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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, POETIASD. JULY 6, 1902. -31 Homes and Haunts of Famous Authors WORDSWORTH, BY CANON RAWNSLEY, M. A AUTHOR OF- LITERARY ASSO CIATION OF THE ENGLISH LAKES," ETC AU Rights Reserved.) rS7TlL.X.IAM "WORDSWORTH'S first a home -was the substantial house at Cockermouth, -with its pillared rateway flubh with the main otreet, and ts wall-enclosed garden and orchard run tlnfr at the back of tho house to a tr ace and tprrace wall overlooking: the DerTTent. He was born here on April 7, 1770, and ipent his happy childhood here -with inter nment visits to Penrith till 1783, when rhe home was broken up on the death of lis father, and Cockermouth knew him jo more. But the scenes cf that Cocker nouth home haunted him all his life. The Derwent murmuring "its own undersong" jsd "flowed among" his "dreams" when le was a babe in aims. He never forgot Jhe delight of visiting the bird's nest In .ho privet hedge at the bottom of the gar Jen; that privet hedge is still growing there. He ever remembered how he and lis sister, Dorothy, his "darling Emme fme," as he called her, together with him, 'chased the butterfly" or clomb together ip to the wall-flower tufts upon the ruined walls of Cockermouth Castle, nor how as I fad he had "basked and bathed alter jate," all a Summer day, and raced naked throuph the yellow rag-wort in the great Dilldam meadow, thit lay just across trie tiver. At some part of hln earfy days tfter leaving Cockermouth, he lived in a tottage at Keswick, in care of a worthy lame, but neither cottage nor name of lis caretaker Is extant. Before hl3 lather's death, the motherless lad for bis mother died in 177S was sent to fjawkbbead School. The cottage, or rath tr the two cottages, where he dwelt, are rtlll to be seen The name of that "old lame so kind and motherly," Ann Tyson, was always had in kindliest memory of the poet The thoughts of gratitude shall fall like dew Upon thy crave, good creature! While my heart Can beat, never will I forget thy name. "What Hawkshead was to "Wordsworth, te "fair seed-time" for Ills soul, only those n learn who will read the "Prelude" and ee how It and all its surroundings, "So ieautlful among the pleasant fields," made him to Nature and to Nature's God "a aedicated spirit." There In the Hawks bead "Vale, Prom Nature and her overflowing: soul He had receh od so much that all his thoughts Were steeped In feeling. Thence the poet went to Cambridge, and Penrith was his chief home and haunt Juring his undergraduate career. In 1794 he came back from wandering on the Continent, and from a Paris red still u-lth blood and maddened with revolution -to the quiet scenes of eWstmoreland and Cumberland. It was then that Dorothy, bis sister, charmed him back from, wild unsettled ways and moods of mind to his real work of life, the work of a poet and philosopher, and as he says, Maintained for him a saving Intercourse With his true self. The First Home of His Own. A legacy of 900, from Raisley Calvert, rrho Lad realized the worth of "Words worth's first published poemB, "Doscrlp iive Sketches," and "An Evening "Walk," enabled him now to set up a home for tlmscif and tor his dear, dear sister, and hey two went down Into Dorset and fettled at Racedown Lodge in the Autumn i f lt'Jo. It was a pleasant place enough, fhcre was a good garden around the bouse, long, undulating hills and moor land for walks in quiet air, with a far-off rlew of the gray-blue sea. Here for two years in the first home of his own he worked at his "high calling," and readers of the first book of the "Ex cursion," who remember the story "of Margaret, one of the most pathetic sketches from life Wordsworth ever wrote, will be grateful to Raoedown and Its liuietude, for it was at Racedown that he composed this, calling it then, "The Ruined Cottage," and altering the title ifterward. Here, too. at Racedown were written the poems, "The Borderers" and "Guilt and Sorrow." Two years later, in MR. DOOLEY'S LETTER. THE PHILOSOPHER POINTS OUT ONE ADVANTAGE OF POVERTY. U ELL, sir," said Mr. Doolcy, "j'e ought to be glad ye're not sick an illusthrees at th', same time." "How's that?" Mr. Hennessy demanded. "Well, yo see," said Mr. Doolcy, "sup pose annythlng happens to ye now; a fel low oounthryman dhrops & hammer on yo. tu day afther th' picnic or ye'er digestion listens to a walkln' dlllygate fr'm th Union iv Mickrobos an' goes out on Ethrike. Th polisman on th corner has th' usual suspicions among glntlemen an hits ye over th' head an' calls th' wagon an' slnds yo home. Th' good woman wrings ier handB an' calls hlven t6 wit ness that if ye have a toothache ye wako tl' neighborhood, an slaps a mustard plaster on ye. If she comes back later an' finds ye haven't put th sheet between ye an' th' plaster an gone to sleep, sho knows 'tis secryous an elnds f'r th doc tor. Wo contlnyoo to nave doctors In what th' pa-apers calls th outlyln' wards. They HVe