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Tickets for single neos, The, $1.00, $1.50. §2.00, $2.50, $3.00. tickets for single performances will »MORROW MORNING at § o'ciock Friday Subscr HERMAN, CLAY & CO'QCI.EIALL Six Explanatory Recitals at the Piano MR. W LTE: DAMROSCH the Direction of C. L. GRAFF. ER U ON T \E AS AN CPER 10 “TRISTAN AND ISOLDE’ s for the series 36 00 wle merformances ... $1 50 SEATE NOW ON. 0., at § o cloek. erformances opens 9 o'clock. POP LLAF HOLSE Favorites MiSS MAGGIE MCORE, And MR, Support MRS THE POPULAR ROBERTS, in H. R. superb company, " QUINN'S TWINS. cal Irish Comedy, the week Y A Written, N—The G ST RUSSIA. ERN DARKE! OLD STORY—NOTHING NE EAT DRAWING MAGNET! DENMAN THOMPSON Creation of Uncle n SAME Presenting His Ofiginal Josh, THE OLD HOMESTEAD. ALL THIE AND NEXT WEEK-MATINEE SATURDAY. wm “BECAUSE SHE LOVED HIM S0.” GRAND OPERA-HOUSE TELEPHONE MAIN 532 FOURTH AND LAST WEEK OF ALADDIN JR. mmense Success of the New York De- scriptive Singer, EDWARD B. ADAMS, And Our Fourth Edition. 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Saturday Matinee at 2 | PCPULAR PRIC! £~2"¢c and 50c | TELEPHONE—Bush 3. OLYMPIA | THE ONLY FRE! EDDY ST., VAUDEVILLE SHOW I) HE CITY. o Continued Success of BLANCHE LE CLAIR SLOAN Tod's Sister and the Queen of the Flying Rings. | < TRIXEDA | [ A Marvel of Grace and Beauty. MLLE. THELMA, Poses Plastique Extraords ry. | And a Host of Others. ALL STARS. | ADMISSION FREE. TINE! ERY 8 A B 3 Y AMATEUR NIGHT SRY FRIDAY. | NORRIS & FOW.'S BIG TRAINED | ANIMAL SEOWS. | 16—DAYS——-16 | Commencng SATURDAY, M-rch 34, | PERFORMANCES 2:30 and § P. M. DAILY. |300-FERFORMI6 ANMAL3-300 [INSTRUCTIVE, | MORAL, AMUSING. BRING THE CHILDREN, | ILLUMINATED PARADE FRIDAY NIGHT, MARCH 2. PRICES—Adults %5c; Children 15c. RACING! RACING! RACING! 1800—CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB - 1900 February 26 to March 10, Inclusive. OAKLAND RACE TRACK. Racing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- day, Friday and Saturday. Rain or shine. | “Five or more races each da; | Races start at 2:15 p. m. rp. Ferry-boats leave San Francisco at 12 m. and i, 130, 2. 2:% and 3 p. m.. connecting trains stopping at the entrance to the Last two Cars on train reserved for la- 12:30, with k. ferry tickets to Shell Mound, All trains via Oakland mole connect with San Pablo electric cars at Seventh and Broadwa; nd jand Also all trains via Alameda mole co nect with San Pablo avenue cars at Fourteenth ana_Brcadway. Oakland. These eloctric cars &0 direct to the track in ffteen minutes. Returning—Trains leave the track at 4. 4:45 p. m. and Jmmediately after the last race. BHOMAS H. WILLIAMS JR.. President. R MILROY, Secretary. KAFP & STREETS TAMALE GROTTO And R.fined Coneert Hall, Junction Golden Gate ave. and Market st. A STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS VAUDEVILLE RHOW. AMATEUR NIGHT EVERY WEDNESDAY. ADMISSION FREE. HAYAEEVER AN B CATRREH Oppression, Suocation, Neuralga, et., cured by ESPIC'S CIBARETTES, or POWDER Paris, 4. ESP.0; New York, B. FOUGRZA & 00 SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS COR.MASON | 'MECHANICS' PAVILION tra dies and their escorts; no smoking. Buy your | MAIL STEAMSHP MUSTRALIA WAS GIVEN PRATIOUE After Being Examined by the Quarantine Cfficer the Docked. —_— Steamer Coptic Sails for the Orient. 0ld Whaler Mary D. Hume Is Now a Tug—Barkentine ‘Wrestler in Trouble. R [ i The mail steamer Australia arrived from Honolulu early yesterday merning and was at once placed In quarantine. | After a thorough examination Dr. Kin- voun allowed the steamer to come to. her dock. | M. G. Bale, who came up on the Aus- | tralia, had to be taken away in an am- | | bulance. He is a carpenter and bufider. | who went to Honolulu to superintend the | | erection of some Government wharves. | He fell from the second story of one of | | them and sustained injuries from which | he nearly died. He is now on the road to recovery, but it will be several months before he will be able to walk about again. The Oocidental and Oriental Steamship Company's Coptic sailed for the Orfent | vesterday. She took