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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 117, 1960. WARNER'S REMEDIES . GAMEWITH ANY DACHES. FLATULENCY. THOUSANDS. An American Citizen. ,’V\Rb.r.!ai’V\»F,___S”NElLL X PANTY. 1 be presented with a ireatest Spec IL EYE” tractions. Mat onday EV to § » nee e to 7 - - JOHN DREW ANNY OF TEA gy +TIVOLI Am | aWiz? * “You Bet | Am! THE_ WIZARD OF THE or ALL NEW! ALL NEW! EVERY ACT A BIG HIT! EZRA KENDALL; AF TL K LOUIEE GUNNING; T THE MUSICAL BATES; MARK SUL- OLLIE NOBLES. alcony, 10c; Opera day. IN PREPARATION-RICE'S “1492" USUAL POPULAR PRICES. ool Reservec Seat in Orchestra, Saturday Matinee, Z5c Ticket Office Emporium and BESAER ANOTHER BIG HIT! E. H. SOTHERN’S Most Euccessful Drama, MAISTER OF WOOD BARROW! EE SATURDAY AND BUNDAY. SEATE, EVERY APTERNCON AND EVENING: GREAT VAUDEVILLE SHOW ! SPECIAL TO-NIGHT! JOINING THE SECRET SORIETY. | And THE AMATEURS in Specialties. | | AFTER THE VAUDEVILLE Saturday Night Cakewalk Comtest. Order Scats by Phone Park 23 KIDXEY DISEASES. i i | A. W. LOUDERBACK, Auctioneer. | MAY KILL OFF KD OFAGUN Circuit Judge Ross Knocks Out Marin County Ordinance. _Judge Ross, sitting as a United States ircuit Judge, decided terday that the Marin Coun pump-gun ordinance, so0- B R S e SRl T S I L S S G o S e 1 called, was void because it conflicts with the fourteenth amendment to the consti- { tution of the United States, which guar- citizen the enjoyment of | r perty. ase ori "d in the habeas cor- tion of W. A. Marshall. Mr. Mar- was convicted by a Marin County Justice of the Peace of } hav g shot with a rep: shotgun, on January 12 of this year, one jay and one quail, the use | | of a repeating or magazine shotgun being | prohibited dinance passed by the | { Board of He appealed to the | United St cuit Court on the ground | that t nce was unconstitutional in rendering his decision, | was the property of used it on his own own, he sald, that uctive than the omatic ejector shot- the ordinance. Guns for ornament but for use, | re Judge. To deprive the petitioner the use of his gun is to deprive him of of his property. If Marin County bit the use of the gun aid ge other county and every | d Territory may do the actically “destroying the | t ind of gun for the a in the United ADVERTISEMENTS. T S e o e o o S o e = ) i 1 2 Where the i Land i Ligs. L O e BRYANT MAKES CHARGES AGAINST ~ THE FAIR SIDE = & Says Agents of the Heirs Made Several Attempts 5 . : Fl to Bribe Him. H one of the essential fea- 5 s of value t ns her B o Compiaie fveiment n | Offered Him Money, He Says, to B oil stock. Swear Dead Senator Never Told B The lands of the Him He Had Married Mrs. Craven. JECSI DA | H. N. Bryant, the “hobo witness"” of + Craven-Fair notoriety, has made some more sensational allegations. This time he makes direct charges that representa- tives of the Fair heirs attempted to bribe him. “It is not for . “that y that t the husband of Mrs. Craven. If and not fair play was all I desired id have had that long ago. Time and in men have come to me from the forces with offers of money if 1 g0 upon the stand before Judge and swear that 1 had testified at my examination. mone: sald Bryant yes- I have come forward with one- all of section and uarter of the adjbining section )f these offers have been indignant- 4. Township 21 south. Range 15 B ly refused by me. I spurned the attempts N DM “URE S @ | of the Fair people to induce me to change ik o 3 The Pences made no offer I asked for no remunera- it of course that as I had -] business {n Oakland for ] a week and held down the witness stand for that period I would at least be = paid for the time lost. I calenlated that And 3 will discover this tract m \”mf‘\ wn}. 