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t. HE death Thursday of Jules Breton, the famous French painter, calls attention to the fact that one of his masterpieces is owned in Minneapolis. "The Evening Call," "L'Appel du Soir," now in the Walker art gallery, is considered by art critics as the cream of Breton's work. Mme. Demont-Breton, his daughter, and her husband and his friends rank ''The Evening Call" as the best thing Breton ever did.

T. was in Paris in 1889, when this picture was first exhibited at the Universal exhibition. It was hung several weeks later in the room which had been reserved for the works of the French painter. Critic Is Spellbound. Mr.

Walker was visiting the exhibition.in CQjp.pany.wlth Kidgeway Knight, the great critic, who was the friend and neighbor of Meisonner. As they came to the Breton room, Mr. Knight stopped short "and stood silently regarding this picture, which was placed in the center of the wall. In turn, he looked at each picture, but he seemed spellbound by the centerpiece. It caught his attention immediately and held it.

Mr. Walker waited in 'patience for an expression of his opinion of the work, and after long" moments of silence 1 he said earnestly, I regard this as the finest picture I have ever seen in my life." The room dovoted to the early painters had just -been visited, where canvases from the brushes of Corot and Millet and others were hung, as well as those bv Troyon and others, and the Minneapolis collector of fine paintings asked Mr. Knight if he regarded the picture as fine as those. His answer was that it more than compared with any picture in the whole exhibition, ancient or modern. Sees Great Painter.

It was on the same day that Mr. Walker first saw Jules Breton, tho he did not know it was the great painter who attracted his attention. Four or five times Mr. Walker went by the little, upright figure with its. intelligent and attractive face, but he did not break in upon the painter's contemplation of his "Her.Man Is On the Sea." From the intensity of his study Mr.

Walker thought he was perhaps another buyer, and he was somewhat disturbed at the prospective rivalry. The father and daughter are united in their artistic ideals, and a bond of singular sympathy exists between them. Breton himself, was most his. manner, thoughtful and considerate. Both-he and hu daughter are well-known the peasantry, where they go in the summer and where coming is eagerly for.

Mme. Deinont-Breton could not be greater loved were she their queen. ''These said Mr. Walker in speaking of TO Painting if Ales Breton "THE EVENING CALL." OF KLENG PEERSON HE WAS PATHFINDER FOR NOR- WECHANS IN AMERICA. Grateful Countrymen Erect a Monument to the Man Who Brought the First Emigrants to This Country and Served Them and Their Followers in Many Ways.

By Martin W. Odland. Special to The Journal. Hudson, July 7.A movement has been started by influential Norwegians of the northwest to erect a monument to the memory of Kleng Peerson, who, nearly a century ago, led the first band of Norwegian immigrants to America and for a generation thereafter was the pathfinder among his people in the new world. A committee is about, to be appointed to solicit the funds necessary for its erection and to select a site for it.

Judging by the opinions so far expressed, Ottawa, in one' of the Norwegian settlements founded by Kleng Peerson, will be chosen as the most appropriate place for tho memorial. This movement brings into public notice a man perhaps entirely unknown to all Americans not of Scandinavian extraction, and but little known to the Scandinavians themselves. The public will, therefore, be interested in the story of Kleng Peerson, a man who did more for his peoole in America, it may be than any other person of his timemore, perhaps, than any other person that ever lived. He was a very remarkable man, seemingly endowed by nature for just such work- as he undertook to do. Altho de- nied the-advantages of a higher education in his boyhood, he learned to speak and fead the English, French and German "addition to his own, and was exceedingly quick to grasp new ideas ancl -Situations.

He also had the faculty of setting forth his own ideas in interesting "form, thereby winning attentive wherever he went and recruits for his colonizing schemes. Kleng Peerson-was born on a farm called Hesthammer, Stavanger coun- May IT As a youth 'Ajfcrade, TfMen Iffews Sefflloft. Hangs in a Minneapolis Man's Gallery Regarded as Jules Breton's Best Work, Owned by T. B. Walker.

