Arizona silver belt., 1894-05-19
H0CUS FOCUS IN ART.
HOW SOME PERSONS WHO THINK THEY KNOW ARE sWlNpLeo.

Who Made His Ghost Famous
 Artists who sign their names to pic lures that other men paint are quit ! plentiful in this town In a little stor,
 on Fourth avenue, just around tho cor ner from the American Academy of De
 sign. there are some very pretty exam
 pies of water coloring for sale. Tn, signature in the corner of each canvai
 IS that of q woman. The dealer was ir communicative mood the other day
 and us ho was talking with reporter
 he picked up one of the paintings and
 heid it to the light for observation and
 discussion
 That woman brings some very good
 work in here for me to sell said he.
 There is one peculiarity about her,
 though. She always writes her sigma.
 ture in my shop. The dealer paused
 as though 10 be questioned.
 Why does she do that ?' was asked.
 We'll, suppose she doesa't like to
 pnt 1t on at the studios where the pic
 tures are painted. !"
 She doesn't paint her own pictures.
 them"
 Not all of them. It's easier to pick them up here and there and bring them to me 10 sell don't know how much she pays the artists who paint them. and
 | don care. It's none of my business All know is that the work is very good and that can get good prices for it. l suppose she is building up reputation on the strength of these canvases. Well, why shouldn't she2 She gives work 10 lot of people who would probably starve otherwise. You see, scores of persons can paint pictures and very few have the knaek of getting them sold. "
 Sometimes an artist signs more than one name to his own work This hap pens every day on some of the illustrat- ed weeklies published for Broadway circulation. The publisher doesn t like to see one mans name signed to every cartoon or full page picture. He does not want it known that his staff of art lsts is so small Not long ago one of the cleyerest of the illustrators used to sign his own name to the big two page picture i'll the middle of the periodical and nom de plume to the first page drawing every week. In little while he began 10 receive letters addressed to the assumed name, giying orders for work and full of compliments. He had bnilt up reputation for the mythical artist which he could uot get for him. self. His pride was hurt, but he swal- lowed the humiliation and proceeded to increase the famo and the reyenue of his ghost
 A New York artist who draws for the pictorial weeklies tells story of his experience in England at q time when all tho publishers wero demanding French illustrators and had no use for native talent This particular artist knew that he could cut corsages as low and skirts as high us any Frenchman that ever lived. He had spent several vacations and lots Of hard earned mon ey ID seeing the particular side of Pa risian life that the publishers were howl ing for at that particular time
 He assumed very Frenchy name wrote in that language altogether and submitted his sketches, which already ont Frenched the Frenchmen in their nmlghtiness. He made big Lit, his mail orders were numerous. and for many months he enjoyed q lucrative in- come under his title of De Boulangcr or whatever if was. while all the other English illustrators were drawing for he religions wseklies, which cannot ! afford to pay half as big prices to theii | artists as their more wicked and per. i laps more interesting contemporaries. 1
 In the window of picture store in l Harlem there were exposed for sale not | long ago two small canyases with the magic name of Corot in the corner. The | 1rlce Of each was $250 Now, a genu | ne Corot is worth anywhere from $l, | 200 mp Was il mistake or an. at. rmpt al swindlingI The pictures were n Corot 8 style, and only m expert 'uuld tell whether they were genuine or not
 The dealer would give no written guarantee, He sad he believed the two 'anvases were genuine, and he explain d the low price by saying that he Iought the pictures from q man iu hard uck who was ignorant of their value. The purchaser took all the risk If tke pictures were not genuine Corots, their cal vaue was anywhere from S5 to 30 That is one of the gueer things in he art business.
 There are pawnbrokers in this town yho have been known to go into pig ure swinding scheme, as more than me credulous buyer has learned to his ost II is not an infrequent occur ence for an amateur in art to be ap- With a request to buy pawn ticket calling for lot of pictures pIedg- d for, say, $lo0. The pictures, the tranger says, are worth at least $250. ie will sell the ticket for $25. If the mateur buys it, he pays not only the 25 for the ticket, but the Sl00 and in- crest to the pawnbroker.
 It is perfectly safe and easy meth d of swindling. Neither the pawn roker nor the ticket seller is likely to e caught. The pictures may only be iorth BIO. II cannot be proved that he pawnbroker knew this or that the ther man lmew it. for that matter. The ictim has scarcely any mode of redress. windles like this would not be possible ut for the fact that very many men elieve they know all there is to he nown about art, when. as matter of act, they know nothing at all. Or, in ther words, the crop of suckers never lils, to quote the old maxim of the reen goods dealer. New York World.
 Her Hobby Is Tramping.
 The Tennessee authoress, Will Allen has a hobby. It is walking = tf,.nr1nr,i1,cr :, che cnllc it Ninn or. for, 1