The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-07
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beg rot on the street:
But where me sinner stz-ts,
In secret place. ! beg
Or God. WITH oufstgstehe6 han1A
As tAoa has. asked Of ne.
Ralssag try 3owrcast bead,
So have ! asked OF Hin.
s.. trembling. have ! plead
Take ihss ard 90 thy way:
Thy hunger shall soon cease
Thcu pragext bnt FOR bread,
And !. alas for peace.
THE FALL OF THE SPARROW" BY
~. g. Bzlfour. @. p. putnar's Sons. -.
y publishers
The human heart has mary keys, touch
ing strings that vibrate frorn the highest
Joy % the deepest sorrow. A great master
mind can play on ali thsse keys. but thers
are others. also great. who press but enc
key and sound notes which echo IN the
soul
The Fan Of the Sparrow" Is story
By one % the latter. It's music Is ali in
the dreamy. eolorIess miner. bat II Is stiil
music.
TIE entire Interest % the story cen.ers
IN three persons ot vastly different tenn
permanent. the InteTtwlning OF whose
lives beginning in the play Of childhood.
lasts TIL the end. The story Is written
with q couanendab1e PECULIARLY OF style.
forcefui diction. and in many ways recalls
that unique and powerful writer. Olive
schreIner. And failure Is only Gods
road TO success" This Is the spiritual
truth the story tries to make clear:
And the ant climbed and climbed and
climbed. TIL Il reached the top Of the
blade OF grass; and then again 1t climbed
and climbed and climbed. and II only knew
that It was descending when It reached
the ground. Then Il wept.
Il thought I had gone so far. and here
Is only where started FROM It cried.
There was One that answered from the
distance:
Not so: IT is the other side of the
blade"
90 but the thickness OF a blade Of grassl
'fThe hundred-thousandth part OF the
thickness of blade OF grass and ali the
width OF space are alike in My sight" One
said; 'and / guide my ant"
The following summary account OF man
ners In the theater a hundred years ago Is
taken from Mr. Fitzgerald Molloy's ''Ro-
nance OF the Irish Stage" which Dodd.
Mead & Co. have Just brought out In this
country:
Frequently Il happened that while the
pit was half empty and but a single row OF
the middle gallery was filled. over a hum
dred men OF quality. students. biooes and
ooffee-house critics. invaded the stage.
mixing with the players so as scarcely 10
be distinguished from them, lounging at
the wings SO as 70 hinder the entrances
and exits OF the actors. or congregating IN
the background, where they passed free
and-easy comments on the performance,
or otherwise hindered 1t BY exchanging
greetings and remarks with each other
across the stage or with their friends in
the boxes. When, during his visit 70 Dub
lin. Garrick was playing Lear 10 the Cor
della Of Peg Wellington, and they had
come TO that part Of the tragedy where
the distraught king Is found asleep. his
head supported by Cordela's lap. they
were suddenly disturbed. just as the cur
tain was about 10 be drawn. by a gay and
gallant youth, who flung himself down be-
side Peg Wellington and treated her TO
specimens Of his pretty wit. Peg turned
on him wrathfully. and he, forgetting his
gallantry. abused her roundly. while Gar
rick, with great discretion. kept silent
He looked at the fellow. however. with
such Indignation that his glance was con-
s.dered an afTront by the fine gentleman,
who FASTENED away in search Of two COM
rades. with whom, when the play was
over. he searched the house OF Garrick,
vowIng with dreadful imprecations that
they would put him 10 death. On another
night merry young gentleman took II
into his head 20 entertain himself by cut
ting TO pieces with his sword scene
which had been newly painted The the
alter az the time had been lei by Duval TO
a company OF actors. and one OF these
seeing the outrage. in very humble man
ner begged that the young gentleman
would deslst, telling him the scene had
cost a poor set OF men a great deal of
money and that they could not give their
performance. upon which they greatly de-
pended. without its use. The young blood
being wildly incensed BY such interfer-
ence. with furious oaths demanded how
dared a player talk 20 a gentleman. -four
ished his sword and would have wounded
Il not killed the actor had not those
around fnterfered. The fact was thar ev-
cry idlcr with a laced coat and a sword
that every stripping Who had acquaintance
with the actors and could afford shilling
bride. or any bully who could rip out an
oath and flourish an oak sapiing. was sure
10 gain admission behind the scenes. The
upper gallery was n source % vexaiiou ard
terror TO the poor players To this part Of
the house tha liverled ehair-bearers and
footmen were free to resort while they
waited For their employers. and here also
the public gained entrance BY the pay
mont % two-pence. As accommodation
was limited. the crush on certain nights
was great. these who paid resented the
presence Of those who had free admission,
whereon fights followed that deafened the
house and frequently interrupted the per-
sornauce