The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 20, 1900, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1900. BOERS GATHERING NEAR FICKSBURG British Forces Are Very Extended. Fears Being Expressed Enemy May Break Through. LONDON, June 20.—The casualties in made public by the War Office, of missing, show agements hitherto ttack on & recon- in en In an a at Leeuw Spruit on June 14 Spruit is 40 miles north This was the day of the elghty .alles aistant shows nine wounded and polnts out that it 1s quite s have again been cut In o dispatches later received. g in force in spite Ficksburg. His ch forty miles. As some parts are y break through. of dally occur- 3 rs there are commanded liers and Hermann at Bethlehem, the tem- Free State. Ac- from Lourenzo ay the Malana yed. One account Another asserts by a patrol from apsed under the will temporarily the supplies to 16, saj getting huts for 30 his plans are well known to the alleged to have attempt Lo steal some m the trucks attached uger's traveling capital off some bars n, is an-America Marques correspondent of s says | | | | five wounded and sixty | an action at Vredetort | ¢ held the British | afternoon, said the | wging retransport for | n bridge. A freight train pitched into the stream and two men were killed. - ROBERTS CAPTURES ARMS. LONDON, June 19, 2:20 p. m.—No im- portant developments mark the progress of the British in the Transvaal. Lord Roberts repc at over 2000 stands of | arms have been given up at Preto ince occupation of the capital. These will utilized by the released British pris- of whom there are 148 officers and T s men. ral Buller reports that th first rough pass Laings Nek Monday, 1d proceeded to Charle t batch of Mafeking's sick and e wounded arrived at the hospital at Bel- £c n, June 15. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, addressing a meeting of he Women's Liberal Unionist Club this Colonies_ had seen ough the haze of the South African antebeilum negotiation when Sir Henry Camphell-Bannerman, the Liberal lea in the House of Commons, and others were mystified. Now that the war was concluding, he added, all were unanimous that whetever the settlement might be, | it must be unal and should nat leave be- hind it the seeds of further mischief and | make a repetition of the present trouble | possible. The opposition wanted to know when a general election would occur. He was unable to gratify their natural curios! but whether the election took pl - | morrow or was postponed Indefin! it would be one of the most momentous pre- cented to the people of the United King- dom during a century, involving the fu- turs of South Africa and the future of the empire. Officer of Fusiliers Killed. LONDON, June 18.—Colone! Wilcox re- ports to the Colonial Office t Captain Tillson of the Roya! Irish Fusiliers and seven natives were killed and ten wound- Captain Hall's attempt to T There is no news from arter. S Town Guard Surrenders. | VOLKSRUST, Transvaal, J town guard of Wakkerstroom DESTRUCTIVE FIRE VISITS BLODMINGTON Half of the Businesa Section |= of the City Is Burned. JUREESS SHPE use a Mass of Buins and the fiice Building Saved Only by Hard Work. city and the Cou ost of $400,000, were ng. The loss is va- om one and a half One death a! Robert Schmitt, the shock oc e explosion of vy the firemen ay the prog- e department almost to- blown ames were fi dings d@stroyed and bu out with heaviest losses 4 twenty-five yenrs ago lding, Winisor office’ butldi orge Brand & dry goods; Coc s Co., per & hrie’s drug store Riger, wallpaper loss $100,000: Steph = $75,000; 3. H. Riggs, es’ taflor shoj mpany; ~Benseney « v goods establishment, | stable; Grees 3 Boston Store: Kieinaus' confection’ ore. ted fn the Model laundry street, in the block northeast Courthouse. A stro wind was wing at the time and before the fire artment arrived the fire had spread 'COFFEE COMPLEXION. Meany Ladies Have Poor Complexions From Coffee. Coffee caused dark colored blotches sce and body. I had been drink- or a long while and these blotches lly appeared, until finally they be- yermanent and were about as dark ee itself. y Id ask for. y 1 became convinced that cof- s the cause of my trouble I and took to using Postum Ce- Cofiee, and as 1 made it well, as one cou according i 1 h since that time used 1t m thankful to say I am not ner- vous any more, as 1 was when I was inking coffee, and my complexion is now as fair and good as it was years ago. It is very plain that the coffee caused the trouble. Please omit my name from public print.” Mrs. —— 2081 Ogden ave., (Ebicago. IIl. The name of