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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1900. . ADVERTISEMENTS. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Geavine CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS most bear signature of SEE GENUINE WEAPPER SEB GENUINE | FOR BILIDUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIR. FOR THE COMPLEXION GEINUIINI WUST RAVE IMATURE. 2 o | Parery et PRINTED ON RED P ITTLE PlLEE ; WRAPPER APER.” AMUSEMENTS. | AMUSEMENTS. COLUMBIA 5 MATINEE TO-DAY TO-NIGHT FRANK L. PERLEY PRESENTS H ALICE NIELSEN And the Alice Nielsen Opera Co. In Herbert, Bmith & Stange's Opera, “THE SINGING GIRL” MOROSCO’S GRANYD OPERA-HOUSE MAURICE GRAU OPERA C C Dress Circle (last § Gallery. $2: Boxes. e, NEXT. | THE FORTUNE TELLER. Homer; Salezu ni, Masiero a Alice Nielsen in Her Original Stellar Role. SEATS NOW SELLING. MATINEE TO-DAY (SATURDAY), DEC. L MONDAY F\}\';? NEXT, DEC. 3. Parquet, 25c, a v, 10c; Children, ot FIRS APPEARANCE of the YALDENT ¥A_\\nimu'r A FLAW! OLIVER LESLIE C(O. JULIUS P. WITMARK, DUPONT & B New York. AND LOTHIAN, ANNE KEN- - cvper duction of WICK, MALLORY BROTHERS ] AND BROOKS, THE GREAT THE P '. “ WALDON, STELLING AND RE- < oot oy St VELL, CONDITT AND MOREY, SANSONE AND DELILA, IONE MacLOUTH. A LH ALF ELLINGHOUSE. PHONE SOUTH. 10e, 15¢, 2S¢ NOW ( F «*TIVOLIx I'm More Than Young. I'm Childish.” | MATINEE TO-DAY AT 2 P. M. flocking to see the superb A JdL»n Triumph, | LY MUSKE | LAST TIMES i MATINEE TO-DAY. TO-NIGHT The Magic Wonder, HERRMANN THE GREAT, accompanied TEER! al_w by the great mus w b and Melody. ders. THE OS 3 T i d Matinee— | Next Monda ¥ THIRD WEEK To-morrow (Sunday) Aft- | F MUSKETEER. * Howling Success, ‘A HOT Eve ne at 8 O’clock Greater, Grander, More Funny. POPULAR PRI 25c and 500 — ne Bush § A C AESBBAR [ e RS, London dyed | heard of the fate of her AN the pugilist, was to-day sentenced to life imprisonment at San Quen- tin for criminal assauit on Grace Gamble, the ll-vear-old daughter | ot J. A, Gamble. The case was one of the most sensa- tional in the history of the county. Its atrociousness and the resultant death of | Mrs. Gamble, the girl's mother, when she ughter, aroused the pcople to a high pitch. At first it was feared they would take the law in their own hands and lynch Ortega. On August 25 last as Grace Gamble and two young brothers were on thelr way home from church the littte girl, who had run a block ahead of the others, was in- vited to ride home by a stranger in a byg- 8Yy. Grace, who Is only 11 years old, con- sented and climbec in. The man drove down past her home, but refused to let her get ont. home from church on a street car, was at the gate waiting for her daughter. When the man refusea to stop the girl cried out in alarm to her mother, and the wretch whipped up the horse. He then drove into a vacant field some distance away and subjected the girl to the most brutal treat- ment. Mrs. Gamble, when she heard her daughter's cry of distress, spread the alarm, and the rearch was at once com- menced for her. She was found return- ing home in a dazed condition. When Mrs, Gamble heard of the treatment her daugh- ter had received she went into hysterics, and after fearful suffering died -early next morning, a weak heart having aided in her demise. Ortega was at once suspected from the description of the buggy and man given by the girl. Two days later he was ar- as_her asailant. Feeling had been so arpused it was feared he would be lynched, and to pre- vent such a thing Sheriff Langford took Mrs, Gamble, who had come | rested and positively identified by the girl | JOSE, Nov. 30.—Jack Ortega.l’l' Special Dispatch to The Call. L o JACK ORTEGA, WHO WAS SBENTENCED TO LIFE IM- PRISONMENT. ’ % the prisoner to Redwood City for safe keeping. - The trial, a sensational one, was con- ducted behind closed doors. The evidence | was conclusive, as one witness positively | tdentified Ortegn as the man he saw in | the buggy with the girl. A speedy convic- | tion followed. A motion _for a new trial was argued by Attorney Brooks before Judge Lorigan to- day, who denied the motion. The court- room was thronged with spectators. | stand up for_sentence. JACK ORTEGA IS SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE Condemned Man Between His Sobs Hurls Vile Epithets at the Judge While Being Taken to Prison. Judge Lorigan then requested Ortega to Ortega had noth- ing to say as to wry sentence should not be passed upon him. A sneer was on his face and he painfully assumed an air of bravado. Sentence wazs then pronounced by Judge Lorigan in the following scath- ing words: ‘“The character of the crime is of such a serious nature that the court has allowed a wide latitude in the trial and sentence. The charge of which you are convicted does not compel me to out- line the case. While you are iegally guilty of criminal assault. you are morally re- sponsible for tbe death of the girl's moth, er. The crime of which you stand con- victed is