The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1900, Page 9

SAOCERS EMPLOY BOVCOTT TO Wi AGHINST AGENTS Fattle Raging in Wholesale Section for Control of Business. b tions Imposed That Have Made \Representatives of Manufactur- ers Don Wear Paint—Re- tailers Interested. . Grocers of » are having ge firms urers do- been prac nbers of the for some atrick of Bat- Mailliard & on Sansome ts have been cers’ Assoclas » outside. One Toward H. Hogan f goods , which has se it was d to corral grocers in the er talk is called ) hief he city who whole- ot to sel of 15 per < ueeze of 1 ¥ that were ast night, ) ed, that the I s were ready to concede « s 1 some agreement h the & sales CLAIMS ARREST WAS MADE THROUGH SPITE Cardorel, Wine and Fruit Mer- , Charged With Resist- an Officer. ing wi mer- eared before arge of Jordan ing wit- went arrest ancy, but to search ¥. goods Satur- the the him not get was rel any- | the case bring —_—————— | 1 on His Defense. n yesterday ertained from giri's father ainst him. arrest the away. He out a “Jane service day erve it on her was g0 marked for t he could she lived, 0 he The Chief repg- him he should ha%e taments Filed. late Berry Marks, who 2, was filed for probate yes- cedent bequeaths lis entire es- Dex na Marks. o died July 21, leavin d at $5)0, was also file bequeaths his entire h widow, Augusta Bernstein. terms of the will of the la Alb for probate yesterday, an es- over $10,000 is bequeathed es to decedent’s widow, Mar- rv?k and his daughter, Mrs. nn ¥ Medals for Life Savers. heroes were rewarded for saving of a couple of helpless children ng presented with medals by the for the Prevention of Cruelty to One is Policeman on the afternoon of ttle girl from under POSTUM CEREAL. SOUTHERN GIRL Visiting Friends in Knoxville. } greatly troubled by t awake at night whenever coffec. It also disagreed with digestion. Last summer I was vis- | d in Knoxville who had| n sufiering from rheumatism, caused by coffee drinking. She had quit using ce and was using Postum, and had also her delicate daughter, en an invalid for a long time, benefited by the use of Pos- Coffee while 1 was there and using larly that I slept much bet- 0 stromg in my mnerves s wonderful. T trust I be the means of in- ers to try your magnificent These are true and honest facts ances Smith, 632 Doug<| las street, Chattanooga, Tenn, i The reason Miss Smith and her friends improved in heaith is that coffes acts 25 @ poison on many delicate or- ganisms. When it is left off, the cause of the trouble is removed; then, if Pos- tum Food Coffee is taken, there is a di- rect and quick rebuilding of the nerve centers all through the body, for Pos- Food Coffee contains the elements "1 by the system to rebuild the e centers. Made at the pure food factories of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich,, and sold by all first-class grocers. | 1 beverage agents | It was | me before making | i at over §10.000, to his | The will of Elias , THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1900 \ ® < L 4 + L 4 . ® b > | | | R e R S S S »0‘«;00‘-5»05. O GO0 0000000000000 000040000000 0000600000000006000600600 _._.{ the hoofs of a pair of runaway horses on Market reet The other man was Raiph W. Gregg, a_contractor and team ster, living at 1110 Stanyan street. While near the o beach on July 5 his at- tention was called to a little girl who was feebly struggling in the breakers several feet from the shore. ut even removing his heavy bber bosts Gregg plunged into the w. r and after a hard fight with death s ceeded in ving the child’s life. TWO WOMEN CLAIM TO BE PRINTZ'S WIDOW und With Deceased Printer’s Estate May Be the Object of a Contest Between Them. Two women have come forward to lay | claim to the property of the late Frank Printz ch claims to be the widow of the deceased. Two months ago Printz, who was a printer, was found dead in a room in the Winchester House. The day i she was his widow appeared at gue and took away his effects. iministrator Boland received a 3 from a woman in the East who signs her name Mrs. Jane Printz ana ays that if the deceased left an estate i v she can prove that she is his iow. She resides at 208 Central wport, R. L. Mr. Printz was a Typographical Unfon No. 21, =0 said t the Knights of Pythias. If such proves to be the case a contest betweeen the claimants is expected. n VETERAN ACTOR IS J. H. Stoddard to Appear i the Production of “The Only Way.” will a week from next Monday evening present “The Only Way, the dramatization of Dickens’ tions are being made for the production of the play and local theatergoers will have an opportunity of seeing the Lyceum J. H. Btoddard, Daniel H. Harkins and Joseph Brennan, three sterling actors, are speeding to this city to take part in the ON HIS WAY HERE ENRY MILLER and his company “Tale of Two Citles.” Great prepara- Theater success and the original cast. R R e R S S . ] b F S . b “ e )¢ - b1 * b : 4 R4 |® ® * + ® @ *| . ®| @ L - | @ & | 4 5 ¢ 4 ® - . PS 4 + |® |e ! P L 4 b . ¥ J. H. STODDARD. @ .