above th' dhrug store an' prac tice mldiclne on us. Th physicians an' 6urgeons are all down town edltln th' pa-apers. Well, doc comes to ye afthtr awhile In a buggy. On th way up he sets a broken leg, removes an arm, docs a lit tle something f'r th city dlrecthry. takes a dhrink, talks pollytlcks with th un happy parent, an' fin'lly lands at ye'er dure with th' burglar's tools. Afther he's closed that dure th' secrets lv th' inner man is known on'y to him. No wan hears or wants to hear annythlng about 1L Th ncx' time we see ye, ye come out lookln' pale an' emacyated an' much younger an' betther lookln' thin annywan lver ray mlmbors seein' ye, an' afther awhile ye obsarve' that whin ye start to tell how manny stitches It took an what ye sec whin ye smellcd th' dizzy sponge, ye'er frinds begin. to sprint away. An' ye go back reluctantly to wurrk. Ye nlvcr hear annywan say: ''HInnlssy is great comp'ny whin he begins talk about his sickness. I've seen men turn fr'm a poor, helpless, enthusyastic invalid to listen to a man talkin' about th' Nlaragooan Canal. "But with th groat 'tis far different. I've ofton thanked th. Lord that I didn't continqoo in pollytics whin I was cap'n iv me precinct, f r with th eyes iv a no wurruld. focussed. as Hogan says, on me, I cud nlver injye th pleasure lv a mo ment's sickness without people In far-off Boolgahrya knowin whether me liver was on straight- Sickness is wan. iv th privi leges lv th poor man that,he shares with no wan. Whin It comes kindly to him th four walls Iv his room closes In on him like a tent, folks goes by on th' other side lv th' sthreet, th' rollln mill disappears. an1 with th mornln' comes no honest day's tile. He lies there "In blessld Idle ness, an.' no matther what's th' matther with hlmt he don't suffer half 'as much pain as he wud in purscjot iv two dollars a day. I knowed a man wanst who used to take his vacations that way. Whin 1797, "Wordsworth left Racedown Lodge for Alfoxden, In Somersetshire, that he might be neighbor to S. T. Coleridge, who was then living at Nether Stowey. "We are three miles from Stowey," writes Dorothy, "and two miles from 'the sea. "Wherever we turn we have woods, smooth downs, and valleys with small brooks running down them through, green meadows hardly ever intersected with hedgerows and scattered over with trees. The hills that cradle these valleys are either covered with fern and bilberries or oak woods, which are cut out lor char coal. Walks extend for miles over the hilltops, the great beauty of which Is Ihelr wild simplicity. They are per fectly smooth, without rocks." It was In thU beautiful Quantock coun try that "Wordsworth and Coleridge deter mined upon thB volume of "Lyrical Bal lads," to which Coleridge contributed "The Ancient Mariner." Bach poems as ''We Are Seven," "Expostulation and Re plv." "it Is the First Mild Day of March," "Simon Lee," and other poems were here written, and through nearly all of them one cin see that though In body "Words worth is in the Quantock Hills, In soul he is In the Like Country: hut the ureal poem that belongs to Alfoxden time was the last om written In June of 1795, the Lines or Tlntern Abbey." In September of lhat same year; 179S, the poet left Somersetshire forever, and after a Journey to Germany, and a "Winter at Goslar, we find Wordsworth back In England, and wandering In the Torkshire dales. As the light of the shortest day of the yrar, St. Thomas' day, 1789, faded, Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy., en tered the tiny cottage which had once been the ale-house, with the sign of the dove and olive bow, at the foot of the steep old road that led from Grasmere over the White Moss to Rydal. That cot tage. Dove Cottage, or Townend Cottage, as It was sometimes called, was to be their home for the next eight years. Da Qulnccy has well described the cottage thus: . Dove Cottagre. "A little semlvcstlbule between two doors prefaced the. entrance Into what might bo considered the principal room of the cottage. It was an oblong square, not above 8& feet high, 16 feet long, and 12 broad; very prettily wainscoted from tho floor to the celling with dark polished oak:, slightly embellished with carving. One window there was a perfect and un pretending cottage window with little diamond panes, embowered at almost every season pf the year with roses, and. In the Summer and Autumn with a pro fusion of jasmine and other fra&rant shrubs. From the exuberant luxuriance of the vegetation around it, this window, though tolerably large, did not furnish a very powerful light to one who entered from the open air. . . I was ushered up a little flight of stairs, 14 lri all. to a little drawing-room, or whatever the reader chooses to call It. Wordsworth himself has described the fireplace of this room as his ' Half kitchen, ana half parlour "fire. It was not fully seven feet six Inches high, and in other respects pretty nearly of the same dlmensfons as the rustic hall below. There was, however, in