Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-11-11
The sehiilersupa Celebrates yast
Night

anC 'faVeler, delivered an address Oef0re the
SchiIlerbuna, at he Congreys-
;ioral church, last evening on Schiller ard
els contemporaries. the occasion being the
one hundred and sixteenth birthday OF the
Gtrman poet and the thirt;eth annual re-
union Of TIE SChillerbund of this city. Prior
10 the lecture Professor j. w. Bischoff, the
oreaniAt. treated the large and cultivated
audience, which was made up Of people
OF Intelligence and culture, 10 several
very fine selections on the organ. Mr.. Tay-
Tor was Introduced by Professor Paul Ben-
kan, the estimaole president or the Schiller
bUnd. Mr.. Taylor, whose books OF travel
and letters have been read with so much
pleasure and profit for years, is apparently
rot over fifty years OF age, and possesses a
tne presence. He has iron-gray hair and
beard, and is slightly bald on the back of his
head. He possesses deep, clear voice, well
adapted to the lecture platform, and his
enunciation is always distinct He read his
lecture from manuscript slowly and 81 I'M
presslvely as 10 retain the closest attention
OF his audience from the beginning To the
close. II was scholarly production, and
his analysis Of the character of the Ger
man poet gave evidence OF careful study,
and was al the more interesting aud
valuable from his thorough familiarity with
the German language and the German people
and their achievements in the world OF lite
nature. He began by congatulafing the
SchilleTbund on their pure and noble sppre-
clatiOn OF the great German poet whose
name is held in love and reverence through
out the enlightened world. Schiller was a
poet Of the second order, aud should be
Byron. In the first class of poets stood the
immortal names of Homer, Dante, Shak-
speare and Goethe. Schiller'S father was an
army surgeon and his mother a bakers
daughter. His early inclinations were for
the ministry, nut he was placed in school
established ny the Duke of Wurtemburg.
where he graduated as physician, and
entered the army. Soon after graduating he
wrote 1.-THE Robbers" which, while received
with great enthusiasm, was marked, as
Schiller himself admitted. No one saw the
FgU lrInw.,
more emphatically than himself. He said:
My great mistake was in endeavOring TO
represent man fully two years before really
knew man." Desiring 10 see The first per-
Torrance OF his play, the "RObbers." he
requested leave of absence, and was refused.
He went nevertheless, and was consequently
forced TO fee into the interior of Germany,
where. for year, he lived in great poverty.
He afteTward removed to Leipsic and spent
much of his time there and in Dresden. Sub
sequently, through the influence of Goethe,
Schiller obtained prOfessorship at Jena,
where he became so popular that by
teaching at the university and by Civ
ing private instruction, he was able
to earn $500 per annum, and was
composed chiefly his historical works
The lecturer followed ScRiller's critics in
dividing his life into three periods. The
first, up To the time he went to Jena, he
styled the "stOrm and stress period; the
second, mp TO his departure to Weimar, the
period OF development; and the third, to the
u.
IL was during the second period that Schil-
Ter commenced his "Wallenstein," but did
not complete IL till some years later. While
at Jena. Schiller published a magazine en-
Titled The Hours" which did not. however,
meet with brilliant success. In 1871 he had
an attack of Inflammation of the lungs, the
effects Of which followed him through the
remaining fourteen years OF his life. After
Schiller took up his residence in Weimar he
completed his "Wallenstein," one of his
greatest, but not the most popular, of his
W. H.. 4,
civilian Tell The material for this work
was gathered by Goethe while travelling i'm
Switzerland, but he turned il over TO Schil-
Ter as rather fitted for dramatic than epic
purposes. Mr.. Tay Tor read extracts from this
poem, as rebutiing the prevalent idea of
the harShneSs of the German language
Schiller was so subject To interruption dur
ing the day that the most OF his literary la
Dor was performed at night. and he drove
sleep away by putting his feet in cold water
he was too good physician not TO know
That this must have a tendency TO shorten
his days. yet his love of letters was so great
that il overcame all other feelings. In the
46ih year Of his age, while at the theater,
Schiller was suddenly seized with q chill
and died soon after, on the 9th of MAY, IS0j
Schiller is universally regarded in his native
land as the leader of the democratic poets OF
Germany, as Goethe is OF the aristocratic.
Yet the lecturer thought this a mistaken
idea, and one not justified by a comparison
Of the lives of the two men, although Schil-
ier's poetry breathed spirit seeking emau-
III.
Schillers was a name which man kind had
learned TO love, and like all such names was
awarded glorious immortality. The leo
ture, which was well received, concluded
with the recitation Of a portion of Goathe's
OOe TO Schiller.
MASONIC ELECTIONS.-The Most WOr-
Shipful Grand Lodge, f. A. a. VI. of ID. G.,
al ITS ANIMAL meeting last night elected Off
GERS for the ensuing year as follows: !. l..
Johnson, VI. w. G. Master: Louis -. Wine
X r [,
III. Jochum, r. w. j. q. w; VIM. H Sim
elet1n. II. w. q. Secretary; Anthony Buch-
~, n. ". g. Treasurer; Joseph S. Mccoy. w.
G.. Nls. and Lee; A. F. Steele, w. and Rev
G.. Chaplain; III. A. Whitney, w. G. Mar
shall; w. II. Collins, w. S. q. D.; q. f.. Ha--
Sond- ": j. G; D.; W; A. DeCaindry, WIG.
ward Fitzki and II. c. Bliss, G. Stewards;
and l.. Stoddard, g. Tier.
Mount Vernon r. A. Chapter. No. 3. has
elected and Installed the following: A. T.
kinney, NJ. E. H. p; w. b. Appleton. f. X;
a. NJ. MuzZy. f. s.; j. III. Pickeil, Secretary;
John w. Griffin, Treasurer; j. NJ. Yznaga,
{. Of h.; j. +. Allen, p. s.; ]: r. Edison, r.
Mepdenhall, O. NJ. I'd vail, and j. w. Wheel
er. G.. NJ. 1st vail.
Potomac X. A. Chapter, No 3, of George
George f. Corson, NJ. Z. Fl. p, reelected;
John Lynch, 4. K; A. T. Brice, f. S.; c. F.
Shekell, Secretary, reelected, and r. s.
Cropley, Treasurer, re- elected.
GESTURE WHICH WILL Cost Mr.. BEv-
ERLY SOME INCONvENIENCE.-On the 18th
OF September James III. Beverly was COM
United to Jail from the Police Court for ac-
ton Of the grand jury on the charge of lar
ceDy OF some books from the Christian
church, on Vermont avenue, between n and
q streets. An Indictment was found against
him for grand larceny, and today, on trial
IN the Criminal Court he was released on a
technicality, the indictment fixing the title
of the property stolen in the trustees instead
of the church. Beverly went out of the court
room, giving Officer Reese, who arrested
him, parting salute with his extended
thumb and fingers at his nose, attracting the
attention Of Judge Macarthur and District
Attorney Wells. The latter gave orders for
his rearrest, and Officer Reese recaptured
bin soon after at the second precinct sta
ton, where he had applied to get a knife and
pistol which were taken from him at the
lime OF his former arrest He will go through
the mill again, with, perhaps, a different re-
suit this time.
A SPORTING NAN MIssING.-Soms three
weeks ago grey mare, supposed 10 be a
trOfter, with sulky anu harness, arrived here
from St Louis, in charge of a groom. The
mare and sulky were left at the fret ght depot
of the Baltimore and Potomac railroad, and
The man has not been seen since. Detectives
AcDevitt and Miller are trying to find the
owner. and have written to st. Louis for in
formation, but as yet have heard nothing.
The horse and sulky still remain at the
stables Of the railroad company. II is be-
lieved that this mare was designed for the
recent races here.