The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 22, 1900, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 22 1900 i - L 4 - < - - . B . - . - . - B e [} RT\' JAMES C. MacINNES' ¢ w wal from the ecclesias- < 1 for the alleged reason ’ t nister of the gospel € ypocrite, has created | ¢ 2 s indignation among the * T of the State. Ail condemn : the views expressed by the e ® T her, with the exception of -the & ver lemen with whom he @ &t eoededes E boyish idea of jov. 1 Brother Macinnes, how- 7 Oakland. They take a 0000060000000 00000 6 2] view of the matter and nave once been, > of Mr. MacInnes’ action in a 'S ! R R MacINNES MADE * = Ao - —— = gines like hims > | s aather 1T s < Own life shows | & TWO MISTAKES | [ @® | expressions of @ E. A. WOODS, pastor of & | ity they ook | ONE ST . the Firs Bapiit Curch, e o | AR » erred rather tartly to Rev. | L in comparison IS SET FOR ALL ¢ g bl R who holds to the Pt B i never had known of Rev. Mr. Mac- i‘ 2 = ohn "'n‘_i al Y e s or his work untll my atten- | legitimate for Church—“Every utterance d| e was turned to his statement ® to tipple if MaclInnes is 2 & in The Call. From that statement & | and strietly it Inmy chureh | ¢ 1 should infer that he made his & ands o o first mistake in ever entering the o priety for doc- a member. ie o ministry and his second in not go- ance if they are A \';"j ing out of it long before he did. © | ,{,.'kr'»..' has | ® That he was ordered from his & 4 z . ’}“ - A% | & home when he was but 14 years @i which follow, ex- | a-right 10 take &t 1 I with o @ of age by a furious father, who | ions of some of tie says: ‘If by eating and drinking Be|'s never recognized mhim again be- o | A : | caused a weak brother to stumble or cause of his childish choice of a | t clergymen of this ha'Would do neither one nor the other as | ® profession, is a statement which @ | give a hint of the fierceness ! as e Sfirfl‘l‘; e @ should be taken with a grain of @ | : 3 d the sk hA @ salt. That there may be hypo- & | f e i 1 sel A inis % of of th rm that is hovering over th iwself. A minlster | & crites in the churches and in the & | . $ - shc men, and should ® | e he f Rev. Mr. McInnes. ma v of the profession to ¢ ministry I have no doubt. There , JUDA N AN whic Crated the best that is | was one Judas among the twelve J ir disciples.” : S AN ANGEL . 't agree with Mr. Macinnes that | ¢ ¥ ® IN C There 0080000000000 0000 OMPARISON | i chur the ¢ fact that crites only goes to show there are con- d-given right to if he so desired, but his d exceptionally urned and inued the cou » barba in fifty the destruction reised by Chr might could not hem, ¥ _reagon Mr. Mac- ministry was - mself, th con- . equipped for a busi- wit ous caree He ai d taste to ascribe his other cause than that ness for the ministry.” LAD HAND IS NOT IN s exceed: awal to evident £ 1 G FAVOR We Second Unitarian Rev. Dr. Maclnnes has ! sedly with his lips & speech represents his convie- has mistaken his calling. 2 re is 1 of ‘personal liberty’ in alpit, need mis T nor question ke a drink if he so iberty to do it he must tioning cu! ome quar- 10t_blame the public 1 re behind the exuber- 1 do not think it is the province of min O"O.!JO';“:":O‘—.J‘O'; ORO RONCRONONON0e :VIDENCE OF BROTHERLY LOVE. — 2 Y. £ URMY, First M. E. Ch ider the former % i C. M s = those ‘sinful hypo- g £ »r he is the biggest ™ He es when he says that it is ite and overlook hypocrisy t one hypocrite in th at this propor- this should not make church is dealing with in them a purity of mind and ® FOREIBIIORONIC RO ORI for granted t But s well rid of an individual like Mr. MacInnes, ited to him. He never should have d he certainly has manifested his expressions of regret at his with- in the hearts of other clergymen, from their midst who has proven No man would talk the way he . 