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The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01

The life mask and the profile made
tute the only conclusive documentary
evidence we have Of Washington's
~physiogomy.
Washington was generous with the
painters and sculptors. Many of the
portraits made of him he purchased
Els $500 appears to have been his limit
of price-and presented to friends. He
was chary in his criticism, leaving, for
the most part, that task to others.
FIRST PAINTING 1772
Charles Wilson Peale in 1872. when
Washington was forty, painted the flu
ture presidents first portrait. How he
took the ordeal he has left in a letter
to a friend: INCLINATION having yield
ed to opportunity" he wrote, Il am
now, contrary to all expectation, under
the hands of Mr.. Peale, but in so grave
SO sullen a Woodland now and then
under the influence of Morpheus, when
some critical strokes are making, that
| fancy the skill of this Gentleman's
Pencil will be put to it, in describing
what n of man / am"
During the next thirteen years Wash
ington became reconciled to having his
portrait painted. In 1885, in which
year he sat to Peale and to Robert
Edge Pine and submitted to the annoy
ance of having a mold made of his face
by Houdon, Washington wrote to a
friend who desired him to sit for a por-
trait: in for a penny, in for a pound.
is an old adage. l am so hackneyed to
the touches of the painters pencil that
| am now altogether at their beck and
sit like Patience on a monument whilst
they are delineating the lines of my
face. 1t is a proof. among many 9th
ers, of what habit and custom can ac-
complish. At first ] was as impatient
at the request and as FESTIVE under the
operation as a colt is of the saddle.
The next time ! submitted very reluc-
family, but with less bouncing. Now
no dray horse W more readily to
his thills than | to the painters chair"
Charles Wilson Peale painted por-
traits Of Washington from life in 1872
1777. 1879. 1884. 1856. 1877, 1894 and
1875. The portrait (No. 81 reproduced
here was painted in 1856 and was con-
sidered by the painter as his best.
Peale painted it to make a m%ezZotint
engraving, and Washington. then in
Philadelphia, gave him three sittings.
The original painting. which hung in
Peale's gallery for many years. was
purchased by the late Joseph Harri-
son of Philadelphia in 1854. and il is
now in the possession of his family.
THREE slTTlNGs TO TRuMBULL
John Trumbull painted Washington's
portrait in 1850. 1890 and 1892. The
circumstances under which the first
was painted are not generally known.
The e%ngravings made from it in 1871
and 1888 state that the original was I'm
the possession of NJ. de Neufville of
Amsterdam.
Trumbulrs most famous presentation
of Washington. however, is the full
length painted in 1890 for Mrs. Wash
ington, who selected Mr.. Trumbull as
being most likely TO give a faithful
and agreeable likeness Of her husband.
No portrait is so well and widely
known as Gilbert Stuart's Washington.
especially the Athenaeum portrait. 1t
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01

Manager Dahlen has closed arrange
ments for the spring training trip oil
the Brooklyn nine to Augusta, Ga.
PLAYERS living in the east with the cor
respondents will go by steamship TO
either Charleston, :. c., or savannah.
GA. thence by rail to Augusta. They
will break camp about March 81. prob
ably play one or two exhibition games
i'm Richmond. Va. and in Washington
April . and 3. returning to open Eb-
bets field with the Newark club on
Saturday. April ..
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01
First President Sat For Numer-
GUS Artists, No Two of Whom
Saw Him Alike = Unfinished
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart Now
the Most Popular Conception Of
the Father of His Country.
@HERE exist probably more au-
thenticated portraits of Wash
ington than of any other great


thenticated portraits Of Wash
ington than of any other great
parsonage in history. You
might therefore suppose that the way
he actually looked was well known to-
day, but 1t is a remarkable fact that
no two painters came near producing
similar facial expressions of the Fa-
Their of His Country. Still some gen
eral feature of his countenance has
been retained by all the artists, and a
study of any one of the pictures above
will bear out this statement.
There are more than thirty anthem
ticated original portraits of the work
of about fifteen artists, native and for
eign, to whom the great general gave
sittings. Washington was a very pa
tent sitter. To Charles Wilson Peale
alone he sat for eight different por-
traits.
1t would be difficult to determine
which of the numerous portraits most
closely ~reproduces the man. The diff
fculty is increased when n considers
that In such details as the color OF
Washington's eyes and hair there is
lack of concord. Even in the modelling
Of the face there are marked differ
ences, but this disagreement can be
reconciled by the fact that between the
date of the first portrait and the last
twenty-six years elapsed, a period dur
ing which Washington parted with his
last tooth and had to make the best
of the very crude artificial teeth of the
period.
MASK FROM LIFE
What should be considered the most
exactly modelled face of Washington is
the plaster mask made from a cast ia
ken from life by Jean Antoine Houdon,
a French sculptor, in 1885. The state
Of Virginia desired a suitable and ac-
curate efigy in marble of her %illustri-
u son, and the French sculptor was
commissioned to make 1t. He visited
Mount Vernon in the fall of 1875 and
remained as Washington's guest for a
fortnight. studying the great mans
pose, action and p~hysiognomy. The
sculptor made a mold of Washington's
face and took many measurements.
The state of Virginia gave him fl 900
for his completed full length statue.
which was delivered in 1896, although
completed eight years before, and set
up in the capitol at Richmond.
Next to the life mask the physiono-
trace drawing-a mechanically drawn
profle-by the French painter Fevret
de st. Memin commands attention for
its probable faithfulness.
st. Memin came to this country in
1893. but 1t was five years later before
he made his tracing of Washington. the
last portrait Of the first president
known to have been taken from life.
Washington gave this sitting to st.
Aemin in Philadelphia.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01

