Limite d Farcs, transit limits, tickets and information from agents of T. N. 0 Rly., Nipissing Central Rly. and Canadian National Rlys. Bargain Coach Excursion EDISON /MAZDA immins Stamp Club Column K ET TEKHK LIGHNHT â€"â€" BETTER S1GH Tâ€"U SE FROM T. N. O. AND N. C. K. STATIONS via North Bay and CN. Railways 300,.000 solc own Chit stamp of 1932; and s recently been isâ€" nominationsâ€"$2.00 0 rose red. s built in the third emperor with the €11 WIth Th iih Huang T s Shih. Eve . had alread s of the mar determined t FROM NORTH RA\Y ire northern e every third pressed into ldiers., all the \sK FOR HANXDBILI T‘ praciical contemyp» ed in only fifteen One might well name Chin Shih held in great hono this tremendcous a ing out the course of | by a magic white hors ed to wandey freely 1 dale, where none bu could find a foothold the difficulties in its c ever. the Great wWall w KIng, WIQA greP 1 effeminate arts a one ozcasion he or suppose that the Huang Ti would be ir by the Chinese for hievement, but such iih was a rough and king., with a great the great rampart ‘se that was allowâ€" up hill and down ut a magic horse . <In«spite of ‘all construction, howâ€" vas entirely finishâ€" in exactiy the same pose, only dressed in a flimsy toreador‘s costume of fine silk. The old story goes that the Duchâ€" ess‘ longâ€"suffering husband, hearing that she was posing for the painter in the ‘altogether." swore that he would makes it seéem nol at ail uniikely. Side by side with the "Maja Desnuda" in the Prado Museum hangs another painting called ‘"La Maja Vestida" (The Clothed Coquette) which shows the same model tion also says that he fell passionate‘!ly in love with a young girl whose disâ€" approving parents finally put her in a convent. Goya recklessly scaled the convent walls at midnight and attemptâ€" ed to carry her off, anly to be surprised by some watchful monks and thrown straightway into prison! In Rome at that time the kidnapping of a nun was punishable by death, but the Spanish ambassador intervened in the artist‘s behalf and he was released from conâ€" finement on the understanding that he would return immediately to Spain. Once more in Spain Goya married the sister of a fellow artist and gave every promise of at last settling down into peaceful family life. Through the inâ€" fluence of his brotherâ€"inâ€"law he was able to get a small position in a factory which manufactured tapestries for the royal palace. Goya‘s designs were so original and attractive reflecting as they did the everyday life of the times inâ€" stead of the usual and monotonous disâ€" plays of mythological figures, that his work was speedily singled c out by the king himself and he was finally apâ€" pointed official painter to the royal court. again and again, and every day deliâ€" cacies from the Duchess‘ own table were sent to the artist‘s home in silver dishes that were not expected to be returned. The gossiping tongues of the court even whispered that the great lady would have no one but the court painter apply | her rouge and powder! Whether or not the "Maja Desnuda" represents the Duchess of Alba has alâ€" ways been one of the great mysteries of art. but the close resemblance of the face to other portraits of the Duchess makes it seem not at all unlikely. Side ud One of the most brilliant figures at the decadent Spanish court of the period was the beautiful Duchess of Alba, who was famous for her willful caprices and her total disregard for the conventions of the day. Her husâ€" band was a melancholy little man who passed his time almost exclusively in playing the piano and bothered himself little about the intrigues of his life. The Duchess soon recognized in Goya a spirit as bold and unconventional as a spirit as bold and her own and becamse with him. Gova p: Young Goya was a sturdy, hotâ€"bloodâ€" ed fellow and took an enthusiastic parti in the frequent gang fights of the town. During one of these encounters three men were killed and the future artist judged it prudent to flee to Madrid. Here he speedily distinguished himself among his contemporaries, not for his artistic talent, but for his skill with the guitar and a disposition towards riotous living. Eventually he became involved with the police and filed from the capital with a troupe of bullâ€"fightâ€" ers.