The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 2, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESD“AY,-'M‘AY 2, 1900. Hale’s. Hale’s, | we cclebrate our-—-Yi birthday, our eighth: and. last in ‘this building ce the old home; but you and ourselves will have more room in the new five-story store we are building about a stone’s throw from: where we are now we shall enter into our new home in the fall, and it will pay'you to watch close newspaper. announcements. .we celebrate our birthda ). xm‘iil 6 p. m. Saturday;-our usual closing hour. giycerine soap (*"“2.eEi =) allovers we.are making a cakes in-a bar Ceniiirert] novel _ display . of e high_grade, iresh asefal 1o 2 mbroid- very useful to lace and -e ery allover yokings hok those - liable ' to} and. vestings. not- Sabu kin_eruptions; tingham lace all- the bar weighs hali a pc overs. c to $1.00 yard y allover lace. . clun; thr :m 1“-]; { = ..85c to $2:50 yard 0X.. 15 % 4" violet de venise allover lace.. ater: 1%-0z. size; trav- | $1.25 to $5.30 ya L=/ clers know how good it is; | $1.10 to $1.50 yard / rs know how goo i < > yard ~.J good i i you are going |allover wash tuckings \ush ]fl(;?! inser- overland... R 20c| ‘tion, very rich.85c to $2:50 ¥ ghar T in ecru and w 360 sterling silver hat pins, with large \\'h'(fefland ng by 36 inches wide French gray pear] mountings; can be used' as by 40 inches wide. . at ornament as well as pin, regularly 50c..20¢ ng by 45 inches wide.. ebane casing in. 6 and 9 yard go-carls : rn bone.doz.4c inch corduroy. skirt bind- 480 dozen 1000 yard carriages and good strong go-cart, with foot brake TV R AR A S e yard 32 $3.48 ( v 2 = gloves at 98¢ (si50 : L) we offer ‘as a birthday foot brake event 2053 pairs. of kid g holstered in bed- gloves, such as -3-butten rd o $000 | Hte. Jouvin, lasp mo- b Gatirpeiatiit P cha, 4-and & button suede ¥ € ¥ b and z-clasp pique walking gloves, etg. . these gloves will not be carried in our for ‘the future, and nd -assortment er them for a per ‘pair 98¢ i yet 0¢g( / /| stock »ugh they are i nd s wrapper sale colors ‘50 AMUSEMENTS. | G RAN DOPERA B8 55 HOUSE ‘ . BN D SATURDAY MATINEE. | { Free Tick TO THE Orpheum! Lenox and Ivory Soap d Greatest Success, AY NEW YORK. & hy Songs, Graceful PLE “THE FLOOR WA n 1 Farce, : LKERS” EXTRA !—B:g. NEX{ Must Dances a Pretty T5c and §1 MONDAY, An Entire N o vel! HE LAD t Y SLAVEY. f London and Ne ULAR PR elsi : HOUSE BEEINS OF CARAL BLL Debate Develops Powerful Opposition to the Measure. Chairmen of Three Committees Throw the Weight of Their Influence to the Side of Its Opponents. ERHPRT R WASHINGTON, May 1—For the first time during the fifty vears of agitation of the project for the construction of an interoceanic canal the House of Represen- tatives to-day entered upon the considera- ton of a measure to actually authorize the building of a canal. To-morrow the bill will be voted upon. before adjourn- ment. - The debate to-day was memorable be- cause of .the unexpectedly powerful oppo- sition it developed. Barton of Ohio, chalrman of the Rivers and Harbors Com- mittee; Hitt of FHlinols, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Cannon of Illinois, ‘chairman of thé Appropriation Committee, threw the weight of their in- fluence against if, not because they are opposed to the building of the canal, but because they considered that the time for authorizing its construction was not ripe, Burton and Hitt contended that’ the bill would violate the Clayton-Bulwer. treaty, | which g ed the ueutrality of the canal, quote: Admiral Walker, chairman of the Isthmian Com- mission, as saying the commigsion was not yet prepared to say which was the best route, The anomalous situation is presented .of practically every member on the floor pro- fessing his -friendship for the canal and yet-of powerful opposition arrayed against it on various grounds. The bill was ably and vigorously championed by Chairman { Hepburn of the . Interstate’ Commerce. the only member of the Commefce Com- mittee who opposed the passage .of any { bill at this session. EXPERT AMES TAKES UP Says the Missive Is a Forgery—Sen- ator Fair's Letters Introducsd in Evidence. Handwriting Expert. Daniel .T. Ames wag: the only witness in the Fair ease vesterday. Mr. Ameés took.