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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-12

william Conncll. james Archibald, Al.
!red Hand. George II. Catlir, Henry BcIin,
Jr, william L. Smith, Luther Keller.
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always shall so long as we have
our Donatellas, our Malcolms, our
Runnymedes.
1t was handsome of The Dilettante to
remem Der us for so long time amid the
beauties of Yosemite.
Apropos of those same beauties, The
Scribe told capital one on John Muir.
The hero of the glaciers had stopped
for a night at Macauley's famous
tavern on Glacier Point. In the early
morning he arose and wandered off
up the point. He stood gazing out
across the valley, drinking in, as only
a man like himself could, the majesty
of that marvellous vista of all creation and
the kingdoms thereof, when Macauley him
self came up behind him. Every one who
has been in the Yosemite will recall
Macaulay and the peculiarly rich character
of his Scotch. He clapped the scientist on
the shoulder. "Ah, now, Misther Muir"
he said unctuously, "an' what'll ye be think
in o. that sight now? Amt that rustic ?''
But if The Artist, Hygeia and The Dilet-
tante were away, others of our summer
filters had winged their way back. Heter-
odoxia had returned to make things lively
for US in her usual inspiring fashion, and
The Babes-in-t the Woods were back from
the Redwoods, full of enthusiasm and of
plans for cottage in the Berkeley hills,
whence in due time we shall have more
rare poems and beautiful pictures from
these rarely gifted souls.
We were a confiding group. The balmy
air, the glorious view, the mellow Califor-
man sunlight sitting down through the
leaves, the melodious murmur of the little
stream running among the willows. all
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Runnymede-And now for what the Sec
ond Babe-in- the Woods thinks.
Second Babel in-the- w Woods-I should say
that poetry is the concrete expression, in
rhythmical form. of the ideal.
Runnymede-What has our Charles to
say on this great subject2
Observation-Disclosures touches the heart
most deeply-that is poetry-but, really,
Runnymede you must give US your idea.
There was a general call for Runny-
mede's definition.
Runnymede-Poetry, to me, is the song
of the soul. 1t is not necessarily defined
in words, nor is it confined to the human
mind, except in its interpretations. The
sea, yonder, is an everlasting poem.
Second Babe the e-Woods-May ask a
question: You consider that poetry is an
art, do you not?
Runnymede-1t is both an art, and some
thing greater than what we technically call
art.
Second Babe-But you consider poetry
different from any other art-different from
painting, for instance?
Runnymede-It includes all artistic
forms of expression. The painter is poet.
The sculptor is a poet. Music is the ex-
preston of certain emotions in the soul.
We are considering now the influence of
poetry on life.
First Babe the W oods-The ages of
power in the world have been the ages of
idealism. The poet Is the prophet and
sees in life the one whose Office it is to lead
US to the highest idealism.
Heterodoxia-If / may speak from my
own experience, so far as my observation
has gone, am unable to see that poetry
has the slightest effect upon the lives of
the poets themselves. Look at Verlaine,
Watson, Poe, Byron, Swinburne and a
dozen others whose expression of them
selves by their lives has been nothing like
what Runnymede calls the song of their
souls.
DonateIla-Who knows what their lives
might have been but for their poetry? i.
Heterodoxia-We can only judge them
by what they are, and their moral range is
certainly lower than that of the average
man.
Donatella-But look at Browning, at
Tennyson-at all the great names in po-
etry.
Heterodoxia-I cannot see that poetry
had any particular influence upon their
lives as we know them by general report.
Runnymede-Do you mean that as
positive statement, or do you simply in
terpose it as a suggestion that poets may
fail as well as others?
Heterodoxia-I mean that there is no
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petuous manner in which they fight for

petuous manner in which they fight for
their opinions
DRAMATIs PERsoNE.
The Artist-William Keith.
Dilettante-Karl Howard.
Donatella-Ina D. Coolbrith.
Runnymede-William Greer Harrison.
Hygeia-Mrs. Charles Webb Howard.
First Babe-in- thew oods-Mrs. Louisa Mapes
Keller.
Second Babe-in-the- -Woods-Charles A. Keller.
Heterodoxia-Mrs Edna Smell Poulson.
The Chiel-Adeline Knapp.
The scribe-Mrs. Schermerhorn.
Kenneth Malcolm-Charles Edwin Markham,
Charles Warren Stoddard was the guest
of the holiday-makers on Olympus at their
last assembling.
"You won't miss me-" The Artist had
written from the mountains, whittier he
had travelled in search of the ever-elusive
"picy." "You will have Charlie Stoddard
and you'll never miss me-"
But we did miss him, sorely. Hygeia
and The Dilettante, too, were absent in the
Yosemite, whence both sent greetings.
