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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1900. 1 o Wemmmwsamabm | REPUDIATES A DEBT THE WORD BACK FHOM THE THAT SAVED HER SON : R : ISLANDS Tu BE 3 V”@Wfij@;;;?;fimwm@mwemmwmc’@mme\mo " HEUMATISM mmp s L., 5 e raa betny GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN LITERATURE. James Redmond, Arrested in |5 August 10, 1897, Is Used to Cover a Multi- tude of Diseases. (NEW YORK JOURNAL, MARCH ays the word ‘Rheumatist used t £, of the blooc vison, called ‘uric he blood results a variety of sy joints) as in dneys to e ) fr the ‘physical economy.” T rheumatism’ (although it is a vag h not infrequently e f which James G. 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Buy your - | ferry tickets to Ehell Mound. All trains via Oukinnd mole connect with San Pablo avenue electric cars at Beventh and Broadway, Oak- {land. Aiso all trains via Alameda mole con- | pect with San Pablo avenue cars at Fourteeuth | and Broadway, Oakland. These electric cars | &0 atrect 10 the track in ffteen minutes, Retu: g—Trains leave the track at 4:15 and 44 p om und immediately after the last Tace. | HOMAS H. WILLIAMS JR., President R. B. MILROY, Secretar Hall in TO-NIGHT! | FEB,M FAUST" liessint; $:12, r Napoleone; co; 10:06, Sig- nl and Vargas; Mus! | FAMILY RESORT—EL CAMPO. 5 o 5 OPEN EVERY SUNDAY. 4 Dehamar™ o conts | PNy vy utes’ ride on the bay in that N - 10 cents | jarge, magnific ner, Ukiah. Dancing, | bowling, fishin . plenty of shade, n freshments, etc rder wiil be maintained Adults, 25 cents for the round trip, Including admission 1o the grounds. Chlldren betwee § and 12 years of age 1o cents Leave Tiburon ferry, foot of Market street, 10:30 &, and 4 p. m. Leave El Campo, 12:45. 3 P. m. n For the Season of 1900, the directicp and management of the C. b KAPP COMPANY, Market st., for disposal 1 15 and eeseressees eeeeevecsseee . PALACE AND Trreated on Market street, in close prozimity to busi- ness section. places of emusement and Tesmens Arrangements can o e by clube and societies Tor leas Gepots; 1) rooms, ing ¢ RS s R L fiRAN %0 wi‘h baths at. tached. The largest STUDENTS’ LECTURE COURSE. a7 finc: otels ta ATL‘H{I:;C“ l!;} = ,«I;,fil‘n‘m» Efl'xfisfl« « he world. Amerl- “onstant and the Turks” (llustrated fl s e Jme with Stereopticon). ADMISSION, 50 cents. . e Tickets ot Eider & Shepbard's, | Seererrsseerirtesivettees Manila, Now in the City Prison Here. To Be Taken to Kansas City to Answer for the Murder of Miss Emma Schu- macker. of the Tw ating a sergeant of ar- i Lieutenant for- | merly a reporter in Kansas City; | O. Girard, clerk in the chief surgeo; fice and formerly first sergeant of Troop I of the Rough Riders, and others as the Kansas City urderer. Redmord arrived here on Sheridan from Manila end 4. Chiet the transport was detained Sullivan had | Redmond would arrive port. Chief Hayes reque: ivan to take charge of the pris- d send a officer f Detectives Rey- sent out by Chief Haye : murder, mentioned chumacker dead. ie is a burgl e or blow a 1 of women ed_the Rough Riders u name of Mike S After t of the regiment Cut Montauk Point le d that he gton ( ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Bargains WILL BE PLACED ON SALE THIS DAY. 50 LADIES' TAILOR-MADE SUITS, in b blue, | brown and eray; v 810 00 | —will be offered .00 $5 50 dozen LADIES' STOCK COLLARS, in satin and velvet, gfl;:z T\HH be offe: eJ' 8c NEW SUITS DAILY ARRIVING We are strictly one-price house. Perfect fit [-] SO Suits made to order. guaranteed J O'BRIEN & (0. 1146 Market Street. 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Address PIERCE ELECTRIC CO., 620 Market Street, (Opp. Palace Hotel) SAN FRANCISCO. Eastern Office—New York City, | | Arrest for felony embezzle- =3 & ment NICHOLAS BUJA, =3 & former bookkeeper for Sca- & {5 tena & Co., 104 Washington fg p street, this city. Left here g & August gth, supposed to be o é bound for the South, via San 5 Cg Jose. o |5 = DESCRIPTION: Age 28, g 5’ 3 feet 6 inches, 150 lbs,, dark complexion, dark eyes and # | Q dark hair; walks a little stoop shouldered. Looks like a Jew. & | 2 Dressed when last seen, gray checked suit, black hard hat. g 2 If found, arrest and wire. I hold warrant. Will pay all ex- & 2 penses. 