The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 29, 1904, Page 4

MEN WITH EYES OF ANIMALS | In Great Demand Among Artists of Europe as the Best Models. It is common enough to hear some one described as having a face “like a monkey,” “a dog” or “a bird,” and in| of taking them!” cases where this description is fairly accurate the chief resemblance may Do Not Use Their Own Wares. “Drugs? The less you take of them the better; personally I wouldn't think So said a speaker recently at a meeting, when the ques tion of the supply of drugs cropped generally be traced to the expression | up. His hearers stared at him, aghast, of the eyes of the individual in ques- tion, says a London paper. Some men possess “animal eyes” which defy. disguise, and which are al- ways liable to prejudice their owxer’s chances throughout life. That this. however, is by no means invariably the case is evident by a solicitor with a nice practice in the north of England who ascribes much of his prosperity to a look of profound wisdom which has gained for him many clients, but which, undoubtedly, is lent to what would oth- erwise be a somewhat commonplace countenance by a paid of “owl eyes.” In humbler spheres of life, too, it is by no means only the ladies who use their eyes to their own advantage. At least three men who have come under the writer’s notice (and there are pos- sibly more like them) earn to this day & precarious livelihood by sitting to animal painters. All three have “come down in the world,” and one is unknown to the other two, The first mentioned went wrong and emigrated years ago to Canada, where he found his level on the waterside at Montreal. According to his own story, he was on the verge of starvation when one evening he was accosted by a French- Canadian artist, who asked him wheth- er he cared to earn a dollar by coming to his studio and sitting to him for half an hour. Only when the painting, a very large one, was completed did the unfortunate model discover that the picture was a study in farm-yard life and that the hateful and all-too-familiar expression in his own eyes had been transferred faithfully to the optics of a pig on the canvas, The other men with peculiar eyes who earn a living by sitting to animal paint- ers are also expatriated Englishmen. The writer met both in Paris in the winter of 1897. One of them had “dog eyes,” while the other wore the expres- sion of a cat.. Both are well known to be Bohemian dwellerg in the Latin quarter. It would, indeed, appear that models possessing “dog eyes” are met with by no means infrequently in Italy and other Latin countries. The following interesting extract is taken from a letter written by a popu- lar novelist, and addressed to the writer from Rome some time ago: “In Florence I met one Boutemp!, who got his living by posing to Matarazzo, the well-known animal painter. Dogs were his specialty. He had their ex- pression, that log-like fidelity of eye which one admires so much in the pic- tures of the great Landseer. It was easy to believe him, for, indeed, he looked more canine than human, and when kindly spoken to one might al- most fancy him wagging a grateful tall.” i In 1895 there was employed as half- porter at the Hotel Alliance, Oporto, a middle-aged individual who claimed to have been a Roman Catholic priest in the early days of his life This man was clean shaven and possessed extraor- dinary eyes, about which there was a “something,” vaguely suggestive of the expression seen in the eyes of more than one species of wild animals. As a matter of fact, the hall porter was in the habit of “‘sitting” on occasions to Joaquine Da Costa, a painter of wild animals of rather more than local re- pute. BANKS ARE ARMOR PLATED Depositories of the Northwest Are Fortified Against Attacks from Bandits. The First national bank, of Lander, is ortre The counter is says Smith’s Weel). Aue wen Wey might, for he was the proprietor of a large local chemist’s shop. Who can question the rarity of @ | to work well, says Youth’s Companion. CONTRARY TO BUSINESS. THE SIOUX MOTHER-IN-LAW Regents With Pistol | Peopie in Certain Lines of Trade Whe Although Invisible to Her Son-in- Law She Can Make Him Very “Sorry.” | | | It is one of the oldest customs of the Sioux Indians that the son-in-law shall not look upon the face of his mother-in- law, or communicate with her any more than is absolutely necessary. This cus- tom is probably the outgrowth of family | brawls arising from their crude way of living, huddled together im huts and teepees. At all events, the plan seems } thin buteber? Nearly every butcher,} When, in case of sickness, or by invi- whether he be of the pork or ordinary) tation from her daughter, the mother- variety, is a standing advertisement of in-law visits the family of her son-in- his trade. Knownig one who certain-/ jaw, a partition is usually made in the ly could lay no claims to stoutness, the nyt or teepee by means of a blanket, be- writer of this article jocularly said tO) hing which the mother-in-law retires him: “Why are you not as fatas your) whenever the son-in-law approaches brother butcher? It seems to reflect! the home. on the quailty of your meat!” I was/ In the case of John Night Pipe, a not prepared for the astounding reply: | young bridegroom iving in Ten Horn's “I am not big, because under no Cit | camp, on the reserve, the invisible cumstances do I ever eat a piece Of| mother-in-law was the source of great meat. I am the strictest of vegetarl- ans, and I do not believe that animal ' “Have you, | ing voice easily penetrated the blanket food is good for people.” then, no conscientious objection to selling what you consider harmful to health?” “Oh, dear no,” came the quick reply. “I can't let my princl- ples affect my pocket. My business is a good one, so—" He shrugged his shoulders expressively. * To be a successful public-house land- lord, it is essential to be convivial. Still, this does not deter a good few pub- licans from remaining absolute tee totalers. “When you are behind the bar,” said one of these, “and a customer asks you to have a drink, it would be suictdal in a business sense to refuse. You would stamp yourself as being un- sociable at once. Besides, there is the question of benefiting the takings. But that is no reason why you should take alcoholic Hquor. It is a very old dodge to keep a handy a ‘Finest Old Tom’ bottle, which instead of spirit contains simply water, and to imbibe @ glass of that. You charge, of course, for the price of n, Profitable? Rather!” It would appear almost impossible that a man could remain all day long surrounded by and dispensing tobacco in every shape, without himself suc- cumbing to the attraction of the “weed.” Yet it is a fact that one of the principal Liverpool tobacconists never has and avows he never will smoke either cigar, cigarette or pipe, His reason for this is that he feels if he once contracts the habit it would grow upon him so much that he would smoke all day long and to such an extent that his health would suffer. In fact, he is afraid of himself. By the way, you will generally find that when a tobacconist is a tobacco abstainer he is usually a victim to the habit of taking snuff. One or two of the most popular story-writers of the day are physically unable to write. They are prevented from doing so by blindness, a not un- common malady amongst journalists. These men employ other methods of transferring their “copy” to paper. One of them dictates his copy to a sec- retary. Another finds that his flow of language is interrupted by the pres- ence of a second person, so he has learned to master the intricacies of a typewriter. To such a pitch of excel- lence can he type now that it {is sel- dom he makes a typographical error, and his memory is so good that he never repeats a phrase. A young lady affiicted with blindness owns a very successful typewriting establishment in London. She has also turned her hand to authorship, and has written her experiences. A well-known Jewish rabbi is now a dancing master. M. Molina was at one time chief rabbi at Marseilles and later at the Paris synagogue. Misfortunes, however, came his way and he lost his position. Two years ago he met Gen. Andre, the French minister of war, who gave him the position of dancing master at the military cadet school St_Cyr._M. Molina has been en- faced with solid metal, and the teller does business from within a conning tower. When you go into the bank, says Scribner’s Magazine, you cannot see anyone, and it is so arranged that a band of hold-ups could be riddled from front and flank. : One of the worst bandits that ever di turbed Wyoming bankers used to be a small ranchman. A big cattle outfit had a mortgage on his herd. They claimed his cattle were irregularly obtained, and on round-up they “vended his brand,” that is, put a mark through it to indi- cate that it no longer represented own- ‘ership. Then there was trouble about a horse. Discrepancies of brand are the beginning of danger out there, and this man served three years. ‘¢ ‘When he came out he robbed a good disturbance. Although hey never be- held