The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 4, 1900, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 19805 < ATILLERYMEN NEEDED TO CARE OR BIG: GUNS Army Officers Opposed to Making Presidio an In- fantry Post. { —— perts Required to Handle the Coast | Defense Ordnance—More Colored | { Soldiers for China Arrive. ts that the Presidio try post are causi mong the officers branch of the around the b present the expend ars and to intr: of the infa views of ar han: the intric: around th £ inex with proceed Wawona POSTUM CAUGHT THE WORM Thet Gnaws Under Cover. lisagrecable effecte ating disease. I was tomach badly out of dea of the cause and kept morning. to whom I spoke emarked that perhaps I 1se in the coffee cup e of Postum Cereal s impressed with his de the change from cof- The old troubles have d I am one of the ever saw. I have satisfaction that e unexpected cause of the | while it nearly ruined my ve practically re- discontinuance of w mtfolegelfodoefelototeimdelefeteledfetenfel e e e efotefelefelofebeled nown a number of per- have been driven away from ause it came to the table haracterless. It simply was and it would be the any other kind of drink, tea, etc. Postum, when made g to directions, is a dchghu'uli right ere are a large number of people | ding country who -are and their number is in- | It is sort of a stamped “ store is putting in a stoc that never thought of suci list of twenty or thirty | rose that I know of as users | . among my immediate ac- Do not use my name, M. G, Box 72, Jefferson, es please Wis WALLA WALLA BUMPS A WHALE OFF THE COAST OF MENDOCINO Fractured the Clumsy Creature’s Spine and Got Away With Great Difficulty—Army Transports for China. e o e S EkN UTTMAN. THE SOUND STEAMER WALLA WALLA AND HER OFFICERS. P+ OtC+OI 0000400000004 0000000000040 0 4000400409040+ Q ANCISCO is not going to |ru s 3 (slg‘nfid hiz command on the Sound and is first transport to get away will be | stration to ce; some of the crew gave v of whale storfes. 3 now in Washington, D. C. His departure Talla on =a | the Universe. She will take a full cargo | was very much regretted by the men, and one off the | of supplies and fodder, and is expected to | some of them are still suffering for their o s sail on Monday next. The Universe will | lack of discipline. It is a rigid rule in the VesSSel | he followed by the Strathgyle and Aztec | navy that no officer can be cheered when engines re- | about the 12th inst., while the Warren, |leaving his ship. The men cheered Cap- ate leviathan | with the Ninth Cavalry, will get away on | tain Goodrich s he passed over the side, prow of the | August The Belglan King, with a|and when the officers ordered the demon- | siege battery and pack traif, will get away in company with the Warren, while the Fredericka (now eon her way here struck the whale right un- | f the | and fractured | the ba: la Wa ered ber of hospital stewards and nurses, while the Fredericka will take the horses and guns. On the transport wharf there is not the la was s to but the leviathan could not be Then the engines were stopped | he engines were StoPPed |rush of work that might be expected i Spessd la ";", g‘w("i | owing to the sudden demand made on the ¢ Whale then parted | service. The Universe is the only vessel ace, superin- | joading, and cn her there are twenty-four Steamship | men employed. Of these eleven ex- army men Volunteers who served in Cuba 3 head hung on the Port|from China) and the Rosecrans will take while the body for a dis- | away two light teries of artillery. The feet lapped the starboard | Rosecrans will take the men and a num- | three cheers more. In consequence shore | leave is stopped on the battleship. | WATER FRONT NOTES. The steamer America Maru sailed for | the Orient vesterday. Among her cabin passengers were Bri(’ dier General James A. Wilson and W. W. Rockhill,* Commis- joner from the United States to China. Among the other passengers were Com- mander N. E. Miles of the Nashville and | W. F. Smith and wife. Mr. Smith is an engineer in the United States na The steamer Santa Rosa was five hours late vesterday, the first time in eighteen months that she has