Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1895, Page 11

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Macfarland, winner of the New Year day tourney, will be given at the rooms of the Washington Chess, Checker and Whist Club, 612 12th street northwest, Tuesday next. Mr. A. W. Scho- field, champion of Maryland, will also give taneous exhibition on Tuesday, Jan- Play will commence promptly at 7:30 and continue until 10:00 p. m. Memphis Jockey Club Election. MEMPHIS, Tenn., January 10.—Directors of the Memphis Jockey Club unanimously re-elected S. P. Montgomery president. He declined to serve, and Capt. George Arnold was elected president; S. P. Montgomery, Napoleon Hill, R. B. Snowden and John W. Cochran, vice presidents; James H. Rees, secretary, and S. P. Montgomery, C. C Conlan, Frank G. Jones and R. T. Cooper, executive committee. The governing pow- er.which has heretofore rested largely with president and secretary, is now vested in the executive committee, which is under- stood to be the basis of compromise be- tween Montgomery and Rees. JS TO TEST ITS STRENGTH. The Senate Will Vote on a Motion to Table the Canal Bill Next Week. Arrangements have been made for a test vote on the Nicaragua canal bill some time next week. A motion will be made by Senator George of Mississippi to lay the bill on the table. If this motion is defeated by any such d ve vote as the friends of 2 claim, it is then proposed to push the bill to an early vote. If it is shown that there is a great deal of opposi- tion to the measuré it is probable that the bill will be withdrawn. The object of the test vote is to ascertain the standing of the bill in the Senate. —_—___-e-_— The Geological Society. Several papers were pre: ted at the meeting of the Geological Society last evening in the essembly hall of the Cos- mos Club. A specimen of artificial wire silver was presented by Bailey Willis. It was prepared by F. C. Phillips, and was made by passing a stream of hydrogen at a high temperature through sulphide of silver. G. P. Merrill spoke on the disintegration of certain granitic rocks of the District, which had separated into soil apparently without undergoirg chemical decomposi- tion of any sort. There was aroiher paper by W. Lindgren on the characteristics of the gold quartz veins of California with specimens. — Secretary Morton to Go West. Secretary of Agriculture J. Sterling Mor- ton will leave Washington the middle of the week for Lincoln, Neb., where he goes to attend the annual meeting of the Ne- braska State Historical Society, of which he has been the president for a number of yeurs. He will be gone nearly two weeks, and during his absence Assistant Secretary Dabney will be acting secretary of agri- of the physical consti- tution often comes from unnatural, per- nicious habits, con- tracted through ignorance or a= from excesses, Such habits result in 1&3 of manly power, nerv- fee mae es ous’ exhaust- nervous debility, impaired memory, low spirits, Tian toe and a thou- — a oe esi C mind Coe iy. * i tening of the brain Pan ven dread” insanity some- times result from such reckless self-abuse. To reach, reclaim and restore such unfort- ‘unates to health and happiness, is the aim of Pole Oe itten in plain but chaste language, on the nature, grmpeons dnd oer by home treatment, of such diseases. book will be sent sealed, in pon receipt of ten cents in pay ay. to Wodtts Dispensary A» eociation, 663 Main Medical St... Buffalo. N. ¥. AMUSEMENTS, Mr. Mayo’s Piano Recital.—The inclement state of the weather kept down the attend- ance at the piano recital given by Mr. Arthur D. Mayo last evening at the Uni- versalist Church, but what the audience ked in numbers it made up in enthu- iasm, warmly applauding the performer on is first appearance and the completion of his first number, the second movement of Schumann's Fantasie. ‘The second number, the sonata, in F sharp by Beethoven, showed much feeling and conscientious work, but it was in the Caprice Etude, on themes from the Hebrides overture, by Mendelssohn-Heller, that he appeared to the best advantage. He was obliged to resporid to an encore to this, playing a light theme, ‘The Chase,” by Rheinberger. ‘The Pepillons,” by Schumann, and “La Char- ite,” by Rossini-Liszt, were well rendered, as’ was also the Etude en forme de Valse by St. Saens, which showed his fine tech- riqne to great advantage. He was assisted by Mr. Perry B. Turpin, the well-known tenor, who was in excellent voice, and who sang with precision and sweetness. He wa: obliged to give an encore to his first rend tion, the aria, “Ii Mio Tesoro Intanto,” by rt, responding with a pretty little bal- ‘Maiden Mine,” by Sterndale Bennett. iis work in “Hark, Hark, the Lark,’ by Schubert, was also warmly appiauded. Mr. Mayo's playing shows the result of hard study and work. His technique is excellent and one of the favorable criticisms of playing is on the amount of expressi which he puts into all his efforts. He is also a rare accompanist, paying a great deal of attention to the harmony between the voiceand the piano. Altogether it was one of the most successful piano recitals of the season, both from an artistic and a pecuniary standpoint. ‘The Wesleyan Glee Club.