1. W. LEES, Chief of Police. é ‘g FACSIMILE OF THE POLICE DESCRIPTION OF BUJA. g B 550 LTINS DO L6010 T SLHILION SLRLIODOLOLIS LOTIO LOTIOTIOY SLKIO@ HE filing of a sult Tuesday wherein Mrs. Mary Buja seeks to recover $1500 from L. Scatena, the commis- sion merchant of 104 Washington street, recalls the crime of Nicholas Buja, once the bookkeeper for the defendant in the action and son of the plaintifr, Had Mr. Scatena been the hard-hearted | and designing man he is alleged to be in complaint he would have allowed the w to have taken its course back in 1897, when he discovered that Buja had robhed | Mrs. Buja . o listened to the | SUch @ nuisance about his store that he o mother and his re. | Ainally acceded to her proposition. She ; ! n 1 | paid him $1500 in coin and gave a mort- for his kindness Is the sult in which | gage on her property for the balance and ith extortion. the son was released from prison. She In the latter part of July, 1897, Scatena | now sceks to repudiate her debt to Sca- overed th his bookkeeper, I a, had | tena and seeks to impugn his motives in watchman, who recovered the documents and returnied them the following day to Scatena. As the watchman entered the front door Buja went out the rear and fied. The police were notified and his pic- ture and description were sent all over the State with the result that he was ar- rested and lodged In the City Prison. While he was In fall, unable to secure bonds, the mother visited voluntarily offered to pay him would not prosecute her son 000 it he At first S0 persistent and became gone wrong. The young man learned that | the bargain. The mortgage feil due a his employer sected him, to pre- | short time ago and Scatena was forced vent an in igation of his accounts took | to commence foreclosure proceedings. his books one night and dumped them into His e bay. act was witnessed by a!son are his attorneys, \MIDWEEK NOTES AT THE THEATERS — ellyn, the soldier who murdered Police- Griffiths in Denver Au- ile he was in Seattle wait- f b nne to sail. Chief Hay e notified of the fact that Redmond was in prison and that ne marks of identitication were on him. The Chief replied that he would send on iz an officer and the necessary papers with-| Willle Colller and his company con- out delay. tinue to amuse large audiences at the : S + T | = - e : 2 % ICANSAS, CITY, ApHl A, James Red- | Columbia Theater with their clever pe 3 in her grocery store | formance in the farce “Mr. Smooth. mber 8, 1887. | These are the last nights of the engag of Dec ern’ part of the the | day night the Neill Company will 1t Ke Kan: City’s fa-|open in “A Bache Romance,” one of robber, who is_now doing | Sol Smith Russ ETeatest successes. nineteen years at Jefferson City for the | The Neill Company will produce a num- Macomb train robbery, brough. a wound- | ber of interesting and much is e: ed man to the Rose House shortly after | pe of which else the Schumaker shooting and that _the | where has been most successful. junded man, who is declared to be Red- [ ~ “Quo Vadis be continued next ond, stayed there several days. It was|week at the In the review of also Lelieved that Kennedy and Redmond | “Quo Vadis'™ peared in The Call had a hand in s murder and that Red- | on Tuesday morning Will H. Irwin w \d was the man who was wounded by | credhted, through inadvertence, with the Miss Schumaker. Kennedy was indicted | work of Edwin T. Emery, whose acting of for the murder, but has never been tried | Vinicius was intelligent and artistic. )i the indictment. Shortly after the mur- | ~“The Beggar Student” is the farewell der Redmond left the city and detectives | bill of the present Morosco Company at on his trail ever since he joined | the Grand. On April 15 the new extra ough Riders at Rock Springs, | ganza company will open in “An Arabian later went to Cuba. He was | Girl and Forty Thieves. at Montauk, after his | The Tivoli will abandon “Manila Bound" re from Cuba by a ms Kansas | on Monday night for “The Bohemian City w d the troops A de- | Girl.”” “The Wizard of the Nile” is in tective sent from Ka City to ar- | active preparation. rest him, but he got wind of the