a small recess, a library or perhaps 200 volumes, which seemed to consecrate this room as the poet's study and composing-room, and such occasionally it was. "About 4 o'clock It might be when we arrived. At that hour in November the daylight soon declined, and In an hour and a half we were all collected about the tea-table. , "This with the Wordsworths, under the simple rustic system of habits which they cherished then and for 20 years after, was the mosl delightful meal of tho day, Just as dinner 13 In great cities, and for the same reason, because it was prolonged into a meal of leisure and conversation. That night I found myself, about 11 at night, in a 1 pretty bedroom, about 14 feet by 12. Much I feared that this might turn out the best room In the house; and It Illustrates the hospitality of ray new frlendc to mention that It was .... others wlnt off f'r to hunt what Hogan calls th' finny monsters lv th' deep, ho be come seeryously ill an' took to bed. It made him vary sthrong. "But suppose I hadn't resigned fr'm Cap'n iv me precinct whin I was defeated. If annythlng had happened to me, ye'd pick up th pa-apers an' see: 'Secryous news about th Cap'n lv th twlnty-slcond precinct lv th' Sixth Ward. Ho has brain fever. He has not. He got into a fight with a Swede an' had his ribs stove In. H& fell out lv th window lv a Joolry store he was burglarlzln' an' broke th left Junction lv th' slzjymold cartilage. Th' throuble with th' Cap'n Is he dhrlnks too much. A man lv his age who has been a soak all bis life always succumbs to anny throuble like hyperthrooplly lv th cranium. Docthor Muggers, dean lv th' Post Gradyate Vcthrlnary School lv Os-4 teopathy, says he had a similar case las' year in Mr. Hlnnery Haltch Cloheasy, wan lv th best known citizens lv this city. Like th Cap, Mr. Clohessy was a 4!lgh liver, a heavy dhrlnker, a gambler an a flJrt. Th cases are almost identical. Ow ln' to th code lv pro-flsslonal eethics Dr. Muggers cud not tell th bereaved fam'ly what ailed Misther Clohessy, but It was undoubtedly his past llfe.'- "Thln come th doctors Not wan doc tor, HInnlssy, to give ye a whiff out lv a .towel an ma"ke ye sleep Vt an hour an wake up an' say, I fooled ye. Whin do ye begin? No, but all lv thlm. They escort th prisoner up th sthreet in a chariot an th' little newsboys runs along side sellln' exthry papers. 'Our night edition will print th' Inside facts about Cap Doolcys condition, an th' Cap hlm sllf, with a cinematograph lv th' jolly pro ceeding bo Dock Laparatonny.' What happens to th' crlm'nal at first Is th' same as if he was a dacint, wurrukln' man. But whin that Is done, an' 'tis gettin' so aisy they tell me tbcy'se not much difference between a good clam-salesman an' a first class surgeon, th' llthry wurruk begins. Ye think 'tis all over whin ye say; 'Dock, put ye'er hand undhor th plllpw an take what's there." But not so. Th asslm bled docks adjourn to a large hall an prepare th' story lv 'Cap Doolcy: a Stormy Career. Be wan who knows. " 'Upon seein' th' Cap, we at once diag nosed th case as peritcllpalltickpantliltls itls, or chloken-bone In th throat. Dr. Pincers operated, Dr. Smothers adminis tered th annyEthetlc, Dr. Hygeen opened th' window. Dr. Anodyne turned on th' gas, Dr. Aluompalne turned th' pitchers to th' wall. Dr. Raxnbo looked out th win- ' dow. Doctors Peroxide, Gycal, Cephal- J gem, Antipyreen an Coletar took a walk in th' park, an' Doctor Saliclate figured up the bill. As we have said, we diag nosed th' case as above. We can't ray inlmber th' nme. It dcplnds on how th syllables c&mc out iv th'hat. We were wrong, although, what wo 'see whin we got In more thin made un f r th error. We made a- Ions Incision fr'm th chin down "Next morning I found Miss Words worth making breakfast In the little sitting-room. No one was there, no glitter ing breakfast service; a kettle boiled upon the fire; and everything was In harmony with these unpretending arrangements. "I rarely had seen so humble a menage; and. contrasting the dignity of the man with this honorable poverty, and this courageous- avowal of it, his utter absence of all effort to disguise the simple truth of the ense, I felt my admiration increased." In this cottage, or In tho cottage gar den, that "orchard garden, eminently fair," which wa3 Wordsworth's study and recreation ground in one, were writ ten "Hartleap Well," "The Green Lin net," "The Brothers,", "Michael," "Tho Daffodils.' "The Leech-Gatherer," "The Ode on Immortality," tho conclusion of 1 "Tho Prelude." the bef-lnnlng of "The Excursion.' and it Is not too much to btnossbound shed. Its garden gato giving say that the years of poetic work in thatvcntrance to the shepherd's path beneath "fS 2! --, f'Wi'RydAl Mount humble .cottage .Tvere.tho years that es tablished Wordswdrth'a fame and gave him his abiding rank In English litera ture. . To that cottage he brought his wlfe Mary Hutchinson, In 1S02, and there the children -were born. It is true that Cole orton was lent them