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New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
MuRFREEssoRo BANK ALL RIGHT.

IBy Telegraph to The Tribure.l
Nashville. Tenn Nov. 2.-The First National
Bank of Murfreesboro has not closed its doors.
reports to the contrary being erroneous. Conf
dence is reassured and the bank is doing
regular business. 1t has 500 900 surplus. The
clearing house rule has been established
stricting cash payments to $50 week.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
TO TRANSFER PONCE DE Icons ASHES.
Florida Seeking to Obtain Remains of Ex-
plorer from Porto Rico.

San Juan P. R. Nov. IN. B. Broward. the
Governor of Florida. has transmitted TO Gov
ernor Post resolution of the Florida LegisIat-
ure appointing a committee of five and appro-
priating money for the purpose of obtaining the
remains of Ponce de Leon. and requests his
operation. The ashes of Ponce de Leon the dis
coverer of Florida and the first Governor of
Porto Rico. are buried in San Jose Church. San
Imam
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
CANNON AND HUGHES.
Sa'd 10 Be Candidates of Interests
Opposed to Presidents Policies.
IBy Telegraph to The tribune. !

Chicago. Nov. 2.-"The Chicago Tribune" in
an article on Speaker Cannon's Presidential
ooom' says Mr. Cannon is the candidate of great
Eastern financial interests opposed to President
Roosevelts policies. These interests 1t is said,
intend to put Governor Hughes in the second
place on the ticket TO counteract sentiment
against Mr.. Cannon, account of his age and
also to prevent the charge that the ticket is
reactionary. Mr.. Cannon. 1t is further asserted
has the names OF ifty-four delegates from I'LL
nois selected.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
SOUTHERN SPIDERS MENACE BOSTON.

[By Telegraph to The Trbunel
Boston. Nov. 2.-Professor James N. Emerson,
secretary of the Boston Society of Natural History
says that Boston IS menaced with an inrush of hiG
poisonous black spiders. which due to arrive
here any time in great numbers The advance guard
is already here he says, and he has found num-
bers of them. They come from the South, and are
said to be particularly crafty and fierce
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
OTHER EXPLANATION.

Mr. Nash's explanation OF the tremendous in
crease in the loan item that of several
other bankers. who thought also. however. that
the Increase was in part due 10 the issuance OF
Clearing House certificates and TO heavy bor-
rowing with the object of arranging for gold i'm
ports.
The bank statement did not include the sep
arate statement of government deposits. for
which the banks are exempt from the cash re-
serve requirement according TO ruling of the
Treasury Department. but not by the rule OF
the Clearing House. The haIf-hour's delay in
issuing the statement was said to have been
due To the fact that the Clearing House As
sOciation had adopted the same form OF report
ing the condition of the associated banks. as a
whole. as that used in 1898. and in making up
the totals in the novel form had at first omitted
an important item the preparation of which
took some time.
The foreign exchange market was very strong
again yesterday with demand sterling up a
cent. to Ass. although losing it's gain later. and
cables again advancing 10 400. an active
demand for this form of remittance. Neverthe-
less. several engagements Of gold for import
were arranged, Lazard Freres arranging to
bring in an additional S5OOOOO. the Seaboard
National Bank engaging S350.O00. the First
National Bank of Pittsburg arranging to import
S5OOO 900 in bullion or American eagIes-the first
gold engagement ever made by Pittsburg in
stitution-and the Commercial National Bank
of Chicago announcing additional engage
rnent of S500O00 These engagements. with
the engagement by the National City Bank OF
S1OOOO0O in American gold coin in Havana.
ported in yesterdays Tribune. bring the total
amount OF gold already engaged on the current
movement up to S29.400.00o.
The premium on currency, which makes pos,
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
NEW HAVEN ROAD EXPECTS HARD TIMES.

By Telegraph 10 The Tribune.l
Boston, Nov. 2.-The New York, New Haven K
Hartford Railroad Company has dropped four thou
sand men, cut off of it's fast trains and re-
moved big freighters In anticipation of hard times.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
DIES FROM SLEEPING SICKNESS.

Paterson. n. J., Nov. (SpeciaD.-Frank KOcijus.
a Pole of Franklin Furnace, died last night at the
St Joseph Hospital from African sleeping sickness.
He had been asleep for seven weeks, waking only
at intervals for a few minutes. Hot and cold ap-
plicatons and electric batteries failed to make any
impression on him.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03

Pittsburg Nov 2-Many striking telegraph OPP
orators applied the telegraph companies for their
positions to-day. S. w. Perry, secretary of the
local union, was Informed that instructions had
been given to the men to get their places back.
The Western Union has full quota OF men and is
not hiring more. Several were taken back by the
Postal.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
AMATEURS ncRAcKv EMPrY SAFE.

Chicago, Nov 2.-John Carrell John Templeton
and Patrick Templeton. who say they are baseball
players of Rochester, n. Y. arrested to-day
on a charge of burglary They say. according TO
the police, that they driven by poverty TO
wreck the safe in coal office the stockyards
They found the safe empty.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
MITCHELL WEAK AFTER OPERATION

La Sale, Ill. Nov John Mitchell president
of the Mine Workers Union. is in seriously weak
ened condition following operation for abscess
at ST. Marys Hospital last night, the fourth opera
ton performed upon him In the last two weeks.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
MORE GOLD DRAWN FROM ENGLAND.

London, Nov. 2-The Bank of Engand's stock
of gold was further depleted to-day by f29,OOO in
bar gold and 100000 in American eagles which
were withdrawn for shipment to the United States
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
PACKING HOUSE FIRE Loss, 100000.

East st. Louis, Ill, Nov 2.-The main Office
building OF the Nelson Morris packing plant was
destroyed by fro late to-day. The loss is
k2o0.oaa -----
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
WIRE STRIKE ENDS IN TWO CITIES.

New Orleans. Nov. 2-FolloWing a meeting of the
Commercial Telegraphers Union here. at which it
was voted to permit all operators TO go back TO
work when desired, officials of the union to-day
announced that so far New Orleans is con-
cerned. the telegraph strike is ended Some twen-
ty-five men have been taken back by the two COM
panies in the last TWEEN y-four hours. Double this
number of applications have been received.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
GRAPE JUICE.

QEWEYS PURE GRAPE JUICE.
II Trriies the Blood and is very Nourishing. II.
T. Dewey 6 Sons Co. LIS EultaR- Sts New York
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
WORKING THE AUcr1oNEER.

There are not many people aware of the
fact that there exists among furniture
dealers and others of similar callings who
attend auctions a few who are known as
a ring" who agree not to bid against
one another. For instance, If one of those
IN the ring wants a fine old grandfather
clock, none of his cronies will bid against
him, and they remain silent until the COW
eted article has been knocked down to
the bidder. Those in the magic circle
bid for any article that may take their
fancy In turn, knowing perfectly well
that there will be no opposition as far as
their confederates are concerned. When
the sale is over the ring repair to some
quiet out-of-the-way spot with the goods
from the sale. A then puts up the grand
father clock to auction again which he
bought for $40, and then B raises the
price to $11.O0, and places the extra 81
In the pool" The others keep on bid
ding till a fair sum is reached, and when
the article is eventually knocked down
to the highest bidder he hands over to A
the original sum the clock realized at the
auction.
The remainder is left in the pool. All
the purchases are disposed of In this way,
until the very comfortable amount In the
pool is equally divided among the men,
Should one bidder have bought the arti-
Gle at the sale for a greater price than
it's actual worth, the ring" shares the
loss as they shared the profits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

S. White, Alexander Macmillan. William
vey Genung, Ernest Beard and s. L.
Fleishman. Perhaps the best translation
of any single poem is Christopher Pearse
Cranch's rendering of the "Lorelei,"
quoted by George William Curtis in 'Lo-
tus- Ea ting" with the comment. "Xto-
pher has translated 1t without letting
the aroma escape And doubtless the
best translation as whole is that by
the author of Hans Breitmann." who
caught much of Heines humor and
melody. as Emma Lazarus sifted out a
little of the passion and despair. But
all these translators would have done
well to affect the modesty of James Thorn
son in THE City of Dreadful Night"
by calling their work Attempts at Trans
lation from Heine," as n comparison OF
the various versions OF the "Lorelei' will
not give as good an idea of the original
a kodak print would give of Turner's
Rain. Steam and Speed
There is in existence. however. a manu-
script volume which may wrest the laurel
from Leland If 1t should ever be judIcious-
ly edited and given to the worlc. 1t rep
resents the life work of womaL who. in
her schoolgirl days, came under the magic
spell of Heine's songs and devoted all the
leisure of a long life to their loving in
terpretatlon- There is something of
Heine's wizardry In her rendering of the
"Lorelei," though she deviates from the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

Oft, too, we sat sedately
And aped our elders ways,
Lamenting the many changes
Since former happier days.
How love and faith and religion
Altar from the earth had flown;
We thought the coffee was higher,
And money had scarcer grown.
Thus all things earthly vanish
AS passes childhoods play;
Thus hope, and love, and riches
Are blown by the years away.
OF all Heine's recalcltrant rhyth--s,
there is probably none more difficult of
translation than the oft-quoted lines in
Die Engel. die nennen es Himmelsfreud'.
Die Teufel, die nennen es Hollenleid,
Die Menschen, die nennen es-Liebei
Mrs. Moore has rendered these with ad-
mirable deftness, as follows:
Ye strings all sad and mute so long,
Do We still know the olden song.
The song all other songs above;
The angels call 1t Heavens BEST
The devils call it Hell comprest,"
The earthborn call 1t Love-
Equally felicitous. and almost as musi-
cal as the original, Is her rendering of the
initial poem in the Book of Songs
Mir traumte einst Won Widen Lie
besgluhn.
1 dreamed once Of a love intense and
strong
OF waving tresses, myrtle, mignonette;
OF sweetest lips, and words more bitter
Than mournfuI melodies and saddest
song.
Vanished are all those dreams OF olden
And gone for aye the visions loved so
All save the ones that in the fond hea rt's
My hand imprisoned fast in tender rhyme.
Thou dost remain. lorn songI Take also
flight,
To seek the visions long since flown away,
And If thou hndest, give them greetings
To airy phantoms send breath as light.
1t is not a perfect translation which is
enshrined in that manuscript volume.
There are no perfect translatIons-Swin-
burne made Villon a citizen of Bedford
Park" Bulwer exhibited Schiller as a
Cockney playing the musical glasses. and
Pope put yellow stockings. cross gartered,
upon poor old Homer. Even Rossetti's
Dante has somewhat the air of a Meth
odist addicted to metaphysics, and Fitz-
Gerald's fine Omar is no more oriental
than plum pudding. But Mrs. Moore has
come a little closer than any of the others
In her attempts" and this manuscript
volume. laid away by her children, is the
only version of Hcine that will compare
favorably with, in many instances sur
passing. that of Charles Godfrey Leland
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
the opening quatrain of the sonnet:

the opening quntrain of the sonnet:
In stiIler, wehmutreicher Abendstunde
Cmklingen mich die langst verschollnen
Und Thranen hiessen Won der wange
Und Blut entquint der alien Herzen-
swunde.
The mood imaged by these words
which mirror the hour of dusk. echo
family forgotten songs. trfckle like tears
and gush red like blood-would seem In
sincere and artificial in any other lam
guage, so inevitable and essential are the
poets identical words. For Heine. with
all his surprises of diction never flashes
verbal preciosities or articles OF virtu
debris of the dictionary, like Rossetti or
Baudelaire. His words. generally the
plainest from the mother-lode of the Ian
guage, fit and follow each other as nat
urally as in no other poet except per-
haps Wordsworth. Indeed. "Die Wall
fahrt Mach Kevlaar." that touching pic
ture of a mothers pilgrimage with her
dying son to a miraculous Madonna can
be matched for rudimentary simplicity
only by We Are Seven What Kro-
potkin has written of Pushkin is also
true OF Heine; THE verses are so nat
ural that as soon as you have pronounced
one word that word calls up Immediately
81
you cannot say the thing otherwise than
In the way in which Pushkin has told
it"
This very simplicity has lured and
eluded the translators. The verses that
dance and sway like the mikes he loved
have been "smudged and fumbled and
mauled" worse than Catullus. What Hen
ley said of Sir Theodore Martins version
may be applied to nearly all the others:
Thot
among our borders and crushing our flow
ers with his stupid hobnails? If he walked
into your garden and amused himself so
with your cabbnges you could put him in
prison. All, the prisons would overhowI
Everybody has had a hack at Heine.
There are at least\ three French transla-
lions. and perhaps more In Russian: he
has been turned into almost every living
language. even Japanese. into hog Latin
and kosher Hebrew. English translators
-"common graveyard masons that would
play the sculptor'-may be counted by
the score.
The ghoulish work began whea J. e.
Wallis translated the "Buch der Lleder,''
published at London in 1856. Heine. for
tuna tely. died the same year. Then came
f. A. Bowring with a version of the
Complete Poems" Charles Godfrey Le-
lands rendering of the complete poems |
was published at Philadelphia In 1854,
and reissued In London. somewhat i'm |
proved. % years later. version by |
appeared in 1882. and a year |
EARLIER Emma Lazarus had published a |
volume of Poems and Ballads Sir |
Theodore Martins translation appeared |
IN 1878. Among others who have rem /
iered Isolated poems somewhat creditably |
ire James Thomson, George Macdonald, |
Frances Hellman, Julian Fame. Horatio |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

mere schoolgirl, beautiful as might have
been the poets vision In the lines she has
rendered thus:
Like to a flower thou art,
So pure and sweet and fair
gaze. and DER my heart
Steals a foreboding care.
With hands laid on thy head
fain would God entreat,
To keep thee evermore
So pure and fair and sweet
She did not lay her pen aside until death
took 1t out of her hand, long after the
years had crowned her brow with silver.
This woman was Ida Louise Moore. and
the manuscript volume Is the most treas
ured heirloom of her children.
Ida Ferguson was born in 1910, IN Del
aware county, N. Y; she died at Albany
in January, 1905. She was a precocious
child and attended the district school at
the age of four, going to Fergusonville
Academy at IL. A little later, at Madame
Gerauds private school, in Brooklyn, she
became L,quainted with French and Ger
man. She returned to Fergusonville Acad-
envy as an instructor. 1t is still recalled
that she taught English to a class of Gu
ban boys, who knew only Spanish. About
this time her devotion to Heine had its
birth he became her idol-whom she put
above Goethe Schiller and Lessing-and
she began the work of lifetime which is
enshrined in that manuscript volume. and
which she did not lay aside even after her
marriage to DR.. Levi Moore. prominent
Albany physician
Unlike the tribe of poets In general, she
cared little whether her work should ever
be printed few original poems and a
few TRANSACTIONS from French and German
appeared in the Boston True Flag, once
widely read periodical, but the name OF
Ida Louise Moore is hardly known beyond
her family circle. She lived for her books
and with them. Once, when serious Ill
ness obliged her to remain in darkened
room several weeks, she had a shelf of her
favorite authors placed within easy reach
of her bed, where she might see and touch
the loved volumes. though forbidden to
open them.
In spirit of this fiber the songs of the
sweet singer found a living echo. though
not a drop of German blood ran In her
veins. She has rendered some of his best
stanzas with wonderful felicity. Such is
her translation of "Mein Kind. wir warren
Kinder
My child, we were two children.
Full of laughter and play;
We crept into the henhouse
And hid beneath the hay.
Just like the hens we cackled,
And people passing near
Heard cock "a doodle, thinking
Twas the old chanticleer.
Big boxes in the courtyard
Were decked mansions gay,
And there we'd live together
And keeping house would play.
The neighbours ancient Tables
Made calls in formal state,
We gave them bows and curtsies,
Pretending pleasure great
inquired their health and welfare
With anxious look and tone
As of other ancient Tables
That we since then have known.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
meter welded to silcher's music:

meter welded to Silcher's music:
What can this pain forecast.
This sorrow at my heart?
legend from the past
Haunts me. nor will depart
Chill falls the waning day.
Calmly the Rhine doth flow;
The mountain tops are gay
With sunsets golden glow.
On yonder height behold
maiden wondrous fair.
How with comb of gold
She combs her golden hair.
Her Jewels flash like fire,
The while she sings a strain
Full of all sweet desire.
Rapture and yearning pain
The boatnIdn in his skin
Shaken with passionate sigh.
Heeds not the frowning cliff,
He only looks on high.
The swfrling waves erelong
Ger bark and boatman run,
And this with her fatal song
The Lorelel hath done.
The Immediate Promethean fre smoul-
ders in these stanzas, which are the
work of an Albany woman who died little
more than e year ago. She translated
nearly all of the Book of Songs and
many of Heine's later poems. 1t was a
of a publisher, and she was always pol
ishing her version to bring 1t nearer to
perfection She began 1t when she was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
Vile dunkle Traume stehen
Die Hauser in LANCER Rein,

becomes more vivid than II the scene had
been painted by the brush of Claude or
a Benozzo- Especially IN the accents OF
melancholy, Of yearning and hopeless
sorrow. Of tender sentiment, the German
language Is richer than all others, and
Heine scattered these treasures like a
Croesus- II our sweetest songs are
those that tell of saddest thought" no
81 has ever written aught sweeter than
Connecticut western news., 1907-04-04
SHEFFIELD

The next meeting of the Woman s Club will be held with Mrs. Howes We'd nesday afternoon, April 10. at three subject "Mexico" will be taken up by Mrs. Howes.
 The Ladies of the M. E. Church will meet with Miss Ella F. Clarke Friday afternoon from two to five to sew.
 There will be no services at the M. E. Church next Sunday morning while the pastor Is at the conference and the mid week service Thursday evening will also be omitted.
 Results big, cost small, Cent-a-word advertisements.
 The class for Bible study will meet in the chapel of the M. E. Church Sunday evening at half past seven.
 The Village Improvement Society gave supper at the home of Mrs. M. J. Smith Tuesday evening.
 The teacher of the centre school re- turned ready for work Monday morning.
 Miss Hazel Shepard was taken with German measles Sunday. MT. Crowell had them in his absence.
 Mrs. Mott returned to Philadelphia Tuesday.
 Howard Andrews of New York spent Sunday at his home. Harry Little of Lee is at his home here | quite i'll.
 John Griffith has purchased from Mrs Bunker the Cooper farm on Cooper Hill Mrs. Bunker reserving the house anc barn and from 10 to 12 acres of ground Mr. Griffith is to take possession at once
Connecticut western news., 1907-04-04
CORNWALL HOLLOW

Miss Lauretta M. Ocain of New Haven is the guest of her brother Ernest Ocain.
 MT. and Mrs. Kimberly spent Sunday at Mrs. Kimberly.s parents, MT. ant Mrs. E. B Yale.
 MT. Griswold of Lime Rock moved into s. K. Goes tenant house Saturday He will work for MT. Coe.
 Results big, cost small, Cent-a-worc advertisements. Benjamin Baldwin of New York spent little time at his summer residence here last week.
 Chauncey Bailey has moved to Win sted where he has rented farm.
 Miss Gussie Osborn of Torrington has been spending a few days at he1 uncles' E. H. Ocain's.
 Miss Anna Chipman was out of town several days this week.
Connecticut western news., 1907-04-04
SOUTH CANAAN

Edward Sanford and family have moved into the Capron house from Ash ley Falls. MT. Sanford is a teamster and works for the lime company.
 MT. Baker and family have moved from the Goodwin house to N. J. Deans tenement house. He is to work for MT Dean.
 Big results for little cost, THE NEWS Cent-a-word advertisements
 Levi Ganser has sold most of his cows, intending to keep only three through the summer.
 MT Ducket has moved from N. J Deans house to c. Hanchett's house.
 Charles Warren is to move from the Higley house in Huntsville to l.. P Deans house, and work for MT. Palmer
Connecticut western news., 1907-04-04

ing popular and helpful organization The attendance averages IS to 20 persons and much interest is manifested.
 Fast Day was not observed in Falls Village. All the stores were open and business in other lines went on as usual.
 OPENED HIS SUMMER HOME.
 James Gruber arrived Monday from New York city and has opened his sum- mer residence here. Falls Village pos sesses great attraction for MT. Gruber and he Is one of the first to arrive from the city in the spring and the last to leave in the fall.
 WHAT HE HEARD.
 A Falls Village man told us the other day that if he understands it correctly, two or three city parties contemplate erecting handsome country residences here in the near future. Let us hope that his ear was on straight when he heard this information. We have beau ty spot here and we know it. If every villager would eudeavor to have out-of. town folks know it, too, we feel sure an advance movement would begin and that quickly.
 THE AMESvILLE SCHOOL.
 From 20 to 2S pupils are now in attend ance at the Amesville school, which mum Der is about the same as the average at tendance during the past two or three years. The number of families who have moved out of the district during this time about equals those who have moved in. Only one of the two rooms is now in use. Repairs to the school building will probably be made during the com ing summer vacation.
 EASTER SERVICES.
 Special Easter services were held Sun day in the Methodist church. The choil rendered music appropriate to the occa sion and both in the morning and even ing sermons appropriate to the seasol were preached by the Rev. H. B. Chown On this occasion the annual statement O church finances was made. The pasto and congregatit Il take pardonable prid in the fact that the church is entirel. out of debt.
Connecticut western news., 1907-04-04
PEABODY THE osG'c'aH sG'cSI,F'c

will be at MRS. M. A. HALLS, FALLS VILLAGE, CONN, Apr. II, 12, 13.
Connecticut western news., 1907-04-04
FALLS VILLAGE
COUNTRY HOMES IN PROSPECT

LUUN m TUNEO TN nUJT EC That Itching to go Fishing-Summer Boarders Coming-School Vacation Spring Movements Popular 0rganization-The Easter Services The AmesyilIe School.