been behind time. ARMY SERGEMNT ROBBED OF COIN BY A DESERTER While George Bunner Slept B. McMurray Rifled His Pockets. s Police at California-Street Station Re- ceive a Report of a Crime on the Barbary Coast. el Sergeant George Bunner of the casual detachment now stationed at the Presidio reported to the California-street Police Station Thursday night that he had been robbed of a large amount of monéy by. ment. McMurray cannot be located, and as he expressed his intention of deserting it is supposed that he has done so. Wednesday night Bunner and McMur- ray spent the evening in the city, and having missed the last car, went to bed in a lodging-house at Pacific and Kearny streets. Before retiring McMurray said he was going to desert, but as he was slightly under the influenice of liquor_his companion paid no attention to him. Next morning when Bunner awoke he found that he had been robbed of nearly $200, which he had carried in his pockets, and that McMurray had gone. Bunner searched for McMurray during the day and, as he did not show up at the Presidio, reported the matter to the gollce in the evening. Policeman Robert ilver was detailed on the case. The deserter has not been locat: MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. T 1is.definitely announced that the Metropolitan Opera Company, with Impresario Maurice Grau, will be on end of October Mr. Grau's objective point, and will also be the scene of the company’s first ap- pearance this coming season. Jean de Reszke (who is understood to be entirely recovered from his temporary vocal in- disposition), Dippel, Melba and Eames will be of the company. Miss Clara Kalisher announces a reci tal for September 4, to be given in Sher- | man-Clay Hall. Signor Arrillaga has returned from his vacation and is again at work. Professor Katzenbach is another re- turned wanderer. The professor has been making pedestrian records round about Soda Bay and returns to his duties in ex- cellent health and spiri | Mrs. Frances W. Marrett, “Daughter | of the Revolution” and ‘‘great-grandchild | of General Beall, who at one time owned the land where the Capitol of the nation now stands” (vide title page), is to the | fore with a military march, “Roosevelt ’nf the Rough Riders.” The composition has a certain swing, but shows an entire ignorance of harmonic Jaws, which may only perhaps be a vouch for a large popu- larity. The feast of St. Dominic will be ob- served at St. Dominic’s Church, Bush and Steiner streets, by the celebration of solemn high mass at 10 a. m. to-day, by | the Franciscan Fathers, and by solemn Private B. McMurray of the same detach- | the Pacific Coast not later than the | San Francisco will be | LOWELL: BY HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD. Copyright, 1900, b y Seymour Eaton. ————— LITERARY TALKS AND REMINISCENCES. ———ie IX. | the author of the section rights throu chusetts e founded a ¢ which When I first met Mr. Lowell I thought of the ethereal, evanishing quality of Shel- ley, mingled with the shrewd commor u ton with a fund of sense of Poor Richard, and Mr. Underwood | on the top of the Pyramids—perhaps from has recorded the same impression. Yet, fancy, perhaps because he thought in spite of the shrewdness and the! }Y{lxh‘v'lrwt get e. F‘"yl'"‘; “abot laughing sparkle of smile and eye, when- | fjol of oS e o T | ever the countenance was in repose there | of 1 m ‘was something in the earnest look or | the sense it gave of the presence of ze | { ius that made it archangelic in suggestion. | ;¥ | The face had a rather extraordinary beau- | of ¢ | ty—a bright color, eyes that had a blue | sitting round a table and blaze to them, the forehead low and white, | 1ong pipes. over a rec ¥ | with rich chestnut hair parted like a | IU7S La “{w,;\-“‘";;‘-”‘ e ey | woman’s, the mouth hidden in a beard of | charj ather was a Unitarian | brighter shade. His dress was in perfect | | taste; his manner was charming, and his wit bubbled through the whole conversa- tion. I had previously seen the portrait | of Page, and thought it all one would | have it, but that day it seemed to me en- minister, idolized in his parish. preaching in the