inexcusable. Society at all times has had a natural abhorrence of such acts, and men found guilty of such crimes as you stand convicted of have at the hands of ihe populace been burned at the stake or hangad on the gfbbet. It is the judgment of the court that you should be placed beyond the confines of socicty for the term of your natural life, and so I sentence you to life imprisonment at San Quentin. feaving your future to the clem- ency of the State executive.” Ortega, who stood deathly pale and mo- tionless as a statve, was on the verge of a collapse. At the completion of the couri's :emarks he said, “Is that all you've got?” Attornev Brooks touched the prisorer 2nd he sat down. On the way back to jail Ortega broke down and cried. He refused to talk about the matter, except to apply a number of epithets to the Judge. Ortega, who has gaired some repntation as a pugilist, s 24 vears of age He 18 a graduete of the Whittier Reform School, and, with the rest of his family, has been constantly in trouble with the police. One brother,had served a term in State pris- on, anather has been in the reform school, one is now at Whittier and another at the Tone Industrial School. / Attorney Brooks secured a writ of ha- beas ccrpus before Judge Rhodes to-day, returnable Morday, in which the validity cf the city Justice Court in which Ortega was committ=d for trial will be attacked. Ortega’s attorneys will also appeal theiy case to the Supreme Court. PROBABLE CAUCUS OF REPUBLICANS i e T | May Meet to Discuss the New Bill to Reduce the War Revenues. — Special Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, WELLINGTON HO- TEL, WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—There may be a conference of all the Republican members of the House of Representatives | betore it is formally reported by the Com- | mittee on Way and Means. | According to the original programme the bill was to have been submitted to a meeting of the full membership of the Committee on Ways and Means to-mor- row O z to the absence of several Republicans, however, it was not certain jority in to-morrow’s meeting and it was determined to-day that the bul should not | be laid before the full committee until after the opening of the session of Con- | gress. | beer tax have not been able to get satis- | faction from the cx}»‘mmluee, but they have not yet Ven uj ope. Repessniative J R, Babcock of Wis- consin, chairman of the Republican Con- | gressional Campaign Committee, s being | strongly pressed for the vacancy on the Committee on Ways and Means, caused | by the resignation of Mr. Dolliver. | Mr. Babcock should be appointed it is ex- cted thz uction of the beer tax in the Interest of the brewers of Milwaukee, who supported paign. £uch features of the new measure pre- pared by MATINEE TO-DAY, SUNDAY. o LAST TWO NIGHTS. oA Augustin T Laughable Play, S Mink Capes, SEVEN-TWENTY-EIGHT | han EEATS NOW RF{:,Y'Y FflRJNEXT “S‘EEK. M‘?:;:ov’!' David Belasco's Charming Japanese Story, “MADAME BUTTERFLY.” e —_— s S ey $25. Dressing short noti AD. KOCOUR, RELIAGLE FURRIE®, at ADIES MATINEE TO-DAY! | | T NIG TO-MORROW AFTERNOON, POS < RROW NIGHT AND ALL I?‘ £ T STREET, N T WE (Dont’s Mistake the Number.) P E - Rooms 7 to 11 Phone Black 3743. HAVERLY’S { MASTODON MINSTRELS SAME SHAPE TWO QUALITIES —ENTI cing To-morrow Afternoon, F CHANGE OF PROGRAMME.— USUAL POPULAR PRICES. CHUTES! THIRD DAY of the Big Thanksgiving Jubilee! SPECIAL TO-NIGHT: GRAND PRIZE CAKEWALK! - ® STAR COUPLES FROM ALL OVER THE BTATE. | NISTOGA -G ABSON 25¢ each! 2 for25¢: CLUETTPEABODY&CO . MAKERS ; | ||JAfter-Theater Refreshments. Telephone for Seats—Park 23. The completeness of the arrangements made for your entertainment in the Su per Room can be estimated when it is known that the attributes responsible for the popularity of the Grill Rooms are in evidence here. Delightful music, prompt service, moderate charges. Open every evening (Sundays excepted) from 9:30 to 12 o'clock. Entrance from the court and main_office. Palace Hotel Supper Room. BASEBALL! San Francisco VS, akland. TO-DAY AT 3 P. M. SUNDAY AT 2:30P. M. RECREATION PAR BAJA CALIFORNI;\ ‘Damiana Bitters j 5,2 GREAT RESTORATIVE, INVIGORA- tor and Nervine. | The most wonderful aphrodisiac and Special | Tonic for the Sexual Organs, for both sexes. | " The Mexican Remedy for Diseascs of the Kid- | meys Bladder. Sells on its own merits. Eighth and Harrison Streets. | NABER, ALFS & BRUNE, Agents. MR “325 Market st., 8. F.—(Send for Circuiars.) THE SAN FAANCISCO JOCKEY CLUB, ICHESTER'S ENGLISH TANFORAN PARK. R ol e INY PILLS . C l,F::»cl‘_il:Q Six or monhnou each ween Wty ay. Six_stake events, one hurdle race and AFE. two steeplechases first two weeks. race N HICHESTER S ENGLISH of the day st 2:30 p. m. ins leave Third is RED sad metallic Lozes. sealed and Townsend streets for Tanforan at 7, ‘with blue ribbos. no other. 