The age-herald., 1900-04-24

! ink He worked year. having all his l dreams rejected and. being kept to the 1 actual occurrences of the time. When the year was done genius asked for an in-
 crease in pay to the amount of two dol
 lars and fifty cents week, thirty-five
 cents and 1ve-sevenths of a cent a day!
 He was discharged on the spot and went
 to Chicago. worked at the Worlds lair;
 got out of employment; was cabman;
 waiter in a cafe, what not. He went back
 to the Pacific, and worked for the San
 Francisco Chronicle. which gladly printed
 the products of that marvellous skill and
 imagination which the world came to
 praise At the moment Hearst returned
 from Europe, and seeing the Chronicles s
 cartoons asked concerning the artist. say
 ing the work was of the character that he
 most desired for the San Francisco EX-
 aminer. He was informed that the artist
 was a young fellow by name Davenport
 who had been discharged from the Exam
 iner. Hearst sent for him, got him, and has
 him to this good hour of this good day! It seems odd now that Davenport's gen.
 jus was once his drawback. His imagina-
 tive creations, such as the dolar-mark of
 a certain national politician, which were scorned by publishers but little more than
 half dozen years ago, have made him the greatest cartoonist in the world. He Is both artist and poet-they are much the same-this mighty man of carpenters s pencils. Withal he is thoroughly human [ instinct with life. His cartoons are billion tongued, and every tongue talks. He is intensely analytical, and it follows that he i is logical. His genius obliterates the l horizons that bounded even Leeeh, Cruik- shank, and Nest, and mark the limits of Tenniels noble work. He knows men and l women, and the animals that have no written language, and he loves them. His pets are horses dogs, fowls His mother
 taught him to love these, and her teaching 1 is not forgot.
 One would have loved to know Daven-
 ports mother. I believe I heard him say
 her name was Gloria. It ought to have been that. But matter: it is blessed.
 What proud, reliant, loving, wise mother she must have beeni And the father of
 genius and faith and carpenters pencils.
 he lives to see them all nobly triumphant.
 A learned man, I am pursuaded: used to
 teach school for the Ohioans of fifty years ago. He crossed the Great Divide one year ldler lDdn lne Orty-n1neTS, dinOllSSl whom was the wife to be. He still dwells in Oregon, and his people have been happy in honoring him, many year.
 | Homer Davenport is physically power | full man, standing some six good feet. He l has rather small eyes, or has a habit of making them appear so; a long and pointed nose, laughing mouth; reddish, clean-shaven face, with cropped mus tache that is also reddish He is the most companionable of men, almost boyish in his frank good nature, albeit he knows not Bacchus, and has never doffed his cap to my Lady Nicotine In simpler English, he indulges in no alcoholic stimulant l and makes no use of tobacco. I spoke to him of Sir John Tenniers splendid work at eighty. There was no reason why a man
 of that age shouldn't do his best work, provided he had. lived a temperate and orderly life, Davenport declared.
 At thirty-three the spell of Davenport g work is the worlds wonder and enjoy ment.