The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 15, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1900 ADVERTISEMENTS. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Geauing CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS most hear signatura of FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIGUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIR. FOR THE COMPLEXION WATERS SUBSIDE | AFTER A HEAVY TEMBLOR SHOCK Steamboat Springs, in Ne- vada, Are No Longer in Action. e EARTHQUAKE STOPS THE FLOW —— — One of the Noted Health Resorts in the West Put Out of Business by a Prank of Nature. o T SEB GENUINE WRAPPER MATINEE TO-DAY, FAT\"RDAY DEC. 15 Parquet, 2c: Balcony. Part ren, 10c, m 2 Heserved, Excep 600D GOODS in 600D VAUDEVILLE DAVIS AND MACAULEY, HAR- | T MONY FOUR, SPENSER KELLY, | RETURN AHERN AND PATRICK, PA- TRICE AND COMPANY, ROB- ERTUS A ND WILFREDO, MAY DE SOUSA, PANTZER TRIO, GREAT AMERICAN BIOGRAPH. el Epecial Dispatch to The Call RENO, Nev., Deoc J4—Steamboat | Springs are as dry as the lime rock" formation that abounds in that vicinity. | Immediately after the recent earthquake | | the water in the principal springs grad- ually receded. For the past few days a crew of men has been engaged in blasting | and drilling. in an endeavor to make the | springs resume their wonted activity, but 80 far without success. Steamboat Springs was the most noted resort in Nevada. When the Comstock lode was at its best Steamboat Springs was the favorite stopping place of the | bonanza kings, and many a mining deal that startled the world was consum- mated there. TO-DAY——TO-NIGHT, LAST TIMES OF A BELL BOY! COMMENCING TO-MORROW AFTERNOON, OF THE ALWAYS POPULAR FAVORITE, BEN HENDRICKS, In the Play That Made Him Famous, OLE OLSON! Has Made Milllons Laugh. You're Next HIGH PRICES REALIZED NCERT HOUSE. FISCHER’S ©ONgERT Yo% COGILL AND cooy:n' D(::gn MIXE: IXED: HOST OF EPECXALTXE& M.m:ee- Bunday. SAME SHA TWO QUALI‘FIES *TIVOLIx JUET P A TO PASS THE TIME AWAY. URTH AND LAST WEEK OF | THE JOLLY | MUSKETEER! | enings at $—————Matines Saturday at 2 NEXT MONDAY NIGHT Bl s e AT SEALSKIN SALES | Furs From British Columbia Coast | and Bering Sea Disposed Of in London. VICTORIA, Dec. 14.—Sealers are jubi- lant over the results of the sale of seal- ekins held to-day in London, advices of which have been recelved by them in cable dispatches. In all more than 35,000 ekins taken on the British Columbian crast and the Bering sea were offered at the annual midwinter sales and the prices realized were somewhat higher than those obtained last year. At the C. M. Lampson sales the British TEE GREAT HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA. "CINDERELLA e 7 ARRGW BRArND COLUMBIA o BRIy ’2%‘33‘5’&‘ MATINEE TO-DAY, FAREWELL B i o tane ALICE NIELSEN ~CLUETT PEABODY:&CO 5 MAKERS 1 Palace| These hotels pos- sess the attributes <2 3 5 ‘ that tourists and “THE SINGING GIRL.” || and | v Cereite Beginning MONDAT—One Week Only. | G dl i FRED"RICK WARDE; TaANQ | men. modern s, perfect cuisine, American and Eu- ropean plans. | Hotels| San Francisco | 'HE DUKE" e STATEMENT "A HOT OLD TIME” | e CONDITION AND AFFAIRS Cevnds THE MERCHANTS’ INSURANCE COMPANY ARK, IN THE STATE OF NEW on the Sist day of December, A. D. 150, and for the year ending on that day, as S to the Insurance Commissioner of the California, pursuant to the provisions of gections 610 and €11 of the Political Code, condensed s per blank furnished by the Com- miseioner. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA HOUSE CAPITAL. { Amount of Capital Stock. paid up in | “Cazn 400,000 0) | ASSETS. Real Estate owned by Company.....$ 171,469 56 | Loans on Bonds and Mortgages...... 576,150 0 | Cash Market Value of all Stocks SLODRAMA, MON > Crrrms.- Interest due and mecrued on Bonds and Mortgages . n 5,420 12 e sEavgt BOWS | Premiume in due course of cclleclion 165,443 96 R s due and accrued i 329 33 I m other Companies for | Patrance on losses siready paid 857 78 | Total Assets ..... 