The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 10, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1900 BRILLIANT OPENING OF GRAU GRAND : OPERA SEASON IN LOS ANGELES Sample bottles First Appearance in America of a Splendid Aggregation of Stars Warmly Greeted by the Gity's Wealth and Beauty. will be given away Absolutely Free of Charce THIS SATURDAY ONLY At THE OWL DRUG CO. . ——AND- GEO. DAHLBENDER & C0...214 KEARNY STREET W. F. McBURNEY, Sole Manufacturer of McBurney’s I idney and Bladder Cure,| Will give the citizens of San Francisco and sur=|| | rounding country an cpportunity to test the mar= || velous healing properties of McBurney’s Kidney and Bladder Cure. ’ ONE BOTTLE CURES. | .1128 MARKET STREET | | \ r o o ( u C HE OWL DRI G ASEVAT IN ider Cure, or | { MEASTER SINGER sc in stamps || | ire a sample id on rece HUMOR OF ENGLISH AND v, For a century after Shakespeare the in- fluence of classicism with its rigid stand- ards, its cold criticism, its intelligent bril- liancy, froze the gental current of English literature. In all the century, with its numbers of great writers, there was no real humorist until Richard Steele, the warm-hearted Irish captain of the Guard, began in the Tatler that delightful daily commentary on the manners, the vani- tles, the absurdities of the life that he saw about him. Swift and Pope lived in the same atmosphere and observed the same weaknesses, but what a world of difference between their satire and | Steele's! | | eplgram as glittering as a stiletto and as Yecn: Switt Tought wich ofl of vitriol, his | wounds were never healed, never for- | given; Steele had a heart as well as an inteliect, he never forgot that his neigh- bor, with all his little vanities and weak- | nesses, was, after all, a poor fellow-human | creature. It is impossible to read the | Tatler (1709-1711) an hour and not love its author. Wayward he was and improvi- | dent; not always wise with the wine, it | may be; but he was a loyal friend and companion who emptied his pockets at a tale of. distress and who scattered sun- shine ltke a summer day. How op-| o+ AMUSEMENTS. RIAN 1 MME. GADSKI, WAG SINGERS, ARRIVE FOR THE OPEN SPLENI NIGHT C AMUSEMENTS. SOPRANO, AND ALBERT SALEZA, TENOR, BOTH FAMOUS GRAND OPERA LTH AND ANXIOUSLY AWAIT RINGING UP OF THE CURTAIN | | )ID HE. )F THE GRAU SEASON. GRAND OPERA SEASON ! MAURIE GRAU OPERA CO. AL El 1,'\'“1}1 AT — & | S ANGELES, Nov. 9—To Los | o ' M n 1) | Angeles fell the honor of the Ty ra . e X e 2 £ B 8 BIG SHOW1 { Grau's colossal enterpi which s the continent | 250 people, in- | 15 of song in | | and return a company o the most noted wi . KING OF THE OPIU RI 3 Afterncon—The Popular rld. A guarantee of the snug little TANNEHILL JR. an im of $16,000 had to be provided before | T s | Mr. Grau would let his song birds loose | i n the Great Easter eus, {in the land of :, but from present e tndicatio yrs will not suffer | »” A YOUNG WIFE! | as of the speculation. | POPULAF is a gaunt and grim | building, the smoky battle ground of polit- | and %0c | jcal conventions, while its walls have | | echoed the spellbinding periods of manj famous orators; but it is not used to such matchless music as flowed from its stage | last pight. The local manager, Len Behyner, had, it is true, accomplished | wonders’ with the poor material at his command, and had considerably improved | the acoustie properties of the barn, but 10. | on the flat floor most of the people could balcony, 10c; Children, ’ e avs Loyl barely see the conductor, always one of PR 0c and T6c | ATURDAY), Nov. | F¥ 4 ceddumpingd ey | the most interesting features of opera, ot GREATEST VAUDEVILLE SHOW ON | gang, worst of all, they could not o ¥ 7 another. Mmes THE DUNHAM FAMILY, JESSIE Mrs. Figueroa Street could not size up COUFHOUL MAGHEE “WOORE, (e Slomand: the yrioes ol - M pbark | EAT : *lace’'s tollet anc Miss Mariborou NORA BOYES, DOLAN AND | culd not reallze how unbecoming was LENHARR, PRELLE’'S TALKING Miss Pasadena's colffure. Nevertheless, DOGS, HOWARD AND BLAND. | WORLD ana u JOHNSON, RIANO s a CEY. the ladies did not neglect the opportunity of displaying their best and newest froeks and to the gods above the scene below was as brilllant as a Melba night