10:40, 113 &, m., 1, 1:30 and 2 p. m . followed and after the last race, at intervals of a few min- tioms. I-:":urbn‘._.r- wend NEW WESTERN HOTEL, stes, by seversl specials. Resr cars reairve/. ior jadies and their escorts. Admission t5 tie course, including railroad fare. $i D. LYNCH PRINGLE, Becretary. RALPH H. TOZER, Racing Secretary. 1 FISCHER’S CDB}CEkT ngsn. ime. Gabriel Stirval; H a renoval . orinne, in “Mistorical Antique : Olve Vall ‘lan. Rooms, B0c to §150 a7 ; Oubama, seats have become known, together with omis- | sons that the committee have made in | the proposed reductions, have caused con- | Siderable opposition and it is probable | that a conference or caucus of the Repub- lican members will be held before a final | decision s reached. The greatest apfo- sition_that has developed comes from the brewing interests. Representatives from | districts where a great deal of beer is manufactured are making serious protests against the action of the committee in not reducing the tax on beer. There are gome other interests also which are mak- | ing protests and the Republican members |of ‘the House have telegraphed their | friends on the Ways and Means Commit- tee that they think the proposed bill should be changed. The fact that the ma- jority in the present House is only six- |‘ teen warns the Republican managers | that a bill must be supported by practical- ly the entire Republican membership in order to pass. If General Grosvenor ar- rives to-morrow it is possible that the Re- publican members now in the city may make a request for a caucus to bé hela ’nafly next week. 3 | CREATES BOARD FOR THE REVISION OF RATLWAY RATES Mexican Guv‘ernn‘lel;t ‘Will Supervise the Fixing of Carriers’ Tariffs. AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 30.—A dispatch from Monterey, Mexico, says: The offi- s of the Mexican railway lines here have been notified by the Mexican Gov- ernment that, acting in accordance with the instructions of President Diaz, the National Department of Communications has created a railway tariff revising | board, which will “enter on the discharge of jits duties December 1. The board con- sist of two lawyers, a technical rail- way inspector, an official of the Depart- ment of Communications, an official of one of the railway companies, a member | of the National Chamber of Commerce, a member of the National Agricultural So- clety and a secretary. « Only the five members of the board named first will have a vote at the meet- ings, but the other members will be al- lqgved to give their views on all subjects rélating to railway rates that come before the meeting. Under the Mexican railway law all the railway companies of Mexico must revise their tariffs of rates every three years, and it will be the duty of this new board to decide as to the acceptance of these revised rates as well as to consider other matters relating to changes of rates. —————— TAKE THEIR LAST LOOK AT SENATOR DAVIS’ REMAINS Thousands Pass Before the(hutniqne ‘Where the Body Reposed in State. ST. PAUL, Nov. 30.—For five hours_to- day a steady stream of people slowly filed through the Governor's rooms in the State Capitol to take a last look at the remains of the late Cushman Kellogg Davis. Nearly 20,000 people viewed the remains. At 3 o'clock the line of people seemed to be without end and it was found neces- sary to close the doors, turning thousands away. The coffin was then again carried to the hearse by the State artillerymen and the same simple escort proceeded back to the Senator’s late home, Siberian Prisons Abolished. Eiberia is no longer to be a penal colony. The imperial decree abolishing the former. status s the result of the building of the Trans-Siberian Rallroad. Nothing can compare to the rapld settiement of the vast Siberian . plains by the inrushing farmers, uniess it be pid growth achieved that cure, Hostetter's YIM ters. ra psia 3 it for constipati Indig dyspepsla, muuw.uyr&um on the bill for the reduction of war taxes | | that the Repubiicans would be in the ma- | The advocates of the reduction of the | If | he will stand out for the re- | forth an array of ¥acts to make obvious the Repgblican ticket in the recent cam- | militia the Republican members as| whatever of displacing the present naval | Commander L. URGES NATIONAL NAVAL RESERVE Recommendations of Lieu- tenant Commander in Charge. FeSat Sy L WASHINGTON, Nov. 3).