â€" After travelling with them as far as the seaâ€"coast. he embarked for Italy with the intention of completing his artistic studies in Rome. For all his studious irtentions, Goya appears to have led his usual carefree and Bohemian life in Rome, doing litâ€" tle or no painting. and winning the adâ€" miration of his fellow students by such Sstunts ~As 1( dome of St hood, but an old legend says that his artistic talent first came to light when he was discovered by the village priest drawing on the walls of the church with a lump of charcoal. At the age of twelve he painted a curtain for the church altar, and the story goes that sixty yvears later when the artist, old and distinguished, returned to his naâ€" tive village and viewed this early effort, he said to his companion: "Don‘t ever tell anyone I painted that!" In spite of the aristocratic appearâ€" ance of his name, Francisco de Goya Lucientes was born of an humble peasâ€" ant family on March 30, 1746 in a little village near the old city of Saragossa. Nothing certain is known of his childâ€" hood, but an old legend says that his artistic talent first came to light when he was discovered by the village priest on the walls of the church wayward genius, Francisco de Goya, was one which has for its central design a reproduction of his greatest painting â€""La Maja Desnuda", a title which may be approximately translated into English as "The Nude Coquette." Toâ€" gether with Velanzquez‘ calebrated "Mirror of Venus" this picture has the distinction of being one of the only two nude paintings in the entire history of Spanish artâ€"an art so rigid and austere in its conventions that at one time a Spanish artist was heavily fined for daring to paint the Virgin Mary in an embroidered petticoat! In spite of the aristocratic appearâ€" Silil mMmAjesUt!Cc in its ruin, stands as a scrrowful commentary on a vanished civilization that was greater in the arts of peace than in the arts of war. Francisco De Goyaâ€"Painter and Cynic No postal issue in recent years has aroused so much controversy and scanâ€" dal as the Goya Commemoratives that were issued by Spain in 1930. For among these stamps, honouring the 1C0th anniversary of the death of that wayward genius, Francisco de Goya, was one which has for its central design a reproduction of his greatest painting â€"*"*La Maja Desnuda", a title which upon a 1500 milés wall, almost totally urdefended by any sizeable standing army. Repeatedly penetrated throughâ€" out the centuries by Tartars, Mongols, Manchus, and the efficient armies of nodern Japan. the Great Wall of China, sStill majestic in its ruin, stands as a scrrowful commentary on a vanished dered every book in the empire to be burrt! Three hundred leading scholar: who refused to obey this sweeping comâ€" mand were buried alive; and late: Chinese historians have avenged thei: barbaria plains of 12 pr y snould 1500 mil carvIin 1 became rapidly infatuated Goya painted her portrait of its formidable and imposâ€" rance, the Great Wall has ed very effective in keeping invaders out of the fertile ving his initials on the eter‘s Cathedral. Tradiâ€" that he fell passionately Al 1 have avenged thei scribing Chin Shil who with a "point pigeon breast, wol s highly chs : of the Chine relied implici THE PORCUPTN® ADVANCE. even be people i ernment and runnirg 1 000,000) : vised dow based on 6,38,119 0 may hav Soviet Gold Produc Likely to Show speaks This i sulting In a recent iss wellâ€"known Can back from Russig facts and opiniot or less general t of gold producti the Soviet were 6 least. Now alon logist. who ough 1827 Goya‘s own port at the king‘s comman Vincente Lopez, and i showing the great a: disillusioned and cynic we see on the posta Only a year later, on . died at Bordeaux, ed a reputation as 0 original artists who ev The last years of Goya‘s stormy life were passed in poverty and suffering. Halfâ€"blind and wholly deaf he continuâ€" ed to work tirelessly to the last, now painting with sardonic fidelity and vacuous features of some Spanish arisâ€" tocrat, now covering the walls of his house with those grotesque figures of which the famous "Fantasies of Flight," reproduced on the Spanish airmail stamps above, are a good sample. In ‘"The Disasters of War," in v atrocities committed by the soldiers against the Spanish are depicted with a grim a powering realism. After the of the French and the resto the Bourbons, Goya took the allegiance to the new king qualm. "You deserve exile", said to him, "You deserve har you are a great artist and I v everythinge!" fantasies, wWNhith is reproduced anove represents the Duchess of Alba flying through the air with a band Of witches The cynical inscription which the art ist added underneath clearly show: that his affair with the beautiful Duchâ€" ess was at last at an end. "The pedesâ€" tal of figures which supports the lady is more for ornament than for use There are some heads so full of inflamâ€" mable gas that.they _ have no need of the aid of witches in order to fly througth the air‘!