old West Church ¢ Bost: ot far bevond the bridge, but a leafy place ¢ in € nbridge, wher Lowell youngest chil was born and passed the r part of his life tre § ttraly inadocuute: Lowell was when he married { Z : > White, a beautiful creature, who | If you will pardon the personal remin- away after nine years, but whe Their | Iscence, I had gone to a dinner given by nly influence was lifelong. | the publishers of the Atlantic to certain | children died in infancy, with the excep- of the contributors (I was young!), and | tlon of Mabel, whe 1 The poems writte Mrs. Stowe and I had waited in the draw- ing-room three-quarters of an hour, neither knowing each other, she as shy as 1. She had asked me at last if I knew ' what #ime it was, and I had said I did not. The silence had grown impenetrable, and I was In a chill dismay, when Mr. very lovely h-minded ; were privately printed in a small vi subsequent to her death, which after their return from the heat of the anti-slavery contest came the first series of the “Biglow Ps pers,” like which for absolute originality, | | | | | Peb e ve *ve o e e L g * e e . . B R SECAR SRR . | *ied . .9 3 ¥ | IR3 |PILOT ATTHOWE LOSES The grain season has now set in and the nd the Philippines and are now out Santa Rosa was delayed at Port Harford besiege the wharf and the off from the authorities at Manila and Taku | and a subsequent kick from Washington, | Captain Plerce was given a ‘ which grows in vigor until it gets to the | home” on the vransrmrf Sheridan "c!.zg: €nd of the line on the transport wharf. | day. He has been for a voyage on the BATTLESHIP IOWA IN PORT. Warren, but vesterday took command of 2 5 his o0ld vessel again. The office The Towa arrived from Esquimalt, B. C.,, | made his homecoming a ver;!:r&?»?:fil‘: nd made chelder on | service is back from a visit to the East. begin, the inspector general of Colonel Maus Of | carly yesterday morning. As she passed | one. military ¢ of California, | yp the bay the Chilean training ship' Gen- | h e artered fransports | sl Hastedenc wes palsies Wik T |4 The e apaiin Cactl Soplely will giye thgyle and Astec yesterday.JHe found | (e fowa gocs to. Monterey, where She | Steamer Sunol has besn charnoed” o pihe ready for sea. Both ves- | will join In the festivities on August 17 in | tary band and a string orchestrs Sraamey. horses _and supplies. | celebration of the admission of California | so the affalr is sure to na ateoneaged: als will be for the |as a Territory of the United States. one. The Sunol will leave Washington: s will depend Captain Hooper brings the lowa back cts the quad- street w! ol oo 2 Somedt reet wharf at 9 a. m., returning at 6 p. m. Captain Goodrich re- MISSION ROCK TITLE EXAMINED IN COURT Wanted by the Government for a Coaling Station and Ejectment Proceedings Begun. | an unlicensed man in charge in the pilot he e you were absent. Your action 14 1 life and proper within_the provisions of section #3 vised Statutes. For reason of such on your part we her cense as piiot of iod ‘of ninety d. You are hereby also notified that you | v and_comes , Re- NINETY DAYS’ SALARY egligence as above »v suspend your li- m vessels for the | Censured by Inspectors Bolles and Bulger for Striking on the Castro Rocks. rora sailed from theleannot continue your duties pending an| rmpe < ik b P e B w setor attention of United for a vovage up the | 3PPe) 1o ":;g fi(vi‘:“;‘mhl‘fis-lm::yr'o‘\':.‘l.-.l“ Beatty was occupied 34rst»rd§;?:;gl‘:qlt_?f; By some misunder | Lo T Sohited Siates. Hevised the evidence and arguments in the sult € left on shore,| ntes. “_ of the Government against the California £ a w-:_ r‘f.'\" ge :’.r (fflq[ —————————— | Drydock Company for the possession RABoet At e Brutally Beat His Wife. 530 aMon Bock:in. San Francisco Bay. climb o o Rocks, but failed and | . A:- R. Cole, an electrician. living at 185 | ;% 908 Was }akm'ulxn"ln:':d:-'?