+o+o+0+e+o—.—ww‘ production. At the orders of Charles Frohman the three actors left New York yesterday and will arrive in this city in time to take part in the rehearsal, which will be held on Monday. Mr. Stoddard is one of the oldest actors now before the public. He is a universal favorite and is possessed of great histri- onic ability. His last appearance in this city was two years ago, when, while a member of the A. M. Palmer Company, he scored a big hit as the old Southerner in “Alabama.” As David Ives in *“The Dancing Girl,” produced by the same company, with Julia Arthur in the leading | role, Mr.' Stoddard scored a distinct suc- cess. In “The Only Way” the veteran actor plays the part of Mr. Lorry, and he has every opportunity of displaying his, clev- erness as a character actor. Mr. Hdrkins and Mr. Brennan have parts equally good, for the rendition of which they have re- ceived high praise by the critics of New ork. Immediately after the production of “The Onli"way” Mr. Stoddard, Mr. Har- l‘nnakand r. Brennan will return to New York. SRR DS S iy ‘Much Government Beef Condemned. Policeman Butterworth, who is detafled to the Board of Health, condemned a truckload of salt beef as it was leaving the transport dock several days ago. The Jot consisted of fifty barrels, and Butter- worth poured coal oil over it and sent it 1o the fertilizin= works. Butterworth then entered the transport dock and condemned thirty-five barrels of the stuff, which he found in a decayed condition. From the ariver of the truck the officer learned that the goods had been ‘purehased by Roth, Blum & Co., wholesale producers on Calj. fornia street, where he found thirty bar- Tels more of the salt beef, which was also confiscated. —— e Both Guilty of Contempt. 1. C. Cnopius, who failed to appear and serve as a juror after being regularly summoned, wa 2 i.l‘ldsed gxmy of con- f court udge Dunne ter- R cénienced to pay a fne of $5 o serve five days in the County Jail. Charles W. Bcheper was adjudged ’ullty of con- tempt by Judge Dunne for failure to obey an order of court to pay Mrs. Scheper a month alimony. eper will remain in the custody of the Sheriff until the order. o | hat he was insured in | n.m;-l @it eDe el 0000000000000 e00000e00000e0e0ebedeiten THE PILOT-BOAT NOW BUILDING THAT IS TO REPLACE THE BONITA. NEWS FROM THE OCEAN D THE WATER FRONT !New Pilot Boat to Replace | the Bonita Is Now Being | [ Constructed. PEEESR AN | Another Log Raft to Be Towed to San Francisco by Tugs—Ship- owners wre Indig- nant. AT The loss of the pilot boat Bonita is not going to cripple the service now given incoming ships. The news that a whale had sunk that smart little craft was ! tie was in communication with Matthew Turner on the subject of & | new hoat. The veteran boat builder at once drew up the plans and schooner is under way that will rival any- thing in American waters. She will be | eighty-one feet on the water line, twenty- | four feet beam and nine feet deep, or | about the same size as the America. She fo ab { will be modeled like the Bonita forward | No name has | | and like the America aft. | as vet been decided upon for the new ves- | sel] but the consensus of opinion among | the pilots is that she should be called | Columbia. She will be in commission | about January 1. Another Log Raft Coming. | Captains of coasting vessels s are indig- ‘ggnrln o‘;'eer( the fact th}:‘u an attempt is fo a 0 tow another I & | Francisco by " the - thgs Resrue” san | Tatoosh. | the Mendocino coast is passed there will | be no_trouble. The Tatoosh is to tow the ship John Ena to Puget Sound while the Rescue will go light. The three vessels should arrive about the same time, how- ever, as the Tatoosh is by far and away | the more powerful tug, and the fact that she is towing a big ship will not materi- ally effect her speed. The last raft brought down lost about a | thousand logs on tne way. These have proven a menace to navigation and every shipmaster