Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1897, Page 16

STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1897-24 PAGES. TRAINING. TROTTERS A Visit to the Colt Kindergarten Palo Alto. THE EVENING intellectual effort can you show beside thet grest ind “I am “" he said, “in the midst of <7 16 y hi isa graceful figure ee Monmouth, by Sir Godfrey THE SKYROCKET 1. In the smoking room of the club again. “I bear,” said one, “that the new story of the Ariadne woman is a frost. Dead frost. There's a shameless puff of it in the Lamp- SEW YoR«K crry. post, but, of course—" quite—but I don’t know. At one time they savell naa I dare t first, 3 |, @ good many, say, al wher we all went down and worshiped her first rubbish, were attracted. As for me, I vi had a chance of reading the proof of the second book. I withdrew from the run- ning.” Tais was the critic wuo had presse) for an answer. “I saw that the writer had nothing left in her. Up like a rocket, you know—one blaze of light—hen down again, critic set down the fact to the bad taste cf the reading public; the man who under- stands that the bad taste of the public never by any chance sends him after fee- Together they walked in the long June twilight across the fields. They were not sons in this city, will be giad to hear that there will be an-exhibition of Japanese cloi- sonne at Veerhoff's next week. * city off and on during the coming winter, dividing his time between that city and es ‘ Yee ANI lovers of choice pottery, and there 1s number of such per- Support a University. MAGNIFICENTLY EQUIPPED x * Mr. 8. Jerome Uhi will be in New York Written for The Even‘ng Star. The stablemen have comfortable quarters, Chinese cooks, bath rooms, barber and oaks kept orderly and clean as a good wife's kitchen. “We are getting a better income out of the thoroughbreds nowadays,” said the pro- fessor as we strolied on the other flank of the university up to the thor- ‘The Oldest, Largest and Most Reliable me = drews. quite 2 notable gather- whkieed sett Snes as We Ge ee “Ot course: « amra ite of artes al act tovera ands sovne- | FOTURE MORARCHS OF THE TRACK Human Goods “Nobody buys it; nobody reads it; she’s | rut lunch added to the success of the occa- Saperiam Extabliebed since done for oie iy A naa “I wonder she didn’t marry. talks 5 * the ee et ee ee well and gets up well. They say she isn't The Stock Farm That Helps to ao! very nice fields: the path was composed Of | ye writers took up the book to find out unnoticed.” Washington. Among his recent portraits HE LELAND | oughbred stables to 4 the nose of Flam- cinders and brickbats; the ragged hedge| for himselt the reason of its popularity. I'm sorry. Bhe had are @ very good likeness of a lady in a Stanford, jr., Uni- | beau, put out in friendly recognition over was broken down in parts; there were oc- | He —anee it through; ae SS — the Bock ie = oe ch ace MS Lhasa ype ss ‘she |708¢-C0lored gown, and a sketch of an old versity, it is face- | the half door. eink ‘temdance. ‘ized him; he fori altoge' z u > a = Fh a" bor on one casional patches on which green things re- | Soted, Bis tng the book; he forgot to} went everywhere; she's got a splendid time |Cl0red woman. ‘The latter ts in many re. Hously said, is run | _Tiembeaxs | nelghbor om one sere satiny egaminite ateortment of MAIR ORNA- fused to grow; there was, however, a shal- | 1.) why, and he never stopped until he | to remmber. : Spects an exoelient piece of work, showing by horse power and | proud parents of runners, at the moment |» coum) sriuor 106) low ditch running beside the dilapidated | haa reached the end. Then he laid it down = Calecar tata worn wasierwemen, a very brandy. The allega- | many of them off at different tracks earn- . F. CATALOGUE FREE. with a sigh and left the task of answering that question to anybody who chose. Every row and then such a book appears; it suc- ceeds; the only explanation of its success is that it possesses a mysterious charm which seizes upon the reader and holds him tight—even as the ancient mariner F the wedding guest. _ recy year at least two, and generally three, reputations in fiction are made. The writer of “Ariadne” made her reputation by that Book. Nobody had ever heard her name; nobody knew anything about her at all. But her book, which had begun by creepiig, went on to run—to leap—to gal- lop—through the editions. The publisher, who had by being grumpy, became first cheerful, then beaming; he had been overbearing at first with the take-it-or- leave-it manner which belongs to one who confers a doubtful benefit and incurs a pos- sible loss; he became kindly, friendly, af- fectionate, even deferential. He gave a hedge, which contained an unsavory mud, and there was a piggery at the end of the ditch. These things on a warm evening in June suggested the country. They walked side by side, as they always had done. The young man held the girl's hand: he did not press it, nor lift it to his lips or go off into interjections over it; he simply held it. She was quite accustomed to this assertion of authority, or submis- sion, as you will, made no objection and @id not withdraw her hand. He walked in silence. Why should he desire to talk? He just liked to be with her; sometimes to look at her; to let her talk as much as she liked; not even to follow her when she went off into dreams. For he was twenty-four and 7 clerk in a