The Sunday Oregonian., June 28, 1908, Magazine Section, Page 9, Image 53

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BEING .PROFESSOR SHORTY MS CABE!f EXPERIENCE "WITH A GENTLEMANLY CffTLE! HAN "EgOft. TEXAS
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 28, 1908.
BY 3
SAY. Where's Palopinto, anyway?
Wett. neither did I. It's somewhere
around Dallas, but that don't help
me any. Texas, eh? You sure don't mean
It! Why, I thought there wa n t notliin'
but one night stands down there. But
this Palopinto ain't in that class at all.
Not much! Jt's a real torrid proposition.
No. I ain't been there; but I've been up
apainst Hentley, who has.
He wa'n't mine, to begin with. I got
him second hand. You see, he come along
just as I was bavin' a slack spell. Mr.
Gordon yes. Pyramid Gordon he calls up
on the phone and says he's in a hole.
Seems he's got a nephew that's com in' on.
from somewhere out West to take a look
at New York, and needs some one to keep
him from fallin' off Brooklyn Bridge.
"How's he travelin'," sa.ys I; "tagged,
In care of the conductor?"
"Oh, no," says Mr. Gordon. "He's
about L2, and able to take care of him
self anywhere except in a city like this."
Then lie wants to know how I'm fixed for
time.
"I got all there is on the clock," says I.
"And would you be willing to try keep
ing Bentley out of mischief until I get
back?" says lie.
"Sure as ever," says I. "I don't s'pose
he's any holy terror; !s he?"
Pyramid said he wa'n't quite so bad as
that. He told me that Bentley d been
brought up on a bi cattle ranch out
there, and that now he was boss.
"He's been making a lot of money re
cently, too," says Mr. Gordon, "and he
hiKists on a visit Kast. Probably he will
want to let New York know that he h.as
arrived, and soon, but you hold him
down."
"Oh, I'll keep him from liftin' the lid,
all right," says I.
"That's the idea. Shorty," says he. "I'll
write a note telling him all about you,
and giving him a few suggestions."
I. had a "synopsis of Bentley's time card,
so as soon's he'd had a chance to open
up his trunk and wanh off some of the
car dust I was waitin' at the desk in tike
Waldorf.
Now of course, kein' warned ahr-ad, and
hearin' about this cattle ranch business,
I was lookin' for a husky boy in a six
inch soft brim and leather pants. I'd cal
culated on havin' to persuade Mm to take
off his spurs and leave his guns with the
clerk.
But what steps out of the elevator and
answers to the name of Bentley is a
Willie boy that might have blown in from
Asbury Park or Far Bockaway. He was
draped in a black and white checked suit
that you eould broil a steak on, with the
trousers turned up so's to show the open
work silk ocks, and the coat creased up
the sides like it was made over a cracker
box. His shirt was a McGregor plaid,
and the band around his Panama was a
hand width Roman stripe.
"Gee!" thinks I. "if that's the -way
rowboys dress nowadays, no wonder
there's scandals In the beef business!"
But if you could forget his clothes long
enough to size up what was in 'cm, you
could see that Bentley was a mild enough
looker. There's lots of bank messengers
and brokers' clerks Just like him comin'
over from Brooklyn and Jersey every
mornln". He was about five, feet leigbt,
and skimpy built, and he had one of those
recedin' faces, that looked like It was
tryin' to get away from his nose.
But then, it ain't always the handsome
AMERICA'S TEN GREAT
A Truly American School of Ait Shown at the l'hilauclphia
TUB exhibition of paintings by Ten
American Painters in the galleries
of the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fne Arts may bet set down as the
best exhibition of American paintings
ever held. This is my sufficient excuse
for referring to it so late in the day.
It Is a thousand pities that this exhi
bition cannot be trensferred en bloc to
Boston. An effort was made by some of
the artist-members of the Boston Art
Club to arrange for the transfer of the
collection to the Art Club galleries, but
it came too late, and dates could not
conveniently be arranged. Report has it
that there has been some talk of an in
vasion of London by the Ten. Such an
exhibition as that in the Pennsylvania
Academy would certainly make London
it up and take notice, if good painting
' has not been too Ions obsolete there. For
it must be distinctly understood that I
am not boasting about American art
.when I say that it would not be possible
to get tosethcr in any other country
such a collection of 94 paintings by con
temporary artists.
It is now exactly ten years since the
Ten seceded from the Society of Amer
ican Artists and flocked by themselves.
Their decennial is marked by this white
stone an exhibition in which each one
of the ten was asked to exhibit ten
works, and the effort lias been to present
those works by which the men would
most care to bo represented. And, as
Mr. Ti-ask truly remarks in bis intro
duction to the catalogue, this collection
gives fuller opportunity for a study of
their aims and accomplishments than it
has been possible to make within the
confines of a single gallery. The Installa
tion of the collection, too, is an object
lesson in the artistic arrangement of pic
tures; every work is on the line, und
every work has free space about it.
