The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1900, Page 7

THE S FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1900. NEW ADVYERTISEMENTS. 1860——1900 formula of Duffy’s Purc[ was discovered in 1860 | ACTOR DUFFIELD scovered how to | malt whiskey. Thi is saved the lives of | people who were appar- hat dreaded of all dis- | eas .I-'\“: forty years & duffy’s iskey has stood| His Former Wife Is| recognized and After Cash. ‘ t authorities in the | as the greatest s 1 toni on account WANTS NEARLY A THOUSAND ik g oo ALLEGES THAT HE FAILED TO | medicinal ly ab s oo OBEY TEE COURT. s such by the U. S. Govern —_— o = Harry S. Duffield of the Frawley eom- s Boratied pany and of Miss McAilister of t DUFFY MALT WHISKLY C0., Rochester, N.Y, Same organization. is burdened with the e e | Worry of a tled up salary, garnisheed by Pauline Tayleure of the “Topsy Turvy’ 3 AMUSEMENTS. company, now playing at Cincinnati aad ~T="" | next bflled for Chicago. Pauline Tay- ~ lFORNl The leure is the divorced wife of Duffield, and LA A EA Popular | in a complaint filed yesterday in the o of the County Clerk she prays for juds- CERTAINLY | PRAISE ment against him for unpaid alimony THEY THE e sum of $918. Makes Pe ALL | PLAY! Miss Tayleure and Mr. Duffield were di- c t 8 k, vorced in December of 1593, in the city of & De d H th the Press. Tl New York, a decree being entered grant- With The H right to marry again and in the same manner &s if Duffield “was actually dead,” but prohibiting him from marrying again until the plaintiff was in fact and not in Jaw dead and gone. Duffield marricd again, however,and the present suit is the result. Through her attorney, John H. Durst, the former Mrs. Duffield intends to collect the back alimony In a letter recelved in t Ing the ltigation the plaintiff says regards the garnishment of Mr. Duffic salary, no manager will put up with that no matter how valuable the ist be. I think we can soon tire him ing the plalntiff, now Miss Tayleure, the rm Faad city regard- As Fare- Pop- ADVERTISEMENTS. ding Sunday. SATURDAY. - Free to th | A Dramatic and Scenic Triumph! | Bl the LOUIS JAMES, [ Ruptured. KATHRYN KIDDER, g CHARLES B. HANFORD iDr. W. S. Rice, the Well-Known Sb & Dhhiia ¢ Auth-rity, Sends a2 Trial of His | THE WINTE | Famous Method Free to All OTE! & Anyone Can Now Cure Themselves at Home Without Pain, Danger, Operaticn or an Hour’'s Loss of 1ime From Work, R'S TAL s To the thousands upon thousan ruptured people who are torturing them: with trusses and in momentary danger ¢ strangulation Dr. W. 5. Rice, 418 : street, Adams, Y., will send 'free A HUGE BILL! w all a trial of his famous method t t has saved so | EVERY ACT A HOWLING SUGCESS | & many lives and and MINNIE ABBEY. mase 0 miuy N men, women us Foxterriers. children well strong and § ured HMERE. St nently s 1 ity and difficult rup- n . . tures. Do not be | FRANK LATONA, backward al JOHN AND N writ for o e Tree trial. It will ; Seate, 25c: baleony. Me: opera < ¢ ‘You nothing N D Rt wilt enable | - N ~ rday and Sunday to ®ee h ¥y you can f in a very | time without | r fron Dr. Rice is deter. ery suffering man or woman shall rful truth that rupture can be refore generously sende, pre- t los Thamtra. § FOPCLAR. FLAY HODS absolutely {ree, and FHONE SOUTH 770. f it. Wr to-day b t aftord to this offer. a highly esteemed citizen ‘The Dr. Rice meth SATURDAY MATINEE, AYS’ Howling Success, TIME! THE R HOT OL weil ever s h n every sufferer.”’ Do not fail to write at once for the free trial and thus cure yourself at home OUR PA:RONE NIGHT AR thout pain, danger or detention from the CHUCK CTTE s work. Write at once. Commence now OF 1 and bef. heavy work of spring begins you Se, Wil be cured sound as a dollar. a Write t¢ Dr. W. S. Rice, 418 L. Main St = Adams, N. Y. You will never regret having b T SUNDAY TE . 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The 1deal wipter racetrack of America. ~ Pa- rovs step directly from the ratlroad cars ibto AND DURING ENTIRE WEEK, & superb grand stand, glaes-epclosed, where | et bad Seiiher they | MATINEE SATURDAY and SUNDAY. rains leave Third and Townsend Streets at MAY BLAYNEY 1 nd 11:90 a. m.. &nd 12:15, 1235, 12:50 | In Oscar Wilde's Beautiful Play, m.. returning immediately ' afier “LADY WINDERMERE'S | FAN! | cla street 16 minutes later. San Jose and way stations. Arrive at San 2:45 0 PRICES 15¢, 25¢, 35e, BOe NEXT WEEK—"LORD CHUMLEY." ALCAZAR _THEATER. TO-NIGET Bruno at 12:45 », m. Leave San Bruno and 445 p, Rates: San Franciseo to Tanforan and re- turn, including admission to track. $1 2. 4 W. J. MARTIN. President. F H Recretary and nager. Weekly Call,$1.00 per Year | ments. out. I hear from friends that I have been much misrepresented in the profession on the coast, so have written Mr. Frawley a letter. 1 met a very rromlnent lady frcm the coast, and she tells me that my appli- cation for alimony will come as a great shock, as Mr. Duffield is considered the pink of sociall Such the theory of ghe plaintiff in the action, and'to-day the return will be made showing whether or not the defend- ant has a salary coming. Duffield has re talned Attorney Ach. RAILROAD CONFERENCE. Southern Pacific Officials Leave for Salt Lake City. The Southern Pacific building will to- day miss the heads of several depart- Julfus Kruttschnitt, J. C. Stubbs, J. A. Fillmore and T. H. Good- man will leave this evening for Salt Lake City, where they will hold a conference with' representafives of the Rock Island, Denver and Rio Grande, the Rio Grande Western and the Burlington routes for the adjustment of the distribution of time | schedules. No changes are anticipated in the sched- ule for the arrival and departure of over- land trains in_and from this city. The m: object of *the conference is to range a better distribution of the Central overland in order to have Rio Grande overland limited. Tor - PISIIN @t ioreceieieie THE FIGHT IN opriety. 1 know it will kill them | | | | | | i \ | [ | ar- | a distinctive D T it e 2 SIS SO SR AP S S S SN B e o e JOYCE’S SALOON. UEL TO THE DEATH FOR ROUND OF DRINKS Tom Dillon and Charles Joyce Blaze Away With Revolvers. Saloon-Keeper Expires on the Operating Table, While His Slayer's Life Hangs on a Slender Thread. o b e b e o CHARLES JOYGE. D S i e i ol O+ 000000 A ) ® . " ROW last évening over drinks in Charles Joyce's saloon and grocery on Castro and Seventeenth streets cost Joyce his life and Thomas Dil- lon, a retired police officer, his 1ib- erty. Joyce dled of his wounds on the operating table in the City and County Hospital and Dillon, probably fatally wounded, is under arrest in the Recelv- ing Hospi The row ted late yesterday after- noon. Dillon had been drinking heavily . ® . ‘4 . P! ® 1 WILL PROMOTE VALLEY INTERESTS Work of the Convention at Woodland. SLESEUPA RS Dispatch to The Call. WOODLAND, Jan. 15.—Delegates repre- | | mysterious senting various countles and municlpali- ties of the Sacramento Valley met in Woodland to-day pursuant to a call is- sued by the Colusa Board of Trade, for the purpose of effecting a permanent or- Evidence That It Exists | entirely given up as ganization, which will promote the inter- | ests of the Sacramento Valley countles The delpgates met in the opera-house at 11 o'clock and effected a temporary or- anization by electing D. H. Arnold of usa chairman and George Clark of Woouland secretary About 100 delegates were in attendance at the afternoon session, which began at 1 o'clock. Mayor Britt welcomed the delegates in an appropriate speech was followed by George V. Martin, delivered a stirring address The following committees were an- nounced: Permanent organization and order of business—R. T. Devlin, Sacra- mento; B. F. Gels, Glenn; J. K. O'Brien, who and | | riences as a hunter and a trapper. Yuba; M. Diggs, Yolo; H. H. Seaton, Co- | lusa; T. B. Hull, Sutter. Resolutions—W. 8. Green, Dr. D. P. Durst, L. P. rmer, Frank Miller, C. | W. Thomas, Henry Blelar, Hon. F. D. Ryan, Willlam Curtis, C. P. Wilson and W. H. Gregory. W. S. Green stated the object of the convention and spoke of the natural ad- ntages possessed by tne Sacramento Valley over other parts of the e, but which remain undeveloped. of Sacramento addressed the conyention and said among other things that_all towns and municipalities in the valley should organize boards of trade and con- sult éach other as often as necessary re- garding the-best steps to take to promote the interests common to all It was resolved that the convention form itself into a permanent organization to be composed of the counties of Teha- ma, Glenn, Sutter, Butte, Yolo, Sacra- mento, Solano, Yuba and Colusa and to be known as the Sacramento Valley De- | velopment Assocfation. In addition to the work outlined in the call, the convention proposes to memoralize Congress that ail timber land shall be withdrawn from sale and a system of stumpage established when necessary to cut timber at all. It was recommended that the care of the forests be placed in the hands of the State Univers ot Phroso wiN surely Sold by all druggists. ———— Federal Grand Jury. The following named citizens were im- rid. you blackheads. ancled yesterday as a Federal Grand s‘ury in the United States District Court: Adolph C. Bayer, 8. C. Bigelow, H. J. Premer, George D. Bunker, C. M. Cole, Joseph B. Crockett, C. L. Clough, C, F. Doe. William F. Dav J. A. Drinkhouse, J. H. D. Feldbusch, 8. Gump, F. H. Green, . G. Goodman, Archibald