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The Washington times., 1906-04-15
Some Stick to One City.

other models stick 10 one city. 4
well built man Of German extraction In
Boston has been posing steadily for the
local artists and the classes OF the
School of the Museum OF Fine Arts for
nineteen years. In that time he has
never Travelled farther from home than
New York. and then only for brief en-
gagements. He is always busy. Rarely
in the season does he have spare fore
noon or afternoon. and even in his
evening hours he gives lessons in physi-
cal culture. Yet the hard work OF pos
ing has not worn him out. because he
takes care Of himself.
In speaking of his experience this
model says that the poseur's salvation
consists in reducing his work TO a
science. A man must pose better each
month on pain of soon CeasinB TO get
engagements at all
"A fellow gets up before a class of
students" he SAYS 'at O'Clock in the
morning and falls into his pose. That
isn't so hard. It's keeping the pose a
whole week without changing the char
acter of IL that is so difficult You've
got 10 remember and you've got TO do
some thinking. Most models consider
only the end of their weeks work and
the money they viii get then While
they are thinking about that and spec
ulating how they are going 70 spend II
they begin TO fidget on the model stand,
the body swayS backward and forward
in sort OF rhythmic way and soon the
model has Slumped into something very
different from what he started with.
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Little Heard Of Men Models.

Less is written of the men models, but
they are A more constant factor. With
many OF them il is a regular business.
learned laboriously and followed out
through many years. Some of the men
are cosmopolitan wanderers. posing now
for a few weeks in New York or Phila-
delphia. now in Boston. now IN a West
eri city or again turning up in one Of
the art ceuters Of the Old World, where
the wages are less but the expenses Of
living correspondingiy lower
A Bohemian of this type is the most
famous OF them ALL an Italian. who.
since he was discovered az the age OF
eleven years by a distinguished painter
in a little town of Italy. has posed for
almost every great artist OF modern
times and for the students OF almost
every art school. The drawings and
paintings made from him are almost
fnnumerable. With profile like that
OF a Sioux Indian. and long, black hair
of a sort seldom seen outside Of a Buff
falo BIZ show. he is everywhere well
coined as he follows his route from
studio TO studio. from school TO school.
wherever the regulation price of %
cents an nour awaits MIN.
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to bite into his arm and in that way
sever an artery. As he did SO his
own blood cooled his dried lips and
he determined to try to brave it out
a short while longer. He began TO
reason that he might not have been
in the mine 50 very long after all.
Perhaps he had only been a prisoner
for five or six days, and 1t had SEEM
ed so long because he had slept SO
little and had undergone such tor
tUre in the all-encOmpassing dark
ness.
While he was turning these mat
ters over in his mind he caught the
sound of blows on the other side Of
the wall against which he was lying.
At first he believed that it was only
another mental hallucination, but
finally he realized that rescuers
were at hand If he could only let
them know that he was still alive.
He tried 70 call but his parched
tongue refused 70 do his bidding.
Then he staggered TO his feet and
pounded against the wall with his
bare fists. Picking up a rock he
finally made noise that was dis
tinguishable to the ears Of the
reScuers.
And thus il was that Auguste Ber-
ton, thirty-twO years Of age in
actuality. but more than a hundred
in mental and physical anguish, was
exhumed from living tomb after
having been inferred for twenty
five days, a period of suffering IN
surpassed in the worlds history of
horrors.
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Ineonsiderate Artists

Many artists have the reputation OF
being ineXorable in their demands uu-
on the modeTs strength a character
istic example appears in an anecdote OF
the late AdOlDhe Mcneil. the German
painter. who at one time was engaged
on a work of mural decoration and
kept a man posed in an exceedingly
fatiguing position on & scarOld for two
hours The great painter worked away
needless of the models discomfort
Finally the victim called down Herr
Professor. how about the recess2''
Certainly. nv dear sir. Come down
right away and you shall have your
recess"
As the model was descending from
the scaffOlding his limbs assumed a
position which was one for which the
artist had long been looking.
stop MenzeI thundered Hold !,
All. fnei Keep that while I make a
little sketch of it
The artist drew vigorously for half
an hour. at the end OF which he called
out imperatiVely. There. that viii 10
for now Get I'D on the scaffOld again
We have had our recess"
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TOOK Food From the Dead.

