Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1897, Page 19

: THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1897-94 PAGES. LONG IN: uy |oasz cetarananez,"tamves LONG IN CONGRESS |Sarrerscmrtericase|4RT AND ARTISTS| term cunt Acoso fame” Members Who HaverBien Re-Elected Many Times. re a ee Pisco i Rirasemispepeyhci 7 apnepiieryvnist iinet viet theme inaiienoreeriaa ee ee Tae the appropriations committee had the right of way, it was tu he ART AND ARTISTS FAITH CURE A GOOD THING Since the opening of the new Corcoran Art Gallery several new pictures have been Placed on the walls from time to time, most of these having been leaned for ex- hibition only, though some of them have then, yout your’ nerves and heart, Dyspe lets will do t things hecause they are compoend. of the elements of digestion, they contain the Juices, ackds and yop vse the appropriation bills to prevent what he considered unwise legisla’ » and that he had held back n’ bills ‘until the last hours of the session of Con- i Be Bloceed tt any other legislation would | been presented to the gallery. The picture 1 alee aed emer be blocked. | Mr. by Neube: Geuchahe Shick Scape Dyspepsia. Tablets will digest sor of Mr. Holman as the chairman of ra y 2 Secu —— Jar or bottle in water Beated to 98 ME. HOLMA’S CURIOUS SUPERSTITION | Propriations, and ar. Holman's crusade for | once formidable walls of a ruined castle | Sacc.i,% Jf or hottie, in water Beate reel emer which made him famous, was a rising in the middle distance, has been pre- 5 its meals, w saree sf & crunade wi which was begun by i Mr. h Cross < Se Mr. Randall for the democratic party, and | “ned to the gallery by — Johnson. The other canvases that have been added to the permanent collection are the view of Lake George by John W. Casi- lear, presented by Miss Josephine Harrison, and Armand Dumaresq’s “Geneva Confer- ence,” which was presented by Mr. Herbert Dumaresgq of Boston. The latter picture is &@ very large canvas, and is more interest- ing from a historical than from a purely artistic standpoint, commemorating, as it does, an important event of history, and including portraits of a number of well- known men. Among the paintings loaned for temporary exhibition there are a num- ber of portraits. There are two by Carl Gutherz, one of Lady Dufferin and the other of Senator Morrill, and a likeness of ex-Secretary Herbert by C. Ayer Whipple. A full-length portrait of the late Mrs. Au- gust Belmont, painted by Madrazo, and a study head by Harry Floyd complete the st of portraits. A fine landscape by Will- iam Keith and “The Stock Fic ” by Alma G. White, are among the pictures exhibited. Two of the most recent additions are by lo- cal artists, “The Musicians,” a pastel, by Alice Archer Sewall, and “Karma,” a strik- before him by Mr. Garfield for the repub- licans. sald in 1872: “The ex Why He Was Calféd ithe Watch- dog of the ‘Treasury. Mr. Garfield pend- iture of revenue forms the grand level from. which all heights and depths of legislative action are measured, and is the best test of the health, the wisdom and the virtue of a government. There is scarcely a con- celvable form of corruption or public wrong that does not at last present itself at the cashier's desk and demand nt. The legislature, therefore, that stands at the cashier's desk and watches with its Argus eyes the demands for payment over the counter is most certain to see all the forms of public rascality. At that place, too, we may feel the nation’s pulse; we may (de- termine whether it is in the delirium of fever or whether the currents of its life ace roe with the steady throbbings of health.” their old haunts. change, so also the work changeth. They have all become more steady, compromising ‘to mect fortune half-way, and this gladly. ie years ago these Independents in their 1 expositions were best known by the ‘zebraists” among them, the brave hearts who, seeing in bountiful nature such strange treasures as trees with pink trunks, girls with green hair, Scotch-plaid grass and landscapes.of golden dirt, sap- phire fence rails, mud-colored sktes nd vermillion water courses, transferred them to the canvas by means of slung-shot, there to be leveled down ingeniously with trowels and rakes. Were there not “scien- tific painters” like young Demarini, who, “inventing” the art of mosaic, unknown of course to the Romans and the Greeks, and down the flood of years till their im- portant find, got into their scientific pro- auctions by meens of patient daubing on of unmixed primary colors, all the good— with the bad—effects of the mosaic? One went to the salon of the Independents to have a good laugh, almost. Now all is changed. He ApeOyt — Evans hae been placea for a time In Dr. Whitman's reception room, and has called forth the same praise that it received w mail from the Stuart Co., Marsha’ ‘Send