The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 28, 1900, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1900. ¢ THIRTY-FOURTH DISTRICT WANTS DTG egular Republicans Take Strong Stand Against the Bosses Delegates to State Convention Nomi- d and Working Committees Appointed in Preparation for Campaign Work. igned the roll Assembly *h was or- n Jones members > Missic we indorse and approve the sident and pledge our hearts arty in the cc — Republicans of Forty-Third. Republi Assembly of the PACIFIC CRICKETERS WILL GO TO SANTA CRUZ Work Will Be Done by Bowl- ers During the Present Week. Cricke Club able 1900 be ¢ lead in that it aught. Th: & of t California = will be held next w committee will be apy 4 ar p the team which is to visit L il be form rns Valley Cricket Clut Hammond, W. O. Ed- eling. all of Lakeport, JUMPS FROM PORCH TO ESCAPE IMAGINARY FOES Mrs. Anne Lee Severely Injured ‘While Laboring Under a Hal- lucination. While laboring under the hallucinati she was ing pursued by s s who were bent on killing her, Mr: Lee, an old woman, jumy - F , at Chestnut an ursday night an °S. She remaine fallen until yesterday ing, when she was found by a c carried into her house. Last was removed to the Rece! where her Injuries were woman s supposed to ed. Several days ago for insanity on com- lan ted { her neighbors and locked renti rd of the Receiving was harged the follow- omise of a friend to take then she has been care- earing that her to attack her. —_—— Cavalrymen Give a Hop. . G. C., celebrated ary last night with and ball at the arm- d Te streets. The s one of the I the troop has ever held. beautifully decorated, and of a military band the gal- 1d their fair guests danced ay _beneath a canopy ot Sergeant J. P. E. Sparr “lent fioor manager, and was sisted by H. J. Martin and H. C. ber. The following committees were In charge of the affair: Floor— Corporal R. C. Greeninger, Corporal C. 8. Taie, Corporal C. M. Fickert, Corporal L. F. Potter, P. F. Schmidt. A. Henry. 1 Kiung, W. H. Plagemann, A. F. Rief yniversary—First Lieutenant E. s«rgralr.'lli H W. W. Ballenger. Trumpeter F. T. P, F. Bchmidt: reception Capiats Jansen, First Licutenant E, A Sergeant C. F. Wells, Corporal H. . D. L. Dewe: 4 Killed in Planing Mill. antel McCarty, a laborer, residing at 428 Fulton street, who was struck in the stomach by a splinter in Hanson's Plan- | fng Mill Thursday, died last evening. His | body was taken to the morgue. A, arr, First Ser- Plerre cant Engle Charles GALLANT FIGHT FIRE AT PRESIDIO e et e et o o o o o ) COLORED TROOPS PLAN T0 KILL DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATORS L RS I R S S S o e g R R . Testimony of F. W. Golden in the Goebel Case. AR S George Weaver Says He Heard the Fatal Shot Fired and Saw a Gun in the Window of the Sec- retary of State’s Office. el GEORGETOWN, K prosecution piaced it The star witness, F. | ers comspiracy trial this afternoon, and unless its present plans are changed will rest the case at the conclusion of his tes- | timony to-morrow. | Golden went over the details of the or- ;gun!zallon of the mountain people, who were brought to Frankfort. It was the | purpose of the men, himselt included, to kill off enough Democratic legislators to glve the Republicans a majority. W. Hampton, a Kepublican member of Legislature s fror Powers' home ounty, gave sensational testimony | against both Powers and Governor Tay- {lor, Hampton testified that or wanted | the Republican mob to start a fight in the | House and assured him that he as Gov- ! ernor would ck them up. ! A Dr. Bingham and other men were paid money to come, he said. | Powers, who was presnt, spoke approv- | ingly of ‘the plan to kill the majority of | the Democratic Legislature, mentionea by |a mountain man. On the day before the shooting witness saw John Powers give Youtsey the keys to the Secretary of State's office, and later Powers told him they had secured two negroes, Mason Hocker and “Tallow 1 @eosdecoe ITORS at the Presidio yesterday the opportur had of seeing the y in action k three sh * the sentry = 3 on nd of the Union-street