this lady ¢can be given by the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., g-nle Creek, Mich Most bad complexions are caused by séme disturbance of the stomach, and coffee is the greatest disturber of diges- tion known. Almost any woman can have a fair complexion if she will leave off coffee and use Postum Food Coffee and nutritious, healthy food in proper quantity. The food coffee furnishes cer- tain parts of the natural grains from. the field that nature uses to rebuild the ner- vous system, and when that is in good condition one can d d upon a good complexion, as Wi 1l as a geéneral healthy condition of the body. ,rmerly had as fine a complexion | | to directions, I liked it very | | | | | Hin. dered to | Mausers L American soners (British) are be- | manufacture e been handed in. Gen- ampered with Malana | eral Hildyard has returned here. | to the four-story brick building occupled | by B. 8. Green & Co., and thence stead- ily eastward. In an hour the entire block except the Postoffice building, which w: saved by hard work, was In ruins. this block was the old Durley Theater, which was being remodeled. The fire worked eastward across to Greishetm's story building at the corner of Main and Jefferson streets, and soon that en- tire block was also in flames. From there fire spread to the Courthouse and thence to the adjacent blocks. In the meantime aid had been summoned from Peoria and Springfield, and with the as- sistance of fire apparatus from those cite fes the fire was gradually brought under control to the west. To the east it was se dynamite to destroy sev- in the path of the flames re was stopped in that direc- before the tion. The burned district includes_the north- e Square, the 3 cornering on the square k of bulldings west of the square. NATIONAL TRADES COUNCIL TO ASSIST STRIKERS Official Notice Sent Out Directed Against Ten Cities Where There Is Labor Trouble. CHICAGO, June 18.—New life has been injected into the lockout in Chicago by the action of the National Building Trades’ Council to which local body is subordinate. The national body indi- cated that labor is more than ever de- termined to triumph by taking official no- of strikes and lockouts in_ ten dif- e where the membership of its The national unions nions is Invelved re endeavoring to give th ¢ an organized effort to- pre- eking new find_employment from s. Under_direction of rd Secretary H nbiss has sent the following of- ficial notice to every eity in the country e is a building trades union: e must keep away from Chicago un- her notice, owing to a lockout of all tradesmen. utive bo: painters must keep away nd Fast St. Louls Plasterers must keep away from Kansas City. Carpenters and woodworkers must keep away from Omaha. Tinners must keep away from Memphis. Carpenters and painters must keep away from Duluth. Carpenters, tinners, paintefs and woodwork- away from Dallas, Texas. keep away tradesmen must keep away from Sevannah, Ga. TWO MEN KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK Center of a Bridge Span Gives Way and the Train Crashes Into a River. LEBANON, Ky, June 19.—Two men were killed and five serfously injured in a wreck this afternoon on the Greensburg branch of the Loulsville and Nashville Railroad at Calvary, six miles from herer | \ The killed: GEORGE MULLINS, bridge carpenter, Mount Vernon. J : H. HOUSTON, bridge carpenter, Pin hirteen bridge carpenters were at work on the bridge that crosses Rolling Fork River. The passenger traln was in the center of the first 100-foot span when the bridge gave way and precipitated almost the entire train to the bed of the river. The last coach containing twenty pas- sengers was left hanging over the abut- ment and was not serfously damaged un- til after its occupants were taken out. CAPTAIN LEE DROWNED OFF COAST OF ALBAY Officer of the Forty-Fifth Volunteer Infantry Meets an Untimely Death. WASHINGTON, June 19.—Adjutant Gen- eral Corbin received a cable from Gen- eral MacArthur at Manila to-day, saying that Captain Orison Lee, of the Forty- K | afth Volunteer Infantry, was drowned off | the coast of Albay on the 10th instant. Captain Lee, who was 48 years old, was born at Shelbyville, Tnd., and entered the service April 18, 1 Sixteenth Indigna Volunteers. He served with that regiment at Matanzas, Cuba, from January to March, 1899 e was appointed captain of the Fortv-fifth Vol- unteer Infantry, August 17, 1899, and ac- companied the regiment to the Philippines in December, —_——— Death Due to Disappointment. BERLIN, June 19.