affair [ The bill at the Orpheum this week is ind made his escape. During the past [ not the strongest the management has vear nothing had been heard of him until | presented, but it is drawing crowded his arrest at Manila. hou: just the same. Next week’'s bill will be an exceptionally good one. The newcomers include Bobby Gaylor, the fa- Re-Open Sunday. y the ifornia Northwest- ern offic s will start the Ukiah on her regular runs to El Campo. This popular resort has been put in first | class condition, z mous dialect comedian; the Empire Quar- tet, a musical comedy combination; the De'Forrests, who call themselves ““Whirl- wind Dancers.” and Si Stebbins, the mon- ologue comedian and well-known sleight of hand performer. Next Sun. nd the is an abundance g, . 1 The third act of “Faust” is being pre- of shade, boating and ing. : s = 3 The dancing, bowling, etc.. will be as of | sented at Fischer's Concert House, to : : gether with instrumental and vocal se- ore, and refreshments can be had on the wrounds. The scheduled trips are an- nounced in the reguiar advertisement. —_—e——————— Fred Gray Discharged. The charge against Frederick Gray, in- dicted for having coin counterfeiting tools in his possession, was dismissed yesterday by United States District Judge de Haven lections, including songs by the beautiful Salvini. he Black Bartons head the list at the Olympia. On Sunday afternoon and evening next “The Brownies in Fairyland” will be pre- sented at the Grand Opera-house with the same cast and specialties as recently seen at_the California. Paderewski will give his final ,concert | on motion of Assistant United States At- | on"'S\TNqny night at the California The- torn Banning, who entered a nolle | gte,” "The programme, which has not yet prosequi. Gray had been tried three times | poen gecided upon, will be made up large- | and the jury had disagreed on each oc- | caslon, Iy of request numbers, An up-to-date hotel, The Bradbury. Every- thing first class. 1604 California st., cor. Polk. * PERSONAL MENTION. Hervey Lindley is at the Palace. John Filltus, a merchant of Redding, is at the Grand. L. M. Ludwig, a lawyer of Toledo, Ohio, is at the Palace. Garrison Turner, an attorney of Mo- desto, is at the Grand. W. H. Hatton, a legal light of Modesto, is staying at the Lick. Ex-State Senator E. C. Voorheis of Sut- ter Creek is at the Palace. George K. Rider, a business man of Sac- ramento, and his wife are at the Grand. George Myers, who has a corner on the cigar business at Fresno, is at the Lick. A. Brown, member of the State Board of Equalization, from Milton, is at the Lick. J. A. Robinson of Wales, well known in Fresno and Los Angeles districts, is at the Grand. ‘W. D. Blabon, a wealthy merchant of Philadelphia, is at the Palace, accom- panied by his family. z J. W. Barbour and D. R. Cameron, who are deeply Interested in the ofl wells about Hanford, are at the Lick. R. J. Kimball, a capitalist of New York, is at the Palace with his family. They are touring the coast for pleasure. W. H. Hollabird, a heavy dealer in real estate at Los Angeles, is at the Palace. He is on his way to Carson City on a busi- ness trip. J. C. Hampton, vice president and gen- eral manager of the Pacific Lumber Com- pany’s mills and raiiroads at Scotia, Hum- boldt County, is in town. Judge, W. F. Fitzgerald, former At- torney General, who is now on the Supe- rior bench at Los Angeles, is at the Occi- dental with his wife and daughter, W. F. O'Leary, a prominent business man of Healdsburg, is in town on busi- ness connected with the estate of his uncle, for which he is one of the exec- utol His deceased uncle was of the firm of Kane, O'Leary & Co., wholesale liquor dealers. Pierce's Favorite Prescription 15 Cents. NO MORE. NO LESS. And this price every day in the year. SEND FOR 100-PAGE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Paine’s Celery Compound. . ... . 75¢ Plerce's Prescription- . .......75¢ Plerce's Discovery...... ....75¢ Plakham's Compound. . . .. 15¢ Baker's Honduras Sarsaparllla. . 75¢ Hood's Sarsaparilla. . ...75¢ Ayer's Sarsaparilla. .........75¢ Scott's Emulsion, $1.00 slze. .. 