line duty near the brought the c : a The grass to the lef burning fie re would be bey d troopers to their feet, or any emergency. of the car station and in a moment ree a was m ky warriors Fuller mad Grabbing sacks and 1 br n i the comm for th rus! ing 1id o obstacle. they « HELD UP A DRUC CLERK AND GOT TWENTY DOLLARS Two Masked and Armed Men Rifle a Till in West Oakland. er of Eighth and and ail ¢ stamps in the drawer. Then ape. rk in charge of up as the o'clock circuit went out, mer quickly Into Both wore @ masks, which Partious describes as being of the regula- tion highwayman style. As nearly as he can remember they wore dark clothing 1 were of me striking thing & firearms whick Tof to his he a_revolver at e made it uncom fle the other went “verything that could not be taken. Then arkness, i th traced was the ared into t if he ) the shoot him, tions waited a few moments and telephoned to the police station and re- borted the affair. were Instanily ailed upon the case, but up to a late hour 1o trace of the men had been found There is no clue, and the men had quite a considerabie start ice, for the drug store is sit West Oakland nearly two miles from the police station. The men had 2 » to throw their! nd catch in the di e the hold up oeccurred puiated district. — Bond Not Properly Signed. Justice of the Peace Groezinger gave Jgment yesterday for the United States Fidelity and C: Company in a suit ’ gainst it by W. R. Davis. Davis of several clients who company as bondsmen ain contractors for labor and ma- 1 erection of a build- proven that the bond exacted ntractors was not signed by wugh it contained the signature sranee company by its president. bond was joint in_ck ter and d by ntractors vold by Justice Groezinger. The amount involv was $249. —_————— Wanted in Dixon. is in a thickly ing from them. of the in e Hart and John Matheson were ar- ed vesterd and locked up in the tanks at the City Prison. They are charge robbing Willlam Johnson at Dix: $71. They came ton, mour rece Staton of ther Staton w notified of thé arrests and will arrive this mornis to take them back. Ha was farm’ nd and Matheson a blacksm Dixon for four | or five years. They deny knowing any- thing about the robbery. ——— W. 8. Chance Honored. W. S. Chance, su i agent of the United v yes- terday on his return journey to Washing- ton, D.'C. He wa rtained and in- stru during his sojourn in Californta. One of the happiest events of his San Francisco visit was a luncheon at the Union League Club day before yesterday, which was given in his honor by Colonei George H. Pippey. United States Senator George C. Per- kins, Collector of the Port John P. Jack- son, 'Colonel George Stone and other well known ment attended the function. * ————————— George H. Thomas Anniversary. The anniversary dinner of George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., will be given at the Occidental Hotel this evening. The managers of the banquet have received hotice of 180 acceptances, hence Mafor Hooper will be expected fo prepare for a jarge as well as gallant company. Several en:fnem speakers of local renown and two or three distinguished guests will be ex- ted to speak. The music, vocal and in- strumental, will fit the occasion. The dinner promises to be one of the events in the career of the progressive post. HEROES OF SAN JUAN HILL FIGHTING A NEW FOE. DUPNPU WP NP S S e S SN e S S SO SUR Son ool S8 LSS AR A Dick” Combs, to kill Goebel. On the morning of the assassination the witness and Caleb and John Powers and Walter | Pay went to Louisville. Before leaving witness was in the Secretary of State’s office. Governor Taylor was there, as ! |were several men from the mountains. ® , _E. J. Howard of Harlan County wanted the Governor to call out the troops, but ! $ ® : : % ! ! ¢ £ § ! : ¥ : i e B e e 2 a street to Van Ness avenue, along | the Governor replied: Van Ness avenue to Market street and | “You all must act first.” down Market to Folsom-street dock. | Witness walked home with Governor The bodi ¢ soldiers who died in | Taylor one evening and the latter asked anila were buried yesterday