for book on Stomach Diseascs, exhibited at the Cosmos Club a few weeks ago. “digested. Stuai arugeinte Mr. E. C. Messer at the Columbian Uni- ve and profit to all who have attended them. and his opinions cre well worth hearing. who has thought deeply on the subject. which underlie art, and while they are per- a APPROPRIATION BILLS Written for The Evening Star. OUR YEARS AGO I spent an evening with W. 8, Holman of Indiana at his home, the Hamilton Hotel. In the course of conversation about public matters he said to me: “You know,there is a superstition that no man. will ever serve thirty years in the “SNOBISME” IN FRENCH ART. SIDE ISSUES IN ART Many Distractions for French Lovers Reducing Expenses. Mr. Garfield, as chairman of appropria- tions, reduced the expenses of the govern- ment four and a haif millions in the second session of the Forty-third Congress. In the next Congress, which was the first demo- cratic Congress since the war, Mr. Randall evidently made him up, Peladan, the art student, became first a magician, then the self-appointed leader of the (revived) Rosi- crucians, and finally—and cumulatively— the Sar, not “a,” but “the,” a title com- ing from Assyria or Persia, meaning no- body knows what, but covering great The two public lectures on art given by ersity have proved @ source of pleasure Mr. Messer is very broad in his sympathies, coming as they do from a practicing painter Mr. Messer’s lectures are on the principles haps more thoroughly appreciated ao students and those especially interest powers of a supernatural character, pos- House. I~ guess] was at the head of appropriations, and he Gbsenstaie een han eeeaipceneny pre- mete ng iy emg or oye gee of Painting sessed, it would seem, on condition of not O'Neill will Break | and his colleagues—among them Mr. Hol- | sented to #he gallery is not hung in any of | subject of which is “Art and the Critic. . being used. man—set about cutting down expenses still more. There was a rule of the House which prevented the reduction of salaries by less than a two-thirds vote, but Mr. Randall succeeded in _ introducing a rule permitting the attachment of legisla- tion to appropriation bills by a majority vote. Then occurred a complete review of the government departments and a lopping off of expenses everywhere. Those who think the bill introguced by Mr. Lanham of Texas the other day to cut down all gal- aries paid by the government is almost revolutionary do not know that a similar Proposition was made by Mr. Randall, and would have been adopted by Congress but for tht opposition of the Senate. Mr. Ran- dall proposed a 10 per cent reduction in all salaries of more than $1,200 a year, and a reduction of the clerical force in the de- partments by 20 per cent. The result of the work of Mr. Randall, seconded by Mr. Holman, was to cut down the appropriations nearly thirty million dollars. The amount recommended by Randall’s committee was $1: amount adopted by the House, $138, 7: amount adopted by the Senate, $1 the record. He is strong and hearty. But he was asking me the other day if I had any faith in the old\ superstition.” The O'Neill of whom Mr. Holman spoke was Charles O'Neill of Philadelphia. He and Mr. Holman were serving then their fit- teenth terms in the House. It must have made Mr. Holman feel a bit creepy when Mr. O'Neill died a few months later, Mr. Holman lived to defy the supersti- tion, for he completed his fifteenth term and was elected for a sixteenth, after a lapse of two years. He had just begun his thirty-first year in the House when he died the other day. Mr. Helman was under the impression that no man had served for thirty years. He was mistaken. A representative from Virginia named Newton not only eclipsed that record marked unattainable by su- perstition, but served longer than Mr. Hoi- man had served at the time of his death. Mr. Newton closed his congressional ca- the exhibftion rooms, but occupies the place of honor over the mantelpiece in the board room. It was painted and presented by Prof. E. F. Andrews, and 1s a portrait of James M. Carlisle, the first president of the Corccran Gallery. The artist is in receipt of a letter of thanks a the trustees. will be given on Friday, May 7, at 4:30, and Surrendered to a Dot. is free to all. Should it appear that this has but faint connection with the new and the independ- ent in art, the fault should be set down to Monsieur Peladan, who, after getting himself well advertised as a Parisian char- acter, yielded his lily hand to the highest bidder among the admiring throng of young ladies with substantial dots, whom he permitted to crowd round him in the bourgeotse salons, which constitute the longed-for promised land of all Bohemia, however independent, and, being married richly, could afford to sit at ease and let his followers work out the riddle as they might. It was