The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 16, 1900, Page 9

MANY BUSINESS ME SUBSCAIBE 10 THE MUSEUM Returns Show That Project Is Meeting With Much Encouragement. | One Hundred and Eighteen Local | Business Firms Indorse the Proposition by Becom- ing Members. received by the execu- ttee of the Pacific Commercial appears that the business men ncisco are meeting the propo- hearty manner. The number s enrolled up to the presnt time atifying to those having iIn f soliciting member- y evening 118 houses hip roll and many ated at headquarters that members have come In 1 be appointed to interest f the Pacific Coast in the from advices received ex- are expected. Commercial Museum ha: y commercial bodie: and by the State Bank- as being worthy of the o interested in the of the coast. T} the Philadel A th the favorable “ipro- 1 that splendid Eastern wing is the list of subscribing sers up to Mon American Steel Armsby & Co.; Bowers Rubber & Co.; Baruch & & & Co.; Cali- hard Mattres: 7 urrier Com- fornia W BRY intention of do- | THE SAN FRANCISCQ CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1900. ANT SAYS FAIR FEARED BLACKMAIL “Hobo” Witness Changes Import of Testimony He Gave for Mrs. Craven by Adding More to It. — He Declares Senator Fair Told Him He Was Not Married to Mrs, Craven and She Wanted Money. —_— NOTHER of star witnesses has fallen down and teils a story that Injures instead of supports her eause. H. N. Bryant, who has attained some notoriety as the ) y in which he charges that the late James G. Fair told him that Mrs. Craven was not his wife, but was trying to force him to recognize her as such and that it was Mrs. Craven's importunities that made the Senator introduce her as | his wife. is another sensation in a case that een full of them. Bryant's change bears a strong similarit the ting of Sylva and Simpton, who first nts for Mrs. Craven and ones. 1y with nges of these the cha < the confession of Bryant is reant does not absolutely change the which he has already given up- 1. but he comes forward with a that he did not tell all that he w, and while what he told was true, what he did not tell puts an entirely dif- ferent aspect upon the meaning conveyed by Lis testimony tand al testimony was given 2 , at which time he told that he knew Senator Fair du ing his lifetime and that upon the occa- sion of a visit to the latter's office M Craven made a call upon the Senator, dur- ng which there were some exciting word: between them. smoothed over and Senator Fair intro- duced Mrs. Craven to Bryant as his wife The story of Bryant stopped at this point and he was subjected to a rigid cross-examination, in which he was prett, badly handled and no small amount ridicule was poked at him. He was dub- bed “the hobo witness” and for sev days his testimon attacked. B became ed at the way in which his name a aracter were being ban bout, and vesterday he made a full confession to The Call as to his en- tire connection with the Craven-Fair suits. He s that while Senator Falr did introduce Mrs. Craven to him as his wife upon that occasion the Senator also told him that he was compelled to do so, | because Mrs. Craven was making him so &~ | much trouble 3 eege Has- v Bros.; Meese N & E ank (Limited); A, ENTS ARE HEARD | IN KILPATRICK CASE| 1eys Present Their Cases and rd of Education Will Shortly Render a Decision. nt the case of Prineipal Kil- | een on trial for the last | heard yesterday before Attorney Ash the charge that 4 his diploma in | »gation that Kil- | ARGUM ed unbecomingly at the | w h A on and ref- awal of the General cribed the | k to school g Clothing for the Poor. r meeting of the San Fran- »orts showed 1t tributed to the poor dur- t by the local branch, h urging mem. nd spend i f seaside and | ns making clothing for the poor. ————— d Deffendorf Indicted. Grand Jury found true bills tment yesterday against William George Deffendorf for bur- »ostoffice at Benicia. Cronin an POSTUM CEREAL. | | AT A SEWING SOCIETY. { Lady Gets Funny on a Harmless (f) Drink. el meets every | i s have lunch. | I take a cup of coffee I| i y such absurd things v I were intoxicated. | ed of myseli, but cannet art will go like a trip- | invariably kept awake | So I thought I um Food Coffee the | hould have heard | ed me—‘old maid,’ | before the lunch was | ad. more than one ) tried it were de- | d of it, but had ol great deal of Postum st to convince them they invariably | sO many people cannot ffee without it dis- ng them, and Postum Food Coffee | s to be exactly the thing. Postum I have been old iriends for years an the use of it when it was first duced, four or five years ago. At first I thought I could not use it for the way | made it, it was so flat and taste- less. but when 1 found out that it simply | required long boiling. the old trouble | dicappeared and we always have an ele- | gzt cup of coffee, when we make Pos- tum right.” Send postal card to Postum real Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich., the name and address. Put a small | piece of butter the size of two peas in | the pot, to prevent it boiling over. *Nearer. God, | D. Keith, grand Bryant is now living at the Galindo Ho- tel in Oakland. It was at that place t he made and signed a written confession. “I am tired of this constant attack upon my name and character,” said Mr. Bry- ant, “and 1 am now det ined to make a full statement What have already stated is absolutely but there are I have not I true, some other things to be told one word of my testimony already given to change. it. They have been talking about my hav- ing committed perjury. That is not so. 1 old the truth, but merely refrained from telling certain matters that 1 was re- quested to keep secret “T have not been properly protected by the attorneys Mrs. Cra n. offered them my story because It might have been of benefit to her and then they allowed me to be attacked in the most shameful manner. 1 am w determined to tell all, not done before.’” then prepared and signed a explainfhg his connection S READY FOR ARGUMENT. Craven-Fair Case Tésfimony Is Now All Before the Court. After days and weeks and months of court proceedings, monotonous from the dry, formal argu- ments of counsel, reading of documentary evidence and taking of expert handwrit- ing testimony, at others scintillating with and full of excitement from new and sen- tional testimony and replete with witty artee and heated altercations of oppos- re, ing counsel, the Craven-Fair case came to an end vesterday in Judge Troutt’s court so far idence and testimony are con- leaving behind it a malodorous cerned il, rz nk with the stench of corruption. \ere remains now but the argument of counsel. This will commence to-day and close Frid Charles J. Pence will open | for Mrs. Craven-Fair at 1:3) o'clock this afternoon and close at 4:30. He will be followed to-morrow by Garret McEner- ney, who will talk from 9 a. m. to 12 Ex-Governor James H. Budd will occupy | the time from 1:39 to 4:30 Thursday after- Mrs. Craven-Fair's | ed a signed confes- | Taken | Then everything was | but { have something to add to | at times dreary and | 1® B R o o o e S S R S o o o o e oo o o o | { P45 60D S EIIOe 00D R ot B e R { | { { | R o { | | B S S R e e R S e H. N. Bryant, the “Hobo” Witness. @ o etetotetsiedodededesdodededesdbotose® | '.85082 SR SRR +RR 0B R RN eReR NN SN N NN RN ON: CONFESSION OF ‘““HOBO” WITNESS. A & make the same statement again. Senator Fair's requesting me to keep it a secret was also correct. My motives in making the state- ments were the purest, for 1 had a desire to see Mrs. Craven get a portion of the property, as I believe she is entitled to it; but whether she ever became Senator Fair's wife or not I do not know. “I do not believe that she ever did, for Senator Fair told me afterward that she was not his wife nor did he ever intend to marry her, but said she was trying to compel him to and insisted that she be introduced as his wife, which I believe she was to others besides myself. 8 “He sald he was in trouble with her and wanted to get rid of her and asked me to go to her and see what kind of a settlement I could get, which I at first agreed to but afterward declined to do. “He told me‘he had given her money with a lavish hand, but she spent it as fast as she recelved it and he should stop unless he could get a settle- ment with her. I advised him to settle with her and get out of the trouble and T have every reason to believe that negotiations were opened up for that purpose but at his death had not been consummated. Hence she now seeks to establish herself as his wife and share in the property, which 1 still think she is entitled to and would have got had the Senator lived a few months longer. “I make this statement because I have not been treated right by Mrs. Craven and her lawyers, who agreed to see that I was protected, which they have made no attempt to do. They have allowed the opposition to ridicule me in a shameful manner and put men of disrepute on the stand to prove that I had testified falsely. This statement is composed of facts and I make it in self-defense, that the public may know why and how I came into the Cra- ven-Fair ca The public may judge who the sinners and perjurers are, *> % Y testimony on the stand In Judge Troutt's court as to Senator Fair introducing me to Mrs. Craven as his wife was correct and I would 220N ROW 4NAR SRR eNIRSR SRR N IR N @8 = e 8 i + : ki : s + b @ v b * by b * 2 8 g . “H. N. BRYANT.” 'y | @Ot et 2NN o2 AN NS NN 4RI RNt eNe NeNeN BN jnonn. Friday W. M. Pierson will argue his past give him a chance,” sald Lafe | from 9 to 12"in the forenoon and ~Lafe | Pence, and a laugh enlivened t | Pence will make the closing argument | of the proceedings. | from 1:30 to 4:30 in the afternoon. | _John Falconer, grand secretary of.the | . Governor Budd opened yesterday morn-( Foresters, testified that Justice Simpton |ing’s session of the trial by offering on | told him in 189 that Senator Fair and 11)\.