Lauriston, McColgan, James McHaffie, M. Osborn, George W. H. Patterson, Willlam G, Ric! ardson, Henry G. Sevden, T. H. B. Var- ney and Whifam J. Pattosien. The Grand Jury will meet to-day at 2 p. m. | as the Frank Miller | | not follow the regular road from Yuma, PECLEG! and had entered Joyce's saloon about half- past 8 o'clock. Joseph Reedy, Charles Tay. lor, James Downey, Herman Ryforge and P. Haynes were in the saloon at different times, and they all say Dillon was drunk | and very quarrelsome. He finally got into ' an argument with Joyce over the pay- | ment for a round of drinks. Joyce lold‘ | MNE 1S NOT A MYTH him to drop the matter, to get out and not to return. One word followed another, Joyce finally going to the place where Dillon had left his hat and handing it to him told him to go. Dillon retorted an~[ grily and drew a revolver. Joyce jumped | behind the counter and brought his own in the Bad Lands. weapon fo bear, both commencing to s> 0 shoot. ‘ In all seven shots were fired. Joyce Special Dispatch to The Call. went down soon after the first shot. As| he did so he called to Dillon, “For God's sake, Tom, don't shoot.” Reedy s Dillon then went up to the prostrate man and fired at him again. As Reedy ran up the sireet in search of a policeman he heard another shot. | When the police arrived Joyce was found unconscious, lying behind his coun- | ter. Patrolman R. F. Graham took him to ithe ambulance at once and hurried him over to the City and County Hospital, where he died just as he was placed on operating table. Joyce was shot twice 1gh the abdomen and once through rm. the SAN DIEGO. Jan. 15.—It seems that the ‘Pegleg” mine has not been a myth, for though many prospectors have sought to locate the scene of the fabulous finds and have failed In the attempt, there are others who are willing to endure all sorts of hardship in searching for the mine .of the eccentric old cripple. Men still believe that the mine will be re-located, and there are those who hope to be the successful searchers, and that at no distant d There i a gentleman residing in San Diego who knew Pegleg Smith and heard from his lips the story of his discovery. | s Gasklill, who lives at the corner of and up In Patrolman Dillon, whom they found in a neighboring meantime _Sergeant Shaw J. A. Fitzgerald hunted under arrest to the County loon. Shaw placed him and took him in a buggy sil cteenth and F streets, was a neighbor | Hospital. Dillon was shot once in the of Smith at Weberville, after the latter | face, the bullet passing through his nose claimed he had found his mine. Gaskill's | and 'lodging in his mouth, whence he house was not over 100 yards from the cabin of Pegleg. In the evenings young skill would go over and listen to his neighbor’s thrilling tales of his expe- spat it out, recovering it and putting it in his pocket. Another bullet had struck his head, inflicting a scalp wound. His re- volver had five chambers discharged, and Joyce's had three, one of which was an old shot. ; While the quarrel over drinks was the direct cause of the shooting, there has been bad blood between the two men since September last, when, on complaint of Joyce, Dillon was haled before the Com- missioners on a charge of drunkenness The charges were made by Captain Gillin Pegleg Smith's deformity was not con- fined to an absent limb. He had an ever- present appetite, which was inordinately devoted to the fiery liquid. Silas Gaskill Ifked to hear the old hunter's tales as well latter liked the lurid liquor, and was willing to make a fair exchange by embellishing his visits with a pint bottle f Hangtown whisky. This amount was |upon the report of Sergeant Perrin, but it | mple to keep his host's highly colored [ was upon information furnished by Joyce | arns spinning for one ardinary evening. | that they were made, and Dillon knew On one of Gasklll's visits Pegleg told of | this. He lives at 4084 Seventeenth street, his trip across the desert when he claimed close to Joyce's place, and was a frequent | to have found his mine. He said he uid visitor ‘there. The two men have often had high words over their differences, but but struck out at an angle directly to-|the quarrel never sumed anything like ward Temecula. He had three burroes, | a serious aspect unless Dillon was drunk, and when he reached the hills on the|and even then no one ever suspected it | western edge of the desert, being in need | would end in murder. | of water, he concluded to ascend a hill | Dillon was retired by the old Police | |and take a | for signs of “burro drink.” | cended the middle one, which was high-r look over the surroundings | Commission just before it went out of of- fice at the beginning of