The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THE ONLY SPECIFIC FOR KIDNEY OR 5 LIVER DISEASES. AMUSEMENTS. 1 CALIFORNIA THEATER. | SALE COMMENCES T0-DAY!| THE GREATEST MUSICAL EYENT OF | THEM ALL! THE TWO GREAT RUSSIANS IN JOINT RECITALS. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY A¥- TERNOONS, NEXT. PETSCHNIKOFF, The Poet of the Violin | HAMBOURG, The Biegfried of the Plano. AIME LACHAUME, tnguished Pianist and Composer. oreh will assist at the nday concert. Reserved seats, 50c, $1 $150, 8. THIS AFTERNOON FIRST OF THE THURS-| DAY MATINEES. | AND EVERY EVENING THIS WEEK AND EATURDAY MATINEE | MR. JAMES NEILL | AND COMPANY, AT 2:15. In their unprecedented hit of Sol Emith Rus- | seil's greatest comedy success, | A BACHELOR'S ROMANCE. ted. Children under seven not af VELY NO ADVANCE IN THE PRICES. POS. COLUMBIA 5= | Svery Night day—Matines Sat. | LL THIS AND NEXT WEEK, GREEEST ‘m: B Wests mfi;; SUCCESS g:'!hnstrpl | luding A CISCO. CES—25¢, 35¢, 50 AL PRI A Comedy | Bill of Unsur- passed Excellence. LAST WEEK OF == Reserved Beats, 23%0; Baloony, 10c; Opera | Taire and Box Seats, 5o ees Wednesday. Saturday and Sunday. *TIVOLI» ARTIETIC PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL GEM Balfe's Beautiful 1ad Opers, T2 BOHEMIAN GIRL VERY EVENING. MATINEE SATURDAY. SPECIAL!I—NEXT WEEK~SPECIAL!! Frank Daniels’ Great Comic Opera, ‘THE WIZARD OF THE NILE" Popular Prices - - 25¢ and 50c. t[—’ th"",,’,u?h lfl FSEEAR EVERY NIGHT INCLUDING SUNDAY.— Matinee Saturday and Sunday, THEATER ALWAYS CROWDED. 1 FAD OF THE HOUR. “QUO VADISY / / PR SEATS SIX DAYS IN ADVANCE. PRICES—15¢, 25¢, 35¢, 50¢. | CAPE NOME MACHINERY and SUPPLIES. SAND CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS: KROG“ & Drake Amalgamators, operat- ing dally; 1 30-Hp. gasoline en- ine cheap. § Stevenson, 8. ¥. SAND CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS in Overation Daily, 625 Sixth Street BYRON JACKSON. CAPE NOME ENGINES. FOUR more of those small, light-weight Nome engines have arrived from East; call soon. Rix Engineering and Supply Co., 519 Howard. DREDGING PUMPS. Ofl, Gasoline, Steam Hoists, Centrifugal Pumps. Engices&Botiers. HendyMach. Wks.,40 Fremont. EXPERIMENTAL MACHINERY & MODELS. L. PETERSON, 54A Mission, 8. F.; communl- cations from inventors strictly confidential. MARSH STEAM PUMPS €upply fresh or salt water for slulce boxes: wigh or low lifts. Simonds, %3 Market st. GOL"» SEPARATOR. Cyclone Gold Beparator and Amalgamator in @ally operation, Wm. H. Birch & Co., 133 ist. | SCHOOL BOARD THKES CONTROL OF JANITORS Demands of Superintendent Webster Finally Com- plied With. Sl Investigation of a Teacher Illegally Granted a Certificate—Unsani- tary Condition of Emerson Primary School. Pl The Board of Education yesterday re- vith Superintendent Webster regarding | cally reassuming control over them. Reso- lutions were adopted whereby the action of the Board of Public Works in recently dismissing thirteen janitors and appoint- ing others to take their places was af- firmed. Six other janitors were trans- ferred and the resignations of two were accepted, action on them having likewise been taken by the Board of Works. In this way Superintendent Webster’s objec- tions to signing the janitors’ demands, be- cause the State law provides that the School Board bas absolute control over its employes, have been satisfled, and as soon as he receives officlal communica- tion that the board has by resolution re- appointed the janitors originally selected by the Board of Works he will sign their salary demands. The board decided to take under advise- | ment the following report of Superintend- | ent ‘Webster in the case of a teacher who | was granted an illegal renewal of her cer- tificate after it had expired: 1532 a special certificate to teach French in public schools of this city and county issued to Mre E. C. Gifford upon an ex- 4 cutifieats originally ismshd to ber | w | pire of this State may be complied with. | extended until August 5. 1900, Inspector of Buildings Wellin was di- GOLD SEPARATOR. MARSHALL Gold Saving Machine. 229 Fol- som street. Oriental Gas Engine Company. MATTESON’S SLUICE WASHER. Long tom, riffies and carpet combined saves placer zold. VAN WINKLE, 413 Market st. GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS Outfits packed. IRVINE BROS.. 510 Howard, %6 Fourth, 1302 Polk and 1441 Stockton, S. F. LIQUORS. WHISKEY SAHEN & sox, 418 Sacramento. OILS. - LUBRICATING Ofi, Crude Ofi and Gasolt ENSIGN & McGUFFICK, 21 Spear 5. F. PLATES FOR SAVING GOLD. Schaerlein & Burridge, 3 Hardle Hearny. between Sutter and Bush streets. ¥ %. BELL, Central Plating ‘Works, 853 Mis- sion st., B. Phone Jessie 301 ROCKERS. ROCKERS Euia-Hula Rocker: Centrifural Eand Pumps: Machinery. PARKE & LACY CO.. 21 Fremont st. PORTABLE HOUSES. BURNHA ANDEFORD CO., Washington and 1st sts., Oakiand, or Buildersy Ex., S. ¥. GASOLINE ENGINES, CULES GAS RKS is filling y orders f First st., §. F. ENGINES, BOILERS, ETC. BAKER & HAMILTON, Engines and Boflers: lowest prices on the coast. Pine & Davis sts. FURS. HER ms FUR COATS AND ROBES FOR CAPE NOME. | ALBERT HOEFLICH, 116 TENTS AND COVERS. NEVILLE & CO.. manufacturers, bags, tents, covers. 21 and 3 California st. AMUSEMENTS. OPERA HOUSE GRAND DOUBLE BILL. For the remainder of the week. THE BEST MEMBERS OF THE CALIFORNIA MINSTRELS. And by popular demand Richard Walton Tully's Screaming Faroe, ' *“JamesWobberts, 1. $.S. Boston,” SUNDAY EVENING NEXT, OUR NEW YORK EXTRAVA PANY In ““AN ARABIAN GIRL.” USUAL POPULAR PRICES, reserved seat in orchestra at all matinees, April 15, &aNZA ‘Com- Good e, Branch Ticket Office Emporfum. SCHER’ CONCERT HOUSE 122-124 O'FARRELL ST. E. A. FISCHER Prop GEORGE MOOS! ager The Handsomest Music Hall in America The Best Orchestra in the City. OUR TIME TABLE: NEW BILL TO-NIGHT. $:00-AUGUST HINRICHS' SUPERB OR- CH. TRA. £:20-SIGNORINA PUERERL £:35-SENORITA ’:;ALVINL IT! A POLLETTINI A BARDUCCL JET—VARGAS-SALVINL 10:24—BABY RUTH. 11:00 to 11:45—"CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA.” 10c——ADMISSION—10c Cor. Market CENTRAL PARK, 36 s TWO WEEKS, Beginning Saturday, April 14th, GENTR Y B Trained Animal Show! Larger and_Grander than Ever. Twice its former size. Three Hundred Elephants, Ponles, | Monkeys and Dogs. Giving positively the most unique and novel exhibition ever witnessed under canvas Representing the highest pos- development of animal ¢ntelligence. 75— WONDERFUL ACTS—7. More startling and difficult than ever performed by their human prototypes In the sawdust arena. of the fashionables and an instructive show for old end youns. A most moral and refined enter- tainment. The cleanest and best dressed ex- hibition on tour. Admission—Children, 10c; Adults, 25e. moon, $:30 night. See G each Aay Khow rain or shine. » de at noon CHUTES a0 Z0O EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING, SPECIAL TO-NIGHT! The Amateurs The H_ar;;iicap Cakewalk Contest Saturday Night. Seais by Telephone—Park 23, | WESTERN TURF ASSOCIATION. TANFORAN PARK. EIXTH MEETING, April 9 to 20, inclusive. % -clase running ras evy rain or shine, beginning at o America. The ideal winter racetrack of Pa- trons step directly from the railroad cars into a superb grand stand, glass-inclosed, where, comfortably housed in bad weather, ‘tney can enjoy an unobstructed view of the races, Trains leave Third and Townsend streets at 10:00, 10:40 and 11:30 & m. and 12:15, 12:85, 12:60 nd '1:35 p. m.. Teturning immediately = after Jast race at 4:45 D. m. Seats In rear cars re- served for women and their escorts. No smok- ing. Valencia street. 10 minutes later n San 4:00 Jose and Way Stations—Arrive Bruno at 12:45 p. ve San Bruno at and 4:45 m. RAT) n turn, including ¥. H. GREEN. Francieco to Tanforan and re- .admission to track, $1.25. . MARTIN, President. Becretary and Manager. STUBENTS' LECTURE COURSE. FOURTH LECTURE APRIL 12th, 8 P. M. Y. M. C. A. AUDITORIUM. FROF. ALFRED EMERSON. *“The American Excavation at Corinth ” (llustrated_with Stercopticon). ADMISSION, | 8 cemts. Tickets at Eider & Shephard’s, L FAMILY RESORT—EL CAMPO. . SUNDAY. Forty-five minutes’ ride on_the in Py {Roent. steamer. Ukiah, - Dancie bowling, Ashing, boating, plenty of shade. o5 freshments, etc. Good order will be maintained. Aduits, 25 cents for the round trip, including admission to the grounds. Children between 5 and nn‘nofmlicenu. buron ferry, fogt of Market street, Leave 3030 a. m., 1 and 4 p. m Leave El Campo U6 e m, $endbp m. S Performance at 3 o'clock after- | hi rand rected to investigate the report of the | Health Board regarding the unsanitar; | condition of the Emerson Primary School. The teachers of French were excused | from attendance on April 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 | and 28 in order to permit them to attend | lectures by Professor de Regnier at the | University of California. | The sum of $10 was allowed monthl; | ohysical training of the girls in the | technic High School. [commencm. MUSEUM COMMITTEE'S REPORT ] | | Those Appointed to Canvass for Sub- scriptions and Members Meet- ing With Success. A meeting of the executive committee | of the Pacific Commercial Museum was | held yesterday afternoon in the new head- | quarters of the committee in the Mills | building. The chairmen of the various icommulees to be appointed to canvass the city for subscriptions and members for oly- filed their reports, which show the fol- | | lowing committees: | Committes for coal dealers—Charles R. Allen, | chairman; P. B. Cornwall, Henry Rosenteld, R. | D. Chandler, J. A. 8. Lowe, George Fritch, H. nderson, Willlam H. Fisher, John L. W. J, Barnett, James B, Smith. imittes for furniture dealers — George r, chairman; N. P. Cole, M. Plum, n Page, Wallace Bradford. ee for crockery dealers—F. W. Dohr- irman; B. Schioss, Maurice Block, canners—A. G. Freeman, ittee for ; Henry Fortmann, 8. ng. | amittes for grocers—Willlam Haas, chair- | man, Fred Tillmann, Gus Wormser. |~ Committes for wholesale liguor dealers—Mor- ris Meyerfeld, chairman; C. W. Craig, Thomas | Kirkpatrick, Joseph Loewe, F. C. Slebe, Wil- ilihm Woltt,” Willlam Alfs. Committée, for wine producers—P. C. Rossi, chairman; C. Bundschu, C. Schilling. Committes on teas, coffees and spices—A. Echilling, chairman; James Otis, George A. Moore, C. B. Bickford, E. R. Folger. Committee for gas fixtures—Frank Symmes, chairman: A. Rudgear, F. W. Farrar. Committes for hardware dealers—A. A. Wat- kins, chalrman; Willlam R. Wheeler, A. C. | Rulofson, Joseph Eloss. Iseac Upham, chairman of the commit- tee for books and stationers, reported that he had canvassed the stationers himself for the subscriptions, instead of appoint- ing & committee, and that they had all subscribed. Isidor Zellerbach, chalrman of the com- mittee on wholesale paper houses, met with equal success. —————— From 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. To-morrow (Friday) we will sell 900 pairs ladies’ fine kid ties for 70c a palr, worth $2 50. ““The Standard,” 1029 Market street, | between Sixth and Seventh. . | JUDGE JAMES BLAMED FOR STRANGE RULING Irregularities Charged Against Him in Regard to Chinese Depor- tation Cases. Bert Schiesinger of the law firm of Den- son & Schlesinger flled yesterday his | brief in“the habeas corpus application of | See Ho How, allas How Tim. The briet relles In great part upon the decision of the Federal court In the matter of Jew Sing. In that case Jew Sing had received a residence certificate, but had gone to Mex- ico and returned. In its decision the court says: Certificates {ssued under the act of May 6, 1892, have meaning and value. They are evi- dence of the right of the holder to remain for Easter | W. M. SMITH, Agent Conducted under the American and Euro- pean plans, and in a manner that will sat- isfy the most exacting and particular taste, 1400 rooms—goo with baths. Weekiy Call $1.00 per Year |&eded from its position in its controversy | | the payment of school janitors by practi- | | _Investigation has revealed the fact that in | 1875. s act was lllegal. It becomes my duty to notify the board of the foregoing facts in order that section 1701 of the Political Code | | Walter 8. Brann's leaves?)s absence was M. Smith, Jay | in the country. The right thus conferred fs & valuable one, to be taken away by the courts only upon clear proof that the holder has committed some act which would deprive him of the privilege of remaining in the United tates. The certificate makes out a vrima facle case in behalf of the right to remain. To overcome the presumption arising from the possession of the certificate the testimony should be clear | and convincing, and until the Government has made out such'a case the holder of the certi- | ficate 1s not required to make further proof. In the case now before Judge de Haven it is conceded that See Ho How has a | yalid certificate, that he has resided in | Ean Jose for nearly twenty years and that he has not left the United States during | that period. The action of United States Commissioner James in this matter is un- favorably commented upon by United States District Attorney Coombs, Assist- ant District Attorney Banning, Internal Revenue Agent Burt Thomas and many | other Federal officlals. The District At- | torney says that he was not notified of the arrest of the Chinaman, and that he learned of it by accident. It was the duty of the Commissioner to notify the Unitea States Attorney. The complaint was made by W. A. Soto, not & Government | official, ‘and Mr. Soto could not be found either here or in San Jose when Mr. Ban- ning desired him as a witness. He was | informed that Soto was a laboring man, | who spent all his leisure time in hanging | around a cigar store and plaging cange | Mr. Banning says