big house of business, and he lived all day in a world where nothing hap- pens—not even the unexpected—except what Ariadne stood once more In the old famit- jar side road leading off the main road ef the cheap suburb. The little gardens in front of the houses were filled with labur- num, Hilac and lime trees; the time was June; the air was fragrant; the leaves were fresh and green; the place looked pretty. The sweet breath of spring banished the as- sociations of poverty and dullness and monotony and hid the stuccoed front: “About this time,” said Ariadne, “Cyril should be coming home.” In fact, at that moment he turned out of the main road. He was walking heavily, with cyes cast down. When in the sweet spring season his mind lightly turned to thoughts of love, the vision of the lost Ariadne returned and saddened him. Ariadne stepped out into the road and met him. “You? Ariadne?” he staried. “I told you,” she said, “three years ago that I wanted to go away and see those other worlds—and then come back.” “Ariadne.” He hardly understood that was with him once more. aneoth prayers,” she said, “have been granted. I have lived- among the other people. I am deserted and forsaken. So 1 elyacioe a back.” rN “Ariadne.” cs have come back,” she said,~‘‘to a man whose intellect I respect above my own. “Oh, but you are a great author. “T wrote one book (lat everybedy praised; another that everybody abused. and a third that nobody will look at. They are all three deed and buried and forgotten. On the other hand, you are still . - “Still in Humboldt’s Cosmos, Ariadne. ‘He is an author who is abiding-—satis- fying. They don’t forsake their Humboldt. They don’t call him a skyrocket. I have come back to read with you, Cyril, Hum- beldt’s Cosmos.” ART os. AND ARTISTS. The loan exhibition now open at ine new gallery of the Society of Washington Art- ists, No. 1020 Connecticut avenue, draws a better attendance as the time for closing approaches. Monday and Tuesday of next week are the last days, and those who have not yet viewed the pictures should not let their last chance go by. It is announced that the gallery will not be open to the public tomorrow. The evenings have proy- ed quite popular with those whose time is occupied durmg the day, and the pictures show to almost as good advantage then as by daylight. Several notable pictures were added to th» collection at the last mo: too late to be included in the cata Among thes? is the great Giordan: ed by Georgetown Coilege, i anvas that srevis the eye on ent = anteroom. Tue subject of this euriy [tal- ian masterpiece is “The Caiiing ot Mat- thew,” and the figures are arranged with a splendid effect of line and of light and shade. The figure of the Savior is parti: IT WAS HER EDITOR. 1s made to happen by the wisdom and the contrivance of the partners. The world is so, to the city man; he understands that he has to get what he can for himself; he has to be foreseeing and farseeing; above all, he must never dream. Therefore, this young man looked forward to a life of low standards, though this he would not admit to himself, to a small in- come and thrifty ways. He was a steady young man, who always had a solid book going, in which he read slowly and without the slightest interest in the contents. He thought thit a course of reading in miscel- laneous subjects, none of which attracted him, raised him to the level of those who fmprove themselves. He was a good-look- ing young man, with regular features and the appearance of responsibility. In fact, he had no vices, and felt no temptatior and was, therefore, profoundly uninteres' The irl, however, was quite unlike him. She moved as if her feet were springs she walked as if she were dancing; she talked as if she were singing; she laughed at her own thoughts like a thrush. She was nearly as tall as her companion, who | eh was nearly five feet ten inches. She was certainly not pretty, because she had not @ single good feature in her face, except, perhaps. her eyes, which were quick and bright, but she was attractive when she was animated, and she generally was ani- mated. Her dress waa quict and in better taste perhaps than was found with most of the young ladies who went to the same suburban church on Sunday and lived in the little villas, jerry built, precarious, which bravely faced the suburban gale on their crumbling bricks, —— for mor- and laths for party walls. ‘Sher name—a ridiculous name, but in the matter of names pecpie are so—was Ari. adne. The girl thought it a pretty name and much finer than Muriel, Gladys an Dorothy, names w decorated most of the girls she knew. Ariadne—a poetical name; she knew nothing of the story be- lenging to the deserted nymph Adriadne. She admired her name as most girls ad- mire their faces; she wrote it down and looked at it, as most giris look in the glass. And, as Ariadne does not do well with Sam- uel, which was her lover's name, there was @ secret understanding between them that when they were alone he was to be Cyril Instead of Sam. Then without a sense of the incongruous she could listen to the Nice of love. veer” she was saying, “there are worlds upon worlds all round us, and here we know nothing about them. I'm not dis- contented with my lot, but I wish I could see some of them, sometimes. = You wouldn't like them, Adriadne.” ‘How do you know? Besides, I didn't I should like them. I want to see