There is no attempt to group the can
vases by individuals. The collection is
bung with a single eye to the best gen
eral effect. The three, galleries fairly
"sing" in perfect unison.
Many have been the aspirations for an
American school of painting. We have
always been looking forward to the time
when we could say with truth that our
painters were different from the painters
of this, that and the other school on the
farther side of the ocean. The Ten are
not going to satisfy this yearning so far
as suhject-matter goes; they are not pre
occupied by National sentiment; they are
not concerned for the illustration of
American life as such. But in one way,
a very important way perhaps the most
important way they have struck out a
path of their own, which, since they are
Americans, must be regarded as an
American accomplishment, whether they
have ever thought of it as such or not.
I refer to the purely technical perfection
of their work, a perfection which is seen
at its highest degree of development In
the. pictures of the Bostoniaiis, Tarbell,
Benson and DeCamp.
These men have passed through a
period of subjection to the influence of
the French impressionist school of paint
ing, have drawn what nourishment there
was in it for them, and have emerged
from it, fortified, but freed from its man
nerisms. They are as modern as artists
can be who are cognizant of the tra
ditions of great art. One sees, for ex
ample, in Mr. Tarbell's interiors with
figures, that he is necessarily an ad
mirer of the work of the little masters
of the stripe of Vermeer of Uelft and
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boys that behaves the best, and the more
I got acquainted with Bentley. the better
I thought of him. He said he was mighty
glad I showed up instead of Mr. Gordon.
"Uncle Henry makes me weary," says
he. "I've just been reading a letter from
him, four pages, and most of it wars tell
ing me what not to do. And this the first
time I was ever in New York since I've
been old enough to rem?mber!"
"You'd kind of planned to see things,
eh ?" says I.
"Why. yes," says Bentley. "There isn't
much excitement out on the ranch, you
know. Of course, we ride into Palopinto
once or twice a month, and sometimes
take a run up rb Dallas; but that's not
like getting to New York."
"No." pays I. "I guess you're able to
tell the difference between this burg and
them places you mention without lookin'
twice. What is Dallas, a water tank
stop?"
"it's a little biggcr'n that," says he,
kind of smilin'.
But he was a nice, quiet actin' youth;
didn't talk loud, nor go through any
tough motions. I see right off that I'd
been handed the wrong set of specifica
tions, and I didn't lose any time framin'
him up aceordin" to new lines. I knew
his kind like a book. You could turn him
loose in New Y'ork for a week, and the
niopt desperate thing he'd find ti do
would be smokln' cigarettes on the back
seat of the rubberneck wagon. And yet
he'd come all the way from the jumpin'
off place to have a little Innocent fun.
"Uncle Henry wrote me," says he,
"that while I'm here I'd better take in
the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, and
visit St. Patrick's Cathedral and Grant's
Pieter de Hoog and (Jabriel Metsu; we
could not help seeing that in his "Girl
Crocheting." belonging' to Mr. Pratt, but,
as he goes on, we see it less distinctly
In bis subsequent pictures in this class,
such as the "New England Interior"
ill), belonging to Miss Catherine Cod
man, the "Girl Cutting Patterns."
(painted this year), and the recent "Pre
, paring for the Matinee" (75), belonging
to the St. Louis Museum of Art. That
is lo say, he is not losing ground, but
gaining in freedom of expression and
originality of style: and the "Preparing
for the Matinee" maks a distinct advance
in his command of his art, his indi
viduality, and his distinction.
It is Mr. Tarbell's present and con
stant merit that he is absorbed in the
beauty ot his metier to the exclusion of
all other considerations. He is not a
philosopher, like G. F. Watts: he Is not
a symbolist, like Gustave Moreau: he is
not a sentimentalist, like Jules Breton;
and. while he i-s not without a modicum
of tile illustrator's interest in the human
element, he is in a very limited sense an
illustrator, like Meissonier. In his devo
tion to actuality he is more nearly related
to Degas on the one hand and to the
Little Masters on the other. But bis style,
which is increasingly independent, tends
to grow away from all his forerunners
without losing its pungency or delicacy.
His types are American. The girl in his
"Preparing for the Matinee" is intensely
American in her grace, her fragflity. her
aplomb, qualities which combine to form
a new order of personal attractiveness.
We have had some pretty fair painters
in America, but 1 seriously doubt if any
of them have ever exhibited a group of
ten paintings equal to the ten works
here shown by Mr. Tarbell "Preparing
for the Matinee," "Girl Cutting Patterns."