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POTTER DRUG 4¥D CHEM, Cogr,, Sole Props., Boston. a minister of God to be a ‘hale fellow w ' nor do I hold that a minister sho ‘solem isaged’ always. I do believe, however, that he should never do a single te one jot or tittle of becoming his holy office “The churches have their faults, but I | ave no asion to arraign them for hypocris Ministers are human and llible, but leng acquaintance with em in many fields leaves me with a pro- und respect for them as noble and self- v d men. Mr. MacInnes is evidently unsettled a little by the prevailing revo- lutionary spirit of the age, and, therefore, ehould be forgiven for the false position he has assumed.” the dignit HE FACED SOME HARD PROBLEMS W, OO RO v Scudder, Alameda Congre- gatlonal h: “Mr. MacInnes must have had a very unfortunate experience to make such wild charges. His reasons are very trivial and based upon a straage conception of th are ministry. His reasons of which is that two, the principal _repression is hypocrisy. It may and If Mr. MacInnes, enjoy- s, decided that by giv- = could serve his God and his congregation, men would honor him for his self-denfal and not call him a hypocrite. Paul did not consider himself & hypocrite because he gave up the meat it may not be. ing wines and ing those up that offended those he w ~ving to help. When Mr, MacInnes his first bill of goods to an elderly merchant he will re- press that natu feeling to slap him on the back and say, ‘Hello, Bill' Will he call_himself a hypocrite for his discre- tion? Every nobie work in the world calls for courteous self-repression. ‘The church | is full of hypocrites.” Mr. MacInnes must know a good deal or ‘full’ is a large term and hypocrisy a severe one. T church is full of imperfect people, that | S+ D00+ 0000005000000 0200004900000+ *> e b e o @ must be dealt with most patiently. Have 1 a right to call a man a hypocrite who not use his wealth just as I would e social and political ideas and does e are not just like mine? If he is wrong 1 try patiently to help him see it. Am 1 a hypocrite for sceming to over- ook much and for not denouncing him from the pulpit? “I think Mr. MacInnes a sificere, hon- | est man who has run up against some of | the hard problems that call for a patient treatment. That is a good deal like self- crucifixion, and which every minister must bear: and he has become disheart- ened. The older he grows he will see that life cannot be cut out into square blocks by, his square of justice, “Hypocrites? The church has these. So has eve 0d thing. Christ predicted it. llent three years with a Judas in the camp, nor did he leave his ministry because Judas was | there. But thev are not as thick as Mr. Maclnnes thinks, and his refuge does not seem to be a complete one. There are some hypocrites left still in the mercan- tile profession WAS TARDY IN HIS DISCOVERY Rev. John A. B. Wilson, pastor of the Howard M. Church said: “All I can say in the case of Rev. J. MaclInnes, (o as he is reported in The Call, is that he is a man who had mistaken his cal and | has done the right thing in getting out of a false posi perfection brother ministers tune. But, with m, If he expected to find rch members or in his that was his misfor- all thelr faults. he will | look back in after years and admit that @VLITOROTONS TR HE reasons glven by inadequate but a reflec but on Mr. MclInnes. They never make a great success. a doctor or a ne e MaclInnes. It is a sad s t to see a bright ne a manly m and above a the greater the reas a monopoly of sincerity. @O0 0000902 0-0-0000-000 | | | the remar! ! anything like those statement le O BOROR CRIONONROW 2HAS NO MONOPOLY ON SINCERITY. Mr. MacInnes for leav ion upon the church, and not alone the church are these: A minister who cannot stand the d Neither will he make a car conductor, a paper man. He has lost faith in humanit oung man H life and jumping out of the frying pan of the ministry into the fire of busl- he members of the church do not want a 1 a gentleman, a man who believe one who believes in man. If tk n for remaining in the chu hypoerite in order to remain in the ministry. pulpit. Mr. Macinnes is not the only honest [ e R o T = S SRS OAKLAND FILLED WITH SYMPATHY Over in Oakland, where Rev. Mr. Mac- Innes is most widely known, the clerg: men speak of his repudiation of their calling more in sorrow than in anger. The opinions of some of them are pended: Rev. C. R. Brown—I am surprised attributed to Mr. Maclns He was a warm personal frie and it seems strange that he wou anything of the sort. I am surprised and sorry. Rev. Mr. Maclnnes finished a special studies at the Rgcific Theol Seminary i and a¥ut a ye half ago, and Dr. J. K. Mc . president of that institution.speaks in glowing terms of the voung ex-minister. *I cannc imagine what has come over MacInr said Dr. McLean. “He was always gentlemaniy and modest, and wi st earnest siudent. He is a graduate, widely read, and was selected as oné of our best students. At Benicla. where he formerly preached. he was well liked. 