them. I want to see the people that the papers talk about.” “They are just like ourselves. ‘No, they're not, dear bo; I know bet- ter than that. They don’t dress like us, nor talk like us, nor live like us. I want te seo the great ladies and the fine ladfe: the artists and the poets and the ai tor = It's no use without mone “I want the money, too. I want to go and live among them and be one of them. Just for two or three years, Cyril. Just to understand what it is like. And then to come back again to this stupid old suburb tupid old people and the stupid ‘inner party one evening. The author of “Ariadne” was the guest of the evenins. Her name, it appeared, was Ariadne cott. She was still quite young, not more than two and twenty; she was full of ani- matior; she was new to society and frankly owned her ignorance; she could not talk of new books because she had read none; nor of poets because she Knew none; nor of art because she had hardly ever seen any pictures. She accepted admiration, how ever, with evident joy. “It is new to me, she said, “like everything else. You can- not tell me too often how you like my poor little book.” There was in her face, in her manner, caressing yet not submissive,some- thing of the glamour of her book. “I reviewed it in the Daily: Train,” sai one of her admirers. “I fell to the groun and worshiped {t, as I should worship the author. Miss Ascott, you have made, be- lieve me, the most brilliant contribution to jarly fine in its attitude, and tnrougnout literature that we have enjoyed for a whole | the picture the coloring is simple generation.” charming in Quality. The heads in “I suppose,” he said to another man at | strong composition are « ally worthy the club that night, “that it is all right | of notice on account of the simple be about the boom of Ariadne. No hankey, | of handling. A portrait of Washington Because, you know, I have heard—"' | Gilbert Stuart was secured at the iast n.o- “So have I. In this case it is ali right. I | ment and adds greatly to the colleciion of know the printer.” early American portraits. T exhibition “She'll make a pot of money.” iso gains by the addition of an effective “My dear feliow, nothing to what she’il avas by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Other ixie make by her second book. I hear they are | arrivals were the pleasing little maid's wiring across the Atlantic to secure her at | head from the brush of Gabriel Max, and a any price. Man, she’s an heiress. She lives | study of an old man by Tito Les at the Langham; got three rooms and a catalogue issued for the exhi! maid, and is spending the money as fast | a work of art.- On the cover as she makes it. design by Mr. Robert Coleman Child Thus, you see, heaven does sometimes | the same figure appears inside in a sligitt- hear our prayers. Ariadne desired to sec | ly different form. This design is thi these worlds. Her desire was gratified. cutcheon of the S. W. A., drawn spe a for use as a seal, and it appears for the first time in_ this artistic iittle booktet. Sunday afternoon. Ariadne’s room was| Mr. Hobart Nichols, who had in charge crowded) withicaller= ‘Biie “was standing, in| 10 Bieneration of" the ‘catslosue designed the midst of a circle; the room was filled] these little line drawings printed in red with laughter and whispers and the buzz of| set off :he pages in a very effective man- conversation. Suddenly, as she looked | ner. round, she flushed ecarlet. In the doorway stood, awkward, embarrassed, her jover, Samuel—alias Cyril. She stepped across the reom. “Cyril,” she said, “this is very good of you. Come in and wait till the people are gone and we will talk.” He obeyed; he stood in the room, unno- ticed; he watched the girl transformed. Was that Ariadne? his owa Ariadne, this vision of floating lece and waite silk, nold- ing her own, an equal, among these tine ladies ard these men whose faces were not like the faces of the counting house? _ Presently the people began to go away. They all had something to say as they went. It was her editor. “Miss Ascott, we are longing to begin the new story. went, * * * A postponement of the Water Color Club exhibit was decided upcn at the special meeting of the club on Saturday last. The private view will be upon the lith of De- cember instead of the 4th, as had at first been planned, and the exhibition will prob- ably open to the public on the 12th, as the members are in favor of opening the gal- lery on Sundays in case nothing prevents The pictures will be on view until January 8. Artists wishing to enter works in this exhibition may send them in on next Mon- day, the 29th, as this much extension of time has been granted. The loan exhi tion necessarily forced that ef the Wai Colcr Club along a week, but with the pres- ent dates it is thought that ample time will be allowed for judging the pictures and for arranging them on the walls in a mor: carefully considered way than has been possible in past years. At the meeting week ago a very large Ust of artists were proposed for membership. The proposition to hold the meetings every month in future met with general favor. * everywhere. “Dear Ariadne, you must tak: the chair at the dinner of women, that i: He was the last. He whispered, “And the answer—when will you sive me an a er?” “I don’t kno indeed. When my new story is out. You must wait till then—” “But—if I may cnly hope—’ “We can all hope—Good-bye.” The critic retired. When they were all gon forward. “Oh,” he said, Mr. J. Edward Barclay has recently fitted up a roomy studio in the Corcoran building and is settled ready for work. Theugh a new arrival in the city, he is not unknown here, as his reputation as an able portrait painter has preceded him, and he is es- pecially remembered by his famous por- trait of Paderewski, exhibited here several years ago. Like most portrait painters, he leaves his work behind him wherever he oes, and so has few specimens of his handiwork in his atelier. However, several canvases may be seen, one of them a like- ress of Mr. Marvelle W. Cooper, who was almost the oldest member of the Union League Club in New York and is well re- membered by the older residents of Wash- ington. It is a strong portrait and shows Mr. Barclay’s individual style and hand- ling. Another portrait in color fs a study head of the artist's daughter. For other specimens of his work one must depend on the black and white of the photographs that adorn the walls. Amcng these there are portraits of three Washingtonians, which the artist painted@-in the north this summer—General John Marshall Brown and his wife and daughter. The portrait of the young lady is very stately and dig- nified, and Mr. Barclay has put some of his best work upon it. A photograph of one of the best of his recent pcriraits shows us the charming face of a white-haired old lady, a very delicate and refined specimen of portraiture. Samuel stepped ‘if you knew how .” he whispered, audaciously press- ing her hand. tyril.” she corrected him. is ‘And then we would be married, wouldn't we? Perhaps I shall be drawing 150 pounds by that time if I am lucky.” “Married? Oh, well; we would see about that. You know. Cyril, I have always told you that I could never marry a man whom I did not respect for hts intellect. He must be my superior, otherwise I could not think of marrying him.” “Of course.” This youn man knew not the language of compliment, not even the commonest word in it, nor the declensions he conjugations. “Of course, I know that. ‘To be sure you do improve yourself.” I am now, Ariadne,” he assured her “in the heart of Humboldt’s Cos- - i. It has been pointed out that the author fs not called upon by the public; he is rot sent for like the lawyer and the phy- siclan. That is because he offers himself tnasked and in far greater numbers than is wanted. So, while he stands up for hire with the rest in the statute fair of Paternoster row, the public go round and make their chcice. In the autumn of 1803 there were pro- duced, among other works of deathless interest, 400 novels, unnoticed at first. With these appeared a story on whose title page was the single name, “Ariadne.” If you were to read that book now you would lay it down with a feeling that it was a crude and early piece of work, bad- ly constructed, the dialogue managed with- out skill and the story naught. Ht is now four years since that book was written and the glamor has quite gone out of it. ‘The pages charm no one. It is not asked for; you can buy it for next to nothing; # will soon drop into the sixpenny box. Why, then, one asks, was there so great, so immediate a run upon it? The smart ee Additicns are constantly being made to the collection of old English masters at Fischer’s, and two portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds are among the recent arrivals. back, Ariadne?” Of these the likeness of Judge Dunning is ‘Why should {,’ she replied cruelly. “Look expecially striking, as itis a powerful head, round you, Samuel"—she called him Sam-|‘though with cnly the *vaguest definition of uel, and it sank into his heart. ‘You see | line. The judge's spreading white wig all these people. They are the leaders in] comes out with soft insistence against the Uterature andart. Should I give up thetr. deep red background, which adds a pleas- friendship? What have you to offer me in’ Ing note to the rich color scheme. More delicate and‘refined, though not less char- acteristic, is the other canvas, a portrait of a woman resting her chin in her hand, In a severe, forma! portrait by G. B. Moroni wi has also been placed in the gallery within a few days, the only Nght spots in .the somber canvas are the face and the. ruff of the gentleman portrayed. Another “Humboldt’s Cosmos.” dull it is at home. Are you never coming “Ogril,” relenting at sight of his pitiful face, “I told you that I could never a man whose intellect was not greater than my own. You see what I have ach! beok that all the world is reading. What’ to these two pieces, Mr. Uhl has also been occupied with a number of study head: His son has many friends here, and they will be giad to jearn that he-is making great strides in New York, and that he is new working in the Mowbray class at the Art League. wayman. He ordered Kingsley to thro up his hands and then he proceeded to go through his pockets. As the victim put up his hands he managed to slide the nickel pavement and him to swallow the nickel. got his breath Kingsley shouted for help, and two officers, succeeded who was found to be an old convict. From Flilegende Blatter. camvas re of the handsome resting Jo) rince one Lightly on the nese of a favorite hound. a Ln Ae On Tuesday the twenty-fifth anniversary of Dr. Bargarin’s association with the Cor- coran Art Gallery was celebrated