The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-01-11

FED. poorIy clald. poorly housed, because
poorly appreciated When hear a map Is
a painter I have two feelings, one of admira-
ton for the greatness of his soul, and the
other Of commiseration for the neeSssas
body. -
noble work. Some of the nj
been hardly bested. Oliver
such a big patch on the coat'F
that when he went anywss-S;s i. K
in his hand closely press. -
The world renowned Bish.
salary Of s64 a year.
the only ones who have i
Of appreciation Let mems
under their patronage the g
art They lift no complain
strike fo= higher wages. BIZ s.
Of nervous organization which = Il
characteriZes genius, these 4,
more than anyone but Gcd~ .I.. 8
There needs to be q concerto
the suffering artists of A a u -;
sentimental discourse about wharN
artists, but contracts that will give
livelihood; for l am in full sYmpathy
the Christian farmer, who was very >,
gathering his fall apples, and some on
asked him to pray for a poor family
the father of which had broken III
leg; and the busy farmer said: 81 cannot stoI
now to pray, but you can go down into th'
cellar and get some corned beef, and butter
and eggs and potatoes; that is all 1 car
do now" Artists may wish for our prayer
but they also want practical help from mel
who can give them work. You have hear'
scores Of sermons for all other kinds of suffer
ing men and women, but | think this IS tn
first sermon ever preached that mah'
a plea for the suffering men and women
American art. Their work is more true 70
nature and life than any of the master
pieces that have become immortal on the
other side of the sea, but it is the fashion
of Americans to mention foreign artists,
and to know little or nothing about our
own Copley, and AllstOn and lnman, and
Greenough and Kensett- Let the atfiuenl
fling out of their windows and into the baeE
yard valueless daubs on canvas, and call IN
the e splendid but unrewarded men, and tell
them to adorn your walls, not only with
that which shall please the taste, but enlarge
the mind, and improve the morals, and save
the souls OF those who gaze upon them
Brooklyn and all other American cities
need great galleries of art, not only open
annually for few days on exhibition, but
which shall stand open all the year round,
and from early morning until ten o'clock al
night, and free to all who would come and
go. What q preparation for the wear
and tear Of the day, I'VE min
utes' look In the morning at some
picture that will open door into some larger
realm than that in which our population
daily drudge! OF what a good thing the halt
hour of artistic opportunity on the way
home in the evening from exhaustion that
demands recuperation for mind and soul as
well as body! Who will do for Brook
lyn or the city where you live what w.
W. Corcoran did for Washington, and WI 4
1 am told John Wannamaker, by the de
ton Of De Munkacsy's great picture, " "A
before Pilate,n is going to do for
phial Men of wealth, if you area .Of
to build and endOw such place To
lifetime, why not go to your iron (:
take out your last will and test
make cOdicil that shall build for >
your residence, a throne for Amea
Take some of the money that woql
spoil your children, and build e =
that shall associate your
not only with the grsslD
painting who are gone =
great masters who are tr
also win the admiration a. 4. -
thousands Of people, who, IA =
fine pictures of their own, #t{f Il 4
vantaged by your benefaetiof4
own monuments, and not leay
whim of others. Some of the best -.
ing in Greenwood have no monuments
or some crumbling stones that in few -,
will let the rain wash out name and epitaph;
while some men whose death was the abate-
ment of a nuisance, have pile Of polished
Aberdeen high enough for king, and eulo-
gium enough to embarraSs a seraph. Oh,
man OF large wealth, INSTEAD OF
leaving..to the whim Of others your monumen-
tai commemoration and epitap hiology to be
looked at when people are going to and frc
at the burial of others, build right down in
the 1esr5 Of our great city, or the city where
Won live. an imf6snse free reading room, OF
a free musical Conservatory, 0S--a Tree
art gallery, the inches for sculpture;
and the walls abloom with the rise
and fall of nations, and lessons OF
courage for the disheartened, and rest for the
weary, and life for the dead; and one hun
dred and fifty years from now you will be
welding influences in this world for good
among those whose gEeat-grandfather was
IS di lIs1ls.sa -. iuszl RI
Khan white mar64s : .syoIi n Ton
put your hand on It when YOU toIlci,
1t IN the cemetery would be a monument h,
eolors, In beaning eyes, in living possession
In splendors which under the chaudelihC
would be glowing and warm, and looked 81
by strolling groups with catalogue in haSr
on the January night, when the necropoln
WI Mnere the body sleeps IS all showed unddPt
ms tower OF David was hung with one thc4el
sand dented shields Of battle; but Won. dol
man OF wealth, may have a grander tow y
named after you, one that shall be hung =
with the symbols of carnage, but with IL.
victories Of that art which was so long aqe
recognized In my text as pleasant picturesfo
IN, the power of pictures! | cannot derid,st
: some have done, Cardinal Mazarin, WI te
Fhen told that he must die, took his la iai
walk through the art gallery of mis- palaC at
,,a,ylng: Must quit all this! Look at th5t
lltlanl Look at that Corregio! Look
nat deluge Of Caraccii Farewell. dec,.k
Tres" AS the day Of the Lord of T.
ording to this text, will SCI
'ictures, implore all parent. .
their households they +!
n book or newspaper or orsu
hat VIII deprave. PictuS
he exclusive possession of
not respectable home
as not specimens of woI
raying, if not of painting. 4.
lmily will feel the 4.
r depression. Have notl1
all or in books that wfif< Il
le young with scenes of cruelty = 8
ave only those sketches mad =
eyated moods, and none of u
EN- the product of artistic ~ IL
lctures are not only a stroi VI
,rSal language The humsn
to almost as many languages az az. (
luons, but the pictures may IA 4 i
'OPie OF al tongues. NolaPuk man "a |
'ped, with little reason, would becoa,,, n
language; but the pictorial il
ways worldwide language, and printers
pes nave no emphasis compared with il
say that children are fond of pictures:
y notice any man when he takes IN a booL
d you Will see that the first thin,
1t he looks at is the pictures. Hays
" those in your house tbst
peal to the better nature On
craving has sometimes decided an eternal
sunny Under the title of fine arts there
We come here from France a class of mic.
'es winch elaborate argument has tried to
We Irreproachable. They would disgrace
al, aIFoJin, ana they need to be confiscated.