further that it is not | customary for ‘Commissioners to fssue warrants in_such cases upon complaints mude persons not Federal officers. | —_— | New Steamer Robefi Dollar | Has Her Trial Trip~— on the Bay. PRSI S | Goes From Here to Puget Sound, ‘Where She Will Be Fitted Out for the Cape Nome Trade. | —_— | Another fine steamer was added to the Cape Nome fleet vesterday. The Robert Dollar had her initial trial trip on the bay and proved herself to be a fast and speedy vessel. Over the measured mile she exceeded eleven knots an hour, and | as soon as her machinery is in perfect | working order 1t is expected she will make tully twelve knots an hour. | _The Robert Dollar was built at Grays | Harbor and engined in San Francisco. She | 1s 208 feet long, 38 feet beam and 15 feet | deep. She was towed here from Grays | Harbor, and brought down the largest load of lumber that ever passed out over | the Grays Harbor bar. She was fitted | here with triple expansion engines and Babcock & Wilcox boilers, and 18 now | classed as Al in every respect. | The Dollar was to have had her official | trial mP yesterday, but the officials from | the engine shop were not ready, so Robert { Dollar, the managing owner, gave his friends and invited guests a 'trip around the bay. The Robert Dollar will leave hers for Seattle on Saturday. On her arrival in the Sound she will be built up and passenger accommodations provided for gold hunters. After the rush to Nome is over 2 ‘lhe ‘will come back to San Francisco and g0 into the coasting trade. Two More New Steamers. | The steamer W. H. Kruger, built for the Truckee Lumber Company, also had her trial trip on the bay vesterday. She will carry 430,000 feet of lumber and will run between here and Tillamook. The steamer Nome City, bullt at Bu- reka, left that place In"tow of the tug Rescue for San Francisco yesterday. On her arrival here she will be engined and put in the Cape Nome trade, Harbor Commissioners Meet. The contract for repairing slip No. 4 was let by the Harbor Commissioners yester- day to James McMahon for $1344 75. The contract for the repaving of the spaces at the north and south ends of the ferry de- pot was let to the City Street Improve- ment Company at 7% cents per square foot, while the cesspools are to cost $24 75 each. Newson cNell wrote to the board complaining that they had been de- layed in thelr job at the north end of the ferry by the State officials, and that ow- ing to the advance in carpenters’ wages they were out of pocket $240. They asked the board to repay them that amount. A similar_ complaint was recelved from James McMahon in regard to his work at Spear street. He asked for $15 damages. Both requests will be acted upon when the contracts are completed. The bark Martha Dayis arrived from Hilo vesterday and was placed in quaran- tine. Japs Ordered Deported. The Immigration Bureau's Speclal Board of Inquiry yesterday reported to Commissioner North In favor of debarring | from admission to this port thirty-threo of the Japanese who arrived on the Bel- glan King. The board was of the opinion that the fmmlsrams were contract labor- ers, and Commissioner North ordered them deported to the country whence they came. They will take an appeal to Com- missioner Powderly. Ask for Allen’s Foot-ease. A powder to shake into your shoes. It rests the feet and makes walking easy. Cures Corns and Bunions, Swollen, Callous and Sweating feet. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, %c. Ask to-day. Sample FREE. Address, Allen S. Olm- sted, Le Roy, N. Y. ——————————— ‘Wells for Mayor. PORTLAND, April 11.—-The Democrats to-day nominated Dr. George M. Wells for Mayor. —-—sl,bo a pair 200 Post Street VERY LATEST Straight Fron Hand-Made t' JC SAPPHIRE RN CORSETS $3.000 $15.00 PER PAIR. o 10 Geary St., " CORNER KEARNY. CHESTER F. WRIGHT, Royal Worcester ' Cor- tting Parlors. THURSDAY, | APRIL 12, 1900 NEW METHODS INSCHOOL AFARS T0 BE OPPOSED State Educational Commis- sion Will Convene This Morning. - Plan to Grant High School Certifi- cates Without Examination Is in Disfavor—Other Topics Up for Discussion. FLIRET | | | i The State Educational Commission will convene this morning at 10 o'clock in the | assembly room of the Board of Education. | It was appointed by State Superintendent of Schools Kirk, President Wheeler of the University of California and President Jordan of Stanford, and is composed of a | score of prominent educators of the State. The object of the gathering Is to discuss educational toplcs and changes in legisla- tion connected with school affairs. Among the subjects