in a very pleasant mfanneF at the home of Prof. An- | New York city there are a couple of por- traits that will interest Washington people especially, the likeness of Mr. H. F. Walt- Uhl, and the companion portrait of Mr. Uhl by H. F. Waltman. In the former Mr. Waltman is represented as just having dropped a newspaper which he had been reading, while the latter is a smafl full- length portrait of Mr. Uhi reclining on a sofa, with his legs crossed. Mr. Waltman's friends will be interested to learn that dur- ing his trip west preparatory to going to Europe he succeeded in securing what will prove a very profitable commission in Cin- cinati. York Water Color Club, which has just closed, a number of local artists made a very good showing. Miss Perrie, whose ad- mirable water color sketches are so well known and so generally admired in this city, has been exhibiting regularly in New York for a number of years with ever-in- creasing success, This fall she had three sketches in the exhibition, entitled “Har- vest Time, “A Bit of Duxbury, which is one of her last summer's sketche was given an especially prominent and de- sirable place on the line. Mr. James Hen- ty Moser had.a couple of taking pieces in the exhibition, known as ‘ ing’ interesting slcetch Miss pastel, was another piece of work which inust have attracted its full share of atten- lion. Mrs. Florence W. Gotthold, who has many friend’: in> Washington, and is well known asthe this city, caxhibited a good flower study in pastel with-thedsimple title “Lilies.” new builditg of the Academy of Design in New Yoyk mst pe struck with the re- semblance ayhiche the facade of that struc- ture, whenl erected, will bear to the new Corcoran @aftery puflding,in this city. Of course it expnot.he galled a copy. In minor still, in thesfgong cleyation, -with little cne of the fi Ve fouhd anywhere. in both the exhibiticns row enen in New trait, and in the Water Coicr Club by a to open in Philadelphia in January. * painter, is in Washington fer the winter, haying recently returned from France and late summer sketching and executing some commissions for portraits. Mr. Floyd is where he will be happy to receive callers interested in painting. From the Buffalo Exprcss, a young man named Kingsley was stand- ing on a corner early in the morning wait- ing for a car, when he saw a very tough- three miles from home and had only a nickel, which he was holding tightly in his hand for fear that ft might be lost. The stranger reached the young man, and, just into his money, good cloth Fipall ing. this hour of the morning,” dealt Kingsley a blow in the mouth, tion is directly true. The university en- dowment, in addition to a couple and a sists of the Palo Al- to estate of 8400 acres, and the Vina estate of 59,000 acres, in addition to another estate of 22,000 acres. The Vina acres produce the brandy, the Palo Alto estate the horses. On the latter estate the university is sit- uated, its low yellow Spanish buildings flanked on the one side by the trotting stables and track, and on the other by the thoroughbreds. The situation from every point of view is unique. The architecture, which repeats the motives of the cld Spanish missions, is so unlike the lofty pretensions of most col- leges of learning that the visitor to the trotting farm not unnaturally asks if “those are the stables.” The barns of the trotting farm are indeed in more accord with the university idea than the low yel- low group sheltered under red tiles and connected by an inner arcade, a pillareJ and arched aisle, whose extent and beauty delights the eye and kinéles the imazina- tion. This arcade incloses a vast quad- rangle, asphalted, and pierced with six ovals filled with tropical plants. Younz men and maids skim across its surface on heel: bicycles are everywhere. One ht, indeed, fancy it an “academy” for wheelmen. But the trotting farm has the advantage , | in.situation. Both are approached through the palm-bordered paths of the campus, slimpsing the little gray marble temple, where Gov. Stanford and his boy sleep amid flowers and a fountain’s melancholy flash, and by the big yellow museum,where a half of the Cesnola collection is now in- stalled. Training the Young Horses. The way to the farm lies by the girls’ sGormitory and gymnasium, down a tree- sheltered lane. The university is in a tree- less line. The trotting farm is in a park af live oaks, superb trees, of which the birds have made a vast aviary. Going up to the group of tall barns in a quadrangle of stables and offices, yearlings and colts iooked over their paddocks, making friend- ly overtures with their moist noses, but the silence of noon was unbroken except by the choruses, the conventions, the con- gresses and domestic doings in the tree tops overhead. “Billy Oh, Billy Gileeii y employes. He was here in the palmy days of the gpv- ernor. We were * * OK In the fall exhibition of the Academy in an, Mr. Uhl's friend and pupil, by Mr. * * * In the annual exhibition of the New “The Path to the Village” and Mass.” The latter, November Even- and “October Evening, both very “The Musicians,” Alice Sewall’s Arche: decorative wshter of Simon Woif of 1 a te ot ok * Those who have seen the newspaper rep- resentation® of the accepted design for the in! lecorative features it is: quite different; the lower ect, at a isely the leaning over the open kinder- ck, with a marqu