should be. This is Melba's third visit to California in three years, and although each year emphasizes the relentless truth that she has passed the heydey of her youth, and that her waist is not so slim as in the days of the Duke of Orleans' worship at her shrine, yet her voice is as superb | and her art as incomparable as of yore. The diva has no opportunity in “La Bo- heme,” the opera sung to-night, of wear- | ing sumptuous gown. Mimi is only of the atin quarter and she never rises to the fecelte REALIZ . OF EARTH. You?” ROS » MOROSCO'S * =P e | TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT. e Lo B - And They Are Com to See It Mighty Fast. > 55 . RROW. TO-MORROW AFTERNOON. | <ot | The. Mmtcn & Fonsis [ . i . | THE ROYAL MAR D OF ITALY. ' THE Fp” W # F, COM: Seneation “ontinents. ' y, Presenting Classical Popular Musle and NEW £AATY B.Fm ¥ pANY lete Acts from Operas. | . NLY THIS WEEK. CIANS—ALL ARTISTS. First Productior £e of Syaney Ro- U'SUAL POPULAR PRICES. A ance of South s Man Once on Trial for Bigamy Straightens Out His Marital Tangle in a Santa Bar- bara Court. —— DIVORCE COLON 15¢, e, MATINEE TO-DAY AND SUNDAY—LAST TIMES STUART ROBSON ‘ And His Excellent Supporting Company in “SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.” her Aoy TO-NIGHT «TIVOLIx Oliver Gold@smith’s Immortal Comedy. Lake, his intended bride, arrived here iast LAST TIN VNIGH L om his Santa Maria home and s N i Beginning NEXT MONDAY, } lm.g:\:”rflrd hel fivase Ao ;:)s:phllrlxé Gwin, his first iove. He was accompanied In Victor Herbert's Latest Comic | at Fall River, Mass., after the doctor's Positively Final Performances of P Opera Hit, memorable journey in handcuffs from Los | " eles, the two have lived at Santa THE AMEER." | =, : Special Dispatch to The Call. SANTA BARBARA, Nov. 9.—Dr. Wal- | ter R. Gwin, who sped across the conti- | nent two vears ago with pretty Miss | Maria on the mother's fruit ranch. In the meentime a child was born to Mrs. Gwin number two and the doctor be- gan to feel the responsibility of papahood. He had thought himself free from his first fe, but it developed that he was pos- sessed of two better halves, according to the New England laws, and he took steps to shield the baby's name. In a few days Dr. and Mrs, Gwin and the baby will g0 to Arizona fo have the knot tied over again. The divorce case was quietly worked by a Santa Maria at- torney. The decree was granted at a gpecial session and there was no chance for opposition by Mrs. Josephine Gwin. “CARMEN.” ) SUNDAY SATS NOW READY. THIE AFTBRNOON NIGHT IXT WEEK-LA 4 Opera PERFORMANCES of the "Cfivallarla“ and “Pagliscei, FEime e BASEBALL! «woox Sacramento i vs. rancisco. With COLLAMARL ' RECAZAR San F THEATRE LAST POUR NIGHTS. SATURDAY AT 3 P. M. MATINEE TO-DAY and SUNDAY. SUNDAY AT 2:30 P. M. = Chureh at Fillmore and O'Farrell streets. LOST RECREATION PARK|::ii it i it AR, | L i | Rlfl_lra table—Mrs. Herbert. Necktle table— |RACING! RACING! RACING!| rs. J. Schuyler, Mrs. Milton Gnhhl,&)drm A M 16— WINTER MEETING—1901. Mizpah Fair a Success. | The Mizpah charity fair took place last night in the parlors of the Swedenborgian i | | | | | | Moward Turner. Apron table-Mrs. I Berts, Mrs. W. Hollis. Reception committee—Mrs. A. C. Rulofson, Mrs. Horace Newell, Mrs. Countryman and WEDNESDAY NIGHTLots of Fun. Paimer's Success, | CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB. |Mrs Speiker =~ _ =~ s | Nov.p 7TH. INCLUSIVE. i H | S A BS E NT BOY | OAKLAD R‘A',‘ETHA"K. 4 Two Bankrupts. —— o - | ,Bacing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- | Petitions in insolvency were filed in the day, Fr 4 Saturday. Rain or shine, United States District Court yesterday by Ostrom Brothers of Stanislaus County who owe $9275 35 and have no assets, and by Collin B. Harrls, cabinetmaker of this who ow and has $1200 asse Five or more races each day. Races start at 2:15 p. m. sharp. Ferry-boats leave San Francisco at 12 m. and 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30 and 3 p. m., connecting with trains ‘stopping at the entrance to the track. Last two cars on train reserved for Iadies and their es no smoking. Buy your | ferry tickets to Shell Mound. All trains via Cakland mole connect