naturally supposed that this would be his course, and it is to the credit of his fidelity that he still remains’a Rosi- crucian. The riddle, In reality, is not so hard to read. The secret society called the Rose Croix declares itself to have for its object the bringing about of a renaissance of “the ideal” by means of the art of painting. What the original Rosicrucians had for their great work must, therefore, matter little, and there will be little gainea The display of studies by Hattle Bur- dette, Marie Mattingly and Anna Sands which has covered the walls of Fischer's gallery this week has been exceptionally interesting. An excellent showing was made, which promises well for the future, when It is remembered that what they have done is but earnest of the things that they will do. A large part of the work is in pastel, though there are some oils and a few drawings in black and white, the latter being for the most part decorative in style. A novel feature of the exhibition is the Portraits of famous beauties of the French period of Louis XV and later. They are executed much in the style in vogue in those days, and the number includes like- nesses of Henrietta of France, Marie An- toinetts, the Duchess du Barry and several others. Perhaps the best of Miss Bur- dette's pastels is a beautiful study called THE SOCIETY OF THE ROSE CRO Influence of Polychromic Zebraists and Crank Symbolists. Bese See M. PELADAN “THE SAR” The work of the stud dents of the Corcoran School of Art has been very much inter- rupted this year, and a good deal of time was lost while the school was being mov- ed into its new quarters. On this account it is probable that the exhibition will not be quite as large this year es formerly, though there is every reason to suppose that in quality the work will show the same steady advance that has marked the exhibitions In past years. The students who are competing for the medals have also been somewhat hampered by the un- settled state of affairs this winter, but they are now working hard enough to make up for lost time. The award cf Studio of Mystic. It is really remarkable how nearly they approach to the now-reckoned moderately advanced impressionism of the Champ de Mars, these doubly independent Indepen- dents, independent enough to step back after having stepped a step too far! Some Really Good Things. Special Corresponderce of The Evening Star. PARIS April 14, 1897. T THIS SEASON, when the two Salons pour thelr floods of art rays over Paris, those of us who re- reer in the Twenty-second Congress after | amount agreed to finally, $147,719, medals will be made about the last week |“"The Rose,” which shows a woman in- . dolce in such illumi-| on this head by a rereading of your Bulwer | This year the Independent Salon received serving thirty-one years in the House. amount Tecommentied oy the Secretary of | in May, and will just precede the annual aed ee 4 full-blown flower. nation and some of} Lytton. Accept the program of the Sar.| 1,250 pictures. Perhaps fifty were well| Two years ago the list of those ne had | the Treasury, $203,000,025. exhibition, so that visitors will have an arent ric een postal entitled us who do not, but| This spring, as in past springs, he and his | worth looking at for other reasons than | Served more than twenty years ‘Im Ger, f ta ine ensuing ConetEae Mr. Randall was | opportunity to view the prize drawings. eading,”" which was exhibited at the Wa- fhave consciences to| !dealizing brethren expose each their rid- eress was comparatively short, and the only member of the House who could be included in it was W. 8. Holman of In- diana. The list of that day has been short- ened by death and retirement. Speaker, and Mr. Holman as chairman of appropriations cut down the government expenses by another ten millions. But in later years many appropriation bills were ter Color Club, also claims its share of at- tention. Miss Mattingly’s “Girl in Pik” was much admired, as was also her oil called “‘Maladetta,” a superb head, which Several of the students have commenced cut-door sketching in water color, under Miss Grace Atwater, and there promises to be quite a class from the Corcoran amusement and wonder—a distinct march, a real progress. But among these fifty there are anumber of canvases which would do honor to any orthodox salon! Some dies, their what-is-lts made on canvass stand and blink therein for culture’s sake or else pushed is very striking in color. “Rouge et Noir” Senator | distributed among the other committees, | School a little later on. Miss Atwater has = was the most important pastel that Mis on by what the |- | Sherman has gone out of Congress to en- | Mr. Holman was displaced as chairman of | taken her class out several times and finds French call “snob- ec inal ep ee ee renter ter the cabinet. Senator Ransom failed of | appropriations, and