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much what the citizen of the United
KINGDOM ss-Ouly rather more so Inc
differences are really on the surface or
z ny own. impression is OF course. I can
pretend to nothing but an impression az
a first glance that IN. spite OK CaV Ye.SL
LANGUAGE character ha bits of native
Americans rapidly absorb and incorporate
all foreiEt elements. In the second or
third generation all exotic differences are
merged. In one sense. the United states
seemed to me more homogeneous than the
United Kingdom There is no state, city
or large area which mas a dlSLLcs, race o5
its own, as Ireland wales ana Ss.oLla1nu
have, ard. of course. there IS nOIhlng an
alagOuS to. the diverse mathematics or the
British empire From Long lSlauQ TO. san
yer s island there is one ,dOmtnanI race
and civilization. one language. one type
race, that nationality, is american TO the
core. And the consciousness OF It's vast
expansion and collective force. his the
mind of American citizens, as nothing
can do TO this degree in the tIons 81
western Europe.
Vast expansion collective force, mex
hausa pie energy-these are the impress
slous forced on the visitor beyond all
that he could have conceived or had eX-
peCted TO find 1t is born in him that he
has come. not so much TO another nation
as to new continent inhabited by a
people soon TO be more numerous tnau
amy two of the greater nations of western
Europe. having within thciT own limits
every climate and product between the
3 Opics and the pole. with natural re-
ourceS superior to those of all Europe
put togethep,and an almost boGndless
{. I'd for Development IN the future. Ell
r2peans. being in touch with the eastern
seaboar0. do not easily grasp the idea
how fast the population, wealth and en-
efgy OF the Jmted states are ever sweep
ing west u is an amusing catch when
one is told that the central point Of DOp-
ulation Of tho United states IS now at
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vaded Luzon, that land OF the earth
quake and the typhOOn, and is not like
" to do so soon. These perilOus visit
ants govern the character and the size
of the houses, which are very rarely
more than two stories in height, even
these, the ground floor is used as
coach house or to lodge the native serV-
ants 1t is apt 20 be too damp for the
family who live on the upper floor,
which is divided into a spacious hall.
dining and reception reOms, and bed
and other private apartments.\ The
kitchen is oftenS1 separate building
with a rooted passage heading to the
house Beside it. is the oath room, an
apartment much i'm demand among the
Filipinos. with whom cleanliness is one
of the chief virtues, and bathing a daily
duty.
These houses were formerly of stone.
but since the great earthquake Of 1880
only wood has been permitted in the
second stories. These are fitted with
sliding windows all around 70 permit
the freest entrance of air. At the same
time. to keep out the hot glow Of the
sunlight. glass is replaced IN the win
dOWs by translucent sea shells, through
which only a modicum OF light can
filter. COrrugated iron roofs are com
mon, but they are very hot. To obvi-
ate this. many roofs are covered with
a thin layer of nipa-paIm matching,
which is cooler. though dangerous in
case of fire.
In the native quarters of the city the
houses are much simpler IL design,
each being composed of a single story,
fitted from FIVE to ten feet into she air
The house is built upon four stout
posts and put together without q nail
or peg, the form being OF bamboo, tied
together with rattan. Nipa-Palm
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n NOE THERE was a shy, Apologize
4 Man named Buchanan Meek. who
lived i'm Chicago. He wore "a fright
ened Smile most of the time. Pr Meek
believed I'm the Golden Rule. although It
seemed 60 be costing him Money every
Year. He never liked to hurt any ones
Feelings or. inconvenience those with
Whom hs came rs Contact. and so lie was
always backing out OF the Way and Beg
SinE Pardon. He had read in q Book
somewhere that he who is GcRt1e and
Cons.derate wiz d-d Sunshine wherever
hc goes. but one cannot depend on these
We5the Predictions lie had been cast
.ing his Bread on the Waters for many
Years without getting any Returns SO far
a. he could hgurc. lie mad been scatter
Iing Seeds OF Kindness. but there had
been a. Steady Failure of Crops Some
times Mr.. Meek would suspect that there
.lt seemed that those who got G ut and
imade a Rough House and walked ON 9TH
Ter People usually secured Seats at the
First Table, while the dihoe0t and UDOb-
truSivG kind got nothing better than a
bella te0 Whack at what was left over. nj
In this same Town OF Chicago there was
Ia man named CoviugtOu Beeter. lie was
II walking Thunder Cloud and showed his
Teeth when he talked. lie worked along
ION the principle that a. Man is entitled to
.anEtllHE chat was Spiked Down unless
.he ha ppened To have. Nail Fuller with
E1tm. Mr.. EeofCr was good TO himself. He
was; a selt-made Business shark who had
.neElected Co read up on she Brotherhood
Mr.. lIeek. carried enough Milk Of HUI
man Kindness to stock "A fIir-SiZed
.Creamery- Ife could not find it i'm his.