with San Pablo avenus | clectric cars at Seventh and Broadway. oa Jand. Also all traine via Alameda mole con- | nect with San Pablo avenue cars at Fourteenth |and Broadway, Oakland. These electric cars CHUTES »» Z0OO| g | 12:30, EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. l SPECIAL TO-NIGHT : GRAND BENEFIT FOR THE SER- VICE MEN OF THE SPAN- Special Dispatch to The Call. apotheos or Boheme, neial intere ing purchase: ts of produc the United and the queen of song so throws her soui into the Impersonation of Mimi that her | critics can no longer complain of her cold- | ness or lack of sympathy. Both Melba and Grau declare that tha to-night is the most perfect that has er adorned “La Boheme™ since the score left Puccini’s hands. Cremonini will be pronounced the best tenor heard for many a long year on the coast, incomparably strodger than Bon- nard, who came with Melba on her last visit. Cremonini was to-night's Rudoifo and fairly divided the honors of the pro- duction with the prima donna. The mezzo soprano, Miss Fritzi Scheff, made her = | American debut to-night and added to the laurels she has already won in Paris and Berlin. he sprigh role of Musetta is well suited to her talents; she is pretty, chic and a much cleverer actress than is usually made in Germany. Campanar! is here again with his bell- like tones that have made him probably the best barytone in the world. the role of Marcello perfectly. The basso is Journet and he did not miss his op- portunity to distinguish himself in his one chance, his apostrophe to his treasured overcoat which, it will be recalled. he Mini. Gillibert, a rich and unctuous bar- ytone, with plenty of big humor—he is a glant—on' the side, was the fourth of the impoverished lovelorn students. Dufriche completed the list of principals, being as- slgned the double role of Musetta’s super- annuated lover and the landlord of Ru- dolfo’s guarters, Mancthelll wielded the baton over the splendid _orchestra of half a hundred pleces. Puceini’s orchestration is as sub- tle as it is superb, and it is impossible to imagine that greater justice could be done to the score, The audience, which numbered 2600 souls. was calmly critical at first. “La Boheme was sung here for the first time in the United States three years azo by the Del a favorite with local music lovers ever since, but enthusiasm was displayed after the climax of the third act, the wonder- ALLEGED EMBEZZLER ACCOSES TR COURY Files a Sensational Afidavit Charg- ing State Senator-Elect Oneal of San Jose With Prejudice. T Epecial Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, Nov. 9.—Emile P. Mayer, the young merchant who has been charged with embezzling funds while a clerk with the 1. W. Spring Company presented a sensational affidavit in Jus tice Oneal's court this morning, when he asked for a change of venue on the ground of prejudice of the Justice. A few weeks ago Mayer was convicted on an- other charge and Oneal sentenced him to pay a fine of $250 and serve sixty days in jail. The second charge is one in which Mayer is alleged to have converted to his own use $18 he received from Jose Juarez for a suit of clothing he sold while clerking for the Spring Company. Since he left the Spring Company Mayer and a brother have been condicting a clothing store on Santa Clara street. In his affidavit for a change of venue Mayer swears that on election day he met Justice Oneal, who was elected State Senator in the Thirty-first District, at the eleventh precinct “polling place. He says Oneal approached him and said: “1 understand the Ortegas and the Mayers are out against me. What is the matter—didn't you like it because I con- victed you?" To this the afant replied: “What we don’t like about it is not the judgment. but you holding me in $1000 bail.” The Justice is alleged to have then sald to affiant: ‘“Let me see. 1 gave vou $250 and sixty days. I am sorry I didn’t give you $500." When the affidavit was read in court to- day Justice Oneal's face became ashen and after a few preliminary remarks he adjourned court for an hour to allow the prosecution to present afdavits con- tradicting .he statement. On reconven- ing an affidavit by Elmer E. Cottle, deputy City Treasurer, was presented. It denfed the statements made by Mayer and deMared Oneal in the presence. of deponent, had said: 4 “I suppose youare sorry n't fine'vou $500, so you could have an excuse for flxyh!- mfu""e hri"d"';u f the afdavi er the reading of e affidavit Jy Oneal granted the change of \'an\‘::t?:: stl!rlitol'}' grounds to Justice Rosenthal's court. Mayer, when accused by the Sprin Company of taking funds no belnnglg (g him, acknowledged he had taken a %ew of dollars and turned over $800 worth buillding and loan stock to cover any shortage. Later he brought suit to re. cover the stock, alleging he had been | go direct 1o the track in fi Pears’ No- other soap in the world is used so much; or so little of it goes so far. - All sorts of people use Pears’ soap, au sorts dmnuil.upechllydmnhup’ fteen minutes. ISH WAR. |, Beturning—Trains leave the track at 415 ana P CONCERT BY FIRST R) .nnm"r] OMAS TLL .. President. . - ”e R. B. MILROY, Secretary. G. C BAND, Monster Cakewalk !/ SHERMAY. CLAY & €9°S AL Direction §. H. Friedlander & Co. Y at %15 p. m., LAST PIAN0 RECITAL By the Wonderful Child Artist, LIiT lLFE quN£Ds BRANDT, Seats on Sale at Fh-::nm Clay & Co.'s Musie Store. Prices 81 Thc 5. Telephone for Seats, Park 23. | T0-DA .}ISCHER’S CONCERT HOUSE. Admission 10=. Facci, Eyivia Puerari, Cesare Allesan- Antonio Vargas, Adelbert and Adelaide , Prank and Cella Morris and Claire Fex. Eeserved Seats, Zc; Matinee Sunday. g er. H that he owed the Spring Commfiy“gf:mx;fl pending in the Superior Court to compel Justice Oneal to sign papers on Bpgeu.l in the sult In which he was convicted. For a Cold in the Head. Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets. . ——————— SAN JOSE, Nov. 8.—H. Brown heen sted at Watsonville through the local Sheriff's office for the theft of a horse and seddle at Palo Alto. Brown was given fooa 100 o place 1o gleep st Paulsen’'s e, near Palo Alto, on Wednesday night, and during the night saddled up a horse and left. A tele- graphic warrant caught him at Watsonville. He sang | | vesterday morning. | i sacrificed to buy medicine for the dying | Conte Company, and the opera has been | fully designed double duet, the artists be- ing rewarded with a half dozen recalls. Melba, however, would not gratify the desire for an encore, as she had to save| | her voice for the mad scene from “Lucia,” which was given as a bonus after the| | conclusion of “La Hoheme," | _If any evidence were needed that Melba is still'in her prime, her marvelous sing- | ing of the great “Lucla” arfa must have | | | proven convincing. - She has sung it here ! | JOSEPH ADDISON, THE STUD- | | before, but never with more splendid ef- IED WIT OF COFFEE- | | ect. Her listeners could not contain - ' | themselves and broke forth with applause HOUSH: DAYE. that lasted several seconds as she fin: | $ ‘ ished the coloratura with the flute ac- |- 3 o companiment. Saturday afternoon ““Romeo and Jullet' will be glven and “Lohengrin” in the evening. timistic and joyous is his outlook upon | lite! ~He is never cast down, never bit- | | ter like Swift, or waspish like Pope. Open his papers at random and catch the cheery note that never dles: | I was walking about my chamber this morn- | | ing in a very gay humor, when I saw a coach | SALEZA AND GA.'DS%I ARRIVE. | stop_at my door. Noted Tenor Pleased With Acoustic I was this evening sitting at the side table Properties of Grand. pe the nd | and reading one of my own papers with great Albert Saleza, the famous tenor who is | sutisfaction, not knowing that I was observed to appear next Monday In the opening by any in the room. p sl night of the grand opera season, and| I Know no manner of speaking so offensive 3 ' v nd closing It with Madame Gadski arrived on the overland | o taasprion "5 Tt @ < One might quote indefinitely. Every- where there is good cheer and sunshine and merry laughter. Wit there is in abundance, but it leaves no sting: an in- ward glow of laughter and good will, never boisterous, is ever with us as we read. Here is an epitaph, for instance: Here lles Don Alonzo, slain by a wound re- ved In his left breast, the orifice of which so small no surgeon could discover it if thou wouldst avoid - . Saleza is yet a young man, of