the great objector in | an inexhaustible supply of excellent mo- Se tel —— md isme,” revel in the have all the fresn ludk of pastel work. | re-election two years ago and has been | his later years was but a shadow of the i innocent connoisseurship of the label, find ourselves not only occupied with paintings and marbles as meye pleasure-giving ob- Jects, but also almost wise in tendencies and schools. Time was when one could choose the right hand or the left, hold with the conservative Salon of the Champs Ely- sees or venttre into the impressionism or There are good landscapes with plenty of light—a specialty, one might say—what ar- lists in their slang call ‘‘atmosphere’—and there is pretty decorative work, Indepen- its being independent. Then there are the designs which remind one of the Jap- anese, by Toulouse Lautrec, the poster- making nobleman, lawless in art as in pol- ities. Here, too, one of the most notable serving as minister to Mexico since. Sen- ator Voorhees retired on the 4th of March and died a few weeks ago. Senator Har- ris is still there, though there was grave doubt of his survival a month or so ago. Morrill, Allison, Hale and Frye are stil active in congressional ‘ice. - Senator Morrill is the record holder i the matter of service. Here is the lis tives in the vicinity of Washington. figure he had been fifteen or twenty years os ber of other studies. Next week there will before. GEORGE GRANTHAM BAIN. be an exhibition of a miscellaneous char- acter containing paintings by Vollon, Weeks, Patterson and others. oe The exhibition of drawings by the late Mr. George Y. Coffin will remain at Veer- The bust of Judge Eamppent, which Mr. H. J. Ellicott is now working upon, be- comes a stronger likeness with every touch. It is full of character and force, and is instinct with the personality of the man. The third bust of Commoio:re Melville is —.—_—_. THE PRUDENT WIFE. She is Now Satisfed That There is No Danger of the Bank Breaking. T'rom the Chicago Times-Herald. hoff's gallery for three or four days longer. exhibitors is an American, and his strength otal | By dint of much economy and denying | Row being cast in Providence, R. I., from |The last presidential campaign furnisied naturalism of the Salon of the Champ de Cee ae ous a En Se | ae aa so usS. denate, ood themselves the theater and expensive din-| Mr. Ellicott’s model, and it will, when | material for io. Notes number of the car- 2 is Mr. Guy Maynard, an is favorite | Sena fort = e c let. to the c ith Club | toons now exhibited, and most of them deal elon aa oan amet encom te color ia green. He likes {t so much that ic | Senator Alison... 40 py Se Se ED | oe ere ee ee re pre. | With political situations of rather rec Serra ae erst bat ee bye da gets even into the flesh tints of his figures, | Senator Hoar. 8 20 ee Ce en eae hy tae military order of the Loyal | Gate. There are quite a number of drs must certainly take cognizance of “the lit- to the mental insecurity of those who look | Serator Hale. 12 16 28 | few hundred dollars, which was drawing in- Legion, which trganization has already | ings where the artist has taken a cele- tle expositions,” the “Rose Croix,” the on them. Without having any further |Senator Frye...... 10 16 26 | terest in’a bank on La Salle street. The presented one bust to the library and mu- | brated painting, and while retaining the “New Art” and “The Independents,” at the knowledge of Mr. Maynard than the cata- |Senator. Harris... 4 20 24 same time gathering some idea of their relations to the rew, the hitherto undream- ed-of—and the cranky—in the larger field of letters. It was thought, indeed, that the Rose Croix was good and dead, its funeral cere- monies being mystically wrapped up in the actual and fleshy marriage of that strange A with the aid Painter of Gore. of paints and brushes and a very personal understanding of perspec- subject. tive, line and composition, coloring and The sar began the exhibition by a long talk on the decadence of modern art and the great mecit of the religious pictures of the old pre-Raphaelite Italian masters. On the table at was the statue of Balzac! his side, smiling at his chat, Some of those present could not help remembering his farewell to Paris, but a short time ago. “The inteltectual feast, which I intend to organize in my home province, will that how logue's notice of his name and nationality, 2 should like very much to make a guess concerning some of the more intimate de- tails of his life and work, the application of a principle I ventured to discover but a woment 2g0; but, to be delicate, I will at- tempt a prophecy instead. Perhaps these greens will fade from Mr. Maynard's flesh when he shall have received, as he de- serves, some good rich orders from far- seeing amateurs and rosy visions of the world’s approval loom up Promisingly be- fore his gratified imagination. Impression- {st artists, like the rest of us, do not re- ceive impressions only through the eye. STERLING HEILIG. ———.