The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 14, 1900, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1900. ~ EASTER MUSIC, ST. PATRIC = cele K'S—Solemn high mass will be at 11 o'clock. A select musical me has been prepared, and an aug- will render Gounod's *‘St. Cecllia organ and orchestral accompani- sis are sts, Miss Etta Weich, Miss Sullivan, John O'Brien and L. will be assisted by a large mposed of the following ladies Misses Nonie Sullivan, Fran- M Bernard, Clair Mad- Maurice Corri- Lame; s will be sung by | clock solemn high | by Rev. Father | Bryne, deacon; | nd Father Cantil- he sermon will be ton. g of Mre. Mc- | en, sopranos; Miss O'Brien and’ Miss ; G. Blum and Joseph Robert Bonner and Will forza’s mass ade and Miss Shan- n's ““Regina Coell.” s w foliowed by benediction of the when Rossini's “0 Salu- _“Tantum Ergo” will be . Nowlan will preside at the w £ s & s—M ¥ Miss Miss Mc( 1 ten rs ja, W. O'Brien; bassos— | M erron i. Richards. " Richards. Unitarian. IAN—The services at this w v t the gramme W 1 be M) *Grand Th. Dubois ent ard rgan Rossing = Christ Risen,” w You a Mys- +2ssr». Shepard ........Foote 4 quartet Dr. L. Mason Dubois Il be rendered ntbem, “*Awake, Thou That £ rrveneasense . Mascagni | 2 | 4 Mascagni | plano and organ. ERto] Thee' oors..Conts | paniment by Miss | ily Coleman | the subject of Rev. Mr. e sermon is “Am I My , by Willlam Wertscl er Denominations. } ENGLISH LUTHERAN—The first| caster day services will begin mptly &t 8:45 o'clock and will be a ce expressly for children. In this service chotr will dead the praise and | e hymns and will sing a the Following ter carols he service: “The Practical Foree.” of members and communion. "0 Day of Love Bternal”....Bartlett | 1 Know That My Redeemer | . it ..Mee-Pattison "Hymns 261, 266, 235 and 3. EVENING. vice will be & continuation of our | wbration and will include special bt The regular order of evening | be followed. | The Fact of Christ's Resurrection | Established.” : » the members of the girle “' o ‘71'_""‘ Goldstein, Lottie q’)lflll(l This ser 1 Sorg, Ruby er. Laura Sacrien. H 14, Eiste Fitzgeraid, [ Margery Hanell, Lizzie Hiree ¢, Martha Peterson, Minnie La mann, Georgie Grimes, Carrie ymeri, Ethel Riebeling, May mie Etigue, Grace Robinett, Minnie Larsen, Annie Larsen, | riet Hagerup, Ogla Lachan. 1z na Ma: ay en, H The Vaccaris Convalescent. was recelved in this city last| ¢ effect that Dr. and Mrs. Vac were recently before the public th eccentric conduct at New were much improved in health, esterday for Europe. . Paralysis From Cofiee. “Sometime ago I had a shock aralysis, which resulted from continued use of coffee. v head and confused feelings wvere constantly with me. I was induced by a physician to leave fiee and try Postum Food 3 Coffee, with the result that I am now clearheaded and in perfect Mrs. F. E. Willoughby, § Amherst Station, N. H. Made at the pure food factories of the ¥ Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle health PP P PP A Y ENBEZALES TAUST FONDS FORRACE TRACK G BLING Continued from First Page. “The assertion made before the San Francisco Labor Council by a party named E. T. Indermill to the effect that Japanese coolie labor was weeks, for which he demanded 35000 dam. | being imported to work at the Salinas e onty page Hunt, however, sald shat|sugar mill is a falsshood, pure and o Oamages f0r Uouct Oissass was | simple, duade gt whois eloth. 1 Hcus S | heard of this man and cannot imag- | ine what motive he had in making | such a statement. White labor is | good enough for me and always has | | been. I have never imported any | are willing to testify that the time Soher was carrying on the li gation with the proprietor of the Hotel ranci: he was a constant visitor at the tracl Not long since he was seen with $5000 in a leather bag, which was the cynosure of the eyes of two burly body- at iti- coolie labor and do not intend to.”— .Claus Spreckels in an interview last evening with a representative of The Call. A few days ago a man signing himself “A. R. Johnson’’ addressed a letter to the San Francisco Labor Council stating that there were 150 Japs on the Belgian King consigned to the Claus Spreckels sugar mill at Salinas. He appeared before the council last night and made an indecent spectacle of himself. Before he finished a more or less dis- jointed harangue he succeeded in con- vincing the members that he was a dan- DOES NOT IMPORT COOLIE LABOR. Claus Spreckels Emphatically Denies the Ridicu- lous Assertions of an Irresponsible Faker. gerous thing to be at large. He said his real name was E. T. Indermill and that he was an electrician on the