that has arrived during the | past twenty-four hours has made com- plaint. The State of California had to keep two_lookouts on the forecastle head. Captain Nicolson says that for nearly a hundred miles the Bonita was passin, through logs and that a careful outlool had to be kept by all hands. Anocther Shark Story. Two fishermen—Vincent Bardolini and Emanuel Maggio—had a fierce battle with a shark last Thursday night. They were out fishing for sea | when the tiger of the deep came along and got entangied with the net. After a hard struggle the shark was killed by a blow from a batchet and hauled twelve feet long from tip to tip. Customs Weigher Injured. M. Moran, a weigher in the Surveyor's department 'of the Custom-house, was nearly killed by a Folsom-street car early | yesterday morning. He was on his way to the Mail dock and got off the car at First and Folsom streets. He did not | notice the car coming in the opposite di- | rection and was struck as he turned in answer to a warning cry. His head was badly lacerated and when he reached the | Harbor Hospital Dr. Bacigalupi found him suffering from concussion of the brain and possible fracture of the skull, Later he was removed to St. Mary's Hos. pital. ‘Water Front Notes. The Sound steamer City of Puebla ar- rived from Victoria, B. C., early yester- day morning. Mrs. Becker of New What- com was moving along the deck when a heavy roll of the ship threw her against a stanchion. Her shoulder was dis- located. The Chilean training ship General Ba- quedano sailed for Yokohama yesterday. The steamer Santa Cruz sails for Eu- reka on Saturday, taking the place of the | Orizaba. 5 G. Goodman, formerly Captain : master of the Robert Lewers, has been appointed port captain of the Alexander & Baldwin fleet. ANOGTHER MOONLIGHT EXCURSION ount Tamalpais Road Sched- ules One for To-Night. Owing to the unparalleled success of the special moonlight trips that have been run in the past, The Mill Valley & Mt, Tamalpais Scenic Railway take pleasure in announcing one for this Saturday evening, August mg. connecting with the 5:15 p. m. boat (via Sausalito ferry), arriv- ing at the Tavern of Tamalpals in ample time to view the sunset and for dinner. Also a trip connecting with the 6:40 p. m. boat from San Francisco (via Sausa- lito ferry), returning so as to arrive in San Francisco by 11:20 p. m. the same evening. The moonlight on the bay and ocean, and the shadows in the valley on a moon- I“ ht night, are past description. 1 | | | The M he new and commodious Tavern is not | excelled by any mountain hotel in Cali~ fornia. It is open for the accommodation of guests deslrlngh to remain over night 80 as to witness the glorious sunrise. ——————————— Grand Jury Investigation. The Grand Jury was busily engaged yesterday charges arising out of the sale of posi- F. Wilbur and Eddy Conro Deputy Tax- Coi- was a witness and which E. nave been implicated. lector Edward J. was asked T bur's_connection with the Bartlett which grew out of the Fair will case when it was on twenty-four hours old before Cap- | now a| tions_under the Harbor Commissioners in | Morse in the sum of B trial before Judge Slack. Other wit- nesses examined were Collector of In- ternal Revenue Lynch, Police Captain Seymour, Captain John Pratt an M. Johnson,' but no new facts other than those already published were elicited. Further investigation was postponed un- til next Friday. MORE APPOINTMENTS BY »B!]ARD GCF WORKS Names of Those Who Will Compose | the Water Investigating ‘Expeditions. The Board of Public Works yesterday appointed the members of the two ex- peditions to be sent out for the purpose of investigating the Lake Tahoe and Yuba River water supplies as follows: Party No. 1, YTuba River, Norman B. Liver- more, field assistant in charge; C. F. Reardon, on,’ helper, $45; R. Harrison, helper, $45; C. J. Houston, heiper, Will 0." Sanford, helper, $; V. Carman, | cook, $40. | “Party No. 3, Lake Tahoe, J. R. Price, field transitman, | assistant in charge: F. Kuhlman, | $100 per month; J. P. Morse, Jeveler, $60; Georga | Wise, helper, $45; E. A. Burke, 'helper, $; Wiiliam H. Firebaugh, helper, $45: Walter J. Keogh, helper, $45; Albert Law, cook, $40. + Both expeditions will be made under the general supervision of Luther Wag- goner, chief of the Public Utilities de- partment. The Native Sons of the Golden West petitioned the board to appoint Willis | Polk architect without compensation, | he to supervise the decorations for the semi-centennial