Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1883 — An Artist’s Model Who Had Seen Life. [ARTICLE]

An Artist’s Model Who Had Seen Life.

An artist of my acquaintance was searching for a model in the streets of New York. Crossing Union Square, he saw the very type of face he required. The; owner of the -face a was seated on one of the benches in. an attitude of cheerful expectancy. The artist aocqCtied.; the old mtta and asked if he pose. He jfeadily consented, the studio at the appointed time, /tf&s employed, gave satisfaction, and became a Sprt of* retainer at the studio. white hpa4 and large white beard met with favor in aesthetic circles. By degrees, items ofaiis personal history came to light. He had been a golddigger in the early days of the mining excitement. He claimed to have experienced fifteen shipwrecks In the capacity of a sea Captain. Left an orphan at an early age, he had been educated by a physician, and had acquired some knowledge of inedioine. Fate threw him among the Indians of the far West, presumably* oh his way from the gold-diggings, and he became a medicine-ihan. He was Reamed in natural philosophy, and possessed., a mineralogical cabinet and also a singular collection of roots? eaoh twisted by nature into the shape of one of the letters of the alphabet. He* painted shells skillfully, and had an ambition to go round the world in a canpe. This remarkable person also wrote poetry and was a Yankee. It needed (My a master-brush to make this same representative Yankee as classic as a Millet peasant. —Charlotte Mams, in* the Century . . -v+a i *.»•< The Toledo, Ohio, See sayh< #; Dorse Alexander, editer ; of .the Bamesville, Ga., Nettß, has been ciired of rheumatism by the use of Bt. Jacobstlil.'