The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 31, 1901, Page 7

N THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1901. ADVERTISEMENTS. COLUMBIA 535 EVERY NIGHT, INCLUDING SUNDAY IATINEG SATURDAY. | fanagers Wegenhals & Kemper present OUIS JAMES, KATHRYN KIDDER_: erb company In a stupendo \ Widsummer Night's Dream. SO !LHSVBRL‘Si\'hA\ NIGAT, Feb. 10. SEAT SALE BEGINS { NEXT S@TURDAY‘ | LE SHOW EVER IN NCISCO. ELSONS. DALY, FOY AND R SWTAETTE nird and Final Week of — SAM LOCKHART’S BABY ELEPHANTS. *TIVOLI ATURDAY at 2 GING STER! R FEN MA the Auth The By in Hood." | - FORMANCES OF FISKE TS “BECKY SHARP.” | IF in wTESS &cn % MEATR IGHT—FUN FOR ALL!| ALL THE COMFORTS o ey TO.N iU- Bound to ILGOUR, | ard’'s su sa AY IAY, VERNER ING IRISH COMEDIAN, us Irish Dram NA-POG ARRAH- a n rehestra at all mati- Otfice, Emporium, BELASCOC ano (ENTRAPE: umes’ Powerful edian, JAMES P ¥ ish Mel “A DAUGHTER OF THE MILLION.” THE_PRISON OF THE POPE.| LECTURE BY REY. PETER C. YORKE For the Be (Res JOHN'S PARISH. ¥, Rector.) 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Nero, Prances. Hapsing Bei Tt Hanlen end Singer, Ida Howell, Wi Ststers, Little Alma’ W, Conlett, Abern ‘and Patrick and it Orcneetra, Reserved Seats %c. Matinee Sunday. CARNI- | ¥ oF | -[PUTTING MANY VESSELS IN TRIM - FOR COAST TRADE IN THE SPRING Launchin Old Steamers Are Getting an Overhauling in Order to Be Ready for Active Service. .4 — | THREE VESSELS THAT ARE BEING PREPARED FOR SERVICE. ONE IS FOR THE LUMBER BUSINESS, AN- 5 4 OTHER WILL BE USED AS A TUG IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AND THE THIRD MAY BRING COAL | HERE FROM COOS BAY. | | NE of the busiest wharves on the front at the present time is Mis- sion No. 2. Three steamers are being fitted out there and on each a gang of men is working night Right up against the bulkhead steamer Acme. She is being and day. is the new completed for the coast trade, and Beadle | Bros. say she will be the finest vessel of her kind afloat. A little ahead of the Acme is the new steel tug Leslie Baldwin. She is steel throughout and her machinery is of the latest modern type. She is for the firm of Alexander & Baldwin, and goes from here to Kahului, H. 1., where she will serve a tender and towboat for—she company’s fleet. The new tug is a smart looking craft and as good as money and brains can make h The Chico is lying at the most easterly » wharf. She was formerly the old Alice Blanchard and has had a varied career. Once she was a coaster and ma she was remodeled. Placed on the cut in two and fifty feet midship. Since the alter- wa her a she has not been a success. ture into the Mexican trade was a lure and on the run to Eureka she was ot a_suceess. Now she is being over: hauled after six months of retirement and got ready for the Coos Bay trade. Under the name of Chico the boat may become a money-maker, but as the Alice Blanch- ird she never made a fortune for her owners. —_— ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS AWARDED FOR SALVAGE Owners of the Alice Blanchard Must Pay That Sum to the Farallone. opinion was handed down yesterday by United States District Judge de Ha- n in the suits of the owners, master and w of the steam schooner i the “steamer Alice Blanchard to er salvage for gervices rendered the mer Blanchard on November 17, 1895, Alice Blanchard, with passengers and ght, was found in distress fourteen mile yrth_of Port Orford and four or five miles oft shore. In his deciston Judge de Haven sald that the light of the gzenerai rule declared the authorities quoted the court would not on the facts shown in the be justified in holding that the libelants are entitled to a very large award. The service upon which the claim for salvage compensa based was rendersd with 2, if any. risk, continued the court, to the salvors or