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When Y.he‘l books are thoroughly experted it will be | found that no defalcation exists. I have| not stolen the bank’s money. No discrep- | ancy exists on account of my dishonesty, | and this entire affalr, when probed to the bottom, will resolve itself into a com- plete exoneration for me.” | That is the young bank-teller's version | of the charges brought against him by | the officials of the American Bank and Trust Company, declaring Borlini to be a defaulter to the extent of about $5000. His statements are antipodal to those of the | detectives employed in the case, the offi- | cérs of the bank, the attorneys and the natural conclusions drawn from his own The books of the bank have bee * experted and according to the findings | Borlini 18 accused of embezzlement. But more than this, the detectives who | have been shadowing the young clerk Christian claim to have secured a confession of | gullt from him. Thelr story is like night | and day when compared with Borlini's self-exculpation. They say that the ac- | cused admitted that he was a defauiter, | even to the amount of §7000, and that his mind was barrowed with the awfui strain put upon him by his own consclousness of his guilt and the ever present fear of dis- covery. Tortured and driven nearly mad by the mental pain his actions had en- talled he decided to end his suspense and force the issue. After it was all over and the defelcation brought to light Bor- linl returned from his honeymoon and re- gned himself to his fate. Just what the extent of the defalcation fs bas not yet been ascertained. The bank officlals admit that it will reach $5000, but assert that it will be fully $5000 to $10,000 more than this. But $5000 i secured by bonds given by the American Surety Company of New York. The discrepancy is what the bank is after and prosecution will be heid in abeyance 40404040404 0404040404 04040 40+ O+0 + O+O 40+ OO D40 40040 +CHOI0 D40 + CHOH O + OO 40 + G+ OO+ G +OIO40 . tiement than has a&s yet been forthcom- ing. “1 did not play the races,” sald the for- mer bank teller last night, “‘and gambling had no charms for me. spent no more money on women or life about the town than other men in my positon.” ‘Where the mn‘mef went "is a cause of much mental trouble to the attorneys for the bank They have searched the rec- ords and_found no property in Borlinl's name. They have, with the assistance of detectives, gone over the young man's pathway for the last vear without dis- | covering a trace of excessve expendi- tures. Borlin{ has been dabbling In stocks, only lightly, he avers, but the detectives #ay that he admits this is the means by which he hoped to retrieve his losses and | cover his peculations on the bank. 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It is claimed that Borlini said he could have gone on with his tampering of the books for many years without a discovery, but he preferred to end it all and save his mind from cer- tain wreck. cials Borlini would switch money from one account to another, having fullkncwl- edge of the habits of the bank's clients. One cllent who always kept well within the limit of his account drew a check | upon the hank. It proved to be an over- draft, but when the matter was exa ined it was found that the client's depos- its had been transferred from his a count to the account of another. This was Borlini’s system of manipulation and might have been continued for months without discovery. "hat the bank will take has not yet been determined. There is a dis- sitfon_on the part of the bank off- s and the to sh rk the initiative. President According to the bank offi- | managers of the surety com- | v Fretwell of the American Bank sand Tust Company said yesterday: ‘The matter is out of our hands and we will act in consonance with the Amer- fcan Surety Company, joining them in prosecution If the; vise it. James R. Garnlss of the surety com- pany is not much pleased with the at- titude of the bank. “It is for Mr. Fretwell to act,”” sald he yesterday afternoon. “The bank has sustalned the loss and they are the suf- ferers. If a settlement is made by them, Why we have nothing to do with it. We are ready to pay the $5000 which the bond calls for whenever regular notice is given of the defalcation. I, for one, am