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me any more with a, consciousness of my
own defects theaEen knows they are
plentiful enough when / venture to re-
cord, not as a. matter of Individual taste,
but as, q simple fact. the inability of
countless intelligent Americans to take
POe's poetry seriously.
They will admit that he had a "man-
ner,' and a very distinctive one. But they
find outside this manner, little if any
real thought. The novelty of voice,
with these commentators, Is nOthlngf be
side what il Utters. The thing that is said
comes first with them, and not the phrase
in which it is clothed
They point to one whom the world con-
cedes to be the greatest Of poets and ask
If his mere manner was essentially diff
( ferent from that of certain brilliant Eliz-
, bethians who surrounded him-if the
hallmark of his immortal plays cannot
solely be found in the beauty. and gram
deur Ot-thelr -thought, m their mighty
manipulation of human character, and in
their abundant yet unique play of mag
inatiOn and fancy
The anti-Poe people deny that even
THE Raven is in any sense a master
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1fERICA Is 1ETACHED from Eu-
"a rome bv a. gulf which, however
~ ~ trivial it seems 90 the summer
81 tourist iu his iuNuious stateFQom
. and saloon has been n yerttable
middle passage to- millions and millions
of American citizens and their PARENTS
a gulf which the Upper ten thousand
cross backward and forward as we go 70
PARIS or Rome ont which Ioeloo1J OF
American citizens never cross or TecIu-S
To them our LuI 2pc is n ldr-dWdy W9lt ~
7snich they VII never Sc nor. Sf.-le-l
can. never directly touch their LNeS'
whilst the vast eEpanSes and lneNndusL-
fble resources of their own eout5ueht are
Thousand practical and visible ways
And yet the paradox strikes my m1ln
itor finds 1t I'm the great CITES lS eessa-
tally the same as our own, that tu spite
OF the geographical isolation ana tne
physical cout1tions sthe citizen OF tht
limited Statessis at heart much the same
man as the subject Of King Edward o1at
life IS the same. mutaGs mutauQlS, Lli.l g
SIS nearly identical, that TIE 10y ~ ola
differences we hear Of have beeh ABSURD
Is cN6 g-gerated. Put aside trivial pecH-i
Uartics OF language. manuers, haDit or
climate. admit certain air OF Paris lp
New York. and q certain EuropedfW zone
I'm washing tou--aEd these only concern
small sections-in both cities-for Iny part
Z noticed no radical differences between
Americans and Englshmen. Pnyslc8Ny-
they are the same race. with tne same
strength. emery and beauty; except Iop
lives have tae same interests. aims and
standards OF opinion. and ia ltterafIr
science. art and philosophy. che Atlantic
g. less Of a barrier between our two pe0-
pies than b. st. George s channel m the
Tvveed in the British isles The CITIZEN
81 the Lnited states seems to be very
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leaves OF. woven bamboo strips form
the sides. and the roof is matched with
nipa leaves or COgOn, a long grass
The floor is made of bamboo strips.
with their rounded sides uppermost and
tied together SO as to leave wide cracks
between. Swinging shades, which can
be propped up during the day, serve
for windows A ladder takes the place
of stairs. Ventilation is the most i'm
portant thing that is constantly
sought.
often there is only a single room,
which serves for cooking, eating and
sleeping, the FIRE being made on a heap
of earth in one corner, and when IN
use filing the house with smoke. In
the better houses there are two or
more rooms. There is one great. dd-
vantage In these houses. In case an
earthquake should shake them down or
"a typhOon topple them over, no one IS
likely to be hurt. The materials are
too light to do any HARM And they
are so open to the air as to make them
much cooler than close built dwellings,
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So Mr. Meek decided that he would
shift his Tactics and begin some noisy
BlUfiing and compel People TO notice him.
He said MS. Money was as good as any
,1Ody.s and he did not propose TO be Run
over any longer He decided to start IN
at the Restaurants, because that was
where then had TTampled on him Tor
Twenty wars. He drank q. couple or
went into Busy cafe. As usual 2
Waiter brought him the limp Napkin and
a couple of pOunuS of Ice and then evap-
grated. Mr. Meek waited five minutes,
and then All the accuInulated WRATH that
had been slTnnerlng ana sJearnlng Tor
Years broke forth In one Mighty Protest
He pounded on the Table, just as he had
seen Mr.. -Beefer DO He denounced the
Boarding House. He called for the Head
" alter in fierce ana student Tones He
-annOunced that he would Register his
Roar with no one but the Boss. He had
waves the CnderHngS out of the way and
demands an audience with the Main Prop.
IL seemed to Mr.. Meek that he was Civ
ing a very fair Imitation He knew that
when Mr. Beefer arose and Declared him
self he always Got Away with It, But
4 perhaps Mr.. Buchanan Meek didn't do it
( Just right AT any rate. the Manager Of
the Cafe ran up and Handed him q Cou-
pie. Then Mr.. Meek's True Nature as
+ serted ltSelI- He began TO Apologize and
that was the Signal for a C.lose-In. The
. w alters beat him down TO a Gasp and
ran him out to the Street and tried to
. upset a Hanson Cab with HIM.
: AS soon as Mr.. Meek recovered and sat
mp on the CObble Stones. he made a Vow
that he would never again speak above a
MORAL: Ktczers are Born and not
Made.
= copyrighted, 1901. by Robert Howard
Russell.)
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ACTORS and ACTRESSES.

France, would occupy the first place at
our national Theatre Francois. Yet the
masses OF. the English people do not know
him, his great art is above the heads of
the public, and you never meet him at.
.duChesses' ''at homes" He loves his arr
like the great artist that he Is, ana NE
Paganini S violin, he does not dine OUT.
On the other hand. some English actors
make S150O90ea year, who, in countries
like France and Germany, where Ora
matte art is appreciated by the whole
nation. would not get a salary Of SO a
week This success, however, is eX-
planned. Success always is. They are
shrewd men of business, good Judges OF
plays and clever managers. who know
how to cater to the tastes of an unap-
Gle that is wanted and sNilfuily advertis-
ing it.
The actor should have no more person.
atty than the lump of clay out of which
the sculptor forms, at Will, lovely We
nus. repulSive monster. a tiger or
lamb. The actor should be made ofSwaX
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TFNT1E ErEli5 h critics one observes. have
seldom "a kind word for any of our
American poets. Their praise. when
fl can be termed so. is OF "a quality 70 be
called. GaIaumgly- weak.
Rot long aso + read I'm THE Academy
Coutemutuous words about WmtJer,'
I.ourfeUow is spoken of resrectfuuy, butt
no more. though his popularity ia ENG
land. among the great educated middle
classes. long ecIipscG that OF Tennyson.
British Judgment esteens the verse OF
Lowell while holding It uuspontaneous
and professional. Longfe4low, by the way.
once said to me something Of this same
sort Regarding Lowell, and perhaps, on
tire whole, it is not an unfair verdict. En-
ersou Is hardly regarded here as a. poet
at ALL but his CSsays have found multi
rudes Ok warm admirers, Bryant SIS held
as Cd sort Of w OrdSworth reflected in Ice
Constantly. how -Vcr. YOU hear nova
days the names of Walt Whitman and
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latter only catch. as r. rule, sl1rewd, pen
niless and old bIaSe arfstOcrats. who use
American dollars TO restore their ances-
trail homes and get their coats of arms
out of pa WI. whereas the actresses. bur-
lesllse ones especially. get the rich, young
ana good looking marquises,- earls and
barOus. Now is all this 1t should be-
The actor is bard working man. who,
If he has talent. should be both respect
ed'aud ADMIRED as the interpreter OF IRA
matte litera ture. but lit should not be
forgotten that he iuteTpTets and does not
produce. AFTER All. he PLAYS to the dram
Artist the part that good clay and fine
marble play TO the sculptor. / am ready
To admire the good actor, TO applaud
him. but when ] see him sitting close
tOtthe Chairmau-at dinner and / see Mr..