{ anhor v,he I‘nl}x; h(;ursl lhl’l 11!;:1 m;m Mrs. Craven were married. | roll in_the suit on the deeds whicl udge s | Slack held void and the judgment regards ‘,tM{;'e ?.‘:;Zmo};gya(m{h':"l o Mecretary ing the trust will. Objection was made bY | Yecalled for cross-examination ‘Bhe o | Lafe Pence and sustained. knowledged having been arrested for | . Attorney Walter H. Linforth, ex-Collec- | patty larceny through her connection | tor John H. Wise and John W. Nye, real with a penny purchasing agency, but said she was acquitted and that she pald $750 | estate dealer at 31f Montgomery” street, | | testified in rebuttal that Lee D. Cralg’s | hack to subscribers, pledging her Jewels to help raise the money. putation was good. Attorney Plerson was called to the = Dlgn't 1_\-:;\1“ n)u;m. (‘»sxcart-1 Bu‘tm(‘laft! Margh and tell him you ‘thought Cralf | tand by Mie: CravensPaiv's counsel and asked by Attorney Lafe Pence: was lying in this case?’ asked Attorney | Plerson. | ask 4 > “On the contrary,” replied the witness,| . 'Are vou willing to produce the diary Sutro asked me if I would not swear I | Of 18027 wouldn’t belleve Craig under oath, and I| '‘We found none o]r1 Ercsse & Angus, plied. ptold him I'd believe him, oath or no “Are you willing to spend two or three oath. K Doy ooy saiesman for Murph?: | nours searching with_ us down tnére. i the morning?” asked Pence. Grant & Co., testified that he met Mrs. 0, I'm not,” was the reply. he dryness ° ve_the office dlary Mr. Pierson re- | Craven on Kearny street May 23, 1892, | walked with her to her home, &23 Sutter | | Street, and that Senator Fair opened the | ‘““Are you willing to tell us where you Goot Tor them He eaw Der gein the|found thet disgy y 5B B vesterday?”’ | next day at her home. | No, not. “You are a captain, are you not?” Then, willing or unwilling, I ask you asked Attorney Pierson, while engaged in | to_tell. finding out all about the witnes Mr. McEnerhey objected, and during “l gave my name as plain Frank D. | the argument that followed Pence spoke Webb,” replied the witness. “I've quit|of the rifled trunk at the CIff House. the military entirely.” he’s honestly trying to live down Mr. Pierson finally stated that the diary came from Captain Lees. REMEMBRANCE OF THE DEAD OF ONE YEAR Memorial Service by Parlors of the Native Daughters of the Golden West. i Decorating Graves With Flowers. Special Ceremonies by La Es- trella Parlor in Native Sons’ Hall. RSP IEREAS Yesterday was memorial day in the or- der of Native Daughters of the Golden West in accordence with a resolution of the Grand Parlor adopted several years ago. Each of the thirteen local parlors had representatives visit the several cemete- ries where the dead of the order are at rest to strew their graves with flowers and place wreaths of immortelles on the headstones in tender remembrance of the time when in life th who have passed away were worthy sisters. La Estrelia Parler No. 8 held specia! service last night in the Shasta Hall of the Native Sons’ building in memory of three of the members who passed to the great beyond during the past year. These were Mrs. T. Foster, Mrs. Lillian A. Car- | lle and M ate’ Ros Che ~second named was the founder of the parlor. There were no emblems of mourning in the hall, but the altar and ghe several stations were covered with beautiful flow- ers, while in front of the station of the rexident were the three chairs that were eft vacant by the members nam:d. These were each entwined with garlands of flowers and between them was an easel draped with the Ameérican flag. he of- ficers and members of the parlor entered the hall from an anteroom and marched around while an orchestra played Cho- pin’s funeral march. In passing the va- cant chair each deposited roses. Miss Ju- lia Vasselin, the president, made a few remarks upon the beautiful custom of honoring the memories of the dead, after which secretary called the roil, the marshal answering after each name | “present” until the names of Foster, Car- lie and Ross were called, when she an- swered “‘absent.” Miss Josie n‘n‘nrflm gfl'ered u? !a fer- vent prayer, after which a quartet sang e My to Thee,” Miss Eliza treasurer of the order, delivered an eloquent address appropri- ate to the occasion, giving expression to many beautiful sentiments. Mrs. M. Mid- dleton rendered “Flee as a Bird,” whicih was followed by the reading of an extract | from “Thanatopsis’” by Miss Clara K. Wittenmeyer, past grand president, after which William Fenstermacher sang ‘“The Holy City.” Mrs. Belle W. Conrad, past grand president, delivered the eulogy of the dead, dwelling particularly upon the life work and the patriotism of the late Mrs. Carlie, whose love for the order was exceeded only by her love of country and flage The members of the parlor rose and sang an ode which was written by Mrs, Carlie, and as the last lines were bein, sung the flag on the easel was raised, displaying to view a life-sized portrait of the author of the ode. This is to hang on the wall of the parlor she founded. After a selection by the orchestra the services closed. AUN DOWN Y A CABLE CAR AN SERIDUSLY HURT Mrs. L. Schwarz of Los An- geles Meets With an Accident. e L Prominent Woman of the South Narrowly Escapes Death While Crossing Market Street Near Lotta’s Fountain. o At Mrs. L. Schwarz of Los Angeles nar- rowly escaped with her life yesterday morning in a cable-car accident on Mar- ket street nmear Third. She was knocked down by a car and had it not been for the sudden stop by the gripman would have been run over without possibility of es. cape from death. Mrs. Schwarz and her two daughters had left the Palace Hotel, where they are stopping, at 11 o'clock. While crossing from the south side of the street oppo- site Lotta’s fountain Mrs. Schwarz be- came confused at the approach of Castro street car No. 121 and seemingly coul not get out of the way in time to lvola a collision. She was knocked down di- rectly in front of the dummy, which had 10 be pushed back in order 1o lift her to "Sirs: Sehwarz sustained rs. Schwa ustained severe body bruises and A gach on the side of he’r head. She was carried to the drugstore on Third and Stevenson streets, where temporary relief was administered. ' Soon after Mrs. Schwarz was taken to the Palace Hotel in a carriage. Dr. Gardiner llilut been attending her since the acci- lent. Mrs. Schwarz is a_promin@nt woman in the social world of Los Angeles. Accom- g:nled by her two daughters she has en in this city since May 9. e party intended to return within a day or two, but their departure may be dclayed on account of the accident. ] John J. Weglein’s Will. The will of John J. Weglein, who died May 10, leaving an estate exceeding $10.000 in value, was filed for probate yesterday. Decedent bequeathed his entire estate his widow, Frederica We; Jein is named as exe{:n Ix and Max Ro- he will. ———————— BLOODSHED CAUSED Joseph Amostich Wanted by the Po- lice for Stabbing M. Maladinich, a Waiter, in the Back. M. Maladinich, a waiter in a restaurant at 234 East street, swore to a complaint in Judge Mogan’s court yesterday for the arrest of Joseph Amostich, the proprie- tor, on a charge of assauit with a deadly P istomer._ordered a_ham sandwich Monday and Maladinich repeated the or- der to the cook, who objected to the way in which it was given. The cook appealed to Amostich, and during the squabble Amostich called Maladinich a liar. Mala- dinich slapped Amostich’s face and called him an og‘enslw name. This roused the blood of Amostich and seizing a knife he stuck it in Maladinich's back. ————— Overcharged for Jail Supplies. Sheriff Lackmann forwarded a commu- nication to the Board of Supervisors yes- terday in which he complains that the city has been overcharged by James Snook & Co., the contractors for jail sup- piles. For the months of January, Feb- ruary and March the Sheriff says that i6 is due the city. The discrepancies occur on account of the difference of opin- ion existing between the Sheriff and con- tractors as to what constitutes a ration. The Police Committee will take up the matter to-morrow afternoon. ———————— Railroad Commissioners Adjourn. There was a brief adjourned meeting of the Raliroad Commission yesterday for the purpose of glving the Attorney Gen- eral an opportunity to communicate with the commission if he desired to do so after receiving its request to pro against the Southern Pacific Conuun;‘r in the courts in the Fresno rate case. 3 secretary of the board officially notified the members that he had placed In the hands of the Attorney General their res- olution adopted on Monday, together with the request for immediate action. The board then adjourned. senthal executor of CREDIT MEN OF CITY ORGANIZE AND ADOPT LAWS They Will Co-operate With National Association in Its Work. —_— New Association Formed for Protec- tion Against Fraud and to Bring About Amendment to Bankruptcy Laws. S L The 8an Francisco Credit Men's Asso- ciation was organized vesterday at a meeting held in the rooms of the San Francisco Board of Trade. There were about twenty present. The credit men are those who determime what customers of a house are entitled to credit, and | watch that phase of the business as a | specialty. The preliminary work was done by a committee of which Morris Feintuch was | chairman. Mr. Feintuch presided and | spoke of the advantages of the proposed | organization. The National Credit Men's Association, he sald, had about 3500 mem- bers. It had brought about some legisla- tion of value to the business community. | In some States laws had been passed pre- venting the sale of stocks of goods in bulk without notice to the creditors. The mer- | cantlle agency work had been Irpmved by the influence of the National Associa- tion. One agency had made known that | %3 to 8 per cent of