There should be some great mile
races in England next fall. Norman
s., Taber. the Brown university stu
dent who gave A. n. s. Jackson OF
England a great battle in the 1900
meter event at the Stockholm Olym-
pad, will be a college mate Of Jackson
at Oxford university. Norman follows
his brother, Howard A., as a Rhodes
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01
Grist From the Sport Mill
Nv STADIUM

scholar at oxford. The friendly run.
ming duels between Jackson and Tabcr
at oxford certainly should he worth
witnessing.
Ii would not be surprising 10 see Ia
Der develop into the worlds greatest
miller. The ~Brownonian showed i'm
movement I'm all his aces last season.
and as soon as he rids himself of the
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01
A Preliminary.

first Young Man-Then you think
you may join a school for chaufeurs?
Second Young Man-Uncertain. I'm
hguring out the chances for clipping
with the daughter OF n millionaire In
that vocation.-Judge.
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Painful Recolleetions.

Lady OF the House Ito tramp)-Here
are some very nice crusts | trimmed
on when | was making sandwiches.
Tramp-No. thank ye, mum: dey re-
minds me too much OF de cause Of me
downfall 49, margins. - Boston Tran.
script.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01
No Common Coward.

with all your wealth are you not
afraid of the proletariat?" asked the
student of sociology.
mo. / amt" snapped Mr.. Pneurich.
"We boil all u drinkln' water."-Phil-
adelphia Ledger.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01

Perhaps There's Something In That.
Mother Geprovingly)-When l was
young girls never thought of doing the
things they do today.
Daughter - Well, that's why they
didn't do them.-BostOn Transcript.
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Most Remarkable.

81 met a remarkable woman yester-
day"
This is the age of remarkable wo.
men,"
But this woman was extraordlnarl-
ly remarkable. She thought her hus-
band had enough intelligence to run
their furnace."-Chicago Record Her
aid.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01
A Keen interpreter.

"a what's an inserutable smile?'
Its the kind, my son. your mother
had on her face this morning when |
told her business might keep me out
late tonight. baltimore American
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01
Wireless.

'You seem to know a great deal
about Mrs. Wombat's affairs. / didn't
know you moved in the same circle"
I'VE have the same laundress," said
the other lady neutrality-suspicious.
Herald.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01
Sure Enouoh.

Hewitt-What do you think OF this
s~ufragette business?
Jewett-If it is carried to its logical
conclusion 1t will result In woman
putting her money In her husbands
name.-Spokane Spokesman Review.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01

Tinker, the Cincinnati manager, an
nounced that LOudermilk, the pitcher
secured from Chicago in the recent
trade. has been traded for Mordecai
Brown. the three fingered pitcher. with
Louisville. If Brown is not able TO
take his turn in the box he Will he
used TO train the young pitchers.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01

The schedule for 1918 of the Pacific
Coast league provides for the season
to open on April ] and close on Oct. 70,
The fifth annual regatta Of the West
ern Power Boat association will be held
on the Illinois river at Peoria on Aug.
o and 10.
Johnny Kilbane. the American
featherweight champion. has finally
signed articles TO box Johnny Dundee
Of New York at Vernon. Cal. on or
about April 10.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01
Marine pisastar.

Chollie-Her hopes Of marrying the
Count de Normal were dashed IN
pieces on the rocks.
Reggle-On what rocks, Chollie?
cholile On the rocks her father
sunk In Wall street.-Judge.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01
Imagine the Ansuar

"Oh, yes indeed" remarked Miss
Antique. II am related TO the craa,
Queen Anne, you know"
How nice!' replied Miss Pert
Were you sisters?" ~
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Not While Hope Endurss.

do you believe in platonle friend
shipT' he asked.
Not she replied. "as long as there
is a chance for anything else. Chi.
cago Record Herald.
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A Quality Of His cl...