to the vessel employed by them in such service. stea: In_the opinica of the court the testimony did not show that the Alice Blanchard was at any time in serious danger or that it could not have made Port Orford in safety without as- ’ si ce. wdgment was given the libelants for s1m B eh Interest— three-fourths to the owners and one-fourth to the master and crew. AR S Surgeons of the Harbor Hospital Staff Looking for Rubber Coats. A canvasser for a Chicago house known by the name of C. J. Mackie is very much in demand on the front.” He made the rounds last month and represented him- self as the agent of the Dundee Rubber Corporation of Chicago. He sold rubber Imackintoshes and overcoats at prices varying from $ i to $10. On each order he got a deposit, the balance to be ‘cash on delivery.” Dr. Frank Robinson is out 2 50, Dr. Starr a similar sum, Dr. Putnam Put up § and Henry Peterson $7. There are a dozen other victims, but all of them recelved a circular yesterday stating that 3r. Mackie when last heard from was in Santa Cruz and heading for Los Angeles. None of the money collected had been for- warded to the corporation, and as Mr. Mackie was away behind in his accounts the firm refused to fill the orders unless the money for the goods was forwarded. | All the doctors hold a receipt signed “Dundee Rubber Corporation, per C. J. | Mackie, agent,” and the concern admits that Mackie as such had a right to take orders. Relying upon their receipts the Pears’ It is a wonderful scap that takes hold quick and does no harm. No harm! It leaves the skin soft like a-baby’s; no m===!| in it, nothing but soap. The harm is done b alkali. .Still more harm is done by not washing. So, bad soap is better than none. What is bad soafi? Im- - perfectly _made; the fat and alkali not well bal- anced or not combined, What is good soap? Pears’, All sorts of stores sell it, ecpecially druggists; all sorts of peopie use it, - smart little | de money for her owners. Her | Farallone | present case | doctors have sent a demand for the over- coats to Chicago. There is trouble brew- ing for some one. e Harbor Commissioners Meet. The China Basin lease came up before the bbard again yester . E. 8. Pills- bury, attorney for the San Joaquin road, | was present and said that as soon as the the railroad would begin work on the pro- posed seawall. The plans for a new wharfinger's office, storeroom, fences and gate at pier 7 were approved and bids called for. A delegation of fishermen asked that more net rails and wharf room be pro- vided. The matter was referred to the chief engineer and chief wharfinger. | Water Front Notes. | Captain Dunbar, late of the bark Wanderer, goes north on th Valla to-day Alex Gibson. lumber on the Sound for South Africa, and Captain Holmes would not go out in her. Captain Holmes is the oldest and one of the most esteemed master mariners in_America. The gasoline schooner Barbara Hernster was run on the mud flats yesterday. | The steam schooner Navarro to { down from Point Arena, and as she does fhaling Walla to take charge of the ship not appear to be badly damaged it may | | not be more than a fortnight before she | is in commission again. | Captain McNeil of the barkentine | Planter is going to take a rest ashore. | He will not go out on the vessel this voy- age, and his place will be taken by Cap- tain Chase, late chief officer of the vessel. Vi i NEWS OF THE OCEAN. Matters of Interest to Mariners and Shipping Merchants. ‘The Ancona loads wheat at Tacoma for Eu- rope, 41s 3d; the Bossuet, wheat at Portland for Europe, 41# 3d: the Mary L. Cushing, lum- ber on Puget Sound for Cape Town, 77s 6d, prlor o arrival; the Tamar, wheat at Tacoma for Europe, 388 $d. prior to arrival. - — Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. Wednesdey, January Alcartraz, Carlson, 42 hours from