-an enlarged photographic copy of the note. alleged to have been sent by Senator Falf to Mrs. Craven-Fair at the “Grand Opera-house | and proceeded to explain' why he believe it to be a ‘forgery. This hote reads | “Mrs. James G. Do you know your name? —James G. Fair." Ames’ explanation was lengthy and technical. As exemplars. for comparison of signatures many. letters written by Senator Fair to Senator Bresse and Angus when he was at Yuma and also various. deeds and other documents @ | were introduced. A néw batch of exem- W | Plars may be forthcoming to-day to assist | the experts in trying to establish their contention that the majority at least of | the documents presented by Mrs, Craven- Fair are the wark of a forger and a bung- ling one at that. PR ARERO NS R A Trial of Moore Case Postponed. The trial of John P, Moore of Fresno against the Southern Pacific Company, in which the corporation Is charged with violation of the law in.recently raising the rates between Fresno and. this city without the permission of the Rallroad Commissioners, did not take place yes- terday before the commission, as had been planned. Commissioners Laumels- 3 e SAVE YOUR WRAPPERS AND GET and B 1 DEWEY DO| GREAT B FREE TICKETS T0 THE ORPHEUM. T a0 e T . e wieat BUSINE: S | MAY DAY. € The Joh Lock 8| rofirnad i moe Ve Her e amendea A JUSANDS NABLE swer the cas Vi v cary amanssioy, | B LIS JONTISON=LOCKE | morning at 10 orcloge. o nul Friday An Immense Crush Last Night to See M L] | = TR S MR. JAMES NEILL ercaflt]le Co_, @ California Club Elects Officers. = 7 Boghtunnig ) 204 FRONT STREET, The following new board of officers was w In 2t Goodwin's Greatest Comedy -Sicre AR AT % H elected yvesterday at a meeting of the Cait- “A GILDED FOOL il Exchange or Lenox and Trory | first viee president, Mrs Ao Shamnn: ] WHELMING SUCCE REMEMBER THE MATINEE TO~ TICKETS 16 THE ORPHEUM l: T e searge Law a D e Rrotar VING CON. mith; third .vice president, Mrs. ALL-STAR SPECIALTY COMPANY. MORROW Fortowine conpr- B Bles tourth Vice bresident’ Mra: boris ¢ s pertorming animals %5e Reperved Seat Kilburn: recording secretary, Miss Ber: rra of LENOX SOA ers of IVORY S0, Or el SOAP Reserved Se Bend.....50 Wrappers of ‘5 AND Or, -24 Wrappers of IVORY SOA iR Or else send 25 Wrappers of L O B SOAPand 12 Wrappers of IVORY SOA [ wERn L i X P tha. M. Rickofl; .corresponding secretary Mrs. Grace Roberts Moore: business sec: retary, Miss Mary C. Gorham; treasurer, Mrs. Hadwen Swain; directors, Miss Kate Atkingon, Miss Kate B Van Winkle, Mrs. Colin H. Mills, Mrs. A Orr, ¥ g - . Mrs. J. W, Mre. R. L. Toplitz and Mrs, Edward ADVERTISEMENTS. *T VO LI vecanics paviLion PR et A e AmiaWiz? The Wile Overfows!| MAY 2, 3, 4, 5,1900. | B e i A s : SES NIGHTLY A EXHIBITI OF DoGS e management 1400 OPEN 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. DAIL’ ADMISSION EV. “The Wizard of fhe Nile, Its THIRD BIG WEEK RNOONS, of the appreciate ISCO KENNEL CLUB ti. H. CARLTON. EXCURSION ~—TO THE— { SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS Person H. MENTON. enger Agent S SAN FRAN hotels. WEEK- i & w in = -Topean plan. ¥ P a50C OPULAR CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH ENNYRO PRICES.... FRAESD ¥ Eu SATURDAY . . P. Co. Tourists and travel- ers from every section world recognize the comforts and conveni- ences offered by these American plan. Eu- e 3 *S A 12 RED 204 Gl e T MY wich biue rivbon. i other. Refuse D % & Dancerons Subsiiiutions and Tote toma. Buy of your Draggist, of sad S0} - ST Reiet for st LR farn Mall. 10,060 Tettimenion SIS e, Chi Dlaia CapeNome Blankets AND Underwear! The right kinds and the right weights. All-Wool Blankets, from 5 pounds to 16 pounds, in scarlet, gray, brown and blue. A large assortment of the right eats for all: Take | Leave ferry landing, 5 a. m. Returning, | | Catalogues and Price Lists Mal| on Applieation. COAL, COKE AND PIG IRON. e, SUNDAY. D Next Week, s?enic Production, | | " E 0 MecoRMI THE GR-AT DIANOND ROBBERY ot, 7 isco at 8:05 . m. H. GOODMAN, General Passenger Agent. eee.... MAY OTH R S S Round Trip l 25 ‘ T s PO PA Tickets... = 7 2 1 The train will stop at the well-known eamp- ted on ne of the Nurrow- | OF RESPONSIBLE HOUSES. J.C. WILSON & CO., 200, Battery, Stroer, | kind ~ of Underwear and Over- shirts, in light and heavy weights,; also linen Mosquito Canopies. Call and -examine our - goods; you will find the prices right. C. CURTIN, 91 and 913 M RKET STREET. | | g | | g ! g Iyt RACING! RACING! RACING! | EDDY ST., | ™ COPPERSMITH. . 