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PROMENADE AND ENTRANCE. 10 TIE, Paris Sal.

of the American Chamber of Commerce of
Paris.
1 have sought out these names because
their variety is typical of the vogue of
many American painters.
Also, Gihon Is. personally, typical of
the American youth who goes on his own.
without state aid or patronage. At the
age of twenty he was drawing for the
San Francisco Chronicle, Examiner and
Journal of Commerce, with. only three
months previous study at the Pennsylva-
MIA Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
The work of such a newspaper designer
includes much intricate architectural per-
spective of towns and cities. Young Gil
hon did the Pacific coast from Vancouver
and Victoria, B. c., to Panama. earning
500 per week and all expenses paid when
away from San Francisco.
After two years of that delightful life
as he still looks back on 1.-THE came east
to New York and started to work with
Louis c. Tiffany. the decorator. at $4oO
per month. After two years he took con-
tracts on his own account, but he burned
to study painting In Paris He had saved
enough money, and he came.
Il i
Gihon's life seems to go by periods of
two years. After two years at the Julian
Academy of Paris he began to paint and
sell landscapes and portraits. At the end
of two years he was in the Salon. In
two years more he was exhibiting at all
the annual exhibitions Of the principal
American and European cities, with a
price and a vogue that continued the
two years jumps
Does American art pay?" he repeated
my question. Il am not complaining. I
am not cooped up in a -thiee-story
skyscraper, but enjoy a fine life In Paris
and all the open air l want at Montigney,
and sell my pictures as paint them. Tell
American boys and girls to go ahead. If
they love art Don't be afraid. They
will get better prices every year. 1 know
Of one painter who took 81 for his first
picture. He now gets 81, 200 apiece
Yet American painters prices have not
jumped up," 1 said like
Like whose?" he interrupted. do you
know the prices Corot got while living?
The selling values of American painters
capnot be Judged, because they have no.
lived long enough yet The pictures are
not old enough. / ignore the Hudson
River School, it was very primitive: but
the work of American painters of the
past twenty-five years. look you-twenty
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traits here in Paris. Americans cross
over to be painted by Thomas, who gets
big PROFESSIONALLY big-from them and
from Europeans.
Like Seymour Thomas and the two Gil
hons, Faulkner painted and sold abroad
often to travelling Americans-better per-
haps that at home; but he has now re-
turned to live in the United States, not
wishing to educate his children abroad.
Clarence Gihon certainly gets five or ten
times the prices he commanded five years
ago-this, always, in Paris. Victor D.
Hecht of New York, brother-in-law of
Samuel Untermyer, paints his high-priced
portraits equally In New York and Paris.
Van Boskerck sells largely at home, go
ing. all over the United States on trips.
/ asked Gihon about selling abroad
and at home.
Many Americans like to buy abroad"
he said. '~rhey want an artistic souve-
mir Of their trip. or they like to buy in
Paris from the salon or in the painters
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ITH the spring sa-
Ions opening, and
the world still sur
prised at the great
prices Of recent
art sales, the Ques-
ton rises every
where:
Who are the
Corots OF tomor-
row. among the
mass OF known and
unknown painters
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the hospital building is just over the
way, and should any child evince desire
to climb a tree, slide down the front
terrace or indulge in any other forbidden
maid or one of the other children to
say, Look out. sisters peeking out OF
the window over there" and he imIne-
diately becomes a model child.
two or three times week. and is known
to the children as Santa Claus owing
to g. pleasant habit she has OF bearing
toys with her. These are usually donated
by the Ladies' Guild of the hospital
A feature OF the day nursery which is
becoming more and more popular Is the
Providence Mothers Sewing Club. This
meets in the day nursery every Thurs
day afternoon from 80 until o'clock.
Here any woman of over sixteen years of
age who does not know how to sew may
receive instruction in that art. Some in
a,.iry is of course, made into her char
acter, but this society, like everything
about the day nursery. is absolutely free
and non-sectarian
Thirty-two women are now taking ad-
vantage of this club every week. Some
Of them were present at it's inception,
about nine months ago. At that time
they were unable to run straight seam,
clothes All the materials used are fur
nished absolutely free by the hospital,
but none of them may be taken home
until they are made into a complete gar
ment Of some kind. Many of the mothers
attending this society have made them
selves complete dresses, winter and sum-
mer suits, shirts for their husbands and
various clothes for their children. While
the mothers sew. the children play In the
yard, so that Thursday afternoon Is a
pretty busy time at the nursery, as the
usual number of children Is much in
creased.
On Saturday afternoons at the same
hour, a similar society meets for the
benefit of young girls between the ages
Of ten and sixteen. Between forty and
fifty forty- eight were present at the last
meeting) attend regularly. They come
from all parts of the city.
The day nursery was formerly situated
at LIST and streets southeast. but moved
to its present location five weeks ago.
At present 1t is about equal to the de-
mand upon 1t, but should this increase.
the intention is to enlarge proportion
ately.
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five years hence. that work will rise in
art sale prices higher than the CORE
spending work of foreign artists
''But what about that collection of
American paintings made by William
Chase, some of which I hear sold mod
erately at New York the other day?' l
