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The daily sentinel., 1899-10-24
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A CHANGE OF TIME

will be made in the schedule of the VESTI-
BULED FLYER Commencing September "a.
it will follows:
Leave Denver 1O:3o p. m Arrive Lincoln $780, pm.
Arrive Omaha 355 p. m. Arrive Chicago $40, a.
Arrive ST. Joseph 6:35 p. Arrive Kansas City, S:45
p M. Arrive st. Louis 7:l9, a.
4 his change is made to allow time at Den
yer for connection with trains from the west.
The Chicago Special remains the same as at
present-L Leave Denver lao p. m Arrive Chs
ago S15 p. M. Arrive st. Louis 7:01 p. m.
Only one night the road. Through palace sleepers
Free chair Dining la carte both trains.
1899 18th street. G. w. VALLERY, G. A, Denver.
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CATARRH OF
THE STOMACH

II . chronic disease. Thers = An inhAmma-
ton OF the inner coating OF the stomach. A
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trait painters who work upon subjects that lecting the opposite type.
 Tn painting a beauty" Reynolds once remarked, "there is no hope for you, noth- ing to gain. You cannot even equal. Stir your peach blow paint and mix your roses, yet you will lack, they will tell you, the bloom, and the velvet will not be there"
 With homely woman it is different. You can preserve the likeness but you can idealze a little.
 The two great moments in womanS life of supreme happiness, told by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, bring a mystic light into the palest eyes; and the true painter will find the light and put it there for her dear ones to see and love.
 Duran is not the only painter who can paint women. God forbid. But he paints them so we'll with the foibles all told. He is ''only a Frenchman," born at Lille, France in 1S37 and therefore rounding the 60 mark when Bismarck says his youth ended. Duran's youth never seemed to be- gin, for he was always an old boy. He studied at Lille, what there was to study; and then he got to Paris, to go through the art student life, considered so necessary for the training of a painter.
 But he did not train with the rest of the boys. He sat staring at the model in a queer fashion of his own and kept advising her to put on this and put on that. Some times he draped her until she complained of the heat of her clothes But never of the scantiness.
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PRINCE OF THE
PICTURE BOOK

CarolNs Duran, "The Prince of the Pic ture Book,' is to make quite a long stay in America on this visit. Had he arrived in time for the portrait show of New York the maids and matrons of that city would surely have carried him by force to the Academy, and there set him upon pedes- tai for popular worship.
 Many volumes might be written upon the way great pictures are painted but the volume upon Duran would be one of the strangest.
 little girl, looking at a big, elegantly bound volume of masterpieces, came upon a portrait painted by Duran. After study ing it a long time. the little one exclaimed: Mamma, l see the dress, but where is the 1ady?" That is the criticism made upon Duran's paintings. They are all dress and no lady.
 This contrasts strangely with the advice sent by Duran to coming sitter The wo- man, who bears one of the worlds great moneyed names, wrote to the portrait painter asking him to describe accurately the dress in which he wished her to appear at the first sitting. The reply came back, brief and comprehensive: Wear nothing at all"
 Taking great nnbrage, the lady sent her husband to inquire the meaning of such a strange letter But on the way the hus- band met gentleman. who, knowing the artist, explained. Duran drapes,, said he. ''but he never dresses"
 It Is whispered that many of the fair sit- ters for portraits never had velvet gowns like those shown in the completed pictures They wore anything-or nothing-and Du. ran made 1t great by draping around them yards and yards of handsome fabrics which
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''He uses very red paint-as red as that, but-but he always puts something in be- tween" ,r
 Unconsciously she was contrasting the brilliant, side-by-side colors, with the gem tie shadows with which Duran glides from one brilliant hue to another; the shadows that are so like life in the reality; and so hard to find in the pictures.
 Other strange tales are told of this mar Velously expensive portrait painter, besides those of his painting. It Is said that he has way of keeping his sitters in pose and that when all else fails and they refuse to sit, pleading some excuse, he seats him. self at the piano and plays brilliantly, plays to charm, plays until the pleased look comes back to the corners of the mouth, the artistic satisfied smile of the grand dame. the smile which, if it were broader, would be too broad, if less pronounced, would be too naughty.
 Duran is said to prefer people that are not too pretty. The sad fate of the por-
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somehow seemed to take conventional shape under his talented hands, Others very nervous sitters, sat for the features and the outlines of the figure leaving Du- ran to supply all the details of dress, even to fashion and color
 In Paris there are several beautiful mod els who go around advertising themselves as girls who pose for Duran's figures. This to the art world of that artistic city, means that when a high-born lady gets tired of posing she leaves the studio, and her place is taken by a paid model, who in- dustriously copies the pose and patiently fills it until the picture is done. To be Duran model may mean anything of a wide range of beauty of figure. It may mean that you are short and fat with a neat waist-something that does not always be- long to q short, fat figure. It may mean that you are tall and willowy-quite the ideal. It may mean that you are very young-young enough for the Duchess of Marlborough, or old enough for old lady figures like Mrs Astor Perhaps another name might have been mentioned-for this society woman has preserved her figure but as she is the oldest of Durans recent famous sitters, she must bear the penalty, if not the figure.
 Duran is a clothes horse," his critics say. "Yes, but so is fashionable woman" his defenders reply.
 A young portrait painter of New York city quietly advertised among his patrons that he could, and would, paint portraits '.just like Duran," and he soon received an order to do so from very prominent woman of wealth.
 When the picture came home, 1t was veritable chromo. The colors stood out with startling fervor against background that was not very subdued. The patroness looked at it dubously. Don't you like it7" asked the artist "Then I fear you do not like Duran."
 "Well,'' said she after a minutes study of the picture "It isn't just Duran, to me- You see." she added apologetjcally,
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} OLD BEELzEBUB.