1 be w lh;lil'(l;’{or $300. to v en t As for the woman Mrs. Horton, or as midway between the almost Bl | 3 138 7 oF ot o) on e asmie” e s parallel ledges of oil sandstonc B ' appeared on the stand and told the jury shale extending through that 1 deliberately lied when I made the | statement ti had borrowed money from Fair for her, I expected the Pences would protect me from her statements.” FAIR CASE ARGUMENTS. Charles Pence Is Impressed With the “Rapid Pace” of California’s Metropolis. Do San Francisco husbands have more privileges and enjoy more indulgences than those of other cities bepause of the more accelerated “pace” of this Califor- {nla metropolis? An intimation to this effect was made yesterday in the Craven- Fair cgse by Attorney Charles Pence, re- cently’ from Colorado, and Judge Troutt may feel called upon to settle this point for the matrons of San Francisco. Mr. Pence opened the argument on be- | half of Mrs., Craven at 1:30 p. m. and | closed at 4. He is not an orator, as is his | brother, but he is clear and forcible and delivered an able argument, replete with | law and legal decislon. His entire talk was on the California law of marriage in | the year 1892 and what constituted a legal | tying of the nuptial bond at that time, and on a direct ity to the Kreyen- = Black Mountain g owing wells. If you contemplate large in- ent it might pay you to take a trip to Coalinga and viss In that event you B st more heavily. } y ited amount of fully paid g non-assessable stock is now of- g fered at 50 cents per share. or send for prospectus. the story. - Address all communications to M | 1t SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Francisco lq,i' Represented in San ]. P. MASSIE, Room th Floor, Mills building. In_Chicago by G. GIRLING, 260 Dearborn street. F e o ames G. Falir. err LOS ANGELES OFFICE—-§ 402 Douglas Block AUCTION OF FINEST PERFECT ANTIQUE = RUGS | SPECIAL BARGAINS! | | | A DIRECT IMPORTATION. LA!s)lKEI:gTE B&A!sx EER% { Vaius for 5 0. Sale gk € | Cor. fieary and Stockton Sts. Shs v ° $4.0 f i LARKiRTs, Ohthy ShovioR | 3 IC) a] . | THURSDAY . . ... MAY 17TH, Value for $5 5. s{u s“ qu | At 11a m and 2°p. m. price A few days more and it will be over, = GRAGEVIOT = LADIE! , GET BARGAINS WHILE YOU CAN Penly Capplaued Ve ot ln!r:”y rgd:!l‘d until certain amount realized :lru‘&). ale slo_oo SALE ABSOULUTELY WITHOUT RESERVE. LADIES" TAN AND GRAY JACK- ETS, tailor made, in Eton fi ln'euted'. lrolnt "rld double AMUSEMENTS. Vi r ) e o - $7.50 FISCHER'S CONCERT HOUSE,|§ ;o prack CLOTH CAPES .12 O'FARRELL STREET. MIBARmbP‘ GRAND OPERA QUARTET. JUST RECEIVED. Prison Scene from “FAUST’ . Abramoff J Mephistopheles. Last Act *RI " 10c—Admission—idc. Matinee SUTRO BATHS wiLL OPEN NIGHTS ON AND R AFTE! SATURDAY, May I9, 1900. J, O’BRIEN & G0, 1146 Market Street, — 7Mi'ssionary Bark;ntlne Morning Star Off for Nome. . -0 Senator Fair told me he | ; when Mrs. Craven claims she became the | VPP PO I PDIDGOPIDOEDEDEDIDEPOIIDIPIO OV 9D ebedededoedeie & s e ese@ | length to the Sharon and the Blythe | es, in which he showed the facts of eged marriage to be totally different to | those surrounding the connection of Mrs. | | Craven and Senator Fair. S ‘Len Attorney Pence reached that point | +® © - in his argument where he brought a look of incredulo: uiry from Garret Me- Enerney_and sovernor Budd by refer- ring to San Francisco as a speedy city. | “Public rec n or denunclation can- | flect or effect the relation of mar- | Pence. he public is | neither the bride nor the groom. Nor can social usage, custom or habit be made | | the measure of assumption of marital ights, di The kinds ies or obligations. | h ng married pe(;plel £ are as diverse and many as are citles, | | towns, villages, crossroads and isolated homes. T b ts, privileges and indul- | gences of the San Francisco husband may differ wid. from those of other cities | where the pace is not so fast. “It may be the custoin of the husband | in som see to it that all his | 11 know friends hiz wife and introduce her as such. In other circles this | not be the rule. While tl active social life are worthy op | | the quiet modesty of the secluded home | is not to be condemned. It might have | been wise he Legislature to have | adopted or approved some book on social | | etiquette, but it seems to have omitted Sharon, said the attorney, er acknowledged Miss Hill as his wife, | and further, he applied to the United | States