Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-10
HOUSEPAINTERS BARRED
Says He Does Hot Mean That Kind
Of Art
HENNESSEY s0UELCHED FIRST ROUND
Says When Man Gets Hold of Hat
full of Negotiable Money the First
Thing He Does Is to Spend 1t for
"Some Art"

ing Nv 1SSS 10 w SGSiIl ~ wi
"Some Art"
Copyright, 1901, by Robert Howard
Russell.)
81 see in this pa-aper," said Mr.
Dooley, "they'sc a fellow kickin be-
cause an American panther amt got
amy chanst again foreign compyti-
ton"
Sure" said Mr.. Hennessy; he's
aisy displaced. / niver knew tn bus
mess to be betther. Wages is high an
It's comfortable thrade barrin' col.
&C."
Il don't name that kind iv paint
hers" said Mr.. Dooley. Il don't name
tn vans that paints yeer barn, but
tn vans that paints pitcher iv ye'er
barn an wants to sell it to ye FIR more
thin tt Darn is worth. This man says
no matther how industhrees an Amer
lean panther is, no matther if he puts
on his overalls arly in tn mornin' an
goes out with a laddher an whales
away all day long, he can hardly arm
Twin, while TIL pauper artists iv Eu-
rope is fairly rowlin' in tn lap iv lux
ury. Nanny la-ad that started in
| life with TIL intintion iv maxim tn
wurruld fget that what's his name
Hogan's frind-ye know who | name
Michael Angelo liver lived, is now glad
to get a job decoratin' mountain seen
cry with tn latest news about tn lit
tie liver pills.
"Ye see, Hinnissy whin a man gets
| hold iv large hatful iv negotiable
money, wan iv tn first things he does
is to buy some art. Up to tn time
whin tn top blew off tn stock market,
he bought his art out iv tn front win
4 dow iv a news an stationery shop or
had it put in be tn paperhanger He
took tn Sundah pa-apers that are d
great help If ye're collectin' art, an
he had some pitchers iv fruit that
looks natural enough to ate, dye mind
a paintin' iv a deer like TIL wan he
shot at in tn Manotowish country in
Eighty-eight, an livin' likeness iv a
Lake Supeeryor white fish on a sill
yer plate. mat was tn peeryod, mind
We, whin tn iron dogs howled on his
lawn an people come miles an miles
FIR to see grotto made out iv relics
iv tn Chicago fire.
Meantime his daughter was illus
train suspinders an illumination Chi
ma plates an becomin' artistic, an aft
her awhile whin tn time come that he
had to keep man at tn dure to SWEEP
out tn small bills, she give him q
good push to'rd betther things. Be
sides, his pardner down tn sthreet
had begun collectin' pitchers an ivry
time he wint abroad, tn nanny
facthrers iv pitcher frames bought
new automobiles FIR tn Chappe Al
Easy So twas a soft matther FIR gu,
frind Higbie to be persuaded that he
ought to be pathron iv art, an he
Wint abroad determined to buy {
bunch iv chromos that'd make people
come out iv tn gallery iv his pardnel
down tn sthreet stifiin' their laughter
in their hands.
"Now, ye'd think seem that he made
his money in this country, he't
pathronize American art. Ye'd believe
he'd sind wurrud down to his agen'
FIR to secure forty feet iv Evansville
be moonlight an be con-tint. But he
don't
eye don't catch Higbie changin' i,
amy iv his dividends on domestic fin
ished art. He jumps on boat an
goes straight acrost to tn cinthra
deepo The first thing he gets is {
porthrait iv himself be wan iv' tn
great modhern masthers, Sargent be
name. This here Sargent, Hogan
tells me, used to live in this country
an faith, if he'd stayed here We might
see him today on stagin'. But he
had mind in his head an he tore of
FIR Europe tn way duck hunter goes
FIR rice swamp. An afther awhile
Higbie shows up an says he: I'm Hig
bic iv tn Non-Adhesive Consolidated
Glue Company he says. Can We dc
me?' / can an WILL says Sargent
I'll do We good. How much have ye
got?' he says. Get some more an
come around he says. An Higbit
puts on his Prince Albert coat an
laves it open so that we can see his
watch charm-th' crown iv POLAND
} with tn Kohinoor in tn top iv it-an
, me frind Sargent does him brown an
red. He don't give him tn pitcher IL
J coorse. If We have ye'er porthrai
J painted be gr-reat panther, it's ye'e
: porthrait but It's his pitcher an h
. keeps it till we don't look that wa.
: amy more. So Higbie's porthrait il
hung up in gallery an tn doctors
brings people to see it that ar-re sui
FERN firm narvous dyspepsia to chez
thin up. TIL pa-apers says it's fine
. Number 1OS shows Sargent at hi
best. There is tn same marvellous
ticknick that tn great master showed
in his cillybrated take-otf on Mrs
t Masenheimer in last years gallery. TIL
5 skill an ease with which tn painthe
: has made monkey iy his victim ar,
, beyond praise. Sargent has torn th
, sordid heart out iv tn wretched crath
: err an exposed it to tn wurruld. TIL
wicked uplv little ewes fh' cronkei