2 3 OLYMPFI A SSH a5 | 1900—CALIFORNIA JOOKEY CLUB—1900| snerrm rox. supt v TH e tlle s n the city. | APKRIL TO MAY 5 INCLUSIVE, { TH, Bbe i HAY FEVER o Last week of | Bk it Tul "Jfi(;EwE.fi.A:;K' Thurs.'| Ca":lsvgl-m ‘nn- -5 { [ A?” h 2 ek of | + Tuesday, esduy, Thurs- | and i ‘ashin: = " ARRH T“ = BLA :‘ y, _Frld‘) and Pnlurd‘l)» Rxlm or shine. - - . E BLACKBARTONS, | | “sive or moee races acis day.” FRESH AND SALT MEATS. Oppression, Sufloation; Neuralgla, etc,, cared by : e Lo K Francts at 2 ana | JAS. BOVES & C0., Siorng, Pigcher v " IGARETTES or POWDEG THELMA WINFELD, | |3l b fuiile W 05 s cmieie 5 e ESPIC'S CIGARETTES, or POWDER e wond violinist track. Last two cars on train reserved for PAPER DEALERS. ladies and their escorts; no smoking. Buy youp ferry tickets to Bhell Mound. AN tratne via Oakland mole connect with San Pabl electric cars at Seventh and Broadw: ONTAGUE, two continents. MAUR'CE M 4:45 p. m. and fmmediately after the last race. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS JR., President. R B. MILROY. Becretary. - d | trains via Alameda mole con- PRINTIN . e { o o averue ca Fo RINTER, MLLE. THELMA | nd Broadway. Oskiand. These etecieie caes | F- C.. AUGHES. s11 Bansorme v, o x-" > lastiques. | 80 direct to the track In fftecn minutes. AND OUR CE TED STOCK CoM{ | Returning- Trains jeave the track at 4:15 and | STATIONER AND PRINTER, | WILLAMETTE *U* AZp\FArER co. Togmae PARTRIDGE ™ Spiterse Paris, J. ESPIC; New York, E. FOUGERA & 00 * SOLD. BY ALL DRUGGISTS. NOTARY PUBLIC ANJ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Tenth Floor, Room Claus Spreckeis Bidg. Telephone Brown: $31. Residence, 521 Califoroia st., below Paweil, Francisco. NDA :¥ FRIDAY. S | CHUTES AND 200.77 fiizy | WAITE ASH STEAW OOML Fiis % CONCERT HALL. | roamommow - axarevn xionr. | BLE CGlic ana- Tints e Mala st 20 C.F. KAPP COMPANY, | sreciaL: AMUSEMENTS. THE wvense and Market strect, | SUNDAY AFTERNOON and EVENING : | AL AEILL. in 4 Round Sparring Match | Seats by Phone Park 2. Solden Gate GLEN PARK. —~———NEXT SUNDAY, MAY 6—— WRESTLING MATCH. HALI ADALIL the Terrible Turk, Will A. G. OLSEN, the Ferocious Swede. MONSTER VAUDEVILLE SHOW, BALLOON ASCENSION. San Mateo or Mission st. Cars.. 10 CENTS -ADMISSION—10 CENTS. FISCHER'S CONCERT HOUSE, 122-124 O'FARRELL STREET. Y he, soprano, and John Kurkam, Great Lambardi Opera Quartet. * Traviata” (Camilie). i%c—Admission—10¢c. lfatinee Sunday. | | Weskly Call $1.00 per Year | CONSIDERATION | Committee, T.overing of Massachusetts, | Ransdell . of Louisiana and Corliss- of | | Michigan. Mr. Fletcher of Minnesota was | THE OPERA-HOUSE NOTE | X, Rolker; chairman department of edu- cation, Miss Katherine Ball; chairman d partment of civics, Dr. Dorothea Moor: chairman department of social science, Mrs. Arthur Cornwall. BUTCHERTOWN SHRIMPS ARE NOT GERM-RIDDEN Bacteriologist Green' Cempletes - His Analysis and Reaches This > Conclusion. That a “Butchertown shrimp’ is not.a crawling vessel of the germs of death: is not a sea monster in miniature, laden from its armored. back to the tip of Its tiny antennae with the ptomaines and al- kaioids, but f{s a wholesome. nourishing crustacean, has been determined by Bac- teriologist Green of the Board of Health. Thus one of the pet scares of the late board will no longer act as a_damper on an_industry:of no mean proportions. The old board found that the “Butchertown XTX—ADDISON AND THE AGE OF REASON. BY JOSEPH VILLIERS DENNEY, A. M. shrimp” was a pale. unhealthy animal | The age In which Joseph Addison stands that threaten to ree pestilence | as th res Bl throughout the city. and ‘heir Sale was S AR EiGtEry e S been called the Augustan age, the classic age, the age of criticism, the age of prose 4nd reason. No one of these names is convincing . without explanation, though all of them point to the same general characteristics. The last name carries forbidden. Bacteriologist.Green finds that the common belief that these shrimps are poisonous is incorrect, and that they do g"' live on the refuse from the slaughter