not in favor of prosecuting this young man. Think of his wife; this poor, innocent, lovely girl, and the pain and suffering | that “will be forced upon her. No, sir, | T'll be — if I will prosecute him.” With | this ejaculation Mr. Garniss' fist came | lOWn upon his desk with destructive force and he referred the settlement to the peo- ple of the bank. When told what Garniss had said In regard to a prosecution President Fret- well escaped with a mention of the name | of the bank's attorney, R. T. Harding. “A_settlement has been suggested by Mr. Costello, Borlini's attorney,” said Af- torney Harding, “but it is too small to even consider 1t. The bank officials are much incensed over this defalcation and are determined to force the matter to ths end. As yet no offer has been'made which | will be accepted. I have been told that | Borlini might have received the financial | succor of many friends had it not been for his recent marriage with the shadow of a defalcation hanging over him. No, I think the most stringent methods will be pursued and Mr. Borlini may have to meet a criminal trial.” By those who are directing the move- ment of things it is asserted that all ac- tion is deferred until the New York office of the surety company is heard from. In the meantime Borlini 1s tracked by a de- tective, who keeps a vigilant eye upon his person. His wife is with her mdther in Oakland, refusing to be seen or Inter- viewed. Mrs. Olcese sald last night that there might be something to say in the near future but at present all explana- | tions and statements should come from the husband. Friends of both the young bride and her | husband say the honeymoon was none too pleasant and that it was marred by many | ' wordy quarrels. As short as the married | | life of the Borlinis has been, many differ- ences had sprung up between them, the culmination coming with the discovery of the defalcation. ENDED HIS LIFE HE HAD ABUSED HIS WIFE ESPONDENT because he had abused his wife while in his cups, as the result of a Christ- mas eve celebration, Patrick Devine, an old soldier, ended his life yesterday afternoon by jumping head- long from the upper story of his home, T76% Folsom street, to the concrete sidewalk below. Devine and his wife had always lived In the most perfect harmony until Christmas eve, when the former went a little beyond the limit in imbibing and returned home shortly before midnight considerably the worse for liquor. While in this condition he proceeded to abuse his wife, who fled from the house and ap- pealed to Officer Fraher for protec- tion. The policeman arrested the bel- ligerent husband and took him to the City Prison. When Devine recovered from the ef- fects of the liquor he had drunk, he was fllled with remorse for what he had done. He pleaded with his wife for forgiveness and ehe readily for- gave and forgot. Apparently he was not inclined to so easily forgive him- self for his misstep. He was extreme- ly remorseful and yesterday morning B+0+ 0404040 4040404040+ 04 04040404 04040+ OHO404040+ JAMES SWORN IN. The New Captain of the Naval Mil- itia Takes the Oath of Office. Nathaniel L. James, ex-Major General of the National Guard of California, was on last Tuesday afternoon sworn in before Major General Dickinson as chaplain of the naval militia of California. The cere- mony was witnessed by Assistant Adju- tant General Colonel Thomas M. Cluff, several of the officers on the division staft Lieutenant Commander Nearny command- ing the militia and a number of the line officers. The ceremony was followed by congratulatory speeches and a little wine on the side. The new commanding officer will in a few days go cn board the Marion, relieve the present commander and raise his pen- nant on that vessel. The ceremony will be in accordance with the rules of the United States navy when there is a change of officers. A change will soon be Introduced in the militia, The uniforms now in use will be discarded and others similar to those of the ted States navy will be substi- tuted. Lieutenant Junfor Grade Smith of the Fifth Divisien, located at Eureka, has tendered his resignation. —_—— The California Team. The California football team, after thelr hard-fought battle with the Carlisle Indians refreshed themselves on the evening of Chris mas day at a banquet at