which will be| brought up for discussion are the follow- | Ing: First—That high school certificates | be granted without examination and on presentation of proper credentials from accredited institutions. SBecond—That the State Superintendent of Public Schools be | selected by a committee of prominent ed- ucators instead of being elected, as at p%:;gltaanbla opposition will devel against both propositions. © The doing | Awax with examinations for high school | teachers, it is held by the opponents of | the plan, will result In the selection of | teachers from the University of California | only, which is alone recognized by the | statute. Two years devoted to the study | otflredagogy in that institution will be | sufficient for high school certificate re- quirements if the new plan is put in op- eration. To place the selection of the State Su- perintendent in the hands of a committee, It is argued, will cause even a worse sys- tem of politics than ever and is objection- | able on xhlt(fround. | Superintendent T. J. Kirk is chairman of the committee. The other members ars Superintendent J. W. McCiymonds of Oakland, Professor E. P. Cubberiey of Stanford, Superintendent J. W. Linscott of Banta Cruz, R. M. Shackelford of Paso Robles, Superintendent Robert Furlong of San Rafael, Professor E. E. Brown of Berkeley and G. W. Beattie of Berkeley. The programme of subjects as prepared | by the committee is as follows: Certifica- tion of teachers, time for selecting school trustees and elécting teachers, governing Board of State Normal Schools and re- quirements for admission, concentration and consolidation of county school dis- | tricts and the transportation of pupils. | STUDENT PLAY WILL i CONTINUE ALL WEEK| | Proceeds to Assist U. O. Track Team | to Make Expected Trip to l the East. “James Wobberts,” the student play at | the Grand Opera-house, has . taken the popular fancy, and as a consequence the University of California management has | decided to continue it throughout the week. The minstrel performance, which wt"hm hold the boards for the remainder | of the week, will not be entirely su; - numbers by glee, banjo and mandolin | clubs will be presented in the first part of the evening, and the curtain will go up on “James Wobberts” after an hour of musical entertainment. ‘“James Wob- berts' was originally presented with a | curtain-raiser. The musical entertainment | will take the place of this, making the total length of the show about three | hours. The innatestrengthand humor of “James Wobberts'” has more than made up for the lack of reputation of playwright and com- pany. The audlences have been larger and more appreciative each succeeding night. In a somewhat revised version | “James Wobberts” has been copyrighted, and it will be put upon the m&’ within a month under the name of “A Perfect | Devil.” The venture has secured good | financial backing and the “Perfect Devil” | company will tour the coast. The com- pany will include some of the student am- ateurs, but professionals will be engaged | for the leading characters. | The remaining performances of univer- | sity week are a benefit to the fund for the | Eastern trip of the California track team. The San Francisco High Schoois, which | annually send large delegations to the | State University, have put their shoulders to the wheel, and the matinee Saturday afternoon will be held under their aus- pices. The double bill begins to-night and continues until Sunday, HONEYMOON SPENT IN THE CITY PRISON | } | Mrs. Margaret Kane Determined to Keep the Money of L. H. THE AUTHOR OF DON QUIXOTE. Copyright, 1900, by Seymcur Eaton. XV. CERVANTES AND THE GOLD- | loved him EN AGE OF SPANISH LIT- ERATURE. BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, LL. D. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born at Alcala de Henares in the year 1547. He | dled In the same year as Shakespeare— | D! 1616. He appeared at a fortunate time; the Spaniards—the Spanish literature was much more influenced by the tastes and prejudices of the people than by the rigid | rules of an aristocratic group—were weary of the constant Imitation of Italian models. There had even been one or two | who had dared to disregard the classical axioms of Aristotle’s “Poetics™ and to in- sist that a literature should not only ex- press personality and nationality, but that it should discard a foreign mold. In one sense both Cervantes and Lope de Vega (1562-1635) found the ground prepared for them. It was fertilized by the debris of many works. And the three greatest names of the golden age of Spanish