ouses. g Jacob Stencel Attached. A writ of attachment for $10,000 was is- sued yesterday from the Sheriff’s office | on the personal property of Jacob Stencel, who lives at 1166 O'Farrell street. The complaint was sworn out by C. W. Beals. | and a keeper was placed in charge of | Stencel's residence. Stencel, who is a-com- | mission merchant at 415 Battery street, says the trouble out of a stock transaction, for the sum named. transaction to be unfair, refused to pay the- amount ‘involved and the attachment resulted. century upon the writérs. of the eight- eenth, and is intended to bé both a verdict and an acknowledgment of services; but it is a name which-the’ sighteenth. century would not have appreciated. ‘The sugge: tion that Pope’s metrical essays should eyer come to be accounted valuable chiefly for their .good influence upon style of succeeding - generations would have been rejected with scorn. For it was especially with peetry In mind. that elghteenth century critics appliéd to Pope and Addison the high ‘title ‘Augustan. It was. believed = that ‘these writers: had brought English literature to the highest degree of refinemént. They had dene for English" literature . ‘what _the French Augustans had done for French literature a-generation earlier; what glicero, Horace e e Peculiar Damage Suit. Marfe A Curtis filed suit against the Homestead Loan Association-of Berkeley iy;emn‘my to recover $10,000 damages for reaeh of. contract. . Plamtift alleges that the agents of the defendant’ corporation agreed to loan her $5000 on -property in Berkeley, but after. completing arrange- ments Tefused : to advance the money. Through the inconventence to which ‘she was suibjected and. the - business ‘disad- vantages that confronted her in conse- | quence the plaintiff alleges that.she has been damaged in the sum sued for® Cranbury Threatened. Chief Sulllvan was startled yvesterday by the receipt of a letter from a person sign- ing himself “Wilfred J. R. Grover.” On a halif-sheet of note paper was written in a bold hand:. ““Chief of Police, San Fran- risca, Califa.-~T shall make matters. ex- ceedingly -warm_for this town of Cran- bury; N, J. - Wilfred J, R. Grover, Cran bury, N.'.J." On top of the note two skulls and crossbones had been painted in red. e ———— Help Asked for Ottawa. Mayor Phelan 1§ in receipt of the follow- ing telegram ‘signed by T. Payment, Mayor of Ottawa: “‘Hull wiped out of ex- istence; Ottawa western part destroyved; twenty thousand -homeless: help.” The Mayor. states that subscriptions may be sent to his office at the City Hall, from where ‘they will' be farwarded and proper individual credit given. | e Argued Railroad Tax Case. Attorney General Tirey L. Ford and | Deputy Attorney General William M. Ab- |‘bott ‘have -just returned from the East where they went to represent the State | in the case of Smith, receiver of the At- lantic and Pacific Railroad, against State “Freasurer Reeves, now pending before the United States Supreme Court. | —— e { OHE+4 4444440444444 4 4444040 13 Don’t miss the first install- 3 + ment of the series of exclusive articles written by General 4 Joseph Wheeler, to appear in next Sunday’s Call. | | | | sy + + + + +| D - + @ D244 4040440400000 0444 Woodmen of the World. Golden Gate Camp No. 64 of the Wood- men of the World is still increasing in membership. At the meecting last Mon- day night Charles Allinger, James Mal- com, B. E. 8mallwood, J. J. Donohue, G B A S and primitive— unformed M. Glenn, George W. Hessler and A. adjective of the period—and had % Morrison were initiated, thereby increa: | Ing the membership to 1120. The camp has appointed a- committee to make proper left it extravagance. Pope and Addison were local circles of Woodcraft, who, with the membership . of* the .several camps of | Woodmen, did much to make the affair | a great success,. The bazaar closed with a cascarone party. Redwood Circle of the Women of Wood- | craft is still progressing and adding to its membership. . In its pleasant quarters in the Pythian Castle. with active and ener- getic officers, it is bound to advance. in be found in the century. It al finds a similar superior- the present century. But it does not deny to Pope the honor of having shown to sus ceeding ages what literary workmansh