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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
II a verse from fairy-land, as in Keats

a verse from fairy-land, as in Keats:
l a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful faerys child.
Her hair was long, her foot light,
And her eyes wild.
All great and vivid feelings lie close to tears and
therefore all great utterance; and writing so
fully illustrates this strangely moving power of
words as the solemn cadences of the Bible. Open
it where will be it psalm of comfort, some
love-song of Solomon, some denuncation of
spring to eyes at once, partly doubtless through
association, but mainly, | think, from our joy in
the perfectness of the expression:
The Lord is my shepherd shall not want He maketh
to lie down green pastures: he leadeth me beside
the still
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth
while the evil days not, the years draw nigh
when thou shalt say, have pleasure in them.
am the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valleys.
Sleep but my heart waketh: it is the voice of nv
beloved that knocketh, saying Open to my sister
my love, my dove, my indebted for my head is filled
with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Here are words with no apparent sorrow in them
words of peace and faith and good counsel and the
ecstasy of happy love-yet why do eyes fill
as we read them? Is it not because they are so
beautiful and vibrating with the very accent
of living so instinct with the grave import, the
sweet SAVIOR and the keen thrill, of mortal eXistenCe
There are tears of JOY as well tears of sorrow
and it is one of the miracles of literature that
the books of sorrow bring us joy in the reading
though our eyes may be wet read for of
our tears she hath made pearls, and of our
sobbing she has made unto song
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

and Sentlmentallty,
which not unnat-
urally now and
again have put us
out of patience with
tears in literature
altogether. This, of
course, is the charge
we so often hear
made against Dick
ems and Bret Harte,
and doubtless both
writer's occasionally
made use of their
emotional method
in uninspired mo-
ments. Every wri-
ter does this some
times. But, after
all, it is the success
es, not the failures,
that count, and that
the pathos Of such
work as David
Copperfeld" and
Poker Flat" and
"Tennessee's Pard-
ner" rings true is
beyond cavil. |
suppose that of all
writers whose books
have made the
world cry Dickens
has easily the first
place; for of all
writers that ever
lived he had surely
the kindest heart,
and to no writer
has " the pity of
unpitied human
things" made a
more intense or
more sacred appeal.
AS for poetry,
sadness, or a sort
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
Authors Luck

n but his talents did not receive recognition
when his early efforts made. In fact he al
ways attributed his literary successes to accident
Karr was in Paris, and had been sending COM
muncations to THE Figaro" for some weeks
without having received any recognition, until he
finally gave up writing. He ceased reading The
Figaro for several weeks, until Sunday morn
ing a restaurant waiter handed him
He began reading of his own articles though
he could scarcely believe his eyes. Having finished
IT, he found another of his writings following the
first He on and read third. Then he took the
paper his apartments, and spent Sunday afternoon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for MAY FL, 1905

sense of tears in mortal things, and with all the
greatest writer's however impressive and brilliant
their achievement may be in other respects, 1t is
by their possession of this sense by their basic
emotional force that they really subdue and hold
us. For all the infinitely massive architecture OF
Balzac's imaginative cosmos, 1t is not the colossal
scheme of The Human Comedy" that overwhelms
us but the profound emotion for humanity, like
that of some literary Al-Father that sustains it,
and gives such vivid pathetic reality to certain in
dividual figures taking part in the multitudinous
action. Most of his figures coming most readily to
the mind those that appeal to our sense OF pity:
Cousin Pons, Pere Goriot Cesar Birotteau, Luc1en
du Rubempre; and his rascally characters,
with all their ruthless realism, seem less to claim
our condemnation than to inspire in us sort of
compassion for the criminal perversies and little
nesses of mankind. In way or another, it is
always the tragic sense in us to which Balzacs
appeal is made.
And what is true of Balzac is true of all great
writer's. Greek tragedy, Elizabethan drama, or
modern novel the final test is always. the test of
tears; and list of Books that have made me cry
would, generally speaking, be a list of the great
imaginative masterpieces of the world. Some of
these, indeed with the agonizng situations of
life which they present, sometimes hold us in SO
merciless gr of tragic reality that our tears are
frozen they spring, frozen by those
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Eschvlus and Homer and Shakespeare and Dante
sometimes affect us this way bringing us up with
a sharp break by some short cry of unbearable
human anguish or some heartbreaking crisis of the
eternal human drama. The effect is gained with
the simplicity of life itself. There is hardly any
writing" 1t seems as if Nature, as Matthew
Arnold said of Wordsworth's poetry, had taken
the pen and written it herself. Here the tears
remain within the heart, or glitter but moment
in the eve and are gone There is also something
sternly impersonal and generalized about such
preme moments of the master which denies the
intimacy of emotion which writers less lofty
heights compel to share with their characters.
Thus in Tolstoi and Balzac and Dickens and George
Eliot, the Joys and sorrows read of are SO much
our own that we cannot see the page for our tears
Then too there are writers who provoke the gentle
tears of sentiment those friendly tears through
which laughter shines in April shower and
again there are writers who make dead-set at our
lachrvnal glands with conscious devices of pathos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

of luxurious melancholy seems to sigh through it all
as the very breath of its spirit whether it be the SIM
pie ballads of the people the highly wrought mas
terpieces of the great poets The song that lives is
the song that brings the tears either by the voice
OF some human emotion, or by some secret in the
ripping arrangement of the words.
1t is noticeable that folk-song, the poetry made
by the people for the people, is of all poetry the
saddest. Take such verse as that in Clerk
Saunders" where the bereaved girl goes to the
grave of her lover and cries.
Is there any room at your head SAUNDERS?
Is there any room at your feet
what eternal anguish in those few homely words
Most poetry that has become broadly popular is
either sad sentimental 1t is the sadness in his
songs, rather thaa the mrth, that has brought
Burns close to the hearts of the people-the
piercing pathos of such lines as:
Had we never loved sac kindly,
Had never loved sac bindy,
Never met-or parted,
We had neer been broken-hearted.
Similarly, Tennyson and Longfellow are popular
poets by virtue of their appeal to the simple feel
ings of the heart. Critics may wrange over Tenny
sons more elaborate poems; but that final critic
which is Time murmurs to himself:
o that twere possible
After long grief and pain
To find the OF my true love
Round me again!
There is expression simple the involuntary cry
of pain. Only soul in agony or great poet speaks
like that.
But it is not, of course, merely by the pathos Of
its material that great literature makes the tears
rise in the heart and gather in the eyes" No
less often it is by the sheer beauty of the words
or some stirring quality of the rhythm, or by the
vividness with which it embodies any form of
rapture or any moving spectacle. 1t may be just
picture of ships, in the truly magical lines of
Longfellow:
I remember the black wharves and the slips,
And the sea-tides tossing free;
And Spanish sailors with bearded lips,
And the beauty and mystery of the ships,
And the magic of the
the sound of a trumpet in Scott:
Sound sound the clarion, fill the ffei
To all the sensual world proclaim:
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth age without
} UL OF 7 III z s I
By Clinton Damgerfield
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

reading his own ar
ticles, for the paper
was full of them,
containing substan-
TALLY nothing else.
Karr always said
that he was never
SO drunk from the
use of liquor of any
kind as he was that
afternoon, his in
credulity making
his head buzz.
The following
morning he received
a written request
from the publishers
to call on them as
soon as convenient.
There he learned
thatall thewriters of
The Figaro had
gone on a strike, and
the publishers find
ing Karr's manu-
scripts in a pigeon
hole, had examined
them carefully and
put them in type.
They thanked Karr
for having furnished
the articles, and
asked him for more.
They did not know
that the editors had
been killing the poor
authors contribu-
tions. He agreed to
become a regular
contributor to the
paper; and he did it
as a favor to the
publishers, and they
paid him well. Thus
he began a success
full literary career.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

l met lady in the meads,
Full beautiful faerys child.
Her hair was long her foot was light,
And her ewes were wild
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-01-25

Topeka, Kans., Jan. IA bill max,
ing marriages of limited length pos.
sible will be introduced in the Legis.
lature. which will meet here next
week, by +. Dumont Smith, State Sen.
ator from Edward County. Senator
Smith says that he has been working
on the bill for several days. He says
that the agitation over limited mar.
riages, which started In the East some
time ago. has set Kansas people to dis.
cussing the desirability of legislation
on the subject.
"a law" said Senator Smith to.
night, limiting the length of marriage
to ten years would be a blessing to
many people. 1t would not provide for
limiting all the marriages In the State
to this term, but would make II pos.
sible to issue a license which should
be binding on the contracting parties
only for that length of time"
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-01-25
Honolulu Evenings
Says Montana Tourist
Delicious But Dull
Mr.. Stevens Says He Likes Hawaii and Will
Come Again--..He Has Some Suggestions to
Make Regarding What Tourists Like To
Pass the Time.

that dry weather prevails throughout
the group. You are doing well II you
have a surplus Of beef with anything
t, of dry spell and with the kind or
cattle I noticed down the line.
"You raise some fine bananas here.
but why is 1t. II land Is so valuable
for sugar that you use 1t for bananas?
zone thing have to congratulate
Honolulu on. and that is the good wa
ter. You certainly have splendid wa
ter. | noticed artesian wells every.
where on the trip down the railroad;
and you seem to irrigate everywhere;
you certainly look after the sugar cane
In this respect.
II should think that Honolulu woald
rapidly become an ideal tourists re-
sort. l cannot imagine any more de-
lightful place. thought some parts of
California were beautiful. but they
cannot compare with Hawaii. Hawaii
Is SO different. There is something in
the shape and the formation of the
mountains that is fascinating. The
bathing at Waikiki is. to me. invigorat-
ing. We go in bathing there every
day. I felt kind Of stiff. as II | had
o cold when I first arrived, but one
swim at Waikiki cured me OF all that.
The evenings on the verandas are most
delightful.
But. with all the wonderful nat
ural advantages Of this country, why
don't the people wake up and do things
In the evenings. The town is dead
after six or seven o'clock. Everybody
appears to go home to bed In this
respect Honolulu is unlike any Ameri-
can town | ever was in. The people
here seem Indifferent and lazy. many
Of them. Perhaps II Is the climate;
perhaps It is their nature, but wherever
we go we see lunches Of people lying
down or sitting down, apparently do
Ing nothing. This would be all very
well in the warm afternoon, but IN the
evening why is 1t that nothing Is do
ing?
Seems to me that could rent big
place here and put In a small number
of musicians, serve beer and other re-
freshments, including something In tho
way Of lunch and have something 60
ing on In the place in the way of
Entertainment and attract crowd ev-
cry evening; that could make n for
tune In year or two. Won't they al
low 1t here? Is II against the law?
why, there isn't real good place
In the whole city where a man can get
anything to eat after or 0 o'clock In
the evening. The hotels close up their
cafes at an early hour. We went into
a big place on Hotel street here the
other evening, early, but we couldn't
get anything to drink except soda wa
ter. Another place we went to they
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-01-25
Folk Outlines Ideals
In His
Inaugural Address

Jefferson City, Mo-, Jan. 9.-William
J. Bryan. who came with his wife to-
day to attend the inauguration Of Gov.
ernor Folk, addressed the Legislature
at the invitation Of the Republican
House. The speaker, who was heartily
received, congratulated the people on
the election of Folk, because, he said,
II was the reward for duty well per.
formed. Corporation influences, the
speaker said, often controlled officials,
and to stop this he favored municipal
ownership Of public institutions. He
fire and State life insurance depart.
ments to furnish insurance to the peo.
rle at cost.
IL do not think our banks are SAFE"
said Bryan. "They are SO arranged
that they make money in good times
and throw the risk on the depositor in
bad times" He then made reference
to the affair OF Mrs. Chadwick.
Bryan commended President Roose.
welt for recommending legislation to
have campaign contributions printed.
Promptly at noon Joseph w. Folk
was inaugurated Governor of Missouri.
The ceremonies took place In the
House of Representatives, which had
been appropriately decorated. Gov.
ernor Folk in his inaugural address
said, In part:
Partisanship is good thing some.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-01-25

becomes a public servant--a servant Of
all the people.
II there be any corruption during
this session of the General Assembly
II would be a disgrace to the State and
a reflection on every man Of this body
and upon every official in the State
government.
II is not always by taking money
that an official may prostitute his
trust. He does 1t whenever he uses the
power given him to be exercised for
the public good for any other purpose.
In order to aid In the investigation
OF rumors Of corruption, laws should
be enacted compelling witnesses to
testify as to their knowledge Of brib-
cry transactions and exempting such
witnesses from prosecution for any
matters directly or indirectly growing
out of such testimony.
When legislator accepts pass he
puts 1t In the knowledge of the rep
resentative of the railroad that he has
violated the law and Is subject to in
dictment. This knowledge can be used
by the railroad representative to club
the legislator into submission to cor.
porate interests. Professional lobby
ing should be made a crime.
When corporation obtains a fran
chise II is forfeited by non.use. Apply
this principle to the privilege Of voting
and It will do more than anything else
to remedy the evil of civic indiffer.
ence that is the weakness Of a repub-
lican form of government.
AS another step in the direction Of
government by the people, United
States Senator's ought to be elected by
the people, and Missouri should lead
the demand for constitutional amend
ment providing for this reform.
believe 1t Is the province Of the
Governor Of the State to keep the pub.
lie peace by eottl!us disputes between
employers and employees and he caould
made II his bp'inass. az far as posi-
BILE to do so, IL the contest involves
the public interest in any way.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-01-25

Governor Carter, High Sheriff Hen
~, the Fire Commissioners and other
prominent citizens will witness on
Saturday the 2Sth inst at IL noon on
Union Square the interesting exhibition
OF extinguishing fire with the Magic
Dry Powder Fire Extlnguisher pre-
pared by the Pucinc Fire Extinguisher
Co., a new local enterprise.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-01-25
MASONIC TRAITOR AssAssINATEp

Paris, Dec. 2i.-Dispatches from
Cairo announce the finding of the
body OF NJ. Bidegain, with a knife.
wound through the heart. Bidegain
fled from Paris after betraying Mason.
ic secrets. and the Nationalist declare
the Freemasons killed him.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-01-25
THE AviARY.

The Aviary and Animals, the Fish,
Fountain, the Fresh Air and Mountain
Scenery at the Kaimuki Gardens will
well repay visit.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-01-25

VI horthern montana, Is visiting Homo
lulu for the winter, stopping at the
Royal Hawaiian Hotel. He is q large
minded western man. genial, observ-
ing. well informed and prosperous.
he Is accompanied by his wife and
MISS beatrice Marshal.
Last evening, on the hotel veranda.
where ne was ensconced after dinner.
Mr. stevens was asked concerning his
impressions OF Hawaii and, after few
remarks On Honolulu's active sugar
MARKET the Dement'S to be derived from
an improved harbor and the quietness
OF the town ana the evening at that
| Hour' spoke In brief. as follows:
dropped out TO California just to
take look around and. hearing about
the charms OF Hawaii as winter re-
sort' l decided 10 spend the winter In
.hese isiands. l nave never before
Deeh 10 TINS part OF the world and l
la"st say tnat win the exception OF
lne sea voyage which was unusually
rough l nave been most pleasantly
surprised. l guess we VIII spend an.
o'her month mere and then be getting
rack nome. should like to como
oo"h mere 10 spend the winter every
year.
~ must seem strange down here
WIN summer all the time; l under.
s.ahd that from one years end to the
o'ner there Is no change OF season as
lar as outward appearances are con-
eerheo. lhere Is no seed time and no
harvest time IN hawaii, that is no
particular time; II Is all seed time
eno harvest seems 10 me you can
s.oA ah!'hihs IN tne ground mere at
any time anu u VIII grow; when II
sro"h you harvest II and plant
asaih' se''ihs se'eiai crops In year.
iio" eau you keep track OF time IN
iiono'u'"' WITHOUT any chahge OF sea-
sun
near IL SAID that you are havin.
eo'u weather aoWh mere now. Gosh!
iou aoh ca'i TINS cold! why, back
W ho"'an" we nave IL sometimes 20
u'srees Deiow zero; years ago we used
u nave IL ~ ana on degrees below
zero Dut somehow II seems that
warmer weather Is now becoming the
RUE.
e,nce we nave Deen In Honolulu
We nave ori'eh AROUND quite DIT.
we nave Deeh up 10 'he ran ana nave
taken run dowh the iihe' WISHING the
sugar plantations 1 never knew be-
io'e 'ha' u 'ook e'sh'eeh months ior
sugar 10 grow we were naturally I'M
pressed WIN the completeness OF the
piah'a'ioh Works' the great mills ana
'ne system OF operation
I'm interested IN cattle myself
DUCK III montana In Fergus County,
! own quite Dlt Oh rahch; some
.nihs IKE hiteeh thousand mead OF cat
We anu may De hity thousand sheep.
on' us great country, all right, but
YET l never saw anything like Ha-
wal II ID SO inherent mat Is the
hist thihg' IL seems 10 me- That must
ai"a!s impress the stranger upon his
aPpioacn 10 Hawaii--lt Is SO diner
eht' VI course we expected 10 see
aone 'oicahic mountains ana cocoanut
palms ana all that' out the realization
eAceeued our widest anticipations.
Ever!tnins ID green ana beautiful
anu reireshihs ana aehghttui' What
mas attracted me more than awning
aoou' 'he CITY ID tue pride "hich peo-
PIE seem 10 take IN the care OF their
safuens' All arouna IN the suburbs
"e TUG must eareiuIiy kept the most
peautlui lawns anu 'he hhest array
auu variety Oh hoWers. ohe sees
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-01-25

Fine Job Printing at the Bulletin.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-04
AN ENCHANTED LAKELAND.

The Highlands of Ontario" consider ed the most beautiful summer resort district in America, Is annually attract ing more attention as the ideal play ground for the tourist and holiday seeker During the last week in Juno this season, the members of the Build CTS Exchange of Cleveland, Ohio, to the nMmber of two hundred. held their an- nual outing in the Muskoka Lakes dis trict, one of the principal regions of this vast territory. making their head quarters at the Royal Muskoka" Ho- tel. The Cleveland Plain Dealer of June 30th publishes an article by their special staff correspondent, in which appears the following The Royal Muskoka Hotel is one of the largest and best equipped summer hotels in Canada, opened a week earlier than usual to entertain the builders. The two days here have been most thor oughly enjoyed by the members of the party. and the picturesque and beauti- ful scenery along the railroad and lakv' route, Ah the centre of the Highlands amazed and delighted the Cleveland CTS"
 Take free trip-a mental little jour ney through Muskoka. by asking for that handsome Muskoka publication is- sued by the Grand Trunk Railway Sys- tenn. It contains large map, nine- teen views and a fund of information. Apply for copy to w Robinson, Travel ing Passenger Agent, 5O6 Park Build Ing, Ptttsburg, Pa. -adv.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-04
MINES CHANGE HANDS
IF. M. JACKSON SELLS BIRMINGHAM
 DISTRICT PROPERTY.
Mrs. Richmond Pearson Hobson HI at Tuxedo Park, N. Y.--Negro Con- vict Is Accidentally Killed Near Pratt City.

Birmingham, Sept. 3.-(Special. )-J. B. Wadsworth. Secretary and Treas urer of the Blocton- Cahaba Coal Com- pany. has purchased all the outstanding holdings in the company, including that of F. M. Jackson, President of the com pany, and will hereafter be the entire company. He has been elected Presi- dent and General Manager. A Secre- tary and Treasurer will be elected, two shares of stock in the company being out.
 The Blocton-Cahaba Coal Company is commercial coal companies in the Birm- ingham district, having mines at Cole amor In Bibb County and producing be- tween 500 and 750 tons of coal day New mines are to be opened and other development done. The purchase Is said to have involved thousands of dollars, the stock being wofSh something. The company has recognized union labor right along and there has been no ces sation of work for any cause at the mines. A large business has been en- ioyed and orders are in hand or in sight which will warrant steady pro- duction of coal for some time to come.
 No statement is made as to what bus mess MT. Jackson will enter. He has other interests in this district He is ing as President of the Birmingham Commercial Club two terms and taking part in general affairs in this district. J. B.. Wadsworth is well known throughout the State also. He was Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pytaias in Alabama and is still very active in that circle.