—Lieutenant H. H. Southerland, the of- ficer in charge of the naval militia, has made a special report to the Navy Depart- ment upon the operations of that organi- zation during the past year. Twenty States are shown to have an or- genized naval militla, comprising in all 567 officers and 5309 petty officers and en- listed men. The naval appropriation act allotted the sum of $60,000 for the militia, of which $7,000 was distributed on Jan- uary 1 last among the twenty State or- ganizations. The Navy Department as- signed two vessels for the practice cruises of the militia, the Prairie on the Atlantio and the Michigan on the great lakes. Through lack or facilities a vessel for the Pacific seaboard was not assigned. _Con- tingents from Louisiana, Georgla, Penn- sylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Maine took short cruises of about a week's duration on the Prairie and the organizations of Ohio, Michigan and Tilinois_made practice trips on the Michigan. These cruises developed a great deal of energy, ability and zeal among the officers and a like efficiency, together with a high state of discipline, among the enlisted men. Lieutenant Commander Southerland sets the absolute necessity of national naval reserve, in addition to fne present ' organizations, calling particular attention to the fact that this proposed innovation is not suggested with any view militia. The General Government of the United States, says Commander Souther- land, has no direct control whatever over these naval militia bodies. ey are State organizations pure and simple, or- ganized under State laws, and thus it is that in' the event of war no member is under any obligation to answer a call of | the President for any naval service. Then, | too, it is pointed out that our opponent in a possible war of the future may be a thoroughly equipped, first rate power, in striking contrast to our adversary of 1898, and that therefore It behooves the Navy Department to create some sort of reserve force, organized under the provisions of Federal law and operating under the di- rect - control of the Navy Department, ready at a moment’s notice to reinforce the regular.fighting strength of the navy. The status of the Naval Reserve officer would be well defined. He would hold a commissfon in the navy signed by the President and his name would be borne on the nm;El register. The primary, in fact the sofe object of the first naval re- serve, the feport says, would be the gnan- ning .of the fleet, while the overflow, which: would form the second reserve, could be utilized by the Navy Department in many kinds of special duty. Captain C. H. Stockton, president of the Naval War College, has submitted to the Navy Department his annual report of tha work of that body during the year ended October 30 last. 'Various lprnblem.s were dealt with, including naval tactics, naval reserve and war preparation, 6f the per- sonnel, the tvpe of ship best sulted for the navy and preparations of war charts. TO REPLACE TELEGRAPH WITH TELEPHONE SYSTEM Innovation to Be Put Into Effect by the ‘Northern Pacific / Railroad. ST. PAUL, Nov. 30.—The Northern Pa- cific Rallroad has decided to substitute the telephone for the present telegraph system of the road, and will build and equip long distance and divisional tela- phone lines to take the place of the tele- graph wherever it is deemed practicable. 'he officials of the road believe that most of the telegraphing that is now done in connection with the business of the traf- fic department can be as well if not bet- ter_performed by telephone. The plan is to place each station on a division in direct communication with the division headquarters, and the various di- vision headquarters are to be connected with the general offices by long distance lines. In this way much necessary 1in- formation of importance to the traffic and rating departments which, on account of the limitations of the telegraph system must now be sent by malil. can in the fu- ture be teleghonad at once. The ad- vantage of this system is obvious. it A e Conscerated Bishop. FORT WAYNE, Ind, Nov, 3.—Rev. Harmen Jol;phIA‘;lerdlnx,“late 3¢ st. Jo- seph’s paris ndianapolis, was to-da; consecrated Bishop Of the . Catholie Diocese of Fort Wayne. Archbishop El- der of Cincinnati was the consecrating relate. After the prescribed ceremonies | n the cathedral a banquet was served. ——— For a Cold in the Head. Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets. i ie o e Mk Chief of Manila’s Police. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 0.—The Post-Dispatch to-day uyl:a ‘L;h;:ef :la I""ollce John W. Campbell of Sf. 1T St of Chief ot Follce of Man i o er the cf overnment now in formation, n’d has accepted. S $ oo S Locomotive Works Close Down. NEW Y%Rx. m:v. 30.—The Rogers Lo- comotive Works at Paterson, N. J., closed down finally. i > M" WILL OF RICE 5 FLED N COURT Document Drawn Up by Lawyer Patrick Offered for Probate. AR NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—M. E. Harby, the attorney representing Albert T. Pat- rick, filed in the Surrogate's Court to-day what-is called the ‘‘second will" of the late Texas millionalre, Rice. In the petition accompanying the will counsel for Patrick says: “Your petitioner further states that the estate given to the petitioner in and by the sald last will and testament of Wil- liam Marsh Rice must be taken subject to a trust in favor of such purposes and | beneficiaries intended to be benefited by the said will.” Counsel also said that he is now pre- paring for execution by Patrick a paper in which the petitioner may in legal form make effective the instructions constitut- ing the secret trust, the provisions of which it Is promised will be made public | about