at the Pre- | him if he and the other mountain men On board the transport Warren, which would back up a Republican member of ; Right Into the thickest of it the; never pausing until the recall w: ed announci In ten two sere went, ound- nssed. spread over 1 had it not been for the promy of the “Fighting Ninth" a serious conflagration might have g that all danger was the | Wharton Golden, on the stand in the Pow- | arrived from Manila yesterday, is a bat- | talion of the Twenty-third Infantry, posed of Companies A, B, C twenty general prisoners, and thirty-two sick men. . sulted. The other troops at the post were quick in answering the alarm, but 1 much farther to travel to reach the ne. he batte will es of the Third Artillery their camp early this morning and | The #0 marines under command of Ma- ncock, which will prob- | jor Randolph Dickens are expected to ar- v morning. | Tive at an early hour this morning. t the near- | Lieutenant Colonel James M. Z\i‘\rshall chance to distin- | will go to Hollister in a day or so to pur- e all picked horses for the cavalry service. rd- Assistant Surgeon Isidor M. “to has be assigned to duty at the aving ral hospital, Presidio, while awaiting v will march Lom- ansportation abroad. IARTIST DICKMAN - GOING TO BE A REAL BOHEMIAN STRICKEN WHILE LYING QUIETLY Paralysis Prostrates George L. Nusbaumer a' His Home in Oakland. e Oakland Office San Franeisco Call, 1118 Broadway. July 27. George L. Nusbaumer, County Surveyor of Alameda for over fifteen years, was stricken with paralys at 9 o'clock this Fits Up a Studio and Suite to Woo His Art While - Divorce Impends. | “Have M agreed to a that is agt and society g On June 1 arley’ Dickman is the question the smart set | and Mrs. gree This ting Bohemla, Iy. Dickman filed Mrs. a suit, rhaking her gay spouse defendant in morning ‘while at his farm at Sunol. vorce proceedings on the prosaic grou Mr. Nusbaumer was sitting quietly in a of “faflure to provide.” short time be- | hammock at his re :nce when the stroke fore the suit record Mrs. | an was summoned from Irickma tu net: from ter rendering what as- Pari is fac not of cou ce he could advised that the patient be removed immediatel) O. D. Hamlin and Dr. W. S. Porter met the train on its arrival and soon pro- nounced the case not necessarily fatal. Mr. Nusbaumer was taken to the home count for much, to this city. Dr. bered that but whe! society remem- Solitary traveler had gone | ccompanied by her husbar gues began to wag. Then | came the divorce proceedings d soclety whisper: behind and wondered | of his brother in East Oakland, where he wl n was, | is attended by his wife. It is thought that Last 8 gentleman solved | With absolute rest he will recover. the riddle up himseif. It was | His iliness was irely unexpected. , He 3 been attending to his business as since then. The 'mian Club, where ~ Mr. Nushaumer has long been prominent once h gure was as familiar as Uncle = public life of Alameda County, He in the s a member of one of the pioneer fami- cor; lromiey’s, knows him no more, and the new member sits in his favorite ir. Down on Montgomery stre e dingy ios. ed himself. A are going to be fixed ays thie returned wan- will settle down and work. On bject of the pictures he will paint, e-holder who fg re-elected constantly without oppositi B ——— FAVORITE BEATEN OUT. at number here Dare Devil Easily Defeated by Geer at Cleveland. AND, Ohio, Jut m and suite the CLEVE The feat- kind of ¢ he will have and | ure of to-day’'s grand circuit racing was at tones will match the wall paper | the defeat of Dare Devil in the 2:10 trot Mr. Dickma voluble, but on the sub- | Before the start he was a prohibitive ject of the divorce he is silent. But from T ,and from dark hints | Midway broke badly in the first thres | content to let weli enough alone. The | heats, when Geer was put up and won only thing that puzzies the gossips, club- | the race easily, In the 2:12 trot Boralma | dom and Bohemia is why he returned to | carried Lawson’s colors to victory for the | S8an Franck i The e life of the We nd as nobody c first time at this meeting. Results: - : i Pl 2:23 class pacing. purse §2500, three in five for & better iation ° this ey Midway won fonrth, fifth and goes by default. Time, Cobbett w Dickman will st with his father, at |, o Pusey Willow, djs- Parker stree Berkeley, until the | tanc second and third ainters get through with his’ Montgom- | heats. Time, 2:1214, 2:14%. George C, Dolly | ery-street flat, when says, he will | Brown, Straight Ticket, Beauty Spotty and | start in t 1 earnest. Maiden Queen also started. Mre. Di trotting. purse $1500, two in three— . and since: her ref e Pamaal Of i S uitea” neats” Fime, ded with her aunt, M Capts i ot D s et In Se o T e ATePHalN | ana Sras second, Charley Herr third. Precision, her husband. She Is 5 econd, third ana fourth hoats. and h(glr\_\: trained e, 2:12, 2:00%, 2:11%. llert won first heat singer, possessing a »1‘1\"'\":![[_\! of rare vol- | in 2:11 and was & nd, Kate McCracken third. { ume and q Lelah more th Georgiana, B Phrase ana So an artist of . a bon vivant, Big Timber, on_ Gratton also’ started. | clubman fellow. 2120 class, pacing, purse $1200, two in three— | nnie Direct won in straight heats. Time, | g, 2:11%. Daisy J second, Prince Exum The Privat . Billy George, Tommy Mack, Mary Kel- rtridge, Major S and Tod -~ - WESTERN CIRCUIT RACES. Exciting Neck-and-Neck Finishes at Des Moines. DES MOINES, Ia., July 27.—The feat- ures of the third day of the great West- BABY PETERSON DIES FROM SHOCK OF SCALDING OAKLAND, July Nels Peterson, the vear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. N. Peter- son, died at his home in San Leandro to- /' from the effects of a severe scalding % i 0 e B TR S S A rn circuit races were the exciti k | playing around the kitchien Wednes 7 ¢ ng nec ‘mn;nh:: While the mother was lffi,_ | and neck finishes in the 2:16 trot and 2:23 pace. The weather was clear and the track fast. Results: 2:15, trotting, purse $600, three in five—Liege won first, second and fifth heats. Time, 2:1314 | porarily absent from the room the little | | boy managed to pull over a kettle that | | was resting on the edge of the stove top, | and the steaming hot water splashed over his head and body. | —2:121.—3:141,. Auzello won third and fourth The little fellow's screams of pain | heats and was second. Time, 2:i41i—2:141, brought assistance at once, Mrs, Peterson | Phoebe Onward third. Emma Foote, Edith O rushed in, and neighbors who had been | lso started, attracted by the agonizing cries -of the purse $600. three in flve—Major boy hurried to aid the mother in_caring first, third and fourth heats. for her terfibly injured baby. Doctors 4o Bng—t. Harry B won second were summoned quickly and everything | 1 and was second, Fred the Kid possible was done. to alleviate the child's | third., Dr. Shidler, Charles Dewey, Kittie K ain and to save his Hte. ‘But the shock :::"annda. Gale, Duster and Ed Bennett also | was too severe, and after lingering for trotting, purse $600, three in five—Miss forty-elght hours the baby succumbed. in straight h There will be an inquest to-morrow at San Leandro. —_————— Soldiers Organize Society. An organization of those who fought in | MONTGOMERY, Ala., July the Spanish-American eampalgn has been | negro race conference to-day a paper effected in this city. Similar societies have | from Susan B. Anthony was read by the been formed in every State in the Union. | secretary. A petition was presented for The orizinal charter roil contains many |an amendment which _shall pro- well known names, among them being | hibit the disfranchisement of citizens on | that_of Theodore Roosevelt. The ob}ecl | account of sex and declares the condition | of the soelety is to do for the Spanish- |of negro women was not improved by American soldiers what the Grand Army | emancipation. The' negro women will or- does for. the Civil War veterans. There |ganize a rational society to send out liter- will be a meeting held at 20 Eddy street | ature instructing negro women how to im- every Wednesday at 8 p. m. prove homes. . 2 —2:1314. filack FHoberts, Hero Bell and Dr. Pitzer also started. 