celebration so that uni- | formity will be observed. B+ 4444444444444 44440 R R R e 2 P S P PPN POOR THAN MARRY $ + 5 3 ROBATE JUDGE COFFEY, with his usual versatility, devised ways and means yesterday by which, if adopted, aged John Schenkel would come into possession of a legacy of $5000, bequeathed him by his late brother, Peter Schenkel. The ad- vice of the court, however, was scorned by the devisee. When Peter Schenkel died he left an estate of considerable value. Of his gold his brother John was to have $5000 in the event that Mrs. Elizabeth M. Schenkel, decedent's widow died or married again. Schenkel, the devisee, has been worrying considerably of late over the fact that Mrs. Schenkel still lives and refuses to marry. Schen- kel was in court again yesterday endeavoring to impress the court with his views that justice would be done to him, a poor man, if the will of the deceased was changed to suit his needs. “Are you a married man,” sald Judge Coffey. “No,” answered Schenkel, “I am a widower.” “PDon’t you see your way to col- lect this legacy?” responded the court. “Why not woo and win Mrs. Schenkel; take her for your bride and then as she will be mar- ried you will get your own besides that which is her’s.” “Why, I am sixty and over and she is only 45 years of age,” an- swered Schenkel in astonishment, “and besides I wouldn't have her for the entire estate.” “Then yow might induce sone one to marry her,” said Judge Coffey. Give some one a commission to nullify this contingency. The best thing you can do is to take your case out of this court and appeal to a marriage bureau that justice may be yours.” But Schenkel only shook his head and walked away. Between the two evils, marriage or poverty, he preferred the latter. B+ ++ 4444444444444 NO POWER TO FIX + + + + + + + + - + + > + + + City Attorney Informs Supervisors That the Charter Is Sileat on the Point. City Attorney Lane informed the Board of Supervisors yesterday that in his opinion the board has mot the power to fix telephone rates, but that such power may be obtained by prcper amendment to the charter. The power to fix charges for telephone service is not granted by the provision of the charter wfiuch authorizes the board to determine the compensation to be collected for the use of water, heat, light or power. It t be Inferred that it was intended to withhold the power purposely as to telephone comp.nree . Cuddy May Be Insane. Albert A. E. Cuddy, who broke two plate Iflasa windows in the Cafe Royal early Thursday morning, appeared before Judge Conlan yesterday. He acted queer- iy and said: T wnntéo kill Mayor Phe- lan, Chief Sullivan and four m-xlcc cap- tains.”” The Judge asked him if the gouee Judges were included in_ his mur- lerous designs_and he replied in the negative. e Judge sent him to the in- gane ward in the Receiving Hospital for examination. Big Bond for the Belgian King. The managers of the steamship Belgian afternoon investigating the| King filed a bond yesterday with United States District Court Clerk George 9000 " end SIS i brought inst the Belgian e gvmen of the m steamer Tellus for damages_su b:mfol.u.lon th md;u o!é.h. Hufion:l‘h i-ntv ompany of R R B S e SRR S S SECRY SRR SRCES SR SO SRCIY SRS SR SVORE SO SOS WOULD RATHER BE | P R e e 4 | pleasure grounds from the provisions of O+ 44444444444 44444044444 TELEPHONE RATES | Mmul MASS-MEETINGS 10 BE HELD IN PRUNE SECTIONS Cured Fruit Association Try- ing to Strengthen Its Position. e S RS Fifteen Per Cent of Guowers, Not Yet Members, Will Be Urged to Join the Organi- zation. The California Cured Fruit Association at a meeting held in San Jose last week decided to hold mass-meetings through- out the State, beginning to-day, to induce the growers who are now outside of the Association to join. These meetings will be held in all the most important fruit- srowing districts. The association now includes in its membership about 8 per cent of the growers of the State, but in view of the unusually large foreign crop and the in- creased difficulties in marketing the Cali- fornia output, it is deemed more neces- sary than ever to get all the prune grow- ers into the association, If the 15 per cent remain outside and their products are sold in competition with the associa- tion’s stock the effect on prices under present conditions may prove disastrous. Partisans of the association claim that except for its existence prunes would be selling at from two to two and a quarter cents. They hope to secure even higher prices