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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-04-11

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The morning call., 1894-03-04

or tight collar passed over the lower part
OF the neck to prevent them swallowing
their prey, and when their work is over
the ring is removed and they are allowed
either to fish for themselves or to feed
upon the refuse. The birds are sometimes
so well trained that they need no collar.
ont Will bring their catch direct to their
master without any restraint, and in the
case of one of them struggling with a heavy
hsn his mate will go to his assistance. The
cOrmorants are disciplined to take their
regular turns, and as soon as one of them
lands bis fish In he boat or raft the next
on turn dives into the water. MANY of the
floating pOpulati on the large rivers who
own their own boats live entirely on the
earnings OF three or four good cormorants.
One OF the most curious instances of
hShlng by proxy is practiced in Anam.
where porpoises really drive the fish into
the nets. The writer some years ago was
shipwrecked off Hui and was for some
weeks living among the Anamites. One
day, observing a rush of natives toward
the bank of the river, he followed and
was astonished TO see some scores of
people waist deep in the water, literally
The morning call., 1894-03-04
THE sNAKE-oHARMERs. BY FoRruNY.

of mice size" and can be hung any,
where and look WELL The sentiment OF
the picture appeals to all, and the happy
faces of the children at play are bright and
fresh.
Long before the picture was finished IL
attracted the attention Of The artists
friends and all declared il his best work.
When 1t was hung in the Munich exhi BIZ
ton 1t attracted more attention from the
public than any other work and won a
medal for the painter. A small crowd
was always In front of IT, ana picture-deal-
ers soon overwhelmed Piloty with offers
for its purchase. lie accepted the best
offer, and the dealer thought his fortune
was made. but found out differently before
many months had passed.
1.-THE Chldren's Hour" was first offered
for sale at good profit, but as nobody
would give the price. it soon dropped until
the dealer offered II at what he paid for IL.
Still nobody bought, although all admired
The picture, and the dealer was at his " it's
end TO find reason for its not selling.
After knocking around Germany for a
few years. It's price gradually get ing lower
1t was sent To America. where no me had
seen 1t, and put up at auction In fine col.
lection. Its fate was the same as In Ger.
many-plenty of admiration, but no buy.
ers. Then Ii went on Its travels, and has
been exhibi ed several times 10 every city
III the United States, and can now be
bought at almost any price.
Goupll Brothers, the great dealers OF
Paris, have picture by Fortuny entitled
1.-The Snake Charmers" that will not sell
The morning call., 1894-03-04

purchasers wife committed suicide with
out any known cause, and before she was
buried her mother died. The man him.
self was thrown from buggy and injured
before he owned the picture week. and
his affairs became SO involved that he
failed in business
The picture was put up at auction with
cut reserve and sold for almost nothing,
hut the purchaser was stabbed in the
back the day the picture was hung in his
house. After that The "Kindesmorderin"
changed hands several times for almost no
money consideration, but every purchaser
had some tragedy enacted in his family a
few days after acquiring 1t.
kaulbach's Venus" is uulucky, aud
everybody that has ever owned it has met
with financial disaster. Harney's pure
and innocent picture, GOOD Morning."
showing little girl in her night robe, has
only changed hands three times since it
was painted twelve years ago. but in every
instance it brought tragedy iato the
family Of the purchaser. At present IL is
hanging In an old house 10 Naples, the
property OF It's last owner. who shot HIM
self the day the picture was hung In his
home.
The greatest financial ruin that was
ever brought onto man In this country
ny pictures was the case of Levi Weber.
He had been for years business man in
Wall street. New York, but one day saw
a small picture that he liked. and bought
ii TO take home. Before he got there, how
ever, he showed his picture to a friend,
who liked it and offered him several hun
The morning call., 1894-03-04

river is selected which is Melted across
both the upper and lower ends, or somt-
times, II the stream be small and shallow
it is spaDned by triple line of fisherman
with hand nets. The intoxicat ting plant Is
then thrown into the water, and in q few
seconds numbers of fish are to be seen
floating belly up on the surface. The cap
lured fish are heaped together and after
ward divided among the inhabitants of
the district by the Rajah, or head man.
Even saltwater fish appear to be very
fond of tuba. and if few small pieces are
thrown ove1b board in bay or open road
stead, fish weight as much as twenty
pounds will soon be seen floating about,
and when picked I'D will be found to have
piece of the tuba root in their gils.
HENRY CHARLES EVERETT
The morning call., 1894-03-04

kinds of weather. cruising IN pairs, l0r
wnen out trawling the great drag net is
attached to the center OF great ha WISER
or rope, made of grass or coir, which
averages 1900 TO 1000 feet in length, each
end being made fast to one of the Junks.
which then make sail and slowly sag to
leeward, sweeping the water as they DRIFT
along.
The Chinese make use of everything In
the way of fish that comes into their nets !;
nothing is wasted. Whole villages in and
about Hung VIVA Channel and the en-
trance TO Haitian Straits principally live
by catching jelly-fsh and mollusks. for
the islands hereabouts are very barren,
and beyond few stunted rows OF sweet
potatoes the soil affords no sustenance
to the villagers.
A very lively scene can be witnessed
when the fishing-bo come in, for old and
young-men. women and chldreD-all
rush down to the beach, and are soon
buslly engaged in cutting up and cleaning
the daily catch. The captured mollusks
ana octopus are made to disgorge their
representatives as much as three-ouar-
tiers of bucket of small fish being taken
from the capac0us maws of these reput.
sive creatures. to be afterward dried and
salted down; the quivering jelly-like mass
is then we'll scrubbed inside and ut with
sand, cut into strips and dried ready for
sale.
Fishing by proxy is practiced a great
deal on the rivers and inland waters of
China, where the cOrmorants are trained
tn dive and fish Tor their masters. The
fishing cOrm0rant is brown bird of the
pelican family, with yellow bill, white
throat and a whitsh breast spotted with
brown and compact rounded tail. While
employed in fishing the birds have ring
The morning call., 1894-03-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Electricity will pass along copper wire
$50, 600 miles second.
Kentucky utilities her convict labor by
building COED turnpikes.
The greatest recorded depth of Lake
Michigan is $40 feet. The mean depth is
1926 feet.
The name of the man who lights the
statue of liberty in Washington nightly is
Mr.. America.
The population of Italy is very dense.
there being 30 people to every square
mile of territory
Petroleum. by a course of experiments
made by the Prussian Government, has
proved reliable scale preventer in steam
boilers.
Workmen boring an artesian well in
Louisiana struck a maple log in a sound
state of preservation $40 feet below the
surface.
In selecting bananas it is we'll to remem-
Der that the fruit which is largest, the
deepest yellow and tue least angular is, as
rule, the best
Cotton has been cultivated since time
out OF memory. One of the presents re-
ceived by Jacob-Joseph's father-from
the royal hand Of Pharaoh was a cotton
rope.
The public lands of Wyoming are esti-
| mated at 90. 100000 acres. Of this only
5000. 600 acres are said to be irrieable or
agricultural land. The remainder is all
grazing land.
Through the generosity of Percival
Lowell, grandnephew of John Lowell,
the founder of the Lowell Institute, Har-
ward University is TO have an astronoml-
cal observatory in Arizona.
| Naval officers have little fads Of their
| own TO help while away time on board
| ship. Some are experts IN photography.
| Others make specially OF something i'm
mediately In the line of their profession.
Many collect bric-a-brac and curl0s.
| An Australian confectioner has hit upon
| the idea of printing the news OF the day
upon a thin plate of dough, using chocolate
instead of ink. He delivers these cakes to
| his customers, who first read them with
| their coffee. This is new and novel way
| OF devouring the news.
| The United States steamship Pennsyl-
vania, built about 1928, and supposed al
| the time to be one of the largest warships
ever launched, was 200 feet long and S
| feet broad. She carried 200 guns, and
lowered aloft with FIVE decks. Her com
| plement OF men was 400.
The first printers union Of which there
| is an authentic record was formed in I,on-
| don in 1910. its object being. as the charter
states, TO correct irregularities and to
bring the modes Of charge from custom
anu pIeceueht INTO one point of view in
order to their being better understood by
all concerned"
White horses are to be barred from mill
tary service in Germany. The Emperor
/ mas ordered that no more be purchased for
tue army, and those now in use are to be
SOLD: He thinks that in war white horses
would be especially conspicuous because
OF the use OF smokless powder. and would
anord an easy mark for the enemy.
me secret codes used by the United
States STATE Department are the most care
July guarded of all the nations secrets.
One OF them Is called the "sphynx"--it is
so guarded. The "sphynx" was devised
by New Yorker now In the State Depart
ment and is as susceptible to changes as
the combination lock of safe. Hundreds
OF messages have been sent by it and it has
never leaked.
The morning call., 1894-03-04
THEY WON'T SELL.
Stories of Some UnIucky
Pictures.
A FORTUNE LOST IN ART.
Paintings That Possess Ali SaIable
Qualities Often Go Begging
for Purchasers.
FORTUNE LOST IN ART.

The opinion prevails among the general
public that painting by a great master
can always be sold at good price. regard
less of the merits of the work. To GER
tain extent this is true, but many dealer
and connoisse ur has found out 10 his cost
that some really fire paintings cannot be
sold a. any price. Ii fact. there are many
paintings knocking around the world that
seem to have train of i'll luck folio wing
them much the same as some human be-
iDgs, or even ships and locomotives.
Whether or not there is anything in the
superstition is a question, but the pur-
pose of this article is TO cite few facts to
show the strange, unfortunate fates of
some of the masterpieces of the best mod
ern painters.
There are several qualities necessary in
a picture before it can be hoped to sell it
to the general public. the principal one be-
ing that it is pleasing in appearance and
sentiment. If a picture is pretty it has a
good chance of being sold. although the
The morning call., 1894-03-04

scooping the fish up in nets, buckets or
anything they could get hold of, while
outside the shoal of fish two large white
doiphins, or bntte-nosed porpoises, as
sailors term them. were driving the tlsn
into shallow water. and as soon as the fish
turned OF attempted TO take refuge in
deeper water the porpoises drove them
PACK. exactly in the same manner as two
well-trained collies would surround a flock
of sheep and drive them into yard. The
natives explained that means are taken to
encourage and protect the porpoises and
that no one is allowed to injure them.
Another method of river fishing in use
among the Cochin Chinese and TonQuinese
is that OF drag net attached to lib crane
fixed in the bows of large boat. The
spreaders of the net are dashed to the top
OF the crane, which is then 10 wered into
the water. The boat then drifts down. or
is rowed up stream for a certain distance.
when the heavy net is raised by the men of
the crew walking out TO the end of the
lever balance plank, while the women pull
down on ropes attached to the end, The
head OF the crane is In this manner gener-
ally raised until the net is out OF water.
The morning call., 1894-03-04

although the price has been put lower than
any other picture by the same artist that
they have. The picture is unique, graphic
and pleasing and in Fortuny's best style,
but nobody wants ii. 1t is full of rich
color and fine drawing, and that peculiar
light of the Orient pervades the atmos-
phere. The two figures of The charmers
are marvels of rainting and drawing, and
there is 10 apparent reason why picture
lovers should not jump at the chance to
buy il.
Goupils have had the picture for fiji
teen years and have exhibited it in most
OF the large cities of the world TO no pur-
pose. Ii was brought to America eight
years ago, and in an auction sale was
purchased by Wall-sIreet magnate al a
very low figure. The owners rubbed
their hands with delight, but never got
any money out of the transaction because
the purchaser failed in business the next
day. Ga several occasions 1t was thought
the picture was sold, but something
always turned up, so that Gouptls still own
II. At present IL spends It's time between
New York and Paris, crossing the Attain
tic every time there is sale OF any im-
poTtance.
The picture has never been put up at
auction without reserve. but that has
been so low COMPARED TO what FOrtuny's
other works sell for that it can hardly be
said to Interfere with the sale. But the
fact remains that the picture won't sell,
and why it won't is mystery that the
best judges are unable 70 give a reason for.
MagnOD, the great Italian landscape
painter. generally has no trouble to dis
pose of his work without the aid OF a
dealer, but for several years he has had
his masterpiece on his hands. This pic
ture is entitled 'By the River" and in
subject and execution leaves nothing to be
desired. 1t shows a group of plrtur-
nSn hnci do trao -
is much more pleasing than the artis's
other work. The succeed walls Of the
houses, with light green vines trailing
over them. are flooded in warm sunlight
and reflected on the smooth surface of the
water, dotted here and there with water
The morning call., 1894-03-04
:" BY THE RIVER" MAIGNoN's MASTERPIECE.

lilies. Bright-colored awnings and bits of
flying drapery produce almost a gala ap-
pearaDc9 and render the picture most
effective.
Still it won't sell. although it has been
offered at lower price han the artist
usually gets for very small work. 1t has
been shown in different collections all over
the world. and at present is in the artists
possession, where it will very likely re-
main.
The great Venetian painter, Zoim, al
though he generally sells his works before
thew are off the easel, has half a dozen
pictures that nobody seems to want. They
are painted in bis, best style. and As pleas
ing as any OF his other works, but they
go from one exhibition TO another only to
return to his studio without finding a pur-
chaser. There is nothing the matter with
them as far as can be seen, and even col
lectors who refuse to buy them are unable
to give a reason.
Nearly all the great painters of the
IN the same way, among which may be
mentioned Cams Nativity" which is a
most realistic painting; Pelouse's South
ern Sand-dunes," a picture that fairly
vibrates with light; Troulleberrs "June
Morning" Bouguereau's "Wet Bather,"
PiZari's PLAZA of ST Peters" and several
"therS. All these pictures are acknowl-
edged masterpieces and possess all the
salable qualities.
There are besides the pictures already
mentioned class that are unIucky as well
as unstable. Gabriel Max's "Kindes-
morderin" NAV be open to some objections
in his choice of subject, but IL was not sold
had been reduced to half it's value. The
purchaser was a wealthy man with a fine
house, aud the picture given the place
! OF honor in the salon. That very night the
The morning call., 1894-03-04

execution may leave something to be de-
sired.
Many pictures are painted merely as an
advertisement for the artist; but with that
class this article has nothing to do. They
are simply sent from one exhibition 10 an
otner. and al last the painter donates them
to some school or museum, or. perhaps,
takes them to his studio and "paints them
out" AT any rate, their life before the
art world is only a few years, and they
generally accomplish all that they were
painted for before their final disappear
ance.
One OF the principal requisites in sala-
BILE picture is its size. II must not be over
30x40 inches, or else people will Dot be
able to find room in their houses for it,.
Smaller sizes sell better. Next, the sub
ject must be pleasing and one that people
can easily understand. The coloring must
be warm and bright. so as to produce an
effect Of cheerfulness wherever hung. In
a word. it must be pretty" and at the
same time well executed. With all these
qualities a picture ought to sell; but. as
mas been stated. some of them won't, and
also seem to bring Ill luck to those who
have anything TO do with them.
One of the most remarkable pictures of
this kind is still on the market and was
unsuccessfully brought to San Francisco
for sale year or two ago along with an
inferior collection. It was painted about
fifteen years ago by the great German
painter. Piloty. and entitled "Tbe Chill
dren's Hour" more pleasing or better
executed picture is seldom offered at pub
lie sale. but nobody has ever manifested
the least desire to own it, and the dealer
who bought it from the artist lost several
Thousand dollars.
When Piloty executed the work he con-
sidered the qualities necessary TO make IL
sell and none of them are wanting. 1t is
The morning call., 1894-03-04

the water is often covered as far as the
eve can reach. not onlv by junks and
boats, but by hundreds of small triangular
RATS, inside of which the fishermen squat,
buslly hauling in fish and rebaiting their
hooks with perfect nonchalance; and as
the RATS are generally under water and
the men Immersed above the waist, they
look like mermen or other amphibious
beings sitting, playing In the water.
These raj s are made of tn rec pieces of
bamboo, dashed together. with a cross-seat
for the occupant to SQUAT upon, and a
kind of apron or bag of netting is made
last round the sides of the raft, inside of
which the fish are placed as soon as they
are detached from the hook. while at
tendant boats and sampans are constantly
going about from raft to raft. relieving the
exhausted fishermen. supplying them with
fresh bait and taking the captured fish to
the large junks, where they are at once
cleaned and sailed down or taken to the
last carrier vessels, which set out for the
markets as soon as sufficient catch has
been got together.
The fishermen of the China seas as a
rule are very good judges of weather, but
The morning call., 1894-03-04
DECOYING THE FISH.
but the most willy members of the finny

but the most willy members of the fnny
tribes.
In no country are the fisheries of more
Importance than in China, where the
whole community may in a measure be
said 10 be dependent upon the success of
the fishermen for the regular supply of
their staple food, for although your true
Monaghan positively dotes on pig (and the
mere sight of a nice piece of fat pork is
sufficient to make his mouth water and his
heart rejoice), yet it is very seldom that he
can afford such luxury, excepting on
high days and holidays; and consequently
fish (when he can get iD constitutes the
main diet Of his everyday life Many
tn usands of Chinese are employed in
fishing, and their occupation, like that of
the fishermen in most parts of the world,
is very precarious and extremely hazard
Gus. In fine weather the China seas and
Formosa Channel literally swarm with
fishing craft of every description, and the
fleet of fishers indeed presents a strange
and novel appearance to any one viewing
it for the first time from the deck of
passing steamer. The entire surface of
The morning call., 1894-03-04

Notwithstanding that thousands of them
are drowned every year, and it not un-
fishing village is wrecked and the
greater part of the male population
drowned in a single typhoon. This has
occurred times TO villages on Namna
and about the Fam Zet islands. These
hshermen are generally stout, sturdy
Celestials, who certainly cannot be ac-
cused of sQuandering their money on
superfiuous clothing, for when out fishing
their sole costume consists of a comic Il
shaped bamboo hat the body being per-
fectly naked.
Irawing Is carried on TO a large extent
all along the coast Of China, Formosa and
the adjacent islands, and the larger iunks
may be seen well out at sea In almost all