Mary Mild-Cholly says he has oroo.
will power. e'
Carrie Caustique-All donkeys have
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01
Cost of

what have 0 been dolng at college.
my SOM
You heavily drain my resources!"
ANA While replied. dad. I've lately be-
gun
Some Social Economy courses"
~-LIppincott'a.
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tendency TO do too much loafing In the
early stages OF races he Is likely e
take a few falls out Of Father Time.
Taber combines the highest excel
lenee in scholarship and sports and
easily is the most distinguished Rhodes
scholar America has sent TO oxford
since Warren Schutt. the old Comedian
d~lstancer. was appointed. Schutt on
tributed TO Oxford's success In distance
and cross country running. Taber il
likely 10 max much athletic history
for the DARK Blues.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01

! suppose you have tried motoring,
JudgeT' he asked.
NO, have not replied the judge.
. U 1 have tried II lot of people who
have."-Pathfnder.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01
Assured Futures.

"hat makes higgins think his chill.
ureh are 80 exceptionally bright?"
a profound faith" replied Miss Cay
enhe' In the theory of heredity."
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01

MY wife must be both clever and
beautiful"
An! You believe in opposites mar
rying, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Bulletin.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01

is idle to attempt to compute the nun
dreds of thousands of copies of it which
have been made in the last hundred
years. A magnificent piece of portrai-
ture from a technical point of view, 1t
is held by millions to be the typical
Washington.
Notwithstanding the high estimation
in which the Stuart portraits are held
it transpires that the efforts of the
painter to undo the work of a poor
dentist have married the fidelity of a
materpiece. Washington for years
appears to have been troubled frequent
ly with toothache. The remedy then
at hand was certainly ~eficacious, but
heroic-the offending tooth was remoy-
ed. BY 1899 Washington was using
false teeth. and in 1895 his last tooth
was drawn. In 1896 he got a new and
more costly set of artificial teeth, and
they fitted him better, but when Stuart
painted his portrait he was using the
first set. The painter tried to remedy
the malformation of the mouth by
padding under the lips with cotton.
The cure appears to have been almost
as bad as the disease.
sTUART's OPPORTUNITY
Stuart's history was one of struggles
for dollars. He was poor for many
years. and after he had attained fame
his affairs were often in such condi-
ton that he was compelled to resort
to some other inartistic practices to
raise funds to tide him over a crisis.
In 1875 came his opportunity to
paint a portrait of Washington, but
Stuart was not satisfied with the re-
suit and is said to have destroyed the
picture. 1t is also asserted that Stu
art did not do this. but sold ii with
five copies of it that he made. He
made n full length of Washington for
the Marquis of Lansdowne and then
a head of the Father of His Country.
known as the Athenaeum portrait
from the fact that his widow sold 1t
TO the Boston Athenaeum, with a com
panion portrait of Martha Washington,
for $500.
This third portrait shows only the
Hchu anu int DuSl. With nlCl VI the
detail unfinished. and is also known as
'Stuart's unfinished portrait of Wash
ington."
1t Is said that at any time Stuart
felt the need of money he painted a
replica of this Athenaeum portrait
and sold it at the stated price of 500.
II is claimed that he made 1O7 Of these
price as soon as they We're finished.
Other artists have not heSitated to use
the head and face as a model.
Before he died Stuart offered the
Athenaeum portrait to the state of
Massachusetts for 81 1000, but could
not effect a sale.
SHARPLES' MINIATURE
1t was in 1896 that Washington sat
TO James Sharples, who painted n
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1t was in 1896 that Washington sat
TO James Sharples. who painted n
miniature. which Washington present
ed to Nellie Stuart. widow of John
Parke GUSTS. his adopted son. Her
son. George Washington Parke Gusts,
who was present during the sittings.
is said to have declared the likeness
was almost perfect" BY some the
Sharpies miniature is considered the
best portrait existing OF Washington.
At least 1t has claims TO faithfulness
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-09-27
CLEVER GAME
Worked on Sioux City Saloon.
keepers by Father
and Son

Sioux City. Sept. 27.-Accounts of
a blackmailing scheme that has proven
most eficacious have gone the rounds
of the saloons in Sioux City and as a
result many bartenders visited the
Office of the Armour Packing company
to look long and hard at an emp.oye of
that company. with a view OF remem
bering his appearance for future re.
ference.
The Young mans head has been
thoroughly punched already by one
OF more purveyors of liquid cheer,
and other bartenders are preparing to
do likewise at the opportune moment.
According to the stories told by sew
eral saloon keepers this young black
mailer who claims to be a minor, has
purchased drinks in saloons during the
past week and then threatened to prose-
cute each of them for selling to a
minor. His father, a foreman of the
packing house, followed the boy into
each saloon and gave a good imitation
of Nm outraged parent, after which
the pair collected whatever amount
buG EdtOOu hhu CDulu DC muuC "
give up and departed.
Many bars are thought to have been
vitited by tine father and son, but. ow-
ing to the fact that the liquor men be-
lieve secrecy to be the best policy in
the matter, their names cannot be as
certained.
The state law restricting the sale of
liquor provides that, as a penalty for
selling liquor to a minor, the license
OF any saloon nan must be revoked.
There is no defense under the law for a
man to make against the charge, unless
he ran prove that the minor did not
drink in his place. The liquor inter
ests have objected more strenuously
to the minor law than tn any other
affecting their business
1t was estimated by a man who
has conferred with practically all the
saloon keepers in the city c ncerning
this case. that more than 81, 900 was
collected by the father and son from
Sioux CITY saloons.
what is is going to be done about
it'll" one saloon keeper was asked.
"DoneY Nothing he replied. 1.-THE
less there is said about ii the better we
like it. It's a rank injustice, but if
we raise a stir about it. others will
learn of the scheme, and before long
we'll be finding blsckmsilers in our
bars all day long There is no recourse
for US. We can only suffer 10 silence.
and the more silence we have the
less we may have to suffer. We're
just going to saw wood and let ii go
at that.
Similar expressions were made by
other saloon men. Bartenders have
been sent to the Armour plant to see
the man by practically all the up
town saloons. A description of the
young man has been furnished to all
sale ons.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-09-27
INSANE WOMAN
In the B | k Hills Causes
Trouble for Officials

Sturgis. Sept. 27.-Mrs. Nellie Nc
Mahon, adjudged insane yeai ago in
Meade county and sent to the Yank-
ton asylum. is again ut Sturgis, held
on insanity charge. She was let out
% the Yankton institution on the
privilege of law granting the right to
relatives of any insane person, who is
not dangerous. to care for that rela-
tive.
Mrs. Mcmahon several years ago
shot and killed her husbands bust
ness partner. some time after her hus-
bands death. because she thought the
partner was cheating her out of her
husband funds. The woman was ad-
judged insane and sent to the asylum.
Later the case was appealed to the
supreme court and Mrs. Mcmahon was
taken to Pierre last year to testify in
her wi behalf. and to let the court
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-09-27

judge as 10 her sanity. The court or
dered her returned to Yankton.
At that hearing she stated that if
she were freed from the asylum she
would 60 and live with her sister in
Chicago, and recently this sister APP
piled at the Yankton hospital for
Mrs. Mcmahon to come and live with
her. The sisters husband went tc
Ysnkton and got Mrs. McMshon. The
two went as far Ms Sioux City and
there separated. Mrs MaMahcn com
ing to Sturgis, her former home.
She has in no sense been dischai ged
from the Yanktou hospital, but, under
the legal right for harmless insane
persons, was given iuto the care of
her sister What legal steps will be
tax en- to return her to Ysnkton have
not been determined.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-09-27
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion OF tie ear,
There is only n way TO cure deafness
and that is by constitutional remedies,
Deafness is caused by an inflamed con
dition OF the mucou lining Of the Eu-
stachian tube. When this tube is in
famed you have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is entire
y closed deafness is the result, and un-
less the inflammation can be Ia en- out
and this tube restored 10 its normal con
dition, hearing will be destroyed for
ever; nine cases oul OF ten ar caused by
Catsrrh, which is nothing but an infiam-
ed condition OF the mucous surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any oase of Dyafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars free.
Il. J. CHENEY n CO, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for Constipa-
ton,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-09-27
COLORADO MARSHAL KILLED
Alleged That Greek Coal Strikers Did
the Shooting.

Trinidad, Colo, Sept. 26.-Blood-
hounds and posses continued the pur-
suit of five Greeks, declared by the
authorities to have slain Robert Lee,
marshal OF the Segundo Coal camp
near here. who was shot and killed as
he rode by the Greeks. All the fugi.
tives are armed and serious trouble is
expected IL they are overtaken.
Vice President Frank Hays OF the
miners union reiterated his denial
that the slayers were miners or that
the killing was in any way connected
with the Southern Colorado strike
now in progress. The officials of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company,
which W the Segundo camp, de.
clareG all FIVE men were employed in
the mine until Tuesday when they
answered the strike call.