-;hn;}:{"r' eft dang between wind and wa- | DUPODt strect, was arrested yesterday on | Several years ago the United States Gov- B te fasy was done to the | @ WATTARt charging nim with battery upon | ernment wished to purchase Mission Rook ) Bowles and John his wife, Carrie. She showed the effects | for a coaling station and made overtures | inspectors « m ves- | of the be on her face while swearing | 12 that end. The drydock company of- + lowing rep esterday: | to the complaint. Her husband, when he °d to sell the rock for $250,000, and the Mr. E. Atthowe. pilot of mer A R 2 4 ' e | Government took the offer under consid. rora, San Francisco—Sir: In the matter | 50t home Thursday night, missed a plece | eration until it was found by the Depart- c amer Aurora, in your tharge as Of 0ap and at once knocked her down and | ment of Justice that the title was in the tro Rocks. J 30 last, | kicked her. | United States and that it would not there- in sworn report thereof. th —_—————— fore be necessary to pay for it. Suit in ejectment was begun in rcuit Court in this cit: submitted yesterday. the United States 1 substance, that you left th ¥ and the case was pilot in oparge an_unlicensed man for a few minutes, with the steamer | Ranch-Hand Vindicated. The case of W. R. Gallagher, a ranch- under way, while you Were absent in re- | hand from Lodi, accused of grand lar- | —_————— eponse to a sudden call. The fact of the ceny, was dismissed by Judge Mogan v ! ~ master not being on board Is explained in | terday. He was charged with stealing a | ANOTHZR TRIP ame LePOTL | ireumstances it was your | {jamond ring belonging to Irene Barnum, TO LAKE TAHOE | a waitress in the W 35 Eddy street. tv to have stopped the steamer at one shington dance hall, instead of allowing her to proceed with eofenfoniorf 3 + 7+~:—HH+?-P-:°H*H—E-+++H+H—X*H—E—$ cursions Next Saturday. i + gk DI PILOTS PREDICT A WET F | ;The ten-totas efonrstons to Lake Tunos and week hefore have been the means of WINTER FOR CALIFORNIA |t midties et | resort, and with the desire to fav. many as possible it has been decided to | ive another next Saturday night, August | 4, under the same conditions. It should be borne In mind nprecedentedly low—it is even ab. i does Tt pay the actual 1 things considered, it .is an v that few can afford 'to miss. & 0 o) “Whale Birds” Have Appeared Off the Golden Gate Two Weeks Ahead of Time. ALIFORNIA is to have a very wet winter, and the pilots are ready to C gamble on it. They are divided, however, as to the extent of the pre- cipitation. Captain Freeman thinks there will be about seventeen inches of moisture, while Captain Frank Murphy is willing to give 2 to 1 that the downpour will exceed twenty inches. Captain F. Jordan is willing to compromise on sixteen inches, while Captain Alec Swanson is confident the rainfall will be 18.065 inches. Alec has carefully studied the situation and knows what he is talking about. One thing is certain, and that is that the pllots of the port of Ban Francisco are a unit in predicting a wet winter for Californi: The reasons for the prediction of the pilots are these: The “whale birds" are here away ahead of time and their early advent always presages a hard winter. For years past they have never put in an appearance until about August 15, and sometimes as late as August 2. Whenever they fali to ap- cost, opportuni | .’FL( city ticket office. 613 Market street, Mission Swamps to Be Filled. | _After years of agitation the residents of Precita Valley are about to secure the fill- | g in of the Mission swamps. The ob- | fectionable swamps are located south of | Bryant street and east of Folsom, ex- | tending to San Bruno avenue, bo Bernal Heights on the north, jeodredrefeofs e ofe effonfonfosfortnfefoafentod unded h This wholg Q Creek. but latterly portions have been filled in by the extensidn of streets run- | ning south. - 3 The Board of Public Works has calleq for bids to fill In the low Iving ground to pear until the latter date California has always experienced an unusually grade and to continue the formation of dry winter. When they come in early the reverse is the case. j the various. streets running through the This year the “whale birds” put In their appearance on July 2T, and in valley. —_—————— Three Small Horsethieves, “ John Elliott. 