. Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide . n Franklins name isentirely gone. Roger Shermans name isfast fading. I could not find the name ofThomas Jefferson, and Elbridge Gerry haslost its last syllable. Robert Morris, Benja-min Rush, Charles Carroll, and John Adamshave been scoured off by the light, and onlyeleven names out of the fifty odd can be readwithout a microscope. Just below the Declaration lies the origi-nal of it in Jeffersons writing. It is onfoolscap, yellow with age, and worn throughwhere the manuscript has been folded. Thewriting is fine and close, and the whole Dec-laration
. Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide . n Franklins name isentirely gone. Roger Shermans name isfast fading. I could not find the name ofThomas Jefferson, and Elbridge Gerry haslost its last syllable. Robert Morris, Benja-min Rush, Charles Carroll, and John Adamshave been scoured off by the light, and onlyeleven names out of the fifty odd can be readwithout a microscope. Just below the Declaration lies the origi-nal of it in Jeffersons writing. It is onfoolscap, yellow with age, and worn throughwhere the manuscript has been folded. Thewriting is fine and close, and the whole Dec-laration occupies but two pages. The inkis good, and it remains as fresh as when itleft the quUl of Jefferson over one hundredyears ago. It is full of erasures and inter-lineations, some of which are in Franklinshandwriling, and otliers in the strong scriptof John Adams. These show but littlechange, however, from the Declaration asadopted by the peop\e.~ Authors Eeview. CHASTITY Peirces Business College, KEOKUK, IOWA. THE DAYSPAGINGShading T 1 -ilarnte Id rigbl [irinoiiile* in? i-iry 0/ the JVeiu England ,>? ,.,a n^«h me. Few ingtoHKS neflton (he tiaiiigg«ne,D. C. ? OP DIO -Gip- ?Vai. S B» (prolugely ilkii raK- COUNTING-ROOM 29 WARREN ST. ( P. O. BOX 2126), N. Y. The Presses are Working off MATHEMATICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM AS APPLIED TO PENMANSHIP. PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIESOF NOTED PENMEN THE ELECTRIC LIGHT OF THE WEST. No institutioncan guarantee to its patrons letter results. Mo, PKIKtRs BuaiNFBS C0LI,R0R !? locoled in thi«beaulinil city, aod liaH long itnce been eilabliBhed ai oueof tbe 1 adiDg i>iitiliilSunB nf its kind in the UniledStalee. Tbe new ?choulroQiok are large, ligbl and airy only »;( alone, »20. PROF. CHANDLER H. PEIRCE, 3- PRESIDENT. O gant Kamples of hla ci _(;>END 10 cents to A. E. DE^THUaST. aod reoelve e3f:Blm St., U(ioB, B. ORIESHABER, lanufaclHrer of tbe celebrated Oblique Gold Pen,
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