took over a year-he was paid the princely sum of $700. For this the purchaser can not be blamed. He was offered a certain sum and as usual counted not his own labor but gave it freely in the cause for which he worked.

Returning to Nashville he for a time took charge of the department of wood carving, modeling, and figure composition in the art school there.

With the year 1889 came affliction. Early in January (4th) his beloved daughter passed away and on the 20th of the same month the wife of his son Frederick, then living at Washington, D. C., was also taken.

His home being thus broken up his son gave up his position in Washington and came to live with him, and from that date until his death their lots were cast together.

Then was put to the test a scheme which had been often discussed, the manufacture of church furniture as a business. It was thought that if the clergy of the Church knew of him and his work they would give him the preference in any contemplated church decoration, either painting or carving. Circulars were sent out to the clergy informing them that he was prepared, with the assistance of his son, to design and execute reredoses, altars, fonts, etc., and it was hoped by this means a trade could be built up which would insure a living and he would be enabled to go on with the "Series."

Quite a number of requests for such things had already been received, and these were made as rapidly as possible, an altar and font for a church

in South Pittsburg, Tenn., in oak; a communion table and pulpit in cherry for the Western Methodist Church in Nashville, and a large reredos for St. Luke's Church in Jackson, Tenn.

While the latter work was in progress he accepted a call from Halsey C. Ives, afterward art commissioner for the Chicago fair, to take the position of instructor in art at the school of Washington University in St. Louis, and in the fall of that year removed to St. Louis and assumed his duties there.

The reredos for Jackson was completed in St. Louis, and as there had been no response to the request for work of that character no more was undertaken.

Only a few important paintings were the result of this year's work, most of it being taken up with carving. The principal ones were "Victorious," an Indian who had just killed a grizzly bearwhich had fallen across his dead horse-shouting in triumph to his companions who are coming up in the distance. This was painted in monochrome and a drawing was made. It was afterward published in lithograph.

"The Sands of Dee" from the poem of that name by Charles Kingsley. This was a striking picture, a Scotch lassie coming up the shore "calling the cattle home," the "creeping tide" coming in, bringing with it bits of seaweed, and over the waves the "blinding mist came pouring down and 'hid the land.' This picture was sold some years later to Wood & Co., publishers, of New York; and "A Royal Pair," lion and lioness,