Belgian King. He had signed a fictitious mame to his communication because he was afrald he would otherwise lose his position if it be- came known he had made such reckless statements. According to his statement, on the tri over he charged one of the coolies aboari with being consigned to the Salinas sugar mill. Like the falthful Jap in ‘“James ‘Wobberts,” all the coolie knew in English was “‘ye: Indermill at once conceived | the idea that he could gain notoriety by making his ridiculous assertion to the La- bor Council. Claus Spreckels’ answer, printed above, is sufficient to brand the fellow as a faker. guards, going the rounds of the pool boxes at Tanforan. With the passing hours, however, the use of the bodyguards waned and the end of a day saw them dismissed and the leather s empty. Practically Disinherited. Emile Soher, told me that my represents losing large sums of money at client was the track. “In the face of my client’s denjal I was loth to beliéve the stories, but if it is a Practically disinherited by his father, | fact that he has fled the city a basis for and only coming into possession of the | the same must have existed. Some time inds which he has squandered at the ago a petition to remove my client as ad- ack at the downtown pollrooms | ministrator was made by the heirs of the throu kindness of his brothers and | estate on the ground that he was mis. sters, it is difficult to undersiand the | managing the cstate, but the court held fluences that that the charges were without basis. He led Adolph Soher to be- His case stands out since managed the estate well to the has of the evil of my knowledge, and the assertion kindred at he has disappeared with all of the fleecing agenci manner in which | funds in his charge seems incredible, but the funds of his dead father came into | that he had free access to the same can- | not be denied Adolph Was Intractable. Emile Soher, co-administrator of the es- tate, said that he did not care to go into a detailed history of the litigation. “We have had a great deal of trouble left by my father, ssession is line F. over the property Emile, he sald, “and my brother Adolph has been us and Henry responsible for it all. Adolph has been but $500, his fighting us all, and it was only lately that s s marriage he agreed to a settlement of the affair. him $1000, 3 >her, how- | We nected to get the matter all settlea ever, was d in the will amohg the | up by the 20th of this month, but when residuary but in a codicil dated | the end will come now I cannot tell.” April 29, was preciuded from | James R. Garniss, manager of the surety g in the residue of the estate by company, expressed the opinion that the his father said, of his conduct corporation would take steps to dpprehend ard his parents. Upon filing of | the fugitive and to try and prove that he will Adolph immediately fi a|w n embezzler. “But what is the use? contest to the codicil, but he met defea “‘We may prove that he is an th , but if he has no funds there his efforts to have me declared 1l and void. While ti matter 5 ding on appeal, however, a comy effected and the cont dent’'s widow K. Wilson, decedent’s will a: then continued in the ev settlement of the estate little satisfaction in such a pro eding for us. They are falling like the leav of autumn, and there seems to be no help for them or us—no way to stop this common crime, embezzlement.” DISQUALIFIED AFTER WINNING AT 100 TO 1. his trust. Adolph Soher and his brother, Emile Soher, forthwith fiied ication for letters of sdministration unon the 8| MEMPHIE Menn. Apsil iL-1hs teature Adolph, notwithstanding fact that his | Of the day at Montgomery Park was the ther distrusted him and practically dis- | victory and disqualification of Clara Mead- in ed him, the court granted the ap- | er in the fifth race, a selling affair, at a plicadion, and Adoiph and Bmils sniered Lmils; and ifn elghth, cor _which Grockst D e e by the COULt, but this | and Jimp were favorites. Clara Meader Wwas subsequently reduced to $250). On | Wwas held at 100 to 1 in the betting and this bond the names of S. F. Long of this lasted long enough to win by a neck from city, Ben K. Thorn, Mrs. Sohe: and Louisa Hunt, the embezzler’ appeared as sureties. Hur wplied to Judge her from further lability and in view of the standing of the other two sureties the court granted her appii- cation. Jimp. The judges disqualified the filly, she having fouled Jimp in the run home. The Exile filly Winter was backed for a “killing” in the first race. She opened at 30 to 1, but at the close fives were the best offered. Pauline- J, the favorite, made the running to the last sixteenth- pole, where Winter came through and s father, Sells Estate Property. Not long after their appointment won by a length. The track was fast. Adolph and Emile Soher applied to the Results: court for leave to sell the real property = gix furlongs, selling—Winter won, Pauline J belonging to the estate. The court grant- second, Belle of Erin third. Time, 1:16%, 1 the order, but first ordered that the ex- ur and one-half furlongs—Farmer Bennett tors produce a bond each, holding rd seoond, Gawayne third. Time, 58 t sureties llable for double the sum \le, purse--Larkspur won. Nellle Prince thi id come into their possession hd, Tigress third. Time, 1:43% th ale of the eprop he | One mile, the Country Club—Ed Tipton won, American S y Company Yorle Duke of Baden second, Cherryieaf third. Time, qualified on Adolph’s bond and Emile pro- | 1'% . pon mies, seling—simp, won, duced a bond qualified upon by another company. The property was sold and the return showed that Adolph retained in his pos- : all expenses. Freak second, Crocket third. —Time, 1:56% Clara Meader finished first, but was disquali- fied. for fouling. furlongs, selling—Alpaca won, Tildy Ann Trombone, third. Time, 1:1 i fow small leg: the . s Smile Soher, his cg-ad- $ = = e e e, ot | WASHINGTON; . April. 13--Results : a¢ ed the funds which came into his A Bennings: ion with the California Bank. This = Purse, five furlongs—Revonah won, Tady Lindsey second, Jamaica third. Time, 1:04, Purse, four and one-half furlongs—Lambkin Gracious second, Light Ball third. Time, :68 1-5. Selling, purse, six and one-half furlongs— Robert Metcal? won, Owensboro second, Double Dummy third. Time, 1:25 3-5 Purse, seven furlongs—Post Haste won, G B Wightman second, Grandeur third. Time, I has all been drawn out and next Wedne: day, when Judge Troutt calls up the mat- ter of the settlement of the final account o rators of the late Lewis sher, there will be no answer from at least one executor, but those to whom he answer for him and file urety Com- er the sum of of New York to reco 1:31 2-5. peculations Handleap, seven furlongs—First Whip won, Attorney J. C. McKee, 22 Montgomery Brisk Pond, Sir Fitzhugh third. Time, street, who has represented the fugitive 1:312 —_— Everybody uses stationery, either fancy or commercial. Many people use both. Ours is the best place to get either. We make a specialty of engraving visiting cards, wedding {nvitationg and announce- ments in our stationery department. born, Vail & 741 Market street. — e————— In Japan most of the horses are shod with straw. Even the clumsiest of cart- horses wear straw shoes, which, in their cases, are tied around the ankle with straw rope, and are made of the ordinary rice straw, braided so as to form a sole for the foot half an inch thick. during the past five years, manifested but little surprise when he learned vesterday that his client had fled the State. Soher’s Attorney Not Surprised. “The fact that he has left the city adds but one additional point to an ofttoid story, and that one point is that he has left the city,” said Mr. McKee. “Some time ago various parties interested in the estate told me that he jeading a fast life at the racetrack and I warned him that if such stories reached the ears of the managers of the American Surety Company he would find himself without a bondsman. He continually denied the stories, but finally D. L Mahoney, who FAREWELL RECITAL OF CHILD PIANIST Beacee e e o oo L ] a4 . ALMA STENCEL, WHOSE TALENT HAS BEEN APPLAUDED. LMA STENCEL. a.12-year-old planist, will give her farewell recital at Sher- man, Clay & Co.'s Hall on Thursday evening, April 26. She will be as- sisted by Armand Solomon, with selections on the violin, and Louis von der Mehden Jr., cellist. Miss Stencel is about to make her departure for the East, where she will continue to develop her wonderful talent, and this re- cital will be the last one she will be able to give in this city for some time. Alma Stencel is a pupil of Hugo Mansfeldt. Her teacher is convinced that she possesses every qualification that is to be found in the greatest planists of the present age, and his opinion has been indorsed by the leading musicians who have visited this city. Paderewskl, after hearing the child play one plece, insisted that she go through the entire programme which has been scheduled for the public at her farewell recital. He spoke enthusiastically of her beautiful expression and tone production and of her remarkable technique. Little Alma was proclaimed ‘“‘the remarkable genius of the century” by Viad- imir de Pachmann, and a great future has been predicted for her by Rosenthal, Sauer, Scharwenka and Mme. Carreno. The proceeds of the recital will assist the Creek, Mich. child in continulng her study and every effort should be made that it may be a financial success. CONSTERNATION SEIZES THE MEMBERS OF THE CHINESE RING (Continued From First Page.) of the United States declares that for every “merchant” there may be a ‘mer- chant’s” wife. The Chinese, ever on the lookout, were quick to see their tremendous advantage and quick to seize It. Meetings of the | local slave dealers were held at once, and it was decided to send an agent to Hong- kong to arrange for the wholesale im- portation of “‘merchants’ wives.” If it is easy to run a ‘“‘merchant” past the bar- riers, it will be quite as easy to put the wives through, and the profit, which is now already great, will be enormous. At the meeting held in this city Luey Kwong, the notorious and wealthy leader of the slave dealers, was the presiding spirit, and he decided that Lee Chee, in- terpreter on the Japanese line of steam- ers plying between this port and the Orient, should go to Hongkong to begin the dreadful traffic that shall further out- rage the people of this city. Lee Chee ieft this city on the first day of this month on the steamer Hongkong Maru. He is to be the pioneer in the slave trade of new San-Francisco. Ho Yow, the Chinese Consul General in this city, is sadly disturbed over the ex- pose made by The Call and he promises that if his efforts will avail he will induce his Government to make an inquiry, par- ticularly in reference to the remarkable fact and, what he admits to be, extremely suspicious circumstance that a great ma- jority of the “native sons” entering this port claim to have departed before June 6, 1882. Ho Yow denies, however, that he has in any way been a party to the gross frauds which The Call has exposed. Hea says that as the representative of his Government in this city he has done and will do his best to serve the interests of his countrymen, but that he will neither do anything nor countenance anything in violation of the laws of this country. “I am very sorry,” he sald last night, “that I am accused of being a part of the conspiracy to land Chinese in this city, as I have had nothing whatever to do with it. It is true that I know most of the gentlemen mentioned, but our rela- tions have not been dishonorable I assure you. I met Arthur Spear in Washington and entertained him. He is the son of the Surveyor of the Port, you konw, and a nice young gentleman. When I came here he entertained me and our relations naturally are very cordlal. “It was he who introduced me to Mr. Pippy, and I admit we did play poker at the Union League Club. But our games much. It was a trifling matter. We played occasfonally until the club decided that poker should no longer be played in the rooms. Then we went to the Ocei- dental Hotel and played—let me see—it ‘was not poker, but a new game, the name of which I really cannot remember.” The Consul sighed, smiled and contin- ued: ““The employment of Mr. Pippy as attor- ney by the Chinese is really an interesting thing. You know, the Chinese are a pecu- liar people. They value nothing like suc- cess. When a lawyer loses a case for them they go to another who can win, and in the landing of Chinese Mr. Pippy has been very successful. Really I could not tell the reason why he has been more successful than others, but the fact re- mains that he has been, “The Call has done me an injustice in saying that I gave orders that no more Chinese were to be landed—I mean those that came on the China. I have no doubt that the attorneys held conferences, as The Call stated, but I had nothing to do with them. 1 was engaged in some festivities and paid no attention to the matter. “You ask me if I do not think it a very suspicious circumstance that the great majority of Chinese claim- ing admission here as native-born citizens declare that they left San Francisco before June 6, 1882° I if my efforts will avail my Govern- ment shall make a strict inquiry into the matter. I cannot understand it and have only a supposition upon which to offer an explanation. “When the Chinese registration act went into operation in 1894 many of the Chinese, fearful of an innova- tion which they did not understand, fled from the country. I suppose, and, mind you, it is only a supposi- tion, many of them are now return- ing by the native son route. tor of the Port Colonel John P. Jxfi:‘l’(‘:‘;fi% o;‘so desired to be heard in the were for small amounts and I did not lose | certainly do think it suspicious, and | | nese mal!ler and has made the following state- ment: ‘‘As for Jare Kan, who you say went to China to open in Hongkong an agency for the importation of Chinese to this country. It is true he and 1 were friendly, but {lond that there was nothing between us. e did fu to Hongkong as stated, and as far as I know is there yet. He went as an agent for a transportation company, but if also for any other purpose I do not know it. I made inquiries at the office of the transportation company and find that Jare Kan's contract with it has expired Further than this I know nothing of this whole matter. “The attack in The Call came as a thunderboit from a clear sky. I know of no oceurrences naturally leading to it, nor any motive for the publication. 1 pro- nounce it malicious, untruthful, vindic- tive and libelous. There has been noth- ing in my administration of the Chinese | business which can justly subject me to | either criticlsm or reproach. My cours in Chinese cases has In every instance been fully justified by the law and the tes- timony in_the case.” I do not personally examine Chinese applicants or their wit- nesses: all that is done in the Chinesc Bureau, where are seventeen persons em ployed for that purpose. The majority ot the Chinese inspectors are gentlemen sent | here by the department from other parts of the United States; skilled in their busi- ness, honest and capable. They make the examinations in these cases and report the testimony to me, together with their sum. ming up of any contrarities, contradic- tions or inconsistencies in the testimony. Upon this record I decide the cases, apply- | ing the law to the circumstances as de- tailed by the Chinese Bureau. “I may say here that ‘returning labor- ers’ need no examination under the law. They are admitted upon the return permit, | which is given to them when they leave, without further examination. ‘Returning | merchants’ need two white witnesses to | testify to the integrity of their claim. The five classes of Chinese named in the treaty coming here for the first time need what is known as a section 6 certificate, | to be obtained in China from their own | Government and vised by the United | States Consul at the port where the cer- tificate is obtained. Under the law these certificates are not required to be in the | English language, but may be in the lan- guage of the country of which the appli- | cant is a subject. I have, however, in- sisted in all cases that an English trans- lation shall accompany the certificate when in a forelgn language. “The figures given in The Call's ar- ticle are erroneous, in that they con- vey the impression that all persons | arriving an admitted at this port are first visits. The fact is that a great mafjority of them are simpiy re- turning merchants and laborers, who have a right to come and go as they please under the law. Also, the fact is, that dur- ing my administration during the past | three years I have admitted fewer Chi- nese at this port than have departed | therefrom in each and every one of the three years. “As to returninf merchants and labor- ers I have no discretion which permits me to refuse them a landing_ when they demand it under the law. No laborers whatever are admitted any longer for the first time. “Coming now to the subject of ‘native- born’ Chinese, it is objected In the article that I accept Chinese testimony. I am compelled to do so under the law; the United States courts having decided that such is proper testimony, and the depart- ment having ruied in the following words: | “The uncontradicted testimony of Chinese witnesses as to birth of laborers in the | United States should not be rejected.’ | This is the ruling of the Secretary of the | Treasury, issued to me May 24, 1888, and | is printed for the government of all Col- lectors in the United States. i “It {s very difficult to meet with serious argument, invidious reflections, malevo- | lent innuendoes, unfounded inferences and baseless conclusions mingled 1pmmllcu' ously in this article. I can only a er generally that the Chinese business has een conducted here honestly, impartially, regularly and according to law and thé rules of the department. “I challenge investigation into each and | every transaction, down to the minutest detail; and the man who charges me with any sinister purpose, sordid motive, per-| sonal interest or partiality to any lawyer or any Chinaman or any other person, tells what is basely false. It is an accept- | ed maxim in the Custom-house that no | man has ever had anything to do with | the Chinese business but that sooner or | later he would be smirched with false ac- | cusations and baseless rumors agalnst | im. ‘I suppose, therefore, that I should ac- cept this attack after three years of un- criticized service as my share of perscnal sacrifice in the cause. I shall not, how- ever, rest passively under such an un. called-for attack, but propose to ascertain and hold responsible the partles, whoever they may be, interested In making fit.”” In Interviews given to other newspapers Colonel Jackson accused the manager o The Call of an attempt to injure the Re. publican party by the expose of the Chi ring. Perhaps Colonel Jackson does | not yet appreciate the seriousness of the injury he has Inflicted upon the Republi- | can party by beln? mg‘onslblo for the landing of 3000 coolies who are now legal- | ly native-born citizens of the TUnited States, and as well qualified as Collector Jackson, under the law, to vote. o ® Ladies’ $3 50 kid lace shoes for $225 a pair at the Bee Hive Shoe Co.,717 Market.* OF Ea h a perfect art gem. RADSHAW, N. GERTRUDE Aoy METHFESSEL, _TEBES, ROSS, DGE AND KELLY. THE STORIES ARE ALL OF GREAT HUMA! N INTEREST. PEACE CONFERENCE—Poem by T Morris. IDlustrated by Meth- fessel. WHAT SORT OF A MAN WAS CHRIST? A Study of the Physical Side of the Man-God. THE_CEREMONIES AT THE VATI- CAN.—By Genevieve Greene. WHAT SOME OF OUR SOCIETY GIRLS WILL WEAR EASTER DAY. PASSING OF GENERAL BID- TVELL, One of California’s Most Unique Characters. THE_TROUBLES OF TAKER AT THE trated by Dodge. A _TICKET- FERRY. Illus- ORDER NOW. THE GREAT EASTER EDITION THE, Sunday Call OuUT APRIL 1Sth. 16 Pages in Color. & & 9 Full-page Jllustrations. have worked specially for this issue are Among the artists who WITH THE LIFE-SAVERS AT THE BEACH. IN THE WHITE 1al Poses for the Sun- THE SORROWFUL CHRIST. Poem by Mrs. Edwin D. Markham. (OTOGRAPHS OF THE FOLLOW- ING FAMOUS PAINTINGS IN THE NATIONAL uuuuu#{ AT THE DOOR OF CHER, by Rubens: THE MAGDA- LENE, Guercino; ON CALVARY, a Bernadino Gottl: JESUS ON THE by Van Dyke. STER SER- wing )MING FROM THE EA! - “;IICD. Full-page Dra: by Gor- don Ross. strated Back Cover, “TWO LITTLE TUSATCKS, Py Miss Bradshaw; and & most ive front page, “SPRING SONG,"” by Tebbs. @ltogether the Most Magnificent.Paper of the Day. X X X ORDER NOW. e e PR | BY CHARLOTTE BREWSTER JORDAN R e e e e I S o I o e e g | grief, consequently, when_ this hissed off the stage the first night, nor | he became greatl STUDIES FOR GIRLS: MARY ANN LAMB. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES FOR GIRLS. IX. MARY ANN LAMB. (1765-1847.) Mary and Charles Lamb lived so practi- cally the brother-and-sister idyl which poets have pictured that it is quite impos- sible for the them. When the baby brother came to gladden Mary Lamb's barren existence she joyfully becamehis sole caretaker and | ™ devoted her long life to his physical and mental development. Many were the anx- ious hours spent in fanning his frail little life into the flame which flickered through sixty years of anxiety, charm and calam- ity. Her devotion to his development de- ferred for twenty years the hereditary in- sanity which hovered over their childhood and at the same time prepared and strengthened her charge for the affection- ate sacrifice which later ennobled his life. Thus, with the infancy of Charles Lamb, began that interdependence which distin- guished their common life. ‘With the eagerness of a child of 13 Mary Lamb taught her 3-year-old brother to read, so that Charles always declared that | he could not remember the time when he id not know how. When only 7 the ner- vous and timid boy was entered at Christ’s Hospital to win his way among the throng | of burly lads who had there worn for hun- dreds of years the long-tailed blue coat worn by Edward, the “boy king,” who had founded the school. Fearing lest the little brother’s diminutive stature, stutter- ing speech and delicate frame might arouse the ridicule of the older boys, Mary used to throw her shawl around her and recess hour was over. This attracted the attention of Coleridge, a big blue-coat, who in common with his fellows was cap- tivated by the little fellow’s winsomeness, and he begged to be introduced to faithful sister behind the grating, thus laying the foundation of that famous “fif- ty-year-old friendship without a dissen- sion.” While Charles was at school exhibiting a wonderful docility and aptitude for the classics, the faithful sister, who was never ent to any school, was browsing in the | M+®+®—&@+®+0m’ & 3 >®-. rie s et e MARY ANN LAMB. Q@rosoeiebeiedere@ library of her father's patron and striving n i{n advance of 3 . Oftentimes they ed together, and so thoroughly genial did their literary tas becom that Charles Lamb came to think that his rs of t sister attained her uncommon Pow use of, rather than In spi be brought up exactly in this fashion. I know not whether their chance in wed- lock might not be diminished by it. but | 1 can answer for it that it maketh (if | worst comes to worst) most Incomparable old malds.” Other training for this glorified spinster- hood was incessant toil at home, care for an intemperate father, nursing an invalid mother, whose fine mind had been warped beyond'recognition by unhappy marriage, and interminable needlework to eke out the straitened family means. Such harass- ing fatigue told so plainly on Mary Lamb's strength that the neighbors some- times remarked to each other that the girl seemed ‘‘wrong in the head,” yet did not consider her mind seriously affected. The father finally lost his position through Intemperance and the neediework would not support the family, so Charles was taken frgg school and obliged to be- gin his thirty-four years of drudgery at the ‘“‘desk’s dull wood.” This counting-house monotony was light- ened by the books which Mary borrowed in order that they might study together the well-beloved Elizabethan age, by his friendship with Coleridge and DY (he e couragement which sister and friend gave to his modest literary beginnings. Charles Lamb wrote spontaneously; because he must he jotted down on any convenient crap of paper the wit, whimsicalities and | wisdom which afterward crystallized into his inimitable essays. Sometimes the brother and sister would indulge in a two shilling seat at the theater. This love for the drama expressed itself later in a play written by Charles Lamb called “Mr. H.," which Mary Lamb induced the manager of Drury Lane to accept. Great was her lay was as her disappointment anywise lessened when she perceived her sensitive brother chief among the hissers. When Charles Lamb was 20 he began trying his hand at verse making, partly in” emulation of Coleridge, partly because interested in a young lady in the neighborhood. His attach- ment to this young lady opened his eyes to the apparent hopelessness of his future; with a father in his dotage, a mother an invalid, a sister almost deranged by her hopeless struggle with poverty, all de- pendent upon, the few pounds Which his clerkship brought, what outlook was there for his future? Brooding over the strug- le between love and duty brought upon glm the fatal family legacy and for sev- eral weeks it was necessary to keep him under restraint. This attack undoubtedly affected his sis- ter's malady and hastened her nervous breakdown. Worn with needlework and the dally and nightly care of the mother, Whom she greatly loved, she temporarily lost her reason and in one of her wildest frenzies brought about the calamity un- der whose shadow the brother and sister dwelt during the remainder of their days. Lamb thus writes to Coleridge: “I will only give you the outlines: My poor, dear, dearest sister, in a fit of insanity has been the death of her own mother. I was at hand only time enough to snatch the knife out of her grasp. She is at present in a madhouse, from whence, I fear, she must be moved to an hospital. * * * * With me ‘the former things are passed away’ and I have something more to do than to feel. God Almighty have us well in his keep. C. Lamb. From that moment duty gained the vic- tory and Charles Lamb renounced all his aspirations and hopes of earthly blessing to devote his maturity entirely to the care of that “‘poor, dear, dearest sister,” who had sacrificed her youth for him. Al- though but 21 when he took the vows of self-abnegation, his youth was gone for- ever. When Lamb's mind again cleared she was in such frame of mind that she believed herself purified and ab- solved from the horror committed when she was not responsible. and always re- ferred to her mother with such calmness and naturalness that many beliéved her jgnorant of the tragedy. ‘Exhaustion from mlrllfi an old aunt who had made her home with them again brought on a violent attack. These fll- nesses, as her brother affectionately caliea them, recurred annually, sometimes more frequently. Fortunately a nervous sleep- lessness gave '.mmiu“ the dread ap- proach and Mary so lly comprehended their import that she herself packed a straitjacket when they started on their yurneys. They were juently met go- ncm; Hul‘motefi!“h eath :.nd Im hand to the asylum. crying bitterly. It is probable that ng; ever-watchful -o’; and sympathy on ||:t'¢ne"d a ucmp-r.sm of his o‘flyp‘.{- &:k a‘x’nd kept his reason unclouded to During her Intervals of saneness Mary Lamb was the devoted sister, guarding her s work from inter- biographer to dissociate | un down to watch them at play until the | the | con- | > defects of her singular education. fad I twenty girls,” he writes in his | famous “Essays of Elia,” “they should ruption, making homelike and cozy their frequently changed quarters and unos- tentatiously welcoming their literary friends to Lamb's famous Wednesday evenings. She, too, was greatly loved and respected by the choice cirele of spirits, Hazlitt, Wordsworth, Barry Cornwall, h Hunt and C e, who there y “skimmed um of eriti- cism When Mary Lamb “from home" | her brother lon for her Wordsworth: | ' know of her would be more than I think anybody could believe or even understand, and when I hope to have her well again with me it would be sinning against_her fee to praise her. She fections I cover to thinking share life with me. L aaiaa ek e ol i o e e s ] “, - . * ® * . > @ * $ * | & : Y * B4 s it )4 IS * B 1 | ¢ 1 | ¢ < | & . D ¢ ® [t ) | ¢ ? ) ¢ CHARLES LAMB. + | ¢ From a drawing in the British Mu- ¢ | 9 seum by ( F. Joseph, A. R. A. * © [ i e o 1 know I have been wasting and teasing | her life for five years past incessantly with my cursed ways of going on.” Here Charles Lamb touches the keynote of the tragec is intemper: habits g ed | his sister to the heart, muc loved one another, their had a bad effect upon b red wits iension of returning lest such strain alance her brother's him to some rash act. other worrying attack whi ny years befor that time so greatly as spared the ma ¢ part of the xistence of . this brother and sister would not now membered were it not for their literary work. which perpetuated their united pere sonality. membered f« ness, delicacy, prises and for t al faculty. les Lamb will ever be re- his -'w\\_\s. full of tender- thos and quaint sur- of his eriti= [l<'t:u1'(t‘11' considered | finest critical paper English tongue. | And Mary will n because of er collaboratie ‘Tales from other in the which have ed so many generations of chil- dren. Godwin, the ,ruhllsh#r. suggested that Mary Lamb undertake this work. but she did not feel herseif worthy until her brother swore that she had supplied all ll}s s he ever had. So they accom- | piished it together, Charles wrestling | with the tragedies, while Mary took the | more fantastic or humorous plays, and right bravely did she acquit herself. Can you ima v than this family presented when you | consider the blackness into which Charles | Lamb dipped his pen that he might write | jokes (with tears on his face) for his half- | mad sister, while she, faithful afficted | soul, In _her moments of sanity was try- £ 'to make the humor of Shakespeare palatable to children? Both were so sat- urated in Elizabethan diction that it was a peculiarly easy task for them when they could not use the great poet's exact word- ing, as they frequently did, to approxi- Imale it closely from their own vocabu- ary. It 1s good to think that this venture landed them flnancially away above their simple necessities, so that in their old age they enjoyed to the full the luxury of giving. ‘After Charles had passed away it was his aged sister's delight to keep u the pensions to needy friends In whic they had taken such pleasure. In her last years she, too, was pensioned by loving friends, but the nature of her infirmity mercifully spared her that knowledge. Happily and peacefully she was laid to rest beside her brother. Like Caroline Herschel, she had lived in her brother's interest, but Caroline Herschel's seif-ef- facement was sclentific serfdom, while Mary Lamb's was full partnership in a life of tragedy and self-sacrifice. It is interesting to know that Mary Lamb’s Shakespearean labors did not end with her collaboration with her brother. Among the children whom she taught with the little Emma Isola, whose adop- tion brightened the sadness of the Lamb household, were Hazlitt's son and Mary Victoria Novello. This little girl became Mary Cowden Clark, whose “Concord- ance” of Shakespeare first took shape in her mind when she listened to her gentle manuscript of reason Elbert Hub- ne more tragic effort at com- P RS R The full page illustration by Methfessel which will ap- pear in next Sunday’s Call— the great Easter edition—is the most beautiful and perfect illustration ever published in any newspaper. It must be seen to be appreciated. B4+ 44 4400000000000 —_———— Masonic Courtesy. Commandery Hall in the Masonic Tem- ple was crowded last night by members of Golden Gate and California command- eries to witness the officers of the Golden Gate confer the order of the Temple on one candidate. This was followed by the officers of California Commandery con- ferring the order of Malta. 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