Both now realized the seriousness
Of the situation. They began to d.
vest all corpses OF the lunches car
ried in pockets and small haver-
sacks. 1t was also found expedient
to take all the oil they could find
in the lamps.
Soon the exercise of walking
created a ravenous appetite, which
they appeased from their own lunch
pals. They exercised but little dis
cretion during their first few meals
in the mine, for they had gathered
quite collection Of lunches from
their dead comrades and they felt
reasonably certain that their i'm
prisonment could not last more than
four or five days at most. AS the
time dragged on, however, the hor-
ror of their situation began to over
whelm them.
They lost all estimate Of time
The days dragged slowly on until
they heightened out into weeks.
Then their supply of food gave out.
What should be done? Now the
search for an outlet became a search
for food as well. Their lamps had
long ago been exhausted of all oil,
and they were left in utter darkness.
AS they grouped through the gal
Ier1eS they came upon the stalls
where the horses and mules were
fed. Here they found a small sup
uly of corn and straw. which they
eagerly devoured after wetting their
parched lips and tongues with
some stagnant water which had
trickled from the trough, and which
had remained in a depression of the
stone floor, where one of the horses
had been accustomed to stand.
These supplies only appeased their
hunger for few hours. They began
their search again. Stumbling over
a carcass in this section of the mine.
they found it tC be horse that had
been killed while hauling one of the
coal cars. Their hunger had reach
ed the point where anything seemed
palatable. The raw horse flesh, how
ever, was almost too much for their
weak stomachs They ate sparingly
of it and then rushed away to try to
forget the source of their meal. 1t
was only day or two, however, be-
fore both would gladly have eater
another meal from this body, but
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His OWn StOYU.

After several days spent in re-
viving him, and convincing him that
he was really safe again, this miner
was persuaded TO tell all that trans
pired during the 500 hours he re-
manned shut up in the bowels of
the earth.
Berton went to his work unusu-
ally early on the morning of March
10. He was IN the best of spirits
BY o'clock he was busily plying his
pick, occasionally exchanging a word
with his cousin, who was working
at his side.
Suddenly, there was a terrible noise,
as though the foundations OF the
earth were being rent. Every cor
ridor quivered as though a mighty
cataclysm had shaken the universe.
Then down the many galleries came
the laundering echoes of the ex-
plosiOn. The air seemed 10 pulsate
and the flames of the miners lamps
trembled as though they were hu-
man ard quaked at what It all por-
tended There was succession Of
muffied shrieks. and then all was as
still as death. Berton and his cou-
sin had taen cut on from the outside
world by a cave-in of one of the
walls Of the mine, following the
explosion of firedamp in another pit.
In few moments the two be-
came calm, feeling sure that the res
cuers would soon free them from
this tomh. They groped around for
short time. but decided they had
best remain where they were at the
time Of the accident, as it was more
than probable that some Of the men
working in the same vicinity with
themselves had escaped, and these
would, of course, tell where the two
missing miners were imprisoned.
Little did these two imagine that
more than a thousand of their COM
panions had met death either under
the falling debris or as a result of
the fire which Immediately began to
rage throughout the adjacent corri-
dors, and which prevented rescue
work
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they were unable to find it a Sec
ond time
Berton's companion became crazed
as result of hunger, and 1t was
necessary to keep a close watch on
him, at first TO prevent him doing
personal violence TO himself. and
later TO keep him from numbering
his guide.
While making their way slowly
through one of the corridors on about
the twenty-third day (as nearly as
Berton can estimate the time) the
latter suddenly awakened from a
stupor and realized that he no
longer heard his kinsman's step in
the rear. Turning quickly he groped
his way along the wall. calling his
companion by name as he went.
There was no response. Terrified at
the loneliness and the echoes which
his own voice awakened, he was
about to turn in the opposite direc-
tion and fee he knew not where.
AS he did so his foot came in con-
tact with his friend who was kneel-
Ing on the stone floor. Leaning
over to assist his comrade to rise, he
was greeted with a snarl like that at
a hyena- Bending down he found
that the man had lost his mind en-
tirely and was crouching over the
corpse Of one of the dead miners.
In a moment Berton comprehended
what it all meant The pangs OF
thirst and Of hunger had made a
cannibal Of his companion.
The horror of the condition was
too nauseating TO give in detail and
Berton. when he reached this stage
Of his narrative. covered his face
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Earning a Living by Doing Nothing