Zinkand's. The ap- pearance of that genial host, Charles A. Zin- kand, was the signal for ‘‘Three cheers for Zinkand,” which were ziven with a will by the lusty-throated football veterans of Ci fornia. —_—— Amateur Boxers in Action. The regular monthly boxing exhibition of the Ban Francisco Athletic Club will be held to-morrow night in the gymna- sium on Sixth street. The principal bout will be between Jack McDonald, who won one of the champlonships at the Olympic Club some months since, and Billy David- son, an Eastern man. The preliminaries Include bouts between Jack McCormick and Ed Myers, Henry Lewis and Dan Barry, 8. Moore and B. Wiit. Alex Greg- gains will referee. Belling depot for Koh-i-noor pencils and E’germ Fountain Pens, Banborn, Vatt 0. PATRICK DEVINE’'S PLUNGE BECAUSE INTO ETERNITY. he undertook to drown his grief in the flowing bowl and returned home about noontime almost crazed from the liquor he had consumed. His wife did not interfere with him. When she en- tered the front room where he was sitting about 1 o'clock he attacked her, threatening to end the earthly troubles of both. Mrs. Devine rushed from the house and hurried up the street to again seek the assistance of Officer Fraher. She met the officer about a, block from the house. After hearing her story the officer started for the De- vine residence fn the capacity of peacemaker. He had walked but a few steps when he noticed a crowd in tront of the place, and rushing up found Devine on the sidewalk with his head crushed to a pulp. The man had obened the window after his wife had made her escape and deliberately plunged onto the sidewalk. He dled in the patrol wagon on his way to the Receiving -Hospital. Devine was a Grand Army veteran, and besides his widow left two grown sons and a daughter. He was sixty- six years of age. + 04 OHCH0 40404040+ 0404 OO 40404 D40 4+ 040404+ D404+ 04040 OO+ O0+04+0 4040+ 04040+ 04040+ 0+ 040+ 0 Fred Perkins’ Form Reversal at New Orleans to Be Investigated. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 27.—Pierce's fall from Fred Perkins in the third race, and Boland's weak finish on Himtine were the | causes of the defeats of the two favorites | beaten to-day. Plerce ~was suspended | pending an investigation of the running | | | i | | TWO FAVORITES LOSE. l | | | of Fred Perkins. The last time out the horse's performance was discreditable. To-day he led by fifteen lengths at the last jump and would have won. The weatlier was fine and the track heavy. Results: Seven furlongs, selling—Dr. Walmsley won, Brown Vail second, Colonel Cassidy third. Time, 1:22. One mile, selling—Tom Gilmore won, Indian second, Falsehood third. Time, 1:46. Steeplechase, short course—Brakeman won, Van Brunt second, Three Forks third Time, 3:20i4 Six furlongs, handicap—Gold 4'Or won, Him- tine mecond, Compensation third. Time, 1:16% Mile and twenty yacds, selling—Eikin w Prince of Orange second, Yuba Dam third. Time, 1:5. OLYMPICS AT HOME. Clubrooms Tlrown Open to m:; Lady Friends. | The Olympic Club members were at | home last night to all of their lady friends, who were invited in to witness the usual Wednesday ‘“‘class night” and partake of the holiday cheer of the club. Every hallwey and room of the big build- ay with tasteful Christmas dec- orations and an excellent orchestra was stationed in a bower of potted plants and trailing smilax near the gymnasium. The affair was informal in the extreme, so much so that mo regular announcements were sent out and the attendance was in consequence not as large as it would otherwise huve been. Those who came, however, were rovally entertained and treated to &n excellent performance in the Teym. KENTUCKY LOTTERY. Montreal, December 1. —The regular monthly drawing of the Canadian rt Union for December, by which the winning numbers of the Kentucky Lottery are decided, was held here The fln.t.lél zes ‘?fl 53,240, 000 $4000; 69,640, ; 66,187, $1000; %m -no" 790, $600. . | bubble up | Pntilida—Corydon, arise, | Philida—Here are c PASTORALS OF THE ELIZBETHAN AGE. Copyright, 1899, by Seymour Eaton. POPULAR STUDIES Contributors to this course: W. Mable, Dr. Al Scudder and others. VIIL. AS YOU LIKE IT. (Concluded.) “As You Like It” and English Pas- torals. Who can resist the charm of the forest of Arden? Once in its fair shelter the wistful