You will have all the more poetry be-
cause | am not there" was cruel Hygeia's
closing sentence in her letter.
please tell them all how much regret
that l am so far away" The Dilettante
wrote. II don't know what should say,
were l there, of the influence of poetry on
life. Ny whirligig life is just now the sort
of poem that Chimmie Fadden would call
perpetual song and dance.'"
But to be serious. Poetry has been and
is the vehicle in which most of us ascend
the heights. More than any other infiu-
ence it inspires our lives with love for ma
ture, for our country and our hearths-for
beauty and truth and for art itself
By instinct and by reason we love and
hate, like the beasts, those things that are
good or bad for our safety, but as human
beings it becomes part Of our happiness
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what our poets are driving at. They talk
about "lewd stars" and amounting waves.
They tear the language limb from lin b in
their efforts TO express that which is mex
pressible unexistent. They give us words,
words, words, wrenched from their natural
meanings, and arranged in all sorts OF un-
natural forms. The poetical words have
all been said, and we are coming upon
time when the world wants thoughts in
stead of fancies, and at this period of our
intellectual development the natural We
hlcle OF our intellectual expression is prose.
Malcolm (who has been with difficulty
restrained during these remarks by The
ChleI-I have the distinction to disagree
with nearly everything The Chiel has said
First of all, 1t is not true, in my judg-
ment, that all the great poems have been
written. Poetry will exist so long as the
world exists. Science itself cannot de-
stroy poetry. Science only removes one
veil OF mystery to reveal another. Prose
cannot express all that there is to be ex-
pressed. We need poetry to express that
teeting, elusive song of life that is as real
as anything in life. Anything that can be
as well expressed in prose as in verse, L
will agree with The Chiel. is no proper
theme for poem. 1 doubt, for instance,
called poem.
Donatella-It is prose.
:, ,Malcolm-Now take such thing as
Shelley's Prometheus; take such deli
cate imagining as his Skylark, or Keats
Ode to Grecian Urn, and no prose could
express their delicious beauty. Poetic
beauty demands both the music and the
art that are granted to the poet, but not to
the prose writer.
The Chiel-I must disagree with my
worthy neighbor in his denial of music
and art to the prose writer. But my stric-
lures are against the poets OF the day.
They still serenade Shelley's Skylark,
and know not that Prometheus is un
bound, once and for all.
Second Babe-in the w oods-I want both
to agree and to disagree with The Chiel.
strongly dissent from the idea that the
great poetry has all been written. But on
the other hand / think poetry is, and
should be, the expression OF childish
mind. That is, it should be frank and
genuine. Not an undeveloped mind. but
childish in the sense of directness. agree
with The Chiel, too, that our modern
poets are wont to give more at
tention to expression than to thought;
to art for arts sake, rather than TO art
as the Interpretation Of life. If poetry
does not express vital idea it is not poe
try. But when it does express such an
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salvation in poetry itself. The poetical
diathesis, so to speak, seems to have no
connection with ethical standards. At the
same time, / will admit that ii you ask
what rs the influence OF poetry In my
life, must say that l get from 1t an up
lift. have received consolation, courage,
reconciliation from reading the poets.
can meet any emergency of life better
through having fortified myself with the
poets.
Second Babe-It is interesting to me to
note who have been and are most intiu-
enced by poetry. The minstrels, for in
stance, seemed to take it home to them
selves more than any other people have
ever done since history began. In child
hood we are most deeply affected by
poetry The more natural and childlike
the nature is the more it enjoys poetry
and the more cultured and refined we are
the less we are affected by it.
Donatella-May we never outgrow our
childhood, then!
First Babel think the poet must be up
lifted by the poetry as he writes. ltseems
to me that the poet has an intenser emo.
tional nature than any other man; 1T
oftener runs away with him, and he is
oftener led astray by it. But take Shelley
and Keats-they must surely haye been
uplifted by their poetry.
The ChleI-I think it is not so much
that the poet has an intenser emotional
nature than his fellow. but his is q more
primitive order of mind. The immediate
necessity of expression is greater with him
his expression. If he writes he writes
poetry. In his life he is apt to run
into excesses that the more contained
soul avoids. Poets are always eccentric
They are always young. Their art Is much
less subtle than the art OF prose. 1t be-
longs to the childhood OF the race do
not know but that am of the opinion that
We have passed the stage OF racial develop
ment when anything can be said IN verse
that cannot be better said in prose-
A general chorus-"Oh Chiel! ChielP'
Kenneth Malcolm-The hereticS we have
always with US.
The Chiel-I do not deny that poetry
has had its essential place IN the past, nor
that the poetry of the past has its essential
place in the present, but the world is out
growing the poetic form OF expression. Our
younger poets to-day are driven to dire
straits to produce their verses. Most of
our poetry is a mere straining after effect.