__ WILL THE CAT COME BACK? The Service Record. Mr. Holman’s term did not date back as far as,that of Galusha Grow of Penn- sylvania, but his service years had been almost twice as many. ‘Next him in poiut of service was Harmer of Pennsylvania, who had been a member pf the House for twenty-four years when he took his seat for hfs thirteenth term.on the 4th of March, Here is the service record of those who aré now: in the House wha, were. elected first prior to 1880: ——- Grow, Pa. J. H. Ketcham, N.Y. otherwise. They discussed home, Prudent wife, alarmed by the stories of bank faflures, thought it best to draw out the little hoard and invest it in a@ large woolen stocking, but her husband argued the matter every day, and finally the lttle woman was seized with a great inspiration; she would talk it over with the banker. she said nothing to her husband about this resolve. Bright and early Monday morning shé repaired to the bank, had an extended | conversation with the cashier and returned radiant and happy. When her aous- But band returned to dinner she announced that she had determined to leave the money in the bank. seum st Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, and has placed another in grammar school No. 3 in New York city. The sculptor’s fine statue of Gen. Spinner will be placed for a time in the Corcoran Gallery, where the public will have an opportunity to judge its merits. Mr. Ellicott has entered a sketch model in the competition for the oe monument to Maj. Gen, Henry Slocum, to be erected on the battlefield of Gettysburg. Gen. Sickles, the chairman of the New York monument commission for the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chat- tanooga, has not fixed the date upon which the models are to be judged, but the sel tion is to be made in a very short time. a general action of the picture, has substi- tuted for the figures some of the politi- cians of the day. He had a knack of mak- ing these composite pictures very laugh- able, but was really at his best when creat- ing his drawings entirely from his own imaginaticn. tat Mr. J. H. Moser hes “tecidea not to come to Washington until autumn, so the public will have to forego for the present the pleasure of viewing his European studies. In the fall he expects to come here with his family, and stay throughout the winter. He is now located in New York. the sar is a worthy successor of Solomon—that first and foremost he is a man of progress and wisdom, happy to labor for the emancipation of mankind. I shake the dust of my sandais from this modern Babylon, whose pestifcrous soil will never produce.” And now, with his lace cuffs, his extraordinary velveteen coat and his long hair, he is beating the drum again for tle Parisians to come into his show! Weird Canvases. The show has not been much this year, apart from the mysterious crayon drawings of a Belgian artist, Fernan Knopff, who leaves great white spaces in his work, and the alarmingly strange allegorics of an American who fs here almost out of place. This is Marcus(or Marcius) Simmons, who appeared in Paris two years ago with an art training from no one knew where. He A cast of the large anatomical figure which Dr. Noel constructed in Mr. Ellicot! studio has been purchased by the Colum- bian University, and the sculptor has re- ceived from Prof. Shute a certificate for the anatomical accuracy of the figure. It if anything, a trifle over life size, and re resents a man in the act of drawing a bow, an attitude which makes it possible to show the muscles extended on one side of the body and contracted on the other. in Lorenzo..Danford, Ohio. ‘Thos. Updegraff, Iowa. Jehu Baker, Lis. A. C. Harmer, Pa. R. P. Blend, Mo. Jo. Cannon, “Well, what has come over you to cause this change of mind?” he asked. “Oh, I’m sure the money is quite safe there, and I do not want to lose the inter- est. “Why are you sure?” “I went down to the bank today and had a talk with the cashier, and he told me they were not going to fal “Oh, he did, did he? “Yes, he did, and he was so rice about it. I just asked him right to his face if the bark was going to fail and he laughed at me and said it had no such intention.’ “So you did not draw out your money?” “Why, certainly not. I did not even take my pass-book.”” m mighty glad of that. If you had drawn the money you might have bought a gold brick on the way home, providing the a had assured you that it was all right.” This is a Distarbing Question Among the Citizens of Denver. From the Denver News. Educated dogs, ponies, elephants, rats and innumerable other animals are ex- ceedingly common nowadays, but an edu- cated cat is something out of the ordinary. As is well known, the members of the fe- line species do not take kindly to perform- ing tricks forthe amusement of a gaping populace or even for their masters, prefer- ring to pass their lives away in the pursuit of mice or in peaceful slumber. Mr. Lemuel Kingsbury, however, is the pos- sessor of such an animal, or, rather, was, for the paragon of feline intelligence which le once owned has now disappeared, and The "Society of Washington Artists has issued a circular, in which a plan for a permanent exhibition hall is set forth, and the hearty co-operation and support of the community is desired. It is % matter which all should be deeply interested in, as the success of the plan will do much to elevate the standard of art in Washington. I{ the society receives the needed support in this enterprise, it can secure a building on Con- necticut avenue near L street, which can be remodeled at a small expense into a thor- oughly equipped, well-lit gallery. The wall space will be about twice that of the Cos- mcs Club rooms, which have been used for several years ‘past, and the increased amount of room will permit the society to solicit contributions from artists of high standing throughout the country. B. i H. Bingham, Benton McMillin, Tent Only two of these, Galusha Grow and Jehu Baker, go back to the time when Jus- tin 8S. Morrill was a member of the House in 1867. A Virginia representative was returned to the House for the fifteenth term some years ago, but he was unseated on a con- test. Another who approached the record made by Mr. Holman was the man who was for so many years known as “father of the House”—Judge Kelley of Pennsyl- vania. Judge Kelley was elected fifteen times, as Mr. O'Neill was, but he died in the middle of his fifteenth: term. The exhibition which Max Weyl and Rich- ard N. Brooke will hold in their studios in the Barbizon building will open on Tucs- day, continuing for a week or ten days. Mr. Weyl is a rapid worker, and the can- vases that he has completed this winter will make a fine display of color upon the George, you talk lke one possessed. | walls of his studio. Mr. Brooke works| The influence of the best art, which will Fint. {s not likely to be recognized at either of | despair reigns at 2410 16th street. Mr, What in the world do I want of a gold! more slowly, and for this reason his exhi- | D¢ brought here, will be valuabie in educat- the great Salons of the Champs Elyszes or | Kingsbury's cat was named “Rob Roy,” Twice Defeated. brig, although I read in the papers that | nition ze ing the public taste, and in stimulating the young man. “The Sar.” Go to the Pan- but was generally saluted as “Robbie.” He the Champ de Mars. The French, however, begar talking of his wonderful ccloring rower long before the sar took him under his wing. I have even heard, on good au- thority, that one of the big art patrons of Paris has given him a whole room of his house which he is to fill with paintings after his own fancy. My informant by lack of attention forgot the name of this pa- tron, being ignorant like many of us good Arrericans of the supreme importance of names on this side of the water: but the faci is certain. Here, among the Rosicru- cians, the picture of “The Thirst for Gold” sLows a crowd of men and women rushing greedily, furiously, up toward the pointed rocks from which the fascinating nugget shines. There is an idol, dazzling in splen or and impassively smiling at the hum: clusters which cling desperately to his pe- destal. Blood from their wounds flows over them; some are trampled under foot, crush- ed or torn, while the pitiless rays of the sun shine over them. Above, <he gold still illumines cloud-palaces, and, stiil beyond, sad archangels spread out their great wings, fleeing from the accursed carth and velling thelr eyes with trembling bands! will probably prove somewhat smaller, but his work is never hastily exe- cuted, and no canvas is considered finished until he has bestowed upon it the best work in his power. The pictures cannot all have the advantageous lighting that they would have in a gallery, but there is something very delightful about these studio exhibitions, which is an ample com- pensation for their drawbacks. Pictures never seem possessed of so much individu- ality as when viewed in the congenial at- mosphere of the atelier where they were painted. Mr. Holman’s service was not continu- ous. He was beaten twice in the early part of his congressional career by the gerry- mandering of his district. When the dem- ocrats got control of the legislature of In- diana they made Mr. Holman’s district democratic again and he stayed in Congress until the lardslide of 1894 came and swept him out. After an absence of two years he was elected again. Those two years of absence from the scenes of his long-ac- c.stomed labors, his friends think, had a great deal to do with the poor state of his health after March 4 which resulted in his death. No doubt there is some reason for thinking so. Mr. Holman would have ad- mitted it, for he told me of a colleague whom he had known intimately who pined way and died when he was defeated for re-election to Congress, and Mr. Holman held that it was the change of habits that Icosened his hold on life. Mr. Holman had been serving in the House for twenty con- secutive years when he was beaten for re- election in 1894. He had been in the public service for half a century. All the habits theon, that empty monument now dedicated to the repose of the free-thinking great ones of the present republic, and, remem- bering that it was once a great church building, stand inside the doorway and look up high in front of you at the Byzantine Mosaic head of the Christ, which is the glory of the choir. It is a portrait of young Peladan, whose blue-black forked beard, magnificent eyes and severely holy fea- tures struck the artist as he roamed a young student in the Latin Quarter. His @aintly face influenced him from the be- ginning, and it is not without a full por- tion of personal vanity of that most per- sonal kind, which we, perhaps, attribute too much to the fair sex, that the young man was drawn into the mystical studies which so became his complexion. Docilely | teking up the part for which nature had | = gold was always good and—now what are you laughing at?—you are always poking fun at me But George did not explain what excited his mirth, and the poor little woman has a suspicion that he is smoking too many strong cigars. ———_—_+e-—______ HER UNHAPPY INFIRMITY. artists to higher aims. Besides the large apnual exhibitions, the individual exhibits of local artists and painters from other cities will be held here, and the society will encourage the public exhibition of archit tural designs and the work of illustrators. The society can depend for only a small part of the funds needed upon che admis- sicn charged at the exhibitions, and wishes the help of all those interested in the growth of art in this city. An associate membership has been created, the annual dves for a member being ten dollars, the dues for ten years fifty dollars, and a life membership one hundred dollars. The associate members will have free ac- cess to the exhibitions, and invitations to the receptions or other entertainments that the society may give, excepting those for charity. Quite a number of pro:ninent pco- ple have already signified their intention of joining, recognizing the impetus that the institution will give to art in the national capital. Those who are willing to D> along this movement by becoming assoviatr members are invited to send their names te the secretary, Mr. W. H. Chandlee, Even- ing Star office. was @ magnificent tom cat, tipping the scales at 12% pounds, with a fine silky coat of fur, which made his proud owner think that he was partly an Angora. Robbie had his education begun when he was in the kitten stage, and, as he realized how superior he was to all other cats, his bosom was filled with pride, and he learned new tricks daily. He could climb into a chair and put his paws over his eyes and pray devoutly, and never move until the last amen had been said. At the word of command the intelligent Robbie would Swoon on the floor and move nothing but his tail. When his master would remark to the wondering visitor that dead cats in reality never wagged their tails, Robbie's appendage would stiffen out amid the ap- plause of the audience. Mr. Kingsbury would frequently take this wonderful cre. ature out walking with him, and at such time the cat went in state in @ graps basket, at one end of which was » hole through which Robbie could watch the ap- Proach of any boy or dog and>make prep- arations for their reception. If there was anything that Rob Roy's cultured palate craved it was pancakes, He Tried to Be Sympathetic to the Lady, but She Would Not Have It. Frem the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He was an angular man with gray ear whiskers. He gave up his seat in the crowded car with an alacrity that spoke well for the cheerfulness of his disposi- tion. The lady who took the proffered seat was stout and haughty. She slipped into the vacant place without a word. The angular man looked at her thought- fully. Then he stooped cver and said: “I had an uncle, ma’am, that had just that same affliction.” ** Mr. Emil Meyer's portratt of President Whitman, which was presented to the Co- lumbian University last week, is perhaps the best thing the artist has ever done in the line of portraiture. He is better known to the public through his genre painting, which seems to be his true forte, though his work in other directions shows no lack of versatility. Dr. Whitman's portrait, which is now in his private reception room, to charm away dis- cases is gone by. In