Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-07
SOME NOTEBOOK WAlES.
Sketches and Incidents from Real Life.
THE COMPOSERS PROPHECY --LPnLRD-How LONG
FELLOW WROTE "EvANGELINE"-ALLAN riNKRR-
HAD.
Correspondence Of The EVENING STAR
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Correspondence Of The EVENING STAR.
BOSTON, January O. 1888.
Yesterday at Bostons ancient book store, under
the "Old South" church, I came upon widowed
German pamphlet on BayreGth, Bavaria, which re-
called never printed and all but forgotten preoic-
ton once heard wagner make regarding himself,
one subsequently literally fulfilled. 1t was in the
Hotel Sohne, Bayreuth the next day following the
first production OF the masters masterpiece,
"Parsifa., The city was thronged with visitors
and ab!aze with excitement over the majestic
scenes ard passages OF ''Parsiral." few OF US
from foreign countries were paving our respects
TO Materna, the original KuHdry at her hotel,
when Wagner entered the room. He was almost
lowing a supreme success. Striking about the
place. pale and restless and unmindfut OF the
~ hs IN "
"Ah, triumph kills the body II 1t immOrtalizes a
name! shall never again create. My power is
In less than six months time Richard wagners
,d sisdr body was brought back from Italy and
exchanged for an immortal name.
DESCRIBING WITHOUT SEEING
There is more than one recorded instance where
the most powerful, poetic, and comprehensive
descriptions In literature have been made by those
who have never looked upon the scenes described.
Down in the lower Canadian provinces there IL q
certain good family possessing an autograph letter
from Longfellow. strikingly illustrative OF this
No creation Of genius more truly bears the evt-
Cence Oh p2LenI STUDY anu ODSeTVotlOn than does
was never In his LIE In Old Acsda II fear TO visit
your interesting country" he writes his Nova
disappear. must in truth tell you that never
have been there. The notes on which the Incl.
dents OF Evangeline are based were all generously
furnished me BY my good friend, Nathaniel Haw.
thorne" 1t is time this important bit Of literary
history was better known. Had IL not been for
ina and one almost regrets that the wtaarS Of
Salem did not leave more than the unsought record
OF a generous act from the knowledge we now
a people pathetic in the world-heart memory from
their unhappy fortunes.
PINKERrON AND HIS WAYS
believe Allan Pinkerton to have been the great
est detective who ever lived Aside from this dts
men, and no writer ever had better cnsncse to To-
judge than /. For some years I was daily In his
company, indeed In his confidential employ, and
in such capacity that there were repeated occa-
sions for good fellowship and as many for conf
dences and "reminiscences. Among the countless
that impressed me more deeply than the most TsS
thrilling OF his exploits was one in which the
pardonaole vanity Of one good little woman saved
came on impulse We had been IN New York and
PM ddelpnia together. visiting Gen. Marcy ana
ing West over the Pennsylvania Railroad He
never dined at railway stations, but was always
ca ten and he had just settled back comforta in
his seat with few hearty clippings Of his hands
him) when we saw bottle, carelessly hung from
head look Of indignant anxiety flashed into
followed by roars OF laughter from the rugged old
man who It took paralysis many long years TO XIII
THE DETECTIVES STORY.
81 never see bit OF luck like that without mind.
ing me OF the biggest piece OF luck ever saw
began the veteran criminal catcher, "and 1t hap
pened raw scotchman and his wife that Knew.
This Scotch fool had been Chartist; q price was
set set on his h head; he had swsetneat Joan Car
had caught his neart a-singing Chartist songs
who married him with his head ali but In t6e
to quebec, be as ships cooper and she a. COOK.
on the bark Kent, April 8, 1910. On May the
Kent aS was wrecked on sable Island but me crew
Indians, who took everything that came ashore
The cooper and wife finally got from the scene Of
and from there By q naming smack 20 Aspy Bay,
where the Unicorn, OF Quebec, changed malls with
the Bgittaris tie ant stsss,s acro. TIE
where the cooper got work heading beef barrels
and the couple soon got to housekeeping famously
confidently told him this job would shut down At
certain date, and so he impulsively decided ON
70 s y o. 0nsag After
coOpers little bit Of wife came and COM confessed
milliners that 1t could not be got TOR the charged
and pitifully pleaded that they wait for the next
sus IN. soa night s
consented They got the bonnet, but thas nus
tii"-and here P1nKertsa roersd the startled pss,
sengers out OF their dozingS-!"nsws came IN . few
s ay s Sc. !
=: ssi ~ sass as:is song singing VI. h.s s.A
kerton. FOR that little EdinburRh R1rl Was nv