1 am surprised that he shouid sa at say to him, for he was never a blatherskite. “I know that he has stated that he did not think on the whole that he was fitted for the ministry. Rev. Dr. E. R. Dille, pastor of the First M. E. Church of Oakland. was also ver) well acquainted with Maclnnes. ‘“‘From what I know him.” said Dr. Diile, I vouid hardly credit those statements as sming from him. He was very active in Christian Endeavor work. He spoke v effectively In my ‘church during the Christian Endeavor convention, It is ce tainly all a great surprise. I thought | Maclnnes was a young man of unusual spirituality. He surely must have taken some very strange freak if this is all true of him. Of course, I would like to give him every benefit of a doubt; but if he did say these things he {s very w in going out of the ministry."” Rev. C. H. Hobart, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Oakland, takes this view “This is a free country, and a man has a right to change his religious views when- ever he sces fit. The general principle in this country of a man believing accordin to the dictates of his conscience I hol strenuously as being inviolable. Mr. RONONT BONGRONIIONRI09 the ministry are not o: closures of human nature will There is a strain of pessimism in v, the worst of all mental disasters. Mr. MacInnes run away from g-visaged in God and al: are hypoerites ch. A man must not be a Such a s anders the n in the He has not DR ROONCROLIONORIOLICEIO Y WILLIAM RADER. % @O OO NONOR ONOUCANONORONING NONONONINONONOP the church company was the best he ever | MacInnes does not think his place Is in boasts of be- trained with. The thing h lleving in, unfortunately, has long been marked a$ dangerous by human experi- ences and observations, independent of | church teaching. It scems like a work of supercrogation for a gentleman who has spent ten vears in the ministry, for which he never had a conviction to turn from it in a spasm of virtue and denounce all his brethren as hypocrites. They might, with some show of reason, inquire | |in what light he regarded himself during that time.” I the church he is v F. ¢ wise to leave it.” of the expresses take the Coyle, pastor Préesbyterian Church, vt y_man shouid position of Mr. Maclnnes. “I have only this to say,” remarked Dr. Coyle. “Th: young man’ hasn't left the ministry an Rev. Dr. R. First too soon if he holds the opinion reported. | The ministry is no place for a man who will take that attitude. I really don't member much about this affair, but I am very sorry that any man in or out of a church should take such a position.” FRANCE T0 6T KWONG CHANMAN China | Troubles With ? Are Settled. e Special Dispatch to;The Call. TACOMA, Jan. 21.—The French have won the boundary dispute at Kwong Chanwan Bay by defeating the Chinese troops in two more fights and preparing to bombard Canton. The Pekin govern- ment has been compelled to accept the | French terms of -ace as follows | The leasing of Kwong Chanwan Bay and extensive adjacent termory to France; the dismissal of the Viceroy of | Kwantug and Kw ngsi provinces: the be- | | heading of the Prefect who authorized | | the Chinese to first fire on the French oops and the payment of 200,000 taels in- | | demnity (o the families of the French sol- | diers killed by the Chinese arl Li Hung Chang has been sent to' Canton by th Empress Dowager to succeed the | graced Viceroy and conclude the treat | with the French ecommander. In th | meantime numerous armed bands of Chi- | nese are parading through Kwong Chan- | wan Bay district and ti-eate.ing the lives of any Frenchmen w... venture into | the interior. ¥ i The steamer Monmouthshire brings de- tafls of the last two_battles beiore peace | was declared. On _December -20 eighty | French soldiers, under three officers, —ere | sent into the interior to_ prevent further | hostile demonstrations. Several miles in- | jand they suddenly came face to face with a large body of fully armed Chinese sol- | diers. A sharp engagement followed and the Chinese were beaten back. The Frenchmen were then surrounded by an angry native mob numbering thousands. They fired into the front ranks on ail sides and_ after over a hundred had been killed and wounded the crowd broke and | ran. The French lost eighteen killed and wounded and were two days getting