away an unusuaily | heayy cargo, 200 Chinese and 25 Japanese |in_the steerage. The old whaler Mary #). Hume has been | | turned into a tugboat. The Hume will go | from_here to Nome about the end .of | March and on her arrival there will carry | passengers between St. Michael and the {new gold fields for the Pacific Steam { Whaling Company. | The transport Indiana sailed for Manila | yesterday with stores for the army. The Filipino firemen who brought the Manau- | ense here went home on_ the transport. On her arrival at Manila the Indiana wili be turned into an interisland steamer and | will_carry troops and provisions to and from the varfous stations. The wreckage sighted off the coast by qrt Hancock has probably been for by the arrival of the bark- entine Wrestler at Puget Sound. Private advices received here yesterday state that | the vessel was caught In a heavy storm off the Columbia River, in which she lost her fore and main topmasts, besides a | e Pinkham Record Is a proud and peerless record. It is a record of cure, of women; ilis that deal out despair; suffering that many women think is woman’s natural heri- tage; disorders and dis. placements that drive out ! hope. cures these troubles of women, and robs men- struation of its terrors. No woman need be with- | out the safest and surest advice, for Mrs. Pinkham counsels women free of charge. Her address is Lynn, Mass. Can any woman afford to ignore the medicine and the advice that has cured | @ miilion women? MUNYON'S GUARANTEE. Strong Assértions as to Just What It ¢ Gas Inspcctor Tupper that 103 | store at the corner of Fillmore and Wash- tho Remedies Will De. o B | fngton streets. ran away yesterday morn- S, r f these hydrants” xhe’ ing and dashed through the Mu guarantees en. Pht: eoit & i | window in the store of Schoenholz Bros., | that his Rheumatism | committee says, “‘are located In the dis- | qry gooc dealers, at 1913 Filimore street. | Qure will ews uearly | trict boundcd Ly Bush, Turk, Lasata atid | No one was hurt. cases of rtheuma- Aor’ ¥ B Hem a0 tew n.;&::, i A et rearion. . The | @79-0-5-04-0-0-0-4-0--0-0040 s iy . will anmfilu and | last board by resolution ordered the re-| DRV ] OUIS SANFORD all stomach+ troubles. | moval of the bydrants. In view of the . ’ toat bis Kidaey Core | increased fire protection expected to fol- Kl will cure 90 per cen! of all cases of kidne. trouble; that his terrh Cure will catarrh no matter ho long standing; that hie eadache Cuj uickly br | oem ot cota at uo on eibough the | remedien. At all druggisis. 25 centa you need medical advice wri*~ P 1605 Arch st. e Munyon Phbila. It s absolutely free. | | | CAPE NOME MACHINERY and SUPPLIES, AMALGAMATO.¢S, CENTRIFUGAL AM3LG:MATORS. SAVES fine gold. In dally operation at 254 Beale =t., San Francisco. ROTARY AMALGAMATOR. MOORE Improved Goid Separator & Rotary Amalgamator on exhibition. 69 Stevenson st BEACH GOLD CO"CE :TRATOR. EAVES All the Gold by gravitation. No i or power. In operation 1 3 DRECGING PUMPS O11, Gasoline, Centrifugal | Pumps, Engines and Boilers, Ji UA HENDY | MACHINE WORKS, 40 Fremont st. GASOLINE ENGINES, | HERCULES GAS ENGINE WORKS (s | large numbers of orders for Nome. i | First st., 8. F. LUBRICATING ONl_ Crud JBRICATIN! M1, Crude OIl and tne. ENSIGN & McGUFFICK, % fbear st.. (% PLATES 102 SAVING 00'.’!._ | Schaezlein & Burridge. 3 Hardie place, Kearny, between Sutter and Bush streets. SAND CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS, Lift Gol . Bearing sands Lectly. tion at 625 Sixth st. BYRON Am M:RSH lsrum ru.v:lrs Bu 1fre: t B Ul 3 -x:a" 2 Jow ll‘;:x.ufl;o:ld.: ¥ Market :'4."-' ENGI ES, BOILERS, ETC. B & HAMILTON, Botlers; g m}.‘fi‘n‘: FBavie v TENTS AND - OVERS. s NEVILLE & CO.. manufacturers, covers. 31 and i3 Callfornia st | INTELLECT SHOULD NOT PRECEDE HEART Q0+ 04000 t0000060900+000000dedeiese® R L R e o . o R S SRCee S o - [ et S faheA MRS, ROBERT J. BUKDETTE. B e e e I o ol o 1900. HE California Club tendered a reccption vesterday afternoon to Mrs, Robert B e e e SR IS SN quest over obstinate ilis S s J. Burdette. | Mrs. Burdette sald, among other th not reached its highest type. higher plane, culture through service | | venting the saddest of all plctures der of importance. home."” ciety life was touched ugn and’ ability to accomplis! plans and aims by set forth. The po: individual members. in its own at present. The graci force to her very cogent arguments. tokening the dee sical, adds the h! B To-day min Ide Wheeler and Miss This evening Rev. city with his wife, edifice for the church. “Club life for women at the present time is an evolution, and one that h: Ten years ago It was represented by ‘self culture then came culture of self through cuiture of neighbor; then followed, on a still We were at one time In danger of pre- club women whose intellects were being cul- | tivated, strengthened, enriched at the expense of the heart. | continue if head and heart war against each other. “Club life, like home life, should be the center, but not the limit of activity, | and though I'mention club first and home last, I by no means so rate them in or- My creed in all woman's work is this: work or other interest, should be undertaken that does not emanate from the home, and in its very best results return to the home, and be always secondary to the The affair took place at the headquarters of the club In ihe Young Men's Christian Association, and was so well attended that many of | those who had gathered to hear what the bright little lady was going to | say were obliged to stand in the hall and catch what they could of the ad- dress as it floated through the doors. After a pleasant introduction by Mrs. Lovell White, the president of the club, Life cannot long That no work, club The beneficent influence of the club upon home life, educational, elvic and so- n and illustrated. As no club possesses all the virtue this of itself, the benefit of acquiring new methods and association with others was strongly presented and clearly kility of doing this through federation led to an elucidation of the prineiples of federation and the benefits to the individual clubs and the Mrs. Burdette made a very clear point that no club was to lose its distinctive individuality in federation, but each would continue to carry on its own work and graceful personality of the speaker added much convineing She possesses a very earnest manner, be- st sincerity, and her volee, which is very winsome and mu- hest charm to her ability as a public speaker. Mrs. Burdette, upon the invitation of Mrs. Phebe Hearst, Mrs. Benja- ewett, president of the Associated Women Students, will address the young women of Berkeley. Robert J. Burdette, the well-known humorist, who is in the ill lecture in the Calvar: fit of the Christian Endeavor Society of the The money derived from the entertainment will be devoted to building a new Presbyterian Church for the bene- irst Baptist Church. Tt Is expected that the fame of the lecturer and the good cause for which he appears will draw a large crowd, not only of church-going people, but of those who like wit and enjoy genuine humor. What the Hancock sight- ed was the fore topmast of a ship with number of sails vards attached. The Wrestffer was from quique with a cargo of nitrates for Vic- torfa, B. C. The steamer Ruth arrived yesterday with the Banta Ana in tow. The latter 1s a new boat for the coast trade and will | have her machinery put in here. She brought down 80,000 feet of lumber. Albert Johnson met with a serious acel- dent at the stone-cutting yards on Second and King streets yesterday. He was | lacerated his forearm, tore off half his scalp, broke his cheekbone, split his nose and cut his right eyebrow. Dr. son fixed him up at the Harbor Hospital, but it will be many weeks before John- son will be able to go to work aj n. Captain Willlam Swanthaxter, who was formerly master of vessels plying on the coast, was committed to an Insane asylum | yesterday. He came out here from the cast with Captain C. Miner Goodall in and later was in Hopkins’ yacht El from = Antioch the steamer Corona, command of Timothy Primero. He came down STRONGLY OBJECTS TO ervisors to Rescind a Resolu- | tion Lessening City’s Fire Protection. A communication was addressed yes- terday to Mayor Phelan and the Board of Supervisors by the committee on fire department of the Board of Fire Under- writers of the Pacific, in which a Strong protest is made against the recommenda- charter and the low the adoption of the insurance rates, consequent reduction of this committee earnestly hopes that your honorabple body will see its way to re- scind the resolution providing for the re- moval of these 160 hydrants and that in fixing water rates for the ensuing year you will provide against any reduction be- ing made in the water pressure from that at present furnished. MEETING OF CATTLE MEN WILL BE LARGE All the States and Territories of the Pacific Coast will be represented at the meeting of the cattlemen to take place in this city next Monday. The }gurpo.‘e is to take action In favor of the Ioster bill now before Confir&ss providing for leasing BEAVE GOLD—Krogh M{g. Co.. 9 Stevenson | the public grazing lands for ten years, st Amalgamators, Sand Centritugal Pumps. | with the right of renewal at the end of | ten years. esponses have been received from fifty cattlemen who were invited to attend and all but two have promised to be present personally or by representa- tive. Anyvo Theatrical Cold Cream provents early wrinkles. Sold by all druggists. * Bt In the Divorce Court. Deserted wives and husbands were in court yesterday in numbers, either being granted or suing for divorces. Decrees of diverce for desertion have been granted John C, B. Stevenson from Mary L. Stev- enson, Edmund D. Dake from Florcace Dake, Ethel Anderson from Lilburn B Anderson, Pauline Jacobs from Abraban: Jacobs, Mary Jane Willls from Robert J. Willis and Minnie A. Jones from Henry M. Jones. William Wilson has sued Jen- nie Wilson for a divorce, alleging infidel- Marxen and James Delaney against Cath- erine Delaney. —_——e———————— Extra Quality Fine Carpets. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Carpets in color to suit the most fastidious taste. Designs to meet the requirements of the most artistic eye, and prices to suit the most economical purse, at The Indianapolis Furniture Co., 750 Mission st . Robin- | vesterday, and acted in such a pecullar manner on East street that e Was locked up and later was sent before the | Lunacy Commissioners. REMOVAL OF HYDRANTS | | document of October Board of Underwriters Petitions Sup- | | knocked down by a plece of rock, which | Justice Dunn’s court against SOLD HER PROPERTY JUST SEVEN HOURS T0OO SOON Mrs. Cockerill’s Contract With Real Estate Agents Lasted a Little Longer Than She Thought. Burnham & Marsh, the real estate agents, yesterday won a suit in Presiding Josephine Cockerill for the recovery of §171 % &3 real estate brokers' commission, The evidence | | showed that the defendant had executed | a contract on September 25, 1589, authoriz- R R R R R B S O S S S e e g S e e e e L e S e a Y ] ing Burnham & Marsh to sell a plece of property on Broderick street, near Cali- fornia, for $6850 for thirty days from the date of signing. Mrs. Cockerill also agreed to pay 2% per cent commission if she sold the property herself. On October 23 she sent a communication to the real estate agents reading: “As my contract expires to-day 1 will withdraw it.”” udge Dunn holds that it is immaterial | whether the contract was made on Sep- tember %, as claimed by the piaintifts, or on September 23, according to the defend- ant's testimony, for the thirty days speci- | fied therein wouid commence to run not from the time of signing, but from the date thereof, and the language of the 2 was evidently used under a misapprehension as to the day on which the contract would expire. The evidence in the case showed that on October 25, 1893, at about 5 o'clock in_the afternoon, 'the property was sold by Mrs, Cockerill ' for 36750. The contract had seven hours of life and the defendant was clearly bound by its terms. Through a Show Window. A horse attached to a vegetable wagon belonging to M. Baldocchi, who keeps a RECTOR OF ST. JOHN’S EV. new rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, on Fifteenth street, who has been elected as the successor to Rev. Dr. Spalding, will. begin his dutles as rector to- day. He will officlate at holy communion at 7 a. m., at a full service with holy communion and sermon at 11 a. m., and even- ing service with a short lecture at 4 o’clock in St. John's Church. At 8 o’clock in the evening he will preach at the first Union Lenten LOUIS C. SANFORD, the R e M Service of the Episcopal Cathe- & Ribelin against George J. Ribelin, William | 4 dral, to be held at Grace Church, & Bennett against Mrs. C. Bennett, Julia corner of California and Stockton & A. Driver against Charles E. Driver, John streets. z b e LB LU DR ST e The new rector will make his Fofearich "Marxen. against Elizabsch |+ home In the rectory. adjoining the church. Mrs. much interested in the Sunday- school work of the church at Sali- nas, where she has been specially successful in getting together the larger boys of the Sunday-school and interesting them in church matters. + i + + [ e e e e Rt asaaasansy | show | MASLAALLLLAESSAAAALLLLLAMMAMAALLAAALAAAASASAL i Copyright, 1900, b IV. THE GOLDEN AGE OF HE- BREW POETRY. BY. THE REV. E. E. HALE, D. D. The most careless reader .of the Bible knows that the Psalms were the hymns of | the Hebrews. Even our English name im- plies that. But, as our Bibles are gen- | erally printed, the reader does not know cutside the beok of Psalms, whether what he reads in the English version were writ- ten as poetry is written, with the enthu- slasm and purpose of peetry, or whether he is to read it as he reads the hard facts of history. The most important contribution, per- haps, made by the revised verston to the | popular reading of the Bible Is the ar- rangement in the printed page of the po- etry in each Testament so that to every reader's eye it looks like poetry. Every reader sees that it is poetry—that it was written by some poet whose work was so good that it has survived the millenniums of time. Every one knows that he is to read it as he reads poetry. Near the end ; of the book of Deuteronomy, for instance, the blessing of Moses, before he died— printed as a poem—reads; The Lord came from Sinai, And rose from Seir unto them; He shined forth from Mount Paran | Aud He came with ten thousands of holy ones. And His right band was a fiery law unto them. And so the ode or song of triumph goes on with a reference to cach of the tweive tribes. ‘Lhe mere form of the Lines sug- | gests poetry, where the old prosaic text | used by the early English transiators sug- { gests the patient narrative of an annalist: | _And he said, the Lord came from Sinai, and | rose up from Seir unto them; He shined ‘forth from Mount Faran, and He came with ten | thousand of saints; from His right hand went | a fiery law unto them. The commission which prepared our new |or revised version says of the prophets | that they have not extended to the pro- phetical books this arrangement in lines, | because the language of these books “is rather of the nature of lofty and impas- | soned prose, except in purely lyrical pas- | eages.”” Lofty and impassioned prose comes very near to poetry. And in gen- | eral the prophetical books of the Oid res- tament could be ranked as poetlcal. | means everything trom the Prophet Isaiah | to_the end of the Old Testament. Speaking roughly, we may say that the { first half of the Oid Testament, the books | which go as far as Esther in the usual ar- | rangement, are narrative or historical; that after that point, beginning with the book of Job, they are poetical. The book | of Job is often called a dramatic poem. The Psaims are a collection of several odes and hymns, from many authors in many centuries. Then follow the Pro- | verbs, which are cast in poetical form; the | book of Ecclesiastes, wiich, while printed jas prose in the revised version, is 3quen(lg marked with the characteristics | of Hebrew poetry; The Song of Songs, | which has all the characteristics of lyrio poetry, and then the prophets. | In the first or historical part are many songs or odes. Such is that which has been cited of Moses: such is the song of Deborah. In the prophetic books, on the other hand, we have zometimes a frag- ment of history. But, speaking rather | roughly, as I said, the’ first half may be called historical and the second poetical. Rhythm, Meter and Form. this to go Into any detail as to the di=- tinctions between the external form of Hebrew poetry and that to which we are accustomed. It must be enough to say that it does not seem to have had any | rhyme, and that the rhythm of the vers | is not to be strictly marked by the court ! ing of syllab] We know too little of tte original pronunciation o‘{, the words to say whether what we call “quantity” or what we call “accent” was considered in the composition. One pecullarity is observed in which the | Hebrew ets Indulged themselves much more frequently than those of the western nations. It Is generally spoken of as “paralielism.” This word means the meth- od of composition by which one line or verse takes up the language or perhaps the idea of a previous verse and repeats it, with more or less variation, in_other words. The writers of Hebrew odes or songs frequently used this method in arranging verses which should be sung al- ternately by different choirs. There is a resemblance to the strophe and the anti- strophe of and Greek choruses, but the alternate verses in the Hebrew | are much shorter than those of the Greek. Imagine one choir on one side of a tem ple singing: The heavens declare the glory of God. And another on the other side respond- ing: Ard the firmament showeth His handiwork. Chorus—Day unto day uttereth speech | Anti-chorus—And night unto night showeth | knowledge. Chorus—There is no speech nor language. | Anti-chorus—Their voice cannot be heard. Chorus—Thelr line is gone out through all the earth. Anti-chorus—And their words to the end of the world. In America the late Dr. Hastings intro- duced in many churches a renewal of such alterrate singing. Those who study the | subject may well read his little treatises | upon it. | “Another feature which occasionally ap- | | pears in Hebrew poetry is the reference literally, to the letter with which the poums are written, For instance, the 115th | psalm consists of twenty-two stanz:s each of eight lines. In the original th2 first verse consists of lines beginning witn the letter A, the second verse of lines be- inning with the, letter B, and In most Fibles the Hebrew letter is printed at the beginning of these separate subdivisions. his sort of Ingenulty, sometimes show- ing itself in acrostics, and sometimes i1 other ways, appears in many of the poems. The Spirit. But it is the spirit of Hebrew poetry which has given it its value, an infinite value to the world. And David's Iyre is mightier than his throne. There were very likely many peems o ballads written In the Hebrew language which have not come down to us which were not so bathed in the divine spirit as those which have survived. There is no reason why lovers should not have writ- ten love songs, why soldiers should not have written ballads, why meditative in- dividuals should not have written what used to be called didactic poems, in Pales- tine as wel! as elsewhere. But for what- ever reason, the poems which survive are, almost without exception, poems altve with the life of God. The writer looks at the subject with which he has to deal with distinct reference to the in- finite life which controls movement, which gives effect to cause, and is the vigor and strength of what he is to !B%‘. I once wrote a little sketch in which, for my urpose, I imagined a meeting’ between E[omer and David. T wanted to contrast | the poetry of the Greeks with the poetry of the Hebrews. I made Homer si his description of a snowstorm, and David, in comparison, sing to him the 147th psaim: He giveth snow like wool: | He scattersth the hoar-frost like a He casteth forth His fee like morse! | Who can stand before His cold? | He sendeth forth His wind and melteth them: | He causeth His wind to blow and the waters ow. “Always this ‘He,’ " sald one of the young soldiers to anather. “‘Yes," he repifed, “and it was so in the be- h ginning of the evening, when we were above there." ““There fs a strange difference between the two men, though the one plays as well as the | gther. and the Greek speaks with quite as ittle | toreign accent as the Jew, and their subjects | are_the same.” ““Yes,” sald the young Philistine harper; “if the Greek should sing one of the Hebrew's songs you would know he had borrowed it in a moment.” “And o if it were the other way | <Ot course,” said their old captain, joining in the conversation. *Homer, if you call him | 80, sings the thing made: David sings the maker; or, rather, Homer thinks of the thing made; David thinks of the maker, whatever they sing. “I was going to say that Homer would sing of cities and David of the life in them.” *It is not so much what they say as the way they .elznk ottt mmmcnfi. Sees the outaide— t aty o . He paints the picture. David sings the Jife of the plcture.” If my readers will carry this observa- This | fre- | It is impossible in a single paper like | oems | POETRY OF THE BIBLE: BY DR. E. E. HALE. ¥ Seymour Eaton. GOLDEN AGES OF LITERATURE. |tlon of the Philistine harper into_their reading of the poetry of the Old Testa- ment they will find that it is justified in almost ail the important poems. Sooner or later the singer or the poet comes around to speak of the Power of powers, | the Life of lives or the King of kings. | And he is writing or singing because Te wants to do this thing. It is not as Lord | Somerville wrote a poem_ upon hunting: | it is not as Thomson wrofe a poem upon the seasons; it is not as Byron wrote the | poem of Mazeppa—In each case because they wanted to describe certain actions or movements of men. It fs because the singer or the writer bad in mind the living | God, and that he wanted to make those 3o heard or read feel that “in him we e and move and have our being.’ The Psalms. The great German poet, Herder, mora than a hundred years ago wrote some very valuable essays on Hebrew poetry, which have a great interest for person who reaily want to read the Old lestu- ment in the spirit of those who wrote it and with an understanding of the customs of the time in which it was written aud the people for whom it was written. This book, I will say in passing. would be of great value for people who are co ducting Sunday classes in church and try- | ing to interest young people in the books of the Old Testament. Herder says again and again in course of these essays that whoever { really to get at the life and movem | the . poetieal books of the Hebrews had better study the book of Psalms first. Make that the center-of the whole of the Old Testament, he says. He says that | the historical psalms, written perhaps | long after the events referred to, are the | interpreters of the historical books. Fur | instance, a person understands the narra- tive of the crossing of the Red Sea better after he has acquainted himself with pe triumphant songs In which hundreds of or de- the | years after the Israelites Thanked ( | his goodness on the occasions there scribed Their Authors and Aims. Remember, then, that the book Psaims, as._we have it, consists of different collections of psalms, madie different_times, and probably by different people. It is quite as in an old church you | sometimes find a hymn book which con- | tains the Psalms of David as translated | by Dr. Watts, together with a collection | of hymns ma by one minister, and an- other collec of hymns made by ar.- ot fi n | other. Of these five subdivisions the fizst | i second with i1, the h | Psalm 72, | the fourth with the 106th P first two cannot be said te | | for some pieces are found amons them | which belong to the p »f the capuiv- | ity. The collection of the whole was prob- | ably made as late as the second centurv | betore Christ. Every one of these colle | tions has some psalms of David; and th psaims of David, more than those of ary other writer, give the character to the book. Names of authors given at the | ginning of the psalms are not to be con- | sidered very important. But in some mn- | stances which interest us most these names may be regarded as the names cf the real authors. For instance, the ¥th Psalm may be regarded as really by Moses, though some eminent critics have tried to show that it was composed In the | period of the captivi | “If now the reader, trying to acquaint himself with the Hebrew poetry, will for himself divide the psalms of David the shepherd from the psalms written after- ward by David the king, he will begin to o has been meant | | get some idea of what | when we have spoken of the relation of a | poem to the circumstances of its composi- tion. Take such a psalm as that beauti- | ful 1334, which describes the friendship between Hermon and Zion. The epherd poet is some eminence, probably t east of the Jordan, where he can see the clouds gathering above the forests of Her- mon, and can see them pass south over the plain of Esdrael and see them dis- #il in the rain over the rocks of Zion. Seeing ‘this, as David the shepherd may have seen it, he writes the lines which most of us remember: It is the dew of Hermon. | That cometh down upon the mountain of Zion; For there the Lord commanded the blessing, Even life for evermore. On the other hand, after David is a king, | after he has obtained the mastery over | the tribes which infested Israel with their | inroads, he will sing a statesman’s song: He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder: He burneth the chariot in the fire. | And when he praises God it is not now | because He has “led us as goats over the mountains,” or “strengthened our hands o that they break an iron bow,” but be- cause God is a “King over all the earth.” It would also be a goud exercise eare- fully to read the life of David in the his- torical books, where you will find more than one instance where his poetry {8 in- troduced in the very place whera the ode or the poem was composed. But you may go further than this You may read so carefully in the history on the one side and in the book of Psaivis on the other that you will form fof your- selves the impression as to the placs where most probably 2 certain psam be- longs. It has been propcsed. indeed, that for one of our English cratorios this son- nection between the h etry should be traced along and followed out in the libretto for the performance. The songs - would furnish the specially Ivric part of the oratorio, and the frame- work from history would give additional interest to the poems as they were pro- | duced one by one. There is a compost- tion, not su well known as it was half a century ago, by the composer Neukomm, which Is based, in a nner, upon this idea, but the full working out of an or: torio Is left for some great American com-~ poser. — COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. Spring Term, 1800. Mondays—American Political Par- ties. Tuesdays — Twenty Lessons in French Conversation and Recent Sci- entific Discoveries. Wednesdays and Thursdays — Golden Ages of Literature. Fridays — Photography for Ama- teurs. Saturdays — Biographical Studies for Girls. These courses will continue until June 7, 1900. Examinations will be held at their close as a basis for the granting of certificates. TO PREVENT TAX OFFICE ERRORS The publication of the story In yester- day's Call to the effect that grave errors and omissions had occurred in the records left by former Tax Collector Sheehan has impelled Auditor Wells to take steps that will reduce the possibility of such errors nappening again. The Auditor yesterday sent a communi- cation to the Board of Supervisors calling attention to the fact that it has been cus- tomary for the Tax Collector upon receiv- ing money for taxes to receipt the tax bills with a rubber stamp bearing his name and that of the cashier. The Andi- tor advises that the signing by a rubber stamp is an illegal act and the custom should be discontinued by a resolution of the board directing the Collector of Taxes to receipt all bills in handwriting by his cashier or any of his deputies. Carbrey Is Free. The case of Thomas C. Carbrey, charged with assault to murder for shooting Fan- nie Hall, a vaudeville actress, in the Franciseo House, Turk and Taylor streets, January 9, was dismissed by Judfi xofl-n esterday for lack of evidence. @ police ild failed to find either Fannie Hall or the woman who was with her at the time of the shooting. The friends of the Old Government ‘Whisky are never g