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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."
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