—It is said that the death of Herr John Langal, Burgomaster | of Oberammergau, who died yesterday as the result of an operation, was hastened by his disappointment over the exclusjon ez himself and his daughter from the caste of passion play, which was due to vluacomtflqlg To Build New Ships. BERLIN, June 14.—The North German- Lioydg Steamship Company have commis- Vulcan Shipbuflding Works tn '?.:' og:truat !?r M”NYV“Y?}: orié, each of 2,500 tona, 495, as captain of the ! SOUTH AFRICAN NEWS CAUSES MSREY English and American Resi- dents Celebrate Fall of Pretoria. General Feeling Is That It Is About Time for Great Britain to Stop the Farce at Peking. s e | Correspondence of Assoclated Press. YOKOHAMA, June 2.—On the announce- ment yesterday of the fall of Pretoria Yokohama's streets were suddenly filled with English and American flags in token of the common rejoicing over the énd of | the South African war. The pro-English feeling on the part of the Americans here has been strongly marked from the begin- ning, and in fact the same is the case all | through the Orient, where the Americans, | who constitute a very inteiligent class, | thoroughly appreciate what it means for | a land to be under British control. It is also a significant fact that the Japanese sympathy for Knglard has been as strong as it has been unanimous. While one war cloud ends it would seem to be in the very nick of time, as appear- ances in China indicate that the strong hand of England must soon fall there, or things will rapidly zall into chaos. [he impression prevalis that either the paru- tion of Lthe vast empire Or some arrang ment for its joint control by the p.eecrs is close at hand. 'Che Japanese niess s &lniost & unit in the expression of the be- | | lief that the time has come to put an end | 1o the present farce in Peking and to overthrow the feeble and corrupt Govern- ment there. Although the outbreak of ! the Boxers has not proved so destructive as at first reported, vet their proceedings were high-handed eiough Lo prove tnat either the Governmen:i was in collusion wiih them or too weak to efficiently op- pose them. The only course to be pur- sued was, therefore, the landing of the forelgn marines. The Americans were on the spot first, and it was over the discus- sfon of thelf propesed march to Peking | that a serious coliision took place be- tween the Tsung Li Yamen ana the for- eign Ministers, the former, in the Chinese fashion, inlerposIg Irivoious pretexis for delay and the latter urgeni in _their threats of forcing a way tnrough. Need- less to say, the latter prevailed, adding another {llustration, if it were needed, of the utter nervelessness of the Chinese au- | thorities. The fact that the Americans are taking the lead in this new kind of “open door”” policy is exciting general comment, every one contrasting the atti- tude of America toward the Orient two years ago with the prominent position she occupies now in everything which con- cerns Bastern politics. The situation in Korea has in interest hardly given place to that in China during the past week. The Japanese have nat- urally been greatly agitated over it not only because every sign of the w or blungders of the Korean Government is eagerly®atched by them but also because of the horrible tortures inflicted upon two men_who were in a sense the special wards of this country. The two brothers, An and Kwong, had fled to Japan on sus- picion of having been implicated in the murder of the Queen in Tss6. The first named had returned and had been sen- tenced to banishment for three years. Against_the advice of his Japanese friends Kwong also lately returned, and | in spite of promises made to the Govern- ment here he was seized and put to hor rible tortures. The so-calied confession thus wrung from him furnished a pretext for the rearrest of his brother, and both were then subjected to torture of the most parbarous nature, resulting in their death. The Japanese Government has demanded not onl investigation but the speedy punishm &0( all concerned, it being well known that the “all” would not be cov- ered by the usual “‘scapegoats” furnished in such cases. The implications made are £0 vital and serious that Mr. Hayashi, the Japanese Minister at Seoul, is refused ad- mission to an audience with the Emperor. It really looks as If, unless some just- ment is speedily made, the long looked for opportunity for Japan to Interfere in the control of Korean affairs is at hand. In the meantime the Japanese press is Joud in its condemnation of the judicial barbarism which tolerates the methods or principle of torture for the ends of jus- tice. It is quite certain that the