Kenneth Malcolm (aside)-And it gets it,
too.
The Chiel-Our poets strive after the
weird the grotesque, the uncouth IN their
agonies at what they are wont to call their
self-revelations, but which are rarely more
! than painful exposures OF their cranlal
caverns. I believe that the great poems
! have all been written; that the poetic form
of expression belonged to less highly
specialized period of the worlds history.
| Mote by The Scribe: great howl of
protest here arose, all talked at once, and
| The Chiel was suppressed, although Run
nymede, with studied politeIess, asked
her if she had anything further to say.l
The Chiel-I have not said all 1 started
to say, although 1 perceive that / have
reached the limit of this assembly's toler-
ance. But look over the field of modern
! poetry and say what sane man can tell
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these conspired to fill our souls with
peace, with love for ourselves and all man.
kind. Who would have dreamed that
Runnymede, the gentle, would be the
one to explode bomb in this peaceful
retreat2 But he did it with lightness
that showed the cruelty to be premeditated.
"We have been talking about poetry"
said he 81 am going to suggest that we
each tell W nat we mean by poetry. Dona-
tella, what is your definition of poetry?"
shiver ran through the group, but
Donatella answered with awe-inspiring
ease.
Donatella-Poetry to me is the language
of the gods, translated for man.
Runnymede-And your definition, Het-
erodoxia?
Heterodoxia-The emotions of the soul,
rhythmically expressed.
Runnymede-Let US hear what the First
Babe-in-the- Woods has to say.
First Babe-in- thew oods-l would say
that poetry is the highest expression of
man in his objective and subjective nature,
in emotional, artistic and rhythmical Ian
guage.
The Scribe (sotto voce)-Out of the
mouths of babes.
Runnymede-Well, Chiel, what do you
think about it?
The Chiel-I protest. The wise man
shuns definitions. They are not to be
given out of hand. object to definitions.
If you ask me about the poetic form
would say that it is the natural expression
of the primitive man; that it is the Ian
guage of the higher emotions of primitive
peoples, and belongs to the youth of the
world. That is of the poetic form of mat
ter. Taking what we understand as poetry
in the universal sense, l should say it is
the harmonious utterance of the spirit in
its higher relations to the universe,
whether expressed in prose or verse, or in
painting, music or sculpture. But cannot
give you definition.
Donatella-No one ever did give defni-
| ton of poetry.
| The Chiel-I think Runnymede should
give US his definition.
! Runnymede-Oh I am waiting to be
| heard last
Donatella-Yes; so that he can come
forth in glory and shine, after putting US
all on this rack.
| TRunnymede disclaims the insinuation
and appeals to Kenneth Malcolm.
Kenneth Malcolm-l think poetry is too
elusive a thing to be accurately defined.
Runnymede-Oh you were prompted by
The Chiell
Kenneth Malcolm (disdaining to notice
the interruption)-Bu as these men of
earth like definitions and must have them,
I would say that, looked at from the mod
ern standpoint, poetry is the rhythmical
expression of beauty. 1 say rhythmical.
doubt if any prose can be called poetry.
You can say it is poetieal, but not that it
is poetry.
Runnymede-You are growing didac-
tical.
Kenneth Malcolm-Looked at from its
purpose l should say that it is the inter-
probation of life, just as all art is an inter
pretatlon of life. On the other hand it has
been called the lmpassioned expression in
the face of all science. l might say that
my idea of poetry lies within these three
definitions.
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to praise what we think is good, or damn
what we know is bad. We want to sing
the good, to build it. to paint it, to scuIp
ture it, and make US music that shall ell
express it," and to be told of it in words SO
pat that they will make the feeling come
when we read. 1t is the Office of poetry
to carry us above our instincts, our reason,
into realm where our thoughts, our i'm
pulses. our actions, are guided and
prompted from a higher source than
these. Under the influence of poetry we
make for better thin gs, always, and we
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THE CALL is pleased to print another
chapter OF gossip that floats from the sum-
NIT of Olympus. Beneath spreading
branches there was congregated COM
pany of friends. How they talked
and what they said has been set down for
the entertainment of the outside world.
That they are not unanimous in wisdom
may be gathered from the fact that they
are not unanimous in anything. That
they are earnest is evidenced by the i'm
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The Chiel-Ah, yes, and Byron's
Daily tea Is ready,
Snug coterie, and literary lady!

Runnymede-Which very apt quotation,
Chiel, reminds us of the flight of time.
minded the Olympians of mund ane affairs,
of trains to get and of duties to perform in
the busy world below. One may not lin
ger always among the benefeent hills,
but, fortified by poetry, as Heterodoxia
had expressed it, we separated, Runny-
mede reminding each that our next assem-
blage would be within the borders of Bo-
hemia
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A Maze at Atlanta.