3 i - ‘Want a New Afiéndment [N A HAMMOCK. of the county and is the one county | favorite at odds of 100 to 20 for the race. | the Legislature if a fight should be pre- cipitated, and further along in the con- versation he said: ““Golden, it looks like a horrible thing to kill 2 man, but that looks like the only way to handle Goebel and his gang. |- The cross-examination was begun, but had only progressed a little way when court adjourned. | The first witness called was Judge James D. Black of Barboursville, who was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor before the re- cent State convention. He testified as | to the letter which Powers wrote James | Stevens of Barboursville, February 20, in which the statements, “I am largely responsible for the disorganized condition of the Democrats” and “I am an open ad- vocate of war,” were used. Private Dudiey Williamson, who was a member of the military company which took charge of the Statehouse immediate- ly after Goebel was shot, testified that the members of the company were drawn up in the arsenal that morning, prior to the | shooting. Witness said that the company had been kept inside the arsenal after the | L‘cgislamrn met, but previous to that day ad not been uniformed. H. D. Sinclair, former manager of the | fled as to many telegrams sent through | his office before and after the shooting. Some related to calling out the militia, others to supplies for the mountaineers who came to Frankfort before the shoot- ing. 5eorge Weaver of Denver, Colo., was the next witness. He was in Frankfort just entering grounds when the shot was fired. The witness looked in the direction of the ex- ecutive building and saw the muzzie of a | gun pointing from the Secretary of State's | office. Witness said he thought he saw the hand of a man holding the gun. Wit- | ness had never been in Frankfort before | that day and left that afternoon. | On cross examination witness sald he | was a native of London. Kentucky, and | went to Colorado in 1 He was a | barber until last fall, d_since then has _been employed by “Woodmen of the World,” a fraternal organization. Weaver could not remember about the weather on the day of the shooting and could not give a good account movements in Frankfort. Postal Telegraph office at Frankfort, testi- | at the time of the assassination and was | the rear of the capitol | Louts | of his| L. W. Hampton, a_Republican member | | of “the Legislature from Knox County, | testified this afternoon that he was talk- | ing with Governor Taylor in January on | the subfect of the contest. Witness said that human life | that Taylor told him would have to be sacrificed. Hampton | continued: | “I replied: ‘Well, if the Governor | e —" but he broke in and said to me: ‘Oh, I can't advise vou.” I called on the Governor_to advise him to call out the militia. He told me something would | have to be dore before he could do this, sacrificing human life.” On the day after the contest board was | arawn, witness heard that Taylor was | apparent power to tmpro EDGAR A. POE: BY PROF. LEWIS E. GATES.. Copyright, 1800, by Seymour Eaton. LITERARY TALKS AND REMINISCENCES. ———— re- | the glinting magnificence of silk and * damask hangings—all these sensations clating Poe is that he lived by his pen. | amask hangings—all these SSOeRtore His prose and his poetry alike were Lo e : aat huto dashed ot with the printer's devil st Ms |t ot ate” Toeteover, elbcw. When we take this into aceount | every sensation brings with it some note and then compare his writings In their | of feeling that reinforces whatever com- extent and variety and range of inform- T site mood Poe v be :lfi#k-)n( to induce ation and finish with those of our mod- | i his reader. Nor is he any less surg In ] his evocation of nature—of nature t nr‘n‘ulle{:xlrxngxvuo(carx:nqt but ’he anla::'d | may be Basbesically splendid or mystical at the fecundity of Poe's genius, at his exceedingly. and charged- with fate. se and at the| Ever: the one knows the Valley of marvelous and seemingly instantaneous | Many-colored Grass in “Eleonora, the finish of much of his work. Nine large The first thing to bear in mind in app serpentine trees, the River of Silence that . flowed “through a shadowy gorge and volumes are needed to hold his prose, and | [ . 