Luther Daniels Bradley

“ Luther had a few drawing lessons before the family moved to Evanston, taking them of a north side lady. They were the kind of lessons during which one works at a lop-sided peach, or a tortured hand. Afterward he had no art instruction whatever. He was just a gay, clear-eyed youth, full of pranks, who might be anything when he grew up, but who it was hoped would be a real estate man. As one old friend put it the other day, "Luther Bradley always seemed too much of a kid ever to be famous, to have a career." ”

“ This big, gentle hearted artist dearly loved also to picture women admonishing their husbands on matters of public duty or serenely setting them right when they were in the midst of some wrongheaded action typically masculine. He believed that women commonly had a finer, truer sense in matters of social service than had men, and he championed their cause effectively by expressing in many ways his conviction that as a rule they were no less clear of vision than pure of purpose in dealing with public affairs. ”

“ Truth if caricatured becomes a lie. In the successful cartoon everything may be distorted except the truth.
Bradley had a high respect for his art and for his position as a teacher through his art. He was a student of cartooning, historically and otherwise. It was a source of satisfaction to him that as an American cartoonist he had among his predecessors men of such strong convictions as Paul Revere, Thomas Nast and Joseph Keppler. ”

“ Luther loved his sisters, but neither he nor his pursuits were dominated by them. He had his own especial pleasures, such as pigeon-shooting south of Evanston, in regions now covered by apartment buildings and business blocks, or exploring wild places west of the Skokie, or driving old Frank, the family's amiable white horse, through the Wilmette forests. Better yet, he loved to sprawl in the sand and listen to the yams of the Evanston life-saving crew. Capt. Lawson, for so many years in charge of the station, took a fancy to Luther Bradley, and taught him how to sail a catboat. ”

“ Every blackletter font is different, and there is no point worrying about the individual glyphs. A and k should be sufficient in the vast majority of cases regardless of what the original scan's A and k look like. The only time it would matter, is when the text is deliberately choosing one form over the other. For example, say a book on calligraphy that wants to demonstrate the difference between blackletter forms of A, or in which the author states that they deliberately chose one form of glyph over another for some reason or other. ”

“ In an age when publicity comes easily to less eminent men, when, indeed, popular persons are so much written about that their work is less known than their way of working, Luther Bradley managed to live unobtrusively. Yet he had friends, thousands of friends who never saw him, but who felt that in his cartoons he spoke directly to them. ”

“ There, after his hair became gray, he revived his boyhood pleasures, and romped with a company of admirers more congenial and outspoken than those who praised his cartoons: the children, both his own and the neighbors. Tennis, swimming, skating, boating, football, campfires on the beach, a thousand "days of real sport."
Of all the tributes he received, give me the one spoken by a little boy, a newcomer thereabouts, who after skating one day with Luther Bradley and a group of shouting sprites, remarked,
"Who was that big gray-haired feller? Say, he's a real feller!" ”

“ The tribute was characteristic of Mr. McCutcheon's sincerity in his friendships. Equally sincere was his spoken comment at the time of Mr. Bradley's death: "He was great all the time . . . not just now and then." ”

“ And moving down the flower-strewn pathway's bloom
Entered the dim cathedral's sombre gloom.
And the proud master stood exultingly,
⁠To mark when they should on the altar gaze,
The flaming glory of his window see,
⁠And smiled within himself at their amaze
To think that such the work of man could be ”

“ His father encouraged him to be athletic, and to make things, and to be a manly fellow that was a father worth having: one who could beat the fellows jumping, and who could do nice carpentry work, and who kept a little astronomical observatory in the back yard, with a real telescope. Luther Bradley became a very strong-and masculine youngster, quite untamed by the fact that he had a houseful of sisters. He had at first three of these—Sarah Elizabeth and Eleanor, born in New Haven, and Louise Ruggles, born in Chicago. ”

“ A facsimile is trying to reproduce every feature of a work, including margins, spacing, alignment, fonts, and all the things we don't preserve on Wikisource. There are some features over which we simply have no control. There are some features we can try to preserve, but at some point we have to admit that we can't control font and typography to such a degree in an electronic medium. ”

“ And he whose lot came last was striving now
⁠To add the final grace, that ere the day
When they should rear upon the pavement low
⁠The sacred altar, all that marble gray
Might with new, myriad-tinted sunbeams glow ”

“ What we did not know was that this serious-looking individual of whom most of us never had heard was to do in the seventeen years remaining to him work enough for the average life-time—work so startling in vitality, so luminous with youth, that one could never believe him to be old. ”

“ In a world with so many wrongs to be combated he had no patience with frivolous subjects for cartoons. He took his talent too seriously, he took life too seriously, to waste his time on littlenesses. He was eager to attack any piece of injurious folly or any social tendency indicating deterioration of the mental, moral, or physical fiber of Americans. ”

“ We don't care what font was chosen, we don't care about line breaks, etc. Hesperian 23:52, 8 January 2017 (UTC) Legibility and faithfulness to the text are our drivers. So allowing the user's browser, in the user's viewing platform (wide monitor or small telephone) to do the work! Within that we may use a template like {{blackletter}} (blackletter) to represent some part of the work, we wouldn't force a change from how a user has set their default browser typeface nor size, with all our text sizing being relative proportional. ”

“ It may be passed over quickly in favor of the greater period to come, when, following some years of cartoon work on other Chicago newspapers, he joined, in July, 1899, the staff of The Daily News.
THE man who came among us then cannot be forgotten. He was forty-six years old, and might very properly have been gray-haired and sedate. Instead he was one of the most dynamic, quick-spoken and athletic beings ever seen in a newspaper office. His hair was solid dark brown, brushed up in a defiant pompadour. ”