"New England Interior." "Bos'n's Hil!,"
"Kdward Robinson," "Rehearsal in the
Studio," "Summer Idyl," "Dr. Henry Lee
Morse," "Girls Reading" and "Mrs. A."
Mr. Benson chose for his ten works a
group which represents all the sweetness
and charm of his sunlit Summer visions.
As one entered the first room in the
suite of galleries, his "Eleanor" (4), a
lovely girl in pale rose pink muslin, con
trasted with a white picket fence, green
foliage, and a glimpse of distant blue
water, greeted the eyes with a smiling
and sunny cheer of color which was like
a bird's song in a Spring morning, a
thing so full of joy and spontaneity that
it made the day happy. There were also
his indescribably delicate and luminous
pictures of his daughters in their light
Summer gowns, "The Sisters" and "Three
Sisters," with 'The Rainy Day," "The
Sunny Room," etc. Most of these paint
ings have been seen in Boston, but it is
a revelation of what a painter is. of what
he is doing, of what be stands for, to
see so n.any of his choicest canvases
brought together. Mr. Benson does not
always strike 12, but when he is most
himself, when he is in the vein, there is
no one to excel him in freshness, purity,
sweetness, freedom, and the Joy of living.
The reader scarcely needs to be re
minded how finely Mr. DeCamp has
forged to the front in his recent works.
"The Guitar-Player" (20) was the chief
pictorial success of the season in Bos
ton, and has been bought by the Museum
of Fine Arts. His "The 'Cellist' (22),
"The Brown Veil" (21). and "Sally" (23),
with six other canvases, go to form a
group which places him well to the fore
among the-most accomplished artists of
the period. "The Pink Feather." as the
Tomb. But say, I'd like something a lit
tle livelier than that, you know."
He was so mild about it that I works up
enough sympathy to last an S. P. C. A.
president a year. I could see what he
was achin' for. It wa'n't a sight at oil
paintin's or churches. He wanted to be
able to go back among the flannel shirts
and tell the boys tales that would make
their eyes stick out. He was ambitious
to go on a regular cut up. but didn't know
how. and wouldn't have had the nerve to
tackle It alone if he had known.
Now. ain't ever done .any red light
pilotin', and didn't have any notion of
beginnin' then, especially with a young
ster as nice and green as Bentley; but
right there and then I did make up my
mind that I'd steer him up against some
thin1 more excitin' than a front view of
Grace Church at noon. It was comiu' to
him.
"See here, Bentley," says I. "I've passed
my word to kind of look after you, and
krep you from rip;in' things up the back
here in little old New York; but seein'
as this is your first whack at it. if you'll
promise to stop when I say 'Whoa!' and
not let on about it afterwards to your
Uncle Henry. J'll- just show you a few
things that they don't have out West,"
and I winks real mysterious.
"Oh, will you?" says Bentley. "By gin
ger! I'm your man!"
So we starts out lookin' for tile menag
erie. It was all I could do. though, to
keep my eyes off'm that trousseau of his.
"They don't bxiild clothes like them in
Palopinto, do they?"' says I.
"Oh. rn," says Bentley. "1 stopped off
in Chicago and gut hhis outfit. I told
them I didn't care what It cost, but I
wanted the latest."
"I guess you got It." says I. "That's
what I'd call a night edition, baseball
extra. You mustn't mind folks giraffin'
at you. They always do that to stran
gers." Bentley didn't mind. Fact is. there
wa'n't much that did seem to faza him
a whole lot. He'd never rode in the suit
way before, of course, but be went to
readin' the soap ads just as natural as if
he. lived in Harlem. I expect that was
what egged me on to try ar.d get a rise
out of llim. You see, w lien they tome in
from tile rutabaga fields and the wheat
orchards, we want 'em to op-.n their
mouths and gawp. If they do. we give
'em the laugh, hut if they don't we feci
like they was tlirowin' down the place.
So I lays out-to astonish Bentley.
First I steers him across Mulberry Bend
and into a Pell-street chop suey joint that
wouldn't be runnin' at all if it wa'n't for
the Sagadahoc and Klnilra folks the two
dollar tourin' cars bring down. With all
the Chinks gabblin' around outside,
though, and tin; funny letterin on the
bill of fare, I thought that would stun
him some. He just lo- k 3d around casual,
though, and laid into ..is suey and rice
like it was a plate of ham and, not even
askin' if he couldn't buy a pair of chop
sticks as a souvenir.
"There's a bunch of desperate charac
ters." says I. pointin' to a table where a
gang of Park Row compositors were
blowin' themselves to a platter, of chow-ghi-sumen.
"Yes?" says be.