5698, 415 | LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid.. -§ 41,094 48 Losses in process of Ad)umment, or 66,698 53 T 6,674 50 oz A 328,867 04 MADAME JAPANESE than one l\;u e T RngD\“ | ATl other demands against Company SL341 04 J ¥ otal Liabil ' BUTTERFLY. Bivip | mew v BELASCO. INCOME. > Preceded by GI »rj Comedy, = I\;‘!re';:’fl:m:"luflly rvcel\efl for Hr" 227,300 68 . 1 Recetved for & I’YGMAU(W AND GALATEA.” | Piietesr ! . Received for interest and dividends SERIOUS TANGLE" and | on Bonds, Stocks, Loans, and from CHUTESTZOdi R | Net amount paid for Fire Losses (in- P 5105, 863 losses of pre- vious years) EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. Dividends to Stockholders 40,000 00 SPECIAL To NIGHT . ‘Ps‘d or allowed tor Commission or - . Brokerage L. & 179,031 27 BT o Baliics. " el ik S = Charges for officers, clerks, etc..... maa B! Cakewalk ! | Pata for State, National ana Local | “taxes 7,50 % e All other pay 4 expenditures 27,562 92 YICK CHUM and AH CHOY, champions of Total Expenditures $1,117,224 29 Chinatown, === 78,328 8 | Losses incurred Quring the year. va FRANK and MARY TAYLOR, champlons of | Darktown. Risks and Premiums. {F‘in Risks.| Premiums. S Net amount of Risks| Telephone for seats, Park 2. written during the| 54 e R sl | 121,416,587 | $1.961,355 U Net amoun RACING! RACING! RACING!| coircdGuing” e o | = o | i e .| 115,989, 212, 1500—WINTER MEETING—I%L [ ot amount in hm‘ ;ALI}-ORMA JOCKEY CLUB. | December 31, 190. 148,659,607 | 1,453,270 29 YE INCLUSIVE. o 8, REC M BCEDS %. S hRRn ing Mondey, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- Friday and Saturday. Rain or ve or more races each 3 ces start at 2:15 p. m. sharp. boats Jeave &% Francisco at 12 m._end 2, 2:30 and 3 P " stopping’ st the entrance to the i ck. Last two cars on train reserved for « and their escorts; no smoking. Buy yous kets to Shell Mound. All trains Scventh and via Alameda moie con- enue cars at Fourteenth Oakiand. These electric cars Subscribed and sworn to before me, day of January, 1900. hll 20th R 8. STEADMAN, Notary Publie. PACIFIC DEFARTMENT, 420 CALIFORNIA STREET SAN FRANCISCO. WILLARD 0. WAYMAK, Manager, 6. W. McNEAR, General Aent Weekly Call,$1,00 per Yoar and Broadway, 0 Sivect & @irect to the track in fifteen migutes. Jeturning Trains leave the track at 4216 and Shmetiatuly atter the lest race. TLLL JR., President. "fnonu TR A | Columbia coast skins brought 63 shillings | 6 pence, while the average price brought | by skins taken by the pelagio sealers in |the Bering sea was 70 shillings 6 | pence. At the Hudson Bay Company sales the average price obtained for Brit- [ fsh° Columbla coast skins was sixty shill- | ings, while the Bering sea furs were | sold for an_averags price of 6 shillings | | 6 pence. Several consignments of the Bering sea skins were sold as high as| | 78 shillings and one small lot went as high | | as 80 shillings, or about $19 20 per skin. The catch of two schooners which ar- rived late was burried to the sales by ex- press train and shipped by passenger Steamer at express rates, but the skins falled to arrive on time. These were the | only skins unsold. o+u+¢w+“++“+++++§ | tTHB DAY’S DEAD. 2 | @4 4444444444444 444440 TWO GILBgZ DEATHS. Ridgely V. Patton and Augustus Baillaige Pass Away. GILROY, Dec. 4.—Two of Gllroy’s na- tive sons were buried here to-day. Ridgely V. Patton, a son of the late John Q. Pat- ton, died of liver complaint, aged 29 years, He leaves a wife and two small children. The other death occurred in Oakland. Augustus Baillaige, a son of 8chool Trus- tee Baillaige, passed away luddenl{ after a short iliness. He was 34 years old. De- ceased leaves a wife and one son. S General Michael J. Bulger. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 14.—General Michael J. Bulger, a distingulshed Confed- erate general and public man, died early this morning at the home of his son, Sen- ator Thomas Bulger, at Dadeville, Ala. General Bulger was the oldest Confeder- ate officer or veteran living, being 100 years of age. He was one of the few surviving members of the famous seces- sion convention at Montgomery, in which he led the fight against secession. When | | defeated he offered his sword and was given & commission in the Confederate army. R L Lord O’Hagan. LONDON, Dec. 14.