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and body. But he wns worry kind. and safe near
me and spoke to me AZ long as he was In the
| room. and rccited q translation by Cary OF n
sonnet OF I,anto's-and altogether II was quite a
dreami Lander, too-wnlter Savage Lander
= = e in whose hands tho ashes Of antiquity
burn again-Rave me two Geek epiRramR no
had lately written " = . and talked bril-
llnntly and prominently until Bro the and 1
went together, abused himEor ambitious sinRu-
lnrity and nHectation. But 1t was very interest.
ing"
In the spring OF 1888 occurred the publication
| of Tho Seraphim and Other POEMS" which
| was Miss Barrctt's first serious appearance DO
foro the public and In her own namo as a poet.
Her health was. at this time, in q very serious
condition. owing to the breaking OF a blood ves-
sci. Indeed, from this time until her marriage
in 1s46, sho held her lifo on the frailest of ton
ures. We pass to the spring of 1912. when one
OF her letters shows how faithfully she kept
nm her study of Greek. Gould you really
imagine that I have not looked into tho
Greek tragcdinns for years. with my true
love for Greek poetryf That is asking a quos-
ton. you will say, and not answering 1t. Well.
then, I answer by a Yes the ono you put to
me. Ihad two volumes Of Euripides with mo In
Deyonshiro. and have road him. as woll as
Eschylus and Sophocles-that is from them
both before and since I went there. You know
have gone through every limo Of the three ira
pcdlans long ago In the way Of regular consecu-
tive reading. You know. also, that I had. at diff
ferent times, read different dialogues of Plato;
but when. three years ago, and n few months pre-
yious to my leaving homo, / became possessed
of a complete edition Of his works. edited by
Bckker. why. then, I began with the first VOL
umo and went through the whole Of his writings.
both those I knew and those I did not know. ono
after anothcr; and have, at this time, read not
only all that is properly attributed to Plato. but
even those dialogues and epistles which pass
falsely under his name-overything except two
books, 1 think. or three. Of the treatise DE
Lcgibus,' which i shall finish In n week or two,
as soon as I can take breath from Mr.. Dixie"
Under date Of September, 1912, we find u fur
ther reference to WORDSWORTH: Ills powers
should not DO judged Of by my extracts or by
anybody's extracts from his last published
volume. Do you remember his grand ode upon
Childhood-worth, to my apprehension. Just
twenty OF Drydcn's st. Cecilia's Day his
sonnet upon Westminster Bridge. his lyric on a
lark. in which the lark's music swclls and
exults, and the many noble and glorious pass
ages OF his Excursion Z You must not. indeed,
blame me for estimating Wordsworth at his
height. and, on the other side. 1 readily confess
to you that no is occasionally, and not unfre-
qucntly. heavy and dull, and that Coleridge had
an intenser genius. Tell me IL you know any
thing of Tennyson. He has Just published two
volumes Of poetry. one of which 10 a republica-
tion, but both full of inspiration
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HI.

