Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-04-11
A BETTER PICTURE.
Uncle Jers Potter Sees The Angelus," but
Prefers HN Copy Of 1.-THE Last SUPPER"

Prefers HN Copy of THE Last SUPPER"
Old Uncle .Jerc Potter. a well known
justice of the peace living in southern
Missouri, came II Chicago, and while
here went 10 see The Angelus."
When he returned To the hotel the
clerk asked him if he liked the famous
picture.
''Oh. yes. liked il well enough, but
Idhave 10 be mighty flush with money
and care mighty little for it before /
would give $40 900 for it. Put a sas-
safras frame round it and hang it up
in a barn where there was a dance 60
in on, and | low that not one nan in
fifty would take any notice of it. Oh,
the paint IL well laid on-smooth and
all that-but it amt worth the money,
that's all. I've seen many a picture
that wouldn't swap for it-got one
myself that | wouldn't give for il
without a good deal of boot"
w hat Is the name of Your picturei'
The Last supper 1t is a power
fully interestin' piece of work. l can
tell you. There sits the Saviour and
his disciples, with Judas a-soppin' in
the dish: and there is John, with love
and tenderness writ all over his face;
and there is Peter, good and true, but
withal a little shaky, as the vote after.
ward shows. There is Thomas. with u
sort of shrewd expression of doubt on
his face. The table amt none too fine
looks like two ~trestles with some
plank put across EN-, but when you
come down 10 the paint You'll find it
right there. There amt no nIincip'
matters; no stinginess. The man that
painted 1t jest snatched up his bresh
and went to work. He didn't slight one
part by maxim some other a leetle
redder OF "a little bluer, but he was fair
an honest an treated EN- all alike.
He was what | call a honest man.
Some painters, sign painters, mostly,
have sighted their work. but this man
didn |. lie understood his obligation
and followed IL out. He was a man of
the people-an honest citizen"
The picture you speak Of said the
clerk, rs mere daub. The bread is
blue, the meat is black aud the hash is
purple.
Yes, that may be true, but the
work is there, just the same. l know
all about that. The work is mighty
inclined 10 make fun of the art that
held forth in them days, but natur' il
natur and art KANT help itself. AsI
tell you, this picture OF mine is beau.
lfuI thing, IL don't stand back for
notbiD'. Me and my wife aud my lii
tie people set round the fire at night
and watch the fire light as IL falls on
that ar picture, and immijitly there
comes up before US that old garden
with It's scrubby trees and spring
branch that went tricklin among the
rocks. W. see the Saviour with his
sad and beautiful face and we heart the
low words Uf rcproach tina, iic speaks
10 his apostles. That picture is hung
IN our dlnln room, aud Whenever we
go III there H. makes Va happy. for
when we look NJ it We know We nave
q friend IN the world ~ come, Ny lii.
tie boy, The swoelcst little Teller that
ever lived, iay there on his bed, day
after day, and looked at that picture
his mother told him that il was the
picture Of the great Christ. and one
time when ! didn't think le was goin'
" get well, ] came into the room sud
denly and Saw him holdin' out his
arras toward II. The last thing he
saw in tins life was Christ settiD' there
talkin love tO the MAJ that afterwards
betrayed him / reckon | would 10
put down ~ TO-. Dut | KANT helI