are only a very few Of us in this bust
ness-is all the time thinking how he
can carry out the idea expressed in
his pose Keeping still without be-
coming hstless is the hardest thing in
the world to do. have performed
feats with circuses, taught physical
culture, assisted at demonstrations in
anatomy classes, where I have made
myself at viii into living skeleton or
a fat man. and done a lot Of other
things that I am going 20 put into my
autobiography when I write il; but tell
you none Of the stunts I have ever
performed is as difficult as that OF just
standing perfectly still on the model
block and not moving a quarter Of an
inch 10 right or left
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dawn upon them. Berton cast fur
tive glances at his kinsman in an
effort to see if he felt the terror
which began TO make his own body
shiver. Each tried to cheer the other
and present arguments why they
should soon be rescued. These at
temps to bolster up eacl, others
waning hopes were soon abandoned.
Then, almost in whispers, they be-
gan to tell Of some of the horrible
catastrophes that had occurred in
former years. Finally Berton's kins-
man recalled the case Of three men
who had been imprisoned many
months before. and whose bodies
had been found months later, where
they had starved to death.
With cry of horror Berton lurch-
ed forward putting his hand over his
companions mouth to prevent his
going into the details of that story
which was now so CHASTITY real to
both of them.
The first step taken by the miners
was to extlnguish one of their lamps.
in order that oil might be saved
in the event they should be forced
to remain long under ground. Why
had they not taken this precaution
soOner7 800
With their lunch pals on their
arms they began to make their way
through the tunnels. Where they
were going they knew not. Hour
after hour they walked. sometimes
coming to a jagged wall of coal
which blocked their further search
for freedom in that direction. When
they had been wandering in this
manner for an hour or more, Berton,
who was leading the way, stumbled
and fell. His light was extinguished.
Rising to his feet and relighting the
lamp, he stopped TO see what had
caused him to lose his footing. With
u cry of horror that set the corridor
reverberating he staggered back. II
was one Of his friends whose head
had been crushed by a piece of rock.
This was the first evidence they had
had that the disaster had been a
fatal one. 1t was not long, however.
before similar discoveries were made
in various sections of the mine until
the two lost all account of the num-
Der OF bodies they stumbled upon.
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A BOUT the hardest worked people
~ I'm the world are those who for
hours at a time do absolutely
nothing but keep quiet AT this
time OF the year, when the art schools
are fun OF pupils and every successful
painter. sculptor and illustrator Is deep
In work, the professional model who
stands without turning a hand from
days beginning to days end has employ
nent for every minute of every hour.
His life is a hard, exacting one The
spectacular side. particularly that OF the
women models. who pose for popular il
lustrators, is pretty familiar through fun
page features IN Sunday newspapers,
but the downright severe labor OF Ordin-
ary posing. with the aroma OF Bohem-
ianism left out-that is the real story
OF the professional poseur-
A hard life. as has Just been safd.
Only the men models, in fact. can en-
dure It for any length of time. Women
come and go. have their little day OF
becoming famous as the models from
whom prize pictores or world-renowned
mural decorations are painted. and then
diSaDDear
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1t was only a few hours, how
ever, before the false strength born
of frenzy gave way, and Berton's
companion sank down unable to rise
again. All coaxing and promises
were of no avail. Berton had moth
ing with which to revive his kins-
man. He sat with the dying mans
head in his lap until the end came.
Then the miners fortitude gave
way completely and he sat and cried
like a child. His emaciated frame
was shaken with sODs that seemed to
awaken $he demons of dementia. for
now he seemed TO see strange beings
coming toward him bearing great
The Washington times., 1906-04-15
Must Keep Still.