her person, the sound of her scold- wall. John made several fruitless ef- forts to dislodge his mother-in-law, and send her to her home on the other part of the reserve, but without avail. He finally decided to appeal to the Indian agent for relief. This is his letter: “My dear reepectable Friend: I have & few words to say to you and they are that I am sorry to myself. It is an old woman that makes me very sorry every day because she talks with bad, bad words always to me, and never gets rested with her tongue, and I hate that kind of business, the bad words, I mean, holding them always with her tongue that way. ° “Now, if you will send your policeman to take this woman to her camp, I will be your truly friend with a.good heart, sir, and we will living happy again. Now this is all and this is me. “Your acquaintance friend, “Mr. John Night Pipe.” The letter proved effective. The dis- turbing mother-in-law was sent to her home in Black Moon’s camp, and the young people were left in possession of an undivided teepee. The story, which comes direct from an Indian agency in Dakota, proves that the mother-in-law joke is not wholly the fabrication of the comic paper. JAPS ARE VERY PRECISE. In Their Military Movements They Do Things with the Regular- ity of Clockwork. As a soldier I have, naturally, been struck by the Japanese military move- ments which I have been able to wit- ness, says a writer in the Pall Mall Gazette. Iwas in Chemulpo at the time of the destruction of the Variag and the Korietz, and witnessed the really wonderful disembarkation and depar- ture of a Japanese division for the front. As soon as the Japanese trans- ports arrived on that fateful evening the long sea front assumed a quiet, sustained acitivity which betokened the absence of any necessity for im- provisation. Even landing stages pro- jecting into the shallow waters of the bay made their appearance as if by magic, to which the sampans brought their endless loads of men, horses and guns. These streamed away into the town to preordained’ billets with an uncanny _ precision which suggested that somebody, somewhere, was turn-} ing a handle and worsing the whole business by machinery. ‘What one particularly noticed was that with it all there was no shouting of orders ‘or ‘galloping about of fussy staff officers, as there would have been in any other army. The Japanese offi- cer seems to have learned a strange, silent method of leadership whose marked feature is an absolute confi- dence in hirself. Nothing before or since has ever im- pressed me so much as that night in Chemulpo. The Japanese divigion was in the town, there was no doubt of it; gaged as professor of dancing at the Royal Casino. Barred from Want Columns. “I want to advertise for a man,” said the lady, approaching the want adver- tisement counter in the daily news- paper office. “I want to get a man to carry coal in the winter, keep up the fires, shovel snow, mow the lawn in the summer, also sprinkle it, tend the flowers, mind the children, wash found them in the shadows of ver- and compounds, resting or cooking dishes, sweep the front porch, run er- rands, and all that kind of work—in short, I want a man who will always be around the place and can be called upon for any kind of hard work. He must be sober and reliable, of good ap- Attack of Snowballs Shawneetown, Ill . Dee 24.—James Correy a lumber contractor of this county, shot and instautly killed his foreman, Johneon Rushing, at the latter’s home, ten miles weat of this city, the morving. Bu-hing had been in Corry’s employ for several Years, and they had alwaye been the best of frienie. The crew was not working to day on account of the snow, and Rashing propoved to the other men that they take the “boas” out and snowball him. Currey was lying acrnes a bed inthe room and the men all assented. Rushing start- ed to'pull Currey off the bed. when the latter pulled a revolver from bia} pocket and shot Rashing five times, all the halle taking effect_ in. the head. Currey at once telephoned for the sheriff and coroner Sheriff Mills and Coroner Jones went to the ecene at once. Currey was taken tn- to custody and an Inquest will be held aseoon as possible. Clinton, Mo., Woman Takes Carbolic Acid. Clinton, Mo, Dec, 25—Mre. Fan- nie Stryker, a widow 50 years old, took carbolic acid lave this afternoon and died within an hour, She leaves one son and two daughters. None of them are here. Mrs, Stryker for- merly lived in Calhoun. Don't ‘the old man with the fish on his back. 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