S 2 Sequoia, Martin, 16 hours from Fort r Newburg, Peterson, 41 hours from Re- r Columbla, Doran, ® hours from Port- via_ Astoria 41 hours. Stmr_Corona, Gielow, 57 | port (8), ete. Stmor Brunswick, Anderson, 24 hours from | Eureka; bound south; put in to land paseen- gers. Stmr Alltance, Hardwick, 6 days from Port- 57 hours from New- | land, via Coos Bay and Eureka | Stmr Coquille River, Thompson, 44 hours | from San Pe 0. Stmr Crescent City, Stockfleth, 34 hours from | Crescent City. Barge Santa Paula, McGovern, 33 hours from | Ventura, in tow of tug Rescue. Schr Santa Barbara, Olsen, Polnt Arena, in tow of stmr Navarro. CLEARED. Wednesday, January 3. Ship Geo Curtis, Calhoun. Honolulu; Welch BAILED. Wednesday, January 30. Stmr Queen, Thomas, San Diego. & Stmr_Santa Cruz, Stmr” Embire, McGenny, Coos B . southern coast. Stmr Navarro, Hansen, Stmr Washtenaw, Zolling, Tacoma. %k, X ictoria, Blakey, Chemainus. Br ship Crown of Scotland, Jenkins, Queens- town. Honolulu. erson, Bowens Landing. . _Olsen, 'Iversens Landing. r.' Monson. Grays Harbor. hi ., Campbell, Fort Ross. Schr Tottle Bennett, Rasmussen, Tacoma. Schr Haleyon, Mellin, Grays Harpor. TELEGRAPHIC. POINT LOBOS, Jan 30. 10 p m—Weather hazy; wind NW, velocity § miles. SPOKEN. Nov 9, lat 40 S, lon m!;\'l—lBr ship Kinross- ull. shire, hence Sept 1, for DOMESTIC PORTS. TACOMA—Salled Jan 25—Ship C F Sargent, for Horolulu. . PORT LUDLOW-Sailed Jan 30—Schrs Oka- nogan and Mcteor, for Port Gamble. RT TOWNSEND—Passed in Jan 8$0—Br stmr Duke of Fife, from Hongkong; bark Vi- dette, from Saiina Cruz. Arfived Jan 30—Ship Mary L Cushing, from Honzkong. Sailed Jan 30—Br stmr Caithness, for China. SAN PEDRO—Arrived Jan 20_Schr_Mabel Gray, from Redondo. Jan 30—Stmr Whites- boro, from Greenwood. Arrived Jan 20—Schr Peerless, from Port Blakeley. IVERSENS LANDING—Safled Jan 30—Schr Rio Rey, for San Francisco. PORT GAMBLE—Arrived Jan 30—Schre Me- teor and Okanogan, from Port Ludlow. FORT BRAGG—Arrived Jan 30—Stmr Noyo, hence Jan 23. COOS BAY—Sailed Jan 30—Stmr Arcata, for San Francisco. San Francisco. Eatled Jan 30—Schr Sparrow and stmr Po- for Sa cleca. TATtived Jan So-Stmr Santa Barbara, hence Jan 2. CASPAR—Salled Jan $0—8tmr Luella, for San Pedro. SAN DIEGO—Sailed Jan 30—Stmr Aberdeen. for San Francisco; bktn Northwest, for Ever: ett: stmr Carilsle City, for San Francisco. ROCK. Arrived Jan tmr Scotla, hence Jan 2. SEATTLE—Sailed Jan 20—Stmr Dirlgo, for Skazuay. Arrived Jan 20—Stmr Mackinaw, hence Jan- 2. 30—8tmr Hyades, hence E Jan Jan 2. Jan mr George W Jan 28; Fr bark Gen de Pois- Qegtre, % Bailed Jan 30—Ger stmr Eva, for —; Br County of Roxburgh and Wavertree, for ships Queenstown. L ermRN PORTS. NEW YORK-—Sailed Jan 20—Stmr Alllanca, for Colom. o pg1oN PORTS. qu'rwm‘l:-nflved Jan 20—Br ship Seman- tha, from oria. '—Sailed Jan 30—Nic bktn J - B,’D"z_'nwu, "Aus. " Jan B-Br simr g s W st SN Kallea Legislature passed the bill now before it | wed her | 37 hours from | | | | | | The latter vessel is loading | 1 Jan 30-Ship Joseph || ;n}omas, for Newcastle, Aus, to load for Hono- ulu. FALMOUTH—Arrived Jan 23—Dan ship Jupi- ter, from Oregon; Br ship Sir Robert Fernie, hence Sept 5. Salled Jan 20—Dan ship Jupiter, for Oregon. LAUNCESTON—AYrived prior to Jan 20— Schr J M Colman, from Fureka. NEWCASTLE, NSW-—Sailed Jan 30—Bark Hesper, for Honolulu. OCEAN STEAMERS. PLYMOUTH-—Sailed Jan 30—Stmr Pennsyl- vania, from Hamburg. for New York. NEW YORK-—Sailed Jan 3—Stmr Vaderland. for Southampton; stmr Oceanic, for Liverpool. AUSTRALIAN PORT-—Arrived prior to Jan 30-Stmr Alameda, from San Francisco, via Honolulu and Auckland. for Sydney, NSW. NDON—_Arrived Jan 30—Stmr Marquette, ew York. \ STOWN-—Arrived Jan 30—Stmr Lake Q Supericr, from St John and Hallfax, for Liv- erpool g Sailed Jan 30—Stmr Sylvian, from Liverpool, | for_ Boston. SYDNEY, N§W—Sailed Jan 20—Stmr Warri- moo, for Vietorla, B C. BOSTON—Sailed Jan 30-Stmr New Eng- an r Queenstown and Liverpool. NSTOW. 