The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 11, 1900, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEB e @all FEBRUARY 11, 190 SUNDAY.. 7JOHN AD SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market an Telephome Main 1868, s LEAKE, Manager Communications to W. . ; . d Third. S. F. 17 to 221 Stevemsonm St. Main 1874, EDITORIAL ROOMS Telephone Delivered by Carrier: 15 Cents Per Week. 5 Cents. Terms by DAILY CALL ¢incloding Sunday), one year PAILY CALL (including Sanday), 6 month DAILY CALL (Including Sunday), 3 months DALY CALL—By Single Month SINDAY CALL One Year. WEEKLY CALL One Year. All postmasters are authorized bacripti e forwarded when requested X 1.00 to receive Sample coples wii OAKLAND OFFICE ..1118 Broadway €. GEOR KROGNESS, Manager Forelgn Advertising. Marguette Build- ing. Chicago. YORK PONDENT: ..Herald Square CORRI EW £. C. cA CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. 0. News Co.;: Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astorin Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Bguare; Murray Hill Hotel. Union YORK REPRESENTATIVE: 29 Tribume Building NEW PERRY LUKENS JR... . €.) OFFICE..Wellington Hotel GLISH, Correspondent. WASHINGTON (D. 3. F. OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of open until 9:30 o'clock. 00 Haves, 11l 9:30 o'clock. 639 MeAllister, open 30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 1941 Mission, opem until 1¢ 1 Market. corner Sixteenth, open until ® o'clock. 1096 Valencia, open until 9§ o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 8 o'clock. NW. cormer Twenty-second and Kentucky, open mntil 9 o'clock BRANCH Clay, open un until 9:30 eo'cl o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and treets—Speciaities, Nashville students, & STATE SUPERVISION OF PHONES. ACHUSETTS aspires to lead the way establishment of a comprehensive 2 tate supervision of tele s been introduced i onweaith entitled, e com- o the Leg An service of companies engaged in elligence by electricity. We cussion of the bill in the Boston 1t of the measure is to bring tele- hone services, and particularly the lat- ision, for the purpose of put- extortionate charges. is not 2 new one in Massachusetts people of that State are more homo- those of most American common- fore better fitted to act togett e ¥ tion and preservation of the rights of aggressions corporate rapacity. while in most States the people have ne more than to denounce the telephone 1 extortions, the citizens of Massachu- ng since undertaken to establish justice act o 0w ial super re th of st there have been three attempts made to provide for State supervision, but for one reason or ve failed. This time there is a fair pros The Boston Herald, in commenting “The foundations of railroad the Government, laid down by the first setts Railroad Commissioners, a high reputation all over the Maine to California. Massachusetts | meer in this duty, and the path she hewed | tated in a greatef or less degree by | State in the Union. We hope that 2 be done both for the State and n the matter of telephone supervision.” movement for governmental relief from ble practices of the telephone monopoly, ple of every part of the country will have Massachusetts is to lead the way in | says i providing 1 supervision her legislators will have to act promy It is certain that in many other Sta! the issue will be dealt with as soon as the Legisla tures meet, and it is safe 10 say the corporations will not be able to defeat the reform in every case. From the present outlook there is every reason to believe the issue will be one of the chief questions before the California Legislature next winter. How- ever aggressive and extortionate the telephone com- panies may have been in Massachusetts, they are not likely to have equaled the rapacity and the insolence of the company in this city and in the State gener They have not met a municipal tax with the announcement that they “would take it out in the bill,” and make the patrons of the company “do some lively kicking.” That style of thing has been Jeft for the Sunset Telephone Company of this city. The tax-shirking dodge, in addition to general extor- tion, is a distinctively California issue. It is fortunate the telephone company has precipi tated the issue upon the people on the very eve of a State clection. This fall the voters of California will have an opportunity to elect men who in the Legis- lature will maintain the rights of the public. Massa- chusetts has the honor of leading the way in pro- viding for State supervision of railways. Perhaps California may have the honor of leading in the es- tablishment of an effective supervision of telephones. The thing must come sooner or later, and it should come next winter. — The law prohibitory of trusts has gone into effect in Texas and the Standard Oil Company is now paying thirty-three per cent dividends. There are probably no stray capitalists drifting around the Lone Star State ally. ety i The British Ministry, War Office, generals and army have 21l made such a mess of the South African war that even the opponents of the Government seem to be ashamed to talk about it, and Parliament is dumb. In all their eagerness to spy out the gold mines of the Transvaal the British overlooked the important thing of spying out a way to get an army there to grab the mines when the time came | interest in attacking her. THE BRITISH PROBLEM. LADSTONE was not a military man. His training for and experience in public life were in statesmanship and not in military tac- But he was a many sided man in his attain- None knew better than he the relations of military prestige to the primacy of a nation, and per- haps few commanders knew better the risks and gains of war, or weighed possible advantage against prob- able defeat more accurately. After Majuba Hill he made the last treaty with the Boers, which ended the forward movement of Great Britain upon their ter- ritory. For that treaty he was bitterly denounced. ngo element called him a coward, and G tics. ments. led ever since. During her jubilee de the Queen was often saluted by the cry from the miliions of her onlooking subjects, “Ma'am, give us a whack at old Kruger.” What the British public wanted it has. The whack at old Kruger has been going on for months, and so far no British soldier has set foot on Boer territory | except as a prisoner of war. The best commanders and strategists in the British military establishment have gone to the front, have led their troops in per- d have been defeated. The imperial force in t baign far exceeds that of the Boers, but there seems to be, in a military sense, some equalizing in- ence that was not reckoned with by Rhodes and k It is not in any lack of courage among icers and men, for they have failed in g that should win victory. The slaughter of gal- lant officers has been pitiful. They have fought and fallen on every field, splendidly reckless of personal | safety, and mindiul only that England expects them to | do their duty, and they do it like brave gentlemen. One hope, then, to find the cause of multiplied | n nothi n disaster in any lack of soldierly qualities in Tommy | Atkins or his o The equipment of the Brit- 1s is as perfect as science, experience and v can make it. So far no external circum- stances in the form of international aggression have in y way interfered. Yet disaster follows disaster. The Boers make no sally from their positions. They | wait grimly for the attack and turn it with every in- cident of slaughter and humiliation It is time for England to examine Gladstone’s mo- tives and seek for their basis. He knew thoroughly the dependence of the empire upon British military | d he knéw that if that prestige were risked | 1 a petty war uproar would replace author- stige, | ity and order throughout the conquests of England. ! probable that he knew accurately the | y of the Boer country, the readiness with | ends itself to defense, and that, occupied | ded by a fighting people, struggling to save which and their homes and independence, it offered advantages t equalized a small army with any force Great ain could safely spare to dispossess them? If Gladstone estimated and weighed these items of strategy and against them the advantages of conquest, empire possible disaster greater advantages, and refrained from his place in history will er than ever. Already England’s mili- t ige has been impaired. Nothing but a lack of concert, or a lack of motive, in continental nds between her and a descent upon the of her wide possessions. Another four | months of failure and disaster in South Africa will leave her at the mercy of any one who may have an Plague and famine, in- volving forty millions of her Indian victims, are per- haps responsible for the failure of an outbreak there, which may come yet, in spite of her caution to pre- to *the and saw probable aggression, vent among the natives any knowledge of the use of | artillery. If the estimate of military men be correct, that a fully equipped force of a hali-million of men, artillery, cavalry and infantry, cannot pass the nat- ural fortresses and get into the Transvaal, though faced by a defensive force of only one to ten, Eng- land is pushing a campaign that she cannot win. Her people may well shudder at what lies beyond final defeat. It may be read in the fate of all nations that have run a like career. s e $25.000 for a library building refused to accept it un- less he would accompany the gift with an endowment sufficient to support it; and yet that commonwealth has not been heretofore noted as a hog State. ‘ A BYGONE BOOK TRUST. DWARD MARSTON, a veteran London pub- E lisher, in the course of an entertaining article under the title, “A Publisher’s Memories,” gives in a recent number of the London Chronicle | an interesting account of an association formed by | publishers and booksellers in Great Britain in 1847 | for the purpose of maintaining prices. It thus ap- pears that trusts are by no means a new thing in the world, and the story of the old enterprise is pertinent to the issue which is now the subject of so much dis- cussion and controversy. From the early part of the century, says Mr. Mar- ston, there was a complaint that the book trade was “going to the dogs” by reason of the practice of un- | dercutting and underselling by the book dealers. To | put an end to the practice the “Publishers’ and Book- sellers’ Association” was formed, and we are told the | | “booksellers bound themselves not to sell books at less than published prices, and publishers kept them up to the mark by requiring them to sign an agree- ment not to undersell in any way; then a ticket was | issued to them, which was pasted into the collectors’ | books, and without the exhibition of the ticket at any time when called for booksellers could not get their | supplies from the publishers. | Tt would seem that such a combination had control | of the trade. A publisher who ventured to undersell | his competitors could not get dealers to handle his | 1hooksA and dealers who undertook to cut prices | could not get publishers to furnish them with books, | It looked like a cinch, and as a matter of fact it ! worked admirably for a time. In the end, however, A few publishers and a few i‘the scheme broke down. | booksellers saw a splendid advantage in staying out of the combination and making an appeal to the pub- lic against it. Popular sentiment was on their side, In reviewing the case Mr. Marston says: “The question as to the right of booksellers and publishers to combine in this way was submitted to the decision {cf eminent Judges, lawyers and literary men, who | decided, not that the combination was illegal, but that it was impolitic and distinctly against public in- terest. The associations thereupon gave up the struggle, and from that time till now ‘underselling’ has become a part of the education of book- buyers, who were taught to regard seventy-two pence (being the published price of a book) as the exact equivalent of 4s 6d. T& one who, like myself, has witnessed the struggle from the beginning, it has been curious to note that the complaints of to-day and the arguments used pro and con are precisely the same as those of fifty years ago.” This story of the effort of a former generation to yregulate and fix prices of a particular article may |ican or Know Nothing Party, Origin of the Repub- | the Civil War, The Fully Organized Party | new gases. | A Pennsylvania town to which Carnegie offered ‘ | | I ten, Elizabeth Fry, | and in the end the association had to be abandoned. | foreshadow the result of some of the ambitious efforts to form trusts in our time. Whenever such combi- nations become an evil they work out their own rem- edy by arousing popular antagonism. The purchas- ing public sides with the competing dealers, and the combinations go to pieces. By the operation of that law many of the bad effects of trusts may be counter- acted in the future as they were in the case of the British publishers’ and booksellers’ combination of fifty years ago. B —— A New Jersey man who had become afflicted with the fear that everybody except himself was dead went about sticking people with a pin to see if they were alive, and, notwithstanding that his method was not | only rational but scientific, he has been sent to a lunatic asylum. That is what happens when any one tries to make the Jersey folks get a move on. THE SPRING TERM OF HOME STUDIES OR the spring term of Home Circle Studies The F:Call has arranged a series of papers that will ap- peal to the tastes of all classes of cultured read- | ers.. There are to be six courses of study, one fori each day oi the week, with the exception of Sunday. | Each course will be under the direction of a compe- 1 tent authority on the subject, and the list of con- | tributors includes ma of the edu- cators in the United States. The course which will appear on Mondays deals with American political parties. It will be under the direction of Jesse Macy, LL. D., professor oi politi- cal science, Iowa College. There will be sixteen papers in the course. The first and the second will give an account of the Federalist party and its oppo- nents; then will follow Local and State Party Organi- most eminent ess | zation, The Congressional Party Caucus, The Na- tional Convention, The Era of Good Feeling, Th= | Democratic Party Under Jackson, Origin of the Whig Party, Effect of the Mexican War Upon Party Organization, Decline of the Whig Party, The Amer- can Party, Party Organization on Sectional Lines, | The Campaign of 1860, Minor Parties Previous to Machine. The Tuesday course will give a series of twenty les- sons in French conversation, prepared specially for Americans who have no knowledge of the language, by Professor Benno Kirschbaum, a distinguished French scholar and teacher. The third course will deal with recent scientific discoveries. It will be un- | der the supervision of Professor William J. Hopkins of Drexel Institute, and will contain articles on wire- | less telegraphy. high speed telegraph systems, pho- tography in colors, liquid air, dark lightning, moving pictures, process engraving, submarine boats and the | Next will come what will prove perhaps the most generally interesting series of the term, that on the | Golden Ages of Literature. It will have no less than | thirty-six articles—An Introductory Study, Zoroaster | and the Sacred Literature of Persia, The Literaturs of Egypt, Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing, The Book of the Dead, The Golden Age of Assyrian Literature, Cuneiform Writing, Sanskrit and the Ancient Litera- ture of India, Hebrew Poetry, Hebrew Manuscripts, The Great Greek Epics, Homer's Iliad, Confucius and the Chinese Classics, Chinese Writing and Print- ing, Golden Age of Grecian Literature, Socrates and | the Socratic Schools, Demosthenes and Greek Ora- tory, The Greek Drama, The Augustan Age of Ro- man Literature, Virgil's Aeneid, Cicero and Roman Oratory, Dante: The Greatest Name in Italian Liter- ature, Dante’s Divine Comedy; Homer, Dante and Milton; Cervantes, and the Golden Age of Spanish Literature; The Elizabethan Age of English Litera- | ture; Moliere, and the Age of Louis XIV; Ad- | dison, and the Golden Age of English Prose: | Early English Periodicals; Goethe, and the Golden | | Age of German Literature; Schiller's Famous | Dramas; The Age of Scott, Byron and Wordsworth; | Hugo, and the Golden Age of French Fiction; Dickens, and the Golden Age of English Fiction; | The Age of Tennyson and Browning; The Golden | Age of American Literature. { The fifth series of papers will give instruction in ! photography for amateurs. It will be directed by George W. Gilson, who will be assisted by a num- ber of specialists of distinction in photographic work. | The studies will include papers on cameras, lenses, dry plates and films, the dark room, negatives, re- | | touching, printing, photographic papers, flashlights, | outdoor and indoor pictures, and general papers on ! the history and advancement of the art. The Saturday studies will be devoted to the biog- raphies of noted women. They will be directed by | | Mrs. Charlotte Brewster Jordan, and will include | | Joan of Arc, Vittoria Colonna, Angelica Kauffman, Caroline Herschel, Sarah Kemble Siddons, Madame | | Le Brun, Mary Lamb, Charlotte Corday, Jane Aus- Harriet Martineau, Margaret | Fuller, Charlotte Cushman, Jenny Lind, Rosa Bon- | heur, Florence Nightingale, Louisa M. Alcott. | a wide variety of subjects and that most of them are | pertinent to the season. Each article is to be the | work of an expert, and will be valuable to students as well as interesting to casual readers. B — The fight against the Hay-Pauncefote treaty is really a fight against the canal bill. With the oppo- | sition anything which postpones the great enterprise is good, and they hail the new controversy with de- light. | ANOTHER PRIZE-FIGHT FAKE, UCH of display has been given to the reports from New York that Jeffries and Corbett are /\/\ to come to San Francisco to fight for the championship. The story is false. It was concocted solely for the purpose of advertising and working up popular interest in a kinetoscope exhibition of a prize-fight. It is a trick, a fake and a fraud. It is one more of the schemes which the swindlers of the prize-ring have devised for working the public. It is about time for the American people to learn that the prize-ring as now conducted is a hippodrome business from first to last. By patronizing it or any- thing connected with it there is given support to a lot of pugs, thugs, blackguards, fakers and all-round rascals. The so-called “battle” between Corbett and Jeffries may be pull: off somewhere, but it will not occur in this city. The Call has positive information of the trick. The whole thing, so far as San Francisco is concerned, is but an advertising dodge hardly es- caping the category of swindles. It is to be hoped the public will not be deceived by it, nor be led by it to contribute any money to the maintenance of the disreputable gang that makes a living out of the ring or out of the pugs that “battle” in it. ———— The extra session was all right. It gave us a good Senator, sawed the patronage bills off short and quit. ‘What more could any one wish? Perhaps Kentucky will learn the lesson she is teaching herself and be less South American in her | end of the year 1899 | was {on December 19, was { the drama. | j cance till you read |old a man, | thing | The Inspector at the wate: | single trait of common passion. It will be seen the studies of the term are to cover | ARY 11, 1900 the World, NCE in an in- @ terval of two y ears — with “solemn pe- 0 riodicity,” as Mr. Le Gallfenne terms it—the ‘*‘pro- phet” opens his lips, and a new play comes forth which, in the minds of tha Ibsenites, makes all other literary events of the year pale In comparison. The thus blessed, for in Copenhagen, published the text of Ibsen’s long-expect- ed and mystery- enwrapped drama. The very title In- Awaken.” Mr. W | liam Archer is busi- |1y engaged In trans- lating the play from the Danish. In the ntime, Mr. Le llienne, writing in the Boston Trans- cript (January 13) gives the earliest published resume of Refer- ring to the title, he says: “You will guess its hardly signin- the play, or are told —a significance all the more important as coming from so and a writer who is per- haps the last from we would expect the message. The ‘dead” who ‘awake' are those who at the end of their lives suddenly understand that they have missed the in life worth living for. They have, maybe, lived lives of high ideallsm; they have been mighty servants of beauty or knowledge; but they have missed—LOVE. In fact the message of ‘When We Dead Awaken’ is the old mes- sage of ‘Love Is Enough'—a message one hardly expected to hear Ibsen proclaim- ing, and one the more significant from him, as I have sald, because he has waited till old age to proclaim it.”" Mr. Galrlenne gives the following outline of the plot: “ ‘When We Dead Awaken’ is in three acts, and the following is a list of the dramatis personae: Professor Arnold Rubek Fru: Maja Rubek .. [ e o e e e e e S R S o S S SO S o o e ok S o i o B o ] one _Sculptor .His Wife ng place ..Ulfheim (A rich landed proprietor, and hunter of big game, particularly bears). A Traveling Lady . Nurse (""Diakoniss in n something between a Sister of Mercy and & hospital nurse. She wears religlous garb, but ls not In orders). Walters, guests at watering place and children. “The first act takes place at a watering place along the coast of Norway; the sec- ond and third acts in the neighborhood of a mountain sanatorium. “In a double sense the play is an epi- logue, for the formative action has taken place before. the play be- gins and the drama, so far as it is a drama at all—for it Is rather a poem In dialogue—is a drama of simple conclusions. Let me first sketch the story in & few words and fill in the sketch more fully here and there later on. Years be- fore the play opens, Professor Arnold Rubek, now a sculptor of world-wide fame, had known a great love which had inspired him to do his most inspired work, namely, ‘The Day of Resurrection.’ A great love—and yet not a love at all; for Rubek had been one of those men whom one might call the monks of art, and had loved beauty with so pure a flame that when Irene had given up all the world to live with him and inspire his great work, loving him humanly as women do, he, really loving her, too, had crushed down the mortal love in his heart and forbid- den himself to lay human hands on the | holy beauty which he was to immortalize. Into his great pure work must creep no Irene should be his divine model, and that alone. Rubek kept his vow too well, for, when the great work was finished, Irene, | broken-hearted to be thus worshiped as an ideal, when she was longing to be tak- | en into his arms as a woman, goes away. She exhibits Rubek's holy love in music halls, takes many lovers, callously mar- ries, riots her life to ashes. Rubek pur- sues the path of his art, wins great fame and wealth, returns to his native Norway (which had not previously appreciated | him--mark hers \one of several autobio- graphic touches) and marries a pretty lit- e empty-headed bourgeols, of whom he is soon as thoroughly sick as she is of him. At this point the play takes up the story. At a Norwegian watering place to- gether they are mutually bored. They never had anything really In common and Now they make no pretense of it. Fru: Maja cares nothing for his art, great or littie; she reproaches him with doing no great work nowadays. He only makes busts of celebrities at high prices. In the husband's answer to her reproach. the sardonic scorn of the artist toward hu- manity is cruelly direct. i ““There is something covert/ he says, ‘something hidden behind these busts, something secret, which men cannot see. Maja—How? 3 vely)—Only I can't see it, and 1 '-‘:;:f l:d;::r-l:engfly, Outside is the striking likeress, as they call it. at which people gape in ‘wonderment. _(Lowering hla voice.) t, Ineking far within, I see the good honest faces of the horaes. the foolish shouts of asses, the Skuily of dogs, low browed and crestfallen, B ose muzzies of oxen, the fat heads o s b, T ses, all farmyard creatures. Maja, all the dear farm- ““"""":‘.:i."‘fi hose beasts which men creat N [ '%d Into their own mage, but which e o hejr revenge and distorted men turn. " Emptics his glass and laughs.) the @ear ear 11t "WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN HENRIK BSENS NEW PLI All these things are hidden terpieces which the rich peo- ple come and order and pay for, for in good faith, and pay well for, too—pay thelr weight in gold, one might say. ‘“Now enters Ulfhejm, the rich landed proprietor and hunter of bears, swearing coarsely at his footman, who fcllows with two hounds in leash. Ulfhejm is a large bully of a man, coarsely good-looking He knows the Rubeks slightly, and a lan- guld conversation springs up. Of course, Rubek and he have no interest for each other. With Maja, however, it is differ- ent. His brutnll;iv fascinates her and she gleefully goes off in his company to see the hounds fed. “‘Rubek is left alone, and presently a air come by, a woman all in white, fol- lowed by a nurse all in black, with a cross on her breast. They pass in silence and disappear into a pavilion at some short distance. Rubek had seen, or thought he had seen, the same vision the night fore, and it aroused old memories. Pre ently the white lady comes out of the pavilion and sits near. Yes! it is Irene! ‘'The Wandering Lady’ is all that Ibsen calls her in the list of persons—and this name is no doubt meant to add the im- Eresslnn given by occasional phrases of er talk, an impression little insisted up- on, that she Is mad as well as ‘dead.’ ““The two recognize each other and im- mediately fall to talking of the past and the interval between. hey speak of his fame, of their ‘child,’ as they had always called his great work, and she tells of her life between the creepy touches of fan- tastic phrase. The lufe-strings in her breast have been broken, all her children are dead—she has killed them—she has killed every one who came into her lifs and now she is dead herself. ‘I am dead.’ she says, ‘but I am not quite ice all through. I will not make yvou shiver too much.” The act closes with this passage in which she explains her meaning and makes her woman's charge against the artist in Rubek: Irene— . . . I bad given you something no one should part with. Rubek—Yes! You gave me three or four years of your youth. Trene—More—more than that I gave you, spendthrift that I was' Rubek—Yes! a spendthrift you were—you gave me your beauty in all its nakedness. Irene—To look at! Rubek—And to transfigure. Irene—Yes—and thereby to transfigure your- self. ,And the child. Rubek—And yourself also, Trene. Irene—But you have forgotten precious gift of all. Rubek—The most precious? Which was that? Irene—1 gave you my young soul, my living soul. Then I stood theré with my empty body —my body without a soul. (She stares at him.) Tt was then I dfed. “The act closes with the dark nurse coming in and beckoning her away—and Rubek’s sighed ‘Irene!” “‘In their talk Irene had asked Rubek to take her now at last to the mountains The bear hunter, too, had Invited Fru: Maja to the mountains to see a bear hunt. So ‘all meet again in a mountain sana- torfum, and the action resolves itself into situations and a_denouement so simple as to be almost naked symbolism. Some of the dialogue is very beautiful, with a beauty to which my translator tells me her necessarily hasty translations do but little justice; which is true, of course, of every great poet, particularly of ets ltke Ibsen, who so carefully chisel down their expression to the last possible word. Here is a fragment of talk between Rubek and his wife: Rubek (speaking of his soul)—In here a tiny casket which no thief can n—}.n‘;; that lle all the dreams of my art. When she left me the look snap) ajone had the most she took It wif ittle Maja, you had no key—you. Therefore, all l.l lying e years are gof ing it is impossible for me to reach the treasu: Muja—Well, &et her to unlock it. g, Rubek—Maja! Maja—Why not? She is here, 1t is for the caske has Rubek—Oh, no! she knows nothing of all this. “Now this between Rubek and Irene: Irene— . . . You, the artist wh St 0 carelessly and without t ook body with its young life, took my ':unl -on'::;ln; | | R S S S R X 2 ) L ool e o e ook b ol e s S B It Deals With the Old Message, “Love Is Enough.” ar ls Saic to Be the Most Powerful nifica Drama the Great Norwegian Poet Has Given ft and Significan hate. Rubek—The artist me, also? * 4 * & * * ® * R * . & * ¢ mountain-si ot the t is rising, and alread ing mists before it down Ulfhejm is taking Maja fo agamn into the va . b . more than one at Rubek must stay w . This ce will send help tells how they never waited for such as Ulfhejm could send them Irene—We see the irreparable first when— Rubek—When? Irene—When we dead awake Rubek—But what do we really see then? Irene—We see that we have never ltved Rubek—Then et us two dead live Ifs to tha = last drop just for one down Into our tombs. Irene—Arnold Rubek—But not here in this half-dark Not here, where the ugly wind oot mist flutters about us in the wi before we agaln Irene—No. Up in the light; up in all the radiant splendor—high up on the peak of ob- livion. Rubek—There we will hold our marriage feast, Ireme, my beloved. Irenis (proudly)—The sun may look at ns. Rubek—And all the powers of light may | at us, and all the powers of darkmess, t WIIl you then follow me? You, angel of gra Irene (transfigured)—I follow wiliingly, ar with you—my lord and master. Rubek (dragging her with him)—Through mists we must go, Irene, and then. Irene—Yes' through the mists. And then w to the shining peak glittering In the s i i 1 e Then a great avalanche comes and sweeps them down into gulfs of snow. The dark nurse appears, and makes the sign of the cross, and mutters “Pax vobiscum,” and while from far down in the valley comes the volce of Masa singing “Fres, free, free'—safe on solid brutal earth with her bear-hunter, while the others zm-el xone back to thelr dreams. Pax vobis. um| Dr. Edward Brandes, a brother o Georg Brandes, and himseif a dunuti; critic, has this to say about the play: nquestionably, there will be many ob- Jections made agzalnst this magnificent drama because the high-sounding prose at times may seem vulnerable to the attacls of lo{lr‘m ln!l{fll. And it is quite certain that the objections will gather themselves into the pertinent question: Why aid Henrik Ibsen show Irene as insane, and why does he let Rubek, who is not insane, prefer the abnormal woman to the beau- tiful and sensible Maja? “To this may be answered: If TIbsen with such violence desired to emphasize that life In its entirety, even the mos: artistic, is to be counted as death, and that but the life of love Is real love, ta both Irene and Maja, then he was forced to employ the most drastic pictures of the kind of death that life without love assur- edly is. Insanity, without & doubt, is both mental and physical death; though the insane may exist, yet humanity does not consider such existence life. “Had not Irene stood there, so heart- broken, so ill in mind gnd evil, so desirous and yet so afrald, with the black shadaw of cell and restraint in her wake, the les- son of the play would ngt ba too plain ‘Without love—no life. t is Ireme, of course, who is the star character in the play. It is far from being the undecisiva Rubek who not until the hour of his death understood the love which Irene offer: him. which In Maja's case was conflned to,_the customs of conventional marriage, “That Henrik Ibsen stands untouched by his weight of years, this drama will era long announce to the entire world. It is quite true that the structure of the pl cannot be analyzed on the spur of the m ment. The construction embodies a stag setting which will enhance the worth o the drama. Almost with the {dentica progress i which Irene and Rubek maka toward the mountain-top the acts unfold themselves lucidly and entirely compre- hensible. The more the psychalogical problem is studied the better will it be understood why Ibsen is called great. “When We Dead Awakenlyis a mas- ter's work and a masterpiece. Like none others is Ibsen, so grand, so mystical, and yet so entirely in agreement with the or- ganic make-up of humanity. From the peak of the mountain he speaks to us. aged as to years, youthful in deed an daring. There is but ona ruler, Henrik Ibsen—the great Eros, and poet is his prophet! THEY DANCED TILL MIDNIGHT Miss Elizabeth Hunting- ton Is Hostess at an Informal Gathering. Miss Elizabeth Huntington gave a dance at her home, 2840 Jackson street, last evening, at which about fifty young people made merry. It was an informal affair and was as jolly and delightful as are all functions where ceremony holds no sway. The guests arrived at about 9 o'clock and dancing was immediately Inaugurated and continued until midnight, when an elaborate lurggr was served. The elegant Huntington home was (aste- fully decorated for the occasion with cut flowers and growing palms and ferns. —_————————— Valentine Social. The Ladies’ Aid Soclety of the West- minster Presbyterian Church, corner of Webster and Page streets, 1 lve novel valentine social Tus cglcnm‘l s“e':snm 13, to which the public are In- ———— politics hereafter. More Money for the Firemen. The members of the Fire Department will have the sum of 3287 47 among them as the result of rectifying a clerical error in the Auditor's office. The firemen received two demands for their January salarles, the first being for elght fll’;;‘t’:in"" o‘t ; month, being for the last e of t A demands. for the rest of the: Peter R the sala; was calculated at distributed » 3 Cal. glace fruit 50c per I at Townsend's.* —— _ Guillet's Ice Cream and Cakes, %5 Larkin st.* March styles Standard mestic offca, 1021 Market strect ™ o R ——— Special information supplied dafly business houses and public men by u:: Press Cuw Bureau ( gomery si r-lohom First Civil Service der the municipal civil service will be held on March 1 in the Lowell School instead of the &ih' High audito- = m, as originally int. o Board | | might dam: the floor, and Insisted that it be covered with canvas. As this wouid entail a large expense it was decided to change the place of examination. Personally Conducted Excursions In tmproved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Experfenced excursion conductors accompany these excur- sions to look after the weifare of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sundas, Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Montreal and Toronto every Wednesday. To St Louls every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office, A5 Market street. e 2 e S8 Laborers’ Demands Held Up. The demands of the laborers in the Bu- reau of Streets for January are being held up by Auditor Wells until the Board of Supervisors has finally passed on the rec. ommendation of the Committee on Sgla- ries to make the wages of laborers $2 50 per day. This will be done at the meetin of the board to-morrow. The men wi then receive their money. The Fastest Train Across the Cone tinent.