Rosalind may well forget her haste to find her exiled father and de- light herself in letsurely dallying with lover's melancholy and sweet jesting un-| der the cool, wide-spreading shade. Fven | the wickedness of Oliver rests not heav- ily upon our hearts and we accept with ridiculous complacency his sudden con- version aad his marriage with pretty Ce- lia. Jn the world we might question and grumble, but here in the woodland black hearts may become white as easily as a sunny day shakes off a shower. The very cyniclsm of Jaques has no sting; it serves to enhance by contrast the bright peace- fulness of our chosen home: Who doth ambition shun, And loves to live ' the sun, Seeking the food he eats, d with what he’ gets, ome hither, come hithe: he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. But Arcen charms us chiefly because we do not be e In Its existence. It 1s a dream forest only, no rough country of experience, and the actors are playing merely at forester life, at shepherding. at the practice of the joys of homely free- dom. Soon the pretty masquerade will be over; the Duke and his followers will dress no longer In hunter's green. But when they return to the court our inter- est in them will flag and Rosalind and Or- lando keeplng their state as Princes will be less winning to us than when they fol- | lowed the gay whimsies of the woods. Shakespeare in ““As You Like It" ro- duced the glorification of the artificial pastoral. e did not invent this delight- ful {dea, which shows us the privileged ones of the earth, the witty, the courtly, the beautiful, escaping the restraints of their privileges and toying with leasures cf rustic life; all around him 16 found this same conception, expressed in manifold literary forms, in drama, in romance, in ly This very play of “As You Like It" founded on a pas- toral by Lodge, <alled “Rosa Iynde.” An abundant pastoral literature began to flourish t‘m sixteenth cen- tury, when the iInstinct for frolic was strong in of Pope, when it died out in pure ins p- idity, subdued to tediousness by a formal | pericd which forced a code of narrow proprieties even on shepherd's prank: Many a reader still loves to exchaage | quips with Rosalind or to watch exquisite Perdita of the “Winter's Tale” among her flowers and her sheep; few know this wider world of pastoral—a world less wonderful, perhaps, than that of th great Master, yet full of fragrant charm and of melodious laughter. This ign nce scems a pity; for we have in the sericus literature of the Anglo-Saxon race little enough which expresses, like these pes- torals, pure ecstacy of joyous grace. We do not write pastorals any longer; pe haps we all never write them again. We oint out, with Hardy or Hamlin Gar- and, the grim reality of the lives of the g_poor; we study agricultural cor The +inging shepherd of old Greeca and Merrie England, with his gay gar- ments, is replaced by Millet's “Man With the Hoe,” from whose soul no music rises. All the more reason, perhaps, why we should not forget this walled garden of delights which our poet fathers piant- ed for our joy. Perhaps the most beautiful pastoral dramas in English, out of Shakespeare e Peele's “Arraignment of Paris.’ ac the children of the Queen’s ¥ ly In 1581; Ben Jonson's ad Shepherd,” left unfinished at the poet’s death, and Fletcher's enchanting yrical drama, “The Faithful Shepherd- ess." written about 1608. The most mem- ble pastoral romance is Sir Phillp Sid- ‘s “Arcadia,”” a wonderful plece of rwllr prose, full of herolc {deals and ovely pictures. As for the lyrics, they all through the Elizabethan country, clearest little fonts of sparkling beauty: my Corydon, Titan shineth clear. Corydon—Who Is it that calleth Corydon, Who is it that I hear? Phillida—Phillida, thy true io Arise then, arise then, Arise and keep thy flock with m Corydon—Phillida, my true love, is it come then. I come then, 1, come and keep my flock with thee erries ripe, my Corydon; Eat them for my sake. Corydon—Here's my*oaten pipe, my lovely one, Sport for thee to make. Phillida—Here are threads, my true love, fine as silk, To knit thee, to knit thee, A pair of stockings white as milk. Corydon—Here are reeds, my true love, fine and neat, To hake thee, to make thee, A bonnet to withstand the heat. Phillida—Yonder comes mw mother, Corydon, Whither