means. It ascribes to him wonderful sk in producing terse, precise, pointed and balanced verses. And it observes that the verses of Pope have always invited quota- D 11} dinary minds. Through well nigh univer- sal quotation Pope’s verses must have had an immense influence in communicating Harmony Lodge recently gave a fish-| pond party and dance in the social hall | of the Foresters' building, which, for the first. effort of the news lodge, was quite an event. It was under the direction of Mesdames M. Klaus, F. E. Kidd, I. . Marshal, Agnes- Capplemann, M. Cooper, J. H. Mentz and Miss M. Heath. clearness and terseness. To achleve correctness and elegance of expression, to win perfection in style, were the principal aims of the leading writers of the eighteenth century, They had found out that there is an art of The entertainment the minor writers after Shakespeare had become extravagant and fantastical. The eighteenth century studied to avoid these forms of untruth.” In France a school of criticism had appeared, the influence of which was potent in compelling attention to polished forms of expression, and this French influence greatly reinforced, though it did not create, the impuise to of the members and friends of the lodge. | There were recitations and vocal selec- tions by Miss Bullard, Miss Davidson, Miss La Vigne, Mrs. L. Drew, and selec- tions from “Leah the Forsaken by Sella Pike. This very energetic lodge has been quite active of late. Ploneer Lodge has elected the following named as its delegates to the Supreme | Lodge: Mesdames Jeffreys, Stmon. Flick, | carrectnéss and regularity of form among Asmann, Kruse,. Horn = and McPhun, | English writers. At the beginning of the Misses Rosevear and Thompson and C.|eighteenth century this impulse had be- Flick. | come dominant in English literature. Harmony Lodge has elected ad'its dele- Readers were beginning to demand gates Mesdames Mentz, Marshall and | that such ideas as were to be expressed, Kidd. | though they might be commonplace and | unpoetical laeas, should be set forth with neatness and mmetry. Commonplace and unpoetical ideas were not to be re- jeted if the style in which they appeared was clear and attractive. fluence had shown itself most conspicu- | ousiy in_the Eni drama. Voltaire called Addison’s 'ato” the first regular and reasonable play ever written in Eng- land, because it fuifilled the strict formal requirements of French ecriticism, of which the chief requirement was the ob- servance of the unities of time and place. The poetry of the age was for the most part written in lines of five iambic feet, the two adjacent lines rhyming and form- ing a couplet, each couplet usually making complete sense. The labor and pains ex- pended betore Pope brought the rhymed S S S Daughters of Liberty. The party ‘that was recently given by | California- Council of thé Daughters of | Liberty was a- great success as to point of numbers in atténdance and excellence of entertainment.” The feature of the | evening, however,.was “The Bunch of Roses,” a play ‘in which the following | named took part:- H. M. Schmidt, M. C. Thompson, Miss Alice . A. Zecher, Miss Carrie A. Sproul, ‘George Little, W. F. Unfred, Miss Laura Cantus and John W. Cobby. Each of - the ‘lady participants ‘wag presented handsome flowers. Dancing till midnight followed. The third anniversary party given by Martha Washington Council ‘was one of the most brilliant affairs ever given by this organizdition. There was a good pro- “numbers. being by Miss Alice Shannebrook, ‘Miss Emma . Doyle, Miss Agnes McCul- lough, Dr. J. G..Crawford and Miss Ers- kine. The hall was beautifully decorated with flowers and patriotic emblems. and balance In all species of writing. It cramped and dwarfed poetic power, but it prose had hitherto lacked. The age was critical in the sense that its literary lawgivers demanded of its writ- cal age In contrast the age of Shakespeare and with the later period in which Byron and Wordsworth and Shelley are -the leading figures—periods made illustrious by works o nation. _As the rules which it followed were deduced from a studg’ of the best works of the ancients, it has also been called the classical age. The study of models and the imitation of ancient clagsics gave to writers a