The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 24, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1900. BROTHER LASCIAN 15 LAID TO REST Services Over the Remains of the Dead Catholic Educator. At Many Attend From Points Outside of Oakland—Prominent Clergymen Take Part in the Francisco Dec cian, the well- ook place from worning. It was 4 had was brother Th: Kk i ML TWO STORIES T DEATH WHILE DEMENTED ] McGuirk, an Old Man, Seeks Swift Surcease of His Troubles. ed and the Morg d man’'s ment death a case CITY CANNOT REFUND TAXES ONCE PAID IN Claim for Rebate of Unjust Saloon License Fees Rejected by licenses p: returned se fees under protest v w . was taken on ap- bearir.z PART OF HIS PLUNDER HAS BEEN RECOVERED Arrest of Edward Wilson, a Machin- ist, on a Charge of Burglary. Edwsrd Wilson, a machinist, was booked at the City Prison last night by PDetectives and O'Dea for burgiary A sk me ago he entered the residence enson, at 112 Eighth d watch and chain, P er ond rings, several s and some other articles. Most £ stoler 1y has been recovered. s son was arrested at Sixth 2 cets and locked up in the tan further investiga- t his 3 were found a session prisoner of burglaries t streets yester 3 ‘ st his balance and fell feet of stagnant water, which t th: He was helped ar ng no end ghborhood Christmas at the Jail. sir of St. Luke’'s Church, ~om- pald & visit ‘yester- dway jail. The l car which were auded by the prisoners. To- er Frank Cornyn will serve f a mince ple as a of Califor- past week £ town as work was done 1o the their homes. The epend universit January 14. En- trance examinations for the spring term | v be held January 10, 11 and 12. — e Engineers in Demand. Y, Dec. 23.—The, demand for P trained engineers Has of late greatly exceeded the supply. This is es. pecially true of Clectrical engineers, ne in connection with the of electric lighting and pow- railroads and mines, are hard There are at present over half a hundred graduates occupying important engineering positions 1 over this country end in the Orient. Butchers Raise Prices. HAYWARDS, Dec. 23.—The butchers here have combined and raised the price of beef, mutton, veal and pork 2% cents e pound. This is to meet the increase in wholesale rates because of the scarcity of stock. Yet Piece at California Makes Strong Hit With Audience--“Why Smith Left Alhambra--“Naughty Anthony” at Alcazar. LOVE AFFAIRS OF THE LANDLADY AND HEAD WAITER GIVE CHIEF FUN IN “aT THE WHITE HORSE TAVERN” Home” at 4 1 | Trend of Prices for Property | in This City and Its e O R Some of the Transfers of the Past Week and a Summary of the Ex Contracts for New Buildings. SRR market is having the usual endant upon the heliday sea- Inquiry is fairly lively. Many deals good size appear likely to culminate | in the new year. There is no rea-| ract a of the hopeful remarks | bee de recently concerning k. which is certainly excellent, In all sections there is anticipation of better times in the realty market during the elve months than San | rancis own in years. Building| | s only awaiting the settle-| | existing controversy to bring M & Sons have sold {an v riy on the south line of | | street, between Beale and Main, 6. There is a three- < bullding on it Rich & Co. have = to Arch- bishop Riordan property on the east line f Guerrero street, fronting also on Bros- The price was . frontage of 180 | and a depth of H. Umbsen & Co. have sold to lhel stings heirs the property of the J. C.| t the east line of Front| | from for | | s feet in size and | | v of A. M. Speck & | ted building at 234 Mc- | he except of the | to the Pattosien | by L. H. Sly. B! M report that | Bishop has sold for $157,500 | st corner of Taylor and Eddy | { | B i Walker to J. M s residence | Pocific avenue, b 0 bster and s990 W. Lange to the | Company | Lombard s Estate to| | Wailer, 137:6 | | eph F. | | to Fernando | 4 Hartford | | k estate and |- | Charles Hat im- | | aight street and lot 50x120, | | annucei, south- | | streets, 68:9x ce to D. W. n and Drumm ed by O. D. Baldwin &| | Sacramento hn D. Nip- | for $1200; lot 25x75, | street, 8 north of | | a three-story bullding, from | | to David Kerr, $15:000; lot | | rthwest corner of Lake sireet the California | | to Mary A 25, on the west line 8 south of Twenty-first enomy to Wi Irvine, eSS taces BERNICE