‘" In 1807 Napoleon‘s armies crossed the Pyrenees with the intention of making Joseph Bonaparte king of Spain. Goya served as court painter to the conquerâ€" or and worked for him politically, bu{ thar: his sympathies were all the time with his own countrymen is clearly shown by his terible series of etchings, "The Disasters of War,‘" in which the grealt ClLCNnIrgs TIC vices and follies of the coi doxically enough, howevetr enthusiastic buyers of the were the victims of Goya‘s selves! One of the best kn( fantasies, which is reprod which the lovers were travelling b so badly bent that they were obli stop on a lonely mountainside. resourceful Goya immediately set repairing the bent axle. He ord fire to be made and removing th from the coach proceeded to he iron in order to bend it back into. It was a bitter cold night and t accustomed â€"exertion of his brought on a chill which left the palrt Goya‘s own picture i blcod.! The artist fortunatel of this in time and when the husband arrived in his studio, on the easel, not the "Maja ] but the ‘"Maja Vestida," wh with his marvelous facility hi off in a few hours! Whatever may have been th this story, certain it is that C fair with Duchess finally b scandalous that the king ordé both to leave Madrid. On the. southward the axle of the 16 at ilmos l)t'[msit.\ ;\.\’.\'t‘l.\' iA 1 lnc}'v:l.\'v. .\'w'lll'i ings Higher oi0ogist fGor the h Writing in The 1g World, Mtr. C i s own portrait \ ig‘s command by Lopez, and it is t the great artist â€" ed and cyvnical ol« 1 s~exertiom.â€"â€"of â€" his ~work _a chill which left the paintâ€" totally deaf. Shortly after nt he broke off his relations y * ie OM Trelif iare 19; st the Spanish with a grim al sm. After the i and the resto: Goya took the the new king w hou on Ru ind returned to 1¢ irtist As A worn ical old man, tha age stamp above April 16. 1828, h nce, n one o t ic fidelity a me Spanish ar the walls of tesque figures itasies of Fligt Spanish airm ood sample. doe A p itainside. . diately set about ‘, He ordered a moving the axle ded to neat the back into shape. zht and the unâ€" of his work ie In SErICS O ridiculing the : court. Paraâ€" ever, the most these etchings /a‘s irony themâ€" known of these above. ture in Goya‘s unately learned en the outraged studio, he found Maja Desnuda", i," which Goya lity had dashed 1I reduced whet ly became so ordered them i their journey the coach in velling became ippeat OY tion Decline 1 V OluUl 11 hereof h« ame idea and over pration 0: e oath 0o without the king ine »On 1e reâ€" or 1936 painted painter picture. M 111 ruth of a‘s afâ€" V mak 1@L1O1 $350 . mos 1vInf mort rentl ilian COIT Are JT but h hi 1C than a yvear also shows profits to have been mainâ€" tained in the past yvear. Profits of $967.977 compares with $962,813 for the previous period. After dividends at the regular rate and deâ€" ductions for writing off bank premises and an amount reserved for continâ€" gencies which together amount to the 0250,000 written off bank premises a year ago, the balance of profits remainâ€" ng is $17.977 compared with $12,813 fcrmeriy, making the balance forward $638,032, compared with $620,056. Total assets are $159.667.419, an inâ€" crease of $9,120,158 in the period. Deâ€" posits are increased to $132,198.089 from $124,618.910. The deposits bearing inâ€" terest at $91,207,988 are increased $4,â€" 661,515, while deposits by Dominion and provincial governments are $8,727,.210 compared with $4,874.886 a vear ago. 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It dealt with the monstrous waste of good human material in the The Detroit News.â€"Society‘s troubles with "Spit," a street waif in the cast of the play, Dead End, are a matter of common report, Spit wasn‘t playing a character role; he was the real article. He is now delingquent, and the theory is that his $50â€"perâ€"week job was too much for him; his moral fiber cracked under the strain of his having been lifted too suddenly from a guttersnipe environment. The principal change in the bank‘s investments in bonds is in the holdings of Dominion and provincial issues maâ€" turing in less than two years, these aggregating $11,750,146, compared with $9,424,887 a year ago. Government bonds maturing after two vears are up about $500,.000 to ~$38,533,500. Th total of security holdings is $54,559,726 compared with $51,588,850. Downfall of Waif Not Due to Being Given a Chance UARDIAN OF CANADTAN that if cau; lal could spiritually no amoun at the problem to con did not ruin Spit by big chance. 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