the middle of December. All be- quests in the second will are subject to the condition that the beneficiaries accept without contest “and that they will exe- cute such conveyances and releases of any or all of my estate wheresoever situated and of whatsoever nature to the said Al- bert T. Patrick as he may demand: and any legatee not so doing is forever barred from taking under chis will or in manner inheriting any portion of my es tate and such portion shall enure to the sald Albert T. Patricks’ . Following these bequests the will says: “I give. devise and bequeath to Albert T. Patrick, formerly of Texas, all the re: and residue of my estate, real, personal and mixed, heretofore or hereafter a crued and 'wheresoever situated.” Both wills are signea “W. M. Rice.” Although there is a resemblance in both signatures, the signature to the will fliled to-day is said to be almost a fac simile of the signatures to the two checks pre- sented for payment on the day on which Rice died, while the signature to the will | of 1896 differed somewhat in regard to the formation of ‘the initial “M.” The will of 189 is a written document, whereas _the is typewrit- ten, nothing being written with pen and ink save the names of Maurice Meyers and David L. Short, the witnesses to the instrument. Death of Artist Ogilvie. Clinton Ogilvie, the artist, is dead at the Sherman Square Hotei, where he lived He Wq: born in this city in 188. Hi father ‘was the late Wiiliam Halsey Ogll- vie. Clinton Ogilvie devoted himself to landscape painting and studied under James Hart. He worked for some time in ris. In 1864 he was elected an assoclate of the National Academy of Design and exhib- ited there at different times *The Path of the River,” “Valley of the Croton,” “Farmington _River Scenery,” ‘The “Summer Day in Connecti- side,’ cut “Sunny Summertime,” *“The Moun- tain Brook,” “Near Brummer, Switze: land,” “Lauterbrunnen,” e Como, “Lakes of Killarney” and other pictures. His “In the Woods’ was at the Centen- nial exhibition at Philadelphia. Californians in New York. The following Californians are in New York: From San necisco—R. L. Cole- man and Mrs, R. L. Coleman are at the Holland; Miss G. Cummins is at the Murray Hill; Miss E. Dean is at the Netherlands; W. T. Dunwoody and Mrs. K. Ettling are at the Imperial; H. M. Hayes is at the Cosmopolitan; L. A. Hell- ingis at the Hoffman D. Heye is at the St. George; D. A. Hulse is at the Nor- mandle; J. H. Kruttschnitt is at the Im- perial; N. Leavenworth and wife are at the Grand Union; H. Land Jr. is at tn Imperial; V. Morrison is at the Gilsey; Mrs. C. M. Murphy {s at the Murray Hlfi; J.'F. Post Jr. is_at the Imperial; F. Rodger is at the St. Denis: C. Roémer Is at the Grand Union; W. Root and wife are at the Gilsey; Miss N. A. Veiller is at the Imperial; W. land: A. R. J. Wand is at the From Los Angeles—C. A. Bowker is at the Morton; L. N. Cralg is at the Herald Souare; F. J. Hart is at the Holland; C. H. Reynolds is at the Bartholdl. From San Jose—G. H. Anderson is &t the Hoffman; C. P. Balley, Dr. W. C. Balley are at the Park Avenue; J. Steve is at the Earlington; Mrs. Ross Montrose is at | the Hoffman. May Be Ousted From Office: TOPEKA, Kans., Nov. 30.—Unless C. B. | Streeter, Treasurer 6f Stanton County; makes a levy of taxes for the purpose of raising money to Jor defaulted interest on $21,000 refunding bonds held by the State rmanent school fund, proceedings will instituted to oust him from office and to_collect from his bondsmen the sum of $5616, the amount of interest due and un- paid. NOTICE. On Sundays, commencipg December 9, 1900, the Southern Pacific Company’s City Ticket Office at No. 613 Market aseet, Grand Hotel block, will be closed. For the accommodation of the public our ti office in the Ferry building, foot of Market street, will sell all classes of tickets, local and overland, and reser- vations will be made for Pullman sleeping ymmodations. neral Passenger n E. 0. McCORMICK, s er Traffic Manager. . Willlam Marsh | HOLLAND HOUSE AND TEMPLE LANE. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. HUMOR OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN Ll‘;‘BRA‘I‘UflE VIL l During the first third of the nineteenth century English wit and humor found its soul and center in two widely different circles—one supping weekly in the humble rooms of Charles and Mary Lamb, the other dinihig frequently at Holland House, with the most brilliant surroundings and the most eminent list of guests which the period could furnish. In each of these groups one man stood pre-eminent as a wit and a merry soul—Charles Lamb, quaint and lovable, perhaps the most gen- uine of all English humorists, and Sydney | Smith, brilliant, philosophical, “the wit- tiest of Engiishmen." Lamb's weekly suppers had in them much to remind one of the early meetings of the Literary Club. They were delight- fully informal; one might come and go as he pleased—mixnt eat with the young and hungry, or sit by “a clear fire and a clean hearth” and play his rubber of whist in- stead. There was no skillful general itke | Lady ‘Holland to command the conversa- tion, to keep it incessant and varied and ever brilliant, to say with a tap of her fan on the table, “Now, Macaulay, we have had enough of this; give us somethin, else,” to steer from dangerous points an to rule the board with diplomatic skill. At Lamb’s, as at Goldsmith's in the earlier days, all was freedom and comradeship and goed feeling. The talk that rattied about the whist tables and over the cold | mutton was the most spontaneous and natural 4n all the world. As we view it to-day it was no common roup that gathered at Temple Lane. ere, in the place which a half-century earliex would have been occupied by the | great Johnson, zat the tngpt Coleridge, he man who attempted to cover the e tire fleld of human knowledge, and yet, in the words of De Quincey, who “finlshed nothing but his sentences.” Whenever he g + h | CHARLES LAMB. * was present, as one of the circle declared, s ‘*Argument, wit, humor, criticism were hushed; the pertest, smartest and the | cleverest felt that all were assembled to listen.” He was never witty, but he was an inexhaustible fountain of wisdom and inspiration. Here at times came Words- worth, who deserves mention in a history of the humorists as the man having, with the single exception of Milton perhaps, the smallest sense of humor of all the English poets. Godwin, the philosopher, a man equally deficient in humor, was a constant visitor, as were~ Hazlitt and Southey and the versatile Leigh Hunt. In the place of Garrick sat Charles Kemble, brilllant and ckivalrous, and in Gold- | smith’s place was the whimsical, kindk | hearted Lamb, stammering out puns an: fantastic jokes, the life and soul of the | company. 14 Lamb's stammering, which was by no means affected, increased greatly the ef- | fectiveness of his sallies. Laughable a3 these are as we read them to-day, they were tenfold more telling when, with pain- | ful smile and stammering effort, he first twisted them out for the delight of his guests. According to Hazlitt, one of the circle, “he always made the best pun and | the best remark in the course of the even- | ing. No one ever stammered out such fine, | piquant, deep, eloquent things in a half- dozen half-sentences as he does. His jests | scald like tears, and he probes a question | with a play on words.” | *“Charles,” asked Coleridge, ‘have you ever heard me preach?” “I n-n-never heard you do anything else,” was_the reply. “Brandy and water,” he maintained, ‘‘spolled two things—brandy and water. “Oh, yes,” he once retorted, ‘“W-W-Words- worth’ undoubtedly could have writtten “Ham- let’ If he had the m-mind.” Mr. Lamb.” sald one of his employers at the India House, “you come very late every | morning.”* “I do, sir,” sald Lamb, ** but i make up for It by golng away very early every afternoon.” Lamb's letters overflow with wit and good humor. Beneath his jokes there is always a basis of keen observation and sound criticlsm. There have been few keener observers of men and few saner | critics. A few extracts from letters will illustrate: ““When Southey becomes as modest as his predecesscr. on. and publishes his epics in_duodecirio, I will read ‘em.” “The greatest pleasure I know is to do & good action by stealth and to have It found e vt d t 1 tull er hath prepared two volumes of Horts ‘dna Critichem: They impend over the town and are threatened to fall the winter."* “Coleridge is an archangel a little damaged in the making.’ Lamb's true humor, however, is seen in “The Essays of Elia.”” Its quality is in- | deseribable, “like the flavor of quince”; it | 1s diffusive and impossible to quote; it lays about a subject with a sort of Jam- Bent gieam, never bursting into boistérous flame, never completely dying out. It is always kindly, always half pathetic. Says a well-known critic after speaking of the crowd of jesters that filled the period with thelr noisy clatter: “We quit their uproarious laughter for his more quiet and pensive humor with somewhat of the same feeling that we leave the nolsy though amusing highway for the cool landscape and the soft greensward. We reflect as we Smile; the malice of our nature is rather laid to rest than called forth; a kindly and forgiv- ing temper is excited. We rise from his works, it not with any general truth more vividly impressed, vet prepared by gentle and almost imperceptible touches to be more social in our companicnshipe and warmer in our friend- ships.” No quotation can give an adequate idea of the variety and the quality of Lamb's humor, We will choose almost at ran- dom his description of Mrs. Battle as a whist player: ‘A clear fire, a clean hearth and the rigor of the game.’ This was the celebrated wish of old Sarah Battle (now with God), who. next to her devotions, loved a good game of whist. She was none your luke- warm gamesters, your half-and-half play- ers. who have \ no objection to take e hand if you want one to make up a rubber; who affirm that they have no pleasu in winning; that they like to win ome game and lose another; that they can while away an hour very agreeably at a card tabls, but are indifferent whether they play or no, and Will desirs &h adversary who has slioped a wrong card to take it up and play another. These insufferable triflers are the curse of a table. One of these flies will sooll a whole pot. Of such it may be sail that they do not play at cards, but only at playing at them. | ""Sarah Battle was none of tha: breed. She detested them, as I do, from her heart and | soul, and would not, save upun a striking | emergency, willingly seat herself at | the same . table with them. She loved a thoro! & determined enemy. no com- cesslons. She never made a revoke nor ever passed it over to her adversary_without exacting the utmicst for- feiture, = She fought a good fighi; cut anl thrust. *She held not her good sword (her cards) ‘like a dancer. She sate_bolt up, and neither showed you her cards nor desirddl to see_yours. All people have their blind side— their surerstitions; and I have heaid her de- clare, under the rose, that hearts was he. fa- vorite suit. “I never in my lite—and I knew Saiah Bat- tle msuy of the best years of it—saw Fer take cut her snuff box when It was her tern to play, or snuff a in the middle of a game, or ring for a servant till it was fairly over.” n In marked contrast with the cozy little cirele at Lamb's were the it so- cial nthfl:;- at Holland House. ~Here t be'tougl‘ the most men of every land, most noted masters every art and sclence. “From the end last century,” says Reld, “until the opening years of Queen Victoria's reign, few men in England of liberal proclivities who gained renown in art, literature, politics or science failed to make ac- quaintance with Holland House and its genlal and patriotic owner.” Lord Hol- and and his most brilliant wife—the mag- nets which drew society to this “enchant- ed palace,” as Sydney Smith termed it— were as marvelously gifted as any of thelr guests. The host at those frequent dinners, of which the letters of that period make such frequent mention, was a man most lovable and most brilliant. His repartee and table witticisms are still remembered. No man was ever quicker at ‘tmpromptus. Of Southey, the poet laureate, he said: Qur Laureate Bob defrauds the king— He takes his cash and does not sing; Yet on be goes, I know not why, singing for us—who do not buy Lady Holland—beautiful, _imperious, tactful, cften sarcastic—ruled the table with firm hand. Few dared withstand her; Macaulay sank into silence at her word. Smith, however, was sométimes incor: ble. y she once com mended, “ring the bel *“Oh, yes,” was the retort, “and shail I sweep the room?" No one could be more optspoken. _Lord Rochester had rema'ko(? lg‘o! he had a “‘Dear, sozm”nearly through the press. ear,” cried Lady Holland; “I am sorry to hear that—can’t you suppress it2"" The Dr. Johnson of this group was the henome: Macaulay — “a book _In reeches,” as Smith once deciared. His vivacity and his enormous erudition made him “the king of dimers-out.” “He has the strength of ten men,” declared Emer- son, who met him in London: memory, fun, fire, learning, politics, man- ners and pride, and talks the time in & steady torrent. Like Johnson and Coleridge, he was the center of every circle he entered. ‘aulay improves. Macaulay im proves!” cried Sydney Smith. “T have ob. served in him of late flashes of—silence.™ The “sonorous vivacity” of this enormous talker often nettled Smith., who found it impossible often to voice his own wit and wisdom. “I wish 1 could write pcetry like you, Rogers,” he once complained; T would write an ‘Inferno,’ and I would put Macaulay among .a number of dis- putants and gag him!" Another contemporary described him as ‘slopping all over on ‘every subject and standing in the slops.” Macaulay's wit was as caustic and as that of his critics. He once de- d Byougham as “a of semi-Solomon, (half-knowing _everything from the.cedar the hyssop.” The wit and wisdom which flowed with the wine at dinners at Holland House ‘Were not rescued for later generations. A few fragments have come down to us— enough to make us mourn that Boswells appear <o seldom in the annals of a lit- erature. How we would like to read the table talk of a single evening when Fox and Sheridan and Hook and Bywon and Sydney Smith and dozens of others: all sat about the board! Of Smith's happy hits and droll sallles we have a consider- able stock preserved in Lady Holland's life of her father. No other Englishman ever so bubbled over with wit and merry good nature. Says Trevelyan, the blographer of Macau- lay: “He is full of wit, humor and shrewdness. He is not one of those show talkers who reserve all their good things for special occasions. It seems to be his reatest luxury to keep his wife and aughters laughing for two or three hours every day.” He once found a little bo: stroking a tortoise ‘‘to please ¥l " “Chid.” sald the genial dean, “you