Arthur w pinerO somewhere lower down
at the DISTINGUISHED guests table. I eX-
clai inn. no. this won Co there is sOTnc-
thing wrong here Fancy the man who
reCites Victor HuEO's poems or the one
who either publishes, prints or binds MS
books sitting higher than the poet at la
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Edgar Allan Poe coupled together. and
not seldom you hear it stoutly afhhned
that these two writers arc the only two
original poets our country has thus tar
produced.
This statement slowly mult.plies itself
Somebody made it about five years ago,
and it seems to have tCkled the ears of
certain young English critics very mHuy
of the English-criIiCs on newspapers and
weekly Journals are decidedly young just
now. and like the word convincing
and a few others, il has passed from pen
to pen.
90 not think that many mature British
minds agree with it'll am certain that
many mature American minds hold it in.
scorn. But Ceaving Whitman, in my.
present paragraphs, quite aside, Mr..
HOwefs has lately fold us of how s'the
great New Englanders' would have none
of Poe.
I never heard LOngfellOw speak against
his work, although this was no sign mat
he dislil1ed fl, for the author Of 'Eiawa-
tina hated To speak i'll Of any one But
he did refer with sadness to Poe's cruel
attack upon him as a plagf2r1st after hav-
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although that verv. day he had spent the
whole afternoon with them, lunChing.
driving and freely. conversins. all in the
light of day This bOyish exploit showed
the born great actor
The Anglo-SaxOns, who have had Mrs.
Siddons, Mrs Sterling, Mrs Kelly. who
still have Miss Ada Rehan in America
and Mrs. kendall in England can boast
of possessing great actresses. great in
their versatility. who can move you to
tears and cOnVulse YOU with laughter
But. in England, beauty and fine
clothes well worn viii help a woman on
the stage more than talent One hears
of women mpIing from S30Q 10 $500 q
week who can neither play, sing nor
dance. .-.
once heard the following remarks IN
the stalls:
How do YOU like the play?'
What a lovely gown she wears in the
second act. Didn't she look beautiful2
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and be able to identify himself in fea-
tl1re voice gesture and carriage with
the character he personates-have no per
sonality OF his own ever manifestIng It
self He ought not to seek TO remind
the audience that Mr.. So-and-SO Is on
the stage, but simply to present the ere
alton Of a drama fist, even if, by 50 doing,
ne should fail to receive an ovation apd
even fail~tO have a, reception when he
arrives before the fOOthghts- An actor
He should only be part Of clever IL
fusion.
OF all EngHsh-speaking actors. the one
who perhaps best peCsOnifies the. actor
to me is Richard Mansfield. On the stage
his personality does not perYade the
fiend. a most respectable young, doctor,
an old rake or a most captivating,
amiable young officer, and the story
goes that he once passed himself off as
a young Russian princess among a, COM
pany of ladies who Knew him intimately,
but did not in the least recognize him.
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piece Behind its thin tinkle. its affected
imagery, its verbal tricl1eries, its hectic
and meretricioUS elegiacs, lies they per-
sist. no spiritual or ethical substance. 1t
is the young Verdi, but not even the boy
iSh Wagner. Regarded purely as a piece
of metTical technique, it has what mu-
sicians would call tempo in excess, what
they would admit as melody in a very
trivial form, but no suggestion of har-
mOny.
Milton the 'mighty-mouthed inventor
of harmOnies," would have deSpis6d 1t
as mere .barrei-Organ ciatter, and TenRy-
son Though ne is said to have liked IT'D
has created seas of song on which it
might easily float like the toy vessel of
a child.
Contemners of THE Raven, have less
mercy for 'Ulalume'' and ''Annabel Lee
At the first they laugh, holding it ride
ulOus ''TThe moon with its duplicate
horn they think meaningless alleging
that a moon with a duplicate horn wCuld
be one with d double horn sticking. out
from its disc. and that you might with
equal common sense speak of an OK with
o a duplicate horn, or Of Mr.. Bierce viii
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BILE! But it is so in England, If nowhere
else
The n1unIner worship is about fifteen
years old. which is long, life for an
English fad
IF the worshiped heroes were the most
gifted artists. the greatest occupants OF
the English stage, j should find 1t quite
natt1ral- but it is not so. The heroes are
not so much the Irvings. the Wynd-
hams and other geniuses Of the boards,
but the successful actOr-managers, who
make money. keep carriages and pairs.
and have their wives loaded with Jewels
like American parrenues to advertise the
when art is judged by the money 1t
brings in
Far away, miles away above the rest,
the greatest English actor is Mr. J.