"There's Chuck Connors, and Mock
Duck, and Bill the Brute, and Onu Kyed
Mike!" I whispers.
"I'm glad I saw them." says Bentley.
PAINTERS
J'lctuio Kxliibition.
alternative title for 'V'l'he Brown Veil"
runs, is or.r of those happy hits which are
landmarks in an artist's career. In it the
observer finds a new and irresistible ver
sion of the Eternal Feminine-, set forth
with flawless perfection.
To see Thomas W. Dewinar at bis best
it is necessary to know his "Portrait of a
Lady at a Harpsichord" C!T) from the
Freer collection. The rarity of his art,
its fascinating preciosity, in this example
rinds its apogee. Of mannerism there is
no trace, of striving for effect' no sign;
it is the ultimate expression of the
artist's ideal. "The Mirror." "Mandolin."
"Fortune-Teller." and "Monterey." with
three other works, five of the eight being
loaned, make up. an incomparable group
of Mr. Dewing's cabinet-size paintings of
flic modern woman as she has revealed
herself to this exceptional painter.
The group of nine landscapes by Willard
I L. Metcalf contains nothing that is not
entirely worthy to uphold the high
standard of American 'accomplishment in
this field of painting. 'The Young Spring"
(")( Is all that its title implies of tender
and ethereal promise, in the vernal fresh
ness and elusive delicacy of the budding
leafage and the glowing suggestion of
reviving warmth and beauty. The "May
Pastoral" (51) is another exquisite page
of nature's volume, touched in with a
truly poetic pithiness and felicity. As in
Mr. Benson's work, there is a prevailing
sense of joyness and even exultant
vitality in Mr. Metcalf's outdoor subjects.
"Without being in the slightest measure
crude or blatant in color, his landscapes
are intensely brilliant and luminous.
William M. Chas? is represented by nine
of his pictures, which are well selected to
show his scope ami talent. The portrait
of Mrs. Chase (11) and the portrait of
Dieudonnee (15), both of which are well
illustrated in the catalogue, are favorable
specimens of his work in tiiis Held. His
picture called "Ring Toss" (13) is tine
of his bst descriptions of child life. He
also shows one of his muchradmired
still-life pieces, a strong bit of virtuosity.
. Robert Reid's contributions include
several of the best of his highly personal
creations w'hich were in the recent ex
hibition of his work at the St. Botolph
Club, among them "The Butterfly" (Si)).
"Pond Lilies" (60), and two or three of
the landscapes painted at Medfield. Tiit?
originality of the color schemes and the
gracefulness of the designs in these can
vases are pronounced merits.
In the group of ten paintings by J.
Alden Weir there is a novel landscape
called "The Red Bridge" (So), which is
characteristic of his Inventive mind, and
has a distinctly piquant pattern. From
a low bank the observer is looking up
to the vermilion bridge which occupies
the very top of the canvas, one end of
it disappearing in the right-hand uper
corner of the design. Everything that
Mr. Weir signs is in some fashion or
other decidedly artistic. "The Grey
Bodice" (91) and "The Black Hat"' (87)
fall into this category, and are remem
bered with a sense of pleasure.
Mr. Simmons pleases his public by
sending two of his early figure com
positions, "Darby and Joan" (67) and
"Mother and Child" (.68), which remind
us that he started in as a painter of
humble life, somewhat in the vein of
Cottet, and was very successful In that
genre. His later works are marines
for the most part.
Mr. Hassam exhibits his full quota of
ten pictures. His mannerisms are most
obvious in the nude subjects, which hard
"We'll take a sneak before the murder-In'
begins," says I. "Maybe you'll
read about how many Was killed, in the
mornin' papers."
"I'll look for it." says he.
Say, It was distouragin". We takes the
Ij up to 23d and goes across and up the
east side of Madison square.
"There," says I, pointin' out the Man
hattan Club, that's about, as lively as
the Subtreasury on a Sunday, "that's
Canfield'a place. We'd go in. and see
'em buck the tiger,- only I got a tip that
Bingham's goin' to- pull it tonight. That
youngster in the straw hat just goin'
in is Reggie."
"Well, well!" says Bentley.
Oh, I sure did show Bentley a lot of
sights that evenin', includin' a wild tour
through the Tenderloin in a Broadway
i'i.r- We winds up at a roof garden, and.
just to give Bentljy an extra shiver.
asks the waiter if wj wa'n't sittin' some
where near the tabl that Harry and
Evelyn had the night he was overcome:
by emotional Insanity.
"You're at the very one. sir." he says.
Consid; rin' we was ten blocks away, he
was a knowin' waiter.
"This identical table; hear that, Bent
ley?" says I.
"You don't say!" says he.
"r-'-t's have a bracer." says I. "Ever
drink a soda cocktail, B?r.tlcy?"