30—Stmr Ma- from New York, for Liverpool, and pro- ceeded | SOUTHAMPTON — Sailed J. 30 — Stmr Trave, from Bremen, for New Aork. —_—————— Steamer Movements. TO ARRIVE. Steamer. " From | = | Argo. . oquille River Mandaiay oquille River |Seattle City of Sydney./ Panama & Way Ports. Jan. 31 San Diego Jan. 31 {Point Arena Jan. 31 | Humboldt . {Jan. Coos Bay Humoeldt .., Feb, China via San Diego... Feb. _|Seattle & N. Whatcom. Feb. Seattle and Tacoma.. Willamett South Fortla 0. e e £ €0 £ 4085 63 69 15 490919 10 1t ot 1t 1t £ Corona... TO SAIL Steamer. | Dest nation, |Salls.| Pler. January | ] burg. " Humboldt n Fedro 2 0 & Walla Walla. Puget Sound Ports. |11 i Eureka. Humboldt 9 am!Pier 13 | Coquille 2 pm|Pier — Corona... 9 am Pler 11 | China.. 1p mi‘PMBS | Coquille River Honolulu Pler 7| Astorfa & Portland|ll am| Pier 24 Point Arena.. Point Arena . 2 pm|Pler ‘2 Pomona...... < Humboldt .. 2 pm|Pler 9 | February 3. | Arcata. ......./Coos Bay 10 am|Pter 13 Alliance Portland & Coos B.| 9 am Pler — ‘Ssn Diego ot 9 am |Pler 11 February 4. | Carlisle City. |China and Japan |Pler — . Humboldt | 9 am(Pler 3| Seattle & Tacoma.| 5 pm/Pler 8| February 5. | | Seattle & Tacoma.| 5 pm| Pier 2 Newport .. ..| 8 am|Pler 11 . Y. via Panama| 2 pm|Pler 34 . Hamburg & W P 7 ts|.......|Pler Puget Sound Ports il am|Pler 9 Seattle & Tacoma..| 5 pm|Pier 13 Sun, Moon and Tide. United States Coast and Geodetic § imes and Heights of High and Low Waters at Fort Point, entrance to San Francisco Bay. Published by official au- thority of the Superintendent. NOTE—The high and low waters occur at the city front (Mission-street wharf) about twenty- five minutes later than at Fort Polnt; the height of tide Is the same at both places, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31 Sun rises Sun sets Umatilla...... Rob't Dollar.. ey— Moon sets 43 a. m. [Time| ]Timel |Time| — [Time] ! Ft. A | Lw| Ew an 2:11 1 :10) 2 400 3 248! H W 4 0:34 H 1:09 s 1:40f NOTE—In the above exposition of the tides the early morning tides ar» given In the left hand column and the successive tides of the day in the order of occurrence as to time of day, the third time column gives the last tide J | of the day, except when there a EUREKA—Sailed Jan 20—Stmr Allianca, for | re but three tides, as sometimes occurs. The helghts given are In addition to the soundings on the United States Coast Survey charts, except when a recedes the height, and then | lude of the time a boy who does not want | The mumber 3 is subtracted fro e numl en is subtract th given by the charts. The plane S-f reelc:fl: is the mean of the lower low watsrs. Tinfe Ball. Branch Hydrographic Office, U. 8. N, - chants' Exchange, San Francisco, g:\' January 31, 1901. HOME STUDY CIRCLE FOR CALL READERS g of New Schooners Is a Daily Occurrence and{Another Shakespeare Eyening Devoted to Every Day Life of the Great Poet’s Time. XXVIL It is evident that Shakespeare was fa- | millar with schoolgirl work and ways; but the education of his own daughters was apparently very limited. Neither of them could write, and this was true of the great majority of women of the middle class at that time. In the case of Shakes-| peare's daughters it did not interfere with thelr getting husbands who were better educated. Susannah married Dr. John Hall, who was a physician of considerable eminence in his profession and a good Latin scholar withal. His manuseript Latin medical case book was translated into English and published in 165 When James Cooke, a surgeon, was invited to | New Place to examine the books which the doctor had left behind him, Mrs. Hall told him that the manuscript was the work of “one that professed physic with” her husband. Cooke, who was acquainted with Dr. Hall's handwriting, told her that the manuscript was his, but she denfed it. It is clear that she did not know her hus- band’'s writing, though it is sald to have been ‘of an uniform and somewhat pe- culiar description, not readily to be mis- taken for any of the ordinary styles of writing then in use.” Yet, according to the inscription on her gravestone, she was a woman of more than average “wit” or intellect: Witty above her sexe, but that's not all, Wise to salvation was good Mistris Hall; Something of Shakespeare was in that, but Wh::llz;'.ol Him with whom she’s now in bilsse. Thomas Quiney, who married Judith, | the poet’s youngest daughter, was an ac- | complished penman, as specimens of his signature, sometimes with elaborate flour- ishes, in the Stratford records, remain to l J prove. Of the education of young women by where Dromio, In reply to the chidings of Adriana, says: Am 1 so round with you as you with me, | That like a football you do spurn me thus? You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither; It I last in this service, you must case ms in leather. It was rough sport them, as now, as r the writers of the time refer to it as slowmen and ames | ‘meeter for laming It er than boy ted it at court as n making able the users thereof.” been forbidden by an edict of E ward 1il, almost threa centuries eariier, in 1349, but only because it was thought to interfere with the popular interest in pro- archery. Other mes of ball were in vogue; like tennis, t0 which and its technicalities— “set,” “racket,” etc—there are many - in the pla: and bandy-ball, or a rude form of golf, according to some authorities. Jullet, when impatiently walting for the return of the nurse with a message from Romeo, says: Had she affections, and warm, youthful blood, She'd be as swift in motion as a ball; My words would bandy her to my sweet love, And his to me. The modern verb “bandy” had its origin in this old game; just as “muss” comes from a sport which was merely a scram- ble for small coins or other things throwa down to be got by those who could seize them first. In “Antony and Clegpatra” the hero says Authority melts from me; of late, when I cried, “ho!™" ings would start Like boys unto a muss, h, o dwell upon the scores of other harmless boyish sports mentioned by Shakespeare, 1 may refer to ome or two examples of a different kind, marked by brutality or crueity. -Falstaff, after the udgeling he got through the strategy of the merry wives, says: ‘“Since I plucked geese, played truant and whipped top, I knew not what 'twas to be Dbeaten till PERINTENDED BY SHAKESPE LEAGUE DURING THE Y i FAC SIMILES FROM THE CORPORATION ACCOUNTS THAT WERE 8U- ARS 1564 and 1565. ARE'S FATHER AND HIS COL- | — | private teachers we have abundant infor- mation in Elizabethan literature, and | Shakespeare {llustrates it dramatically in ““The Taming of the Shrew.” In the first scene Baptista says to the suitors for the | hand of his younger daughter Blanca: | And for I know she taketh most delight In_ music, instruments, and poetry, ’ Schoolmasters, will 1 keep within my Fit to instruck her youth. Or Signlor Gremio, you—know any such, Prefer them hither: for to cunning men | 1 will be very kind, and liberal | To mine own children in good bringing up. Later Lucentio plots to get access to| the girl in the disguise of a teacher of languages and Hortensio geis Petruchlo‘ to introduce him \ Disguised in sober robes To old Baptista as a schooimaster | Well seen in music to instruct Bianc: | that thus he may “have leave and leisure | to make love to her.”” I cannot take space | to quote from the amusing scene that fol- lews, in which lessons in Latin and in music are given to Bianca by the rival | suitors. The reader, if not familiar with it, will enjoy looking it up for himseif. School discipline for the boys was se. vere enough in those days. There w no sparing of the rod. Peacham tells one pedagogue who used to whip his boys of a cold morning “‘for no other purpose than to get himself a heat.” In an inter- house. | ortensio— | to be sent to school tells how his com- panions suffer there: 3 Their tender bodies both night and day Are whipped and scourged and beat like a That from top to toe the skin ls away. Shakespeare has allusions to the whip- in& of schoolboys in ~Much Ado,” “The | hrew,” “‘Lear” and elsewhere; and the | single instance in which he refers to the | birch is in_connection with such discip. line, though parental rather than peda- gogical. It is in “Measure for Measure, where the Duke, speaking of a law which for years has not been enforced, says: Now, as fond fathers, Having bound Uup the threatening twigs of birch, Only to stick it in their children's sight, For terror, not to use, in time the rod Becomes more mock'd than feard, so our- de- Dead to infiiction, to themselves are deads Shakespeare knew better than to draw this illustration from school life. We find various types of the Eliza- bethan schoolmaster in the plays. Some- times they combined the quack and the conjurer with the lagogue, like Pinch in “The Comedy of Errors A Along with them They brought one Pinch, a bungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy, a mountebank, A threadbare juggier and a fortune teller, A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-leoking wretch, A living dead man. This pernicious slave, Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer, And gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse, And with no face, as ‘twere, cutfacing me, Cries out, I was possessed. Holofernes, in though pedantic, a scholar, a lenufne enthusiasm for study and teach- ing. The delineation, with something of comic exaggeration of his foibles, f§ thor- oughly good-natured, and the same is true of Sir Hugh Evans in Merry Wives,” who, like the poet’s own masters in the Stratford- School, was a clergyman. That these Stratford masters weré men of good scholarship and ability is evident from the fact that they rapldly gained promotion in the church. 1f the boys had a hard time in school, with the stern discipliné and the long confinement—about ten hours a day, as a rule—they did not lack for diversion and recreation out :‘lm doors and at h?:?exi el ren’s games to whic! e ot avn refers are. familiar to the e le now, especially in the rural :l‘ltl(glcpt:?pmde seek is bably the play that Hamlet had in nd when he . “Hige fox, and after.” Th e s 15, D wa's Tl under the old name of “hoodman blind.” It was also called “the hoodwink play,” and the present name is found in o g Scene Hamiec asks: DI4 fL e SE e, Sh v but to play a em 7" small I of wood, somewhat B B an clube?” were thiown at s Amherst C Sam; but I of it anywhere A for a time mhmt of Henry VIIL in “‘He V' and l&‘m ‘omedy of Errors,” S — lately.” The young barbarians of the poet’s day thought it rare fun to pull the ‘eathers from a live goose. In “3 Henry IV.” when the Chief Justice says to Fal- staff, “Commend me to my cousin West moreland,” the fat old sinmer mutters: “If 1 do, flllip me with a three-man beetle.”” He alluded to anether cruel :h rt that was common among Warwick- shire boys. A toad was put on one end of a short board, placed across a small | log, and the other end was then struck with a bat, throwing the creature high in the ailr. This was called “filliping” the toad. A “three-man beetle” was a heavy rammer, with three handles and wielded by three men in driving piles. Such a beetle would be requi for filliping a weight like Falstaff. We need not wonder at thess amuse- ments of the English boys when their elders were fond of bear-baiting, bu baiting, cock-fightings