75¢ Carfer's Halr Renewer........50¢ Garter's Lithia Tablets .......25¢ Valdier's Violet Ammonla. ... .25¢ Swamp Root. ... .40¢ ¥, Syrup of Figs. .. .350 Carter's Liver Pills.. 15¢ THE OWL DRUG CO. Cut-Rate Druggists, 1128 MARKET ST. BAN FRANCISCO. 10th and Broadway Oakland. | | —_— e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 4—J. Edel of San Francisco Is at the Savoy; W. W. Foote, the well-known San Francisco attorney, is at the Waldorf-Astoria. ———e——————— Corner Fourth and | CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON Market, 8. F. Try e FE H“Y AL our Special ‘Brew | WASHINGTON, April 4—H. J. Scott, Steam and Lager. | m..J. Scott and Charles J. Crocker of San 1 Valises checked ree, | Francisco are at the Shoreham. Scatena and | Scatena refused to accept anything, but | Charles Wesley Reed and Grove L. John- | nen 1 Miss Schu- | ment, which comes to a close on Sunday out & cl at | night, ‘"",“;‘“‘l‘”jbydd““j’r“ ;,;,i,';‘x"‘\g’; | \4‘;\.“»’:( Monday night W. H. West's s Schumaker drew a re- | 2 rel Jubilee will be the attraction. e of the robbers promptly shot | Carroll Johnson, Richard J. Jose, Fred | " he bullet passing through her body. | Warren, Waterbury Brothers and Tenny, 5 did not weaken her, for she imme- | the three Lu UHe thies Macvelles and ely disc d her weapon at the ma b 5 e robbess ran out: of the ;{‘)f_’r'n”:’mvo"l thie: cormpany £ b gt d jumped into a buggy which they | 8 uring the minstrel enga ed near and drove away. Miss | ment popular prices are to prevail, maker died a rew days afterward. | At the Cali “On The Suwanee ndy, an old negro living 1o the | River” continu the week. On M city, _tolc Copyright, 1900, XIII. DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY. | picetan | BY VIDA D. SCUDDER. “Divine Comedy” belc » of poems which may well be symbolic or allegor us how poems tions have ved of tory of man. The boc ! of these poems: in the renalssance, “Faerfe Queene” Is the great tative of the type. At the begin- ning of the modern era we meet Goethe's “Faust” and Shelley's “Prometheus U bound.” A little later, on a more Itmited scale, but of the same order, Carlyie's Sartor Resartus.” They have wonderful |interest, these poems, and curiously enough they reveal better than any real- Istic literature the true character and ideals of the ages that produced them The fourteenth century was the only period which the “Divine Comedy™ | could have been written. The poem comes right out of the heart of the middle a | but the middle ages old enough to become conscious, and, as so often hap- pens in literary history, galning power of The e just as they pass awa ilated passion and in: us eption was a great ba | field, I of spiritual glory | fought forever against the forces of sin and guile. Either conception is true. Life is s0 a battle; but a man the middle ages, which weré even more profoundly contemplative than militant, was more likely to use the symbol of the pllgrimage. Journey, it is al Into strange regions Dante's journey took him. The poem is full of picture story, presented with marvelous viv But this is because the middle an extraordinary gift for t o ating the was sent to be his guide. This was the poet Virgil, representative of the wisdom of the ancient world. It is a_heavenly one who s sent Virgil to Dante’s help; By , Dant. ¥ love, now a saint in pa Fearing, yet with an instant, | loving trust (which never fails him) in Virgil, his noble master and lord, Dante plunges into hell—into the murk of hell. Hell is within the earth. That is be- | | cause to Dante, as to all men of the mid- dle ages, med an evil thing which dre y from God. It does not fill the whole globe, it is only a coni- cal pit. down which he stumbles, guided y Virgil through the most varied and terrible landscape ever conceived by man. )w they press through a raging hurri- dane, on which wa souls are borne ever hither and thither; now across a lack marsh, whereln are plunged the souls of the wrathful and sullen, while beyond loom the mosque ty of fir now wander in a sini of tombs; Ik and speak: now over burn- eon fall slowly, ceaseless- of fire, and now they | river. the redness of which hudder—a river of blood press, ver downward, to of the earth. where bit- ter cold reigns forever, where Lucifer, the