common stand- ard of formal excellence toward which to work. Horace was the model studied most closely. | and his ““Ars Poetica” became the literary | code of the age. To the widespread in- terest in the classics must be attributed freul success of Dryden’s translation of Virgil and Pope’s translation of Home as well as his “‘Imitations” of Horac Though untrue to the manner and sperit of the original, Pope’'s translations ful- filled men’s ideal of classical dignity. It was easy to appreciate a literature which At the last held meeting of the Sons of Exempt. Firenfen there was presented evidence of progress in the society. There was. & .réport that a number of eligible | song had signified an intention to become members, and the name of one was fa- vorably. considered. The society will take part with the old exempts in the Admis- gion day celebration, and to make an at- tractive appearance adopted a uniform, cap and belt. The rociety has under con- sideration a tamale social, and it is prob- able that at the next meeting arrange- ments will be made on that line, p—— e Lincoln Relief Corps. Last week Lincoln Relief Corps No. 3 gave a progressive euchre pariy in its hall on Eddy street, at which the mem: bers of Lincoln Post, G. A. R., were the special guests. The prizes.were art treas- ures, painted by Mrs. Dot 8. Mortimer, the ‘do who is the president of the corps. Charles Mulchy of the post won the first prize and Anna Harris Barnes of the corps received the booby prize. After the plfitu‘ Mrs. Julia Keith Vaughn, who had ¢l rge of the function, invited all to a collation and coffee. enjoyed by all. be judged In the form of maxims which all could understand. The keenest interest was excited in subjects of literary inquiry, Men becama concerned about questions of correct taste. Anclent writers were re- appraised; contemporaries held one an- other to standards that all accepted as true. A knowledge of the accepted rules The evening was 3 | ers a close adherence to formal rules of | " Sons of Exempts. writing. It has also b:l"r‘. called a criti- 7 t the creative imagl- | i | artificial poetry: it was mc with it the judgment of the- ninéteenth | the ‘prose ! and Virgil had done for Roman literature L R D e ek JOSEPH ADDISON. @oiedetetetenh eieied oiss G. A: Freethig, W. J. Dunn, H. Brough, R |under Augustus; they had found it crude is a favorite | requi poiished, finished, regular and free from |™ stry of the eighteenth | ity in the spirit of the greatest poets of | usefulness. tion; that they. have the proper aim o S | prose—{mmediate intelligibility—and lend Friends of the Forest. } themselves to the practical needs of or-| to English prose something, of their own | and dance given | 1 by Mizpah -Lodge recently was at-| poetry, that it matters how a thing is | tended by a _very large. number |said. 'Unregulated by art, poetry among ! The French in- | | of Addison”—has gave to the prose sentence qualities which | THE GOLDEN AGE OF ENGLISH PROSE. Copyright 1900, by Seymoar Eaton. GOLDEN AGES OF LIKERATURE. of literary cons be ¥ St yle could b good which did not ¢ shey these rule Such a spirit could not help being unfavorable to the produetion of any but the most t favorabie to the development of an orderly, definite prose. Matthew Arnold said: The- glory of English literature is in poetry, and in poatry of the eighteenth century does ne heless - eenth -centu mense liters comings- in_postry progress - and _served it genius. of our people cc resistibly style, 1o’ the produ because for the preciss are the qualities * * ¢ Our liter- nforn balance, was wanted of a serviceable pros ature required ‘a prose which the true law of prosé, and that quire this the tiore surely it as in France, to confor Drose likew poetry. was the & abje to the gqualities of regu precision; balance. Gra fav able to- those very same qualitiesthe t fable = couplet—estabiishad el? c. verss of England. eénth- century ft had becom of our poetry. Poetry, or rather verse, entered in a remarkable deg: that century. 