Court to have the marriage con- | tract in her possession annulled. Blythe never acknowledged Alice Edith Dicka- | son as his spouse, but referred to her as Miss Dickason. Senator Fair not only introduced Mrs. Craven as his wife and acknowledged her as such but signed a ontract. Mr. | Pence held that the Su- | preme Court declsions in the Sharon and | ; 3lythe cases could not nullify Mrs. Cra- | | ven's alleged marriage. | Mr. Pence declared his cllent had | proved the marriage by written agr ment with James G. Falr and the subse- qnnnt assumption of marital relations. ‘his was sufficient under section 55, which provided in 1582 that ‘“‘when the consent | of competent parties is followed by the mutual assumption of marital rights or | marital duties or marital obligations the marriage is complete.” At the close of his argument Mr. Pence | placed in the hands of the court some | genuine letters of Semator Fair to show | that Expert Ames was wrong in saying that Fair never made certain letters in | certain ways. This forenoon at 9 o'clock Attorney Me- | Enerney will open for the heirs and the afternoon will be occupied by ex-Gover- nor Budd | JUSTICE COOK MUST PAY PROMISSORY NOTE “Jake” Rauer Threatens to Atuclfl His Ranch for Giving Judg- | ment Against Him. Justice of the Peace Cook says that be- cause he decided a suit against “Jake™ | Rauer. the money lender, the last named | | has sent him a notice threatening to at- tach the Judge's ranch in Napa, unless he ays a promissory note for $50, now held gy Rauer’s Collection Agency. Three days ago sudge Cook gave judgment against Rauer’'s concern in a suit brought for $128 49 against Ralph Knapp. When the | Judge announced his decision Rauer, who | appeared very angry, said: ““Your decision is an outrage. Three | reputaple witnesses have testified that | Knapp owes this money. I'll fix you up tfor this." ° *udge Cook thought nothing of the inci- | dfat until he was served with a notice to | pay the money on the note and he natur- aily thought that Rauer had taken this method to retailate for not getting judg- ment for his client. ‘I believe Rauer has threatened me with attachment proc'edin%s." said Judge Cook, “because I decided against him. Out of sixty-five cases that was the first one which he lost. T borrowed $0 from Rauer on a note during the last campaign, but I am prepared to pay it at any time. It looks as if he wanted revenge.’” I knew nothing about the notice sent to Cook.” sald Rauer, “until now. It eman- ated probably from my agency in the or- dinary course of business. The Judge some time ago Indorsed a note of one Streaten and as it had run for a long time it was decided to call it in. In the Divorce Court. Decrees of divorce were granted in the Superior Court yesterday to Manuel B. Rezendes from dMa.rIa L. Rezendes for de- sertion, Anna de Vries from Geo de Vries for habitual lmemperlnce,r;l.flen Kilintz from C. Kilintz for wiliful neglect, Ella Lytle from Charles L. Lytle, same cause, and John Simpson from Mary Simpson for desertion. | Suits for divorce have been filed by Lot- tie A. Carey against Peter A. Emy, cause, cruelty; Peter Pala st Cate- rina Pala, desertion; Anabell Batchelor vFnhllt. Robert Batchelor, failure to pro-! de, and by Blanche 8. Palmer against Sigmund G. Palmer for cruelty. Will Advertise for Horseshoeing Bids Judge Cook made an order yesterday suspending for ten days the force and effect of the writ of mandate heretofore issued compelling the Board of Fire Com- missioners to advertise for bids for con- tracts to shoe the department horses. This was done to enable the Commission. ers to advertise for bids and permit those ‘who are now shoeing the horses to con- tinue doing so until contracts have been let lrt;A accordance with the decision of the court. Body Surreptitiously Buried. The decomposed and partly dried body of a male infant was found yesterday in a tel In a grave i tery In_the family plot of Mrs. J. Green. went to the plot to place flowers on the grave of her ler and saw the end of the basket sti out of thewlma The was fied and tl was exhumed and wwm&“fiam«ym | bounds and the Commissioners recogn | this rush | to a completion, | enty | Nome at 2 NEWS FROM THE OCEAN AN THE WATER FRONT Harbor Commissioners Hard at Work to Improve the Wharves. . The Harbor Commisstoners held a very important meeting yesterday. Messrs. Kilburn, Har and Herold are doing everything in their power to put the water front in the best possible shape in order to meet the increased demand of ship- ping facilities, and before next season comes around they will have succeeded. At yesterday's meeting they let contracts for the building of the new fishermen's wharf at North Beach and the repairing of the new Santa Fe ferry slip at Main street wharf. The plans and speci- fications for a shed over Howard street wharf No. 3 (pier 10) were adopted and bids for the work will be called for at once, while Goodall, Perkins & Co. and the Oregon Coal and Navigation Company were notified that they would be required to surrender possession of seawall lots Nos. 14 and 15 about May 1, 191, The trade and importance of the port of San Francisco is growing by leaps and e this fact. 1In a few months the new steamers of the Oceanic Company will be ready ior service and the first steamer of the American-Hawailan line was launched from the Union Iron Works last Satur- day. The new steamers for the F c Mail are nearing completion at News, w built for he co; t ihe commission has decided to rush the improvement of the water front and as the big lots used | by Geodall, Perkins & Co. as storerooms and re shops and the Oregon Coal | and Navigation Company as a coalyard will be required in a short time for the | use of the railroads the companies were | notified to be prepared to move. The bidding for the erectic fishermen's wharf at North B very spirited. There were seven and between the figures of Tour of them there was oaly $400 difference. The City Street Improvement Company got the job for $4127 32, while the bid of the Dundon Bridge Company was $4213 and the Construction Company $:434. The work of refinlrmg the car ferry slip at Main street - 4 arf was let to Darby Laydon & Co. for 31580, the City Street Imp: ement Company being the next lowest bidder, with an offer of $1681 $4. Main street wharf was considerably damaged by vessels docking there while the work of repairing wis going on. A eport of the chief wharfinger to the Com- | missioners set forth that the damage | dore by the ship Servia was $51 40; an un- known' vessel, $57 ner Maweema, $24010; steamer City, $16 20 steamer Tellu; tional City, $41 Logan Sails for Manila. The transport Logan got away for Ma- nila via Honolulu yesterday with a big crowd of passengers. Among the cabin steamer Na. passengers_are: onel Camilio C. C. Carr of the Fourth Cavalry, Surgeon Major Henry S. Turrill, Cap n _James M. Kennedy, surgeon; Chaplain Charles C. Plerce, Chaplain Barton W. Lieutenant Lyman M, Welch of the Tw tieth Infantry, Lieutenant Fred W. Al- stetter of the Engineer Corps, Hon. H. B. Miller, United States Consul, and W. Leon Pepperman, recorder of the Philip- ine Commission. In addition the Logan as aboard fifteen assistant postal clerks, seventy-six three hospital corps men, seven con- tract nurses and a number of civilian em- ployes and the wives and children of of- ficers. Morning Star Sails. The ex-missionary auxiliary barkentine Morning Star went into the stream yes- | terday. She has aboard a big crowd of passengers and a full load of general merchandise for the Alaska loration Company, all destined for the d flelds. Henry Peterson’s tug William took the Morning Star into the stream, where shs was anchored and she will go to sea this morning under her own steam. Water Front Notes. The steamer San Pedro wi . m. to-day. She w gone Tuesday, but some alterations had to_be made. M. d’Agostine, an empioye of the Amer- ican Cream of Tartar Works at North Beach, was badly scalded yesterday. He was removing a cap from a retort, when the steam rushed out and burned him terribly about the hands, forearms. face, neck and forehead. He was treated by