10 years of age; Henry Mel- Iotte, §, and Hugh MoGonigle, 7, jumped into a buggy belonging to D. L. Marks at Stevenson and New Montsomery streets vesterday morning and drove away. - The police were notified and in the afternoon the boys were arrested on the San Jose road by Policeman Herve and taken to the City Prison. The horse and buggy consequence the pilots are willing to stake their last cent that a very wet winter is to be California’s portion during the next season. The “‘whale bird” is always to be found in attendance upon the whales. The latter take thousands of small fish into their mouths which they cannot swallow, and as these make their escape the birds pounce upon them and make a meal. That the whales are very much in evidence has been demon- strated during the past few weeks. The pilot boat Bonita was sunk by one, another ran away with the Gracle S, a third nearly sank the ferry steamer San Rafael, while still another nearly swamped the launch Athlete, with George Knight aboard. The “whale birds"” are always in attendance, and in .} R their wake comes rain—"much rain,” say the pilot: s were delivered to the owner. The boys It is a safe gamble that we will have at least twenty Inches of rainfall = | Were booked for a public institution. ——————— this year,” said Captain Frank Murphy yesterday. “The whale birds are here away ahead of time, and I never knew their early advent fail to pre- sage & heavy downpour. I have watched their coming and going for a gen- eration and bave always found that when they came before August 10 it . was a question of getting out your sou’wester and ollskins, but when they were later than August 15 you could dispense with rubber boots for the rest of the year. This time they werp largely In evidence on July 27, so I have my rubber boots, oiiskins and fi wester all ready for active service.” e had escaped with an abrasion on the oot e “hip, g . ¥ ~ { Saved by the Fender. % | Theodore Cummings, a boy 5 years of | age, living at 46215 Tchama street, ran in front of car 1060 on Mission street, near Sixth. xuterdny morning. The motorman dropp®d his fender and the boy was lifted up out of danger. He was taken to the E&ulv}n‘ Hofixlm. where it was found | high mass at 11 a. m. Sunday, with a| panegyric of 8t. Dominic preached by | Rev. Father Glacobbi, S. J. There will be special music by St. Dom- | | inic’s choir, under the direction of Frank- | anxious to get Iy, but the latter | taking aboard 10,000 sacks. Bhegnicidpe e s iun for work and only |, B T. McGinnis, district officer of cus- e. There a -d somebody is sure | toms at Mission-street wharf, is back | el wes who | 1o get left. Dunn says he Is doing the | (rom & well-earned vacation. Most of his "fo take | VCIY best Lie can under the circumstances. | {3 W25 Spent at, Tahoe, but he managed ¥y to take | 4 i AL iurin, stay unt Tallac, with norses | ,AS 500n*a ‘lhn]l niverse is loaded the | Captain Bennett joined in the climb. bui ditrer. | nen will be discharged and a new gang | both he and McGinnis found it heart- s differ- | put on the Aztec and another on the | breaking work to have to break botties Strathgyle, while a third will load the |and partake of solldified refreshments. of horses | Warren. 'Bad stora means a roar | Captain ewt” Jordan of the pilot Third of the Popular Ten-Dollar Ex. | or as | that this | ts are on sale at the Southern Pa. | ction was formerly the bed of Mission ' | lin Palmer, organist and choir director. Organ The musical programme includes: (Tinel); prelude, “Franciscu: lliwoda); ‘‘Gloria” and “‘Agnus Dei” ( and Sanctus,” St. Cecilia mass (Gounod); *Credo” (B. Dethier) male Voices (Gounod): @, M. Dethier); organ postlude, “Marche Pon- tificale’” (Tombelle). The soloists 2 Miss Lily Roeder, soprano; M Schaetz, contralto; J. F. and Sighor G. S. Wanrell, bass. —_——————— ALL TESTIMONY IN THE “CLOCK GAME CASE IN Judge Cebaniss Will Render His De- | cision in the Valentine Matter This Morning. The trial of W. D. Valentine and others charged with conducting a ‘clock” or cluded before Judge Cabaniss vesterday morning, and the Judge reserved his deci- | sion till this mornlntz. | Valentine was again called to the stand | for eross-examination. Regarding Attor- | ney Coffey’s question as to the method of | Working the