final re- sult of the incident, if not of a poiitical character or conducive to a change in the Korean status, will redoind to the cause of civilization, as in any event it will lead to some solid arantee against the repe- tition of the shocking erimes which have been committed in the name of justice. In Japanesé politics the situation re- mains unchanged, with the rumors as to approaching changes rather more rife than usual, the general impression bein, fl;?l Marquig ‘Im will fio;;m at the h of a new Cabinet, with a str backing. s The very latest from China is that since the arrival of the foreign marines every- thing has resumed its wonted quiet, and the pnlvnssm question among the foreign- ers is that of how many more of the same sort of farces there will have to be before the fall of the present regime, which has | once more shown its weaknes: +RAILROAD COMBINE ! TO KEEP UP RATES | R s | Western Lines Form Local Pooling Arrangement and Will Divide Profits. | HICAGO, June 19.—Presidents of Western railroads met here to-day to | ev lve some plan by which the rate de- moralization might be avoided and the revenues of thelr respective roads in- | creased thereby. Th('peplu.n which it is | believed will be accepted is precisely a | system of local pools under which the | gross tonnage of the various roads will be_equitably apportioned. The plan was indorsed in a general way by the presi- | dents at their recent meeting in New York and was turned over to various | committees of different roads to be framed up In detail. | The details have been considered by the committees and the whole plan, which aims to regulate the passenger and freight business in Western Association territory, was to-day laid before the presidents. The plan provides for the i vision of territery west of Chicago and | 8t. Louis into local districts. Sfilcaxo. St. Paul lines will form one district or | group, Chicago-Omaha lines another group, and so on, in western passenger and freight territory. At the head of each_ district will be a committee com. posed of the traffic officlals of each rall- road line in the district. At their head, | according to the plan, there will be a joint agent whose duty it will be to see that the committee works in harmony wkh itself. S i t present the plan is not expected be aopted by rane-Missour and. (rane | continental roads. s LI POLITICS AN ISSUE. Discussion Raised on the Subject at { Turnerbund Meeting. PHILADELPHIA, June 18.—The feature of to-day's session of the convention ot the Nurthern Turnerbund was a speech | by A. Vahlteich of Chicago, formerly a Socialist member of the German - stag. Mr. Vahlteich applied to the con- vention to place itself on record as the principles of | i active sympathy with Al Anine ot Netraakh:. ateld spoke ugllnst the idea of bflnsln% tics into the assoclation, and Carl hardt_of Boston said he was a thought it unwise for the hma‘r‘i“ts'enbt:: the field of politics, The discussion arose during the consid- eration of the platform as submitted in | the majority report. >t BT Mrs. Gladstone’s Funeral. LONDON, June 18, — Mrs. Gladstone, widow of the great English statesman, was buriéd by the side of her husband in Westminster Abbey this afternoon. The service, which was | md re- sembled that of har Lug '@‘n Wi ulguxned u- e Po servi a i iy | ever, reign but for the day. PLEASANTON PREPARES TO CELEBRATE THE FOURTH JUY |N JAPAN Miss Florence Lyster, @ Popular and Ac- complished Young Ladu, Chosen Queen. R e | i | | % § W | o W PR > L4 Spectal Dispateh to The Call LEASANTON, :fune 19.—The Fourth of July will ba fittingly celebrated in Pleasanton- a town deserving of its name. Funds have been sub- scribed by its citizens and a grand time guaranteed to all. ‘While the patriotic fathers of the revo- lution were against monarchy, still Pleas- anton will have a qneen. She will, how- The com- mittee have settled upon Miss Florence Lyster. B . 4 MISS FLORENCE LYSTER, WHO WILL hE QUEEN FOR A DAY AT 0:‘ PLEASANTON: I.