Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-09-23

reasoner Columbus must have been.
Here are the fac SMILES of his coffin and
urn, the replica of the doors to his tomb
and here also is a tiny glass, shall we
call it locket suspended in a case and
contains tiny pinch of the dust of
Christopher Columbus. Great pains
have been taken to have documents
proving all these things to the satisfac-
ton of the skeptical.
Here is the anchor of Columbus flag
ship the Santa Maria, which by the way
is anchored with the Pinta and the Nina
just outside and can be seen from the
window. Think Of it! What wonder
full food for reflection if all these things
could be seen by the shade of the i'm
mortal discoverer.
When 1 had finished the gallery going
through the rooms twice that might
miss nothing, l returned to the first
floor and sat down to take last view OF
the court and arrange my notes. The
guard who had so kindly given me ideas
on entering approached and asked:
"Well, have you seen it all?" an
swered that thought l had though l
was more than willing to receive sugges-,
lions still "Well," he said "you have
heard of course of Americas Vespucius.
Did you learn anything about his heirs?
I'll wager that you overlooked some val
liable correspondence"
When | assured him that had not,
that had seen the appeal to our con-
gress for aid, from the heirs of our coun-
try's namesake that it had been refused
and that | had seen the unfaYorable re-
port of congress in the matter of the
heirs of Americas he remarked ''well,
I'll give it up, you are more thorough
than thought a casual sight-seer could
be. have asked that question so often
before and not one in five hundred find
those old letters"
Among the many books and docu-
ments of Columbus was one book which
seemed to me very indicative Of the
power and enlightenment of the mind
of Columbus, it was treatise on the
physiology of Aristotle" with marginal
notes in Columbus handwriting.
Alter a lingering farewell look at the
Monastery and it's fascinating surround
ings I went aboard the Santa Maria as
a finishing touch, and the Columbus ex-
| hibit was done.
| ART GALLERY.
From simple description of the ex-
terror one cannot imagine the beauty of
this mammoth structure. 1t has four
grand entrances, around which are beau
tiful statues and marble columns. This
building was designed to remain in the
park and is therefore more substantially
built than the other large buildings, and
because of the value of its priceless con-
tents it had to be fire proof. The walls
are of brick and covered with staff and
the gallery floors and roof are of iron.
The building is cut up into many rooms
to procure wall space for the vast num-
Der of paintings.
And those paintings what would it in
terest you to have them, or several hun
| dred of them on which | made notes
enumerated. 1 cannot describe them,
then too some of them are not worth de-
scribing. Now, this is my own opinion
and should it hurt the feelings of some
artistic nature that spent most of the
time in the Art gallery, just consider
that know very little of fine art any
way, but truly it seemed to me that in
that beautiful building among the many
priceless paintings were car loads Of
trash that the uninitiated must look
through to find the famous works of the
masters.
1t would be difficult to determine
what section, whether our own or some
foreign exhibit contains the best work.
But the criticism of an artist, with
whom 1 had the pleasure of looking
through the gallery, is good and true.
The American artists have studied
abroad, therefore we have not distinctive
American scenes, that is, even our Amer
lean art represents foreign subjects,
largely, while the work of foreigner is
on subject typical of his home and
people.
There were some grand portraits, so
wonderfully reproduced. You would
almost hold your breath while looking
at the portrait of Henrik Ibsen, his
lovely gray hair seemed so real that it
seemed breath might disarrange it.
The works of Sir John Millias had an
added interest by the romance of his
marriage in which the poet Ruskin plays
such noble though inexplicable part,
and wondered if Millias' (stolen?) wife
resembled his beautiful portrait "Sweet
Emma Morland.'
''The Angelus" st. Peters is fine, the
Queens pictures, portraits and paint
ings, and other loaned works of royalty
have always crowd of admirers though
in some of these pictures 1 could see
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