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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
SECOND PART.
HILL OH HARRISON.
The Senator Thinks the Pres
ident Has Behaved "Well
and Done His Best
SO HE C0!TTDES TO GATH.
Complains That Official life Is Cut
Into Too Many Details.
KO TIME TO READ OR STUDY.
A Chat
"With Attornej General
Showins His Caliber.
Miller
HCCiI TO ADMIRE IX HIS LEGAL MAEE-UT
rcoitnrsroxDExcs or tiie dispatch.!
Wasiiixgtox, March 12. The sameday,
recently, I talked with David B. Hill and
Attorney General Miller, teeing one in the
morning and the other in the evening. Ihe
one conies from Oneida county, 2ew York,
and the other from Chemung; the one re
mained at home and became the principal
politician of his day there; the other went
away from home and is at the head of the
liar of the United States, as the Attorney
General is the chosen and official lawyer of
his Government.
Governor Hill has a fine parlor in one of
the upper floors of the Arlington Hotel,
right at the corner, a room perhaps 40 or SO
ieet long, by 25 or SO wide; it has its own
vestibule, with a cloak and hat table there,
and the bedroom, rather darkish, to the left
of this vestibule, as one enters. Colonel
Farnsworth, who was on the stall of Cleve
land, as well as Hill, sat down with me
awhile, and said: 'That large picture of the
Harbar of Venice, up yonder, by Moran,
the Governor's stafl" bought and presented
to him: all these pictures here are his own."
Indulses in Jfolhing lint Ckampjgse.
Governor Hill came in smiling and wel
coming, and as he sat down, upon a sofa, in
the full light of the windows, at the farth
est corner, I remarked how perfectly
hwlthy and white, as if he had never taken
anything but mother's milk, were his face
and hands, and almost unconsciously, I
aiked. "Did you ever drink, any liquor?"
"Very little. It never agreed with me.
I am a great deal better off without it. I
find in campaigns when I go around with
rcntlenicn who drink that I can wear them
all out, though I touch neither malt nor
spirit Indeed, all those sedatives, irritants
and stimulants disagree with me. I do not
make war on the tastes and habits of mv
friends and fellow men, because nature has
made it unadvissble ior me to cither drink
cr smoke."
"I should think you might catch cold.
Governor, making night speeches, and never
taking a drop of stimulant,"
"No, I do not catch cold, singularly
enough. At the close of the last campaign.
you may remember, that the Democrats had
a great procession, following one the Repub
licans held in the afternoon, these proces
sions winding up the campaign. I stood
four orfi.-e hours in the night air, bare
headed and bald as I am, and it is a wonder
I did not get mv death ot cold, but I did not
take cold at alt"
He Has Sever Been Sick.
"I suppose you have never been sick
much of anything?"
"No, I have had but very little sickness
during my whole life."
"Do vou exercise especially, such as rid
ing horseback'.'"
"Not much; I think I would like to ride
horseback, but how can I? Somebody is
alwavs coming in, and I can't get oft I
walk some, and enjoy walking up to the
Capitol and back again. "Washington is a
pretty dusty place, or I would enjoy the
walking more.
"Do you ever get downcast or moody
frr.ni seeing your name and virtues and
offerees so much in print?"
"No. 1 don't set verv blue ever, nor
rver very esultanL I try" to be industrious,
and recusation soon dissipates both discour
apement and vanity."
Have you any home now?"
"Not much of a home; you know I have
hen at Albany several years, and that has
1 Token up apart of my arrangements in
Uimra."
""Vhere is your law library?"
"I lent it to a friend who "went down to
New York City to practice law, and he
vine
L allowed his partners to retain it.
utner than store it away somewhere, and
! i the books be useful to them. I value
mv o..ots, However, my law books
cialh."
espe-
Docsn't Get 3XncIi Time to Read.
"Do vru ever get much time to read?"
"Not verv much. lam in my official
placenearlv all day, and reading is nearly
cnt of the question. "When night comes, I
s Tj seldom alone. I, therefore, read for
F'.ecificends. Sometimes I become interested
, the theme and follow it up. Of course I
lave to lead a great many newspapers.