statements were now | signed. Formerly the limit was 26 per | cent. | . Feintuch’'s remarks proved to be convlncln§ and the organization was: speedily formed. The purposes, as set| forth in the constitution and by-laws, are as follows This assoclation Is organized for protective as well as educational purposes; to promote and combine the intelligence of members for protection against imposition, injustice and fraud; to agitate and effect changes in the | collection and bankruptey laws of this and other States and the protection of creditors | against abuses now prevalent; to bring about | improvements and greater similarity in busi- ness methods, customs and usages of trade and to establish closer ties of business asso- clation among the members; to improve the ex- isting_methods of the diffusion of information and for the collection and dissemination of data relative to the subject of credits. The by-laws provide that the board of | directors shall act in harmony with the National Credit Men's Association. he following named were elected di- rectors: T. J. Parsons of the Del Monte Milling C(ym{mn}:, J. J. Schutz of Haas | Brothers, M. Feintuch of the Wer- | theimer. (.‘ompané': G. Brenner of L. & Brenner, 8. W. Fuller of Ha; wood Brothers & Wakefield, C. L. | Bonestell of Bonestell & Co., Ferdinand | Frohman of the California Wine Associa- tion, W. C. Mc(‘loske{ of Miller, Sloss & Scott.; C. J. Lutgen of J. A. Folger & Ca D. AU Hulse of Hulse, Bradford & C. P. Capell of M. J. Brandenstein & Ci G. L. Cunningham of the American St and “Wire Company, G. C. Nevin of Nathan, Dohrmann & Co.; F. B. Nelson | of the Dairymen's Union. This board wili | elect a president, two vice presidents and a secretary. Arthur Bray acted as secre- tary of the meeting. COMPANIONS OF FOREST | WILL ADJOURN TO-DAY New Ritual Adopted—The Officers for Next Term Yet to Be Elected. At yesterday’s session of the Supreme | Grand Circle of the Companions of thei Forest, A. O- F., all the business was dis. | posed of except the election of officers, | which was made the special order for 10| o'clock this morning. | The committee on written and unwritten wor\:‘{;resomed a lengthy report which in- volved a number of minor changes in the floor work and in the charges by the offi- cers of the subordinate circles. This re- | port was adopted as presented. New rit- uals will be printed and sent to the cir- cles in exchange for the old ones without cost to the circles. | The report of the committee on the state | of the order was a flattering one. It showed that the Supreme Grand Circle is in a healthy condition, having paid all de- mands against it and having enough on hand to meet the expenses of the conven- | tion. The report commends that portion | of the address of the supreme grand chief companion which alludes to the great harmony existing between the members of the Ancient Order of Foresters and the members of the Companions of the Forest. In the evening there was a banquet to the officers and delegates in a Stockton- street dining-room, at which there were present about seventy-five. ner, . G. C. C., was the toast-m: ter. There was no programme of toasts, but a large number of those who were at the table were called upon to “make a few remarks."" —— . AMATURO SAID HIS BRIBE WAS A GIFT Trial of a Japanese Immigrant for Offering Twenty-Five Dollars to Inspector Geffeney. Tavanasa Amaturo, a Japanese immi- grant, was placed on trial yesterday in the United States District Court, before | a jury, on the charge of having attempted to bribe A. H. Geffeney, one of the United States immigration inspectors. lnsA)cctors Crawford and De la Torre testified that they were on board the Do- ric on March 25, 1899, and that they saw the defendant hand Mr. Geffeney $25. Mr. | Geffeney thereupon placed Amaturo un- der arrest. The defendant was represented by John E. Quinn and Edward Lande. When Am- aturo was placed on the witniess stand for the purpose of telling his story they asked hat Mr. Geffeney, the complaining wit- ness, act as interpreter of Japanese. To this arrangement no objection was made. Amaturo_swore that Geffeney called him aside and asked: % “What can you do for me?” Amaturo repliéd with cheerful laconism: “Twenty-five dollars as a present.” He swore also that he did not think there was anything wrong in the making of a 7t (o an offfcial, It was a common thing fa Orfental countries, he sald. The case will be argued before the jury this morning. —_————————— School Water Bills Held Up. Auditor Wells returned yesterday the water bills of the School Department, amounting to $6000, without his approval on the ground that there is no appropria- tion in the school fund for that purpose, but that there is a specific appropriation for water used for municipal purposes. Superintendent Webster held the same view, but experienced a change of mind and finally decided to sign the demands. The action of the Auditor will hold the bills