back to the warships. In the last fight three companies of the French marine infantry | | charged against a large force of Chinese regulars with fixed bavonets, killing and | wounding twenty-two. After this defeat | | the Chinese troops were willing to make | peace. The Cr--+n Friends. Past Grand Councllor Boehm pald a visit to Washington Council last week on the oceasion of the installation of the of- | ficers of the council by Deputy A. Nichol- son, sted by Past Councilor Miss Mec- Creery and Grand Guard Minnie Lakin. Grand Recorder Wallis has returned from a visit to Nevada and other points. | | He took part in the public installation of | | the officers of Riverside Council of Reno. | | During December this council received four members by initiation and received four petitions to be acted upon at the | next meeting. He visited Virginia City | and there held a consultation with promi- | nent members of the council. He also vis- ited the council at Grass Valley and the | one at Nevada City. All these councils | are improving. | Last Tuesday the grand recorder ini- | tlated a candidate for America Council | his city. Grand Sentry Mrs. A. Boehm | was present. On Thursday night he as- sisted Deputy Taylor to install the offi- | cers of Social Council and on Friday he | was at the installation of the officers of Unity Council of Oakland \ —_———— Osman Digna in Prison. SUAKIM, Jan. 2L.—Osman Digna, prin- ! | | | cipal general of the late Ihalifa Abdul-( la?\_ and who was captured last Thurs- day in the hills near Tokar, was brought nere to-day and imprisoned. ASHLAND WOOLEN MILLS DESTROYED New Machinery Lost, Together With | a Large Amount of Manufac- tured Goods. ASHLAND (Or.), Jan. 21.—The Ashland | ‘Woolen Mills, one of the oldest industrial | establishments in the State operated by E. K & G. this morning destroyed by supposed to have originated in the weav- ing room. Machinery to the value of owned and | . Anderson, were | fire, which s | $5000 had recently been added to the plant, | and the concern was in the most prosper- ous condition. About $6000 worth of blankets and blanketing in process of | manufacture were also burned. The total loss 18 $65000. The insurance on the building and its contents amounts to | $13,500. SRS e Officers Elected. Special Dispatch to The Call MONTEREY, Jan. 21.—The regular an- nual clection of__officers of Council, Y. M. I., of this has just been held, resul of the following: President, Joseph Mil- ler Jr.; first vice-president. V. Correla; secondvice-president, M. S. Perry; sec- retary, Rev. R. M. Mestres; treasurer and corresponding secretary, marshbal, T. Miller; L’ 8., F. Gannini O. 8., F. Cruz; executive committee— Manuel Perry, 'V. Correla and T. Miller. These officers will be Installed on Thurs- day evening next. place, in the choice WARNER'S REMEDIES, It has | heen opened by thousands| who have vsed WARNERS| SAFE CVf San Carlos | which | William Hunt; | N A TORNEL | Lives of Eleven Work- men Endangered. LOS ANGELES, Jaa 11 o'clock this mornin,; the west end of what is known as the Third street tun- nel, which is under construction between Hill and Hope streets, a dlstance of three blocks, caved in and entombed eleven la- borers and bricklayers, and Jjured, W. T. employ of the Street Department. The entombed men are Eckhart, bricklayers: Frank Pela John Mitchell, Willtam Paully, — 21.—Shortly after Max Costello, — Baden, John Bejoe, J. W. Washburn and Bert Garrett, | | 1aborers. Work ‘on the tunnel is being done b contract. In order to ha its constru tion a force of men The men w cavating 1 tunnel, “when the entrance, which had been timbered up for a distance of 28 feet, was suddenly choked by tons earth and broken timbers. were defective and insufficient to support the great. weight, and the accident is thus accounted for. Inspector Lamb was fn the act of leav- ing the tunnel when the cave-in occurred. employed Sunda re engaged this morninig ex- Three feet from the entrance there stood | a nail keg, which at least temporarily saved his life. He was borne to the ground by the falling earth and timber: one of which made a bridge from th ground to the nail keg, over the upper art of his reathing room until the rescuers un- earthed him. His lower extremities, however, were pinned down, and it was eight hours before he was extricated, and then in a dying condition. Twenty-eight feet from the entrance to the tunnel, which has been sunk to a depth of 17 feet, the roof is bricked over and it is not entombed men were Killed. The tunnel is 28 feet high and 26 fect broad and con- tains sufficient air to keep the men alive for a number of hours. A shaft is now being sunk through the roof of the tun- nel_for the purpose of admitting more fresh alr, and the entombed men can be heard digging for liberty by the scores of shovelers who are working form the ou- side. Barring accidents, it 1s thought the imprisoned men will be liberated in the | course of twelve or fifteen hours, Two deaths have already occurred in this tunnel by previous cave-ins. FUNERAL OF MARKO RABASA. Body Followed to the Grave by Aus- trian Societies. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, Jan. 2L—The funeral of Marko Rabasa, a well-known pioneer Austrian resident, was held here to-day, and was largely attended by members of the local Slavonian colony and by mem- pers of the Austrlan Benevolent Soclety of San Francisco, of which the deceased was one of the'charter members. He | nelped to organize the San Framcisco so- ciety in 1857. The deceased was 73 years of age, a native of Dalmatia, Austria. He came to Californfa in 1851, and suc- ceeded in amassing a fortune in the veg- etable business. The funeral parade was headed by a brass band. The members of the local Austrian Benevolent Society turned out in force. aceredited | fatally in- | Lambie, an inspector in the | John Mohn and | feet from the mouth of the | of | The timbers | body, giving him sufficient | thought that any of the | | POPULAR STUDIES Dr. Dr. Contributors to this course W. Mable, Dr. Albert S. Cook, Scudder and others. Edward Hiram Co XI. RICHARD III The English Chronicle Play. When the collec Shakespeare’ was pubi 1623, the yer-editors divided the | mas into comcdies, histories and t dies. In so dolng th recognized a specles of drama pecu o their ageand country. The history, or chronicle play, | wa unique and distinctly h branch of dramatic literature. As “ole- | ridge kas sald, 1t occ s an intermediate place between the epic and the drama proper. For it was by no means a dra- matization of some episode cf the natioa’s history, but ratler an attempt to present e within the brief compass the whole story of some reign. This is shown i very titles of such plays as the “Tr some Reign of King john" or the and Death of Richard IL” And for the most part the early histories adhered with a slavish fidelity to the chronicles on which thev were founded. They were more careful to tell a true story than to | secure dramatic effect or to evolve | | | | | | EDMUND KEAN, J In the Character of Ri That such among the Elizab chroricla { matie charact plays were popu ans we have abundant proof. Beginning Bale's fiery polemic against papal rpation, the pre-Elizabethan play of 1ge Johan,” a long line of historles | by Greene, Peele, Marlowe, Shakespea Heywood, Webster, Ford, Dekker, Row- ley and a host of unknown authors ¢ - | ers with hardly a break a period of E lsh history from the accession of John in 119 to the defeat of the Armada in 15 Of varying interest and far apart mn the scale of dramatic art, two characteristics are common to all these ant pride in the glorious his land and a sincere desire to instruct an English_audience in the ann pas 2ven such a reign of Jobn's is uplifted and glorifled by the fig- ure of the Bastard Faulconbridge, the son of Coeur de Lion, whose lofty boast ““This England never did and never shall the broud feet con did help to w - echo In the hearis x had 2 united Eng- to irremediable ruin the | worldwide monaret The Authorship of This Play. There are nearly as many theor! to the authorship of this play in both | forms as there are critics who have t { tigated the problem. So much, however, | is practically established by the concur- | rence of later rvritics that the “Third | Part of King Henry VI is the joint work | of Marlowe and Shakespeare. And wheth- er the two great poets wrot collatora- | tion or separately, Shakespeare, as the vounger and less experienced playwright, { worked here In the spirit and under the influence of Marlowe. What that influ- | ence was can be told in a few werds. Marlowe was the father, almost the cre- as its ator, of English romantic tragedy. He | adopted the “‘drumming decasyllabon’ of | the would-be classical school of drama- tists, and, v changing it from a quanti- tative to an accentual meter, created the | mighty line which evoked the wonder of | his contemporaries, drove the jigging | rhymed fourteeners forever from the age, and, in the hands of Shakespeare and Milton, became the organ voice of England. At the same time, since he wrote for the public of the playhou not for the learned society of th or university, he took up the popular drama_of action rather than reilection, | cleared it of clownish conceits and sub- stituted living, breathing men for the | automa puppets- that had clattered about the stage. It Marlowe's plays | that we find, for the first time in modern | tragedy, character and character dev opment. In short, he breathed into the crude and formless drama of his day his | own fiery self, a rare compound of poetry d passion. At the feet of such a master en the young Shakespearc, with all his sclousness of coming glories, might be ell content to sit. That Shakespeare, almost at the begin- | ning of his career, came under the influ- | ence of Marlowe, is undeniable. His own | natural bent was teward rhyme, and the | linked sweetness of “Venus and Adonis’ | shows us how perfectly the young poet | nad caught the secret of rhyming meas. ures. Rhyme occurs at frequent intervals | | in most of Shakespeare's early plays, and 1 it was only a long apprenticeship in M lowe's school that led him to exchange it for blank ve This apprenticeship ex- tends over a considerable portion of | Shakespeare's early work. “Ti An- dronicus” was perhaps written by Mar- | lowe himself, it is certainly a play of his school; and this drama was retouched by Shakespeare's prentice hand. It is by no | means_unlikely that Marlowe was one of the collaborators in “I King Henry VI to which Shakespeare afterward added the scenes of the quarrel in the Temple gardens and of Talbot's death, “the last ! and loftiest farewell note of rhyming tragedy.” Marlowe's work and Shakes- peare’s appear side by side in the second | and third parts of “King Henry VI and Marlowe's most finished play served as a model for Shakespeare's “Richard 11" “Richard III” a Play of Marlowe's School. Nowhere is Marlowe's influence over Shakespeare plainer than in_ “Richard IIL” So apparent is it, indeed, that Mr. Fleay believes that Shakespeare derived | not only his plat but a considerable part | of his text from an unfinished play on the | same subject by Marlowe. This is a hy- | pothesis that we are by 16 means called | on to accept. We may rather say with Swinburne that “this oniy of all Shakes- | peare’s plays belongs absolutely to the school of Marlowe.” Marlowe had blocked out the character of Richard in the “true | tragedy”’; Shakespeare had already added to and developed it in the “Third Part of | King Henry \ And then while stiil | under the master's influence Shakespeare | undertook a further and Independent treatment of the same theme and execut- | ed it with a dash and subtlety that raise | it far above his master’'s best work. Pro- | fessor Wendell has pointed out certain | archaic elements in the play, the improb- | ability of Gloster's wooing Anne in the | open street, the choral lamentations of | the widows In the fourth scene of the fourth act, and Richard’s frank avowal of his villainy in the opening ilnes. All - STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE'S RICHARD IIL Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Enton. IN SHAKESPEARE. Dow son, I n, Dr. Whliam J. Ro Isaac N. I . Dr. Hamilton Dr. Vida D nd us of Marlowe, who the: £ erisimilitude omplish his effect imasi littl ac The Character of Richard ITL There are othe ichshow v we—the action, the verse, the is the complet: e su minor of th dominate. which bears his inated by of sovere this passion Shakes means than Marlowe He give: explains and h The passion o herited charac York. Richard's gran ished in an attempt against _ hi before the of the civil wars wa find Richard’s fath er dreaming of tb golden cireutt the crown (II Kin Henry VI, act 3, scene Richard’s brother exclaims: 'd break a thou sand oaths to refgn one year (III. King Henry VI, set 1, scene . In’Richard 8 family charac- teristic reaches its climax and becomes a fierce, overmaster- ing passion, a de- moniacal possession. And Richard’s na tive egolsm has been nurtured and magnifled by the a mosphers in w he grew to mar hood, for in the wars of the roses all aw gnty dreamed power upon the world N re herself has her part to in- and give di- > this pas- I She has mis- 1 IIL d |[Richard r his mother's womb, “like t a v licked bear-whely Not ths vil lain because he L rm- The frequently m n of his oper a th I am determ And hate Are spirit ously m bypoerite, cause h “'strut_be it rtair a per e ip of men steeled his h his hand to the accom nherited purpose. ainst mankind ; he gladly acce mark of destiny. If h teeth it plairly snarl and bite in 1 exag, ped e hab 1t erates ocularity which Lamb points out as a prime feature of his character. The same subtle critic has shown how in these a lusions thers mingles a perpetual rafer- nce to the powers and capacitles by which Richard is enabled to surmount his bodily deformity; the joy of a defect conquered or turned into an advantage is the cause of these very illusions and the sat on with which his mind rs to them. (owhere are these powers and capa- cities so magnificlently displayed as in his courtship of Anne. The scene is not w commonly condemned as a plecs of Eliz- bethan extravagance, a reckless defiance the possibllities of nature. That such a_monster as Richard could win the love of a princess, lately widowed by his dag- “take her in her heart's extremest over the very body of the saint! king whom he had murdered—this, say the crities, 1s a flat impossibility. Bu such a criticism misses the central point of the scene. Richard does not win Anne’s love: he overwhelms her reason, tlll she falls into his arms as the bi into the jaws of the serpent. Just be- fore she meets him she has unpacked her heart of curses, so that she is disarmed by the very violence of her emotion. Richard, on the other hand, comes to her in the full tide of success. Regarding the throns as already attained, he has chosen Anne as the most fitting partner of the throne. He realizes fully the obstacles in his path, and to overcome them every energy is 2ined to the utmost, and his amazing pc s dissimulation and hypoerisy are brought into full play. He stops the pallbearers with a rude, imperi- gesture, rwhelms Anne with a flood of flattering terms, and finally pro- claims his desire with a blunt frankness which_the prud, of some editors cuts ut of the text. to the bitter loss of espeare’s m ng. He calmly eon- the m with ch ~ Anne ges him, and with superb effrontery the guiit at her door. I did kil King Henry, twas thy beauty t at_provoked me. vas 1 that killed young heavenly face that set me on.™ asures resentment let her slay : here is his sword, and here his naked breast. Or let her say the word and he will execute her vengeance upon himself. She hesitates, “I would I knew thy heart.” and is lost. Not a word of love falls from her lips. but her resistance is beaten down and she leaves the scene Richard’s afflanced bride. The whola scene is an exhibition of the devilish power of a tremendous will over a weak and emotional nature: to-day we call it mesmerism. _hypnotism, any _seientific term you will. To Shakespeare it was an instance of the might and mystery of evil, the problem over which he was to struggle so sorely in his later years. i all the characteristics that carry Richard so tri- umphantly to the throne—his flery en- ergy, his intelleciual ascendency, his pro- tean power of a ing whatever shape he will, and his biting scorn of the poor vietims of his craft. All these spring from his own master-passion, the lust of sovereignty. and are its instruments for the attainment of the goal Note—This_ study. Parrott of Prin on Thursday. IS TIRED OF LIFE. L. D. Siebert Swallows a Dose of Laudanum in His Divorced Wife's Presence. by Professor T. M. eton, will be concluded L. D. Siebert, stk out of employ- ment, aitempted » commit de yes- terday morning at his residence, 1415 Larkin street, by swallowing a dose of laudanum. He taken to the Recel ing Hospital and Dr. Bacigalupi adminis tered . the usual remedies with satisfac tory results. Siebert was divorced from his wifa about five weeks ago and she got the custody of their little girl. He has been sick and desponde and vesterday morning h! divore fe called to ses him. He wanted her to return and live with him, but she refused and he swal- lowed the laudanum. which he had bought to use for toothache. He says he has nothing to live for, as he has no rela- tives. and no friends. He belongs to the Woodmen of the World and Forester or- sanizations.