He said lie hadn't.
"Then bring us two. real stiff ones."
says 1. You know how they're mad? a
dash of bitters, a spoonful of bicarbon
ate, and a bottle of club soda, all stirred
up In a ta'.l glass, almost as intoxicatin'
as buttermilk.
"Don't make your head dizzy, does it?"
says I.
"A little." says B?r.Ney; "but then, I'm
not used to mxfd drinks. We take root
beer generally,' when we're out on a
tear.
"You cowboys must be a fierca lot when
you're loose," says .I
Bentley grinned, kind of reminiscent.
"We do raise the Old Harry once in a
wliiie," says he. "The last time we went
up to Dallas I drank three different kinds
of soda water, and we guyed a tamal
peddl?r so that a policeman had to spjak
to us."
Say! what do you think of that?
Wouldn't that freeze your blood?
Once I got him started. Bentley told
me a lot about lif? on the ranch; how
they had to milk and curry down -fcuXl
steers every night: and about playln'
checkers at the Y. M. C. A. brancli eve
nin's, and tlirowin' spit balls at each
other durin' mornin" prayers. I'd always
thought these stage cowboys was all a
pip dream, but I never got tiext to the
real thing before.
It was mighty interestln', the .way he
told it. too. They get prizes for bein' po
lite to each other durin' work hours, and
medals for speakin' gentle to the cows.
Bentley said he had four of them medals,
but he hadn't worn 'cm East for fear
folks would think ne was proud. That
gave me a lino on wnero he got his quiet
ways from. It was the trainin' he. got
on the ranch. He said it was grand, too,
when a crowd of the boys came ridin'
home from town, sometimes as late as
" o'clock at nigbtr to ..ear em singin'
"Onward, Christian Soldiers" and tunes
like that.
"I expect you do have a few real tough
citizens out that way. though." says I.
ly respond to the ideal of what this clas.
of paintings should be, either in con
ception or execution. On the other hand,
his landscapes are in several cases ex
tremely original and charming, as for
instance, the "Washington Bridge" (42)
in Winter.
It is worth recording that of the Ten
painters in this group seven were born
in Massachusetts. Dewing and Hassam
are natives of Boston; Benson was born
in Salem: Tarbell in Groton; Simmons
in Concord; Reid in Stockbridge, and
Metcalf in Invell. DeCamp is a native
of Ohio. Chase of Indiana, and Weir of
New York state. Philadelphia letter in
the Boston Transcript.
Date of Birth of . In ist.
Tho exact date of the birth of Christ is
unknown. Among the early churches
there. was no asreement as to the date of
the nativity, some celebrating it in April
or May, others in January. December -5
can hardly be exact, for it falls in the
rainy season of Judoa. when sheoherds
would not have been watching their flocks
by night in the open. The December
date came into general observance natur
ally, but gradually. 1 When the heathen
races of the North were Christianized
they pi in ply substituted for their Yule
celebration, in Leeembcr, the observance
of the birth of Christ.
School Children's Petition.
A remarkable petition has just been
sent to Washington, to the forest serv
ice, from nearly 1400 schoolchildren in
Northern California, asking for the es
tablishment of a redwood National park.
This petition, which is from the chil
dren of the schools of Eureka. Humboldt
County, Cal.. Is unlike any other which
lias ever been sent to a Government de
partment to ask for the preservation of
forests.
The Artificial Hybrid.
Town Toph-a.
She had bought a little bonnet with a
pretty bird upon it
And she perched it on her forehead one
tine day.
When, to her unfeigned surprise, that gay
Birdie winked his eyes
And proceeded unconcernedly to say:
perceive, my dear, that you have been
looking at me, too.
And no doubt you also think me rather
fine.
But I really wish to know if I'm Just the
way 1 grew, S
And if all these wings and tails are really
mine.
"Now, to my untutored brain It is very,
ve"r plain
That I'm wearing Bluejay feathers on
my right,
"While upon my other wing something yel
low seems to cling.
Which is very Oriole-ish in the light. .
"I've an Owl-ish sort of head, but my col
lar tuft is red.
And there's something strangely Hawk
ish in my eyes;
Then my tall is wondrous queer at a glance
it would appear
That 'twas taken from a Bird of Para
dise. "I am somewhat grieved to say I'm con
structed in a way.
That reflects upon my pedigree, at least.
And I beg you'll not demur when I add, a
nest of fur
Makes me feel well, quite a little like j
a Deast.
''Now, I've often heard it said we must
evolute when dead
This may be an Incarnation, so to speak;
'But" and here the Birdie sighed "I'm
sorry that I died.
For I'd rather be a Sparrow than a
Freak!"