vil worm, is stuck, the central principle of evil, death-giving, impotent. All this hideous region Is full of agoniz- ing souls, whose place of abode, though it appears materfal, is but the expression of their evil minds. For behind the gro- tesque punishments which Dante devised | lies the inexorable fate of wicked charaec- | ter, nowhere else in Christian lite where tortured ing sands, w dilated flake little | make: | Down | the v d a_power. Some peop! if Dante were only | the poet of the “Inferno.” and they pic- | ture him as a gloomy, fearful person, se- | vere and even vindictive. This Is not at | all true. Hell was. Dante had to go Christ! Once must every man descend to lepths of hell: ¢ thou mot in life? In death there must thon dwell. Says an old German mystic. But Dante was thankful enough to escape, and, once out, his whole nature_expands with an exquisite tenderness. Nowhere in litera- ture is there so wonderful a sense of_ re- lief a pe as we feel when with Vi gil and Dante we emerge from the “blind world” into the sweet life-giving air and watch the trembling of the dawn over the ocean, from which rises toward heaven the Mount of Purgatory. Hell was only a very small part of Dante's universe. Just as large was purgatory, and its inhabi- tants continually were renewed. for the pilgrim throng which he and Virgil now join, mounting continually upward, re- joicing in tortures that purify and prom- ise, were constantly. their purification ac complished, upiifted into the supernal bliss of the overarching heaven. It is in the earthly paradise. once the Garden of Sden, on the top of this mighty moun- tain, that Dante’s long trial is at an end. Worthy of spiritual freedom, he is also | worthy at last to behold once more his | lady and his love—that Beatrice whom he | had early loved and early lost and | mourned through all his days. She comes to him, the light of heaven in her dear eves, and to heaven they uplift him. And vast indeed is heaven; vast as the grace of God. Hell is only a segment of one small globe. But Dante's heavens encir- cle this globe, sphere surrounding sphere, out into infinite space, all circled and bounded by the boundless love of God. If one is to believe in hell at ali—of | course many people to-day refuse to be- lieve In it—it is hard to see how one could construe its proportion in the universe with more optimism than Dante. Here, in heaven, move, harmoniously free, the | | | ment on the show by Seymour Eaton. GOLDEN AGES OF LITERATURE. iining, singing spirits whose earthly pil- image is ove in human form, man s through love- ment, and and mor and w mo e of true rom » the contem- And in the he reaches very conclusion of the § in a flash the end of his journey, the goal f his desires. It is the beatific vision, the ging of all devout souls in the middle ages, of all devout souls te Dante, who has beheld hell and climbed the weary steps of purgatory, gazes at ast, his spirlt unconsumed, upon the be- g of Geod. VIDA D. SCUDDER. Wellesley College. Selected Critical Studies. The most obvious quality of Dante is This gives a pecullar char- r to his sincer! o his intensity and hat wonderful faculty of vision for ch he is unique among the poets of the world. Dante’s genius is like a_wedge of steel— hard, rrow, fit for rending oaks. Smit- ith sledgehammer blows by his Ti- definiteness. act to energy it penetrates the toughest er and pler to the very core of things. The bre of his thought is less | remarkable th its depth. He goes straight to the essence of his subject, re- jecting accidents, despising ornament, and, having seized its truth, he grasps that with a grip of iron. Dante seems made to nullify the aphorism ‘“not deep the poet sees, but wide.” he is so deter- 1 to t and exact in subject, if need the utmost definite- in, can exceed the His words are like its upon a tree of silence His pictures ictest parsimony no medal-strik be deep in ght thing. of his | invisible into form and color. For in real- ¥ ¥ ever ity all the landscape is within the human | Wrought his outlines or his shad- spirit.” We are carried into hell, up the | 0Ws deeper. The s nt and essential purgatorfal height and thence into the | Points of an object are selected and made glories of farthest heaven; and yet all the | visible with such vividness t we dis- time have not left the himits of one | cern the whole. It would seem as if human, sinful, penitent, forgiven soul. | €ach line of Dante's poem, each simile, Hell fi Dante tells us how he was |€ach aphorism, had been wrung from him wandering, lost and beset by foes, in the | With pain and str imon wildered forest of life, when there met of all th orld poems un- him a stately figure, who told him that he ionably Dante's “Divina Commedia be justly cla 1 to se, for it possesse: em and admits of ve a spiritual losophic sys- al interpreta- tion. It is par the religious poem of the w religion, like philosophy, deals directly with a first prin- ciple of the universe, while, llke poetry, it clothes its universal ideas in the garb eclal events and situations, making | them types and symbols of the kind which may become allegories, Homer, 100, shows us the religion of the Greeks, but it is an art religion, having only the same aim as essential etry—to turn the natural into a symbol of the spir- ftual. Dante's theme is the Christian re- ligion, which goes beyond the problem of transfiguring ure and_deals with the far deeper problem of the salvation of man. For man, as the summit of nature, es nature at the same time that divine. ht into Th: man € ent necessity of ty of human ction incl int principle as Harris ssey” do not aracters modern. siand alone relation to na- ner gives . as seen by the poetic 2s or poet has all poets, us ind sharply , but in t ¢ stages of intei- sctual and me jpment, the first presentati at its con- scious entrance upon the path of progress, with simple motives, simple theories of existence, simple and limited experience. He is plain and direct in the presentation of life, in the substance no less than in the expression of his thought. In Shakespeare's work the individual man s no less ply defined, no less but the long procession of »uv different in effect and the ““Odys- true to nature, his personages is wh, from that of the sey.” They have lost the simplicity of the older race: they are products of & longer and more varied experience: they have become more complex. And Shakes- peare is plain and direct neither in the substance of his thought nor in the ex- pression o it. The world has grown old- er, and in the evolution of his nature man has become conscious of the irreconcilable paradoxes of life, and more or less aware that, while he is infinite in faculty, he is also the quintessence of dust. But there is one essential characteristic in which shakespeare and Homer resemble each other as poets—that tuey both show to us the scene of life without the Interference of their own personality. Each simply holds_the mirror up to nature and lets us see the reflection without making com- If there be a lesson in it we must learn it for ourselves. Dante comes between the two. and aif- fers more widely from each of them than they from one another. They are primar- ily poets. He is primarily a moralist who is also a poet. Of Homer the man and of Shakespeare the man we know and need to know nothing; it is only with them as poets that we are concerned. But it is needful to know Dante as man in order fully to appreciate him as poet. He gives us his world, not as reflection from an unconscious and indifferent mirror, but as from a mirror that shapes and orders its reflections for a definite end beyond that of art and extraneous to it. And in this lles the secret of Dante’s hold upon se many and so various minds. He Is the chief poet of man as a moral being.—C. E. Norton. “Homer, Dante and Note—A paper on roa gt - will Milton,” by Miss Vida D. Scudder, be published next Wednesday. DEFECTIVE BURNERS COST A GIRL'S LIFE Mamie Sullivan Asphyxiated in Her Bed by Gas From a Loose Fixture. Mamie Sullivan, a_domestic, 21 years old, was asphyxiated Tuesday night in her room at the residence of her employer. | H. H. Brann, 51 Cumberland street. ~ At § o'clock yesterday morning, her usual | hour for arising, gas was found to be es- caping from her room, and when the door was forced she was found dead. 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