Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-04-26
interest in music and is organist OF a church
In Clifton, near Cincinnati.

IN Clifton, near CINCINNATI.
"A beer saloon is one of the most accu.
rate thermometers in the world" said a lead
ing bar keeper last week, "every rise in ten.
pera,ure makes boom in beer. These few
| warm days have been sufficient to just double
our sales of beer, glass by glass. BY count
ing 80 many glasses to a degree Of heat our
| sales would show the heat to within very
In the most exact ratio according to the heat
of the weather"
Everything has its humors and the career
Of the Salvation Army in this city is no ex-
ception. A number Of good things are told
in connection with its advent. Among them
are the following
The other night an elegantly dressed lady
was passing the door OF the Station House
on Spring street in the vicinity Of tie Saliva.
ton Army Hall. The prisoners we're singing
their usual evening dities, Peek Boo, Sweet
violets and "See that my grave is paid Tor"
being among the atrocities rendered. The
lady listened a moment, as if to reassure her
self, and then stepped to the door, and putting
her head in, psralyze officer Billy Woods
who was in charge, with the question, "Say
mister, beg pardon, but is this the Salvation
Army2' On being informed that it was the
station house she was borrifed, and founced
off with the prettiest little flute" imaginable.
The other evening young man went into
the Salvation Army meeting, and after be
had obtained seat, commenced looking
around the hall as if seeking some one. Pretty
soon one OF the Army approached him:
"Young man." said she, care you seeking
salvation 2"
"Not much,' said the young man, e was
just looking for Sal Johnson"
A street arab approached one of the Off
GERS of the Army, who wore cap with the
usual Salvation Army badge on, the other
day, and said suddenly: "Say, Mister, amt
you dropped somcthingY"
"Why nc, sonny, guess not" was the
reply; "What did drop?"
"Why, guess you droppeda U of your
cap, ! see you've got S. A. there. Where in
the mischief is that "U" off the U. S. A.
Yerl get court martialed il you don't look
out!"
tharv N bad In, 4 tka
meeting by Salvation officer: young
man. said the latter, "don't you want to join
the Salvation Army"
"Well," said the young man, 81 don't
exactly know. WHAT bounty do you pay 2"
Probably no human figure has ever bee
more familiar on the Springfield streets than
that Of ]. s. Gillespie, the house artist. A
gentleman remarked to friend OF the artist
yesterday that he had not seen him
lately. "Ts it possible you have not heard"
said the latter, "that Gillespie died
nearly three weeks ago of dropsy." "How
soon We are all forgotten, was the natural
thought while listening to the conversation"
on our streets, and yet his absence created no
remark, one hardly question as to what had
become of him.
Gillespie was an example of a man whose
life and works were only miserable fragments
Of what was in him, il his genius had been
properly fostered and trained. No man was
ever more faithful to his art, than was the
lame painter, whose lines were cast in such
hard places, and whom no one tried to aid
in his unequal battle against the hsrdships of
life. That Gillespie had original ideas 10
painting and considerable artistic genius, no
one can deny, whatever bis pictures were,
they were original no slavish copying OF
another mans designs for him, he must work
out his own conception of picture, or he
would not paint it.
Take his large canvass Of "Abraham's
| Sacrifice for instance. Instead OF copying
his de.ign from an engraving, he enlisted the
services OF Mr. Jonas Drury for model, and
worked out his idea OF the picture, little by
little. Though the execution of the work is
rough and crude in places the conception is
excellent, and had the artist possessed the
technicalites OF his art iu sufficient perfec-
ton, to have executed his ideas adequately y,
his Abraham would have been one OF
of the world great pictures. His
treatment OF the subject is sublime, as far as
the conception goes. John s. Gillespie came
to Springfield from Lexington, and resided
here four or five yesrs. He took up his art
too late in life, being about twenty y-fve
when he first began to draw. He was about
40 when he died, and was sickly all his life
He had a pale intelligent aud somewhat po
elic cast Of countenance, and piercing blacl