than now obtain, as a result of the | mass-meetings about to be held. { The Cured Fruit Association enforces | stringent rules relative to grading and packing, being equal in that respect to the Raisin Association. Eastern buyers are already beginning to show their ap- preciation of this action. The directors of the Cured Fruit Asso- | ciation are mostly growers themselves, lmar:_ly of them being either active or re- | tired business men of wide experlence. —_— gHED MEN’S COUNCIL | FIRE IS QUENCHED Raising Up of the Great Chiefs of the Two Governing Bodies. The two Great Councils of the Improved Order of Red Men have concluded their | labors for this great sun and late yes- terday afternoon each quenched its coun- cil fire. The elected great chiefs and the ap- | ointed ones were raised up by Past Great Sachem J. Sims. The appointed ones are: J. A. Ellert, great sannap; A. D. Mason, great michinawa; A. Hausman, great guard of the wigwam, and S. L. Richards, great guard of the forest. The official organ was placed under the charge of the great chief of records. The Great Council to show its appreciation of the services of the retiring great sachem, E. B. Wilson, presented him a handsome testimonial. At the closing session of the Great Council of the Degree of Pocahontas | there was an exemplification of the secret | work by Mrs. J. Bell of Yosemite Coun- cil. The elected great chief, as well as ! the appointed ones, wers raised up by Past Great Pocahontas Nora Klink, as- sisted by Past Great Pocahontases Sarah Guttstadt and Hattie Whipple. The ap- ointed chiefs are: Minna Betts, first, and ‘annie Keith, second scout; Anna Brown- ing, great guard of the tepee, and Kate Beary, great guard of the forest. Mrs. Anna Gill, the retiring great Pocahontas, | was presented with a diamond studded true lover's knot of gold. In the evening the great chiefs visited | Alfarata Council, where they witnessed { an exemplification of the adoption degree ! by a team from -that council. This was | followed by a banquet. e ‘EFENCES MAY BE TWENTY FEET HIGH FOR AWHILE | ! Ordinance Recommended by Judi- ciary Committee — Recorder CGets Mortgage Clerk. The Supervisors’ Judiciary Committee | decided yesterday to recommend the or- | dinance regulating the height of fences | ot wood and other inflammable material to twenty feet, to be in force on and from bassage until June 30, 1901, when the or- hmn,nce limiting fences to ten feet in eight will go into effect. An amendment intended to exempt fences erected around | | | | i | the ordinance will be recommended. | “The biil repealing the ordinance author- |izing the Recorder to appoint a mortgage | clerk was indefifitely postponed on the | ground that the clerk is a necessity. | _The bills of Health Officer O’'Brien, Dr. | E. Windele, Dr. D. Lustig_and Dr. | Theodore Rethers for medical testimony | in court cases were referred to the City | Attorney for his opinion as to whether ity officers can charge for their services | rendered outside of their official duties. | ———————————— PIPER’S NATURAL SON FORCES A COMPROMISE Will Receive One Hundred Thousand Dollars as His Portion of De- cedent’s Estate. A compromise has been effected among | the claimants of the wealth of the late I Willlam A. Piper. Frederick William Baldwin Piper, whom the deceased ac- knowledged as a natural son, will gei $100,000 in full settlement of his claim. Attorneys S. . Denson and Bert Schlesinger, who rerpesent Charles Edel- man, discoverer of the will in which Piper bequeathed his estate to his natural son; | A, A. Sanderson H. 1. Kowalsky, rep- d | Tesenting Mrs. A%en and her son, Fred. | | erick William Batdwin Piper, and detec- [uves and others 0 have been employed | on behalf of the son, will receive fees. E ele! s sald that all of the papers In the | compromise have been signed =nd will be filed in a few days. —_—————————— Husband in Hard Luck. Charles Scheper will appear to-day be- fore the Supreme Court on a writ of ha- beas corpus. The question to be decided {s whether a Judge of the Superior Court can commit a man to prison for an indefinite period because of his inability to pay alimony. Scheper is suing his wif-, Lizzie, for a divorce, and Superior Judge Dunne ordered the husband to pay the wife $55 as alimony and counsel it of compiyin Qe s was committed to the custody of the gheflfl until he, handed over the money. large —_—————————— Cruel to His Horses. George Rutz, the baker, on Valencla street near Twentieth street, who was