"Yes," he said, fcpeakin' sad and re
gretful, "once In awhile. There was one
came up from . Los Vegas .last Spring, a
low fellow that they called Santa Fe Bill.
He tried to start a penny ante game,
but we discouraged him."
"Run him off the reservation, eh?" says
I. '
"No," says Bentley, "we made him
give up his ticKet to our annual Sunday
3 fr
WHEN I'D LEFT HIM
school pirnic. He was jiovcr tlio same
aftor that.'
Well, say, I had it on tho card to hlow
Bentlpy to a "Welsh rah hit after the show,
at some platrci wi.t'tv lie couhl Kt a
siiuint at a hunch of our nixht hlooniin
Summer girls, but I ciiaiipr-.'d tlio pro
gramme. I took him away durin' in
termission, in time to dndso the now
dancer that Broadway was tryin bard to
be shocked by,-and aitor we'd had a plate
of ice cream in one of Inem celluloid pap
ered all-nights, 1 led client ley hack to
the hotel and tipped a hell bop a quarter
to tuck him in hod.
Somehow, I didn't fell just riht about
the way I'd been stringm' Bentley. J
hadn't started out to do it, either; but he
W i-'S ? V U - - t
UtTf Tdi MUj i A4 1
HAS PROHIBITION COME TO STAY
A Wen-kinsman Points Out the Social and Political Aspects of a I-lvc Question.
BY JOHN A. GOIVDRA INEK.
TAKING in ' consideration that the
question of prohibition is the fore
most topic of discussion by tho press
and pulpit, also its tremendous gains
in this country, the question naturally
arises, Has prohibition come to stay?
In analyzing- previous movements and
the present one, can we find an an
swer? All movements have been of a relig
ious and political nature remarkable
for their great scope, as also for their
failure. In April, 1 SoS, a society of
40 members was formed at Moreau,
Saratoga County. New York. Their con
stitution stated: No member should drink
rum, gin, whisky, wine or distilled spir
its, except by advice of a physician or
in case of actual disease (also except
ing public dinners), under penalty of
2u cents, providing also for no infringe
ment of religious rites. This society
existed j4 years, and accomplished but
very little.
The American Temperance Society
was formed in Koston in February,
1SLMJ; the New York society in IKy,
and a year later hail 10n,t;0 members.
Before the Civil AYar numerous so
cieties were founded for the purpose
of creating sentiment In favor of pro
hibition, also providing honrtii-iary fea
tures and means for self-ctilturr.
The Sons of Temperance, founded in
1 42, grew rapidly in membership and
influence. The Independent Order of
Good Templars was founded in New
York in 1861. It spread over the whole
world.
Prominent among other movements
were: The women's crusade and the
organization of the Women's Christian
Temperance I'nion in 1S74; the Fathet
Mathew Crusade in 1S3S, In Ireland,
where in two years 1,,SOO,000 members
took pledges ; Bands of Hope, an or
ganization for childen, in 1S4 7 ; John
B. Gough Mission in 1S."S; the Good
Templars, 1S68; Blue Ribbon Army in
1S7S, and numerous other societies.
The Methodist church from the days
of the Wesleys advocated total absti
nence. The Friends and Dunkards were
opposed to the use of liquors since
the 19th century; also the Baptist, Con
gregational and the Presbyterian
churches.
In the political field, Connecticut was
the first to adopt local option. The Na
tional Prohibition party was organized
in 1S69 in a National convention held in
Chicago. On February '22, 1S72, the first
National convention was held at Colum
bus, O. James Black, of Pennsylvania,
and John Russell, of Michigan, were
nominated as their candiates for Pres
ident aad-Vice-President. Besides declar
ing for prohibition they indorsed woman
suffrage, and advocated the encourage
ment of immigration. Only 5J07 votes
were cast for their candidates in the
ensuing election. In 1876 the vote cast
was 9787, in 1880 9678. In 1884 their plat
form declared solely for prohibition, ig
noring all other issues. Governor O. St.
John was their candidate and received
150,626 votes. In 1892 the party cast 270,710
votes, the largest ever cast. In 1S96 the
took things In so easy, and was so willin'
to stand for anything, that I couldn't
keep from it. And It did seem a shame
that he must go back without -any tall
yarns to spring. Honest, I was so twist
ed up in my mind, thinkln' about Bentley.
that 1 couldn't go to sleep, so I sat out
on the front steps of the boardin' house
for a couple of hours, chewln' it all over.
I was just thinkin' of telephonin' to the
1 kjSfvr-
HE'D GONE TO BED.
hotl chaplain to call on Bentley in the
mornin, when mo friend Barney, the
rounds, comes alonjr.
