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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1900. ADVERTISEMENTS. A Cure for “Quick--Safe--Sure- r. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills Cure all kinds of Paias and BENJ. P. BARK"R. Livermorz, Calif. ANTON QUICK, San Luls Cbispo, Calif. Pain- Aches. # ha d used Dr. Miles’ Ant!-Pain Pills for nervous and sick “I get so little open eir exercise that I suffer greatly from neu- | ’ - < which I snffered since I was a boy. 1 consider them ralgla and severe headache, and I have never found anything to 4-mvh in the world; in fact, they are the only relieve me equal to Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills. They rellieve so e 1 e that would ward off or relieve at once.”” quickly and leave no injurious effects after using. My wife is de- lighted with them, and always keeps them in the house MRS. A. A. STOWE, San Jose, Calif. d - While traveling and sight-seeing. our party of three each and ail d H. HAYDON, Santa Maria, Calif. Miles' Anti-Pain Pilis with most gratifying results me before starting out, and sometimes one in mid-aft we were enabled to put in the longest and most arduous ds seeing without any unpleasant effects.” MRS. W. E. MILES, Vallejo, Calif. 1 Bad such terrible throbbing and beating pains in my head By noon, ot find them a most exc and lose many days . but tacks are away."” t nearly end I was #0 mervous that I could not rest or sleep. Hearing of Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills, my husband bought me a box, and the find they promotly re first dose gave relief. I always have them In the house and give bave also given sim many away to my friends.” 25 Doses, 25 Ceats. “I have used Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills for sick headach cellent remedy. self to be without them.' The Great Headache Cure & remedy that never fails to rclieve Feadache, Backache, Stomachache, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Rheumatism, Nervousness, In-\ubu‘xty, Sleeplessness or the Blues. At all Druggists. I used to lle awake many nights | time from headache, stomach trouble and ner- | e 1 have been taking the Antl-Pain Pills the at- | 50 frequent, and one Pill always drives them D. B. BAKER, San Jacinto, Ca'if. | “I have used several boxes of Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills, and I | lieve ordinary and neuralgic headaches. They | ilar relief to my wife, and she never allows her- | AMUSEMENTS. OPERA GRAN HOUSE . LAST NIGHTS... Of Rice's Laughable ¢ (671297 S | THE IS | DAY THEY ARE ALL’COMIN AFTERNOON, AT 2:15 TO SEE THE BROWNIES IN FAIRYLAND, IVERYBODY'S FAVORITES! Y7/ THI Musical Comedy, THE GIRL FROM PARIS NEXT WEEK—"THE GRAND DUCHESS." USUAL POPULAR PRIC PHONE MAIN Good Reserved Seat in Matinee Branch Ticket a Saturday = . Office—Emporium. L ® THE LEADING THEATEZ ALL THIS AND NEXT WEEK. & March With the SH N RR IN ts WILLIAM LOVED HIM SO {wun 3 DOD: L POPULAR PRICES—25¢c and 59¢. | N P PRICEY— S 'MR. and MRS. SYDNEY DREW, | In the One-act Comedy, “LOVE v st e e 1 WILL FIND A WAY.” HOWARD THURSTON; FLATOW and DUNN. | SMEDLEY SKETCH CLUB. | JHAPPY FANNY FIELDS, | IMPERIAL MOORISH ACROBATS. IS GREATEST PH, G IS THE RFORMANCE rd-breaking Comic dol's Eye. M. 69th PE Evenings at § Opera ee Saturday at 2. Amusing PHONE SOUTH 770. E ING THIS WEEK. E SATURDAY. inesday, Sat- THE LAUGHING FARCE COMEDY, i -y SPECIAL ¥ )R CHILDREN SAT- HAVE YOU SEEN SMITH? Introduct medians Who Are Funny. SUNDAY AFTERNOON | CHUTES AND 700. GREAT VAUDEVILLE SHOW ! TO-NIGHT— LADY COOPERS' CHORUS, AND AMATEUR SPECIALTY SHOW After Regular Performance. SATURDAY NIGHT— CAKEWALK CONTEST ! Biack Bartons vs Stewarts Seats by Telephehe, Park 23. MmRr. HARRY GLAZIER E: And His ellent Company Production. “THREE MUSKETEERS.”