—O—H—Q—o-h—o D anan e o S Sl e o e o o e e o e e * L] Pleasanton has heretofore assisted her sister cities in their celebrations, but this year all of Alameda County intends to turn cut at Pleasanton. There will be a parade and races of all kinds and a ball in the evening. The Yuba Power and ‘Water Company will furnish an electrical display, which will be followed by fire- works and a grand ball. The afternoon’s entertainment will eon- sist of bicycle races and sports of all kinds. Special rates will be made on the railroads and special trains run. PREPARATIONS IN HONOLULU FOR “NEW REGIME Merchants Given Every Op- portunity to Close Up Busi- ness Under Old Laws. —_— ‘Hawaiians Meet in Convention, Form an Independent Political Party and Adopt a Plat- form. i SRS HONOLULU, June 12—The custom- house of Honolulu will remain open till midnight on the night of June 13. All the departments will be ready to do business on the old basis up to the last moment of | the existence of the republic of Hawaif, and if any one has a paper on file that will cost him more on the 14th than on the 13th he will be given every opportunity to get it In in the best way. Collector Gen- eral Stackable stated to-day that he would give the shipping men and merchants the chance to get their entries in until the clock begins to strike announcing the birth of the American Territory of Ha- wail. The night session at the custom-house is likely to be a very interesting one. Be- tween sundown on the 13th and the dawn of the 14th a change is to occur that might easily mean hundreds of thousands of dol- lars to merchants and shippers. There are vessels due that may show up and man- age to get thelr papers into the custom- house before the hour of midnight, and thereby save thousands of dollars. and, on the other hand, there are vessels that might carefully keep away when their masters learned what was going on, The buginess of the Hawaiian custom- house will be computed as a separate ac- count up to_the last moment, As soon as possible Collector Stackable will make a report—the last one—to the Interior De- partment and turn over his cash. After that he will be no longer a Hawalian of- ficial, but a Federal officer. The Hawalians have met in convention and have formed an lndeq’endem olitical party. They figure that by standing to- ether they can control both houses of the fleglalature. and In addition elect their representative to Congress. They ha THE CALL’S Home Study Circle. SEYMOUR EATON, Director. SUMMER COURSES, .+.1900... Beginning Friday, June 15. 1. American Political Partis, 1. The Discoverers and Explorers of North America. 1l Famous Art Galleries of the World. IV. Historic Studies in Home Fur- nishing. A V. Comparatlve Studles of Two Cen- turiss. try. | We stand adopted a platform which much as though they were drawing a color line. The Hawailans claim they have not. The following is a translation of the plat- form adopted by the party: ‘We belleve that all governments founded on an independent basis should be aseured of free- dom without oppression. We believe in equal rights and freedom for all people. ‘We belleve man was born with the right to be independent and that every person is equal in the éye of the law. We believe that he is endowed with all the privileges of life, liberty and the right to choose that which will con- We believe in looks very tribute to his best advantage. protection against oppression. we should strive to secure equal rights for the people, by the people and of the people. Equal rights for the people is the motto adopted in the platform. The belief of the independent party is that the successful candidates in the Legislature of the Ter- ritory of Hawali should strive In every way to secure the consent of the Congress of the United States to make a State of the Territory of Hawall and pledge them- selves to support all good and equal pro- visions that either the Republican or Democratic parties of the United States :xlmy see fit to enact. The platform con- nues: ‘We further pledge curselves to support tl political party in the United States that will work to make Hawail a State. We fntend to strive in every way possible to secure from the United States benefits and privileges for the natives and other citizens altke, who will work together for the good of the dountry, regardless of color. We also in- tend to strive toward the end that our Repre- sentatives will formulate the best laws for the pecple. Our legislators shall strive to obtain home- steads for the people out of the lands that have been taken over by the United States. Th:,’ should also strive to set aside an a) {ropriation for damages by fire caused by the urning of Chinatown and other places by the Board of Health in connection grith the sup- pression of the bubonic plague in' 1900. They hall further strive to encourage educa- tion, industrial pursuits, farming, road making, rallroads and both fore{gn and local commerce, that will redound to the advantage of the coun- opposed to monopolies and to any attempt at a restriction of the voting privileges of natives or citizens who think as they do that might be attempted later, We stand op- posed to the heavy taxation