5 the whole of the daily of the. civilized-classes; and the poetry sreieseieg Thes: tyle lite t the & B . T S I o S B rbeb et eieres e ® century was a perpetual school of the qualities te for a good prose, the qualities of regul uniformity. precision. This ave been although te n arrangement for the gbservance of Wood- | thenceforth to be the standards by which | fiE e & et e men's Memorial day on the 3d of June. |all writers should be measured. | for Engiis etical sty that it has The district eonvention of the order wiil | The present age dissents from this cOn- | changed them for the w uld be un be held in' Santa Rosa on the third | clusion, not because it denies to_ the | true. But it was undentabh pal service Wednesday of next June. | Augustans superiority in literary fnish | to that which was the great w work The bazaar which was given during the | over their predecessors, but because it re- ’m the hour—English prose. past_week in.the banquet hall of the Na- ’ fuses to determine superfority on so nar- What made a good working prose indis- tive Sons’ building .in aid of the Wood- | row a basis as literary finish. The present | pensable to the. eighteenth century was men’s Burcau of Reliéf was exeeedingly | age perceives in Ellzabethan poetry and | the fact that modern life had ne 1n well' attended. he hall was arranged drama qualities infinitely higher, a spirit | witn Tu ctical and inte to represent a forest in which were num- | both deeper and freer. an interpretation | stigation erous booths tended by the ladies of the | of life that is stronger and truer than can from the founding in 1662. Inventions in science foligwed It was the timie of § . Boyle and Halley. Philos- of v th ives of the masses. The revolution 1888 had made public opinion important, and party leaders sought the services of literary men who could create it. Satire in prose or verse was the favorite instrt ment of writers who would bring ab I _changes or advance moral r Nothing bears stronger testimor to the practical characteristics of the age than the prevale of satire in the wri ings of Dryden. Addison, Swift and Pe If satire adopts the garb of poetry, vers it s only that it may Increase its sharp s level Is the prose level. The age : tive; it lacked enthusiasm, moral earnestness and lofty faith; but its leaders were striving to make it an age of reason, and the time came when it prided Itself upon its philosophy and com- mon sense. Of this age of prose and reason, cover- ing roughiy the fin half of the eigh eenth century, Addison is the best repre. sentative. He'is chosen rather than Swift or Pope because his work exhibits the literary tendency of the period in sober and moderate aspect. Addison is never and discoveries another rapidly Isaac N it t- extreme. His satire, for instance, is with- out Pope’'s stinging sharpness and with- out Swift's misanthro; Mareover, his ersonality as seen in his works and life s admirable above Pope's and Swift's. He is chosen rather than Dryden, though Dryden is a very important name in xia history of prose. ryden's position is that of a pioneer of the period under study. In the “Essay of Dramatic Poesy” and the prefaces to his plays and poems Dryden used a shorter sentence than his predecessors had used and showed that he knew how to rid English prose of in- tricacy and obscurity. Dryden's fame, however, rests mainiy not on his prose but on his verse, while Addison's rests mainly upon his work as a prose essay- ist. r. Johnson's famous appreciation of Addison—‘Whoever wishes to attain an English style. familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes been repeated without dissent By many critics of the nineteenth century. It is almost exclusively in his Pouplet to perfection told immensely in | character as prose essayist that Addison favor of regularity, condensation, point | is attractive to modern readers. His life, save only the period of his work as es- sayist, may therefore be passed over with very brief notice. Note—This study will be concluded to- morrow. [P COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. Spring Term; 1900. Mondays—American Political Par- ties. Tuesdays — Twenty Lessons in French Conversation and Recent Sci- | entific Discoveries. | i l Wednesdays and Thursdays — | Golden Ages of Literature. His satires were imitated | Fridays—Photography for Ama- teurs. Saturdays — Biographical Studies for Girls. Thgse courses will continue until May 31, 1900. 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