up indefinitely. The Auditor quotes the charter in defensc of his course, which provides that it shall not be lawful to transfer money from one fund to an- other or to use the same in payment of demands upon another fund. —————e b = Clubs to Take Individual Action. he Federation of Mission Improvement Clubs has sent a commu:(i’ca;lon to the or in which it is stated that the or- ‘?n’;uuon's attitude on the Maguire re- suced car fare bill is misunderstood by some people. On that account it was re- salved at a recent meeting to leave the matter to the individual clubs and no fur- ther actlon will be taken by the federa- . There a divislon of sentiment :’:flho question it was also resolved to re- 1 the committee appointed to confer call tl with the Supervisors. R e e S o Warrants for Telephone Officials. The warrants for the arrest of the tele- phone officials for refusing to pay the l- nse tax on telephones were cemm lfl‘:filector Scott fighsttrdny by District Attorney B;’lnrm\. e war- ts are for the arrest of Secretary Ea- and President Sabin of thé Pacific Telephone Company and will be by Scof any fi’l the instruments and wi the m:tt:rn to 'thn higher courf THE POETRY OF AN AGE OF REVOLUTION. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. GOLDEN AGES OF LITERATURE. XXII. GOLDEN AGE OF ENGLISH POETRY. BY THOMAS MARC PARROTT, PH.D. The poetry of the age of Wordsworth and Byron 1s the poetry of an age of rev- olution. It does.mot,~to be sure, spring directly from the political upheaval in France, but it Is closely assoclated with it, a product of the same great movement for liberty of thought and action. With one great exception, the poets of the age take sides for or against, in certaln cases both for and against, this movement, and | it is by their common interest in the rev- olution and their varying attitude to its successive phases that poets so dissimi- | lar in form and spirit as Cowper and Scott, Burns and Shelley, Byron and Coleridge, are mutually related. And a study of thelr work from this point of view lends a unity otherwise impossible of attainment to one of the most brillant ages of English literature. Forerunnérs—Cowper and Burns. The new mnote is first struck in “Table Talk” and its companion poems in 1782. [ owger owed little or nothing to the poets of the preceding generation. His revolt against the accepted conventionalities of his time, his close observation of nature, his delight in the simple human affec- tions, all mark him as the poet of & new day. And in politics, as in literature, Cowper has something of the revolution- ary spirit. The most devout of Chris- tians, he accepted the idea of the broth- D+ 0+ 404000+ 0+5+0 B ROBERT BURNS. Qoo ei e eibeied este® erhood of man as a dogma of revealed R e R e S S 2 religion; he translated, as has been well | sald, the gospel of Rousseau into the gospel of St. Paul. He declared that the cause of liberty was the cause of man, prophesied that only reform could avert revolution in England, and exulted in the approaching fall of foval prisons, “the abode of _broken hearts.” No wonder that Dr. Franklin, bodiment of the revolutionary spirit, found in the works of Cowper “something so new in the manner and so just in the sentiments™ that he read ‘‘the whole with pleasure and some of the pieces more than once.” Burns, like Cowper. is a poet of the revolution, but he has none of Cowper's calm and philosophic reverence of lib- erty. He is a passionate democrat. The hardships' of his own life fired him with bitter indignation against the injustice of the prevailing soclal system, and he looked to the ultimate triumph of revo- lutionary pripciples for the redress of this injustice. It's coming yet, for a' that, That man to man, the worid o'er, Shall brothers be for a’ that. Had Burns lived in France he would have been a poet of”the barricades. 1792, the very year of the September mas- he sent a pair of guns seized from smuggler as a personal gift to the French convention. At a public dinner he proposed the tqast of “the last verse of the last chapter of the last book of Kings.” Naturally enough, considering the circumstances of his life, Burns was not always consistent in his politics. The fear of losing his place in the excise drew from him a loud declaration of his attachment to the British constitution. The threat of French invasion called out one of the finest of his patriotic songs, but even in this outburst he makes no secret of his democratic principles. Who will not sing God save the king, Shall hang as high's the steeple; ut.while we sing God save the king, We'll ne'er forget the people. One of the most striking characteristics of the poetry of Burns is his passionate love of nature. In this he is the true, though perhaps unconscious, disciple of Rousseau and the forerunner of Words- worth. “I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon,” he writes to a friend, “or the wild mix- ing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning without feeling an | elevation of soul like the ‘enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.” This enthusiasm for nature, a reaction from the urban and ar- tificial life of the eighteenth century, is one of the chief marks of the revolution- ary spirit in poetry. It had appeared al- ready in Cowper, but in Burns we have a warmth of sym‘fathy which gs far In ad- vance of the English poet’ somewhat patronizing admiration. When Burns sees the frightened mouse flying before his plowshare he feels for it as a “ploor earth-born companion, a fellow mor- tal.” Tam o' Shanter and his crony. fate of the mountain daisy the poet sees an omen of his own. All nature, in fact, is regarded by Burns as sharing in the | feelings of humanity. Even more intense and passionate was his love for mankind. urns _was no stricken deer that had left the herd, but a living, loving, sinning and suffering man such as English poetry had not known since Shakespeare. He sings of what he has seen and felt, the simple piety and homely joys of “‘The Cotter's Saturday leht.“ the laughing fun of “Halloween™ and the “Holy Fair,” the rollicking good- fellowship inspired by John Barleycorn, above all of love In all its phases, re- ected, despairing, triumphant and remin- scent. Love poetry, silent in England since the close of the Elizabethan era, sgmng into glorious life in the songs of this Scotch ‘)easlnt. For there was in Burns a quality of sentiment that invest- ed even the basest passion with those rap- tures of fire and alr that mark our older oets. And even finer than these rap- ures is the tenderness of his sympathy for sinning and suffering humunfiy, Not ignorant of evil, he knew how to pity; and in sharp contrast with the preachers and satirists of his century he drew over the world the broad mantle of human charity. But rhaps the characteristic which most distinctly marks Burns as the poet of the revolution is his spirit of rebellion against the established order of things. 1t is no calm plea for reform that we hear in his poems, but a note of angry revolt, springing from a sense of personal wro find Gezenerating at times Into a seifeh cense. ‘The gentry and the domineering cle: of his land are the objects of hll;'keenrg shafts of scorn and the wildest spirit of | the French Revolution finds perfect ex- ression in the song that closes the ““Jolly ggars’”: A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glo feast! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches bullt to please the priest! Poets of Revolution and Reaction. Southey, Coleridge and Wordsworth form a triad of poets closely connected in their lives and work. Alike subject to the early influences of the revolution. they alike reacted against it when the lust of conquest supplanied the love of liberty. Southey may be dismissed In_a few we Aog,x poet he is dead. His ten volumes vel ponderous epics and lu- dierous ballads relegated to the dust A mere handful of poems fil al‘somn of Wordsworth 1 pay a li 1 Tt ics. #ho If be had i a license of @ al an e nof a munl:'t‘- fi Words and Cou}% 8. 5 his lity would be as vague to that American em- | In | attitude of | ““The Twa Dogs” are as human as | In the | as that of any eighteenth-century lau- reate. Perhaps his surest title to immor- tality is found in the undying scorn which B[‘ron poured out upon him in the “Viston | of Judgment.” Here Southey appears as i the Epic Renegade who Had written praises of a regicide: And written prais He had written . 4 | ~And then against them bitterer than ev | , Yet Southey was never the unprine | turncoat these lines imply. He had hon- | estly espoused the prineipies of the revolu- tion and as honestiy recoiled from the ex- cesses of the reign of terror. But thera was something hard, narrow and Philis- tinic about Southey's later work that par- ticularly exposed him to the onslaught of Byron. His lauded “Ode During the Ne- | 8otiations for Peace” is in_substance a savage cry for the blood of Napoleon, and in his * on of Judgment,” a poem whose dullness is equaled only by its un- conscious profanity, he consigns Wilkes and Junius to hell because in life they had | dared to oppose that great and good King. George L[Il. But enough of Southey. Samuel Taylor Coleridge i3 the very an- tipodes of Southey. A far profounder thinker and loftier poet, he was lament- ably inferior as a man. But his rank as a poet is little disturbed by his moral fail- ings, although the quantity of his poetic Q[~wrl|xcrlnn was undoubtedly lessened With a few exceptions all his verse was written in the last decade of the century, | and it could be included in a narrow com- ass. But it contains infinite riches in a ittle room. He broke away as no one yet had ventured to do from all the tradi tions of the century. The exaltation of his odes, the mystery in simplicity of the “‘Ancient Mariner," the haunting music of stabel " —all these are absolutely new. Coleridge was Inspired above his fellows by the spirit of the revolution. As a schoolboy he exulted in the fall of tha Bastile. At Cambridge he was the asso- clate of Frend, who was expelled for uni- tarlanism and sedition. Against Pitt, whom he regarded as the representative | of the anti-revolutionary spirit, he launch- | ed the dreadful invective of “Fire, Famine and Slaughter.”” His finest burst of revo- lutionary feeling is found in_the “Ode the Departing Year' But the next pled year saw a complete change. Already sickened by the massacres of the Terror, ue shrank in horror from the French assault on the liberties of Switzerland, | and the greatest of his odes— France™ sings his formal recantation of revolution- ary principles. Henceforth Coleridge ranked among the conservatives. He never became a tory reactionist, like Southey. But he aban- doned poefry and set himself to interpret rather than to alter the institutions, polit- ical and religious, of his country. Of his influence over the later thought of Eng- land this is not the place to speak. It is enough to say that he became the spirit- ual father of nineteenth century intellect- | ual liberalism, and in the last years of his | life his home at Highgate was as an or- { acle where the noblest minds of his coun- | try repaired for inspiration. it is not possible to overestimate the | rank of Coleridge in English literature. {e recreated the ode, the ballad, and the metrical romance. He quickened the | stronger but more slowly moving genius | of Wordsworth, and their joint work, th | | @*is i e e esesese® R e S S L A A S. T. COLERIDGE. [ R e yrical Ballads [P S A S S P S PS ® of 1795, is perhaps the most remarkable volume of poetry the eighteenth century produced; certainly it s the most important in its after effects. Both Scott and Byron drew their inspira | tion from the new music of “Christabel. To no poet of his age do we owe a deeper debt, not only for what he did, but for what he caused others to do. So much has been written on Words- | worth that it seems a hopeless task to take up the tale and say anything new. From Coleridge and De Quincey to Ar- nold and Swinburne the foremost Eng- | lish eritics have delighted to dwell upon | his verse, to point out its merits and de- | fects, to examine the theory of poetry upon’ which it is based and to expound | the philosophy which it contains. And | the predilection with which criticism has | turned to Wordsworth has its good and | sufficient reasons. For three-quarters of | a century he has been the most profound | and stimulating influence in English ! poetry and has done more than any mod- | ern poet to inform and strengthen Eng- lish life. For his poetry has a quality, | “fortifying and ennobling,” that is at once unique and priceless. He was him- self well aware of this. “Trouble not | yourself,” he wrote to a friend lament- ing the savage criticism which for the | moment cheeked the sale of his poems: | “trouble not yourself upon their present reception; of what moment is that com- | pared with what I trust is their destiny? —to console the afflicted; to add sunshine to daylight by making the happy hap-- pier; to teach the young and graclous of every age to_see, to think, to feel, and therefore to become more actively virtu- ous.” The superb self-confidence which inspired these words has been amply jus- tified and it is well worth our while to make an effort to discover the reason of Wordsworth’s influence and the sources of_his power. Note—This study will be continued to- morrow. CATHEDRAL COUNCIL TO GIVE AN OUTING Members of Young Men's Instituts ‘Will Entertain Their Friends in in Santa Cruz Mountains. Cathedral Council No. 5 of the Young Men's Institute will hold its annual outing | next Saturday at Sunset Park, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The members have distributed a great many invitations | and a very select gathering is assured. The usual games and other features of | the ordinary picnic are to be dispensed with, An orchestra has been engaged to furnish music for those who may desire to dance. A fine programme of vocal and instrumental music has also been ar- ra The committees in charge of the outing are as follows: Amgememsf!’. F. McCarthy (chair- man), J. Dellard, Danlel C. Deasy, J. D. Mahoney, Charles Beardsley, A Kelly. 1. Gonzales, P. J. i, T Fran) g rtin, W. Chester Keofih (secretary). Programme—L. A. Kelly, E. J. Dollard, D. C. Deasy. Floor manager, Neal Power; assistant, A. L. Art 3 Floor committee—Albert H. atman, I h McCusker, W. F. Humphrey, P. Matthews, Harry A. Byrnes, d’mhm A 'IAlAy. rthur W. Dollard. . lély;!-n , Fred E. Farmar, Charles T. Mec- arthy. Fransportation—P. F. MeCarthy, J. D. | Mahoney, W. Chester Keogh. Murphy Is Convicted. Joseph Murphy was convicted by a jury in Judge Dunne's court monl;y on a thu;u of burglary in the second degree | On reh 5 last he entered the premises i-ll. rll::c:;'rm!umnmd