asked.
That is just It," said Gihon. Twenty
five years from now those same pictures
will fetch very big prices
You cannot persuade a painter to talk
prices and names together. I could not
get word out Of Gihon as to the pres.
ent prices of his brethren; nor was it
necessary. In my inquiry apart from
him / learned all that was necessary to
outline the boom which some are already
beginning to enjoy.
For example. my original informant, al
though he plunges principally on young
son between $1,000 and $1.7O0. Twenty
five years ago Harrison probably accepted
500 for more than one picture Louis
Ashton Knight gets $1,000 for a land
scape. Carl Melchers, who twenty-five
years ago was probably glad to ta>e 500,
now gets up to 81 600 and 81, 700 for ''tnose
Dutch things of his George Hitchcoc (,
for his Dutch things, often receives $1,000.
Edwin Cornell, the cattle painter, gets
handsome prices|I could not find an ex-
act figure. So with Bisbing, when he con-
descends to SELL" Like Harrison, Bisbing
puts a price on his picture, and will not
lower a dollar.
Here and there, among collectors and
dealers, l found other data. Robert w.
Van Boskerck of Hackensack, n. j.,
paints principally in France. For his first
pictures he accepted almost anything.
Those who snapped them up for s25 apiece
and more blush today at the thought of
1t. but they are glad of their speculation.
Today Van Boskerck never sells for less
than $500, and asks and obtains from
81. 100 to 81 800 for a fine picture Others
who have gone away up-none attain
ing anything like their final values-are the
painters Samuel Montgomery Roosevelt,
cousin of the ex-Presdent; Herbert w.
Faulkner the Venetian painter; Clarence
Gihon, brother of Albert, and Seymour
Thomas of Alabama, who paints his por-
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In the salons which Will rise lOWo per
cent In value twenty years hence?
There are many Americans in the
salons Do they sell their pictures? Will
their prices increase? Does 1t pay Ameri-
can boys and girls to go in for art as a
profitable profession?
Yes. American art pays.
American painters and sculptors are
not saying much about it, but many are
getting big prices. all sell better yearly,
and the rise in values which connoisseurs
see coming is of sensational proportions.
x
Recently an international collector who
has taken to buying up young Ameri-
cans right and left said
The Corots of tomorrow are Ameri-
cans. Some may be unknown young fell
lows, just getting into the salons and
home exhibitions But which? Perhaps
many, some of whom are already well
known. Their work Is more virile, ana
they have a fresher eye. Their color Is
as good, and their technique is perhaps
better than the Europeans; nor have they
the cookery of European painters; put
are genuine, original and individual.
AS to their selling values, he SAID.
American pictures are the best invest
it is too early for the great dealers to
run them. But America is the coming
land of art, and when they begin buying
more on their own taste, over tnere' you
will see the prices shoot up.
With this l began an inquiry Wnlcn leu
ma far In time 1t took me to the Stuuio
of Albert Gihon, the American landscape
painter, who was showing his new pic,
lures before they went to the old tano
Originally salon.
Albert Gihon, formerly OF washington,
D. c., and San Francisco. is a parsonage,
in his Paris studio and country place at
Montigny on the LONG. Landscapes by
Gihon adorn the collections of the Car
of Russia, the Emperor Of Germany, the
Prince OF Monaco and H R. H. Prince
Charles de Bourbon.
Among his American admirers are
former United States Senator William A.
Clark portrait Of his niece, Miss Anita
AbascaO, United States Senator Simon
Guggenheim CWanamaker prize picture).
Perry Belmont, Oliver Hazard p. Bel
mont Samuel Newhouse OF Utah, the
late Col. II. b. Wilson Of New York,
Henry Hayes Of the Detroit Museum
Charles Deering. Harry Beekman. Samuel
and Isaac Untermyer and their colleague
Peter Fucker. Charles Silk of st. Louis,
Sir william Van Horn. president of the
Canadian Pacific railway, and the late
r.. F. Foster Of Washington.
4
In Europe Gihon's pictures hang In the
galleries of the Dutch collector, Lee Mar
dus; the Russian and German collectors,
Count Raczyski of Warsaw and Baron
Won Hengenscheidt Of Berlin; Count
Rome Of Brussels. Lord William Charles
Peel. Sir James Home. Bart, Prince Ros-
pigliosi, Lars Anderson, United States
minister to Belgium. and B. ]. Shoninger
and 8. B. Welt, president and secretary
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A RMED with a permit from the state
~ Of Massachusetts, to catch 100 hum
ming birds this summer. Miss Katn-
crime E. Dolbear, a student at Clark
University, at Worcester. Mass, will try
to domesticate these little birds. and in
so doing will bestow a boon on the green
houses; for IL domesticated the birds
will be set loose in greenhouses to take
care Of the insects that infest plants, and
to aid in Decentralization.
Miss Dolbear has already done some
important work with humming birds. but
this summer her little captives-the full
hundred II she. 10 able to snare that
many-will be watched IN cages big
enough to include small trees and many
growing flowers. The university has
given Miss Dolbear space for her expert
ments. and already flower seeds have
been planted in the cages SO that the
birds may be studied under as natural
conditions a. possible It II Of greatest
Importance, II tho birds arc to be domss-
ticated, that they breed In captivity. and
this especially Miss Dolbear will work
for this summer.
Previous to this time Miss Dolbear has
watched three birds in captivity and
studied their food and habits. She gave
them spiders and pomace flies to eat,
raising the flies herself from decaying
fruit. and discovered that tiny bird
weighing only four grams could eat ten
covered that tie bird slept with its long
beak pointed in the air instead OF tucked
under its wing in the manner OF most
birds.
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D0ES AMERICAN ART Pay !?