“ He learned then much of the clean-cut efficiency, the determination to finish what was begun, that he practiced later, and that he demanded from others. Nevertheless, whenever he could he went in for athletics, for hard physical tests. Wyllys Baird recalls vividly a day when Luther Bradley challenged him to walk from the north end of the La Salle Street tunnel to Evanston. They did it that afternoon by dinner time. Thirty years later the same Luther, again with a dauntless companion, rowed a boat from the mouth of the river to Wilmette without dropping oars. ”

“ To the writer, whose privilege it has been for more than twenty years to confer almost daily with some cartoonist of proved ability or of excellent promise while the latter was developing the idea which was to take pictorial form under his skillful hand a few hours later, it is a pleasure to record here the belief that, like Abou Ben Adhem, the successful producer of cartoons loves his fellow men. ”

“ Vast bulk of people here are neither net nor image geeks, they are interested in the magic of the word, and its transcription. Predominantly none of us has worried about the image scans having the Google component, and as it doesn't affect our transcription and presentation, we politely ignore it. ”

“ Tent life did not end for them until the rattlesnakes came out at the end of winter and insisted on sharing their living quarters and drinking water from the same spring.
On returning to Chicago Mr. and Mrs. Bradley lived in Evanston for some years, but in 1909 they built a home in Wilmette, on the lake shore. There are four children: Francis, John Freeman, Sarah Elizabeth, and Margaret.
In Wilmette were passed what must have been Luther Bradley's most precious years. ”

“ I have been gently asking for some time for someone to build a labs tool that could excise the front page, and replace it with a blank page. No-one has considered it of sufficient importance to progress. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:47, 10 January 2017 (UTC) @Billinghurst: Could we use User:Wikisource-bot at Commons? It would be possible to tag the djvu page with some template and let the bot run periodically on tagged pages?— Mpaa (talk) 14:40, 19 February 2017 (UTC) @Mpaa: I had thought that Commons would like to do something similar to rotatebot, so I had thought a new tool. ”

“ In that same year, 1857, Lyman Baird, another New Haven man whose ambitions led him westward, became a citizen of Chicago, and a year later went into partnership with L. D. Olmstead, who in 1855 had established a real estate business. Mr. Olmstead died in 1862, whereupon Mr. Baird persuaded Francis Bradley—then auditor of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad—to enter partnership with him. ”

“ The same problems I saw also on other pages, and today I tried fixed them, for example—on the front page of the same 2010 Special 301 Report, in edits: first page and second page, and it seems that this works—now the frint page is displayed properly.
Are these issues some problems of the Mediawiki engine? If so—may someone register bug on the Mediawiki developers (if it has not been registered yet) ? Or Mediawiki works fine, but the help page Help:Page breaks is somewhat obsolete and needs to be updated, or it's just me that I missed something and did something wrong on that formatting? ”

“ For the great men of the past he had a particular reverence. The birthdays of Washington and Lincoln seldom or never passed without his drawing lessons from their lives for the profitable consideration of the people of to-day. ”

“ Unless all you who have been for a while really like repeating yourselves over and over again on the same issues (?) Humbug26 (talk) 23:01, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
As far as I have seen, the nop template has following uses: End of first page, for page-spanning paragraph breaks Blank line + nop at end of first page, for page-spanning stanza breaks in poems Start of second page, for page-spanning tables After line-break causing template (center, block center, image placement templates etc.) at the end of a page, otherwise page number on left margin may not be displayed on transclusion. ”

“ We are transcribers not interpreters of work, so to successfully proofread and validate a work the community has set up our guidance to that process. Anyone is welcome to take the work and to interpret it somewhere else. ”

“ If you're willing to try it, the easiest way to do it is with DjView, see Help:DjVu files#Removing a copyright page, though that description could do to be fleshed out a bit. The best place to ask for someone to do it for you is probably the Repairs (and moves) section of the Scriptorium. Also: while we don't really care if the page is present here on Wikisource, I have seen the folks on Wikimedia Commons flag files for deletion if they contain this file, so that is also something to keep in mind. ”

“ For examples on ro.wikisource, see ro:Categorie:Index. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 23:53, 8 February 2017 (UTC) Does formatting have to be fully faithful to the original? I ask because I've already done partial digitization of a book elsewhere. I want to continue it here but my work reformats the original slightly to be more legible (IMO) for the 21st century: link vs. link. Suzukaze-c (talk) 21:10, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Yes and No: When we transcribe in the Page namespace, as you are currently doing, we want to match the formatting of the original as closely as is possible and reasonable. ”

“ The use of left and right sidenotes gets really ugly when transcluded — saw-tooth effect. You can use the {{RL sidenote}} variation which puts in the right in Page: ns, and repositions when transcluded to main ns. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:21, 8 February 2017 (UTC) Thanks everybody for helping and guiding. --V.narsikar (talk) 14:04, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
Help needed from ro.wikisource Hi. I decided to write here since on ro.wikisource there is virtually no sysop (or any experimented active user) . My intention is to transcript a law. ”

“ Page:Poems and lyrics of the joy of earth.djvu/80 —Beleg Tâl (talk) 04:13, 9 January 2017 (UTC) Help with MediaWiki:PageNumbers.js @George Orwell III: @Hesperian: Hi! I've imported dynamic layouts to Ukrainian Wikisource and it's mostly works but I have following problem. Dynamic layout applying for Ukrainian version of Help:Beginner's guide to reliability. I'm understanding that layout applying because this page including Template:PageStatus that create the table used as indicator of ability apply dynamic layout, but in English Wikisource there are no dynamic layout in Help: namespace. ”