—Lord O'Hagan dead, aged 22 years. ———— The fisherman’s wealth depends on his net profits. w HOLIDAY STOCK I~ —HAS— ARRIVED. Get a good Piano while you're at it—one that last a lifetime—one with a solid guarantee back of it—such as you get with KNABE PIANO... A musical gift is the most charming and last. | given to them in the early part of | Ulrich Gerber, resigned. SENTING IRIED RUIT ACROSS THE ATLANT Growers of Winters District Find a Market in Europe. —— HANDLE THEIR - OWN PRODUCT Owners of Prune Orchards Receive an FEncouraging Dividend on the Sales for October. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. WINTERS, Dec. 14.—The retrospect of the season’s output of dried fruits in this district is encouraging. The speedy and | profitable disposal of the crop has been a | source of satisfaction also to producers and packers as well as to the inevitable contingent of commission merchants and middlemen. Prunes, which have becoms a veritable drug on the market, offer the only exception. Though Winters has long been the cen- ter of a considerable fruit producing belt, the last few years have been an era of awakening on the part of business enter- | prises, and men have begun to see the im- portance of being the custodians of their own Industries. For five years the Win- ters Dried Fruit Company has been an incorporated institution operated for the public interest as well as for the interest of the stockholder. The gradual improve- | ment of its warehouse and facilitias for handling the fruits each year evidences the prl,cllca.bmty of the dried fruit busi- ness as a local industry. Following is a table taken from a tyvo- gritten report supplied by ¥. ila of the mm- Dried F\'ul i ving the exact amount of dri rnuv. sl pped from Winters this sea- son: Dri ricots . o poacnes - Dried figs Dried pears Total . 5 | This wtu o( :«1915 , O n.lmost 100 tons, was handled mostly by this | packing company, and !hlp&md almost ex- cluul\ ely in neatly packed packages of twenty-five and fifty pounds each. Mr. Wilson says that three times as much fruit has beer exported from Winters this season as ever before in her annals as a | dried fruit center. During July alone 14,300 packages of | choice am‘l fancy dried apricots were sent | from Winters direct to France, Holland, Germany and England. Below is a state- ment of the exports for July: §00 packages dried apricots, 24,800 H, dried apricots, 37,200 aried epricots, 32,550 dried apricots, 25,200 dried apricots, 36,400 dried apricots, 27,900 apricots, 81,000 apricots, 84,550 apricots, 27,935 apricots, 28,000 pounds, pounds, pounds, pounds, pounds, pounds, pounds, pounds, pounds, pounds, dried drled dried dried In August seven more cars of apricots were exported, with 4200 packages. Dur- ing the same month two carioads of peaches were exported to France. The peach output this year was comparatively light, but the quaiity in general has been excellent and previous to the present date they have commanded a good marke. The lifelessness of the industry at present, however, offers little inducement for mov- Ing = considerable amount of fruit on and. Mr. Wilson's estimate of fruit on hand is: Dried prunes Dried apricots Dried peaches .. Dried figs . A new departure in the indystry is the utilization of the kernel of apricot pits for chemical purposes. The Winters | company shipped over 2000 sacks of whole | pits this year, though little attention vllfis‘ e season, they not being recognized as a valuable part of the apricot crop. This amount, however, is small, as com- ared with the amount handled by J. C. Bimmpbell of this place. Prunes at present form the bulk of frult on hand. About 350 tons are held at this place in the Winters Dried Fruit Com- | ranger; pany’s_ warehouse by the Califoraia | Cured Fruit Association, pending sale and removal. These pruncs have been graded | and inspected according to the associa- | tion contrnct. The larger part of them | run from £0-% to %0-100 and 120. A gondw portion, however, run all the way from | 50-60 t The dmdend declared on the prunel sales for October netted the local mem- | bers of the assoclation a reasonable price for their prunes and demonsirated the fact that the association benefits the small producer as well as the large one. INTERESTS THE COAST. Postoffices !‘aublijud, Postmasters Appointed and Commissioned. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Postoffice es- tablished — Washington — Hot Springs, King County. Previous order discontinu- ing rescinded. S Postmasters commissioned—California— | Emanuel E. Metzger, Berryessa. Oregon | —M. Luetta Cawood, ~ Laurence. Wash- | ington—George A. Poland, Carrollton. | Postmasters appointed—California—J. E. | Mitchell, Dunlap, Fresno County, vice S. E. Wilson, resigned. ‘Oregon—Samuel Kunz, Bethany, Washington County, vice The following fourth-class postoffices will become third-class January 1: California: Fruitvale, Fullerton, salary ostlmuter $1100; North Ontario, 'Sanger, or, . Washington: Wenatchee, $1000. Representative Waters introduced a bill authorizing the Navajos and Moqui In- dians to lease mineral lands wllhln their reservations on a royalty basis. Representatives Metcalf and Kahn, representing the California delegation, to- day urged the Ways and Means Commit- tee to take off the tax on bottled wine. Their appeal was unsuccessful, the com- mittee not seeing its way clear to com- ply with their request. The delegation will not press the matter on the floor of the House, but will bring it to the atten- tion of the Finance Committee of the Senate and urge action In that body. Pacific Coast pensions have been grant- ed_as follows: California: Original—Joseph M. Fulton, Soldiers’ Home, Los Angeles, 88 Restora- tion increase—Francis ' N. arcen, dead, Los Angeles, §I7. Original Tldows— Buxsdell, Angeles, Mary C n.rr, Sycamore, $8; Elsie lh.rcen Los Angeles, $5; Sarah Sarkhurst, Vlnl, 5& War with Spain—Original—Fer- dinand Ruppel, San Francisco, $36. Jitown_ Bl Cassidy, father, San ing present your monev can buv. [Its charms last a lifetime. KOHLER & CHASE 1is headquarters for evarythlng musical; over 50 years' ex- perience enables us to antee the best value for the let us tell you how mm;:;h buying easy. KOIILER & CHASE, ney Hesdquarters, 26 30 O’Farrell St., BAN FRANCISCO, Jury Locked Up. SAN JOSE, Dec. 14—The jury in the case of Fred Begerow, charged with the murder of Joseph Cech at Agricultural Park last June, was charged - Foon and at 1o o'clock, Baving Tan L sgree, the t For a Cold in the Head. Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets. ——— TENDENCY T0 EVIL HIS ONE [NHERITANCE Noah Wasielewski of San Jose Is a Criminal Degenerate. ——te HIS FATHER A WIFE-MURDERER Young Man Attempts to Bring About a Jail Delivery and Is Sen- tenced to San Quentin. Bpeclal Dispatch to The Cull. SAN JOSE, Dec. 4.—A sad case of criminal degeneracy was witnessed in Judge Lorigan's court to-day when Noah Wasielewsk, alias “Nogee” Wasielewsk!, stood up for sentence on the charge of passing saws and files into the County Jail for the purpose of alding in a break of prisoners. The prisoner, who s but 24 years of age, has been for the past ten years in almost constant trouble with the police. When a babe in arms he wit- nesud his mother’s murder at the hands of his father, and when the crime was discovered the child was crawl: about the floor in its mother’s blood. or this murder, which was a most brutal one, his father, Juan Waslelewskl, paid the penalty upon the gallows. In t e _early '80's the boy’'s parents lived at Los Gatos. Jealousy on the part of the husband led him to kill his wife. He stabbed her| thirteen times. Waslelewski escaped ar- rest for several years, but was flnllly l.v— grehended in New Mexico. rought back here and executed. The boy has been knocked about from pillar to post and has associated th C iminals of all classes, Although arrest- for felonies many times he has escaped conv!euon but has served several terms in the County Jail. A couple of momhl ago he completed a term there, and a few days later called and passed a number of saws and filles into the jall. Frank Wal- ters, Eugene McCabe and Willilam Brown, confederates of Waslelewski, wers con- fined there. A jall break had been planned and with the tools supplied by Wasielew- skl it was hoped to escape, When Sheriff Langford unearthed the piot one of the bars of a window had been sawed through. The saws and files were found, and & con- fession of the prisoners connected Wasie- lewski with the crime. A conviction followed Wasielewski's ar- rest, and to-day he was sentenced to San Quentin for a term of two years. This was a fort of retribution day in Judge Lorigan's court. George Hoffman, who looted S. F. Leib's residence, was | sentenced to five years in Folsom prison. | | Ed Duckgeischel, his accomplice, who 1:1 17 years of age, was not sentenced, and Wfl probably be sent to the ‘Whittier Re- form School. Herbert Brown, a boy of 17 years, who with Ralph Heywood stole a wagonload of furniture from a Louse near Camghsll was sent to Whittier. Heywood probaply will go to State prison, Two years in San Quentin was given Felix Vehrein for burglary. LODGES NAME OFFICERS. Elections Held in Monterey Pythians and Foresters. MONTEREY, Dec. 14.—The local Pyth- fans met last night to elect officers for the | ensuing term. The following named were | chosen: Chancellor commander, A. Lo-| gan; vice chancellor, F, Schwartzenbeck; | prelate, H. R. Bickford; master of work i Westfall; master of exchequer, R. W. Patrick; master of finance, Willlam Rieck; | keeper of records and seal, George D. | Clark; master at arms, A. Gnrrlck inner guard, T. Prescott; outer guard, 8. J. Lay- ton; trustee, 8. J. Layton. Court Monterey No. $43, Independent Or- der of Foresters, has just held its annual election of officers. Those chosen to direct the affairs of the association are: T. Lee, C. D., high chief ranger; Ernest A. Scholze, past chief ranger; George Har- per. onief ranger: J. K. Oliver, vice chief A. R. Underwood, recording sec- retary; W. B. Parker, financlal secretar; Charles D. Henry, treasurer' Rev. H. Snodgrass, chaplain; Dr. M. Stafford, Harry Jio B. Gonzales,' S. B. J. B.; Ernest A. Scholze and H. A. Olmstead, trustees; A. M. Stafford and A. Miller, financial committee. NEAH BAY TO BECOME A HARBOR OF REFUGE Text of a Provision in the River and Harbor Appropriation Bill in Congress. SEATTLE, Dec. 14.—A project that has been talked of by shipping men of Puget Sound for the past ten years now seems | certain of fulfillment under a section of the river and harbor appropriation bill in Congress, which carries an appropriation for the preliminary work on a system of | breakwaters to convert Neah Bay into a harbor of refuge. It is estimated that the breakwaters will cost about 000. The project will be of immense value to the shipping of the Sound on account of the | dangers to navigation in the vicinity of Cape Flattery, and it has been favorably | reported upon by General Wilson, chief of | engineers, and Captain Harry Taylor, un- | til recently in charge of the river and harbor fortification work k on the Sound, ACCUSED OF BOBBEBY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER MARYSVILLE, Dec. 14.—C. B. Howser, aged 28 years, and Lee Deck, aged 21, were lodged in the County Jail in Marysville to-day on a charge of the robbery of Bray's saloon at Wheatland on November 12 and an_attempt to murder Night Watchman Uhier, who discovered them | in the act of blowing open a small safe they had taken from the saloon to a hop fleld a half-mile distant. Deck shot the officer twice and Howser then beat him fnto. insensibility on discovering he had not been killed by the bullets. The pris- oners are sons of old residents of County. Monterey’s Fire Chief. MONTEREY, Dec. 14.—The elective com- mittees of the various branches of the Monterey volunteer fire department met the members of the Board of Trustees at their regular meeting for the purpose electing a chief of the department for the coming year. Parker was re- elected by acclamation and A. Vidal and . Schaufele were appointed first and second assistant chiefs, respectively. Chief Parker has held his = resent office for sev- eral terms, and has by faithful work and executive ability brought the Monterey fire department Up to a high degres of ex- cellence. Reservation Forests Denuded. SEATTLE, Dec. 14—W. J. McConnell, formerly Governor of Idaho and now United States Indlan Inspector, arrivea the city to-day from & trip to the 'rula.llp Swinomish and Lummi Indlan reserva- tlons. He says that a great deal of the timber lands on the reservations are prac tically valueless, having been denuded of timber by former agents. Fishermen have been encroaching upon the rights of the Indians by erecting fish traps in front of the reservations in deflance of the law. An effort will be made to bring the mat- Originai—Fierbert P. Cur- mo_chg attention of the Federal author- —_——————— LATE mfl INTELLIGENCE. SAILED. Friday, December 1. Stmr Alex Duncan, Guthrie, Santa Cruz. C_PORTS. BUREKA—Sailed Dec 14—Stmr Pasadena, fc San Pedro; Stmrs Taqua and Bureka. for San POETI“AN“M—AHIMNW mmmmhhm uwmu-m*mw wmmmnmm THE HUMOR OF THE LATER NOVEL. Copyright, 1800, by Seymour Eaton. — e HUMOR OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE —_— Ix ways good which hn rather in- clined ‘me The wit and fun of the present day are | volced and recorded for the greater part by the comic press—by periodicals like Punch, and by the weekly newspapers, nearly all of which have departments “in lighter vein™; the humor of the period is fcund most largely in the novels and tales, which are, perhaps, the chief liter- ary product of the era. The realistic novel of manners, first discovered by Richardson in the mid-eighteenth century, had proved to be a most wonderful ve- hicle for the comic and the humorous. It surpassed the drama of the Elizabethan days and the periodical essay of Steele and Addison, for it came very close indeed to actual human life; it could draw man and manners in the minutest detalls and S0 manage that the reader would seem to be almost in the presence of those of whom he read. Flelding, one of the world's great humorists, had made use of no other literary form, and Smollett and Sterne and Goldsmith had done with it their most telling work. Following these early realists, however, had come the romancers who bulit an ar- tificial world and peopled it with impossi- ble creatures leading imporsible lives. There was not trua humor in the wild ro- mances of the last years of the eighteenth century. Humor comes only from close contact with actual human iife. The first significant reaction came with Jane Aus. ten and her refined sketohes of humble life. Then came Sir Walter Scott, whose half-romantic _creations e realistic revolt for nearly century. in Scott's nunll. espeare D half-realistie, ed lere are two worl even as there are in the mobllity and the commo; ‘When the novelist treats of humbh uh lu does it realistically, with his eye upon the object. His homely characters and scenes are full of life and feeling: he wrote of them as if he loved them and he made thelr little lives infinitel tender a.nd lruly humorou.. “In dry humor," “‘and in thlt N her humo wmcn -kmruny blends the ludicrous an e pathetic so that it is hardly ible 0 separate between smiles and tears tt is & master,” but it must not be for- gotten that Scott,when he was romancing, when he left the humble little world he loved so well for the medieval castle and T xu court, was seldom a humorist. His uence, on the whole, arrested rather Ihun advanced the realistic reaction which was to bring the novel back to life and true humor. This reaction came in full tide in 1838 with the publication of "The Pickwick Papers.” In this novel, if it may be called a novel in “Oliver Twist” and subsequent works Dickens professed to give a minute study of London life, especially in those humble circles which he knew so inti- tely. The result was phenomenal. ickens became in a moment the most popular of all English writers, a title which he has never for a moment lost, and he was hailed as the greatest of all English humorists save only Shakespeare. As to the quality of Dickens’ humor there is room for honest difference of opinion. Few other writers have ever called forth such a chorus of widely dif- fering criticism. On the one side are those who declare that his humor is sim- + A CARICATURE OF CHARLES DICKENS BY ANDRE GILL. +* + ply an exhibition of mere clownish antics and that his pathos is nothing but mawk- ish sentimentality; on the other hand are those, and they are Ly no means few, who place hlm side by side with Cervan- tes alzac and Shakespeare. The truth doubtless lies betwden these ex- tremes. That Dickens wrote from a full knowl- edge of the life he depicts no one denies, and that he was kindly and sympathetic almost to an extreme @ppears everywhere in his writings, but it is also true that he distorted and exaggerated his scenes un- til at times they are positively grotesque and that he allowed his feelings to carry him to such lengths that sometimes he came dangerously near to mawkish sentl- | mentality. All of Dickens' characters are exaggerated to some degree. Take for ex- ample Quip, who Ate hard eggs, shell and all, devoured gigan. tic prawns with the heads and tails on, chewed tobacco and watercress at the same tima. | drank boiling tea without winking, bit his fork and spoon till they bent again * e (i fhe women were nearly frightened out of their wits and began to doubt it he were really a human creature. He seems to have been in many respects a descendant of Ben Jonson. Both ex- celled in comic characterization; both were quick to seize upon some single gro- tesque phase of character or personal ap- pearance, some trait or trick, and to mag- nlf it_until all else was lost sight of. Uriah Heap is always *’umble’”: Poor Joe is always “a moving on”; Micawber is alwafis ‘waiting for something to turn ach has nis trademark and we nevsr lose sight of it. Dickens h little real wit. gerations as ‘*Mr. Pickwick proceeded to put himself Into his clothes and his clothes into his portmanteau” are fun rather than wit. He undoubtedly pos- sessed pathos, but, as Saintsbury declares, e could never be content with a moder- ate dose of it,”” and pathos overdone be- comes mere sentimentality. The truth seems to be that Dickens created a new world and peopled it with beings which under exceptional circur- stances mls’::t be found in actual iife. In his world there are to be found only ex- aggerations and excexflonl. but if we ea- ter it leaving bel recollection of the real world everything will become natural and consistent. It is simply the ‘m.chlnx of life in another key—to enjoy one must shut out the real life about him, else there will be di once we have actuall his there is never a jar to awaken us. The most marvelous thing about Dickens’ art was {ts power to create an artificial world :.nd to manipulate it so tnat the illusion is never broken. Admit this little world and gll else follows: Dickens a true umo The secret of Dickens' artificiality lay undoubtedly in his {emperament. His sensibilities were ex: scord; but when face in mind when he drew thln sketei }:nt note how he heightens ard Gad g etk ena g mogpy were afrald of being found llflm. i they kept too far H doubt that general with the Tirle of which we heve o 50 muci England. Several gentlemen called The, Who, In the course of conversation, e Quently missed the spittoon at five paces; and one (but he was certainly short-sighted) mis- took the closed sash for an open window at three. On another occasion when I dimed out and was sitting with two ladles and some gentlemen company round a fire before dinper, one of the company fell short of the fireplace | six distinct times. | Then again note Mr. Weller's criticism of railroads. There is room only for his treatment of the engine: And as to the ingein—a nasty, wheesin’, creaking’, gaspin’. puffin’, bustin’ monster, ways out o' breath, with a shiny green and gold back, ltke a unpleasant beetle in that ‘ere gas magnifier—as to the ingein, as Is always a pourin’ out red-hot coals at night and black smoke in the day, the sensiblest thing it does. in my opinton, is. ven there's somethin’ in the vay and it sets up that 'ers frightful scream vich seems to say. w, here’s two hundred and forty passengers in the wery greatest ex- tremity of danger, and here’s their two hun- dred and forty screams in vun." This {s pure fun, and, accordin; Saintsbury, “Nothing that he has ten ;s of oyed excellence except that . With the name of Dickens is -lm- coupled that of his great Sontemporary Thackeray, yet no two writers could differ more completely. They have hardly a single point {n common. Thackeray be? his career as a wit. He contributed hu- morous drawings to Punch agd other L ~l- 5 CARICATURE OF DICKENS MADE IN 150 BY LESLIB WARD, - + riodicals and wrote paragraphs and eomle sketches. It was in Punch lh‘t he first fary,” “Punch’s Prose Traveler in London” and many e run riot. His burlesques of the popular novelists are full of broad comedy joined ry Rebecca and become the ancestor of an enormously rich Hebrew family, He cott: Avay through Ught end ublished his *“Snob Paj pers. In all of them wit and broad gx.‘ to real criticism. He makes Ivanhoe mar- Samdles the dashing romantic styls of road and_ hamlet. . ve horse! Gal- lant steed! Snorting chiid of Araby! On went the horse, over mountains, rivers, ces, apple-women, and never stopped uni he reached a lvery stable in Cologns, where his master was accustomed to put him up. His exuberant spirits play sayl even such mighty subjects as rows of W.rlhs r‘y Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter: Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. about Sor- Charlotte was a married lady, And & mortal man was Werthem And for all the wealth of Indies Would do nothing fof to hart hes 8o he sighed and "And his passion Dotied and pee bubbied, Till be blew his silly brains And Tore by It wes Droubied. The “Book of Snobs” is a burl on socief In it Thackeray for the time note that was to dominate much ork. He detested shams and every form of insincerity. ““Call things by their right names,” he cried; “do not gloss over !he villainy ‘of Lord Steyn. e R handsome: don e pretend to be what you are not, do not let false shame make you conceal what you are.” The result was satire, not flerce and merciless Iike Swift's, but human and kindly, like Steele’s and Fleld- ing’s. He was “the gentlest of all English satirists,” yet he feared no one; he could assail even the nobility, who are so wor- shiped by Englishmen: It ever our cousins, the Smigmags. asked m to meet “{em I should like to take an wportunlty dinner and n the most good natured way i the world: “Bte Fortune makes you a present of a number of thousand pounds every year. The ineffable wisdom of our ancestor has placed you as a chief and hereditary legislator over me. Oup admirable constitution (the pride of Britons and envy of surrounding nations) obliges to receive you as my Semator, superior guardian. Your eldest son. Fita-Heehaw, sure of a place in Parliament; your younger sons, the De Brays, will kindly condescend to be post captains and lleutenant colonels and rts. - constitution (the vfldo and envy of, etc.) pronounces to be your due; without count of your dullness, your vices, your selfishness or your entire incapacity and folly. The extravagarce and broad comedy of Thackeray’'s early work a; less and less in his later writings. In his novels he followed the footsteps of l‘laldln‘ He wrote with ‘“‘the eye on the object” and he the rare power of characters alive; we seem to see !hm b& fore us almost in the flesh. H thizes with them, he laughs at um: is weaknesses and folbles an holds up to our ridicule their snobbishness and folly. Yet he is ever perfectly sane; he seldom caricatures, he never ridicu ife. His humor is subtle and delicate; his is sincere and telling. Thackeray has followed faithfully own m-cnpuon for humor. ““The hu- aw: and direct your love, your Mg your kindness—your scorn for untru pretension, imposture—your tenderness for the wuk un poor, the oppressed, the un- happy. He takes upon him to be tho veohuy (ruch@r. 80 to speak.” He been a cynic, and he was a l-'y‘nlc. as Nicoll observes, “if by the word flnun who is to look on life “hto ! mn‘hn“mh;leld! ful h{ i who is 2] nmt of fine and professt m:i’; s tru in small quantitics. T chapter, a whole book. It is otun more of an atmosphere that envelops a work than l..:{v.hln( tangible and muflfi but it is seidom absent. The reader of his novels, espectall iPendennis” and 38 morists there can bodm ccn“n our sanest and most mge.h- N.thn mue ter u?.brhfly , in his more elaborate works, ts character, and Dickens sin- ways e ties. Meny-u are all men, those of ;a.:mu ‘l'bcanol-muun,moth'r Thackeray 1s the great figure among the British ; he is the