We'll. that won't do at all. will it,
None OF the artists who teach in the
Museum are going to stand for that
You see there are perhaps forty or fifty
young men or young women in the
class and every little shift or turn you
make disconcerts somebody. The be-
ginners. especially. have been used TO
Craving from the casts. and if you
don't stand pretty still they get per
picked ard puzzled. Then they become
discouraged. The instructor fnds
they're not advancing and wonders
what's the matter with them. 1t isn't
their fault, of course. It's the fault of
a model who isn't interested in what he
IS doing.
But the real professional--and there
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yard Kipling's imagin-
airy character, Austin
Limmason, Auguste Ber-
ton was taken from Pit
No. 4, of the Courrieres coal mine.
of France, five days ago, after be-
ing buried alive since March 10. He
presented a most tragic picture. His
clothes were hanging in shreds, for
he had gnawed the rags when his
supply Of food became exhausted;
his hands resembled the claws of
some wild beast: his arms and feet
were covered with clOtted blood as
a result of his attempts to dig his
way through the sides of the inn
prisoning tunnel: his feet were lac
Grated and swollen; his hair was
matted with blood from scalp
wounds which he sustained as he
fell against the walls and floors of
the mine while cropping in the dark;
his lips were a blush gray. and
from between them hung his cracked
and paTched tongue. But most hOr-
rible of all were his great, staring
eyes, glaring from their deep sock
cts. II seemed as though they were
about to start from his head, so
long had he been straining them in
the hope of catching a ray Of light
through the long corridors. For the
first few hours his eyes were per-
fectly sightless, for the sudden light
had contracted his pupils until they
were scarcely larger than pin-points.
All in all, the spirits of the neither
world could not have conjured into
being a more terrified and terrifying
sight than this miner who for twen-
ty-five long days and nights had I'M
dargone all the unimaginable tor
tzres of a living grave. The harrow
Ing details of his suffering are be-
yond the power of words to express.
Az he talked of the physical hard
ships which he endured and the
mental agony of being buried alive
his eyes roved wildly from face to
face. and he seemed to live over
again those century-long moments
that he crept like a hunted beast
through the stygian galleries of the
coal mines.
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with his hands for a moment and
shuddered. Then he recovered his
equanimity and reccunted how he
had snatehed his friend from the
ground only to be attacked with a
ferocity born OF madness. Il was
all that Berton could do to keep from
being borne 10 the earth by the ter
rife onslaught. His superior
strength finally enabled him TO gain
the mastery Of the madman, how
ever. In order TO prevent another
such outbreak Berton tied his COM
panion's arms with strips OF cloth
ing and they resumed their wander
ing through tho galleries.
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Shook With fear.

Hour after hour these two sat in
semi-darkness, the light from their
lanterns only serving to make the
blackness visible. Gradually the Sc
riousness Of their position began to
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Auguste Bertons Story Of His Terrible Experiences in the Cou
neres Mine Where He Was Enombed by the Disastrous Expo
sion of March TO- and From Which He Found EsOwn Way Out
How He and Solitary Companion Oroped Through the Terrible
Darkness Enduring the Pdngs Of Hunger and the TorEes Of
Thirst Until Only Berton Was Left With the Dead >g ~
The Washington times., 1906-04-15

Paris, April 9.
LOSELY resembling Rud-
yard Kipling's imagin-
airy character, Austin
LimmaSon, Auguste Ber-
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-07-13
Notice Of Mortgage Sale.

Notice is hereby given that q certain mort
| gage, executed and deliyered by John Oligney,
| mortgagor, to F. A. Bristol. VIM. u. Sweet and
John Thomas, the stock holders of corporation
doing business as Bristol & Sweet Co., mort
gagees. dated the Goth day Of January, 1908, and
filed for record in the office of the register of
deeds of the county of Mclean and state OF
North Dakota, on the 29th day of January. 1903,
and recorded in book F-6 of mortgages at page
IS (and assigned by said MORTGAGE to Eugene
D. Case, which said assignment was dated Nav
9Th, 1906, and was filed for record in the Office
of the register of deeds of the county of Nc
Lean and state of North Dakota, on the 10 day
of May. 1906 and recorded in book H-3 of assign
ments at page 1907 will be foreclosed by a sale
of the premises in such mortgage and herein
after described, at tho front door of the court
house in the county o. Mclean and state of
North Dakota, at the hour of 10 O'Clock a. m.,
on the both day of June A. D.. 1905 to satisfy the
amount due upon such mortgage on the day of
sale.
The premises described in such mortgage and
which will be sold to satisfy the same are do
scribed as follows, viz: Lot ono Q) in block
thirteen G3) in yeeders addition to the town
of Washburn, Mclean county, North Dakota,
according to the plat thereof on record III the
office of tho register of deeds of Mclean county
North Dakota.
There will be duo on such mortgage at the
date of sale the sum of Five hundred and fifty
four and 1900 (S554.1 S) dollars.
Eugene D. Case,
- Assignee of Mortgage.
Hyland & Nuessle,
Attys. for Assignee of Mortgage.
Washburn, N. D. SIS
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-07-13
Notice Of Mortgage Sale by Adver'
tISement.