'eay . a3 the dark evelike violets’” and “‘the ruby- much of this prose, casual as must have | (3¢ 48k Frelfie violets | And o8 M one been its origin, has a burnish of surface | knows. too, “‘the yellow ghastly waters and a strength of strueture that have for | of the River Zaire in Silence” and “the now many decades begn the delight of the pale legions of the water MHlies™ 3 most exacting lovers of technique, of such "';‘fr“‘l{gfl[;‘-; ;M:{'_D:;;!("' fiw:m";fl“l, — men as Baudelaire, Barbey L'Aurevilly ||oudly and fearfully bemeath the moon and Stephane Mallarme. The language of | Riotous details of _this sort—details art seems to have been Poe's natural| color and sound and form—Poe’s imagina idlom; he is probably without a rival | tion offers him with apparently inexhaus among American authors In the inevi-|ible fecundity. And all of these details tableness and persistence of his instinct | he uses with a marvelousiy sure knowl- e e ent and 1n the strencss and | ¢dge of tolor—chords of feeling so as to 14| cast aboug some sir figure—some tactlity of his command of the artist's | Strange. solitary grie e e means and material. He crystallizes | victims of a fateful passion, an [rresist- whatever goes through his mind. ible atmosphere of emotion. : | ® . @ . @ * - . & . 00040 ettt DD edrtsdristsdrtedesItsoroeseoes | | | % Yet there is a curlous duplicity in Poe’s | nature. No one has written more enter- tainingly than Poe on the theory of tech- nique and on practical problems of con- struction as such. No one, to judge by his confession, could well have been more self-conscious in_his artistic methods, in his cholce of subjects, in his search for teiling situations, in his calculation of ef- fects, and even in his selection of a tone. S acabulary and a metrical scheme. In | his analysis of the genius of the tale, of | its scope and mode of composition, he dis- sects with the prettiest kind of exactness and minuteness the processes that his own mind must have gone through in the | construction of his now so famous short storfes. To judge by this treatise, one might fancy that there was nothing spon- | taneous In Poe's writing, that he con- | | cocted a story as a mathematician might abusing the Republican members. He | | went to the said to him: ‘You fellows sat over there and allowed me to be robbed.” Hampton also said he was in frequent conference with Caleb Powers and asked the latter if he did not have a chance to hold on to his office even if Taylor should be unseated. Powers replied to witness that he did not want the office if Taylor lost the Governorship as Goebel would | have him assassinated. Powers also told witness he intended to fight until death rather than give up.: The defense did not | cross-examine the witness. | "F. Wharton Golden followed Represent- | ative Hampton on the stand. | S pa—— | MAY DRIVE BUCKET SHOPS r OUT OF THE BUSINESS ~The Tribune CHICAGO, July to- | system of telegraph wires connecting all % | the leading commercial exchanges of the | country, to be established at a cost of | hela to-day in the “private wire House'’ of the board. The primary purpose of this undertaking is-in the line of working out a practical plan to drive the bucket-shops of the country cut of business. The com mittee will get together again after the questions of the expense and other fea- tures of the plan have been further looked into. o WRECK ON GRAND TRUNK. BELLEVILLE, Ont., July 27.—Two pas- senger trains on the Grand Trunk collided yesterday on a curve south of Madre Junction. The engines were demolished and two cars telescoped. ~Two of the trainmen were killed and five persons vere injured. The killed: VENGINEER ARCHIE EDMUNDS of Lindsay. scalded_to death. BRAKEMAN SAMUEL BURD, Belle- vilie. R Wonderful Vitality of a Marine. VALLEJO, July 27.