Telegram-herald., 1889-10-01

l. = ate bzs ss.ssl of soser~1zns vase 1e
slss tns<s. II oc1<14i oo1zn1 n-c4sl2ns
they always address him - Ny Grooa
FrtsDc, and ae addresses then sl181
l4riy some tines making e 'grs4t 4n1
good They address, each other a
oo1si1s and brothers.
'f0u have I'D many interviews With
M0n&rchs and Primes Hc~ 9o they
direr from Ehls ~lth President Harri-
son -
A ott uOrs stately and csren2onicas;
nOt otherwise different / sss at re-
csption IA Lonton - June. shsre the
Prince 0f Wales sas- a~ kept ala seat
most II the tine. and ~hsa De wished
- talk sish anybody Ia particular
bsck0nsd him 10 ais side. he Sgnsied
- ns, and / nad = very dehgntfal talk,
he. Of course. Leading sp - the toplcs OF
conversation. Bat 7 assure you snss
the Prince IS the nest beloved of Eng
hshmen- The tAlk Of tassstisfsctiOn 10
az nonsense"
lis England never % o1tgrow . Mon
archy p | asked
Why should ~ IL - veil and SCI
eureiy and shs~Piy governed Oar
Sovereign has lsss power thsn your
President and her Csbtn-s rs tissolable
~ any time which sDurs tsn't- No, /
don't know as . kepzbaio4n sorm OF
Government u necessarily the fate OF
Kingdoms Rome wa al km pire after
IL eas = Repu bile; 50 was Venice so
was France, sud will be again, by the
way"
but your people sesm 20 nnd Mon
archy rather expensive"
NO. only few oxtremistA As .
matter of fact the entire expense OF
supporting al the royal family amounts
only 10 seven ana sixpsnce q head per
year-less than q apiece for the people
/ OF Great Britain nd Ireland Bat after
all,
! Tor forms Of sovernrosns 81 f9ols eonssss-
That which Is lest administered Is best
+ Of ali tAe Ills tAsS human h1arts endnra
/ How ANAL tAs part THAI law can cause os
surs-"
HAS any Yankee had The cheek yes
20 ask YOU II you were q descendant OF
Benedict Arnoldr' I ventured 70 in
Guire.
NO" be lAsghsd, -bus several have
asked n were q relative OF Matthew
Arnold
They ought 70 know better IL they
saw the untrienily slash that he gave
you about Pagsniring England. Yet
you wrote a ealogtstic poem OF him at
his death.
What he said of me was spoken In .
moment Of insdversence. No matter.
mourn him sincerely and deeply. He
had a brilliant and delicate genius.
What an admirable picture Is that OF
his In the Macedonian invasion:
The East bowed low before the blast
In pat ieat. deep df-dain;
She let the egions thunder past
Then plunged IN thought again
- a.
poems all night I have never mot
anybody, not even himself, who knew
so much OF his poetry as do"
You have a remarkable memoryr
only in certain lines. 1t retains
poetry very tenaciously. III could getel
apiece for tho poems / know l could
pretty nearly bay Warrington. Yet my
own verses sift through my brain as
through sieve. i cannot remember
them az all.
by the way" he presently resumed.
"that interesting man, General
Greedy, has had the kindness to call
and carry Us about town and show US
the sights. His own signal service Is
far ahead OF ours-far ahead OF any
other nasion-especially in the matter
OF delivery and distrieusion Think
OF the halfpast ten o'clock indications
ton in half an hour, and thousands Of
printed maps Of them distributed be-
fore noonl Gen. Greedy took me 10 the
Capitol. noble building with an Gle
giant dome. tie was inclined to apollo
gize for the crudeness Of some of the
pictures in the rotunda. But that fea-
trre Of them IS not what chiefly struck
NE. The surrender of CORVALLIS | con-
templated thoughtfully, and l told my
escort a story. A man showed q lion
his paintings. and among them Was q
wounded lion evidently in great pain
ana nearby was the exulting hunter
who had shot him Very good. re-
marked the hon. but IL | had painted
The picture / would have painted it
oThorvisc."
Remena boring that STR Edwin was
long president OF the college ia Poona,
India. / asked him If sanscrit was en-
tirely a dead language
YES quite" DE said. "Hindustani
may perhaps De said 70 be the yeTnacu-
lar. now. but there are l4O different
dialects spoken in India. Nobody has
over learned .hcm all and they are as
different as English and Spanish. I
could name a score Of languages that
our English people there have 70 talk. -
What is the state of native HindOo
literature
There is hardly Any, except that
high education which the English have
carried there. There are many natives
who attain this but they use English
books. and become acquainted with
scott and Dickens and Buckle and
Tennvson and Macanlay. But there -
no creative native literature. Scholars
live in the past The M0hammedan il
satisfied with the Koran. the sikh with
tae Granth. his holy book the I{indoO
with his Nedss and Uparnishad. r
they want reading they get these read
q them Ont Of 1000. not half
dozen can read and write. Natives
produce In she vernaculsr nothing but
little short stories
is there rhine IN cid HindOo litera-
ture which IL will paw modern scholars
20 wok in that great poem - mvth0-
log ard cosn1o gany. the Mahaosrats,
FOR instances"
"Tes. hs sad" ~ tho niue IA sp-
preached with love and sympathy. That
vas book vou have NET tioned needs m
terpretinc and sifsinT. Il is - II some
body were - damp IN 'front.' OF your
house carload OF diamonds. All -en
carloads Of gold. and four hundred
carloads of ubbish and iirt."
veutgret - ask The iistin 1uisb sd
visitor II ne would show ne the 'evelei
Decorations Bestowed upor him ~ bis
Queen. and by the Oriental sovereizns
He Eraciousiv consented and asked
Miss Arnold 70 set them ont y have
- cart them about he added for they
VII selr ne onward They viii al be
reqrired during the journey
Ihe .ahie srsrsled royalty when re
orders we're All spread ou-- gold and
.evels vrouzht In artistic forms and