JTCTLES BRETON, Regarded as Best of Ancient or MdoIjl era French Paistars, Whose Death Occurred Thursday. v. them, "illustrate how valuable and useful the lives of great people endowed with rare intelligence, sympathy, and talent can beeome. They are among their people and they enjoy it. Breton knew the peasants he put on his canvases." Bring Immense Price.

Breton's canvases have sold for more than that of any modern painter." He was at one time under a contract with Boussod Valladon, a Parisian art dealer, who Was to take- all he produced as fast as produced, of the ordinary sizeft canvas, as $2,500. Breton sold his canvases until he could finally afford to withdraw. Troyon was under' a similar contract. with Boye Brothers, and for canvases larger than Breton's received only $400. Those same pictures are valued now at $25,000, and it is almost impossible 'to get At the same time, Mr.

Walker tried get the sketch of "Hamlet, in Fipistere," which later was sold to Mr Mitchell of Milwaukee for $8,000. The Communicants" brought later' $48,000, the highest price paid to any modern pajnter, tho in he refused to fiy a priee, planning then to keep it so. it might go into the Louvre after his, death. "Her Man Is on.the Bre-, ton's daughter the government tried to buy for the Luueinburg, but Breton advised his daughter to keep It for an exhibition piece during her life, and followed at times all thru his long life, and which was of great value to him in founding new settlements in America. We learn from his few biographers, including Professor Rasmus B.

Anderson, that he contracted early in life an unhappy marriage with a woman named Catherine, who had considerable property. He was anxious to get control of her means, it is hinted, and failing in this, left her prior to 1821 and never lived with her again. His relatives and those who knew him best 1 did not put the blame for this desertion or separation upon Peerson, saying that he was a man of unusual kindness of heart and amiability. Came First in 1821. In 1821 Kleng Peerson came to America, in company with Knute Olson Eide, for the purpose of investigating conditions here and to ascertain whether the new world was a good land for his countrymen to live in.

It is believed that undertook this trip at the request of a group of Quakers in Stavanger county, who were being persecuted by the intolerant state church of Norway and were therefore anxious to emigrate to some other country. The people of Norway were then in almost total ignorance of real conditions in America, but the persecuted Quakers of Stavanger county had heard that in the new republic to the west there was religious freedom hence they thought of emigrating thither. Kleng Peerson spent three years in America, familiarizing himself with the social, religious and industrial conditions. He supported himself by working and is supposed to have made several trips into different parts of New York and. other states.

He found in New York city quite a strong and wealthy colony of Quakers, who encouraged him to bring his Norwegian Quaker friends to America, promising him their aid in getting them settled. When Peerson returnee! to Stavanger county in 1824, and told his Quaker friends about what he had seen and learned in'America, he aroused theJiveliest interest and enthusiasm. The result was that the heads of six Quaker families sold their and with the money thus obtained purchased a small sloop in. which to sail for America. The.leader in this enterprise, and the princip'aT owner of the sloop, was Lars Larson, very intelligent man, who for eight years had been a war prisoner and resident in London, where he had to speak English and been the Quaker faith.

It was he'-who introduced this religion into on his return thitheri 1815 bringing a portion- of the population into conflict with the state and making jects persecution. The called, Bestauratibn at her death let it go into the Louvre. Mr. Walker was not dismayed, however, and finally persuaded her to sell it. As she made the sale she said her reasons were that she understood his was the finest collection in America, and she liked to have "Her Man Is on the Sea" in the same collection her father's "The Evening Call." "Angelus Bells," a larger sized and more beautiful and immeasurably finer than Millet'8 "Angelus," is in the Chicago Art Institute, tho it was brought to this country for Mr.

Walker. But he was unable to make the purchase owing to an impending panic in the financial world. Professor French, director of the institute, and Mr. McCormick, president of the association, both consider The Evening Call" the better of the two, and the best in this country. Knight's Opinion.