—Private A. 8. Cow- gill of the Marine Corps has died at the Mare Island Hospital as the result of a Mauser bullet wound in the lung, re- ceived at Maniia last April. Naval sur- cons were greatly surprised at the won- erful vitality of the man. A post-mor- tem examination was held and the bullet extracted. It was jacketed and an Inch and a half long. i Killed in a Wreck. INDIANAPOLIS, July 27.—Two L D. & W. passenger trains collided on a siding near Tuscola, Ill, this afternoon. The engines were badly used up.® Artie V. Gigas, a fireman, was killed and two | others were injure Motor Cycle Record Broken. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 21.—At the Coliseum to-night Derosier and Ruden of Fall River lowered the world’s motor cy- cle record on a board track for a mile, doing the distance in 1:32 xecutive office and Taylor | | caleulate a table of logarithms by the Tt was In this connection that he spoke of | teristic of all Poe's works. help of perfectly describable formulas and mathematical processes. This union of apparent spontaneity with what after all looks on consideration ilke ingenious and_elaborate design is charac- In his “Tales" the supposititious narrator seems swept along by a resistless flood of mere facts. under the sway of feelings that cannot be controlled; he seems a nalvely impetuous relater of personal experiences.and yet he js always Incorrigibly self-possessed: and | #he stops now and again, as in the “Fall | | morrow will say: The ownership and con- | | Gich "of colors and sounds | trol by boards of trade of an elaborate | tastes. and he is tinglingl $15.000,000, may be the outcome of meetings | | to_the treatment of | fldshing light of carbuncle, topaz. ame- | | in knee, serions; Edward B. Fran in abdomen, serious; CompanyyF, Twenty- second Infantry, Willlam Mosby. musician, of the House of Usher.”” to theorize about | his sensations, his passions and his par- oxysms of fear. and to give proof of de- | monic intellectual acuteness and subtle- | ty. Moreover, when the sophisticated reader takes to pieces any one of these storles, even the most morbid and phan- | fasmagoric of them. he finds it a marvel | of delicately sure construction, wrought | apparently with conscious and theoretical | purpose in every phrase, in every quota- | tion, in the choice of every sensation and | decorative detafl—almost, one is tempted | to say, in every cadence. lI! is from l;he“ cation of this absolutely sane method apoll delectably morbid, impossible. splendidly menda- cious material that Poe's “Tales” derive much of their peculiar power. He writes | like a Babbage calculating machine that | has gone into an opium trance. Poe is a specialist in sensations. He is ors and alive to the emotional quality of each. Whatever ca- Tesses the senses, whatever appeals to | them keenly—even to the sense of smell— he delights to report. “The senses were oppressed.” he tells us in one place. “by mingled and conflicting perfumes, reeking up from strange convolute censers Ex- | quisite vintages, lusclous viands, the | gorgeously se, the smooth. hard | d black of ebony, the f old tapestries and thyst and turquof white of jvory an rustling obscurities o EDGAR A. POE. . L 4 * . > . e * © - ® R pe . ® . & * s . L 4 * pe . & . ® . > - s . > The tone in which these gorgeous or mystical visions are recited is also char- acteristic and noteworthy. Strangely out of place in a “dreamer” seems the im- petuosity of the tences in Poe's Tales —their swift rapidity of utterance. They run along in a monotone of frenzied ea- gerness—iike the soliloquies of a mono- maniac. Poe’s prose seems terribly tens as if written in a half hysterical mood o excitement: with all its sensuousness and pictorfal quality, it has an acrid in uality and strenuousness of accent that suggest an overstimulated brain and a morbidly irritated nervous system rather than the relaxation of will and the blurr- ing of the senses that are supposed to go with visionary dreaming. he intellect and the senses seem abnormally alert rather than soothed into quiescence. All the details in Poe’s landscapes, even when he is painting mysterious twilight re- gions, are glaringly clear, as if