sheltering n the center. here the.governor used to sit tors, watching the young one: fe goverhor was a great man. He didn’t think anything of spending $59,000 on an experiment and then write a book about it,” the last clause evidently representing to Billy a mark of the governor's ability which mere doilars could not do. “Mrs. Stanferd jooks after things now, but, you sec, this isn't work for a iady.” Things are certainly well looke: The order, cleanliness and attractiveness the place is a pleasure to the eye. In the center of the group of live oaks is a mound which incloses the famous dead. Chief of these is Electioneer. Mande the Ranch. “Electioneer made this ranch,” says Billy. “Didn't you ever see the list of his ‘thir- ties?” We strolled on to the long row of low white brick stables, where the famous stallions are housed, to look at Azmoor, who resembles most of all his famous father. Each horse has a large room to himself, with an ante-chamber, where his toilet articles, beots and wardrobe hang. Successively we visit Azmoor, Advertiser, Dexter, Priace, the half brother of Dexter, Weodnut, Manoca and Adbell. “A yearling that holds the world’s record of 2.23, Irsi Advertiser, dam Beautiful Bells,” continued Billy, whose conversation contains tracts which can only be com- pared to the chapters of “begots” in the Old Testament, and takes up again the famous stcry of Electioneer, the father of Arion, 7%; of Sunol, 2.08%; of Palo Alto, 2.08%, whose roll of honor contains eleven in the 2:15 list, of thirty-three in the lst, of forty-seven in the 2. list and of seventy-three in the 2.30 list; and grand- father of Azote, son of Whips, with a record of 2.04%. With the exception of Ver- bootschick, the white Russian stallion, wearing the emperor’s crown on his side to denote his imperial breed, all the stallions are Electioneer’s descendants, and their do- ings fill a book, But all the honors of the Palo Alto farm are not Electioneer’s. Beautiful Bells {s tyenty-rine years old. She has brought into the world eighteen boys and girls, cd ireidentally contributed to the advance- ment in knowledge cf the boys and giris of Leland Stanford, jr., University $200,000, One of her sons, Bell Boy, was sold for $51,000, and shortly after was burned tc Geatk in the Clark stables at Lexington, Ky. Beautiful Belis has a baby by her side. It was kicking its heels in one of the small paddocks for the colts—a slender, cark brown young thing, curious and friendly, as all these creatures are, speak- ing for their kind treatment in this man- ner. There are numbers of these little pad- dccks, in which the colts are put in couples, girls after their kind and boys after their kind. licre, while kicking vp their heels and playing together, they are under ob- servation 2s to action ard other possibili- ties which contribute to the data necessary fer their future educaticn. Im the Colt Kindergarte: ‘The colt Kindergarten in use was a cov- ered track, so that training may go on ‘n ail weathers This track 4s an oval of about an eighth of a mile, heaped up at the turn, and kept scft for the tender young feet. Gcv. Stanford's experiment in breeding that h 5 added most to the development of the trotting horse was the introduction of an eighth or more thorough blood to give spir- it and action to his trotters, As soon as a colt is weaned its education begins. It is brought into the kindergarten—this term is not faceticus, but technicai—and exer- cised for but a few minutes at first, and ever over twenty minutes, While these matters were be! explained we seated ourselves ler rafters through which the warm sun sent its beams, ind thé trainer and his assistant Jed in a yearling’and let it go. After fri: ing around a while it broke into a trot. Now business begins. Each man with a whip, which is only cracked, endeavors to keep the pace sustained and even for sev- eral roun ‘The colt is then stopped and sent around the other way lest it become Gat eagh eng, ihe general et distai ce, 51s, almost . pre me, and* this regembfunce will pe all thé mote @trikPie; “in epite’ ofthe more claborateremagaenation of the new build- ing, In hat it iatise to hie ofwhite mar- or having ‘sb fite to her pubné | ran Gallery’"is pecongratulated in fnd important an addition rchiteplure,-for the Corco- Benegralfy conceded to be of its class. and best alapled for its intended «purposes to * * * ft Miss Alice, Archer Sewall is represented York—in the National Academy by a por- large panel in_pastel.. The Pennsylvania ‘§ has requested her to * * Mr. Harry Floyd, the English portrait ngland, in which countries he spent the row located at 1710 G street northwest, a He Held His Own. During the recent heavy fog in New York joking man approach him. Kingsley was the latter thought, proved to be a high- mouth. The robber found no taking stock of Kingsley’s at once made another search. he became enraged, and, remark- You're a pretty chap to be at large at landing him on the t the same time causing As soon as he who were near at hand, catching the me highwayman, LISS THE FORWARD KNIGHT; or, Held by a Double Attraction. WIR half of miilions, con-- ing money for the spread of the classics, the sciences and the arts among young Californians. There have been some disappointments. School was rot in session two years ago when Crescenda ran second to Requital in the Futurity or there would not have been much added to the sum of human learning on that day. There were some d:sappointmentse east, I remember, on the failure of the Palo Alto filly to come in first, but that was nothing to the woe on the Pacific coast. It is a pretty relation, that of the horses to the humans, at Leland Stanford, jr., University. Nor is the colt kindergarten less interecting than the class rooms on the great avadrangle. —— UNIVERSITY NOTES Catholic University. The second public lecture of the fall course was delivered by Gen. A. W. Greely, chief of the signal service bureau, on the history and geography of Alaska. The lec- ture, which was illustrated, attracted a larze audience, who enjoyed the address. The next lecture of the coi will occur Thursday, December 9. Thanksgiving day mass was said at 8:30 in Caldwall Hall by the rector, and the day was observed as a general holiday in all the departments. Rev. E. A. Pace, dean of the faculty of Philosophy, gave an ilustrated lecture on “Pompeii” to the pupils of the Academy of the Holy Cross last Saturday. The rector, Right Rev. Mgr. Conaty, and the vice rector, Dr. Garrigan, accompanied by Fathers Chapeiux and Aiken, were pres- ent at the renewal of the clerical prom- ises at the Baltimore Cathedral. Rev. Joseph T. Roche of Nebraska spent a day at the university. Fathers Price of Raleigh, N. C., and Henricks and Har- gather of Rochester, N. Y., also spent some time time in visiting the buildings and li- niversity Chronicle, which appeared this week, contains an account of the open- ing ceremonies in October, an article on the investiture of Mgr. Conaty as a domestic prelate, and the discourses of the rector on the above occasions. It also contains an in- teresting account of the recent discovery of a Mosaic map of Palestine, executed upon the floor of a Christian basilica. The junior class of the law department have commenced the study of real estate, elementary law and constitutional law. The middle class is engaged with real property, torts and criminal law, with one exercise each week in jurisprudence, political econ- omy and the history of law. The sentors are at present taking examinations on their entire baccalaureate course, and studying Roman law two hours each week. Dr. Shannahan is now conducting a course of philosophy in the middle and senior class- €s. The law library now contains over a thousand volumes. ° Columbian University. The Law School Debating Society held no mecting this week on the regular night, but one was called for tonight. The last issue of the Columbian Call was that of the 16th. Next Tuesday another number will appear. The question for debate at the meeting of the Law School Debating Society tonight is, olved, That the elective franchise should be limited: to those who are able to read and write.” ‘The speakers are C. T. Carter, J. A. Wright and'H. A. Vieth, af- firmative, and F. W. Crist, B. E. Jones and W. M. Mason, negative. December 4 the question, “Resolved, That the Cuban bel- ligerency should be recognized by the United States,” will be debated, while on December 18 the subject will be, “Resolved, That Congress should enact a general anti- trust law. A special meeting of the Virginia Club has been called fcr Monday next by the president, at which business of importance will be transacted. A meeting has been called for next Sat- urday of the Biblical Research Club. The Thanksgiving holidays at the uni- versity included all of this week after Wed- nesday. Georgetown University. At the last meeting of the Phifonomosian Sceiety there was no debate, but in the place of it a mock trial was held. The meeting of the Philodemic Society scheduled for this week was postponed un- ul Thursday next, when the election of ccmpetitors in the Merrick debate will take place. The geology class of "88 took a trip to Foundry Run last Saturday for the collec- tion and study of specimens. The final game of the interclass foot bali contests will be played teday between 1900 end 1901. The treshmen have not lost a game so far, but "99, by losing the last game to the freshmen, have lost all chance tor the championship. Father Conway, vice rector of the uni versity, Who has been in retreat at Wood- stock during the past week, has returned. Preparations for the Glee Club concert in Gaston Hall on Monday are now being made, The senior class had a holiday. yesterday, it being St. Catherine’s day. The Thanks- giving holiday, including Wednesday after- noon and all of Thursday, was taken ad- vantage of by many of the students as an opportunity for a visit home. The meeting of the advisory committee to formulate plans for the raising of fund: for the new grand stand resulted i movement, now en foot, requesting con- tributions from the alumni of the uni- versity. A lady whose name kas not been an- nounced has contributed $1,500 for the new hospital. The Law School Debating Society held a meeting last Saturday night to discuss the question, “Resolved, That the United States should recognize Cuban belliger- ency.' Several members of the junior class re- quested the chairman pro tem. of the last meeting to call another meeting this week, but as the class as a whole has decided to postpone further meetings until Text Sat- urday, Mr. Ralph, the t president of the class, declined to do this on the ground that he was acting in the capacity of presiding officer only tempo: , and no