—Entertainment of the kind that college men are such adepts in supplying, and which is so pleas- ing to the public, was furnished an appre- ciative audience of goodly proportions at Metzerott Music Hall last ng. entertainers were the Wesleyan Glee and Mandolin clubs, and their program was as select ard varied as the most fastidious could desire. For two hours the audience enjoyed the clever antics demanded by some of the numbers, or laughed at other selections of a comic nature, or applauded the more serious and artistic renditions. The glee club is composed, in the main, of fine voices, harmoniously blended; the parts are evenly balanced and well sustained. The spirits of the members were effer- vescent and they responded freely to the frequent encores upon which the audience insisted. One part of the program was de- ted to the familiar tragic cantata, “The Grasshopper on the Sweet Potato Vine,” which wes rendered in a delightfully re- freshing manner. Other selections of spe- cial note were “An Interrupted Serenade,” by Mr. Towner, and the glee club, forcibly reminding one of those feline concerts on woodsheds which are heard to such ad- vantage on moonlight summer nights; “The ‘94 Medley,” a fine number, both in con- ception and execution; “Dried Apple Pies, by an octet, and the rollicking “Yonnie Schmoker.” Mr. Davis, the leader of the glee, appeared in a solo number in which his meilow baritone was heard to good ef- fect. He was enthusiastically encored. The andolin club, though small, contributed much to the pleasure of the evening; their ut was very creditable. Their most artistic selections were Bel- lenghi’s “iorentinella” and the encore it received. : Mrs. Langtry.—After an absence of more than four years, Mrs. Langtry will return to Washington next Monday night. She will make her reappearance at Albaugh’s on that occasion in a piece that is new to Washington, a production of Sidney Grun- day's new and powerful drama, “Esther Sandraz,” a play in which she has already achieved pronounced success. She played it tor eight weeks at the St. Jam ‘Theater in London. “Ksther Sandraz” will be pre- sented here with the London cast. The play 1s by no means a one-part production, as it affords admirable opportunities to Frank H. fenton as Henri Vandelle, and J. W. Pigott, Fourcanade; Oscar Adye as Oulivier, Ivan Watson as Bots Gommeux, Miss Hthel Hope as Mme. Fourcanade, and Miss Beatrice Selwyn as Henriette—oppor- tunities of which they are not slow to take advantage. “Esther Sandraz’” is what is called “up to date,” and is stamped with Mr. Grundy’s keen dramatic instinct and cynical nature. ‘There are several very strong scenes in It, and the dialogue is not dull for a moment. In “Esther Sandraz” The | the feliowing memters of Mrs. Langtry’s company will be seen: rs. Frank H. Fenton, C ar Adye, J. Pigott, Ivan Watson, Roland Atwood, A. R. Steel, M n, Ethel Hope, Miss Beatrice Selwyn, Miss Florence Leclercq. On Wednesc and ‘Thursday evenings Mrs. Langtry will pre- sent for the first time in this city a naw play from the pen of M. Victorien Sardou, which has been done into English by Sid- ney Grundy especially for Mrs. Langtry and entitled “A House of Cards.” On Fr: day and Saturday evenings and at the Sat- urday matinee Mrs. Langtry will be seen as Lady Ormond in C. B. Stevenson’s and Clement Scott's be y of society, ‘A Wife's Peril.’ ndraz” will be presented on Monday and Tuesday even- ings and at the special Wednesday mat- inee. All Mrs. angtry’s productions will be under the personal direction of Mr. E. B. Norman. “True Irish Hearts.”—Prince Tinymite, nineteen years old and thirty-one inches in height, will appear on the stage at But- ler's Bijou Theater next week every even- ing and Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday matinee, during the performance of Dan McCarthy's “True Irish Hearts,” and after each performance will hold a reception in the theater. Prince Tinymite, the famous Nova Scotia midget, was born in Lockport, N. Y., July 27, 1 perfect in form and feature. During the past twenty-five years there have been on exhibition midgets and little people innumerable, but Prince Tiny- mite is the smallest. smartest, brightest and most intelligent and entertaining litule man ever seen in this or any other country ‘The prince is a remarkable checker player and during the week will meet all those who may wish to compete with him in a friend- ly game of checkers. The engagement is for one week only Irwin Brothers’ Specialty Compan: attraction at Kernan’s Lyceum next week will be the Irwin Brothers’ Spe- cialty Company, an organization composed of a number of European and American artists of note. Every act on the program is refined and up to date, and every name is one of prominence. Among those in the company are the Two Macs, the eccentric comedians; the National Trio, composers and originators; Prof. White's trick mule: and ponies, Sam and Kittie Morton, Am: ica’s representative dancing experts; Luigi Dell Oro, the musical wonder; Bennetto and Gannon, the marvelous contortionists; Carr and Jordan, refined sketch artists John W. World, England’s famous char- acter comedian, and Rench and Kennedy, in a new and original act. Sousa’s Remarkable Tour.