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10 THE HORNING OREGONISN, WEDNESDAY; -FEBRUARY 28, 1900. POETRY OF THE BIBLE: BY DR. E. E. HALE tCfcgrriebt. 3900. by THE OUBOONtAN'S HOMESTUDY CIRCLE GOLDEN AGES OF LITERATURE IV. THK OOLDKX AGE OF HEBREW POETltV. BT THE RSV. B. B. HALE, X). D. The most careiaee reader of the Bible knows that the Psalms -were the hymns of th Hebrews. Even our English name Im plies that But. as our Bibles are gen orally printed, the reader does not know, outside the book of Psalms, whether what be roods In. the English version were writ ten ae poetry k written, with the en thusiasm and purposes of poetry, or whether he Is to read It as he reads the bard facte of history. The meet Important contribution, per haps, made by the revised version to the popular reading of the Bible Is the ar rangement in the priated page of the poetry in each Testament so that to every reader's eye it looks like poetry. Every reader sees that it Is poetry that It was , written by some poet whose work was SO good that it has survived tne millen niums of time. Every one knows that he to to read It as he reads poetry. Near the end of the book of Deuteronomy, for instance, the blessing of Moses, before he died printed as a poem reads: "The Lord came from Sinai, Asd rope from Sir uoto them.; He shitted forth from Mount Paran And Xe came with tea thousands of holy ones. ad Hie right hand was a fiery law unto themj.' And so the ode or song of triumph goes on with a reference to each of the 11 tribes. The mere form of the lines sug gests poetry, where the old prosaic text used by the early English translators sug gests the patient narrative of an annalist: "And he said, the Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Setr unto them; He shlned forth from Mount Paran. and He came with ten thou sand of eatata; from His right hand went a fiery taw unto them." The commission which prepared our new or revised version says of the prophets that they have not extended to the pro phetical books this arrangement In lines, because the language of these books "is rather of the nature of lofty and impas sioned prose, except in purely lyrical pas sages." Lofty and impassioned prose comes very near to poetry. And In gen eral the prophetical books of the Old Testament could be ranked as poetical. This means everything from the Prophet Isaiah to the end of the Old Testament Speaking roughly, we may say that the first half of the Old Testament, the books which go as far as Esther In the usual ar rangement, are narrative or historical; that after that point, beginning with the book of Job, they are poetical. The book of Job is often called a dramatic poem. The Psalms are a collection of several odes and hymns, from many authors in many centuries. Then follow the Pro verbs, which are cast in poetical form; the book of Eccleslastes. which, while printed a prose in the revised version, is frequently marked with the character istics of Hebrew poetry; the Song of Songs, which has all the characteristics of lyric poetry, and then the prophets. In the nrst or historical part are many songs or odes. Such is that which has been Tilted of Moses; such Is the song of Deborah. In the prophetic books, on the other hand, we have sometimes a frag ment of history. But, speaking rather roughly, as I said, the nrst half may be called historical and the second poetical. Rhythm, Meter nntl Form. It to Impossible in a single paper like thll to go into any detail as to the dis tinctions between the external form of Hebrew poetry and that to which we are accustomed. It must be enough to say that it does not seem to have had any rhyme, and that the rhythm of the verses is not to be strictlv marked by the count ing of syllables. "We know too little of the oriarinal pronunciation of the words to say whether what we call "quantity" or what we call "accent" was considered in the composition. One peculiarity Is observed In which the Hebrew poets indulged themselves much more frequently than those of the "West ern nations. It Is generally spoken of as "paraltfulem. This word means the method of composition by which one line or verse takes up the language or per haps the Idea of a previous verse and re peats it with more or lerc variation, In other words. The writers of Hebrew odes or songs frequently ised thin method In arranging verses which should be sung alternatelv by different choirs. There is a resemblance to the strophe and the entlfltrophe of the Greek choruses, but that the attentate verse in tho Hebrew poems are much shorter than those of the Greek. Imagine one choir on one side of a tem ple singing: "The Heaveao aeetore the gtory of God." And another on the other side respond ing: "And the Armament sheweth His handiwork." Chorus. "Day wrto day uttereth speech." Antl-efeorw: "And night unto night ehoweth knowledge." Chora: "There in no speech nor language." Antl-cfcorne: "Their voice eaaaot be heard." Chora: "Their line le gone out through all the earth." Anti-chorus: "And their wonts to the end of the worm." In America, the late Dr. Hastings In troduced In many churches a renewal of such alternate singing. Those who study the subject may well read his little treat' ises upon It. Another feature which occasionally ap pears In Hebrew poetry is the reference. morally, to the letter with which the poems are written. For Instance, the 119th Psalm consists of 22 stanzas, each of eight lines. In the original the first verse con sists of lines beginning with the letter A, the second verso of lines beginning with the letter B. and in most Bibles the He brew letter Is printed at the beginning of these separate subdivisions. This sort of ingenuity, sometimes show ing: itself in acrostics, and sometimes In other ways, appears in many of the poems. The Spirit. But It is the spirit of Hebrew poetry which 1ms given it its value, an infinite value to the world. "And DavM'e tyre le mightier than his throne." There were very likely many poems or ballade written In the Hebrew language which have not cone dewn to us which were not so bathed in the divine spirit as those which have survived. There Is no reason why lovers should not have writ ten love songs, why soldiers should not have written ballads, why meditative In dividuals should not have written what need to be called didactic poems, jn Pales tine as well as elsewhere. But for what ever reason, the poems which survive are, almost without exception, poems alive with the life of God The writer looks at the subject with which he has to deal with distinct reference to the infinite life which controls movement, which gives effect to cause, and k the vigor and strength of what be k to say. I once wrote a little sketch tat which, for my purpose. I imag ined a meeting between Homer and David. I waojkod to contrast the poetry of the Greeks with the poetry of the Hebrews. I made Homer sing his description f a snow storm, and David, in comparison, sing to him the 147th psalm: "He gtveta anew like wool; He scant eth the heer-freet Wee ashes; He eastern term Mis toe Hke merssis; Waa e steed before Hie esM? He eattaeth forth Hte wind and meeteth them; He aeupom Mts wtaa to Wow and the waters " 'Always tats "He." ' a oae of the young soMlem to another. " Tea.' he replied, 'and H was so In the be (tarns oC the evening, whoa we were above mete. " There is a straws aMCereace betweea the twe mm, though the eae as welt as the other, and the Greek speake with quite as little furetga accent as the Jew, and their subjects are the atme ' ' 'Tes. amid the young Philistine harper, "if Seymour Eaton.) DIRECTED BY PROF. SEYMOUR EATC N the Greek should sine one of the Hebrew a songs you would know be had borrowed It in a metaeat " 'Ana co If it were the other way.' " "Of oeurse, wild their old Captain, Joining In. the comersatlen. "Homer, if you call him so, Mnrs the thing made, David pings the maker; or, rather. Homer thinks of tne thins made; David thinks of the maker, whate they alns.' " 1 was going to say that Homer would elng of c4tlee and David of the life in them. " 'It la not tx much what they say as the way they look at It. The Greek sees the out aide the beauty ef the thins. He paints the picture. Da id tstngs the life of the picture.' " If my readers will carry this observa tion of the Philistine harper Into their leading of the poetry of tne Ola Testa ment, they will find that It Is Jmrtlried In almost all the Important poems. Sooner or later the singer or the poet comes around to apeak of the Power of powers, the Life of lives, or ths King of kings. And he is writing or singing because he wants to do this thing. It Is not as Lord somervllle wrote'a poem upon nuntlng; it is not as Thomson wrote a poem upon the seasons; it is not as Byron wrote the poem of Mazeppa In each cass because they wanted to describe certain actions or movements of men. It la that the singer or the writer had in mind the living God, and that he wanted to make those who heard or read feel that "In Him we live and move and have our belng." The Psalms. The great German poet, Herder, more than 100 years ago wrote some very valu able essays on Hebrewpoetry, wh ch have a great Interest for persons who really want to read the Old Testament in the spirit of those who wrote It and with an under standing of the customs of the time In which it was written and the people for whom It was written. This -book, I will say In passing, would be of great value for people who are con ducting Sunday classes In church and try ing to interest young people in the books of the Old Testament. Herder says again and again in the course of these essays that whoever wants roally to get at the life and movement of the poetical books of the Hebrews had bet ter study the book of Psalms first Make that the center of the whole of the Old Testament, he eajS. He says that the historical psalms, written perhaps long after the events referred to, are the In terpreters of the historical books. For Instance, a person understands the narra tive of the crossing of the Red Sea better after he has acquainted himself with the triumphant songs In which hundreds of years after the Israelites thanked God for His goodness on the occasions there de scribed. Their Authors nnd Alms, Remember, then, that the book of Psalms, as we have it, consists of five different collections of psalms, made at different times, and probably by different people. It Is quite as in an old church you sometimes find a hymnbook which contains the Psalms of David as trans lated by Dr. "Watts, together with A. col lection of hymns made by one minster. and another collection of hymns made 'by another. Of these five subdivisions the first ends with Psalm 41, the second with Psalm 72, the third ends with the 80th and the fourth with the 106th Psaim. But the first two cannot be said to be the oldest, for some pieces are found among them which belong to the period of the Captivity. The collection of the whole was prdbably made as late as the second century before Christ. Every one of these collections has some psalms of David; and the psalms of David, more than those Of any other writer, give the character to the book. Names of authors given at the be ginning of the psalms are not to be con sidered very Important. But In some in stances which interest us most these names may be regarded as the names of the real authors. For Instance, the SOth psalm may be regarded as really by Mosca, though some eminent critics have tried to show that it was composed in the period of the Captivity. If now the reader, trying to acquaint himself with the Hebrew poetry, will for himself divide the psalms of David the shepherd from the psalms written after ward by David the king, he wlU begin to get some idea of what has been meant when we have spoken of the relation of a poem to the circumstances of its compo sition. Take such a pnalm as that beauti ful 133d. which describes the friendship between Hermon and Z on. The shepherd poet Is on some eminence, probably to the east of the Jordan, where he can see the clouds gathering above the forests of Her mon, and can see them pass south over the plain of Esdrael and see them distill In the rain over the rocks of Zion. See ing this, as David the shepherd may have seen It, he writes the lines which most of us remember: "It is the dew of Hcrmon, That eometh down upon the mountains of Zlon, For there the Lord commanded the blessing. Even life for evermore." On tho other hand, after David 5s a king, after he has obtained ahe mastery over the tribes which infested Isreal with their in roads, he will sing a stateman's song: "He maketh wars to ceaee unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow. and cutteth the epear la sunder. He burircth the chariot In the Are." And when he praises God, It I3 not now because He hes "led us as goats over thi mountains," or "strengthened our hands so that they break an Iron bow," but be cause God Is "King over all the earth." It would also be a good oxerc.se care fully to read the life of David In the his torical books, where you will find more than one Instance where his poetry Is In troduced m the verj' place where the cd2 or the poem was composed. But you may go further than this. Tou may read so carefully In the history on the one side and in the books of Psalms on the other that you wll lorm for your selves the Impression as to the place where most probably a certain psalm belongs. It has been proposed, indeed, that for one of our English oratorios this connection between the history and the poetry shou d be traced along and followed out In the libretto for the performance. The songa would furnish tho specially lyric part of the oratorio, nnd the framework from his tory would g.vc additional interest to the poems as they were produced one by one. There is a composition, not so well known as It was half a century ago, by the com poser Neukomm, which is "based. In a man ner, upon this Idea, but the full working out of an oratorio Is left for eome great American composer. Boston. C. B. Darter Xarroiv Escape. C. B. Bartel was severely Injured and narrowly escaped falling from the side walk on East Morrison street to the ground below, last evening, while return ing wjth his wife from a visit to Peninsu lar. Passengers on the street cars have to transfer in both directions while re pairs are In progress on the olevated road way, and there Is a constant stream of people passing and repassing on the soutli s'dewalk. The roadway is torn up. only this sidewalk remaining. There is no bar ricade on the street side. Mr. and Mrs. Bartel had reached about East Third street. Just ahead of them a woman tripped and fell over some pieces of tim ber and was bruised. "Mr. Bartel stum Wed over a piece of board across the sidewalk. His hat and umbrella fell to the low ground, r distance of about 15 feet Ke wns going over himself, but he was caught and held by hte w'fe. The middle finger of his rleM hand wns A located and a severe gash was cut In his right leg. He sustained other minoT bruises, but was satisfied to come off a well as he did. This sidewalk Is a dan gerous plaoe, and people will have to ex orcise great caution. 9 I THE MONROE DOCTRINE. Question liaised as to Its OtIetIu, and "Who Should Uavc the Credit of It. GOLDBKDALE, Feb. 26. (To the Edi tor.) In a recent issue of The Oregonian appeared an ed.tor.al under this heading: "rfea Power and Open Door," wherein it Is stated that It was Great Britain that liret succested the Monroe doctrine to the United States. 1ou have made this statement on several previous occasions, and I desire the privilege of replying through the columns ot jour paper. The history of our country snows very clearly that early in the Nation's develop ment It iecame necessary to decide upon tne attitude of our uovernnuni towa.ru questions in European politics Ihe United States declared for a po.lcy o. peace and fnendsh-p with all nations, free from all entangling alliances. Here is what President "Washington said In his famous neutrality proclamation, and re-' aascrted In his farewell address, as a legacy to his countrymen: "The great rule of conduct for us In regard to foreign nations is to have with them as httie political ccnnectlon as possible. Europe has a set of primary interests which, to us, have rone, or a very remote, relation. Our detached and distant situation invites and ena&les us to purcue a different course. "Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a s tuation? Why Interweave our destiny with any part of Europe? "Why entangle our peace and prosperity in the tolls of European ambitions and rivalry? "Why quit your own to stand on foreign ground? If we remain one people, under an efficient Government, the time Is not far off when we may defy material Injury from exter nal annoyances. "When we may take such an attitude, as will cause the neutral-ty we may at any time decide upon, to bo scrupulously respected. "When we may choose peace, or war, as our Interests, guarded by justice, may demand." It appears from the private correspon dence of Jefferson and Madison that the principle embodied In the Monroe doctrine had occurred to them, as it had to others, long before President Monroe proclaimed It to the world. When Monroe issued his celebrated mf-ssage declaring that we should consider any attempt on the part of the allied powers to extend their sys tem to any' part of this hemisphere as danger6us to out peace and safety, he was simply following the suggestions laid down in Waghlhgtdn's neutrality proclamation. In the discuss ons to which the negotia tions between the Russian Government and the United States gave rise, concern ing their respective rights and Interests on the northwest coast of the Continent, President MonrOe said: "In the arrange ments by Which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for as serting, as & principle in which the rights and Interests of the United States are in Vblved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth hot to be considered as sub jects for future colonization "by" any Euro pean powers.'' The heiy alliance fdrmed In 1822 by Euro pean powers, while ostensibly directed to tho maintenance 6f peace and friendship ambng thehiselves, was, In fact, a league for the nhUUai support of rbyal dynasties. About tho time tho h61y alliance was formed, the Spanish American colonies declared their independence, which the United States acknowledged. The British GovCrhment did prapose to ours some Joint action against the holy alliance from pure ly Selfish motives, but oUr Government could not accede to this without departing from the doctrine which was Washington's legacy to his cOUhtrymett. Mr. Monroe took an independent position and asserted a purely American policy. The Declaration Of independence', iESued in 1776, was directed against Great Brit ain alone, for the purpGso of establishing in the Western hemisphere a Government "of the people, by the people, fbr the people." Our forefathers succeeded in &s tabllshlng it Then came a second dec'.ttr. ation, issued by a Democratic Adniln'stra tion. and directed against the whole of tho Eastern hemisphere, forbidding lahd-gr&b-blng. or the establishment Of anj' monar chical form of government in the Western hemisphere. Ony twice, since the Issuance of this famous Democratic doctrine, known as the Monroe doctrine, has It been in fringed upon once 'by France, 'and once toy Great Britain, nnd in both instances It has been enforced by Democratic presi dents. If you have any reliable authority to controvert any' statement I have made in this article, I would be pleased to have you produce it through the columns of your paper. E. W. ENOS. t ABC LESSON IN ASTRONOMY "Why a Dny Is "Gained' In n Trip to Manila, PORTLAND, Feb. 26. (To the Edltor.) Plcase state for the Information of a number of your readers, who were dls cusslrjg the question "What date and hour Is it at Manila, P. I., when It Is 12 o'clock noon, February 28, at Portland? A.I50 ex plain how It is that a day is lost or gained in going or returning from there. Tour reply will be appreciated by MANY READERS. In round numbers, the difference in time between Portland and Manila is eight hours. For convenience' sake, the day is considered to begin at the ISOth degree of longitude west from Greenwich, and when it Is Monday on the cast side cf that line It Is Tuesday on the west side, 50 that when It is "noon in Portland on February 2? It is 4 A. M. March 1 (no leap year) In Manila. Thus the time by the clock In Manila Is 16 hours ahead of the timo In Portland, although there Is only eight hours difference In the time between the two places. If a child were born in Portland at the same moment of time that another was born In Mrni!a. the young Filipino would, by the clock, be 16 hours older than the young Oregon Ian. Such calculations are very confus ing to persons other than astronomers as they get puzzled as to the rising and setting of the sun and the time kept by the clock, when in reality there Is no time, and the sun dees not rise or set It Just stands still, and the earth goes gyrating and revolving around it and man keeps a record of his brief span of llfo by keep ing count of the number of times night and day succeed each other. This may appear to be something after the style of Christian Science, but It Is practically correct, which Christian Science probably is "not As tho day "changes step" at the 180th degree of longitude west from Greenwich, a person passing that point, going west from this Coast say at noon on Sunday, drops a day, and In a second is in the middle of Monday, for following the sun one goes an hour every 15 degrees of lon gitude he passes over. Coming from Asia to America, If the 180th degree Is reached on Sunday, the next day Is called Sun day, also because In sailing from west to oast one is pulling hard against the stream ,(of time), as it were, and loses a little time every day, and has to make it up at the place where the days change their name, that Is, where, figuratively speak ing, a sheet is torn off the desk calen dar even 24 hours. To be' able to com prehend these matters clearly one ought to be able to Imagine himself standing out in space, where he could see that the sun shines all the time and that there Is no beginning or ending of daylight on the earth, which just goes on with its wild whirl world without end, DOBLEY DESCR1BLSSLUMS EXAGGERATES THE DETAILS TO EN TERTAIN HIS "WIFE. Tries to Tirn Her Thoughts Array From a Desire to Go to the. French Ball. 'Oh, dear me," said Urs. Dobley, yawn ing. I Vnen Mrs. Dchley said "Oh, dear me:" ana yawnea, uoDiey itnew mat nis vme wanted him to propose go.ng somewhere. He was afraid sne would ask him to take her to the French ball, so he pre tended not to hear and went on reading an editorial in an evening extra on T..e rj-by's F.rst Tooth." a subiact In whicij was not al all lntereated. ..Vm jUJ3t dyns for a n0yCl experjence of some sort. gald Mra Do.b.CV( -.ana t flm ftt v ,.,.. ,, to thInk of som, thing. Can't you suggest' "Punny thing," said Dobley, in a rude, absent-minded way. "Just listen to this, Jhiy dear." He "began to read: " 'There may be subjects of more Importance than the baby'a tooth. But not to tho haby. If you will notice tne added tenderness In a baby's smile after It ia able to Hash its first tooth, you will find yourself be ginning to think. It Is a good thing to think. But It is a better thing to bp able to draw a salary for writing th.ngs with out thinking.' " "Is that a 'Cosy Corner' joke," asked Mm DoTaley. with scorn, "or is It a 'Help ful Hint?' " "It's great stuff!" said Mr. Dob'ey, de lighted with the Idea that he had switched Mrs. Dobley's thoughts In another chan nel. "As he says, it makes you thipk" "Well, think hard," said Mrs. Dobley. "and decide on something we can do to vary the monotony of existence." Dobley's jaw dropped noticeab.y and hia brow grew furrowed. He knew by the way In which Mrs. Dobley spoke that he was In for it "In what line?" ho asked nervously. "Tho opera or the theater or ?" "Oh, anything funny or out of the common or Just a little disreputable," said Mrs. Dobley. "I get tired being re spectable!" "I find It very exciting," eald Mr. Dob ley. "Oh, yes "but you reformed when you were married. I never had a chance to sow an oat! Sometimes I wish I were a college boy and could go on a lark and smash windows and yell." "My dear Mrs. Dobley, hadn't you bet ter take a bromo to quiet your nerves? Such a state of m'nd Is extremely regret table In a female" "Don't you. dare to call me a female, Mr. Dobley; I simply won't have It!" "In a feminine mind, went on Dob ley, "that Is supposed to be like an aeo llan harp, tuned to gentler melodies. These erratic tendencies which you display at times toward whoop'ng things -up, whl.e attractive, perhaps. In the first flush of girlhood" "You always encouraged me In it," said Mrs. Dobley. "I recollect the night you proposed, you said that you first dis covered that you loved me when you saw me turning a double somersault oft a springboard at Bar Harbor." "One has to tell a girl some He or other when he proposes," said Dobley. "I d'dn't tell you you were the only girl I ever loyedr" "No, you couldn't," said Mrs. Do"bley, "for I know better. You were engaged to that scraggy Hlpkln3 girl for nearly a year." "She was a gentle, domestic creature," said Dobley. "Well, I am tired of being a mouse," said Mrs. Dobley, "and unless you think of something new I'll do something des perate. I'll go slumming with Cora "Van Ripper!" "Do women go slumming nowadays?" "Well, we go on an afternoon's tour of the shops. It's the same thing." "I suppose that Is a very desperate ex perience." "Wfell, you'd think so. If you tried on hats' artd coats and tailor gowns In about 14 places and had a biscuit and a cor dial at each place. When Cora "Van Rip per and t go on one of those trips we always have to take a hansom home, and sometimes we forget where we live. Last time Cora told the man to drive to ti number of Fifth avenue, and when we got there it was the reservoir." "That reminds me," said Dobley, "I have heard of a new place to go slum ming." "Oh, how perfectly lovely!" said Mra Dobley. "Tell me about it" "Why, you make up a party," said Dob ley, "and you. go in cabs" "Oh, it's more fun to go in cars when you go slumming." "But it 1b more sporty "to go In cabs," said Dobley, "and then you are sure of getting home. The dinner is dreadful and the murk is dreadful, but it's the real thing. Every one goes, and you have to ehgage your table weeks in advance. Then you take a detective" , "Is it so bad as that?" said Mrs. Dob ley, delightedly. "What do you have to take him for?" "I've never been able to tell why you take him, but it's the proper caper. You see. it's in a cellar a dinner in a cellar and it's not safe to go in a eliar with out a detective. But I understand the detectives are all upset about it." "Their minds?" asked Mrs. Dobley. "No, their digestions! You put a de tective on this dinner beat for about a week and he gets In a dream. You Fee they make him taste the dishes and de tect what they are made of. It takes a sleuth to trace some of the food you get The proprietors are Persians." "Do they wear fezzes and turbans and things?" "No, they wear satisfied smiles when they see the amount of co'n they nre rak ing out of the pocketa of a guljfble, fad crazy public. You see, they have a sys tem a magn'ficent system! Freshlngron and I were talking the other day about opening a restaurant on the rame plan. He thinks there's a fortune in .1. ' "What do they do?" "It's like this," said Dob'ey. "When you first get in they give you a sma'l gloss of Persian knockout drops. After that you can't escape. It has hasheesh in It, and everything gets rose-;olored in a hurry." "Like opium?" Faid Mrs. Dobley. "Piges." said Dob'ey, "are as nothing to the Persian knockout You begin to think that life Js a beautiful dream, and you feel grateful to the proprietors for allow ing you to live. Then you go up and shako hand3 with them both and bring them over and Introduce them to your wife, and then you are presented to the leader of the band, and everything Is on a nice soolal. easy, genial basis. Jt wouid be Impollto to kick at anything after that, you see. Then the band plays." "What do they play?" "Now you've got me in a tight place," said Dobley. "It's supposed to be real Persian music, and there's no time or no tuno to It The wilder It Is the more the people under the spell of the hasheesh, you understand, applaud. "In tho meantime carriages are rolling up to the door and depositing their frPlght of feminine loveliness escorted by mascu line victims at the threshold. It Is the correct thing to wear all your best clothes and to have a dashing, devil-may-care expression' "Well, there's another shake-hands all round. The proprietors begin to perspire finding the tables- that have been engaged, and the waiters get on a little jog trot galt and a worried look that Is supposed to Indicate hard work. Just about then they bring you another hasheesh In a different-shaped glass. This blow kills fath er. You'll tell the story of your life then to any one who will listen to you. Then you go up and shake hands with the head of the firm, nnd tell him he has the great est place on earth. Then the band plays and you go up and offer the leader your I watch." "Don't you get anything to eat?" asked Mrs. Dobley. "Well, you don't really want anything to eat by this time. You are having the tlmo of your life. People you owe money to come up and ask about your health, and tell you they've been coming here since the place was started. Then the tell you how It used to be In the old days. They ask you if you know the proprietor, . onrl vrtti fs el-tit- trAn'itM eVinMi- Vmtiq . and you forget that you've shook bands with him about seven times already, and you go up and do it all over again. About this time the Waitec brings some trapped brimstone, and tells you that your dinner wiil be served presently. You tell him not to hurry himself, and give him a quarter. Then tho band plays. The appiauiw deafening. They only people whoRk dogged and unmoved are the deteclve3 escorting the slumming parties. They al ways seem tired, and they don't do any handshaking or any applauding." "It must be dimply too sweet for any thing," said Mrs. Dobiey. "But about the dinner?" "Six months are supposed to have elapsed," said Dobley, "when the waiter brings up Uvo ragged spikes of celery, which he places before from four to six people, and soup that tastes like flour paste. That Is, it really ttte3 that way. but yen ta.k about its exquisite flavor and wonder why It is that our American cooks cannot get up anything of the sort, You beckon to the proprietor, and when j ho gets through the crowd you tell him 1 Louts Santangel. Treasurer-General of that tho soup Is hot stuff, and that he's a Aragcn, who had been born of a Jewish man after your own heart. You ask him j father and a Jewish mother; and by an if he would mind having the band play j other Jew, Gabriel Sanchez, Councillor 'I'd Leave My Happy Home for You,' and and Controller of Aragon. On this voy ho says he'll have It done with pleasure. ago, Columbus was accompanied by the You shake hands with him. . following five Jews: Louis de Torres, inter- "By this time the excitement Is at Its preter: Rodrlga Sanchez, nephew of the height The air Is filled with cigarette Treasurer-General of Aragon; Alonso de la smoke. Every one Is laughing and talk-1 Calle, Dr. Maestre Bernal and Surgeon lng. and when the band plays a song you ararco. Tho astronomical tables which join In whetner you know tne words or nd. It doesn't matter a particle. If you only make noise enough and keep things lively. You seo your waiter and give him a dollar, and he brings more soup and some loggy claret-cclored liquid In a wine bottle. Then he gees off and fonjets you." "Nothing but soup?" asked Mrs. Dob ley. "Oh, you don't ralrd a little thing like that! You see, no one goes there for the dinner. 'If any one speaks about getting uiiiiiui. xi. any uue ByetiKs uuuu. &;eiiifi& . tj anything to cat, you all tell each other Z .Un. .1 M .l. Jf "mi uu uuu ftut's 1 in; re lur iuc uaiiiur. It's a good thing you don't, for you don't get it It's the sport you're there for, and If you ree any one you know and you aU ways see somebody you know you smile In a reckless way as though to say: "You see. I'm right here at the old stand! One of tho boys! You can't beat me'.' Then you go up and shake hands with him, and present him to the proprietor and to the band. You whisper to thp leader and ask him to play 'Hannah Lady,' and give him four '.o-cent cigars. "In the meantime the f alter brings up somo dishes with sauce covering them, and If you have a detective In the party It's his turn to play. He guesses at It, and overy one passes. Then the waiter gets angry and spills something on you, and you give him money to go away. . "By this time the band plays 'The Star Spangled Banner In ragtime. Every one sings all sorts of words, and you wave your handkerchief and give three cheers for the proprietor. Then you happen to see somebody drinking champagne, and it strikes you that this is the best Idea that has occurred to you during the even ing. You suggest It to your wife, and she says 'jll right, but her voice sound strange, and when you look around you find you're talking to another lady. "You see a man you've met somewhere, and you ask him who he is and he tells you he's the proprietor. You tell hlra what a good fellow he Is, and ask him if he'll please lead you to your wife. By tho time you find her you discover that tho waiter. In a fit of good-heartednes3, had not only brought coffee, but two cakes with little seeds In them, two apples, a raisin and fOur nuts. The band plays 'Yankee Doodle. The patriotic feeling mounts to a perfect fervor. Everybody shakes hands with everybody else. You see some people going home, and you think how foolish they are to leave such a scene. Then the room begins to go round, and you suggest the idea, that the ontlre party go out and walk around the block and come back. Every one agrees. You get your wraps and go out. and your cabmen seize you and push you forcibly Into cabs, whte you protest vigorously that you only came out for a dash around the block Just for fun. "Well, what happens then?" asked Mrs. Dobley. "Well, some people go up town and get something to eat," said 'Dobley, "but it seems tame and uninteresting after tha other place. But the funniest part of it Is that all your enthusiasm is gone next day. You find the trip has cost you more than a week at a winter resort In a swell hotel, and you vow you'll never go again. That's the way I feel, but If you think you'd like to go, why I'll make a sacrifice, and" "Oh, I know something better than that," said Mrs. Dobley. "I've been wait ing for you to finish to tell you that I had thought of It There's a French ball on Monday night, and I'd Just love" "My dear Mrs. Dobley, I cannot think of such a thing. Of all the stupid com monplace affairs that ever happened" "The Van Rippers are going." said Mrs. Dob'ey, pouting. "Mr. Van has J taken n box, snd after the opera they are all going round to see the fun. I told Mr. Van Ripper that I'd get you to go, but he said It was all such an old story to you that you'd se nothing In It He said when a man reached your age he experi enced a vlolen reaction In his Ideas of amusement I suppose that's true. You are awfully blase, you know!" "Van Ripper was EOing to French balls before I was bom." raid Mr. Dobley. "It amuses me to hear him when he talks In that way! He's as foolish about his age as though he were a girl! Why" "Suppose we go Just to show him we're not so doddering as we look?" suggested Mrs. Dob'ey. "When did . you say it took place?" as'red Dobley." "Monday evening," sa'd Mrs. Dobley. "All right That's a date!" said Dobley. New York Fun. MATTERS OF HISTORY. Pertaining: to Onr Itcvolntloa and to the Discovery of America. PORTLAND, Feb. 27.-(To tho Editor.) In your issue of the 2Sth lnst, there was a letter signed "A Constant Reader," in Honopol I With Ioyfhpieoe lO coxitis for lO S which the question was asked whether Robert Morris, tae financier of the Revctu ton, waa a Jew? This question you an swered correctly. He was not a Jew, but belonged to the Morris family Of Philadel phia, of which my esteemed friend, Bishop B. Wistar Morris, Is a descendant There was, however, a Jewfeh financier of the name of Haym Salomon, who advanced the sum ot $353,744 46 out of hte own resources t AtcT . vu iI.a . .-. -. . -. at to aid the patriot cause; no: one cent ef which haa ever been repaid to his beirs. In addition to which advances, he spent considerable sums of money in reBeVmaJ the necessities of various members ef Con gress, officers- ot the Revolutionary Army, I and even assteted Robert Morris himself. In regard to the other question in tits letter, "What Jew, If any, advanced Chris topher Columbus money for his expedi tion?" permit me to" say that In an ad dress before the American Jewish Histori cal Association, made by the Hon. Oscar S. Strauss, which address will be fcund in full in the publications or that association, is contained the following: "It has been generally supposed that Columbus derived the funds for his first voyage from the sale of her jewels by Queen Isabella, but this is a mistake: for Spanish historians them selves assert that she had already parte-; with her jewels to defray the expenses of tho war with the Moors, and when Co lumbia set sail from Palos. an August 3. ! 1482, for the discovers of America, the funds for his- equipment were furnished by he used were the work of Abraham Za cuto. and had been translated into Spanish by his pupil, Joseph Veclnho or Vlztno, both master and pupil being Jews." You will confer a favor by giving this communication a plice in your valuable columns. BENJAMIN I. COHEN. Those unitappy persons who suffer from nervousness and dysoepsia should use Carter's Litt'e Nerve. Pills, made express ly for tnis class. 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