DARIS Ccnnoisseurs Cite
/ Big Prices-Visit to the
Studio Of Albert Gihon-
American Paintings Will
Rise Higher Than French in
Twenty-Five Years Col
lector Who Buys Only
Young Americans" Ours
the Coming Land of Art.
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Miss Dolbear conducted a little ex-
pertinent as much for her own pleasure
as for any scientific value it might
possess.
She put four bottles on the window
sill, each with different kind OF
sweetened water. The bird tried them
all, decided he liked the honey water
best and on all subsequent trips passed
scornfully over the other bottles until
he came to his honey and water con-
coction.
The tremendous strength Of the breast
muscles In comparison with its size is
one of the observations which Miss Dol
bear made OF her captive birds, this mus
cular strength being needed for the con-
slant nuttering which the bird keeps up
in order to maintain its balance when
slipping honey from a flower.
This futtering, by the way. Is kept up
at such speed that at present there Is
no camera quick enough to catch II, so
humming bird pictures taken when the
bird Is poised over a flower are invarl-
ably blurred and indistinct.
The difficulties which Miss Doloear will
meet In catching her birds this summer
are many. They are SO fragile that she
dares not commission any one to snare
them for her, for fear the tiny bird will
be crushed by clumsily managed net.
And the birds are far too scarce" she
says, "for a single little life even to be
sacrificed"
The ruby-throated species Is the only
kind east of the Mississippi. although
there are about 500 kinds on this con-
tinent. There are none at all In the
other continent
High winds, a sudden cold wave, or
sharp rainstorm is often fatal to the lit
tie birds. and these things account some
what for their rarity. But commercial
purposes are also exterminating them,
for In South America their bright feath-
ers are used for gay picture cards. and
in Mexico they are being killed In order
that their feathers may be sent to France
for the manufacture OF dainty. wonderful
shoes.
The birds begin to go north in the mid
die OF May. and II is In that month that
Miss Dolbear hopes to get the greatest
number. Although the little things are
frail. they often fly as far north as
Labrador.
In spite Of the fact that Miss Dolbear
has been advised that it will DO practi-
caily impossible to produce any new spe-
cies Of permanence. she is determined to
try this thing at least. for she reasons
that II there are 500 species 1t ought to
be possible to so breed them that new
species will be forthcoming.
Il know hysbrids are not fertile" she
says. but l have visions OF reproducing
at least one more beautiful Species
This work with humming birds is not
Miss Dolbears first experience with birds.
for since she was a little girl she has
been petting and watching all the men,
bers of the feathered creation that she
can find. Her father, the late Adolph
E. Dolbear of Tufts College, a noted
physicist. encouraged her ito study the
birds in Q scientific as well as an esthetic
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All of her birds, she says. had a de-
cided individuality and one daintily
took its bath every morning from
gladiola blossom. Outdoors you Will
find these birds bathing on the dew
drops on the leaves" she said.
The manner In which Miss Dolbear
enticed these three birds to walk into
her parlor sounds almost like q fairy
tale. Noticing a bird flying about
among the flowers. she put bottle OF
sweet water in the garden. with q mas
turtium serving as a stopper for the
bottle In a short time the bird dis
covered the sweet feast, and sunk It's
bill deep down in the blossom into
the bottle. Then Miss Dolbear began
to gradually tear or the petals OF the
blossom, until the day arrived when
the bottle was left without It's flower
stopper. But the humming bird had
learned by this time that sweetened
water was In the bottle. and went un-
hesitatingly to 1t for its drink. Then
the bottle was removed to window
sill. and the bird followed 1t there.
At last the bottle was brought in
side the room and the bird came in and
became Q captive. The process IL called
tanning By the bottle habit"
In connection with this bottle habit,
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS, May 1, 1912.
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NY one who has had occasion to
pass a certain house on Sd
street southeast may have won
dered in passing whether he
49, Izolr;-r % corv,a ropy hind
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five years hence. that work will rise in
art sale prices higher than the CORE
spending work of foreign artists
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1912-02-15
Use the
Rest Room