Notice is hereby. given, That that certain
mortgage, executed and delivered by Ernest
B. Arnold and B. o. Arnold, his wife, mortgag-
ors to the Northern Land and Mortgage, Com
gay aayy Of june S9a1 igos, and flea sri Tor record in the
office of the register OF deeds OF the county OF
Mclean and state Of North Dakota, on the 18th
day of June, 1905, and recorded in book F-9 OF
mortgages, at page I, and assigned by SAID
Winona Savings Bank, dated the 18th day OF
June, 1903. and fled for record in the Office OF
said register of deods on the 18th day of June,
1898. and recorded in book "H" of assignments
ut pago 2Ss, and assigned by the said Winona
gage Company, q corporation: dated tho 18TH
day of April, and recorded in book H., OF
mortgages at page aS1, will be foreclosed, by a
sale OF the premises in such mortgage and here
house in the village of Washburn in tho county
of Mclean and state of North Dakota, at the
hour cf two O'Clock p. III. on the 18th day OF
August. 1906, to satisfy tho amount due upon
9Th Tha e1 premises Dc CT bed in n said aid mortgage, and
which will be sold to satisfy the same, are those
certain premises situated in the county of Nc
Lean and state Of North Dakota. described as
follows, towit: The southeast quarter Of sec
ton three Is! in township one hundred fifty
(15O) north of range seventy-fve (75) west, con-
tanning one hundred sixty acres, more or less
according to the, government survey.
There will be due on such mortgage on the
day Of sale the sum Of 1854; 50, and tho sum OF
at the date Of sale the sum of 1856 and the
costs of force losure and sale.
Dated at Harvey, N. d., this 28th day of june
1906.
Northern Land and Mortgage Company.
Assignee and Mortgage.
Hanchett d Wartner,
Attorneys for Assignee,
Harvey, N. D. rs
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-07-13
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE BY ADyER-
TISEMENT,

Notice is hereby. given, That that certain
mortgage, executed and delivered by Thomas
Ryan, a widower. mortgagor to the Northern
Land and Mortgage Company, a corporation,
MORTGAGE, dated the 26th day of November A.
D. nineteen hundred and four, and filed for rec
ord in the office OF the register of deeds of the
county Of Mclean and state of North Dakota,
on the 9th day OF December A. d. 1904, and re-.
corded in book B4 Of mortgages, at page IS will
mortgage and hereinafter described at the front
door of the court house in the village of Wash
burn, in the county of Mclean and state of
North Dakota at the hour of 2 O'Clock D, M, on.
the 25th day of June, 1906, to satisfy the amount
due upon said mortgage on the day of sale.
The premises described in said mortgage and
which will be sold to satisfy the same are those
certain premises situated in the county of Nc
Lean, and state of North Dakota, and described
as follows, towit: The east half of the north.
east quarter. the northwest quarter of the north
east quarter and the. northeast quarter of the
northwest quarter of section seventeen (lI) in
township one hundred forty-eight (148) noth of
range seventy-flye (75) west, containing. one
hundred sixty acres, more or less according to
the government survey.
There will be due on such mortgage at the
date of sale the sum OF $64.20, and the sum of
1926, paid as interest ON prior mortgage, max
ing the total amount due at the date of sale the
sum of seventy-three and i5-lOO, dollars and the
costs OF foreclosure and sale.
Dated ut Harvey, N. D., this 10th day of NAV.
1906.
Northern Land and Mortgage Company,
Hanchett & Wartner.
attorneys for hcrtgagce,
Harvey. N. j.. 5-lS