The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-04

the feet Of tho aged. Mr.. Mcfarland, when he /
had got through with it, must have felt as proud
as Atlas when he hoisted the universe. Our /
and deep Joy have been excited also
by the poem on IAN Eviction" in the course of
Mr.. Mcfarland says:
In cities densely populated
The poor are apt to dwell.
And to describe their misery |
In more than tongue can tell
For in all the vocabulary
We mad no form OF dIction
To adequately describe the poverty
OF Q tenement house eviction.
Doubtless 1t would be difficult also to describe
the riches of an eviction of the kind; but in the
words Of an arch-humorist whom 1t 10 not neces-
sary to name. that 10 only o detail. Sometimes
the Sheriff is anticipated. Mr.. Mcfarland says:
But the night before the eviction
Their last friend comes that way.
Quietly enters through their door.
And to them both does say:
"comei Depart from this dark room
Unto . happier spherel
Ny name 10 Death,
But I bring you no fear"
Next day the Sheriff comes
And rAps upon their door.
But there 10 no voice TO answer.
The old folks arc no morei
No one for them does weep
Since Death has sealed their doomI
Now in Potter'S Field they lie
Silent In the tomb.
1t seems a. though somebody were always
getting ahead of Sheriff Hansen. Even the poets
have come to know 1t. But this is not the cen.
trail idea Of Mr.. Netherlands poem. He con.
cludes:
And thousands OF such people
In these rcokeries die.
rTis time that we should pause.
And AK the reason why.
Why not condemn such plaoesP
To exist they are o crimei
They make p ople old and delicate.
Who should be in their prime.
1t 10 pleasant and relieving to recur to tho
spring, which we all love and could wish to have
indefinitely with US. Mr.. Mcfarland voices this
sentiment in his own characteristic and inim-
liable way:
Spring. we arc exceeding sorry
That you cannot with US stay.
But with cherished hopes we part you
That wen meet some other day.
That expresses the almost universal feeling In
regard to spring. 1t Is tremendously popular.
II would be extremely satisfactory II 1t could DO
unequivocally promulgated. But alasi and
naturally 1t flies before the summer. which
comes with q bake oven and Q humidity Of 90
per cent.
We must confess frankly to the wish that the
MARINE spike which Mr.. W. Clark Russell 40
cidentally kicked out Of the maintop In his
story. ga Noble Haul" Now Amsterdam Book
Company. had xed tho Objectionable
Capt. Scudder. tall hat and all. who wac q tyrant
Of tho grossest variety. and who had no busi-
moss to fly into a temper and sass" Mr.. Rus
sell, merely because 1t landed point down. and
stuck up. suggestive and quivering. In the deck
near him. The marline spike was not intended
for Capt. Soudder. though he very we'll
deserved 1t, and Mr.. Russell. being q young
man Of great height and notably broad In the
shoulders. quite properly knocked him down
with o blow that would have folled an or.
and that did In fact loosen noarly all OF the Cap
tain's teeth. We were afraid that Mr.. Russell.
after no had been ironed by the carpenter,
would be put into the fore peak, q singularly
hot and sitting place. and kept there during the
long and tropical voyage to Australia, II no
had been. 1t would have amounted TO a poetic In
Justice OF tho most outrageous sort. and II 10
even a question II he would have survived the
experience. Fortunately he got away the same
night In one of the ships boats In company with
two daring spirits who rejoiced in what had
happened to the Captains teeth, and tho
three fell in with an American bark full
of dead men and gold dust, which, though
1t had been dlsmasted by lightning and
was infected with African coast fever. they
were enabled to bring safely into an English
harbor. with the result that Mr.. Russell got
$l7, 500 for salvage. and his two companions AZ
much more between them. or course this de-
serves 10 be- characterized as a noble haul
and we are not sure but that any discreet sailor
would consent to DO - sassed by his Captain
and to knock the teeth out of him for a like re-
ward. AS for Capt. Scudder. no died toothlessly
In Australia and was mourned by nobody. Such
was properly the fate OF q vituperative Scoun'
| drsl who lived merely for the qualification Of hil