Kidgeway Knight says of Breton: "No painter ever succeeded in putting as much beauty and refinement of color, poetry and real impressionism as has Breton in this canvas. Millet put' feeling and impressionism, but sad, weary, depressing scenes, giving the sad and helpless side of nothing -inspiring, as Breton's higher form of peasant life, beautiful and interestarrayed in finest. colors ever, put on canvas. Turner, Claude Lorraine, Lerplle Harpeignies Cazin, Bichard Wilson, not one has ever produced as many of the refined points of-art as those found in the works of Jules Breton. I regard him as not only the finest of modern painters, but the greatest of all landscape painters in the world.

"The-Colors on thethose are- Breton Turne not changing as of are even They we're honestlypainted, and their pigments do-not change." owns another Breton, canvas, The Gleaners," All Are Enraptured. In Mr. Walker's gallery all of fovers iebple congregate, children, the simple of art, connoisseurs, teachers, artists and business.men, but Mr. Walkr er.says thete are no pictures in ttffe whole collection which make the instant appeal that these two of Breton'0 and his daughter's do. They strike all alike with their beautv.

It is nojronder that they have, this great, jrower for Breton undertook a.not impossible. task, as did Millet, who wanted- fb pic: ture the sound of the Angelus. 'Breton, gifted as a thinker and scholar "and a poet of. ability, desired to paint in each picture'a little poem, uplifting'. And each canvas, Evening Call" succeeds in embodying- giving' expression to that most potent poetical appeal which has ever distinguished (the Restoration), set Bail from Stavanger July 4, 1825, and.

after atryinp ycf'age of fourteen weeks arrived safely in New York. There were fiftytwo persons on board when- the vessel sailed and fifty-three when it landed in New York, a girl baby having been born during the voyage to Mr. and Mrs. Larson. The child thus born still lives and is now Mrs.

Margaret A. Atwater of Western Springs, Cook county, 111., a refined and well-to-do widow. Kleng Peerson did not return to America in the sloop Restoration, but went by way of Gothenburg, and was waiting for his friends in New York when they landed there. He had purchased for them, with the help of New York Quakers, a tract of land in Kendall township, Orleans county, New York, and thither he led them in the fall of 1825. There he founded the first Norwegian settlement in America, and there he lived off and on for a few years.

He did not take any land, however. His disposition was that of a wanderer, and it seemed impossible for him to stay very long at any one place. Came West and Had a. Dream. He was doubtless the first Norwegian to visit the country west of the Great Lakes, which he did not later than 1833.

He passed thru Chicago, or what became Chicago, and tramped over the level prairies to the west and southwest. There something strange happened to him, "if we are to believe a story he told his friends, a story which has been handed down to the "present time by their descendants: While walking all alone over the level expanse which later became La Salle county, Illinois, he was seized by intense fatigue, and sinking down upon the rich grass, fell into a -deep, refreshing sleep. While in slumberland, he had a vision that seemed providential. He saw the fertile land around him suddenly transformed from a wilderness into a thickly settled country, peopled by his own countrymen. The villages, cities and farms all gave evidence of remarkable prosperity and contentment.

When Kleng awoke, he felt that God had revealed to him the future home of his people. He thought of Moses and the promised land, and knew that, like him, he had been divinely commissioned to lead his people from bondage to a land of freedom and plenty. Greatly refreshed and strengthened, he walked back to the cast and immediately began to interest the Norwegians of the Kendall settlement in the promised land of the Vfest. The next spring, 1834, he led a small party of Norwegians to Illinois, and founded the famous Fox in La Salle county, whieh grew. rapidly, spreading into adjoining counties and becoming one of the largest and most colonies in America.

Aided Many Norwegians. Kleng bought considerable land here for himself his, relatives and friends. own land he later gave away to others who.needed, it more than he did. That was his to others thousand, acrljpf of landFduring iris besides considerable' he earned If Be had no money of his own to Rive to the needy, he. from the rich and gave to the poor.