dis- tinguished appearance. He was born in| the south of France and studied in the Conservatory of Parls. He took first prize | when he graduated and was entitled to | sing in the G 1d Opera-house of Paris, but he was only 2 yvears of age and he decided to appear for a short time at the | e« Opera Comique, where he made a tre- | w mendous hit. He soon afterward sang at | Reader, e the Grand Opera-house of Paris, where | death look not upon Lucinda's eyes he was retained as the leading tenor. With Steele “good nature was,” as he Two_ years ago he appeared at Covent | himself expressed it, “an essential quality | Garden, London, and the music lovers of | {n a satiris the great metropolis went wild over him. Saleza pald the Grand Opera-house a visit late yesterday afternoon and after . He aimed his shaft, not at | persons, but at baseness and folly. We | condemn the vice, we laugh at the lu- " | dicrous situation, but we pity the victim. striking a few not: he was enthusiastic | Sometimes we smile when we feel more over the acoustic qualitles of the house. | like crying. Madame Gadski says she Is in much bet- | B e o SR g ago. She is accompanied by her husband, | tor say to the poor gentlewoman, “‘He cannot | Herr Tauscher, and their little girl. Gad- | possibly live till five in the " She | ski sald she would appear on Tuesday | received it Iike the mistress of ng In her favorite role of Elizabeth | pared for all event Tannhauser.” in a servant, w of her mouth when the sick man cried out with a feeble voice, ' Pray octor, how went bamk stock to-day at *change?’ | The whole quaint age of Queen Anne rises before us as we read these delight- ful pages. mile at the absurdities | and the petty vanities of the falr ones; we visit the theaters, the coffee-houses, the court, the clubs:; 'we enter the home | circles and sit by the fireside and join | in all the tragedies and comedies of do- mestic life, and ever we are shown a pic- | ture true in every detail to nature, run- | ning over with sympathy for the true and | detestation of the false, abounding in sly | drollery, wit, pathos—humor in its largest } SHIELDING OF LEPER BY STEVESTON CHINGSE | Police of the British Columbia Town Unable to Find a Fugitive From Darcy Island Station. a sense. It is impossible to sample ade- it quately this inexhaustible living foun- tain—one must dip into it deeply; but let Speclal Dispatch to The Call. us take a tmgmgn( from the description | VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. §.—The|Of the Trumpet Club: Honest 0ld Dick Reptile is the third of our scciety. He I8 a good-natured, indolent man, who speaks little himself, but laughs at our Jokes, and brings his young nephew along with him, a youth of eighteen years old, to show | Lim’ good company and give him a tas world. This young fellow sits generally but whenever he opens his mouth or laughs anything that passes. he is constantly told his uncle, after a jocylar manner, “AYy, a Jack, you young men think us fools; but we old men know you are.'” The greatest wit of our company, next to myself, is a bencher of the neighboring fnn. * ¢ * Our club meets precisely at stx o'clock in the evening; but I did not come last night until helf an hour after seven, by which means I es- caped the battle of Naseby, which the major | usually begins at about three-quarters after s'x. 1 found also that my good friend the bencher had already spent three of his distichs and only wanted an opportunity to hear a ser- ron spoken of that he might introduce the ecuplet where ‘‘a stick’” rhymes to “‘ecclesia tic.” ¢ * ¢ Old Reptile Orfental quarter of the fishing town of Steveston is in an uproar over the pres ence of a Chinese leper, who cannot be | located by the authorities. Ah Ling es-| caped five days ago from Darcy Island, the Canadian station on the Pacific Coast. He got away In an open boat and in a day and a night succeeded in pad- dling the forty miles from the island to Steveston. He was there for more than a day before the authorities learned of his presence. The Chinese are doing every- thing possible to protect the leper, and al- though the police have been working night and day, they cannot find him. If he gets away from Steveston there is