That boy Samuel is altogether peculiar in at least one respect-perhaps it may amount to two respects when you come to consider it.
 call him "that boy' because so he was when I first knew him years ago, and he has not changed. He was that boy Sam uel" then, and, although often turn him over in my mind, so to speak, and try to find something strange new in him, there is nothing now that was not in him then, except he has grown both physically and mentally. Perhaps I shall be able to de- tect change in him when he gets married but that will not be for some months to come.
 So that is the respect-or those are the respects-in which Samuel is peculiar. It is very peculiar for a young man of inde- pendent means, who has come into his wealth within the past three years, to be just like the boy he was when his circum- stances were so poor that you could hard ly dignify them with the name of circum- stances. They were worse than poor; they were destitute.
 His origin is western. I made his &C., quaintance in Chicago; and for that priyi- lege have to thank my valise which started our to carry five blocks from a restaurant to a depot, believing it to be light, and which, finding it to be heavy, I was obliged to give to Samuel to carry. He offered to carry it for 10 cents, and paid him a quarter. He fshed out three nickels to give me for change, and l re- fused them. He shook his head and said, ''You'll never get on in place like this"
 "Why?" I said, "have you had much ex- perience in Chicago?"
 NO, l haven't" said Samuel q only came here a week ago."
 "Did you come to look for work, like the rest?"
 "Came to seek my fortune."
 It may seem very improbable, but I can honestly aver that Samuel then and there seemed as neatly and properly dressed as he usually does now, and he is no sioven now He may even have more costly clothes, but they become him neither bet ter nor worse than those he wore when he put down my valise against a pillar that evening and fished out those three nickels.
 "Isn't it rather humble road to for tune for lad of your appearance?" I asked.
 NO choice." said Samuel. sententiously.
 Haven't you ever learned any trade or professionT' t..,i, is,4p
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THE PLAY


This week at O'Brien's will bring two at- fractions of unusual merit and a minstrel troupe.
 TUESDAY. NIGHT-"When Greek Meets Creek"
 THURSDAY NIGHT-"Secret Service"
 FRIDAY (Matinee and NighD-Richards and Pringes' Minstrels
 It is wonderful the hold popular-priced amusement companies have gained on the theater going public during the past five years. The Baldwin Melville company has just closed a very successful weeks en- gagement at O'Brien's, presenting ''Loulsi- ana" southern drama, to a large Satur- day night audience. MT. Baldwin did good business So did several others of the week stand organizations preceding him. and so will others which follow him. The faces of people formerly seen in the stand ard cempsnies are now seen in these or ganizations playing matinee and night every day and in all possibly twenty differ ent parts.
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He wanted, always, to paint a real wo- man, not the kind who stand tireless all day in marble for you to admire, but the sort who sit at the head of your dining table and walk through the drawing room the real woman! He might paint the other, all clad in shimmerngs, if he de- sired-but he never does desire. Women look more lovable with the elements of theit passion and folly-of dress and orna- ment-all around them
 Duran paints family groups, tho mother and her daughters, the matron and her little lad, the debutante and her chaperone ness of both.
 Duran may be going to paint a portrait while here. Last time he refused to do so. He comes for a vacation.
 Meanwhile there are others, in the por- trait line here ahead of him-American painters who hold the brush with as much strength, but differently.
 Of the New York coterie of some half a
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mailed to him from all parts of the world. One ought to have left Sydney, Australia, day before yesterday. When I'm twenty one then sister, and my drummer brother in-law and the senator and I begin legal proceedings to make the granduncle give an account of the property"
 And after that, what do you expect to do? I asked
 Well there the senator and I differ. look forward to paying him back; he says he's going to make me his principal heir. ne hasn't got a chick or a child of his own"
 '@But in any case you stick to the draw ingY'
 Tn any case stick to the drawing. Liv- ing to make or no living to make, a man wants to have an anchor. And, anyhow, I'd rather draw well than to be president. That's where the senator thinks I'm fool. ish,"
 And all this programme has been very weh fulfilled in the last four or five years, except for the alterations due to death and love-
 For when Samuel's forces advanced against "old Beelzebub,' the enemy sent for a lawyer and-so his son afterwards said-intended to surrender the property in equal shares, unimpaired, to Samuel Gowep and his sister but fit of some kind cut short his good intentions. The senator said he believed the other Beelzebub got mad when he saw his twin brother was going to do right and took him off just in time.
 Also, Samuel fell in love, so far modifying his intention of devoting himself to art that he let a young woman, whe Will short- ly become Mrs. Samuel, share his devotion.
 believe Samuel has at last tired of ssnd- ing to the senator check flor cash ad- yanced." which the senator always sends back to him. Anyhow, Samuel cannot pre- vent an Illinois senator-rather, ex-senator now-from making his will he pleases
 But in a general way it is just the same Samuel.
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Partly" he answered, not seeming to mind my inquisitveness in the least "Im too young to have learned right through anything that you could call a trade or a profession But have learned a good deal about drawing"
 And you can't get any drawing to do here?'
 Mot so as to be paid for it.''
 Didn't I say that Samuel was peculiar You see, had an opportunity of learning that much right at the beginning of our acquaintance.
 He told me his name, and I was so in- terested that, knowing I should be back in Chicago a week later I asked him to drop in and see me at my hotel.
 It was in that second interview that I learned from Samuel the bulk of his story up to that time.
 q haven't any objection to talking to you about myself" he said. "because, first there is nobody else who cares to hear and second, you seem a decent sort of man."
 I acknowledged the compliment and he went on.
 "I have been carrying valises-and heavier thngs-since I saw you last week. But next week I am going to have a job in the freight yards. Oh the drawing? I'll get to the drawing in time. Never fear I'll get there.
 ''Yes, my people are quite well-to-do as you guess; or we were. It's a sort of melodrama story that you needn't believe unless you like I was born and raised in western Illinois. My father was a grain jobber and made money at it.-But when he died he left a will that wasn't quite plain I know just what he meant, but when it came into court the other mans lawyer made 1t look different. He made 1t look as if my father wanted his property to go in trust to my mothers uncle-mother's dead, too-and for him to raise us-my sis ter and me-and then to give all the bulk of it to her-not me-provided she married according to the old granduncles wishes"
 How old are you?" I asked, taking ad- vantage of pause.
 "I'm nineteen. Sisters twenty-one. You think Pm younger because I am slim-built. Father was built that way, too, but he lasted pretty well, considering how he worked. So will l."
 "Well?
 Well, they wanted sister to marry an old stiff, and she wouldn't. backed her and she married a right good sort of a man from east-a shoe drummer"
 And for that the old ruffian turned you adrift?'
 'No. Not exactly that I took my traps, called him thief and walked off. He thinks I think he's going to keep our property; but I don't No more does my brother-in- law. My brother-in-law is Yankee. Be- tween us we can make that old granduncie cough up." 'But why don't you go to your sisterrs
 "Who? I2 Why, they've only got thir-
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dozen or more fashionable portrait paint ter even at the beginning He, too, was never young. Five thousand dollars was for long time Porter's price for a DOT trait. Porter came from Boston, where merit is seldom forced to acquire the moss grown virtue of patience. Doggedly inde- pendent both as an artist and in private life.
 A chef d'oeuvre of his is a portrait of Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger, painted as Julien Gordon. There is a dash of the Roman about it, too, with laurel leaves in terspersed through the unique bordering of the background His methods are pains taking and thorough. Chartrain, the French painter, can paint six portraits to Porter's one.
 It fell to the lot of Newport's society por- trait artist, Robert Goodloe Harper Pen nington, to paint Consuelo Duchess of Marlborough, just before she was made duchess. Harper Penningtons family, of which Charles Carroll of Carrollton, by far the richest of any of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence, was the founder is graced by the romantic his- tories of three of the most beautiful wo- men America has produced. One of his portraits is of Mrs. Clarence Mackay-a lovely subject,
 Those who get the Duran fever miss the "just something of his style. But tNis he will explain in his coming visit, for he lectures to the art classes free!
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l5uObY Prizes