of the people, the restriction of the jury rights of the natives and to all other restriction of the rights of the people. On the 8th inst. the members of the con- vention called on the ex-Queen, who re- celved them Kkindly and addressed them for about ten minutes. She spoke slowly and deliberately, saying in part: “It is useless for us to abstain from taking our future stand. Our future prosperity de ends upon It. As soon as the United gutu flag was holsted over these islands and our Hawailan flag was lowered by the authority of the American Government it meant that it had come to stay. It is my wish for your future welfare to stand shoulder to ~shoulder and seek every means that will conduce to the benefits of the whole nation. When the flag went down_it went down for good. We must now do our duty as American citizens." The. resolution adopted by the conven- tion declaring for an independent party was as follow: “That tl should stand as an indepenflent or home rule party.”” There was not a vote against this, The Board of Healith has officially de- clared a quarantine against the port of San Francisco. All vessels from there, both steamers and sailing, will be treat- ed in the usual way. As to passengers from San_ Francisco no action has been taken and it is possible that none will be unless the disease appears among other than Chinese. The United States transport Sherman arrived from San Francisco on the 9th on her way to Manila. She will resume her voyage to-day. e A — LIEUTENANT TO BLAME. Fired Too Hastily on Strikers in the Island of Martinique. PARIS, June 19.—Replying to-day to an interpellation regarding the result of the Inquiry into the troubles in the island of Martinique the Minister for the Colonies, M. Decrais, sald the investigation showed that the lleutenant who ordered the sol- iers to fi kers acted hasf gnd he would be witifrawn from .wm': ce. In addition the local police would tter recruited, the darmerie would ad public functio would be forbidden to Intervene in elec- campaigns. . as Section Hands. We belleve that | THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. FAMOUS ART GALLERIES OF THE WORLD. I There are few great masterpleces, but, on the other hand, there ure many good examples of the historieal schools of paint- ing, in the London National Gallery. A visit to it is a good preparation—or the best possible substitute— for a tour of the great Continental galleries. For this rea- son, and because the present paper is to be the first of a series on the famous art galleries of the world, I will follow the historical method; but instead of aiming (as is customary) to distinguish the va- rious national and local schools I will try ®0 to arrange what I have to say as to elucidate the general movement in which | the career of each of these schools was but an incident. To do this it will be necessary to mention paintings which are technically inferior but historically im- portant, and to pass over in silence many clever imitative works. But, as I have sald, the collection Is one that leads itself to this treatment, and it will apear, I think, in the end that the epoch making work, though crude and faulty, offers more of genuine interest than the accom- plished but unprogressive work of a more advanced period. The National Gallery is rich in exam- ples of the Italian, Flemish and German grlmmvel, and we should not be deterred thelr incomplete technique from giving them the attention which is their due. Even as regards technigue they show wonderful development in special direc- fruits of modern art need not be insisted of them did so with a purpose In view which binds them closely to the preceding Byzantine school and which long remained the dominant purpose in painting. These were the religious, symbolical painters of the middle ages, of whom there are many examples in the collection. A symbol to be more effective than words written on a scroll must have nat- ural significance; to be effective at all we must not have %mwn tired of it owing to constant repetition. But the Byzantine symbolism was larielg' of the nature of written signs to whifh arbitrary mean- ings had been attached, and the world had begun to be Indifferent to it as a whole. Gradually the. painters of the middle ages abandoned the more mean- ingless of these signs and put new sig- nificance into the stiff figures, themselves little more than pictographs. They movement to the limbs, animation to the features, variety to the grouping. In the search for new and more effective means of expression they made a new conquest of the natural world, and