The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1903, Page 12

12 : THE SUNDAY CALL { Denis Kearney and His Ca- o - Denis Kea{ney and His Ca- veer, as Shown in Mrs. Fre- ” reer, as He Himself Has Wmli mont Older’'s New Novel, “The e l ‘ ten It for The sund’;mi:'s Socialist and the Prince,” Just After Reading Mrs. Published by Funk & Wag- d ; | Novel, Which Is Built Around nalls . s are | His Lite | 4 e e s Sheh Freneh revolution, which 1 picked up se, which Mrs. Ol a_ ship's forecastle Mr. Kearney { of those days, as was aving reproduced with wondert . Reason” and the works of Voltaire. T fide a e her the y 24 : were my chumx then for the very & e attracts the t reagon 1 couid get no others. May b ts ot & s from these Incidents (Rt Y nstructed also the “Ag g 1 arrived In this in 1867 as f . Ang is baguiled by hov ir 4 ‘ er of the clipper ship Shoot g with her rich friend have lived here continuous s ght interview afterward it was during t ten years - gave up t 5 and had bui s when the riot & he Mrs. Older k ace That was the night [ decided e my plan to drive the Chinese from this city in operatio I sacrificed - einess, a good one, the future ha chil¢ n ness of s wife snd nowing’ but what the xt day W ’ find me a corpse, and started in to bat i er down the ramparts of corruptio which was supported by the allled mone & . power of the Stat hired Dashaway had 400 circulars printed and eirc ES, I've read Mr.. Fremont Older’s novel, “The Soclalist and the Pfince,” finishing it at the first sit- 4/ ting. She gave me an advance o, 77 f;y. fifia < copy on the fly leaf of which was TAREST /A written, “To Paul Stryne from his crea- ... som my @ray whils ?,,,, to sad he bail was S Bhed aoh s ; g = the pas- fro in the line of business. g =T Beloz i /= tor, Cora Miranda Older,” and in the ‘French. The follo (il 75 sages where she .described the sand lot packed, the Workingmen's party was or- nized and I was elected its president 48 et e e B e meetings and the trouble over my subse- Jegpite my earnest protest. My business o d the-leaves of which 1 w were poisonous. 1 became (1l fror quent imprisonment she has written 8o called d(o\- rouIrucln h%ur;n ngg‘ Lfi:z ture Off the SCRrfwof Micin. YAt lefs vell t book were to be drama- every day, so planne. on Ty e e that-Ruibicsan WEE et 17 the e hours every night and half a day on Sun- tized and the lines that were put into - days to the new movement. The meeting the mouth of Paul Stryne should suit me p2¥S 20 tUC OER, FOTAteh the ory 1 should be tempted to act the part be- tion of clubs into every ward of the city Theodosia, genu St. Hetesa Hblona s When T re- fore the footlights. and every village in the State. I procesded overed it was as if the delirium continued But as for Paul Stryne’s love scenes in at once to ¢ the word -St. Helena~ sounded in my ears : e e e enivalrous feeling to- mMesting. New clubs were organized every - night, great big bonfires directed peopls ward the author forbids me to BrIticlze (o®ths Snosting plases and. the nelghbor: them. Still as Mrs, Older was writing a2 hood rang with the hurrahs and shouts daw dusk. | was determined to & there and 1 left a message with my employer ‘1 have started for St. Helena.' B e preterred On my down the s.reets of Trent novel to appeal to all classes I suppose of workingmen. Mrs. Older could have - a e eyes muc & name for myself. At first | the love scenes were necessary. At any based (and I suppose did) her first two ¥ r ¢ Paul Hamilton, that of my em rate, my daughter, who has alsc read the chapters on the above events. Fizally I hin cheve = Presertly 1 saw the name of Stryne novél, says they are perfectly fascinat- announced a meeting on the nobbiest nob ry faith in y on 2 door plate. It pleased me, for, like my ing, but that if she could get her fingers of Nob Hill to organize & club in the & e Miss Peytou. Self. it expressed nothing. 1 became Paul in Theodosia Peyton's glorious wealth of Sixth Ward. dent rely upon Gl did mot give e ahy g whe It oy fhalt hair she would show her what it means 1t was the big bonfire together with & w . 