Thus it came about that a very large number of Norwegian immigrants got" their start on ihe road to prosperity from Kleng Peerson, and their "descendants will now doubtless rejoice "in to contribute money toward erecting a monument to Having. jrivetfUihe Fox river settlement a good staM. Peerson resumed his explorations foryjSch new land suitable' for his people, Und in 1837 founded a third settlements Norwegians in Shelby county. Missouri. To hasten growth of this he made a trip NOTEonly at POWEBS book section can you buy these two books: "A Bock in the Baltic and "The Man Between." for the regular $1.50 style.

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Another Unhappy Marriage. In 1847 Peerson was in the Bishop Hill colony in Henry county, Illinois, New Sheer Lawn Waists with embroidered panels, long and short sleeves. Worth to $1.75. July sale, A choice Sheer Lingerie Waists of fine lawn, with square necks or high necks, short or long sleeves. Worth to A Nicollet Ave.

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Commencing Monday morning, our entire line, including the famous "Heywood" goods in the various finishes, will be offered at reduced prices a i from $3.7 5 rockers to $9.9 5 for $14.00 rockers. Some Discontinued Patterns in Parlor Furniture at less than cost to manufacturer. These are in good condition. $26.00 Sofa Bed $33.00 Parlor Suit $20.00 Divan at $16.50 Parlor $15.00 Adjustable Sofa. $15.00 25.0O 12.BO 12.B0 1O.0O $16.00 Parlor Chair $9.7 5 $12.00 Parlor Chair $14.00 Parlor Chair 9.0 0 $10.00 Divan for 7iOO $7.75 Parlor Chair S.00 "American Lady" corsets splendid assortments.

American Lady 980A full gored dip-hip corset, medium in all its proportions and there" fore "Wearable by a majority of figures. Symmetrical lines easily acquired with these corsets. Having two pairs of hose supports attached and being of standard quality coutil with neat lace trimmings, this garment is truly a superior value at its price. 1-inch front clasp, inches up and down from the waist, line white and drab colors, sizes 18 to 30. Price PUP and was there' married a titfie to a woman named Oharlotafe Marie his first wife in Norway having died.

It it related that be had to borrow a hat for the wedding from a own. being too weatherbeaten for such a festive occasion. Unfortunately, Kleng's second marriage wss no happier than his first, and in less than-a year he had left Charlotte Marie forever, vowing that he would never strain "trust himself en the matrimonial sea. From 1850 till his death in 1865, Kleng Peerson lived in Texas, which he had visited once or twee before. He acquired considerable land there, which he gave a friend on condition that he should care for him until he He passed away Dec.

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Made of a series of strip sections, with horizontal'section for the lower portion. Women who do not care for gored corsets will find this garment much to their liking. Readily adjustable, it is a shapely corset, and accomplishes its reducing work with the least possible effort. This corset is made of a special cloth called "Hercule" because of its strength. Lace, studded with bebe ribbon, and a big satin bow are used to make the garment fe jp look prettier.

Comes in white and drab, Bizes 30 to 36. They sell for WUiOU WeJwee expert corsetieres in attendance at all times, who will gladly show the latest in up-to-date corsets. i i ijii i i i1 Norse, Bosque comrjyc TeXa. A "small stone monument was later-erected-over iiis grave bearing this inscription: to cut, full size, strongly built and well enameled in assorted colors. The regular price of these beds is $12.00 for this Another lot somewhat lighter in weight but extra strong and well $7.48 A choice lot of rockers.

Upholstered in genuine Spanish leather, quarter-sawed oak frames, finished in theN most serviceable known, weathered and waxed oak. These are selected from our regular stock for this particular sale and range in values up to $18.00. Choice of any 1 in the lot, at American Lady Longfelo Model 430Per- suades most stylish lines is intended to create a very smooth surface over which to fit, tho gown. Shows no ridges. Built of our Batiste Cloth in white.

Medium height bust, long hips, hose supporters-front and sides, trimmed with neat laWfand ribbon rosette has front clasp measuring. inches sizes IB Price ii i i ail1, $1.50 ij.f, Cleng Peerson, 1 The first Norwegian immigrant to America. Came to America in Born in Norway, Europe, May 17, 1782. Died in Texas, Dec. 16, 1865.

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