this year and was | placed on the pension list. He had been | on the force for twenty-one vears, and was known as a good officer. with only one falling—drink. He was four times be- | fore the Commissioners within a_year and | a half after hls appointment, but since then he settled down and gave no further trouble until last September. | Joyce lived with his wife and daughter | over the grocery. Dillon lived just up the | street. He Is a widower with a son and a daughter, both grown. As soon as Dillon's wound was dressed at the County Hospital he was taken to the Recelving Hospital, where he could be | kept. under guard. His life hangs on a slender thread. S et e ot e ol o ol i ol B o o In front of him were three hills, He as- than the other two. On the summit he halted to see if he could discover a can- yon that looked as if it had water. The top of the hill was covered with black rocks and pebbles. He picked up some of the pebbles and was astonished at their weight. They were covered with a black rustiike coating. He dropped them into his shot pouch and continued his search for water. Discovering signs of water in a canyon, he went back to his train aud thought no more about his find. Some time after reaching his destina- tlon, Smith was cleaning out his shot- pouch and came across the black pebbles found on the hill heir weight again aroused his curiosity. He placed one of them between his teeth and bit off a plece of the rust and found he had a nugget of almost pure gold. Mr. Gasklil vouches for the truth of the nuggets being in the possession of old Pegleg. He personally saw and handled them. He is furthermore satisfied that the mysterlous mine is a reality, and that it is situated somewhere in 'the *bad lands which lle diréctly on the route thinks, no one has yet been able to find the mine is that all who have gone in search of it have looked for the ordi- nary indications of gold, which he Is sat- | isfied are entirely absent. The description Mr. Gaskill gives of the location of the mine as given him by Smith is borne out in every respect by an Indian who lives at Mesa Grande. When a boy this Indian was over in the | “bad lands” in company with his father. They also picked up some picces of black- | Pegleg must have taken. The reason, he lots and odd sizes ! 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His deseription of the spot visited by him | and his father includes three hills an- | swering the description of those told of | by Pegleg Smith. CHINESE NOBLES ARRIVE. Missionary Lambuth Brings the Sung Brothers to This Country. | W. R. Lambuth, secretary of the Meth- odist Board of Missionaries, with head- quarters at Nashville, Tenn., arrived in this city vesterday on the China and is now stopping at the Occidental. - He has gone over the entire missionary field in | China, Japan and Kofea and brought with him Messrs. T. Y. Sung, Chinese brothers | prices on ONLY A SMALL LOT OF Ladies' . Nova ~Scotia_ Seal o the same name, and_sclons of one of Button, Jmmth toes, sizes 3 the biggest familief in the Celestlal king- | to 3, medium wide ..........81. dom. The Sung brothers are grandsons of | darin of the two southern provinces of China. Thelr uncle is president of the | Imperial I.'nl\'!l‘!léy at Peking. It is the int>ntion of the Sungs to study for the next _three or four years at thé Vander- | bilt University, Nashville. They repre- | sent the reform movement that is passing | over Chira and when their Western edu- cation is ml: lmelsnre emnplte(edt they will return to their native country to engage in business and political affairs. ———— Good Advice. Our advice is 1o go to Ziakand's for a nice little lunch at noon or after the theater. ® tension Sole, sizes 7 to 7%4.. 95¢c sizes 8 to 10%..8$1.10 and Button, wide coin toe...$1.90 Little Gents' Box Calf Lace, sizes 9 to 13% . | tained | artist's Viceroy Lee, who is at present the Man- | d ENGLAND'S GREAT. ANIMAL PAINTER. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. THE WORLD'S GREAT ARTISTS. Contributors to this course: Frothingham Jr., Arthur Hoeber, XII. SIR EDWIN LANDSEER. Edwin Henry Landseer, known to fame as Edwin Landseer, or Sir Edwin Land- seer, for he was knighted in 1850, was born in London in 1802, and lived till he was in his seventy-second year. But his last | were mentally elouded. His was the | ic temperament and he was consti- tutionally prone to attacks of nervous de- | pression. These became more frequent and increased in intensity as he grew in age; and in the end they darkened his mind almost whol Dying in 1873, he was bur- fed in St. Paul's Cathedral with the full- est honors. andseer vas of a family of artists. His father was an eminent engraver and | etcher and a well-known writer upon art | His brother was an R. A. and for many years was keeper of the Royal Academy. His brother was one of the most eminent engravers England has ever had. An un- cle of his, for whom he was named, was also an artist of considerable reputation. And other members of his family were artists. His mothgr was a beautiful wom- | SIR EDW an and in her maiden days had sat as a | subject for Sir Joshua Reynolds in some | of his allegorical picture | While Landseer was a youth facilities for the study of art were few. Landseer, however, needed such facilities but little. His instinct and genius for art were dom- fnant and unmistakable from the first Landseer was perhaps artist as ever lived. When scarcely than an infant he drew animals from life At 5 years of age he drew animals from life well. At 8 years of age he drew them | so well that his drawings were engraved and etched and are now described in th as precocious more catalogues of his works. At 12 years ¢ age he was an exhibitor in the Royal Academy, t i that in- stitution has ev rs of age he drew plctures which even his maturest powers :d. One of | pictures s 1t was | called, in 1§7 1d for £630 (38150). At 16 years of age a work of his was sold so well and to such an eminent connoisseur of the time that at once he became fa- mous. His paintings exhibited in that year (1818) were critically examined by the | most eminent artists of the day and criti- | cally described by the most eminent art writers. He became the fashion; almost the rage. At 22 he was awarded a pre- mium of £150 (§50) by the British Insti- tution for the Encouragement of Artists. At 24 he was an A. R. A. and at 28 an R. A., the very earliest dates, we believe, that he could be admitted to these honors. | Landseer’s astonishing success was not due to Instinet and genius alone. In his arly years especlally he was such a con- | sclentious and painstaking student as few | | artists have been. His one great source of instruction was nature. His studio v fields, the paddocks, the p . the ards, where eys, dogs and t to be found. He nd copted nature | other animals’ were be faithfully modeled upe in everything he did ery pose he gave to an animal, every expr ion of passlon or of action, every detail of hide and fur, of skin, hair and wool, of eves and teeth; Dr. John C. Van Dyke, Frank Fowler and others Dr. Russell Sturgis,’ Dr. A. & of all the great artists of his day Land- seer was the one whom people Knew most about and were most able-to appreciate and enjoy. And as a consequence.of nis popularity Landseer was prosperous. His pictures sold well, and in addition he re- | ceived handsome royalties from the sale of the etchings and engravings made of them. At his death his estate was that of a man of ample fortune Landseer's life was wholly that of an artist. He was not a man of business or of interest in anything besides his art. When a boy and young man his father looked ‘after all his affairs. Although he earned handsome sums of money from the time he was 16, it was not until ha was 23 years of age that he relleved his father of his care of him. Even after he set up an establishment on his own ac- count hisg pecuniary affairs were managed for him by others. In all his life Landseer lived in only two houses. The first was that of his father, The other was his own, in St. Johns Wood road, where he resided nearly fifty years. Such was the hospitality, the bonhomie, the entertaining and edjoyable character of its owner, this St. Johns Wood house became the most famous center of art and artists and art lovers in England. Landseer’s ability was very great, apart NDSEER. from his special g perhaps of xcelled fc 5 cility of execution fus as an artist. He in his time was un- terity, his fa- He was without doubt the most n his art of his age. H t 1 pictures in the same of time that other artists would taken for merely sketching th omplished h single stroke d brush effects of detall artists would have had laporiously pencil strokes. facility of execution with his years, that dete actness in drawing and ac t have been e some deterioration. Besides, he pe d one faculty which ‘was abso- lutely uniqu He could draw two differ- ent pictures, with his right and left hands, at once pating the strokes, but hand, naturally in nged to differ- ent & so far as we know, has never been equaled, In social life La eer was a great fa- vorite. He was al s the lon of the party he happened to be in. His powers of mimicry were very great and nothing ever gave an assembled company more amusement than when Landseer could be got to imitate the voice and gestures of some brother artist Landseer was not ambitious in the ordi- nary sense of the