In the Winter of 1E06, because, though they could manage to live In'Dove Cottage during the Sum mer time, when Wordsworth could rvork out of doors, and when the sleepers could open their tiny dlamond-paned windows they could not find air-room enough in Winter time; but Coleorton, though It gar den and grounds were much thought of by Wordsworth, never laid except for tho real regard he had for Sir Georgo and Lady Beaumont "strong hold on his af fection." It is ever to Dove Cottage we turn when we think of tho real homo and haunt of Wordsworth. It was here where his best work was done, and where his great gospel of plain living and high thinking was first preached. In 1S0S. the family having outgrown Dove Cottage, re moved to Allan Bank. For tho next three an another acrost an' not findln' what we explcted, but manny things that ought to be kept fr'm th fam'ly, we put th Cap back an wlnt on. Th op'ratlon was a complete success." Th' wretch is restln an swearin' easily. We have given him a light meal iv pickles an' antiseptic oats an surgical science havln' done Its duty mub lave th rest to Nature, which was not in th consultation, beln' consldhered bo some iv us, slightly irregular. (Signed.) Look at our names: " "Pincers, Anodyne, Antipyreen, Smoth ers, Allcompanc, Coletar, Mufllns. Rambo, Gycal, Hygeen, Peroxide, Saliclate.' "But that's nawthln'. If ye think they'ae annythlng yo wud like to keep up ye'er sleeve, loots, fr It In th pa-apora. Th' followln' facts is stated on th au thority lv wan iv th' attlndln' surgeons: Cap Doolcy cut up terribly undher th' chloryform, slngln' songs, swearin an asking Tr Lucy. His wlf's nam Is Anna marelar. She was In th adjlnln room. It seems they have had throuble. Th' room was poorly furnished. Th Cap's clothes was much worn as was most lv him. Ho must have led a shockln' life. It Is doubt ful If he will lver raycover, f r he Is very, very old. He has been concealln' his ago f'r manny years. He Is a notoryous profligate as was well shown be th' view we had. Th flash light pitcher iv th' Cap will appeal to all who know' his Inner hl3thry.' "An there ye ar-re. Think iv a man coraln' out In th' light lv day afther all that. He can't get on clothes enough to cover him. He may bear hlmslK with a haughty manner, but he feels that lvry man ho meets knows more about hlra thin ho knows hlmsllf. Th fellow on th' sthreet has been within th' walls. He's eayln "to hlmsllf: 'Ye're a hollow sham composed akclly lv impaired organs an' antiseptic gauze.' To the end iv his life, he'll nlver be annythlng more thin an an nytomlcal chart to his frinds. His privacy Is ovor friver, f r what good can It do anny wan, HInnlssy, to pull down th' blinds iv his bedroom if lvrybody knows exactly th' size, shape "En location lv his spleen? "No, sir; If I've got to bo 6lck, give mo th' ordhn'ry dacencles lv poverty. I don't want anny man to know anny more about me thin he can larn from the handiwork lv Marks -th tailor, an' Schmltt th' shoe maker, an fr'm th deceitful expression K me face. If I have a bad heart, let him know It be me eyes. On me vest Is written: 'Thus far an no -farther.' They'se manny a man on intimate terms with th' Impror lv Rocshya that don't know anny more about me thin that I'm broadcloth on Sundah an' serge on week days. An' I don't lntlnd they shall. I hldo behind th' privileges lv me posi tion an say: 'Fellow-citizens, docks and Journalists. I cannot inthrajooce ye to th Inner Man. Ho's a rceclocse an' avarse to s'clety. He's modest an shy an' ob jects to callers. Ye can guess what kind iv man I am, but I wudden't have ye know.' An' I can do that as long as I stay poor." "I'm glad I'm poor," said Mr. Hen nessy. "It gives ye less to talk about, but more to think about," said Mr. Dpoler. years they dwelt there, with much sight of T"lrt fl it I fr -. Vi4 aAA 4Vav In occupancy of Dove Cottage, and much visiting of S. T. Coleridge, who was busy with its publication of "The Friend." Here he composed the bulk of "The Ex curslon.'' Rydal HesBt. In 1S11 they moved from Allan Bank to. the parsonage of Grasmere, opposite the I old Church of St. Oswald's. It was a sad move for them. Within six months two of their beloved children were borne from I the vicarage" door across the road to the ! churchyard, and tho sorrow for the loss of Catherine and little Thomas was so great that the parents were driven from Grasmere in hope of "recovering that equanimity of mind" which was necessary to their work in life. So In 1813 the" Wordsworths left Grasmere, which had been their sanctuary during rather more than 15 years, for the quiet and seclu sion of Rydal Mount. There, In the pretty old house, with its quaint round chimneys, which the poet always delighted In, with its clump of guardian spruces" at tho gate, its laburnum showering gold. Its roses and clematis and Ivy climbing -up the house front. Its quaint steps and winding paths. its double terrace. Its M J Nab Scar, Its rocks well fit for a water drinking bard, Its eloping orchard and oaken grove Its Dora's field clad each Spring with jocund daffodils, did the poet work on. Here in 1S43 did he, after much hesitation, receive by wish of our late Queen that laurel wreath fresh from the brow of his old friend, Robert Southey. Here he wrote many of his ecclesiastical sonrtets, the "Ode to Lycorls," "Tho Longest Day." "The Haunted Tree." "Cuckoo Clock," "The Clouds," "Tho Mountain Echo," "The Parrpt and tho Wren," spme of the "Poems on the Nam lag of Places," and that touching sonnet on Wansfell. But doubtless the poem which best describes the home of his later years and old age Is the "Evening "Vol untary." One can never look across from the Rydal garden to the Crinkle Crags without remembering the lines Yon hasy rldsen to thlr eyes Present & glorious scale. Climbing suffused with aunny air To stop no record hath told where 1 And tempting fancy to ascend And with Immortal spirits blond. Hence he saw his daughter Dora pass QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LETTERS asking for general informa tion will be answered in these col umns. Letters should be written on one side of the paper, and must bo ac companied by the name and address of the writer, not for publication, however. All letters without the name of the writer go to the waste-backet. Homestead Secured by Perjury. 1. In the case of a single person commut ing on a homestead, residence having been established 14 months ago, must the last six months be absolutely continuous? If not. how much absence is permitted. 2. .When should notice of proof be pub lished? 3. Can husband and wlfo prove up on separate claims If both were filed upon be foro marriage? M. 1. The affidavit for commuting home stead entry Includes this statement: "I have built a house on said land and have continued to reside therein up to the pres ent time." And any land title that is based on- a sworn-to lie Is fraudulent. Constructive residence, which so many people profeps to believe sufficient to sat isfy the law, will not answer. Residence upon.a homestead, under the terms of the law, means actual residence In good faith, not merely constructive residence for the purpose of getting' title, and persons who subscribe to the required oath with men tal reservations and "understandings" that the oath means something other than what it says, commit perjury and after all get a title that la not indefeasible. 2. Notice of proof is required to be pub lished, of course, before the proof Is made 30 days before. The object 1s to give no tice so that persons having adverse claims may have opportunity to present them. 3. Husband and wlfo cannot prove up on separate homesteads, even though the entries were made when both were quali fied to take land. The law requires resi dence upon the claim, and it presumes that husband and wife reside at tho same place. Therefore they cannot prove resi dence Jn two places, which would be nec essary to take homestead title. HelKht of Mountain Peaks. r In answer to question In this department two weeks ago, the heights of the four no table mountain peaks of the Northwest were given from a record near at hand, which proved not to be trustworthy. Tho correct figures a'ro as follows: Mount St. Helens 10.000 feet Mount Hood 11,225 feet Mount Adams 12,470 feet Mount Rainier 14,527 feet The height of Mount Hood was ascer tained by Lieutenant Williamson, U. S. A., many years ago. It is possible that a new and more careful calculation might change his figures, but no authority competent to alter his record has yet reached a differ ent result. The .figures for Rainier are those made by Professor McClure, and aro between those reported by two sur veys of the United States Geological Sur vey. The height of Adams and St, Helens as a bride to her home beneath Lough rigg Fell, and hence In 1S30, as the cuckoo clock struck noon of April 23. after hav ing made It his homo for 37 years,1 ho went unto a better home, the heavenly went home, to Dora. Wordsworth went home to Dora, but he left behind his "dear, dear sister," that sister to whom wo really own It that ho devoted his life to the high call las of a poet. For five more years the taint life flickered on; the villagers at Rydal knew that Miss Dorothy at inter vals mourner for her brother and 'would not be comforted. The "wild lights" that In the old Tlntern Abbey days were seen shooting' in those clear eyes had long since faded, and she had ceased to cart for the song of her favorite robin or tho sight of beast or bird; the lawn, a carpet all alive with shadow dance, no more moved her; she had long forgotten the nodding daffodils that tossed their heads and seemed to feel "such Jocund company" for one another beside the Ullswater Lake. Her body, worn out by those overldng and overarduous walks with the poot over vale and fell Jn her younger days: her swift mind, tired out with the constant efforts to stimulate and help her brother In former time, were now but wrecks of what they once had been. But her Influence on the mind or imagination of the Rydal folk still re mained, and thus they spoke sadly of her as "faculty-struck, poor thins." and the village children stopped In their play and gated upon the bath-chair as it was wheeled along and whispered beneath their breath that that was "Miss Doro thy.' They always seemed to have as sociated her in their memories with health and vigor, and would speak of her as "walking- out wl' Mr Wudswu'th, 1 all wedders and at all times, ya kna, fter dark, gaalh wl' lantern i hand reet round Rydal water and back, by Pelter bridge and so hoam agcan." And to this day those long companlonlngs of tho poet on bis dally and nocturnal walks are told of In tn Rydal vale. To this day also do they seem to believe, as they express It In their rough Doric, "She" that is, Dor othy "was the cllverest man of the two at his job." They believe that though Wordsworth did; a deal of "bumming and boom' " as he went along the road. It was Miss Dorothy who put the bummlngs and the booln' into, shape, and gave us the finished poems. Dorothy died in her S3d year In 1S53, and was laid to rest beside the brother of her heart In Grasmere churchyard, and still there lingered at Rydal Mount the venerable mistress of tho home. "That phantom of delight when first she burst upon her lover's sight, that woman nobly planned to guide, to comfort, to command," outlived the poet's sister and dwelt, on In such calm and gentle .resig nation that It might have been written of her That an old age serene and bright And lovely as a Lapland night Had led her to the grave. In the larger personalities of Words worth and Dorothy, this gentle spirit, the true helpmeet, has been somewhat forgotten. It has for our later generation, at any rate, been left to the kindliness of an American, Ellis Yarnall, to tell us how tender and sympathetic and keen of mind up to the last the mistress of Rydal was. Any one with his "Recollections of Wordsworth and the Colerldgcs" In hand will feel how worthily she must needs have been a complement of tho poet. How she not only honored and realized the worth of his work, but how by her simplicity of life and her practical knowl edge of household ways she helped to maintain his health, which needed such care In the earlier married days, and cheered those later days, when, though the poet's health was vigorous, his eye sight greatly troubled him. "He nlwer knew what he hed or what ho was wuth, she manashed Ivcrythlng; terrible cllwer woman about a noose noo was Mrs.Wuds wuth, and kind to poor fokw an aw." Such was the memory she left behind her among the village folk, this gently, kindly helpmeet, "steady in her excess of love," who, though she cared for practical mat ters and the economies of housekeeping, was nevertheless in her own way a poet, and looked on things with "that Inward eye which Is the bliss of solitude," which she herself has Immortalized by her sug gestion of tho line in tho daffodil poem. She passed to her last rest honored by all who knew hor. In 1S59, and lies at rest by her husband's side and by the side of her beloved sister-ln-law In the Grasmere churchyard. 1 was ascertained by the Geological Survey, of the former about sevei years ago and of the latter three or four years ago. "Whlttler's "Ilnlf.Welcome Guest." Who was tho "not unfeared, half-welcome guest" mentioned In Whlttlcr's "Snowbound"? Would like to know any ltem concerning her life or death. I un derstand she died some time within a year or so. A. J. F. Miss Harriet Livermore. daughter of Judge Livermore, of New Hampshire. She was a woman of fine powers, but wayward, wild and enthusiastic. Sho went on an independent mission to tho Western Indians, who she, in common with somo others, believed to be rem nants of tho lost tribes of Israel. At tho time the poem was written she was about 2S years old, but much of her life after ward was spent in tho Orient. She was at one time the companion and friend of Lady Hester Stanhope, but finally quar reled with her about the use of the holy horses kept in the stable In waiting for the Lord's ride to Jerusalem at tho sec ond advent. Addresses for the Return of Mall. Isn't the law necessary that everybody writing letters should put on the envelope Instructions requiring Its return to tho writer in a certain number of days, or is it for the convenience of business people? E. S. C. There Is no such legal or departmental requirement, except with , registered malL Let each person judge for himself whether It Is necessary. It would seem that every letter cent through the molls Is Intended to convey come sort of information to somebody. Now, If the lettor. for any cause, falls to reach the addressee, the sooner the writer knows It the better. His readiest plan is to inscribe his name and address on the envelope. a Rural Mail-Carriers. i. How much Is the monthly 'salary of the rural free-delivery mall-carrier In Ore gon? 2. What Is the proper pronunciation of the word "route"? 1. Rural mall-carriers receive 5600 a year, in monthjy Installments. 2. Both pronunciations are authorized by the dictionaries "rowt" and "root." Blade SlcxinUs. Are there any Jet-black skunks in the Willamette Valley? If not, where could they be found? C. E. P. There are no Jet-black skunks In the Willamette "Valley, and we do not know where they can be found. Elpht Dollars a Month. What dooathe new law pensioning In dian War veterans give to each living war veteran? J. J. b. Yes. Was -thls marriage legal? A couple were divorced in Oregon In 1SS8, and In less than six months married each other agaln'in Washington Territory. N. C. H. . To Virions Co-respondents. t M. M. H. Address Oregon Agricultural College. Corvallis. D. L. Ella Wheeler Vllcox's address Is care the Journal, Nov. York. W. H. Grover Cleveland's address is Princeton, N. J. Centurys Greatest "Worlc. Many of the most eminent Germans were recently asked to express their opinion aa to which was the greatest work of the last century, and their answers, when classified, showed that the majority at tached most importance to the following achievements: 1. The establishment of the German Empire. 2. Tho proclamation of the rights of man. 3. The discovery of steam as a motive power. 4. Applied electricity. 5. The discovery of narcotics and of antiscpsla. 6. The promulgation of the law of con servation of energy. 7. The work of Darwin. 8. The discovery of tho modern scien tific method of judging things, whloh is based on exact observation. 9. The discovery of the spectral analysis. 10. The discovery of the X rays. 11. Beethoven's ninth symphony. 12. The second part of "Faust." 13. Tho convention at Geneva. 14. The primary school and compulsory education. 13. Tho movement In favor of woman's right. . 17. The exploration ofAfrlca by Euro peans. Quietus. Slan and his strife! and beneath him the earth In her green repose. And out of the earth he cometh, and Into the earth, he goes. O sweet at last Is tha silence t O sweet at the warfare's close! For out of the silence he cometh, and Into tha silence poes. And the great sea rounl him glistens, and above him the great night glows. And out of the night he cometh, and Into the night he jcoes. William Watson. TKAVKLEnS GUII1K. Wl CARD OF TRAINS PORTLAND Depart. North Coast Llmtted... 2.00 P. M. Twin City Express 11:30 P. II. Kansas City and St. Louis Special 8:25 A. M. Puget Sound Limited.. 0:25 A.M. Arrive. 7tOOA.M. 0:20 P. M. 11:10 P. M. 6:45 P. M. Take tho Puget Sound Limited for Olympla. South Bend and Gray's Harbor points. All trains dally, four trains dally to Tacoma and Seattle. Three through to the Bast. A. D. CHABLTOX. Assistant General Fasaenscr Aeent. 205 Morrison at.7 corner Third. Portland, Or. Threat northern! Ticket Office 122 Third SI Phone 6S0 LEAVE No. 4 C:16 P. M. The Flyer dally to and I ARRIVE from St. Paul, MInne- No. 3 apolU, Duluth, Chlcaco 7.00 A. II and all points East. I Through Palace and Tourist Sleepers, Stains JAPAN - A1V1ERICAIN LINE FJIOJUN MARU For Japan, China and all Asiatic points, will leave Seattle About July 15. Astoria & Columbia River Railroad Co. LEAVES Depot Fifth and (ARRIVES I Strccta. I For Mayirers. Rainier, Clatskanle. Westport, Clifton. Astoria, "VVar renton. Flavel, Ham mond, Fort Stevens, Gcarhart Pic.. Seaside, Astoria and Seashore... Express Dally. Astoria Express, Dally except Saturday. Portland-Seaside Ex press, Saturday only. S.00A.2L 11:10 A. if. 7:00 P.M. 2:30 P. M. 0:40 P. si. Ticket offlce, 225 Morrison st. and Union Depot. J. C MAYO. Gen. Pass. Agt.. Astoria. Or. REGULATOR LINE STEAMERS Daily except Sunday. DALLES-PORTLAND HOUTS TIME CARD. STR. REGULATOR. Leaves Portland Tues., Thurs.. Sat, 7 A. SL leaves IiIIs Mon., Wed., Frl., 7 A.M. STR. DALLES CITY. Leaves Portland Mon.. Wed., Frl., 7 A. M. Leaves D&l'es Tues., Thurs.. Sat.. 7 A. M. CASCADE LOCKS AND RETURN DAILY. LANDING OAK ST. DOCK PORTLAND. M. V. HARRISON. Aeent. FOUR SEPARATE AMD DISTII1GT SERVICES. Fait Twin-Screw Passenger Steamers sail ing regularly from Boston, Portland and Montreal to Liverpool, also Boston to Mediterranean pores. Send for booklet, "Hedltsrraneaa lliujlralsl" For rates, etc., upply to Thos. Cook & Son, General Agents for the Pacific Coast, 621 Market St., S2n Francisco, Cal. ANCHOR LINE U. S. MAIL STEAMERS Sailing regularly between NEW TORK, LONDON DEHKY AND GLAS v GOW; NEW TORK. GIBRALTAR AND NAPLES. Superior Accommodations, Excellent Cuisine. Every regard tor the comfort oC p&savngers studiously considered and practiced. Slnrle or Round Trip tickets lasued between New York and Scotch, English, Irish and all Principal Continental points at attractive rates. For tickets or general information ap ply to HENDERSON BROS.. Chicago, or any LOCAL AGENT E Y. U North and 6s East Through the BIG VIM IMgigiJElLte 'Wgiljj i Y AE through trains from North Bacific Coast connect with w..u w. iiuiwiiuiuu a,i.uc CJLZJ, Olt WSITB General Agent, - TRAVELERS' GUIDE. iy rfcL "rSid OBEGOtf SHOIP' UNE aw union Pacific THREE TRAINS DAILY FOR ALL POINTS EAST UNION DEPOT. Lea e. CIUCAG O-PORTLAND SPECIAL. For the East la Hunt ington. 9.00 A.M. 4:a0P. SL Daily. Dally. SPOKANE FLYER. For Eastern Washing ton. Walla Walla. Lew lston, Coeur d'Alene and Gt. Northern points 0:15 P. M. Dally. 7-COA. M. Dally. ATLANTIC EXPRESS For the Ea3t Ia Hunt ington. 8 30 P.M. Dally. B:10 A. M. Dally- OCEAN AND RIVER SCHEDULE. FOR SAN FRAN CISCO. SS. Geo. W. Elder July 1, 11, 21. SS. Columbia July 6. 16. 20. From Alnsworth Dock. (3.00 P. M, 8.00 P. M. FOR ASTORIA and way points, connecting with str. for Ilwaco and North Beach, str. Has salo. Ash-street Dock. 8.00 P. M. Dally ex. Sunday. Sat.. 5.00 P. M. Dally. ex. Sun. IO P. SL For INDEPENDENCE C.45 A.M. 8 00 P.M. ana -way points, atr. RUTH. Ash-st. Dock. (Water permitting.) Mon.. Wed.. FrU Tues.. Thurs.. Sat.. FOR DAYTON. Orgoa City and Yamhill River points, str. Modoc. Ash street Dock. (Water pcrmlttlng. 00 A. M. 3:CO P. M. Tues.. Mon.. Thurs.. Wed. Sat. Frl. STEAMER T. J. POTTER. For Astoria and Ilwaco, dally except Sunday and Monday. Leaves Aeh-Stret Dock this week 03 follows: Tuesday, Wednesay, Thursday, Friday. O A. M.; Saturday. 1 P. M. TICKET OFFICE. Third and Washington. Telephone. Main 712. PORTLAND & ASIATIC STEAMSHIP CO. For Yokohama and Hong Kong, calling at Kobe, Nagasaki and Shanghai, taking freight via connecting steamers for Manila. Port Ar thur and Vladlvoatock. ' INDRASAMHA SAILS ABOUT JULT 2S. For rates and full Information call on or ad dress offlclals or agents of O. R. & N Co. .1 EAST SOUTH Hojt Sts. Depot, Uth and Leave Arrive OVERLAND EX PRESS TRAINS. for Salem. Rose- 3:30 P. M. 7: A. M- burg, Ashland, Sac ramento, u g u e n. San Francisco. Mo Ja e, Los Angelea. El Paso, New Or leans and the East. At AV o o d b u r n dally except Sun day), morning train connects wltn train for Mt. Angel. Sll erton. Browns v 1 1 1 e. Springfield, and Natron, and Albany Local for Mt. Angel and Sll verton. Albany passenger .. Corvallis passenger. 8:30 A. M. ,T:00 P. M. 4. CO P. M. 7:30 A. M. 10:10 A. M. 5:C0 P. M. H 50 P. M. I Sheridan passenger. 1 18:25 A. M. . Dally. UDally except Sunday. YAMHILL DIVISION. Passenger Depot, foot of Joiterson street Leave Portland dally for Oswego at 7:20 A. M.. 12:30. 1.65. 3:2G, 4.40. 0.23, S.dO P. M. Dally except Sunday, 5.30, 0:4O A. M.. 3:03. 11.30 P. M. Sunday only. O A. M. Arrive at Portland dally at 3.30 A. M.. 1:33. 3:10. 4:30. CIS. 7.40, 10 P. M. Dal:y except Sunday. C.33, 10 50 A. M.; except Monday. 12:40 A. M., Sunday only. 10.05 A. M. Lea e for Dallas dally except Sunday, 5 03 P. M. Arrive Portland 0.S0 A. M. Passenger train leaves Dallas for Alrlle Mondays. Wednes day and Fridays at 3 CO I M. Returns Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays. Rebate tickets on sale between Portland, Sac ramento and San Franciaco. Net rates, $17.60 first class and 314 tccond class. Second class includes sleeper; first class does not. Tickets to Eastern points and Europe. Also JAPAN, CHINA. HONOLULU and AUS TRALIA. CITY TICKET OFFICE, corner Third and Washington streets. Phone Mala 712. U. S. MAIL UODTE. sS 3&Rti fe-nSSS C A TT TMf!C IVortbern Commercial Co. tv 111 dl.spntcli It flrst-claaa Htcamers, carrying: U. S. mails, for Nome St. Michael Direct as follows: FROM SAX FRANCISCO. S. S. St. Paul Thursday, July 10 FROM SEATTLE. S. S. Indiana :July.2S S. S. Ohio Augusts Connecting at Nome with Steamer Saidle. carrying United States Mall for Teller and Candle Crek. and Steamer Don for Bluff City. Golovln and St. Michael, and connect ing 3t St. Michael with the Company's river steamers for Dawson, Koyukuk and all Yukon River points. For freight nnd passage apply to NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.. C45 Market at., San Francisco. Or EMPIRE TRANSPORTATION CO.. Pugct Sound Agent. Seattle, Wash. Geo. A. Cooper. Aeent, 5 Chamber of Commerce Bids:., Portland. i Pacific Csssi Steamship So. For Soulh-Eastern Alaska. Leave Seattle S5c32S COTTAGD CITY. CITY OF S..SiAl SEATTLE or CITY OF TO- PEKA, 0 P. M.. July 2. 6. 10. 14, 18. 22. 20. 30; Aug. 3. 7. 11. 15, 10. 23, 20, 31. SPO KANE. 0 A. M.. July 12. 2J. For San Francisco Leave SEATTLE at 0 A. M. every fifth day. Steamers connect at San Franciaco with com nany's steamers for porta In Southern Califor nia. Mexico and Humboldt Bay. For further Information, obtain folder. Right ts reserved to change steamers or sailing dates. AGENTS N. PO&TON, 240 Washington si.. Portland. F. W. CARLETON, N. V, Dock. Tacoma; TKket Office. 113 James St.. Seattle. M. TALBOT. Ccmm'l Agt.; GOOD ALL. PER KINS & CO. Gen. Agents: C. D. DUNANN, Gen. Pmj. Agt.. San Francisco. ITS A FACT DO GBT THB MS, I rT L 3UHSET -Til O CS2H& SHASTA M Un fiSHes JqJ w BEST OF EVERYTHING IF YOU TRAVEL BY THE -Western Line it costs no more to travel on theirfamous North-western Lim ited than it docs on inferior trains. GITIES - Minneapolis and St. Paul. m umuu ucyui, ou rfuu. yoa IXPOKifATIOX. 248 Alder Street. PORTLAND. ORE.