The Young liens Booster
Club of Wahpeton invites all
visitors to the city, especially
the ladies to make liberal use
of their Club Rooms while in
the city. Farmers wives who
are trading in the city will end
these rooms a convenient place
to rest.
The rooms are up stairs over
Hauskins Clothing store ard
are always warm and comfort
able. Reading matter is on the
tables, piano and card table
is at hand, a toilet room is in
connection and all is at your
disposal.
The Ladies Club has arrang-
ed to have a lady in attendance
every Saturday to care for chill
dren while ladies are shopping
and to make everything as
comfortable and homelike as
possible for visitors.
The doors are always un
locked. Step in anytime and
make yourself comfortable.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1912-02-15
Sale Of. Horses

Auction sale of horses at
Fairmount,lN. D., on Saturday,
Feb. II, 1912 at 2 o'clock sharp.
Owing to advanced age. I viii.
sell my entire livery stock,
without by bid or reserve to
the highest bidder. l bay mare,
VT. 1900, II years; 2 bay mares.
VT. 1850, 8 years; 1 gray mare,
VT. 100, 8 years; 1 bay horse,
VT. 1850, II years. bay mares,
VT. 1850, 10 years; 1 Chestnut
horse, W.. 1850, II years; bay
mare, VT. 1850, IL years: 1 bay
horse, W.T.. 1850, II years; 1 bay
horse, 1850, old; / black mare,
VT. 1850, old; 6 set double bug
gy harness; 4 buggies; 2 carril
ages; 5 set sleigh runners; 1
sleigh; 6 fur robes; 6 plush
robes; 6 set blankets; foot
warmers, whips, lanterns aud
many other articles used in a
we'll equipped livery. Every
horse is fat and sound, not a
poor one in the lot.
Terms of sale, $1,000 cash, on
larger amounts bankable paper
until Oct. 1, 1912. 5 per cent
discount for cash.
G. NJ. Leland, Owner.
W. H. Cox, Clerk.
E. c. Estes, Auctioneer.
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The undersigned will sell his
personal property, consisting
of stock, furniture and machin-
cry at public auction on Thurs.
day Feb. Is, 1912, on the
Dwight Headquarters farm one
half mile south of Dwight.
Sale will commence at 10
o'clock a. m. sharp. The fol
lowing stock and machinery
will be sold: 1 black mare in
foal, VT. 14OO, 8 years; grey
mare in foal, VT. 400, 9 years;
1 grey mare, VT. 400, 10 years;
1 grey mare, VT. 1900, 9 years;
1 sorre' mare, VT. 1900, II years;
1 brown mare, VT. 1900, II
years; bay mare, VT. 400, IL
years; grey mare, VT. 1900, IL
years; 1 bay driving mare, VT.
HOO, 3 years; 4 yearling colts;
4 spring colts; Z cows soon to
calve; 2 wagons with tanks,
one nearly new; wagon COM
plete with steel wheels; 1 bob
sled; light sled; 2 single bug.
gies, one nearly ne y top buggy;
1 double buggy; surrey, good
condition; 1 24.foot drag; 1 Em.
erson gang pillow; 1 IA in walk
ing plow; 1 shovel pillow; 1 2 foot
Mccormick binder; 2 deer;ng
mowers; l deering hay rake; /
bucking pole; 2 dowagiac drills;
l corn planter; sets breeching
harness; set buggy harness;
1 set single harness; 2 hay
racks; range cooking stove,
nearly new; 8 heating stoves; 8
beds, springs and mattress and
many other things too numer.
ous to mention.
Free lunch served at NOON.
Terms of sale: Sums of $1,000
and under cash. On larger
amounts time will be given on
good bankable paper drawing
10 per cent interest until Oct.
lot 1912. }Ff
Thomas Robinson. Owner
Q. H. Fischer, Clerk. ,s~,s 4
! 5. L. G. Reimenschneider, j
Auctioneer.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1912-02-15
Almost Lost His Life.