Say, Shorty," says be, "didn't I see
you drif tin' around town earlier in the
evenin' with a young' sport in mornin
fflory clothes?''
"He was no sport." says I. "That was
Bentley. He's a V. M. C. A. lad In dis-'
guise."
"It's a grand disguise," says Barney.
"Your quiet friend in sure liviu up to
them clothes."
"You're kiddin'," says I. "It would take
a live one to do credit to that harness.
When I left Ben; ley at half-past ten he
was in the elevator on bis way up to
bed."
party split in two factions, one favoring
a single issue ot prolnhition, the ot nor,
the lilM-ral party, favoring a broad
gauae platform. "Bentley received 14.0K)
votes. The regular candidate. J severing,
receiving ini,7"i7 votes. In 1!hm" John G.
WooIIey defeated D. S. C. Swallow, the
candidate for the broad-gauye faction,
he receiving 207,368 voter:.
Considering the creat scope of the
movements, how can we account for their
failures? Through their lack of reason
ing from cause to effect. liquor they
hold to be accountable for all evils and
through statistics, they tried to prove the
connection between liquor ajid crime.
Not every criminal who is at the same
lime a drunkard, has been driven to
crime by intemperance. Quite often a
man powsestsing criminal tendencies is at
the same time afflicted with a craving
for liquor. Degenerates are Inclined to
become botli drunkards and criminals,
and even normal, healthy men are driven
to intemperanee and crime by social con
ditions surrounding them.
Intemperance is merely the effect of a
previous cause, which lies in our eco
nomic and social conditions. The great
pioneer in the science of physiology,
Juwtus von Laehig, wrote: "The whis
key habit is not the cause of poverty,
but its result. Total abstainers lay
stress on the power of self-education and
th ? effect fven!..s of exhortations and
rrood examples. The case of Father
.Mathew is quitted. It is ' claimed that
through his exhort at ions the consump
tion of liquor iq Ireland decreased and
that during the three years 183S-1842 the
number of crimes was reduced from
J 2.095 to 77. Tlie cause of this improve
ment was an economic one, and not eth
ical. Ireland had at that time suffered
from a failure of the potato crop and the
starving peasants stoic potatoes from
their landlords. When the British gov
ernment came to the rescue and the ter
rible want gradually diminished to also
did drunkenness and- crime."
But the effect wars not a permanent one,
which even the total abstainers must ad
mit. New wants called forth new drunk
enness and crime. These movements be
ing of an ethical nature, and ignoring
economic and soeial conditions is the
cause of their failure.
Will the present prohibition movement
benefit society? Remarkable it is, that
it should occur at a time when intemper
ance is at a decline. The corporations
have made the struggle of the small cap
italist more severe, tlterefore sobriety is
necessary for his existence. The unem
ployed, as a result of corporations and
labor-saving machinery, have intensified
the struRsle for jobs, also the fraternal
and sick benefit orders, together with
higher standard of living and leisure time
as a result of organized labor, have de
creased intemperance among the working
class. As the labor movement is becom
ing more solidified, the class struggle will
bring sobriety, as it is most necessary as
a cohesive torce. Intemperance among
the working class prevails where there is
no organization and a low standard of
living
While the organization the active force
of this movement is called the Anti-Saloon
League, its object is to bring about'
prohibition. The support it receives comes
from the landlord in tho residence dis
trict, whose property o;reciat'js through
the saloon. As the saloon is driven into
the business district, competition with the
business man for location gives the move
ment his support. As to the general pub
"I don't want to meet any that's more
alive than your Bentley," says be. "Tlvro
must have been a hole in the roof. Any
way, be shows up on my ln?at about 11,
picks out a swell cafe, butts into a party
of soubrettes, flashes a thousand dollar
bill, and begins to buy wine fur everyone
in sight. Inside of half an hour be v.w
one of his new-made lady friends doin a
high klcktn act on the table, and when
the manager interferes Bentley licks two
waiters, to a standstill and does up tho
house detective with a chair. Why, I has
to get two of my men to help me gather
him in. You can find him restin' around
to the station-house now."
"Barney," says I, "you must be gettin
color blind. That cant be Bentley."
"You go around and take a look at
him." says he.
Well, just to satisfy Barney. I did. And
say, it was Bentley, all riht! He was
some mussed, but calm and contented.
"Bentley," says I. reprovin like,
you're a bird, you are! How did it bait
pen? Did some one drug you?"
"Guess that ice cream must have gone
to my head." says be, grinnm.
"Come off!" says I. "I've bad a report
on you, and from what you've got aboard
you ought to be as full as a goat."
"He wa'n't . though. He was as sob.'p
as .me, and thai after absorbin' a quart
or so of French foam.
"If I can fix it so's to get you out on
ball," says T, "will you quit this red
paint business and be good?"