| Handsome Costumes, a Perfect Presentation in | detall. Direct from New York City. ! S ON SALE TO-DAY Sc and in a Lavish PRICES—Ev Mat! e, ALCAZAR THEATER. | LAST FOUR NIGHTS MATINEE SATURDAY AND A WHIRL OF FU Never Again A JOLLY FRENCH FARCE PRICES—15¢, 25¢, 35¢, 50¢ | NDAY. Reserved 'WESTERN TURE ASSOCIATION. TANFORAN PARK. FIFTH MEETING, Mch. 12 to 24, inclusive. Six high-class running races every week dhy, rain or shine, beginning at 1:30 p. m. NEXT WEEK-Elaborate Production, The ldeal winter racetrack of America. Pa- trons step directly from the railroad cars into | comfortably housed In bad weather, they can enjoy an unobstructed view of the rices. SEATS NOW READY. - 3 ' Trains leave Third and Townsend streets at G AT} | ) a. m. and 12:15, 15, 12:50 » returning immediately after SHERMAN, CLAY & C0.’S HALL. 5 eats T e tars e MRE. C. L. GRAFF Presents | ing. \‘;l- ncia ;H‘:_v‘l. ]2 m?nuwn\ln"r. . | San Jose and ay Stations rrive at San LAST TWO EXPLANATORY REGITALS | iy 2758 " SR i 3 350 AT THE PIANO BY RATES—San Francisco to turn, including admission to t W. J. MART F. H. GREEN. Secretary and Mana, "FURNITURE BUYERS | SWEEPING REDUCTIONS IN ALL LINES OF | FURNITURE. CARFETS, LINOLEUMS, MR. WALTER DAMROSCH | —-ON THE— WAGNER OPERAS AND MUSIC DRAMAS, To morrow (Friday) Afiernoon. at #:3) | PARSIFAL. Eor o 1~TRISTAN and ISOLDE | MATTINGS, ETC. —— | a $150. General Admission—$1 m "’.':.('m.“:;o;n o o:rm::l.—"}nr; Now o sale at Sherman, Clay & Co my credit system. The only liberal credit - Y s i lete housefurnishing. - Estimates given on comp f MECHANICS’ PAVILION. Prices lower than ever, fher maza rabr Apave T. BRILLIANT, 3888-340 POST ST., Bet. Powell and Stockton sts, Open_evenings. P ree delivery Oakland and suburbs. WADE, ME A AN TS R ORKIS & ROWE'S BiG TRAINED ANIMAL SHOWS. AN UNFRECEDENTED SUCCESS. Thousands D-lighted at Every Performance. THIS AFTERNOON AT 21 NIGHT AT $:15. LAST PERFORMANCES SUNDAY. young. . busi= 300-PERFORMING ANIMALS-300 Oy R PRICES—ADULTS, %e: CHILDREN, 10c. 0 LI “mfi - B s e ot etine e tan. " e | BT DY CO., 79.Dgurom st e heoay s Tgr Anioem: | T eale tn 8. F. by Leipuits & Coo No Per. s e rme 8 T BCr Al | O Bty Con'ow Drig Cou's. ¥ a Every Night Except Sunday. Matinee Saturday. [ opera chairs 'ICAPE NOME MACHINERY and SUPPLIES. SAND CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS In Overation Daily, 625 Sixth Street. ‘ BYRON JACKSON. [ SAND CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS: 'KROG Sand Centrifugal Pumps, Drake | Amalgamators, In operation d. Iy § Stevenson st., San Franc! BEACH GOLD COMNCENTRATOR. All the Gold by Gravitation. No quick- Hand or power. In operation 14 Spea BOSs GOLD SAVER. Man pumps, water operates machine, works | 3 tons per hr.. saves 9 p.c. free gold. 128 First. | CENTRIFUGAL AM:LGAMATORS. fine_gold. In dally operation at 254 | . San Francisco. GASOLT! | HERCULES GAS many orders for NGINE WORKS s filling ome. 141-143 First st., 8. F. GOLD SEPARATOR. | [ it SR S T S it el o o |16 be' graduated from the | Pacifi BEAPER CLAINS MNOTHER O THE STATE PIONEERS C. V. 8. Gibbs Dies Suddenly at Coronado After an Apoplectic Stroke. Was One of the Founders of Trinity Church and Was Among the Most Prominent Business Men of This City. —_— Death has claimed another of the State’s ploneers. Almost without warning C. V. S. Gibbs, the well known marine under- writer, was called to his Maker yesterday morning. He went south a few days ago for rest and recreation. While at Coro- nado Monday he suffered a stroke of apo- plexy. Being a man of advanced years he failed to rally from the attack and the end came yesterday morning. Mr. Gibbs was one of the most promi- nent business men in the city and was closely identified with San Francisco's his- tory from the days of '49. Although a man of affairs, he was a devout Chris- tian and was instrumental in establishing Trinity Church. At the time of his death he had been conn with the church for moge than fifty years. Deceased was a native of Newport, R. I., @i e e s eberoeieQ ¢ 2 t L4 L 3 L 4 + L 4 : 4 @ + SR 2n on o on n S ®* THE L»\TF‘C. V. S. GIBBS. At the age of Poughkeepsie cademy, and at once ve ‘business life and was over T0 years old. (New York) Bo; entered upon the which has marked his career. Before he had reached his majority he was in busi- ness for himself in New York as a whole- sale grocer. When the news of the Cali- fornia gold_discover reached the East he was anfbug the first to start for the Slope. With his brother George he left New York in January, 1849, for Vera Cruz, Crossing Mexico to Mazatlan sailed in the Hamburg brig Antonio o MARSHALL ( Saving Machine. 229 Fol- #om street, Oriental Gas Engine Compagv. GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS Outfits packed. IRVINE BROS. 8 Fourth, 1302 Polk and 1441 Stockton, 8. F. | OILS. | ICATING Ofl. " Crude Ofl and Gasoline. | TGN & McGUFFICK. 28 Spear st., S. F. | PLATES FOR SAVING GOLD. | n & Burridge. 3 Hardie place, oft | between Sutfer and Bush streets, | BELL, Central Plating Works, | n’ st F. Phone Jessle 301. | LUBR! ENS PORTABLE HOUSES. NHAM-STANDEFORD CO., 1st sts.. Oakland, or Builder: D-EDGI G PI'MPS. soline, Steam Holsts, Centrifugal Pumps, Botlers. HendyMach. Wks., 40 Fremont MARSH STEAM PUMPS fresh or salt water for sluice boxes Supply high or low lifts. Simonds, 3 Market st FUMPS AND GASOLINE FNGINES. All kinds of Pumps and Gasoline Engines. VOODIN & LITTLE, 312 Market st., 8. F. S PILE.DRIVING ENGIN ‘orthington Steam Pumps & Water Meters, Mundy Holsting Engines. Tatum & Bowe: ENGINES, BOILERS. ETC. | BAKER & HAMILTON, Engines and Botlers; lowest prices on the coast. Pine & Davis sts. TENTS AND (OVERS. NEVILLE & CO.. manufacturers, bags, tents, covers. 21 and 33 California st. W. & P. BUILDING PAPER. water and vermin proof. 113 New Montgomery st. Prepared COURT NOTES. The action instituted by Attorney Schooler & Simpson against Mrs. Emma Sterrett to recover $1000 for service ren- | | dered on behalf of the defendant during | | the presentation of her claim against the estate of the late Gustav Walter went 1o | trial before Judge Bahrs and a jury yes- | terday. Judgment for the defendant has been | | entered in the case of N. B. Malville against Ernest Lang, brought to recover $000 damages for maliclous prosecution. endant caused the arrest of the | plaintiff on a charge of disturbing the peace and Malville sued to recover on the | ground that his arrest was actuated by malice. The jury found otherwise, how- | ever. | John Maher has sued Henry Wilson and | Abram B. Johnson to recover $10,000 dam- | ages for malicious prosecution. Plaintiff alleges that the defendants caused his ar- rest without probable cause. — e Keystone’s Anniversary. | This evening Keystone Lodge of the Knights of Honor will celebrate the twen- tieth anniversary of its institution by an | entertainment and ball in the south hall | | of the Aleazar building. | eity | plications for | reasonable license kS Mr. mines at Murphys truck out for the amp, but one day's Gibbs at oney experience with a pick and shovel was | enough for him and he returned to the hay. He entered into partnership with E. E. Dunbar and the irm opened a gen- eral merchandise store on hington street, in the rear of the old City Hall. A fire ended the existence of the firm. Mr. Gibbs engaged in several mercantile enter- prises until 1869, when he became an ad- Juster of marine losses, which profession he followed until his death. He was a trustee in many of the rell- gious and benevolent organizations of the nd was also a member of the Plo- of which he was a past president. He Was connec with the Sansome Hook | and Ladder Company of the old Volun- teer Fire Department, and was one of the leaders of the Vigilance Committee, Mr. Gibbs was married in 1546 at Brook- lyn, N. Y.. to Miss Harriet E. Forbes, Besides the widow deceased leaves four children—Willlam C. and Harry T. Gibbs, | Mrs. John Stafford and Mrs. W. G. Hol- | combe. The funeral arrangements have not yet been made. TO LICENSE CARRYING OF CONCEALED WEAPONS Supsrvisors’ Committee Will Recom- mend a Tax of $2 50—Increase on Hotel Runners. Acting on the recommendation of Chief Sullivan, the Supervisors’ License Com- mittee vesterday decided in favor of im- | posing a license fee of $2 50 per year o all holders of permits for carrying con- cealed weapons. The last report of Ser- geant Gleason, who has charge of all ap- such permits, shows that 3000 individuals were permitted to earry pistols. A delegation of restaurant keepers ad- | dressed the committee and asked for a on their business. was decided to fix the license tax for all restaurant keepers at $3 per quarter where a business of less than $6000 per quarter is_done. The committee will also recommend that a‘ quarierly license of 20 be paid by hotel and transfer wagon drivers. runners P —— Wedding invitations, visiting cards | Koh-i-noor pencils and Waterman foun- tain pens are our great specialties in sta- tionery department. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. . —ee————— A Presentation. Court San Francisco of the Foresters of America gave a soclal last night in the | social hall of the Alcazar building. Dur- ing the evening Ben Levy was called to ihe platform and presented on behalf of the court with a beautiful gold emblem- atic badge in recognition of past services and for ia\'lng through his individual ef- forts brought into the court the greatest number of strangers for initiation. After that, under the direction of M. Pander, F, E. Severenee, B. Levy, I. P. Bevan and William Vuhlinger. the gocial committee, there was dancing until midnight. ALL POINTS ON FROM SAN FRANCISCO FROM SEATTLE . UM SAN FRANCISCO ... FROM 5AN FRANCISCO .. Setadis A Steamer WIll Be Dispatched FOR NOME, ST. MICHAEL AND ALL OTHER POINT: ALASKA COMMERCIAL COMPANY - FOR... Nome, St. Michael, Dawson «w.AND... YUKON RIVER. CARRYING THE UNITED STATES MAIL. FOR NOME DIRECT: 8. 8. “PORTLAND"”..Aprfl %, 1500 DORA’ April x 150 .. May 1900 [ .8. 8. “ST. PAUL," May 2Mth Every Fortnight Thereafter. ’ For Juneau, Sitka, Prince Willlam Sound, Cooks Inlet, Kodiak and All Intermediate Points: FROM SEATTLE..... N maps and further For new folders, KA COMMERCIAL COMPANY, 310 Sansome to ‘ana ‘to AAS- particulars ss to freight la‘-‘_l-.lm street, San r-muh?w-un.mm-mutmmw- B S R S R o o S S S 2 1t | MEXICO JAILS THIEVES FROM FANKEE LAND C. W. Rowe, Defaulting Coun- ty Treasurer From Iowa, in Prison. AL RS Convicted in That Country of Crime Committed in the United States and Sentenced to Twelve Years’ Imprisonment. gt Embezzlers, forgers, defaulters and other victims of racetrack gambling will do well for themselves not to seek the land of the Aztecs as a hiding place from the officers of the law, for it appears by a letter received yesterday by Captain A. de la Torre, Spanish interpreter for the Immigration Bureau in this city, that fugitive Americans are tried in the Mexi- can courts and are sentenced to confine- ment for the same in Mexican prisons, which are not noted for fresh air or cleanliness. The letter is from Chester W. Rowe and is dated from Belem prison in the City of Mexico. The writer says that while serv- ing his second term as County Treasurer in Porneshiek, Towa, in 1885, he became a defaulter, having too many political friends and never having been able to say no. He left his wife and children there in a destitute condition and fled to the City of Mexico, where, by the advice of an acquaintance, he took out citizenship papers for the purpose of avolding extra- dition. A Grand Jury in Iowa indicted him and a short time afterward he was | arrested by the Mexican authorities and cast Into Belem prison for the crime of “peculado,” or embezzlement of public funds, in lowa. He was convicted of the charge and sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment in a Mexican prison for a fine old;mh. lge hasmanneg.h:% u; ‘lihe courts and they have affirme e ju f- ment, and the matter is now pending in the Supreme Court. Mrs. Rowe called recently upon Secre- tary Hay, and he informed her that her | husband had been convicted of bringing stolen property into Mexico, the stolen property being part of the funds he took with him from lowa. Mr. Rowe does not think that it is good law ‘to convict and imprison a man in Mexico for a crime committed in the United States, and insists that Secretary Hay has been misinformed as to the na- victlon was had. HORRIBLE THREATS Unhappy Relations of a Man and Wife Disclosed in Judge Mo- gan’s Court. A case showing the unhappy relations existing between Charles C. L. Whitney and his wife Kate came up for hearing in’ Judge Mogan's court yesterday, the ening to kill her. Mrs. Whitney testified that she separated from her husband in Illinois, July 16, 1868. She with her four children have been residing with her sis- | ter, Mrs. Ed Anderson, 507% Hyde street. Her husband has a suit pending against her sister and brother-in-law for alienat- ing her affections. f{(- met his wife at Ellis and Jones streets last month and asked her if she intended being a witness in that action. ot a long knife as shars as a lance, and ? will rip Anderson and make a grand entrance up the staire and slash your ster also and will make threads of them oth.” In cross-examination, she said that she was to apply for a divorce from her hus- band. She had commenced a suit for sep- arate maintenance the day after her ar- rival here. He had written letters, ask- ing her to forgive him, but she refused to do_so. prove that the defendant was dying from love of his wife, who was kept from him by her sister. —_—————————— Standard Optical Co., 217 Kearny st., leading opticlans. Al work guaranteed; prices low. * ——e——— | POLICEMEN SUSPENDED 0. H. Knight and C. H. Waterman Accused of Allowing a Pris- oner to Escape. For allowing a prisoner to escape, Po- | icemen O. H. Knight and Charles H. Waterman were suspended by Chief Sul- livan yesterday pending their appearance | before the Police Commissioners on a charge of dereliction of duty. Since the | prisoners from the California street and Harbor stations to the Clty Prison, on the ground of economy, patrol wagons from outside stations have been assigned for that duty. Yesterday morning the wagon from the Stanyan street station was sent to the | California_street station in charge of Po- licemen Knight and Waterman for pris- oners, There were six, and when the wagon reached McAllister street, between Leavenworth and Hyde streets, Cash Crosby, a morphine fiend, charged with Xdls!ur{mg the peace and vagrancy, made !a sudden spring over the side of the | wagon and disappeared north on Hyde street. The two officers did pot attempt | to foliow him for fear of losing the other five prisoners, nhght was one of the balliffs in Judge Fritz's court ahd bears the reputation of being an " jefficient officer. Waterman has been on the force for twenty years. Grand spring opening to-day and following days. Mrs. S. Thomas, 114 Grant ave. . ————————— SAILORS MUST HAVE SURGICAL TREATMENT United States District Judge de Haven Awatds One Thousand Dollars for a Broken Leg. United States District Judge de Haven vesterday gave judgment in favor of Frank Olsen against the schooner Uranus for $1000 damages. The effect of the de- cision will be to compel masters of ves- e Bt e o f when any Onc Teceives a near-by port wne! Lnr:olnjury necessitating immediate surgi- cal attention. Uranus for damages for Injurles sustained by him while a member of the crew. Jhen the schooner was about five hun- dred miles from Port Townsend the boom broke and a piece of it struck Olsen and fractured his leg in two places. Olsen asked the captain to put into Port Town- send so that he might receive surgical ment, but the captain refused to do :;e.n‘nd % ed Olsen on the vessel inte Alaskan W raters. The decision holds that the captain was not responsible for the accident, but that ‘was’ hi: to e to Olsen's re- ::ue!t lnd‘lln him at the nearest port where the services of a surgeon could be had. Anyvo Theatrical Cold Cream, Makeup and Rouge Gras. Sold by all druggists. * —— et New Police Rules Adopted. The Police Commissioners held a two- hour session yesterday afternoon and lis- tened to arguments in the Nymphia Hotel e‘..‘ d postponed further hear- ing o:l:m'enuél:l The new rules recentl; dwfl for W the department were of the same were ordered fl'venma all members of the force, with ficers to study them carefully. Of- be examined in the near future their understanding of the twelve years and_two months and to pay | ture of the charge upon which his con- | MADE BY C. L. WHITNEY | wife charging the husband with threat- | She replied in the affirmative, when, she | The case was continued till this morn- | ing, when Whitney's counsel promised to | BY CHIEF SULLIVAN discontinuance of the van for conveying | Olsen sued the owners of the schooner | i LITERATURE. BY JOHN EBENEZER BRYANT, M.A. There are two epochs in the history of Rome when literature shone resplendent. The earlier epoch was that of Cicero and Caesar. It is generally spoken of as the Ciceronian age. The later epoch was that of Virgil and Horace. This epoch is gen- erally called the Augustan age. $ The_ history of Rome for the fifty or sixty vears that ended with the death of Caesar was a fearful thing. No modern history paralleis It, except that of France for a little while during and just after the Revolution. There was no lelsure, no room, no possible chance for the develop- ment of the literary spirit as a factor of general culture. The nation—if Rome at that time can be called a nation—was wholly engrossed in the turmofls, the em- broilments, the upheavals of flerce inter- necine struggle. And yet out of the chaos of those times were developed two liter- ary products that had the quality and matter of universal fame in them. Cicero (B. C. 106-43) was a great man—if mere intellectual qualities be considered, [ R o et S s ] B o 2 ST L o o o o o o Y B R S R D e S VIRGIL. ) 1 @eiebeieibededere® one of the very greatest men of antiquity. He was an orator, a pleader at the bar, a parliamentary debater, a scholar, a critic, an essayist in polite lterature, a Philosopher—all of the first rank; and as such he has always been regarded. His main ambition, however, was to be a successful practical politician. In this he failed. His character was not strong enough, either on its good side or on its faulty side, for effectual coping with the masterful unscrupulousness of his age In the end his head was struck off, taken |to Rome and displayed in the Senate House—a proceeding which, though it | seems_wantonly atroclous, was only typ- | 1cal of the time. Cicero is known ally to scholarship princi- for his pariiamentary oratlons and clajms, he sald: “‘You look out for your- addresses, his philosophic treat- { set. The life line is drawn and if you and his famillar letters, appear against me 1 will kill you. I have have served as _inexhaustible flelds of study for the academic youth of twenty centuries. But Cicero’s greatest title to fame rests upon the splendid f: that it was he who by his literary art and literary power fixed the character of the Latin tongue as a vehicle of literary ex- | pression for the greatest nation of an- | tiquity during the whole period of its | greatness and instituted models of style | and_construction which all subsequent Latin authors followed. And when we reflect that the Latin language was for sixteen centuries the language of the whole civilized world this great achieve- | ment of his measures up to a much greater magnitude than even first ap- pears. .Indeed, it is scarcely too much to say that the models of literary style and |rhemrlml construction which Cicero set up are the models which have been ac- knowledged wherever oratory is practiced or literature written right up to the pres- ent day. 2 Caesar (B. C. 100-44), the other great name of the Ciceronian epoch of Roman literature, was a greater man than even Cicero was. Caesar was, indeed, the greatest man in all antiquity. And, unlike | the case of Cicero, the more critically Caesar’'s character and achievements are studied the greater do they measure. He was a great general, a great statesman, a great empire builder and codifier of law; also a great politician and orator. In literature, however, Caesar was great not because 'of conscious effort spent on iiterary labors, but through the sheer in- evitableness of genius. His only literary labors, so far as the world now possesses the fruits of them, were his anonymous, or, rather, impersonal, records of his own exploits in war. And yet these sim- | ple records—"notes,” as he called them, or “commentaries,” as we now say—were in his own time, and have ever since re- mained, in succinctness, perspicuity and brilliancy of phrase, the despair of all | Who tried or have tried to Imitate them. Even Cicero acknowledged this. The age of Cicero and Caesar was fllum- B+ o>+ e e e ete® B e S A e A SR S CICERO. Qe e eI ederdeie® inated by other great names in literature besides the two greatest ones. But these need not be mentioned here. There is one writr of the age, however, who merits 8] ] mention. Lucretius (B. C. %-52), e author of ‘““De Rerum Natura” (“On the Nature of Things”), was a poet whose genius was so remarkable that it lacked adequate recos fon almost down to our own day. with the advance in sei- ence and the explanation of the causes of natural processes which the nineteenth century has witnessed, has the far-reach- ing scope of the great poem of Lucretius, written nearly twenty centuries ago, been fully understood. In its own day it was but little understood, and, indeed, but lit- D B e e e e = B tle known. Caesar achieved the unification and con- solidation of the Roman world. He re- duced chaos to order, faction and interne- A0S he price of Bl achicvements with Of a & P Am his assassinat his life. (B. C. 44) faction and contention head once moare and chaos again rule c‘w But only for a short time. sar's work had been too well done and Caesar's and heir, Lvian: E;%"-’é":.?"::'na -.-‘:mu &f“ C. D. 14). perfect (Copyright, 1800, by Seymour Eaton.) GOLDEN AGES OF LITERATURE. IX. THE GOLDEN AGE OF ROMAN great consolidation wkich Caesar haa planned and inaugurated. With the order and peace which Augustus established men's minds had opportunity to develop alopg the lipes of their natural bents. Literature med out once more into beauty and strength and the glory of let- ters in his reign was such that his name, as applied to a literary epoch, has ever since been regarded a synonym for trans- cendent excellence. The Augustan age of literature in Rome was, in good reality, a “golden age.” And yet that age derived its principal luster from only two great names. Both of these were poets. So that while the Ciceronian age was an age of prose (for Lucretius, it will be remembered, was but little known in his day. The Augustan age was an age of poetry. The one epoch rep- resented, indeed, the culmination of prose literature among the Romans; the other the culmination of poetry. Virgll (B. C. 70-19) rawks as one of the world's greatest poets. For many centu- ries he was named with Homer, which, of course, was to place him in the highest rank of all. Then a reaction set in and he was looked upon for a time as somewhat thin and artificial. Of late years a truer criticism has placed him back in a posi- tion corresponding closely to his earfier one. While not the equal of Homer in force,. in rapidity of movement, in pie- turesqueness or vital interest, Virgil yet possessed qualities which Homer did net bhave and which no other poet showed till comparatively modern ages were reached. For with all his brilliancy of objective description Virgil also was a subjective poet. He brooded over the pathos.of life, “‘the tears of things,” to use his own phrase. His heart went out in pity for the distresses which fate imposes on hu- i Whereas Homer i d with the destinies of human be- them accurately, Ol 5 mostly for his ¢ an epic poem, describing chief the fall of Troy, taking up where Homer left it in the * v dwelling chiefly upon the exploits and ad- ventures of Aeneas, a Trojan hero who after the fali of Troy came to Italy and became the reputed progenitor of the Roman people. But the “Aeneld” was a osthumous publication. On his deathbed /irgil made it his last desire that the manuseript of his poem should be de- stroyed, for though he had heen at work upen it eleven years he judged that three yeArs more were necessary to perfget it. his wish was not carried out only be- cause of the express command of Augus- tus. The publication of the poem was effected immediately, and so much ap- proved was it by the Roman people that Scarcely a century had elapsed before Virgil's tomb became, as it were, the shrine of a god. was a poet for all time. Horace Virgil (B. 65-8) also was a poet for all dlme, and yet he was distinctively and emphat- ically a poet of the age he belonged to. The “Odeés™ of Horace derived their ori- gin, their being, their very soul and e: sence from the life of the times they de- picted. Horace is the singular example of a pdet who is really not a great poet, becoming by his art, the inflnite felleity of his art, greater—that is to say, more widely read. more enduringly renowned— than the very greatest of poets. For with- out doubt Horace has been more widely and more continuously read, more widely and more frequently quoted, than any other poet who ever lived. He owes this relous popularity—a popularity ex- ough every age and through- civilized country—not to power R e e LA et e b S ] PPOIET LIV IPODOEDOIOL OL eI " JULIUS CAESAR. [ e i a E S SRS SN AP -4 of thought or of suggestion or of ira- tion, but to an inimitable aptness of ex- pression which gives to even medioers ideas such lodgment in the memory that once they are there they are never dis- Piher i a5 ere was a time not so very long the shib- Readers of Bulwer's when to know one’s Horace wi boleth of culture. novels will remember how continually Horace Is quoted by him and by h8 ch acters. If men of polite society met any- where their discourse with one another, their jests, their repartees were sure to be flavored by Horatian allusions and oftentimes, indeed, by direct Horatian quotations. That time is past. The great expansion of knowledge in these later days has made the leisurely study of classic literature, once the rule, once, indeed, imperative en all who aspired to culture, quite impos- sible. To-day even the Krofessed classical scholar searcely knows his Horace as well as forty years ago the well-trained school- boy knew it. Some idea of most classical authors can be obtained from translations. Homer, es- pecially the “Odyssey,” has been well ren- dered Into English. So. too. has Virgil, but with less success. Virgil's art is too personal, too characteristic of his own in- dividuality to be adequately transferred by another mind into another language. But of all classic authors none is so im- possible to translate as Horace. His apt- ness of phrase, his crystal-cut deftness of metrical constructidh, in a translator's hands vanish entirely. The result is prose —bare, commonplace se. Even Bul- wer-Lytton, with all his abounding love of Horace, with all his wealth of classical B e R R AR SRR SECRD a3 scholarship and skill in English versifica- tion, made nothing of his attempt. To en- joy H:lrnce at all one must do so In the original. Besides Virgil and Horace there were other ornaments of literature in the Augustan age. but nome, of course, who approached these two. Ovid (B. C. 48-A. D. 6,) a younger member of the Augustan up, was a more typical representative of the ideas and manners of the A stan age than even Horace. But Ovid, though a poet of exquisite felicity of expression and almost un narrative power, does not rank and never has ranked with his older contemporaries. Another great name of the Augustan age was Livy (B. C. 50-A. D. 1D was not a poet. Fe was a prose writer and one of the first rank. He was a his- torlan—up to his time the greatest of Latin historfans. Livy was not eritical. He was not exact or painstaking. But he narrated history dramatically and gave to the world pictures of men and manners which, if not true to actual fact, are, like Shakespeare’'s dramatic historfes, aceept- ed by the world as truer in their general correctness of portraiture than the narra- tives of more technically accurate his- torfans. There was, a little later on, a third epoch of Roman literature, not inconsid- erable in its greatness by any means. Tt continued for a number of years—for some distance into the second century, indeed. It included Seneca, the philosopher: Mar- tial. the epigrammatist: Pliny, the natur- alist—*‘the most learned man of his age,™ as he was fustly called; Tacitus. the his- torian; Quintilian, the rhetorician, and Juvenal, the satirist. Of these the most itin - Carl . The piercing, phrases by which he transfixed a charac- ter and showed the evil lurking within or G A a :"“lb.’flt&fil\ procession of historieal events, are unique in literature. Taclitus, indeed. in his way. was one of tI - ‘writers the m est known.