little hope of ever apprehending him. Ah Ling was taken to Darcy Island two | years ago from Vancouver. He was not seriously afhicted and it is said the dis- ease can hardly be detected on him. There are five other iepers at the station, two of whom are in the last stages of the|i.mtve to all that was X leprosy. the same he had heard every night for these G P twenty years, and upon all occasions winked Albion Off the Rocks. upon his nephew to mind what passed. VANCOUVER, B. C. Nov. 9—The| Or, again, take this exquisite picture of the extremes of feminine vanity: Miss Margery Beckerstaff, my great aunt, had £1000 to her portion, which our family was desirous of Kkeeping among themseives, and therefore used all possible means to turn off her thoughts from marriage. The method they took was, In any time of danger, to throw a new gown or petticoat in her way. When she was about 25 years of age she fell In love with a man of an agreeable temper and equal for- tune, and would certainly have married him had not my grandfather, Sir Jacob, dressed her up in a sult of flowered satin. upon which she set so immoderate a value upon herself that the lover was condemned and discarded. In the fortieth year of her age she was again emitten, but very luckily transferred her pas- sfon to a tippet, which was presented to her s another relation who was in the plot. This, with a white sarcenet hood. kept her safe thie family until 50. About 60, which generally produces a kind of latter spring in amorous constitutions, my Aunt Margery had again a colt's tooth in her head, and would certainiy heve eloped from the mansion house had not her brother Simon, Who was a wise man and a scholar, advised to dress her in cherry-coi- ored ribbands, which was the only expedient that could have been found out by the wit of man to preserve the £1000 in our family, part steamer Alblon returned to-day from the northern coast of British Columbia after having spent six hours on the rocks near the mouth of the Skeena River. The tide was on the ebb and the ship, after rising and falling for about two hours, finally | settled down with a bad iist to star- board. The waves were constantly breake ing over her and twenty tons of coal was jettisoned, the water tanks emptied and the ship lightered in every possible way. ‘The Alglofl got off the rocks at floodtide and made this port leaking and with the pumps working. * e e Shoes That Talk. The Bee Hive Shoe Store, TIT Market, this day opens a shoe trust sale. The prices are so low that they will make the public talk. One thousand two hun- dred and thirteen cases were bought of J. Evert, who withdrew from the trust com- bination. _Ladies' French kid shoes, worth $4 50, sale price $1 90; ladies’ viei kid, $3 50, at $1 65; men’s fine calf, $4, at $1 65, at the Bee Hive, TIT Market street, near Third. *" | of which I enjoy at this time. O+ + 4+ P I 444 444440 [ ortam S0 TRAL the” Tounders of tha | H ¢ | eighteenth century essay as a kind of : The second installment of : con:tellalflon hrexgz'\;t;‘\’g 5!::;12 nl:mg::( ', Jose . = - + that splendid serial, “In Male 4 | CENISE JORORS, ACR00, O SHe periodieal 4 Attire,” will appear in next : 'elu{‘nly nndflv;'r:‘tre‘ ym;' rre&l:rspm: !or fl‘e n a z Sunday’s Call. If you missed } | THCN"I 00 "sight of in the effulgence that the first chapters do not over- 4 | surrounds the central figure. re 1s no z look this number, for the story 4 | duestion that fin po °=,",'.",',‘r{"f"’“ 7 peiae o1 0 ettty A e e : interesting. A symopsis of the + n.ol“lupeflor %o Shakespeare. = ope is 4 Dreceding chapters will be [ Addlsonhwas as wmyfl as szeelre, perhaps ¢ . he was a craftsman o! + given at the beginuing so you 4 | BE *L. M rencrilned and sechrats: 2 mm: 7Y b:sln to read it now. +.| Slctaring him as & man fawiessly Srenscl. i TS e e e ‘ways anxious eties: neve; O+++++ 4444444444444 4@ Caignt off his guard or beneath his dig- Pope was satisfled with nothing but an | ¢ | zallant tenderness so strange a | in all the periodical e Copyright, 1900, b y Seymour Eaton. AMERICANLITERATURE nity. But Addison had little: of Steele's originality; he lacked utterly his kind heart and his Intuitive knowledge of hu- man nature. Addison's wit does not bow! the victim in the dust like Dr. Johnson's, or fill him with caustic poison like Swift's, or pierce him with a keen sting like Pope's, but It is no less cruel. like Steele, Addison attacked not indiv uals, but vices and follies, he has gained the name of a kindiy humorist; but not- withstanding this one may look in vain in his books for a sympathetic touch. 