tape and reel, which was | taken under consideration by the Judge, | he decided that the witness should not | ealled upon to answer. Coffey then ques- tioned him as to the certificate of shares of the Excelsior Gold Mining Compan: but nothing definite was brought out, as | the Judge sustained objections made by | Attorney Collins. The same procedure was gone through regarding the alleged letter from “W. Seward, New York." No further testimony was offered for the defense, and Attorney Collins briefly argued for a dismissal. Attorney Coffey did not reply and the Judge said he would render his decision this morning. Mot B Sl i, | Will Crowd St. Brendan’s Hall. | A musical and literary entertainment | will be given at St. Brandan's Hall, Fre- ‘mnnt and Harrison streets, nexy Monday evening, under the auspices of the Young | Ladies” Sodality. | been prepared. Miss 8. A fine programme has levesahl, Miss | S. Alexander, Miss Sears, Miss M. Alex- | ander, Miss_ Brown, Miss Miss | Tarabocia, Miss Boulet, . Me- | Kenna, Miss M. Flaherty, Miss A. O'Con- | ner, Miss M. Prince, Miss M. McCarthy | lly; Messrs. John Cava | and Miss J. Rel h, Al Brogi, F. Strange will take part. Professor &' Arey's orchestra will be there and Eddie | and Claire Deutch will dance. Songs, in- | strumental music and two little farces are on the programme. ——————— Hackmen Organize. As a result of zeveral meetings, the hackmen of the city organized last night as the Carriage Owners’ and Drivers' Pro- tective Association. The title states the na; L | objects of the organization and the fol- | lowing officers will manage the affairs of year: o | iation during the current e ent . Wiiliam: MeLaughlin; ent. Thomas Martin; financial se. | fary, John Dowling: recording secreta Arthur Sullivan: treasurer, William Me- | Taughlin Jr. A committee on constitution | and by-laws was appointed. consisting of Martin Tierney (chairman), Henry Coile and Thom: cKeever. ————— Chretien Wants to Get Out. John M. Chretien, the disgraced attor- ney, by his legal representative has ap- plied to the Supreme Court for a writ of corpus. He is held in the County ?gfie?‘: Getanit of $20,000 bail required to | insure his appearance for trial on charges of forgery and obtaining money under false pretenses. In his r\vmlvn he claims | he is being deprived of his liberty illega) ve and-unjust. He says he can D G casonable bond. Tha Supreme Court has taken no acticn en the petition. ————————— American Enterprise at Paris. Among the striking and original exhibits at the Paris Exposition of 1900 few have occasioned more favorable comment than the great map of | the United States, 1815 feet, exhibited by the | well-known advertising agency of Thomas, Chicago and New York. This map is ! constructed to show at a glance the various de- | talls concerning State areas and population, | number of publications in each, circulation per | {ssue, percentage of circulation to population, value of publishing plants, number of em- ployes, average Hours of labor, average wages paid and average cost per inch for yearly ad- | vertising. Information of this nature is of cs- ! pecial value to advertisers, showing as it does the best locations In which to place advertising to reach the greatest number of people and se- cure best resulth. Coples of this valuable map will be sent free on request to all advertisers who address Lord & Thomas, Trude Building, Chicago. “Kyrie” | | “tape” game at 43 Ellis street was con- | P. Scully and Mathew | | a¢ ihe amount of the bond is excessive, ' Lord & | - |® - e K3 sie b ebedede “ie @+ e eieitseiededes e e eietrIeteteteg | Lowell, as one of our hosts, came in, and it was like a burst of sunshine, melting the ice instantly with his debomair gen- fality and sweetness. Dr. Holmes and Mr. Whittier, Mr. Lonsfellow, Professor Stowe, Mr. Whipple, Edmund Qulncy, Frank Underwood, were, with others, among the guests. Of all the brilliant company_present I think Colonel Higgin- son @nd I are the only survivors. | “In those days Mr. Lowell was the editor |.in chief of the Atlantic Monthly and those of his contributors who found favor with | him had a delighiful friend. He