1 not that T made one for myaelf? B g !I.; ”?m me, or ‘ra;he; Pa\?l S;ryne. lf, the roars, shouts and h:x;xunpk of ‘mgo s wer st give | urse, there o son why heodosia treated the hero in the novel. men to the top of the hill on that night " me r nat you ¥ any nigte you widh', gnew Of course, as my own private life, both that terrorized people who wers easily . t again. I bt ey S s efore, during and after that ta- frightened. Consultations among capi- - » has no family, no ENNT S tion was so different from Paul Etr)m: talists immediately followed and the ma- e — . s I cannot give any opinion as to the merits chinery of the courts was set in motion oncd s o Siad of i, Miss Peyton. My exat. EAXEY of these love passages. 55 nae 10 caSt me into prison. man w ge ol s e A e Wi B My life. too, since the election thai It was here that the meeting between . o Seerounarion i, - ok (Il formed thie climax of her story has been Theodosia and Stryne took place and the Tell me, then what did you do so vastly different from what she leaves pgvelist's imagination did the rest. — . ;M ame, Paul Sirvne, gave me man: 1STTYVZIE ) her readers to infer that it was that the A warrant was tasued for my arrest by ked—until at Jast. I reached MNew Tork AN TITE absolute novelty of the ending of her pi¢ s far from having such love scenes . g 2 The first thing I went down to where the shi} - pook necessarily does mot strike me 23 as are described in the book I was bowed K s ‘was Gockel. L 'Wendered Alend the Crabt: Wharss AT 7T ox forcibly, as convincingly as it might oth- with griet, for it so happened that my e Finally a sea captain said to me, *“Wel r = 7 . rwise—were i oncf » youngest baby died and the funeral was know a man Paul Stryne, at My man, where are you bound for#’ - St TLADZE T for instance. - Tcld the same day the warrant came out this - the workingmen in Helena,” I answered. ~He did mot smile. At But, though she has written 8o vividly On returning to my house after the fune - b u have no knowledge of first I t ht it a part of my fevér when of those sand lot days, she has skipped ral I noticed two detectives and a car- Teplied me with us then; we pass some of the striking incidents of my life riage close by, so I slipped into the house, . J u? lena Extraordinary as may seem, no during those troublous times, such as the out the back way and down town [ went » him often enough directed me to that particular sailing ves- plot that was hatched to kill me in Santa It was Saturday night and I was ex - - the faces of men 1), The next day we left New York. Thers Ana the night 1 was hammered and kick- pected to address a big crowd opposite s, begging, “Are & o tell about the voyage except that ed into insensibility, and latér the fa- the plaza on Kearny street. I had been # o p y e ad bee: . bour o BT Per e et b s i B ioew anbachianlly. SpEitie shgus i, mous Palace Hotel meeting when a purse talking to that crowd for about ten ho . iudied ‘race chara T T e Sy, How borMer | ‘Mr Styme. No cng kus cutifdioted you' . was raised to have me assassinated. TWO minutes when two police officers clmbed £ . Latin?" 1 bave iived had and stole everything each man: kmew. 1 did." .y - i, o ;\:‘0? ;;ng ladies were my ;n;urmam. nn(} to the stand and my arrest followed, a ot 1 have o O ot oy recsll & Nttt chiloe gy “When? o eir information came within an ace of most exactly as described in “The So- o o the o el A s gwvisse Pet i hen _ Soss : 3 bringing about a tragedy, and later kept cialist and the Prince. - & myweit of schooling and an honest foundation, and w0 first nin: T aaw ron ahewinn e T Dt me in striped clothes in the House of The efforts to bail me out, the enact- : Al I must not rest until 1 squeezed dry the brains . st wod S e o Corréction for forty days and forty me og ive “gag-laws =3 P t ¥ 3 n ntrast between my life. and your: 3 Y ment of legislativ gag-law e or all the men. This pirating of other men's When you came to the prison with your jew- nights. Of the bribe of $350.000 which I ganizing of a military force, the special BS, SRERNGLS and experiences hegan on that els and bonds. When you met me jn your refused to oppose the adoption of the election of a State Senator, all follcwed - Ship and lasted the entire voyage. It Is char- fresh young beauty on the street. When I new constitution and the further bribe of quite as Mrs. Oider described them. but Cleristic of my lfe. 1 have stolen every- maw you here in your home to-night. What 000 “which I refused to combine with jhere were no love scenes at the be me hinE Syhich came within the grasp of my i it you are always saying to me? That I “honorable bilks” and help fix up a ho duel with an Itallan prince, and & beginning. Sht, for 1 was robbed of dom't believe my own words, that you are State ticket, my fight with a newspaper, flight before the election that was annot sa "1 do not recollect anything that T dis- I belleve, 1 was ever so confident of myseli the shooting of my candidate for Mayor decide the fate of the Chinese you get it? fained to learn, a little music, enouth danc- as at this moment. You and I never were anh(l n;; sl}:?seuuemhkifl‘nx of the man ment We won the election triumpha . eyton ng. something about art, fencing, shooting apart as now.’ who shot him, my hurrying to the city but it left me financially d osla and 1 idled from one country to anothel studying ‘heodosia rose, looked at Stryne's agitated on a specfal train and meeting at the My draying business was netting me slarm | Jou know the be- the people, the languages, the history: ons quivering roce She was thrust from Bim. by ferry 10,000 armed men all clamoring for about $00 a month at the time. One of . understand selvaryRE With socialists, the next I was the a thousand Invisible forces. Yet as if duty his life, my dispersing that crowd with my best patrons employed something like a T will tell | = O, My Sate forced her she asked: A a wave of the hand, the immense recep- 40 Chinamen in his tobacco-house. After o S “n‘.\r.::. not I\r:l!:r'rim that you ‘Have 1 done anything wrong? 1 don't tions that I received all over the East, the Nob Hill meeting the firm withdrew a o 8o g 2 eiiehy 8 pervant. exclaimed she, mak- feel ({"““‘n’xl‘w’\l'“wm it all s 58 and, after the final success of the agita- their patronage and were followed by a o e ecllection is of going with Often, Miss Peyton. What hetter method kind." © o | oo YoUu have been most tion, my winding up by being obliged to of the others with the single exce g woman from house to is there of learning the intelligence, the man- ryne started to go out into the hall. make a living by selling coffee at 10 cents ©of the firm of Cartan, McCarthy & ( . #- 2 Tk Of the ner and the mecrets Of the great? To the Theodosia seemed to think aloud: ‘It s e 4 cup op the ocean beach a little this Who have grown rich. while the mest - our tongue, the °loting it Is sn education strange to learn all that, Mr. Stryne. You side of the rock on which Stryne and the others went broke. I, however. P &y e s But it is not nice. It is not respectable.” were good to tell . me, but I wish you had Theodosia stood that awful stormy night, ©d the business over to my brother . Y brothers and sEATE pice ct I did not start to tell you a mot I was positiveYou were a gentisman she has said nothing. thj rln,:l for a while, but my name wa en smoked all dgy - c or a respectable story. but a “His story produced the effect he intended, So far from not knowi ; against his making much headwa ked he tents ¢rue story. 1 have s - y ot knowing my real name . o - ory ve spared you and mysrelf and yet it hurt him to see her so cramped or my antecedents, s so he let it go for a trifle. Both pr was my father. many of ‘the details. At best mine is bui a and limited by prejudice. His success was g gty e LT R L KK m gy R ";“"ZK; life built upon dregs and decay. I had a too complete. It would have comforted him t her child Mo CeTialnu number of years allotted to me and somewhat hud she felt a little sympathy in- oy I was already late in the race. Should [ stead of mere disenchantment, ‘he lose or should I make short cuts. T made No, only the valet of a gentleman,’ he haie. Short cuts, for I had as much right to win answered. ‘You and I alone have knowiedgs Mif- as any ome. Yet I was not insincere. I be- of my entire life, Miss Peyton.' y_principle I expounded because I *,'And we shail continue to have also. I it was right. I have met my kind in canpot express to you, Mr. Stryne. how much | climes and we are all alike. Other men success you deserve,’ said she coldly, but still e their thoughts from their beliefs, but we making a pretense of cordiality e 10 read when 1 had lelsure and fn CCCiuse We think, and thought with free ac- “Stryne read from her manner that this e 1 had devoured and digested many LO" I® democracy; with fettered power It is Was their farewell and she wished him gone. | the O&narchy. After I met you, Miss Peyton, the It gave him courage to reply determinedly. ast 1 came o Rovsal oy dy g ::: river was turned a little from its course, ‘I merit none, I am afrald, but I will the book, let me say that I was born in Pal and income disappeared in the ?akmoum, County Cork. Irgland. 2y "Wpcegef & few months. ather was & gentleman's foreman to the y, TNAt WAS @ 1085 that did not bother m magistrate of Oakmount, but died when Jyoncl d!l:“ the loss of my two babies 1 was only nine vears of age. Before I. ypuowet pater by the death of my tw was 11 I ’stole awav from home In the YO n&er brothers, that grie me, espe winter of 1857 with no money and noth- Siall¥ 80 @8 the rascals refused to let m ing in the way of extra wearing apparel gu: Of Jail long enough to attend th excepting a pair of woolen socks made ‘Fpic s by my mother whith 1 carried In my oo nores 3 period in my life when the pocket. 1 knew nothing about a city and jyo°, none of the romance set Never saw salt water. My ambition was oo .voVe- | tried to keep my £ the sea, 50 1 skipped as cook on a €ol- peacp ' ey, Selling refreshments have been my father 50 ey, caring only were too an away e days to Trenton, New f n the way. When e_reach of the camp Dr. Paul Hamilton. He i beach. When the Park Cc onaparte X end sometimes I wondered if I uttered my have a great dea lier, though I knew nothing about cook- b < a m z e i et wake all doctrines because they pay. because from them “As he left the Peyton residence and swung ing'and had not yet seen a stove. In half (. Tt (e baneh. Seue. o When morning came | trept o Dr. Tem. 40d by them I am to bulld my life and future, open the heavy iron gate Prince Buspoll mel QLA 1 dozen months or so 1 shipped before pyov <OUSHOULS and all, | opened an em fice “Is it all true?™ “Yey 'var"%‘l: :3:;‘_ "’.‘:v" (rc;;en {en(mru, tell ms him ;na sald: - E T uhhp mast on a deep water ship and soon grgdy%;n“n’mnr. and a -rvam:’hr.- agenc s0 ’ Now the waters are back ‘* *Buona sera, Signore.” JV," () ecame a full fledged sailor. o r several years, but on d ird I am s xlag gnce more flowing straight to their destina- ‘“‘Stryne saluted without response. visited most of the princi ai As such T ing the Federal courts were boring h. t was a novel.”” After tion with a fury. I believe: I believe again. Pal 3eaports of into our anti:Chinese cxciusion awe es of Navoleon and be- 1 belleve every word I said.’ After this disastrous love scene with a duel. Stryne accepts the challenge and as best thev may. . the earth. As a boy I was very studious. y Ted ‘scars standing out ke 5 Miwar Fnie scenes with renewed eneray, and at oot futuse doomn A e onpairylie’s whole it would be a pity to spoil the readers’ heart, could quote Bvron by the ream. ' w % Daseage of ihe Scott exclusion sct plaving with some boys of dosia. motionless in her chair. sat watching of his meetings deliberately insults his 'womnded troane Prince 1 serlously pleasure in the book by betraying what Moore, Burns, Shelley and Sir Waltee T°% the result. and my public career was o " ze and we found a vine bearing scar- him s if he w 3 g Als . . sults his wounded and Stryne disappears, leaving it is, but it is far from the real car: Scott were my e $ 5, S valter at an end, and I went back to my wife s If he were & strange Beast. rival, the Prince, who challenges him to his followers to stave oft political defeat of Its Dutative pevo. ST ing the watch below. The Rhemions ur: and e (e ryate. 1 Bad. pot closed up my office and started out t .