Forbes Robertson, a man whose voice is
like the music OF a violincelIo played BY.
lite, whose technique IS perfect, whose
very personality is the emblem OF DOeuc
and dramatic power, an actor who. an
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POE ~ EWGLAWD.

being a great literary critic. was one OF
the most charitable.
Emerson called Poe. as everybody
knows. the man with the jingle and
could endure nothing that he wrote; and
we must remember that Emerson. besides
bein ga great literary critic, was one of
the most Charitabl.
However. quite apart from all this, it is
our. own Yankeeland-Or distinct part
OF twill soon pour out upon the Poe
wOrshipers here.
Undoubtedly. among his own country
folk, Poe has many sincere devotees- But
Mr.. HOwells' great New Ehglauders'
nave, nevertheless, left their heirs and
assigns
The other day, in these columns, MI
Ambrose BierCe limited that I was a wild
ass, stamping on the grave Of Omar
Khayyam
1 don't dispute at all Mr.. BieRce's au-
thOrity on this point. The gentleman, for
ali 7 know to the contrary. may even
write his own eloquent essays in a room
lined with mirrors.
But I hope he will-not attempt to thrill
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permit me to tread for ~ instant on his
favorlte domain OF natural history an ass
with q duplicate ear.
This, they vii concede. might be held
as pardOnable d slip as Byron-s There
let him lay" or ShakespbaTe's sea-cOast
in Bohemia, if. unfortunately It did not
serve to accentuate the voX ct .praeterea
nihfI-Of Pee.
Byron's errors and Shakespeare. both
stand forth from passages Df their best
work; those of Poe are too fatally
wrought into this fabric as testimony Of
shaIlOWness. And so, they~contend, is the
impossible line In my most immemOrlal
year" actually declaring that one year,
or one anything can be more immemOr-
ial than another.
Two years can no more. be differingly
immenOria1 than d moon chat is, our
own particular satellite) can. be credited
with having a duplicate horn. AS for
''AIERabel Lee there might have existed
a young girl by that name who lived in a
kingdom by the sea many and many a
year ago, but Is not the pseudo-Tona1ti-
chsn OF such a. presentment somewhat
droll?
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By Edgar FaWCeff.

If she were an English girl with that
extremely English name, why use for
Great Britain such a Saliently high-falu-
tin substitute as "a kingdom by the sea 2''
If she were an American girl, she Ger
taiuIy did not ha3 from a ''kingdOm-'
and is there any other conceivable earth
ly Kingdom of which any "Anuabel Lee
might with the VagueSt hint of prGba-
bility be pronounced an indigenous prod
Uct2 But did Poe care at all about these
matters his chauengers inquire.
Did he care to do anything more than
aimlesSly spin out what M Henry James
long ago called his very valueless
verses2'' Did he not feel that whatever
fame he might secure would spring from
his very valuable prOse-au elrin note of
terror, horror and mystery which belongs
u no special land, almost TO no special
time, but which Seems with q genius
WHEREOF his poetry shows hardly the
1rI-
EDGAR FAW CETT-
London, May. 1901.
Copyright 1901. by W. r. Hearst
(BN EDGAR E,AWCETT-)
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N THE DAYS OF NOLIERE, a nun
q dred years aaer the world had pro-
duced- Shakespeare. actors and act
resses were not allowed 20 he
buried iu consecrated ground 10
France. and iu EuEland they were
treatEd as 'rogues and vagabonds. In
Frauce they now receive the cross and
ribbon of the Legion or Honor. ana I'm
T-7gIsi1d they are kuighted. rec we'd at
court. sized to be met at dir On Lhe
most ariSt1c ratio houses; I'm -gmetery
nova DAYS they viii CCuSecratC ne ground
rhev axe buried Don. know "a drama. tSt
trho went on the stage, and being asked
WHY ne had taken this strange step, re-
piled. y wanted 10 raise m}SeI So
cialIE. ..-..
At a public dinner in England titied
guests sir next to the chairman, iuen
actors. then painters and SCulptors, then,
FAR away. literary. men In the ul;ttri-
monial market. compared 80 dctresSeS,