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Paint-ELY PRICES~¢0R PAINTINGS.
l-‘amous Artists \Vho Are Able to Make
Fortunes Every Year.
The incomes of noted British artists
are very large. Prof. Hubert Her-
komer and Sir Edward Borne-Jones
are supposed by those versed in the se-
crets of the profession to earn larger
incomes than any other British artists.
These two make at least $50,000 a
year each, the professor chiefly by
portraits and the baronet by those pic-
tures of wan and soulful men and
maidens in which his followers de-
light. There are painters as wealthy
as or wealthier than either of these,
but they are men whose fortunes are
derived from private means and not
from their own exertions.
Fifty thousand dollars is a large sum
of money to make in a year, but the
income of the late Sir John Millais,
when he was in the plenitude of his
power, often exceeded $100,000. On
more than one occasion he received
$10,000 for a single portrait, while his
subject pictures and landscapes were
sometimes sold for much larger sums.
Frank Holl, who died some seven or
eight years ago, made an enormous in-
come during the last few years of his
life. He told a friend who went to
see him a few weeks before his death,
that during the preceding twelve
months he had painted as many as
thirty-six portraits. This, at $3,000 for
each portrait, a fair average, brought
him $108,000 a year.
Two other artists now living whose
earnings are very large are Orchard-
son and Alma-Tadema. The former
has sometimes received as much as
$15,000 for a single canvas. Orchard-
son is not a prolific painter. He could
doubtless make more money than he
.does at present, but, like a true artist.
he prefers to set quality before quan-
tity. - _
The works of Alma-Tadema always
command very high prices, and once,
at least during recent years, has he
sold a picture for $20,000.
The fashionable portrait painter
has little or nothing to pay in connec-
tion with his art except the rent of
his studio and the actual cost of can-
vass, colors, and frames. But an ar-
tist like Alma-Tadema is compelled to
spend a great deal on models and still
more upon accessories, such as drap-
eries, bronzes, weapons, antique mu-
sical instruments, and flowers.
One other Royal Academician, Luke
Fildes, and two or three of the young-
er portrait painters, such as J. J. Shan-
non and Ellis Roberts, are able to
reckon their incomes in thousands. Art
abroad is, however, in a bad Way just
now from a commercial point of view,
and the number of really prosperous
painters is but small. Some even of
the well-known men have a hard
struggle to make both ends meet.
Dug Out of a Cave-in by His Dog.
Henry Miller of this city came as
near losing his life near Greggs. 11].,
yesterday, as a man could and still es-
cape, and it was only owing to the sa-
gacity of his dog that he escaped
death.
Miller went out yesterday in search
of nuts, taking his dog with him.
\Vhefi he alighted from the train he
proceeded to a walnut grove two miles
south.of Greggs.
Aftbr filling his sack he espied a
woodchuck on a neighboring side hill,
and, after shooting at it, it ran into its
hole.‘ Leaving his dog on guard he
went to the house of Jacob Myer, a
mile distant, and borrowed a shovel,
with which to dig the animal from its
burrow. ,
Miller soon dug a. deep pit in the side
of the hill, when suddenly a portion
of the overhanging bank gave way
and buried him under half a ton of
gravel.
Fortunately his face was not cov-
ered, and he was able to breathe, but
he was so weighted down it was im-
possible to move a muscle. He shouted
for aid until he was hoarse and was
about to give up in despair when he
thought of his dog.
Calling the faithful beast, he bade
him 'dig. The dog seemed to compre-
hend, and scratched gravel so zealous-
ly that at the end of half an hour
Miller was able to move one arm, and
soon succeeded in escaping from his
position.
He was so thoroughly frightened he
took the first train back to the city.
Before leaving he refused an offer of
$50 for the dog—Chicago Tribune.
Baby Girl Plays With Bear Cubs.
Little four-year-old-Helma Ursler
wandered away from her home near
Snow Shoe Thursday noon. She was
swallowed up in the wilderness of the
Allegheny Mountains. A large search
ing party turned out to beat the
woods.
Late yesterday afternoon four lum-
ber-men found the child about a mile
and a half from her home in the dense
woods playing with two bear cubs.
Strange to say, though her clothes
were torn, she was uninjured, except
by briar scratches.
The men were taking Helma away
when a 300-pound female bear dashed
out from the underbrush. After a des-
perate struggle the beast was killed
with axes. Fritz Yanseer’s right arm
was terribly lacerated by the animal’s
teeth and claws, and amputation will
probably be necessary.
Mrs. Ursler was almost insane
when the child was returned. It is a
trait of the bears in that vicinity that
they never harm little children-—
World.
An Easy One in Arithmetic.
Teacher: “As an example in frac-
tions, suppose a man kept a butcher
shop and a customer called for live
pounds of meat and he had only four
to sell. What would the butcher do?"
Johnny (:1 butcher’s bright son):
“Keep his hand on the meat whitt- he
was weighing‘it.”
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.he caught two crows alive.
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A, SLAUGHTER or cnows.
They Were. Cunning, but Glossenberry Ex-
' terminated 177 of’I‘hem at Last.
John Glossonberry, an elderly farmer
living in a rocky vale near Northfield,
in the watershed of the Butternut
Brook which flows into the W’aterbury
reservoir, long deemed himself able
to cope with almost all of the difiicul-
ties which beset the life of a Connecti-
cut agriculturist but lately he has been
forced to confess that a flock of crows
on his premises proved too smart.
About a mile from Glossonberry’s
wood-colored farmhouse is a good sized
tract of handsome pine trees that for
years sheltered an increasing flock of
crows. For more than a year this
flock was a menace to his grain, his
gardens and finally to his poultry yard.
So numerOUS and bold had the crows
become last summer that they not only
robbed his hens and turkeys of their
eggs but also distracted the attention
of the brood hens and stole small
chickens. Three or four crows would
attack a hen and her brood and in a
day or two carry off all but the mother.
As soon as he finished his husking
Glossonberry took his shotgun from
the hooks over his front door, and sal-
lied forth to the crow roost in the pine
Woods with avowed intention of wag-
ing a war of extermination upon the
crows. He got one shot at them and
brought down a single bird. The rest
of them rose in a cawing, angry cloud,
and Glossonberry could not get the
cunning marauders within range
again.
' Glossonberry at length hit upon a‘
plan of warfare which makes him to-
day a fairly well satisfied man as far'
as killing'crows is concerned. After
two weeks of work with the box traps
These he
pinned on their backs to the ground in
an'open field near the roost. They
were held by their wings between
pegs, yet not so closely as to prevent
them from fluttering. Crows are in-
quisitive when they see other crows
in trouble and when Glossenberry’s
crows saw the struggling captives the
whole lot flew about them. The cap-
tive crows tackled fiercely the first of
the flock that came near and held on
tenaciously. This brought on a full-
fiedged crow riot and the whole flock
was soon in a fight. The air above
the spot was black with crows.
Glossonberry and his party waited
until the fight extended to the whole
flock and then they began blazing
away at the birds. All the usual cau-
tion of the crows seemed to be gone.
The birds continued the fight despite
the approach of the men and the shots.
There were four gunners in the party,
and they used cartridges of coarse
shot, firing as rapidly as possible.
When they finished, a remnant of the
flock had flown away leaving 17 7 dead
and wounded on the ground. The sur—
vivors have made themselves scarce
about Glossonberr'y’s farm ever since.
His neighbors declare that his last ex-
pedient would have failed but for the
unexpected conduct of the captive
crows in grappling with their inquisi-
tive visitors.
’
Ignorance. of Our National Song 5.
At the close of a concert on board
an ocean steamship during the past
summer an attempt was made by the
saloon passengers to sing both “My
Country, ’tts of Thee,” and “God Save
the Queen.” There were in the party
two hundred and eighty-six American
passengers and twenty-four of English
birth. \thn the air of “America” was
struck up it was unhappily revealed
that not enough of the two hundred
and eighty-six Americans were famil-
iar with the words of the song to carry
it through the first stanza! The Eng-
lish smiled. With the \collapse of
“America” the turn came for “God
Save the Queen." and every one of the
twenty-four English men and women
knew the words and sang the song
through lustily. At a great children’s
festival near New York, about the
same time, a similar state of afiairs
was revealed; it was impossible for
the children to sing, audibly, the words
of more than one verse of “America.”
A goodly percentage of our people can-
not correctly rcpcat the words of the
first stanza of “Annerica.” One reason
for this is that we have practically
three National songs: “America,”
“The Star Spangled Banner” and “The
Red, “'hite and Blue.” One of these
ought to be distinctly recognized as
the song ofthe nation. Then we shOuld
learn it. it is not creditable to our
patriotism that we falter and halt, and
break down when we attempt to sing
our National songs.
”-—
ZIM MERHACKLE’S OBSERVATIONS.
0 yes, Ethel, mittens are very
"hand”y things in cold weather.
The man who can get mad and not
show it is at an advantage every time.
Annie Smith of Kentucky hung her-
self in the wood shed. And yet if we
suggested that it was a clear case of
suspended “Annie”mation some tender
hearted person woodshcd tears, prob-
ably.
Tho govermnent now uses ink on its
five—dollar hills that does not fade. If
it will now improve on the paper so
the bills themselves won’t fade away
so quickly the favor will be apprecia-
ted. .
Bloobs: “I believe that if every man
would turn over to his wife all his in-
:ome. and let her run the house, there
would be more money left at the end
of the year.” -
Snobbs: “Do you ”do it?”
BIObbs: “Well—ah—no—that is, 1~
[—but then my case is a very peculiar
3ne.-—Dansville Breeze.
Enticing Tooth Pulling.
A Sign on an aviznue in one of our
large cities advertising a certain meth-
od of “painless” toothpulling says: “It
is entirely pleasant, and rather entic-
ing than otherwise.”
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"T HE E v EN 1 N G or A2 Earn ,
Found dead ! .
There is something so shocking about
sudden death that the mere mention of it
wrenches the nerves of sensitive people.
Millions of people pray for deliverance from
it. Every Sunday in every Episcp a1 church
in the world, these words are set :
“ From battle, and murder and sudden death,
Good Lord, deliver us."
Just wh sudden death should be shock-
ing, and eath after lingering disease easy
to bear, would puzzle any one to tell. . It
would seem that it woul be more temblc‘
to see some loved one wasting away, daily
becoming weaker—daily slipping toward}:
death no less certain because it was slow it
coming. Consumption causes more deaths
than heart disease—more than cholera—
more than yellow fever—more than any
other disease the world has ever known.
And yet people are careless about it. A man
in danger of sudden death from heart (315‘
case can avoid the danger Simply by keeping
quiet and avoiding excitement. Consump-
tion goes right on with its deadly work, no
matter what the man does or how he con-
ducts himself, if he doesn’t take the right
medicine to cure it. Consumption affects
the whole body. It is a blood disease. it
permeates the whole system. It shows in
the lungs because the blood goes to_the
lungs for purification. It carries. 1mpunt1es
there to be made pure. If there is too much
impurity, the lungs are over-worked—over-
loaded—the impurity stops there. The
germs of disease stop there. They develop
and multiply and then consumption takes
definite form. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med-
ical Discove cures 98 per cent. of all cases
of consumption, lingering .coughs, throat
and bronchial diseases if it is taken accord-
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learn all about it in Dr. Pierce’s great 100i
page work, “ Common Sense Medical Ad-
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stamps to cover cost of mailing only. It
contains 1008 pages, profusely illustrated. _Ii
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C-LD AUNT. BETSY.
Typical Characters Whom Everybody in
Cotton ville Kno we.-
Aunt Betsy, writes Wallace P. Reed,
in the Chicago Times-Herald, is a priv-
ileged character in Cottonville, where
she is a leader in church or society cir—
cles among the colored people. She is
shrewd and thrifty, and has accumu-
lated enough property for her support.
When. my attention was first at-
tracted to Aunt Betsy she was quar—
relling in the kitchen of my boarding
house with 'the landlady over some
wretched looking peaches she was try-
ing to sell.
The old woman was very proud of
being a “Ferginny niggah,” and her
tongue wagged freely.when she was
talking to her white neighbors. On
this occasion my landlady felt it nec-
essary to speak very plainly about the
peaches, and she finally succeeded in
getting them. at about double their
’ value.
Then the old woman’s brown and
wrinkled face assumed an expression '
of serene satisfaction, and she began
to talk to a little colored boy who had
been listening open-mouthed to the
war of words. The boy was one of
the house servants, and Aunt Betsy
did not want him to think that there
had been any unpleasantness. ‘ .-
“Yer heerd me,” she said, shaking
her bony forefinger impressively at
him. “Yer heerd me, an’ yer heerd
Miss May. Now, some foolish pussons '
monght think thet Miss May wuz
a-quarlin’ wid me. But she wuzzan’t.
Nottertall, nottertall. Yer see, hit's
jist a way Miss May has. Hit’s all on
account of her noble voice." Dar’s
whar all do trnbbul comes in. She
jist lets out her noble voice when she
talks, an’ folks think she’s quarlin’.
Lor’ bless yer, boy, I know’s better.”
“Are you going to town?” asked
Miss May, with a. view to changing
the subject.
“Yassnm, terreckly. I’se got ter git
some redemption milk and some con-
secrated lye.”
“What does she mean?” i whispered.
“Condensed milk and concentrated
lye,” was the answer in a low tone.
Aunt Betsy heard us, an.l her black
eyes snapped viciously. '
“People neenter think thet they’s got
mo’ sense than me jist ’cause ther
skins is white,” she said. And with
this parting shot she started off.
It so happened that I walked to
town a short distance behind her, and
all along the road I could hear her
singing in a jubilant and almost tri—
umphant voice. The words of her
song, repeated many times over, ran
as follows:
011, my Re-deemah. great Jehovahi
Bin a-brekin of de bread,
An’ a-drinkin of de wine,
Fer fo’ thousan yeahsl
Oh, my Re—deemah, Oh, sweet Jesus"
Bin a—drinkin’ of de wine,
An’ a-breakin’ of de bread,
Fer three thousan’ yeahs!
“Aunt Betsy,” I shouted, “why do
you first say four thousand years, and
then drop to three thousand years?”
“Oh, I don’t mind whut white folks
say,” she replied. “Some of ’em ain’t
got no mo’ sense than my old man
Buster.”
Electricity at Play.
Electricity has become so powerful
an agent in the great achievements of
the nineteenth century, that its equally
wonderful successes along minor lines
are in danger of being eclipsed. In the
lighter matters of life, however, elec-
tricity is a valuable servant, and its
results are often as fascinating as they ,
are wonderful.
A dish of ordinary jelly can by no
means compete in attractiveness with
the concoction of the same name in
which electricity performs an import-
ant function. The dish, hidden be-
neath a silver cover, and still further
shaded by a skillful arrangement of
flowers, cannot fail to be a brilliant ob-
ject when the cover is suddenly re-
moved and the transparent jelly is dis-
closed to view, bright, glowing, ablaze
at its very centre, where an electric
light is ingeniously placed so that its
rays shine through the jelly in every
direction.
More wonderful still was a table or-
nament once displayed by Edison. It
' was an aquarium containing goldfish,
every one of which was a living light.
The tiny fishes were all ablaze within,
and their delicate bodies showed clear-
ly the details of their anatomy. Each
had been induced to swallow a tiny
electric lamp connected with a dyna-
mo by a hair-like wire passing out of its
mouth.
Apples Shipped in Boxes.
Apples stilligo in nearly every seas
going vessel that leaves this port, and
not all in barrels, for Mr. R. W. Shep-
herd is sending lots of boxes packed
li-.e eggs. They have been grown in
‘ his own trchards at Como, where he so-
lects the suitable kinds for the English
and Scotch markets. They bring bet-
ter prices done up in this way than
they do in barrels, and the quality is
better adapted for family use. The
shippers prefer the boxes to the bar-
rels, as there is no space lost with the
bdxes, and‘ they pack better. A box
contains about 200 apples, and a barrel
nearly 500 of the ordinary size. The
box costs wholesale 40 cents, with a
paper compartment for each apple.
1-! is Royal Highness, the Prince of
Wait-s. having received Fameuse ap-
ples from Mr. Shepherd some time ago,
ordered another lot recently, and they
were shipped in the cold storage com-
partment of the'new Dominion Liner
:.:;:nada on- Saturday last. The fruit
..;:s the very best obtainable, being'
.Lgi- largest. rcddcst, and most perfect
5;.1':'ll.‘li,L-:fi that could be selectedfrom
rumiil a thouSaud trees and will do
‘I‘ALii: re this Province and the whole
I ionrinion. "‘
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