When a man belongs to the p'eople officially
and hae accented their stewardship, he must
keep his door open and be with them. Iff
vcr were liposed to get blue, it would be
that lae in these official positions is cut un
into so maD details hardly connected with
each other, no one thing "being carried out
to a logical conclusion."
' That is what President Harrison said to
rnc. Governor, that Le was busy all dav.and
wone'ered at night if he had accomplished
anvthinc: whatever."
Yes. I svmpath:ze with him. I have
sf-n lum and know that what he says is
true- I am glad he went off gunning; I
h"pe he will go gunning whenever he needs
it TT I. ontitlri In it'"
' ou covered yourself with magnanimity
f pU you received Hairison at Albany, not
r rvly in official terms but expressing your
personal aopreciation of him?"
Harrison Has Done ilii ISest.
'Vrs, I looked him right in the eye and
ta d jut what I meant. I think Harrison
nas behaved himself and tried to do his
best." I referred to Mr. Elkins as being
persecuted by callers, even after 5 o'clock
n the evening, at his department, as I had
h-n vesterday observed. "Elkins is a nice
fellow," said the Governor.
W hat do you think of the Capitol at
Washington as compared, lor instance, to
. ne Albany State Capitol?"
"My appreciation of the Capitol at Wash-
cgton is not an unmixed one. There is
something about it pleasing, fine, and yet
there is something wanting. When I came
,-re to be sworn in andstood forward in
ie Senate chamber ihe impression came
ver me of being in a pit of some kind, a
ste dug, walled in and people peeping
vcr, and it was dark. Somctimesas I walk
'.rough the Capitol I observe that I am in
mere corridor or screen, instead of being
, a large building with ample width.
iir jses which are enlarged according to
ever necessities, of course, lack the unity of
nginal buildings all built at once.
One of Henry Grjidy's Thoughts.
"I suppose you knew Henry Grady,"
F2id the "Governor. "Grady came to me,
and I liked him, and I went to Georgia to
attend the fair there, and afterward to un.
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THE COMBIXES SEEM TO
veiling Grades statue. He got off some
very good things, and, perhaps, as with
other nien, some of his extemporaneous
things had been pretty well thought out
before. But one of his thoughts remains
in my mind about this Capitol He drew a
picture of the fireside, the parents and the
children, family obedience, love, loyalty,
the prayer, the meal, the kiss, the ble"ssing,
the going to bed, the rising up, aud, having
finished his picture, he said: "There is the
beginning of government" Then he de
scribed coming to Washington and seeing
the great marble Capitol, with its many
chambers and halls, its arches and dome,
the courts in session, the Representatives
in their chamber, the Senators in session,
all system and power, and he said: "There
is the end of government" And the Capi
tol in its uses will always be impressive to
good citizens as the end of government, the
extreme organization.
A Specimen of Grady's Hnmor.
Grady was a humorous fellow. As we
were coming out of the fair at Atlanta there
was a part of the field where several hun
dred negroes had gathered, and who looked
at me without ceremony, till a voice sbont
ed, "Three cheers for Henry Grady!"
Grady raised his hat, and with it in "his
hand, with fine Irish courtesy, he said, re
plying to their cheers, "These are the fel
lows I let in on free tickets; that is why
thev cheer me."
The Senator quoted something else from
Mr. Grady, and said that he had picked out
of Grady's book that particular sentence to
put into his speech at Atlanta, but glanc
ing at the monument, he found this text
inscribed there by those who set it up.
witn a twinKle in his eyes, tne irovernor
said: "Don't yon often plume yourself
upon some literary or newspaper perform
ance which you think is going to make a
stir in the world and find it tall very flat,
while on the other hand something that
seemed to cause you no pains and give you
no vanity lives and is repeated for years?
I thought I had a good thing on Uhauncey
Depew, fine speaker as he is. He went out
to the Grant monument at Galena, and re
cking the names of Washington, Hamilton,
Lincoln and Grant, he said that those lour
would be remembered in the chaos and
confusion of the infinite number of reputa
tions cotemporarv with them.
An Idea That Fell Flat
"I was a Jefferson boy, and I thought I
would take him up on substituting Hamil
ton for Jefferson. So, when they dedicated
tne monument in tne western part ot the
State, I laid myself out for Jeflerson, but,
don't you know, I never heard anything
more about it Nobody would even sauce
me for it?"
"Ah, well, Senator, you were in Hamil
ton's time, at the realization of institutions
and cities and things; Jefferson's time
was amid rusticity and eighteenth century
dreams of Elysia. "
"Perhaps so, but I lost my time, that
time."
"How do vou like being a Senator al
Washington?'
"I have been asking myself that question.
You see, I am a bachelor; these men who
like it have their families here and their
homes, and the Bociety, they tell me, is kind
and numerous. These menj no doubt, enjoy
Washington. Then we have our Southern
friends, to whom this is a Northern climate,
and wno would be well content to spend the
whole year here and have Congress last over
all summer. But I do not find my time well
filled in. I come from a colder clime where
men are stirring about actualities. I do
not think I like being a Senator."
Analyzing the Election Returns.
"A good deal is being said about the Ee-
pnblirans carrying Elmira and other towns
in the late elections."
"So I see," said Governor Hill, smiling
all over, "I always believed there would
be a reaction some time against the uni
formity of Democratic success which we
have had for years past. In these elections
for Mayore and Supervisors the feeling of
locality dominates that of pirty. You take
a ticket , of supervisors and you will find,
say in Dutchess county, where the Republi
cans have a majority, though there it is
claimed as something extraordinary to elect
a Republican ticket, that the majorities
range irom a nunareato nve or six Hundred,
and the average majority runs very smalL
Our towns in the interior of the State are
very generally Republican towns. Elmira
had a Democratic ticket w ith a Mug wump
candidate upon it, and a Citizens' ticket
with a Democratic candidate; the Republi
cans indorsed the Citizens' ticket, and the
candidate was the son of Lucius Robinson,
whose father had been both a Republican
and a Democrat Robinson was elected.
They raise the cry at once that it is a defeat
for HilL"
"The Republicans have completely pulled
out of their prohibition and sumptuary
legislation in New York?"
The Old Puritan Element.
"Yes, for the last year, they have given
me no trouble whatever on that subject
They simply got tired of carrying the load
of it It was bad judgment which got them
into it, in the first place. The old Puritan
element is bound to be correcting somebody.
I merely set my foot against persecuting an
ancient and vested Interest, and if they
want a temperance man I think I am a good
instance of one." . - .
"Are you going to make an extensive tonr
South?"
"I think not The Legislature of
Mississippi did an unusual thing in invit
ing me, as a Legislature, to address them.
Such an invitation being in the nature of a
Commonwealth officially inviting me, I
thought I could not refuse. Then, it hap
pens to be St Patrick's Day when I shall
go South, and the Irish peop'le of Savannah
added their request Since I have been
considering these invitations, and it has got
out that I am going South, I have a basket
full of applications every day to go here
and there. I think, however, that I (hall
rifiia tifci . NSfeS., Swwks ' .
BE OK TBE ZUN AT LAST.
peak in Savannah and at Jackson, and no
where else."
A Pen Picture ot the Senator.
Before leaving Governor Hill, I mav
sketch his appearance exactly as he is while
Senator. He is not a particularly well
dressed man, wearing slightly juvenile
colors, and not the official black. He is re
markably clean, his hands so white that
every hair upon the backs of them can be
followed to the skin. His lace is so clean
and clear and white that it seems to reveal
the healthy movement of the blood within,
for a face as white as his, this healthy ex
pression is unusual; there is nothing of the
limey white which attends some functional
wenkness. He has a long face, which ap
pears longer by his baldness; the flanks of
hair on the sides of his head drop a short
brownish black whisker or mixture of
whisker and hair down in front ot "his ears;
he has a mustache but no other beard. His
eyes are particularly gray with small black
pupils and suggest cat's eyes. Above his
nose, inclusive of the eyes, his face is an
intellectual one, a professional face, bearing
out the idea of a 'man who has been in
authority and the public sentry. The lower
portion of his face reveals his Irish orizin;
the nose is long and inclined to be flattiah;
there are one or two scars in the vicinity ot
the cheek and throat, which are noticeable
when ihe'side of his face, which is broad
and somewhat heavy, is exposed to view.