From the Chicago Post.
 Remember" said the father of the young man who was inclined to be fast, "that the race is not always to the swift"
 And remember also," said his sister, who was a9dcted to the progressive. euchre habit, that the booby prize is sometimes of more real value than the other.n
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The Funny Man

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 "Oh, that I should have married funny man!' she walled.
 What is the matter, lovey, dear?" asked her most intimate friend.
 "He came home and told me he had a sure way to keep jelly from moulding at the top, and when l asked him how, he said to turn it upside down."
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Family Prina


From the Detroit Free Press.
 My pas vestryman, my ma jus top me-" boasted Willie Andrews.
 "Huh,' sneered Tommy Erskine; "that ain't muffin. I jes' heard my ma tell th' hired girl that my pas a confirmed repro bate"
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Distinctions

From the Washington Star
 Did your friend retire from politics?"
 "Well' answered the practical worker. it wasn't what you'd call a retire It was a knockout"
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How He Proposed

From the Brooklyn Life.
 Do you believe in expansion, Mr. Noodle?' Noodle-No; quite the contrary. believa in making two one.
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Hoods Sarsaparilla, containing such cu- rative power, is the best medicine that money can buy>
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"whon Greek Meets Greek"

James O'Neill, heroic and sympathetic actor of exceptional ability whom nature has favored much in looks and gifts has this season achieved an indsputablo ssc- cess with his new play, When Greek Meets Creek" As one would expect, the tale abounAs in romance. and for the Iced ing episode it can be said that it is entirely novel, for the hero kMis his rivaI, enc of the French revolutionary tribunal. and, helped by the resemblance of couHtsnanoe, passes for the murdered man and runs away across the border with his own wife, whom the rivaA was to carry eff by the same means. He is an excellent hero, and as enacted by O'Neill. Is calculated ts win the heart of every susceptible person.
 The drama follows the lnes of tho novel of the same name by Joseph Hatton. Henri Lavelle, Count de Fournier, a mSmHA~ of the old French aristocracy, is In 1ovA with Mathilde de Louvet, but has, in Deputy Grebauval, of the revolutionary tribunal, his half brother, a dangerous rtvl. Mathilde marries the count, but thet is the beginning of trouble for both, for the count is reported killed in the September mas sscre, while his bride falls into the hands of the interruptions Grebauval. He de- mands her hand in marriage as the price of her fathers life and her own life and honor, but she refuses, and the deputy plans to carry her off out of the country
 But here the suspassing ability of the count comes to the rescue. He escapes from the prison where he is confined and lands in a house which the revolutionary tribunal has taken for it's headquarters The count meets Grebauval and kills him.
 As he bears a striking resemblance to the dead man, he conceives the brilliant idea of palming himself off on the other men or the tribunal as their fellow GrebauvaI. The plan works perfectly, and he trans acts the dead deputy's business. Then the supposed Grebauval carries out the plan to run off with the girl and shakes the dust of France from his feet
 Here is wide range for romantic situa- tlons, and ONeill makes the most of them lie has a company worthy of his talents. Kate Fletcher, w. J. Dixon, Ed L.. Breese, T. G. Lingham, Hugh Cameron and Joseph Hawk, of. his old company, are retained this year, with the addition of Minnie Rad cliffe, Louise Collins, Elizabeth Baker,
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"Secrst Service"