In another letter. penned in tho same year.
the writer expresses admiration Of Byron. and
throws some light Oh her religious views: THE
truth is, I 'front.' DO praised for being liberal in
Calvinism and love Of Byron. I liberal in COM
mending Byron! Take out my heart and try It'll
look at 1t and compare it with yours, and an
swer and toll me IL l do not love and admire
Byron moro warmly thnn you, yourself, do.
I suspected, indeed. Why, l am always re-
preached for my love to Byron. Why, people say
to me. you, who overpraise Byron!' Why,
when I was a little girl land whatever you may
think. my tendency is not to cast Off my old
lovesO 1 used to think seriously of dressing
up like n boy and running away to DO
Lord Byron's page. And I to be praised now for
being liberal In admitting the merit Of his
poetryi II As for tho Calvinism, l don't
choose to DO liberal there, either. / don't call
myself q Calvinist. I hang suspended between
tho two doctrines. and hide my eyes in Gods
love from the sights which other people say
they see. I believe simply that the saved arc
saved by grace, and that they shall hereafter
know 1t fully; and that the lost are lost by their
choice and free wildly choosing to sin and die;
and I believe absolutely that the deepest damned
Of all tho lost will not dare whisper to the near.
est devil that reproach of Martha: II the
Lord had been near me I had not died. But of
the means OF the working Of Gods grace, and of
the time Of the formation of the Div!ze coun-
sells, know nothing, guess nothing. and strug-
gle to guess nothing. and my persuasion Is that.
when people talk of what was ordained or APP
proved by God before tho foundations of the
world, their tendency is almost always toward a
confusion of His eternal nature with the human
conditions of ours. and to an oblivion Of the fact
that with Him there can be no after nor before.
At any rate. I do not find it good for myself to
eXamina any moro the hrickhafa NJ coptrovarav
there is moro than enough to think of In
truths clearly revealed; more than enough for
the exercise of the intellect and affections and
alterations"
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into tho unity OF u biography.
The principal Incidents in Mrs. Browning's
life are we'll known, and we shall, therefore, pass
directly to the letters, after reciting u few pre-.
liminary facts. elizabeth Barrett was born on
March o, 1906. Mt Coxhoe Hall. about FIVE miles
south Of the city of Durham. Her father. whose
name was originally Edward Barrett Moulton.
assumed the additional surname Of Barrett on
the death of his paternal grandfather. to whose
estates in Jamaica he was tho heir. In 1909
he removed to his newly purchased estate
of Hope End in Herefordshire, among tho
Malvern Hills, and only n few miles from
Malvern itself. Hero he lived until the deprcs-
sion Of the sugar industry in Jamaica COM
PEELED him to reduce his expenditures. 1t
was ut Hope End that tho first twenty
years Of Miss Barrott's conscious life was
passed. She herself furnished Mr.. II. II. Horne
with the following biographical details in a let
ter written on Oct. 8. 1913: "a bird in u cage
would have rs good a story. Most Of my events.
and nearly all Of my intense pleasures. have
passed In my thoughts. l wrote verses-as I
dare say many have dono who never wrote any
poems-very carly, at s years old and earlier.
But. what is less common. tho early fancy
turned into a will. and remained with mo. and.
from that day to this. poetry has been n distinct
object with mean object to read, think. and
live for. And l could make you laugh. although
you could not make tho public laugh. by the mar
, ratiye of nasccnt odos, cpics, and didactics cry
inR aloud on obsolete muses. from childish lips.
The Greeks were my demigods. and haunted me
out of Popo's Homer until 1 dreamt more of
Agamemnon than Of Moses, tho black pony.
And thus my grcnt epic of IL or IL
years old, in four books, and called Tho Battle
Of Marathon,'-and OF which fifty copies were
printed because papa was bent on spelling me
is Pope's Homer done over again, or, rather. I'M
done: for, although a curious production for n
child. 1t gives evidence only of an Initiative faoul.
ty and an ear. and n good deal of reading IN n
peculiar direction. The love of Pope's Homer
threw mo into Pope on one side and into
Greek on the other. and into Latin as n helm tn
Greek-and the influences of all the tendencies
An manifest so long afterward as In nv Essav
m Mind, a didactlo poem written when 7 WAS
n or ls. and long repented of ma worthy of all
fepentance. The poem IA initiative in it's form
yet is not without traces of an individual think.
ing and feeIInp-the bird pecks throupb tho
shell in It. With this 1t has n pertness and
pedantry which did not even then belong to the
character of the author. and which I regret now
more than I do the literary Effectiveness"
It was during the wears at Home End that
Elizabeth Barrett was first attacked nv serioua
fitness. AT l5." she saws in the autobio.
graphical letter already ouoted In mari. .I nenr.
" died. and this NAV be connected with a
abatement by one Of her friends tn the crcct
that. "one day. when Elizabeth was abopt
15. the Young girl imnatient for her ride tried
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Mrs. Browning's poems were. from the first.
popular in the United States, and the courtesy
with which she was treated by American
magazines and newspapers not unnaturally
led her to think well of our country. This feel
ing finds expression under date of January,
1s43: Tell me. have you read Mr.. Dickens's
America and what is your thought of 1t like .
II I were an American, 1t would make me rabid.
and certain of the FREQ citizens are furious, 1
understand. while others speak peace and en-
sue it., admire as much of the book as deserves
any sort of admiration. and attribute tho
blamable parts to the prejudices of the party
with whom the writer fell in and not to a
want of honesty or brotherhood In his own in
t%cntions. / admire Mr.. Dickens as an imagina-
tive writer. and l love the Americans cannot
possibly admire or love this book
Some OF Miss Barrett's critics. and oven some
of her publishers. objected. IL seems, to the fire..
quent occurrence OF the word God in her poems,
Her cousin. John Kenyon. took the samo view
in some comments on THE Dead Pan," which
no had seen In manuscript. She replies to him
as follows: my dear cousin, if you had not re.
minded me Of WORDSWORTH exclamation
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would rather be
A pagan. sucked In a creed outworn-