liter- ature—Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Cal- deron (1600-1681)—blazed out, not from darkness, but from the lesser glow of many inferior lights. Dnnte, as Rossettl points out in his remarkable book, ‘‘Dante and His Bride,” was one of a group, and his predecessors made the way for him; so Cervantes was not the first to cast | aside that slavish imitation of Italian modeis which had so long hurt the vitality of Spanish literature. A stuuy of the his- tory of Spanishfliterature will show that it owes little to kings. It was as much a reflection of the national spirit as the lit- eraturé of the Elizabethans was of na- tional tendencies and aspirations. Kings repressed, and the inquisition itself—which the state controlled—fought against the secular spirit of the drama, which the Epaniards loved with all their hearts. Against the love of this proud, passionate, religlious and patriotic people for lterary | and dramatic expression the opposition of kings and of the inquisition was vain. There was never any antagonism between religion and the Spanish literary expres- sion; there was an antagonism at times between state ecclesiasticism and the de- termination of the people not to submit literary expression to too rigid a censor- ship. L%p@ de Rueda had written dramas In the Castilian speech, and these, in a the- ater quite as rough as the town hall at Stratford-on-Avon of Shakespeare's boy- hood, Cervantes had seen at Madrid. was to this city that he had been sent by his parents, who were poor and ambitious, to pick up such learning as he could. He studied Ovid and Virgil, of course, and his preceptor, Juan Lopez, who wrote verses It | “According t own test mony,” Herr Bouterwek “he wrote on an average five sheets a day; it has therefore been computed that the number of sheets which he composed during his life must have amounted to 133,2% and that allowing for the deduction of a small portlon of prose, Lope de Vega must have written upward of 21,39,000 verses.” His s were so great that he n. He gaye away money but to the end of his life h lux sly i E nish dram: it generously, could have liv He did not cre . 3 would a. but ish must not be satirical play of man riage or several marriages at was a play of intricate plot, adventure, puzzling Intrigue might be sad, gay, w touch of satire, historical, heroic ht even be a bur- lesque. In fact, it might cover as many ualities as our own now does. It was ivided into the sacred and temporal drama—divine and buman comedies; the temporal comedies were called “heroic” or “of the cloak and sword” (capa y es- pada). The latter answered to our mod- ern idea of the comedy of manners, though there was no limit to the int cacy of the plot or the number of adven- tures. Lope wrote over 2000 original plays, including the dramatized lives of the saints and the sacramental acts (Autos Sacramentales), which were a species by themselves. Against thls dramatic prod- igy, Cervantes entered the lists. He falled. Of the thirty plays he wrote in competition with Lope only his tragical play of “Numantia™ and “Life in Alglers™ are remembered. He began, after his marriage, his series of “Instructive Novels” (N as Exem- plares), of which good translations may be found in the Bohn library, and these were well received. Imprisoned at La Mancha, owing to some difficulty not re- flecting In any way on his honor, he be- gan his celebrated novel of “Don Quix- ote.” It appeared in I The Spanish writers preceding Cervantes had moments of sublime inspiration hey knew how to sing it. “The Cid. pe de Vega, gave a new world of delig E and furnished all Europe for plays. Calderon is al w the e thought lifetime, the result of th observation of a mature mind. Serious, vet humorous, replete with Spanish feel- ing, yet so sympathetic wit universal life that it has been put among the four “king books” In all the western civilized countries. There is no finer tleman in all the world of great fiction than the knight of La Mancha, who was not mad, but filled with one idea. It is a mistake to imagine that Cervantes wrote “Don Quixote” with the side intention of laugh- ing the foolish and exaggerated books of chivalry out of the good graces of the Spanish people, or to believe that it is a comic burlesque of life in Spain in the seventeenth century. These false impres- [ aaasas s as b oo e oo e e aa e o s e el * L4 © - * 4 ) | - L4 * . . @ L 2 . . P & . B & > . . ® > . . & > . B L4 L 4 - B L4 @ . * L * . % : * ¢ rY + B ® @ + B @ L 2 B . L4 L 4 - * ° * . * % o . . and romances that were neither verse nor Jewell, the Miner. Elmer Kane and his bride Margaret | appeared in Judge Cabaniss’ court yester- | day, when the bride was charged with | bringing stolen property in the shape of | $3800 into this State from Dawson City. ' She was represented by Attorney George A. Knight, who asked that the bonds of $7000 be reduced. He stated that the woman was a gll’tnel‘ of the complaining witness, L. H. Jewell, and was entitled to | the money. The case was continued till to-morrow. A warrant was sworn out by Jewell for ! Kane's arrest on the charge of receiving stolen money, and he was booked on the charge. His wife gave him the key of the safe deposit vault where the money was placed to take §00 to pay the attor- | ney’s fee. Detective T. B. Gibson found this out and arrested Kane with the | money in his possession. —_——— | BERGEN ARRAIGNED IN THE FEDERAL COURTS Superintendent Teach of the Mint Thanks Chief Sullivan for Ef- fecting the Arrest. Benjamin Bergen, weigher at the Mint, who was arrested for stealing gold bul- lion, was brought before United States Commissioner Heacock yesterday morn- | ing ard ldentified as being the person | named in the warrant. Bail was fixed at | $2000, and April 19 at 2 p. m. was set as | the date of the preliminary examination. | Superintendent Leach of the Mint called | upon Chiet Sullivan yesterday morning | and thanked him for effecting Bergen's | capture through Detectives yan and | o' hich he had already reported to He had given due credit to ce Department in his report, | which was the more praiseworthy, as he had had private detectives on {lie case | for some time without any result. PHEEEPEEEEEE 4+ 4 444440 Do mnot miss The Call’s Easter number—out April 15. In addition to interesting and timely articles appropriate for the joyous closing of the Lent- en season, there will be some full-page halftone productions of specially chosen subjects by leading artists of America. You will want these for deco- i rative posters. Gttt + 4444444444444 44440 German Women Turners. The Ladles’ Auxiliary of u.> Eintracht Turnschwestern held a meeting on Tues- day at Eintracht Hall, 237 Twelfth street, | and elected the following officers: Presi- dent, Miss Lottie Heinicke; vice president, Miss Emily Miller; secretary, Miss Bertha | Bredlow; treasurer, Miss Lena Egeberg. After the installation of officers an enter- tainment and banquet were given, fol- lowed by dancing. e e e e e 4444444444444+ prose, encouraged his taste for the litera- ture of the imagination. At 22 he had no profession and no income. He wrote the astoral romance “Filena.” Life and the activities of life delighted him. He start- ed off, after the manner of his time, for the “‘wander year,” which was to prove a “wonder year”’ of great length for him. People were kind to poor traveling stu- dents In those days. “If you give to learn- ing,” as the Spanish proverb says, “you give to God.” Earller St. Francis 4 Assisi made his monks not tread on a piece of | written paper, for, as it was the work of a learned man, it might contain the name of God; and even if the learned man who wrote it were a pagan, it might hold the letters that make up the name of Until he reached Italy Cervantes was treated by high and low—particularly by the low— as one of those learned human letters that might one day add to the | lory of God. Cardinal Acquarria | reater Ee(’ame is patron at Rome. Shortiy after this he drORped the pen and took up the sword. The Turks were threatenin Europe and the African corsairs force Spain to be on guard. In 1572 occurred the battle of Lepanto, in which Don Juan of Austria saved Christendom and in which Cervantes lost part of an arm. An Algerine pirate seized him on his way home. For eight years he was a slave, and it is assumed that his picturesque ro- mance, “The Captives,” is founded on his exile in Africa. After 1381, when he was ransomed, he wrote ‘“‘Galatea,” an idy astoral romance, almost as sweet as “As ‘ou Like It"” and quite as moral. It had a great success. Lope de Vega. the inde- fatigable dramatist, came Into high favor, though Philip II ke‘)t the gloomy eye of intolerance on all things. And Cervantes, impressed with his own power as a play- wright, entered the lists against him. This Lope Felix de Vega Carplo was a native of Madrid. He had been left while young an orphan without means, but he was of good blood. His education was un- finished. Don Geronymo Manrique, the Bishop of Avila and grand Inqul:é‘pr. sent him to Avila to complete his ucation. At this university he obtained his bacca- laureate degree. He was for a time secre- tary to the Duke of Alva. He married, fought a duel, almost killed his o¥ponent and when he was allowed to return to Madrid his wife died. Full of national pride, inflamed by the tregtment of Cath- erine of Aragon by the father of Eliza- beth, and anxious to avenge that insult to the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, he joined the Spanish armada. He reached Spain after the wreck of Spain's hopes and married again. After a period of at happiness his second wife dled. He g::une a erest and devoted himself en- tirely to the composition of poetry. dramas caught the taste of the people. They adored him; he could not walk in the streets of Madrid without being surrounded by crowds of admirers. Pope Urban_ VIII made him a doctor of theology and a Ki t of ta: honors of all sorts were showered upon him. gers of theaters fought for his pieces while he was writing them. They could hardly wait until the sheets were dry. He was not of the classical school: hg.vu as romantic and untrammeled as Shakespeare; and Racine, Corneille, or that most stringent of crities, Voitaire, could have no sympathy with him. The people said. he said; it was his business to please the ple. He was always poetic, no matier how hastily he_ wrote, and for this reason the poetic Spanish sions are due to the hasty opinions of critics and to the manner in which this superb masterplece—a flower of national life—has been translated. The amusing romances of roguery in Sormes are utterly unlike The comic episodes are b air of grandiloquence which gives a flavor to them so guaint and humorous that it is as impossible to transiate them as it is to put Mark Twain's “Huckleberry Finn or “David Harum » French. Never- theless “Don Quixot is delightful, even It E when inadequately translated much a novel of character as comes” is a novel of charact No ¢ vated Spaniard could give high place to the preceding light romantic etches after he had read this chief work of the golden age of Spain. His satire against pretended poets, “The Voyage of Parnas- sus,” ranks next to “Don Quixote”; it is a beautiful poem, but it is, like Tennyson's “Princess,’ at times both serious and ironical, and there are passages in which the author does not seem to know whether he means to be serious or iront Of his many plays, he mentions especially these “The Captives of Algiers,” “‘Numantia” and “The Naval Engagement “1 made an attempt to reduce the comedies of four acts to three; I was the first to repre- sent the phantoms of the imagination and the hiddea thoughts of the soul by intro- ducing figures of them upon the stage; 1 composed during this period from twenty to thirty dramas, all of which were represented without a single cucum- ber or orange, or any other missile usually aimed at bad comedians, being thrown at the actors.” In the succeeding time of Calderon, the reatest of all Spanish poets, the theater ecame as luxurious in its apparatus as in our day. Calderon followed the exam- ple of Cervantes and introduced abstract qualities in human guise into his “autos.” In “The True God Pan.” “The Vineyard of the Lord.” “The Enchantments of Sin,” “The Brazen Serpent” and dozens of others, sin, taste, touch, smell are per- sonified, as Shakespeare personifies Hy- men at the end of “As You Like It.” Of Calderon’s many plays, “The Won- derful Magician™ is the best known. Shel- iey transiated fine passages, Edward Fitz Gerald and Denis Florence MacCarthy have likewise translated it. ‘“The Devo- tion of the Cross is so terrible and gloomy and vet so exalted a drama that it has excited the censure of Sismondi and other critics. who Insist that it and “The Physiclan of His Own Honor” are unfit for presentation—as unfit, some of the English eritics sayv. as the “Cenel™ of Shelley. But these dramas are great works of literature, and no reader who aims for culture can afford to neglect them. With them the golden age of Spanish literaturs reached its height. The ‘“autos”—thas ll?lendldly mounted _religios “‘ac played at the court of Philip IV or in t plazas before great palaces on feast days —will repay study. The best translation of the most important of them is by the late Denis Florence MacCarthy. Cer- vantes, Calderon and Lope de Vega were friends. Calderon dramatized “Don Quixote™: having been a soldier, he be- came at last a priest, while remaining a t. He died in 1681—on May 2 vered. loved and honored. Great names crowd the epoch of Spaln’s splendor. but none is so great as that of any one of these three. Tadles’ $3 50 kid lace shoes for 225 a pair at the Bee Hive Shoe Co.,717 Market.*