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The Washington herald., 1910-02-06
By ellen Titz Gerald.

+. N. Lang's translation Of II. Lepe,.e-
tiers work should be an Introduction to
English speaking readers not only to The
poetry Of Paul Yerlaine but o French poe
try, especially in its lyrical phase There is
an astonishing ignorance of this subject,
even among people OF our tongue who are
well read in French prose. This ignorance
arises. I think. from a covert contempt OF
French poetry which students of English
literature UHconsciously imbibe in the ex-
altation given. sometimes justly. sometimes
indscrimina,ely, to their own poetry.
The French are masters Of prose We
are taught: their poetry is little more than
versifed rhetoric
Now French poetry has been steadily
losing its rhetorical quality steadily gain
ing in pure lyrical power. Paul VerIane
thus far is the high water mark Of this new
turn in style Of French poetry OF how much
Of this Verlaine owed TO the study OF Ems
lish poetry his biographer takes no cosni-
zauce To him VerlaineS life in England
is only an interval between his leaving
France and his Imprisonment in Belgium
Yet VerIaine's letters from England are full
Of his susceptibility TO English influence,
and especially of his response to English
letters.
He is gleefuI when he is able 10 read
Shakespeare without a dictionary. lie is
more eager to learn English from his stu
dents than he is to teach them French, This
d,
Frenchman for his life in England. France
has not produced more ardent patriot
than he 1t means that in any literary
study of YerIaine, his English reading must
be accounted for just as in the development
OF modern French painting, Claude Monet's
love for the poeticaI murkiness Of English
atmosphere must be noted
It is not that NJ. Lepelletier does not
quote abundantly from Verlaiue's English
letters. But from them he deduees moth
ing, Yet they are a most suggestive COM
ment on things English. lie is captious
enough in writing Of details Of English life,
but no one is falrer than Verlaine in ae-
knowledging what is good:
Here I am, You viii say, regular resi-
dent in England, TO be pouring cut on this
country so many grievances. What knowL
edge have I acquired? Well mon Dieu,
mentioned to you, believe, in one Of my
letters. my search for what is best in Eng.
lish character
- 1 believe 1 have found it; il is something
very sweet. almost childlike. very youthful
very innocent. with an amusing and charm,
ing roughness and gaiety. In order TO find
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earnest ambitions worker.
Which leads important questions appealing
10 the who accepts dictm specializing
have accomplish in order feel that n
Hfc:'
Until that satisfactorily
not condition of mind
what hc working Not
that dizcomagng He SI apprecaive appearing
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his followers both adapting himself them by evatng
far : possible to his point of
The which he of his sincerity
further Illustrative
fdence The guarantee frank
cation Secrecy ndecness
ship 1t belongs the relation
knoweth what his Lord do But Jesus told disciples
thing His faithful endeayor had been make known his
thought and purpose.
One of the specific gave support
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s~<HE writing OF biography Is serious
literary enterprise. The biosrapher
is obliged 60 present his subject fully
and fairly. and. when such q pres
rrtstiou has 10 be made OF the life Of
a darrayoa man Of genius. the task is
doubly difficult
Such was the obligation laid upon N.
Edmond Lepeue;ier when Paul Verlaine
from his prison at Mons wrote TO his mother
an appeal Worded thus.
Lee LepeIletier defend my reputation.
lie is able to clear what viii soon he my
memory. rely upon him 10 make me
known as / was I'm reality when I am no
longer here.
This reality NJ LepeUetier has made into
a biography Of the type Of Gviswold
Life of Edgar Allan Poe OF DIT Gould
" Lafcadio Heern" 1t is the kind ~ per-
sonaI history which reveals the limitations
Of the author and adds almost nothing to
our knowledge of the subject. Lepelletier
is even less satisfactory as a biographer Of
Pau. Veraine than is either GriswoId or
DR.. Gould of The writers they respectively
tried TO make known to us.
COMPROMISING between PAU NerIaine
and his historian was close. LepeNet.er
was himself literary man, and conscious
part OF the movement u French poetry. Of
which Paul Verlaiue is SO brilliant an eX-
ponent he had besides the poets own ac-
count of his life from which to draw data.
possibly hidden from even the close eye Of
a friend
Yet with all these advantages N. Lepel-
letter is at best an Indifferent biographer.
He begins by discrediting VerIaiue's own
view Of himself He unds that the auto
biography poses VerIaine as q kind OF IDEAL
lied sinner NJ Lepeuetier Will have Yer
lame a sinner without any idealization.
lie does not so much as grant him the
grace to be a repentant sinner In doing
this he reflects upon the sincerity OF Yer
lanes religious poetry. which is the product
OF this repentance
The question arises in the mind Of the
reader OF this biography whether the au-
thor would not have done a friendly
thing to his friend had he handed his ma
teriaI TO some one who had a standard in
literary biography. After ALL the personal
life OF a poet. whether it has been good or
bad, is minor matter compared with his
contribution to literary art. And IL is this
failure 20 subordinate Geographic detail
10 the real value OF Verlaine as q force in
French literature which mars the bio
graphy as a real study of poet whose song
is not, as Tennysons. swallow fight, %
but a movement in rarer regions.
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always rests upon some sort OF
equality, 1t is essentially a reciprocal relation
ship. In this respect it stands in sharp contrast
to such terms as master and servant, king ana
subject priest ana people. All these imply
definite and radical inequality. They presIp
pose differences of birth, or fortune, or end0W'
ment 1t was just this external sense of diff
ference which Jesus sought to remove, and he
indicated this intention by choosing a designa-
ton aDtithetc to all class distinctions.
The correlative of the word friend is also
friend but the correatiye of master in servant,
which suggests n totally different sphere of life.
Jesus Dut himself upon the same plane with
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advance Of these IDEAS these tendencies
this spirit lose They bde their time aud the
another day They represent the thought
force il today.
The conservatives assards lose because they
abreast the They yesterday. they
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only in torpor or disease that we can see the
dividing line. and experience has shown
that the majority Of cases Of disease are
durable. some by physical and some by
psychical means; but more often both
means must be used.
The bible was once valued by many, and
is still by some. because OF the miracles
which can be read into it, but the results
Of those so-calIed miracles seem even more
miraculous since proven that scientific
means were used for their achievement.
Nothing is done by chance.
God is an all pervadiug spirit which
can be found Within mot without each one
CT us. inclining but not compelling US 10
give a beautiful Interpretation to the COM
position of music we are each one compos-
ing guiding us if we give our permission
to develop our motive day by day and to
weave it into the most intricate harmony.
and, when we sometimes write discords,
teaching US TO resolve them into marvellous
musical concord.
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We gain control over the body Of man
through his mind, or spirit. but we cannot
consider a part Of him, his mind. or his
body the whole. Man is like wonderful
fabric into which the strands called mind
and body are so closely interviewer as to
be fndiscernibIe in the perfect man; it is
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The superiority Of piano playing over
that Of other instruments lies in the fact
that not only does piano technie require
greater development of the hands than does
any other instrument but the hands must
be equally developed. consequently devel-
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T we study the process OF evolution In
the animal kingdom we find as the hand
and the use Of 1t develops the higher is
the type Of animal, the greater the
brain capacity: the thumb appears and
is developed last Of all Finally we have
the hand Of man, and how varied is the
shape we have here and how much can be
told Of the character and capabilities Of the
man by his hand.
When the child Of the defective brain
comes to us for development the hands
must be given employment in order TO train
the mind, and the mind develops in &C
cordance as he becomes proficient in the
use Of his hands. The necessity Of giving
the hands employment to develop the mind
is illustrated by the fact thai manual train
ing has been introduced into our public
schools
The senses are much alike at the bottom
and 20 a great extent they employ one
another; but the sense Of touch is the most
general and all the others are mere modi-
fcations Of IT, Manifestations Of this sense
are found in the vegetable kingdom. Who
has not seen the leaves Of the sensitive
plant curl when touched? There are two
aspects Of this sense; by one 1.-THE touch
properI we receive sensation, that IS. per-
ceive We are touched by something: and
by the second (which we will call tactl we
seek for certain character. or properties Of
bodies.
Periere taught his deaf pupils TO hear
through the skin. by means of the vibra-
tons Of sound vibrating the flesh. thus
proving that all senses are notifications
Of tact, all sense OF some sort.
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= Nothing appeals 10 the child OF the de-
fective brain as does music; there are few
cases OF insanity or idiocy which are Unaf-
fected by il; even when so defective that
speech is not noticed music will ofttimes
make a. deep impression on them. " It
causes in the imm0vable chHd tremulOus-
ness OF all the hDers which is easily turned
into incipiency Of action; it prepares the
nervous apparatus in a similar manner.
aWakens, quickens. and supports thoughts
wonderfully; it dispels anger. WEAKNESS,
melancholy, and disposes TO gentle feelings,
hence IS a moral help.
II necessary at first place the intellectual
" deaf child near the piano let him sup
port his hands and his chest on the instru-
ment then let the piano send forth its
strongest vibrations. then its sweetest
tones. followed by a long silence. then again
the vibrations. Introduce. too. surprise
sounds 10 start up an unexpected sense Of
hearing. Next seat the child at the piano,
90 that his spine will have a natural posi-
ton. and by natural laws teach him to de-
New-York tribune., 1910-06-27
BLAZE SCARES 200 GIRLS
Police Make Elevator Rescues as
Tailors Slide Ropes.

Nearly two hundred girls We're working
In tailor shops on the fifth and seventh
floors OF an eight story building at Nos
Is and 10 West 4th street and No. 26'
Mercer street yesterday morning, wher
fire burst through the windows of the
straw hat shop Of Tenny, Hills & Hall. on
the second floor.
There was wild stampede for the stair
ways and fire escapes, and the police sum
moned from the Mercer street station
found a terrified gathering of men and
women congesting the exits.
Patrolmen Taylor, Hadlick and O'Con-
nor broke into the building from Mercer
street. started an electric freight elevator
carried two or three loads of women IL
the roof and then returned for the men.
The ffremen managed to confine the
blaze TO the hat shop.
On the roof was a coil of rope which
had been used on Saturday by painters
Morris Loproe, Morris Fink, Abraham
Evens and Benjamin Bernstein fastened
it TO a chimney and slid twenty feet 10
the roof of a six story building at No. 81
West 4th street The friction burned their
hands and they had TO be treated by an
ambulance surgeon. They are taiiors en-
ployed by A David & Sons, who occupy
the fifth floor. and Leitzig & Rosenberg,
who have the seventh.
The origin of the fire is unknown. The
loss 10 the hat shop was about $1,000.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-27
GOAT EATS LIGHTED CIGAR
Tidbit Causes High Jinks for a While
in Bronx Park Gardens

A lighted cigar accidentally dropped into
the goat inclosUre in the Bronx Park Zoo
logical Gardens yesterday afternoon caused
an exhibition of temper by one of the ami
mails that held a considerable crowd spell-
bound while it lasted
When the cigar fell inside the fence RiIlv
a pugnacious goat of the Rocky Mountain
species, was browsing nearby. RilIv saw
the cigar when it fell. and then fell for the
cigar.
1t was only a. matter of a few seconds
before Billy had convinced many onlookers
that goat can chew tobacco. But his &C
t1on was not so rapid that he escaped being
burned, and great antics followed.
A fence post seemed to offer him the hest
means of venting his spite, and there was
what looked like an attempt at a cakevva Tx
when that object convinced Billy that he
might butt it until doomsday for all 1t
cared.
Billy next attacked another goat and
then he quieted down. Those who saw the
incident kept wondering for a considerable
time among themselves how long the cigar
remained lit.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-27
TO VOTE ON CLOAK STRIKE
Union Will Make Sure of Sentiment
Before Calling Out 10000.

A special meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Brotherhood of Cloakmakers
was held yesterday, at which a committee
was appointed to set q date for the pro-
posed general strike of 5000 cloakmakers.
which 1t is expected will be declared at a
mass meeting on Wednesday evening at
Madison Square Garden.
in order TO make sure that the senti-
ment is for a strike ballots with the words
strike" and mo strike will be distrib-
uted at the meeting and at the factories
and d secret vote on the question of a
strike will be taken. The organizing of the
non-Union cloakmakers is to go on in the
mean time
President Rosenberg of the International
Women's Garment Workers said yesterday
that a bureau for the organization of the
Italian cloakmakers, of whom there are
ten thousand in the city, would be opened
to-day.
New members are coming in at the rate
of from 1900 to 4.pO a day. he said 1.-THE
demands viii be formulated tomorrow and
sent TO 1,500 employers"
New-York tribune., 1910-06-27
MONEY FOR IRISH PARK
Funds Raised at Mass Meeting
of Counties Athletic Union.

A mass meeting was held in Carnegie
Hall last night under the auspices Of tie
Irish Counties Athletic Union for the pur-
pose of raising money with which TO save
the athletic park Of the organization in
the Wakefield section Of The Bronx from
being sold TO q land development company.
Former Justice Morgan J. O'Brien presided
at the meeting. There were about four
hundred persons present.
hstics OBrien told the audience that
its aid was needed IN raising money for
q fund which would insure the equity of
the union in the athletic park He said
that Il was the duty Of every Irish man
and woman fn New York 10 keep UP the
interest in outdoor athletics which char
acterized their fathers. He added that a.
90 had been collected, OF which 500 was
contributed by Archbishop Farley.
Former Police Commissioner McAdoo and
John II McDonough. onetime Secretary
Of State Of New York, also spoke. A col
lection was taken up. and those present
responded willingly. The amount collected
was not named.
Andrew Mack. Mrs. Margaret Heating
and Thomas p. White sang during the
meeting.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-27
MIX-UP I'M BIGAMY CASE
Court Suspects Blackmail At
tempt and Shows Anger.

After holding a man on an allegation of
bigamy yesterday, Magistrate Connerly, OF
Queens Borough, paroled him and later
ordered all concerned before him on Tues
day for a thrashing out of the affair, and
announced that in the mean time he would
acquaint the District Attorney Of it
Matilda Evans, thirty-four years old of
No. PSI 11th street, Brooklyn, was the
complainant. She said that David J.
Evans. sixty years old of No S406 Ja-
maica avenue, Richmond Hill, Queens,
married her in Schenectady in 1902 They
parted nine weeks later, and few months
later Evans, according TO the complainant
married Minnie Emma Tracey at Utica
She died in 1905, and in the following wear
Evans married Annie Lawnson, with whom
he now lives at the Richmond Hill ad-
dress and by whom he became the father
of twins.
Evans collapsed when he saw Deputy
Sheriff Barb begin TO handcuff the prison
ers who were TO be taken to Jail. A law
yer named Mccarthy, who represented
Mrs Evans, was willing TO consent TO the
mans parole, but non-legal friends of the
| complainant talked with her and she re-
fused to consent.
At this point court officers informed the
court lhal Evans had been approached
with a proposition OF settlement for $50
or $500. The magistrate asked Evans about
this and he said he had received an offer.
1t developed that a divorce proceeding is
pending and that Evans has been ordered
TO pay alinlony and has failed to keep up
the payments. as ordered.
The court adjourned after paroling Evans
and left the room. A few minutes later
Magistrate Connolly came back and took
his seat He was plainly angry. He de-
clared he believed there was an attempt at
eXtortion and blackman. He then ordered
Evans to be in court tomorrow and bring
his wife. He also ordered the complainant
TO be present and also Sigismund Stern,
who said he lived at No. col West Fifty
sixth street, whom the magistrate picked
out as being friend of Mrs Evans.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-27
DARTMoUTH's BAccALAUREATE
The Rev. Hugh Black, of This City,
Delivers Sermon.

Hanover, N. H, June 28-"I have
thought of my ways" was the text taken
by the Rev. Hugh Black, of Union Theo-
logical Seminary. New York. in delivering
the baccalaureate sermon to the seniors OF
Dartmouth College to-day in the college
church.
1.-The sin of New England in religion is
the same as the sin OF Scotland" said Mr.
Black 1--WE make religion merely an In
tellectual problem. Let man here say
that he has paid for his education. It has
been wrlng out. drop by drop, out of the
blood of ages. Remember that your hands
are soft. but the hands Of your fathers are
horny, and that your backs are straight
because their backs are bent.
Nothing is rarer than a thoughtful man
We read books 10 avoid thinking. We sell
dom hear voice nowadays which is not
merely an echo of what some one else has
said
New-York tribune., 1910-06-27
INQUIRY FOR PROMOTERS
Probe for Those Organizing In
surance Corporations.

Albany, June 25.-Wiiam II. Hotchkiss,
Superintendent of Insurance, announces
that among the bills recently signed by
Governor Hughes is one which authorizes
the State Insurance Department after July
TO examine into the affairs of any cor
poration organized under the laws of New
York or having an office In this state which
is engaged in declares or advertises that
1t is organizing or receiving subscriptions
for or is disposing Of the stock OF or in
any way aiding or taking part in the
formation of an insurance corporation, or
is acting a holding corporation for in
surance corporations, as voting trustee or
otherwise. The purpose of the new law is
TO permit an examination of all the So
called promoting companies, @ number of
which are now operating in this state A
statement of the Insurance Department
says:
statesmen, particularly in the Western and
Southern states, have been very active in
their plans usually involving the procure
ment of a charter authorizing a large CAPT
talization and the solicitation of funds with
which to make up the capital through the
sale of stock In small denominations to
people Of moderate circumstances through
the means of attractive advertising and
Sho dSehLS; MANY Oh tneSe schemes nave
them have resulted in the initial capital
being reduced by a promotion expense of
from 10 TO 40 per cent. In spite Of vigorous
action on the part Of insurance commits
sioners in various states, promoters and
agents continue to thrive at the expense
of the public
1t is the intention of the Insurance De-
partment Immediately to begin an investi-
cation of each of the companies of this
class concerning which 1t now has informa-
DeODl6
quested to bring to the attention of the
department all schemes of this kind now
being promoted in New York, to the end
that such investigation may be thorough.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-27
PHI BETA KAPPA TO MEET
Governor Hughes Will Address
Harvard Gathering of NotabIes.

With the exercises at Harvard this week
fraternity elections viii be completed and
about one thousand new names added to
the Phi Beta Kappa roster. The reunion
and dinner at Harvard will take place the
day after commencement
This year there will be especially
notable gathering, as ex-President Roose-
velt viii be present and Governor Hughes,
Of New York will deliver the oration.
President Taft is the sixth Phi Beta
Kappa man to attain the Presidency of
the United States. His son, Robert A.
Taft, was president of the undergraduate
organization last year.
On September Is and IA the tenth tri-
ennial council will meet in this city. The
Phi Beta Kappa Alumni, OF New York. an
organization Of more than one thousand
members, will entertain the delegates at
a general meeting to be held on the even
ing Of September 13 in the Savoy.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-27
MANY HUNDREDS SAVED
Only Three of $500 Persons
Lost in Excursion Boat Fire.
TWO WOMEN DROWNED
Third Victim Had Been Locked
in Hold for Disorderly
Conduct.

la Crosse. Wis. June 26.-Only three
,.ersons cut Of 1.J00 lost their lives on
Saturday night on account of the burn
ing in the Mississippi River Of the eN-
sursion steamer j. s, according to Of
6cers Of the Acme Packet Company
owner of the vessel, after a careful
search and rechecl1ing of passengers to-
day
While five ether persons were severely
hur1 in the panic and fifty others were
cut and bruised in escaping from the
hoaf before ii burned TO the water, those
who went through the experience of fire
and water declare that the small num-
her Of casualties seems marvellous to
them.
Prompt work by the crew and cool
headed men among the passengers, IN
controlling the frantic passengers arter
the first alarm of fire was sounded, was
all that prevented hundreds Of persons
from jumping into the river in mid
stream
Mrs. Emma Randall, OF New Albion,
Iowa was the only one who broke
through the guard on the edge OF the
docks. Twenty men had arms out
stretched TO grasp her when she plunged
from the upper deck into the water and
drowned Her body has not been re-
covered. An unidentified woman was
drowned while leaving the steamer.
John Plane, Of waukon. Iowa, was
locked tn the boats brig in the hold
for disorderly conduct. and In the e2-
cjten1ent Of the panic no one thought to
release him. His charred body is IN
The river with the hulk OF the steamer.
which sank after the boat had burned
10 the water.
Many thrilling stories Of escape are
told by the passengers who al Feacheo
their homes to-day, after each had
sought out friends and relatives from
1he confusion that followed the IRE ana
the hasty landing on Bad Axe Island
twenty-five miles south OF La crosse
where the steamer was beached ten
minutes after the fire started 1t Is said
that 2 cigarette stub started the flames
,nder 2. stairway, but nothing definite
has been ascertained-
Although the scramble to shore on
BAD Axe Island was hazardous and un-
pleasant. comparatively good order pre-
vailed. All night long boats carried the
stranded passengers to Lansing, Iowa,
where most Of them live, but II was well
into Sunday before the last eXcursionist
WAS removed from the island
The loss TO the Acme Packet Company
Is 100000. Nearly every passenger on
the steamer lost clothing, bundles,
money. jewelry or other valCables in
tie rush for land. and it is said that this
combined loss VIII aggregate S1oOo0.
The steamer - s. had been in COM
mission many years as an excursion
boat. It took its load on Saturday from
Lansing. Iowa. to La Crosse, and was
returning on Saturday night when the
fire started