Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-21
SEASIDE SCIENCE.
The Chautauquans Hard at
Work.
Piano Playing Girls Competing for
Prize.
Prof Anderson on American Literature.
Mr.. Kellogg Tells What is Not
Known About Comets.
Today's Programme.

.. ". dt Lung DeacH nave kept up very
we'll go far, and throughout have been
generally enthusiastic the afternoon
exercises yesterday being especially go.
Several new competitors for tho
Sohmer prize played yesterday, and were
fully up to the high standards of those
of the preceding performances.
a point that rendered yesterdays ex,
ercises unusually interesting. was that
it was to be the last appearance of the
two lecturers, Rev. j. O. A. Henry, of
San Francisco, and Prof. E. E. Barnard.
of Lick's observatory. The attendance
at each of the lectures was very large
and unusual enthusiasm was manifest
throughout.
THE EXERCISES.
The exercises opened as usual at
am. with devotional services. The
Rev. P. M. Webster, of Long Beach,
conducted this part of the meeting.
He took for his text as Truth, and read
ing from the 9th chapter of Matthew and
the Sd chapter of John.
There were about 80 in attendance at
normal school hour at O'Clock. Prof.
Hutton conducted the meeting and de-
livered good, sensible talk, in the
course of which he referred to the teach
ers' meeting as pertaining to Sunday
school work, and emphasized the idea OF
having the Sunday school class meetings
breezy, and not dull or dry. He also said
that the teachers should not study only
the bible in their Sunday school work
but should read other works as we'll,
that might benefit their labors. OF the
principles and methods governing the
rAho Il
the pupil second, law of corporation
between teachers and pupil; third,
dehniteness in teaching; fourth, sys-
the unknown fifth, illustration sixth,
value of repetition.
AMERICAN LITERATURE.
The lecture on American literature at
10 o'clock, by Prof. M. B. Anderson,
was thoroughly able, and was listened
to with wrapt attention. He first gave
slight review of poetry, terming it
the record of the happiest moments of
the happiest and best minds, and also
a record of the visitstions of Divinity to
man. There can be no cast-iron defni-
tions of poetry. Speaking of the origin
of American literature, he gave brief
sketch of its condition the first 200
years of our existence, during which it
showed no distinctively original feature.
Every literature shows marks of race,
time and environment, and our litera-
ture shows all of these. The real dis
| tinctively American literature did not
develop until 1916. AS the country de-
| veloped and we were surrounded with
more comfort and luxury and the con-
ditions became more favorable, better
style and higher polish and politeness
were developed, and today we can safely
say that there is distinctiveIy Ameri-
can literature as different from the
English as are the individual charac-
teristics of an Englishman and an Amer
ican.
To those who have listened to Prof.
Anderson it will be interesting to learn
that his specially is with English liter
would naturally be inferred from his
lectures ON the latter subject.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
There were two young women who
played yesterday afternoon in the COM
petition for the Sohmer prize. They
were Miss Clara Bosbyshell and Miss
Ethel Stewart, both of Los Angeles.
Their selections and teachers were, re-
spectively: Miss Bosbyshell, selection
from Mozart; teacher, Miss Berger.
Miss Stewart, The Swallow and the
Prison teacher, Mr.. Wilde.
The popular divine, the Rev. J. s. A.
Henry, followed with one of his charac-
! teristicly excellent lectures. He spoke
on the Vortex of the Ages. The main
thought was embodied in the idea that
| the world has been characterized by
critical periods, every one of which was
preparatory to the supreme crisis just
| before US.
| He went on to mention the different
| conditions of the present age, pointing
out clearly it's many dangers, and in va
rious instances showed how they could
be overcome and order brought out of
chaos. He defined socialism as
the overthrowing of all existing
things, both in the home, in
the church and in the government. 1t
prefers, he said, "bones to bibles and
bullets to ballots, and even now its dis
ciples are training and are waiting the
opportunity to fling red flags of social
ism to the breezes."
Herr Most was treated in most scath-
ing terms, and his creed was, the speak
er said, that God, government and re-
ligion were all from the same piece of
| wood, and to the devil with them all.
This, also, is the belief of the socialists.
The temperance question was also
treated, and, from the enthusiastic ap-
plause that every few minutes inter
| rupted the speaker, it was evident that
he had the entire sympathy Of his hear
ers, who all re-echoed his radical re-
marks on the liquor proposition. He
ferred to San Francisco as ''that out
post of perdition."
The three conditions indispensable to
the publication of society were thrift,
work and sobriety or temperance.
The proposition of closing the worlds
fair on Sunday and OF not selling liquors
on the grounds, was also treated,
the speaker naturally desiring both of
these measures to be enforced.
At the conclusion of the lecture the
meeting adjourned until O'Clock, when
the Round Table was held under the
direction of DR.. s. II. Weller.
EVENING SESSION.
About every seat in the hall was filled
when the exercises commenced, shortly
after Z O'Clock, and although the pro-
gramme had to be cut down fully three
quarters of an hour to enable Professor
Barnard to catch the 10 40 train for San
Francisco, the exercises were well up to
those OF the previous nights.
The following young ladies partici-
pated for the Sohmer competition nrize