arrested for cruelty to animals, was con- Victed by Judge Cabaniss yesterday for dflvlnfi a horse with a sore back and ‘fined $10. TALKS ON EMERSON AND WHITTIER. Cepyright, 1907, h ¥ Seymocur Eaton. LITERARY TALKS AND REMINISCENCES. —_— X. Apart from the genius and philanthropy of the poet Whittler, his career will al- ways be an interesting test of the work<‘ ing of republican institutions. He be- longed to a circle of men all whose lead- ers except himself were in a manner born in the purple, by comparison. They might hate known poverty, but they were all of what Holmes called ““the Brahmin blaod."” They and their fathers before them were college bred and had whatever that rep- resents in New England. In a country like England a man like Whittier, bred to farming in summer and shoemaking in winter, would have been at a disadvan- tage among these men In a degree which the efforts of a lifetime would scarcely have effaced. He being what he was and living in America, the distinction effaced itself; no one thought of it. There was no such thing as patronizing or deference; he simply took his place. Yet it is but just also to recall that he was bred in the so- clety of Friends, which furnished a Brahmin blood of its own—a body which has been in all generations separated from the world’s people by a purity, such as was almost equivalent to refinement, and by a habit of religlous equality waich | ignored the world's trivial differences. Certain it is that in the democracy of lef ters, there has never been a man who took his place with more absolute com- posure than Whittler. He had, in addition, the advantage of being a remarkably handsome man, with fine features, delicate outMnes and a clear brunette complexion. He yielded just enough to the Friends’ habit of costume to wear it gracefully and make it orna- mental. The plain language, so called was also an ornament to him, for it gave a kind of dignified grace to an utterly simple manner. Having been a great reader in his youth, he had a great variety of knowledge. He told me once that he always had a great desire to travel, but that by reading a book about any foreign country he made it at once so0 far a part of his own experience that he did not afterward care to visit it Without ear for music, he yet made his verses fairly melodious, and sometimes very much so; although it was to be noticed that in these cases he distrusted himself so that his later alterations in his own verse almost always injured it He was eminently intuitive, both in his perceptions of character and his literary Instinct. Younger writers always found in him a good critic, and his sound judg- ment of men was always recognized in practical life, and especially among poli- ticlans. Never making a Speech, he vet was a frequent attendant on meetings of the so called “Liberty party,” and after- ward, although more rarely, of the Re- publican; and _professional’ politicians, habitually distrustful of literary men, exception in favor of usually made an him. This ability to deal with men of affairs undoubtedly gave a certain directness and homely simplicity to his verse, compared with which that of Longfellow seems al- ways rather silken clad, while Emerson's strains, are constantly abstruse, and those of Lowell and Hoimes are often in- volved and complex. Sprung from the people, Whittier was thus emphatically the poet of the people. Yet it is to be no- ticed that some of the lines oftenest quot- ed from his volumes are those in which his strain is at the highest. Chief among these perhaps is that fine verse on im- mortality, almost approaching the charac- ter of a hymn, where he sa 1 know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; 1 only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. 1 have more than once had this quoted to me with enthusiasm by readers who were obliged to ask afterward what the word “fronded’ meant. In no one, I sup- pose, was the spirit of religion ever more Spontaneous and riore genuinely to be called an inner light than in Whittier, ana it was accompanied by an absolute free- dom from all narrowness or self-asser- | tion. Nothing could be more simple and pleas- ing than his home life. Until bereaved of his mother and sister he lived with them in a modest little house at Amesbury, where all the traditions of Quaker house- keeping were exquisitely preserved, and the perfect order of the interfor made the littie dwelling an equally appropriate re- sort for visiting emperors or for fugitive