There is something in his carriage, strong
jaw and mixture of the Celtic and the
Puritan face, of the generic New York
Alderman or city politician. He has a way
of grinding his voice toward the ends of
some of his sentences, to give it a harshness
which it naturally has not His eyes are
frequently full of laughter and humor, and
ujjiuu are earnest an,a aggressive.
MHlCTlsEsenUauVa"Xawyerr---H)erCent"
Attorney General William H. Miller,
lives in a quiet,neat house on Massachusetts
avenue near Dupont Circle. I had never
seen him before, but meeting his son, who
is the private secretary of Mr. Elkins, I told
him to suggest to his father that I would
like to' call some evening. The Attorney
General sent me word to come up that even
ing if I wished to do so. He is one of the
most individual persons in this administra
tion, apparently unlike anv of the rest. The
order of his mind is whollylegaL His study,
his enthusiasms, his views on that subject
arc and have been positive. On other ques
tions he is a mild almost docile man, but you
can see that he could be instantaneous in
torminc his conclusion uponalecralouestion.
however large it might be. And this I sus
peotiswhythe President wanted him at
Washington, having firm faith in his legal
nature. It may be added that while there
was some hostility at first to Mr. Miller, be
cause he had been in General Harrison' law
office, time has dissipated that feeling as
the lawyers have come in contact with him
and find that, while General Harrison might
have obtained a man of more extensive rep
utation, he could not have found one more
conscientiously and devotedly a lawyer,
A Very Commendable Personality.
I regret that, being tired that evening
after a long day's work, I did not get the
full advantage of this chat A few sentences,
however, will illustrate this public officer,
as to what he is thinking about Although
Mr. Miller is only 51 years old, he has the
look of one older; some might guess that he
is almost 60. Probably his health has not
been uniformly good. It may be that con
finement in a law office has had its effect
upon him. He is baldish and has a long
peculiar profile the nose being broad and
sharp as it it was an intellectual onran and
scented hidden meanings. Something
gnarled and ragaed is in that well-produced
lace, but, except when alert for an instant,
there is a quiet fatherly look in his eye, and
his tone is that of one who has a spirit at
ease. Neither self-esteem, nor restlessness.
nor a desire to be brilliant are observable in
this ingrained lawyer.
"How came you to bo in Indiana, Mr.
Jliller?"
"I came from Oneida county, New York;
at Hamilton College, and when I graduated
there, at the commencement of the Civil
War, I went to 'each school at Manmee,
close by Toledo. I suppose yon have heard
the song about Maumee, and having heard
it myself, it seemed strange that I should
go to tnat very place.
How He Got in fYith Harrison.
"I studied law with the late Chief Justice
Waite in Toledo, and then went on to In
diana, to Peru and to Fort Wayne, and the
practice of niy firm had its connections at
Indianapolis with General Harrison's firm.
Wo sent them law business, and I some
times went on there, and General Harrison
invited me to come into his firm."
"Did you consider General Harrison to be
a good lawyer?"
"I said long before I came to this office or
had any idea of ever being here that Gen
eral Harrison was the best all-round lawyer
x nave ever Known in my lite. Home men
get their reputation as lawyers from oratorv,
from the vigor of their speech. Others get
it from their cross-examinations, others
from their knowledge of books and the
precedents. Harrison has got all the points
requisite in a lawyer, and his devotion to
the cause of his client is his animating
principle. That is what he has in vie w,and
to acquit himself of his obligation to his
client he spares no resource he can com
mand. You know that he is strong
speaker on his feet You have not seen him,
however, in cross-examination. He Is a
perfectly relentless man in cross-examining,'
but yet no one ever beard him browbeat a
witness or take a subtle advantage. 'Never
mind, Mr. Brown,' he will say, 'but answer
my question, and he will get an answer be
fore ne gets through."
Moral Tone of Indianapolis,
"Is Indianapolis an agreeable place to
live?"
. "I think it is one of the most agreeable
places'to be found anywhere. Among the J
PITTSBUEG, SUNDAY. MAKCH 13, 1892.
families which entered into the foundation
of Indianapolis were several of 'fine Chris
tian characters, and hence tha growth of
that city has been attended by a pure and
moral tone, and in intercourse her leading
men there are refined and considerate. 'You
see very little selfishness in Indianapolis.
They are hospitable and steady."
"Indiana has come up very much since
the civil war?"
"Indeed, it has," replied Mr. Miller, pro
ceeding to mention some of the best points
of his State.
"I had a talk this morning with Governor
Hill about Alexander Hamilton; do you
consider him to be over-appreciated?"
"No: Hamilton had a trreat comprehensive
mind which acted quickly and was thorough.
He had the decision of a military man upon
things legal and commercial. He appre
hended the future more clearly than any
man of his day; what is .now defective he
suspected would prove so; what is excellent
be assisted to develop and conserve. He
was as remarkable for details as for his com
prehensiveness. I think that nothing has
been said on the tariff which he did not say
and include in his paper to Congress on our
manufacturing system.
A Monument to Hamilton' MSSnory.
"I read it with admiration; the whole
case is there, and these manufactures which
have so varied society, built up our cities
and made us independent are as much Ham-
iUah' mAntimonf aa ?o (no ehinntni en nn
ilton's monument, as is the shipping on our
lakes and along the coasts and the Treasurv
Department in its system and checks and
balances. How well that department has
performed its work during the vast expend
iture of the Civil "War and ever since!
Hamilton was its founder. Every Secre
tary of the Treasury is frank to express
obligations to him."
"Have we had any Chief Justice or legal
mind in this country ranking up to John
Marshall?"
"No. Like Hamilton, Marshall lived in
a space of time whieh required his work,
and he also was an institution maker. The
opportunity was afforded his court, in the
class of questions which came before it, to
explain the application of our Constitution
and our liberty to the events. Thus we
have in his decisious something which bears
upon almost every question. He saw far
and clearly, and out of incidental things
built general principles'into a firm system.
It was very fortunate for John Marshall
that the Supreme Court in his day was
Not Burdened With Case,
as now, so that he could take the time to
write his decision carefullv and see every
principle at issue. The docket of the court
was extremely small in those days; the con
dition of the society was favorable to study
and composition. 'Ihe city was small and
neither expensive nor fashionable as now.
And it is a singular thing that Marshall
was so exact and so right that when they
changed that court, expecting to give it an
other expression, Taney in the case of (the
Attorney General quoted a case with a
name I do not remember) reaffirmed John
Marshall's decision in another case. You
see that slavery required the Federal Gov
ernment to give it security; the legislation
they wanted in Taney's time was to pursue
their slaves into other States and Terri
tories, ?nd, if they had overturned the Fed
eral i;over, where would they have ob
tained their law? The consequence was
that slavery itself had to maintain Mar
shall's interpretations of the Constitu
tion." Mr. Miller spoke highly of the late
Joseph McDonald, Democratic Senator
from Indiana, saying that he was a sound
lawyer, and that his general convictions
were always respectable. He spoke highly
also ofthe courtesv and character of Gov
ernor Hendricks. Said he:
Danger tn Ifstshineton's living Expenses.
"The citjr of "Washington has become
very expensive, and I suppose it must be
through the repairing of rich people here in
the winter, to keep fine houses and give ex
pensive entertainments. Old citizens here
tell me that bouse rent has gone tip about 60
Ca? wjr th8.-.am8.SPont, the
price ot murjkcuug iicrc, us compared 10 xn
dianapclis. The rates at which they hold
building lots in Wasnlngton are excessive
compared to anything rational which those
lots are to earn. Ten thousand dollars for
an ordinary lot, $25,000 for some lots. The
city will presently bear heavily upon the
public officers with their moderate salaries."
"You do not pay much attention to society
here in the winter?"
"Hot at all; I do not go into it."
"Does the office of Attorney General re
quire a great deal of attention?"
"Yes, and instantaneous decision. Per
haps the principal feature of that office is
the readiness with which one must perceive
the principles of the law as applied to
every emergency. To great nations the
events come swiftly and the treatment must
be heroic yet scientific."
The Protection of Justice Field,
Said I to the Attorney General: "I think
that your decided action in the protection
of Justice Field in California marked an
era in your office."
"That man undoubtrdlv meant to kill
Justice Field," said Mr. Miller, "and what
a scandal that would have been upon our
civilization! Yet, I have been surprised at
the number of lawyers, both Republican
and Demccratic, who have said to me that
they did not think I could find any author
ity for giving the marshal custody over the
Justice, with directions to protect his life
at every hazard. You have seen, I suppose,
the decision of the Supreme Court on that
subject written by Justice Miller. He
affirms my position and I never had a doubt
of the correctness of that position."
"Did any of the Justices dissent?"
"Chief Justice Fuller dissented, and
Justice Lamar. Not find authority to pro
tect your Supreme Court? I claim that the
Con litution is full authority for it when it
provides for the judicial department of this
Government They say that the peace is
only to be maintained by the States locally,
but I say there is a United States peace by
which the life ot this Government is to he
kept and preserved, and that is now the
law."
"What is to happen about our Govern
ment giving satisfaction for injuries done to
the citizens of other Governments?"
"I think that the good sense of Congress,
irrespective of party, will meet that ques
tion, and consign to the courts of the United
States redress for infractions of treaties."
Plucking s Garland From Butler.
The Attorney General mentioned Gen
eral Butler's book and said: "General But
ler has been suppposed to be the inventor
of the word 'contraband.' as applied to fugi
tive slaves escaping to the Union army dur
ing the Civil War, but I find that 80 vears
before that the term was directly employed
by Mr. Scott, a member of Congress from
Western Pennsylvania, and here you will
find it in 'Hildreth's History of the United
States.' " .
Be took down a particular volume of Hil
dreth, and I found that he had made a mar
ginal note to the effect, "General Butler
not the author of this term." There in the
text I found the assertion of Congressman
Scott, that he should make the legal point
in oase of fugitive slaves escaping from the
enemy, that they were contraband of war.
The Attorney General explained why some
law books were very costly, as, for instance,
the "Delaware State Reports" of the first
quarter of this century, only a few copies
had been printed, and consequently, as the
number of lawyers increased, individual
volumes of some" of the scarce reports were
held as high as $SO.
George Alibid Townsehd.
Coughs. hoarsnei, sore threat, etc.. qaleklr
relieved brBaowK's Bronchial TaocHxs. They
new and u a cough remedy are pre-eminently the
uiy mit mw p(xprUUU U maOTIDg BOmrK,
vni.
H0ESE3 for all purposes will be sold at
the Araheim Live Stock Company, Limited,
auction tale, March 16, at 10 o'clock a, x.
Remnant week in our drygoods depart
ment . " J. H. KUNKEIi & Bwx
. Fob torpid liver, or affected nerves, use
Bisqne of Beef Herbi Sd Aroawtiot.-
NEW THINGS IN ART.
What May Be Seen in an Every Day
Trip in New York Galleries.
PAIHTINGS BY C0B0T AND CAZIN.
The Wonderful Pumpkin that Yollon Did
and its Good Points.
6BACEFDL SKETCHES IS FEN AND IKE
rCOERISrONDENCI QT Till DISrATClt.1
New Yoek, March 12. People who
want to enjoy pictures, not just to look
at them, ought to be happy in New York
now. No big exhibition makes exhausting
demands upon body and mind; the small
exhibitions ' are many and varied, and the
dealers' shops are at their best. Here a few
very good things may always be found, and
if bad ones surround them it is not in crush
ing quantities.
At the Fifth Avenne Art Galleries the
season has been unusually busy. Not since
New Year's, say its managers, has there
been time to eat or sleep between the taking
down of one collection and the putting up
of another. Mr. William Schaus' pictures
were sold last Tuesday. Those belonging
to the Cutting estate are'now on view and
will be sold on the22d. On the 29th and
30th the landscapes left in the studio of the
late Jervis McEntee will be scattered. Then
will come a sale of bric-a-brac; then, on
April 14 and 15, the sale of the late B. R.
Fitz's pictures, and finally, in May, the last
large exhibition of the ear, the annual col
lection of the Society of American Artists.
Next year, one is glad to know, this associa
tion, which represents the best and most
progressive side of American art, will ex
hibit in its own rooms in the new building
of the Fine Arts' Society.
A P;arl of a Corot.
Every one took a kindly interest in Mr.
Schaus' sale, for almost every one can re
member when Schaus' and Goupil's were
the only important picture shops in New
York, and onljr the ungrateful forget how
much good their owners did in acquainting
America with the best works of France and
breaking the reign of the long dominant
Dusseldorf school. Mr. William Schaus
some years ago left the firm, which still
bears his name. But men who deal in works
of art are like those who run horses or write
poetrv; they cannot give up the business
even "when they do so. So Mr. Schaus
opened a new gallery of his own, which he
called the International. But it did not
proclaim itself loudly enough as a place of
trade, it was badly situated and badly
lighted, and we were not surprised when he
decided to close it
Its contents looked much more attractive
when transferred to the 'auction room, and
there were some admirable pictures among
many which had merely a sound commercial
value. The most beautiful of all was a small
Corot a pearl among the paintings of him
whom all the world knows as the pearl
among painters. But a small Cazin pressed
it closely for first place. Here we had half
the arc of a" rainbow spanning half the can
vas, and. so wonderful is the craft of this
leader of living landscape painters, we. had
the shining, colored effect of the real phe
nomenon, although actual rainbow tints had
been almost" suppressed to bring "it into
pictorial iarmony with the yellowing
stretch of pastoral country beneath,;.
Chief Slerlt of the. Two Pointers.
Synthesis in painting could hardly be
carried farther than it -was in this nicture.
hyot the result was infinitely more truthful
tban was ever attained by the more de
tailed methods of an earlier day. The
synthesis of a Cazin or a Corot is based on
an infinite patience in preliminary analysis
and a beautifully wise selection of those
facts which are most important. Details of
form maybe suppressed, but the relationship
between main masses and the dignity and
grace of leading lines, is exquisitely empha
sized. Details ot local color may he
ignored, but the harmony of all colors and
the exact value of each as lighter or darker
than the others are explained.' And by
some subtile process, never to be understood
or imitated except by men who are really
horn to paint, there is the true light
of nature on everything, and
the true air of nature above and around and
in everything. "Impressionism" existed
before the name was invented to distinguish
a late-born band enamored of strong light
and vivid color. What Cazin shows us,
what Corot shows us, is always an impres
sion of a natural scene, not a photograph of
natural facts. That is, it is the same thing
which we see when we look at nature our
selves. Then we .do not count the leaves
and follow their outlines, or trace tha edges
of clouds like the contours on a map, or de
cipher minutiffi of color such as we should
note in a flower. We see the main masses
and lines, the main effects of color, the
light and the air, 'the movement of the wind
and the pulsing of the water.
Cazin and the Japanese.
And this we see if we look understandly
at a Corot or a Cazin. Mr. Fenollosa, of
the Boston Museum, who probably knows
more about Japanese art than any other
man in America, once told me that he could
appreciate Cazin because he bad learned to
appreciate Japanese pictures that the aim
and feeling were in both cases' practically
the same. This would sound strange at
first, especially if one knows only the
Japanese pictures of commerce. But I
think that it means that Cazin, like the
Japanese, cares tor genaral truth rather
than special truths, and feels pre-eminently
the broad harmonies of color and the signifi
cance of powerful and graceful lines.
When we looked at another of Mr. Schaus'
pictures we saw simplv a pumpkin.- But it
was a splendid, a regal, an imperial pump
kin; a czar nay, an Indian rajah among
pumpkins; a portly potentate whose
gorgeous orange sides took the life and
light and beauty out of everything within
eyeshot and made us feel that the only
things in the world really worth painting
were pumpkins. This one has been painted
by a famous artist, and it had greatly
ueipea 10 mace mm lamous. . it was the
world-renowned pumpkin of Vollon which,
as a technical achievement, was the star of
a certain iParis Salon years ago, and is
perpetually quoted in the studios as one of
tnose supreme successes whieh other men
must try' to work up to, but may scarcely
even dream of rivalling. Some pictures are
so fine that they make the tears come.
Others are so fine that only one of Homer's
heroes could laugh a just amount of. ad
miration. Vollon's "Pumpkin" is a picture
of the latter sort: the thintr itself is to
homely, yet so superb, and the painter's
interpretation is so true yet so hewilder
ingly audacious. ,
A Famous Picture of a Fat Han,
Whenever I see this picture I cannot help
thinking of one which hangt in the museum
at Berlin. It is only "attributed" to Velas
quez, but if he did not paint it there was
once a painter as great as he whom the
world hi quite forgot It shows ah enorm
ously fat man, with a pig-like face and a
girdle that must have been pieced together
of two, standing with his vast convex eon
tour in full relief against a marble hack
ground and facing the world with a self
satisfied air that would seem conceited
in Father Jove. This Velasquez ad
miral is like the Vollon pumpkin he
makes ns laugh, partly- from sheer de
light that art. could be so faithful to an
ugly form and yet transfigure it into beauty,
and pertly because we must assert our own
individuality in some oonspiouous way. We
don't laugh at the pumpkins that w make
(atopies, But they don't sit np n,d pair.
ize us and say they are the finest things in
the world and declare it is lese majeste to
make pies out of pumpkins. This fellow
does; he if as self-asserting as the big, ugly
admiral in Berlin, and I remember no other
painted personage. who is quite worthy to
keep them company.
It is a long step from bucolic majesty and
splendid color like this to the town-bred
trifles of an artist who illustrates the jests
of the day in black and white. But as yet,
we' can take very long steps in art aud not
feel that we have cone outside the charmed
inclosure. As yet, I say. As yet we are
allowed to be idealists or realists, classicists
or romancists, moralists or jokers, as our
mood may be. Indeed, we are allowed to
be all these things by turn, and- nothing
very long.
Beauties in Pan sad Ink.
But who knows how soon things mav
change? We have been seriously informed
of late that only one kind of opera and one
kind of novel can be approved by rational
beings; and probably some schoolmaster
will soon be abroad in our galleries to de
clare that the aim he approves in art is the
only possible right one. Meanwhile,however,
we could go with innocent hearts from Vollon
and Cazin to some 60 drawings in pen-and-ink
which Mr. Dana Gibson bad brought
together. All had been previously repro
duced in a New York paper. But I hope
that a sight of the originals taught people
who are not acquainted with artists a use
ful lesson. Such people, when they see
what they call "a graceful little sketch" in
a paper, are apt to think that "sketching"
the foibles of one's neighbors mnstbe a quick
and easy and pleasing task more like
plar .than genuine work. But now they
could learn that little cuts are reproduced
from large, drawings, and that these draw
ings are not "sketches," but carefully con
sidered pictnres, over some of which the
artist must have labored long. Here, for in
stance, a successful figure has been cut
away 'from unsuccessful surroundings and
pasted on a new paper preliminary to a new
effort, and there the major part of the draw
ing had been satisfactory, but one or two
heads had not and so other heads had been
neatly inserted in their places. These, of
course, were "but 'the most visible signs of
that conscientious patience which all of Mr.
Gibson's work revealed to eyes that Know
what good drawing means.
Clhsnn Doesn't Pear Contrasts.
It is a difficult thing to compose a large
group well, and most of Mr. Gibson's are
extremely well composed. They are full of
a variety which does not seem forced, but
appears to result naturally from the ex
igencies of the subject Their chief figures
immediately assert themselves as such, al
though they are brought into true pictorial
union with the accessory ones, and their
story is always clearly suggested. They are
strong and te'lllng as arrangements of line,
and in the distribution of their main masses
of light and shade they are admirably con
ceived for execution in pen-and-ink. if Mr.
Gibson's pictures are always effective, it is
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largely because he draws with both force
and grace, but largely, too, because he is
never afraid of strong,big coatrasts of color.
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irenerallv srravish tone were their aim, or,
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IVliare Gibson Should Study.
But Mr. Gibson's young folk are far more
successful than their elders. They are vera
cious and individual. The older men, and
especially the older women, are creatures of
convention. Mr. Gibson, one fancies, has
subscribed too long ,to Punch. What he
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mental vinegar. Nor are American old
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