Dr. Thorne at the Harbor Hospital and the chances are he will recover. The barge Fort Bragg and the steamer Monticello were_in_collision yesterday morning. The Monticello lost "her port rail, while the barge was very little dam- | aged. MURDER OF MINNIE WILLIAMS RECALLED Her Father Gets Her Trunk From the Police to Send to Her Mother. P bly the last scene in the drama In which William Henry Theodore Durrant was the villain was enacted yesterday, when A. E. Williams, the father of Minnie Williams, one of the girls murdered by Durrant, applied to Captain Seymour for the articles that belonged to her ana which were taken from the house in Ala- meda where she was employed as a com- panion. Willlams sald he was Eoln to Cape Nome and as the girl’s mother in Toronto, Canada, asked for her effects he wanted to send them to her before he left the city. An order was obtained from Jud Cabaniss on the property clerk for t taining ciothing, souvenirs, a Bible, trim- mings, glove box, trinkets and personal effects. with him. —_———————— Veteran Firemen Meet. The Veteran Firemen's Association of San Francisco held a special meeting in the hall of the Exempt Fire Company, Brenham place, last Tuesday evening. .Aatters relating to by-laws and rules were taken up, also the consideration of plans for exercises on Memorial day. Chief Sullivan announced that he would take part in the veterans' exercises and if possible would excuse those members of the department who belong to the Veter- ans’ Association. S. McDoweil. J. J. Mur- phy and J. J. Barner were appointed a committee to secure flowers. Judge Fer- ral was invited to deiiver an oration and Captain McDowell will also speak. Presi- dent Kennard announced the death of Henry O'Nelll, a member of the associa- tion, from injuries received at a fire two weeks ago. . G. Cue, A. B. Truman and R. J. Courtier were appointed a committee to draft resolutions of condolence. The association then adjourned in respect to the memory of the dead. —————— To Determine Morello’s Value. The action by which William A. Singer- 1y and Louls Lammertz seek to recover $10,000—the alleged worth of che famous stallion Morello—from Frank Van Ness and J. B. Chase was called for trial be- fore Judge Daingerfield yesterday. The defendants secured unlawful possession of the stallion, it is alieged, and before the determination of an action brought by Singerly and Lammertz to recover the horse it died, and the gment suit is to recover its alleged worth. Adoph Spreck- eis wad called as an expert and gave his opinion that Moreio. at the time he was taken I’y]y the defendants, was reasonably ::rth 0,000. ‘the case goes on again to- ¥. —— e Killed by Eating Icecream. Coroner Cole was notified yesterday of the death of Josephine M. Mecllvaine, whose parents reside at 212 Guerrero ‘The child was 7 years old dted aciite gasiritls. She had pagtaken sceorea: ves 280, a was taken with mmrl of the stomach on believed that %ehfld usually do. and chm results of the reaction of the new | Hyde | o effects, which consisted of a trunk con- | The father took the trunk away | XXII. GOLDEN AGES OF ENGLISH POETRY. (Continued.) BY THOMAS MARC PARROTT, PH.D. Wordsworth sprang from an old Nor- thumbrian stock and grew up among the lakes and hills of Westmoreland. From the very first the influence of nat- ural surroundings at once stern and beau- tiful sank deep into his mind. Bgt his boyhood was not that of a poetic dréamer. Rough, hardy and fearless, he ran wild | over the hills about his home. His mother spoke of him as the only one of her chil- dren for whom she felt anxiety, owing t his “stiff, moody and violent temper.” The popular conception of Wordsworth as the placid poet of country pleasures is due probably to the many pictures of him in his peaceful old age. But this peace was won only by a conquest over violent passions. And in his youth these passions were inextricably intertwined with the French Revolution. In 179, during the last year of his stay | at Cambridge, Wordsworth made a tour | on foot through France and Switzerland. | He found “a whdle nation mad with joy in | consequence of the revolution,” and with this passion every fiber of his being sym- athized. To the child of the northern ills liberty s as_the very breath he | drew, and from the beginning joy was to | Wordsworth a necessary element of life. | | WALTER SCOTT. * b @i et ei et edeieg Dur!ni his second visit to France he | formed a close friendship with Michael | Beaupuy, the noblest type of the repub- | lican soldier, and learned at first h&l‘,di | the causes of the revolution and the| sources of its strength. Dung his stay in Paris in the autumn of 1792 he even meditated throwing himself into the strife of factions in the wild hope that his voice | | might recall the nation from the path nr‘ blood. Recalled to England by the stop- | H Fafl of supplies, his return was soon fol- | { lowed by the news of the execution of the King and the tragic fall of his own | friends, the Girondists. Wordsworth has left a lasting record in the “Prelude” of | the effect the Terror made upon his mind. For long years afterward his sleep was | haunted with visions of despair and im- | plements of death, or he saw himseif pleading in vain before the savage tri- | bunals of the Mountain. But even yet he did not_despair of the repubiic. n the | outbreak of war he sympathized with | France rather than with his own country and shared all the hatred of the Engil radicals for the reactionary policy of | Little by little, however, as the rev tion changed its character, Wordsworth | | lost hope in the movement with which he | had so passionately sympathized. He be- | | came soured and gioomy. The strange | | and morbid tragedy of the ‘“‘Borderers, composed in 1 u- 5-9, is a revelation of the | depths to which his mind had sunk. rom this nadir of moral despair sworth recovered by a slow and gradual process. The Kearoful scenery of the English country, the gentle ministra- | | | tons of his sister Dorothy, the stimulat- §! of Coleridge. and most of all | ablding sympathy with the joys »ws of the country folk among | ‘whom als life was spent, at last restored | him to the state of hope and joy which | | he once seemed to have lost forever. We | | find the first evidence of his complete re- | | covery in the glorious “Lines Composed | | Near Tintern Abbey.” At last when the | military despotism of France was incar- nated in Napoleon and England entered upon her epic struggle against this tre- mendous power Wordsworth was recon- ciled to his country. He felt that the {mns had been exchanged and that Eng- and now stood as the champion of lib- | {erty. And with this feeling he poured out | a series of sonngts dedicated to liberty | which remain to-day the noblest monu- | ment in English literature of the Napo- | | leonic wars. From this time on Words- | worth remained unchanged, a Conserva- tive and a Nationalist, seeking for. free- | | dom rather in the liberation of the indi- | | vidual mind than in any change of politi- m(l)tmmimhllmns'fl ¢ all s critics Arnold has perha best summed up the cause of Wor Pfl‘ worth’s greatness. It les in the “extra- ordinary power with which Wordsworth feels the jov offered to us in nature, the joy offered to us in the simple primary | affections and duties and in_the extraor- dinary power with which he shows us | | this joy and renders it so as to make us share it In other words, the t's greatness consists in his matter and his manner, or rather in the peculiar har- mony of matter and manner which at his highest he attains. And Wordsworth reached his highest more than once or twice. He has left as no other English poet since Milton has done “a great and | mple body” of absolutely classic work, as imperishable a possession of our lan- guage as_the King James Bible or the | plays of Shakespeare. He is at once the \goet of nature and the poet of man. and oth In a sense no poet had been befors, To Wordsworth nature is informed with soul, with an all-pervading spirit whose voice may be heard and comprehended by | man because it is akin to the divine withe | in himself. And this voice teaches