The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1899, Page 30

THE SUNDAY CALL “to kape t under the fine Protest tant museum a prayin must which at instance birds building their in the when melt- snows are ing to the whe car and temper thus enjoy a whole look to the cooling son, for ‘“he e mouth is ks, and he ' But su d by de dor, juld be good, , but what hing in ‘“The ddleton,” “Thg enge,” dnight From Salon to Sl . 's Courtship” and many uggestive tities that slip Corda of like Quite e hands of drowsy summer girls e vever, from I'men and impertinently dot the sub- c ith your sof ndscape. The readers of such Here when you have selected t as near to the heart of nature t off you go to your I < of geese In a puddle.” There i 1d toes and “tongues in the trees” for them, going to be ermons_in stones,” no “‘books in the vehicle. A g brooks d'no particular_good g beautiful that nature so. boun- ives to him who looks aright. tention is apt in time . and to keep our ubjects is no small blestone you » of that gender, trickie | of your ¢ and 'by the our hotel vou feel as n breaking a wild colt. This | minds on the ri t Whatever gets ou | to win our affect! ht experience. Three or_four | part of ethids. We can call up at will the able you to be very digni- | world we care to live in, and unless the iceful and to even look down | mind is fed on the right subjects it will on those who be|not have the right desfres D New Books Received. THE EVIDENCE OF IMMORTALITY —By ‘Jerome: 4. Anderson, M. D. CSam Francisco: The Lotus Publishing Com- i ot shete, Ve ther the | pany, 1170 Market street. Cloth, Fr paper, pany they tells me to balance |80 cents. Sitiing on the other side. for| This is the latest and best work pub- the horse, to be shure, but |lished hy Dr. Jerome A. Anderson, physi- ried, bedad, they lets me | cian, philosopher, reformer, author, lec- AL you remain long enough ELIA CARDS. 2 devotee of the jaunting ably determine to have rself one of these fine days. lained to us in Dublin, s the most convenient * that iver was Invinted. sate and they balance it | turer, philanthropist and member of the In the country the driver|last twe Boards of Freecholders of this bat s are very numerous but always unpreten- tious seen ken yscm with or window. T s single aperture Ac TYPICA L \| [Ristt CoTTAGE L nt to pravent a total darkness. about, five 1if, K uncommon to see fcally fiom Little JoUrmelu Throush Quaint and Interesting Treland Is Treland Being Deserted? 15,000 Marriageable Girls Ernigrated Last Year. the front door of the family residence. rts of atter s have been made to 1o Irish peasant of living in the me rocm with the animals, but there is yciability and a warmth about it which vill_not ego. The neat coming the body of the cow is serfous consideration in winter weather. New Ross, which is a very small town, 1 am sure contains no than three dozen liquor establishmen Which is the cause and which the effect. the liquor or the poverty, I am sure 1 do not know. However it may be, I found in my heart to blame the New Ross inhabitant for quaffing very often at the cup that cheer: With his_eyes unblinded there is nothing to behold but desoiation. There is no present and just as surely no future. except, perhaps, for the tow-headed youngster whom I saw ‘turning the pages of his geography till he stopped to trace with his dirty little finger a land beyond the sea. “"Arc these your children?” I asked an old man puffing a pipe on his front door- step who had been kind enough to give me some directions. He was surrounded by no less than six strapping youngsters Yes, miss.” he answered, “they be th econd clutch ‘“V\-‘ha! do you mean by the second lutch ?"” tH; mean, miss, as I've been married twice and these be the second clutch. The first clutch has children o’ their own. There are not very many tourists who take the trip on the river Blackwater, known as the Irish Rhine, although it s well worthy of a visit. There are many castles on its banks and with innumerable windings constant surprises are yielued. The steamer lands at the old town of Youghal, which is as interesting as any place in Ireland. Here the cottage in which Walter Raleigh lived is still intact, and the traveler may view the spot whereon he first planted potatoes. Apro- os of the potato it takes a trip to Ire- and to realize its excellence, ’I:?le“ ex- presston in ‘‘Troflus and Cressid Tux- Ury with her potato finger,” 'always seemed to me very absurd until T had enjoyed the article fresh dipped from an Irish pot. Now I am praying with Fal- staff in the ‘“Merry Wives of Windsor,” “Let the sky rain potatoes and hail kiss- ing comfit: the latter, I understand, be- ing made of potatoes. Cork is a very beautiful and a very quaint old city. In the afterncon it has a lively appearance, although I am told that been ely los- have cher Pr city and_cou pily and perhap: christened *‘An ophy of Immortalit for this is what the nea ted little volume really contains. who expect to find cita- tions of physical or pheromenal evidence of life eternal betweer disappoint fact however reader of This the most ern philosophy in the la It might more ¢comp; yme of the and comm sion ed the con; an on should be s yet to be sal ing upon a subject bout since mz sumes neither a original _idi 1l be impres with the st the subject is not treat 1 manner nor nd - traverses already well n with philosophical ruts. At the outset a different interpretation is asked for to Descartes’ famous utterance. It 18 not “I think, therefore I exist,” says Dr. Anderson, but “I think, therefore I am,” “thus linking life with idea of etérnal being ra n with an out- form, transitory e either Des- cartes nor his best interpreters limited but included with r phas of sclousness. says author. “The original meaning of Des- cartes has thus been quite ‘lost sight of life to thought alone b 3 and attention directed wholly to thought as the sole phencmenon of cxistence, the one proof of life. * * ¢ Thought, as most men conceive of it, is certainly de- stroyed by death, and having been taught to 100k upon man as a thinker only, and upon existence as depending upon thought, men have been driven either to deny existence after death, as do mod- ern materialists, or to set up a_ future life incongruous to and ethically dis- connected with that of the present, as do modern Christian Not only thought not the sole proof of life, says the author, but it is not the highest nor the most impoftant faculty of the soul, and its exaggerated importance in Western philosophy is directly re- sponsible for® the confusion and uncer- tainty with which the problem of im- mortality is still invested. If to live is merely to think, then there can be no ex- istence after death. But consciousness does not depend upon thought, says Dr. Anderson, and from this point branches out the real argument of the book, treat- ed under such headings as_‘‘Sense Con- sciousness,” “Thcu%h! and Imagination,” “Thought, Reason, Intuition, Instinct and Feeling.”” “The Effect of Death Upon the Consciousness of Life,” upon the senses, tha - desire, consciousness, imagination, ete.; ‘‘The Process of Death,” ‘‘The Re emboiment .of the Soul,”” and others. There are two very valuable appendices, one Upon the dream- gtate of comsciouss and the other c show the striking points all great religicns. There i plicity and directness In th style d the book will doubt wide reading. ining data that of similarity in much sim- doctor’s ss have a cothiB e Magazines for August. The Century. “E s in Little Ttaly ast Da the Initial article of the August Century, is contrib- uted by Jacob A. Riis. the well-known writer on social toples. It has a wonder- ful human interest, and although written from a humorous standpoint it carries an undertone of respect for the faith of a picturesque muititude, even- if that faith be superstition. Pictures by Jay Ham- bidge bring the humorous and pathetic situations clearly to the eye. John Bur- the born naturs the lover of utiful things suggest,” contrib- limpses of Wild Lafe About My and it illed with the beautiful one expeets from a man who feels you must bait your hook with your.heart if you would atch your fish. *“In the Whirl of the Tornado,” a personal experi- ence by John R. Mu = followed by a somewhat scientific discussion of torna- dos in general by Cleveland Abbe, the dis- tinguished American meteorologist. ‘““The River of Tea,” by Eliza Scidmore, carries us into Oriental lands, and ‘‘The People of the Reindeer,” by Jonas Stadling, gives pletures of the manners and customs of the Lapps. Via Crucig,” by Marion Craw- ford, its nineteenth chapter, and Other signa- in is 5 other fiction is_contributed. tures are Frank R. Stockton, Major Gen- eral Leonard Wood, John Trowbridge and Paul Leicester TFord, the latter wrillnfi most_intere gly on “Franklin as Jac! of All Trade: Scribner’s Magazine. Writers and reaaers of short stories look forward with pleasure to the annual fie- tion number of Scribner's Magazine. Many ‘'sounding names as on the page of history” appear in the signatures, but new writers are also fven a chance. The frontispiece iz by W. Glackens, a young artist, who gives a French illustrative handling to home subjects and makes “The Play's the Thing'’ a doubly Interest- ing story. Maxfield Parrish has done the cover. “‘The Trail of the Sandhill Tag™ is contributed by Ernest Seton Thompson, whose “Wild Animals 1 Have Known' ave such a new color to animal life. Little Italy” again _comes to the front in a story by Albert White Voss, who lo- cates his action in an East Side theater and thus opens an opportunity for more good work in color (ilustration by Glack- ens. Many of the stories are of high ex- cellence. 23 The Atlantic Monthly- Jacob Riis, so. active in. charitable movements and so prolific in writing in their interests for magazines and periodi- cals, passes in this number of the At- lantic from the problem of ““The Tene- ment House” to that of “The Tenant,” showing the conditions of his_existence and suggesting remedies. John Muir gives & characteristic account of Yosemite Na- tional Park; Heuory Sedgwick Jr. contrib- - on Lord Macaulay as the true repre: of his age; Colonel Higginson infroduces us to the literary claims of the late John Holmes, younger brother of the Autocat, whom many think -would have won fame had he en- tered the literary arena: John Burroughs utes an essa discusses Tolstol's “What Is Art?’; ex- * Senator Henry L. Dawes treats of the Indian question; W. Cunningham dis- g “The Prospects of Universal Peace,”’ and current topics are editorially handled. Fiction contributions are in- teresting and various both in style and subject. McClure’s Mag-zine. W. J. Glackens again appears as illus- trator in McClure's August fiction num- ber, adding much to the interest of “Cap- turing a Confederate Mail,” by Ray Stan- nard Baker. The frontispiece is a por- traft of Hon. Cecil Rhodes, from a photo- graph by Downey of London. and _the cover is designed by Will H. Low. Wil- liam R. Lighton, Seumas McManus, ~W. A. Fraser, Annie Fellows Johnston, W. T. Stead and Benjamin Coxe Stevenson are among the contributors. Booth Tarking- ton’s novel, “The Gentleman From In- dia,” is in the ninth chapter. + Harper's Magazine. The Midsummer Harper's prints an ex- cellent collection of short stories contrib. uted by Miss Wilkens, Alice Duer, Thomas Janvier, Frederic Remington, Stephen Crane and others. Dr. Wyeth adds a chapter to his “Life of General Forrést” and Henry Sandham has an ar- ticle on “Hayti, the Unknown,” in which he says, incidentally: “The mention of Cuba reminds me that every business man T talked with, whether a native or a for- eigner, expressed the greatest regret that this island was not included with Cuba and Puerto Rico. s one of the leading politicians of the island_put the case a short time ago: ‘Uncle Sam is enlarging his kitchen; he is_getting a place ready for another pot; he has Cuba for one leg, Puerto Rico for another, and the third must go on this island. It is well for us all to leok the situation fairly in the face.’ The reader will remember that rice and beans cooked In a three-legged ot composes the national dish of the glay!lans." Lieutenant Carlos Gilman Calkins de- scribes the Filipino insurrection and Ad- miral Beardslee contributes a paper on the Taiping rebellion. The Overland Montbly. A magazine with well cut, even edges may not lean a way over toward the nine- teenth century artistic, but it is an ex- pression of sound common sense and a de- sire to make its readers comfortable. The Overland has this advantage over most of its contemporaries and it makes the read- ing of the meritorious contributed stories an added pleasure. Fiction includes “The Wife of a King,” by Jack London; “A Posthumous Fortune,” by Mary T. Van Denburgh; “Uncle Jacob’'s Will,” by Earle Ashley. Walcott; “The Dancer’s Re- venge,” by therine Lansing, and other gto! In “A Trust in Politics” Edward F. Adams tells of the “bogie of the trust” that is for the next few years to be forced into the-place recently occupled by “the bogie of free silver.” " Taking the “Cali- fornia Raisin Assoclation’” as an example of the benefits to the farmer to be derived from certain trus: he attempts to show that the Democratic slogan for next cam- paign, “Smash the Trusts,” though calcu- lated to fire the popular heart, may mean nothing at all. Farmers' trusts at least he considers beneficial societies. Other ar- ticles are ““The Prospector,” ‘“‘Forestry Problems of San Joaquin,” *Frontier Facts” and “From Savagery to Civiliza- tion. The Cosmopolitan. Frank R. Stockton, John Brisben Walker and Alexander Harvey contribute to this month’s Cosmopolitan. Gustave Kobbe discusses *‘Augustin_Daly and His Life Work”’; Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer in an {llustrated article speaks of “The Basis of New York Society,” and traces the present conditions back to their source and_through thelr various evolu- tions. J. 'W. Bennett of the Baltimore News contributes the prize article on social relations, entitled “Your True Re- lation to Society.” It is a most compre- hensive article. Complete stories from the pens of Frank R. Stockton, O'Niell Latham, Charles Beimont Davis and Charles Francis Bourke are given in this number. Lippincott's Magazine. Lippinicott’s is chiefly a_complete novel, “Fortune's Vassals,” by Sarah B. Elliott; a short story, “Noah's Ark,” by I. Zang- will, and another, “The Illumination of Lee’ Moy,” by C. W. Doyle, author of “The Taming of the Jungle.” Articles of interest are: “The Salon in Old Philadel- phia” and “The Court of Judge Lynch." “Walnuts and Wine” contains much in- teresting matter. The Critic ‘A Repentance,” a drama in one act, by John Oliver Hobbes, is complete in this number. Marion Harland contributes “Charlotte Bronte and Two of Her Frfends,” and A. I. du P. Coleman gives the best article on Daly’s life work that has yet been printed. The book reviews of this magazine are of exceeding interest to the literary. Alnslie’s and Frank Leslie’s are both fiction numbers, and the latter, in an arti- cle by Mrs. John A. Logan, entitled “A Day of the President’'s Life,” gives some Pertlnent reasons why President McKin- ey should have the faith of the people in carrying out the ‘' American natiol Tralning of an lllustrator. This is a timely little pamphlet, a re- print from the Inland Printer for July, to be had for the asking and a 2-cent stamp. The author, Frank Holme of the Chicago Daily News, gives the young illustrator some sound advice and tells the artist whose sensitive soul shudders at the men- tion of commercialism some wholesome truths, reminding him that Robert Louis Stevenson said that the artist's first duty was to E&y his debts. Every illustrator on a dafly or any other paper should se. cure the pamphlet and keep it in his coat pocket for daily reference. civilizing mission of the | business Is not rushing. The Irishman as well as his wife is so extremely loquactous that 1 am afraid he wastes a great deal of valuable time in_talking to his neigh- bor. At the Cork Market it was really very amusing to see the old women with < together so engrossed in con- ¢ their wares were entirely Blarney ¢ ith the famous blarney tle. stone, an hour from Cork. Lest you shi - have looked at the pic- it once that I did not ture 1 ss it. The r n is perhaps obvious. to ki it?” 1 asked s guarded the **Shure, a lady to »"answered g to let kiss it and the iss the the most agraable way as suge n the “gintlemen” are not so brave as might be expected when it comes to kissing the blarney stone, for the feat is & most dangerous one, and {s very rarely performed except by sallors or profe slonal acrobats. The old castle is beauti- ful and romantlc, and does not need the blarney stone to make it worth the trip. From Cork by rail to Macroom, and from there coa g to Glengariff is my most cherished recollection of Ireland route 5 poiled by inva sions of tourist hordes, and the people are yet themseives simple and delightful. We stopped & while at the little village of Inchigella, and from there through mountains and past lakes to the savags grandeur of Gaugane Barra, A scene of more utter loneliness or sterner magnificence than Gaugane Barra it would be impossible:to conceive. It is only relieved by a little island group of graceful ash trees and an ruined chapel. Down from the surrou numerous _stre, with a old ing mountains rusi g tribu ies to the lake, that collects d sends them forth in the beautiful river Tiee to form the harbor of Cork. Surround- ed on all sides b imprisoned & wings of an ed tsland is near rude artificial ¢ lard uire The small the lake, a leading to it from is’t amons hermit- in Bar, who is sald to have 2 pr s tounding the Cathedral of ( classed among ir deaf to he At certain - semble here, bringing their sick children to bathe in the sacred and ailing anim waters. Upon the bushes and neighbor- ing crosses hang fragments of clothes and halters, pr g that for the various animals, biped and quadruped, the lake performed the anticipated miracles. The sacred character of uaugane Barra has, it is said, preserved it from the pest of S0 many Irish lakes—the enchanted eel. Legend has it that in other lake dis- tricts this monster often makes his ap- pearance at night and gobbles up the and other stray possessions of th nts. In ancient times the blesse aint Fin Bar was also subject to its of this enemy, but on one occasion, ched the loneen, or holy was , from the hand of the officiat- ing priest, he was expelled forever from | the neighborhood. | To leave Gaugane Barra it is necessary | [ cows | to go through the celebrated pass of Keim-an-eigh, or Deer Pass, which is utterly desolate and gloomy.” A moun- ta been divided by some convulsion | of re and the na about two ITOW pass | miles in length, is overhung on either | side. At every step some huge rock juts | into’ the path. Nowhere nature as- | sumed a fested a more appalling aspect or mani- more_stern resolve to dwell in her own loneliness and grandeur, undis- turbed by any living thing, for even the birds shun a solitude so awful, and the hum of the bee or the chirp of the grass- hopper is never heard hin its pre- cincts. Protected by these fortresses of rocks, ages ago the outlawed O'Sullivans | and O'Learys kept their freedom and laughed to scorn the sword and fetter of the Saxon, occasionally descending and raiding the neighboring flocks and herds. | As may be expected in modern times, these rocky, fortresses have given shelter | to bands of lawless men, to smugglers | and highway robbers. During the dis- | turbances of the Pass of Keim-an- elgh was a great stronghold of the rebels. But it would be easy to write a hook of legend and story and romance that | one gathers in even a little trip in Ireland. | Every lake and every river has its story, | which the most inteiligent Irishman half | believes in spite of himself. Glengariff | and Killarney are the fashionable places in Ireland. are both very | beautiful, but of course the romance is | spoiled by the presence of the up-to-date girl who stares at you through a lorg- | nette and the chappie radiant in summer It is the fashion to rave s and rills of Killarney, | resort cos | about_the | s0 I shall refrain. | Treland as a country I am afraid is | dead—*'gone up the flume,” as the back- woodsman would say. To a Catholic priest whom I heard lamenting the situ- ation I put the question, “What can ba done about it; what is the possible rem= edy Ah, he said, shaking his head sadly, “there is no remedy. Even the landlords are poor. In oppressing the tenants they have killed the goose that laid the golden egg. Last ar 15,000 marriagable girls emigrated; this year there will be more. ‘What can you expect when the youth of a country “deserts it in that fashion?”’ There was something of reproach in his tones against these deserters, and yet he acknowledged that these same emigrants made it possible for the old people to live. There are hundreds of them, he told me, entirely dependant on what they receive from America. Dr. Johnson one day said to Boswell that the best prospect a Scotchman could have was when he turned his face to- { ward England. 1 thought of this re- mark when I saw the ships in tle Queenstown harbor pointing toward Am- erica. There is no doubt about it—the best prospect an Irishman can have is Lwhon he looks seriously at one of these, GENEVIEVE GREEN.