—Sousa’s Con- cert Band has just concluded a tour un- precedented in point of time, of travel, of musical achievement and physical endur- ance. This tour embraced an uninterrupted daily series of concerts of ten months, or over three hundred days, in which, in- cluding matinees, over four hundred and ninety-eight concents were given to audi- ences numbering nearly.one million of peo- ple. The territory’ covéted stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, and from the great lakes to the, Gulf of California. Brief concert tours in January and Febru- ary will be followed by a series of longer tours through the sout# and west begin- ning in March arid reagBing, as before, up to the winter holidays;, and including, of course, the regular Manhattan Beach and St. Louis exposition ‘engagements. Mr. Sousa and his band will give a concert at Albaugh’s a week from next Sunday night. Wallace Bruce—On Wednesday evening next Mr. Wallace’ Bruce, the late United States consul at Edinburgh, will deliver a lecture on “Womanhood in Shakespeare,” at Metzerott’s, for’ the’ benefit of the Gar- field Memorial Hospital: ‘Tickets can be had of the lady managers and at Bren- tano’s or Metzerott's. The “C, Course.—Mr. Alexander Black will give the next number of the “C. €.” course at Metzerott’s on next Tuesday evening. The unique picture play, “Miss Jerry,” will be rendered with pictures in- stead of actors, and from the present out- look will draw as well with the general public as it will with those who have course tickets. The First Art Lecture.—The celebrated | author and artist, Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith, will lecture before the Art Students’ League, 719 17th street northwest, on Sat- urday evening, January 12, on “The quality of the picturesque.” Those who have had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Smith before know what to expect, and many will be in attendance to hear him. A Dramatic Club’s Work.—“A Scrap of Paper” held the boards at Willard Hall last evening, under the supervision of Mr. Barry Bulkley. It was presented by the C. T. M, Dramatic Club of Columbian Uni- versity, and was the occasion of its third public appearance. Great improvement was noticed over the other performances, both in the rendition of the lines and the acting of the parts. The following acquitted them- selves creditably in the rendering of the jous characters of the comedy: Robert Farnham, jr., Miss Grace Ross, R. Clark, Miss Helen Biddis, H. H. D. Sterrett, Wm. K. Ward and Henrietta C. Morrison. Music was furnished by an orchestra under the direction of Mr. Joseph Finckel, one of Washington's coming violinists. The Schumann Quartet.—The celebrated Schumann Ladies’ Quartet of Chicago will sing at the Calvary Sunday school room on Friday evening next. As this is one of the leading quartets of the country, they will doubtless enjoy a large patronage. Tickets can be secured at Metzerott’s. A Harp Recital.—It is announced that Miss Anita Cluss, harp virtuoso, will give one grand harp recital at Metzerott Hall on Friday evening, January 18. Of Miss Cluss’ harp playing too much cannot be said, for it is generally known that she fingers her harp string$ mst gracefully. She has attained a wonderful technique, and also plays with great expression, with- out which her technical skill would be rothing. Her talent, coupled with the fact that she is a Washington girl, should at- tract great attention. Miss Clu: will be assisted by Mrs. Kitty ‘Thompson Berry, soprano; Mr. T. Williams-Pearman, tenor; Prof. Anton Kaspar, violinist, and Prof. Arnold W. Meyer, pianist. Reserved seats may now be had at Metzerott’s music store. The Sutro Sisters’ Piano Recital.—The Sutro Sisters, who are very talented young artists, appear tonight at Metzerott’s Masic Hall in an ensemble piano recital, u: two pianos. Their recent concerts in New York, Brooklyn, Chicago and Baltimore established their reputation as pianists of Quaker Oats makes the Ky muscles stronger, the bones harder, the brain brighter: Illustrated Lectures and Clinics. AN EXHIBITION THAT BAFFLES DESCRIPTION. THE SICK ARE CURED FREE. . The public are invited to bring the worst cases that can be found, and they will be treated in full view of the audience daily. Doors open at 1:30; Lecture begins at 2 sharp. Admission. Free. WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS FOR LADIES ONLY. ‘These Lecture-Clintes will be continued every day, but Saturday, until further motice. $a5-tf Page | unusval merit.” It is satd that they have apparently not only mastered the mechan- iem of the piano, put the poetic power, of sustained and sympathetic ensemble play- ing. They play without notes and exhibit an ibsolute certainty as a musical unit in their sisterhood playing. The piano num- bers for this evening are as follows: Sonata, D major, Mozart; Impromptu theme from Schumann’s Manfred Rein- icke; Rondo, Op. 73, Chopin, and les Pre- ludes, symphonic poem, No. 3, Liszt. Miss Katherine Willard, mezzo-soprano, is the vocalist. ——— Unjustly Discriminating Legislation. To the Editor of The Erening Star: It is not unusual to see laws passed by state legislatures and by Congress which até ‘so unreasonable and unjust that they can be accounted for only on the ground of partisanship and political trickery, as, for instance, the gerrymandering of elec- tien districts. But here is legislation in reference to the District of Columbia as unjust and un- reasorable as that, and which cannot be accounted for in any such way. In all the legislation hy Congress in refer- ence to education, from the day the first law was passed in 1802 and enlarged in 1sv3 down to the present hour, there has been the most unjust discrimination against this District. Under the laws passed by Congress there have been donated to the states and terri- tories for public schools nearly 100,000,000 acres of the public lands. Fer state universities 1,509,000 acres, For agricultural and mechanical colleges, 9,600,000 to which was added by the act of 1 00 per annum to each state and territory, besides the $28,000,000 in cash distributed among the states by the act of i about Montana and several of the states re- cently admitted were given 2,000,000 acres in_a lump tor public schools. In all this legislation, except the act of 1 the District of Columbia has been excluded, and aithough that act included the District, yet for some reason which I have been unable to ascertain, the Dis- trict did not get aceht of the $28,000,000, So ingrained does this discrimination against the District seem to be that when the Blair bill was before the Senate it was seals) especially to exclude the Dis- rict! And now comes Senate bill 1708, intro- duced February 27, 1894, to establish a National University in the District ef Co- lumbia, for the higher education of col- lege graduates only, section 10 of which provides that. free “scholarship shall be given to €ach state and territory in the ratio of population, not less than one for each member and two for each Senator, with the District omitted, as usual. This bill appropriates one-third of the proceeds of the public lands for ten years for the establishment and support of this university, and which, taking the average of the proce2ds of the public lands for the pest thrée years; Would amount to the sum of $37,511,000, In this instance I have reason to believe that the exclusion of the District was not intentional, but an oversight, and am as- sured that the bill will be amended to in- clude the District. The purpose is a good one, and no one can object to the establishment of such an institution, even though its benefits are to be confined to a particular class of citi- zens. ‘At the same time, when, as shown by the official reports, one-third of the chil- dren of school age do not aitend school at all, and of those who do attend fully 2,000 can have only half-day schools be- cause of the want ef school buildin, one cannot but wonder why there should be this continuous discrimination against the District in the matter of an educational fund for the common people. It is no answer to say that the general government pays one-half the expense of what schools we do have, because that is simply in lieu of the tax on its property, oes besides it has done that only since Saying nothing of the anomalous condi- tion of affairs in the District, such as the large number of.non-resident pupils whose parents contribut2 nothing to the support of the: District or its schools, it is most remarkable that in all the legislation on this’ ‘subject, from the foundation of the government to the present day, the Dis- trict should be discriminated against as it hag becn. A parallel to it cannot be found in the entire legislative history of the country. Here is an opportunity for some broad- minded public man to do a most just and beneficent act by introducing a bill to give to the District its share of the public lands or other funds for common school pur- poses. If it is proper to use the public funds for such purpose elsewhere in the coun- try it certainly is here. If it is proper to use the public funds for the higher edu- cation of college graduates all over the ccuntry it certainly is proper to use a pertion of them for the elementary edu- cation of the children of the District in- stead of leaving them to grow up in idle- ness, running about the streets and alleys, loafing about the saloons and graduatin; vagabonds and criminals for the decen portion of the community to arrest and support in idleness in the workhouse and jail. W. C. DODGE. — The Patent Office Up to Date. For the first time in fifteen years the United States patent office finds itself, this week, up to date with its work. This means that in all of its thirty-three examining divisions the work is in such a condition that a new application filed today will be acted upon on its merits within thirty days, and an amendment filed today will receive attention within two weeks. 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