word. Once when begged by his fellow-artists to stand for the pres- idency of the Royal Academy, the highest honor in his profession, he declined ac- ceptance of the dignity, although his elec- tion would have heen certain. But he was without doubt the most popular and the most famous British artist of his day, and at the Paris Exposition of 1355 was honored by a_jury of experts with the great gold medal of the exposition, being the only British artist that was so hon- ored Landseer has been called the artist dis- coverer of the Seottish Highlands. A eak faany of his themes are founded on cottish incidents and scenmes. When he was a young man Sir Walter Scott was one of his most ardent admirers, and it no doubt is due to Scott that Landseer's in- terest in Scottish life and character was first awakened. In 1824, when he was in his twenty-second year, Scott carried him of hoof and claw, was caretully studied | off to Abbotsford. where. as ihe painter from the life. Acting upon the sugges- | Leslle told us. “he made himself very tion of the artist Haydon, he also studied | popular both with the master and mis- anatomy and df Acting also upon | tress by painting their doggles for them. the suggestion and advice of Haydon, he mude a special study of the Eigin marbles, those wonderful relics of the sculptured life of Greece when the great Phidius was in his prime. Landseer thus became, ith the exception of Hogarth, the first anglish artist of outdoor life who based his art upon fidelity to reality. ~ And he realized this_ fidelity b{v study at first hand. As Ruskin said: “It was not by the study of Raphaet that Landseer at- his eminent success, but by a healthy love of Seotch terriers. Sir Edwin Landseer's name Is so inti- mately associated with the portraiture of animals that it is scarcely essary to s that he was the most emfhient painter animal life that England has known, the whole world has known. There are some rea- gong for this pre-eminence apart from the surpassing _fidelity to nature. Landseer, like Hogarth, was a humor] Like Hogarth also he was a story-teller, a | dramatist in art. His plctur almost all, except his very earliest ones, always | had some sentiment to express, some in- cident of humor or pathos to narrate. | fike Hogarth, too, but in a very minor | degree, Landseer was a satirist. It thus happens that Landseer's pictures appeal to Rhe popular taste. The public can ap- | of and one of the most famous | preciate them apart from their merit as His doy his horses, his | works of art. deer, his sheep, his donke: his monkeys, are almost human in their dramatic char- | acterization and expressiveness. He | thus read into their portraitures the pro- clivities and prejudices, the humors and passions, of éveryday humanity. And he artist intends that we shall do this, and by his imimitable art enables us to | o so. | There is another element in the parallel- | \lmhof Hogarth and Landseer. Landsecr, like Hogarth, was largely assisted in his fame by the fact that the great public | had opportunity of learning of his art from engravings and etchings. His father, | as we have Said, was an eminent en. graver; his brother Thomas w; one of | the most eminent engravers and etchenl of his age. Both of these notable artists spent much of their time in etching and | engraving for the public copies of their famous relative's works. Other engravers | OTator. and etchers of great reputation were also proud to bear a part in the reproduction of his pictures. It thus t out that Afterward Scott sent him off with Leslie on ¢ r in the Highlands, and from that time forward the Highlands were Land- seer's favorite recreation ground and fleld of work Unlike Scott, however, Landseer was not a sportsman. This seemed very strange to those who knew Landseer only from his works, for a great many of his ple- tures are concerned with sporting themes. His interest in the life of the moors and mountains was wholly that of the artist. Once when a fine stag came bounding his way he astonished his gillies by excitedly handineg them his gun and saying. ‘“Here, take this quick.” Instead of killing the noble animal, he made a sketch of f. Tt was just this dominant passion for his art that made Landseer the great artist he /z&:é_ ‘Toronto, Canada. Banquet to Father Casey. Rev. P. S. Casey, pastor of St. Peter's Church, was-tendered a banquet last night at the California Hotel on the eve of bis departure for Europe. Those who partici- pated were the members of the commit- tees which had charge of the recent recep- tion given the reverend gentleman by his congregation and a number of prominent Catholic_clergymen of the city. 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