NORCROSS, ONE OF TH 8 north ite to W. the east line of cramento. from O. $4500, and lot ¢ Scott and the American Banking and Willlam Little, $4650. of San Jose report of the estate of Hor- cluding_the Hawes man- 1 Mateo County, for $100,000; of the unsold San Martin ranch, . to W. 8. Richards ¢ streets, from mpany te y. roperty adjoins Redwood ~City. ral_transactions represent a total > 0. The move is reported by the brokers to be due to_the early completion of the coast road. The properties will be subdivided_into small holdings Thomas Magee & Sons have sold a lot on the north line of Vallefo street, 3:3 east from Steiner, 51:2x137:6, for $5000. Jacob Heyman, 117 Sutter street, an- nounces that he has purchased all of the boulevard lots of the Sutro estate, fron ocean beach, in blocks 720 and will resell them. The following building contracts been made sin with W. R. Kenny, ning three flats on line of street, 125 E of Folsom, $3912 50, Mrs. Leona Fauser with W. E. Grant for three- story building (flats) on W line of Woodward ue, $1540; Florence A. and W. H. Deming W. L. Holman, electric paesenger eleva- tor in six-story and basement brick building N line of Turk street, 206:3 W of Masol Dora Johnson with James A. Cotter, tws frame cottage on Byfield tract, 31565 Mre. Nannie A. Meyerfield with H. H. Larson & Bro o1 and brick work, with Thomas carpenter work, hardware, glazing and tinning, and with Shepard Bros. for gaefitting and plumbing on two-story and basement and attie residence, $5058. The most important loans recorded are the following: Hiberia Savings and Loan Society to Fred- erick Grass, $9000 for one year at § per cent and $2000 in instaliments on lot on W line of Vaiencia street, 107 N of Twenty-fourth, 62:8% x171:9x63 3x180:4; Mutual Bank to Elizabeth T. 3 0.000 for five years at 6 per cent, on have ast corner of Market end Spear streets, 6 Security Bank to Edward E. Kent- at 6 per cent on , 137:6 NE Spear, Loan Society to A. Aronson, $10,000 for one year at 6 per cept, on lot on SE corner of Jones and Post, 60x70:8; Mark and Albert A. Strouse to Emilie Strouse, $22.000 at 7 per cent, on Jot on N line of Pacific avenue, 134:6 W of Fillmore, 44:1x127:8%: Pacific States Savings, Loan and Building Company to the Maclean Hoenital and Sanitarium, $15,000 (deed of trust), jot om EW line of Caeselli avenue and Douglass street, 206:8x228 The largest are as follows: Hibernia Savinge and Loan Soclety to James ©'Connor, lot on W line of Mason street, 77:6 € of O'Farrell, 20x60, §20,750; Hibernia Savings and Loan Soclety to Owen E. and Annie Brady, ot on E line of Guerrero street, 22:6 S of Eighteenth, 50x105, and lot on W line of Va- lencia street, 206 § of Nineteenth, and lot on SE corner of San Jose avenue and Twenty- fourth street, 90x130, $16,800; Hibernia Savings and Loan Society to W. F. McNutt, lot on 8 line of California street, 50 W Franklin, 145x137:6, $27,000; Humboldt Savinge Bank to Clinton Jones, lot on SW corner of Octavia and California streets, 65:9x137:6, $13,000; Pacific Loan Association to Albert Dernham, N line of Post street, 190 E _of Gough, 30x12, $10,000: A. Mary Whartenby Robinson fo Hart- land Law, lot 8§ line of Turk street, 137:6 W of Larkin, 137:6x137:6, $22.500; Hibernia Sav- ings end Loan Soclety to Danfel Seales, lot on €F corner of Dupont and Green streets, 68:9x 2:6, $10,000. > Ancient Order Workmen. On the night of the 15th inst. members of the San Francisco Extension Commit- tee paid a fraternal visit to Myrtle Lodge. Last Mondey there was a visit to Memo- | rial Lodge and on last Thursday to Sts. John Lodge. During the evening at each | raeeting the visitors were called upon and they gate the membership information as 0 the condition of the order and also made suggestions as to the manner of in- greasing the membership, At the meet- ing of Sts. John Lodge there were pres- | ent a number of old time members who had not been in the lodgeroom for ten | years. —_—————— | Purse Snatcher Arrested. Hughile MecDevitt, a brother of “Monk” McDevitt, was arrested last night by Policeman J. Kelly and J. J. | Mcintee and charged at the Southern sta- | tion with robbery. McDevitt had grabbed the purse of a Mrs. A. Henning, residing at 412 Minna street early in the evening. At the prison he was positively identified by her as the man who robbed her. Bearch failed to reveal any trace of th purse. releases recently recorded lot on for frame SRN THE CALIFORNIA THEATER. B ATTRACTIVE ACTRESSES PLAYING IN “AT THE WHITE HORSE TAV- THE SCENE OF WHICH IS LAID ON THE SHORES OF AN ALPINE LAKE, AND IS NOW ON AT THOROUGHLY wholesome and altogether delightful little comedy is “At the White Horse Tavern,” the week’s attraction at the Cali- fornta Theater. Not for many moons has the theater had so charming a programme as this German comedy, ade- quately translated by Sydney Rosenfeld and splendidly presented by the King & | Noreross company. The scene of the play is laid In the Austrian Alps, at the White Horse Tav- ern, in Salzkammergut, and the several love affairs of the landlady and the head walter and the guests who enjoy their hospitality are the materi: for this admirable little comedy. The curtain opens—and closes—upon a picturesque inn on the shores of an Alpine lake, surround- ed by snow-capped mountains, and the scene is a distinctly clever example of this department of stage craft. To this inn come the guests from the little lake | steamer in most realistic fashion—an ab- sorbed bride and groom, to whom all scenery looks alfke; the typical Alpine | tourist and the travelers from Berlin, | Wilhelm Giesecke, his sister and daugh- ter, mnd Sfedler, a lawyer intimately con- nected with their affairs but unknown to | them, with whose doings the play is chiefly concerned, It seems that Glesecke, a bluff, crusty but thoroughly kind-hearted German burgher (done with admirable touch and grip by Fred Mower), has lost & lawsuit against one Sutro, which has been drag- | ging aloni for three years, and thyough | which he has found a temper and lost in- | terest in life. Siedler (W. E. Hitchcock) | was the man in the case, and the lawyer and Giesecke find themseives at the same | hotel for the purpcse of spending the | summer holidays. Siedler has spent other | summers there to good purpose, as the | buxom landlady, though all unknown to | him, has honored him with her prefer- | ence, with the resulf of the best room in | the house, ‘“double’ portions of delica- | cles” and so forth being placed at his service, The head waiter, who is himself in love with mine hostess, discovers and objects to this and revenges himself by giving Siedler's room to Glesecke under plea of the former's late arrival. Much fun Is furnished by the conflict between the lawyer and the Berlin burgher for possession of the room. Then Giesecke's pretty daughter appears on the scene, the susceptible lawyer falls captive to her charms and surrenders the room with the utmost willingness. BERKELEY MAY N0 LONGER BE DAY License Law to Come Up for Final Passage Be- fore Trustees. —_—— BERKELEY, Dec. 23—Unless some- thing very extraordinary happens before to-morrow nignt Berkeley will be taken from the list of “dry” towns. The saloon ordinance will come up then for final pas- sage, and its most zealous opponents can see no way to stop it from becoming a law. Little excitement is expected at Mon- day nights meeting. Trustee Turner's motion for reconsideration will be heard and voted down. The ordinance will come up and be passed. That is the course both sides expect. Is was originally thought that Trustee Turner's notice of a motion for recon- sideration would delay the ordinance for a week. Upon consulting Town Attorney B. A. Hayne it was found that his motion could be considered and the ordinance taken up at the same time. In fact, Mr. Turner should have made his motion at last Monday night's meeting. The temperance people have not givenup the fight. ¥ | But Giesecke discovers the ldentity | | of Siedler with the lawyer for the “other | | side,” ke swears he will seek other hous- ing. and the strongest situation of the | play ends the first scene, with the charm- | ing daughter, the maiden aunt and the | | furious papa’seated upon a large trunk | | in front of the hotel in the midst of a pouring rainstorm. The storm is very life- like, by the way, real water and the rest of Of course Miss Giesecke and the lawyer make it up, through the entirely unconscious connivance of papa, and the | story ends happily for all concerned. The cleverest work in the very ciever work done by the company is Mower's Giesecke, which is a brilliantly life-like pnrfraih Some few Americanisms oc- caslonally heard rather jar, but otherwise | it is a case of complete identity with the | | character. The head waiter, in | Frank W. Norcross' hands, plece of bourgeoiserie. The landlady, Jo- | sepha, Minerva Dorr, is an excellent con- | | ception, and Glesecke's daughter, Louise { Randolph, is a dainty and charming por- | trait. Charlotte, the maiden aunt, is de- | lightfully caricatured by Lucle Mower, | and Walter Chester does the baldheaded vouth with much humor. Bernice Nor- | cross slips many cogs in her lisping dia- lect, but, like all the women, s very pretty to look upon. Her father, Hinzel- mann,an Isben conception, is most quaint- ly and tenderly played by John Fenton. and the rest of the parts are all well handled. { Z ® ga g »lliig iy Muslcal centers are deeply interested in the orchestral concerts to be given by | Eduard Strauss and his Vienna organiza- | tion_at the California Theater, for the week beginning next Sunday night. Spe- cial prices have been arrange§ for the engagement. They are as follows: Or- chestra (first twelve rows) $2, and re- maining _rows $1 50; first four rows of balcony $1 50, and remaining rows $1; gal- lery (reserved) 75 cents, and unreserved | 50 cents. Box and loge seats will be| $2 50. The programme will be changed at every performance, and will be most in- teresting In character. The sale of seats will begin Wednesday morning at the theater box office. o (o ““The Heart of Maryland” and a lively curiosity about the new and handsome playhouse drew another large crowd last evening to the Central Theater. e fa- vorable opinion the opening evening of playhouse and play was deepened and confirmed by last night's performance. The belfry scene, a marvel of stage mechanism, again hro;l(fht great applause. Miss Darling, Howai Hall and Miron Leffingwell received a most flattering re- ception, and it is safe to say that a per- B 2 2 T T e S22 T S Y ) PAYS THE DEBTS OF MANCHESTER Papa Zimmerman Liquidates All Obligations of His Son-in-Law. b Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—The World has the following from Cincinnati: The Duke of Manchester's debts in his native land have been paid. His three castles and his 27,000 actes of unproductiv: land ar: no longer weighted with I O U incum- brances. “These facts were vractically admitted to your correspondent to-dav by Bugene Zimmerman, the .father-in-law of the Duke. In all 130,000 good American dollars were deposited In London last Friday to cover and liquidate the indebtedness of the bankrupt Duke. His Grace at the early age of 23 can now begin life anew. As to just where the money came from Mr. Zimmerman is not o free in express- ing himself. But in his reluctance there to be more of the natural coyness of the father-in-law in touching upon tha affal; in-la’ han "ise. The Duke is likewise in connection. At least he zuflafl illness when an interview was <+ formance of equal artistic value has but seldom l?een seen at the price here or any- where else. The play is apparently in for a long run, as it has only once been seen | here before; and the next production will e ‘oman and Vine.” a Lond New York succe: St Ry The second week of the bl y show at the Tivell “Opershome o derella,” will begin this evening. ‘“Cin- derella” is one of the most successful ex- travaganzas ever put on at the Tivoll. There are pretty ballets galore, no end of | amusing specialities—frog-and-toad hops, | dog-and-cat capers, the irresistible ““Car- men” burlesque, “Sunflower Sue” and the patriotic finale, besides a world of fun and music. g The Alcazar Theater will have a star attraction this week in Belasco’s comedie risque, “Naughty Anthony,” a delightful farce, borrowed from the French. The play is founded upon a Chatauquan by- law, which runs as follows: ‘Rule i3. | Any persons of opposite sexes found using the summer house of Lofty Park for os- culatory purposes will be punished to the fullest extent of the law and their names | will be published!” Naughty Anthony, a | professor of moral culture at the college. and chief inspiration of the aforesaid edict, himself falls under its ban, and his | attempts at evasion of the by-law and the | consequent complications form the plot of the play. 450 e At the Alhambra Theater “Why Smith Left Home" is drawing good crngvds. It ! is well put on, and the funny Broadhurst | fancy seems as popular as ever. ‘“‘Shen- | andoah” will be next week's bill. \ L) Coglll and_Cooper’s comedians wil sent "My Uncle from Japan for | s, their last week, at Fischer’s Concert House. The comedy will be followed by | the pretty spectacle, “A Fairy Godmoth- er.” ‘with Arnold Grazer, Blanche Trelease | and Ethel Grazer in the cast. A special | matiaee will be given to-morrow. | v ‘The new bill which opens at The Chs to-day includes Weston and Sher‘;letre!s. musical comedians; Harry Braham, char- acter 'mpersonator; Rose Lee Tyler, so- pranc: Ahern and Patrick, Irish come- dians; new moving pictures, and a grand Christmas production of “Ten Days in Fairyland,” by a juvenile company. A, Mabel Hudson, Mae Edgerton, the aerlal queen: and Anifa La Mort are the Olym- pla's attractions for the hollday week. All the theaters announce a special matinee to be given on Christmas dapy. IMPROVES UPCK MARCONI SYSTEM Professor Slaby Explains His Discoveries in Wire- less Telegraphy. NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—The Sun's Berlin cablegram says: Professor Slaby lectured here on Saturday on his discoveries in wireless talefu?]hy. Emperor Willlam and a number of military and naval officers, savants and engineers attended. Profes- sor Slaby announced that he and Count Arco by minutely studying the properties of the electric wave from the transmitter ad discovered means of removing a great | a connected whole. | the nation’s destin o | quaint words of Shakespeare’'s contem- b defect in the system, namely, the impos- sibility of" telegraphing sf‘;nulu,neomy from several statlons to a common one by a single wire. He contended that Mar- coni’s method utilized the very of the transmitting wire which 1s I fitted for the pu , the other, or free, end of the rod test effect. e strations were two stations, respectively fourteen and four kilometers connected with statle simi 2"‘, lons. Etg:ouly and ten SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLISH KINGS. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. THIRTY SHAKESPEARE EVENINGS. XIX. In the great First Follo a series of | holds the middle place. These | chronicle plays, of the type familiar to the Elizabethan playgoer, deal | exclusively with the reigus of Englisn | They are not, fndeed, the plays of Shakespeare based upon events; in “Antony and Clec patra” and “Coriolanus” he follows Plu tarch even more closely than he does H. inshed in “Henry IV or “Richard IIL" But the Roman plays are grouped by the | editors among the tragedies at the close | of the volume, and, whether this arrange- ment was the result of conscious dis crimination or not, it can be defended on the highest esthetic grounds. For the ten English historles of Shakespeare form | Each play of the se ries is dependent for its full effect upon | one or more af the others; and the ten together copstitute the real epic of Eng- land. ! in this great work Shakespeare had a twofold purpose in mind. He was, of course, primarily a playwright; his im-| mediate intention was to put together pleces which would fill the theater. But | underneath this practical and temporary aim there was in every case a deeper and more permanent motive, and it is with| this that true criticism has to deal. Now the purpose of Shakespeare’s his- tories was first of all to inspire his hear- ers with love of country. Patriotism was only historical {a virtue newborn among the Elizabeth- ans. The loss of the last fragment of kngland’s old continental possessions in the preceding reign had thrown the coun- try back upon itself, and the dread of forelgn invasion proved a closer bond of union than was ever known before. The | plays and poems of the great Queen s reign are full of exulling outbursts of this new spirit, but no one has given it such eloquent voice as Bhakespeare. To him kngland, “this lana ot such dear souls. this deur, dear land,” was an object al most_of adoration, “anotner Eden, demi- paradise,” and his love of country betrays him; at times into palpable injustice to- ward his country’s enemies. This spirit of patriotism found an out let among the Elizabetnans in a passion of loyalty to the person of the sovereign such as to our democratic age and race sometimes appears exaggerated and even unreal. That a spirit of gross personal flattery prevalled among the courtiers and the courtly poets, especially toward the close of Elizabeth’s reign is, of course, undeniable. But this faise note is only the overstraining of a tone that rang true in the hearts of the people. To the Eliz- abethans the sovereign was the incarna- | tion of the national idea, the living rep- resentative of Engiand. Not that Eliza-| beth nor any monarch of the Tudor dy nasty could say with Louls XIV, “L'etat | c'est mol.”” Vast as were the powers of the sovereign, uncertain and ill defined as were the checks upon them, thece came a point where these powers ceased, and the idea of the common weal rose up against the prerogatives of royalty. But of such a conflict the Elizabethans did not love to think. They looked back with hor- ror on the intestine wars and the anarchy that had marked the preceding century, nd they were proud to boast themselves e sons of the men who had supported Henry VIII in his most acts, with the feeling, unconscious perhaps, but none the less powerful, that he was the divine instrument for working out And so, to quote the porary apologist for the drama, “plays are writ with this aim, to teach their sub- jects- obedience to their King—exhorting | them to alleglance and dehorting them from all traftorous and felonious strata ems.” SSBut 1t the people owed thelr sovereign a loyal obedience, the sovereign, in turn, s0 Shakespeare held, owed something to his people. EHere, too, Shakespeare is at one with his age. The Elizabethans no longer regarded the monarch, after the old feudal conception, as the cap- of the pyramid. He was rather the heart of the body politic, sending _the lite blood puls- fng to the remotest extremities; he was the brain ordering and guiding the action of the whole—not for its own benefit but for the common weal. There is a deep meaning in the exclamation of the soldier in ‘“Hamlet": ““There's something rotien in the state of Denmark.” Denmark's monarch was a murderous, licentious, drunken usurper, and when the heart is sick the whole bod?/ is full of sores, a the time is out of joint. Nothing was plainer to Shakespeare's mind than the truth that a King, to be a King indeed, must live not for himself but for his peo- ple. And in his series of histories Shakes- peare’s second object—second only in that it lies below the surface, for to him, as to the student of his work to- day, it is of supreme importance—is to present a mirror for migistrates; to show how weakness and wickedness are of in- | finitely greater consequence in @ monarch | than in a private man; to point out how | little personal sanctity avalls to replace the want of rovar will and energy; to declare that the highest human powers united in a King are only fearful instru- ments of evil when not directed to nis country’'s good; and, finally, to give to his | conception of the perfect King a local habitation and a name in Henry V. Of the ten plays of this series, one, «Henry VIII,” may for our present pur- pose be set aside. It is in a sense the epilogue to the work, but it was apparent- | 1y written for some specific occasion far | stone social of his own evil will, for nc | when his one desire is to later than the period in which Shakes- peare’s mind was filled with this dramatic epic, and it is only in part the work of Shakespeare's hand. Of the rest “King John™ forms the prologue, “Richard I “King Henry IV.” the first and second parts of “King Henry V," the first, sec ond and third parts of “King Henry VI and “Richard 1II" the body It will be we to study their chronological order, the purpose of disecc ring 1 -m gradua! development In Shakespeare's mind of the idea of the perfect King. Shakespeare begins at the nadir. Kb John is the false King. He has no righ to the throne, cither by descent the higher law of fitness. He is sclous from the beginning of his guiity usurpation. and this consciousness make: m alternately tyrannical and vacillat- He boasts at once of his Strong pos- on and of his ri he plunders the to arm himself against the true heir; he abandons part of England’'s possessions to stop Arthur's title to the whole, and when the true heir fail o his hands he looks upon him as a very serpent in his way, and with passionate appeals to a subject's loyalty and half-uttered hintings at a purpose he dare not speak, tempts Hubert to his murder. But he has not even the courage sooner does he upon his of his to the ee that his murderous desig ephew have lost him the hear: subjects than he repents and seeks throw the burden of his guilt upon executioner of his desires. His one aim is at any cost to hold the crown that he has snatched, and to do this he even consents to hold it as a va of the papal see. But even this does not save him. The French, invited into England to avenge the church of Rome, refuse to re- his bidding, and a desperate monk, ul ather of the F g's early in- than of his late submission, poisons him in a 1 of wine. Under such a King heaven itself frowns upon the land, and it is only with his death that a_brighter prospect opens. The English nobles who had deserted the guilty King rally around his innocent suc- ce akespeare's of of thetr sor, and the hearts of all S| rers echoed the proud boa ader. Now these her princes have come home again, Come the t the world in arms. And we sh Naught shall make us rue, It Engiand to itself do rest but true King Henry VI. was Shakespeare's first attempt to dramatiz y. Of its three parts the first un-8hake- pearean in ori but few marks of his ing hand. But in the others he has gone carefully over the work of his pr , added and cut aw and finai a striking por- inefficlent Kirng. s far more mas- trait of the virtuou In the words of Hen: culine comsort: All his mind is bent to holiness, To pumber Ave Maries on his beads. . . by the prophets and apostles, sacred writ His champions ar His weapons holy And these were poor weapons for a King of England in that day. Henry becomes the fool of fortune, and is buffeted to and fro in the strife of factions that breaks upon his throne. His faintly breathed “blessed are the peacemakers” is lost in the roar of angry voices. He abandons his only friend without a struggle to the murderous plots of jealous rivals and be- wails his fate with sad, unhelpful tears. In the stress of the civil wars he actually begins to doubt his own title to the throne, and weakly renounces the rights of his son to secure a temporary peace. Henry shows to best advantage indeed, es an exile and a prisoner. Then his crown is in his heart, “the crown content that seldom Kings enjoy,” and he thanks his jailer for the pleasant hours of his imprisonment. And in those last year thdraw froi the world and spend his life in devotion, he obtains the gift of prophecy, and fore- tells the bloody tyranny of Richard IIL and the accession of the King who should bring back peace to England. A saintly man—and, indeed, Henry was held by many after his death to be a saint whose bones worked miracles—but Shakespeare speaks the cynical truth by the mouth of Henry's murderer when he says that such a King was fitter for heaven than for earth. Shakespeare’s next creation was of an entirely opposite type—Richard III, the strong, bad King. o much has been written on this play. the only ome of Shakespeare’s historfes, by the way, which still hoids the boards, that It is unnecessary to enter into a_ detailed analysis of its chief personage. But there is one point. perhaps, whi has never been fully developed—Richard’s relation to the land whose throne Richard has undoubtedly many of the qualities of a great King, bravery and skill in action, energy of mind and intel lectual ascendéncy, the power to bund the eyes, and even to win the hearts of men. Hut his gifts are brought to nought by his all-engrossing egoism. “I am myself alone,” he says, and it is for himself alone that he lives. He wades through slaughter to a throne, not because he is and knows himself to be the only man who can guffie the nation through a sea of troubles, but because the crown is the goal of his own selfish ambition. Not even to his dupe and accomplice, Buckingham, does he pre- tend any desire for his country’s welfare; not even in his last appeal to his soldiers does he call on them to fight for their country. He is not the Cromwell, but the Napoleon of the drama, and his fall, like Napoleon’s, is recognized as a judgment of_God—deposuit potentes. Note—This paper, by T. M. Parrvett, Ph.D., will be concluded on Thursday. L] FRATERNITIES. Woodmen’s Trees. During the past week several camps of | the Woodmen of the World have | Christmas tree festivals for the pleasure | of the ckildren of members. The first was given by Tamalpais Camp in Ploneer Hall | under the direction of Dr. M. B. Estes, | Laurance Vincent, M. J. Levy, Sergeant Perrin and C. H. Rulofson, the latter act- ing as Santa Claus. A short programme preceded the distribution of the presents to the chilérén, those contributing to the pleusure of ftLe evening being the Tamal- pais Quartet, Miss Gelman, Mrs. Sadle Marcus, children of the members of the cawp and of the members of California Circle of the Women of Woodcraft, and Miss Ruth Wilson. A dance followed. “Frurscay night Western Addition Camp had & Foureful in the Alcazar bullding to enjoy the Christmas festival. An inter- esting programme included remarks ap- ropriate to the occaslon by Marion de Foeo, followed by musical_and litecary numbers and specialties by Pearlie Clark, the Zerling sisters, Misses Windser and Malcom, A Wanck, the wizard, and L. Bones. After the distribution of candies to the children from the Christmas tree there war a dance Hanaged by Dr. A. F. estival . . Mmafltmn. E. H. Windser, A. L. Adams, J. J. Morrisey and Dr. W. D. Clark. ‘The same night Redwood Camp had a Christmas tree at Piomeer Hall, with Giatribution of presents to children. In addition there was a programme of enter- tainment contributed by Gussie Bnlv‘l., X Solomon, Rose Desmond, P. B. McCabe, Pearl and Ruble La Rose and remarks by nizer Tempie and G. W. Schwein- hard, after which there was a programme of dancing. The function was under the o A Isaacs. Inter Nos Circle, C. of A. Inter Nos Circle of the Companions of the Forest of America on last Wednesday and night had its Christmas mfix in the so- cial hall of the Alcazar lding. There were present many who came to enjoy the pleasure of seeirg the little ones of the bers receive the gifts which old ggfim iad selected for them. The tree was most beautifully dec- orated and laden down with toys and | mccdias. There was also a distribution of resents to adults. After the tree had een stripped there was a jolly good time and a dance. This affair, one of the most delightful onas got up by this very social circle, was under the direction of its en- tertainment_committee—Mrs. J. B. Drake, ckairman; Mrs. Emma Harrington, past grand_chief companicn; Mrs. Bradley, Mrs. Errett. Mrs. Coyle, Mrs. Smith an Mrs. Mitchell. Independent Order of Foresters. On the night of the 10th inst. High Chief Ranger McElfresh paid a visit to Court Golden Era; on the 1ith he addressed the members of Court Yerba Buena, also the members of Court San Francisco. On the 12th he was with Court Precita, addressed the members and gave the secret work of the order to seven initiates. The follow- ing night he spoke to the membership of Court Diana, and on Friday night was with Court Golden Gate. He found all the courts in good condition and actively at work. On Monday he started on a tour of visitation to the southern courts. The second of the series of entertaln- meats got up by the Past Chief Rangers’ Association, given last Wednesday night in Golden Gate Hall, was the most de- lightful vaudeville divertisement ever given by this order, and so entertaining was the programme that all present not only promised to attend the next one but to induce their friends to come. The pro- amme included the following numbers: tereopticon views, Dr. E. isen; tenor Ir, “Thy Blue Eyes,” Arthur C. Law- ace, first tenor Concordia quartet; mys- ite eard manipulations (original), Thomas McKiernan of New York City; soprano solo, selection from “Faust.” Miss Octa- via McKiernan of Boston, Mass.; special- ties, et Moynes: barytone solo, “Madelaine,” H. W. Wagner; a_genuine cakewalk by San Francisco professional talent. The feature was the cakewalk by {oun‘ people all richly costumed and In- roducing many new steps, but the feature of the feature was the walk by two litile Chinese tots in fuli Chinese costume, in- cluding heavy shoes. They were applaud- ed time and again. Dancing till midnight followed. E. A. Mack was master of ceremonies, with Ben I Salomon as chief sssistant. T. P. Jarvis was the chief of the floor committee, wi . W. T, . N. Cameron, Willlam Stewart, J. H. Mahan, James 8 Hurry, L. A. Kemn, W. Hamilton and A. V. Ruess assistant= J.