reveal by a blue flash of lightning. Tt must, of course. not be forgotten t Poe wrote purely intellectual tales as w. as “Romances of Death,” “Oid_ World Romances.” and so on. In the “Tales of Ratiocination™ the demonie ingenuity that even in the romances can be detected on analysis has full sway. The juggling with ldeas is preposterously clever. Not more in these Tales, however, than in the romances is there any pretense to portrag actual life: the heroes of the | purely intellectual tales are hardly more normal or possible than the Ushers and other neuropaths of the confessedly ro- mantic type of story. They are mere Babbage calculating machines without tha | opium. And this suggests at once what s per- haps the most serious and _damaging criticism that can be made on Poe's work as an artist. He is not an interpreter of life. Not even indirectly are there re- cognized in his art those traits of char- acter, those impulses, motives, feelings and habits of thought and of conduct and those ideals that for most sane men make life worth living and impart to it its quality. The prose or the poetry of such great dreamers as Shelley and De Quincey is essentfally human in spite of ijts vis jonariness; even when most audaciousiy imaginative and unreal it usually pre- serves some orienting power over the reader as regards what is normal in life. Poe. on the other hand, is ‘the artist ir- responsible. He plays fantastically and almost frenetically on the senses and the imagination. Very often the effect of his prose on the reader's nerves is like of romantic music—aof Chopin or Tsch: kowsky. If literature were mere! fined substitute for opium Poe the greatest of American writers, is, he is at least unique as an artist and vur most brilliant master of technia LEWIS E. GATES. Harvard University. MACARTHUR'S LATEST f LIST OF CASUALTIES‘ WASHINGTON, July 27.—Following is General MacArthur’s latest casualty ls Killed—July 21, Manuan, Batangas, Compa L. Thirty-eighth Infantry, James E. Easterly, | Company E. Thirty-ninth Infantry, James Sknggs: July 22, Mount Corona, Luzon. Co pans G, Thirty-fourth Infantry, Albert Fry- | berger, William Hunter. Wounded—Sibert P. A: slight: Captain Georg: Shoulder and face. serious ed in thigh, moderate; Ch: ron, wounded in thigh, Gibson, wounded in Oscar Lake, wound- les Wright, wounded k, wounded ohn Montzomery, wounded in arm, moderate July 2. Batangas, Lugon. Robert . Whitson, woinded in thigh, moderate; July 22, Cabana. tuan, Luzon, Company K, Thirty-fourth In- fantry. William Stratton, wounded in hand, stight: July 26, Batangas, Luzon, Company D, Thirty-fourth Infantry. Willlam E. Lane, wounded In thigh, moderate. ————————— Found Floating in the Bay. Peter Harris, of the shin Crown of India. discovered the body of an unknown man floating In the bay at the foot of the Sansome-street wharf yesterday after- noon. The drowned man was five feet seven inches in hight, -ppm:nny 0 years of age: grizzly mustache; dark ‘brown hair; weighed 130 pounds, and wore a dark suit of clothes. — BERLIN, July 27.—Joseph Meyer, for many years the Christus of the Passion Play, has been Mayor of Oberammergau. A aaa s s s ad AKLAND, July 27.—Justice of the Peace James G. Quinn i p broke the marriage record in Oakland yesterday afternoon by uniting five couples in twenty minutes. Those who were made man and wife in this speed track time were John J. Peters and Rose Netto of Oakland, George E. Bar- ker and May Vaiiino of San Fran- cisco, John T. Kane and Sarah Mc- Master of Oakland, William A. Fletcher and Minnie M. Uhl of Oak- land and Charles A. Bassart and Laura Mitchell of San Franeisco. R R R RN e ] P4+ 4444424444044 444440 ] Believed They Will Attempt to Cross the Mexican Border. WASHINGTON, July 2i.—The Treasury Department _has received information through the United States Consul at So- nora, Mexico. that about 8000 Chinese from the interfor of that country are now on the move northward, with a view to crossing_the border {nto the United States. The department is inclined to dis- credit the story as far, at least, &5 the number is concerned.