this age woman un- derstand that only sensible and scientific means will cure the ailments of their sex. Only an educated, ex- perienced physician is competent to prescribe remedies for diseases of the delicate and in- tricate feminine or- ganism. Painted as a fresco on an immense wal and he would signal his master for them at all hours of the day by pawing at a table cloth and yowling melodiously. The crown- ing achievement, however, was when Rob- bie made his debut as an actor in a play at Elitch’s last summer. He did not run off the stage in affright, but calmly lay in a basket, purring contentedly. Mr. Kings- bury is now scouring the city for his lost pet, whom he considers almost human. of his life were identified with public af- fairs. He could not accustom himself to other activities at his advanced age. Secretary Gresham told me one day that | the reason the justices of the Supreme Court hung on sc long when they could re- tire from office was that they could not give up the habits of many years and go into comparative idleness. Secretary Alger says he intends to keep in active public life as long as he, has health and strength. sulted toss of the head. “Yes,” continued the angular “Sir!" said the stout lady, with an in- “he couldn’t pronounce any word beginning with ‘th’ to save his blessed neck. That's right. He'd stutter and stammer, an’ the best he could do would be to give it the sound of ‘ It was a dreadful His oldest son’s name was Theop! he always called him ‘Sophilus.’ iHliction. us, but Had it is a three-quarter-length view. He is seated in a chair and holds a book in one hand, keeping the place with his thumb, as though he had just paused in his reading for a moment. The small bust of Minerva which is placed upon the table at his right is a compliment delicately conveyed. One of the most interesting features of the summer school of the Columbian University ig the outdoor sketch class that Mr. Meyer will conduct. —_—— Algy—“I always said that George Gilders was crazy, and now he’s proved that I was right.” Freddie—“How’'s that? Algy—“Why, you know, he married Ho- ratio Millyun’s only daughter, but in spite of that fact he is holding onto his old job and working for a living.—Cleveland Lead- er. long, ma’am?” The stout lady was dark red from vexa- tion, “You are eee she snorted. ‘Well, I don’t nder you hate to — anybody refer to te said the with great cheerfulness. “But I couldn't help noticing it when you taok my seat and wasn't able to say ‘thank you.’ have minded in the least ff you'd said ‘sank you’—oh, do you get off here? Good day, ma’am—never mind the thanks.” And the stout lady flounced down the street to take the next car. et To the Wood Robin. = —re2_______ Written for The Eveaing Star. ‘The Soldier. lau@ing- Generals to the skies, standing round their sculptured form, Let's not forget to recognize When I was at Mr. Alger’s home city, De- troit, rot long ago I heard of a case which illustrates the inability of old men to put aside business habits ang be happy. Hiram Walker, a distiller of imtienge wealth, has @ home in Detroit. He posite the city and has One of the most skillful specialists in the world in treating women’s diseases‘ is Dr. R. V. Seto. Bor consulting. ng physi ps Invalids’ pany ical Institute? of ~ Bu falo, N: Y. His “Favorite Prescrjp- tion” is a as the most thoroughly ‘cictibe cure ever devised all feminine disorders and weakness. It reaches the inner source of trouble and aay ei: 3] organism al constitution, It is the only med- ine of —— ee by a = i ro graduated s! spe in diseases of women. 1y woman may consult Doctor fierce een personally ol by letter, will receive sound professional advice, free of charge. * «* ‘The bust of Justice Harlan by Rudolph ——_ + e+ _____ “Want” ads. in The Star pay because they bring answers. ——$——=s3 not very strong. So he iness to his children tive interest in affairs, “enjoyed Bis vacation for a month, ‘Then he began ti (Hs restless under Patoreed idieness, loreover, here he was once @ man of prominence, idgment was sought and whose fav. had become a eae in the B Even his old busin A Symbolist. the gleams of gold and vermillion, of light and shadow, with the fanciful forms and waving wings would bring out the thrilling allegory. Certainiy this work ts above the rote of these “illumines a teota. these solemn cranks or naugh jokers who, counting always on the /, vete of the public and its patient willing: ness to wait for promised miracles of ear ty, hang up annuaily with grins their belated Botticellis and thetr Pavis de Chavannes for cafes-concerts. For a sur- prise, and as @ sop for the disgruntled, they have added here —JOHN a. JOYCE. ———+e+____ Miscarringe of Justice. Murder is not an extra hazardous per- Dr. Pierce’s great thousand - page > a ifhe Pedple's Common Seas Med: ba Adviser,” contains several on