and IL he had never made 1t. I do think that
its significance would have occurred to me, by q
sort OF instinct, in connection with this discus
sion. Certainly. 4 would rather be n pagan
whose religion was actual. earnest. continual
for week days, work days, and song days-than
i would be q Christian who, from whatever
motive. shrank from hearing or uttering the
name OF Christ out OF a church. nm no ia
natc, but l like truth and earnestness in all
things, and l cannot choose but believe that
such a Christian shows but Ill beside such q
pagan. What pagan poet ever thought OF cast
ing his gods out Of his poetry In what pagan
poem do they not shine and thundori And.
II Ito approach the point in questlon-if i,
writing n poem. the end of which is the extol-
ment of what l consider to be Christian truth over
tho pagan myths. shrank even there from nam
Ing the name of my God lest it should not meet
the sympathies OF some readers. or lest II should
offend the delicacies OF other readers, or lost,
generally, 1t should be unfit for the purposes OF
poetry. in what moro forcible manner than by
that act II appeal to Philip against Philip can /
controvert my own poem. or secure TO myself
and my argument a logical and unanswerable
shame II Christ's name Is improperly spoken
in thpt poem. then, indeed. is Schiller right. and
the true gods OF poetry are to be sighed for
mournfully."
IL ID Wel known that Wordsworihs later
poems did not advance his reputation. Mrs.
Browning. nevertheless, was loyal. In May,
ls43. she said: IL think of him now exactly as l
thought OF him during the first years Of my
friendship for you. only with an equal admlra-
tton. He was q great poet to me always. and
always, while l have a soul for poetry, will be
soi yet said. and say in an undervoice. but
stcadfastiy. that Colerldge was the grander
genius. There is scarcely anything newer
In my estimation OF Wordsworth than
In the color OF my eye" In . letter
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Mrs. Browning's first letter to her Oldest
and dearest friend. Mrs. Martin, is On apol.
ogy for her marriage in detail. and. with
some extracts from it. we must conclude
this notice Of the first volume OF these liz
teresting letters. 1T is nearly two years
ago since i have known Mr.. Browning. Mr..
Kenyon wished to bring him to SEQ me five
years ago, as ono OF the lions Of London who
roared the gentlest and was best worth my
knowing. but l refused then, in my blind dis
Ike to seeing strangers. Immediately. how
ever, after the publication OF my last volumes.
he wrote 10 me. and We had a correspondence
which ended in my agreeing to receive him as |
never had received any other man. ] did not
know why, but 1t was utterly impossible
for no 10 refuse to receive him. though /
consented against my will. lie writes the
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-02

BsidrS a larkl AddlshcS, ii ths bdnean
opera house, last evening" tns Bitrner
theatrical company fiads thsit first sp.
psaranco in Las Vegas, giving "0ut OF
Darkness a drama Ia four acts.
The company ia, without doubt, the best
that has appeared In this city in years,
and thatthey pleased their audience was
attested by the vociferous applause which
greeted the many excellent features Of the
performance.
The Telegraph was an unqualified sue
cess, giving with unerring accuracy, q
faithful Reproduction Of q New York fire,
showing the fire department. on a run ur
Broadway a stable fire, In which horses
are rescued from the flames; the Bryan
train, the Mckinley Inauguration parade,
and other Interesting sights.
The singing and dancing Of Miss Ruby
Rutledgs caught the audience, while the
| singing OF Ned Mitchell was one OF the hits
OF the evening. Edward b. Kelly, in a
droll monologue, kept his hearers In good
humor for several minutes. The company
is worthy of liberal support and should
have crowded houses during the remainder
| OF their stay.
master aud Man" will be the play to-
night, and Is conceded fully equal, II not
snrpassing last nights performances.
The famous dog, "Skates," that accom-
panies the Bittnsr theatsr company, is
four years old and weighs 100 pounds. He
is a thoroughbred Dane, and will be in
evidence at the shows by the Bittner com
pany at the opera house, this week. Capt.
Birtner states that he will keep up a "con-
til performance" from the time the
curtain rises until it falls on the last act in
sMaster and MAN,
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!. 4. AApp Isal h0Has is0la ths .SatA!

?" LL- II
4. H. AApp sat1 hohis ffotH tito sSatdi
Carlos uabaldon Is up froih Howe atatiohl
Ike LAWS and wife are of for Kansas
City.
Don Pedro Psrsa Is up from Bernaiillo,
to-day.
Fernando BacA and SON visit own from
Anton Chico.
u. L. Hamblin took passage for the south,
last evening.
Max Luna departed for his Los Lunas
home, last night.
Col. r. @. Head reached watrous from
Denver, yesterday.
Gov. NJ. A. otero again visits bis home
lofty from Santa Fe.
W. @. Reid been called to Mora on
professional matters.
Eugenio Flores left for Rociada On courl
business, this morning.
p. D. McElroy dropped OH the train from
Springer, last evening.
r. a. Laborteaux is at home from a
quick run down to Lamy.
Eugenio Rudolph Ia in town from Ro-
ciada disposing Of some hay.
Lige Weeks visits scenes of younger days
from his Mora headquarters
Gregorio varela visits the county seat
from San Geronimo, to. day.
Hugo Goldenberg visits the metropolis
from Ell Yeso, down the country.
Mrs. Eli Caldwell and children are at
home from Leadvllie and other Colorado
points.
b.. l.. Barker and Col. FgA. Bhke hit
the road for their mountain homes, this
morning.
Miss A. L. Gum has returned to the hot
springs from a trip across the mountains
to Santa Fe.
Charles Kingsley is back from TERRA
Amarillo where he had been called on the
Absyta case.
Ollie Earickson Is at Santa Fe, to-day,
looking after.penitentiary bids for Gross,
Blackwell & Co.
q. b. Hemphill has been about town, TO-
day, representing the Pacific publishing
company at Oakland, Cal.
F. s. Crosson, member of the asylum
board and great admirer of Henry George
I and his ideas, is down from Ration, to-day.
Judge H. l.. Waldo, whose name figured
10 this paper's ''stock notes' unintention-
ally, last evening, Is In return from Santa
Re.
Ernest Browne and family departed for
their Socorro home, last evening, after q
visit to relatives in the city of the
m%eadows. ~
J.. K. Blanton and wife, with their SON.
Ia. la ", Geo. Carter and wife. pulled out
this morning for this morning for their
sheep ranch down near Ft. Snmner.
Ex.Probate Judge Manuel G. de Beca
and Hon. Manuel A. Sanchez, member Of
the thirty-second legislative assembly,
have been visiting Santa Fe, on business.
Mrs. Julianita v. de Chavez, mother OF
ex-sherif Frank Chavez, Mrs. Geo. knight
Mrs. J. e. Lacome inc Mrs. Borrego are
all over from Santa Fe, visiting the family
OF Ben Romero.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-02
RAILROAD RuMHLINGs.

Engine 712 Is being equipped With a
snow plow. She has not yet been assigned
to her run.
Pete Murphy. of the Atchison water ser-
vice, passed himself down from Colmor,
last evening.
Harry N. Taylor, train dispatcher at
Needles, CAL, died at that place, Tuesday,
of consumption.
II. s.. Stutler is now In the employ Of the
Wells Fargo company, up at La Junta,
Colo, at the depot.
Conductor q. e. Fraser, on the Needles
run, Is q patient at the local railway hos
| pital In Albuquerque.
Several Of the engineers on the western
| division Of the Atchison have gotten over
the 5000 mark per month.
Eugine 719 is in the local shops for frame
bolts; also, the Waldo coal run engine, No.
204, is in for slight repairs.
Eight Harvey house girls, en- route for
the new eating house at Winslow, Ari-
IONA, passed through the city last evening.
- L. IbOkbAcf lOA npAAy y cA "
terminal In Sc. Louis, has accepted a simi-
lar position with the Atchison at La Junta.
Charles Jones, Of La Junta, has been no.
titled to appear at Topeka for examination
for promotion from the left to the right
hand side of an engine.
Ten merit marks have been given an en-
gineer for good judgment in repairing an
engine that had broken down while hand
ling an important train.
Wiper Geo. w. Ewing, of this place, ex-
poets to leave for a visit to bis old home in
Massachusetts,. 1t is said that Mr.. Ewing
will return with a better-half.
Sid Boardman, for mauy years a conduc-
tor on the Santa Fe-Pacinc, has resigned
and he and his family have located at Las
Vegas. They lived at Needles.
Two OF the popular round house en-
ployes expect to take unto themselves
brides, about Christmas. 1t is learned
that the fortunate young ladies reside in
Albuquerque.
Ed Stubbs, a bridge carpenter, In the
employ of the Atchison, down at San
| Marcial, died at the railroad hospital in
this city Sunday morning, the remains
having been shipped to Morrow, Ohio, by
Undertaken Biehl, this morning. Deceased
was a member in good standing OF the
Odd Fellows lodge at San Marcial.
There had been no call issued for q meet
ing of general and travelling passenger
agents at Purcell, 1T, but nevertheless
there was one Of the liveliest meetings
ever held by those individuals at that point
on Saturday. The occasion was the dis
banding of Ringing Bros big circus, and
the attraction for the passenger men was
the possibility of securing the ~trausporta-
ton Of over 400 people to the winter quar-
tiers OF the circus, in Wisconsin.
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School Board Meeting,

At the regular nesting of the board Of
education, last evening, II. q. Coors was
given the contract for the coming year for
furnishing the coal.
Miss Laura Davenport was elected to
all the v acancy created by the resignation
Of Mrs. J. b. Dickinson. A certificate of
health signed by DR.. e. B. Shaw was
presented to the board and the same was
approved.
Vigorous steps will be taken by the board
to collect the gaming and liqnof liosnees
now overdue. ,a s~s
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The W. c. T. U.

The meeting of the W. G.. T. u, yester-
day afternoon, was we'll attended and was
OF unusual interest to those present. After
the regular business, extracts from Miss
Wizards address, at the opening of the
national convention, at Buffalo, Friday
October Goth and reports Of national organ
izers, were read. Miss Wizards address
was particularly enjoyed.
From the reports Of the organizers, II is
learned that during the year many new
unions have been organized.
The local union here has been doing
much in a quiet way, the reports Of the
superintendent OF the departments taken
up, being encouraging. The meetings occur
on the first Monday of every month. Sew
eral new features have been introduced
which will add to the interest, and the
ladies cordially invite all friends inter
ested, especially urging all white-ribboners
who may be in the city to add encourage
ment and cheer by attending these meet
ings where they will find a warm welcome
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-02
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

DEPOT HoTEL.-M. Truesdale, New York;
Mrs. s. D. McGuiley, Pueblo; J. g. Mo.
Murtrey, Kansas City; Miss A. l.. Garvin,
hot springs.
NEW OPTIc-Geo. M. Stanley, Detroit;
II. e, Wolf, McGregor, Iowa; J. D White.
man, Denver; H. Goidenbers, El Yeso; j.
Woodbridge, Flagstaff; Ed Buck, Lamy;
Frank =. Crosson, Ration; Mrs Mcdonald,
city.
PLAZA HoTEL-B. Sanchez, Cleveland,N.
M; M. A. Otero, Santa Fe; O.eJ. Baird,
Denver Pedro Perea, BernaliIlo; Carlos
Gabaidon, Rowe; Encarnacion Gonzales,
Pecos.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-02

Street Commissioner Eli Caldwell, who
returned last night from Trinidad, say,
she people of Las Vegas should be doubly
thankful for the condition Of the streets 10
this city. He says the streets of the Colo
RADIO town were one solid %quagmire, and
that in crossing a street one had to literally
wade, the crossings being in such bad
nhaHa
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-02

Capt. R. @. Rankin, of the Otero guards,
has been appointed major of the First
battalion, vice Major o. G. Parker,
resigned; Sergeant W. Il. Kelly, to be
captain of Company 81, vice R. C. Ran
kin, promoted, and Sergeant Emerson
Atkins, to be first lieutenant, vice Lieut..
Taylor, resigned. Their commissions will
date from the LIST day of November.
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noinr Out ofBusIness.

Hing Wah Lung desires to make known
to the people of Las Vegas Especially the
ladies) that he intends retiring from the
Chinese and Japanese fancy goods bust
ness. All his sto * OF genuine ~chinaHare,
etc., will be disposed of below actual cost.
Those desiring to purchase holiday presents
will do we'll to call on Hing Wab Lung.
Stone building on the Junction OF Main
and Bridge streets, East Las Vegas. N. NJ.
301-2m
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-02

Albert Lawrence wired Gross, Blackwell
IL Co, to-day, that their store at Catskill
was broken into last night, and the safe
blown open. Outside of damages to the vault
and safe, the loss is estimated at 1925 in
cash and 500 in merchandise. No clue TO
the robbers.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-02

At the session of the board of regents Of
the asylum, this morning. DR.. W.. r. Tip
ton was named as medical director of the
institution in place OF DIR. J. Marion, who
has decided to locate with his mother in
our sister republic of Mexico.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-02

The mission that has been in progress at
the east side Catholic church, for the bene-
ft Of the Spanish-speaking people of the
parish, Rev. I. r. O'Keefe, pastor, will
close with most solemn services at 1880
O'Clock, this evening. Las Vegans who
understand the beautiful Spanish language
best speakers in these parts, in Spanish,
Rev. j. D'Aponte, 8. j..
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-02

Rev. e. G. Lane was unable to preach
last evening at the Baptist church, because
of sickness. To-day he is much better and
will preach and sing o-nighr. The Chris
tian people OF the city are urged to attend
thaee sarvicaa