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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



Remarkable History of the Pali- 

 sades Painter. 

 "Years of poverty and privation have 

 been undergone by this artist in order 

 to follow his calling. He was born in 

 Kansas forty-five years ago and when 

 a young man learned the trade of 



ner. He saw a cheap lithograph in the 

 window of a furniture store in Dallas, 

 a painting of the sort that is cut off 

 by the yard, as you want it, but that 

 had in it something that approached a 

 hint of sky and a shadow of a moun- 

 tain. Poor as it was, there was some- 



FIRST GET THE INSPIRATION DIRECTLY FROM NATURE. 



plastering, by which he supported him- 

 self for some years until he went to 

 Texas and became a cowboy. His am- 

 bition to become a painter was crys- 

 tallized in a somewhat curious man- 



thing about it that moved the future 

 artist into action ; it was the last 

 touch to the lever that sent him head- 

 long into the struggles of an artistic 

 career. He was industriously punch- 