S. A. Std of Mason, Mich,
will never forget his terrible
exposure to merciless storm.
ut gave me a dreadful cold,"
he writes, "that caused severe
pains in my chest, 90 it was
hard for me to breathe. A
neighbor gave me several doses
of DR.. Kings New Discovery
which brought great relief. The
doctor said I was on the verge
of pneumonia, but to continue
with the Discovery. I did 90
and two bottles completely
cured me-" Use only THE
quick, safe, reliable medicine
for coughs, colds, or any throat
or lung trouble. Price Soc and
81 90. Trial bottle free. Guar.
attn e ed by all druggists.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1912-02-15
NotIoo Of Dissolution Of Partner.
shin,

ship.
In pursuance of due notice
given by the undersigned to
Eugene Schiller, who, together
with the undersigned, constit.
uted the firm of Schiller Bros.
doing business in the city of
Wahpeton, Richland county,
North Dakota, notice is hereby
given, that the said firm of
Schiller Bros, is hereby dis.
solved. That the dissolution
pertains to any andall branch.
es of the business in which the
said firm of Schiller Bros was
heretofore engaged, or which it
may reasonably have been sup.
posed by the public to have
been engaged in.
Notice is further given, that
all debtors of said firm come
forward and pay all claims due
and owing to said firm. That
any and all unsettled business
of said firm of Schiller Bros,
will be settled at the old Offices
Of said firm, located in the
Schiller Block in the City of
Wahpeton, North Dakota until
further notice.
Dated January 2, A. d. 1912
GUSTAV SCHUYLER.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1912-02-15
FOR rem T-Furnished
rooms, gentlemen preferred.
Inquire of Mrs. o. c. Farms


] have opened up a repair
shop at my old stand, two doors
west of City Hotel, and would
be pleased to see my old friends
Albert Schrieber, Jeweler.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1912-02-15
Natures Gentle Hand.

Natures Gentle Hand.
Nature gives to every time and sea.
son some beauties of its own; and
from morning to night, as from the
cradle to the grave, is but a success.
sion of changes SO gentle and easy
that we scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens t"a
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1912-02-15
Houses for Sale.
| have several residences for
Gale, Modern and otherwise
Good locations. Easy terms.
C. s. WALLACE.

New Invention for Coin Purce. /,
Keeping tho hap closed BY q rub.
Dor cord, . Washington inventor
claims to have devised q coin purse
that 10 safer than the usual forms.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1912-02-15
Device for Securing Quiet.

Device for Securing Quiet.
10 give quiet to dwellers in noisy
streets an English builder has simply
used windows with double glazing. In
sick rooms. lecture rooms and others
the sound Of street cars and the rum.
Die OF wagons were greatly diminished
and the sound Of voices was made i'm.
Derceptible.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1912-02-15

Dyspepsia Tablets for One.
Select good:hearted cabbage" be.
rans . writer Of cooking receipts.
Alas! that . good.hearted cabbage
mas never come our way. Those We
nave had any dealings with have treat.
ed Us cruelty. very cruelty, indeed
Boston Transcript.
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lmpIIment Business for Sala.
l am Offering my farm impli-
ment business for sale.
w. f. Pelzl,
Mooreton, N. d.