Mark L. Stone, who had the Mirror Maze at
the Midwinter Fair, has zone to the Atlanta
Exposition to erect similar maze.
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DOODLE SENATORS.
Free Use of Railroad Money I'm the
California Legislatures.

Sacramento cal. March f2-There was
n sensation in the state senate today when
Senator Blggy made charges OF attempted
bribery and corruption. a hill amending
the law relating to street railroads aud
repeaiing a law making 5 cents the max
irnum fare to be charged by San Francisco
street railroads was up for consideration.
Btggy. Of San Francisco. denounced the
bill as vicious and In the interest OF the
street railroad combine. He said any one
who would vote for the repeal of the pres
ent law was a hireiing of the Southern
Pacific Arms, Of San Francisco. demand
ed an apology, and Biggy. first requesting
that his words be taken down. went on 10
say that two years ago he had bsen Of
fered $500 TO vote for certain bills. and
thai this week he had been offered $3.50
to stanu in with the ccrnosnsylon on water.
gas. telephone and other bills, and shat
railroad money was promised him when
he reached San Francisco. as 20 who
were i'm The cofrbine he did not knox.
II don't want 70 know" he said. II
accuse ro man on the floor OF this house
but one man. ard that is the man who
asked me 20 20 IN.
This statement created a terrific row
and many senators who had voted sgains,
the amendments Intended ~ kill ths hill
Under consideration. changed their votes
aud the amendment was adopted by a
vote OF * 20 n
\ committee Of Gve was appointed 10
Investigate BigEy's charges The commit
tee held brief conference after their Af'-
rolntnnen: at the evening session. and
agreed TO meet tomorrow st 80 G. N.
ara begin the Investigation. The charges
made ~ Rsggy are she sensation % the
dsy among ali tire legislators The iEyss-
tigatfor promises rich developments. In
a statement made 20 press representatives
before the committee was appointed. ard
TIE matter thus pat in their hands for tn
vesssratGer. Efgxy explained the charges
freely and said that Senator W j. Dunn.
Dem, OF the Seventeenth San Francisco
district, Is the man who asked him 20 60
into the combine. THIS - DaHns ssxsa
year in the legislature re having feen IN
the assembly before ats election as SEN
aso- four years ago
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Municipal Court Bill Put to
Death i'm the House.
TIE MILITIA coNFEREEs AGREE.
Senate Refuses to Confirm Frank Al.
lyn as University Regent.
The Local Option Rtii May Ne Taken
Tp at ANY Time In the senate New
Land Bin Under Discussion I'm tho
senate To-day and Tomorrow tho
Last OF the session.

Olympia. March -Specisl--Thfs was
tho last day OF the session for the house
TO consider house hills and the senate 10
consider senate bills. The ropuiists ard
country members in the house killed the
hill TO abolish the municipal Seurts At Se-
attic. Tacoma. and Spokane. The senate
refused 10 confirm tha appointment of
Frank Allyn as regent of the state uni
yersEsy. The local option hill was re-
ported to the senate. and msy he called
up at any time. The conferees on the
military hill practically concurre.s in tho
senate amendments. The senate amcnded
and passed the Mills bill. classifying
counties and fixtng the salaries cf officers.
The new state land hfil now undeg
discussion in the senate. carries into ef@
feet the recommendations OF the joint
committee that investigated the state land
department.
In the general appropriation bill. a.
published by the Post-Inteilgencer yes-
tersiay appeared an item OF Ns.Soo for tho
soldiers home. This Is incorrect. the
item having been stricken out because
the home is provided fer In separate
bill 4appropriatsng ssT.seo.
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state Autsorsssss Aaa called out the Eoesi
rsg1sssz o. faseEa arr ytguroas means %
suppress sfe existing laAfssssfss< He
had no doubt nosever. ct tae ability OF
the local Authorities 50 handle tfe mob
m they really set shous doing 80. and In
zny event. the government would rot sa-
terFers unstE the situation was beyond
ire ronsrol Of ths government OF rhs
STATE aisad by All the military force az tes
command
The British cfsesass here regard the
present trouble sa New Orleans as part az
the racial agitation. The progress 81
the trouble = nsirg closely observed by
the British oasetsls, though csey feel CON
hgsent the local sHshcFssse< In Louisiana
are doing every thing pcsssole 20 suppress
the disorder and IL TIE irorAae passes
beyond iocal ccntrui tire Federal aathor-
lisex will take such sters as are neees-
sary TO pretecs foreigners ard Americans
alike.