fostered and developed such power as they had and his suggestions were Invaluable. etters were precious possession | them too persongl for publication. Per- haps I ought not“to print the subjoined, written, I think, in reply to one in which T had withdrawn a poem he did not alto- gether like: | | T wonder that a woman should be so un- | skilled in the countless varieties of no that mean yes as to call my note a “‘refusal’ I dare say I am a goose for taking any nd_ of interest in my contributors beyond the value of their names on the cover. * ¢ But Is it with what women write, as with themselv that we must like altogether or not at all Did I not tell you that what I was thinking of was you and not the Atiantiec? I have a n tion that youns authors should never try ex- periments on the public—that they should al ways look to making their impression a c mulative one, and, above all, should beware of watering their For the first thing a writer must accomplish is succes: Aftenthat | the world is only too kind, and if one be really ‘worth anything . a bond given for something better—namely, excellence. Well, what am I driving at, then? Why, I have sent your poem to the printer. The opin- ions of and — are quite as likely to jump With that of the public as mine. But do not | T beg, misunderstand me. When I write | you about anything of yours I do not write o ficially, but simply because I feel an interest in what you do th yourself. As editor, T write no letters unl under downright compulsion. I have too much to do, and, moreover, letters | don't say just what we tell them to say, nor just as we should like to have jhem say it. | “But when your poem is prinfed, may I de- mand a categorical exposition of ‘certain pa: Zea that puzzled even me, and 1 was 42 ‘month? As far as printing is concerned, |1 | if you like the poem that is enough. (Was there ever such editor before or submitted my fi m. But nt him, another me. with the fatuity of the young writer, a story with a new pseudonym after he knew my own name. (I sometimes won- dered if he were kinder to me because—in total ignorance that it was his mother’ name—l had chosen.the name of Spe: for one of my J My sister co the story for me have any resembl: difference in the : ertain letters. | I received an 3 . addressed not to the pseudonym, but to me, saying that although the “d's” were all “d's” tie i-dees were the same. Mr. Lowell made the Atlantic of those a | carly days a wonderful thing. It seemed | in some way a murror of his own individu- | ality, as he himself was to a degree the of the age. But he was an editor who managed things in his own unique way, reading a manuscript wherever the spirit found him or he found | the time, and clapping it into some unlike- !y place of the moment; so that long af- ter he left the editorial chair people were sending to his successor manuscripts that they had found unaccountably on their tabies or in their desks, But_the work was ‘tksome and he re- signed it to Mr. Fields after about five years. But In those five years he had done more to stimwelate thought and style and to create a high standard of literary apt among us than any other single force. mirror of the geniu: Some time later he became an assaciate editor of the North American Review for | a few years. | His mother had a mem stored with the ballads of many lands, in many tongués, and she made poetry the atmo- sphere of his being. It is not impossib! that she brought into the family that wild strain which feeds genius, a certain tang added to the drink of the gods. She be- {longed on_her own mother's side the Trally or Troils of the Orkneys, a tradi- tion of the house giving her descent from Sir Patrick Spens, who lies Forty miles off Aberdeen, "Tis fifty fathoms deep. On the other side the Lowells—descend- ed from Percival Lowell, who settled in Newbury, Mass., in 163i—were le of power for generations. John was His | many of | | rollicking fun, splendid wit and flery de- nunciation' there was never anything be- | fore, nor can be again. While their humor was tricksy, their satire was stinging. and | they were a terrific weapon in the cause | they championed, all