"G wan!" says he. "I'd rather stay hero
than go around with you any more. You
put me asleep, you do, and I can get all
the sleep I want without a guldd. Chas.)
yourself!"
I was some sore on Bentley by that
time; but I went to court the next morn
in. when he paid his line and was turned
adrift. I starts in with some good ad
vice, but Bentley shut me off quick.
"Cut It out!" says be. "New York may
seem like a hot place to Kubes like you;
biit you can take it from me that, for a
pure joy producer, Palopinto has got it
burned to a blister. Why, there's mor.t
doing on some of our back streets than
you can siiow up on the whole length of
Broadway. No more for mo! I'm goin'
hack where I can spend my mon-y and
have my fun without bein' stopprd uiid
askd to settlo before I've hardly got
started.
He was dead in earnest, too. He'd gt
on a train headed West before I romrs
out of my dream. Then I b' gins to see
a light. It was a good deal of a shock
to me when it did come, but I has to
own up that Bentley was a ringer. All
that talk about mornin prayers and Sun
day school picnics was just dope, and
while I was so busy deal in out josh to
him, he was handin me the lemon.
My mouth was still puckered and mv
teeth on edge, when Mr. Gordon gets m
on the phone and wants to know bow
ahout Bentley.
"He's come and gone," says T.
"So soon?" says be. "I hope New York
wasn't too much for him.
"Xot at all," says I,; "he was too much
for New York. But while you was givin'
him instructions, why didn't you tell
him to make a noise like a hornet - It
might have saved me from bein .slung."
Texas, eh? Well, say, next time I sees
a map of that state I'm goin to hunt up
Palopinto and draw a ring around it with
purple ink.
lic, while they notice all crime ami graft
on the increase and must blame svme one.
so t hey blame tho saloon. There is no
douHt that there is an evil comic, led wilh
the majority of saloons and that thoy
corrupt the body politic.
That is the fault of the public and not
the saloon. In tho municipality is tii-j
greatest democracy, therefore jf tin-re is
political corruption it is with the. consent
of the people, as they elect the officers
who make and enforce the la w s. Fur
thermore the public vote a district diy
to do away with a saloon, not rHlizini;
t hat they by so doing indor.se proi; ihi -Hon.
Then they drink at home or in a
wet district. If the public, cannot elect
honest officials who will ni;nl;itc .-a-loons,
how can they el-ct ofi'nials w'to
will enforce prohibition? And if Ccy
are so inconsistent as to vote for prohi
bition, indorse it at the ballot box and
then not practice it, bow can effective
prohibition be expected?
If the evils of the saloon come from
the competitive struggle for business,
why not a hoi is h com petit ion a ml su imi i
tute another mode of lii.t ribut ion ? If
t he men in t he liq nor busi in r-s were a- -tive
church me inhere;, would tiny b per
secuted as they now arc by the minis
ters? The factories win -re poor. Inno
cent children are sacrificed for jdd are
owned by church members. The fac
tories and department extorts where wo
men are worked such long hours and low
wages that they seek consolation in the
whisky bottle and prostitution, are owmd
by church members. A 11 t lie idle r'''-.
the parasites who live a life of luxury
and ease without, doing any work, and
tlterefore the working class must work
tin much longer and t;Lke le:v to support
them, are all prominent church member.
and philanthropists. These are the vv'u
that are greater than that of liquor and
are the cause of intemperance and crime.
If these are eliminated, the liquor
question will settle itself. While w of
the working class, are striving to elim
inate ail of these evils at the ballot box
we mut remember to instill in tlio minds
of all workers th necessity of sobriety,
and that intemperance is an evil that
should never be tolerated. As this move
ment is lacking in the moral idea whi 'h
springs from social impulse, and U thor
oughly inconsistent, therefore it will cot
be of any benefit to society. -
The Helplos ISacJicIor.
Tendon Sketch.
The married man lives scint i ficaHy ;
lie never pays a bill twice or thrice over
because he has lost his receipt. The
bachelor lives unscientifically. He is
robbed, right and left; lie is the prey of
every footpad that lurks behind coun
ters. Th Fishermen fc Tales
Baltimore A m erf can.
It was a p roup of fishermen
CAM amateurs w e re th r y .
A-telliin; each of wondrous carrh
In river and in bay.
And a.s the stories passed around
They mor amazing grow.
And every N Her of a tale
Swore roundly It was true.
A pale shade listened tn their tales,
OT them. un?e"n. unwoi ;
He murmured : "Since I jeft the earth
Lies h:i ve improved a ht.
My record this teals. 1 iiini:i,
Mesniie my natural hbis."
Which was a tribute, fcr the MiuJe
Was that of Ananias.