cock-throwing and the like. To all these we find many refer- ences in Shakespeare; and they were pop- ular with all classes from sovereign to asant. Queen Elizabeth and her sister, Mary, were both fond of bear-baitin which was one of the “princely pleasures” provided by Leicester for the entertal ment of the Queen at Kenilworth in 1375, Wwhen thirteen great bears were worriel by bandogs. She loved the drama, but in 15681, by a royal edict, forbade plays to be performed on Thursday because beacs baiting and similar sports were usual om that day. The clergy were as fond of these diversions as their parishloners were and a writer of 1572 says they would some times “hurry the service over in a sham ful manner.” in order not to miss the si tacie. It is recorded that in a Cheshire town in 1601, when the bear kept for bait- ing had died, “the corporation gave orders to sell their Bible in order to purchase an- other.” The modern inhabitants of the town deny this, but it may be true. Cock-fighting, to which Shakespeare al- ludes in “Antony and Cleopatra,” “Ham- " and “The Taming of the Shrew,” was opular in England from the beginning of the twelfth cemtury at least, when it was an amusement of schoolboys and their niasters on Shrove Tuesday, as it continued to be until the sixteenth cen- tury or later, and in Scotland down to tha niiddle of the eighteenth. Cock-throwing, in which the bird was tled to a stake and sticks thrown at it until it was killed, is said to have been pecuiiar to England, and dates back to the fourteenth century. It was regularly practiced on Shrove Tuesday, and was not uncommon a hundred years ago. Th cock was reckoned a “devil's messenger. his Master, and clergymen made this an excuse for their enjoyment in the sport. prejudice against the cock. but, In a utiful sage in ‘“‘Hamlet,” cornnects and gracious” assoclations of Christmas, The small boy even now is apt to be a bave been no better than/the average Stratford urchin, but in his plays and of his age in his love of animals and sym- pathy with their pain and suffering as ho ations of his fellow-men. He could feel pity even for an insect that was trodden says to her brother: The sense of death is most enston: In corporal sufferance feels a pang u'nut As when a glant dies. in the forest of Arden laments the neces- sity of killing deer for food. In the same ives a siy rap at e who amuse- ment in brutal games. When Le Beau “lost much fine sport” in not being pres- ent at the “good wrestling,” where threa they are likely to die, Touchstone asks: “But what is the sport. monsieur, that ths this that I sveak of.” “Thus men may grow wiser every day!” says Touchstone. “It breaking of ribs was sport for ladies!™ And yet the fine ladies of Shakespeare’ all manner of brutal sport Involving pain and death to men and animals. lied if space permitted, but I ?he rndevr to find them for himself and f my subject—the holidays and popuiar ‘f’e!fl\’ytll of the time, the folklore - furnish material for other ke this. W. J. %‘ Note—A paver on Professor Mims will be published on from his crowing after Peter's denial of Shakespeare nowhere refers to this vul- pas: the “bird of dawning” with the “hallowed savage, and Shakespeare when a boy may poems he shows himseif as far in advance does in the broad humanity of his deline- upon. In “Measure for Measure” Isabella And the poor beetle that we In “As You Like Tt” the banished duks lay Touchstone, the philosophic fool, gam. tells Rosalind and Celia that they have young men have been so maimed that ladles have lost?" Le Beau replies: “Why, is the first time that ever I hearl day and Queen Bess herself delighted in Quotations of this kind might be multi. must omit all references to other divisions perstititions. and much else that would Cambridge, Mass. 2, Shakespeare's sonnets Monday next.