It is safe to say that few plays have ever been awaited with the interest that haa boen evinced in the coming engagement os wfIRsm Gllette's greatest play, "secret Service" which will be presented at O'Brien's opera house Thursday night. The pad1 has been in oNry section es Azansaos as well aa in Loud0H. and etSsyNhs<e is has creatas A zasrkfa irnpsssston. Ar. By- roA Douglas will alsy the l%eo. And the balance of the cast viii be the ssEne as Nave been appearing in the pias in Nem York. London and San Frapdscp. IL will be one of the few engagements thak need little or pssAasinsry anaouaccsncats Q inssT- ct thea4fSSSeers, ana in s4i prebe hilty wi1 ffii the tHsater te the limit of its capacity.
 Windan Gillette ssTs thRt pA does het care to teik about Ah work No seefus to se an eszss saey practical nan. The pulp No h4e annpae opportunity 10 ses my work, says M. Gillette. "Ia 1t b ssoa. il will spsals for itself, if bad, why tho lees sas about 1t, the better. The only art I have vsSw Is the aft of producing ssensthizs with which to please the public sufficiently to attract it in pevins quantities" It is said that he has accomplished this in his latass drama. "secret Service" The curtain ts not vp ea the nrst act long before the ifs tsrest of the spectator is secured. ana thsn 1t is heie firmly to the last. Mir. Gillette first produces "Seoret Service" in PnilAAefA phia fcf sh9rt time, where It pnads some@ thihs of hit 1fe then withdrew 1t and spent year in improving it, after which t was brought out In New York at tho Gasrick theater. From that time 1t has been on the stage almost continually Tho play is noted for it's perfect drasAatio con- struction, direct dialogue, intense and ab- sorbing interest.
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rest.
 The Minstrels Is 6 Pringle's- R, fy1atral R.skl..I {

In Richards 6 Pringle' Rusco & Hol- lands big minstrel festival are brought to- gether Kersands, Crosby, F4d1er and Avery. the four highest salsried colored co1aedials in the world. It Is the custom with alb minstrel shows to have one comedian oR reputation only. surrounding him with cheap, untred people, and as a result dis- appointed audience. This year RiohArds & Pringle's carry over fifty people, travel. ing in their own special cars, and iptroduc. ing twelve novelty acts In tho olip. Has, san Ben Ans Arabs, Kamskichi JApa Ar- thur Maxwell the trick bicyclist MT. and Mrs. Billy Kersands, Jas. Crosby, Marry Fidler Dan Avery, the great Gauge and the Georgia ssxtette are prominent numhsrs. The big eight song and dance, and the great novelty "Going to the Cake Walk are laughing caricatures.
 They will appear at OBrien's opera house. one day only, Friday, January 13, matinee and night.
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Frederick Hartley, Mark Ellsworth, Aubrey Beattie and c. J. Gilbert.
 Miss Radcliffe. leading lady of the com pany, will be remembered for her work with Joseph Jefferson, Sol Smith Russell. In Little Lord FauntleroY," and several stock companies She comes by birth with her aptitude for the stage, her mother, known on the stage as Marion Lester, hav- ing been with Charles Frohmans com- panies many years.
 Ed L. Breese, who played leading heavy parts with Miles. Rhea three years, and has followed the same parts with MT. ONeilI, has this line of work this year. Frederick Hartley, who takes juvenile parts made success in that work with Margaret Mather last year. W. J. Dixon will play chsraster parts and MT. Ellsworth will direct the stage.