might as well stroke the dome of St. Paul's to please the dean and the chapter.” The queation of* a wooden pavement about the cathedral once arose in the chapter for discussion. “Ah.,” said Smith, with his usual matter-of-fact tone, “if my reverend brethren here will but lay their heads together the thing will be dore in a trice.” One day the conversation turned upon an obstinate man who was full of preju- dices. ““You might,” said Smith, “as well attempt to poultice camel’s back " “Daniel Webster,” he declared, “struck me much like a steam engine in trousers.” Of the historian Prescott he once ex- claimed, “When he comes to England a Casplan Sea of soup awaits him.” “Of course,” he once remarked, “if ever I go to a fancy ball at all I should go as a dissenter.” “My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way that it was actvally twelve miles from a lemon.” ““The dean of t serves to be preached curates.” “No, I don’t like dogs,” he said at one time. “I always expect them to go mad. A lady asked me once for a motto for h Spot. I proposed ‘Out, damned Spot ™ b she did not_think it sentimental enough. You rememper the story of the French marquise 0, when her pet lapdog bit a plece out of her fnqgn n's leg, exclaimed: *Ah, poor little befst! I hope It won't make him sick.’ I called one day on Mrs. —, and her lapdog flew at my leg and bit it. After pitying her dog, like the French marquise, she did all she could to comfort me by assuring me the dog was a dissenter and hated the church and was brought up in a Tory family.” Examples mizht be multiplied indefinite- ly of Smith’s ready wit. His contributions to the Edinburgh Review, which are nu- merous, overflow with happy hits, satirie touches and merry jokes. Despite his brillancy he left behind him no single masterpiece upon which his fame can rest, His literary energies were expended al- most wholly upon discussions of timely topics, upon reviews and criticisms, most- 1y_of an ephemeral nature. Yet Smith was not a ?ere jester like Theodore Hook. Edward Everett, who once listened fo his table talk, declared that If Smith “had not been known as the wittlest man of his day he would have been accounted one of the wisest.” He was not a caustic wit, like Pope ana In the words of his biographer, o more kindly humorist ever breathed than Sydney Smith, and the fact that though be was armed with so sharp a weapon, he went through life surrounded by the love as well as admiration of those who knew him best says a great deal not only for the goodness of his heart, but also for his habitual self-restraint.” Be- hind all of his wit lay an immense fund of practical wisdom. He saw quite through men and measures, and he used his wit as a weapon to attack what seemed to him to be abuses and to relieve these op- pressed by Injustice. A book of selections might be made from his scattered reviews and letters that would be worthy to place beside the best books of practical wisdom in the language. His advice is eminently full of common sense and eminently help- the humps off a be declared.. “de- to death by wild ful. He discusses most delightfully the three “fallacies of soclety”—“Fallacy one, be- cause I have gone lnmufih it, my son shall go through it also; fallacy two, I have sald I will do it, and I will do it—I will stick to my word; fallacy, three, I object to half measures—it is neither one thing nor the other.” “I always say to young people,” he writes, “Deware of carelessness; no for tune will stand it long. You are on the high road to ruin the moment you think yourself rich enough to be careless.” “Never give way to melancholy: resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. I once gave a young lady two and twenty receipts against melancholy; one was a bright fire, another to remember all the pleasant things said to and of her, an- cther to keep a box of sugar plums on the chimneyplece and a kettle simmering on the hob; take short views, hope for the best‘and trust’ In God; reverence and stand in awe of yourself: don’t be too se- vere on yourself and vour own failing: kl:ley on; don’t faint; be energetic to the e \ Such a warm-hearted, courageous, sun- ny optimist is like a Spring in the desert. like a fl)floua day in midwinter. We join in his full, hearty laugh; we listen to his sound phtlosophy, and we forget our sor- rows, our ty grievances, our suspicions and morbid imaginings. We breathe a fuil breath’ from the vast, free-aired, life-giv- ing, elemental spaces, and we are renewed in body and in soul. FRED LEWIS PATTEE. Pennsylvania State College. To Name Sixty P WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—The Presi- dent in the first week of Congress wiil submit to"the Senate for confirmation sixty nominations for Presidential post- offices. This Includes those appointed dur- nd Postmasters wh whose terms of office expire previous to January 1 next. It is the smallest list of recess nominees sent in for some years. Cloakmaker Fails. Freedman, ‘cloakmaker, fled