shall I fiy? Corydon—Under yonder beech, my lovely one, Till she passes by. Phillida—Say to her thy true love was not here; Remember. remember, To-morrow {s another day. Corydon—Doubt me not, my true love; do not fear; Farewell then, farewell then; Heaven_keep our loves alway. o, calleth thee, Corydon has a Greek name, and he and | Phillida reca!l the origin of the pastoral in the ancient days when Theocritus watched his shepherds by the bjue Si- cilian seas. Traces of classic tradition, of brighter skies and fairer.landscapes than those of the northlands pervade our pas- torals from first to last. Through France, through Italy, through Spain, moreover, the dainty pastoral spirit has passed be- | fore he came to England, and distinc- tive melodies from all these lands blend in the music of his oaten pipes. He Iis thus no simple hind when he comes to sojourn in the bright Elizabethan court. Every now and then, indeed, as in the | work of Breton and Campion, the Engiish | pastorals have pretty touches of ocal color: Jack and Joan they think no fil, But loving live, and merry still; Do their weekdays' work and pray Devoutly on the holy day. Tib is all the father's joy, And little Tom the mother's boy; All their pleasure is content, And care, to pay their yeary rent. But, on the whole, it is not England that we see; it is a land of fantasy, where daisies without surprise find themselves blossoming beside strange flowers from the world of the past, and Diggon hob- nobs cheerfully with Damoetas. The real life of the country, in all these pastorals, | is looked at from very far I'n{. The lads and lassies spend their time in sing- ing to their sheer. not in pasturing them, and even the sillf lambs would not be 80 Inconsiderate to stay away while love-making was in progress. Often, as In “Faerie Queen Dr. Edward Dowden, Dr. bert 8. Cook, Dr. Hiram Corson, A GARIT 5 e .'v"-'\rafi‘"/wm London in Shakespeare’'s Time, Showing the Globe Theater in the Foreground. the | the young nation and joy of | Iife was keen; It continued till the century IN SHAKESPEARE. Willlam J. Roife, Dr. HaffNton Dr. Isaac N. Demmon, Dr. Vida D. shepherds are but knights and princes in disguise, and even when supposed to be of rustic birth they have lcarned their manners at court. Certainly they s n all the prettier, these manners, when dis- | pulsed under a coat kirtle of,green; yet the modern reader r himself why he does r '\hi and fantastic land. The same that made Rosalind lin and the old duke return, one feel some reluctance, to the cares of an acty realm. For here we may enjoy a world o exquisite breeding w fruits of clvilizatio: Who would not sa c might, to reach this imp wonder strikes us when in the “Faithful Shepherd raignment of Paris™ nymphs and satyrs, ods themselves, lea oin the shepherds' danc play. Yet, lovely as was this pastoral realm, men turned away from it. They took to feeling the pathos and beauty of real shepherd life, as Wordsworth tells us in “The Prelude,” and describing it for us, | as he does in that noble and simple poem “Michael.” By and by they took t writing realistic novels. And even to-ds when we turn to the pastorals for relief and escape, among all pastoral writers we count Shakespea high For he ga perfect grace, and the e ty and of freedom: but through all this gay loveliness of life disguised, he showed us life itself. of mespun or now and ther eyes and as 1 Impatie this art ¥ he tolerates to linger | dess” ¢ or - ewhere, r even the Olymplan glories to play Wellesley College. | Pastorals of the Elizbethan Age. l In the Elizbethan age pastoralism en- listed all kinds of champlons and scor: all kinds of cesses. It s strange, then, that Shakespeare should have tried his hand at this form of popular literature. 