the more terrific that | it seemed only a thing, swinging | lightly while doing deadly work. The second series proved no less effective in the days of the Civil War. The use of the | dialect and archaisms that have nearly | disappeared from New England, tracing | which and their affiliations in language | was a peculiar pleasure to Lowell, makes | the pages of the “Biglow Papers” a study in the Doric, as one might say; the char- | acterization there is complete, with th most delicate painting; now and then p: sages of pastoral beauty appear. and everywhere wit sparkies like a shower in the sun, or, rather, i in the lightnings of storm. ~ Abounding as they do also in sweet humor and tender pathos, with the rendering of life and manne it is to be doubted if long after much at contem- poraneous verse has been forgotten this masterpiece will not remain tmperisha as an eple. It was in the early years of his mar- riage that our poet wrote the fauitless “Sir Launfal” and among others the ring- ing and stirring “Present Crisis.” certain lines of which have passed into all men's memories. such as “Truth forever on the ;scaflold, Wrong forever on the throne,™ | and | | Humanity sweeps onward, martyr stands On the morrow crouches Judas with the siiver in his hands. In tremendou: | as this is the inimitabl ¢ in 1 glish Bards no like | and original. If the in relation to fi and_imbec was equally unsparing of his own preter | sions and the praise he awarded was posi- | tive and generous. Nothing lovelier in its w was ever written than what he says of Hawthorne and John Dwight and Irv where to-day the contrast to such work ‘able for Critics” with drolle published anony- If this was suggested b, nd Scotch Reviewers™ being utterly novel writer was unsparing ing. But Lowell loved to praise: thers | was no foethold or cr: ny for praise to { plant itself that he did not seize. Having rem a_widower four years, | Mr. Lowell married Miss Frances Dunlap of Portland in 1557, taking her after a brief residence elsewhere to the beauytiful Elmwood, where he was born; the years passing delightfully with study, work and the friends of a charmed circle. He went to Europe again in 1573 and not long after t eriod_he was appointed Minister sequ becoming our Min- to Sp: ster to E gland, welcomed there by Eng- lish journals as the Embassador from the repubiic of American literature to the court of Shakespeare and beginning pub- lic life at an_eminence where others leave off. His culture, his Li breeding, his | wit and charm, together with his fine po- | litical tact, gave him an_immense popu- {larity in Great Britain. Not without his | eritles concerning the Irish question, he | was. .nevertheless, a large factor in the production of :he cordial feeling that has been going on between England and | America and growing since his day. But ite never for an instant forgot that he the patriotism that was | rather flamboyant in his essay upon “A { Certain Condescension in Foreigner: | never decreasing In ardor—the same love of country that made him do his best with the grace of song and the sting of epl- | gram to remove her wrong and shame. | He returned to America when a new ad- ministration came in. having lost his wife and having begun to grow old. It is no- table that as the years advanced the mores | conservatiye he gr clinging to old ideals and refusing to accept the new, and | possibly his absence from home and con- | sequent unacquaintance made some of his | personal judgments of less value than o He had always had certain fixed faiths in things spiritual. of which one | was a Strong as rance of the immortal- | ity of the soul. Once he wrote of himself Y T lost all gonsclousness of I my flesh. as dispersed through space | in some inconeeivable fashion and mixed | with the milky way. Yet the very fact that I had a confused consciousness -of | the milky way as something to be mingled with proved that I was then as much of an individual as eve Later his ideas | of the spiritual life became more conerete, | While his soul was full of hope and trust | and his religious experience ned. HARRIET P. SPOFFORD. Newburyport, Mass. was an Amerie n.