rules authorizing the calling of special meetings had as yet been adopted. National University. There will be a meeting of all the classes oS ae SIMONSON. BRoaDway, 218T AND 2D sTs. of Ohi = - Cooke lo; treasurer, Herbe: of District of Columbia. apr arrrras A committee composed of the following ae E.R. Magie, C. H. Brush amd . D. was appointed Saturd night by the president of the debating “= ciety, for the purpose of arranging for their — debate, to take place early in The question argued by the debating so- Serurdey evening, November 20, That te ed States senators should Brown: negative. Messrs. Walker, A. D. Smith and George Hamlin. The debate Saturday, No- vember 13, after a spirited contest, was de- cided in the affirmative. Howard University. Follov-ing is the program rendered at the weekly entertainment of the Eureka last night: Paper, C. A. Manus; declamation, Miss Esther Henis; oration, W. W. Jones; recitation, Miss Phyllis Perry; oration, Charles White. The debate was upon the question, “Resolved, That man descended from an inferior animal.” Cayton Kim- brough, affirmative, and W. J. Conway, negative, were the speakers. The base ball team held its first practice game for the season of 1897-98 yesterday. At the meeting of the Alpha Phi Society last night a paper was read by Calvin Alexander upon the topic, “Conflicting Ideas About Higher Education.” Prof. Ewell of the theological department is conducting a course of lectures on Mon- days, Wednesdays and Fridays, at P.m., upon theology. The C. E. meeting last Saturday was made a special Thanksgiving service. 8 G. de Jarnett presided, and among those who participated were Miss E. A. Rankin, Prof. Moore and Page L. Zimmerman. The committee on temperance and good citizen- ship will be in charge of the exercises to- night, and the subject chosen is “Temper- ance and Good Citizenshi The foot ball team left Wednesday for a trip to Hampton, Norfolk and Richmond, with games with the Hygeia Club, the C. A. C. of Norfolk and the Y. M. C. A. of Petersburg. The Thanksgiving services at the uni- versity were presided over by Gen. Geo. W. Balloch, and an interesting program, con- sisting of devotional exercises, music, ad- dresses and reading, was enjoyed by those present. The Journal was issued today. ——— KINDNESS TO ANIMALS. Theorists Sometimes Rudely Shocked im Sadden Emergencics. From the Boston Transcript. Apropos of the question of cruelty to ani- mals, a correspondent sends this story: Two men were walking along a shady path in the woods of northern New Hampshire recently. One of the men owned a beauti- ful dog, and the animal was bounding along in advance of them, sniffing here and there, and looking frequently up into the branches of the tall oaks which lined the way. The men were ccnversir Mr. Hotchkiss was talking about his love for all animated nature. His companion agreed with him in that it was a downright shame to kill or abuse helpless animals of any description. The barking of the dog in- terrupted them. Mr. Hotchkiss spoke in a vexed and angry tone, and, striding for- ward, he seized a piece of dead wood lying near. “See that deg worrying that poor squirrel!” said he. “It makes me so mad I could kill the dog!” é This somehow reminds the Listener of a speculation into which he was onge plung- ed by the conduct of a favorite cat. The cat, which was @ superb black one, wore about his neck a collar, to which the ch: Gren had attached a little tinkling bell. One day, in the garden, the Listener saw the cat creeping up on a bird in a bush. To prevent the tinkling of the bell from warn- ing the bird, the cat was creeping with svch a sicw and steady movement that the bell was nct shakeh a bit, and was per- fectly silent. It was an admirable per- fcrmance. The bird must have seen the cat, but acted as if charmed. Then the Listener wondered “is it my duty, as a hu- mane person, to make a noise and sca: away that bird, so that it shall not be caught and eaten?” It occurred to him that it might be fnhurvane to the cat, after all the pains and skill involved in keeping that bell still, to interfere with his perform- ance. It might be a shock to the whole physical and moral system to scare away the bird at that moment. One should be- ware of interference with the established economy of nature. And yet it could not be said that the cat needed the bird. He had abundance of food given him every day at the house. His at- tack on the bird was mere wanton destruc- ticn—a killing for the fun of it, no more stifiable than men's hunting. It would be right to warn the bird. And yet who could blame the cat for obeying his most essen- tial instinct? He had no moral responsibili- ty; his right to kill the bird was derived from the organic jaw of nature. This was true as to the cat; but did his natural right relieve the human observer from the obligation of humanity? Clearly, he was bcund— But at this juncture the cat sprang swiftly through the air—the bird fluttered —too late? The cat had it in his jaws, and nade off with it. eo Hot Milk an Excellent Stimalant. From the Lodies’ Home Journal. When overcome by bedily fatigue or ex- hausted by brain labor no stimulant, so- called, serves so well the purpose of re- freshment and rest, both bodily and men- taily, as milk. When heated as hot as cne can readily take it it may be sipped slowly from a tumbler, and as it ts easily digested