this was in it- self a source of pleasure, to express which became a new motive for art. | & enuous worldliness along with religious exaltation, scrupulous rendering of fact together with every artifice of suggestion | | known to them portrait, the sto xamples of genre, the icture, still life: in short, the whole im of art in outline. There are even, among the Germans es pecially, a sort of decadent prettiness and a love of labor for labor's sake which we generally periods. | won | so-called Cimabue, a Madonna, austere, rigid and ill drawn, or the more Interest- ng triptych by Ducclo, which, however, is as flat as a Japanese print, with ti | “Paradise” of Fra Angelico, where all the | saints are real persons living in a world | of three dimensions, or with Jan Van | Eyck’s portrait group of the | dressed Arnolfini, man and wife, Well-furnished chamber, with the land- scape reflected in the round mirror and the m%fl;l nhll buhrnlmrmln the chandelier suspended from t! E !(p is a mistake to umhe the renais- To take in the whole of this glcism. A great impetus was doubtless flven to the study of nature by classical [earning and attention was drawn to the tions, and their importance as the first | upon. Their painters were the first, after a long period of formality, to retarn to nature, but, it should be added, the best | gave | Hence we | have in the works of the primitives in- | think of as vices of much later | derful -time at a glance compare the | uaintly | n their | sance of art wholly to the revival of clas- | beauty of those works of antiquity which were within reach, but the painter's mo- tive—to express the actual feelings and in- terests of the time, worldly or religious, In such way as his_art rmitte Te- mained the same. The painters of the Tenaissance preserve all the more Jualities of the middle X their simplicity, freshness, candor. Fre new knowledge of grace did not over- shadow the old intention. The period is, therefore, one of the most interesting in art. It is well represented in the National Gallery, particularly on the Itallan side. Vittore Pisano is better known as a medalist than as a painter, but two of his rare paintings are here. ~“St. Anthony and St. George,” with the Virgin a - ing in a mass of bright clouds over the ine wood in the distance, and “The Vis- on of St. Eustace,” illustrating the well- known medieval legend of the hunter who was surprised in a forest by the vision of a stag bearing a cruclfix between his horns, are both good and characteristic examples. Ucecello’s ‘“Battle of St. Egidio™ is noteworthy for the painter’s bold at- tempt at foreshortening and for his dec- orative use of values. The gallery eon- tains man genuine works of Carlo Crivelll, one of the most important of the early Venpetians; this great Gothic altarpiece in which thirteen distinet pictures are set is one of the gems of the collection. ~The Nativity” of Plero della Francesca. in which the stable is represented by a small penthouse and angels like a band of strolling musicians strum their guitars to amuse the Child laid upon the ground at some distance from his kneeling mother, was probably suggested by a scene in a miracle pl omenico Venezlano's “Vir- gim enthroned,” a fresco transferred to | canvas, indicates a return to the Byzan- | tine type, but though badly damaged it is | still _fmpressive. ere is unfortunately no example of Albert Durer and only omne or_two mediocre heads by Lucas Cranach. Readers of George Eliot's “Romola™ will | remember the eccentric painter, Plero df Cosimo. His “Death of Procris’ is a fine example of the classical story picture. The wounded huntress lies at full length on a slight elevation near the sea, her dog. Laelaps, at her feet and a pitying satyr kneeling at her head. A more im- portant painting of the kind is Pinturrie- chio’s fresco, “The Return of Ulysses.” Penelope is at her loom with one of her handmaidens near her; Ulysses enters, smartly dressed as an Itallan navigator of the period; the suitors draw aside and ap- pear to be taking counsel with ome an- other: through the open window Ulysses’ ships are seen, safe in port, with salls furled, and near by is Circe's island, with her metamorphosed victims prowling about in the shrubbery. It is evident that the painter would not understand the fuss which our art editors and such folk make about illustrations that do not follow the text. He went to Homer for material for a picture which might convey the sound moral lesson that there is no place like home; he selected his material here and there in the “Odyssey” and combined it to suit himself. In the like spirit he has taken great pains with his perspective, not for the sake of being scientifically cor- i | | rect, but with another purpose in his mind. The architectural lines, the frame of the loom, the spars of the vessel, ail lead the eyeintothe distance and so meas. ure up the space as to make us consclous of it. We can go on a voyage of discov- ery of our own within the bounds of his picture. When we read of the painter lying awake at night thinking of per- spective problems we may know that the science was not to him as dry as we find it to-day, but was simply a means by which he could make space relations ap- arent and harmonious. From this time 'orward and until the end of the Renais- sance linear perspective was what aerial perspective of tones and values is to the painting of to-day—the principal means of expressing distance and suggesting infin- fty. It is one of the most essential ele- ments in the compositions of Perugino and Rapbael. Note—This study, by Roger Riordan, art editor of Art Amateur, will be concluded on Wednesday next. CONGRESS OF MINERS OPENS AT MILWAUKEE President Montgomery Deliv- ers His Annual Address. —_— Urges the Creation of a Department of Mines, With a Cabinet Officer at Its Head. SRR MILWAUKEE, Juge 19.—Tkhe third con- vention of the Internationgl Mining Con- gress opened here to-day with several hundred delegates in attendance. Colorado heads the list in exhibits, with a collection of 2000 specimens. Among the most notable arrivals are B. F. Montgomery of Cripple Creek. Colo.; ex-Governor Bradford L. Prince of Santa Fe. N. Mex., and ex-Governer Swineford of Alaska. Ex-Governor Prince responded to one of the addresses of welcome and President Montgomery then delivered his annual address. He gave a brief review of the history of the congress up to the present session, discussing in detall its objects and purposes, and recommending nlpcmnnem organization to meet annu- ulie reviewed at I h of the mining L aette he 0 be of the p IV - oIy that oy that mining was s efi‘t‘- est and best interests of the Industry of mining in general. Phe speaker recommended action look- ing to the thorough revision of the Fed- eral mining laws to the end that mining on the Government domain should be con- trolled exclusively by the laws of Con- gress and not left to the regulation of en- actments of statutes by the several States, thus producing a uniformity of method of location, size of mining claim, and annual assessment work by which a claim should be perpetuated until a patent should issue. Such legislation. he sald, should be based upon the idea of in- ducing development of mineral wealth upon the public domain. He argued also in favor of the abolition by act of Congress of what is generally known as apex rights. or the right to fois low & vein or lead on it into the land of an adjoining owner, and as a substitute for the apex rights now existing an em~ largement of the location. requiring that each claim shall be circumseribed by the surface lines of said claim drawn ver- tically downward. Colonel Montgomery w action to in- duce Congress to pass the bill to create a department of mines and mining like that of the Department of Agriculture, with a secretary. who should be a member of the President’'s Cabinet. The introduc- tion of the bill now pending was the re. sult of the action of the International Mining Congress at Salt Lake in 1398. He contended that the department should not be made a mere bureau in any other de- partment, as it was now in the Depart- the Interior. because . as it would be treated as a matter of inferior and not of paramount importance to the country. e ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED. Mrs. Chesnutwood Loses Her Lifo Near Santa Cruz. SANTA CRUZ, June 19.—Mrs. Janle A. Chesnutwood, wife of Professor Chesnut- wood, was accldentally drowned near the CHf drive early this morning. She left home at about 5 o'clock and soon after- ward her shawl veil and shoes were found on the cliff a hundred feet away from where she Is supposed to have fall Eight lem ago Mrs. Chesnutwood m an attack of the grip. which left her vi nervous. It is presumed that she dered to_the cliffs while In a con- dmwi’rhebod was recovered at 11 o’cloc] Dems«* was a native of New Yorh aged 51 years. Professor Chesnut- has conducted a bus mr many years and is out the, State. e RS Will Bore for Oil. TACOMA, Wash., June 19.—The Pacifie ©Oil Works Company was Incorporated yesterday with a capital of a quarter of ollars, to bore for oil in almost in the heart of t 3 oll from out: ‘Work