8o gracefully, so elegantly, with such seem. ing good nature is the blow given that Oone may overlook the fact that in reality it was dealt in pure malice. Steele’s little sketches breathe with life: Addison’s are gay and graceful caricatures. Steele is perfectly natural, often careless and in- : Addison Is artificial and studied. h every humorous sketch by Steels there is an undertone of tenderness, human sympathy: strip the polite m Addison and there appear only i malevolence As an example of Addison’s exquisite wit read the well known paper on “the use of the fan.” of which the following is a fragment: Women are armed with fans, as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. "To the end, th that ladies m: be entire mistresses of the weapon which they erected an academy for the train- of young women in the exercise of the ng to the most fashionable airs and | s that ars now practiced at court. The Iadles who carry fans under me are drawn up twice a day in my great hall, where they are cted in the use of their arms and exer- 4 by the follow of command 2 fans, Cnfurl your fans. Diecharge your fanse Ground your fans. words of ¢ genius who wil se apply for the space e able to that can poss chine. The fluttering of the fan fe the deed, the masterpiece of the wh ® * * There is an Infinite variety to be made use of in the flutter is the angry flutter. the merry amoros to be tediou: scarce any emotion in the mind not produce a suftable agitation nsomuch that if 1 only eee the of but Rer fan all the graces ter that little modish n one-half year an f a dis ciplined lady I know very well whether sne laughs, frowns or blushes. ; stripped of its dainty_setting, is cold satire. Says Professor Mint for the 3 A ex shines through ‘good-hearted Dick’s’ mock heroic humor Addison politely holds the sex up to ridicule: Steele sympathizes with their little artifices.” One can bhest compars the humor of the L | | - T | DICK STE . THE IMPROVI- | DENT AND GOOD-HEARTED | | “TATLER.” | - —_—— & two men by observing the part taken by each in the characterization of Sir Roger de Coverley. that most charming creation Both Steele and Addison contributed studies for this typ- ical English gentleman. but it was Stesie who added the little touches that make him a living creation. Everyvthing about Sir Roger that lovable was added by Steele. In Addison’s papers he Is a simp rural autocrat, good-natured yet ignorant, affected, conceited. In Steele’s/papers he is a jolly, whole-hearted, thoroughly lov- able man, whose sayings and doings are humorcus in the widest sense of the word Dick Steele was the humorist of the early eighteenth century, even as Pope was its epigrammatist and Swift its satirist. Addison was to the prose of the century what Pope was to the poetry. His wit is brilllant, his satire is graceful and amusing. but he is not a great humorist, for he had no heart. No one has better expressed the situa- tion than Thackeray: If Steele 1s not our friend he is nothing. He is by no mears the most brilliant of wits, u.r the deepest of thinkers: but he is cur frisnd we love him as children love their love with an A, because he is amiable. Who Itkes a man best because he is the clevereat or the or a woman because she :ous, or talks French or plays the plano better than the rest of her sex? I own to liking Dick Steele the man and Dick Steele the author much better than much bet- ter men and much better authors. FRED LEWIS PATTEE. Pennsylvania State College. a ADVERTISEMENTS. erfect Satisfaction If such a thing exists on earth is enjoyed by owners of Washburn Guitars, Mandolins and Ask one of them; Banjos. they will tell you a Washburn is the .source of endless de- light. Send us your name and ad- dress and we will send you a handsome book about Wash- burns. KOHLER & CHASE Music House, 26-30 O’FARRELL ST., San Francisco, Cal. CAFE ROYAL