5o successful was he that to this pastoral comedy, u Like It.” has been ascribed the first place by almost all the doyens of Shakespearean criti cism. storallsm roles to speak pastoral- was not a lite y form; it ism a = - 233 E2 Whether In verse or w ey rose, it adopted a which should be described by the usual | ry no- menclature as dra- matical, | , ele- glacal or romanti With r portrayed the bucolic scenes of his herd’s Calendar,” Sidney his adve and courtly “Arcadia, and romantic story of Rosalind euphuistic and mythological Barnfleld his semi-classical, e cycle, and many other produc Admirably did the to the drama. Was thing to see a prince herdess attire along the sunny s the hiliside or in the gioom of the forest? Could anything be more entertaining than to hear the gallant = courtier discuss in euphuistic fashion the merits of pastoral life or rural liberty? Amid such a setting the mest compromising situations, the most treasonable speeches became harm- less Innocence In the dramatist's creation. To him It was the liberty of the press: to his audience it was the famillar and pleasing allegory combining realism ar ideallsm. To the a e Elizbe pastoralism was, moreov & mode naturalism. Pastoralism being essentially dram: the drama made use of it from the ve earllest times. The miracles and mys< teries sometimes represented Cain as typical boorish shepherd, and later the moralities and interludes pever refused the valuable aid of pastoralism. The a:- clent myth of Robin Hood and his | outlaws, under the greenwood tree of Sherwood forest, entered into many o dramatic production and lent a true Eng- lish aspect to the exotic ten: encles of the renaissance pastorals y and Greene both admitted nes into their dramas, the former depicting a pseudo- classic type of shepherd and shepherdess, while the latter gives startiingly vivid pictures of real English country lifs. Both were preparing the way for the grest artist of pastoralism. o e . The commentators have tarrisd longest with the melancholy Jaques. Every wood should have its hermit. But such & her- mit, so melancholy, so philosophical, so humorously sad and so egotistical! It ig sald that actors love to play this part. It gives them a chance to sneer at the world. And what an opportunity it is on the stage o tell the world that All the world's a stag And all the men and w They have their exits And one man in his time His acts being seven ages. | The description of these seven ages is picturesque—you should see the man's acts as retold In the artistic coloring of y players; trances, ays many parts, stained glass along the staircase of the Shakespeare memorfal in Stratford to realize how picturesque. But Jaques® melancholy, like his name, Is an unsolved problem. He confesses: t is & me! choly of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travel, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.' Here was a man brought nearer to ni- ture's heart. He was a sort of forerun- ner of Jean Jacques Rou: , & sentl- mental advocate of naturalism. The life of our Jaques is led In close communion | with nature, but after it had been sur- | felted with the artificlal life of the so- | called social world. Jaques had sought | the sequestration of the forest to nurse his sentimental thoughts, to observe, to weep and to cherish his scorn of the out- side world. In these Arcadian vales ha | found room for sad humor, for his bitter | observations; in spite of his peaceful sur- roundings his heart was eaten with mel- ancholy and he railed “against our mis- | tress, the world, and ail our misery.” To all the others Arden was a place of refuge from a world of misery, but for Jaques it was an observatory from which he loved to watch the misery of the world; to the others Arden was a hospital where their sorrows were being healed, to Jaqu it was a dis ng room where he could hold an autopsy on his own heart. Ar- cadia then is in the heart, like the king- dom of heaven. The fool was right. | Shakespeare had a reason to keep the fool, but he could never have dispensed with Jaques. All men then would have been searching for Arden. The critics would have found in it a Shakespeare of ideal- fsm. Jaques and Audrey are the fruits of it. One is the bitter, the other the sweet, at least the potentiality of sweet- ness. Melancholy and Leove might have gone hand in hand through the forest of Arden, but Humor joined thelr company and made the play a comedy. ozl University of Minnesota. Grand Army Election. Liberty Post of the Grand Army of the Republic has elected the following as its officers for thé ensuing term: A. F. Horn, commander; Willlam Hunt, senlor vice commander; J. Toohey, junfor vice com- ds M. Carr, quartermaster; 8. C, urgeon; J. McDonald. chaplain: 8. Moore, officer of the 3 R. O. Perry, the guard, and W. C. Gorham 'n:my. delegates to the Btate Ene