him not resignation to the ills of life but joy in its activities and duties. Nature to Wordsworth Is not an anodyne, but a | stimulant. His love of man sprang from and was a part of his love of nature. He had lit- tle or nothing of the dramatic Instinct of Shakespeare, and his sympathies were in great part limited to the lives of the com- mon folk about him. But his thies were all the deeper for their tation, and through them he restored or rather created a new field for the play of etic power, “the simple primary affections and duties” as seen in the lives of the great mass of mankind. Here, as in na- ture, he finds the divine element of truth and love. and hence, alsa, he draws joy and strength. ‘Wordsworth’s manner has two charac- teristics—simplicity and sublimity., They are found apart and united. At times, unfortunately. one is di into a flat- ness of commonplace that fs almost un- paralieled in literature. s his so- called “thick-ankled” style. At times the other is swollen to an absurd pomposity which renders t o many o ““Preludl “Excurfloup'.:.:‘umrfl‘ l'l":: a derision. But it is not of these that the lover of Wordsworth cares tq think. Rather he turns to the divine licity of the “Fountain” or the “Soli 'iu.p. er,” to the divine sublimity of the noblest odes and sonnets, or to rarer and greater work, where. in Arnold’s words, “Nature herseif seems to take the pen out of his hand and to write for him with her own bare, er.” It js in such passages as these that Wordsworth dl lv' that al it plge " which is his alone in English po- etry. Poets of ition and Indifferencs. So far we g 2:':!‘:!..:( poets 'y. Hraces "ot ‘this Innence, DUt Sirongly: fa acts against it. From the very he | idle word. | p 00"0?:’0&'90@0500'0‘0'9 THE POETRY OF AN AGE OF REVOLUTION. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. PSR A, GOLDEN AGES OF LITERATURE. may be described as a ting Tory. He headed the loyalist in " a pitched battle with Irish Jacobi in the pit of ‘the Edinburgh Theater, where he was currently reported to have cracked thres democratic heads. He was a quartermas- ter in the Edinburgh Light Horse, a voi- unteer regiment enrolled o3 the threat o French invasion. His political ideas we immed up in the old cavalier motto: Fear God: honor the king.” But though not a reyolutionist, Scott was a romantic, and that to a marked deg he broke entirely with the classical school. His first attempt verse was a translation of Burger 2 nore,” his second a versic “'Goetz von B hingen from a family famous in S and_tradition, he t to the chronicles and legends of - try. He swept the Border for the swiftly perishing songs and ballads of the old moss-trooper days and 1 world in the “Minstrelsy Border.” Upon_this co original poem, the “Lay of the La strel,” 1s founded. It is in fact 2 expansion of the old ballad into the met The meter is an imitat ch Scott had seen MS.. but not the least of its to the lover of our old baillads & frequent_echo of their direct and simpl notes. The “Lady of the Lake" open to English literature the romantic world of the Scotch highla “Marmi perhaps the greatest of his poems, en- shrines In_verse Scott'’s own romant town of Edinburgh, and sings with Ho- meric fire and vigor the fatal field whers mediev down in hop ott, to put minstrel sh poet to whom loyaity in old accepted meaning was more than It is the fashion of late ¥ to pass lightly over his poems as tales in verse, as though the oem of European literature were n: le.” may admit at once Scott’s ferse lacks depth and a ish, but when every admission the fame of Sir Waiter remains d. He is still the Wizard North, dear to thousands upon th of young hearts as the opener of into an enchanted world, dearer stil every man who has left in his composi« tion something Of that ste In foemen w John Keats was even less t a S ouched by the rew: 2 spirit than Walter Scott. He neither upheld nor attacked it, he passed i q indifference. s v was a being born out of his due ti belated Elizabethan, the poetic son of mnad Spenser. A worshiper of beauty, e beauty which appeals