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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11
FEARS FOR HER CHILD.
Mrs. Josephine Berry Wants Pro-
bate Court to Protect Her.

bate Court to Protect Her.
Imbued with the idea that her husband
from whom she is parted, will steal her
tWelve-year-old daughter, Mrs. Josephine
Berry, living on Minnehaha street, has
peIllloned the PROBATE court that Humane
Officer J. A. Moak be appointed euarian
of the child.
The father, Joseph Berry, works in
Wisconsin at his trade, a stone cutter
cure the child, preferred charges against
the mother which, however, We're not
me wife claims that Berry of late has
been making frequent trips to St PAM
and is hanging around the house. his
lntsndons, she thinks, being to steal the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11
OLSON 5 CLAIM IS SEALED
TODAY WILL DEVELOP WHAT HE
is TO GET FOR Loss OF
A FOOT
GRAND JURY INDIcTs FIVE
No Charge Was Found Against
Charles Erickson, Who Had
Been Accused of
Larceny.

Tn the United States circuit court, late
yesterday afternoon, sealed verdict
was returned by the jury in the case
of Hartovic Olson against the Great
Western railway. Olson, a minor,
through his guardian, is suing for the
loss of foot. He asks the modest sum
of $25 900.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11
Salary Cases Are Continued

The cases of J. @. Adams and E. M.
Parish who are suing the city for back
salaries, amounting to $40 each, have
been continued until January q, by order
of Judge Jaggard.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11
VITAL STATISTICS.

BIRTHS.
Mrs. Simon Harris. It's E Fairfield boy.
Mrs. Henry Roller, 1874 Maria, boy.
Mrs J. Donavan. 100 E. Fourteenth, girl
Mrs. Nels Osgard 81 Atwater, boy.
Mrs. Chas. Schultz, 91S AlbemarIe, girl.
Mrs. John Rasmussen, 132 Jerks boy.
Mrs. Louis Shredder, 1853 Martin, boy
Mrs. William Stone, 861 Aurora, boy.
DEATHS.
Mrs Margaret Lamb, &C yrs, 462 e. Fifth.
John Powers, 43 yrs, st. Josephs
Ann Jane Price, SO yrs, 145 W. College,
c. d. Wickwite, 20 mos, 2lS Chatsworth
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11
One Year was EnouuA.

Gertrude Rafter was yesterday granted
a divorce from Douglas Rafter by Judge
Jaggard. The defendant is now in Grand
Forks, and the allegations were deser-
ton and drunkenness. They were mar
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11
The Quickest Route with Best serv-
ice to Florida.

The Minneapolis & ST Louis railroad
has arranged connection in st. Louis
union depot with the elegant new Florida
special over the L. & N. road, making
the quickest time by twelve hours to all
Florida points. Only one change Of cars
from st. Paul 1893 Robert street.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11
WILL ENFORCE QUARANTINE.
officials of Benson Will Be Made to
Toe the Mark

More smallpox was reported to the
state board of health yesterday from
Money Creek, Candy, st, Johns, Grace
Vile, Thompson, Burnhamville Winona
and Grange. DR.. Bracken left last night
for Benson, where there has been some
trouble enforcing the quarantine
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11
FATE OF CHILDREN UNDECIDED.
Judge Bum Yesterday Heard Tes-
timOny in the Cameron Case.

In the district court yesterday Judge
i5 heard the habeas corpus proceed
carrier, to secure possession of his two
chlidren, whom he claims, are being
withheld from him by his wife.
sides at 116 Martin street
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11
Accused of Evading Tax.

ried in 1896 and the desertion took place
a year later.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11

the annual convention and funniest. at
Wahpeton, N. D.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11
The EniIel SGllCi Grocery @.

The Noithwest's Greatest Grocery Stores.
nth ~ hroadway. 9TH & ST. Pe,..
Absolutely Reliable Groceries.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11

dancing party at Seminary hall this
evening. A programme of twelve num-
bers will be danced at 9 O'Clock
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11

The Ladies' Aid Society of the First
Presbyterian church will meet this aft
ernoon with Mrs. A. H. Hogeland, S13
Goodrich avenue.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11

The Laurel Cycle club gave mem
bers' dancing party last evening at Lifts
hall. Brose's orchestra played On the
committee were F. E. Low, w. Nelson
and q. S. Wedin.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11

The Crusaders will entertain their
friends at cards tomorrow evening at
their hall This is the third of the series
which is proving such a success.
Turnverein St Paul will give benefit
for the class which will participate IN
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11

The Friday Circle will entertain the
members of the Cosmopolitan club of
Merriam Park at 1920 O'Clock this mora
ing, at the Aberdeen. 1.-The paper. Will
be Catherine H., of Russia prepared
by Mrs. F. A. Fegg and read by Mrs
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11

The January meeting of the Woman's
Home Missionary Society of the Woodland
afternoon with Mrs. F. B. Robinson ISL
Hague avenue
New-York tribune., 1901-05-05

well expressed. Merely the technical side he
has made a contribution to the literature OK
Milton which is we'll worth preservation We
may cite in illustration this admirable fragment
His style is not a simple. loose flowing gar
merit, which takes its outline frcm its naturdi
fall over the figure, but a satin brocads, sum
with gold exacIIy fitted to the body. There II
substance for il to cothe but. as his lInIta'ors
quickly discovered, it can stand ale ne He PACKS
his meaning into tine feweSt possible WoiuS, aiiu
studies economy in every trifle- In his later
poetry there no gliding connectIveS; no
pcIysyIIabic conjunctive clauses which MI IN
mouth while the brain prepares itself for the
next word OF value: otiose epithets. ana very
few that court neglect by their ia f&minarl,yc iil9
poetry is like the eloquence of the LORD than-
cellor Bacon as described by Ben Jonson; No
man ever spake more neatly, more pressiy nore
weiShtiIy suffered less emptiness. less luie-
ness in what ne uttered NO member oi IIi n
speech but consisted of his own SraceS- til'
hearers could not cough or look asiue i'o ,,9It. ~
without loss 1t is this quallty OF AiIt'"
verse that makes the exercise or reauinS II
aloud a delight and trial Every Woru - VI
value There is no mortar between the stones
each is held in place by the weight OF the
others. and helps to uphold the buiiaihG- M
readins every word ruust he rendered clearly
and articulately: to drop one out, or 10 sur u
over is to take a stone from arch. Indeed.
If Lamb and Hazltt are right IN thlhNihs taisa s
Shakespeare's greatest plays cannot ne acteu
by the same token Mitons greatest poems & oas-
not De raad s,loul- For his most sonofoGS pa
sages the human voice is felt 10 be 700 INN S a.
instrument: the lightest word in the line ue
mands some faint emphasis. so that the Strohs-
est could not be raised to its true value unless
it roared through some neio1iouS hies
phone.
Professor Trent's short study" of Miton'S
life and works is very short indeed. but WITHIN
it's limits he has compressed a great deaI oi
lust analysis and wise suggestion Ihe p""A u
scholarly but It's merit lies in the authors He~'-
Bile and animated treatment of his subject Li~s
Mr. Raleigh he may be read for pleasure as
we'll as for instruction Professor Corson "ooN
Is intended more especially for students IL u
semblcs all the passages of an autobioSrapnio@'
nature which occur in Milton's works ana TO-
lowing these "Comus" "Lycidas and Samson
Aroristes'- are given A full apparatus of notes
| is provided ard the book should prove cSelu'
! in the schoorOom-
New-York tribune., 1901-05-05

popular conception of Puritansm as something
no doubt sublime, but a'so held in thrall by
elements of feeling strenuous to be narrow
and intoierant. grave and precise tosshut
the door on really noble and uplifting horizons
Says Professor Dowden, in contradiction:
Among the PuritanS not few men and
women who added to- purity of morals and the
happiness of domestic affections, guarded
sacred. the best graCeS of culture and refinement
teenth century drawing by certain pc
culiaritiCS of manner and of speech but he
would not offend by brutal license His temper
might he grave rather than buoyanty gay, but
he would possess within certain springs of hap
pinesS which do not sap the genuine joy of hu
man life. He might be a scholar. Il lover of
music a tower of letters. CrOmwells chaplain
Peter Sterry, who adviser in the pur
chase by the State of books from Usshers col
Nandyke We remember the early home of
Milton the houSa of a London scrivener of Puri
tanic faith and Puritanc habits where the
father would join in madrigals of his own COM
losing, and the boy. by his fathers desire and
through his own passion for learning would
remain till midnight busy with his poets of
Greece and Rome and his French and Italian
studies 1t was of a Puritan divine. Thomas
Young. that Milton afterward wrote: First. un-
der his guidance 1 explored the recesses of the
MUSES.. and beheld the sacred green spots of the
New-York tribune., 1901-05-05

cleft summit of Parnassus. and quaffed the
Plerian cups. and. Clio favoring me- thrice
sprinkled my joyous month with Castalian
wine
He grants that the triumph of PuritaniSm
was too brief to permit of the complete evoIu-
tion of great and extensive literature We
can only conjecture what the authors
might have done if they had had the chance
We car only surmise the question whether
righteousness W oud have lowered in beauty and
severity have worn the garments of joy"
Cromwell saved for the nation ManteSna's 5
Triumph of Cesar and Raphaers cartoons
which latter master pieces as Professor Dowden
notes in justifia bic aside. Charles III was ready
To sell The Protector could be decorative on
occasion. in private life. and in state ceremOni-
ais he could he magnificent. But the times
literature nor art could expect to achieve
really luxuriant efIlorescence. What literature
could do. however. to find in the piair.
and modest reaiti = of righteous living" an in
spration no less potent. while it lasted than
the loftest speculations Professor Dowden is
deeply interesting i'm the demonstration of this
fact which he embodies in his various studies
notably in those of Milt,n and John Bunyan.
His book. may add. though minutely critical
and philosophical. is not without the more viva
cous quality which comes from a sympathetic
Thomas Browne in particular is not only a
sound Interpretation of the thinker. hut gives a
delightful portrait of the man in his habit he
lived. absorbed in the Studi IS of an antiquarian
but devoted nus ,and and father. altogether a
friendly companionabe and lovable English
man
Mr.. Raleigh. though quite ready to admit that
Puritanism Milton's guiding star is never
theless indisposed to- dwell very long or With
much sympathy. the ethical side of his
subject. The crowd of native born Puritans."
he asserts. who sometimes attempt to
claim HIM for their leader. have title in him
He calls the poet IAN alien conqueror" by which
he would appear to mean. in a nutshell that
Milton was an artist: an artist. moreover with
an almost pagan delight in the exercise of his
consummate gifts. MIR. Raleigh never loses
sight of the purely literary magic OF his theme
and his monograph is full of good criticism.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-05

faction Charm Of style. so necessary to the
ideally perfect essay. is. tn be sure strangely
lacking. and the taste which. for example dis
cards the word bees for the little citizens of
a hive" If not positively bad. is at all events
inimical To complete enjoyment of the authors
prose. But on the other hand. Professor Dow
den has something 10 say. and says it with
c'carncss. He interprets in essays notably
lucid and instructive the qualities of Sir
Thomas Browne. Richard Hooker Herbert
Vaughan. Milton. Jeremy Taylor Baxter John
Bunyan and Samuel Butler. These essays, with
the opening chapter on "Puritansm and English
Literature" give edifying view of certain
important aspects of the seventeenth century in
England.
Tho author is especially suggestive in develop
ing his contention taat Puritanism has exhibited
a wider sweep of thought thar is commonly
recognized. y didactc preoccupation he shows
does not necessarily diminish the essential
beauty Of work of art Indeed "a Blessed
Damozel or Rose Mary appears pale and
shadowy marvel of art-wizardry if set beside
peasant woman nursing her infant at cot
tage door old man breaking stones by the
roadside. Pandora and Proserpina and Beata
iseatrx isures of visionary power; but they
evoke a of wonder less large and sane
than what we feel in view Of Millet's pain heroic
sower casting his seed INTO the common clay"
for the genius which finds in the soberest colors
of mans life something less eloquent than
that which usually disposed to look for
chiefly in the pageantry of human affairs in
the most idealistic creations of the human mind.
The crude apple" of Paradise Lost"
reminded. after all serves a sufficient test of
the supreme duty of obedien,e: Ito Mtons
imagination the contest around the appe
seemed more heroic argument for song than
honor of love. TIE most eventful act in the
worlds history is inward decision of the
will" On the point indicated in these words
Professor Dowden rests the argument of every
one of his essays. Keep close to the realities. he
urges. meaning the realities of the soul. it is the
inward" conflict which he loves to watch: those
are spiritual victories which he loves to COM
me morate. He is most interesting when in the
light Of this emotion he seeks to modify the
New-York tribune., 1901-05-05
LITERA TURE.
STUDlES BY DOWDEN. RALEIGH TRENT
AND CORSON.

PURITAN AND ANGLICAN. Studies in Iitera-
ture. BY Edward Dnwden. Professor of English
Literature in the University of Dublin Octave,
PIP Xii 3i Henry Holt * Co.
MILTON. BY Walter Raleigh. Octave. PIP Xxx.
2S6. g. Il. Putnam's Sons
JOHN MILTON. A Short Study of His Life and
Works. BY William p. Trent. octave, PIP. xii.
2S5 The Macmillan Company.
AN INTRODUCTION To THE PROSE AND
POLITICAL WORKS OFF JOHN MILTON. BY
Hiram CorSon. IL. d. Professor of English
Literature in Cornell University. Octave, nn
xXXii, 303. The Macmillan Company.
Professor Dowden observes that in the choice
of his subjects he has been influenced only by
his long and intimate acquaintance with them
and by the personal interest he has felt in the
men their work Hence without scruple or
regret" he says, Il omit many great names be-
ing here content to indulge my likings."
The result is of those books of essays
in which the serious student can find solid salts
New-York tribune., 1901-05-05
WHO WIS JJNIt 50

HIS IDENTITY WITH SIR PHILIP FRANCIS -; =
MORE DENIED.
Who was Juniuso An Erg'i ish scholar WI Es
TO The London Standard points out tEat tn
Franciscan theory of JUnius has recelved Il
great shock since no proof whatever in support
of il has been found either in the newly pub
Ushed Francis Letters in the autobiography
of the Duke of Grafton. that appeared in 1SoS-
"Junius's correspondence with Wilkes. says
this writer. establishes indubitably that he was
. a man of mature age DIR Mason Good.
who was the editor of the first edition of
Junius' containing his private letters. was also
of the opinion that Junius must have attained
an age which would allow him without vanity
to boast an ample experience and knowledge
of the world In Private Letters. No ~.
Junius solemnly asserted he had a long ex-
perence of the world In No Junius re-
fused WiIkess invitation to the Lord Mayors
ball. because my age and my figure would do
but little credit my partner. Under the nom
de guerre of 'Amicus Curise.' Junus declared
that he was an old reader of political contro-
versy and that he remembered the WaIpolean
battIes' But how. then. Philip Francis
have been Junius? The walpolean battles that
Junius declared he remembered began long be
fore Francis born and must have com
pIeteiy terminated when Francis infant
of three years of age. / have advocated in The
Westminster Review and The New G. injury Re
view the theory that Lord Chesterfield
Junius, not only because OF his advanced age.
but also because Chesterfield at that date
a most pTactsed ContrOversialist. Previously To
the appearance of the Letters of JuniuS. in 1,6D
and in litS, Chesterfield used u characteristics
phrase of Junius. Hospital of Incurables' tI-et-
ter is. ad finb. both in public and private writ
ings. The theory that Chesterfield Junus
seems confirmed by the fact that Junius in
itialled his private letters O.
The theory is strictly consistent also with
what is universally admitted. that Juuius was
the many passages in which Junius hints, if h
does not in terms assert. that he possessed
rank as we'll as fortune. In Letter n. Junius
addressing The Printer of The Public Adver-
tiser. declared that. 'YGu, sir. may be satisfied
that my rank and fortune place me above a
common bribe' 80
An interesting part of this letter is the state
ment at the end; Il have received unsolicited
information to the effect that the secret of the
authorship is still being kept in a certain titled
family. who will be equally bound at a future
date To divulge it, But have say like Pitt
That my Information is quite inconsistent With
Francis having been Junus"
New-York tribune., 1901-05-05

Is 10 be hoped that a monthly magazins
dealing with nature will have better luck i'm
TINS country than some weekly publications of
the Kind have had The demise of Garden and
Forest. artistic and competent in every par
tlcular it was. was a blow To- those N no
keenly appreciated its delightful treatment OF
OUT or door matters We wish for American
country Life a longer lease OF existence
New-York tribune., 1901-05-05

In her recent interesting communication to
The Tribune on the heedessreSS with which
the American language is being differentiated
from the English. not Gnly anon. the unedu
Gated, but among those who should he the
starch defenders of precious heritage Mrs
Edith Whartol admitted point on which some
commentators are disposed to lay great stress
1T is inevitable" she remarks. that time and
altered surroundings should modify the Ian
guagc, ANA such changes rs enrich il are wei
Hardy has lately been saying much the same
thing. which is. indeed. what all thoughtful
students of the subject believe But we are
grateful To MIS-. Wharton for writing with un-
impeachahle justice. supported by many well
chosen examples, the protest that is always
welcome against changes that do not enrich
but seriously impoverish. Sound sense in this
field of discussion is curiously rare for it seems
10 look, as Mrs. Wharton looks. on both sides
of the question. to distinguish between pedantry
and intelligence. Rules were made for Ian
guage, not language for rules. and the English
of to-day is not unlikely 10 differ from the
English Of future centuries as drastically in
Some respects rs ii now differs from the Ian
guage OF The ElZabethans. But that the Ian
Euage should he constantly policed in the spirit
which Mrs. Wharton admirably illustrates
Ia her letter is devOuty to be wished.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-05
I)i " \.

DAWN.
BY THOMAS SHADWELIA
The fringed valance of your eyes advance,
Shake off your canopied and downy trance:
PhpbuS already quafs the morning dew,
Each does his daily lease Of life renew.
He darts his beams the l2rks messy house
And from his quaint tenement does rouse
The little charming and harmonious fowl,
(Which sings its lump of body to soul:
Swiftly il Chambers up in the steep air,
With warbling threat and makes each note a
stair.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-05

Answers or remarks that pretend 10 be
answerS-to the quite unanswerable charges
drawn by MI. Churton Collins in the book of
essays lately reviewed in The Tribune.
"Ephcmera Critica.'' continue to make their
appearance in places supposed to be of light
and leading. In "Iiterature' Mr. Collins is
reminded that Iii is human to speak up for a
friend: be angry if your wares are con
femned: 10 wish 10 stand we'll with person
with whom one does business Who ever
doubted il: Ii is human. for that matter. in
tcnsely human. to write rIbbishy books. to
paint inclfably bad pictures to compose music
calculated 10 drive listeners 10 suicide. But all
this is. aS Mr.. kipling might put ii. another
story. Art is art and mathematics is mathe-
maticS. remarked Mr.. Whistler Literature is
literature. criticism is criticism. impartiality is
impartialitv. and the answer blandly Of
fcrcd in this instance seems to us. like SD many
others that have been put in print by the
writers who do not relish the home thruss in
'Ephrm"ra Critica." merely silly. There is an
old story of a London wit who said. when he
heard that the editor of The Times was tO
be married. That will bring The Times in
touch with humanity" Apparently. "I.itcra-
turc.' which is an enterprise of The Times
management is bent on juStifyng with n ven
geance the prophecy embalmed in the epigram.
Mr.. Leslie stephen enthusiast for
Alpine adventure years ago, when the noun
tanS were still unvulearizcd. Now the talk
of carrying a railroad to the top of the Jung
frau CRATES upon his feelings, and he says
in The Pail Mall Magazine" He is a little
dubious To his right 10 object, and wonders,
in fact. if objection in the matter does not
signify reactionary state of mind. Neyerthe
less, he cannot help but conclude that some
thing in The very nature of modern progress is
essentially antagonistic To poetry and romance.
The intrusion Of the railway into the Alps is
really and permanently destructive of their
charms. The subjugation of the whole planet
has brought the daylight of plain prose into
the mysterious regions where fancy could once
which pictured the gorgeous East abounding
in barbarc pearl and gold" The words have
persuasive air, as indeed. such words always
have. for they express Il good deal of the truth.
But they 10 not express all of it, and the part
they leave uneXprcssed is the most important
of all Mr. H. q. Wells. for example. has
shown that truce can he arranged i'll fiction
between romance and science. But even with
out Mr.. Wells romance is safe, for its survival
rests secure upon the instinct of self-preserva-
tion in man. What Mr.. Stephens apparently
forgets. what all the writers of realistic"
novels who knock their heads in vain against
romance forget. is that romance. like truth
health. cleanliness and the of hEmor, is
bound UP in the whole history of the race AMI
is Indispensable To il that life is simply un-
Imaginable without it.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-05

HIS IDENTITY WITH SIR PHILIP FRANCIS oN,
MORE DENIED
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-08-28
BY Associated Press.

by Associated Press.
Providence, r. l., Aug. 27.-S Scott
Hudson, of Lexington, KY, drove
Audubon Boy in the Park Brew $l0,-
600 stakes for 2:10 PAGERS at Nara
gansett Park, won in three straights.
After the race it was announced that
the horse was purchased by James
Hanley, of This city. 4 crowd of 20
600 was present. Audubon Boy had
to go fast 20 win. He made a record
of 2:O6 in the second heat, while the
thild was only half second slower.
SbhyrX S. pressed the chestnut hard.
Easter took she 2:24 trot in straight
heats in slow time.
The 2:14 pace went TO Council
Chimes aite1 TIE first heat was won by
Capt. SphynX. Armoret made some
fighting finishes which was the feat
ure of tie race.
2:14 trot, $l2OO-Easter, first; Mari
que second; Leola, third. Time,
2:12H.
2:16 pace Park Brew, 10000
Audubon Boy, first; Sphynx s., sec
oLd; SOPHIA, third Time, 2:06.
2:l4 pace, $2000-Council Chimes,
first; Capt. Sphyrx, second; Armoret,
tnild. Time, 2:O9H: