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Show Mel.miicr' .tiiiciliHii Admirer. 1 think that my country people had a pcindiy share in the sjMiiling of the v;iin and arrogant artist, t m American millionaire laid a blank check upon bis e.iscl with a request for the painting of a picture, for which the choc It was to be filled up with v hatevor sum the paint: r thought sufficient. Another stayed Meis-souier's Meis-souier's hand as he was about to sign h work lie had just completed for him. and then the purchaser summoned all his family nrouml him t witness the 1 solemnity of the signing. On another orc'-ision lie was ngngl.(j to paint the pornait of 1111 America!!. Caoaijel w:iS informed of the fact, and immediately tisired if the price had been eed upon In-forehand. "Certainly not," wis the rcp'y. "Mci.ssotiier is too great a man to be dealt with in that manner." "Vou have untile a mistake," was the sole remark made by Cabauel. And when the port.i'.it in question Varna to 1 paid for Meissotricr charged just ft, 000 more for it than be bad ever before be-fore asked for a portrait of similar di-' nieusious. Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph- |