to eve and ear and touch, he was the most sensuous poet s. not sensual, for in ¢ extravagances of ex- thing co u | clean in Keats. His worship of beauty Is | seen in his attitude toward nature. He i3 the divinely drunken lover of her charm His heart aches and his senses grow numb with too much joy at the song of ths nightingale. Nature herself partakes of his passion; the star throl in the = phire heavens' deep repose like the heart of a lover drawing near his goal. In the world of man Keats sought for beauty in the old Hellenic myths. When some ona asked how Keats with his | ing could so interpret t : Greece, “because he Is a Greek. 1 Shelley. Palgrave has well pointed out the Greek element in the D It is seen in absolt spontaneous expression ct & dir a f the thought be fore him, in his freedom from convention- alit: in his freshness of phrase. Such a passage as the picture of Hebe in the “Ode to Fancy” is pure Greek: so is tha description of Saturn ar Thea with which “Hyperion”” opens, or such a coup- let as Into the green-recessed woods they flew, Nor grew they pale as mortal lovers do. But there is something mnte_r(han this o Hellenic element in Keats. the old Greek purity and simplicity he adds a warmth of color and a richn Ivhr'da | unknown in English poetry since Shak eare’s day. No doubt it was on this a count that he left unfinished the nobla fragment of “Hyperfon.” e theme was too remotely classical, the style too verely Miltonic. eats is at his be: | when dealing with subjects chosen from later Hellenic legend, such as Lamia, or from medieval romance. Let us takes the famous passage in which his delight in rich color finds its fullest expression: Full on the casement shone the wintry moon. And threw war Madeleine's soft breast. 2 As down she kneit for Heaven's grace and bo, on: Rose-bloom fell on hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her haig a glory like a saint There is nothing Greek in these lines. They are medieval, or, rather, they ex- .—0‘0—0 P42 ebeietete PP OV O PIPOPOPOERPIPOEOPEY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. . R T R ) hibit the medieval joy in color, expressed with all the power and splendor of the re- naissance. ichness, lnxyury—two very un-Greek characteristics—the favorite words with Keats. and his advice to Shel- ley to curb his m: animity and load every rift of the subject with ore is an- other instance of the predominance of this quality. But Keats drew from medievalism not only his love of color. but that strange an ch Arnold - has baptt: In this quality BT ith <ll Bl Bve for the ot past, is quite deficient. He loved the stir and action of the medieval world, its strong contrasts and clear types. But Keats penetrated below the surface and caught the magic and mystery of things. It is hardly too much to say that there is more of the true spirit of romance in “The Eve of St. Agnes™ than in all the Waver- ley novels bound together. We feel this charm not only in Keats' deseriptions of nature—almost every line of the “Ode to the Nightingale” could be quoted as an example—but even more in his dealings with the supernatural. The ghost in “Isa- bella” is far beyond the reach not only of Scott, but of any poet of his day. and the little posthumous ballad of “La Belle Sans Merci” is, to use Arnold's fine phrase, “drenched and intoxicated with the fairy dew of natural magic.” 1t is this quality mere than anything else that constitutes the peculiar charm of Kea: It keeps his love of luxury and richnes of color from degencrating into mere bar- baric delight in show and glitter and gives to his best work a thrill and faseination that are perhaps unique in English poetry. Note—This study_will be continued on ‘Wednesday, May 23 me jury in the case of lavamasa - u‘rr:.'the Jl:-neu immigrant accused of having attempted to bribe Immigration Inspector Geffeney with §25, brought in a verdict of gullty yencrd.‘ in the United States District Court, with a recommen- dation for mercy. gry belleved the Jap's story that he had been told it was to give a gift of money on landing.