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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21

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FOR SALE-HOUSES.

FOR SALE-Leaving town july /. will sell
house at bargain; graystone; southern front,
six rooms; cellar furnace; deep lot excellent
repair; price, $500 OWNER, % New York
ave. ne. je2I ct
New-York tribune., 1905-05-28
A sOyG OF LOW DEGREE.
RY MICHAEL. FAIRLESS.

BY MICHAEL FAIRl1ESS.
Lord, I am small, and yet so great,
The whole world stands to my estate,
And in Thine image l create.
The sea is mine; and the broad sky
Is mine in its immensely;
The river and the rivers gold;
The earth's hid treasures manifold;
The love of creatures small and great,
Save where l reap a previous hate;
The noontide sun with hot careSs.
The night with quiet loveliness,
The wind that bends the plant trees,
The whisper of the summer breeze;
The kiss of snow and rain; the star
That shines a greeting from afar;
>Al, all are mine; and yet so small
Am I that 10, l needs must call,
Great King, upon the Babe in Thee.
And crave that Thou would'st give to me
The grace of Thy humility.
New-York tribune., 1905-05-28

when consider him. as on the present oc-
casion. at full length As he says himself:
month twain to live hOneycornb
Is pleasant; but tires of scented time
Cold sweet recurrence OF accepted rhyme
In plain English. little of Swinburne goes a
long way. For a while the color and the move
ment of his verse carry US along. but then the
languorOus airs become suffocating the senSuOus
sweetness clogs, and in the midst of all these
heroic pompositieS We sigh for one clear pierre
ing strain of noble passion. We remember again
a sonnet of Milton's, and wonder once more at
the durability OF the Swinburnian hypothesis.
New-York tribune., 1905-05-28

which he looks back over his long life of poetical
activity But the most important fact about
these six we'll filed volumes is that they consti-
tute kind of challenge to the reader. Perhaps
the latter sealed of the tribe OF Swinburne
in his youth and is still faithful to his old allie
glance. Perhaps the reader has always distrusted
this rhapsodist of love and beauty. In either
case, fancy, the temptation to examine a
little closely into the Swinburnian hypothesis
could not but be strong.
By itself and quite apart from all questions
Of merit or demerit. it is extraordinary hy-
pothesis. SWinburne began his literary career
by scandalizing the oracles, but the rumpus
raised by the first series of Poems and Bal
lads" died down speedily enough for him to n
joy a really extended period of undIsturbed
pose the pre-erninent poet of his day. Even
while TennysOn and Arnold were still living
there not wanting critics ready to acclaim
SWinburne their superior, and that he has
ruled unquestioned since their disappearance
from the shown by the adulation
poured over him from many quarters when the
present edition of his writings was brought out
IN England 1t is because this fame of his is
so difficult to explain that it is. we repeat, ex-
traordnary. One thing that is certain is that
while he has lived in and for his poetry with a
concentration of purpose unsurpassed in the
history of letters he has not survived by virtue
Of the power Of poetry alone. No paradox is in
vOlved in this view Of the matter The truth
would seem to be simply that this born singer
was not a born poet, that the thing denied
him at his birth the accent which distin-
gushes the poet from all other created beings
Nothing could be more futile than to attenpt
to define that accent. or, for that matter. to
describe it But nothing could be easier than
to indicate where specimens of it may be found
Turn to a passage in Shakespeare or to a song
Of Herrck; turn to one of Miiton's sonnets or to
one of the odes of Keats; turn to one of Fyron's
finer things or to one of Landors least ambi-
tious gems and you have the touchstone which
will serve to expose Swinburnes lack of the
divine fire. Is it the tense gravity of Milton
that he wants, or is it the lyric rapture of Her
rick? In saying that it is not either of these
gifts we do not imply that he possesses +hern
but rather that he is without the central driv
Ing force of poetry which We recognize as
breathing life into the prevailing note of Milton
and into that of Herrick. and as it were ratffv-
ing both. We do not feel. in other words that
Swinburne has ever been wholly in the hands
of an indwelling damon; that he has yielded
himself up to a kind of sublime passion allow
ing the spirit OF poetry to speak through his
lips. We would say that self-consciousness had
been his bane, if we did not have the case of
Byron to prove that a may be profoundly
self-cOnsciOus and yet write immortal verse
No, the trouble with Swnburne lies deeper and
If we might hazard guess. would say that
II is to be sought in the excessively literary
character of his point of view
1t has been customary to assume from his
New-York tribune., 1905-05-28

amazing facility and especially from his com
roand over the resources of rhythm. that Swim
burne is one of those poets who sing because
they cannot help themselves. Read HIM IN buik'
so to say: saturate yourself in his characteristic
mood and manner and it is odds that you will
find him. above all things, a craftsman; not
poet laboring in the throes of inspiration and
finging beauty from him as the swimmer filings
phosphorescence from his shoulders as he
cIeayes the sea but a consummate master of
technique. a iuggler playing with effects The
test of a work of literature is, after all. sim
pIicity itself. Can a poem be read second
time and rcread. and reread again, with a sense
of deep delight like that of drinking cold water
in the middle of the desert? Swinburne cannot
even begin to stand this test. He charms, but
the charm fades. There are moments when one
is almost convinced that Swinburne is superb
almost but not quite. He has such splendid
assurance his technique is SO surprisingly brill
liant that it seems something like disrespect TO
take his verses lightly. But how otherwise are
we to take the verses Of a writer in whom the
intellect and the senses are 50 i'll balanced that
words seem to act upon him like drugs, shaking
his nerves and Turing him to rhetorical eNcesses
utterly infmical to the preservation Of the
original motive? If anything were needed to
enforce the point we might find sufficient war
rant for opinion in the curious uniformity
of the great mass Of verse contained in these
volumes-a uniformity impossible to a man pos
seSsing the principle of growth. Swinburne has
tried many FORMS he has written lyrics and he
has written plays, but none of the fruits of his
fondness for experimentation seem to express
a state of soul so much as a state of mind; and
Swtnburne's mind no matter how cOlOred by
the emotion of the moment. has always ap-
peared to be the mind of a diabOlically clever
literary man, rejoicing in the exercise of his
skill In his dedicatory epstle, which. regret
to say, is a terribly inflated piece of prose, he
remarks:
The half Drained creature to whom books are
other than living things with the yes 81
a and draw with the fingers Of mole IS duh
lard's distinction between books and lie. those
who live the fuller life of a higher animal than he
know that books TO poets as much part OF
that life as pictures to painters o. as music
to musicians, dead matter though they may he to
the spiritually StillbOrn children of dirt and dull
ness who find il possible and natural To live while
dead in heart and brain. MarlCwe and Shake
speare [fIschylus and Sappho. do not for US i've
only the dusty shelves of libraries.
No, they are children of nature. these great
ones. and to those who understand them at all,
they are as much part of life as the very air
we breathe. But somehow it is not a child of
nature that Mr. Swinburne seems to have looked
for inspiration at the feet of his glorious pred
ecessors He has written his poems, not lived
them and though he has written, sometimes,
like an angel, our consciousness of his feet of
clay will not down. Least of all will it leave US
New-York tribune., 1905-05-28
SWINBURNE.
The First Complete Edition of HIS
Forks.

THE POEMS OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWIM
HJIiNE. In six volumes Syo pp. XXiX 3lt;
iX S29; viii. 3S AS viii, 49, vii, AS Harper &
Bros
1t used to be a habit among reviewers of
modern poetry to complain that no complete
edition of MIR. Swinhurnc's works existed. An
enterprising American publisher printed, in one
fat volume. some years ago. most, if not ALL of
the poems which were then available, but that
collection long since became too scarce to count.
At last Mr. Swinburne decided to prepare the
edition which lies before It is interesting
because he put it together himself. and therefore
gives his work precisely he would send
it down to pOsterity, and because it contains
long dedicatory epistle disclosing the mood in
New-York tribune., 1905-05-28
THE STUART KINGS.
From Notes and Queries.


The family name of the StuartS was originally
as Mr. Bayley Observes. FitzaIan. The original
Walter F1tzalan (brother of the ancestor of the
Dukes OF N0roilO was Lord High Steward of
Scotland and from this circumstance his brunch
or the family appears To have adopted the name
OF Stewart When the change began is not Ger
tain, but II was probably not later than tht.
time of Alexander. the great grandson of Walter
Fitzalan, for both his sOns-James (the grand
father of Robert III and all the Scottish Stewart
kings and John (the ancestor OF Lord DarnIeyl-
appear to have borne the of Stewart
New-York tribune., 1905-05-28
TTCTORS.

Speak, History, Who lies victors? Unrou
thy long annals and say
Are they those whom the world called the vic
tors, who the success OF a day?
The Martyrs or Nero? The SpartanS who fell
at ThermOpylae's trySt
Or the PerSianS and XcrxeS? His Judges or
Socrates. PLATE or Christ?
New-York tribune., 1905-05-28
gDe 0e,a,'Dork 0rib1roles
ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT.
SUNDAY, MAY 2S, 1905.

Japanese critic has been talking about
Western fiction to NJ. CASTOR Donnet and THE
Academy gives us part of the latter'S report of
the conversation. Why" asked the Oriental
of letters, 'S it so full of love- and of moth
ing else than love? . 1 wonder where
your nOvelistS and your dramatic authors go for
their models in real life 1t is not the drama of
love, but the drama of money that is true to
life The Editor of 'The Academy is much
impressed. Decidedly" he says, this is n new
point of view" We do not see where the nov
city comes in BaZac's success in making
other passions than the passion of love the
pivots of many of his stories has set many of
our latter day critics. and some of our noveliSta
to rejecting. Long ago, if we are not mistaken,
Mr.. HOwells made a strenuous plea for the de-
thrOnement of the love motive from its proud
position as the only one considered sufficiently
potential by the average romancer. He must
be observing with peculiar interest the fruit his
words have borne The love motive is of
course, not excluded from fiction, but again
and again it has nowadays to share the honors
with such elements as are brought in by the
love of money political power by hatred re-
yenge and crime, and even by the scientific
passion. Though the American Balzac is not
anywhere in sight the ambition which may
some day produce him is Enthusiastically working
in many quarters.
New-York tribune., 1905-05-28
FANNY BURNEY.
The NOUeIist at Court and at Home.

DIARY AND LETTERS OF MADAME OAR
BLAY. u77S-lSio) As Edited by Her Nlefh. r.
Austin Dobson. Vol ". pp- 80; Vol V, PIP
524 The Macmillan Company
New-York tribune., 1905-05-28


In that sprightiy periodical, 1.-The Reader
Magazine" we find some satiricaI remarks on
the recent movement looking to the cOndenSa-
ton Of the classics. The editor has observed
the industry with which this preposterous cam
paign has gone forward, and wakes ScOrnfui
what is to be expected in the way of fur
ther violations of the integrity of the masters
We have it on good authority" he says that
huge cider-ppSSeS and cotton-gins are being
Installed in certain large publishing houses into
which will be cast the old dramatic novels of
Dickens and Thackeray, of George Eliot of
Meredith and Hardy, of Howes and James, of
Washington Irving and Cooper, and out of
which the masterpieces shall come neatly COM
pressed into thin duOdecimos, quick lunch edli-
tons which may be read by the busiest in
one streetcar journey between their residences
and their places of business" The picture is
scarcely oyerdraWn. If we are to judge from
what has already been done, there is reason
why we should not look forward to just such
absurdities as those which are prophesied in
the foregoing quotation. Still, we have some
hope that the worst may be avoided. We like
to believe that the public will, Of its own mo-
ton repudiate these monstrosities of editing"
and if this is too fond dream, may at any
rate rely upon the publication of frequent pro
tests from the critics. The remarks in THE
READER offer a welcome sign of the fact that
deadly task unqueStiOned.
If there is one thing more than another which
serves to revive recollection with complete sym
pathy) of Lambs desire to E@feel the bumps" of
the stupid official he met in Haydon's studio,
it is the astounding manner in which some peo-
pie talk about Thackeray. The other day a
volume of Critical Studies and Fragments by
the late S. Arthur Strong was published. 1t
was legitimate to prepare this memorial, for
though Mr.. Strong was not transcendently i'm
pOrtant person, he was a good scholar and did
some excellent work in the field of art history.
But it appears that he did not altogether ap-
prove of Thackeray. In his high and mighty
opinion, the novelist pointed the finger ut pre-
cisey those things and people that do not mat
ter" Now what, we wonder, Mr.. StrongS
bumps like? What, in the name of ali that is
mysterious is It that every now and then moves
some apparently intelligent person to patronize
Thacleray, of all people IN the world? It is not
a matter of taste 1t is not matter of opinion.
To patronize Thackeray is like patronizing Eng
liSh literature in general Sometimes we have
thought that professional jealousy accounted for
the phenomenon. Envy is capable of anything
il will even make man act like a fool But we
give the thing up, give 1t up with bewilderment
and with compassion.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-07-14

of his time in the vicinity of Eureka
and Ely and visited. while travelling
over that section of the state, several
of the big mines that have made
Nevada famous as mining state.
One Of these mines is credited
with yielding over 5000, 900, 900 and
its history is an encouragement to
Southern Oregon miners, who often
abandon a mine because it pinches
out, when if they could or would con-
tinue to follow up the trace, new
bodies cf ore might be opened up.
While the Richmond had yet produced
but small part of its great wealth.
the vein pinched out. but the owners
pushed their development work on a
mere trace of fissure for over 800
feet when they opened up body Of
ore larger and rioher than any they
had previously found
Mr.. Lawton stated that he found it
very hot in both Nevada and Oalifor-
MIA and he was glad to get back
where there were at least cool nights.
He found that there was much in
terest in regard to Southern Oregon
among the mining men both of Cali
fornia and Ne vada, and he anticipates
that large amount of capital from
those states will be invested within
the next year in mining property in
this district.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-07-14

another girl of 10 years, was driving
one horse to light spring wagon,
and when on Sixth street at the rail
road crossing the horse became
frightened at a train and started on a
wild run down the street. Instead Of
screaming heplessly as some women
would have done, or boiling out of
the rear of the vehicle as many men
so often do under similar circum-
stances, this brave, self-possessed girl
braoed her feet against the dashboard,
and while the little girl was hang
ing to tue seat for dear life and not
uttering a cry, she held steady line
on the horse and kept him in the
middle of the street. After running
two blocks the horse got somewaht
over his fright and the girl by
vigorous jerking on the bits was able
to soon have him under control, and
then she drove on down the street as
tn ough nothing unusual had hap
pened. While the runaway was in
progress a crowd quickly gathered
along the sidewalk expecting that the
girls would be thrown out and pos
sibly seriously hurt IT killed, and
several men rushed for the street to
try to stop the horse, but their efforts
were unavailing until the girl had
brought the horse to n moderate
speed.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-07-14
BUILDING ANNEX
TO HOTEL JOSEPHINE
Is Two-Story Brick Structure
Lower Story Sample Rooms.
Upper for Living Rooms.

The Hotel Josephine. which holds
the position of being the hest hotel in
Southern Oregon, has added accom-
modations that will be greatly APP
preciated by the commercial travellers
for four fine sample rooms are to be
provided in an annex that Is now
being built. This annex to the jose
phine stands on Il street west of the
hotel and is of brick and to be two
stories. The brick work is being done
by Robert Higgins and Charles Ross
aud they will have 1t completed this
week. They also do the plastering
which they will do so soon as the car
pohters are through with their job.
The carpenter work il being done by
George slower, Edwin Smith and
George Smith.
The building will be S0x75 feet and
the lower story will be fitted for four
sample rooms. The rooms will have
large plate glass fronts so that ample
light will be had, and each will be
fitted with tables and every conven-
ience that drummer may wish to
properly show his samples. Each
room will have stationary basin
and hot and cold water SO that a
drummer may have that appreciated
convenience. The uppor story will
have an outside entrance from the
hotel side and will be fitted with
living rooms which will be occupied
by Landlord George Good and his
family. The rooms will be arranged
In two suites, one TO the front and
one to the rear. Each suite will have
large parlor and large bedroom.
The middle space Of the floor will be
occupied by large closets that will
open off each bedroom, and by bath
and toilet room, aud n small bedroom
aud IA store room.
The space between this annex and the
hotel will be cleared Of the unsightly
woodshod that is now occupying 1t and
the plat of ground will be made attrno-
tive with trees, flowers and grass. The
building Is erected by Consul General
II. b. Miller Of Yoka hama. japan,
who Is tho owner of the Hotel jose
phine. While the architecture will
be- plain yet the building will be
Of neat appearance and substantial
addition to the building list Of Grants
! pagg
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-07-14
GRANITE INDUSTRY
OF SOUTHERN OREGON
Two Quarries Operated Near jack
sonville-Others Would Be If
Freight Rates We're Lower.

A ledge of granite which is owned
by DIR. E. 2. Geary, Of Portland,
which is located on Griffin creek four
miles east of Jacksonville, has been
leased by S. and W. b. Permission of
Ashland. They will at once open it
up and begin the quarrying Of rock.
There is another ledge of this same
granite two miles north of Jackson
vile in which quarry has been
operated for several years, and stone
both for building purposes and for
monuments has been gotten ont.
This same granite formation extends
on into Josephine county, but as vet
no effort has been made to devlop it.
This granite is white. notified with
gray. and it takes a high polish and is
very handsome for either monuments or
trimmings for buildings. The ledges
are usually very thick and the deposits
so even in texture as topermit the quar-
ryinR of very large blocks. The time
will come when there will be great
industry in shipping granite and other
high grade building stone from South
ern Oregon TO Portland and San
Francisco. but at present the high
freight rates charged by the Southern
Pacific preclude shipments, and most
of the granite used in those cities
comes by ships from Scotland and
other distant countries.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-07-14
Doctor Said He Would Not Live.

Peter Fry, Woodruff, Pa, writes
" After doctoring for two years with
the best physician in Wayneburg, and
still getting worse, the doctor advised
me If had any business to attend to
had better attend to it at once. as |
could not possibly live another month
as there was no cure for me. Foley's
Kidney Cure was recommended to me
by friend, and / Immediately sent
my son to the store for it and after
taking three bottles | bgan to get
better and continued to improve unit.
/ was entirely we'll" For sale by
H. a. Rotermund.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-07-14
500 Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that science
has been able to cure in all its stages,
and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity.
Catarrh being a constitutional ei-
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ment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blood aud mucous surfaces Of the
system. thereby destroy ing the
foundation Of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building np
the constitution and assisting 1t in
doing its work. The proprietors have
so much faith in its curative powers
that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that IL fails to cure.
Send for listNof testimonials. Ad.
dress +. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo,
o. Sold by all Druggists. 75c. Take
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-07-14
Cured of Bright, Disease.

Mr.. Rob brt o. Burke, Elnora, N.
y, writes: Before | started TO use
Foley's Kidney Cure | had to get up
from ~ to 20 times night, aud / was
all bloated up with dropsy and my
ey sight was so impaired could
scarcely see one Of my family across
the room. / had given up hope of
living. whom friend recommended
Foley's Kidney Cure. One 30 cent
hottie worked wonders aud before
had taken the third bottle the drop y
had gone. as well as all other symp-
toms Of BriRht's disease. " For salt
by II. A. Rotermuud
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-07-14
R.,,ball pIsy,r and foot Racer,

Louis J. Kruger, ox-champion
long distance foot racer Of Germany
and Holland, writes October 27lh,
1901 "DurinR my training Of eight
weeks foot races at Salt Lake City,
10 April last, used Billiards. Snow
LiDiment TO my greatest satisiaciiCo.
Therefore highly recommend
Snow Liniment TO all VINO are
troubled with spfains, bruises or
rheumatism. 25o, 50c, sl.00 bottle
at Rotermund's ana Model Drug
Store.