slaves. Elizabeth Whittier, some of whose oems her brother took delight in includ- ng with his own, represented in her tem- erament a wholl{ different element of auakensm from his, being as ardent and outspoken as he was shy and reticent and not Fennng to shake her head reprovingly at the dignified friends on the high seats at yearly meeting if the spirit moved them to discourse too long so that her hos- pitable dinner was in danger of being fpoiled. Plain in person, without the reg- ular features of her brother, she yet haa eyes of much more liquid brilllancy which filled her face with charm during every moment of her lively conversation. With less of European celebrity than several of his compeers, Whittier will al- ways hold a firm place at home as being the literary creator not merely of the New England legend but: of the American jegend as a whole, he being the very first who touched it and made it allve. As has been already said, he never visited any foreign country nor am I aware that he showed any Kknowledge of foreign lan- guage except when he translated, perhaps with difficulty, a few simple French poems; but he read eagerly all old Ameri. ean annals and his truth of nature showed itself in his varying or embrnlderlng the Jegends_very little. “Any one who will ex- amine Longfellow’s selected series called “Poems of Places” will see that Whittier furnished far more than any other erhaps more than all put together, of the Jegendary literature of our country. Tais. when combined with his leadership in the greatest moral crusade yet waged among us, will be likely to secure permanence to his fame. T. W. HIGGINSON. N Cambridge, Mas XI. rhaps there is no wnglish writer of o rebent century who gives one 0 much the impression as does Emerson of being absolutely at home with the “heav- powers,” the primordial elements of nature and the forces that rule the Spiritual world. Carlyle In some of his books talks quite as volubly of the infini- ties and the eternities, but they put him in a passion—a passion of adoration or of awe, or it may of exasperation at the rel- ative shortcomings of actual life and hu- man nature. Wordsworth is as great a seer as Emerson, and makes the facts of common life reveal as transparently their fnner spiritual meaning, but he is so often trivial and wearisome that we suspect him of not being native to the heavenly regions. In Emerson’s prose there is al- Ways a divine blitheness that marks him as having in his veins a_celestial ichor. “With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.” “The infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.” “With thought, with the ideal, is im- mortal hilarity, the rose of joy. These sentences have Emerson’s unmistakable accent and idiom. At the close of his es- says on “Tllusions” he describes the mo- ments of clear vision that now and then reveal to the veriest tyro in things spir- itual the beauty and the order of life. oet, | | There s no charce and no anarchy in the ¥ | universe. Al is system and gradation. god is there sitting in his sphere. The mortal entors the hall of the firmament; is he alone with them ajgne, they pouring on him benedictions and gifts and becke up to their thrones. On the instant ntly. fall snowstorms of {ilusion: himself in a vast cloud which way and that and whose doings and movements he niust ohey. * ¢ ¢ Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions. batfle and distract him. And when, by and bs for an instant the air clears and the cloud lifts a little there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones—they alone with him alone. Emerson seems always to have within the range of his eve these shining forms and to be able to hear through all the rumoring and turbulence of daily life their golden words to one another. Yet Emerson is not, as are some trans- | cendentalists, 2 mere victim of second ‘slkh(: in his comments on morals and on | religion there is in addition to his. vis- jonary wisdom much Yankee shrewdness @rv e es eseb et ese@ | | 1 | N OF EARLY PORTRAIT EMERSON. B R S R FROM A' S e o o S o o Sk e g \‘+@-o—e+@ o200 +0o@ and common sense; if he “hitches wagon to a star,” he also “hugs his fact Accordingly, everywhere in his essays | are kept within measurable distance of common life, of the actual human heart | and of the world of nature in its element- al beauty, shining with a kind of morn- ing splendor. In th worla, find_the old Concord and 1d, and e . e morning 1 awake and wife, babes and mother. Boston, the dear old spiritual worl the dear old devil, not far off. * * Eve: thing good is on the highway. * The | mid-world is best. Nature, as we know her, is | mo_saint | These are not the words of a mere mys- | tic or dreamer; they have the racy heart- | iness of a man who knows life at first hand; and they represent well Emerson’s fine joyalty, even in his most vislonary essays, to the regions of actual human experience. O "gossip for my hour concerning the eternal poiltics,” so Emerson in one essay emilingly asserts. ‘*Eternal politics” is precisely what busies him from first to last. Man in his relation to nature and to God—tbe ilmits, the scope and promise of man's destiny, man's duties to God and to his fellows—the wise economy by which the self-reliant man bends na- | ture to his need—these topics and others like them, which have to do with man’s | eternal citizenship in the universe, recur | in his essays again and again. And run- ning through all his discussions of these topics are two far-reaching and vitalizing | doctrines—belief in the Over-Soul and an optimistic faith in the worth of the pres- ent moment and of the individual. Man is for Emerson not simply divine in his origin, but a sharer from moment to moment in the divine nature. " “As there is no screen or ceiling between our hearts and the Infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins.”” Since every man has thus within himself an infinite store of potential spiritual energy, Emerson has no misgivings over the present or fear for the future. Man and God are really con- epirators for happiness and virtue and truth and beauty: the individual, if he is loyal to his inner nature, has all the forces of the universe silently working for him, Seen or unseen, they are on his side. Moreover, every man has hig own quite peculiar relation to the divine na- ture—it is to represent or make valid a special portion of the divine energy. ence Emerson never wearies of insist- ing on the duty of seif-reliance. ‘“Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string. ‘Nature, too, like man, is for Emerson | tnstinet with Deity. Strangely idealistic | and confident must Emerson's talk about | nature seem to a modern reader who goes to it from Darwin's “Origin of Species” or Spencer’'s “First Principles.” Emerson is wholly innocent of modern scientific theories. Man has for him no kinship with the beasts. One wonders what Darwin and Emerson would have had to say to each other in an hour's talk. Nature Is to Emerson a divine in- vention for man's monition and discip- line and joy. Man has in his own breast, in so far as he has realized his oneness with the Over-Soul, the principles and the laws which run throughout the lengthand the breadth of nature and bind into har- monious forms and orderly sequences all its magnificent miscellaneousness. The world proceeds from the same soirit as the body of man. It is @ remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious. But it differs from the body in one impartant respect. It is not, like that, now Cubjected to the human will. Tts serene order is inviolable by us. It is. therefore, to us the present expositor of the divine mind. Emerson, then, sees spiritual energy pulsing everywhere in nature; for him Pre miracle of the burning bush is daily wrought; every object in nature shines for him with a peculiar iridescent beauty; and in the presence of nature he is, as he somewhere says, “glad to the brink of fear.” These are the characteristic beliefs and moods that give to Emerson's prose its toniec power. His prose has a_note and quality that we perhaps never find in the prose of our own day and generation. Our day is the day of small things; our age has well been nicknamed by some French critic the age of microbes. We pore over trifles, accumulate facts, strike averages, and try to luce haman nature and ex- ternal nature to their lowest terms. Of all this selentific pettifogging there is in Emerson no trace; he has the confldent and oracular manrner of the prophet. e believes with Browning's Paracelsus that “there is an inmost center in us all where truth abides in fullness,” and his essays are the record of what he hears as - he listens patiently at this inner shrine. LEWIS E. GATES. | | | ne | Harvard University. ‘Who was besieged by Boxers. She was the first journalist to escape from Tientsin and tells experi- ences only paralleled by the siege of Lucknow. IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL